HARDWOOD RECORD 



H. J. Dudley of the Dudley Lumber Company 

 has been appointed temporniy receiver for the 

 Newaygo Chair Company, a concern which has 

 been operating less than a year at Newaygo, 

 Mich. An inventory lias not been completed and 

 the company's tinancial status is nnl^nown. 



Transportation matters are a very live issue 

 ' in Michigan at the present time. The Michigan 

 Shippers' Association, with headquarters here, 

 is starting an active campaign to secure lower 

 freight rates to the Atlantic seaboard, and data 

 is being secured to show that shippers of central 

 and western Michigan are being discriminated 

 against. The new uniform demurrage rules. 

 which went into effect on all railroads Novem- 

 ber ], cutting free time for loading and un- 

 loading cars to forty-eight hours, is also being 

 fought by shippers and different lumber organi- 

 zations'. 



J. S. Linton of this city, secretary of the Na- 

 tional Association of Furniture Manufacturers. 

 > having completed a survey of furniture trade 

 conditions during the ten months ending Octo- 

 ber 81, reports a ten per cent increase in busi- 

 ness over the corresponding period of last year. 

 He also finds that stocljs of finished goods at 

 factories are below normal, ail of which looks 

 tine for business at the coming January sales 

 ind during 1911. 



.Tones & Green are enlarging their flooring 

 plant at Big Rapids and the improvement when 

 completed, will double the capacity of the fac- 

 'ory. 



Wo'Klenware factories In Ludington. Lansing, 

 Hart, Copemish and Kalkaska, Mich., and Per- 

 rysville, O.. were represented at a meeting of 

 manufacturers held at the Morton house Novem- 

 ber .'iO. W. E. Chapman of Perrysvilie presided 

 and matters of trade interests were discussed. 

 ITie fast diminishing supply of hardwoods, es- 

 pecially of timber suitable for making large 

 bowls, was gone into and it was the consensus 

 of opinion that the price of these bowls should 

 be advanced twenty-five per cent. The meeting 

 was called by Ludington interests. 



MILWAUKEE 



John & Lee have purchased a piece of prop- 



rty on the Chippewa river at Chippewa Falls. 



Wis., and will erect a sawmill. Both members 



if this new firm were formerly employed by the 



I'liippewa Lumber & Boom Company. 



A. C. Frost, formerly of Kenosha. Wis., is 

 reported to have purchased COO.OOO acres of 

 timber land In British Columbia. Mr. Frost is 

 at the head of a syndicate and the property is 

 located on Moresby Island and includes a saw 

 ralll at Queen Charlotte City. 



The Wachsmuth Lumber Company of Bay 

 ii'ld, Wis., has received a favorabl" dc(l<ii>n 



from the Supreme Court in its appeal of the 

 case brought against it by Jacob Johnson. The 

 court decided that the lumber company was not 

 liable for the damage to adjoining property, 

 lesulting from a fire, which destroyed its plant 

 two years ago. 



The Diamond Match Company has purchased 

 the holdings of the Bundy Lumber Company. 

 The mill at Rhinelander will he closed but log- 

 ging operations will be continued and the log.v 

 will be shipped to the Grii n Bay, Wis., plant 

 of the company. 



Recent visitors in the Milwaukee hardwood 

 trade include R. A. Taylor. Lee Wilson & Co.. 

 Memphis, Tenn. : Charles Moline of the 1. t^tepb- 

 enson Company, Wells, Mich., and Mr. t'ooper 

 of the Bridge & Cooper Company, Ltd.. Saginaw. 

 -Mich. 



r.nilding tpcration? iiave b('-?n commenced on 

 a large dry-kiln by the American Seating Com- 

 pan.v at llacine. Wis. Several iuiiir.'iveraents 

 have been made to the company's plant during 

 the past summer, including the 'erection of a 

 new power plant nnd the installation of now 

 boilers and oigines. 



Ed Lehmann of Applet«n. Wis., has started a 

 project for recovering sunken logs in Lake 

 Winnebago. It is estimated that there are sev- 

 eral million feet of logs at the bottom of this 

 lake, which for more than fifty years have been 

 used for rafting purposes. 



The Willow Kivei Lumber Company has com- 

 menced operations at its New Richmond, Wis., 

 sawmill, employing one hundred and fifty men. 

 The Chicago, Minneapolis & Omaha road bas re- 

 sumed its log trains, and large quantities of logs 

 are being shipped into New Richmond from the 

 vicinity of Ba.vfield. 



The Atwood Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany has closed its mill at Park Falls, Wis., 

 for two months, during which time extensive 

 repairs will be made to the plant. The com- 

 pany's planing mill will continue operations 

 throughout the winter. 



-Milwaukee lumbermen and manufacturers are 

 .imong the leaders in a movement which has 

 Iteen started to secure the early completion of 

 ihe proposed outer harbor project that will do 

 much towards increasing the water and rail ship- 

 ping facililies of the city. Petitions have been 

 circulated and freely signed urging the imme- 

 diate purchase of Jones Island and for issuing 

 $250,000 in bonds for this purpose, which is to 

 be the initial step in improving the harbor. 



United States Senator Isaac Stephenson vis- 

 iled in Milwaukee recently while on his way 

 to Washington from his home at Marinette, Wis. 



The J. S. Stearns Lumber Company has closed 

 its large mill at Washburn. Wis., and has an 

 rounced that this mill will be continued for 

 only one more season, when tlie company's op- 

 erations ;it Washburn will be finislied. 



Hardwood Market, 



(By HABD'WOOD BECOBD Esclusive Market Beporters.} 



CHICAGO 



Though the fad that lumber consuming plants 

 arc actively engaged in taking inventories and 

 consequently have not been in a position to buy 

 to the extent that they might otherwise do, still 

 the last two weeks in Ciiicago have been marked 

 by a noticeable improvement over conditions pre 

 vailing for some time past. Many firms report 

 that their total sales have shown a more favor- 

 aide aggregate, and others that while their sales 

 are still about the same, they have received more 

 inquiries of late than througliout the summer and 

 fall. Hardwood prices are tending to a healthy 

 and more steady plane, though local concerns are 

 still far from united In holding out for a fair 

 nroflt. However, It seems more than likely that 

 Ihe next fiw montlis will bring a seller's market 



rallicr tiian a buyer's, as indications are that 

 wlu'H the consumers start to purchase, their or- 

 iliTs will come with a rush and there will be 

 a conseipient shortage of available stock. How- 

 ever, that time lias not arrived, and it behooves 

 the local trade to maintain, for awhile longer at 

 least, a reasonable price on their goods, for by 

 .so doing they will he just that much advanced 

 i[i tile event of a general buying movement, over 

 what tliey would be if they indulged in wliolesale 

 price cutting. 



The sash, door and blind concerns continue to 

 be about the best buyers. The sale to piano 

 houses Is practically nil. Furniture factories 

 are using a little more lumber and evidence in- 

 dicates that car houses are fairly active buyers. 



Quarter-sawed white oak lumber is not a 

 strong article in Chicago at the present time. 

 I'he market seems to be overstocked, and sales 



are slow and effected only at very unsatisfactory 

 prices. This is, however, the only kind of oak 

 lumber which is not readily disposed of, the exact 

 opposite being true of red oak in quantities. 

 There is no remarkable change in the standing 

 of any of the other stocks over the position 

 prevailing two weeks ago. As then, high-grade 

 stocks are commanding the best sales and the 

 LiesI relative prices, and there is still apparent 

 a considerable shortage in this class of lumber 

 at the mills. Good maple is probal)ly scarcer 

 just now than any other, though well-dried higli- 

 grade birch is sold without any difficulty when 

 it can be secured. Red gum is still strong, with 

 sap probably a little weaker than it was before. 

 Sales of ash and hickory are fair and maintain 

 llicir usual level of sales and prices. 



Local lumbermen still complain of the difficulty 

 in getting cars, thoueh some of them have lumber 

 tied up on the road which they cannot dispose 

 of. Of the two, the latter is probably the most 

 objectionable occurrence. 



NEW YORK 





'The hardwood market at New York shows 

 little material change. Prices on good-grade 

 stock continue firm, with offerings in some 

 classes of stock not overplentiful, but good- 

 grade lumber, on the whole, is in fairly strong 

 bands and the market is well held. In low- 

 grade stock the market is not active and prices 

 show sympathetic tendencies. Birch, poplar, 

 chestnut and maple are leaders on the list and 

 prices on certain items are quite stiff. 



There is one encouraging feature about the 

 .situation and that is that stocks in the hands 

 of buyers and local manufacturers are light, 

 which assures more or less buying based on 

 actual needs throughout the winter season, and 

 will give the wholesaler considerable business. 

 There are recent indications of an improved con- 

 sumption in mill-work and other lines a little 

 later on in the season. 



BUFFALO 



The local hardwood trade has been quiet for 

 the last few days, partly due to the approach 

 of the new year. A Buffalo hardwood lumber- 

 man, patrolling the Ohio river district, finds 

 plenty of the lower grades of hardwoods, but 

 none too much of firsts and seconds. He thinks 

 the difference between plain and quartered oak 

 is too great. There is some elm coming down 

 from Michigan, but it is hard to get Michigan 

 prices for it here. In hardwoods there is much 

 said of the scarcity of maple and of high price!- 

 Iteing paid for it. Some yards have been abb' 

 to get stocks of it by lake, but the flooring 

 mills in the Northwest are using much of the 

 lumber at home. Poplar and chestnut are also 

 in demand at good prices, and there has lately 

 been more call for ash. Birch continues in good 

 demand. 



PITTSBURG 



Hardwood conditions in the Pittsburg district 

 continue to improve steadily. There is no big 

 bulge in orders, but the business booked is more 

 than siitlicient to hold down stocks with the 

 manufacturers. The tendency of prices Is de- 

 cidedly upward. In white oak it is hard to 

 get enough stock to go around and Ihe same is 

 U'ui' of dry asb, hickory, maple and clierry. 

 Mixed hardwoods are moving in better shape 

 than at any time this year, the largest orders 

 being placed by the coal companies. Yard trade 

 is a little quiet at present, although November 

 showed an increase in orders with nearly all 

 the wholesalers of Pittsburg. The fact that a 

 dozen or more big railroad and trolley concerns 

 have within the past ten days placed orders or 

 I»nt out requlsilions for enormous quantities 



