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HARDWOOD RECORD 



for the general excellence :ind success of the affair. The Supreme Nine 

 was represented by Supreme Gurdon George J. Michelsen of Rochester. 

 The ceremonies- were conducted by the following: Snark, E. H. Lewis; 

 Senior Hoo-Hoo, W. K. Fisher ; Junior IIoo-IIoo, C. W. Jennings ; Bojum, 

 J. A. Lacy ; Scrivenotcr. A. R. Carr ; Custocatian, W. L. Zimpone ; 

 Gurdon. >I. M. Ansly : Arcanoper, C. F. Fischer, and Jabberwock, 

 G. J. McDonald. 



Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers to Meet July 22 



The annual meeting of the Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation will be held at the Pontchartrain hotel, Detroit, Tuesday, July 22. 

 At this meeting various matters outside of the regular subjects will be dis- 

 cussed, such as new conditions, readjustment of products, election of 

 officers and directors. The re.^ular subjects will be stocks of hardwoods, 

 hemlock and lath, report of market conditions committee, reporting of 

 various standing committees and report of the forest lire protective 

 department. 



Box Makers Planning Convention 



Tlie National Association of Box Manufacturers, through its manager. 

 Henry B. Maxwell of Chicago, has mailed to all its members prospectuses 

 of two proposed triiis contingent upon the next annual meeting of the 

 association, to be held in August. The membership will vote on two 

 programs, one of which w-iU include a trip to Niagara Falls, the conven- 

 tion to be held at that place, with headquarters at the International hotel. 

 The alternative is a boat trip on the steamship North American, which 

 has just made its maiden voyage on the Great Lakes. This trip will cover 

 a week and is 2.200 miles long. The boat leaves Chicago and stops at 

 various points on Lakes Michigan. Superior and Huron, and also Georgian 

 Bay. Definite plans are held up pending the vote of the membership. 

 Hemlock and Hardwood for May 



The Nonhf-rn Ilemlnrk & Hardwood Manufaclurfrs' Association's report 

 and summary for May. 1013. issued by I!. S. Kellogg, secretary, shows that 

 production for that month was ten per cent greater than in April, due to 

 tile continued cutting of the winter's supply of hardwoods and the sawing 

 of a full run of hemlock by many firms. An active demand for lumber, 

 however, caused an increase of forty-four per cent in shipments of hemlock 

 and of thirty-six per cent in shipments of hardwood in May compared 

 with the preceding month, and necessitated the movement of much partially 

 dry stock. 



The summary of reports for the last twelve months shows that during 

 thif- period hi-mlock shipments have exceeded the ent hy twenty-seven per 

 cent and that hardwood shipments have gone heynnd pro<luction by six 

 per cent. Shipments of hemlock and hardwoods combined have exceeded 

 production liy eighteen per cent since June 1, 1912. Reports from seventy 

 firms give these totals for May : 



Sawed. Shipped. 



Firms. M ft. Firms. M ft. 



Hemlock 51 43..'i.'is (;2 47.0:!i; 



Ash ■■*,■! 74.S l.s lUC. 



Basswood 43 4.RS0 .■)(; a,.-,S4 



Beech n 12!> 1 



Birch 40 S.312 42 7..".oi! 



Klra 40 .'i.i:!! :f2 2.:!<;:! 



Maple 30 7.S.3K 32 7,1 7.i 



Oak 22 n4<; 12 32(1 



Mixed 19 11,430 12 2.5G0 



All hardwoods 37,123 23.02S 



Total hemlock and hardwoods 80,481 70,064 



New Committees National Hardwood Lumber Association 



rresidint Charles 11. Ilarna!)y of the .National Hardwood Lumber .\sso- 

 ciation announces the following committees for the ensuing year : 



lOXErrTiVF Committee — Charles H. Barnaby. Greencastle. Ind., chair- 

 man ; E. V. Babcock. rittsburgb. Pa. : C. A. Goodman. Jlarinette. Wis. ; 

 Earl Palmer. Paducah. Ky. ; Oliver n. Agler. Chicago. 111. . 



iN.srECTiox RfLEs CoM.MiTTEE — J. M. I'ritchard, .Memphis. Tenn.. cnaii- 



"teiois Expire ix 1014 — P. Moore. New York City. N. Y. : J. M. Card. 

 Chattanooga, Tenn, : Hugh McLean, Buffalo. N. Y. : AV. E. Chamberlin. 



''tirms' Expire in 1015 — J. W, McChire, Memphis. Tenn. : C. R. Mengel. 

 I.<Miisville Kv. : A. R. Owen. Owen. Wis. : D. H. Day. Glen Haven, Mich. 



tAms Expire ix lOlfi— J. M. Pritchard. ilemphis. Tenn.: J. L. Benas. 

 St. Louis. Mo.; Robert Vestal. T"roiito. (int.: E. I.. Edwards. Dayton. U. 



The newly appointed members of this committee are Robert Vestal, 

 Toronto, Ont.. and Patrick Moore, New York City, N. Y. 



Si'Ec-m CiiUMiTTEE ox OVERWEIGHT CLAIMS — James E. Stark, iteinphis, 

 Tenn., chairman ; L. L. Skillman, Grand Rapids, Mich. ; D. V. Clark. 

 Miiine.apolis. Minn. „..,,,. « i. • 



•I'KvxspoRTVTiox COMMITTEE- -Emil Guenthcr. Philadelphia. Pa., chair- 

 man ■' J. C. West. Parkersburg, W. Va.. Ed. L. Davis. Louisville. K.v. 



FORESTUV Committee — John M. W'oods. Boston. Mass.. chairman : S. 1.. 

 Anderson. Memphis. Tenn. : Sam Burkbolder, Crawfordsville. ln( . 



WATERWAYS Co>tM.TTEE— Ed. T. Miller. Macland. a., chairman; 

 Thomas JleFarland. Cairo, III.; W. H. Russe. Memphis. I .■nn. : .1 l.rtw 

 Crusel. New Orleans. La. 



Carriage Builders to Meet in October 



The Carriage Builders' National Association aniiuunccs that it 'will 

 hold its forty-first annual meeting at St. Louis. Mo., during the week 

 corameiicing Oct. 12, 1913. At the same time and place the annual 

 exhibition of parts of vehicles, automobiles, models, materials, etc., 

 pertaining to carriage, wagon, automobile and accessory industries 

 will be held. The coliseum at St. Louis, an excellent building for 

 such purposes, will contain the exhibitions. This building is large 

 enough to aernmiuodale all those who wish to exhibit their products. 



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Wkh the Trade 



Big New Mill for Michigan 



The first log was sawed on the fine new mill of the Marshall Butters 

 Lumber Company at L'Anse, Mich., the latter part of last month. The 

 .Marshall Butters mill is located in the upper peninsula of Michigan, and 

 is said to be the finest and largest of the many fine mills in that famous 

 lumber producing section. The entire plant, which will htive a daily 

 capacity of about 200,000 feet, is equipped with the^ usual sawmill equip- 

 ment and in addition with a shingle and lath mill equipment. The saw- 

 mill consists of two eight-foot band saws, an eight-foot vertical band 

 resaw, two double edgers and an automatic trimmer. The design and 

 construction of the mill are modern and well thought out in every par- 

 ticular and include a complete sprinkling outfit. 



The new mill is located on L'Anse bay, near the mouth of I-'ail river. 

 This location gives it unusual facilities for the handling of lumber. 



The company already has in operation some six miles of railroad into 

 the timber, and several locomotives and a large number of logging cars 

 are ready for service. The construction of the new Marshall Butters mill 

 means a great deal for the town of L'Anse. 



Change in Name 



The Swann-Day Lumber Company. Clay City. Ky., has been reorganized 

 as the Day Lumber & Coal Company, with a capital stock of $1,000,000. 

 Among other properties that the company takes over in the eastern Ken- 

 tucky territory arc the holdings of the Swann-Day Lumber Company and 

 Floyd-Day & Co., Including its sawmills, planing mill.s. stave plants, 

 numerous mercantile establishments, railroads, timber and coal lands. 



The oflicers and directors of the new company are : Floyd Day, J. C. M. 

 Day, C. M. Clark, L. I.X)ving and A. H. Davis. 



Both the general and sales offices will be located at Clay City, Ky. 



This is one of the most important reorganizations in hardwood lumber 

 affairs that has occurred for some time, and it puts the entire Day and 

 allied interests In one comprehensive, well-organized institution. 



New Hardwood Mill in Texas 

 A. von Ree is constnicling a large new hardwood mill in Palestine, Tex. 

 The work has not yet been completed as unforeseen delays were experi- 

 enced. It is announced, however, that the plant will be ready for opera- 

 tion within three or four weeks. It will be one of the finest hardwood 

 plants in the South when completed. 



New Veneer Concern in Memphis 



.i new $100,000 veneer plant will shortly be constructed at Memphis. 

 It is planned to start work on the new structure within a few days. The 

 style of the concern operating it is Nickey Brothers & Bass. It is hoped 

 that active operations will be in progress by the first of November, 



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Log Salvage Company Formed 



Cincinnati and Kentucky interests ar./ liie organizers of a new concern, 

 the principal object of which will be to salvage logs for Kentucky River 

 mill owners. The style of the new concern is the Kentucky Ix)g Company, 

 It was organized at Cincinnati with a capital stock of .$30,000. It will 

 catch drifting logs on the Kentucky and Ohio rivers during the spring 

 freshets, and in addition will put Into operation new ideas of economy In 

 logging and sawmllling In the hardwood business of that territory. It 

 is planned to erect a series of booms along the river for the purpose of 

 checking logs which come out with the spring freshets. In addition 

 cheaper and safer facilities for bringing in logs from the timber will be 

 employed. 



The Mowbray & Robinson Company and Lcland G. Banning of Cin- 

 cinnati, and the Bellpoint Lumber Company of Bellpoint. Ky,, have sub- 

 scribed to the entire stock, although the two former concerns own the 

 large majority of it. 



The headquarters will he maintained at Cincinnati, and the officers will 

 he: A. E. Hart of T.eland'G. Banning, president ami treasurer, and 

 E. O. Robinson, socret.-ivy. 



Seventy-One Years in the 'Wagon Business 



Monday. July 1, was the seventy-first anniversary of George Yule as an 

 employe of the Bain Wagon Company. Kenosha, Wis. Jlr. Yale first secured 

 work with Henry Mitchell, pioneer wagon maker, at Soutbport, scvent.v- 

 one years ago. When the Mitchell & Quarles Company was taken over 

 by the late Edward Bain in 1852 young Yule became superintendent of 

 the plant. In those days wagons were built entirely liy hand and the 

 factory output was very small. After thirty years as superintendent, in 

 1.SS2, the company was incorporated as the Bain Wagon Company. Mr. 

 Yule was elected vice-president and continued in the capacity of general 

 superintendent. In 1890, with a record of fifty years of continued suicess, 

 Mr. Yule was elected ^jresidcnt of tlie company. Later on the heirs of 

 the late Edward Bain retired from the firm and Mr. Ynle became not only 

 president but principal owner. 1'oday, although nearly eighty-nine years 

 of age, Mr. Y'ule has no Intention of retiring from active work at the 

 head of the company. He has probably the most unique record of any 



