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HARDWOOD RE30KD 



Buffalo door mills are very active, espec- 

 ially the veneer door trade, being far behind 

 their orders. New York is a heavj- buyer 

 and refuses to be satisfied. Boxes have run 

 very heavy, but are dropping off a little now. 



Detroit. 



L<n-al hardwood dealers an- having tiouble 

 witli phenomenal lake freights. In the last 

 month— even before the series of terrible wrecks 

 on the great lakes — the lake freights were raised 

 until now they are just double what they were 

 previously. 



The Detroit Box Company has been adjudi- 

 ■ated an involuntary bankrupt. There are about 

 .;eventy-five creditors and the total of liabilities 

 IS given as $GS,104.41. The largest claims are 

 that of the Kelly I,umber & Shingle Company 

 of Traverse City, Mich., and the Vinton Com- 

 pany of Detroit. The president of the company 

 is William N. Kelly of Traverse City. Mich. 



Donald McLean, president of the McLean Bros, 

 of North Tonawanda. N. Y., died suddenly in 

 the Hotel Cadillac of heart failure and conges- 

 tion of the lungs. He had been treating here 

 for cancer of the eye. 



A dispatch from Iron Mountain. Mich., says 

 'hat Andrew Bjorkman, a lumberman of that 

 place, will bank this winter 14,000,0(10 feet o£ 

 pine, hemlock, basswood, elm and cedar logs in 

 Dickinson and Iron counties. He employs 400 

 men. 



George McClure of the McClure Lumber Com- 

 pany, leaves this week for Eutaw, Ala., to in- 

 spect his new mill there. His brothers Albert 

 and Charles are already down there. 



Thomas Denton of Saginaw, who has been 

 getting out square timber in Michigan the 

 last thirty years for Quebec nrms. will get 

 out about 100,000 cubic feet of elm thi.-s winter 

 in the vicinity of Cadillac. 



The Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow Companj- 

 filed articles of incorporation last week witii 

 a capitalization of $100,000. T>. M. Kneeland 

 was elected president, Frank Buell vice pres- 

 ident and Charles A. Bigelow secretary treas- 

 urer and general manager. The new concern 

 has taken possession of the Wylie & Buell 

 Lumber Company's sawmill at Bay City, which 

 will be operated ten hours a day, the inten- 

 tion being to cut 20.000.000 feet of lumljer 

 annually with it as it is a double band mill. 

 The Kneeland-Bigelow Company's mill will 

 be operated day and night, it being a single 

 band mill, and it is calculated to cut '20.000.- 

 000 feet a year. 



The Michigan Central is extending the 

 Haakwood branch several miles into timber 

 owned by the Wylie & Buell Lumber Com- 

 pany, the Kneeland-Bigelow Company and 

 the Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow Company. 

 The Wylie & Buell Company furnish stock 

 to Bliss & Van Auken of Saginaw and some 

 logs to other concerns on the Saginaw river 

 and a number of million feet each year to the 

 Kneeland. Buell & Bigelow Company. 



S. G. M. Gates is cutting about 7,000,000 

 feet of lumber at his Bay City mill. He has 

 just received a verdict of $1,900 against the 

 Detroit & Mackinac Railway Company, the 

 suit growing out of complications in a log 

 hauling contract. 



Saginaw Valley. 

 C. T. Kerry of the Kerry & Hanson Flooring 

 Company of Grayling reports that the plant 

 which was built this season is running 

 nicely. A large warehouse has just been fin- 

 ished and the company is now building 

 houses for its employes. A force of fifty 

 men is employed. The stock for the flooring 

 plant is cut by Sailing. Hanson & Co. of 

 Grayling on their own lands, the logs are 

 hauled to their sawmill at Grayling and 

 converted into lumber and thence go into 

 flooring. 



The scarcity of cars continues to handicap 

 the lumber trade. The Kerry & Hanson Floor- 

 ing Company of Grayling had orders for 

 eighteen cars of flooring last week and could 

 only move five cars. This is about the av- 

 erage of cars furnished to the number wanted 

 by most lumber firms. W. D. Young & Co. 

 are one hundred cars short of enough to fill 

 orders and have been in this condition the 

 last month. The Eastman Flooring Com- 

 pany, and in fact every concern handling 

 hardwood stock are desperately short of 

 cars. It would require more than five hun- 

 dred cars at this date to take care of the 

 business that is offering. 



The Brlggs & Cooper Company, Ltd., has 

 experienced a fair trade. The company has 

 had a good busine.ss in furnishing oak to 

 eastern concerns, getting the stock from 

 Indiana and the South. It has also been 

 handicapped l>y the scarcity of cars. 



The Michigan Central has handled 60.000,- 

 noo feet of hardwood logs on its Mackinaw 

 division this year up to October 1, and it 

 win handle the coming year as large a quan- 

 tity of logs as u.sual. A number of firms arc 

 cutting logs the year through and this win- 

 ter small operators will put In a large quan- 

 tity of logs. The larger percentage is 

 maple, with basswood, beech, elm. birch and 

 ash following. Only a small quantity of oak 

 is found. This timber was pretty well 

 skinned off some years ago when the lower 

 peninsula was overrun by dealers In square 

 timber. V/. D. Young & Co. of Bay City 

 got some oak ajid find a ready market for 

 it. Ash Is rather scarce but a number of lots 

 have been picked up hire this seaaoti. 



Grand Rapids. 

 One of the local newspapers states that at 

 the raeetinjr of the National Association of Case 

 Goods Manufacturers, to be held Nov. S at the 

 Auditorium hotel, Chicago, a ten per cent in- 

 crease in the selling price of furniture will be 

 decided on, to take effect immediately. This 

 action is probable, though by no means certain. 

 Grand Rapids is well represented in this organi- 

 zation and the leading manufacturers have felt 

 for a long time that they were selling their 

 product too cheap. Business has been excep- 

 tionally good this fall and this condition no 

 doubt has a price-stimuUil uik iffecl. 



C. L. Houseman of Muskegon has bought of 

 C. E. and M. B. Covell of Whitehall the hard- 

 wood tract of 232 acres lying twelve miles north 

 of Muskegon, on the lake shore, known as Beech- 

 woods. He will cut out the oak and other tim- 

 ber, leaving the beech and will piir in a camp 

 of fifty men at once. 



C. B. Colburn has purchased the Interest of 

 his partner, R. Quackenbush, in the firm of 

 Quackcnbush & Colburn, wholesale dealers in 

 furniture hardwoods at Grand Rapids, and will 

 continue the business, wilh olliccs In Ihe Pythian 

 Temple. Mr. Quackenbush is now wKh the .1. F. 

 Quigley Lumber & Land Company. 



Scarcity of cars and tedious slowness in mov- 

 ing them Is the universal complaint with the 

 lumbermen now. 



Considerable hardwood is being cut alouj; the 

 Detroit & Mackinac and the Michigan Central 

 lines. In the eastern portion of the state. Snow 

 began falling at upper points In the slate early 

 in November and cutting and skidding has begun. 

 Citizens of Buchanan will raise .1;;i,SO0 to aid 

 the Buchanan Cabinet Company In rebuilding its 

 plant recently destroyed by fire. 



Quartered oak Interior finish Is being turned 

 out by Chas. Grler of Charlotte for n church at 

 Salt Lake City. 



The Michigan forestry exhibit at St. Louis, 

 which was secured by the Kent museum at 

 (;rand Rapids, will be arranged for Inspection 

 in a new building soon. Curator Sargent will 

 add to the collection of woods, making It one of 

 .the finest state exhibits In the country. 



The IlBmllton & Merryman Lumber Company 

 will operate a number of logging camps on the 



Menominee range, emplo^'ing 350 men la the 

 vicinity of Iron Mountain. The logs will be 

 shipped to Marinette for manufacture. 



Several thousand feet of mahogany logs have 

 been cut this season at the Halladay mill in 

 Grand Rapids for the l'hoeui.\ Furniture Com- 

 pany. Most of the stock came from the ports 

 of Assinee and Axim, on the west coast of 

 Africa, via Liverpool. Several of the largest 

 furniture manufacturing concerns here buy in 

 the log, placing orders 4ve or aix months ahead 

 Willi Kngllsh agents to pay up to a certain fig- 

 ure at the Liverpool auction sales. During the 

 winter months the logs are u.sually brought hy 

 vessel to Portland. Me., and in summer to .Mon- 

 treal, thence by rail to (irand liapids. .Mahogany 

 lumber from Mexico, Ceutral .\uierica and Cuba 

 usually comes via New Orleans. 



I'irc destroyed the Bellalre Woodenware Com- 

 pany's plant at Bellaire, entailing a loss of ,$oO,- 

 000, with small insurance. The Henry Richaidi 

 factory was saved by hard work. The de- 

 stroyed plant was one of the largest clothes pin 

 factories in the country. 



The Cadillac Handle Company is spending 

 about $20,000 in improvements and new ma- 

 chinery at its llarrislown plant. The machinery 

 includes new boilers and engine, a band rcsaw 

 and rotary rattlers are to replace the old dry 

 kiln system of drying broom handles. .V dynamo 

 will be installed in the engine room to furnish 

 electricity for lighting the plant. 



The Grand Rapids & Lake Michigan Trans- 

 portation Company has decided to defer active 

 operations on the river between Grand Rapids 

 and Grand Haven until spring. The second 

 boat of the fleet is nearly completed and it is 

 expected that large quantities of freiglit will 1>= 

 moved over the all-water route next year. Sev- 

 eral of the largest furniture manufacturei's are 

 stockholders in the enterprise. 



,7. E. Iteiter, in charge of the Longfellow »% 

 Skillman Lumber Company's interests at Lever- 

 ing, is in Grand Rapids for a few days. The 

 company will not rebuild at Levering, and good 

 sales are reported in cleaning up the stock at 

 that point. 



Milwatikee. 



The John R. Davis Lumlier Company, Phil- 

 lips, Whs., has shut down its sawmill for 

 the usual repairs, after a successful day 

 nnd night run during the summer. It now 

 has in pile a nice stock of birch, basswood. 

 hard maple, black ash. elm. pine and hem- 

 lock. This enterprising company has a novel 

 method of advertising its wares. In every let- 

 ter written a circular is enclosed, which states 

 that a Christmas tree will be included with each 

 carload of lumber ordered before Dec. 31. It Is 

 also added that a small one will be put In for 

 the baby, if desired. 



Reports from the mills of the Page *: l.an- 

 deck Lumber Company near Crandon indi- 

 cate that the company will have a most suc- 

 cessful season. Most of the logs are hauled 

 to mill by rail, so that weather conditions do 

 nut hamper operations to any considerable 

 degree. Last Saturday night Crandon was 

 visited by a fire which threatened to wipe 

 nut the entire village, owing to the fact that 

 it has no fire propecllon. Among the twenty 

 or more structures burned was the Page & 

 Landeck store building, causing a loss of 

 $2,000. This was covered by insurance. 



The John Weeks Lumber Company of 

 S'tevcns Point has purchased nil the logs and 

 limber lands of the Grand Rapids Lumber 

 Company. Grand Rapids. Wis. The cut will 

 be sawed at Stevens Point. 



Daniel MacGlllls. sei-retary treasurer and 

 gen.-riil manager of the MacGlllls & Glbbs 

 Lumber Company of this city and Seattle, 

 ilicd at his hnmi- In this <lty Oct. 2r>, He 

 was 11! years old. was horn in Lnnraster, 

 Ont., and had been Identified with the lumber 

 Industry practically all his life. 



