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county. This brm has felt the loss and trouble 

 on account of fires more than any other in the 

 county and have had to take their men from 

 planing and sawmills to their camps to help 

 light the firo. 



The Mnrphy & Diggins Company have closed 

 their mill temporarily cu account of lack of 

 logs, which come in over the Cummer-Diggins 

 logging railroad. 



Williams Brothers of this city have also had 

 to light fire east and west of Manton and have 

 had considerable loss in wood, logs, etc. 



The Cadillac Handle Company is closed down 

 tirnporarily for repairs to its mill. 



Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., and Mitchell Brothers 

 CoTipany are not bothered with fires as they 

 were a couple ef weeks ago. They are running 

 close to normal and report orders coming in 

 well. 



The shingle and sawmill of N". E. Hathaway 

 of Aral, Benzonia county, has been burned to 

 the ground. It is not known how the fire origi- 

 nated. The property is entirely destroyed and 

 there is do Insurance. 



The veteran lumberman, T. .Stewart White of 

 Grand Rapids, one of Michigans' pioneer lumber- 

 men, says that most of the forest fires in Michi- 

 gan are caused by sparks from locomotives or 

 (■arelessnes.s. The former seems to be the cause 

 of most of the recent fires, as they were adjacent 

 1(1 railroads in many cases. 



Mrs. Ellen C. Diggins, mother of Mr. F. A. Dig- 

 gins of Murphy & Diggins, this city, and sister 

 of Delos P. Blodgett, the veteran lumberman of 

 Grand Rapids, died Friday noon at the age of 

 eighty-one years. The funeral services were held 

 Saturday and the body taken to Harvard, 111., 

 for interment beside that of her husband. So 

 one by one the old residents of Cadillac go to 

 their long home. 



.V new chemical company has been organized 

 ill this city and is building a plant adjacent to 

 the Cummcr-Dlggins chemical plant, the buildings 

 of which will cost from .|4,000 to 513,000. The 

 company is known as the Northern Chemical 

 Company and is promoted by Mr. Lester of Ohio. 

 This company will use tar from the Cummer- 

 niggins plant, from which will he manufactured 

 a binder for use in the conslrucliou of paving 

 similar to the bitulithic paving here in Cadillac 

 this summer. Other products will also be manu- 

 factured. 



111.- .'iteamer W. J. Carter brought a large cargo 

 '•I hardwood lumber to the Forman Company 

 lif.m Alpena this week. 



The Detroit Handle Cnmpnny has filed articles 



■I Incorporation to d.. l.ii-iiii.ss in this city. 



riif company is capitalized ,ii S.".,(iii0. B. C. Eby, 



N. Gray and W. 1'. Sh\,-ns aic the incorpora- 



I'he Restrick Lumber & Coal Company, capital- 

 'd at $2.5,000, has filed articles of incorpora- 

 'i>n. The company is to manufacture sash, 

 iloors, frames, hardwood flooring and all kinds 

 'of dressed lumber. The company was organized 

 by J. C. Restrick, C. W. Restrick, G. B. Weath 

 erby, James Hannon and C. F. Meagher. 



Forest fires in northern Michigan have de- 

 stroyed acres of fine hardwood timber. The 

 lariii- tracts owned by White Brothers, Boyne 

 City, and Kneeland & Bigelow. near Atlanta, 

 Mich., were threatened but not seriously dam- 

 aged. 



The Rice & Meyer Manufacturing Company 

 ill remove its plant to Saginaw. The company 

 I laiifactures boxes and wood veneers. 



I'lie plant of II. C. Hitchcock & Co. was dam- 

 ^■d by fire to the .xtfiu „f .$15,000 this week. 



The most '•: i imi h as to fine seasoned 



lumber stac I . I >" ii ,':iiiy's yards. 



The sicaiii. . . ! e r; her tow brought a 



carao of lini.l,, I lni!ii,cr to Detroit from a 



northern point tliW week. 



The regular fall rush of shipping has put many 

 of the lumber boats back into commission. Local 

 chartering agents report that a number of ves- 

 sels have been chartered this week to go to 

 northern points for hardwood cargoes for De- 



.Tames M. Barnett, a pioneer lumberman of this 

 state, is dead at Grand Rapids. For thirty 

 years he had directed lumber operations over 

 thousands of acres and amassed a fortune in 

 doing so. 



The will of William H. Loveless, the St. 

 Charles lumberman who died recently, disposed 

 of $-41,000 worth of property. His divorced wife 

 is given an annuity of $150 a month as long as 

 she remains unmarried. 



Trade remains rather quiet, although many 

 inquiries have encouraged manufacturers and 

 dealers to believe that better business is in 

 prospect. Additional announcements of many 

 new buildings to be erected this fall, winter and 

 spring have strengthened this feeling and a 

 fairly busy winter and lively spring trade is 

 looked for. 



GRAND RAPIDS 



The death of James M.- Barnett. a well- 

 known financier and lumber man of this city, 

 occurred at his home September 19. Paralysis 

 w.as the cause. Mr. Barnett was seventy-six 

 years old and leaves a widow and four chil- 

 dren. He was prt-sidont of the Fosburgh 



prise.'s. In isni) lir was olocted president of 

 the Old National Bank of this city, holding 

 that position up to his death. 



John W. Blodgett went to Harvard, III., Sep- 

 tember 20 to attend the funeral of his aunt, 

 Mrs. Diggins. who died at Cadillac, Saturday. 

 Mrs. Diggins was the youngest sister of D. A. 

 Blodgett and her death leaves Mr. qiodgett 

 til., only survivor of the family. 



Th.' Lake Superior Iron & Chemical Com- 

 pany of Elk Rapids lost 3,000 cords of wood 

 during a recent fire in Rapid River township. 



The Belding-Hall Company of Belding held 

 its first annual meeting recently and a most 

 jirosperous year was reported in spite of the 

 financial depression. A dividend of 7 per 

 cent was declared. The old board of directors 

 was elected as follows: J. S. Weidman of 

 Mt. Pleasant, H. B. Webber and Geo. K. 

 Nichols of Ionia, B. F. Hall, R. H. Hall, W. T. 

 Hazard and E. E. Chapel of Belding. Brinton 

 F. Hall was re-elected president and manager. 



Wilbur Rogers started a stave factory at 

 Oxford, in Oakland county, this month and is 

 employing eleven men. 



J. D. Hawks, president of the Detroit & 

 Mackinac Railroad, wiio has taken great in- 

 terest in the reforestation movement, says 

 that the state of Michigan is largely respon- 

 sible for the damage done by fires in timber 

 lands, and he scores state officials for their 



neglect of duty in allowing the fires to run 

 unchecked. State game and fire warden, Chas, 

 S. Pierce of Lansing, concedes that many of 

 the fires may have come from camp fires 

 left by hunters and from sparks of traction 

 engines, but in the northwest section of the 

 state a good share of the fires are believed to 

 have originated from sparks of passing rail- 

 road locomotives. It is said that a number of 

 property owners have declared intentions of 

 starting damage suits against the railroad 

 companies. Mr. Pierce has advices from dif- 

 ferent sections of northern Michigan, telling 

 of the critical condition of forest lands, which 

 are tne dryest they have been in fifteen years, 

 and in tinder-like condition, needing but a 

 spark to turn them into roaring furnaces. 



W. H. White & Co.'s shingle mill at Boyne 

 City started on the season's cut September 

 14, giving employment to over 100 men. 



-\n automobile containing a party of Tra- 

 verse City people was overturned September 

 ■21 at the foot of a steep hill, near Lake Lee- 

 lanau, and Miss Julia Kelley sustained a 

 broken collar bone, while Walter N. Kelley, 

 Frank Kelley. John J. Corcoran and Fred M. 

 Longnecker have severe bruises. The party 

 was bound for the Kelle.v cottage at Lake 

 Leelanau, where Mrs. W. N. Kelley lay crit- 

 ically ill. Mr. Longnecker was driving the 

 car, the brakes did not hold, and it was due 

 to bis presence of mind and skill as a driver 

 that there were no fatalities. Mr. Long- 

 necker is one of the , directors of the Oval 

 W'ood Dish Company, while W. N. Kelley i.-? 

 a well-known lumberman. 



The Traverse City, Leelanau & Manistique 

 Railway, which runs from Traverse City to 

 Northport, was sold recently on foreclosure 

 proceedings to Henry Russell of Detroit, J. H. 

 P. Hughart of Grand Rapids and other rail- 

 road men. The company has been reorgan- 

 ized, with $278,000 capital. Mr. Hughart, gen- 

 eral manager of the G. R.,& I. Railway, states 

 that he is not personally interested in the 

 new company and that its future has not been 

 fully determined on. 



The Charlevoix lAimber Company has sold 

 its steam barge Pine Lake to A. Heckler of 

 .Sault Ste. Marie. 



J. J. Nufer of Whitehall, the box manufac- 

 turer, has returned from a trip North where 

 he purchased a large block of lumber, to be 

 delivered by vessel and used in filling a long- 

 time contract recently closed with the Corn 

 Prodti'-t's Cnmrany of Chicago. 



Mi "■•i r ^t.i, r and daughter of Traverse 

 I'll Mr-. Beitner at Sidnaw in the 



Ml I' wo mills have been erected 



.111 1 I Mings there and the Traverse 



(_^itN mill will l.c dismantled this fall. 



The W. L. McManus Lumber Company of 

 Petoskey has bought the Cadillac Lumber 

 Company's yards at Mancelona. 



Mis. Walt. 1- X. Kelley, wife of the well- 

 kii.'M Ii ImiMi' Mii.in, died September 22 at the 

 Kelli , ..iitaL;', Lake Leelanau, near Traverse 

 Cit.\, aitt 1 i-i l.iUK illness. She was forty-one 

 and leaves a liusband and five children. 



Hardwood Market 



(By HARDWOOD RECORD Exclnsive Market Reporters.] 



CHIC AGO 



The feature of the local trade during the last 

 fortnight has been the fact that a good many 

 orders for railroad material, bridge planking, 

 etc., have been placed by the railroads, and that 

 there has been very liberal buying on the part 

 of box makers, of the coarse end of both north- 

 ern and southern woods. The main staple woods 

 iir,! In fair demand and trade Is showing a slow 

 but gradual Improveiuent .all along the line. 



a abroad, who have visited 



ast two weeks and called 



nil report very fair to good 



Local dealers contlrm this 



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While hnrdsvoods in the local district are hold- 

 ]g their own in general trading and are also 

 njoying their share of the slow but steady husl- 

 esB improvement, the volume of trade Is still 



