HARDWOOD RECORD 



Grand Kapids. 



"We feel encouraged over the trade outlook," 

 says Henry S. Holden of the Henry S. Holden 

 Wneer Company. "Business is improving, we 

 ihinli. This is especially true in the building 

 line, and while the furniture trade is still off, 

 there are indications of a better trade in that 

 line." 



The Davis-Shally Lumber Company of Grass 

 I.ake has filed articles of association in Jack- 

 son county. The company has $S,000 capital, 

 stockholders being Archie M. Davis, W. A. and 

 Lida Shally. 



Don G. McAfee of Manton is convalescing 

 from a severe illness. His physician has advised 

 a rest of three or four weeks and he is spend- 

 iug most of the time in Grand Kapids. 



The Diamond Lumber Company of West 

 Branch has increased its capital stock from 

 .$150,000 to $200,000. 



The Wilson Saw Company, located at South 

 rark, a suburb of Port Huron, has plans for 

 building an addition to its plant which will 

 double its present capacity. 



Work on the construction of the new factory 

 for the Badger Woodenware Company at Boyne 

 City is being pushed. This is a particularly 

 desirable industry, in that the articles to be 

 manufactured are all small and do not consume 

 much timber but require a lot of labor. 



A. J. White of Cedar Run, who has a con- 

 tract with Smith & Hull of Traverse City to 

 cut all their timber on North Manitou Island, 

 is building a mill which will cut from 40.000 

 to .50,000 feet a day with one circular and one 

 resaw. He is also erecting other buildings and 

 will employ about 150 men. 



The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company has 

 plans for installing its own electric lighting 

 plant at its Muskegon factory. 



Walter C. Winchester is in Wisconsin for a 

 few days looking after his interests there. 



The Nichols & Cox Lumber Company has built 

 another warehouse and added another dry kiln 

 to its Godfrey avenue plant. The company's 

 maple flooring plant is being operated full time. 

 "We are not going to cross any bridge of sighs 

 I ill we come to it," remarked Mr. Cox to the 

 Hardwood Record correspondent recently. The 

 company keeps after trade constantly and is do- 

 ing well. 



Cleveland. 



The recently organized Cleveland-Oconee Lum- 

 ber Company, which has 3,000 acres of excellent 

 hardwood timber near Gardner, on the Oconee 

 river in Georgia, Macon being the nearest city 

 of any size, has now completed its plant. Since 

 the first of the year a new band mill With a 

 capacity of 40,000 feet a day has been set up 

 and is now in active operation. Five miles of 

 logging railroad have been built and a number 

 of standard gauge cars with a locomotive have 

 been installed. George E. Meier, manager and 

 president of the Interstate Lumber Company, Su- 

 perior Arcade, Cleveland, is president and gen- 

 eral manager of the concern ; Noal Meier is sec- 

 retary and M. Powell is treasurer. Mr. Meier 

 reports that there are 40,000,000 feet of the 

 finest hardwoods in America on the reserve, oak; 

 hickory, ash and red gum. Quartered oak boards 

 twenty inches in width have been cut on the 

 property and much of the timber Is of large di- 

 mensions. 



Declaring that there is a school desk trust, 

 the Cleveland Board of Education has let the 

 contract for 1,025 school desks to Theodore C. 

 Kundtz of this city for $3,759. The desks will 

 be of hard maple. This is a new departure for 

 Mr, Kundtz, who has been in cabinet work for 

 years, making sewing machine wuodwork and 

 automobile bodies mostly. He is preparing to 

 put in quite an elaliurate equipmi-nt and will 

 bid henceforth for school work of this char- 

 acter. Mr. Kundtz has about the largest wood- 

 working plant in Cleveland. 



The demand for bar fixtures in Cleveland la 

 slack just now on account of the prohibition 

 wave which threatens the state. As a result a 



number of the woodworking companies of Cleve- 

 land have allied themselves with the new Liberty 

 League, which has for its purpose the side-track- 

 ing, if possible, of the prohibition wave which 

 is surely spreading over the state like a blanket. 

 The league is working in the big cities and in- 

 dustries in which woodworkers and coopers are 

 associated are backing the movement. 



Charles Bartels, representing the Kentucky 

 Saw Mill Company of Jackson, Ky., called on the 

 Cleveland trade during the past week. 



E. L. French of W. A. Cool & Son says that 

 despite the dull season his concern is quite busy. 

 Two ten-car shipments of hardwood to a large 

 eastern railway were made a few days ago, in 

 addition to many others orders of considerable 

 size. 



Robert H. Jenks, the well-known Cleveland 

 lumberman, who has been absent from his desk 

 for six months through illness, has returned home 

 and is again at his oflSce. He has about recov- 

 ered from his recent illness and expects to put 

 in a busy summer. 



Frederick Guild, a Philadelphia man, has suc- 

 ceeded E. W. Caldwell as manager of the Sagi- 

 naw Bay Box Company. Mr. Caldwell has as- 

 sociated himself with the Worden Lumber Com- 

 pany, a concern which specializes in hardwood 

 flooring. 



The Gray Lumber Company has been busy 

 for several months making extensive alterations 

 to its plant on West Third street. A new band 

 saw has been installed and individual motors 

 placed on each machine. The general arrange- 

 ment of the mill and yards has been shifted. 



The Martin-Barriss Company has received sev- 

 eral shipments of mahogany during the past 

 month, one from Mexico and another from Cuba. 

 The latter was found to contain some splendid 

 wood, the logs being unusually large and choice. 

 Mr. Martin says they are the finest his com- 

 pany has received in ten years. 



Columbus. 



Preparations are being made by the General 

 Lumber Company of this city to resume opera- 

 tions at its mills at Ashland, Ky. H. W. Put- 

 nam, president and general manager of the com- 

 pany, returned recently from Ashland, where 

 he went to inspect tlie property of the company. 

 He reports a largo number of logs drifted down 

 the Big Sandy and Ohio rivers to Ashland, 

 where the company has a large protected harbor. 

 The mills are being repaired ready for operation 

 when market conditions warrant such action. 

 Mr. Putnam reports business showing improve- 

 ment. While the market is not as active as 

 was expected some time ago, still there is a 

 demand and a number of large shipments have 

 been made recently. 



M. J. Bergin, president of the M. J. Bergiu 

 Lumber Company, said : "The past week in the 

 lumber business has been quite dull. The un- 

 favorable weather has had a bad effect on de- 

 mand and as a result sales are rather short. 

 The prospects for the future are still bright 

 and I believe that better prices will prevail 

 soon. Hardwoods, especially, I think, will be- 

 come better." 



A cablegram from W. M. Ritter, president of 

 the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, from Liver- 

 pool brought the information of his safe arrival 

 at that place last week. Mr. Ritter will make 

 an extended trip abroad, as is his custom yearly. 

 He will inspect the company's branches at 

 London and Liverpool. 



The Columbus Furniture Exposition Company, 

 recently incorporated to conduct "furniture 

 sates" in Columbus, similar to those held in 

 Grand Rapids and Chicago, started active busi- 

 ness May 1. A large stock of furniture has been 

 placed in the six-story building at Front and 

 Vine streets, leased for the company. A. G. 

 Harden is president and general manager. 



While the inclement weather has been miti- 

 gating against active building operations, still 

 considerable contracting is being done. One of 

 the largest contracts awarded recently provides 



for the erection of the Lazarus block, at Town 

 and High streets, which means an outlay ol! 

 nearly $230,000. Several other large contracts 

 will be awarded soon. 



The Clear Creek Coal and Lumber Company, 

 which has headquarters in Columbus, has pur- 

 chased a tract of 7,100 acres of timber and coal 

 lands located in Cumberland county, Tennessee 

 The property was purchased from Pennsylvania 

 people through J. H. Johnson of Crossville 

 Tenn. The land is covered with a heavy growth 

 of hickory, poplar and oak. A party of Colum- 

 bus and central Ohio capitalists left Tuesday 

 evening, May 5, to inspect the property. The 

 party consisted of about thirty and was in 

 charge of President W. V. Smith and Treasurer 

 John L. Barr of Mansfield. 



Indianapolis. 



Building permits issued in the city last month 

 amounted to $547,791 as compared with $738.- 

 346 in April, 1907, the decrease being due to 

 the bad weather. 



E. C. Phillips, for many years purchasing 

 agent of the Udell Ladder Works, died at his 

 home in this city a few days ago. His death 

 was unexpected, and at the time he was plan- 

 ning a western trip. 



The Winch Spoke Company, for thirty years 



business at Fort W; 



moving to Branson, 



Mo., to be nearer an abundant supply of second- 

 growth oak and hickory timber. 



Mrs. Mercy Murry, the only woman who ever 

 conducted a lumber business in this city, died 

 a few days ago at the age of seventv-seven 

 Following the death of her husband, thirty-seven 

 years ago, she continued his lumber business 

 for a number of years. 



The Hyde Lumber Company has been organ- 

 ized at South Bend and will conduct a general 

 lumber business, including a line of hardwoods. 

 The capital stock is $30,000 and the directors 

 C. W., W. E., C. E. and R. E. Hyde, all of that 

 city. 



An _ increase in its capital stock from $8,000 

 to $1.5,000 has been made by the Zeigler-Stickler 

 Lumber Company of South 'Bend, the addition 

 to be used in extending the business of the 

 concern. 



About 100 employes of E. C. Atkins & Co., 

 saw manufacturers, have organized the Atkins 

 Saving & Loan Association with $200,000 capi- 

 tal. Fred C. Gardner and Henry C. Atkins are 

 among members of the board of directors. 



Frank May of May Brothers. Evansville, has 

 gone to Memphis. Tenn., to reside. The com- 

 pany has a large mill at Dumas, Ark., and it 

 will maintain its Evansville yards, shipping 

 lumber to northern markets. 



Cooperage, lumber, iron and glass manufac- 

 turers of the state have organized the Indiana* 

 Manufacturers' and Merchants' Club, for the 

 purpose of opposing the extensive prohibition 

 movement in Indiana. Fred Bachman, presi- 

 dent of the F. M. Bachman Company, local lum- 

 ber manufacturers, is among the members. 



Mil-waukee. 



Gustave Kitzinger of Manistee, Mich., one of 

 the old time lumbermen of the Northwest, has 

 been a visitor among Milwaukee lumbermen the 

 past week. 



J. A. Morgan of J. T. Morgan & Co., lumber 

 manufacturers of Paducah, Ky., recently called 

 on the lumber trade here. Mr. Morgan reports 

 that he finds a decided revival in the lumber 

 business, the sale of ten cars per week being 

 his record of late. 



B. E. Jones, one of the well-known lumber 

 dealers of Port Washington, Wis., was a recent 

 Milwaukee visitor. 



Cooper & Maxson, wholesale and retail lum- 

 ber dealers in hardwood and other lines, are 

 now installed in their new suite of oflices at 

 915 Majestic building, one of the newest and 

 largest of Milwaukee ofllce structures. 



Frank N. Snell, wholesale lumber dealer, has 



