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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Investigation with this result. Mr. Campbell 

 was well and favorably known among Pitts- 

 burg lumbermen and Ills death caused sincere 



regret. 



James I. M. Wilson & Co. have incorporated 

 under the title of the James I. M. Wilson Com- 

 pany. This is the reorganization which fol- 

 lowed the taking into the firm of I. T. Balsley, 

 late of the Mead & Spear Lumber Company. 

 James I. M. Wilson Is president; Harry Wil- 

 son, treasurer, and I. T. Balsley. secretary. 



The Pennsylvania Lumber Company is rush- 

 ing work at its three mills in Forest county, lo- 

 cated at Golinza, Kellettville and Bucks, Ta. 

 This summer the firm has had a big run of rail- 

 road orders in addition to a very good trade in 

 lath and shingles. 



The general activity In the lumber situation 

 is evidenced by the frequent ads in the daily 

 papers for good salesmen, and especially esti- 

 mators. So many old employes have gone int" 

 business for themselves during the last two 

 years that it has left the market shy of ex- 

 perienced men. 



The West Virginia Lumber Company reports 

 'hardwood business never better." Its order 

 books show that there has been no let-up dur- 

 ing the vacation period, and its correspondence 

 reveals a strong inquiry along all lines. 



i , ink M Graham secured a nice order for 

 22,000 railroad ties lately and another for 1,300 

 chestnut telegraph poles. Mr. Graham is mak- 

 ing a specialty of these lines this summer, and 

 is now figuring on some big orders for early 

 fall delivery. His last trip to Cambria and 

 Clearfield counties, Pennsylvania, brought him 

 y Bnd in the shape of a big lot of No. 1 

 which be bought "right off the 

 reel," which are mighty scarce at present. 



.1. M. Hastings of the J. M. Hastings Lumber 

 i ompany Is back from Ottawa and Nova Scotia, 

 he spent several weeks watching the 

 work on the new mills of the Davison Lumber 

 Company, of which he is president. The con- 

 ceru now has a mill at Lunenburg and Spring- 

 field, Nova Scotia, and expects to cut 50.000,000 

 feet a year from its tract of 200,000 acres of 

 hardwood, spruce, fir and hemlock. 



\V. E. Terhune of the Terhune Lumber Com 

 pany made a business trip to Toledo last week. 

 His firm Is handling a nice lot of business but 

 reports shipments of white pine still slow from 

 the north v.. 



B. It. Joins ,,r Mcrshon, Schuette, Parker & 

 Co. of Saginaw looked up his many business 

 friends in town the first week In September. 



The Tough-Manor Lumber Company has de- 

 Ided to retain the name Emme for Its plant In 

 southern Pennsylvania. This was the name of 

 the Pennsylvania railroad siding and In spite of 

 the apparent poor spelling the company cannot 

 get the railroad people to make a chat 



i T. Penney of J. E. Mcllvaln & Co. has 

 been at the firm's West Virginia mills m Al 

 lington and Pine Grove for two weeks looking 

 over the oak and hemlock situation. 



The A. L. Schaefter Lumber Company is busy 

 this month with estimates on house com 

 and warehouse work. The officials say that 

 the outlook for house building is very good 

 unless the high price's of lumber make It impos- 

 sible for contractors to get down to I 

 set by owners. 



i >. I'. Nicola of tin- Nicola Brothers Company 

 i< taking his vacation. F. F. Nicola, president 

 of the same company, is expected back from 

 Europe shortly. 



P. H. Diebold of the Forest Lumber Com- 

 is making an extended business trip 

 through the South. 



J. C. Llnehan o£ the I.lnehan Lumber Com- 

 pany spent his vacation at Cape May and along 

 i/hesapeake bay. J. J. Linehan of the 

 same company is in West Virginia and Kentucky 

 buying stock. They report a shortage at the 

 owing to the fact that August business 

 -it it was Impossible to accumu- 

 i mber. 



W. P. Craig of William Whitmer & Sons, 

 Inc.. made a very successful visit to Philadel- 

 phia lately. His firm is doing a big business 

 in spruce and hardwoods, leading the trade In 

 the former. B. W. Cross of the same firm is 

 making a tour of the West Virginia mills. 



W. A. Coleman of the Pittsburg Lumber Com- 

 pany has gone to Duluth to buy white pine. 

 His company has been putting out this wood 

 at a lively rate to the towns up the Mononga- 

 hela valley. 



0. H. Rectanus of the A. M. Turner Lumber 

 Company has started for a trip to the Pacific 

 coast, stopping ten days in Michigan and Wis- 

 consin to look over the white pine situation. 

 The A. M. Turner Lumber Company reports by 

 far the best August in its history in hardwood 

 dealing and Its inquiry is brisk along all lines 

 at present. 



Buffalo. 



The Empire Lumber Company is still re- 

 ceiving lumber at the Seneca street yard to 

 keep up the assortment, but the stock as a 

 whole tuns low, so that the move down town 

 is to be made by early winter. F. W. Vctter 

 is West at present. 



The new addition to the Standard Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company's yard IS filling in 

 last and "more room" is likely to be the 

 word again soon. A cargo of birch for the 

 company lately came in by lake. 



Hugh McLean lingered some time after the 

 Ottawa meeting at his hunting headquarters 

 on the Gatlneau. Angus McLean also sp 

 mueh time in Canada, but for business pur- 

 mostly, looking after the company's 

 spruce and cedar interests in Quebec 



G. Elias & Bro. have been receiving consid- 

 erable cherry from Canada. 



Horace F. Taylor is in Europe for quite an 



■ led tri|i. Taylor & Crate have somehow 



practically escaped the yellow fever scare in 



the South and their Mississippi oak mill has 



done good service right along. 



A. Miller is also looking to the far south for 

 oak and poplar, having obtained considerable 

 stock of late from Mississippi, a: 

 southern states nearer home 



T. .Sullivan & Co. are still finding lake 

 hardwoods pretty high, but are nut ili-u 

 on that account, as this gives all the more 

 tor handling Washington fir and spruce, 

 tor which they have a ready market. 



1. N. Stewart & Bro. took in some of the 

 lust oak they ever handled a short time ago 

 and are as usual well stocked with cherry, 

 which sells at a good rate. Ash and poplar 

 are also pretty good sellers. 



O. E. Y eager returns this week from a 



vacation b bile to the Scranton dl 



trict of Pennsylvania. The yard is handling 

 mu oak, and finds chestnut also 

 L-«id seller. 



Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 getting considerable plain red oak from tie 

 Southwest by barge, landing it at Joplin on 

 lie eihio. .J. B. Wall has been inside some- 

 time of late on account of a fall. 



J. N. Scatcherd has been for some time 



with his family at a New England summer 



resort. The office reports that good quanti- 



■ ■f oak and other lumber have lately been 



rom points directly south. 



C. H. Stanton is handling considerable 



Michigan hardwood, especially maple, and has 



a fine fall business in sight. 



Saginaw Valley. 

 The action of the Michigan Maple Company 

 last week in advancing the price of No. 1 and 

 amon a dollar a thousand has braced t j i . 

 ■ lie valley, although there are no manufac- 

 turers or dealers here who are associated with 

 the organization named. The Loud Company 

 of Au Sable and some Alpena concerns be- 

 long to that corporation, but no members are 

 located In the valley. Some of the manufac- 



turers here have their entire stock sold for 

 the season. It is said the local hardwood 

 trade has been greatly stimulated by better 

 demand from the furniture trade. The gener- 

 ally good times throughout the country have 

 also doubtless helped to give an impetus to 

 business. At any rate every hardwpod man 

 approached spoke much more hopefully re- 

 garding both demand and prices. 



The Kneeland-Bigelow Company started its 

 mill to running day and night Tuesday, after 

 a shutdown of three weeks for necessary re- 

 pairs. The hardwood product of this plant is 

 about all sold for the season, but Manager 

 Bigelow is in a very happy frame of mind 

 over existing conditions and prospects for the 

 future. The company will operate five or six 

 logging camps this winter, and it buys a good 

 many logs put in along the lines of the rail- 

 road by small operators. The company gets 

 about twenty-six carloads of logs a day from 

 tie- Mackinaw division of the Michigan Cen- 

 tral. 



The Wylie & Buell Lumber Company report 

 the trade in hardwoods as satisfactory and 

 the mill will be operated during the winter. 

 Prank Buell has charge of logging operations 

 and is running seven camps and employing a 

 a skidder and loader, the only one in 

 eastern Michigan. It can handle entire trees. 

 Tin npany experiences no trouble in get- 

 ting logs down, the railroad company furnish- 

 ing all the cars needed. 



maple flooring industry has been busy- 

 all season. Last year building operations 

 were rather slow and reflected general condi- 

 durlng a presidential year, which natu- 

 affected the flooring trade. Hut this sea- 

 son there has been a steady demand for tin- 

 output of the mids in the valley and 

 l'ii — have range, 1 from $3 to $4 a thousand 

 i than a year ago. W. D. Young & Co. 

 ibout 20.000.000 feet of hard- 

 wood Mr. Young says seventy-five per 

 cent of the output is maple flooring and that 

 it is selling as fast as they can make it at 

 good prices. He Is extremely happy over busi- 

 ness conditions. There were 100 cars loaded 

 with hardwood logs on the track at this plant 

 day. The company operate four or five 

 camps. 



The s 1. Eastman Flooring Company report 

 tory trade and the concern will 

 handle approximately 10.000,000 feet of the 

 stuff this year. It buys the maple output of 

 the Kneeland-Bigelow and Wylie & Buell 

 companies, besides having stock cut at other 

 plants. 



The Bliss & Van Auken hardwood mill and 

 flooring plant is doing a good business. 



A. T. B!iss. founder of the hardwood indus- 

 try at BlissviUe, Ark., operated by the Chicot 

 Lumber Company, and who recently disposed 

 of his interest therein to Bliss & Van Auken 

 and A. P. Cook, was stricken with apoplexy 

 Friday night, while on his way to Chicago and 

 has been in a critical condition since, although 

 hopes are now entertained for his recovery. 



Sutton Brothers, operating a hardwood port- 

 aide mill in Presque Isle county, are to cut 

 300,000 feet for R. Mitchell of Millersburg. 



The machinery for Cook, Curtis & Miller's 

 new hardwood plant at Grand Marais is ar- 

 riving at the rate of three carloads a week 

 anil is being installed in the plant. The firm 

 has erected a fine new office building, modern 

 in every particular. The plant will soon be 

 in operation and the concern will operate ex- 

 tensively during the winter. 



W. D. Young & Co. have sold their wood 

 alcohol plant to the E. L. Dupont Company of 

 Wilmington, Del. It Is intimated that W. D. 

 Lg will be interested in the new concern. 

 The old firm will confine its operations to 

 hardwood lumber. 



The Kerry-Hanson Flooring Company's new 

 plant at Grayling is finished and is one of the 

 most complete outfits of the kind in the coun- 



