HARDWOOD RECORD 



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said that oak in large quantities is being sent 

 to Oregon for use in the manufactories. 



The Reliance Lumber Company is increa 

 its output so fast that it will put on two more 

 salesmen the first of the year. Its business in 

 oat tor the last six months has been eminently 

 satisfactory and it sees a big demand ahead for 

 the next half year. II- w. Qenninger of litis 

 inn,' is 'Hi" of the iiesi posted n on hard- 

 wood conditions in the city and is studying the 

 situation very carefully with a view to making 

 some large purchases soon. 



The Colonial Lumber Company, which was 

 chartered recentlj and bas located in the Fer- 

 guson building, will have as an abb' assistant 

 in getting business E. ( '. Maloney, win. bas 

 been associated with W. \V. Pownall and II. I.. 

 Karrick at is Broadway, New Stork. The com- 

 panj will male a specialty of spruce and will 

 open a New York office early in (be year. 



in 1 the big local consumers of lumber the 



Qg spring is going to be the Coney Island 

 amusement paid; now being established on Ne- 

 ville island in the Ohio river. Over 2,1 



feet of lumber is on the ground now and at 

 least three times that amount will be needed 

 there before May 1. according to statements of 

 Captain John I'. Klein and other members of 

 I lie company. 



The Crescent Lumber C panj of Marietta. 



<>.. lias boughl from the Elk River Lumber & 

 foal Company of Clay, w. Va., 8,000 acres of 

 timber land in Clay county, West Virginia. It 

 includes virgin oak. ash, poplar, hemlock and 

 bickOry, and the new owners will ereel a band 



sawmill at once 10 work off the | luct. The 



Crescenl compa Q3 1 1 already opei a I ing a band 

 sawmill at Hosterman, w. Va., and two circular 

 sawmills on Coal river in the same state. 



The Scott Lumber & Transportation Company 

 of Bridgeport, Ox, bas been chartered. The 



capital slock is $100,1 and the incorporators 



are W. \V. and John T. Scott, Ralph Bethel, 

 Walter I.ylc and Frank Stillwell. Sawmills 

 will be built in West Virginia and also a con- 

 siderable ai in of 1 rani road. 



The James I. M. Wilson Lumner Company is 

 authority for the statement that this is one of 

 the best, if not the best, year for the sale of 

 poles that Pittsburg has ever seen. The ex- 

 tensive operations of tie railroads and street 

 railway companies, together with the projects of 

 the independent telephone companies to the 

 north of Pittsburg have made a market for poles 

 thai is seldom equalled anywhere. Most of the 

 stock has been cut in West Virginia and the 

 demand for chestnut poles since I iceembcr 1 has 

 been much too great tor the supply at the 

 :i ilroads. 



"Six hundred cars behind." 'ibis is the sig- 

 nificant statement made by -Manager W. 1'. 

 Craig of William Whitmer & Sons. Incorporated, 

 about the lumber situation in West Virginia at 

 present. It means thai the Whitmers have bun 

 cars of lumber cut ami sold and ready for ship- 



it, inn thai they cannot get a ear to move it. 



At some of their mills where fifteen can a da; 

 1 an be loaded easily only two or three a week 



are sent in. The Pittsburg Offl ! the Whit 1 



will sell more than .".. feet of lumber 



this month and for the vein it Is certain to 

 round up a total of 70.000,000 feel 



John c. Parsons and I:. W. Cross have 

 formed a partnership under ibe name 

 Parsons ,N Cross. Mr. Parsons bas been tor 

 years a salesman for the well known linn 01 

 Nicola, stoic' & Myers of Cleveland, and Mr. 



Cross has been identified with Hie Whit p 



lumber Interests for some time. The new firm 

 win sian in business January 1 ami win bavi 

 some excellent connections in West Virginia and 

 in the eastern mauket. 



The cheat River Lumber Company is pushing 

 ils business in chestnut and poplar bard and 

 will handle one-third mere chestnut ibis month 

 than any month this year to date. More than 

 one-half of its lumber is being si. Id within a 



radius of 60 miles of Pittsburg and not a small 

 proportion of ibis g,>es 1.1 manufactories. 



There Is quite a general complain! among 

 linns which arc pushing tag operations in West 

 Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky ami Tenne iei 

 about ibe scarcity of g i labor, s whole- 



.1 far as I.. say thai 20 per eeul more 



being paid I., good men. I... lb sawncii bands 

 and woodsmen, than lasi year and thai thej are 

 glad I" get desirable help even at this advance 

 The chief reason given is that able bodied men 



hay ' north to the Pittsburg district in 



large numbers to gel better wages and more 

 steady work in ibe big steel plants. Their place 

 has been filled, it is said, largelj bj negroes, 

 who are unsteady in their habits and cannoi be 

 held down to labor when lbe\ have money. So 



keen lias bee ibis call for demand for 1; I 



men that men an- going south from the small 

 mills of western Pennsylvania, where the opera 

 t i. .ns have 1 u finished lately. 



The American Lumber .v Manufacturing Com 



pany for a month past bas bad a demand for 



oak and poplar that bas 1 11 exceedingly hard 



lo fill in view of the fact (bat dry slocks of 



I.. .1 li w is arc low at (he mills and that when 



the lumber is actually procured it is almost im- 

 possible to move it. Chestnut, too. has been 

 selling faster than for months and (be pros 

 pectt now are for a very lively winter's trade. 

 Both President G. W. Johnson and Genera] 

 Manager .1. X. Woollett of ibe American predict 

 a splendid winter's trade and feel that Ibe hard 

 wood situation is. all things considered, in better 

 shape than it lias I n for several years. 



"We are selecting our trade from the big 

 bulk of inquiry thai comes lo us." said President 

 I I Sailer of Ibe 1.. I,. Sailer I, umber Com- 

 pany last week when asked about the hardwood 

 conditions that are prevailing now. At (lie 



Blackstone plant of lb pany 1 In men are 



working twelve hours a day to gel oul stock 

 and by their efforts How have more than doubled 

 the output of the Blackstone plant since last 

 December. It is expected now that the new 

 box shook factory of the Satlers will be in opera 

 lion by February l. which will put ibis concern 

 in the front ranks of producers of box stuff. 



The Linehan Lumber Company sums up the 

 situation in these closing days of 1906 thus: 

 "II has been a phenomenal year for hardwood. 

 Prices are uniformly higher than one year ago 

 and stocks are smaller at Ibe mills. Both the 

 railroads and I he big manufactories are up to 

 their ears in projects thai are requiring and wall 



reqi ire enormous amounts of bardw I lumber, 



and the Pittsburg wholesalers are seeing to it 



thai they get their shai ! the trade. Oak. 



poplar and ash are very -iron- in market now. 

 especially ibe first, which has been foremost in 

 demand among the bardw. .oils tor months." 



Ibe West Virginia Sawmill Association at a 

 leeeut meeting at lilkins appointed committees 



1 infer with the officials of the Western Mary 



land Railroad Company with a view to getting 

 relief from Ibe ear famine. If no relief is ol, 

 talned the committees win go before ibe state 

 legislature of West Virginia and trj to gel 

 lav, .na.'ied forcing railroads 1.. provide cars for 

 lumber shippers. 



ibe Ohio Pyle Companj has chosen these 

 officers for the coming year: President, James 

 McKelvey ; vice-president, .1. 11. Henderson; sec 



\ ami manager, 1 >. 11 Horton ; treasurer. 



.1. A. Ginter. ''ibe fire which ibe .■ pany bad 



ai Ohio Pyle lately destroyed its locomotive 



and a new one is being in tailed this week. 



I h ■■ pany now- has 5,000 aires of first-class 



white ..ak timber, baying about doubled its tim 

 her holdings in Ibe past year. 



Saginaw Valley. 



For ibe in at Lumbermen are turning their 



nib. n to the holidays, alter a must sue 



ul ] .ar They are taking ace 1 of stock 



no I pulling their business in shape for next 



bin inr ' .1 which I be ear 1.1111 



ine has placed up. .n business ibe [asl ninety 



days there would be no complaint. X. .tiling 

 like n bas ever ben experienced. Everybody is 

 shorl ..I ca rs a ml p,i rt Icularly 1 be I 

 w. 11. Young & Co., state that Here hasn't 1 a 



a day ill two weeks thai 111..! haven't been 1 I » I 



.ars shorl .a' their business requirements ami 



they are thirty days behind in shipping orders. 

 A. C. While expects tu be compelled to shut 

 down on account of not having cars. It is Ibe 



same along Ibe line- ..i the t Is lb where 



sawmills are located 



Tiie prospects for the coming year in the 



lianlw I trade are better than they have I n 



Ibe present year. Is land I'.igolow Company 



yesterday sold all the mapb' ibe mills will cut 

 n. xi year to 'be s I. Eastman Flooring Com 

 pany, at considerable advance over present 



prices. This yon the la iiiiau I pany look- 

 in. ilild.i feel of maple from Ibe same con 



ecru. The K land-Bigelov. C panj bas also 



Contracted half ..i its next year's output of 



beech l ber, at about si over present quota 



I ions. 



S. mills have been obliged I" close down. 



The Ilargravc mill will (ill some lumber after 

 tiie Holidays and the Campbell Brown mill also 

 has a contract I" cut out some stock. -I. .1 



i lood exj - to run the greater portion of the 



winter. Both of the Kneeland-Bigelow mills 

 will run all winter, one of them day and night. 



li. e two mills are cutting nearly 40, ."no 



feet Of lumber this year. I'.liss & VanAilken 



have bad a g I year and their plant is being 



operated day and night. It takes a dozen train 

 loads of cars a day lo keep all these plants in 



operation, and the greater porti ome over 



the Mackinaw division of the Michigan Central. 



w. li. Young -V: Co. an- operating four log 

 ging camps up near the slrails and have two 

 jobbers also pulling in slock for them. 



the li, M. l d's s.uis' Co., at AuSable, have 



finished shipping for the season. They have 



shipped several million feel of heavy bardw I 



limber for Ibe lielri.it tunnel and for harbor 

 work on Lake fade. 



R. I'. Holihan of Millersburg expects i" stock 

 Ibe Derry & Co. mill for the winter run. 



The Jackson ,\ Wylie Company at Gaylord 

 consumed 6,000,000 feel "i beech ."id elm logs 

 the past vai. II manufactures staves and 



head liuin^- 



Tbe Batchelor Timber Company at Wesl 

 Branch is running steadily, the mill having a 

 capacity of 12,000,000 feet, 'the logs come lo 

 the mill by rail. 



The new plant of the suable Manufacturing 

 Company at Saginaw is being rushed and it 

 will begin manufacturing flooring early after 

 the new j ear 



Archie McKay is culling and manufacturing 

 over i.-< a a i, i >i a i feci of hardwood near Hose 

 lily. 



A s -e of portable mills are cutting hard- 

 wood ai points north of Baj Citj » here i racts 



..I bardw I exist These mills are in to 



localities where there are tract! "i -landing 

 limber. 



The Hanson Waul Veneer Company will run 



iis plani all w inter, ba\ Ing equipped a hoi pond 



into which the logs that e e by rail are 



dumped. 



lie sawmill at Grace Harbor, on the Lake 



Huron shore, was burned la'sl week and will 

 in. I be rebuilt. 



Grand Rapids. 



I lie l'.".\ in' i 'ily 1. umbel i pany held il 



annual l ling lie. ■ember 1.9 and a dividend "I 



12 per ieiil i.. stockholders was declared, iiuli 

 i ating a prosperous year's buslnei The Col 

 lowing board ot' directors was ere-elected: W. 

 II. While. Thomas White, L. H. Wit] 

 s. Mussoinian, Edward Fitzgerald, i . v\ 

 ,,ii.i Henry Idema. Officers wen selected as fol- 

 lows: President, W. II. While. Boyne City; 

 1 a e president. Thomas While, I'e 



trea tirei I leni ■ it , ( Irand Rapid 

 lan , \\ 1.. Mart in. Boj ae City. 



