HARDWOOD RECORD 



The schooner Robert L. Fryer recently brought 

 a record breaking cargo of lumber to Milwaukee. 

 A total of 817,000 feet was carried by the 

 schooner which arrived from Duluth. 



Two carloads of basswood lumber were shipped 

 recently from northern Wisconsin to London, 

 where it will be used in the manufacture of 

 musical instruments. Lumbermen in the dis- 

 trict say that they can remember the time when 

 basswood was used only for firewood. 



Wright Bros., proprietors of the mill which 

 recently burned at Marinette, are planning on 

 rebuilding their plant with many additional 

 facilities and larger quarters. Arrangements 

 will probably be made with the Chamber of 

 Commerce at Marinette for the securing of the 

 Wltbeck site. The Wright Bros, agree to em- 

 ploy the minimum force of forty men and to 

 remain in operation for twenty-fire consecutive 

 years. 



The big mill of the Bird & Wells Lumber Com- 

 pany at Wausaukee, Wis., has again been placed 

 in operation after a close down of several weeks. 

 Demand for lumber has greatly increased with 

 the company and iudications are that the mill 

 will be operated for some time. Extensive re- 

 pairs were made while the plant was closed. 



The heirs of the late II. E. Merryman, the 

 wealthy lumberman of Marinette, have pre- 

 sented to the city the plot of land known as 

 Shield's Park. The city has accepted and will 

 change the name to the H. E. Merryman park. 



Myrman & Larson at Chippewa Falls are en- 

 gaged in the work of "submarine" logging in 

 the Chippewa and Yellow rivers. The men have 

 a contract to raise 7,000.000 feet of the 60,- 

 000,000 feet of logs that are supposed to be in 

 the rivers. 



The No. 2 mill of the Sawyer-Goodman Lum- 

 ber Company at Marinette is again in operation 

 and is busy filling some of the empty space in the 

 big yards left by the recent disastrous fire. 

 Fully 1,000 feet of tramway have been built 

 since the conflagration. 



When the Trow mill at La Crosse finishes 

 sawing the 2,000,000 feet of lumber now on 

 hand, the plant will be closed and the last 

 sawmill at La Crosse will be no more. The 

 mill was erected in 1888. The present cut will 

 last about a month and a half. 



The South Side Millwork Company, to be 

 located in the town of tireenfield, Milwaukee 

 county, has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $10,000 by Norman Pederson. Christian 

 Erickson and Peter Pederson. 



The Koch Woodenware Company lia:? been in- 

 corporated in Milwaukee to take the place of the 

 bankrupt Koch & Locber Company. Capital 

 stock is placed at ?50,000 and the incorpo- 

 rators are E. J. Koch, Albert C. Koch and John 

 A. Dummer. Operations of the new company 

 win be carried on in the plant of tbf former 

 company. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



Stocks of northern pine lumber showed up 

 much larger August 1 than a year ago, as was 

 expected on account of the light shipments 

 during the first half of the year. The report 

 was made at the semi-annual meeting of the 

 Northern Pine Manufacturers' Association in 

 this city August 11, by Secretary Rhodes. 

 Stocks on hand August 1 amounting to 963,132,- 

 489 feet, as compared with 895.584,465 feet on 

 January 1, and 755,227,818 feet August 1. 1907. 

 Lath on hand August 1 amounting to 128,297,- 

 652 pieces, as compared with 199,754,835 pieces 

 on hand January 1, and 178,230,095 pieces Au- 

 gust 1, 1907. Shipments by the northern pine 

 mills for the first six months of the present 

 year were shown to be 441,708,427 feet, a de- 

 crease from the corresponding period of last 

 year, of 47.8 per cent. 



C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark has been 

 absent for several days looking after their re- 



F. J. Lang, who has been maintaining tem- 

 porary oifices in Minneapolis as sales repre- 

 sentative of the Wisconsin Land & Lumber 

 Company, has returned to the main ofllce at 

 Hermansville, Mich, 



Three agents of the government forest service, 

 W. B. Hunter, G. B. Wing and W. B. Wooden, 

 have established headquarters in St. Paul for 

 their work of making a census of the standing 

 timber in the lake district, including Minne- 

 sota. Wisconsin and upper Michigan. This is 

 part of the general work of the bureau which 

 is endeavoring to cover the entire country in 

 this way. 



The Delta Land & Timber Company has been 

 incorporated at Minneapolis with a capital stock 

 of $300,000 by W. V. Fifleld, Clark Hempstead, 

 G. H. Porter, O. W. Kerr and W. A. Coon, all 

 of Minneapolis. 



George H. Tennant's hardwood flooring plant 

 in southeast Minneapolis was almost wiped out 

 by fire about noon, August 10. The loss, about 

 $30,000, is largely covered by insurance. The 

 mill proper, two warehouses and two dry kilns 

 were consumed with their contents, and that in- 

 cluded a considerable quantity of finished fioor- 

 ing in the warehouses and lumber in the dry- 

 kilns. The blaze started by sparks from the en- 

 gine room flying into shavings in the mill. They 

 flared up so quickly that forty men at work in 

 the building had barely time to get out with 

 their lives. By the time the fire department 

 had arrived the other buildings had caught and 

 there was no hope of saving any of them. The 

 brick oflice building was the only structure saved. 

 Mr. Tennant will rebuild. 



George S. Agnew, who branched out into the 

 wholesale business for himself last fall. Is 

 utilizing the motorcycle to reach his Twin City 

 customers, and since March 1 has covered 2,900 

 miles on his steed. He has material for a book 

 on his touring experiences. Mr. Agnew says 

 that trade is showing a slight improvement, and 

 that the feeling is decidedly better. 



A. S. Bliss of the Payson Smith Lumber Com- 

 pany perpetrated a surprise on his friends the 

 evening of August 19, when they were invited 

 to join Mr. and Mrs. Bliss at a theater party 

 and wedding supper following. The new couple 

 had kept their intention a profound secret and 

 were married quietly in the afternoon at the 

 residence of Rev. J. S. Montgomery, with only 

 the necessary witnesses present. The bride 

 was formerly Mrs. Edna Easley, an estimable 

 young woman with many friends in Minneapolis. 

 Mr. Bliss took a holiday the next day with the 

 lull consent of his oflice force. 



E. Payson Smith of the Payson Smith Lum- 

 ber Company is absent for two or three weeks 

 on a business trip to New Vork and other 

 eastern points. 



SAOINAW VALLEY 



-Murphy & Diggins lumber mill begau opera- 

 tions Monday after a shutdown of two months 

 for repairs. The mill will run full force for an 

 indefinite period, giving employment to many 

 workmen. 



A. F. Andersons mill at South Boardman, 

 which has been closed for repairs for some time, 

 began running Monday. 



The St. Johns Table Company has resumed 

 operations with orders that will keep it busy 

 for some time. 



The roof is being put on the new Cummer- 

 Diggins office building on North Mitchell street. 

 With the granite front and tlie roof, the build- 

 ing is one of the most attractive on the street 

 and will be a great addition to that part of the 

 city, being located directly opposite the City 

 Hall. When the interior is finished, some months 

 hence, it will make one of the most complete 

 office buildings in Michigan. 



Acetate of lime Is beginning to move again. 

 Trade in this line has been quiet for some time, 

 but is now picking up. 



That there is a decidedly better feeling among 

 lumbermen goes without saying. Fully rtfty 

 lumbermen were asked during the last ten days 

 as to conditions, and the invariable reply was 

 that "there is a much better feeling and a little 

 more lumber is selling, with considerable in- 

 quiry, but it is still somewhat slow." 



All of the plants are manufacturing and sell- 

 ing lumber. Walter D. Young was quoted 

 last week as saying that orders are now 

 coming in right along, better in fact than be- 

 fore for months. The plant of the firm Is run- 

 ning with a full crew. 



D. W. Briggs said Friday : "There is a marked 

 improvement in the feeling as to trade, and we 

 all look forward to a steady improvement dur- 

 ing the fall and winter. There is no excess of 

 stocks and the goods will be wanted very soon." 



James Cooper of the Briggs & Cooper Lumber 

 Company, and more than a quarter of a century 

 in the lumber business in the valley, leaves next 

 week for British Columbia, where he will lo- 

 cate. Business and health considerations are 

 the guiding influences. He will locate at Nelson, 

 near which Messrs. Bri,ggs and Cooper have pur- 

 chased 8,000 acres of heavy timbered land. It 

 is not decided if the company to be organized 

 will erect a mill. Mr. Cooper has lived in Sagi- 

 naw nearly all his life and has been popular 

 as a citizen and business man. The company 

 has handled Michigan and southern hardwood 

 many years, being one of the largest hardwood 

 flrsns in the state. They bought at southern 

 points by the million feet and shipped it direct 

 from the mill to their customers, and they han- 

 dled 25,000,000 to 30,000,000 feet annually here 

 in the valley. 



C. A. Bigelow is on a trip down the St. Law- 

 rence. Both of the mills he manages are run- 

 ning steadily. 



R. Hanson & Sons of Grayling have begun the 

 construction of a band sawmill at that place of 

 40,000 feet daily capacity. It will be modern 

 throughout. The firm has enough hardwood 

 timber to stock the mill twenty years. 



T. D. Douglas & Co. are putting the finishing 

 touches on a new sawmill at Lovells to replace 

 one recently destroyed by fire. 



S. F. Derry & Co. have put their Ocqueoc saw- 

 mill out of commission and it is being dis- 

 mantled. The machinery is being moved to 

 Millersburg, where the firm is erecting another 

 mill. The Ocqueoc plant manufactured about 

 2,000,000 feet. 



A. W. Decker & Co. have bought the McKay 

 sawmill at Grayling and will operate it. The 

 mill is a small one. It has quite a stock of logs 

 on hand and will convert the same into lumber. 



Hoeft & Son of Rogers City have finished their 

 stock of logs and have shut down the mill for 

 the season. 



The Lobdell & Churchill Company at Onaway 

 has been making some extensive improvements to 

 its plant. The output of the firm last season 

 was 12,000.000 feet. This year the cut will 

 h.irdly reach last year's figures. 



The Richardson Lumber Company's sawmill at 

 Bay City is making a fine record the first year 

 of its going into commission. It is cutting out 

 some very handsome lumber. The wisdom of the 

 company In locating its plant on the Saginaw 

 river instead of up In the Interior ie evident. 

 All the refuse can be disposed of at a good profit 

 in the river towns and involves no expense in 

 getting rid of it. Market conditions are always 

 more favorable here than in the interior. 



"There seems to be a general Improvement all 

 along the line in the hardwood trade," said 

 Thomas Forman of the Forman Company to 



