HARDWOOD RECORD 



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of the inability to get suitable stock to fill them 

 and the shortage of ears, which prevents any 

 iliink like a prompt shipment. Hardwoods are 

 figuring conspicuously on the Nicola orders this 

 winter, and the prices received for the lumber 

 arc most encouraging. 



A. M. Turner of the A. M. Turner Lumber 

 Company has gone South to look over the com- 

 pany's big operations in Mississippi. General 

 demand is excellent is the report from this 

 company, which has been booking some of the 

 mi, si satisfactory business in Ms history this 

 fall. 



J. E. Mcllvain & Co. are selling 15,000 ties 

 a month. These go to the Baltimore & Ohio, 

 the Pittsburg & Lake Erie and the Kanawha & 

 Michigan railroads and the Pittsburg Railways 

 Company, The Mcllvain company has started 

 on filling an order for 250.000 feet of lumber to 

 be used in the construction of the big band 

 stand which the city of Pittsburg is building 

 in Sehenley Park. This will be 356 feet long 

 and will accommodate 4,000 persons. Its cost 

 is estimated at $20,000. 



The Pittsburgh Floor Company has been or- 

 ganized under a Pennsylvania charter to build 

 floors and ceilings. Its members are F. M. 

 Bacon, Charles Warburton and Karl E. Wil- 

 son. 



The Kendall Lumber Company is doing a big 

 business in hardwoods from its plants at Ken- 

 dall and Crellin, Md. J. L. Kendall is now in 

 the West on a two weeks' trip and J. H. 

 Henderson has gone down to the Quaker City 

 to have another round with some big customers 

 there. 



W. II. Herbertson of the Cheat River Lumber 

 Company is sending to the home office in Pitts- 

 burg some very encouraging reports of the opera- 

 tions at Burkeville, Va., where he is spending 

 his time this winter looking after the company's 

 interests. 



William T. Monroe, who makes a specialty 

 of factory mill work and bridge work, has 

 just received an order for all the mill work 

 on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad station at 

 Cleveland and another at Chicago Junction, 

 Ohio. He is also putting the finishing touches 

 to a big job for the Oliver Iron & Steel Company 

 on the South Side and another for the Crucible 

 Steel Company in the East End. 



James A. Lewis, president of the Lewis Land 

 & Lumber Company of Mobile, Ala., spent a 

 week in Pittsburg recently with the Germain 

 Company, which represents his concern here. 

 Louis Germain, Jr., accompanied Mr. Lewis to 

 the East for a business trip. This is one of the 

 youngest concerns in the city, but has a very 

 flourishing trade started already. 



November building operations in Pittsburg 

 fell off slightly from the total of November. 

 1905, and also from the total of October, 100C. 

 In all 278 operations were authorized, amount- 

 ing to .$1,002,772. The November total for the 

 past seven years has averaged about $1,000,000, 

 so that last month's showing is not so bad as 

 was anticipated by many when the labor troubles 

 and the high prices of materials were taken 

 into account. 



The first prize in the competitive tree 1 plant 

 lng contest of the Pennsylvania Forestry Asso- 

 ciation has been awarded to the district of 

 Monongahela, l'a. In April, 1906, the associa- 

 tion announced its intention of recognizing the 

 twentieth anniversary of its formation by award- 

 ing prizes totaling $100 for trees planted In 

 the state on- the Arbor days, April 6 and 20, 

 and properly cared for until the fall Arbor in 

 October. It is expected that these prizes with 

 others to be given later by the association will 

 stimulate tree planting all over the state and 

 bring to public notice much valuable knowledge 

 concerning the kinds of trees that are best 

 for certain sections. 



President J. R. Edgett of the Interior Lum- 

 ber Company of this city spent a week in Pitts- 

 burg recently sizing up the lumber situation, 

 lie returned to the company's plant at Oneida, 



Tenn., well satisfied with the Pittsburg market. 

 'tin' mills at Oneida are turning out a fine lot 

 "i hemlock and hardwood this winter, most of 

 which is being sold in the Pittsburg district 

 through the agency of J. G. Criste, local man- 

 ager for the company. 



"Our hardwood business never looked so alto- 

 gether healthy," said General Manager J. N. 

 Woollett of the American Lumber & Manufac- 

 turing Company last week. "The volume of 

 Inquiry is away above the average for this 

 season and prices are firm all along the line. 

 We find that southwestern hardwoods are com- 

 ing into market more rapidly the last few 

 weeks than before and that they are gaining 

 in fayor very fast with manufacturers." Two 

 of the company's hardwood men are now off on 

 long business tours. Samuel Dunseith has khiii' 

 to Canada and Charles Cruikshank is doing 

 trade stunts up in New York. 



J. S. McNaugher of the L. L. Satier Lumber 

 Company is at Blackstone, Va., in charge of the 

 big operation of the company there. The box 

 shook plant of the company at Blackstone will 

 be completed by January 1, and will turn out 

 100,000 feet a day. Besides, the firm is putting 

 in a dry kiln which will greatly facilitate its 

 operations. Mr. Satier reports general business 

 excellent, with fine prospects for a good winter 

 Made in hardwoods. 



The James I. M. Wilson Company is taking 

 care of a very satisfactory lot of orders for 

 oak lumber. In a few quarters it notes a tend- 

 ency among manufacturers to buy oak for im- 

 mediate needs only, as they seem to think that 

 the little falling off in price a few months ago 

 is to be followed by another. This Is far from 

 being the opinion of most manufacturers or of 

 the Pittsburg wholesalers, who are firmly of 

 the opinion that oak is tip to stay. 



Buffalo. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company has 

 improved its home yard considerably, kept it full 

 of stock, opened a new one in Memphis and 

 gone on with timber cutting and sawmill opera- 

 tions further south. Besides this, it has lately 

 added to its manufactures by organizing the 

 Plus & Minus Desk Company, with $100,000 cap- 

 ital stock, and rented two floors in the mill of 

 Montgomery Bros, for handling built-up veneers, 

 having gone into the veneer trade some time ago. 

 The table factory In the suburb of Blasdell will 

 be run as strong as ever. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 extending its yard southward to hold a million 

 feet more, and has oak, chestnut and poplar 

 coming in to fill it. 



I. N. Stewart & Bro. are carrying in their 

 Buffalo yard the best lot of chestnut lumber 

 they have ever had, an assortment that chal- 

 lenges the stocks of other yards, either here or 

 elsewhere. 



G. Ellas &. Bro. are making the most of the 

 lake fleet up to the end of the season, bringing, in 

 a cargo of birch this month after several others 

 of all assortments that came in earlier. 



O. E. Yeager still manages to get some cars of 

 good oak from Ohio, having sent a man out 

 there to patrol the section, and getting both plain 

 and quartered in quantity and bringing it in 

 here. 



A. Miller is still able to do a good business in 

 basswood and elm, having a very good stock of 

 both. He says the railroads are fighting over 

 car sidings and the shippers have to take the 

 blows. 



J. F. Knox is south again buying hardwood 

 stock for Beyer, Knox & Co., mainly oak, but 

 also cherry and other woods. 



J. N. Scatcherd lately made a gift of a build- 

 ing to the Buffalo General Hospital, as a nn 1110 

 rial to his father, James N. Scatcherd, who was 

 much interested in that institution. 



The new yard of T. Sullivan & Co. is being 

 filled up rapidly. They have some choice black 

 ash stock as well as other hardwoods. 



The Empire Lumber Company is especially 

 busy now, as it has two lake cargoes in with 



assorted hardwoods, and is getting them ready 

 for the yard, which Is fast returning to its old 

 well-filled condition. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company reports 

 the logging outlook in the South improving, it 

 is now not so much a question of price in the 

 trade as a question of lumber and the company 

 always has the lumber. 



Saginaw Valley. 



Lumbermen are beginning to get ready for the 

 business of the incoming year. Generally trade 

 this year has been much more satisfactory both 

 in regard to prices and volume of business than 

 it was last year.' The scarcity of cars has not 

 been relieved, but is as acute today as It has 

 been at any time during the fall. Railroad offi- 

 cials here are unable to furnish a tithe of the 

 ears wanted. 



Charles A. Bigelow of the Kneeland-Bigelow 

 and Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow concerns, says the 

 hardwood business is in good shape ; that the 

 light receipts of pine by water during the last 

 two months owing to heavy weather on the lakes 

 makes the hardwood situation especially strong, 

 forcing the substitution of hardwoods for many 

 purposes. The Kneeland-Bigelow Company mill 

 is running day and night and will continue to 

 do so during the winter. The Kneeland, Buell & 

 Bigelow mill runs ten hours a day all winter. 

 The stock for these two plants comes off the 

 Mackinaw division of the Michigan Central at 

 the rate of three tralnloads every twenty-four 

 hours. 



The Bliss & Van Auken mill and flooring fac- 

 tory Is operated day and night, and has had a 

 fine run of business. The output of hardwood 

 for the year will approximate 7,000,000 feet. 



The mill of W. D. Young & Co. Is also running 

 day and night. The firm is operating six lum- 

 ber camps in the vicinity of Haakwood and is 

 buying logs from a number of small operators 

 in the northern part of the state and bringing 

 them here by rail. Mr. Y'oung says the firm 

 will do a heavy business in the logging line dur- 

 ing the winter. 



The H. M. Loud's Sons Company is doing a 

 large business in hardwood timber for harbor 

 and structural work. The steamer Kongo, owned 

 by the company, left Oscoda Tuesday with 500,- 

 000 feet of hardwood timber and planking for 

 the Michigan Central Railroad tunnel at De- 

 troit, the second cargo of this kind of material 

 shipped this fall for the tunnel. The Loud 

 Company has shipped about 4,500,000 feet of 

 timber and planking this season. 



The Campbell-Brown Lumber Company mill 

 will start up right after the holidays on a long 

 run of hardwood stock. 



E. H. Colville of Rose City has purchased a 

 small sawmill and tract of hardwood timber in 

 Clare county, containing a number of million 

 feet, which will be cut and converted into lumber 

 the ensuing year. 



The hardwood mill of Park & Kelley at Van 

 derbilt, which burned a few days ago, involving 

 a loss of $2,500, is being rebuilt and it is in 

 tended to have it in operation in January. 



Walter McCormick of the McCormick Hay 

 Lumber Company, having a yard at Saginaw and 

 handling hardwood exclusively, reports the trade 

 of the firm as growing steadily. It has been 

 especially good this fall. The company handles 

 a considerable quantity of southern oak In addi- 

 tion to northern woods. It Is gratifying to the 

 friends of Mr. McCormick to know that he has 

 entirely recovered his health. 



The S. L. Eastman Flooring Company recently 

 erected a fine large warehouse at Its plant for 

 storing lumber. It has enjoyed a prosperous 

 business and will handle over 12,000,0()ii feet of 

 lumber this year. 



Grand Rapids. 



A. F. Anderson of Cadillac was in Grand Rap- 

 ids December 4. 



At a dinner given by local furniture manu- 

 facturers at the Morton House December 3, 

 which was attended by a number of outside 



