HARDWOOD RECORD 



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capacity of about 75,nuu f. ot. It is a large 

 producer of hardwood lumber. 



Bemis & Vosburgh celebrated their first an- 

 niversary of being in the wholesale lumber 

 business in Pittsburg by banqueting all their 

 office and sales force at the home of W. W. 

 Vosburgh in Sewickley, Pa.. twelve miles 

 below Pittsburg 011 the Ohio river. The com- 

 pany's offices are in the Farmers' Bank 

 building. 



C. B. Loveless and 1>. I,, llelman of War- 

 ren, O., have bought from E. W. West of 

 Eiallsboro, W. Ya.. 11,400 acres of timber land 

 near Durham. N. C. The tract is estim 



to eui 4,000, ' feet of oak. 1,1 feet of 



hickory, 15,000,000 feet of pine, and 2,000,000 

 feet of red gum timber. The oak and hick- 

 ory will be marketed in New York, but the 

 pine will all be shipped to Pittsburg, Cleve- 

 land, Youngstown and Warren, O., markets. 

 E. L>. Davidson of Parkersburg, W. Va., has 

 bought the Lemon-McGregor tract of 555 

 acres in Ritchie county. W. Va., for about 

 (40 per acre. It will be cut off at once. 



The Advance Lumber Company of Cleve- 

 land, O., has opened a Pittsburg office at 

 2425 Farmers' Hank building. C. G. MeCo: 

 is in charge, and the firm will do a general 

 hardwood business. The Advance is an out- 

 growth of the old Kirk-Christy firm at Cleve- 

 land. O., where it still has its main offices 

 and is one of the biggest dealers in hardwood 

 in Ohio. 



The Linehan Lumber Company, one of the 

 foremost hardwood concerns in Pennsylvania, 

 has been admitted to membership in the 

 1 11 lung Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation. At the last meeting of the associa- 

 tion these officers were elected for the en- 

 suing year: President, Alex Willson of the 

 Willson Bros.' Lumber Company; vice pres- 

 ident, L. L. Satler of the L. L. Satler Lum- 

 ber company; secretary and treasurer, J. G. 

 Criste of the Interior Lumber Company. 



The McHendry Lumber Company of Pied- 

 mont, W. Ya.. has been chartered with a cap- 

 ital of $25,000 by M. B. McHendry and other 

 West Virginia capitalists, who will shortly 

 develop an extensive tract of timber. 



The Nicola Lumber Company is doing a 

 good hardwood business this month and re- 

 ports inquiry out on the roads as being first 

 class. President George W. Nicola has been 

 spending a month in the far South. 



The big plant of the Pennsylvania Doer .V. 

 Sash Company in outer Second avenue was 

 burned ten days ago. The first fire was fol- 

 lowed by an explosion of gas which wrecked tie 

 remainder of the four story brick building 

 which housed the company's operations. The 

 building was worth about $50,000 and it is 

 estimated that the stock burned was worth 

 .$100,000. Con J. A. Cheyne is president and 

 S. W. Rockwell is vice president of the com- 

 pany. The plant will likely be rebuilt soon. 

 J. N. Woollett, general manager of the 

 American Lumber & Manufacturing Company, 

 is spending a few weeks in the South and 

 Southwest in search of new stocks of hard- 

 wood and with a view to thoroughly looking 

 over the hardwood situation in the Middle 

 West on his way home. 



The McKees Rocks Planing .Mill Company 

 will shortly let the contract for a brick plan- 

 ing mill to be located near that town and 

 about five miles below Pittsburg on the Ohio 

 river. 



I. r. Balsley of the Willson Bros.' lann 

 ber Company lias only good words to say of 

 the hardwood market. Stocks are so low 

 it keeps him out on the road much of the 

 time rounding up new supplies. 



The Susquehanna Lumber Company of Nan- 

 ticoke, Pa., has taken over the stocks and 

 yards of the Harry Cornell Lumber Company 

 and has reorganized the company with a. 

 larger capital. The Susquehanna assistant 



manager will be William E. Hon. formerly 

 in tiie emploj ei* 11 titer company. 



The A. M. Turner Lumber Company will 

 move April 1 from (he Ferguson block in 

 Third avenue to the new twenty-story sky- 

 craper of the Union bank al Fourth avenue 

 and Wood street. The company will h;i\e 

 a large suite of offices, which will give it 

 greatly Increased facilities for transacting its 

 growing business. 



Greater Pittsburg has once more been held 

 up temporarily bj :i lot of disgruntled poli- 

 ticians in Allegheny who have get a writ 

 of .nor from the Supreme court of the United 



stales. Tiie Pennsylvania Supre :ourt di 



clared the act annexing Allegheny to Pitts- 

 burg to be valid and the consolidation would 

 have been effective in a few days had not 

 this new political move been made. The lum- 

 ber interests of both cities are strongly de- 

 sirous of the union, for it will not only give 

 the greater city much more advertising pres- 

 tige but it will also result in free bridge 

 net other improvements of great benefit to 

 all lines of business. 



The flood that visited Pittsburg March 

 13-15 was by far the worst in the historv 

 of the city, the water rising to a height of 

 36.2 feet, more than a foot higher than ever 

 before. Basements of buildings above Wood 

 street wen Hooded and damage to the ex- 

 leni of $10,000,000 was done in the citj 

 proper. Small steamboats plied up anil down 

 the main streets in the lower part of town. 

 Great damage was done to the lumber inter- 

 ests who had logs and lumber scattered along 

 the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers or far- 

 ther down on the Ohio river and its Wesl 

 Virginia tributaries, tor tie- ice gorges caused 

 a flood of backwater that swept away large 

 quantities of lumber which will never be re- 

 claimed. 



Saginaw Valley. 



The soft weather the last ten days has 

 melted what snow was on the ground in thi 

 lumbering portion of the state north of the 

 Saginaw river and loggers depending on snow 

 haul have been pretty effectually put out of 

 business. On the whole, however, a good 

 stock of logs has been secured. < if course, 

 this does not affect the larger firms that op- 

 erate tiie year through. It is estimated that 

 a. greater number of small operators have cut 

 logs during the winter than before in years, 

 due to the improved market and prices for 

 hardwood and the prospects for trade. The 

 conditions are eminently better than a year 

 ago. 



The territory traversed by the Mackinaw 

 division of the Michigan Central railroad, ex- 

 ion, ling from the Saginaw river to the Straits 

 ol Mackinaw, has been for years and is today 

 the most prolific producer of lumber in the 



1 Lumbering began away back in 1868 



and has been continuously prosecuted to the 



t day. There have been many changes 



in firms, and the- pine timber 1ms pretty well 

 disappeared, but there is thirty years' supply 

 yet of the fines) hardw 1 timber in the coun- 

 try. During 1906 there was produced at the 



mills on the line of this 1 1 13,775,928 feel 



of hardwood lumber. 11 is estimated fully 

 as large a <juaniity will i" produced the cur- 

 leni year. 



There was produi ed in the Lake 1 [uron 

 shore district mills last year 57. 6:1:;, bin feel 

 of hardwood lumber, and in the Saginaw 

 river district 56,000,000 feet, making a total 



he eastern part of the state 157,469,388 



feet. 



The- stocks of manufactured lumber ari 

 light The territoi designated as the Mack- 

 inaw division not only supplies its own mills 

 witli logs but thos, :l i Saginaw and Bay City 



I,; will. Moie than 1 in loads of logs come 



p, iii,. Sagii from the Mackinaw di 



iris every twenty-four hours. 



F. B. Chesbrough of Bay City, who is now 



in Boston, and who recently purchased the 



1"' 1 lest of his brothers in the upper Mich- 

 igan timber and mill properties, lias indie. it,, I 

 a determination to purchase ami tit up for the 

 use of Bay City 1 pie a tine park on the 



West side of tile I 1 \ . f Ullil flouting O. pai'k 



tiie people are to vote tor on the east side 



lie SayS lie is Willing to devote a portion of 



his 111 j in "beautifying Hay City." His 



in "i "vv , acres of timber land, most - 



ly hardw 1. 



There has not 1 ,, :l time , lining the win- 

 ter when ,-ars have been so scarce as at this 

 11. it,. Lumber shippers are particularly handi- 

 capped sitae orders have I n free and hun- 

 dreds oi carloads have 1 n l ked for which 



ears ate not obtainable, It had been ex- 

 pected that by this dati cars would be more 

 available ami there is iniieh complaint re- 

 garding the situation. 



Aimer Benjamin's small sawmill in Ed- 

 wards, Ogemaw county, has been destroyed 

 by tire. Involving a loss of $700. The mill is 

 being rebuilt. 



The Human Lumber Company at Boman- 



v-ille is cutting 20, feet of lumber a day. it 



comes mil over the Gladwin branch of the 

 Michigan Central. 



Alpena parties have contracted to erect .1 

 band and resaw mill at Tower for Keyes & 

 Warlioys of New York. Work will begin in 

 April and the mill will be ready for business 

 earlj in the fall. The owners have ,., 

 timber to run the mill several years. 



Tin Marl City mill in Gladwin county has 



500, feet of hardwood logs on skids. The 



mill will have a stock of nearly 1,000,000 feel. 



The remains of the sawmill at Grace Har- 

 boi operated by the Grace Harbor Lumber 

 Company which was damaged by fire some 



months ago have I sold to .lames Me- 



( iregor of i 'heboygan. 



The Hargrave sawmill. at Bay City began 



sawing on March 19. The logs 1 ff the 



Mackinaw division by rail. 



The K land-Bigelow mill, which has been 



operated uninterruptedly day and night the 

 last year, will shut down a week soon for re- 

 pa irs. 



W. D. Young & Co. have been successful 

 this season and the plant is being operated 

 day and night with excellent results. Tin- de- 

 mand for its products is good. It puis out 

 s tun maple flooring. 



Bliss t vi Van Auken received a train load 

 of line oak log- a lew .lavs ago. Oak is a 

 rather scarce commodity in this district. For- 

 ce 1 !■■ there was .1 large stock of red oak 

 in northern Michigan, but from 1869 to 1883 

 11 was stripped from the forests, converted 

 into square timber, and shipped to Buffalo 

 and Quebec. In ism' the output amounted to 



7,853, iilhc feet and for fifteen years the 



shipments from the Saginaw river ranged 

 f 10m 700,000 to 7,000,000 cubic feet each sea- 

 son. The last year only 87,000 cubic fei I went 

 out of the river. 



Grand Rapids. 

 Cuss County still has some oak. The Phillips 

 Lumber Company of Pokagon recently shipped 



thirty live cars of oak logs to I lie Alliens Lam 

 ber Company of Dowagiac. The company is also 



cutting about 800, 1 feel of Inir.lu 1 timber 



at H Pokagon mill. 



Plans arc being made to reorganize the Linn 

 Manufactnring Company of Escanaba into a 

 icw corporation to be known as the I3scanaba 

 si Igh & Wagon I lompany ; capita! s 1 



The Guelph Patent Cash Company ami the 

 I. Cornwell sawmill of Wolverine will re 

 operation soon, after a shutdown of some dura 

 lion.. 



Fire destroyed Joseph Kalchick's mill, two 



mile- west of ( 1111. 111 I 1. .- _ with no 



insurance. 



11 -aw and hull mill of E. II. Koch ,v 

 ■ in .1 11 mil' irmn M.ivliihl on Hie I'.ijardiuau 



