HARDWOOD RECORD 



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inir was 1 !•<- Fort Tin Washboard Company, 



which l"~i $2 in stock ami fixtures. lis 



loss was 011I3 partialis covered. The Russell 

 Kress company proposes t" build a new ami 



larger plant al ■ •' , 



The Anderson Lumber Company in which 

 several PIttsburgers are Interested lias sold 



11 aci is of timber land in s reel county. 



Pennsylvania, on in" main lino of the Pennsyl 

 vauia railroad i" capitalists ..1 nil City, l'a. 

 The property will be developed ai once. 



Tii.' Mi.. la Lumber Companj is booking some 

 splendid orders Cor hardwoods to be used in 

 building ami mining operations. lis officials 



look for no l.i up in I ho demand for •- 1 



lumber for another year al least and are forti 



fying their 1 ipany with extensive purchases of 



hardwood under contract. 



The A. M. Turner Lumber Co mp any is fur- 

 nishing the 1, ..no, 0110 feel ..1 lumber which the 

 Coney Island Amusement Company is using in 

 the erection of, n Coney Island resort on Neville 

 island in the uhio river. In the spring the 



Turner <■ pany will move from Us present 



quarters in the Ferguson building to a fine suite 

 of rooms in the new Union Bank building at 



Fourth avenue and W I street 



Che Kendall Lumber Companj recentlj pur- 

 chased 2,200 acres of timber adjoining iis hold- 

 ings at Crellin, Mil making a total of over 



25, acres al that point. J. L. Kendall has 



g i i'.-mii again i" close up more deals in 



timber lands. He expects to have 20, acres 



purchased on branches of the Columbia river 



before June and the company will ei 1 a mill 



ill, 1 , 1.1 mi 250,000 feet a day. 



Frank M. Graham last week hooked an ordei 

 for 25,000 street ear ties, 6x8x8, oak and chest- 

 nut, and l,00o poles, all of chestnut. The price, 

 13 ..ails each for the ties more than what he 

 received for similar stock lasl January, is an 

 indication of the scarcity of good stock. 



The Southern Lumber Company has hen 

 formed as an off shoot of the Saginaw Bay 

 Company and will ha mil.- poplar and southern 

 hardwoods. Us officers are: President, C. II 

 Prescott; vice president, O. \V. Prescott; secre 

 tary and manager, F. E. Kimball; treasurer, W 

 II Prescott. The Pittsburg representative will 

 I., I; B. Gannon who has offices in the Ferguson 

 building. 



The Parsons-Cross Lumber Company is fairly 

 launched in business in a fine suite of offices on 

 the fifteenth floor of the Farmers' Hank building. 

 Its members arc well acquainted with the Pitts- 

 burg trade and they have some excellent haul 

 wood connections. 



William Whitmer & Sons. Inc., are now in a 

 large snip- of offices on the ninth floor of the 

 Empire building. The firm has just contracted 

 through Manager W. P. Craig to handle the 

 entire output of the Nottoway River Lumber 

 Company at Blackstone, Va,. which will give the 

 Whitmers a new stronghold in that part of the 

 South. 



Local firms are going \-i\v slowly nowadays In 



bidding on hardw is for use in minis. Tipple. 



stmT especially is i.-ing figured with much care 

 unless ii can be loaded al the mills on t.. cars 

 and delivered by rail. The had condition of the 

 country roads precludes the possibility of profits 

 when- long hauls have to be mad'' and a few 

 firms outside the city have lately gol caughl bad 

 in making up estimates for a large amount of 

 tippie stuff as ii is costing iIictii from $10 to 

 sl'o per \I i>. gel II hauled. 



J. <;. Crlste of the interior Lumber C puni 



has gone to Oneida, Teun., i" lake stock at the 

 mills. Conditions and prospects are vcrj sails 



factory, he says, and his companj is getting 



some good orders for planing mill and pattern 

 work. President J. R. Edgetl of the Interior is 

 taking a trip through Tennessee looking up 

 desirable stocks of lumber. 



The cleat River Lumber Companj 1- pushing 

 its chestnul trade hard. The first week In 

 January it sold over 60 cars of lumber and iis 

 inquiries are 40 per cenl better than last Jan 



nary. Its mills al Burkeville, Va., shut down 

 for ii..' holiday week but are now running full 

 again 



Buffalo. 



Hugh McLean has made the round <>i the 

 southwestern mills of his companies sine the 

 beginning of the vac. finding them all doing 

 _, , ,1 business. 



II. A. Stewart has been South for some time. 



It is the plan .a" hi "i eager to make a trip 

 to his Kentucky mill interests early this year 

 1,, assist in keeping up his fine yard assortment. 



II. s. Janes of the Empire Lumber 1' pany 



finds that he can keep logging ea.inr, .01 in Hi.' 

 company's Arkansas woods in spite of rains 



T. II. Wall of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber 

 Company is South again, looking after the com- 

 pany's CUl "f oak and other hardw. .oils un both 

 sides of the Mississippi. 



'i'lie Standard Hardwood Lumber Company has 

 established a new ..Mice mar Florence, Miss, to 



assist in getting hold of oak and poplar. 



The enlargement of the offices of <;. Elias ,v 

 Hi.. 1 her will he complete iii a few days, which 

 will entirely relieve (he overcrowded state of the 

 ..I. I quarters. 



Manager Hopkins of Scaieh.nl & Son will l;.. 

 (o his plantation in the Isle of Tines very soon. 

 :,s he needs a rest. Mr. Scatelieril will look 

 after affairs al the office here, though far from 

 recovered from his accident. 



The business of A. Miller has of late included 



the moving of quite an amount of bassw 1 and 



elm along with other hardwoods; his yard stock 

 is always large and cars more than usually 

 handy. 



T. Sullivan & Co. are still shipping ash and 

 birch from original piles on the flock ; much of 

 this lumber came in late, hut it will be cleaned 

 up this month, though the stock is Iain.. 



There is always plenty of oak and cherry 

 waiting for Beyer, Knox & Co. in Pennsylvania, 

 though J. 1'. Knox knows where to find more 

 -till further Smth. Near home means lower 

 freights and heller ear service. 



Detroit. 



A legislative investigation into Michigan 



railroads lias I n begun, and as it is extended 



ii „ni provide not only for an inquiry into car 

 shortage, car demurrage, rates and fares, but 



int., the wh piestion of Michigan railroads 



in their relations 1.. Urn stale. Representative 

 John Ii. Mackey of Detroit has introduced a 

 I, ill for Hie appointment of a commission t.. 

 investigate the ear shortage, while Representa- 

 tive John Gordon of Marquette has introdt 1 



;i similar measure. Railroad ..llicials. lumber 



shippers and experts are ex] led to he sub 



p.emed and made to tell lie facts. 



Robert C Faulconer, formerly of Detroit, ami 

 ,,,,,. of the founders of the Leland & 1 aulconei 

 Company, died in New Bedford, Mass. aged 

 62 years. II.- was a his lumber operator in 

 Detroit and Alpena before joining in the for 

 mation of 11 ompany which hears his nam. 



Joseph G. Johnston has 1 11 appointed dis- 



ti-ict manager ol the American car .\: Foundrj 

 Company ai Detroit, to succeed Wesley R. 

 Mason, wh.. ;....s i.. the Montreal plant. Pat 

 li.k 11 Sullivan, a lumber inspector, is made 

 Mr, Johnston's assistant. 



A sail by the Wolverine Lumber & Box Com 

 pany against the City of Detroit, for the clos- 

 ing ol La Salle -11 1. is being heard iii Judge 



Man. I. II - courl 



11,., is ill of ii..' • late Warren G. \ ml 1 



[In' Vinton Company disposes ..I' property val 1 



,i s jo. 000 ami upwards." 



Saginaw Valley. 

 feu sawmills were ..perilled on the Saginaw 

 river lasl year, in eight of which hardwood 

 lumber was manufactured in whole or in pari 

 ii,. year was a successful one all around, both 

 in point of production and trade conditions. 

 The output was over G, nun. mm feel of hard- 

 wood in excess of thai in 1905. 'the year closed 



with prices materially lusher than they were in 

 the pring while stocks in the hands of manu- 

 facturers are light, 'the hardwood cut ol tie 

 individual operators was: Kneeland-Blgelow 



pany, 13,030,71 I feet ; Kneeland, Buell & 



Bigelow Company. 8,777,352 feel : W. D. Young 

 ,\ Co . lT.iioo. feet ; .1. -I. Flood, 1,000,000 



feel ; S. G. M. Cams. 2,500,000 I' 'I C:im|,l„ -I 



Brown Lumber Company, 1,510,000 feet : B. C. 

 Hargrave, 250,000 feet : r.iiss & Van Auken, 



s.H7.7-'l fe.t: total, 55,185,787 feel. 



All the mills, wiili tic exception of the Uliss 

 & Van Auken, are located ai Hay City. There 

 was in the hands of manufacturers at the close 

 of the year 28,668,877 feel ei hardwood lumber. 

 This is not large compared with the output 

 when it is understood thai some firms always 

 carry large stocks the entire year. 



'the hardw- 1 output in the valley last year 



exceeded that of any other. 



Kneeland. Buell & Itisclow Company last 

 week bought 6,000,000 feet of hardwo...! timber 

 located in the vicinity of Wolverine, on Hie line 

 .,f l he Mackinaw divish.ii of the Michigan Cm 

 I nil railroad. It will come to Bay City to be 

 manufactured. 



The weather has been mostly mild until within 

 a couple of days, and there is no snow to speak 

 of in the valley. Up north some si.iy miles 



and thenc i to the Straiis there is enough 



snow lor log hauling and lumber operators are 

 making the most of it. The usual quantity of 

 logs will he cut this winter. The cost of log- 

 ging is high. Hardwood stumpage Is figured al 

 s:,. and the cost of putting the loss to the 

 Stream or mill is $5 more. If they are hauled 

 by rail that costs $3 a thousand, so ii will he 

 seen very cheap lumber cannot be expected. 



The Filler Company is the designation of a 

 concern at the head of which is II. W, Kennedy 

 ,,r Bay City. It is building a factory at Posen, 

 north of Alpena, in the hardwood hell, and will 

 manufacture wooden supplies for railroad use. 

 Beech and maple timber are used for this pur- 

 lins. ■. 



The II. M. I.oud's Sons Company at An 

 Sable last year manufactured 6,960,460 feet of 

 hardwood lumber. The company has just 

 placed an order for 2,000.000 feet of maple to 

 s., east. It has also supplied a lot of hardwood 

 timber for harbor work and for the Detroit tun- 

 nel. 



The Johannesburg Manufacturing Company 



manufactured 9, 1,000 feel of hardwood lum- 



ber last year. This plant is some thirty miles 

 from Grayling and is healed in the heart of 

 a his tract of hardwood timber. 



Keys & Warboy have bought the ''ale mill 

 :il Onaway and a large body of timber and will 

 build a large stave and heading plant. 



Prescott, Miller & Co., who operate a mill 

 ai, out two miles from Rose City, manufactured 

 1,000,000 feel of hardwood lumber last year. 



The Kimball Lumber Company, al Alpena, 

 manufactured 4,000,000 feet of hardwood lum- 

 ber last year and did 3,000,000 feel of custom 

 sawing. 



s F. Derry .a' Saginaw manufactured 1,340 



eel of har.iw I lumber and had 1,000,000 



feei un hand ai the eh se of the year 



The McCormtck Hay Lumber Company of 

 Saginaw has purchased a number of hundred 

 thousand feet of hardw... ..I lumber within the 

 last two weeks l reports the Bituation en- 

 tirely satisfactory. 



Grand Rapids. 



.\| || I,.- ' 111.' thild «.'.'k "I Ml'' •' ai"J 



furniture s.l.s in this inarkel 075 buyers I. ad 

 ai in. -.I. an increase .o' about >'.'i over a yeai ago 

 The Grand Rapids manufacturers report an ex- 

 cellent business, s I the yen claiming tin 



season to he a record break, r. 



.1 "m. Lamb of Detroit, Mich., representative 



, the Fullerton-Powell Hardw I Lumber C 



pany of South land. Ind., was in the eitj for 

 several days last week 



The Petoskey Kitchen Cabinet Company has 

 „ , .. org "i al !•"!.. >k"> bj M. S, Planl 



