HARDWOOD RECORD 



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acres of oak ant! poplar timber land near Vol- 

 cano Junction on the Baltimore «& (")liio railroad 

 in Ritcliie County. West Virginia. It will be 

 cut off at once. 



Hamilton Bros., who bave operated a large 

 planing mill at Leetsdale very successfully for 

 tbe past six years, are now fully established in 

 the wholesale lumber business in the Fulton 

 building on Sixth street. Both are thoroughly 

 experienced lumbermen and they are driving into 

 tbe local trade with a vim. 



O. II. Reel anus of the A. M. Turner Lumber 

 (i'ompany tinds that the hardwood business is the 

 most encouraging feature of the trade at pres- 

 ent. He has lately taken a pretty thorough sur- 

 vey of West Virginia operations at close range. 

 A. M. Turner is spending two weeks at the 

 company's plants in the South. 



The Henderson Lumber Company last week 

 booked orders for 1.1^50.(100 feet of hardwood. 



Three former members of the West Virginia 

 Lumber Company, Itobert .Tenkins .Ir., Charles 

 .7. Kappler and (George E. Itartlett. have united 

 Iheir efforts in the Vigilant Lumber (!"ompany, a 

 new partnership. The company has taken tem- 

 porary offices in the Keystone building on Fourth 

 avenue and will make a specialty of hardwoods 

 and white pine. It has established some excel- 

 lent connections in the South. Its members are 

 all experienced salesmen and have a wide ac- 

 quaintance in the trade. 



The Kenova Sawmill Company of Catletts- 

 burg, Ky.. has informed its Pittsburg patrons 

 that it will build a plant with a capacity of 

 about 30.000 feet a day. Its specialty is haril- 

 wood. 



The plant of the Phoenix Column Company 

 at I'ort Washington. Ohio, near Dennison, Ohio, 

 was burned ten days ago. The total loss is 

 estimated at about $U'0,000. 



Carney, I'eudergast & Hughes of Hutton, W. 

 Va., have secured valuable timber rights on 

 1,200 acres of land in Barbour County, West 

 A'irginia, on the Bellington branch of the Balti- 

 more & Ohio railroad and will erect mills soon. 



The Kuskauff Lumber Company of the East 

 End is gradually working out of the hardwood 

 business and has discontinued its mills. It has 

 found its move out of the downtown district a 

 very prolitable one and has a tine suite of otBces 

 in the Lloyd building. 



The Valley Railroad Company of West Vir- 

 ginia has been chartered by L. E. Shull of Mill 

 Creek, Pa., and capitalists of Tyrone and vicinity 

 for the purpose of extending a line into the 

 heavy timber reserves on the mountain sides. 

 The ultimate object is to get more pulp wood 

 for the paper mills of Tyrone. 



H. A. Douglass of the old firm of H. Douglass" 

 Sons of Huntingdon. W. Va.. has assigned his 

 business, making the Union Trust & Deposit 

 Company of Parkersburg, W. Va., assignee. IJnd- 

 say Merrill of Huntingdon was associated with 

 him in the business, which was supposed to be 

 in good shape financially. 



.lohn M. Hastings of the ,1. M. Hastings Lum- 

 ber Company, is back from a long stay in Nova 

 Scotia, where is located the big Davison Lum- 

 ber Company, of which he is president. That 

 concern is cutting 5,000,000 feet of lumber a 

 month, a large part of which is exported. The 

 balance is sold along the Atlantic coast. The 

 company has probably better shipping facilities 

 by water than any other lumber Arm in Canada 

 and can deliver stock in any market in the 

 world at minimum of cost. 



Buffalo. 



The lumbermen went down the river, as ar- 

 ranged, July 26 and spent half a day at the 

 Bedell House on Orand Island, where one of 

 the most interesting ball games in the long list 

 they have to their credit was played. J. B. 

 Wall and M. M. Wall chose the nines, the white 

 pine side of the game having now become so 

 weak that it can not muster a Imttery even. 

 The chief difficulty in choosing was that there 



were too many players ready to take part. The 

 choice took in ail the old members of the ex- 

 change that would play and included .M. S. 

 Burns, I. N. Stewart, II. A. Stewart. II. S. Lee. 

 A. W. Kreinheder. F. JI. Sullivan. (). E. Ycager, 

 W. 1 . Bctts. A. J. Chestnut, A. G. Hauenstein. 

 A. Miller and H. E. Haines. The M. M. Wall 

 side won, 23 to 22. 



A. Miller is carrying all of his former good 

 stock and manages to make a specialty of elm 

 and basswood to a great extent, in spite of the 

 big prices that they bring at the sawmills. 



All the members of the Hugh McLean Lumbej- 

 Company were away last week. R. D. was in 

 Atlantic City. Angus was in Canada slowly pick- 

 ing up the thread of business dropped when he 

 was taken ill and Hugh was on an eastern sales 

 trip. 



O. E. Yeagcr not onl.v looks on Jul.v as the 

 biggest July he has ever had. but nerhaps the 

 biggest month, which is not saying much for 

 dull times in tbe yards. He keeps up his plan 

 of cai'rying an assortment of all hardwoods. 



A. W. Kreinheder of tbe Standard Hardwood 

 Lumber Company is preparing for a trip below 

 the Ohio next month, but at present the re- 

 ceipts of oak. poplar and chestnut from that 

 direction are good enough to keep him busy at 

 home. 



Scatcherd & Son do not report much addition 

 to the stock of their home yard, but so long as 

 the i\Iemphis mills are running strong they are 

 not anxious on that score. It is southwestern 

 oak that their trade is most in need of. 



J. F. Knox of Beyer. Knox & Co, has been a 

 little indisposed, so that he was not able to 

 attend the outing, but he is feeling better now 

 and will soon be back to the firm's new mills in 

 ^lissouri, no doubt, digging out oak. 



JIanager Janes of tlie Empire Lumber Com- 

 pany is taking his vacation witli his family at 

 Xiagara-on-the-Lake, but manages to come to 

 the office every day or two to keep the run of 

 business, which seems to be quite satisfactory. 



The plan of T. Sullivan & Co. is to get hold 

 of all the I*acitic coast lumber possible now and 

 at the same time not forget that there is good 

 elm and black ash waiting to come down the 

 lakes to the river dock. 



The business of O. Ellas & Bro. stood still on 

 Aug. 3 while the employees, a goodly army of 

 them, took a day oft' for a change of scene and 

 the usual games at Point (Jratiot, beyond Dun- 

 kirk. 



The Wall brothers were also all away at the 

 beginning of the month. T. H. was at Atlantic 

 Cit.v, il. M. had gone to the Jamestown Exposi- 

 tion and J. B. was off on an automobile trip to 

 I'iltsburg. Business went on just the same. 



H. A. Stewart goes soon to West ^'irginia to 

 ship a lot of cherry for I. N. Stewart & Bro.. 

 which has been .sold to eastern customers. He. 

 of course, will look for more, as well as the 

 tine quality of oak he gets there, which is a 

 ready seller. 



The yard of F. W. Vetter is piled with all 

 sorts of hardwood, some quartered oak looking 

 especially line in these days when it is scarce 

 and high. 



Saginaw Valley. 



Samuel ';, M. Gates of Bay City. ()ne of the 

 pioneer lumbermen of Michigan, died July 26 

 from a paralytic shock. He sustained one shock 

 July 14 and another July 25, death ensuing the 

 following day. Mr. Gates came, to Bay City in 

 1S63 and was continuously engaged in lumber- 

 ing up to the time of his death. He was some- 

 what reserved in character and devoted his time 

 to business rather than to cultivating social 

 amenities. It is believed tbe mill will be oper- 

 ated by the estate, as he owned considerable tim- 

 ber In Ogemaw and Roscommon counties. Mr. 

 Gates was 68 years old and is survived by a 

 widow and six children. 



Bliss & Van Auken are running their plant 

 with a full crew and yet are not able to keej) up 

 with their trade in maple flooring. The firm 



also has a large local trade aside from the whole- 

 sale end. 



The heading this way of a large quantity of 

 timber from Grayling. Gaylord and vicinity will 

 require a large increase in transportation facili- 

 ties by the Michigan Central and the company 

 is preparing for it. Every sawmill on the river 

 depends upon this source of supply of raw ma- 

 terial. The company is now bringing down logs 

 by rail for mill firms as follows : W. D. Young 

 & Co., 20.000.000 : Kern Manufacturing Com- 

 pany. 20.000.000: Bliss & Van Auken, 12,000,- 

 IMIO; The Kneeland-Bigelow Company, 21,000,- 

 000 : the Kneeland, Bueli & Bigelow Company, 

 20.01)11.000 I the Hargraves mill. O.lloo.OOo. and a 

 quantity for the Campbell-Brown Lumber Com- 

 pany. For the Gates mill about 8.000.000 feet 

 comes down over the line of the Detroit & 

 ?dackinac railwa.v. 



The Flood mill has not been operated this 

 season, the owner having no stock of his own. 

 The mill is expected to get a suppl.v of logs and 

 start later in tlie season. 



Tliomas Denton of Saginaw, the veteran square 

 timber jobLier, will get out a cargo or more of 

 rock elm the coming fall and winter for the 

 European market. 



An unusual number of portable sawmills ,-.re 

 being operated this season north of the Saginaw 

 river. These are especially available because 

 the.v can be removed from one locality to another 

 at comparatively small cost. Little patches of 

 timber ranging from 500.000 to 4.000,000 feet 

 can be reached by these mills, and they are 

 found in every county lietween Bay City and the 

 Straits of Mackinac. In many instances they 

 are located along the line of a railway or 

 branch road and again they are so remote that it 

 is necessary to haul the lumber to the cars by 

 teams. These mills supplement the mills located 

 at railway station points and iu the aggregate 

 put out a good many million feet in the course 

 cf a year. 



Walter D. Young, head of the W. D. Young 

 & Co. plant at Bay City,^ sailed from Quebec 

 August for Europe. He expects to spend two 

 months abroad. The business of the firm is ex- 

 ceedingly prosperous, the plant being operated 

 day and ni.ght. 



The Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow Company has 

 practically closed out all the hardwood stock it 

 will cut this year. Early in the year all the 

 maple that could be utilized in the manufacture 

 of flooring that could be prixiuced during the 

 year was sold to the S. L. Eastman Flooring 

 Company, and the remainder has been disposed 

 of. Some maple and other hardwood timber has 

 been sold to Eastern parties. 



The company has also made a specialty of 

 maple lath, which is used largely for crating 

 purposes, and flnds much favor for that use. 



Holders of hardwood stumpage are asking $5 

 to $8 an acre for their property and some big 

 deals are being negotiated. The last figure is the 

 maximum, buyers not taking kindly to over $5 

 and ,$5.50 for average timber. 



Shippers are already discussing the probable 

 car shortage and it promises to be as acute as 

 it was last season. 



The Batchelor Timber Company at West 

 Branch is making a very successful run. This 

 lompany was organized last year and purchased 

 the old Gale Lumber Company's plant, practi- 

 cally rebuilt it. and now has a fine factory. The 

 mill has 75.000.000 feet of hardwood timber back 

 of it, all the logs being hauled l>y rail to the 



mill. 



Grand Rapids. 



in the last issue of the IHui>wc«]D Recurd. in 

 announcing the incorporation of the Federal 

 Veneer Company of this city and Cedar. Miss., 

 it was erroneously stated that Walter Clark, the 

 prominent veneer man of the Michigan Trust 

 building, had merged his business with that of 

 the new t^oncevn. Although Mr. Clark and John 

 F. Conant of Milwaukee are the sole owners of 



