HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Saginaw Valley. 



Small operators in the woods have finished 

 the winter worli, the ice is out of the streams, 

 navigation is practically open and the business 

 •of the season Is on. A larger quantity of hard- 

 wood stock was put in last winter than was cal- 

 culated on when the work opened In the fall. 

 .This is due to the exceptionally good condi- 

 tions for logging during the winter. The mills 

 that cut hardwood on this river will be pretty 

 well stocked, as will those along the lines of 

 railroad north and at interior points. The 

 Michigan Central is hauling over its Mackinaw 

 ■division several train loads of hardwood logs a 

 ■day, which come to this river to be manufac- 

 tured. 



The high water caused Bliss & Van Auken, at 

 •Saginaw, to shut down their saw mill and floor- 

 ing mill about two weeks, but operations were 

 resumed again this week, and the season with 

 this firm will be a busy one. 



The Briggs & Cooper Lumber Company is 

 ■doing a very good business, having secured a 

 large stock of hardwood lumber cut at interior 

 mills, which will be handled through the Sagi- 

 naw yard or direct from the mills to the pur- 

 chaser. 



W. D. Young & Co. report the maple floor- 

 ing market improving, as well as the demand, 

 -and their plant is running full force. They 

 look forward to an exceptionally good season 

 In their line. Besides the flooring business, 

 they convert a lot of hardwood timber refuse 

 from the lumber cut into wood alcohol. 



The Campbell-Brown Lumber Company's mill 

 ■at Bay City is in operation. This mill cut 

 3.066.000 feet of hardwood lumber last sea- 

 son and has a partial stock this season, with 

 the probability of a full stock, as it cut for 

 rtther parties. 



John J. Flood is this week cutting out a 

 ■quantity of mahogany logs imported from Africa 

 •by Ed. Germain of Saginaw. The logs are of 

 -different lengths, and the lumber is used in 

 the manufacture of pianos. Mr. Germain began 

 the manufacture of pianos a few years ago, 

 after having investigated the subject exhaus^ 

 tively. He says that he engaged in the busi- 

 ness for the reason that he realized the pass- 

 ing of the pine industry in this state, and 

 that there were plenty of Michigan hardwoods 

 that could be utilized in piano manufacture. 

 Every year he imports a few hundred tliou.sand 

 (eet of mahogany, usually from Africa, the 

 product of that continent being peculiarly 

 adapted to his uses. His ambition has always 

 been to make the highest priced Instrument in 

 the country, and he says that he makes the 

 best in the world. The cost of the mahogany 

 lumber, when manufactured, including freight, 

 purchase price of logs, and saw biil, is less 

 than $200 a thousand feet. 



C. H. Prescott & Sons of Tawas City manu- 

 factured 1,400,000 feet of hardwood lumber 

 last season and the mill burned in September. 

 They purchased the old Miller & Stevens mill, 

 three miles from Rose City, which is contiguous 

 to a body of timber they own, and will construct 

 six miles of road this summer to connect the 

 mill with the timber. 



Reinelt & Son's hardwood saw mill at Deck- 

 ■erville was destroyed by Are March 30. The 

 fire is believed to have been of incendiary ori- 

 gin. The loss is estimated at $4,000. Two 

 years ago another mill burned on the same 

 site. 



The Churchill Lumber Company manufac- 

 tured 2,000,000 feet of hardwood at Alpena 

 last year, and will cut a larger quantity this 

 year. The mill is expected to start about 

 April 10. 



The Gilchrist mill at Alpena has about 

 9,000,000 feet of hardwood to manufacture this 

 season, and the plane has been overhauled and 

 put in condition for business. 



Cook, Curtis & Miller, who are to build a 

 hardwood saw mill at Grand Marais, expect 

 to begin the work of construction the first of 



May, and the plant will be pushed aloug vigor- 

 ously. The machinery has already been con- 

 tracted for. 



S. F. Derry & Co. have s^car^'d a stock of 

 4.300,000 feet of hardwood logs which ■will 

 be manufactured in Millersburg and vicinity. 

 The firm has also purchased 2,000,000 feet 

 of hardwood lumber which w:is manufactured 

 in that vicinity. 



Bousfleld & Co. of Bay City, who operate 

 the largest woodenwood plant in the United 

 States, put in 3.500.000 feet of logs last winter, 

 mostly ash and basswood. This stock is railed 

 from Gladwin county to the mill at the rate of a 

 trainload a day. 



Crrand Bapids. 



John H. Bonnell of the Hackley-Fhelps-Bon- 

 nell Company has some mining interests in Colo- 

 rado and has just returned from a trip to Den- 

 ver. 



The Louis Sands lumber and salt business at 

 Manistee has been merged into a stock com- 

 pany under the name of the Louis Sands Salt & 

 Lumber Company. Capital stock of $1,000,000 

 has been subscribed, $30,000 being paid in cash 

 and thg balance represented in property. 



Henry Anderson has succeeded the late David 

 Holmes as manager of the general store of the 

 Mitchell Brothers Company at Jennings. He 

 is a capable business man. 



The Cleveland Cliflfs Iron Company will ex- 

 tend its railroad north from Marquette to Big 

 Bay, and a corporation with $300,000 capital is 

 being organized to put in a double band mill 

 near Sauk's Head. One-half of the stock in 

 the company will be held by Rush Culver of 

 Marquette and W. F. McKnight of Grand Rap- 

 ids, the remainder being held by Waldo W. 

 Miller, a banker of Wellsboro. Pa., and other 

 capitalists of that state. The company has 

 acquired 20,000 acres of mixed timber and will 

 install a mill with a capacity of not less than 

 100,000 feet. The tract is estimated to cut 300,- 

 000,000 feet of hemlock, birch, maple, basswood, 

 pine and ash, and in addition there is a large 

 stumpage of cedar poles, ties and posts. 



The Hudson Lumber Company, capital $80,- 

 000. was recently organized at Manlstique. 

 Headquarters will be at Garnet, fifty miles east, 

 on the Soo line, where the mills are located. 

 The company has purchased the interests of the 

 Donaldson & Hudson Lumber Company, Mr. 

 Donaldson retiring, and pine, hemlock and hard- 

 wood lumber will be manufactured. Oificers are 

 as follows : William Hudson, president ; C. R. 

 Orr, vice president ; Martin H. Quick, treasurer ; 

 W. R. Hudson, secretary. 



G. B. Daniels, formerly of the Dudley & 

 Daniels Lumber Company and one of the old- 

 time and successful hardwood lumber dealers of 

 the city, is back in the harness again after a 

 temporary respite pending the adjustment of 

 affairs of the old company. The old oflices in 

 the Houseman building have been secured and 

 the G. B. Daniels Lumber Company starts out 

 with a bright outlook for the future. Mr. 

 Daniels has returned from a stock purchasing 

 trip south. 



The Engel Lumber Company of this city is 

 engaged in building a double band and resaw 

 mill at Engeiwood. Madison parish. La. This 

 is a new sawmill town, located on the M. H. &■ 

 L. and V. S. >& P. railways. The company is 

 building a logging railroad, known as the Alex- 

 ander & Southwestern, which will connect th» 

 plant with the trunk lines and afford fine ship- 

 ping facilities. The company has purdiased as 

 a basis for these investments 15,354 acres of 

 virgin timber land, which comprises in large 

 part a vjry handsome stand of white and red 

 oak, gum, cane ash, hickory, soft elm and 

 cypress. It is thought that the plant will be 

 in operation by August 1. Herman Engel of the 

 company is in charge of the operation. The 

 name of the allied company operating the Louis- 

 iana enterprise is the Engel Land & Lumber 

 Company. The Engel Lumber Company will 



continue its Grand Rapids wholesale operations. 



The Engel Lumber Company of this city has 

 recently had a little experience with a lumber 

 thief at one of its Louisiana plants. The fel- 

 low's name is Shores, and he had the nerve to 

 order in a car and load out a car of lumber 

 and get away with it. He disposed of the stock 

 for $100, but was very promptly caught and 

 jailed at El Dorado, La., with good prospect of 

 serving the state for some time to come. 



The J. F. Quigley Lumber Company has been 

 reorganized as the J. F. Quigley Lumber & Land 

 Company, and the capital stock has been in- 

 creased to $100,000. This company carries one 

 of the largest stocks of northern and southern 

 hardwoods in the country, and maintains a well 

 equipped yard at Grand Rapids, Mich. It makes 

 a specialty of lumber for the furniture and kin- 

 dred trades. 



Cleveland. 



Cleveland is building. Monday, March 28, 

 was the busiest day in the history of the build- 

 ing permit department, forty-eight permits being 

 issued, while on the corresponding day of last 

 year only fourteen were granted. 



T. J. Carmack, representing the Charleston 

 Hardwood Finish Works, Charleston, W. Va. ; 

 H. L. Stemple of Forest Lumber Company, Pitts- 

 burg, I'a., and J. S. Sand of R. E. Wood Lum- 

 ber Company, Baltimore, Md., were in the city 

 last week. All report the demand for hardwood 

 good and the supply of dry stock small. 



B. L. Jenks of the Robert H. Jenks Lumber 

 Company has returned from a trip to West 

 Virginia and Tennessee mills. 



Ralph Gilchrist of Alpena Mich., was in the 

 city last week. 



J. W. Wagner, manager of the yellow pine 

 department of the Robert H. Jenks Lumber 

 Company, has returned from a trip to Cincinnati, 

 Louisville and Indianapolis and reports that 

 the outlook for business never was better. 



Cleveland is rapidly acquiring a reputation as 

 a hardwood center. Buyers from both east and 

 west are frequent visitors. Several of them, 

 among whom were K. W. Hobart of Hobart & 

 Company, Boston, Mass., and E. T. Moss of the 

 Rockwell Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee, 

 Wis. report the demand in their lines good. 



Indianapolis. 



The Walnut Lumber Company of tills city is 

 getting in considerable black walnut, for which 

 there seems to be a steady demand. A new 

 departure for this Arm is red birch, a car- 

 load of which they received this week. 



The Henderson Lumber Company of Bloom- 

 field, Ind., has just been incorjKjrated with a 

 capital stock of $20,000. The directors, eight 

 in number, are : William Vanmeter, Charles E. 

 Henderson, Harvey L. Doney, Fleming R. Van- 

 meter, Bruce F. Laughton, Charles G. Stalcup, 

 James Hasler and Otto Herald. 



J. M. Pritchard of the Long-Knight Lumber 

 Company is out of the city on a business trip. 



Edward Abbott and Thomas Thompson will 

 establish a saw mill and planing mill at Milan, 

 Ind., with a veneer mill attached. They will 

 employ fifty persons. 



The Dye &, Thompson Lumber Company of 

 Francisville, Ind., has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $15,000. The directors are 

 Edward R. Dye, George D. Dye and Bert H. 

 Thompson. 



The Eaglesfield Company of Indianapolis has 

 been incorporated with a capital stock of $60,- 

 000 to manufacture and sell raw wood and 

 other materials for building purposes. The 

 directors of the company are Alonzo B. Rob- 

 bins, James J. Eaglesfield and C. B. C. Eagles- 

 field. 



The Foster Lumber Company of Indianapolis 

 recently brought suit, in the superior court at 

 Indianapolis, against the National Surety Com- 

 pany of New York City to secure payment of 

 $2,000. In the complaint it is alleged that, a 



