HARDWOOD RECORD 



47 



G. P. Shehan of tlie Berthold & Jennings Lum- 

 ber Company, says it is very liard to get the 

 number of cars required for sliipping purposes, 

 although the company is doing its very best to 

 secure them. 



The Charles F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber 

 Company is receiving quite a number of orders 

 and has been very successful in being able to 

 get cars. The company is tilling the orders 

 from its local yards, where it has a good stock 

 on hand and ships with ver.v little delay. 



Business has l>een very satisfactory with the 

 Thomas & Proctz Lumber Company. Charles 

 E. Thomas says his company's business during 

 the month of October was very satisfactory and 

 considerably ahead of any October for a long 

 time. It has a big stock of the very best of 

 hardwood lumber down at its mill at Belzoni. 

 Miss., and is nicely fixed to take care of the fall 

 and winter business w'hich Mr. Thomas feels sure 

 will come. 



E. W. Blumer, sales manager of the Lothman 

 Cypress Company, states that business has been 

 quite good during last month. His company has 

 a splendid stock of cypress on hand and the 

 mill in the South is working full time. It has 

 been quite fortunate in getting cars, as the 

 road running to its mill has not been as much 

 crippled for lack of cars as some of the other 

 lines. 



The Lumbermen's Club of St. Louis will hold 

 its November meeting and dinner at the Planters 

 hotel on the evening of Nov. 12. The entertain- 

 ment committee has secured Rev. Martin S. 

 Brennan, a well-known local astronomer, as the 

 principal speaker. He will give a lecture on 

 "The Starrv Way." Rev. Mr. Brennan is well 

 known all over this countr.v and in Europe as a 

 lecturer on geology and astronomy. In addition 

 to the lecture, there will be a musical programme. 

 The meeting promises to be a most enjoyable 

 affair. 



MIL WAUKEE 



The Milwaukee building department has just 

 issued its annual report tor 1011. which shows 

 that there were erected during that time build- 

 ings, the total cost of which aggregated $6,113.- 

 086. The building operations for 1912 are ex- 

 pected to exceed those of last year by far. Dur- 

 ing the first nine months of this year the build- 

 ing operations exceeded those for the same pe- 

 riod of last year by $2,420,440. 



D. L. Van Aukeu of Milwaukee, representa- 

 tive of southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois 

 for the John D. Mershon Lumber Company of 

 Saginaw, Mich., has returned from a two months' 

 trip on the Pacific coast, where he visited the 

 mills of the Pacific Lumber Company at Scotia. 

 Cal., and the shipping centers at Oakland and 

 Wilmington. Mr. Van Auken is enthusiastic 

 over the big hardwood prospects here. 



The Gidding & Lewis Manufacturing Company 

 of Fond du Lac has had improvements made on 

 its plant in which it manufactures a well-known 

 line of sawmill machinery. The concern has 

 now one of the most up-to-date plants in its line 

 and is prepared to handle orders of any size. 



Two new lumber plants are rapidly nearing 

 completion so that work can be started very 

 soon. The Heineman Lumber Company at Mer- 

 rill is erecting one of the largest sawmills in 

 the country, most of the buildings having been 

 completed and machinery now being installed. 

 The new Tomahawk Box Company's plant now 

 in course of erection is to replace the one de- 

 stroyed by fire early this summer. 



The sawmill of the Peshtigo Lumber Company 

 was completely destroyed by fire on October 27, 

 causing a loss of $100,000. It was one of the 

 largest mills in this section. The power was 

 derived from a dynamo run by water power. An 

 overheated journal box is said to have caused 

 the fire. Nothing authoritative in regard to re- 

 building the mill has as yet been announced. 

 Wm. Templeton is president. 



CADILLAC 



Superintendent L. Van Meter of the A. L. 

 Dennis Salt & Lumber Company's mill at Digh- 

 lon, twelve miles south of Cadillac, has moved 

 his family to Whitney Ont.. where he will 

 manage the operations of the Dennis-Canadian 

 Lumber Company, an out-growth of the A. L. 

 Dennis Salt & Lumber Company of Grand Rapids, 

 Mich. Mr. Van Meter is well up in, his line 

 ■ind the well wishes of his former employes and 

 friends in this vicinity go with him. 



W. B. Barrows and George W. Polhemus of 

 I he United States Forest Service, Washington. 

 D. C, are taking measurements of beech and 

 maple at Cummer-Diggins camp No. 13 with a 

 view of compiling a series of tables for the 

 Forest Service department at Washington. 



The Cummer-Diggins Company's sawmill has 

 after several days' shut down resumed opera- 

 tions again. This company has opened a new 

 camp in Colfax township, known as Camp No. 

 13. and will log in that vicinity the entire 

 winter. In addition to this a large amount 

 cif timber will also be put in for the company 

 liy contract. 



The Cadillac Handle Company's mill is closed 

 down for three weeks when a general over- 

 hauling will be made after which its logs will 

 be forwarded in train loads over the G. R. & I. 

 during the entire winter. 



The Du Roy Manufacturing Company. Park 

 Lake. Osceola county, is enjo.ving unprecedented 

 activity. Starting with a force of less than ten 

 men, it has increased its pay roll to fifty. This 

 company turns out 150.000 pieces of wooden 

 ware specialties dail.v. It has purchased some 

 automatic machines that have a capacity to turn 

 .»nt from 40.000 to 60,000 pieces daily. It manu- 



factures almost everything in the line of wooden 

 novelties and is one of the nest equipped plants 

 of its kind in the country. Irving R. Du Roy 

 is the manager. 



The State Railroad Commission has approved 

 the proposed line of Boyne City. Gaylord and 

 Alpena, with the exception of one crossing in 

 Alpena. Its approval has been withheld from 

 this with the desire of obtaining a union depot 

 with the Detroit & Mackinac Railway. 



On account of increased orders the Michigan 

 Buggy Company's plant at Kalamazoo has been 

 compelled to build a large addition. ISO feet 

 in length by 650 feet wide, and three stories 

 high, in which three hundred additional men 

 will be installed. In order to keep up with 

 orders it will be necessary for the company to 

 make twenty-five cars per day. Their 1913 

 "Michigan" car is considered to be among the 

 best of forty-horsepower machines on the market. 



The State Industrial Accident Board reports 

 2,000 accidents the first two months of its ex- 

 istence, a large proportion of which were minor. 

 The insurance feature of the new industrial 

 compensation act will save the employers of labor 

 thousands of dollars, from the fact that a man- 

 ufacturer or an employer of labor can go to the 

 commissioner of insurance and arrange for 

 mutual insurance for the actual cost less many 

 overhead charges, such as office rent, heat. light, 

 solicitors, etc. This has forced many of the 

 Liability Companies to greatly reduce their rates. 

 Under the scheme of insurance proposed b.v the 

 state, the cost of insurance is pro-rated among 

 subscribers according to their risk ; it also 

 allows members to withdraw upon thirty days 

 notice at the end of a year, providing they 

 have paid their pro rata share of the expenses 

 during the year, as the act provides that the 

 estimates shall be adjusted at the end of each 



' VI WTOiKBTOWrotTOMTOit!^^ 



The Hardwood Market 



CHICAGO 



Hardwood trading in the local market goes 

 on with unabated vigor. The demand is heavy 

 and there seems to be an active demand for 

 nearly every item of hardwood lumber. Some 

 remarkable stories are told of extraordinary 

 profits being obtained on odd lots, but. on the 

 whole, a very conservative system of buying 

 and sellin.g is going on. Plain oak in all grades 

 is the scarcest item, although many varieties 

 of northern woods are almost as impossible to 

 obtain in quantity. 



Heavy local purchases for car materials on 

 the part of railroad and car companies is the 

 feature of the past fortnight. 



NE^V YORK 



shape. Inquiries have been coming in more free- 

 ly and for a larger variety of woods. The yards 

 are well supplied with stocks and forehanded 

 dealers laid in a large amount of lumber in 

 anticipation of a car shortage. There are usu- 

 ally cars enough in Buffalo to keep shipments 

 going without much delay. 



Plain oak is stronger than it has been for 

 some time, and moves out about as fast as it 

 comes in. Stocks are hard to get in quantity. 

 Quartered oak is stronger and furniture fac- 

 tories are placing a fair number of orders. Even 

 common quartered oak. which has been slow for 

 a long time, is now selling to sorae extent. Other 

 woods are generally firm in price, with poplar 

 forming the chief exception, although low-grade 

 poplar is scarce and holds up better in price 

 than formerly. Both maple and oak flooring are 

 now bringing an unusually stiff price. 



The hardwood market at New York continues 

 to show strength. Supplies are not over plenti- 

 ful and prices are firm with a constant upward 

 tendency, especially on good lumber. Car short- 

 age is holding up shipments in many instances, 

 which tends to curtail actual transactions, but 

 as far as demand is concerned and its relation 

 to available supplies, there is every indication 

 that there will be a firm market throughout 

 the winter. 



PHILADELPHIA 



BUFFALO 



The demand for hardwoods continues satisfac- 

 tory and dealers state that not much pushing 

 has been needed to keep business going in fair 



Instead of the minimum activity so often co- 

 incident with the presidential election, the hard- 

 wood lumber business in this section has con- 

 tinued brisk during the fortnight. An increas- 

 ing number of inquiries are resulting in good or- 

 ders, the only problem of the manufacturers 

 being how to get cars to ship the stuff. Many 

 dealers say they can get plenty of orders but 

 are in a quandary as to where to find the stock. 

 Yards are stocked to only about three-fourths 

 of their capacity, and, as the consuming indus- 

 tries are buying more freely, the pile is rapidly 

 diminishing, with but little hope of an early re- 

 plenishing of vacant spots because of the existing 

 traffic congestion. Under these conditions it is 

 only natural that prices should advance, and the 



