HARDWOOD RECORD 



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ber in California than in Washington and Ore- 

 gon. 



Chas. M. Hackley, son of the late C. H. Hack- 

 ley, of Muskegon, who lost his eyesight about 

 a month ago through an accidental explosion, 

 has recovered sufficiently for removal from the 

 Hackley hospital to his country place at Lake 

 Harbor. Uis sight, however, can never be 

 restored. 



Chas. W. Garfield, president of the Michigan 

 Forestry Commission, in addressing the local 

 horticultural society June 6 said : "I w_pnder 

 if you people know that there is an earnest and 

 practical interest in forestry by some of our 

 lumbermen? W. B. Mershon, my associate on 

 the forestry commission, with four other men, 

 have taken a large tract of land near the source 

 of the Au Sable river and they are establish- 

 ing nurseries and doing planting on a consider- 

 able scale. Each of the five men has agreed to 

 put in $3,000 a year for five years in this ex- 

 periment in reforestation. All the land is not 

 poor, and they have such a wide range of soil 

 that they will be enabled not only to experi- 

 ment with pines and spruces but with some of 

 the hardwoods. The planting of 73,000 seed- 

 lings In the Au Sable forestry farm has been 

 completed, while there are 12,000 trees in the 

 nursery for planting next year. About 1,200 

 basswood and 1,000 black ash trees have also 



E. D. Graham of this city, president of the 

 state board of agriculture and also a member 

 of the state forestry committee of inquiry, has 

 returned from Iosco county, where the members 

 of the board selected a tract of 42,000 acres, 

 which is to be used by the Michigan Agricul- 

 tural College in giving the students practical 

 work in forestry. It is planned to start a 

 nursery this year and to conduct the tract along 

 progressive forestry lines. 



Col. Chas. Bogardus and his wife have pre- 

 sented the University of Michigan with a tract 

 of 1,441 acres lying along Lake Douglas, in 

 Cheboygan county. The land includes 100 acres 

 of hardwood and has a frontage of three miles 

 on Lake Douglas. It will be used for field 

 work by the engineering department and by 

 forestry and botany students. 



Peter White of Marquette, the grand old man 

 of the upper peninsula, dropped dead June 6 In 

 front of the city hall, Detroit. Mr. White 

 was a director of the Cleveland Cliffs Iron 

 Company, president of the First National 

 Bank of Marquette and was the owner of large 

 tracts of timber land in the upper peninsula. 



her business before fall, but sees no reason why 

 conditions should not continue to improve slowly 

 as soon as the presidential nominations are over. 



The hardwood lumbermen will go to the Mil- 

 waukee convention In force and are planning 

 to make the trip In a body, especially as there 

 are some things that are expected to be thrashed 

 out at that meeting, or at a meeting the day be- 

 fore in Chicago. It is to be hoped that all dif- 

 ferences on the inspection rules will be settled 

 before the full body is in session. 



The question of a separate lumbermen's club, 

 that was almost a fact several times of late, 

 has been allowed to drift a while, till it is 

 known just what the manufacturers' club Is go- 

 ing to do. Hardwood lumbermen have always 

 taken a leading Interest in the latter and it 

 may all work out together, espe<-ially as F. A. 

 Beyer Is president of the Manufacturers' Club. 



The Buffalo lumbermen are trying to keep In 

 line with the times in going slow about the 

 annual outing, as there is no step taken towards 

 it yet, though Chairman C. W. Betts will soon 

 be asking the people where they want to go. 

 The hardwood dealers are very closely united by 

 thei.-- weekly meetings and It would be a fine thing 

 if the entire interest could become as nearly a 

 unit as they are, as it is conducive to a sort 

 of fellow feeling that is much needed in busi- 



The chief point of Interest in the Standard 

 Hardwood Lumber Company just now is the 

 marriage of Oliver W. Krelnheder, manager of 

 the table factory owned by the members of the 

 company, to Miss Lillian Gram, which took 

 place on May 27. 



Scatcherd & Son are still running their oak 

 mills in Memphis, though as a rule there Is a 

 scarcity of logs in that section, so that a good 

 many mills are idle. What will happen when 

 the demand runs up to normal? 



The office of T. Sullivan & Co., In its new 

 position on the Niagara street front, looks very 

 neat this spring with its new setting of turf. 

 Pacific coast fir Is coming in again and lake 

 hardwoods are due this month. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 very busy In yard, as there is a big lot of stock 

 coming in all the time from the river barges 

 that unload at Cincinnati. The yard shipments 

 are also good right along. 



The specialties of the trade of 0. E. Yeager, 

 such as hickory and poplar, are doing well and 

 sales are kept up all along the line, in spite 

 of the general slow movement of a good many 

 sorts of hardwood lumber. 



So long as I. N. Stewart & Bro. can ship sev- 

 eral cars of cherry a week there Is no kick 

 coming from that yard, and that Is what they 

 are doing and have been doing for some time. 

 Other hardwoods sell also. 



A. Miller has been looking to the eastern mar- 

 ket a good deal of late, as it appears that this 

 market is so taken on using soft woods that the 

 hardwood trade here Is not what It used to be. 



There is an occasional shutdown of the Hugh 

 McLean sawmills, but only on account of the 

 scarcity of logs. Otherwise the interests of 

 that sort in the St. Lawrence valley and the 

 Southwest are moving as usual. 



G. Ellas & Bro. are one of the few firms 

 that are getting quite a good amount of lumber 

 in by lake, having had several cargoes in al- 

 ready and looking for more right along. The 

 door mill is always busy. 



The yard trade of F. W. Vetter keeps up well, 

 considering the general state of trade. There 

 Is always something in a yard that carries a 

 full assortment of hardwood, which the con- 

 sumer must have, for that is the plan they all 

 buy on. 



President Beyer of the Pascola Lumber Com- 

 pany Is keeping his oak mills in Missouri going 

 fast enough to furnish the stock needed, being 



DETROIT 



George I. McClure, secretary of the McClure 

 Lumber Company, has filed a personal petition 

 in bankruptcy in the local United States court. 

 He gives his liabilities at $82,990.99, while the 

 amount of assets is not stated. The assets con- 

 sist of $25,000 lite insurance, most of It held 

 as collateral for loans and party subject to a 

 lien for tack pa.vments, and 11,238 shares of the 

 stock of the McClure Lumber Company. The 

 largest creditor is the First National Bank of 

 this city, which holds notes for $47,000 against 

 the petitioner. "My difficulty has all been caused 

 by the sawmill we operated in Eutaw, .\la.," 

 said George McClure. "When the hard times 

 struck the South we began to go back and could 

 not make ends meet. The Detroit end of the 

 business, however, has made money." The peti- 

 tion Is merely a personal one and does not affect 

 the firm in any way. The creditors range from 

 $3 up to the bank claim and include accounts 

 owed his dentist, physician, tailor and others. 

 The First National Bank of Birmingham, Ala., 

 holds notes to the extent of $25,000. 



"There isn't much to say about the hardwood 

 trade now, except that It is very dull," said 

 William Brownlee of Brownlee-Kelly Company. 



The following hardwood dealers were in De- 

 troit June 4 and 5 : H. L. Dutton of the Worces- 

 ter Lumber Company, Chassell, Mich. ; C. I. 

 Duggan of the Tindle & Jackson Company, Pells- 

 ton, Mich., and E. J. Clark, president of the 

 Peninsular Bark & Lumber Company, Sault Ste. 

 Marie, Mich. 



William M. Mitchell of Cadillac, Mich., was in 

 Detroit on business this week. 



"Satisfactory conditions prevail in the hard- 

 wood trade at present, " says Thomas Forman of 

 the Thos. Forman Company. "Inquiries and 

 sales keep up very well and we feel very com- 

 fortable over the situation." 



GRAND RAPIDS 



The furniture manufacturers will put their 

 fall lines on the exhibition floors Wednesday, 

 June 24, the season continuing through the 

 greater part of July. The display made here 

 will be without doubt the strongest and best 

 ever shown, and while a big volume of business 

 is not anticipated the feeling grows that a very 

 fair number of orders will be placed. The re- 

 cent meetings of Chicago, Grand Rapids and 

 all the leading manufacturers, with unanimous 

 action taken guaranteeing the trade that there 

 will be no cutting of prices on this season's 

 line of goods, will go very far towards estab- 

 lishing confidence and buyers who need the 

 stuff will not be afraid to place their orders. 

 This was one of the chief difficulties last Janu- 

 ary and during succeeding months, the lack of 

 confidence in the stability of prices, and the 

 trade bought only what they had to, not what 

 they needed. There Is a much better feeling 

 now — with big harvests coming on, the presi- 

 dential excitement lessened and prices firm. 

 The furniture associations are getting out tags 

 to be placed on every piece displayed this season 

 guaranteeing that there will be no price cut- 

 ting during the coming six months. 



W. H. White, Thos. White and W. L. Martin, 

 of the W. H. White Company of Boyne City 

 were in the city June 3. 



Thomas Hume of Muskegon and George Hef- 

 feran of Grand Rapids, members of the Hume- 

 Bennett Lumber Company, which is operating 

 at Sanger, Cal., have returned from a business 

 trip to California and other western points. 

 Mr. Hume is president and Mr. Hefferan is 

 treasurer of the company. From the present 

 outlook the company will operate only one of 

 its mills this year and the cut will be small. 

 Mr. Hefferan reports a better demand for lum- 



CLEV ELAND 



Charles E. Wheeler, a Cleveland man who 

 has just returned from a six-year sojourn In 

 the Philippines, brings back some interesting 

 information about the Insular Lumber Company, 

 a concern with offices in New York, but backed 

 by Cleveland capital. The Insular company 

 is shipping large quantities of a native wood, 

 known as Philippine mahogany, to this coun- 

 try. It corresponds to African mahogany and 

 is about the same as regards cost. The com- 

 pany has the largest forest of hardwoods on 

 the islands, having over 400,000,000 feet of 

 standing timber, much of which is of large 

 size. Mr. Wheeler says that the Philippines 

 contain a large variety of woods, there being 

 over 700 kinds, about a hundred of which are 

 suitable for cabinet purposes. The Insular com- 

 pany operates a large mill, and a railroad has 

 been built on the property, which has an esti- 

 mated stand of 40,000 feet to the acre. 



On the morning of May 22 the entire plant 

 of the Dayton Manufacturing & Lumber Com- 

 pany at Dayton, Ohio, was destroyed, the loss 

 being over $175,000. The blaze was discovered 

 about midnight and au effort made to check It, 

 but without a«ail. The origin of the fire Is 



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W. Rellly, a prominent hardwood dealer 



