HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The L. L. Satler Lumber Company, which 

 recently bought 9.000 acres of timber land at 

 Blackstown, Va., put out 1.200.000 feet of lum- 

 ber in August aud expects to make a larger 

 showing from this time forward. Mr. Satler has 

 been at Blackstone much of the summer, but 

 operations there are now being watched by J. 

 S. McNaugher while Mr. Satler is at the home 

 office. Seven mills are now in operalion, in- 

 cluding three planing mills at Blackstone, Crew 

 and Dunwiddic, where the product is centered. 

 The mills at Blackstone are shortly to be greatly 

 improved and new machinery will be installed 

 in two of the other plants. The company's 

 operations in this territory are under the per- 

 sonal supervision of Benham Jlorris, who was 

 formerly secretary of the Blackstone Lumber 

 Company, and who is regarded as one of the 

 most thoroughly posted men on timber and 

 lumber operations in the country. 



The Linehan Lumber Company is booking 

 some fine orders for oak and poplar. Hardwood 

 values in general are better than last tall. The 

 company reports a special scarcity of hickory, 

 every car of which is taken before it is loaded 

 by wholesalers at the mills. The firm's call 

 for maple flooring is also indicative of a very 

 healthy tone in the hardwood market. 



The James I. M. Wilson Co. have secured the 

 order tor all the hard maple flooring to be used 

 in the skyscraper of the Union National bank, 

 now going up at Fourth avenue and Wood street. 

 The building is twenty stories high, and the 

 order calls for about 125,000 feet of lumber. 



The Cheat River Lumber Company, to replen- 

 ish its timber supplies, is now figuring on buy- 

 ing a large amount of land adjoining its opera- 

 tion at Burkeville, Va. 



The American Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, through its sales manager, J. N. Wollett, 

 booked an order last week for 750,000 feet of 

 car sills for eastern delivery. Its sales of oak 

 car stuff are larger this fall than last, and 

 during the last three weeks Mr. Woollett has 

 booked orders for over 1.000,000 feet of oak, 

 mostly square stuff. 



The hub factories of northern Ohio are get- 

 ting active again. There is an unusually large 

 inquiry this fall from the manufacturers for 

 hubs. Concerns in Michigan and Indiana are 

 ordering from 30 to 50 per cent more stock 

 than in former years. The supply of good hub 

 timber on the Western Reserve of Ohio is get- 

 ting well nigh exhausted, but the tew tracts 

 that are left are being cut down rapidly. One 

 of the most acllve men in this line is S. C. 

 Reid. of Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio, whose 

 big mill on the main line of the Erie railroad 

 is a target for shippers for forty miles in all 

 directions, and is now filling up with a fine 

 lot of second-growth elm. 



The Stoval Lumber Company, with a capital 

 of $50,000, has been formed at Connellsville, 

 Pa., by the following oflicers. President, H. M. 

 Kerr ; vice president, James W. Buttermore ; 

 secretary and treasurer, J. R. Davidson, all of 

 Connellsville. The manager is N. M. Cupp of 

 Addison, Pa. The company has taken over 

 50.000,000 feet of oak and yellow pine timber 

 in Granville county. North Carolina, and pro- 

 poses to push the development of the operations 

 there with all speed. 



Buffalo. 



I. N. Stewart has been looking over the ground 

 with regard to attendance at the Cincinnati 

 meeting of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation and finds that a large delegation will 

 go, including himself. H. A. Stewart is in West 

 Virginia completing some oak and chestnut 

 deals. 



A. Miller agrees that there is considerable oak 

 in yard here, but it will all be needed. He finds 

 the demand for all hardwoods good and Is get- 

 ting a large stock in to make good his sales. 



A return to the lake trade, but mostly as 

 handlers of ash and birch, makes T. Sullivan 

 & Co. very active on the docks this fall. These 

 woods are among the best sellers in hardwood 

 and one is lucky to get a supply, especially of 

 ash. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company has 

 been making all haste to get in a stock of oak 

 and now feel that the right thing has been done 

 when the report comes in from the Southwest 

 that business is held up by car shortage. 



The yard of O. E. Yeager has been very busy 



of late, especially in shipping out stock, though 

 receipts have been good, both by lake aud rail, 

 so that the yard assortment is as good as ever. 



Angus McLean is back from his jaunt to the 

 Pacific coast. He did not go for business, but 

 naturally saw lumber when it was in sight and 

 noted the fiict that the mills on that coast ship 

 lumber close to the saw. 



J. N. Scatchcrd is now able to get about after 

 the automobile accident that Injured him so 

 severely some time ago. It will be some time 

 before he will be able to look after business 

 regularly. 



Beyer. Knox & Co. are still able to report a 

 full yard on account of their good southern and 

 Pennsylvania connections. They will be ready 

 for more lines on that country when these are 

 off. 



The sympathy of all goes out to A. W. Krein- 

 heder of the Standard Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 Itany. continued sickness in his family this sea- 

 son having culminated in the death of a little 

 (laughter, the result of whooping cough. 



F. W. Vetter Is brlnsing lumber in by lake, 

 mostly birch and ash. He is expecting to take 

 a trip to North Carolina to look after the lumber 

 lUtting there for the Empire Lumber Company. 



Saginaw 'Valley. 



E. E. Koch of Sandusky, O., who is engaged 

 in the wholesale trade, was in the valley Sat- 

 urday on his way home, having been up In the 

 northern part of the state buying lumber. He 

 complained of the lethargy which to some ex- 

 tent characterizes the trade and said he bought 

 some maple firsts and seconds at a marked re- 

 duction compared with last year's quotations. 

 He said there was more inquiry for birch, but 

 nothing tempting in the way of prices to prices 

 to the seller. There are manufacturers who sold 

 their output for the year months ago who are 

 not affected or particularly interested in this, as 

 are the dealers who are endeavoring to turn 

 their stocks over. 



John J. Flood's mill at Bay City, which has 

 been idle six weeks, is about to start up on a 

 hardwood contract for Sailing, Hanson & Co. of 

 Grayling. 



The S. G. M. Gates mill at Bay City has been 

 sawing hardwood steadily through the season. 

 The logs are brought down on the railroad. 



Bliss & Van Auken are having a successfi?! 

 run at their Saginaw mill and their flooring fac- 

 tory is busily employed. They have also added 

 a flooring mill at the plant at Blissville, Ark., 

 where they will manufacture oak flooring. 



The H. M. Load's Sons Company of An Ssible 

 last week shipped a cargo of maple lumber to 

 Tonawanda. This concern has cut out a number 

 of million feet of maple btiildiiig material this 

 season for eastern concerns. The lumbering op- 

 erations tributary to the Au Sable plant, the 

 building of a new railroad and the preparation 

 of a stock of logs for the mill recently bought at 

 Rogers City, will give the concern about all the 

 business it will be able to handle during the 

 winter and spring. 



It has been excessively dry and warm for 

 many weeks and fires in the forests have done 

 considerable damage. C. F. Bach had a camp 

 destroyed near Sebewaing and eighteen hundred 

 acres of hardwood timber swept away by fire 

 Friday, involving a loss of several thousand dol- 

 lars. Many small timber owners have suffered 

 material loss. " 



Peters & Son of Saginaw are moving their 

 small sawmill from Bridgeport to Smith's Sid- 

 ing, near Gladwin. They have let a contract for 

 cutting and hauling timber to the mill and it 

 will be in operation In a few weeks. It has a 

 long cut ahead. 



At Alpena extensive repairs are being made to 

 the Bradford fiooring and planing mill and in 

 the meantime the Gilchrist flooring factory, 

 which obtained its power from the Bradford 

 plant, is idle. 



Miss Laura Catherine Myers of McVeytown, 

 Pa., and James Cooper were married at the home 

 of the bride last Saturday. The bride is well 

 known in Philadelphia and Wilmington as a 

 Christian settlement worker and is a graduate 

 of the Moody Bible Training School. While 

 deaconness of the Presbyterian church in Sagi- 

 naw she met Mr. Cooper. The latter is presi- 

 dent of the Briggs & Cooper Company, Ltd., 

 of Saginaw, one of the most extensive hardwood 

 lumber concerns In the West, and operating a 



yard also at Memphis. They will reside at 

 Saginaw and will he at home after Dec. 1. 



The car famine is becoming acute and affects 

 the lumber shippers quite seriously already, and 

 there is every reason to expect that it will handi- 

 cap business for months. Great difliculty is 

 being experienced in getting cars to load and 

 even after they are loaded and sent east It is 

 almost impossible to get the empty cars back, 

 the tendency being to take them on west. 



Mershon, Schuette, Parker & Co. are operating 

 a box factory in connection with their planing 

 mill at Bay City and manufacturing box shooks 

 from beech culls, having a contract with the 

 Knccland, Buell & Bigelow Company for the raw 

 material. 



Grand Bapids. 



A number of prominent table manufacturers 

 of Michigan met in this city Sept. 19 for a con- 

 ference with G. M. Petrie of the St. Johns Table 

 Company, Cadillac, president of the National As- 

 sociation of Table Manufacturers. Trade condi- 

 tions were reported excellent in the state, and 

 in some cases the factories have about all the 

 orders they can take care of until the opening 

 of the spring season in January. 



The town of Buckley, formerly known as New 

 Wexford, though only fifteen months old, has 

 two sawmills, a factory, salting station and 

 several stores In different lines. At present six 

 business buildings are in course of construction, 

 brick and cement blocks being used. The town 

 has sprung up through the enterprise of the 

 Thomas MacBride Lumber Company of this city, 

 whose mills are located there. 



The new factory buildings erected at Muske- 

 gon by the Chamber of Commerce of that city 

 for the Brunswlck-Balke-Collender Company have 

 been turned over to the Chicago concern and 

 the machinery is being installed. Close to $60,- 

 000 was paid by the city of Muskegon to secure 

 the big woodworking concern. 



A dispatch from Iron Mountain says : "The 

 hardwood forests of the Menominee iron range 

 are being drawn on to supply the fuel markets 

 of Chicago and Milwaukee and during the past 

 two years one firm alone, operating in the Gran- 

 ite Bluff and Sagola districts, has filled con- 

 tracts for 25,000 cords of maple wood. The 

 Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company maintains three 

 camps the year round to supply cord wood for 

 its blast furnaces at Marquette and Gladstone, 

 these plants requiring about 050 cords a day, 

 216.000 per year, or the cutting over of about 

 7.000 acres. Although the scars left annually in 

 the forests are growing larger, there Is hardwood 

 enough in sight to last for some decades to 

 come.'* 



The Lumbermen's Association of Grand Rapids 

 will hold its regular monthly meeting Tuesday 

 evening. Sept. 25, at the Lakeside Club. It Is 

 planned to have the ladies in attendance at 

 this gathering. 



George S. Wilkinson of the Van Keulen & Wil- 

 kinson Lumber Company returned Sept. 22 from 

 an extended business trip through northern Mich- 

 igan and Wisconsin. 



Indianapolis. 



W. W. Knight, secretary of the Long-Knight 

 Lumber Company of Indianapolis, has returned 

 from a trip to Memphis, Tenn., and other south- 

 ern points which he visited in the interest of his 

 company. 



The Newcastle Casket Company of Newcastle 

 has just been formed with a capital stock of 

 $50,000 to manufacture coffins. Harry Burris 

 of Newcastle and W. D. Williams and Arthur 

 Kennedy of Richmond are the stockholders. The 

 new company will give employment to 100 men. 



The Cardwell Lumber Company of Decatur has 

 been incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000 

 with the following directors : Rufus K. Allison, 

 John W. Vail. Joseph E. Thomas, Aaron T. Vail, 

 Charles S. Niblack, French Quinn and Don L. 

 Quinn. 



The Island saw and planing mill plant at Jas- 

 per. Ind., was burned on the night of Sept. 19 

 and several thousand feet of lumber consumed. 

 Much of it was valuable finishing lumber wait- 

 ing to be planed. The total loss is estimated at 

 .$3,000. Hamilton Glezen and Walter Cooper op- 

 crated the plant. 



A called meeting of the National Veneer Man- 

 ufacturers' Association was held at the Grand 

 Hotel in Indianapolis September 20. The meet- 



