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HARDWOOD RECORD 



of red birch festooned doors for front entrances. 

 The Nicola Lumber Company regards the 

 hardwood market as in flrst-class shape. George 

 W. Nicola, president of the company, which tooli 

 over the business of the old Nicola Brothers 

 Company, announces that they are receiving 

 excellent reports from their salesmen on the 

 road and that prices have every appearance of 

 remaining stiff all summer. 



The Beulah Lumber Company is a new whole- 

 sale concern which will deal largely in spruce 

 and hardwoods. It is located in the Ferguson 

 building and its manager is W. F. Pownall. who 

 was formerly in the lumber business in Home- 

 stead, I'a. Tlie company is said to be strongly 

 backed financially. 



Flint. Erving & Stoner are getling along nicely 

 with the subsidiary operation in northwestern 

 Pennsylvania, where they are cutting a fine lot 

 of hardwood. Mr. Stoner reports trade steady in 

 all lines. 



The Babcock Lumber Company has its big 

 oflBce force working hard to keep business well 

 lined up. E. V. Babcock is a bull on the lumber 

 situation and sees no reason for fearing a de- 

 cline in prices. Ueports from all the company's 

 mills and outside connections indicate short 

 stocks and a very self-reliant spirit among the 

 mill owners. 



.T. .T. T. Penney of J. E. Mcllvain & Co. was 

 down at New Martinsville, W. Va., a few days 

 last week to size up hardwood conditions. His 

 firm is doing a fine business in oak timbers and 

 piling and could handle nearly double the 

 amount of dry stock if it were obtainable. 



The Buckeye Lumber Company, which was or- 

 ganized recently by IL C. Hoffman, H. O. Bur- 

 dette and C. L. Wickersham. is now located in 

 a fine suite of offices at 712 House building. The 

 company has bought a small tract of very fine 

 oak timber on the B. & O. railroad in Washing- 

 ton county and will put in a portable mill at 

 once to cut it off. 



Tlie Cheat River Lumber Company reports 

 that lumber is beiiig offered n little more freely 

 and that shipments in geueral are easier to 

 make. The company is buying all the chestnut 

 it can get, its market for that wood in Chicago 

 and Indiana, as well as the eastern cities, is 

 strictly (>. K. The company is just beginning 

 to cut off a tract of 700 acres of hardwood at 

 Blackstone, Va., on the Norfolk & Western 

 railroad. It has put in two portable milks, 

 which have a capacity of f:(i,000 feet a day. 

 Its various plants are now tui-uiug out five 

 and six cars of lumber a day. most of which is 

 hardwood. 



The \V. M. Gillespie Company is a new whole- 

 sale lumber firm incorporated by William M. 

 Gillespie, a well known lumberman, Albert J. 

 Loeffer and John R. Shaughnessy. The com- 

 pany will handle all kinds of lumber and will 

 make a specialty of hardwoods. 



I. F. Balsley, hardwood manager of the Will- 

 son Brothers Lumber Company, looks upon the 

 hardwood outlook as very bright in the I'itts- 

 burg territory. The company is having less 

 trouble in getting stocks shipped than a few 

 weeks ago and finds that many customers who 

 were then afraid to buy are now buying freely. 



Tlie American Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany has an order for 50.000 railroad ties, to be 

 delivered in Ohio. ,1. N. WooUett, manager of 

 the hardwood department, has gone down to 

 Tennessee to look up new stocks of hardwoods, 

 and he has recently put a new man in the 

 Tennessee field regularly for the same purpose. 



The C. P. Caughey Lumber Company says 

 that since there are at least 100 miles of street 

 car lines to be built around I'ittsburg this sum- 

 mer, it expects a big market for ties. The 

 company has lately bought a nice tract of oak 

 timber in Washington county, on the Pennsyl- 

 vania R. E. 



Buffalo. 



T. Sullivan & Co. are a trifle anxious over 

 the possibility of Pacific coast lumber going 

 higher on account of the San Francisco dis- 



aster, but have no notice of an advance yet. 

 They have a large stock of flr and spruce. 



Scatcherd & Son are turning out oak lumber 

 in good quantity at their Memphis mills, but 

 find the demand greater than the supply, either 

 as producers or jobbers, which means a better 

 price if it also meaus harder work. 



In his trip to North Carolina F. W. Vetter 

 hopes to get hold of some good lots of chestnut 

 still in that direction. He will not give up the 

 Seneca street yard yet, as he still finds use 

 for it. 



O. E. Xeager finds a better movement of maple, 

 with stocks running low, due to the fact that 

 it is now used so much for ash. He is getting a 

 good lot of birch and oak by lake this season. 



G. Elias & Bro. will soon be adding to 

 their stock of southern pine lumber and timber 

 from seaboard way by canal. They are covering 

 tlie South very thoroughly for lumber of all 

 sorts and are keeping stocks up well. 



.7. F. Knox is still spending a great part of 

 his lime looking up oak and other hardwood 

 lumber for Beyer, Knox & Co. at various points 

 south, and he keeps the home yard well filled 

 with it right along. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company has 

 had some delay at the Arkansas mill all spring 

 from high water, but business has gone on 

 notwithstanding. The home yard has sold a 

 big lot of all sorts of hardwood this year, oak 

 leading. 



A. Miller is .showing that the worst is over 

 with elm and basswood, for he is getting in new 

 supplies of them right along now, besides run- 

 ning strong on other .hardwoods. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company is still 

 one of the big leaders in the quartered oak trade, 

 selling so much of it that even with its numer- 

 ous mills it is not always able to keep stocks 

 complete in all sizes and grades. 



Oak is gaining on cherry in the list of spe- 

 cialties with I. N. Stewart & Bro., especially 

 as H. A. Stewart, when he goes into West Vir- 

 ginia after cherry, finds oak of very fine quality, 

 also some poplar and chestnut. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company still 

 runs a badly overcrowded yard, on account of 

 the amount of oak that comes up from its 

 mills in Tennessee and Kentucky. The com- 

 pany recently acquired a tract of timber land 

 in Kentucky, on which will be erected a band 

 mill this summer. 



Arthur W. Kreinheder, vicegerent of the west- 

 ern district of New York, expects to hold a 

 concatenation at Buffalo, N. Y.. Wednesday, 

 June 21. On the day following he has arranged 

 a river trip down the Niagara river and around 

 Grand Island, stopping at several pleasure 

 points. This will be Vicegerent Krelnheder's 

 first concatenation and he expects every mem- 

 ber of the order in good standing in his district 

 to be present at this meeting, and he will accept 

 no excuse from resident members. 



Detroit. 



The Dennis & Smith Lumber Company has 

 been receiving a large amount of poplar and 

 oak, and its yard is heavily stocked. 



The season of navigation is now in full 

 swing, and while the bulk of stock being re- 

 ceived at this port is building .woods, a few 

 cargoes of hardwood are coming in. Brownlee 

 & Company received this week by barge 536,000 

 feet of basswood, from 1 inch to 2 inches in 

 thickness. They still have another half million 

 feet of the same stock to come down. They have 

 taken a large suite of offices on the third flooi* 

 in the Telegraph building, corner of Griswnld 

 and Congress streets. 



Saginaw. 



Bliss & Van Auken are hustling their plant 

 day and night and w'ill have stock enough to 

 run nights until fall. Their flooring plant is 

 also crowded and the firm readily disposes of 

 its product. Flooring is in much better demand 

 than it was a year ago at this time. 



W. I)'. Young & Co. are running as usual 

 day and night and report a satisfactory 

 business in hardwood lumber and in flooring. 

 They are stocking the Flood sawmill at Bay 

 City also. They have operated a number of 

 camps during the winter and the logs are com- 

 ing down the Mackinaw division by rail. 



The steamer Tecumseh came in here during 

 the week and loaded 89,000 cubic feet of hard- 

 wood timber for Mc.\rthur Brothers. It goes to 

 Quebec. 



The Sailing, Hanson people of Grayling are 

 about closing a deal for the purchase of the 

 sawmill plant of the Gale Lumber Company at 

 West Branch, seventy miles north of Bay City. 

 The Gale company has nearly fluished operations 

 there. A crew of experts from Bay City is 

 raising about 700.000 feet of sunken logs at 

 the mill pond which will be converted into 

 lumber and then the company will be through. 

 If the mill goes into the hands of the parties 

 named it will be operated cutting hardwood five 

 years, the logs being taken to the mill from 

 Roscommon and Crawford counties by rail. 



Sailing, Hanson & Co. are among the heaviest 

 hardwood operators in the state. They operate 

 a mill at Johannesburg, thirty miles from Gray- 

 ling, two mills at Grayling and stock a big 

 flooring plant at Grayling operated under the 

 name of the Kerry-Hanson Flooring Company, 

 and also stock the Thomas Forman flooring plant 

 at Detroit, shipping about 12.000.000 feet of 

 maple lumber there annually. 



The Ottawa Hardwood Company started its 

 mill at Tawas last week and will cut out a 

 number of million feet of maple and other hard- 

 wood stock. 



The Michigan Central is to extend the Haak- 

 wood branch six miles, and three other logging 

 branches about twelve miles in all, to reach 

 hardwood logs, mostly belonging to the Knee- 

 laud, Buell & Bigelow concerns. 



Frank Buell went to Virginia last Friday to 

 look over a large body of timber. 



Holmes & Nicholson of Alpena lost a skldway 

 of 90,000 feet of hardwood logs in Montmorency 

 by fire last week. Thus far this season there 

 has been very little destruction of timber by 

 reason of forest fires. 



Tlie H. M. Loud's Sons Company of Au Sable 

 shipped a full cargo of maple to Tonawanda 

 last week. The company is running its mills 

 steadily and gets three trains of logs from its 

 camps every twenty-four hours. 



Last fall the Rodgers-Allison sawmill at Logan 

 was purchased by Yuill Brothers of Vanderbilt. 

 C. O. Rodgers has recently purchased a mill in 

 the upper peninsula and has begun operating the 

 same, cutting hardwood mostly. 



A. P. Bradley and Charles Lindell of Millers- 

 burg have moved a hardwood mill over to Long 

 Lake, north Wisconsin, and will engage in the 

 manufacture of lumber as soon as the mill 

 can be set up. 



Grand Rapids. 



.\ bill of complaint has been filed with the 

 local district attorney against the American 

 School Furniture Company, under the federal 

 antitrust laws, and the case will be investigated 

 at the present term of the grand jury in Chi- 

 cago. It is charged that the company is a trust, 

 pure and simple, operating factories in this city, 

 Buffalo, Piqua, O., Manitowoc and Racine, Wis., 

 and bound by agreements with other school fur- 

 niture concerns, the purpose being to create a 

 monopoly for its products and stifle competi- 

 tion. Eugene Carpenter, a local attorney, is 

 complainant. The Grand Rapids branch of the 

 American School Furniture Company is one of 

 the largest factories in the city. 



The Ranney Refrigerator Company of Green- 

 ville. Mich., is having 800,000 feet of elm logs 

 cut on lands north of St. Louis, iu Gratiot coun- 

 ty, Mich. 



The St. Johns Table Company of Cadillac, 

 which is now operating its new factory, elected 

 the following beard of directors at its annual 



