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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



LOCAL GOSSIP. 



A. .J. MeCausland. of the A. .T. McCaiis- 

 land I^uiuber ("ompaiiy of this citj% is in 

 tlie 8outli buying hardwood stocks. 



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Fire at the .Tohnson cliair factory of tliis 

 eitj' caused a loss of nearly .^90,(KH) on Mon- 

 day of this weeli. This is the fourth time 

 within that many years that the .Tohnson 

 Chair Company have been visite<l by fires. 

 The last one, it is charged by the officers of 

 the company, was of incendiary origin. ' 



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The Cai-ter-.Munro Lunil)er Company, a 

 local hardwood concern, have dissolved 

 partnership, Mr. Carter retiring. Mr. 

 Muuro will continue the business, but 

 probably on new lines. 



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Vinuedge Bros, have about completed the 

 erection of their new saw mill. It is an 

 eight-foot band mill, fully equipped and 

 will be ready for bu.siness by the first of 



May. 



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The E. Sondheimer Company have 

 rented 100 feet dock frontage across tlieslip 

 from the McConniek Harvesting Machine 

 Company's plant, or a part of the ground 

 formerly occupied by the Edward Hiues 

 Lumber Company. They will receive 

 about 15.000,000 feet of maple there during 

 the season, besides a proportionate iin;in- 

 tity of other Michigan hardwoods. 



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The Record is in receipt of a neat pocket 

 lumber scale conveniently arranged within 

 a celluloid case, with compliments of AY. B. 

 Dntton iV: Co., Racine, Wis. 



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AV. O. Wasliburn, Chicago manager of 

 the Reeves Pulley Company, was elected to 

 the town, coimril .it Western Springs, one 

 of the most popular of Chicago's .svljurbs, 

 and wliere W.-isliburn lives. Mr. AVashbnrn 

 is not all business, thougli you might think 

 so to see him at 68 South Canal street, but 

 he likes to meet the boys at the corner 

 drug store out at Western Springs of even- 

 ings, and solve the problems of the coun- 

 try. 



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Tlie Covel Manufacturing Company, the 

 filing room niach.inery makers at 8 an<l 10 

 Soutli Canal street, h.-ive found the de- 

 mands of a growing business will neces- 

 sitate additional manufacturing room, and 

 have consequently leased another floor in 

 the building whicli they now occupy, 



Mr. F. H. Sniitli, president of th(> Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association, and 

 leading lumberman of St. Louis, was in 

 the city this week in consultation with hi.s 

 partner in the Hardwood Export Company 

 of Mobile, Ala., Mr. Fred Uphani. Mr. 

 Smith has made the National Asscjciation a 

 most excellent, able and painstaking presi- 

 dent. His business interests are very large, 

 including a large manufacturing plant at 

 Mobile, a wholesale business at Cairo and 

 bis big wholesale and retail yard at St. 

 Louis, but they are so well organized that 



Mr. Smith is able to devote sufBci»nt atten- 

 tion to the Association to make its suc- 

 cess assured. From the day the Associa- 

 tion was organized. Mr. Smith has been 

 one of its strongest and most loyal sup- 

 porters. Whether in the ranks or in the 

 captain's tent, he has never missed an op- 

 portunity to push the work along. AA'e 

 believe that the records will show that he 

 has attended more committee meetings, 

 has traveled more miles and has spent as 

 much of his time and money in association 

 work as any man in the Association. Sev- 

 eral years ago the writer was put on a com- 

 mittee with him to attend and represent 

 the Hardwood Association at the Baltimore 

 meeting of the AVholesale Dealers' .Asso- 

 ciation. The writer went bec-ause he had 'a 

 pass and because as a newspaper man it 

 was necessary for him to be there anyhow, 

 but Mr. Smith left all his business in- 

 terests, paid his fare to Baltimore and back 

 and spent two days boosting the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association. If there 

 was ever a man who earned and deserved 

 an office, Mr. Smitli earned and deservetl 

 tlie office of president of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber .Association. 



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.Mr. H. C. .Tackson, sales agent for the 

 .Michigan Maple Company of Grand Rap- 

 ids. Jlich., was in Chicago a few days last 

 week, looking after business and visiting 

 his family. Mr. Jackson reports the af- 

 fairs of the Michigan Maple Company as 

 being in a satisfactory condition. They 

 are not pusliing their stock at present 

 very hard, for a large portion of it is al- 

 ready sold, and as there promises to be a 

 shortage in produc-tion this year, the Mich- 

 igan Maple Company believe they can 

 make as much money by waiting. Mr. 

 .Tackson makes them a most creditable and 

 ethcient representative. 



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Mr. T. .1. Christian, of the FuUerton- 

 Powell Lumber Company, of South Bend. 

 Ind., was in Chicago last Monday, on busi- 

 ness. He reports lumber stocks tlirough- 

 out the South very scarce, but says th;it 

 their company has still a good supply, Tlie 

 Fullerton-Powell people did a very wise 

 thing by starting in to buy early enough 

 to get the full benefit of the recent ad- 

 vance in prices and they will certainly 

 make a lot of money this year. Tom 

 says that Cha-s. Barnaby's lumber is as 

 fine ,is silk and that his company is well 

 pleased that they secured the output of 

 ills fJreencastle mill. 



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.Air. .V. B. Nickey, the veteran Iianlwnod 

 lumberman of Princeton, Ind., was in the 

 city last week and called at the Record ol'- 

 tlce. AVe do not know of any man in the 

 liardwood trade who has made as much 

 money cutting hardwood lumber as has 

 Air. Nickey. His attention has been de- 

 voted almost entirely to manufacturing, 

 doing but little business as a dealer. He 

 understands the saw rnill business about 

 as thoroughly as it is ix)ssible for anyone 

 to understand it. and has made it a great 



success. He says, however, that the busi- 

 ness is entirely different from what it 

 used to be. The Indiana manufacturers 

 must depend on buying most of their logs 

 from the farmers, a tree here and a ti-ee 

 there, and the farmers have an exaggerated 

 idea as to the value of their timber. Mr. 

 Nickey says that the farmer's entire fam- 

 ily will figure on what a few trees will 

 bring. The matter will be discussed in the 

 family circle and when the saw mill man 

 buys the trees, he certainly i)ays all they 

 are worth. Under such conditions the 

 making and marketing of lumber must be 

 figured very closely to liring the manu- 

 factiu'er out with a profit. Not a scrap or 

 piece can be wasted and making money 

 in the saw mill business has become a 

 scientific proposition. 



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Air. J. S. Goldie, of Cadillac, Aiich., ac- 

 companied by W. S. Johnson of Alilwaukee, 

 called at this office last week. They re- 

 port the demand for Alichigan products as 

 being good and that prices have advanced 

 conijiideralily since the first of the year. 



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.Air. Chas. Starke of Arcadia. Mich., was 

 in the city and reports a good demand tor 

 lumber, but that the Michigan log crop 

 put in last winter is far below the average. 



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Air. F. M. Possell. "Silver King" Possell, 

 of Gage & Possell. of Cincinnati, was in 

 the city last week, looking after some 

 shipments. 



Air. Earl Palmer, of the Ferguson & 

 Palmer Company, iif Paducah. Ky., came 

 up from the South and called to see us; 

 Earl said that if we didn't quit making a 

 note of it every time he came in he would 

 quit coming. He says he comes because 

 the Record office is a good loafing place, 

 but that tlie folks at home accuse him of 

 trying to get his name in the paper, so we 

 told him Ave would not say anything about 



it. nor will we, 



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Air. H. C. Christ.A. of the Kirk-Christy 

 Lumber Company, of Cleveland, was an 

 unexpected caller at the 'Record office. 

 This is the first time we have ever met him 

 outside of his office. His firm imibably 

 handles more hardwood lumber than any 

 other firm in the T'liited States, Tliey han- 

 dle everything in the shape of hardwoods 

 that grows in this country, as well as a 

 large amount of imported stock. In addi- 

 tidii to the Kirk -Christy Lumber Com- 

 paii.v. Air. Christy is largely interested in 

 tlie Empire Lumber Company of Buffalo, is 

 vice-president and director of two or three 

 of Cleveland's banks, runs a large whole- 

 sale grocery business and can accoinplisb 

 as much work in a day as anyone we ever 

 knew. He is going to consolidate his va- 

 rious lumber interests into the Advance 

 Lumber Company, with headquarters at 

 Cleveland, and will add a large yellow pine 

 department. This will not, however, in- 

 clude the Empire Lumber Company of Buf- 

 falo. AVe were glad to see Air. Christy, 



