HARDWOOD RECORD 



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stocking it with a full line of hardwoods. 



The W. M. Gillespie Lumber Company 

 now has its Pennsylvania charter and has 

 secured a suite of offices in the Farmers Bank 

 building. William M. Gillespie, head of the 

 company, has severed his connection of many 

 years' standing with the Murphy Mill & Lum- 

 ber Company, and has as his active assistant 

 in the new firm Fontaine McCoIlum, who was 

 for years with the J. E. North Lumber Com- 

 pany. 



The Kendall Lumber Company has added to 

 its force of salesmen William A. Smith of the 

 Buswell Lumber Company of Minneapolis, who 

 will work the Pittsburg trade. The Kendalls 

 are getting their Maryland operations in shape 

 to make some record breaking cuts. 



Fred R. Babcock is spending this week at 

 the head of the big Merchants' & Manufac- 

 turers' Association of Pittsburg, which is 

 touring northeastern Ohio. 



The West Virginia Lumber Company re- 

 ports stiffer prices on hardwoods. Its con- 

 nections in West Virginia and Tennessee 

 enable it to be a very active competitor in 

 the hardwood market this year. 



The J. M. Hastings Lumber Company has 

 nearly completed its new plant at Jackson- 

 burg. W. Va., where it will cut 20,000 feet a 

 day of hemlock and hardwoods. It has. built 

 three miles of steel railroad into its tract and 

 has equipped this with Climax engines, log- 

 ging cars, loaders and skidders. The manager 

 of the new operation will be J. B. Patterson, 

 who is now directing the work of a large 

 force of millwrights and bridge builders. 



J. N. Woollett has been buying much hard- 

 wood timber and stock along the Tennessee 

 Central Railroad to keep up with the rapidly 

 growing trade of the American Lumber & 

 Manufacturing Company in hardwoods. Its 

 sales in this department this year bid fair to 

 eclipse all previous records. 



The Flint, Erving & Stoner Company is 

 getting its big deal at Dunlevie, W. Va., 

 closed up in good shape and is formulating 

 plans for a big increase in the output of the 

 plants in the fall. J. B. Flint, president of 

 the newly formed Flint. Erving & Stoner 

 Lumber Company, under which name the new 

 operation will be conducted, is delighted with 

 the purchase and says that the company will 

 have an abundance of hardwood of all kinds 

 as soon as it gets its plants in full opera- 

 tion. The feature of the town of Dunlevie, 

 which was included in the $1,000,000 purchase, 

 is that every house is quite as modern as 

 ordinary city dwellings — something unusual 

 In lumber towns and which draws the best 

 class of workmen. 



Willson Brothers Lumber Company Is get- 

 ting its hardwood connections bulwarked in a 

 way that will make them safe against a fierce 

 onslaught of orders. I. F. Balsley, their hard- 

 wood manager, reports that the firm has about 

 7,000,000 feet of dry poplar lumber in its West 

 Virginia stocks. 



The Linehan Lumber Company sees the best 

 year in 1906 that it has ever had. J. J. Line- 

 han recently spent a week to good advantage 

 in Boston, New York and other eastern cities 

 and is now on his way to the mills in Ken- 

 tucky. 



Buffalo. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company 

 has a barge of birch in from the upper lakes 

 and is also getting it from other sources. 



Both F. W. Vetter and H. S. Janes of the 

 Empire Lumber Company are home now, 

 something unusual, as one covers the eastern 

 part of the South and the other the western. 



J. F. Knox is home most of the time of late, 

 after his long stay south in oak timber dis- 

 tricts. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company 

 finds Its Buffalo yard too small and has to 

 pile its stock up very high. New yards are 



scarce, but efforts to find one are being made. 

 A. W. Kreinheder is south. 



A. J. Ellas appears to be coming out best 

 in the Buffalo river improvement fight. It 

 has been a long one. but he never gives up 

 and is now able to see preparations for the 

 work under way; and more lumber yards next. 



Angus McLean is giving most of his time 

 to the St. Lawrence river mills of the McLean 

 interest. 



A. Miller bought considerable chestnut on 

 his late southern trip and is trying to keep a 

 stock of it, but finds it one of the scarcest of 

 woods. 



The oak specialty of Scatcherd & Son is 

 hard to keep up in these days of poor logging 

 weather and car shortage. A big sale of low- 

 grade oak is reported of late. 



Saginaw Valley. 



The present week marks the end and the 

 beginning of a lumber industry. The Batclie- 

 lor Timber Company of Saginaw, organized 

 a few weeks ago with a capital stock of 

 $200,000 for the purpose of consolidating the 

 interests of the members of the company, 

 J. T. Wylie, H. A. Batchelor and H. A. 

 Batchelor, jr., has purchased the saw mill 

 property of the Gale Lumber Company at 

 West Branch, on the Mackinaw division of 

 the Michigan Central, seventy-three miles 

 north of Bay City. The Gale company bought 

 several thousand acres of timber land in 

 Ogemaw county, near West Branch, twelve 

 years ago. The timber was mostly hardwood, 

 the pine having been taken off years ago. 

 The Gale people have manufactured the entire 

 timber and the mill quit this week. It has 

 been on the market for some time, as it 

 was known the company was about winding 

 up its affairs. The purchasers will make some 

 repairs in the mill and put it into condition 

 for sawing at the earliest moment. The 

 Batchelor company will bring to the mill 

 about 80,000,000 feet of hardwood timber from 

 lands it owns in northern counties in the 

 lower peninsula. The logs will be carried to 

 the mill by rail and will give the Michigan 

 Central a vast quantity of freight, since the 

 logs must be railed to the mill and the manu- 

 factured product shipped to market by rail. 

 The mill is a single band with a capacity of 

 9,000,000 feet annually. The owners will also 

 erect a modern maple flooring plant to be 

 operated in connection with the mill with a 

 capacity of at least 10.000,000 feet annually. 

 Mr. Wylie is son-in-law of H. A. Batchelor, 

 and in addition to interests in the WVlie & 

 Buell Lumber Company, which owns a large 

 body of timber in Cheboygan and Otsego 

 counties, is also interested in four large coop- 

 erage plants, one at Saginaw, one at Gaylord, 

 one at Boyne City and one at Interlochen. 

 The industry just opening at West Branch 

 has a lease of life as long as the one just 

 finished. 



The S. L. Eastman Flooring Company at 

 Saginaw is to build two cement dry kilns. 

 The company purchased its entire stock of 

 lumber early in the year, contracting with the 

 Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow Company for 10,- 

 000,000 feet of maple lumber, and also bought 

 of other parties. 



There will be manufactured this season in 

 the valley a much larger quantity of ash than 

 usual in recent years. This commodity has 

 been rather scarce in this portion of Michigan. 

 A lot of basswood is being manufactured 

 here and at interior Northern Michigan mills. 

 It is held to be good property this year and 

 the culls are quickly sold for box stuff. The 

 entire output of two Bay City mills for the 

 season has been contracted for by local box 

 manufacturers. 



Basswood is also used for excelsior. The 

 Alpena Excelsior Company received a cargo 

 or 180 cords yesterday from Cecil Bay, on the 

 Lake Michigan shore. 



M. P. Gale of the Gale Lumber Company, 

 whose residence is at Saginaw; J. T. Phillips 

 and A. W. Seeley of Saginaw, and John Tol- 

 free of West Branch recently purchased a 

 tract of timber land of the Sage Land & 

 Improvement Company of Bay City estimated 

 to contain 100,000,000 feet of timber, nearly all 

 hardwood, and located in the upper peninsula. 

 They will either erect a sawmill or arrange 

 to have the timber manufactured at Ontona- 

 gon. They have the logging railroad which 

 has been operated by the Gale Lumber i^om- 

 pany near West Branch and which was not 

 included in the purchase by the Batchelor 

 Timber Company as the latter has no use for 

 it, and this may be taken to the upper 

 peninsula. 



W. D. Young & Co. are running steadily 

 day and night and the J. J. Flood mill is also 

 cutting for Y'oung & Co. The business of the 

 firm is in healthy condition. 



The Sherman Saw Mill Company has erected 

 a small hardwood sawmill near Gladwin with 

 a capacity of 15,000 feet a day. 



The Kneeland. Buell & Bigelow Company 

 is cutting out a lot of fine maple timber as 

 well as boards. Some of the timber is 22 feet 

 long. The manager says the trade is good 

 and they have all they can comfortably attend 

 to and at that their orders keep ahead of 

 them. The company carries about 4,500,000 

 feet in the yard. 



The Kneeland-Bigelow Company mill is run- 

 ning day and night and is carrying in the 

 yard over 4,000,000 feet of lumber. 



Bliss & Van Auken always have a business 

 that is satisfactory and one that keeps their 

 plant in operation day and night. They also 

 operate a flooring plant. The maple flooring 

 business is very good this season. 



Holmes & Nicholson shipped from Rogers 

 City a few days ago a cargo of hardwood 

 lumber that had lain on the dock eighteen 

 months and was dry as a bone. It went to 

 Detroit. 



The H. M. Loud's Sons Company at Au Sable 

 is manufacturing some fine hardwood lumber 

 and has shipped several cargoes to Lake Erie 

 ports. 



Grand Bapids. 



The Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company re- 

 cently opened new yards at Helena, Ark. 

 Chas. A. Phelps is in Hackley, Wis., looking 

 after the cutting and manufacturing opera- 

 tions. Large quantities of basswood and 

 birch are being cut at the double band mill 

 plant. 



The Lumbermen's Association of Graiid 

 Rapids held an enjoyable meeting at the 

 Lakeside Club May 29 and President Carroll 

 F. Sweet was heartily congratulated on his 

 election to the directorate of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association. It was de- 

 cided by the association to hold monthly 

 meetings. 



Imports of mahogany logs by local furniture 

 manufacturers for the past 12 months reached 

 a total of 684,000 feet, as compared with 488, 

 000 feet for the year preceding. The 15 per 

 cent duty on mahogany lumber has shut off 

 the receipts of lumber almost entirely. 



The Cobbs & Mitchell mill at Cadillac Is 

 making an average cut of 30,000 feet during 

 the night shift. 



The mill of the Wisconsin Land & Lumber 

 Company at Hermansville. Menominee county, 

 will cut about sixteen million feet of logs this 

 season, or two million feet in excess of last 

 year's cut. New machinery has been placed 

 in the flooring department. 



Harry Kneeland of Traverse City is trying 

 the experiment of raising black locust trees 

 on an eighty-acre tract of cutover land near 

 Mayfield. He proposes to set out the entire 

 tract and it is estimated that in 10 years the 

 trees will be big enough for ties or posts. 



John J. Foster of Greenville, president of 



