"HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Is only a question of filling them. The hard- 

 wood trade i;s showing more activity and the 

 firm has been making purchases of additional 

 stocks right along, .lohn J. Soble was at the 

 mill of the Long Pole Lumber Company all of 

 last week. 



Caliunet. 



The Ontonagon Stave & Veneer Company of 

 Ontonagon made its first shipment of staves 

 this month. It consisted of two carloads. 150,- 

 000 staves, consigned to Minneapolis parties. 

 The plant is running smoothly and it is turning 

 out 30.000 staves daily, which will soon be in- 

 creased to 40,000. 



F. Carney, Jr., the well known lumberman 

 of Marinette, Wis., was in Chicago on business 

 the middle of the month. 



A. M. and W. H. Murphy, who are engaged in 

 the lumber business at Green Bay, Wis., were 

 Chicago visitors last week. 



E. L. Blanchard, who has been in Dickinson 

 county for the past three months, selecting and 

 shipping bird's-eye maple logs, has returned to 

 his home at Jamestown, N. Y. He has shipped 

 twenty carloads from Sagola, Eandville and 

 Granite Bluff. 



Arthur D. Eice of L'Anse has accepted a posi- 

 tion as superintendent of the Big Bay Lumber 

 Company's mill at Big Bay. about 35 miles 

 north of Marquette. He will make his head- 

 quarters at Marquette and has already removed 

 his family to that city. 



Notice of an increase of capital stock from 

 ^1.70.000 to .filOO.OOO has been filed with the sec- 

 retary of state by the Peninsula Bark & Lumber 

 company of Sault Ste. Marie. 



H. P. Lucas and M. J. Quinlan of Escanaba 

 and Menominee, respectively, were in Chicago 

 on business early in the month. 



Ptter Sibenaler of Menominee buys maple lum- 

 ber for the frames of bed springs made by the 

 Cream City Woven Wire Works Company of 

 Milwaukee. Wis. Mr. Sibenaler is vice president 

 of the concern. 



There is a marked scarcity of ash in the up- 

 per peninsula. .Stocks are becoming lighter 

 every year, while the demand is on the in- 

 crease. 



Swan Peterson of Foster City, Dickinson 

 county, among other timber has put in 100,000 

 feet of basswood logs, which have been pur- 

 chased by the J. W. Wells Lumber Company of 

 Menominee. 



The National Hardwood Company is employ- 

 ing thirty men in its sawmill and logging oper- 

 ations near Granite Bluff. The mill is cutting 

 25,000 feet daily. 



H. M. Bell, who has been manager of the 

 Ontonagon Stave & Veneer Company of On- 

 tonagon since the concern was organized, has 

 resigned. James J. Russell of Milwaukee, Wis., 

 will temporarily fill the vacancy. Mr. Russell 

 is heavily interested in the plant. 



The L Stephenson Company of Wells is manu- 

 facturing a large amount of hardwood flooring 

 and lumber, its plants running at their max- 

 imum capacity. 



Buffalo. 



Horace F. Taylor, president of Taylor & Crate, 

 is one of the committee appointed to represent 

 the Chamber of Commerce in the Union station 

 hearing at Albany. Buffalo wants the station 

 if it is not too costly. 



A. J, Ellas is still active in advocating the 

 opening of Buffalo creek as a navigable stream 

 to relieve the flood sufferers, who have already 

 been inundated once this month, but the expense 

 frightens most people. 



H. A. Stewart made his trip south count by 

 stopping off at Cincinnati and other points and 

 picking up cars of oak tor the Buffalo yard. He 

 was in Arkansas at last reports. 



J. N. Scatcherd made quite a long stay at the 

 Memphis mills of his firm, as he is anxious to 

 get out as much oak as possible. The big Ba- 



tavia hardwo'id interior finish mill, of which 

 company he is president, is far behind its orders. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 crowding its yard with lumber from the South, 

 mainly oak, and has a large lot on the way, 

 which means that business is good. No loss was 

 sustained in the ■S\1iissel yard fire next door. 



J. B. Wall has returned from his southern 

 trip. The yard of the Buffalo Hardwod Lumber 

 Company is getting in a good lot of oak and ash 

 from Mississippi and finds the demand excellent. 



At the annual meeting of the Buffalo Lumber 

 Exchange, held on the 11th, George B. Montgom- 

 ery was elected president. O. E. Yeager, vice 

 president, and Knowlton Mixer, secretary and 

 treasurer. 



All the members of the Hugh McLean Lum- 

 ber Company were looking up outside business 

 one day lately. The company's mills are as 

 usual active and the outlook is decidedly good. 



The hardwood sales of A. Miller have increased 

 so much of late that he is looking south for a 

 timber tract and will go to North Carolina before 

 long in that interest. Of course, it is oak that 

 is mainly wanted. 



Plans for visiting the Portland, Ore., exposi- 

 tion for the Hoo-Hoo annual have been laid 

 aside after arriving at the conclusion that a 

 special car can be filled. They will be taken up 

 again with a will at the annual convention of the 

 National Hardwood Association here in May. 



Everybody will be sorry to learn that there 

 is prospect of closing the Buffalo yard of the 

 Empire Lumber Company next year. It is at 

 present well stocked with an assortment of hard- 

 woods that have been largely contributed from 

 fite company's mills at Empire. Ark., but it 

 does not seem advisable to keep up what is 

 practically two establishments, though there will 

 be a sales office maintained here. Mr. Vetter has 

 plans for living in Little Rock winters. 



There have been no recent sessions of the 

 bankruptcy court in the settlement of the lum- 

 ber failure cases, but outside meetings have been 

 held. It is stated that a part of the claim of 

 Fall & Co. against the Queen City will be al- 

 lowed, though the Queen City people do not agree 

 as yet to such an arrangement. As soon as the 

 status of George H. Cheely in the Heusinger case 

 is decided that will be taken up again. 



Grand Bapids. 



Wolf Brothers, well-known lumbermen of this 

 city, have added about 2.000 acres of hardwood 

 and hemlock timber lands to their holdings in 

 Houghton county, so that they now have in the 

 neighborhood of 4.000 acres there. Alston, on 

 the South Shore, is the nearest railway station 

 and a mill may be built there, the special pur- 

 pose being to manufacture stock for the furni- 

 ture factories of this city. 



A train of twenty-eight cars of selected Michi- 

 gan hard maple and rock elm logs was shipped 

 out of Eaton county last week and will go 

 through solid to the seaboard, thence by steamer 

 to Liverpool. England, and to Glasgow and Bris- 

 tol, Scotland. J. D. Dancer made the shipment, 

 the freight charges alone approximating $4,000. 

 The elm is used by ship builders and the maple 

 is converted into rollers for use in printing 

 calicoes and wall paper. 



Charles W. Garfield of this city, president of 

 the Michigan Forestry Commission, has planted 

 several acres of forest trees, the latest planta- 

 tion consisting of black cherry, catalpa. black 

 locust and osage orange. He has found by ex- 

 perience that the varieties should be mixed, in 

 order to get natural forest conditions. He says : 

 ■plant in the spring, on land prepared as for 

 corn. Let the trees be four feet each way or 

 close enough to keep the June grass out, and 

 iiiltivate them for at least three years. The 

 cherry is my timber tree. Unlike the black wal- 

 nut, the cherry gets its color at once. My ca- 

 talpas are Intended for railroad ties and the 

 ,rop will begin bearing in fifteen years. The 

 usage orange and locust are for fence posts and 

 will be large enough for use in ten or twelve 

 vears. 



W. C. Hall of Gibbs & Hall has been through 

 southern Michigan calling on the trade during 

 the past few days and he reports that the log 

 crop at the mills is the largest known in years. 



The Pratt Manufacturing Company of Cold- 

 water, which turns out sleds and novelties, has 

 taken in half a. million feet of logs from farmers' 

 hands. There are three saw mills in operation 

 within the limits of Coldwater. 



Evans'rille. 



Henry Maley of Edlnburg. Ind., was in Evans- 

 ville the past week looking after his interests 

 and reports business picking up and expects a 

 large business during the coming year. 



O. L. Wade, representing W. M. Weston Com- 

 pany, Boston, Mass.. whose headquarters are 

 Indianapolis, was in this market recently and 

 placed some orders for quartered oak. 



John Murray of the Indiana Lumber & Veneer 

 Company, Indianapolis, Ind., was in the city the 

 past week, taking up stock for his firm. 



Tom Christian of the Fullerton-Powell Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company, South Bend. Ind., who 

 makes his headquarters at Indianapolis, was here 

 recently and placed some orde'rs for immediate 

 shipment. He claims business is still quiet, 

 owing to the heavy rains and bad weather. 



The planing mill of Espenlaub & Johann of 

 this city has dissolved partnership. Mr. Johann 

 succeeding to the business. Charles Espenlaub 

 will embark shortly in trunk manufacture at 

 Evansville. 



Maley & Wertz have just completed a large 

 consignment of quartered oak and walnut lum- 

 ber for Europe, it having been shipped via New 

 Orleans, but fortunately escaped the large fire. 



Nathan Thayer of May, Thompson & Thayer 

 has just returned from a six weeks' Pacific coast 

 trip. Mr. Thayer reports a delightful trip, hav- 

 ing visited all the prominent cities between here 

 and the coast, and finds a steady improvement in 

 business all through the West. 



Indianapolis. 



W. W. Knight of the Long-Knight Lumber 

 Company of Indianapolis was elected a trustee 

 of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation at its annual meeting, which was held at 

 Philadelphia, March 1 and 2. 



W. S. Wickard, manager of J. H. Murry & 

 Co. of Indianapolis, has been in Arkansas during 

 the past ten days looking after the company's 

 mill interests there. 



R. B. Carver, buyer for the Walnut Lumber 

 Company, last week purchased six cars of lumber 

 for his company. The purchase included several 

 difterent kinds of lumber. 



The Wyatt-Smith Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated at Camden, Ind., with a capital 

 stock of $10,000, the directors being Olpha W. 

 Wyatt, J. P. Smith and S. P. Mathews. 



The mammoth wood-split pulley manufactured 

 by the Reeves Pulley Company of Columbus. Ind.. 

 for exhibit at the World's Fair will be used in 

 New York city for advertising purposes. 



Robert Waggoner. Jr.. employed in the plan- 

 ing mill of the Pinnell-Engler Lumber Company 

 of Franklin, Ind., who lost a thumb and index 

 finger recently while operating a planer, has 

 brought suit against the company for $10,000 

 damages, claiming that the machinery was not 

 sufficiently safeguarded. 



The Syracuse Lumber Company of Syracuse. 

 Kosciusko county. Ind., has been incorporated 

 with a capital stock of $30,000 with Levi N. 

 Kitson and Milo H. Greyer as the principal 

 stockholders. 



Samuel Burkholder of Crawtordsville and F. C. 

 Carson of Michigan City, Ind., have been ap- 

 pointed by Governor J. Frank Hanly as members 

 of the Indiana State Board of Forestry, each to 

 serve a term of four years from May 18. Mv. 

 Carson, who has served on the board for the 

 last four years, was reappointed by the governor, 

 while Mr. Burkholder is a new member. The 

 former was named as a representative of the 

 Retail Lumber Dealers' Association, while the 

 latter represents the Indiana Hardwood Lumber 



