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HARDWOOD RECORD 



liin Company of Muskegon HeigUts, which lias 

 been operating a plant intermittently for about 

 a year. Superintendent M. J. Janisch retains 

 iiis position with the new company and fifty 

 men will be employed, turning out about 2.000 

 boxes of pins daily, each box containing sixty 

 dozen pins. The officers are as follows : rrcsi- 

 dent. A. Freschl ; vice president, I.ouis O'Neill ; 

 treasurer, C. D. Berry ; secretary, L. II. Manson. 

 Main otUces will be at 120 Michigan avenue, Chi- 

 cago. M. P. .Tanisch of Muskegon is a large 

 stockholder. 



Statistics show that l.'J,714 automobiles were 

 manufactured in the state in 1905. There are 

 ihirty-four automobile factories in Michigan and 

 twenty-eight of these concerns report a good 

 outlook for business this year. 



Since tire annual meeting of the Michigan 

 Maple Company held in this city February 15. 

 inch and inch and a (juarter sto<k has ad- 

 vanced 50 cents and the market continues 

 strong. The company was organized five years 

 ago and has been successful in warding off de 

 moralization of the hardwood market by work- 

 ing with, instead of opposing, the large dealers 

 in maple lumber. If at any time a manufac- 

 turer has been forced to sell his lumber from 

 the saw, or did not care to market it himself, 

 the company has made an effbrt to have the 

 slock go into the hands of some strong dealer. 

 rather than allow it to be dumped on the mar- 

 ket at any price. The company will be reorgan- 

 ized to include other Michigan hardwoods. 



Weather conditions have been unusual in 

 Michigan this winter, with very light snowfall. 

 and the annual short log crop story is given 

 more credence than usual. Tire (irand Rapids 

 Herald runs a sensational slory on this subject 

 sr.ying that the log crop in the upper peninsula 

 will not be 50 per cent of what it was last 

 year, and the situation is critical. (Jrand Itap- 

 ids lumber dealers for the most part, however, 

 .say that conditions are far from appalling. 

 though they are such as to point to a stiff 

 market on all merchantable slock. Small mills 

 depending on log hatils by team are of coiirsi' 

 affected worst, but it is believed that in the 

 aggregate the log crop will be cf fair volume. 



Iron making has begun at the Mitche!l-Dig- 

 gins Co.s plant in Cadiliac. -Vbout 2.500 bush- 

 els of charcoal was required at tlie outset and 

 the first fire in the furnace was kindled by Miss 

 Marie Mitchell, daughter of \Vm. W. Mitchell, 

 president of the company. (Jastings are made 

 every six hours tbroughout the day and night. 



There is difference of opinion as to the value 

 o;* the bonus plan of seeming factories in the 

 smaller towns of the state. Detroit and Grand 

 ICapids furnish free sites to new industries and 

 go no farther than this. At a recent banquet 

 given In Muskegon in honor of ex-.Tudge Russell, 

 Waller I. I-illie iif Grand Haven stated that his 

 town had been unfortunate in some of Its in- 

 vestments and that the city was paying interest 

 on money sunk in this way. Samuel Uosen, 

 president of the Chamber of Commerce, Mus- 

 kegon, defended the factory bonus system, say- 

 ing that the §200,000 spent by that city in 

 securing new industries had been wisely ex- 

 |iende<l. He said that with the first .^lOO.OOO 

 fund ten factories had been secured, now em- 

 ploying 2,000 people and paying In wages 

 ?00.00o monthly. 



The Muskegon Log Lifting & Operating Com- 

 pany, organized to lift the dead beads" from 

 the Muskegon river, will open offices soon at 

 11 South First street, Muskegon. The company 

 will iiperate two scows, each C5 feet long and 

 ei|ulpped with hoisting derricks operated by 

 steam engines. It Is expected that from 200 id 

 300 logs will be lifted per day. 



L. .1. Tripp, handle manufacturer of Mesick, 

 Is on n southern trip in search of timber. 



Geo. Engel of the Kngel Lumber (Jonipnny, 

 'Jrand Kaplds, left .March il for a trip through 

 Tennessee ami Mississippi, lonklng up timber 

 prospects. The ICngel Company's new mill In 

 northern Louisiana Is now In operation and 'is 



cutting oak. When in full operation the iMiipur 

 will be 75.O('0 feet per day. 



The W. H. White Company of Boyne City has 

 put its cutover lands in the market, placing a 

 capable colonizer in charge. The lands are 

 easily cleared, well watered and productive. 



Suit has been brought in the Delia county 

 circuit court by the Escaualia Woudenwai-e Com- 

 pany against the Chicago & Xortliwestern rail- 

 road asking about $47,0UO damages for alleged 

 misrepresentation in the sale of standing tim- 

 ber. 



Indications iioiiit to a large and successful 

 meeting of the Lumbermen's Association of 

 Grand Kapids on March ](!, with the board of 

 mana.gers of th,? National Hardwood Lumber As- 

 sociation as invited guests. Secretary L. L. 

 Skillman lias already received about twenty 

 acceptances to the invitation. Mayor Sweet, 

 McGeorge Bundy and Clias. W. Garfield are ex- 

 pected to be present at the banquet to be given 

 at the Hotel I'antlind in the evening. 



Saginaw Valley. 



The CJale l.umbei- Cumpany will finish its 

 operations at West Branch in May and the mill 

 will then be removed to the upper peninsula, 

 where the company, associated with Saginaw 

 people, has bought a large body of timber. The 

 company is putting in only 2.0(10.000 feet of logs 

 this winter. 



F. W. Gilclirlst is making extensive repairs 

 in his mill at Alpena, including a new boiler 

 bouse, a new battery of boilers, a new smoke- 

 stack and a .general overhauliug. A trainload 

 of maple logs is coming lo the mill about 

 every day, and when the mill starts up early in 

 the spring it will have a sulBcient stock for a 

 long run. Mr. Gilchrist nianufactureil ovi>i- (i.- 

 000,000 feet of hardwood last season. 



.T. .T. Flood is sawing logs for M'. D. Young 

 & (^0., and is getting in a lot also to saw for 

 Sailing, Hanson & Co. 



C. T. Kerry of tlie Kerry & Hanson Flooring 

 Company of Grayling, says the new fiooring 

 plant is working finely and the flooring trade 

 is in excellent form, better than it lias been in a 

 long time. 



S. L. Kastuuui of thi. lOaslmnn Flouring Com- 

 pany has bought 12,000.000 or l-l.OOO.ooo feet 

 of maple, which will be converted into fiooring 

 at his planl. He contracted for 10.000,000 feet 

 from the Kneeland. Tiuell & Bigelow plants at 

 Bay City, which will be delivered as manufac- 

 tured. Mr. lOastnian regards the prospects for 

 the year as decidedly good. 



The Kneeland-Bigelow Company has biiught 

 .".000.000 feet, mostly hardwood, standing lim- 

 ber, in Montmorency county, which will come 

 10 Bay City to be manufactured. 



Grimore & Son are putting in about 7.000.000 

 feet of logs at Winegar's, Gladwin conuly, which 

 are being shipped to Bousefield & Co., at Bav 

 City. 



At Bomanville, Gladwin county, the Bomau 

 Lumber Company has put In 2,000,000 feet of 

 hardwood logs to stock its mill. 



C. S. Jtllss. formerly of Saginaw, operates a 

 small sawmill at Butman, and has put in a 

 couple of million feet of hardwnod slock, which 

 lie will manufacture. 



There are a dozen small bardwomi mills In 

 • iladwin, Ogemaw and .\renac cminlles. just 

 north of the valley, which will cut from .500,000 

 feet to 2,000,000 each during I be year and the 

 manufaclund stock Is all shipped by rail to 

 Bay City and Saginaw. 



The mills along the Mackinaw dlvlsbm of the 

 Michigan Centnil, north of the Saginaw river, 

 inanufaclurril about •17,000,000 feet of hard- 

 wood lumber last year, and there Is very little 

 slock in I be hands of the mill firms iit this 

 time. 



Frank Biiell has purchased a piirlable mill 

 of ],'i,000 feet dally capacity In Cheboygan 

 county, ,",00.000 feet of saw logs and about the 

 Hamc t|Uanllly of standing limber. It Is con- 

 llguouH In the limber owned by linns In which 

 Mr. Ituell Is Interested. 



Toledo. 



The I'hosnix Box Company, to better care for 

 its lumber stocks, has completed the erection 

 of two large sheds, and will erei't auother one. 

 150 feet in length, within the next few weeks. 



An involuntary petition in bankruptcy has 

 been tiled in the I'uited States District Court 

 in this city agaiust the Erie Woodworking Com- 

 pany of A'ermllion, Ohio. The creditors filing 

 the iietition are the Advance Lumber Company 

 Laving a claim for ?l,127.2(i ; the Cleve- 

 land Too! & Supply Company a claim 

 for .'?717.70 : the Burrow Brothers Company, 

 .f t;u.:!.'S : Love, Hoyd & Co., ,?1(;:!.7G ; the C. 

 Matlison Machine Works, ¥78.10, and the Ar- 

 kansas Lumber Company, $351. US. All the 

 above concerns are located at Cleveland. The 

 petition alleges that the concern is insolvent 

 aud that it committed an act in bankruptcy on 

 January 10 in making an assignment of lumber, 

 valued at $0,000, to the Erie County Banking 

 Company of Sandusky. 



The Ilicksville Manufacturing Company, 

 Ilicksville, Ohio, mauufacturer of furniture, is 

 installing new machinery. 



'Ihe Kerr Brothers Manufacturiug Company of 

 Ilicksville, C, is installing a complete new 

 equipment for the manufacture of D handles. 



Cincinnati. 



The Cincinnati Lumbermen's tjlub held its 

 regular monthly meeting and dinner Monday 

 evening, Jlprcli 5, at the Stag cafe. It was 

 decided to send a large delegalion to the coming 

 conveution of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association at Memphis, -\rrangements for a 

 special car over Uie Illinois Central were con- 

 cluded. T. I*. Scott & Co. were admitted In 

 membership. 



The S. W. Trost Lumber Company, capital 

 S50,000, has been incorporated by S. W. Trost. 

 .lacob W. Trost, W. .1. Trost, Cliarles A. Brom 

 beck and D. J. Workuni. The new compaii.\ 

 will take over tlic business formerly conducttHl 

 at 12-20 west Canal street by S. W. Trost. 

 They will make a specialty of cigar box lumber. 



The Kentuck.v Lumber Company, which re- 

 cently removed its main offices from Burnslde, 

 Ky., 10 the First -National Bank building, has 

 acquired a lot 200x400 feet on Sixth street. 

 below Baymiller. in this city, for yard pur- 

 poses. The company's business here is rapidly 

 increasing and values are stiffening on all kinds 

 of hardwoods. 



The case of tiie Kentuck.v Lumber Company 

 vs. the T. W. Kee\eny Lumber Compauy of Cin- 

 cinnati, recently tried in .Tustlce Edward Maus' 

 court, was decided in favor of tlie plaintiff. The 

 Kentucky Lumber Compau.v sued for payment 

 for a car of lumber which the Kceveny Lunibei- 

 Compauy purchased of them, and claimed was 

 not up to grade, proceeding to dispose of that 

 portion which was all right, and attempting to 

 re.iect the lay-outs. 



The Acme Veneer & Lumber Company will 

 erect !i two-story brick warehouse, S5x05 feel, 

 at the southwest corner of Eighth and Harriet 

 streets. Office (piartcrs will also be located In 

 the new building. 



i:. W. Robbins. prcsideni of the .\laley. Thump 

 son vV: Moffett Company, accompanied by .Mrs, 

 Uobblus, has gone to New York. They will be 

 gone about two weeks. 



Wm. and ('has. Duhlmeler of Dulilmeler Broth- 

 ers returned the early part nf the mnnlh from 

 an extended buying trip lliroiigh Kentucky. 

 They report that stocks at Ihe mills are very 

 light and that mill owners are holding out for 

 higher prices. Several iiuporlaiit Iraiisaclions 

 were made by tluMU, however. 



The cliii'innati Hardwood Coni|)nny Is pre|iar 

 ing til build a veneer mill on Colerain avenue, 

 llcrclcifore ihey have only been buyers and 

 sellers of hardwoods. The new braucli of Ibr 

 business will be operated «ui an extensive scale, 



,1. II. Whnleu of the 1. T. Williams & Sons. 

 New York, has been here the luisl Inrlulghl 

 buying lumber for his company. He "ill visll 



