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HARDWOOD RECORD 



factory recently, He booked some good sized 

 orders while out on the road. 



A good improvement in trade is reported 

 by W. W. Dinus of the Garetson-Greason 

 Lumber Company. 



C. E. Thomas of the Thomas & Proetz 

 Lumber Company, has returned from a trip 

 through the South on business. He visited 

 the various mills of the company in order to 

 get a personal line on the prevailing condi- 

 tions. 



NEW ORLEANS 



Hardwoods in this market are moving more 

 freely, especially for manufacturing purposes. 

 Prices are well sustained, and in the better 

 grades of oak there have been advances. An 

 optimistic tone in the export lumber trade 

 is apparent and the steadiness of the de- 

 mand abroad is seen in the increasing number 

 of inquiries and a disposition to buy more 

 for future supply. As is usual at this sea- 

 son, the log business is falling- off materially, 

 but the record tor the season has been an 

 encouraging one and there is still a move- 

 ment of considerable magnitude. Unfavor- 

 able crop conditions in Europe have worked 

 considerably against the stave business, but 

 the effect has been, on the whole, much less 

 than might have been expected, and but little 

 complaint has been heard in this direction. 



N. A. Gladding of E. C. Atkins & Co., In- 

 dianapolis, is in this city looking over the 

 affairs and prospects of the New Orleans 

 branch. Mr. Gladding is a member of several 

 carnii'al organizations, and is always on 

 hand. 



G. H. A. Thomas, president of the Thomas 

 Lumber Company, died at his home Thursday, 

 March 2, after a long illness. 



The New Orleans Furniture Compan.y, New Or- 

 leans, will erect an addition to its factory at 

 Front and Bellcastle streets. Additional ma- 

 chinery to cost about JIOO.OOO will be in- 

 stalled. 



The Standard Export Company of New Or- 

 leans has filed a certified copy of its charter 

 with the state of Texas, and has been granted 

 the right to do business under, the laws of 

 that state with headquarters at Beaumont. 

 It has a capital stock of $100,000. The Texas 

 agent is A. A. Ilowland, who has boeu with 

 the company for some time. 



James D. Lacey is spending the carnival 

 season at his New^rleans home. 



Mr. Crosby of the Northern Luinber Manu- 

 facturers' Company. Batchelor, La., was in 

 the city a few days ago on his way home 

 from St. Louis and Memphis, where he had 

 been calling on the hardwood trade. 



MILWAUKEE 



Several Wisconsin lumber and manufacturing 

 concerns who have increased their capital stock 

 recently are : The John H. Kaiser liUmber 

 Company, Eau Claire, increase from $700,000 

 (0 $1,000,000; (he Fond du Lac Church Fur- 

 nishing Company, Fond du Lac, increase from 

 $50,000 to $150,000; Racine Manufacturing 

 Company, Racine, increase from $000,000 to 

 ^SOO.OOO, 



The Merrill Woodenware Company of Merrill 

 expects to have approximately 2,500,000 feet of 

 logs decked on the factory site before the snow 

 disappears. 



The capital stock of the Racine Refrigerator 

 & Fixture Company of Racine is to be incroased 

 to $750,000, .-ind it is understood tliat the com- 

 pany contrmplales the erection of several addi- 

 tions. 



B. F. McMillan & Brother of McMillan have 

 ceased logging operations. As soon as the pres- 

 ent cut of logs is sawed the mill at McMillan 



will be closed. The mill was erected thirty-five 

 years ago. 



The American Seating Company is preparing 

 to erect several dry-kilns at its Racine plant. 



The Sheboygan Cigar Box, Lumber & Manu- 

 facturing Company at Sheboygan has taken over 

 the business of the Sheboygan Cigar Mold Com- 

 pany. 



A party of eleven men, representing the Pitls- 

 hurg Hardwood Door Company, recently inspected 

 the plant of the Paine Lumber Company at 

 Oshkosh. The party included Roliort Finnegan. 

 It. H. Wilson, T. II. Taylor, W. W. Fuller, E. E. 

 Yabr, George E. Booth, R. Weber, M. M. Eichen- 

 bach, E, A. Brown, C. M. Rigley and F. W. 

 UeBoice. 



The BriUion Manufacturing Company has been 

 organized at BriUion to succeed the BriUion 

 Woodenware Company, and the plant will be 

 oijened at once for the manufacture of cheese 

 boxes, bent woodenware and cheesemakers' sup- 

 plies. 



The Wisconsin railroad rate commission has 

 dismissed the complaint in the case of the 

 Wheeler-Timlin Lumber Company against the 

 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road, involving 

 a charge for overweight in lumber. 



Reuel Francis Weston, a well-known con- 

 tractor of La Crosse, who, with Ex-Governor 

 Washburn, was one of the organizers of the 

 La Crosse Lumber Company in 1,S71, recently 

 died at the age of seventy-four years. 



The executive committee of the Wisconsin Ad- 

 vancement Association, recently organized by 

 leading lumbermen and timber owners, met in 

 Madison last week in conference with the state 

 commissioner of immigration and the dean of 

 the college of agriculture of the University of 

 Wisconsin, and decided to establish a bureau of 

 publicity to advertise lands in northern and cen- 

 tral Wisconsin. H. C. Bnker of Marinette will 

 have charge of the bureau. 



SAOINAW VALLEY 



Nearly all the hardwood mills in the valley 

 and on the lines of railroads coming to the 

 river are in operation. The mills at Bay City 

 pud Saginaw receive their stock of hardwood 

 timber from the territory traversed by the 

 Michigan Central Mackinaw division extending 

 from the valley to the head of Lake Huron. A 

 few logs come down over the Detroit and 

 Mackinac Railroad, but the timber on the shore 

 is mostly manufactured at interior mills. Not 

 only does the Mackinaw division supply the val- 

 ley mills with logs, but along the line of that 

 road there are numerous mills which manufac- 

 ture large quantities of lumber. Some of this 

 stock is bought by local dealers and handled 

 here, while the remainder passes through the 

 valley to other markets. Last year the hard- 

 wood lumber output of these Mackinaw division 

 mills was : 



Feet. 

 Batchelor Timber Company, West 



Branch 4,900,000 



Henry Stephens Company, Waters.... 4.122.000 



Sailing-Hanson Company. Gravling... 7.661. nan 



K. Hanson & Sons, Inc., Grayling 3,354,547 



N. Michelson Lumber Company, Mieh- 



elson 200,000 



Johannesburg Manufacturing Company, 



Johannesliurg 6,120,000 



Michelson-Hanson Lumber Company, 



Lewiston 1.500.000 



Lewis Jenson. Sailing 1,7.50,000 



Humphrey Brothers, Gaylord 25.000 



David Ward Estate, Deward 4.622,765 



Total 34,276,034 



In 1909 the output of these mills totaled 48.- 

 366.028 feet. The Michelson-Hanson Lumber 

 Company exhausted its timber last season. The 

 mill was sold and dismantled and the machinery 

 sold and taken to Bay City. 



Lumber shippers have been exceptionally 

 favored this winter in having experienced no 

 difficulty in obtaining transportation for moving 

 lumber. Heretofore cars have been scarce dur- 

 ing the winter months. 



Manufacturers of flooring report a fair trade, 

 and prices are fairly satisfactory. The plants 

 of Hanson-Ward and W. D. Young & Co., at 

 Bay City put out a lot of stuff for the export 

 trade. The S. L. Eastman Flooring Company 

 manufactured 10.000,000 feet or more of floor- 

 ing during the year. The company takes a lot 

 of maple from the Robinson Lumber Company 

 operating in Ogemaw county north of Bay City, 

 and also buys several million feet of lumber 

 every year of Bay City parties. W. D. Young 

 & Co. last week received seventy-seven pieces of 

 Australian hardwood timber for special purpose. 



DETROIT 



The planing mill and interior finish factory 

 of the Harding Lumber Company in the North 

 Woodward district have been completed and are 

 doing a good business. The yards are in a rap- 

 idly growing residence district, where the best 

 class of residences are being erected. 



The C. W. Kotcher Company has installed at 

 its Adair street dock a saw and planing mill and 

 is prepared to turn out fine hardwood interior 

 finish and all kinds of flnisbed hardwood lumber. 



During the month of February building opera- 

 tions in Detroit totaled $2,308,900. The month 

 was the warmest February in Detroit in the past 

 eighteen years, and builders were very busy. 

 Building during the first week in March totaled 

 $355,025. 



Trade in hardwoods shows considerable im- 

 provement in this market, due to quite an extent 

 to unseasonably mild weather. Oak and maple 

 have been in good demand, while basswood has 

 picked up somewhat. Automobile industries are 

 large purchasers of poplar and maple. Prices 

 have held up in fairly good shape. Trade has 

 been active in the interior finish, hardwood floor- 

 ing and veneering industries. 



Hardwood Market, 



(By HARDWOOD BECOBD Ezclasive Market Bejporteri.) 



CHICAGO 



There was a decided weakness luanifest 

 in the Chicago hardwood market during the 

 last two weeks, but the trade reflects a feel- 

 ing of confidence and expectancy and a belief 

 that with the advance of spring, business will 

 resume normal proportions. Even now the 

 demand is growing slightly, but the trade 

 comes in driliblets. Inquiries notably are in- 

 creasing, but the average buyer is simply pur- 

 chasing enough stock to keep his plant go- 

 ing, and seems to prefer that tlie wholesaler 

 and manufacturer shall capitalize his lumber 

 stocks. 



The refusal of the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission to admit an increase in freight 

 rates meets with general approval, but this 

 stand seems to increase the mood of hesi- 

 tancy of the necessity of immediate pur- 

 chases. 



There is a disappointment locally in the 

 paucity of orders being received from the rail- 

 roads and other corporations. The same hand 

 to mouth purchases which apply to other 

 lines of trade prevail among the big buyers. 

 Local yards seem to be having a fair volume 

 of business made up of small orders. How- 

 ever, few are doing as much business as they 

 did a year ago at this'time. 



There is an increased demand for red gum, 

 wliich is perhaps occupying the strongest po- 



