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HARDiWOOD RECORD 



ash and has been all the year, the quantity 



manufactured being rather limited compared 

 with other hardwoods. He is going south 

 shortly to buy oak. He says that it is neces- 

 sary to go where the stock is to get what he 

 wants. This company has bought a good deal 

 of Southern oak this year. 



Frank Buell of the Wylie & Buell I^umber 

 Company and the Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow 

 Company lost one of his charming daughters, 

 Hila, last week, giving her to James N. 

 Crocker, who is connected with him in busi- 

 ness. The wedding occurred at Gaylord last 

 Wednesday evening in the presence of a good- 

 ly company. Mr. Buell came down from his 

 camps Saturday night and reports conditions 

 for logging not very favorable Just now. The 

 weather has been mild, about a foot of snow 

 fell recently, but it did not stay and left the 

 ground too soft to handle logs advantageously. 



John J. Flood will not be able to start his 

 sawmill until some time next month owing to 

 inability to get cars to haul logs to his mill 

 at Bay City. He will cut maple for W. D. 

 Young & Co., and expects to operate all win- 

 ter. W. D. Young & Co., Bliss & Van Auken. 

 the Campbell-Brown Lumber Company and 

 the Kneeland-Bigelow Company, and the 

 Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow Company will 

 operate their mills during the winter. 



The E. C. Hargrave mill shut down ten days 

 ago for repairs and will start up later for the 

 winter run. 



W. H. Kemper, a stockholder in the Dayton 

 Last Block Company, who has managed the 

 works of the company at Gaylord for eleven 

 years, returns to Dayton, and Frank J. Shipp 

 has been appointed manager of the Gaylord 

 plant in his place. The plant consumes about 

 3,500.000 feet of maple and birch annually in 

 the manufacture of last blocks. 



Another concern which consumes 3,000,000 

 feet of maple annually is the Berst Manu- 

 facturing Company at Saginaw, which turns 

 out quantities of toothpicks and other hard- 

 wood specialties. 



Ross Bros, of Beaverton have manufactured 

 several million feet of hardwood lumber this 

 season, and will put in about 10,000,000 feet 

 of logs this winter, having a number of camps 

 now in operation. 



The Haak Lumber Company of Haakwood, 

 on the Mackinaw division of the Michigan 

 Central, has had a steady run on maple floor- 

 ing thi.s season, cutting the logs at its own 

 plant and converting them into flooring. The 

 plant will run during the winter, putting in a 

 stock of logs also. 



James Cooper of the Briggs & Cooper Lum- 

 ber Company, Ltd.. says he Is doing consid- 

 erable business in hardwood for this season, 

 the only kick coming is the scarcity of cars, 

 which is a common ground for complaint. 



The flooring plants which have all expe- 

 rienced an active season are still fairly busy, 

 although handicapped by the car shortage. 



The railroad which Wm. H. White & Co. 

 have promoted and which runs from Boyne 

 City to Gaylord, Is about completed Into the 

 latter place, and will let a vast quantity of 

 hardwood timber products come this way. 



Grand Bapids, 

 E. J. Lobdell. president and manager of the 

 Lobdell &. Bailey Manufacturing Company of 

 Onaway, has returned from a successful busi- 

 ness trip to France and Germany. The com- 

 pany manufacturers wooden bicycle rims and 

 enjoys an Immense trade In the United States, 

 Its foreign business steadily increasing. Busi- 

 ness in France has Increased fifty percent In 

 the past four years. The company operates 

 a factory near Paris, wood for rims being 

 shipped from Onaway In suitable sizes. A 

 factory will probably be fitted up soon In 

 <Jermany to take care of trade In that coun- 

 lr>-. 



The RejTiolds Wagon Company, capital 

 $100,000. has been organized at Kalamazoo. 

 Plans have been prepared for new buildings 

 to be erected on the site of the old beet sugar 

 factory there. The main building will be of 

 brick. 90x250 feet and two stories high. The 

 plant will be in operation early in the spring. 



The hickory spoke factors' of J. M. Story 

 at Owosso has clo.';ed operations for the sea- 

 son, after turning out over 6,000 sets of wagon 

 spokes. 



The Estey Furniture Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Owosso has been filling some nice 

 orders from Mexico this fall. 



Boyne City, the town that owes so much 

 to the Whites, now claims a population of 

 5,000. The United States census of 1900 gave 

 the town a population of only 912, showing 

 that its growth has been phenomenal. It is 

 now stated that a large addition will be built 

 to the veneering plant, for the manufacture 

 of fruit p.-ickages. 



George Engel of the Engel Land & Lumber 

 Company has started south on his first trip 

 to Englewood. La., since the outbreak of 

 yellow fever. The quarantine has been raised 

 and the company hopes to h.Tve its mill in 

 operation by Jan. 1. 



Mr. Thompson of the Thompson Lumber 

 Company reports an excellent trade for his 

 concern in hardwoods. 



Bristol. 



C. K. Mount of the Mount Lumber Company 

 was in town a few days this week. He re- 

 ports business with his firm as being first 

 class in every particular. 



J. H. Bryan of the Bryan Lumber Com- 

 pany of this city visited the operations of 

 his company at Pee Dee. N. C. this week 

 and reports the work as progressing nicely. 



The Bristol office of the R. E. Wood Lum- 

 ber Company of Baltimore. Md., will be dis- 

 continued after the first of the month, and 

 will be moved to the company's operations 

 in Carter county. 



McDonald Bros, of Columbus. O.. who will, 

 establish one of the largest sawmills in the 

 South at Mar.vville, Tenn., are now inspect- 

 ing one or two large boundaries of timber in 

 this section with a view to purchase for sup- 

 plying the plant. 



Will S. Whiting of the Whiting Manufactur- 

 ing Company of Abingdon, Va., was in town 

 last week and says that the work of install- 

 ing the machinery in the company's large 

 band mill near that place is nearly completed 

 and that the plant will soon be operated at 

 full capiicity. The company is putting down 

 several large artesian wells, which will supply 

 the log pond and engine boilers. Mr. Whit- 

 ing is moving his family from Elizabethton 

 to Abingdon where they will reside in the 

 future. 



Walter Pierce was instantly killed near 

 Sllvicola, Tenn., Nov. 13. while hauling logs 

 for the spoke mill of Anderson & Allison at 

 that place. 



A large schooner loaded with a cargo of 

 lumber from this section, principally the prod- 

 uct of the mills of J. A. Wilkinson, left 

 Richmond Inst week for Europe. Mr. ^\^lkin- 

 son reports his export trade as Increasing 

 steadily. 



L. H. Snodgrass of the Buck-Snodgrass 

 Lumber Company, Johnson City, was in town 

 recently. He says the affairs of the new 

 company are being rapidly systematized so It 

 will soon be In a position to make prompt 

 deliveries of sales now being booked. Busi- 

 ness, he says, has been a little quiet during 

 the past month, a fact not wholly regretted 

 as the company has experienced considerable 

 difficulty in securing employes at Its opera- 

 tions. 



Cfilonol W. A. Rinenrson. general passenger 

 agent of the Queen & Crescent mule, who 



has been looking after the interests of his 

 road in the South the past few days, says 

 that from all appearances in the traffic depart- 

 ment. Southern shippers, as well as travelers, 

 are appreciating the company's efforts at 

 prompt and safe handling of consignments 

 over its line. Shippers in this section 

 favor this road to Cincinnati and other points 

 west and south owing to the safety signal 

 devices now in use on the system, making 

 accidents practically impossible. 



Milwaukee. 



A rich hardwood territory is to be opened 

 up by the construction of a new railroad line 

 from Madison to Oshkosh, Appleton, and north 

 to Crandon, which is now in process of build- 

 ing. It is expected that the road will be com- 

 pleted early next spring. This line will run 

 through Langlade and Forest counties, both of 

 which abound in hardwood timber of first- 

 class quality. The Page & Landeck Lumber Com- 

 pany of this city, whose mills are at Crandon, 

 owns considerable timber tributary to this lino 

 and will begin operations ther^i as soon as the 

 road is completed. 



The lack of snow in the woods has made 

 employment there exceedingly attractive this 

 fall and the scarcity of labor which threat- 

 ened to curtail operations did not materialize. 

 Conditions are now excellent for cutting logs 

 and most of the camps through the hardwood 

 section of the state are working to their full 

 capacity. 



A large hardwood factory is in contempla- 

 tion by the Sawyer-Goodman Company of 

 Marinette, Wis., and it is expected that work 

 on the proposed plant will begin early in the 

 spring. The concern recently purchased the 

 sawmill of the Marinette Lumber Comp,any at 

 Marinette, which would have finished sawing 

 this year, and will run it to its full capacity 

 for many years to come. The company ex- 

 pects to embark more heavily in the hard- 

 wood business, and its payroll next year will 

 contain the names of at least 800 men. 



H. P. Dutton of the Worcester Lumbir 

 Company of Chassel. Mich., was in the city 

 discussing the situation with the trade. He 

 asserts that there is a good demand for all 

 kinds of hardwood throughout this section of 

 the country, where he has many customers. 



W. J. Wagstaff, a prominent hardwood 

 dealer of Oshkosh, was in this city recently. 



Cincinnati. 



W. II. Hlnes of C. Crane & .Co. has returned 

 from a brief business trip to Chicago. 



J. W. Dickson of the J. W. Dickson Com- 

 pany, Memphis, Tenn., was a caller on the 

 local trade during the past fortnight. 



Leland G. Banning Is in New York on busi- 

 ness. 



SI Egan of the J. A. Fay & Egan Company 

 has returned from a month's trip through the 

 South. He says that all traces of yellow 

 fever have disappeared and that in conse- 

 quence the lumber trade there has resumed 

 activity. 



P. Benson of James Kennedy & Co.. who re- 

 moved from Ft. Wayne. Ind.. to this citj' on 

 Nov. 1 has applied for membership In the 

 HuslniHs Mens Club. There Is already a large 

 representation of hardwood lumbermen In the 

 organization. 



On petitlpn of Harry A. Freiberg. Sanford 

 Brown and George D. Harper have been ap- 

 pointed receivers of the Robert B. Becker 

 Lumber Company, Poplar street and Western 

 avenue. Mr. Freiberg charged that his part- 

 ners In the business, Robert Becker and John 

 Brockman. failed to give satisfactory accounts. 



The formation of a credit bureau Is being 

 agitated by a number of prominent lumbermen 

 and It Is likely that the project will be sub- 

 mltleil to th<' members of the Lumbermen's 

 Club at the December meeting. Its object 



