HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Buffalo. 



For the second time during the existence of 

 Montgomery Bros. & Co. tbe big mill came very 

 close to being wiped out. It is again doing 

 business, although the fire of July 30 was a 

 close call. Stock loss is estimated at .?60,000, 

 with .flO.OOO on the building, not to mention 

 heavy losses by tenants. The office was dam- 

 aged by water, but tbe books were not destroyed. 



The Lumber Exchange at its last meeting 

 voted against the increased minimum carload 

 proposed by the Missouri Tacific railroad. The 

 Exchange will take its second outing on August 

 fi. going by water this time. The committee 

 announces a novelty, but declines to say what it 

 is to be. 



O. E. Yeager has been very busy of late get- 

 ting in a new stock of oak from Kentucky, 

 whicb will again round out the general assort- 

 ment of the yard, which is never allowed to 

 run slack. 



A. W. Kreinheder has planned to visit the 

 Kentucky and Tennessee mills of the Standard 

 Hardwood Lumber Company about the middle 

 of this month, so that the stock can be started 

 Ibis way by early fall. It Is largely oak. 



H. A. Stewart is back from another long trip 

 to West Virginia, where be liought mostly oak. 

 The home yard of I. N. Sto\v:irt & Bro. is pretty 

 well stocked. 



T. Sullivan & Co., having been reinforced 

 this summer in Its selling trade by F. T. Sulli- 

 van, from the Pacific coast side of tbe business, 

 the stock is moving fast, both Washington fir 

 and lake hardwoods. 



M. M. Wall lately made a trip to Canada to 

 look after a big lot of bircli that was some time 

 ago bought by tbe Buffalo Hardwood Lumber 

 Company, to add to the heavy yard stock of 

 oak. 



The new Memphis hardwood mill of tbe 

 Hugh McLean Lumber Company is easily taking 

 its place along with the older ones, so that 

 the company's supply of oak, which it makes a 

 specialty, is always good. 



Beyer, Knox & Co. are resting easy on their 

 laurels, which consist largely in getting started 

 from the far south a lot of oak and other south- 

 ern hardwoods and then adding to them a Penn- 

 sylvania supply. 



F. W. Vetter is preparing to go South as soon 

 as the Lumber Exchange outing is over to see 

 how the oak and ash he is getting out for the 

 Empire Lumber Company in North Carolina is 

 looking. 



Anthony Miller has a very well filled yard 

 right along in spite of the good sales. His 

 southern stock of onk and |)opIar is coming in 

 strong and he sells basswood and elm at a good 

 rate, not finding them dull. 



(!. Elias & Bro's mill is very active this sum- 

 mer. Business is good on account of the heavy 

 building in operation in the city. 



Saginaw Valley. 



A. P. Bliss of Bliss & Van Auken states that 

 everything is moving along nicely. The firm is 

 producing large quantities of fine oak. They 

 have markedly increased facilities for producing 

 lumber products. The maple flooring plant of 

 this firm at Saginaw is being operated day and 

 night and prices are steady and as firm as dur- 

 ing any time in the last three months. 



The Briggs & Cooper Company, Ltd., is doing 

 a heavier business than last year and finds con- 

 ditions quite satisfactory. Inquiries for hard- 

 woods are free, and enough stock is coming in 

 to take care of the trade. The company handles 

 a large quantity of oak picked up in the North 

 as well as in the South. 



The Hill-Drummond Lumber Company of 

 Saginaw, whicb erected a sawmill at Baskin, 

 La., and has been cutting oak the last three 

 months, has shut down the mill for sixty days 

 until additional facilities for cutting timber can 

 be supplied. 



The Gilchrist sawmill at Alpena has manu- 



factured over .'i.noO.OOO feet of hardwoods this 

 season, a liberal portion of whicb is maple and 

 goes into fiooring. the firm operating a (looring 

 plant. 



The plant of the Tawas Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, which has been engaged in tbe mantifac- 

 ture of skewers and other hardwood novelties, 

 has been shut down owing to finan<*ial embar- 

 rassment. It is expected the tangle will shortly 

 be unraveled and the plant resume operations. 



The plant of the Chicago Last & Die Works 

 at West Branch was destroyed by fire last 

 week, involving a loss of .$2,500. The plant will 

 be rebuilt. 



The Michigan Central has l.'tO men at work 

 extending what Is known as the Mct'^Iraw branch 

 of the Mackinaw division six miles to reach 

 .•iOO.OOO.noO feet of timber belonging to the 

 Kneeland. Buell & Bigelow Company, J. T. Wylie 

 & Co. and Sailing. Hanson & Co., a large inu-lioii 

 of which is hardwood. 



The Stratile maple flooring and crate plant 

 at Reed City Is to be removed to Saginaw. When 

 in operation it will employ about 100 hands. 



The old mill at Gaylord. owned and operated 

 for some years by Frank Buell of Bay City, has 

 been sold to II. H. Llenlson of Boyne City anil 

 .Tames Rowan and others of Grand Rapids, who 

 will rebuild the mill and equip it with modern 

 machinery. The purchasers have timber with 

 which to stock the plant. 



Tbe plant of the Batchelor Timber Company 

 at West liranch will shortly be ready to begin 

 operations, extensive repairs having been made. 

 Logs are coming to tbe mil! by the trainload. 



Some hardwood operators up north experience 

 dllBculty In getting enough help to handle their 

 business expeditiously. Wages are high and 

 grub good, yet there appears to be a scarcity of 

 men. 



W. D. Young & Co. have finished the new 

 warehouse and have extended their facilities 

 materially. The business of the firm holds good 

 and the plant Is operated day and night. 



Grand Kapids. 



of the twenty-five sawmills in operation at 

 Muskegon, on tbe south shore of the lake, in 

 1SS3, otily two are now running — the Thayer 

 mill and the Bigelow mill, both owned by the 

 Thayer Lumber Company. Another mill is in 

 operation there, but erei.'ted. since 18S3 when 

 Muskegon reached its height as a lumber town. 

 Is that of Frank .\lljerts & Sons. There were 

 twelve mills cutting lumber on the north shore 

 of the lake twenty-three years ago and now there 

 Is one, that of Gow & Campbell. Muskegon ha-s 

 added many factories since the decadence of the 

 lumber cutting industry and it seems strange, as 

 the Chronicle of that city remarks, why most 

 of these concerns have located at Muskegon 

 Heights and other places, with miles of unoccu- 

 pied land, mostly abandoned mill sites, on the 

 lake front, offering unexcelled shipping facilities 

 for manufacturers. 



A controlling interest in the Grand Rapids 

 Carved Moulding Company, with factory at Front 

 and Myrtle streets, has passed from S. L. King 

 to .T. A. S. Verdier and Sybrant Wesselius of 

 this city, who will continue the business. 



The Grand River Valley Horticultural society 

 will take forestry as its topic at the meeting to 

 be held August 1.S at the suburban home of .1. C. 

 West, Fisk lake. The program will include the 

 following addresses : "The Future Supply of 

 Raw Material for Our Woodworking Industries," 

 by Wm. Widdlcomb of the Widdicomb Furniture 

 C^ompany ; "A Glimpse of the World's Forests." 

 by Walter C. Winchester, recently returned from 

 a trip around the world : "A Talk on Interest- 

 ing Forest Conditions," by Chas. W. Garfield, 

 president of the Michigan Forestry Commission ; 

 "A Proper Respect for Trees," by C. S. Udell : 

 "The Farm Woodlot." by Mrs. M. E. Campbell ; 

 "The Problem of the Sand Plains," by Rev. F. P. 

 Arthur. 



The farm of Curtis Morrill, near Union City, 

 Branch county, has a curiosity in tree growth. 



Two rock elms. (Uie twelve inches and the other 

 about six in diameter, grow side by side, sepa- 

 rated liy about foiM' Inches, until they reach a 

 height of eight feet, when the smaller tree makes 

 a sharp bend and enters the larger, which at 

 this point shows a bulge equal to the diameter 

 of the intruder. Thus married they tower up- 

 wards nearly eighty feet. 



H. R. Crocker succeeds I.. D. Waters as chair- 

 uuiii and manager of the National Woodenware 

 Company of this city. Kitchen cabinets of wliite 

 luaple are an important part of the output of 

 this concern. 



C. L. Houseman of Muskegon has bought nf 

 .Miuneapolis parties .'iLiidO acres of hardwood, 

 pine and hemlock timber lands located near 

 Naubinway. in Mackinac county, and is iuslaliiiig 

 a hand mill at that point, with capacity for 

 cutting ten million feet a year. The logs will 

 be rafted down tbe Mllle Coques river, which 

 runs through the middle of the trail, and the 

 Soil railroad is building a spur to the mill, a 

 distance of liVi miles from tbe main line. It Is 

 expected the mill will be In operation this fall. 



The Buell mill pro|)erty at Gaylord is being 

 i*ijuipped for the maiuifacture of veneers. 11. 11. 

 Dennlson. lately Iraftic manager of the Bovue 

 city, Gaylord & Alpena railroad, and .lames 

 Rowan of Gaylord, are associated with others in 

 the enterprise and the plant will be in shape 

 for operations in about six weeks. 



Fire In the yards adjoining C. C. Potter & 

 Co.'s band mill at Bellaire destroyed two piles 

 of hardwood lumber belonging to <"'. L. House 

 man of Muskegon. 



Asheville. 



The sale at public auction of tlie Whittier 

 Lumber Company's boundary of hardwood In 

 Swain county, Norlli Carolina, on .\ugust (!, will 

 attract a nuinber of prospective purchasers. 'J'he 

 lands, containing TS.iiiki acres, will be sold under 

 order of the United States circuit court to satisfy 

 bonds held by the Morion Trust Company of New- 

 York to the amount of If400,000. The lands 

 have really been sold at private sale, but if a 

 higher bid Is made than tbe price then agreed 

 upon the auction bid will be accepted. 



The plant of the .\sbeville Veneer Company 

 located at Biltmore, two miles from Asheville. is 

 complete and operations will commence within 

 ten days. The company will at first cut veneer 

 from oak, chestnut and poplar, but later from 

 other woods. 



Bristol. ■Va.-Teiin. 



The Came-Wyman Lumber Company, with 

 situs at Bristol, has been granted a charter and 

 will enter the lumber field at once. At the head 

 of the concern are W. o. Came and 11. P. Wy- 

 man. who are also at the head of the Bristol 

 Door & Lumber Company. Mr. Came was for- 

 merly in the lumber business at Maiden, near 

 Boston, Mass., and has been in this section for 

 a number of years. Mr. Wyman is from Grand 

 Rapids, Mich., and was formerly in the lumber 

 business at .Tohnson City, Tenn. Tbe new con- 

 cern will do a general manufacturing and 

 wholesale business. The company has an author- 

 ized capital stock of .flS.OOO. 



The Black Mountain Land Company has been 

 organized at Bristol by W. H. White, W. W. 

 Bourne, J. A. Dickey. T. P. Trigg and others. 

 The company will deal In timber and mineral 

 lands. 



W. O. Came of tbe Bristol Door & Lumber 

 Company has returned from Maiden, Mass., 

 where he has been ill in a hospital for the iwst 

 few weeks. Mr. Came underwent an operation 

 for appendicitis and returns feeling much bet- 

 ter. 



James D. Wyman of Grand Rapids, Mich., 

 has come to Bristol to learn the lumber busi- 

 ness. He will be connected with his father, 

 H. P. Wyman. 



G. L. Wood and W. L. Taylor of the I!. K. 

 Wood Lumber Company, .\sheville, N. C, were 

 In Bristol on imijortaut business of the company 

 last week. 



