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HARDWOOD RECORD 



G. J. Evana, former president of the Iron 

 City Lumber Company and secretary of tlie 

 Willow Creel! Lumber Company, died at lits 

 home in Pittsburg last week of pneumonia. He 

 was born in South Wales 50 years ago and 

 came to this country when 12 years old. 



The L. L. Satler Lumber Company has its box 

 shook factory at Blackstone, Va., nearly com- 

 Iileted and will be ready to turn out a total of 

 150,000 feet a day by fall. The plant will be 

 lighted and equipped with electricity. The 

 company has just Installed a new Mershon band 

 re-saw and also two circular re-saws at its 

 plant at Blackstone and has also contracted for 

 12 miles of steel rails to connect its main plant 

 with a large tract of timber in one corner of 

 its holdings. 



Senator E. W. McKown and Upsher Uiggon- 

 botham of West Virginia have taken an option 

 on 20,000 acres of hardwood timber in Breath- 

 itt connt.v. Kentucky, and propose to close up 

 the deal and develop the proposition in the fall. 



I. F. Balsley of the Willson Brothers Lum- 

 ber Company spent last week in New York look- 

 ing after the interests of the hardwood depart- 

 ment of which he has charge. He reports con- 

 ditions in hardwood much better than in other 

 lines of lumber and the trade feeling good. 



The Linehan Lumber Company finds a strong 

 market for poplar and oak. They see no surplus 

 of stocks at the mills and believe that the bet- 

 ter weather will soon bring the market up into 

 the wind with a rush. 



The Parkersburg Mill Company and the Little 

 Kanawha Log & Tie Company have bought 2,000 

 acres of timber land in Calhoun county. West 

 ^'irginia. for about $50,000. The land is heavily 

 timbered and this will be cut up into staves, 

 ties and merchantable lumber. 



The Babcock Lumber Company last week 

 shipped a very choice lot of cherry from Its 

 plant at Davi.s, W. Va. It is beginning to 

 market the stock from its big plant lately 

 acquired and much of the lumber is going into 

 the eastern market. 



President J. B. Flint of the Flint, Erving & 

 Stoner Company is back from a long stay at 

 the company's plant at Dunlevie, W. Va., where 

 he found things moving briskly. R. H. Erving 

 of the same company has returned from a trip 

 to the Northwest. The company has a fine 

 trade in spruce this month. 



P. C. Clark, assistant hardwood manager of 

 the American Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 j>any, is in Tennessee looking up market condi- 

 tions. J. G. Uarling, who has been in charge 

 of the American's operations at Baxter, Tenn., 

 has gone to the Southwest to look up hardwood 

 slocks. General Manager .T. N. Woollett reports 

 the hardwood situation good but not so brisk 

 as a few weeks ago. He has a fine lot of 

 southern hardwood under contract and is get- 

 ting it up into the middle states at profitable 

 figures. 



Bufialo. 



The hardwood dealers are still meeting every 

 Saturday, but do not appear to have much but 

 sociability and general matters to look after. 

 They have a way of going to the northern side 

 of the city for a special spread and when it is 

 racing day, as just now, it is handy to finish 

 the trip in that direction. It has been planned 

 to go down the river to the Bedell house for 

 the annual outing. It is the old favorite re- 

 sort, but has been neglected lately. The date is 

 .luly 26. 



Anthony Miller reports a good city trade and 

 has plenty of good lumber to meet it. He is 

 well located for promoting his trade and seems 

 to be adding to It greatly of late. 



J. N. Scatcherd is one of the stockholders In 

 the proposed Buffalo, Rochester & Eastern Rail- 

 road, which is preparing to make the fight for a 

 franchise before the state railroad commission- 

 ers. 



Work at Beyer, Knox & Co.'s plant on the 

 grade-crossing improvement at their street, 



which will lower the regular Belt Line tracks 

 at their yard several feet, has already begun. 



The Pacific coast trade will be made the most 

 of by T. Sullivan & Co. for a while, as there Is 

 promise of a very early shutting off of cars 

 from that direction. A neat lot of spruce and 

 fir is coming in now. 



G. Ellas & Bro. are adding to their already 

 heavy yard stock a number of cargoes of white 

 pine and other lumber by lake. They handle 

 all kinds of hardwood and report business good 

 in all departments. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 pleased with the fine run of cars from the South, 

 containing oak and poplar, which it received 

 early in the season. The yard is now well stocked, 

 but the supply has dropped oft considerably of 

 late. 



Barges down the lakes and barges up the 

 Mississippi and Ohio with large assortments of 

 hardwood lumber are on the regular list of the 

 Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company this season. 



Manager Janes of the Empire Lumber Com- 

 any is off again on a short trip to tlie Arkansas 

 mills of the company, which are apparently not 

 so badly flooded as some of the others in that 

 district. 



O. E. Yeager has a fine assortment of poplar 

 and cypress, which extends to both thick and 

 wide cuts and includes sizes that are not usually 

 found in collections of these woods in these 

 days. 



F. W. Vetter is making quite a stir in the 

 white ash trade, which he is able to do through 

 the connection he has had for some time in 

 North Carolina. 



One of the later specialties of I. N. Stewart 

 & Bro. is chestnut, their list of inch being very 

 complete, considering that this wood is hard to 

 get in any sort of variety. 



The Hugh McLean I^umber Company is mak- 

 ing efforts to get its new Louisville yard into 

 line, as it makes such a specialty of oak that 

 ordinary research is not sufficient to keep up 

 the former stocks. 



Saginaw 'Valley. 



The advent of summer weather has been at- 

 tended with some fires in the upper part of 

 the lower peninsula and considerable loss was 

 sustained. Frank Buell lost two camps and 

 some other property, valued in all at $3,000. 

 Lobdell & Bailey, an extensive hardwood manu- 

 facturing concern at Onaway, sustained a loss 

 of .fl2,000, Albert Lough lost $3,000 by the 

 burning of his camps and other firms in the ag- 

 gregate lost $20,000 worth of property. 



Lumbermen who are on the market for stump- 

 age state that there is a little weakening in 

 values. In other words, those liaving timber 

 to sell are not quite so stiff as they were and 

 are willing to make concessions to bring about 

 a trade. Deals involving some hundreds of 

 thousands of dollars are pending here and will 

 be closed this week. Tliis will result in bring- 

 ing a large quantity of timber here for manufac- 

 ture. 



Help is scarce both in the woods and in the 

 mills. The S. L. Eastman Flooring Company 

 lias had a standing sign out the last four 

 months : "Men Wanted," and about every firm 

 operating in this section of the state is in want 

 of help. Wages are high for this class of work. 

 The car famine no longer disturbs the dreams 

 of shippers, who are being well taken care of 

 now, and a lot of stuff is being moved. 



More hardwood is being utilized this year in 

 the manufacture of box stuff than ever before. 

 Almost everything in the line of hardwood 

 culls is being converted into box shooks. The 

 Kneeland. Buell & Bigelow Company is furnish- 

 ing the Mei-shon-Bacon Company 5,000,000 feet 

 of hardwood culls for conversion into box ma- 

 terial. Maple, beech and basswood culls are 

 mostly used and there is a sharp demand for 

 them. Beech is quite strong and active. Be- 

 sides going into boxes large quantities are being 



used for screen doors. It is $2 a thousand 

 higher than early in the spring. 



The Hanson-Ward Veneer Company is working 

 up a large quantity of maple and birch into 

 veneer work, having all the orders it can fill 

 and doing a prosperous business. 



The plant of Bliss & Van Auken, that of the 

 Strable Manufacturing Company, the S. L. East- 

 man Company and W. D. Y'oung & Co., all heavy 

 manufacturers of maple flooring, are running 

 full force and time and doing good business. 

 There has been a fair movement in flooring. 

 With possibly one excei>tion all of these firms 

 handle considerable quantities of hardwood lum- 

 ber aside from flooring. Eastman will handle 

 20,000,000 feet in all and Young & Co. fully as 

 much. Bliss & Van Auken always have a large 

 trade in hardwood lumber. 



A. C. White still dotes on basswood and car- 

 ries a large line. 



The Ilay-JIcCormick Lumber Company is a 

 stiff buyer, having recently picked up several 

 million feet, a portion of which is to be cut 

 for delivery later. 



Cadillac produced 51,000,000 feet of hard- 

 wood lumber last year. Three of the largest 

 firms there, Cobbs & Mitchell, the Mitchell 

 Brothers Company and Cummer, Diggins & Co., 

 own enough timber to keep their mills running 

 twenty-five years. Cadillac lumbermen al.so have 

 extensive hardwood timber holdings in upper 

 Michigan. 



The St. Johns Table Company, which began 

 business at Cadillac sixteen months ago, has 

 trebled its output since that time and the com- 

 pany is making improvements to still further in- 

 crease its output. At present the monthly out- 

 put is valued at $30,000. 



The Boyne City-Gaylord road is constructing a 

 three-mile spur to the Tliumb Lake division for 

 the purpose of reaching a tract of timber owned 

 by G. von Platen of Boyne City. 



There is hardwood timber yet standing in 

 nearly every county in the lower peninsula. 

 John W. Watkins has purchased twenty acres 

 of Thomas Finley in Bedford, Calhoun county, 

 liuring the winter and spring he cut 800,000 

 feet and he has orders for 600,000 feet more. 



During the winter L. P. Mason of Saginaw 

 cut several hundred thousand feet of mixed 

 hardwood on land he owns at Bay Port. The 

 lumber goes to Saginaw. 



The II. JI. Loud's Sons Company is shipping 

 a large quantity of heavy timber to Port Ar- 

 thur. Lake Superior, for the Dominion govern- 

 ment for harbor work. It is also shipping tim- 

 ber and lumber to Lake Erie ports. 



Grand Rapids. 



Between 200 and oOd manufacturers of fur- 

 niture put their fall lines on exhibition in this 

 market June 17, and while only a few of the 

 spaces were ready on opening day, the market 

 was in very good shape by the close of the 

 week, and there were 50 buyers on hand, largely 

 from the big centers. New York, Chicago and 

 Boston. The manufacturers are looking forward 

 to a fair season. While the retail trade has 

 been slow and backward, in sympathy with the 

 weather during spring months, the advent of 

 hot, sunshiny days, and seasonable weather 

 about the middle of June, augurs well fof 

 trade. Oak and mahogany figure largely in the 

 furniture woods as usual, though Circassian 

 walnut in the better lines and maple and some 

 other woods in the cheaper stuff are used to 

 quite an extent. On the whole the present 

 exhibit is the finest one ever made in this mar- 

 ket, the improvement in the quality of tlie out- 

 side lines shown here being especially marked. 



Thomas White and W. S. Martin of the W. H. 

 White Company, Boyne City, have returned 

 from a trip to the Pacific coast. 



The Capital Furniture Company, recently or- 

 ganized at Lansing with $100,000 capital, for 

 the manufacture of parlor and library tables, 

 has elected Henry Johnson president and man- 



