HARDWOOD RECORD 



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a native of St. Louis and was flfty years of agi-. 

 She was tlie daugliter of tlie lato Frederick 

 liageman, and married Mr. Smitli tlurty years 

 ago. She is survived by her husband and three 

 children. Interment was in Bellefontaine ceme- 

 tery, St. Louis. 



ASHLAND 



Vansanl. Kiichen & Co.. who ii|ii-ra(e thr 

 largest double band mill in Ashland, have started 

 a new six-foot band mill in Letcher county, Ken 

 tucky. 



James Kitchen of the Wright-Kitchen Lumber 

 Company has returned from a visit to his farm 

 Dear Lexington. 



The Sliger Lumber Company, Huntington. W. 

 Ta.. is installing a band mill in Its plant which 

 will replace a circular. 



Giles \A'right and family are on an automobile 

 trip through Kentucky. 



The General Lumber Company of this city h:is 

 begun operation at its saw mill. 



The Whisler & Scearcy Company, Irouton. O.. 

 started work at its plant this week. 



M. Covenent, London, England, hardwood 

 dealer, visited the Ashland trade this weelc. 



MILWAUKEE 



Articles of incorporation have been filed with 

 the secretar.v of state b.v the Monarch Account 

 Cabinet Company, Manitowoc, capital, ,$1,000 : in- 

 corporators, ,Tohn W. George. Joseph J. Kuffel 

 and Albert C. Tomchek. The Milwaukee Store 

 Fixture Company, Slilwaukee, capital, .$3,000 : in- 

 corporators, Cornelius Van der Elsen, A\lbert 

 l!osynek and Bernard Loudkowski. The Main 

 Creek Lumber Conii>any. Ingram, has filed notice 

 of dissolution. 



On account of the .scarcity of veneer logs, the 

 Merrill Veneer Company has been compelled to 

 close its plant until new logs come in. The mill 

 has been running lull time during the last sea- 

 son and all of last year's logs have been cut. 



It is said that the veneer plant at Gliddeu 

 may be bought b.v Marshiield and Milwaukee 

 capital and run again. The plant has been used 

 lor the extensive manufacturing of veneer, ex- 

 celsior, furniture, etc. and the new owners would 

 produce the same things. 



The reorganized Two Rivers Woodenware 

 I'ompany is running with about 400 hands. F. 

 C. Conant of this city lias the management of 

 ihe new organization. The company manufac 

 tures veneer, pails, tubs, etc., but will install 

 special machinery to xitilize all present waste. 



After forty-five years Bruno Vlnette, last of 

 Ihe old time Chippewa loggers, has sold out his 

 business to the Pigeon River Lumber Company 

 lor $39,000, This includes everything Vinette 

 owned in the way of logging, including a 300- 

 foot dock on Lake Superior and an unfinished 

 tract at Grand Marie, Minn. 



The Page & Lyon Manufacturing Company of 

 New London, which has been manufacturing 

 beehives and beekeepers' supplies for the last 

 thirty years, is in the hands of a receiver, Julius 

 F. Kenkel of New London, having been appointed 

 by the creditors. 



The plant of the Brillion JIanufacturing Com- 

 liany, recently destroyed by fire, will be rebuilt. 

 The company will erect a mill of the latest 

 design. 



SAOINAW VALLEY 



Uardwood lumber business is brisk. There has 

 been no weakness in prices, demand has been 

 active. Dry stocks of lumber are light, particu- 

 larly in the grades most called for. 



Frank Buell Is running five logging camps on 

 the Haakwood branch of the Michigan Central- 

 :Macklnaw division, and cutting and shipping 

 3 2,000.000 feet to Bliss & Van Anken. Saginaw. 



mostly maple, and about the same quantity to 

 the Kueeland, Lunden & Bigelow Company, hav- 

 ing sold his interest in the mill at Bay City 

 operated by the last named firm. Mr. Buell, 

 aside from his activities in eastern Michigan, is 

 operating a large lumbering plant in Xortli 

 Carolina. 



The Knapp & Scott sawmill at Bay City is 

 lunnlng day and night cutting lumber for the 

 llanson-Ward Veneer Company. The latter 

 plant is having a good business and is handling 

 a large amount of stuff. The timber comes by 

 rail from the David Ward estate. The estate is 

 also operating a large sawmill at Frederic. 



The Walsh Manufacturing Company has re- 

 built its heading plant at Frederic, north of Bay 

 City, burned some months ago, and has added a 

 hardwood sawmill to the outfit. The new plant 

 is more improved and has larger capacity than 

 the old one. 



The usual quantity of logs will be cut Ibis 

 winter for the supply of the mills on this river. 

 These firms, as well as other large firms north 

 of the river, aside from the logging on their own 

 account, buy all the logs they can from small 

 jobbers who put in small lots. 



The Kneeland-Bigelow Company shipped out 

 •'!,.5OO.0O0 feet of mixed lumber during October. 

 The Richardson Lumber Company, Bay City, 

 is running ten hours a day and runs the year 

 through. Its logs come by rail from the North. 

 Business has been fair for the company during 

 the season. 



W. D. Voung & Co.'s large plant is running 

 full time. The sawmill was closed down some 

 time for repairs. The company is handling 

 about 250 cars of logs a week. A good portion 

 of the flooring output is exported, the company 

 having customers who contract for stock the 

 year through. 



The Gates sawmill at Bay City is cutting 3,- 

 000.000 feet of logs for the I.obdell-Churchill 

 Company of Onaway, and may obtain other con- 

 tracts when the present ioh is finished. 



CADILLAC 



The Cadillac Ilandle Company has bought the 

 right of way of the Harbor Springs railroad, 

 operated by E. Shay & Sons. The Shay concern 

 will continue to use the roa'd during the winter, 

 but will remove the rails and machinery in time 



to give possession June ], 1912, to the handle 

 company. The Cadillac Handle Company has 

 large timber interests in Emmet county tributary 

 to this road and it purposes to lay a broad gage 

 track over the right of way and will ship its 

 logs to the Grand Rapids & Indiana track by 

 way of Harbor Springs instead of by Pellston, as 

 heretofore, which will improve the services 

 greatly. 



F. A. Digglns has been enterlaining Arthur G. 

 • 'ummer of Jacksonville, Fla., and they have been 

 in the woods hunting. 



W. W. Mitchell of Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., and 

 Charles T. Mitchell of Mitchell Bros. Company 

 are hunting moose in the Blind River (Ontario) 

 territory as the guests of S. O. Fisher of Bay 

 City. 



Joseph M>u-phy of Murphy & Diggin,s, Bruce 

 Odell of Cummer, Digglns & Co. and John Wil- 

 cox of the Wilcox Bros. Company are hunting 

 (leer in Dickinson county, Michigan. 



Murphy & Diggins's mill is running an extra 

 quarter to complete an extra cut of logs for 

 Virn Baker. 



The Mitchell Brothers Company's camp will 

 be moved thirty miles north, where woods opera- 

 lions will be resumed in a few weeks. One-half 

 of the big planing mill of this company at ,Ten- 

 niugs has been closed for improvements and 

 repairs and afterwards the other half will be 

 closed for the same purpose. 



L. J, Smith's egg case factory at Eaton Rapids 

 has doubled its capacity and working force and 

 has resumed operation after being closed three 

 months for general repairs and installing of a 

 new water power plant and factory equipment. 



A merger has been completed of the Grayling 

 Lumber Company, the Standard Tie Company 

 and the Desha Land Company of Detroit, to be 

 known as the Grayling Lumber Company. The 

 cnpitalization of the company is $1,130,000 com- 

 mon and $-130,000 preferred, and a bond issue 

 of $1,200,000, for which the Security Trust Com- 

 pany of Detroit is trustee, has been arranged for. 

 The appraisers place the value at $3,330,000 on 

 the combined property, which included 600,000,- 

 000 feet of standing timber on 03,000 acres of 

 land in Louisiana and Arkansas. There is a 

 large mill plant at Monroe, La,, and other mills 

 at Arkansas City, Ark. O. S. Ilawes, R. Hanson 

 and D. M. Kneeland are now in Ihe South look- 

 ing after the property. 



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General quiet conditions exist in the Chicago 

 market, although streaked with an occasional big 

 sale on confidential and usually "unmeniionable" 

 terms. The situation does not differ materially 

 from that which has prevailed for the last two 

 months. Many local jobbers report their stocks 

 very low, and some advise that they are sold 

 far into next season. 



Firsts and seconds and No. 1 common in 

 nearly all hardwoods are moving fairly well, but 

 there is a slow market sale in No. 2 and No. 3 

 common. 



Local veneer and panel manufacturers and 

 handlers report fairly satisfactory business in 

 the way of volume, but all complain about their 

 inability to secure values that are profitable. 

 Some particularly desirable sizes and varieties 

 of panel stock are commanding a little higher 

 price than usual, but still the entire range of 

 veneer and. panel prices is ridiculously low. 



Local dealers regard the outlook in a very 

 optimistic wa.y, and are fully of the opinion that 

 business conditions will shortly improve to such 

 an extent that a larger volume and more satis- 

 factory prices will prevail. 



Buying is still largely confined to actual 

 wants, but supplies of good lumber are far 

 enough below normal to keep prices very firm. 

 Stocks in the hands of buyers in the yard and 

 local manufacturing trade are low and these 

 conditions at both ends of the lino insure firm- 

 ness of prices for some time. Low-grade hard- 

 wood is more plentiful, but the scarcity and high 

 price of good-grade lumber is giving the lower 

 grades a freer movement. The flooring trade is 

 active. A good deal of flooring is moving and 

 prices are satisfactory. The export movement of 

 lumber also is free. Piano and furniture manu- 

 facturers are buying less this year than usual 

 because of dullness in demand for those spe- 

 cialties. 



BUFFALO 



Tlie improvement that began with last month 

 in the liardwood trade continues and most deal- 

 ers report better Inquiry for various sorts of 

 lumber. Business is not fully up to expectations. 



