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HARDWOOD RECORD 



floor of tlie Micbigan Ti-ust building, wliile 

 the yards are at tlie East street crossing of the 

 Pere Marquette railroad. The officers of the 

 companv are as follows: President, J. F. 

 Quiglev: vice president, W. O. Hughart, Jr.; 

 secretary. Walter Stone; treasurer, J. D. M. 

 Shirts. The board of directors includes the 

 officers and Byron R. Thompson, A. B. Cbappel, 

 Charles McQuewan and Frank Squires. 



Among the new corporations of the state 

 is the Callard Furniture Company of Bancroft, 

 capital $23,000. 



The Vilas County Lumber Company and the 

 Turtle Lake Lumber Company, with practically 

 the same stockholders though distinct enter- 

 prises, -will this spring install double band and 

 resaw mills at an expense of ahout $73,000 

 each on their hardwood timber lands in Vilas 

 county, Wisconsin. The former company is 

 under the management of John J. Foster of 

 Greenville, Mich., and has recently bought 22,- 

 000 acres of timber land in Vilas county. Its 

 plant will be located on Presque Isle Lake. 

 Walter C. Winchester is secretary and manager 

 of the Turtle Lake Company, which has pur- 

 chased 14.000 acres of timber iu Iron and 

 Vilas counties. 



J. E. Reiter. in cliarge of the mill of the 

 Longfellow & SkiUman Lumber Company at 

 Levering, was in Grand Rapids this week. 

 He reports that the company will have its 

 stock of logs in ttiis week and that the plant 

 will start soon on its cut of 2,000,000 feet of 

 hemlock and hardwood, shingles. lath and cedar 

 products. He reports that tbe company's mill 

 at Alanson will have a cut of about a million 

 and a quarter feet this season. 



W. C. Hall of Gibbs & Hall was outside 

 this week looking after the company's grow- 

 ing trade in forest products. 



The Van Keulen & Wilkinson Lumber Com- 

 pany is doing a fine business this season In 

 hardwood lumber and crating stock. Mr. Van 

 Keulen reports that prospects are excellent for 

 the present year. 



"We are not yet into the hardwood trade 

 deep enough." says IL C. Angell of Wagner & 

 Angell, "to judge accurately as to conditions, 

 but we know that outside of hardwood our 

 trade has been excellent. In fact, our busi- 

 ness so far this month has been in excess of 

 that for the entire month of March last year. 

 We have only a few cars of hardwood unloaded 

 so far at our yards here." 



Freeman S. Farr. a prominent lumberman of 

 Muskegon a quarter of a century ago, is dead 

 of apoplexy at his home in Georgetown, S. C. 

 He was general manager of the Atlantic Coast 

 Lumber Company. 



E. E. Dennis of Dennis Bros, is finishing Ave 

 new residences in the Madison avenue section 

 of the city. They are modern throughout, with 

 hardwood floors and interior trim of quartered 

 oak and curly birch. R'. P. Tietsort of the 

 Royal Furniture Company is having plans 

 drawn for a $17,000 residence in Madison ave- 

 nue. Charles A. Phelps and John H. Bonnell 

 of the Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company are also 

 figuring on building line homes in the east end 

 of town this summer. 



Baltimore. 



Additional details about the purchase of prop- 

 erty on Central. Canton and Eastern avenues. 

 and Eden street by Eisenhauer, MacLea & i'u.. 

 hardwood dealers now located in West Palls 

 avenue, make the deal appear even more im- 

 portant than was at first supposed. It is stated 

 that some of the buildings ou the place, which 

 include a large brick factory and several ware- 

 houses, will be torn down, to make room for a 

 spacious storage shed for lumber with a floor 

 space of not less than 40,000 square feet and 

 rooDi enough to pile up from l,o00,(J00 to 

 2,000,001] feet of lumber. Every facility for the 

 expeditious liandling and the display of stocks 

 will be provided and track connection with the 

 railroads will be made. The barrel factory of 



Kimball. Tyler & Co., formerly located there, 

 was moved to Highlandtown nearly four months 

 ago and the factory was sold to Chicago capi- 

 talists, who intended to use the property for 

 some other purpose. Evidently, however, the 

 plan miscarried or the offer of Eisenhauer, Mac- 

 Lea & Co. proved too tempting to be disre- 

 garded. 



There was a slight fire in the Broadbent & 

 Davis Mantel Company's place, at President 

 street and Canton avenue, on the morning of 

 Feb. 22. which caused little damage but a great 

 deal of excitement. Over the company's place 

 is located a shop for the manufacture of cloth- 

 ing, at which occupation a number of girls are 

 employed. ^\Tien the alarm of flre was given 

 these girls became frightened and about twenty 

 i)f them jumped from windows, fortunately with- 

 out hurting themselves seriously. Firemen soon 

 put out the blaze, which was apparently caused 

 by someone throwing a lighted cigarette into a 

 barrel. The Broadbent & Davis Company, it 

 may be mentioned, has of late made extensive 

 improvements and Is constantly aiming to en- 

 large its facilities. It has erected a commodious 

 factory at Canton avenue and President street, 

 and lines up with the most enterprising con- 

 cerns in the city. 



I,ast week was moving week with a number 

 of lumber firms, which have occupied temporary 

 quarters since the great flre and have bad to 

 [lut up with much inconvenience during the in- 

 terval. Among them are W. S. Price and E. E. 

 Price, who have had offices in the Manufac- 

 turers' Record building. Lexington and North 

 streets, and were housed with a fair degree of 

 romfoit. but desired to get hack into more com- 

 modious quarters. Both firms have taken rooms 

 in the Continental Trust building, southeast 

 corner of Baltimore and Calvert streets, the 

 highest edifice in the city, which has been 

 again reopened for tenants after complete res- 

 toration. They have very comfortable offices 

 in the sky-scraper and will be glad to welcome 

 iheir friends and customers as of old. 



Richard W. Price of Price & Ileald. hard- 

 wood dealers and exporters, with offices in the 

 Manufacturers' Record luiildinp, who went down 

 to Florida about the holidays for his health, 

 which had been somewhat impaired by close ap- 

 plication to business, has returned greatly im- 

 proved. For the present he is still exercising 

 some caution in the expen(Tlture of energy, but 

 he is fully restored and is at his office ever.e 

 day attending to affairs. 



The project of establishing at some point 

 convenient to Baltimore a storage depot for 

 hardwood lumber and logs, where buyers may 

 have an opportunity to inspect stocks and 

 make their selections, and where any surplus in 

 the offerings can also be taken care of until 

 favorable market conditions ensue, was for a 

 time put aside but not abandoned, and has now 

 been taken up once more. The new enterprise 

 would succeed that undertaken by the L<icust 

 Point Terminal and Forwarding Company, 

 which sold out its property at Locust Point 

 lo the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 

 before the pier was completed. The need of 

 such a place Is keenly felt. It would admit of 

 a more effectual regulation of the hardwood 

 business at this port, and would prove beneficial 

 to the export trade generally. For a time a 

 piece of property on the Baltimore and Ohio 

 i-ailroad. several miles out of the city, was held 

 under consideration, but the negotiations with 

 the railroad did not come to a point because of 

 tertain conditions attached to the matter by the 

 railroad which the exporters interested felt 

 they could not well subscribe to. 



Gustave Farber of Price & Heald, who has 

 been in Tennessee, near the North Carolina 

 boundary, looking after the development of some 

 timber land there for his firm, is on a visit home 

 t'hJs week after some months. All of his time 

 since the holidays, with the exception of a trip 

 to St. Louis to the meeting of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Exporters' Association, has 



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