HARDWOOD RECORD 



The sawmill plant of Joseph Kedlock at 

 Klondike, Wis., was destroyed by fli-e recently ; 

 loss '$2,000. 



Tlie plant of the Choate-IIollister Furniture 

 Company at Janesville, Wis., is operating on a 

 full schedule and plans are under way for tak- 

 ing on additional forces in the near future. 



Au inheritance tax amounting to .$14,110.23 

 has been paid by the trustees of the late Col. 

 I. H. Wing, in his time one of the best known 

 lumbermen in Washburn county, who died leav- 

 ing an estate of nearly $800,000. 



Compliiint has been filed with the Interstate 

 CommeiM' Commission by the MacGillis & Gibbs 

 Lumber Company of Milwaukee, which alleges 

 that the Chicago, Rock Island & I'aciflc Railway 

 Company made excessive freight charges on lum- 

 ber shipments. The case will be considered with 

 others by Commissioner Uarlan. who will be 

 present in Milwaukee on September 28. 



Orders have been placed with the American 

 Seating Company by the school Ijonrd commit- 

 tee on building of Milwaukee for furnishing 

 scats for the city schools. The contract, which 

 is made under a fifteen-year guarantee, calls 

 for 514 large seats at $2.3S each and 488 small 

 desks at .$2.25 each. 



Bids for the furnishing of the chairs to the 

 new Milwaukee auditorium, now building, were 

 opened September 9. Specifications called for 

 some 10,000 chairs of the opera and portable 

 variety. 



.T. T. Darher and G. G. Moon, the well-known 

 i:au Claire, Wis., lumbermen who were indicted 

 i)U the charge of being implicated in the land 

 fraud cases in Idaho and who were recently 

 treed of the indictment by Judge (Juarles in the 

 lUnited States court, have again been placed 

 under arrest on the same charge. Koth lumber- 

 men are out on §5,000 bail each. 



Tlie Wheeler Lumber, Bridge & Supply Com- 

 pany of Des Moines, la., has filed articles and 

 statements to operate in Wisconsin. The cap- 

 ital stock of the company is given at $500,000, 

 ?40,000 of which is represented in this state. 

 'I'he Wisconsin branch of the company is located 

 at Wittenberg. 



The Crescent Casket Company of rewaukec. 

 Wis., has been incorporated with a capital stock 

 uC .$.">,000 by S, E. McDowell, W. A. Grittith 

 and John Morrow. 



The lumber yards and sheds of the F. G. and 

 C. -V. Stanley Lumber Company at Cliippewa 

 Falls. Wis., were recently destroyed by fire 

 wiih a heavy loss. An automobile belonging to 

 the company also met destruction. 



A new three-story addition S0xG4 feet has 

 been completed at the plant of the Art Furni- 

 ture Company at Sheboygan, Wis. 



The plant of the Portage Novelty Company 

 at Fortagc, Wis., manufacturing a lino of 

 woodenware specialties, was burned recently 

 with a 10S.S of $6,500 ; no insurance. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



2-iuch oak, and the order was divided up among 

 .several concerns. It was specified that the stock 

 was to be clear. As the cars began to come in 

 they were turned down by the buyers' inspector, 

 and the association inspection showed car after 

 car to contain a percentage of common. The 

 buyers refused to accept them, and each concern 

 that had shipped the stock sent representatives 

 up here to dispose of the rejected cars. There 

 was qnin A ii:mIi li. ic in 2-inch oak for a while. 



Ilnl- ! ,\ i; 1,1' 111, liardwood wholesalers 

 hcr^' u I, lives of the Fullerton-Powell 



lIar<lH 1 1, I'i.mpany, South Bend, Ind., 



have moved tlicir uUices to 308-309 Lumber Ex- 

 change. 



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

 pany, whose marriage was told of in the last 

 issue of the Recoud, has been spending a honey- 

 moon vacation at Lake Jlinnetonka. 



Samuel II. Davis of the S. H. Davis Lumber 

 Company, this city, was married August 26 in 

 Janesville, Wis., lo Miss Minerva Fisher, daugh- 

 ter of Mr. and -Mrs. A. L. Fisher of Janesville. 

 They went East for a wedding trip. 



John nein of tlie John Hein Company, manu- 

 facturers of hardwood lumber and cooperage at 

 Tony, Wis., was a business visitor in Minneapolis 

 a few days ago. 



The Standard Cedar & Lumber Company of 

 this city has bought the cut of a Michigan saw- 

 mill, amounting to 2.000,000 feet of pine and 

 .-.iiD.ooo feet of hardwood. 



The Fulton & Libbey Company, sash and d«or 

 manufacturers of this city, were placed in the 

 hands of a receiver September 3 by order of the 

 federal court on petition of creditors. F. II. 

 Libbey, formerly a member of the company, was 

 made receiver. The assets are figured at about 

 $40,000 and the liabilities are nearly $60,000. 



Ilamilton Broughton of the Forbes-Everts Lum- 

 ber Company of this' city has returned from a 

 short business trip to Wisconsin. 



L. C. Nolan of Nolan Bros., hardwood whole- 

 sale dealers at Memphis, but formerly of St. 

 Paul, has been here on business and pleasure 

 combined, visiting with relatives and friends. 



F. W. Busweil of the BuswcU Lumber & Man- 

 ufacturing Company, hemlock and hardwood 

 manufacturers, has returned from a business trip 

 of two weeks' duration. 



August Cook, in the office of the Minneapolis 

 liber Company, has been taking a short vaca- 

 Ruljy, Wis., where the mill of the Ruby 

 • Company i^ operated. 



Revival of demaud for hardwood slock on the 

 part of Twin City factories, especially the sash 

 and door people, has brought quite an influx of 

 salesmen for wholesale concerns to these towns. 

 .\mong the recent visitors who have been testing 

 the pulse of the trade and incidentally placing a 

 lew orders are : Otto Meyer, representing the 

 J. W. Thompson Lumber Company. St. Louis : 

 L. N. Borgess, with the Steele & Hibbard Lumber 

 Company, St. Louis, hardwood lumber and ve- 

 neers, who brought Mrs. Borgess with him and 

 lias been spending some time on a vacation 9t 

 Lake Minnetonka : Alex. Bohn, with the Wald- 

 steln Lumber Company, St. Louis : Bert Trump, 

 with the Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company, St. 

 Louis. 



There was another gathering of hardwood men 

 here the other day that caused considerable 

 amusement. One of the local wholesale firmsjiad 

 lilaced an order in Chicago for a million feet of 



SAWNAW VALLEY 



The lumber business is getting on its leet 

 again, nils is noted everywhere. More lumber 

 is selling and being inoved. There is more in- 

 ijuiry for mill machinery and equipment. The 

 cars standing by the hundred on the mill sid- 

 ings are disappearing and lumbermen talked 

 with have all put on their old time cheerfulness. 



The M. Garland :M;imil"neiiiriiiL,- c •..niiiaiiy of 



Bay City is equippinu I'ue, i,e» -;,« I iil.mts 



with band saw outfi Is l.i^t lull \ Milii. n,iu 



built a shingle mill at Il.eig ii Ink., aii.l this 



spring the N. Michaclson Lumber Company was 

 organized and the erection of a band sawmill is 

 now in progress at the same place. The main 

 olBce of tlie company will be located at Gray- 

 ling. Machinery is being furnished for a mill 

 now in process o£ erection at Grayling, by R. 

 Hanson & Sons. These mills are practically 

 duplicates of that of the Richardson Lumber 

 Company at Bay City, built last winter, one of 

 the handsomest and most convenient plants in 

 the country. 



Still another band mill is for the big plant at 

 Bay City of W. D. Young & Co.. being the add- 

 ing of another band saw outfit to the mill built 

 last winter, making it when complete the smart- 

 est double band mill to be found. Young & Co. 

 will also erect a large warehouse for storage 

 purposes. .\ll of these firms have ample supplies 



C. A. Bigelow reports the KneelandBigelow 

 Company and the Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow 

 mills at Bay City will run right through the 

 season, one ten hours a day and the other day 

 and night. Lumber is selling and there is a 

 good inquiry. These plants are getting two 

 train loads of logs daily from the North. 



There have been heavy fires the last ten days 

 in northern Michigan owing to the extremely dry 

 weather, and much damage has been done. A 

 number of small mills have been destroyed and 

 logs and timber either burned or injured. lu 

 Missauljce county alone the damage is estimated 

 at $75,000. In Otsego, Crawford, Roscommou. 

 Montmorency, Ogemaw, Gladwin and other 

 counties, much injury and loss has resulted. 

 Some logs have burned, but as a rule lumbermen 

 do not keep as many logs on skids at this season 

 in the woods as during the winter months. 



Mershon-Bacon Company at Bay City is mak- 

 ing box shooks out of hardwood and has been 

 very busy, working a full force and in some in- 

 stances running overtime. Maple, aeh, beech 

 and other woods are utilized. 



The high prices at which white pine lumber 

 has been held stimulates the manufacture of 

 boxes from hardwood material. Some other box 

 plants also use more or less hardwood lumber. 

 The box business has picked up materially of 

 late and this is giving the box plants more 

 business. 



S. F. Derry will operate two camps near Mil- 

 lersburg this winter and will put in 4,000,oii" 

 feet of hardwood logs. 



The sawmill of the Ottawa Hardwood Lumbei 

 Company at Tawas City, has passed into tli 

 liands of John Ratziantschitsch & Son of Bnv 

 City, and they are now operating the plant. 



The month of August has been an exception- 

 ally dry and hot one for northern Michigan and 

 there has been very little, if any, rain since the 

 early part of the month. Consequently forest 

 lires have been raging which have done con- 

 siderable damage lo cordwood, pulpwood, bolts, 

 bark and small timber already cut and lying 

 on the ground. So far we have not beard of 

 much damage to standing timber. 



Forest fires are raging fiercely in I'ioneer 

 township. Missaukee county. The old pine slash- 

 ings have been swept and the fire is entering 

 the standing timber, luloss rain in good quan- 

 tities comes quickly much damage will be done 

 10 the standing timber. 



Word comes from Lake City that large quan- 

 tities of lumber and saw logs, Iverson's sawmill 

 and .adjacent buildings, together with the homes 

 of farmers in that vicinity, have been burned. 

 On one farm ten cows and other livestock were 

 consumed. It is claimed over 800,000 feet ol 

 piled lumber were destroyed at Iverson's mill. 

 .Mitchell Bros. Company lost about 2,000 cords 

 of 4-foot wood in Missaukee county. Cobb .>t 

 Mitchell, Inc., lost l.OUo cords of wood and a 

 lew thousand railroad lies in Emmet county. 



J. C. Knox, secretary of the Michigan llar.l 

 wood Manufacturers' Association, is atlendii- 

 the semi-annual meeting of the Hardwood Mare 

 facturers of Wisconsin at Wausau, Wis.. Hi 

 week. After this meeting he will visit Chieiu 

 and St. Louis before returning to Cadillac. 



A. W. Seeley of the firm of Phillips & Seei- 

 Saginaw, was in Cadillac this week on busine- 



Ross & Wentworth of Bay City have lake,, 

 membership with the Miebigan Hardwood M;ni i 



Forest fires have also been menacing the vil- 

 lage of Buckley, Wexford county, and a large- 

 force of men have been fighting the flames in 

 order to save the town. The Wexford Liimlie; 

 Company has been the heaviest losers, a lar^ 

 quantity of logs, bark and wood having 1" • 

 consumed together wiili -■"•>.• vi;.nr|in.^- Hml'.-i 



