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HARDWOOD RECORD 



factories of different kinds on the nortli side, 

 wliicli will be steady buyers of the better 

 grades of hardwoods. Along with this ques- 

 tion of annexation the problem of subways 

 and elevated roads, which is nearing a crisis 

 in Pittsburg, is of special interest to lumber- 

 men, as it will necessitate the purchase of 

 an enormous amount of oak. 



The American Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company is keeping up its swift pace in the 

 hardwood trade. Its big purchases made 

 through J. N. Woollett last winter in West 

 Virginia and Kentucky enable it to place its 

 goods on the market very promptly in com- 

 parison with the firms which are now out of 

 logs to cut. 



The Beulah Lumber Company, of whicli Wil- 

 liam M. Pownall is local manager, is cutting 

 50,000 feet of lumber a day at its plant at 

 Beulah. W. Va., mostly spruce and oak. The 

 company is now delivering 18 cars of lumber 

 a week in the metropolis, all of which comes 

 from West Virginia. It is also shipping much 

 ash and birch to the eastern market. 



P. X. Diebold of the Forest Lumber Com- 

 pany sends in an encouraging report of hard- 

 wood conditions in West Virginia, where he is 

 on a trip among the mills. The company's 

 call for oak and poplar has been very satis- 

 factory of late and both F. X. and A. J. Die- 

 bold have been out of the city looking up 

 stocks. 



E. V. Babcock & Co. lost 1,500,000 feet of 

 logs in the early June floods in the upper 

 Allegheny valley. These logs were largely oak 

 and hemlock and were valued at $16,000. An- 

 other mishap was the burning of the kindling 

 wood plant of the Standard Wood Company, 

 which adjoined the Babcock plant at Arrow, 

 Pa., and used the slabs from the latter under 

 contract, 



Fred E. Babcock of the firm of E. V. Bab- 

 cock & Co. is building a $65,000 mansion in 

 Woodland road. Squirrel Hill. The residence, 

 which will probably be the finest erected in 

 Pittsburg this summer, will contain 35 rooms, 

 and will be beautifully finished in a variety of 

 the finest hardwoods. 



A new firm in Pittsburg is J. R. Wheeler 

 & Co., which has secured convenient quarters 

 at 1009 Park building. 



O. H. Rectanus of the A. M. Turner Lumber 

 Company announces a very good condition of 

 affairs in the hardwood trade as it affects his 

 firm. The Turner interests in the South are 

 very busy getting orders taken last winter 

 cleaned up. 



The Linehan Lumber Company's ability to 

 fill orders with good stock and quickly has of 

 late brought to it an amount and kind of 

 business that is eminently satisfactory and 

 Is bringing broad smiles to both J. C. and J, J, 

 Linehan, who are hustlers. 



The Paine Lumber Company, Ltd., is profit- 

 ing considerably by the carpenters' strike by 

 getting some big orders that would otherwise 

 have come to the local mills. In the city, 

 however, it notes a diminution of demand, 

 traceable to the fact that house building has 

 been almost at a standstill since the carpen- 

 ters went out. Last month the company added' 

 to its line of finely finished stock stair rails 

 and balusters of original designs, which are 

 made of oak and birch. These are furnished 

 also in ash and butternut, the latter being 

 quite a favorite with local architects. 



The Cheat River Lumber Company is saw- 

 ing 100,000 feet of lumber a day at its plant 

 at Burkeville, Va., where Robert K. Herbert- 

 son is in charge. The company is getting 

 into the manufacturing business as fast as 

 possible to enable it to keep up with its or- 

 ders and avoid the delays that harassed it 

 last winter, when it depended to a large ex- 

 tent on the stocks bought from other mills. 



wood Lumber Company speaks of the flooring 

 business as in decidedly good shape. The 

 company's mill is running strong now. 



The trip of A. W. Kreinheder to Kentucky 

 and Tennessee to look after the business of 

 the Standard Hardwood Lumber Company was 

 necessarily rather short, as he had a Hoo-Hoo 

 meeting to look after. 



Hugh McLean is one of the great hardwood 

 salesmen on the road today and he is always 

 adding to his experience. Quartered oak is 

 one of his specialties, with mills back of him 

 to produce excellent stock. 



G. Elias & Bro. are still keeping up their 

 all-round timber yard, but find that they need 

 a good many woods to make up a complete 

 stock — hemlock, Norway 'and yellow pine and 

 Washington fir, as well as oak and ash. 



Thick plain oak in inci'eased amounts is one 

 of the late export orders filled by O. E. Yea- 

 ger. He gets the stock largely from the West, 

 some from Ohio by rail; later on there will 

 be cargoes in by lake. 



Beyer, Knox & Co. have not patrolled the 

 territory from Pennsylvania southward to the 

 Gulf for nothing, for they report a yard full 

 of well-assorted stock, and active sales all 

 along the line. 



Several cars of good chestnut, also a lot of 

 oak and cherry, were among the l.'xte receipts 

 from the South at the yard of I. N. Stewart 

 & Bro., with H. A. Stewart down that way 

 most of the time digging it out. 



A. Miller lately added to his already good 

 general hardwood stock twenty cars of birch 

 of all thicknesses, and he is always able to 

 take care of orders for basswood. 



The best of reports come from the big hard- 

 wood door mill at Batavia, which is controlled 

 by Scatcherd & Son. Orders are coming in 

 much faster than they can be filled, and all 

 for'fancy work. 



Having two good men on the spot, F, W. 

 Vetter and H. S. Janes, ready to take up the 

 southern hardwood problem anywhere, the 

 Empire Lumber Company will soon be repre- 

 sented again by them in person in North 

 Carolina and Arkansas. 



Buffalo. 



As a member of the Buffalo Maple Flooring 

 Company, M. M. Wall of the Buffalo Hard- 



Detroit. 



Chas. R. Roche, inspector for the Nation.al 

 Hardwood Lumber Association for Detroit, 

 bus been taking a week's vacation in New 

 York City. 



The McClure Lumber Company is closing 

 out its stock of hardwood in the Detroit yard, 

 and will in future conduct only an office here, 

 making shipments direct from the mill at 

 Eutaw, Ala, 



The Thomas Forman Company is receiving 

 maple lumber Vjy vessel quite rapidly, keeping 

 one steam barge in this trade regularly. 



The Dwight Lumber Company has leased 

 its docks to a white pine concern, and is 

 receiving its extensive purchases of maple and 

 other hardwoods entirely by rail. 



Within fifteen miles of the Detroit city hall 

 there is a heavily timbered tract of 240 acres 

 consisting of white and red oak, elm, bass- 

 wood, etc. A small band mill has just been 

 installed for the manufacture of this timber. 

 The stock goes to Brownlee & Co, 



The schooner "Ellen Williams" on its way 

 from Alpena to Tonawanda, with a cargo of 

 maple lumber, went on the rocks at the Lime 

 Kiln Crossing, eighteen miles below Detroit, 

 and was sunk. The cargo was sold by the 

 underwriters to Brownlee & Co., who have 

 just finished putting the stock in cross pile on 

 their yard. The same firm is now handling 

 over its docks 950.000 feet of basswood from 

 the Green Bay district. They report the bass- 

 wood market considerably stronger and more 

 active than a few months ago. 



The entire lumber trade of Detroit is in 

 mourning over the death of Joseph Myles of 

 Ilunton, Myles & Weeks, which occurred at his 

 home on June 15. The immediate cause of Mr. 

 Myles' death was valvular lesions of the heart. 

 He has been ill for more than five months. Mr. 

 Myles was held in extreme affection by the en- 

 tire lumber trade of the Wolverine state, and his 

 demise is a severe blow to thousands of friends. 



Grand Bapids. 



Otis A. Felger. secretary of the Hackley- 

 Phelps-Bonnell Company, left June 20 on a 

 business trip throughout the South. 



The Harrison Wagon Works of this city is 

 turning out automobiles as a side line. 



P. C. Fuller of the Fuller & Rice Lumber 

 & Manufacturing Company has gone east to 

 spend the summer in the Adirondacks. 



0. H. L. Wernicke, manager of the Macey 

 Company, is touring several of the western 

 states in his new National, He is accom- 

 panied by Mrs, Wernicke and they expect 

 to return about June 25. 



W. H. White, president of the W. H. White 

 Company. Boyne City, was in Muskegon re- 

 cently and placed an order for a battery of 

 boilers of 400 horsepower, to be added to the 

 power plant of the White Company's new 

 hardwood plant. The boilers are to be de- 

 livered within 60 days. 



The Potato Implement Company of Traverse 

 City has been doing a rushing business at 

 its factory since the reorganization in Janu- 

 ary. 



West side manufacturers and business men 

 have formed an Improvement Association with 

 Roy Harrison of tlie Harrison Wagon Works 

 as chairman of the executive committee, F. 

 Stuart Foote of the Imperial Furniture Com- 

 pany, Carroll F. Sweet of the Fuller & Rice 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company, and Alex- 

 ander Dodds as chairmen, respectively, of the 

 following committees: Prevention of floods, 

 public improvement and transportation. 



The Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company has 

 bought the Russell Hotel at Ishpeming and 

 it is the plan of President Mather to convert 

 the house into a home for the Young Men's 

 Christian Association. 



Allen McKee left Manistee last week for 

 Tacoma, Wash., to take charge of the work 

 of installing machinery in the new mill of the 

 Dempsey Lumber Company. It is expected 

 that the mill will be one of the largest in the 

 United States, with daily cutting capacity of 

 a quarter of a million feet. 



J. M. Cooper, superintendent of the Kelley 

 Lumber & Shingle Company's mill at Traverse 

 City, has had seven years' experience as fire 

 chief, which served the company well when 

 the roof of the plant caught fire recently. 

 Under his supervision and his direction tho 

 valuable plant was saved, 



1. F. Holmes and son. Dr. H. A, Holmes, 

 of Manton have bought a tract of timber and 

 a sawmill plant in Mississippi, which will be 

 operated by Mr. Holmes. Sr. The timber is 

 largely oak and gum. with some hickory. A 

 million and a half feet of gum lumber has 

 been contracted for by Grand Rapids furniture 

 manufacturers. 



The steam barge India of Kingston, Ont., 

 recently loaded 500 rock elm ship timbers in 

 Pentwater Lake. They were cut in the vicin- 

 ity of Hart, one of them being over 70 feet 

 long. It is figured that they cost, loaded on 

 the boat, an average of $50 each, or a total 

 of $25,000. The boat loaded about 1.000 addi- 

 tional timbers at Traverse City, before pro- 

 ceeding to Kingston. The square timbers are 

 rafted from Kingston to Quebec, going by 

 boat from that point across the Atlantic to 

 English shipyards. 



The East Shore Company at Frankfort has 

 built a two-story addition to the factory, and 

 about fifteen men will be added in the new 

 clothes pin and wooden novelty department 

 to be established therein. The butter dish 

 and broom handle machines are kept busy. 



S. G. McClellan, manager of the Simmons 

 Lumber Company, Simmons, Mich,, and J, S, 

 Weidman of Mt. Pleasant, head of the Weid- 

 man Timber Company, were in Grand Rapids 

 June 11, 



E. N. Sailing of the Sailing-Hanson Company, 



