HARDWOOD RECORD 



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week. Throughout the hardwood list it notes 

 a very flrm feehng as to prices and Secretary 

 J. H. Hendei-son says that both oak and 

 chestnut are going up slowly. The com- 

 pany's mill at Crellin, Md., is now cutting 

 100.000 feet a day. 



General Manager J. N. Woollett of the 

 American Lumber and Manufacturing Com- 

 pany recently took an order for 1.000.000 feet 

 of oak to be exported from Mississippi and 

 Arkansas for car lumber. He also bought 

 5.000,000 feet of Cottonwood to be cut in 

 Texas and Indian Territory, a large part of 

 which will be brought up the Mississippi for 

 distribution in the central West. 



BuiTalo. 



The Hoo-Hoo Concatenation held by Vice- 

 gerent F. J. Blumenstein May 11 was the 

 principal event of the month. The attend- 

 ance was large and a class of ten kittens was 

 admitted to membership as follows: Edwin 

 S. Lott of Chestnut * Slaght: William F. 

 Stuhlmiller of the Stuhlmiller Mantel Works; 

 Oris M. Moyer of the American Seating Com- 

 pany; Jacob F. Hirschmiller of Palen & 

 Burns; Arthur T. Wilcox, with G. Elias & 

 Bro. : Frank M. Betts of the Eastern Lumber 

 Company. Tonawanda; Sylvester B. Bond of 

 the Hugh McLean Lumber Company; James 

 H. Walsh, with F. W. Vetter; Frank W. Mc- 

 Gregor of the Standard Hardwood Lumber 

 Company and James L. Stewart, inspector 

 for the National Hardwood Lumber Associa- 

 tion. 



A. Miller keeps two or three good hustling 

 buyers in the oak and other hardwood dis- 

 tricts .south, looking after stock and so is 

 easily able to carry a full stock in yard, in 

 spite of active sales. 



The Buffalo yard of Scatcherd cS: Son still 

 depends on hardwoods, mainly from Penn- 

 sylvania, as the cut of the Memphis mills is 

 all needed to meet tlie general eastern and 

 foreign demand. 



Beyer, Knox & Co. find that their new mill 

 headquarters at Pascola, Mo., is to be a 

 fortunate venture, as they are selling too 

 much oak and other southwestern hardwoods 

 not to have a special supply somewhere. 



T. Sullivan & Co, are now for the first 

 time lately able to put some Washington fir 

 into stock here. A lot of 2^ -inch, a size 

 always hard to get, is going , into pile Just 

 now. 



G. Elias & Bro. are getting in lumber liber- 

 ally by lake and as they handle all sorts of 

 lumber it is quite in their line to get a cargo 

 from Lake Ontario, as they did a few days 

 ago. 



Members of the Standard Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company have organized the Bison City 

 Table Company, with $50,000 paid up capital. 

 , R. F. Kreinheder is president, A. W. Krein- 

 heder, vice president; O. W. Kreinheder, 

 treasurer and manager, and Charles Benfold. 

 secretary. The factory is already in full 

 operation. 



F. W. Vetter is still adding to his yard 

 stock since going into business on his own 

 account. He now carries a full assortment 

 of general hardwood sorts and is enjoying all 

 his former trade. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company has 

 two barges coming down from the upper 

 lakes with hardwood stock, all of which will 

 be needed to keep up the yard stock, as 

 everything is moving fast. 



Manager Janes of the Empire Lumber Com- 

 pany is back from a long trip through the 

 South and Southwest, stirring up his mill and 

 shipping forces. He is able to report plenty 

 of cars, which is exceptionally favorable. 



Oak, ash and poplar are being added to the 

 yard stock of O. E. Teager from his Ken- 

 tucky headquarters. Cars in that direction 



are not as plenty as they ought to be, but 

 are made to answer. 



I. N. Stewart & Bro. are moving an in- 

 creased amount of cherry and are always 

 able to show an increased stock of oak in 

 yard, which comes from cherry territory and 

 sells along with it nicely. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company still 

 finds the Memphis district a rain center, but 

 is able to get stock enough from its various 

 mills to meet all demands. 



Detroit. 



Joseph H. Berry, the genius behind the 

 greatest varnish manufactory in the world, 

 died in Detroit, May 22. He had been ill 

 only seven weeks. He was 68 years of age. 



Mr. Berry was chairman of Berry Brothers. 

 Ltd., of Detroit, large varnish manufacturers. 

 He was also president of the Dwight Lumber 

 Compan.v. large handlers of hardwood; presi- 

 dent of the Detroit Heating and Lighting 

 Company and the Berry Car Wheel Foundry 

 Company at Buffalo, N. Y. He was interested 

 in the press steel, barrel, lumber and picture 

 frame trades, in iron furnaces in the northern 

 peninsula, in the sugar business, in real 

 estate, was a promoter of the new $2,500,000 

 belt line in Detroit, which is now in progress 

 of construction. 



William C. Brownlee of the Brownlee cSt 

 Kelly Lumber Company, hardwood whole- 

 salers of Detroit, is spending a week at the 

 company's mill in northern Georgia. The 

 company has just received a large cargo of 

 basswood. 



There is now a very serious strike at the 

 Detroit plant of the American Car and Foun- 

 dry Company among the forces in the steel 

 di partmcnt. Police are necessary to keep 

 Older. 



A new warehouse is being erected for the 

 Detroit Lumber Company. 



The $2,500,000 new Cleveland "D. & C." 

 boat which was to have gone into commis- 

 sion this month was burned at her dock at 

 the foot of Orleans street last week. A large 

 amount of beautiful interior hardwood finish 

 was destroyed at a big loss to the Detroit 

 Shipbuilding Company. 



There is a big strike among the shipbuild- 

 ers of the American Shipbuilding Company 

 at the Great Lakes branch at Ecorse. Out- 

 side workmen are being imported. 



The spring shipments by boat to Detroit 

 are very liglit owing to the fact that the 

 spring stock is not entirely dry, and fall stock 

 has been pretty well cleaned up. Basswood 

 is reported very scarce. Every wholesaler is 

 busy, there being no let up in building here. 



Sagina'w Valley. 



The Superior Iron and Chemical Company 

 has been organized at Detroit with a capital- 

 ization of $7,500,000. Joseph H. Berry of 

 Berry Bros.. Detroit, is said to hold $6,000.- 

 000 of the stock. This company has charcoal 

 and iron plants at Ashland. Manistique, New- 

 berry. Chocolay. Elk Rapids, and Boyne City. 

 All of these plants manufacture charcoal 

 from hardwood and charcoal iron from the 

 charcoal. They also manufacture chemicals 

 from the wood by-products. Efforts are being 

 made to secure a large plant of that character 

 at Bay City. There is one chemical plant in 

 operation which manufactures wood alcohol 

 and other by-products, the plant being oper- 

 ated by the Dupont Powder Company of Phil- 

 adelphia. The alcohol from the wood is con- 

 verted into use in the manufacture of gun- 

 powder. There is no location in the world so 

 advantageous for the location of a plant of 

 this character as Bay City. Eight E,awmills. 

 nearly all of which are operated the year 

 through, are engaged in the manufacture of 

 hardwood lumber ar^l there is thus a vast 



accumulation of hardwood refuse available. 

 Moreover, tributary to Bay City are immense 

 forests of the best hardwood timber in the 

 world, and it has rail and water transporta- 

 tion for the raw material and the manufac- 

 tured product. 



S. L. Eastman has purchased the interest 

 of Ross & Wentworth of Bay City in 10,000,- 

 000 feet of standing timber in Ogemaw 

 County. A spur track will be extended into 

 it by the Detroit & Mackinac railroad and the 

 timber will be taken off. A portable band 

 mill will be put up on the ground to manu- 

 facture the timber. A large portion of the 

 timber is beech, maple and birch. The lum- 

 ber will be handled by Mr. Eastman in his 

 business, the maple going into flooring. 

 Beech lumber of good quality is being put 

 into flooring here and it gives satisfaction as 

 it finishes nicety. This timber has advanced 

 to $18 for No. 1 common, and there is a 

 good call for it. 



The Saginaw Manufacturing Company, 

 which puts out washboards, wood split pulleys 

 and other hardwood novelties, is enlarging its 

 plant materially to permit of the expansion 

 of its business. The concern is doing a pros- 

 perous business. The Palmerton Wooden- 

 ware Company and the Bousfleld Wooden 

 "Works Company are two of the largest estab- 

 lishments of their kind in the United States. 

 They use a number of million feet of bass- 

 wood and also large quantities of other hard- 

 woods every month. Over at Ithaca. Mich., 

 is a plant operated by Armour & Co.. which 

 produces butter tubs and other novelties. All 

 of these institutions are doing a fine business 

 and are operated with full crews. 



A. McKay is erecting a portable mill on the 

 French Siding, near West Branch, with which 

 he will cut up 1,000,000 feet of logs. 



The Batchelor Timber Company at West 

 Branch has erected a heading mill and other 

 improvements. The mill is cutting about 

 60.000 feet of hardwood lumber daily. 



The new Strable Flooring plant at Saginaw 

 is having a fine run of business considering 

 the short time it has been in operation. The 

 company is booking orders ahead and the 

 oflacials feel well satisfied with conditions. 



At Whitestone Point, near AuGres on Sag- 

 inaw Bay, Samuel Umphrey is operating a 

 small sawmill which is cutting 12,000 feet 

 a day. Up in that section a number of small 

 mills are in operation. 



Good progress is being made on the new- 

 mill of Keyes & Warboys at Tower, and it 

 will soon be rftady for business. 



The Pinkerton sawmill, near Onaway, is 

 ready for business and has an ample stock of 

 logs. 



The Krieeland-Bigelow Company's mill is 

 running day and night and cutting some fine 

 stock. The maple goes to S. L. Eastman. 

 Mr. Bigelow says that practically their entire 

 cut for the season has been sold. 



Bay City parties are negotiating for a large 

 body of hardwood timber north of the city 

 to come here to be manufactured. 



Grand Bapids. 



Among the new Michigan corporations are 

 the following: Cisco Lake Lumber Company, 

 Wausau. Wis.. and Ontonagon, $200,000; 

 Southland Lumber Company, Grand Rapids, 

 $20,000. 



The Baines-Mosier Cabinet Company of 

 Allegan has increased its capital stock from 

 $4,000 to $13,000. 



Louis D. Rich has resigned his position as 

 cashier of the R. G. Peters Salt and Lumber 

 Company, Manistee, taking effect June 1, 

 and will give his entire attention to his lum- 

 ber interests in the South. 



Officers of the newly formed Portage Lake 

 Lumber Company of Hancock are: President, 



