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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Bay City people are much interested in hav- 

 ing a large portion of the Ward timber come 

 to Bay City to be manufactured, that city 

 being very favorably located for handling both 

 logs and lumber. 



The Michigan Central is operating from 

 eight to fourteen trains of logs every day. 



The Walsh Manufacturing plant at Frederic 

 is working forty hands and is cutting 4,000.- 

 000 feet of birch, maple and beech timber into 

 staves and heading. 



The Standard Hoop Company at Bay City 

 has been converting a portion of its stock into 

 hardwood lumber, the hoop business being 

 tiuict for the time being. 



Several men of means of Port Huron and 

 \r. Houseknecht of Jonesville will put up a 

 mill at Epfouette, north of St. Ignace, the 

 machinery being already on the way. The 

 mill will cut 20.000 feet a day. The firm has 

 1.500 acres of timber, largely running to hard- 

 wood, and has also options on a large body 

 of neighboring tim.ber. 



Trade in hardwood products is as good as 

 could be expected in connection with general 

 conditions, and both manufacturers and deal- 

 ers, as a rule, express the npininn that there 

 has been some imprm . ni' iii. Ih, re are more 

 inquiries, sales arc 1" n lj mnl. .,,u\ conditions 

 seem to be on the ni< ;Mi. ' •! i ..;m; people are 

 not looking for sucli atUvily a^ was experi- 

 enced last year, but tlie tone is healthy. Once 

 in a while a dealer can't see any silver lining 

 to the cloud and ri|itir.:hcnds nn .sul.stantial 

 improvement until :: no 



the exceptions, 'i'i i.s 



that after the Clii « ill 



be a decided Chang' i i ■, , t|i;,t 



will' come the crops, aii.l a r-vival of the 

 railway business. 



Ash, basswood and oak sell well, but the 

 output is limited. Maple is reported to be 

 doing very well, log run being quoted at $17 

 and $19. Birch is moving in limited quanti- 

 ties at $16 and $1S. Elm has been rather slow. 

 It is hold at $22 and $24. Beech is doing quite 

 wed at »1S and $:o, and basswood at $23 and 



GRAND RAPIDS 



Walt-or C. Winchester of Winchester & Dan- 

 iels returned May 23 from a business trip to 

 Wisconsin. 



N. J. G. Van Keulen of the Van Keulen & 

 Wilkinson Lumber Company returned May 23 

 from a short business trip to Indiana and 

 other southern points. George S. Wilkinson 

 of the company says regarding business con- 

 ditions: "While there is no marked improve- 

 ment as yet, business matters seem to be 

 mending all the tlmr. Wo arr doing some- 

 thing right along :n ; 1 ' sales that 

 would indicate a i I under- 

 stand that some i i iire manu- 

 facturers have bill _ nice orders 

 of late." 



The Thayer Lumber Company of Muskegon 

 has finished its cut in Kalkaska county and 

 its mill and outfit at Stratford have been re- 

 moved. 



The Indiana Box Company, operating plants 

 at Cairo, 111., and Elwood, Ind., will soon have 

 its branch plant In Muskegon in operation. 

 The company has had a branch in Muskegon 

 for two years, using leased space in the 

 'I'hayes Lumber Company's planing mill on 

 Nims street, but is now remodeling for its 

 use the former Crescent Manufacturing Com- 

 pany's factory in that city. 



O. E. Le Veque of Marquette has leased the 

 Schneider veneer plant at Grand Marals, 

 which has beeVi idle for some years, and will 

 convert the same Into a stave mill, employing 

 twMity-flve men, exclusive of those engaged 

 In the woods operations. 



F. Bauermcister. manager of the new bas- 

 ket factory at Gladwin, has removed to that 

 city from Toledo with his family and will 

 reside there permanently. 



The Carp Lake Lumber Company of the 

 Grand Traverse region has closed up its mill 

 at Bingham, having completed its cut there, 

 and with the dismantling of the mill the once 

 prosperous village will be practically deserted. 



Grand Rapids will hold its third annual Mer- 

 chants' week June 10-12 and special entertain- 

 ment has been provided for the outside mer- 

 chants by the local board of trade. Harry C. 

 Angell of H. C. Angell & Co. is chosen to rep- 

 resent the local lumbermen on the committee 

 on arrangements. 



Z. Clark Thwing. manager of the Grand 

 Rapids Veneer Works, is enthusiastic over the 

 success of tlie new kiln for drying lumber that 

 his concern is putting out, and in a recent 

 talk with the H.vrdwood Rkiord correspondent 

 he said: "We began exploiting the kiln in 

 February, 1906, and since January 1 this year, 

 we have sold more kilns than during 1906. 

 Our kiln will dry gum green from the saw in 

 seven days. We can dry one-inch quartered 

 oak in seven days where formerly twenty-one 

 days were required, saving $5 per thousand in 

 waste, and the lumber is cut up with half the 

 labor formerly required. W. D. Young & Co. 

 of Bay City have put in three kilns, with 

 capacity for drying 50,000 feet of maple floor- 

 ing daily. The Pullman Company of Chicago 

 has recently installed eight of our kilns. In 

 a mill at Norfolk, Va., we are drying pine In 

 thirty-six hours, while at another point we are 

 putting through quarter-inch poplar veneers 

 in ten hours. Five of the leading wood work- 

 ing concerns of Muskegon are using our dry- 

 ers, also a number of the large concerns here, 

 one of the latest to close a contract with us 

 being the Grand Rapids Refrigerator Com- 

 pany." 



INDIANAPOLIS 



The Capitol Lumber Company Is making a 

 tost of smoke consumers at its plant on West 

 New York street. 



A cimlract for an addition to its plant to 

 cost $3,500 has been let by the Shelbyville 

 Wardrobe Company, Shelbyville. 



F. A. Riehl has established an office at 309 

 I'pper Eighth street, Bvansville, and will de- 

 vote his attention to buying lumber for furni- 

 ture factories of that city. 



John J. Valdenaire is serving as juror in one 

 of the county courts in one of the first city 

 graft cases to be brought to trial. Prospects 

 are he will be so employed for some time. 



The Mass-Neimcyer Lumber Company has 

 purchased ground and will establish a branch 

 yard at Forty-second street and the Monon 

 Railroad, because of its growing business in 

 that part of the city. 



Pulse & Porter, wholesale and retail lumber 

 dealers at Greensburg, have been awarded the 

 contract for completing the building of tlie 

 Southeastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane 

 at Madison. 



Louis Buddenbaum of the Buddenbaum 

 Lumber Company was married in this city a 

 few days ago to Miss Helen Cross, one of the 

 prominent young society women of the city. 

 They will reside in Irvington. 



The C. F. Schmoe Furniture Company has 

 been organjzcd at Shelbyville with $10,000 

 capital and will manufacture furniture. M. M., 

 C. F. and E. H. Schmoe are the directors. 



The Talge Mahogany Company is having a 

 nice trade with prospects of good business 

 throughout the season. Their big plant has 

 been working steadily for some time. 



The heading factory of W. T. Bryant at 

 Huntington was burned on May 13 with a 

 loss of about $.'!0,000 on which there was only 

 $5,000 insurance. lie will not rebuild, owing 



to the scarcity of timber in that vicinity. 



Henry Maley of Edinburg. president of the 

 Henry Maley Lumber Company at Evansville, 

 spent several days in the latter city recently. 



It is reported that building operations to 

 cost upwards of $1,000,000 are under way or 

 are contemplated at Fort Wayne. Lumber 

 dealers are expecting a big business through- 

 out the summer. 



The Federal Court here has enjoined the In- 

 diana Railroad Commission from adjusting its 

 recent order fixing lower express rates in the 

 state. The order called for a general reduc- 

 tion of from 10 to 12 per cent. 



Just a few days after the plant had been 

 sold, but with the purchase money unpaid, 

 the sawmill plant of McGee & Son at Jason- 

 ville was burned by an Incendiary on May 13. 

 The loss was $7,000 and there was no insur- 



With a comparatively steady demand for 

 stock, the local hardwood market is probably 

 in better condition than it has been for some 

 time. The demand for all grades of oak is 

 especially good. 



Trade, however, is not as good as it wa- 

 year ago, nor do dealers expect any great i 

 crease in business until after election. IIj. 

 activity of furniture and vehicle factories and 

 the extensive building operations are creatlqg 

 the present demand. 



Wholesalers and commission men are fairly 

 well pleased with present conditions and re- 

 port that they are receiving some very sub- 

 stantiaf orders. 



BRISTOL 



The Damascus Lumber Company, which i 

 cently completed a band mill at Damas u 

 Va., with a daily capacity of 65,000. have al 

 Just completed one of the largest and lusi 

 dry kilns in this section. The company owns 

 a large boundary of timber and is well 

 equipped. 



"For the first time in a great while we are 

 actually short of labor," said J. A. Wilkin- 

 son, a prominent Bristol lumber manufacturer 

 and exporter. "We were this week compelled 

 to send out advertising for more men. Con- 

 ditions are unquestionably Improving in busi- 

 ness generally and I think a brighter day for 

 the lumbermen is dawning." 



Valentine H. Luppcrt, a veteran Pennsyh.i- 

 nla lumberman, and president of the Lupi>i n 

 Lumber Company, operating extensively lu 

 this section, died at his home at Butler, Ti n' 

 last week. He was about 65 years old ■< 

 leaves a large estate. The body was tal, 

 to the old home at Allentown, Pa., for bin i 



Franklin I. Pishion, who is now connrri 

 with T. T. Adams, an extensive hardw- 

 dealer of Richmond, was In Bristol this w • 1 



"Shipments are a little heavier than they 

 have been," said C. H. Smith. Jr., local man- 

 ager for R. A. and J. J. Williams, of Phila- 

 delphia. "The country mills are doing a 

 slightly better business and conditions ai^ 

 looking up a little now." 



William T. Uptegrove of New York, head "i 

 the firm of William T. Uptegrove & Bro. m ' 

 largely interested In lumber manufacturint; 

 this section, was a visitor in Bristol and J'l 

 son City this week, looking over local proi" 

 ties. 



Charles Paxton of the Paxton Lumber Com 

 pany went to North Carolina on business last 

 week. 



Nathan Bradley of the Bradley Lunii 

 Company of Bay City. Mich., and others i 

 interested in the organization of a large ni 

 lifacturing plant at Blizabethton, Can 

 county. Tenn. The Bradley Lumber Com|ian> 

 is already largely interested In that section 



The Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio railroad 

 which is now three-fourths completed, will Im 

 put in operation between St. Paul, Va., and 



