HARDWOOD RECORD 



27 



The Carroll Lumber Companj of Clairton, 

 Pa., is no more. Rumor putty well founded 

 says that the managers left in the night. 

 Two or three Pittsburg wholesale concerns 

 which backed the company in establishing its 

 yard at Clairton on the Monongahela river 

 and in its building at Brownsville and other 

 western Pennsylvania towns are left "holding 

 the bag." A. J. • Diebold of the Forest Lum- 

 ber Company has been appointed receiver. 

 As the company had some stock in its yard 

 the losses will not total over $20,000. 



A lumber deal involving $66,700 was con- 

 summated a few days ago at Elkins, W. Va., 

 * when J. w. Knopsnyder and w. I). Nydenger 

 sold to the Wyoming Lumber Company about 

 1,600 acres of 'timber land in Randolph and- 

 I '■ mlleton counties. West Virginia. The tracts 

 will be developed at once. 



David L. Helman. president of the Stiles 

 Ship Building Company of Warren, Ohio. 

 passed through Pittsburg recently on his way 

 to the south to look over a tract of hardwood 

 which is likely soon to pass into the hands 

 of his company. The Stiles concern has 

 built up an enviable trade in ship timbers 

 and has at present a half dozen customers 

 which take all the stock it ran produce at 

 Warren. It has been a bonanza for the 

 farmers of northeastern Ohio, as it has prac- 

 tically stripped two or three counties there 

 of all the big oak timber. 



Comparative quiet reigns in Pittsburg build- 

 ing circles at present, much to the pleasure 

 of the wholesale lumber firms, whose trade 

 has been sadly interrupted the past eight 

 months by strikes and lockouts. The deter- 

 mined stand taken by the Pittsburg Master 

 Builders' Association in regard to tolerating 

 neither strikes nor lockouts has had its ef- 

 fect, for many of the carpenters have gone 

 back to work and the succession of sympa- 

 thetic strikes has been cut short. 



The J. M. Hastings Lumber Company is get- 

 ting its new mill at Jacksonburg. W. Va., in- 

 good running order. It is located on the 

 West Virginia Short Line and in the midst 

 of the 20,000,000 feet of oak and hardwood 

 which this company owns there. E. B. Ham- 

 ilton went down last week from the Pittsburg 

 office to superintend the work. 



A recent prominent visitor in Pittsburg was 

 J. N. Smith of R. M. Smith & Co. of Parkers- 

 burg, W. Va. 



The American Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company is making a big hit this fall with 

 its trade in southwestern hardwoods. It is 

 getting them substituted to a considerable ex- 

 tent with wagon manufacturers and other 

 factories for the northern hardwoods which 

 are more costly. J. N. Woollett. sales man- 

 ager of the American, brought into port last 

 week a big order from New England for a 

 fine list of hardwoods, about the best item 

 of this kind that has come to a Pittsburg 

 firm this year. He also sold 20 cars of No. 1 

 four quarter common oak at premium prices. 



The L. L. Satler Lumber Company is tak- 

 ing its full share of the business trom manu- 

 facturers this fall. Although it sells consid- 

 erable stock to planing mills and retail yards 

 its aim has been since it acquired the big 

 Hlackstone properties in Virginia to make a 

 specialty of delivering fine hardwood direct 

 to the manufactories, and it is succeeding 

 beyond expectations. 



The Germain Company, which located in 

 the Fulton building last summer, is building 

 up a splendid business. Its southern opera 

 tions are very satisfactory this fall. It op- 

 erates at Mobile, Ala., under the name of 

 the Lewis Land & Lumber Company, and 

 Albert Germain has spent much of his time 

 there the past two months. 



A question that is agitating the retailors 

 In common with the members of the Pittsburg 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association is the 



matter of classification of trade. Committees 

 have been appointed from both bodies which 

 will confer shortly with the idea of getting 

 up and submitting to the two organizations a 

 sch, me for dividing the lumbei trad* to th< 

 satisfaction of all concerned. The retailors 

 claim thai the wholesalers are selling direct to 

 contractors in many Instances and that if 

 they will stop this they will get a much large] 

 share of the regular trade oi the retail deal- 

 ers. m:in\ of Whom now go outside- for their 

 lumbei. The wholesalers object to giving up 

 such customers as the Carnegie Steel Com- 

 panj. the National Tube Companj and the 

 Westiri hou ■ Interests, although it is hardly 

 likely thai the retailers will go this far in 

 then demands. 



Buffalo. 



Tie Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 Stocking its new .Memphis yard with oak. The 

 Buffalo yard of the company is carrying a large 

 supply of this wood and maple, and reports 

 business in good condition. 



During a recent trip to Memphis and Cincin- 

 nati A. Miller secured a good stock of southern 

 oak and other hardwoods. 



0. E. Yeager is increasing his business in 

 birch, having lately received large consignments 

 by lake. 



J. N. Scatcherd is almost recovered from his 

 recent trolley accident and will be able to returr 

 to business in a short time. 



Beyer. Knox & Co. are handling extensive 

 lots of Pennsylvania hardwoods and are also 

 extending their operations into West Virginia. 



The dock yard of T. Sullivan & Co. is experi- 

 encing an active fall business, and is pushing 

 birch and ash extensively. 



G. Elias & Bro. are making a specialty of 

 heavy timber and carry sufficient stock on hand 

 to make up for the car shortage in the South. 



Detroit. 



The Standard Tie Company, one of Detroit's 

 leading corporations, has secured a contract 

 from the Gould railroads for the delivery of 

 from 3,000,000 to 6,000,000 railroad ties a year 

 for a long term of years. Most of the ties will 

 be used on the Missouri-Pacific road. B. O. 

 s. oil. general manager of the Standard Tie 

 Company, closed the contract. Negotiations were 

 carried on directly with George J. Gould. 



\V. W. Armstrong, of the Trowbridge Lumber 

 Company, W. E. Brownlee of Brownlee & Co., 

 and 10. W. Leach leave Detroit October lit to al 

 tend the convention of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association at Cincinnati, Ohio, on Oc- 

 tober 25 -26. Mr. Brownlee intends to continue 

 his trip into the South before returning to Dc- 



lioll. 



.1. M Clifford ex Sou have recently opened 

 lumber yard at 260 Franklin street, Detroit. 

 Mr. Clifford was for several years manager of 

 the City Lumber Company's business. The Clif- 

 fords carry oak, maple, ash, hickory, poplar, 

 cypress and basswood. They will be wholesale 

 and retail dealers. 



Saginaw Valley. 



An embargo lias been placed upon the trade 

 of He- \;iiii.v bj a freight ear famine. Scarcity 

 oi cars has been common al this season the 

 lasi three or four years, bin nothing like the 

 preseni stringency has yei been experienced. 

 Shippers an- in dispair. They have sold lumber 

 and the buyers want it. aud the shippers want 

 tin- in. -in - inn everything is tied up. Last 

 month Me- Eastman Flooring Company wanted 

 1.1 ship out $30,000 worth of maple flooring, hut 

 could only gel $16,000 worth moved and con- 

 sidered itself lucky even then. 



The Flood Mill at Bay City, which was sbui 

 down a shorl time recently, has a big contract 



p. ,-nl hardw I Ions for Sailing. Hanson & Co. 



and will tie in operation the greater portion of 

 the winter 



Bliss & Van Auken have bad an active and 



steady season for their sawmill and maple I! 



uc: factory, much of the time being open I 



day and ni^lit. and the Gales mill lias also had 

 a big year's business, with a record of several 

 million feet to its credit. 



I-:. C. Eargrave last week cut into lumbei al 

 his mill a black walnut log about twenty Inches 

 in diameter at the butl which was lifted from 

 a slip near the North American Chemical Works, 

 where it must have, laid for thirty years. It was 

 perfectly sound and made some tine lumber. 



At West Branch tie- Batchelor Timber Com 

 pany is erecting a large drying shed 40x10.0 

 feet, in which white maple will be seasoned for 

 interior finishing. 



The mill plant of I he Ottawa Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company at Hast Tawas has ceased opera- 

 tions for some time. It had about 4,000,000 feel 

 of logs to saw when the season opened. 



Help is scarce and it is almost impossible to 

 get skilled men for mill or woods work. All 

 sorts of inducements are offered to get men into 

 the woods. Wages range from .$26 to ,$-l."i a 

 month, being a little higher north of the straits 

 than here. Loggers are finding that it is going 

 lo be even more expensive to put in logs Ibis 

 winter than il was last year. Not only are 

 wages higher, but also supplies of all kinds, with 

 the exception of flour. 



s. A. Price has started a camp near Marl 

 City. Gladwin county, where he will put in 

 several hundred thousand feet of hardwood logs. 



The Boman Lumber Company at Bomanville. 

 Gladwin county, is hauling and cutting hard 

 wood logs and has a large crew at work. 



The Bay City Chemical & Color Company, a 

 new concern, has purchased a site at the wesl 

 end of the Third street bridge at Bay City and 

 is getting the machinery together for a plant 

 that will manufacture coal tar products, in- 

 cluding drugs and chemicals, stains for furni- 

 ture, polishing and coloring matter from the 

 refuse of hardwood mills. All of the local mills 

 but one manufacture hardwood and there is a 

 world of valuable material, heretofore either 

 burned up or wasted, which will be utilized in 

 the new plant. 



There is no better locality in the country for 

 the location of industries using hardwoods than 

 the valley. More than 130,000,000 feet of hard- 

 wood logs come to this section every year and 

 there is excellent transportation afforded both 

 by water and rail. 



The H. M. Loud's Sons Company of Au Sable 

 lias been shipping a number of million feet of 

 hardwood timber to the Welland Canal, where it. 



is used for gov 1 in work. This company 



makes a specially of hardw I timbers, having 



facilities to manufacture- and handle sticks forty 

 two feet long. 



The Manistique Lumber Company has acquired 

 a large tract of hardwood timber near Grand 

 Marais. which is to be lumbered and manufac- 

 tured at the Marais Lumber Company's saw-mill. 



The Knceland, Buell & Bigelow Company and 



the hi land Bigelow Company are receiving 



about fifty-five carloads of Ions every twenty 

 tour hours. 



Grand Eapids. 



The NichOlfi .fc Cox Lumber Company has 

 trebled the capacity of its maple flooring plant 

 within the past lew weeks, putting in new 



chinery of modern type. The company has I u 



shipping a large amount of flooring cast of late 

 and is still away In-hind iis orders. More kilns 

 of the best type of brick, loo feet lone, ar , 

 ing added now for drying hardwood lumber in 

 its regular trade. This is decidedly lie- com 

 pany's banner year in business. 



A party of fifteen or twenty lumbi 

 ibis city, headed by Carroll F. Sweet, president 

 of the Lumbermen's Association of Grand Rap- 

 ids and director of the National Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Association, will attend the Cincinnati meet- 

 ing "i tie- National Association October 2.J-2G. 



