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than 100 persons, including several rail- 

 road crews, are fighting the advance of 

 the flame.s. 



MICHIGAN ITEMS. 



(Special Correspondence.) 



Calumet, Mich., Nov. 22, 1904. 

 The gradual decadence of the pine lum- 

 ber industry in northern Michigan is well 

 illustrated by the conditions at Menomi- 

 nee, for many years the lumber center 

 of the United States. The monster lum- 

 ber business once done in that city and 

 distiict has in recent years annually 

 shown a falling off, until now there 

 is but comparatively little left of it. Next 

 season only two mills, neither of large pro- 

 portions, will be in commission. 



As the pine is disappearing more atten- 

 tion is being paid to the manufacture of 

 hardwood. A number of important floor- 

 ing plants have been established in recent 

 years, while veneering factories are spring- 

 ing up in all sections. The cedar industry 

 has also become one of importance, while 

 more hemlock, spruce and cordwood are 

 being cut than ever before. Their cutting 

 and manufacture are giving employment 

 to large numbers of men and will con- 

 tinue to do so for many years. 



It is estimated that from 8,000 to 10,000 

 cords of cordwood will be cut near Crystal 

 Falls. Hardwood by the tens of thousands 

 of cords will be cut in Alger County this 

 season for use in making charcoal to feed 

 the furnaces of the Cleveland Cliffs Iron 

 Company, doing its own cutting from its 

 own lands, of which it has considerably 

 more than a million acres. 



The woodenware factory at Crystal 

 Falls, which was closed down some tirrie 

 ago, owing to the unsatisfactory state 

 of the market, will be reopened at once. 

 Logs will be shipped in from Escanaba 

 until the camps nearby are ready to sup- 

 ply material. 



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The Lansing Manufacturing Company, 

 capital $50,000, has been incorporated by 



A. A. Wilbur, A. C. Davis and A. L. Har- 

 low of Lansing, to engage in the manufac- 

 ture of agricultural instruments. 

 * * * 

 Nadeau Brothers of Nadeau are large 

 manufacturers and shippers of rock maple 

 cant hook handles, which they are supply- 

 ing to the trade throughout the United 

 States and Canada. A large amount of 

 hardwood charcoal, hardwood lumber, 

 flooring, siding, etc., is also manufactured, 

 besides pine lumber, cedar posts, poles, 

 etc. 



CLEVELAND CHIPS. 



(Special Correspondence.) 

 Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 22, 1904. 



Another was added to the long list of 

 mysterious fires on the flats, when the 

 big building owned by the Arcade Lum- 

 ber Company, on'Columbus street, near 

 the Big Four Railroad tracks, burned to 

 the ground at 1:30 o'clock this morning, 

 entailing a loss of $10,000. 



The structure was used as an extra 

 storeroom by the lumber company, but 

 had not been in service for some time. 



This makes the tenth mysterious fire 

 that has taken place in the flats within 

 the last six months. The manufacturers 

 and property owners are of the opinion 

 that an incendiary is at the bottom of the 

 fires. Every effort has been made to de- 

 tect the man who is destroying property 

 and jeopardizing life, but to no avail. 



* * * 



The Arcade Lumber Company, of which 

 R, M. Nelson was president and treasurer 

 and W. H. Richardson was secretary and 

 manager, has been succeeded by the 

 Richardson-Brown Lumber Company^ W. 

 H. Richardson, president, and George V. 

 Brown, secretary and treasurer. 



* * * 



L. L. King and C. F. Keener are two new 

 salesmen employed by the Robt. H. Jenks 



Lumber Company. 



* * * 



A. S. Bliss, assistant manager hardwood 

 department of the Advance Lumber Com- 



pany, has located in Indianapolis, Ind., 

 where he has charge of their branch of- 

 fice. 



• * * 



The Simon Lumber Company was incor- 

 porated under the laws of Ohio November • 

 10, with an authorized capital of $100,000. 

 J. G. Simon, president; C. J. Simon, vice- 

 president and treasurer, and John Palmer, 

 secretary. 



The American Box Company have pur- 

 chased the C. H. Gill Lumber Company's 

 planing mill, which will be used for fac- 

 tory purposes. The consideration is re- 

 ported to be $25,000. 



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J. C. Blackford of Chicago was here 

 Monday in the interests of the National 

 Lumber Manufacturing Company, of which 

 he is secretary. This firm has mills in 

 the South, cutting large quantities of hard- 

 woods. 



* * * 



.1. L. Lytle, of Curll & Lytle, Pittsburg, 

 was a recent caller. 



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W. J. Fell of Salt Lick, Ky.. was here 



the other day, and says he sold recently 



a car of first and second poplar which 



contained a good per cent of stock wider 



than 40 inches, some of the boards being 



47 inches wide. 



» * * 



.1. F. Dowler of Bedford, Ohio; C. H. 

 .lohnson. Burton, Ohio; C. L. Mattison, Se- 

 ville, Ohio, and H. W. Whitcraft of Car- 

 lollton, Ohio, were recent buyers .in this 

 market. 



THE NORTHWEST. 



(Special Correspondence.) 

 Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 21, 1904. 

 F. H. Lewis, the well-known hardwood 

 wholesaler of this city.' has formed a part- 

 nership with C. M. Stevens of St. Croix 

 Falls, Wis., and the firm of Lewis & 

 Stevens will engage in the manufacture of 

 basswood heading at Dent, Minn., on the 

 new Soo line extension. Later on they ex- 



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