HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Charles Whybrew and Isaac Parker, both of 

 Escanaba, hare taken the contract from H. W. 

 Reade, receiver for the Escanaba Woodenware 

 Company, for loading about 1.500,000 feet of 

 hardwood logs and a large quantity of pulpwood, 

 shingle timber and ties, all of which was cut 

 in the company's camps near Watersmeet this 

 winter. 



Saginaw has followed the action of Grand 

 Kapids in purchasing 10,000 elm trees, to be set 

 out by school children of the city on Arbor Day. 

 May 1. Saginaw bought its trees in Wisconsin, 

 while Grand Rapids imported its trees from 

 France. 



The town of Gwinn on the Swanzey range is 

 to be built this year by the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron 

 Company of Ontonagon. The company has al- 

 ready erected forty-eight double houses and has 

 purchased sites for a hospital, hotel and bank, 

 while lots are secured for churches, high school, 

 railway station and business blocks. No intoxi- 

 cating liquors will be allowed to be sold in the 

 city. 



Joseph Jeanott, who built some of Muskegon's 

 largest sawmills, is dead at his home in that 

 city, aged 75 years. 



The John F. Corl piano factories, now located 

 at Jackson and Grand Haven, are being con- 

 solidated at Battle Creek. Manufacturing opera- 

 tions will begin in the new location in May. 



Beginning April 23 the Story & Clark Piano 

 Company of Grand Haven resumed a ten-hour 

 schedule at the factory, on account of a fast 

 increasing business. 



The plant of the Ludington Woodenware Com- 

 pany will resume operations in a few days. The 

 company has 2.500.000 feet of timber in the 

 yards, cut in Mason county, and has timber 

 enough in Kalkaska and Grand Traverse coun- 

 ties to keep the plant busy lor four years more, 

 lipsides having nearly 15,000,000 feet on Drum- 

 mond Island, Pins, wooden bowls, butter 

 moulds, butter dishes and mop handles are 

 turned out. 



Cleveland. 



Constant complaint is made by lumber deal- 

 ers in Cleveland against the practice of railroads 

 in furnishing erroneous rates, which are later 

 corrected, to the detriment of the dealer. A 

 dealer sends to a railroad in another state for 

 quotations on a bill of goods. The railroad re- 

 plies that it has not schedules of its tariffs on 

 hand, but is willing to quote rates upon request. 

 Subsequently it informs the dealer that the rate 

 is, perhaps, 26 cents to a certain point. When 

 the lumber is shipped it is found that the rate 

 is in reality 29 cents, and the dealer is out 

 that much. He puts in his claim to the com- 

 pany, and it dallies along for months, even 

 years, so complaint Is next to useless. E. L. 

 French of W. A. Cool & Co., Cleveland, says 

 that this sort of thing is the bane of the deal- 

 er's existence and that Cleveland firms have 

 hundreds of these claims which have not been 

 settled. He suggests that the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission be appealed to to take steps 

 to overcome this difficulty. Numerous threats 

 are being made here to have a joint suit to 

 bring the matter to a head. It is felt, however, 

 that some Joint movement by lumber interests 

 the country over might result in more effective 

 work. 



W. A. Cool spent some days in West Virginia 

 during the past week visiting the big mills at 

 Mahan and vicinity. 



W. H. Gillispie of the G. G. Stitzinger Lum- 

 ber Company of New Castle, Fa., was a caller 

 upon local lumber dealers during the week. 



W. H. Sowers of the Sowers-Leach Lumber 

 Company of Columbus was in Cleveland on busi- 

 ness and called upon a number of his friends 

 here. 



Several big lumber companies in the "flats," 

 where most of the yards are located, will be af- 

 fected by the decision of the fire department 

 that the city's rule that lumber piles must be 



back thirty-flve feet from the lot Hue must be 

 enforced. In a case in which one company was 

 involved a few days ago the fire chief directed 

 the moving of a long pile of lumber because it 

 was too near the lot line and endangered a 

 neighboring house in case of fire. 



W. H. Hilton of the Advance Lumber Com- 

 pany, with offices in the Rockefeller Building, 

 will start into business on his own account on 

 June 1. Mr. Hilton has been in Cleveland for 

 a number of years and latterly has had charge 

 of the hardwood flooring department of the Ad- 

 vance company. 



F. T. Peitsch of the Advance Lumber Company 

 was kept from his desk several days the past 

 week by sickness. 



O. H. Taylor of the Crescent Lumber Com- 

 pany of Marietta. O., formerly with the Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association, was a visitor 

 in Cleveland a few days ago. He reports the 

 company's mills in West Virginia as operating 

 full time. 



The city forestry department is making val- 

 iant efforts to reforest Cleveland, formerly 

 known as the Forest City, but depleted of ver- 

 dure on account of gas and smoke. The ban, 

 however, has been placed on the willow, the 

 poplar, the ash and the soft maple. Permits 

 will not be granted for the planting of these 

 trees because of their tendency to attract in- 

 sect pests. An ordinance recently passed by 

 the city empowers the city forester to pass on 

 all trees to be planted. 



Robert Jenks spent some days recently in 

 northern Michigan and the Georgian Bay dis- 

 trict looking up the lumber situation. 



Columbus. 



W. H. Putnam, president and general manager 

 of the General Lumber Company, returned re- 

 cently from a trip to the property of the com- 

 pany located along the Big Sandy in Kentucky. 

 The company has two large mills at Ashland. 

 Ky., and is operating a large timber camp on 

 property in Lawrence, Johnson and Martin coun- 

 ties. It is estimated that the three tracts con- 

 tain 15,000,000 feet of timber. The mills are 

 being placed in first class condition preparatory 

 to starting operations as soon as market con- 

 ditions will warrant such action. The founda- 

 tions have been repaired and the machinery is 

 being overhauled. The company will install at 

 least one new boiler and possibly two. 



While conditions in the hardwood market in 

 this section are not as bright as was anticipated 

 some time ago, still Improvement is noted in 

 many directions, and the demand from manufac- 

 turiiig establishments is increasing. This is true 

 especially of factories making agricultural im- 

 plements and vehicles. The starting of the 

 Barney-Smith car works at Dayton is expected 

 to help the market generally. 



Kenneth McLeod, president of the American 

 Hardwood Company, left last week for the prop- 

 erty of the company at Sedgwick, Ark. He will 

 look after the opening of active development 

 ■work on the large tract which has been taken 

 over by the corporation. Ralph Westfall, gen- 

 eral counsel for the company, and W. H. Harris, 

 assistant secretary, left later to take up the 

 work of collecting abstracts. 



W. M. Ritter, president of the W. M. Ritter 

 Lumber Company of Columbus, is preparing to 

 take his annual trip abroad. He will sail from 

 New York some time in May. to be absent for 

 about three months.. He is now fully recovered 

 from the operation he underwent at a local hos- 

 pital. While abroad he will visit the branches of 

 the company at London and Liverpool. The 

 company keeps some of its mills in the various 

 southern states in operation all the time. Its 

 policy is to keep its stocks low, and following 

 that plan the mills are operated only when sales 

 are made. J. W. Mayhew, sales manager of the 

 company, in discussing the situation, said: "I 

 find better market conditions, judging from In- 

 quiries which have been received by our com- 

 pany recently. The market is still In a de- 



pressed state, but we look for improvement 

 soon." 



The organization of the East Side Lumber 

 Company, with a capital stock of $50,000, has 

 been completed by the election of N. J. Fountain, 

 a local real estate dealer, president ; E. R. 

 Clarridge. secretary, and E. A. Prentiss, treas- 

 urer. Mr. Clarridge was formerly secretary of 

 the Buttles Avenue Lumber Company. The 

 active management will devolve upon Messrs. 

 Clarridge and Prentiss. The recent purchases of 

 stocks have been shipped to the new location of 

 the company at the intersection of Main street 

 and the Norfolk & Western tracks. A large 

 tract has been leased from the railroad at that 

 place. It is expected to have the mill and other 

 machinery moved in about a month. 



W. V. Smith, president of the Clear Creek 

 Coal & Lumber Company of Columbus, left last 

 week for Isoline, Tenn.. to formally take over 

 the 6,300-acre tract recently purchased in Cum- 

 berland county. Tennessee. The deal was closed 

 at Baltimore. Md.. by W. F. Felton. representing 

 the company. The active -work of development 

 will start at once. 



Indianapolis. 



The Paoli Cabinet Company is erecting a new 

 brick factory building at Paoli which it expects 

 to occupy soon. 



Julius Pinneil is reported to be some better. 

 He has been seriously ill at Daytona, Fla., for 

 some time, and his condition is still quite grave. 



Several local business men have organized 

 the Federal Timber Company with $200,000 cap- 

 ital and have arranged for the purchase of 

 thirteen sections of timber land in British Co- 

 lumbia jnst north of Vancouver. 



The O. Grimwood Company of Owensville, who 

 have a large hardwood plant and yard, have 

 a refractory mule that has caused the death of 

 one employee and the serious injury of three 

 others within the last few weeks. 



A. von Spreckleson of this city has been 

 awarded the contract for erecting the new 

 Y. W. C. A. building, his bid being $80,200. It 

 is understood he will soon let contracts for the 

 hardwood finish and fickirs. 



F. M. Bachman of the F. M. Bachman Com- 

 pany has been elected a director of the Citizens' 

 Gas Company, succeeding E. H. Eldridge. presi- 

 dent of the E. H. Eldridge Lumber Company, 

 who recently resigned. 



The Dilks Lumber Company of Richmond lost 

 their offices a few days ago when the Colonial 

 office building, in which they were located, was 

 burned. 



Will H. Freeman, secretary of the Indiana 

 Board of Forestry, is having 40,000 poplar trees, 

 .■iO.OOO ash trees and 42,000 walnut trees planted 

 on the state forest reservation near Henryville. 



The Indiana Manufacturers & Shippers' Asso- 

 ciation states that it will ask the coming legis- 

 lature to make provision for reciprocal demur- 

 rage, provide for a satisfactory method of re- 

 funding overcharges by railroad companies, and 

 will oppose the establishing of a public utilities 

 commission, which would virtually supplant the 

 Indiana Railroad Commission. 



Manufacturers in about sixty cities and towns 

 on the Big Four railroad are being affected by 

 the failure of the Big Four and Southern Indi- 

 ana railroads to reach an agreement on the divi- 

 sion of joint freight rates on coal. 



The Roach-Brown Manufacturing Company has 

 been organized at Cumberland, a small town ten 

 miles east of here, and will manufacture furni- 

 ture. 



Ground for a baseball park has been pur- 

 chased by E. C. Atkins & Co. for the use of their 

 baseball team, which has made an enviable rec- 

 ord during the last two or three years. The 

 park will be opened Decoration Day. 



D. R. Trippett. representing the S. C. Major 

 Lumber Company of Memphis, Tenn., is making 

 a business trip through the southern part of the 

 state and reports that he finds conditions are 

 improving throughout the country. 



