Jauiiary 10, 1916 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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titles of timber, being equipped to handle lengths up to forty-four 

 feet. 



The officers of the two companies up to the death of D. M. Knee- 

 land a few weeks ago were D. M. Kneeland, president, Herman Lun- 

 den, vice-president, C. A. Bigelow, secretary-treasurer and general 

 manager. Mr. Bigelow has always had active control of the opera- 

 tions, being assisted by W. N. Wrape, sales manager. 



Mr. Bigelow has been prominently identified with association work 

 with the National Hardwood Lumber Association and Michigan Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association for a good many years, and has 

 been given a good deal of prominence on account of these business 

 connections. 



Ross & Wentworth 



The business of Ross & Wentworth was started in 1899 by the 

 present partners, John C. Ross and Norris R. Wentworth, the firm 

 being as it was at the beginning, a co-partnership. Both Mr. Ross 

 and Mr. Wentworth are lumbermen of long standing whose methods 

 and capabilities are everywhere thoroughly respected. An interesting 

 feature of the Ross & Wentworth Bay City operation is that the site 

 on which the present mill now stands has contained a sawmill opera- 

 tion for the last fifty years, as McLean & Co., cut lumber on the same 

 spot beginning just half a century ago. The Ross & Wentworth 

 plant is a single band mill with a band resaw. The most marked 

 feature of the operation is the close application of the partners to the 

 manufacturing end of the business and the personnel of the force 

 which they have gathered around them. Thoroughness and careful 

 manufacture and handling have been insisted upon and adopted as 

 the primary principal in the organization, and this feeling is almost 

 perceptibly reflected in the attitude of the operatives. 



Ross & Wentworth are the owners of a very substantial amount of 

 hardwood and hemlock timber in the same general territory as is the 

 timber of the other Bay City firms. They have a substantial run 

 ahead which imparts to their operation the same permanence that 

 makes for efficiency in the other operations. The timber runs to hard 

 maple, beech, birch and hemlock. The cilt from 1916 on wOl be 

 largely of hard maple. Ross & Wentworth have never gone into the 

 manufacture of specialties, concentrating their attention on the 

 proper manufacture of the usual run of hardwood lumber and hemlock. 

 Their yards spread out over a large tract of land situated right along 

 the river and tapped by adequate tracks giving the best of facilities 

 for steam and water shipments. 



The Bigelow-Cooper Company 



The Bigelow-Cooper Company was organized in March, 1915, by 

 the Kneeland -Bigelow interests of Bay City, and the Briggs & Cooper 

 Company, Ltd., interests of Saginaw, Mich. The officers of this com- 

 pany are: Charles A. Bigelow, president; the late David M. Knee- 

 land, vice-president; James Cooper, secretary, treasurer and general 

 manager. 



This company purchased of the Standard Oil Company twenty-three 

 acres of land on the west side of the river, having a river frontage 

 of about 2,000 feet, with both the Michigan Central and the Grand 

 Trunk railroad tracks on the property. The Bigelow-Cooper Com- 

 pany has built a large hardwood flooring plant there and will obtain 

 the major portion of its supplies from the Kneeland-Bigelow Com- 

 pany and the Kneeland, Lunden & Bigelow Company, and will not 

 only manufacture maple, beech and birch flooring, but wiU also do a 

 general hardwood lumber business. The plant is now running in 

 good shape and its product of maple flooring is exceptionally well 

 manufactured. 



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The trade extension department of the National Lumber Manufac- 

 turers' Association has mapped out a campaign for the coming months 

 which is calculated to place lumber before the consuming public in 

 different ways. There will be lectures, moving pictures, and ex- 

 hibits to show woods and their uses. 



An exhibit containing samples of more than forty of the com- 

 mercial woods of the country has been prepared and will be shown 

 in numerous cities before meetings and trade expositions. The ap- 

 pearance of the lumber rough and finished will be shown. Following 

 is a list of the woods composing the exhibit: 



White ash 



Black ash 



Beech 



Birch 



Basswood 



Chestnut 



Cherry 



Western red cedar 



Northern white cedar 



White elm 

 Douglas fir 

 White fir 

 Red gum 

 Black gum 

 Northern hemlock 

 Western hemlock 

 Hicliory 

 Eastern larch 



Southern white cedar Western larch 



Port Orford cedar Sugar maple 



Yellow cedar Soft maple 



Cottonwood White oak 



Cypress Red oak 



White pine 

 Idaho- pine 

 Western pine 

 Shortleat pine 

 Loblolly pine 

 Longleaf pine 

 Sugar pine 

 Norway pine 

 Yellow poplar 

 Redwood 

 Sitka spruce 

 Red spruce 

 Sycamore 

 Black walnut 



While the foregoing list does not include all of the commercial 

 woods of the country, it includes those of greatest importance, and 

 the exhibit will deserve and doubtless will attract much attention 

 from architects, builders, and the general public. 



Models will be shown of barns, poultry houses, hog houses, and 

 silos. The purpose of the models is to show the manner of construc- 

 tion and the suitability of wood. The style of architecture known 

 as "mUl construction" will be accorded a prominent place, because 

 that is one line in which timbers meet one of their highest uses. The 

 farm demand for building material is becoming very great, and lum- 



bermen are prepared to meet the demand and are anxious to secure 

 the business. 



The exhibit will include moving pictures of logging, milling, anij 

 manufacturing scenes. 



Following is a list of some of the associations and places where 

 publi-city will be given to trade extension work and exhibits made: 



Building Show, Dayton, Ohio, January 14-20. 



Annual meeting of the Northwestern Lumbermen's Association, Minne- 

 apolis, Minn., January 18-20. 



Annual meeting of Mountain States Lumber Dealers' Association, Den- 

 ver, Colo., January 18-20. 



Annual meeting of American Wood Preservers' Association, Chicago, 

 January 18-20. 



Annual meeting of Nebraska Lumber Dealers' Association, Lincoln, 

 Neb., January 19-21. 



Annual meeting Retail Lumber Dealers' Association of Indiana, Indian- 

 apolis, Ind., January 25-26. 



Annual meeting Southwestern Lumbermen's Association, Kansas City, 

 Mo., January 26-28. 



Annual meeting Michigan Retail Lumber Dealers' Association, Grand 

 Rapids. Mich., February 1-2. 



Annual meeting Illinois Lumber & Builders' Supply Dealers' Associa- 

 tion. Hotel Sherman, Chicago, 111., February 15-17. 



Annual meeting Ohio Association of Retail Lumber Dealers, Cleveland, 

 Ohio, February 22-24. 



.\nnual meeting Wisconsin Retail Lumber Dealers' Association, Milwau- 

 kee, Wis., February 22-24. 



Complete Building Show, Cleveland, Ohio, February 16-26. 



The exhibit includes material which has been given a treatment by 

 the principal preservatives now in use. A special effort will be made 

 to make the exhibits at Dayton, Kansas City, Cleveland, and Minne- 

 apolis, where they are open to the public, as complete and instructive 

 as possible. Other features are being prepared which it is hoped 

 will add materially to the effectiveness of the entire exhibit. The 

 woods and other items are being prepared in Chicago and will be ready 

 in a few days to send out. 



