HARDWOOD RECORD 



39 



Cadillac. 



Flooring Is moving a little better than last 

 month and hardwood orders are coming in a 

 little faster than heretofore. Hemlock is a little 

 off and is not moving rapidly. From recent sta- 

 tistics gathered in Michigan we find there will 

 be at least 30,000,000 feet less hemlock cut than 

 originally intended and a slight increase in the 

 hardwood cut to offset this. 



W. L. Martin of the W. H. White Company 

 and P. Collyer. national inspector, Boyne City, 

 were in Cadillac a few days ago. 



John K. Davis and P. T. Demares of the John 

 R. Davis Lumber Company, Phillips, Wis., were 

 in Cadillac this weeli inspecting the steam log 

 loader of the Cummer-Diggins Company. 



The Cummer-Diggins Company has located in 

 the Mitchell Brothers Building, North Mitchell 

 street, during the remodeling of its office build- 

 ing, which will be one of the most complete 

 office buildings in this city when finished six 

 months hence. 



J. C. Knox, secretary of the Michigan Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association, has moved his 

 office temporarily to the Cadillac State Bank 

 Building. It is expected his office will be lo- 

 cated in the new Cummer-Diggins building when 

 completed. 



Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Mitchell and sister, Miss 

 Yost, are sightseeing in California and are ex- 

 pected home about May 1. 



The followers of Izaak Walton in this vicinity 

 are of the opinion that the trout season, which 

 opened April 15, is about fifteen days too early. 

 May 1, according to sportsmen, being about the 

 proper date. However, a number of good catches 

 have been recorded, one a six-pound rainbow 

 trout caught by J. M. Kelly on Pine River, near 

 Hoxievilie. Monroe Qornwell of this city re- 

 ceived a rainbow trout caught in Pine River yes- 

 terday that weighed when dressed 9% pounds. 



A. W. Newark of the Cadillac Handle Com- 

 pany and H. H. Cummer of the Cummer Manu- 

 facturing Company left today for a two weeks' 

 trip in Texas. 



Wausau. 



The Rib Falls Lumber Company, which oper- 

 ated mills during the winter at Rib Falls and 

 Berlin, Just finished a large cut. The mills 

 were stocked with an excellent grade of hard- 

 wood logs. 



The Weidema'n-Linden Company of Marinette 

 has lately added new machinery to its plant to 

 be better enabled to fill some large orders on 

 its books. A specialty will be made of kitchen 

 cabinets this season. 



The Paul Seymour mill in the town of Wau- 

 sau has finished a very successful season's run. 

 The mill cut on an average of 22,000 feet per 

 day and the logs received were mostly black 

 ash. The mill was stocked by the Wheeler- 

 Timlin Lumber Company of Wausau. 



The Quaw Lumber Company of Edgar cut 

 4,000,000 feet of timber during the winter, 

 mostly hardwood. 



The Griffith mill in the town of Bergen. 

 Marathon county, has started sawing a cut of 

 hardwood and will run steadily till September. 



Human Bros., who operate west of Marathon 

 City, cut 2,000,000 feet of hardwood during the 

 season just closed. The Sellin mill in the town 

 of Berlin, Marathon county, cut a like amount. 



Flirth & Thompson, a Wausau concern build- 

 ing a mill at Cornucopia, is pushing the work 

 with vigor to have the plant in running order 

 by May 1. It will have a capacity of 50,000 

 feet daily. The company owns a large tract 

 of timber land adjacent to the mill. 



At a meeting of the directors of the Merrill 

 Woodenware Company, Merrill, held recently. 

 the resignation of R. E. Wallace as general 

 manager was accepted, to take effect May 1. 

 The board appointed George Emerich of that 

 city as his successor. The reason Mr. Wallace 



leaves the firm is to accept a position with the 

 Pioneer Cooperage Company of Pioneer, La., a 

 larger concern. 



J. E. Collins of Sheboygan, representing the 

 Crocker Chair Company of that city has closed 

 a deal at Houghton, Mich., whereby the Crocker 

 Company becomes owner of an immense tract 

 of timber land. The purchase was made from 

 G. F. Sanborn of Ashland and includes 6,103 

 acres in Houghton and Baraga counties, the 

 price paid being $86,500. The timber is adja- 

 cent to Sidnow, and the timber will be cut in 

 the mills at that place. The lumber will then 

 be shipped to Sheboygan and worked into fin- 

 ished product by the Crocker Company. The 

 company is looking for more hardwood lands 

 in that section. 



A woodenware factory will be established in 

 La Crosse by J. Jung of Milwaukee. He has 

 made a two years' contract with the Vought 

 Berger Company of La Crosse to furnish it with 

 all the lumber to be used in the manufacture 

 of telephones, switchboards and kindred sup- 

 plies made by that company. The new factory 

 will employ twenty experts and will open 

 May 15. 



The large chair factory erected in Boyd last 

 summer by the Wisconsin Chair Company of 

 Port Washington is being moved to Evansville, 

 Ind., where the company has purchased other 

 factory buildings and will employ 200 men. 

 This will be run supplementary to the com- 

 pany's other business in Wisconsin. The com- 

 pany gives as a reason for moving that it is 

 necessary to get where there is oak timber, as 

 there is no more demand for elm chairs. A 

 bonus was given by the citizens of Boyd to 

 secure the location of this factory and the com- 

 pany offers to either return the bonus or locate 

 some other woodworking Industry in the im- 

 mense buildings being vacated. 



A. C. McComb of Oshkosh has purchased of 

 the Max Fleischer Stave Company of Memphis, 

 Tenn.. ail of that company's timber land hold- 

 ings in Desha county, Arkansas, amounting to 

 11.000 acres. This tract lies on the Memphis 

 & Helena and Iron Mountain railroads and con- 

 tains 100.000,000 feet of timber, mostly white 

 and red oak and hickory, with some ash and 

 cypress. Mr. McComb is among the most ex- 

 tensive timber land holders in the South. He 

 has 75.000 acres of timber, most of which Is in 

 Arkansas and Florida. He also has eonsiderable 

 timber in Wisconsin and Michigan and believes 

 that the present money stringency affords good 

 opportunity for the timber investor. 



The Beswick-Daley Company of Marinette will 

 start manufacturing soon. The company has 

 erected a large and modern factory building 

 near Poplar Point, built of brick and concrete. 

 It will be operated by electric motors. The 

 company will cut its own timber at its mill 

 located near the factory and manufacture it 

 into columns, tank staves and other articles. 



The English Manufacturing Company of An- 

 tigo is at present having a very successful sea- 

 sou and has $30,000 worth of bolts on hand. 

 The working force consists of sixty-five men, 

 with a monthly payroll of .$2,500. 



The Wausau Lumber Company has by its 

 president, W. H. Bissell. and secretary. W. W. 

 Gamble, filed an amendment to its articles of 

 incorporation, increasing the stock from $25,000 

 to $100,000. The company operates at Edgar 

 and Rib Falls. 



Louisville. 



Harry Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills 

 spent several days in Chicago the early part 

 of the month. Colonel Kline says business is 

 improving but its volume is still only about 50 

 per cent of last year's. 



Secretary McCracken of the Kentucky Veneer 

 Works spent a few days in Chicago within the 

 week. 



C. R. Mengel, president of the C. C. Mengel & 

 Brother Company, is still absent in Europe. 



The W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company 



reports considerable activity in business com- 

 pared with other months this year. They look 

 forward with anticipation to a fair increase 

 during the latter part of the year. 



Ed Shippen of the Louisville Point Lumber 

 Company spent the past two weeks in the moun- 

 tains of Kentucky purchasing logs from the new 

 plant recently purchased at Ford, Ky. The 

 company has provided for a good run at this 

 mill, which is of the single band type, and has 

 also opened an office in Cincinnati. Secretary 

 Gates of this company reports a fair volume of 

 business and that clients at Louisville will en- 

 able them to take care of a large volume of 

 business during 190S. 



Barry Norman of E. B. Norman & Co., Inc., 

 has the new box shook plant completed and has 

 made considerable progress in building up trade 

 for it. The company also does a wholesale 

 hardwood lumber business and is far from being 

 discouraged in the amount of orders being 

 booked. 



A. E. Norman reports some business at hand. 

 but will gladly welcome increased volume at this 

 time. 



Edward L. Davis of the Edward L. Davis 

 Lumber Company has been seriously ill for some 

 time, but has arranged to have his business 

 running along about as usual. 



Little Bock. 



Several new institutions have either been 

 granted charters to enter the state from the 

 outside or been incorporated within the state 

 during the past two weeks. Among these is the 

 Ferguson & Wheeler Land, Lumber & Handle 

 Company, incorporated under the laws of Mis- 

 souri. The company states that it has $100,000 

 employed in the state. H. W. Lasater of Com- 

 ing is state agent and Corning is chosen as the 

 headquarters in Arkansas. * 



The McCoy-Isbell Lumber Company, a concern 

 at Horatio. Ark., has filed a dissolution notice 

 with the secretary of state, showing the com- 

 pany has quit business. 



The Grafton Stave & Heading Company of 

 Grafton, III., has filed its articles of incorpora- 

 tion with the secretary of state and been 

 granted the right here. The company gives its 

 assets at $35,000, with equal liabilities, and has 

 $10,000 invested in the state. N. A. Grosbeam 

 of Biggers is named as state agent. 



The Bender Wagon Company, one of the old- 

 est concerns of Its kind in the state, located at 

 Texarkana, has been granted a receiver on peti- 

 tion, A. B. De Loach of Texarkana being named. 

 The assets of the concern are placed at $35,000, 

 with liabilities placed at $20,000. 



The big Hale & Keiser mill at Osceola has 

 again opened for operations after having been 

 shut down for several months. The reopening 

 of the plant was a welcome event in Osceola. 



The dry kilns of the Camden Mill Company at 

 Camden were recently visited by a very destruc- 

 tive fire, the loss being estimated at $25,000. 

 The origin of the fire is supposed to have been 

 a passing locomotive. Fortunately the rest of 

 the plant was untouched. Manager Webb, with 

 Ills customary fiicrsy. is ,-|onriiv.r away the 

 debris, to be ri'iil.H''! "iHi ii'« nuiiTial. 



The St. Mar>- W I-k-i. ■ ...iip:niv at Pres- 



cott is another uf tlir lar:;.r , ninri ns that has 

 recently resumed operations after a lengthy shut- 

 down. The plant had closed down with the dull 

 season. 



G. F. Weiss, manager for the Brinkley Spoke 

 Company, reports a rather encouraging business 

 at his establishment. The Brinkley concern is 

 one of the most complete of its kind in the 

 state and has a capacity of about 10.000 spokes 

 daily, under their recent improvements. 



L. N. Lanier & Co. of Howard county have 

 purchased extensive site properties at Ashdown. 

 where they will erect a stave factory to be ready 

 for operation by fail. 



A series of important suits are now being 

 heard in the Federal Circuit Court here to deter- 

 mine the possession of large tracts of timber 



