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HARDWOOD RECORD 



It will take at least three months for the 

 Curll & Lytle Lumber Company to catch up 

 with its orders for poplar. For the past two 

 years there has been hardly a month when this 

 company was ■•causht up" on its poplar orders. 

 and it is gettinK a steady run olf trade in this 

 line that permits of no let-up in operations at 

 its mills. 



The Kaul & Hall Lumber Company shipped 

 :!,(JOU cords of wood to the tanneries at Uolfe. 

 l.ocli Haven and Mt. Jewitt last month. Fred 

 Wilmarth & Sons, who handle the output of 

 the plant at St. Mary's. I'a.. do not lind any 

 ■sag in hardwood prices and are Ijooking some 

 nice orders to start the fall market. 



.T. F. Henderstm of the Henderson Lumber 

 Company notes a disposition on the part of the 

 mining companies to buy often and get large 

 orders of late. Throughout western Pennsylva- 

 nia this company has a large trade in nil kinds 

 of mine stock and it has lately taken some of 

 the best orders it has had for a year. Au- 

 gust beat all records for that month both in 

 shipments and actual cash business, which 

 speaks well for the spirit of hustle which per- 

 vades the firm's handsome ofliees in the new 

 Commonwealth skyscraper. 



President DomhotE of the Acorn Lumber Com- 

 pany announces tliat he will soon have a fine 

 connection with mills in northern Pennsylvania. 

 He is already well supplied with West Virginia 

 stock in addition tn having oni' •>( the best yel- 

 low pine agencies in Pittsburg. 



The J. C. Moorhead I>umber Company is 

 pushing things at its Pennsylvania mills and 

 is potting out a splendid lot of hardwood from 

 its I'ittsburg office. It has lately added more 

 salesmen and is planning to work the I'ittsburg 

 district to a finish. 



The Advance Lumber Company, through its 

 Pittsburg manager. C. G. llrCoy. reports a 

 very good months business in August. It.s 

 city trade lias kept up the p.-ist summer much 

 better than the average firm's, owing chiefly to 

 the fact that there are few wholesalers who are 

 so thoroughly versed in Pittsburg wants and 

 how to meet them as Mr. McCoy. His specialty 

 in inquiries lately has been railway ties, and 

 the company is taking some gor>d business .along 

 this line. 



Manager S. A. Seaman of the C. P. Caughey 

 Lumber Company says that he is sold up to 

 October 1 on white oak and that prices are 

 getting back to their old form. With his west- 

 ern I'ennsylvania connections he is able to get 

 as flue a quality of white oak as comes into 

 this market. 



The newly organized Vigilant Lumber Com- 

 pany is doing well. It will have permanent 

 offices shortly and is getting some desirable con- 

 nections. 



Secretary ,T. H. Henderson of the Kendall 

 Lumber Company has gone to the Crellin ( Md. i 

 mi'l to look over operations with S. A. Kendall. 

 Last month the Kendalls shipped over 2.000.00P 

 feet from this one mill. In all its August ship- 

 ments totaled over 4,500,000 feet, the best Au- 

 gust in its record. 



General Manager .1. N. Woollett of the Ameri- 

 can Lumber & Manufacturing Comijany reports 

 hardwood conditions in fine shape. Prices are 

 Arm and the demand is ahead of that of a year 

 ago. An instance of how well It pa.vs to stock 

 np a long time ahead with desirable lumber is 

 furnished in an order Ijooked by Mr. Woollett 

 this week for l.OOO.OOO feet of cottonwood to 

 lie furnished from Arkansas. Over a year ago 

 Mr. Woollett went scouting in the Southwest 

 and eiputracted' for an enormous quantity of cot- 

 tonwood. which has played good service ever 

 since. 



Howard C. Cook of .Tohnstown, Pa., has con- 

 tracted to supply 25,000 ties for the Southern 

 Cambria Railway Company of this state. This 

 is one of a dozen good tie orders that have been 

 placed recently by Pennsylvania railroads and 

 street railway companies and shows that the 

 f;ill rleinand is .going ' to be excellent. Proof 



of this is furnished in the offer of a prominent 

 tie man of Pittsburg to buy 300.000 ties off from 

 a certain piece of timber in West Virginia at 

 50 cents each at the track. 



The Pittsburg Lumbermen's Mutual Fire In- 

 surance Company, under the active management 

 of Secretary Carl Vandervoort, is piling up A 

 splendid lot of business for a first year. During 

 its six months in business it has had no losses. 

 The company works along the same lines as 

 other large mutuals and is on the best of terms 

 with the leading companies in this coiuitry. 



Buffalo. 



At this time there is little doing in the line 

 of personal news. The outings of the various 

 bodies are over, but when the hardwood lumber- 

 men get uneasy they get into their automobiles 

 and with family and friends hie themselves away 

 lor a ri'st and change. Just now the dealers 

 are about all home, but the Hoo-IIoo annual 

 will claim quite a number of them in a few days. 

 The attendance from here will not be large, but 

 it will be quite representative. 



Iltigh McLean has taken liis annual fall outing 

 .jn the family preserve on the upper Ottawa and 

 is back at business again. All the mills of the 

 company are running at a good rate, but the 

 olHce still complains of a scarcity of oak lum- 

 ber. 



G. Ellas & Bro. will come into their own now. 

 with the canal break mended, so that their 

 stranded canal cargoes of lumber can move. G. 

 Elias, president of the Hardwood E.^change, 

 does not expect to resume meetings till late 

 tliis month. 



The yard of F. W. Vetter seems to bear out 

 liis late remark that he is getting his share 

 of lumber, and the activity in loading out shows 

 that he is also up with the others in sales. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 carrying a big yard full of stock and it believes 

 in the future of the trade, so there is more 

 stock coming in right along, the greater part 

 of it oak, though there is a good showing of 

 otlier woods. 



.1. F. Knox is in full fighting trim again after 

 his late tussle with malaria and is off to the 

 mills of Beyer, Knox & Co. at I'ascola, Mo., 

 running the mills there. Oak is (he chief prod- 

 uct. 



0. E. Yeager may not take in the Hoo-Hoo 

 annual, as he has lately made the trip. He 

 has stuck to business well and is able to report 

 two very big months for midsummer, with every 

 prospect of more of the same sort of thing. 



T. Sullivan & Co. will add considerably to 

 their stock of lake hardwood this fall and the 

 steady pounding of the Pacific coast route has 

 turned out a good lot of Washington fir and 

 spruce for the winter when cars stop running. 



1. N. Stewart & Bro. are handling a good lot 

 of oak now and are still able to get what they 

 want in the hardwood districts of Pennsylvania 

 and West Virginia, not to mention the usual 

 amount of cherry, with some walnut. 



After A. W. Krcinheder gets all there is out 

 of the Hoo-Hoo annual he will cross into Ten- 

 nessee and take in the mills and tall timbers of 

 the Standard Hardwood Lumber Cumpany. 



Scatcherd & Son are still finding that the 

 chief difficulty with their trade is the scarcity 

 of oak, in spite of the fact that their Memphis 

 mills are running and every good lot of oak 

 that offers is captured. 



A. Miller is still catering largely to the city 

 hardwood trade and is getting a big lot of all 

 sorts of hardwood from both Canada and the 

 South, including ash and cherry in (juantlty. 

 The yard ste'k is large and excellent. 



Bay City and Sagina'w. 



The tact that th<v lumber industry appears 

 to have eased up a little compared with the 

 early spring months will not restrict the out- 

 put of logs and lumber during the fall and 

 winter to any material extent. The regular 



operators the year through usually run ;l 

 little lighter force during the summer months. 

 Wages range from $28 to $40 a month, an.l 

 loggers state they are a little more easy than 

 they were earlier in the season. Logging at 

 best is going to be expensive and justify tli.- 

 existing high prices for lumber. With provi- 

 sions so high, a crew ot men will eat up a bit 

 of money this winter, as woodsmen usually 

 carry their appetites in their inside pockets. 

 Frank Buell, the most extensive logger in 

 Michigan, and probably in the Northwest, 

 operating eight camps and employing 6l)ii men. 

 calculates that his men will eat up a pile of 

 provisions that will make a bank account 

 shiver. He will furnish 12,000,000 feet of lugs 

 to Bliss & Van Auken. 211,000,000 to the Knee- 

 land, Buell & Bigelow Company, 3,000,000 or 

 J, 000, 000 to BousfleUl & Co., and small lots for 

 other parties, making a total output of 50,- 

 000. OOO feet in all. 



The E. C. Hargraves mill is cutting out a 

 lot of hardwood lumber for local concerns. 

 Mr. Hargraves is spending much of his time 

 in Mexico, where he is concerned in the most 

 extensive lumber corporation in the world, 

 which is building a sawmill of 600,000 feet 

 daily capacity. 



The Richardson mill at Bay City is nearing 

 completion. It will be one of the most modern 

 and completely equipped mills in the country 

 and will be stocked the year through. Camps 

 will be operated in Montmorency county and 

 the logs brought by rail to the mill. The 

 Michigan Central has constructed two spurs 

 of three miles each from the Haakwood branch 

 of the Mackinaw division to reach into 20,- 

 000,000 feet of timber which he is to lumber. 

 The new Keys & Warboys sawmill at Tower, 

 the machinery for which was furnished by the 

 M. Garland Manufacturing Company of Bay 

 City, started operations September 5. The 

 mill will cut about 40,000 feet a day. 



Ross Bros, are running camps and trucking 

 logs to their mill at Beaverton. They put a 

 number of million feet of logs into the Tobacco 

 river which are ratted down to their mill. 

 The firm handles about 10,000,000 feet a year. 

 Seely & Philipps, who have operated a yard 

 at Saginaw tor several years, report a very 

 good business. Members of the firm are also 

 stockholders of the Diamond Lumber Com- 

 pany organized at Green Bay last winter, and 

 which took over the sawmill of the Diamond 

 Match Company at Green Bay. Mr. Phil- 

 lips has removed to Green Bay and manages 

 the affairs of the new company, which bought 

 timber and is cutting hard and soft woods. 



Edward Jones of southern Michigan has 

 purchased a band sawmill outtit and will re- 

 move it to St. Ignace. where he has bought a 

 site. He will manufacture hardwood largely 

 iind has perfected arrangements for a stock. 

 The plant will cut 60,000 feet daily. 



Grand Rapids. 



W. F. McKnight, secretary and treasurer of 

 the Northern Lumber Company ot Birch. Mich., 

 who was in the city recently, said to the H.Min- 

 wooD Uecobd correspondent : "Business is good 

 with us and lumber of -aH kinds is stronger, 

 with the possible __ except ion of hemlock and 

 binh. Basswood. 'oak. ash and elm are all 

 strong, also railroad ties and posts. Cedar poles 

 bave been a little off. but it is a little out of 

 season for them. I look forward to a good year's 

 business. All legitimate industries are pros- 

 perous." 



G. M. Luce of Mobile, Ala., president of the 

 Luce Furniture Company of this city, reached 

 Grand Uapids Aug. 30. accompanied by his wife. 

 Mr. Luce has large sawmill and timber interests 

 in the South. 



Two of the most prominent furniture buyers 

 who visit this market, C. A. Brockway of the 

 Wanamaker stores, Philadelphia and New York, 

 and George F. Clingman ot the Tobey Furniture 



