HARDWOOD RECORD 



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$18,607,555 was expended in new building and 

 alterations. During the year 1910 tlie total 

 reached $19,600,063, indicating a decrease ot 

 nearly $1,000,000 in the estimated cost of 

 buildings for which permits were issued, or a 

 decrease of about five and one-half per cent for 

 the year. 



According to the annual statistics issued by 

 the Merchants' Exchange, the receipts of lum- 

 ber by rail to St. Louis during 1910 totaled 

 197,961 cars; during 1911, 175,828, or a de- 

 crease in 1911 of 22,133 cars. Tlie number ot 

 feet received by river during 1910 totaled 1,328,- 

 000 feet, while in 1911 the total reached 1,339,- 

 000, or an increase of 11,000 feet in 1911. 



A considerable tailing off is noted in the 

 total number of shipments of lumber from St. 

 Louis during 1911 as compared with 1910. 

 Shipments to the number of 127,095 cars left 

 St. Louis by rail during 1910, while in 1911 

 the number went down to 113,078, a decrease 

 of 13,417 cars. Shipments of lumber by river 

 during 1910 reached a total of 1,190,000 feet. 

 During 1911 the total reached but 925,000 feet, 

 indicating a decrease in 1911 of 265,000 feet. 



Carl H. Holekamp, vice-president of the 

 Holekamp Lumber Company of Webster Groves. 

 Kirkwood, Aifton and Old Orchard, Mo., and 

 Miss Rose Peckmann of St. Louis were married 

 recently at the home ot the bride's parents, 

 immediately after the wedding the couple left 

 tor a honeymoon through the South. 



MILWAUKEE 



Company of Phillips. Senator A. W. Sanborn of 

 .\shland and the Central Wisconsin Trust Com- 

 pan.v of Madison, have petitioned the federal 

 court at Madison for receivership certificates to 

 the amount of $40,000 to keep the company's 

 mill in operation throughout the winter and to 

 pay up labor claims. It is said that 30.000,000 

 feet can lie cut within the next four months 

 and a profit ot $30,000 can be made. The assets 

 of the company are given at $3,000,000 and the 

 liabilities at $1,000,000. 



CADILLAC 



Notice lias been called to what is thought to 

 be the largest log ever brought to the sawmill 

 ot the Murphy-Diggins Company. It is an elm 

 measuring a total scale of 2,301 feet. 



Inman & Northrup of Manton have bought the 

 hardwood timber on the E^ank Ilarris farm 

 southeast of Manton. There is about 125,000 

 feet on this tract and George Longstreet, Jr., 

 has the contract for placing it at the mill in 

 Manton. 



Thomas Barton ot Leipsic, O., foreman for the 

 Chenevert Company ot that city, stated that the 

 past season was bis most .successful season in 

 getting out square timber. At the present time 



Mr. Barton has secured about 800 pieces which 

 win be shipped to England in the spring. These 

 sticks represent a total amount of 400,000 feet 

 of timber, and he expects by spring to have 

 secured 1,500 sticks or 1.500.000 feet ot timber. 

 This timber is In counties adjacent to Wexford. 

 The Cadillac Machine Company has received a 

 contract to furuish the material and put up the 

 structural steel work tor the new iron furnace 

 being erected at Wells, Mich., by The I. Stephen- 

 son Company. 



Munising, Mich., boasts ot the best equipped 

 woodenware plant of the kind in the country. 

 C. V, R. Townsend, an oflicial of the Cleveland- 

 Cliffs Iron Company, is at the head ot the new 

 concern. The factory is employing about sixty- 

 flve men. At present butter bowls and paper 

 plugs are being turned out. One logging camp 

 is being operated and a million feet of hardwood 

 timber will be cut this winter. 



On Dec. 27 Miss Marjorie Delzell, daughter of 

 Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Delzell ot this city, became 

 the bride ot R. D. Thomas of Silsbee, Tex. Mr. 

 and Mrs. Thomas will stop at Chicago while 

 enroute to their future home in Silsbee. Mr. 

 Thomas is a graduate of the Biltmore Forest 

 School and has accepted a position as superin- 

 tendent of measurements for the Kirby Lumber 

 Company of Houston, Texas. 



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Total receipts of lumber at Milwaukee dtiring 

 1911 exceeded those of the previous year, 

 amounting to 293,492,000 feet, of which 42.- 

 471.000 feet were carried by boat. 



The Dairymen's Land & Timber Company of 

 Milwaukee has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $30,000 by Albert C. Downing, A. A. 

 Mueller and Otto J. Habhegger. 



The Zenda Lumber Company of Zenda ha.s 

 been incorporated with a capital stock of $20,- 

 000 by John Dunpby, E. M. Waffle and W. C. 

 Norton. 



As the result of a complaint made to the Wis- 

 consin Railroad Rate Commission by the Filer 

 & Stowell Manufacturing Company of Milwaukee, 

 manufacturer of sawmill equipment and engines, 

 the Chicago & Northwestern road has been 

 ordered to lower the rate*on fourth class freight 

 from Milwaukee to South Milwaukee from eight 

 cents to five cents per hundred pounds. 



Lumber operations in the vicinity of Rhine- 

 lander will boom this winter. Both sawmills 

 of the Bobbins Lumber Company are in opera- 

 tion and the company is maintaining two camps. 

 Announcement has been made that the G. F. 

 Sanborn Company, a $1,000,000 corporation deal- 

 ing in timber lands, will remove its ofiices 

 from Eagle River to Fond du Lac. The com- 

 pany has just increased its capital stock from 

 $500,000 to $1,000,000. 



The Hankwitz Handle Company of Merrill is 

 preparing to start its new plant at once. The 

 company is now erecting a warehouse, 30 x 60 

 feet in dimensions. Orders have been booked for 

 broom handles which will keep the plant busy 

 until Mar. 1. 



State Senator James A. Wright, president of 

 the W. H. Wright Lumber Company of Merrill, 

 died at his home in Merrill on Dec. 21 after a 

 short illness of typhoid fever, at the age of 

 thirty-eight years. Senator Wright was one of 

 the best-known lumbermen in the state and his 

 early death has caused widespread regret. He 

 had been a member of the Wisconsin legislature 

 since 1904, For several years he had been vice- 

 president of the W. H. Wright Lumber Com- 

 pany and became president upon the death of 

 bis father in 1901. He was also president of 

 the Wisconsin Lumber Company of Littell, 

 Wash., which he organized in 1904. He is sur- 

 vived by his mother, a sister and a brother. 

 The receivers of the John R. Davis Lumber 



CHICAGO 



BUFFALO 



There is unquestionably a more healthy tone 

 in local affairs with the beginning of the new 

 year, both in predictions for 1912 business and 

 in reports of actual orders so far placed. Local 

 lumbermen, with few exceptions, believe that 

 the forthcoming presidential campaign is not 

 going to be the hindrance to business that it 

 always has been. They base their claims upon 

 the less hesitant buying spirit with which the 

 new year has been opened, as well as the gen- 

 eral improved business conditions. While there 

 still arc some pessimists in the local market, 

 it is an encouraging feature to see the evi- 

 dences of optimism which are evident every- 

 where. Already a number of attractive orders 

 have been placed on a scale which presages a 

 continuance of good business for several months 

 to come at least. There is little relative change 

 in requirements of any particular line of wood, 

 though the demand for cottonwood has been 

 remarkably increased in all sections ot late. With 

 red gum. No. 1 common seems to be the most 

 active grade at present, supplanting in favor 

 firsts and seconds. Sap gum continues its 

 advance in favor. With the other woods there is 

 no very marked change, except a proportionate 

 strengthening all along the line in demand and 

 a general tendency to stiffen prices. 



There is a rather slow movement in hard- 

 woods at present, but this is due to the tact 

 that general business has hardly started up 

 sitter the holiday and inventory season. The 

 outlook for the year is regarded as promising, 

 the opinion being that trade will be on about 

 the same lines as during the past year. 



Plain oak is selling fairly well, while quar- 

 tered is manifesting a little more strength. 

 High-grade birch is bard to get and is helping 

 out the common grades considerably. Maple 

 remains very firm. The demand for ash and 

 elm is fair for the season. Poplar shows little 

 activity. Basswood is about holding its own. 

 Trade in cherry and walnut continues to be in 

 rather small proportions. 



PHILADELPHIA 



NEW YORK 



The hardwood market at New York for the 

 year 1911 rounded out very fair, considering all 

 the conditions. Trade for the year was very 

 largely on a hand-to-mouth basis, but both pro- 

 duction and supplies on liand were reduced in 

 sympathy with the general business and, as a 

 result, 1912 opens up with very fair prospects 

 from the standpoint of the manufacturer and 

 shipper. It has really been remarkable that 

 prices have continued throughout the year as 

 firm as they have, and with less supplies avail- 

 able at mill points than usual, and stocks greatly 

 reduced in the hands of the yards and their 

 buyers, the indication is that, with anything 

 like a normal spring trade, hardwoods should 

 be very firm in price and in active demand. 



Stock taking and the striking off of balance 

 sheets naturally has somewhat retarded buying, 

 but the result to all indications will show a 

 respectable total of business notwithstanding 

 the erratic trade methods, which often had to 

 be resorted to. There has never obtained in 

 the past so universal a feeling of optimism as 

 at the present incoming presidential season. A 

 decided forward movement in trading of late is 

 reported in the hardwood field, and there is a 

 confident feeling of further acceleration and 

 better prices for the new year. The sentiment 

 of the business man is expressed concisely in 

 the sentence, 1912 looks good. 



PITTSBURGH 



The outlook for a good hardwood business 

 this year is bright, according to the opinions of 

 the best posted wholesalers in the city. The 

 steel business is greatly improved. Furthermore, 

 prospects for a continuance of this activity are 

 regarded as good. Naturally, this is bringing in 

 some big requisitions for hardwood for all kinds 

 of heavy construction and railroad work. Some 

 fine government orders will also be awarded 

 within the next few months. Strictly high-grade 



