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HARDWOOD RECORD 



at its plant at Crellin, Md. Most of the lumber 

 went into the eastern market. One of the last 

 orders booked by the company was for ten ear- 

 loads of eight quarter sound wormy chestnut, 

 for which they received $1 more than the list 

 price. This was for western delivery. J. H. 

 Henderson, secretary of the company, has just 

 returned from an extended trip to the Pacific 

 coast. 



W. E. Terhune of the W. E. Terhune Lumber 

 Company is in the East on business. 



J. .1. T. Penney of J. E. Mcllvain & Co. Is 

 now in West Virginia replenishing the stocks of 

 tlie company. 



The Ohiopyle Company, which was formed 

 two years ago with a capital of .$60,000 by the 

 Kendall interests, is making itself felt at Ohio- 

 liyle. Pa., where its big operation is located. It 

 recently bought 1,800 acres more of hardwood 

 timber land, making over o,000 acres at this 

 point. Its circular mill is now cutting about 

 40.000 feet a day. most of which is white oak. 

 This lumber is handled at Ohiopyle by D. H. 

 Ilorton. secretary of the company, and much of 

 it gets into the Pittsburg market. 



Tlie Cheat River Lumber Company is getting 

 its new mill at Burkeville, Va.. in good shape 

 and is shipping three cars of hardwood a day 

 from that point. Much of this is hickory which 

 goes chiefly to Ohio towns. Robert Herbertson 

 has .lust returned from the mill, where he went 

 to get his brother, M. L. Herbertson, who was 

 I'onfined there with malarial fever. 



The C. P. Caughey Lumber Company last 

 week bought a small tract of virgin white oak 

 timber on the Panhandle railroad in Washington 

 rfninty. which it will cut off shortly. 



Members of the Flint, Erving & Stoner Com- 

 pany are still absent on their vacations. ,1. B. 

 I'lint's family is still at Lake Simcoe in Ontario. 

 Can.: E. II. Stoner is taking a canoe trip 

 tltrough Canada aud R. H. Erving with his fam- 

 ily is at his summer home at Lake Baumaris, 

 Ont. Mr. Flint has been at the company's big 

 operation at Dunlevie, W. Va., most of the time 

 for the past two months. Over 200 men are now 

 employed there, many of them on the fifteen 

 miles of railroad which the company is building 

 to connect its big tract with its mills. The 

 tract is said by experts to be the finest in the 

 Miiuntain state, as it is nearly level, making the 

 cost of stocking the logs fully $1 less than at 

 most of the plants In that vicinity. The com- 

 pany w'ill sliortly build a score or more of houses, 

 as its twenty-six dwellings in the town are not 

 sufficient to care for the help in the winter. 



The Paine Lumber Company, Ltd., whose local 

 manager is ,1. W. Anderson, is forging to the 

 front. It has just opened four new stocks of 

 Its famous "Korelock" doors, at Butler, Pa., 

 Altoona, Pa., Charleston, W. Va., and Hunting- 

 ton. W. Va. Three more agencies are to be 

 started shortly. 



The American Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany has ,iust bought 1.300.000 feet of soft 

 yellow Cottonwood to be cut under contract in 

 Indian Territory and distributed to its trade 

 generally. The wide boards will go to wagon 

 manufacturers and the common stock to imple- 

 ment makers. The American has lately added 

 to its list of helpers. Charles Crookshank. for- 

 merly sales manager for S. F. Minter of New 

 York, who will be assistant hardwood manager. 

 .1. G. Darling, manager of the hardwood office 

 of the American at Baxter. Tenn.. dropped oft 

 in Pittsburg a few hours last week. 



Buffalo. 



A. .T. Elias visited the city councilmen in 

 their first September meeting, but only in a 

 social sort of way. He came to introduce his 

 friend. Bird S. Coler, president of the borough 

 lit Brooklyn. 



O. E. Yeager is looking closely to his assort- 

 ment of birch and maple, as they are found to 

 be the two woods that can be used most readily 

 in place of the others that are getting so scarce. 



There is business in plenty on both sides of 

 the specialties of T. Sullivan & Co., ash and elm 

 coming down the lakes and Washington fir com- 

 ing east from the Pacific coast. Brisk demand 

 is the rule all along the line. 



H. A. Stewart is off south again, looking after 

 oak and cherry for his firm of I. N. Stewart & 

 Bro. From Pennsylvania southward he is al- 



ways able to find enough to provide a fine yard 

 assortment. 



A. W. Kreinheder is still detained here by 

 sickness in his family and Is hardly expected to 

 attend the HooHoo annual at Oklahoma City. 

 He is also booked for the Kentucky mills of the 

 Standard Hardwood Company. 



There is always a good lot of lumber coming 

 up from the South for the yard of Beyer, Knox 

 & Co., so that the active sales do not reduce the 

 assortment. Trade has been good all summer. 



Manager Hopkins, with his landed interest in 

 the Isle of Pines, is naturally much interested 

 in the Cuban rebellion, but he sticks to his desk 

 and works on the problem of getting oak and 

 selling it for Scatcherd & Son. 



A. Miller is getting hold of a large amount of 

 elm and basswoort from the West, which he 

 finds to be very good sellers again, after some 

 time of slow movement on account of high mill 

 prices, basswood leading as yet. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 getting lake cargoes of birch in tor yard stock 

 and finds that both inch and five-quarter maple 

 is a good seller. It looks as though the demand 

 for maple was going to be heavy. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company is still 

 able to report an assortment of ash and chestnut 

 in yard, though it is not as large as it might be. 

 as the demand for both always exceeds the 

 supply unless great effort is made. 



H. S. .Tanes is again in Arkansas looking after 

 the lumber interests of the Empire Lumber Com- 

 pany, which are in fine condition. The plan 

 now is to push southward into Louisiana and 

 extend the company's railroad that way. 



The Hardwood Lumber Exchange is preparing 

 to resume its weekly meetings this month, 

 though the business is so nearly social in char- 

 acter that no regular reports of the proceedings 

 are given out. There are a dozen interests in 

 the Exchange and a very solid body is thus 

 made up. 



Saginaw Valley. 

 The two sawmills of Kneeland-Bigelow Com- 

 pany and the Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow Com- 

 pany at Bay City require fifty-five carloads of 

 logs every twenty-four hours to keep their saws 

 in motion. Bliss & Van Auken are manufactur- 

 ing 8,000,000 feet of hardwood logs this year, and 

 W. D. Young & Co. consume hardwood logs 

 enough to produce 19,000,000 feet of manufac- 

 tured lumber. This firm is to install a band 

 resaw in its plant, which is worked day and 

 night. A good portion of the maple is worked 

 up into flooring, the firm having a large business 

 in this commodity, shipping a good portion of 

 the output abroad. It finds the flooring trade 

 satisfactory this year both as to price and de- 

 mand. The raw material comes from the vicin- 

 ity of Vanderbilt on the Mackinaw division of 

 the Michigan Central. 



The Kneeland-Bigelow Company will operate 

 five logging camps this fall and winter and 

 I"rank Buell. who logs for the Kneeland. Buell 

 & Bigelow Company and others, will operate 

 eight camps. 



The S. L. Eastman Flooring Company will 

 manufacture 12.000,000 feet of hardwood this 

 year, a good portion of which goes into flooring. 

 Mr. Eastman has disposed of his interest in the 

 Mershon, Schuette. Parker & Co. syndicate and 

 is devoting himself entirely to his own hardwood 

 business, which is remarkably successful. 



The Batchelor Timber Company started Its 

 sawmill at West Branch last week. The mill 

 was purchased last spring of the Gale Lumber 

 Company, the latter having exhausted its timber 

 holdings" tributary to the mill. The purchasers 

 made extensive repairs, amounting almost to a 

 rebuild, and have a ten-year cut for the mill In 

 sight. All of the members of the firm reside In 

 Saginaw and were cradled in the lumber busi- 

 ness. 



The H. AI. Loud's Sons Company of Au Sable 

 has bought a four-fifths interest in the sawmill 

 property of Paul II. Hoeft at Rogers City, and 

 several thousand acres of hardwood timber In 

 Presque Isle county. The new company to be 

 organized to take on this business will not 

 become effective until September 2, 1907. A 

 logging railroad will be built meantime. The 

 object of the postponement is to enable Mr. 

 Hoeft to clean up a lot of logs and lumber and 



odds and ends of timber not included in the 

 deal. The Louds are putting a lot of hardwood 

 lumber on their docks at Au Sable. 



Grand Kapids. 



A new Michigan corporation is the Wisconsin 

 Tie & Pole Company of this city ; capital, .$20.- 

 000. The oflicers are as follows ; President, C. 

 A. Phelps : vice president, W. A. Phelps ; secre- 

 tary and treasurer, C. C .Tuxbury. The com- 

 pany will operate in northern Wisconsin. Secre- 

 tary Tuxbury is now at Hackley, Wis. C. A. and 

 W. A. Phelps are respectively manager and presi- 

 dent of the Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company of 

 this city. 



L. L. Skillman of the Skillmaii Lumber Com- 

 pany left this week on a short buying trip south. 



George A. Loud of Au Sable has been renomi- 

 nated for Congress in the Tenth district. 



Milwaukee. 



State Senator Daniel E. Riordan of Eagle 

 River will on October 1 assume the office of 

 secretary-treasurer of the G. F. Sanborn Com- 

 pany of Ashland. The company has a sufficient 

 supply in sight to keep its mills busy for years. 

 It recently completed a deal in timber lands 

 involving upwards of $400,000. Senator Riordan. 

 to enable him to devote all his time to his new 

 duties, has given up his position as counsel for 

 the North-Western railroad. 



The new dry kilns of the John Schroeder 

 Lumber Company, which will increase its output 

 almost 100 per cent, are fast nearing comple- 

 tion. This firm is having a steady run on hard- 

 wood flooring this season. Other manufacturers 

 are also reporting increased demands, due to the 

 fact that many building contracts are nearing 

 completion. 



Bristol. 



The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company of Colum- 

 bus, O., which recently purchased the big double 

 band mill of the James Strong Lumber Company 

 in South Bristol, has dismantled same and 

 shipped it to Baum, W. Va., where it will be 

 operated. The mill has a daily capacity of 

 1,">0,000 feet. The company is preparing to op- 

 erate extensively in Carter county, and has pur- 

 chased a large boundary of timber land on 

 'I'iger Creek. A big band mill is being put in 

 Mt Hampton, near Elizabethton, and a railroad 

 from Elizabethton to Hampton, a distance of 

 eight miles, and from Hampton up Tiger Creek 

 to the timber lands, a distance of twelve miles, 

 is being built. W. M. Pryor of Avondale, W. 

 Va. : E. II. Mortimer of Panther, W. Va., and 

 George W. Litz, also of Panther, were in the 

 <ity this week en route to Hampton to look over 

 the situation. The company now has about five 

 hundred men at work on the mills and railroad 

 and hopes to have same in operation by Jan. 1. 

 James A. Stone of the Stone-IIuling I^umber 

 Company has returned from a business trip in 

 the interest of his company. 



B. B. Burns of the Tug River Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from an important business 

 trip. 



H. W. Xeiiy. who has been manager of the 

 Rumbarger Lumber Company of Philadelphia In 

 this section for some years, has resigned his 

 position to become associated with George H. 

 Mell of Kane. Pa. Mr. Nelly will have head- 

 i)tiarters at Mountain City. Tenn. Mr. Mell is 

 iiperating extensively in eastern Tennessee and 

 in Mitchell county. North Carolina, and has 

 mills at Swanannoa, N. C. 



St. Irf>uis. 



Capt. C. F. Liebke of the C. F. Liebke Hard- 

 wood Mill & Lumber Company, who has been 

 slight seeing at Colorado Springs, returned 

 home Aug. 23, much refreshed with his month's 

 tramp over the mountains. 



William H. Steele of Steele & Hibbard, who 

 has been up in Michigan for a month, returned 

 Aug. 25. 



George W. Stoneman, who has been suffering 

 from an attack of malaria, has again taken up 

 the business cares of the Stoneman-Zearing 

 Lumber Company. 



E. H. Luehrmann of the Chas. F. Luehrmann 

 Hardwood Lumber Company has returned from 

 Mackinac Island, where he spent his vacation. 

 Thomas W. Fry of the same concern has been 



