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use in sawmills, died at bis home in Allegheny, 

 Pa., two weeks ago. He was 69 years old and 

 had formerly run a large sawmill on Ilerr's 

 Island in the Allegheny riyer prior to that place 

 having been taken over by the Pennsylvania 

 Railroad Company for its big livestock yards. 



The himbi-r mill owned and operated by J. 

 A. Petty at Sycamore, O., near Upper Sandusky, 

 was destroyed by a boiler explosion May 17. 

 Parts of the boiler and engine were found 40n 

 feet from the mill site. 



The Schaffer Lumber Company of Irwin, Pa., 

 has bought 1,300 acres of oak, spruce and hem- 

 lock in West Virginia. The company expects 

 to get 7.000,000 feet of lumber from the tract 

 and will build mills at once. 



.T. E. Mcllvain & Co. are not having any 

 trouble to get orders tor their specialties in 

 oak. J. J. T. Penney of this company keeps 

 busy hunting stocks as well as orders and has 

 secured some tine lots of hardwood under con- 

 tract in West Virginia. 



The Pittsburg Veneer Barrel Company is a 

 new corporation backed by C. A. and J. H. 

 Johns, (i. A. Gage, G. E. Jlardie and will 

 operate under a Pennsylvania charter. It will 

 erect a plant in or jiear Pittsburg. 



It is announced that the Ford Lumber Com- 

 pany. Burt & Urabli Lumber Company, Hughes 

 Lumber Company. Kentucky River Poplar Lum- 

 ber Company and Southern Lumber Company 

 have united their interests under the caption of 

 the Kentucky River Sawmill & Lumber Com- 

 pany. The company will have mills at Ford, 

 Nicholasville, Frankfort and Valley View, Ky., 

 and will raft its stock down the Kentucky river. 



The WilLson Brothers Lumber Company is 

 making a big spring sale of hardwoods. Man- 

 ager I. F. lialsley of that department has been 

 kept busy the past three months getting avail- 

 able stock and hustling up the railroads to get 

 cars enough to get out the finished stock. The 

 car situation is slightly better but is far from 

 what it should be at this season of the year. 



The Buckeye Lumber Company is doing con- 

 siderable business in wagon stock. Its officers 

 report that the car manufacturers are buying 

 some lumber but at a lower price than for- 

 merly and that buyers in general are beginning 

 to hedge on their orders unless some concessions 

 in quotations are made to them. This com- 

 pany is making a specialty of hickory and ash 

 to good advantage. 



The Webster-Keasey Lumber Company, which 

 lately opened offices in the Bessemer building, 

 is getting into the pole and tie market in good 

 shape. The demand for the former is not so 

 brisk, they say. as two months ago, but the sup- 

 ply of chestnut poles is nevertheless small. 

 White oak piling is also hard to get and the 

 small mills are being canvassed pretty thor- 

 oughly for any chance stocks. 



The I'nion City Chair Company, whose plant 

 at I'nion City. I'a.. was burned a few weeks 

 ago, has decided to rebuild in that city instead 

 of accepting some of the flattering offers made 

 to it by business men's associations in other 

 near-by towns. Work on the new plant will be 

 started at once in order to get it ready to 

 operate in the fall. 



The Clay-Schoppe I>umber Company is head- 

 quarters for piling in spite of the fact that it 

 has only been listed as a wholesale lumber tirm 

 but a short while. Its mills are at Ligonier. Pa., 

 and its offices in the House building at Smith- 

 field and Water streets. 



The Herman H. Hettler Lumber Company is 

 keeping up its sales record in this city remark- 

 ably well and in May sold over 1.100,000 feet of 

 lumber through the efforts of its local manager, 

 G. W. Cantrell. Most of this was car stock and 

 a good share of it W'ent direct to the eastern 

 market. 



The Babcock lumber interests have completed 

 the purchase of 22,000 acres of timber in West 

 Virginia and have formed a new corporation 



which has a capital of SoOO.OOO and is known 

 as the Babcock Boom & Lumber Company. This 

 concern has bought the stock and business of A. 

 Thompson of I'hiladelphia and the Blackwater 

 and Thompson lumber companies of Davis, W. 

 \'a. The tract secured is estimated to cut 22.- 

 000,000 feet of lumber and the new company 

 gets 2o miles of tram road fully equipped in 

 the deal. E. V. ISabcock will be president of 

 the company. F. R. Babcock secretary and treas- 

 urer, and O. H. Babcock general manager. The 

 business will be handled from the Pittsburg 

 offices of E. V. Babcock & Co. in the Frick 

 building. 



There is a general feeling among the best- 

 posted wholesalers of Greater Pittsburg that the 

 man who lands a lot of business in any line of 

 lumber outside of oak and chestnut between now 

 and September will liave to go after it and 

 hustle for it hard and long. Competition is get- 

 ting fiercer according to all reports and firms are 

 taking pains with customers and going after 

 orders that were "passed up" a year ago. This 

 closer attention to the minor points of the game 

 is evidence that the market is slowing down, 

 although no serious disturbance is anticipated 

 this year. The manufactories, especially the 

 steel mills, are working overtime and with sea- 

 sonable weather the mercantile trade in this sec- 

 tion would have been in good shape. Wholesal- 

 ers as a rule are inclined to note carefully the 

 attempts of several large concerns the past two 

 weeks to break down prices on the plea that 

 they cannot be sustained at the present high 

 notch very much longer and that for large or- 

 ders booked now for fall delivery concessions 

 should he made. So far the buyers have gained 

 little by this style of dealing but it remains to 

 be seen whether their contention is true. 



The Seanor Lumber Company, in which sev- 

 eral capitalists from Fayette and Westmoreland 

 counties are interested, has bought 1,.500 acres 

 of hardwood timber land in the Cheat River 

 district about four miles from Kingwood and 

 near the extension of the M. & K. railroad. A 

 tramway will be built at once so that the lumber 

 can be rushed to market. The company had pre- 

 viously cut off a tract of 3.200 acres of timber 

 in the Bluefield district in West Virginia. 



The Big Tree Lumber Corporation property in 

 West ^'irginia has been sold to the Kanawha ».V: 

 West ^'irginia railroad through the agency of 

 DeWitt Gallagher of Charleston. This lot gives 

 the railroad a clean right of way into Charles- 

 ton. The price was about .$40,000. 



Independent contractors in Youngstown, O., 

 are in trouble again. It is reported on good 

 authority that they will not be able to buy lum- 

 ber at the Youngstown mills after June 1. This 

 results from the continued trouble over the car- 

 penters' wage scale and ma.v cause a serious 

 delay in building in that locality. 



Detroit. 



An assignment for the benefit of creditors will 

 be made by Henry George & Son, interior hard- 

 wood finish contractors, of Detroit. This was 

 decided upon at a meeting of the Union Trust 

 Company's officials, in whose hands the affairs of 

 the company have been placed. Charles W. Leach 

 was made the common law assignee, and credit- 

 ors will effect some settlement with him. The 

 committee appointed for this purpose was com- 

 posed of A. C. Stellwageu, W. C. Browiee, Wal- 

 ter S. Russell. C. W. Restrick and E. L. Thomp- 

 son. 



The Great Western Timber and Lumber Com- 

 pany, with offices in the Majestic building. De- 

 troit, is now planning to invest heavily in the 

 lumber business in Washington and Oregon. A 

 large number of Detroiters have taken stock in 

 the concern. 



The real estate firm of Homer Warren & Co. 

 will erect 300 houses in Detroit this summer. 

 This is but an indication of the boom in home- 

 building in L)etroit. 



Amos Opdyke, 87 years old, a pioneer lumber- 

 man, died last week at his daughter's home in 

 Detroit. He carried on his trade most of the 

 time in Hudson. Mich. 



Delmar C. Ross has been appointed master 

 car builder of the Michigan Central railroad. He 

 has been twenty-two years in the service of the 

 road, the first four years of which he was a 

 foreman of the West Detroit shops and now is 

 coach carpenter. He finally rose to be general 

 master car builder of the whole system. 



The E. R. Thomas Automobile Company will 

 build another factory in Detroit. It will be lo- 

 cated on Jefferson avenue. It will use a large 

 quantity of auto bodies. 



Grand Rapids. 



The Thomas ilacBride Lumber Company has 

 removed its offices from the Michigan Trust to 

 the Murray building. 



C. H. Leonard of the Leonard Refrigerator 

 Company says that the company will occupy its 

 new factory, in process of erection on Clyde Park 

 avenue, about Nov. 1. The three buildings now 

 occupied by the company on Ottawa and Market 

 streets will be fitted up for furniture exhibi- 

 tion purposes. 



The board of trade has erected a big electric 

 sign over the gates at the union station, which 

 reads : "Grand Rapids, the Furniture City. 

 Water-power electricity. We welcome you." The 

 <rrand Rapids-Muskegon Power Company will 

 have its second dam completed across the Muske- 

 gon river at Croton soon and the 10,000 addi- 

 tional units of power will be carried by cable 

 lines to this city. 



The Holly Cabinet Company, manufacturing 

 high-grade parlor tables, will remove its plant 

 from Holly to Lansing. Additional capital has 

 been subscribed in Lansing. 



F. A. Mitchell has been promoted to the posi- 

 tion of general traffic manager of the Manistee 

 & Xortheastern railroad, and his successor as 

 freight and passenger agent is Dennis Riley, who 

 will remove with his family to Manistee. 



I'ongressman George A. Loud of An Sable, 

 wlio is interested with the Louds in timber op- 

 erations in eastern Michigan, lectured on "The 

 Panama Canal" at the Ryerson library in this 

 city June 4. Mr. Loud accompanied the con- 

 gressional party that visited the isthmus last 

 spring and is the best posted man in the state 

 on conditions there. 



A representative of the R. G. Peters Salt & 

 Lumber Company of Manistee was in Cadillac 

 recently for the purpose of hiring men for camps. 



TTie Moon Desk Company of Muskegon is 

 building a brick addition 48x115 feet, four 

 stories high, to its plant, which will greatly In- 

 crease its floor space. 



Will Mitchell's generosity towards Cadillac, 

 his home town, was recently further exemplified. 

 On his return from an extended southern trip it 

 came to his notice that about ?.ii,000 additional 

 was needed in order to go ahead with the con- 

 struction of the Y. M. C. A. building along the 

 original lines, and he promptly assured the 

 building committee that the sum would be forth- 

 coming when needed. Mr. Mitchell has already 

 contributed .$20,000 towards the building. The 

 contract for its construction has been awarded 

 and the building will be completed by Dec. 1. 



Keys & Warboys are building a sawmill at Ou- 

 away. The mill is 31xlo0 feet, two stories high, 

 and will be completed Sept. 1. 



Four cars loaded with logs broke loose on the 

 Oval Wood Dish Company's siding at Traverse 

 City and crashed into a Grand Rapids & Indi- 

 ana passenger train. The fact that no one was 

 killed or seriously injured is due to the heroism 

 displayed by Philip Bellinger, engineer, who 

 stuck to his cab and brought the passenger train 

 to a stop amid the flying logs. 



The Detroit Free Press quotes a lumberman 

 of Cadillac as follows ; "Michigan has more 

 hardwood timber standing today than any other 

 state in the Union, and the largest part of it Is 



