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The Cove ManufacturinK (onipaiiy has in- 

 stalled a new band mill at liosc City with a 

 dally capacity of 20,000 feet and a supply of 

 timber to keep It In ' operation a number of 

 >ears. 



The Saginaw Table and Cabinet Company 

 recently erected a factory and It Is now In 

 operation. It employs sixty hands, but this 

 number Is to be increased to 123 soon. The 

 company expects to put out $20(1,000 worth 

 of goods annually. 



The Kern Manufacturing Company's sawmill 

 at Bay City was destroyed by lire October 17, in- 

 volving a loss of $100,000. with about $20,000 

 insurance. The plant has' for several years 

 boon stocked by the Ward estate and has been 

 cutting pine. The pine of the estate is pretty 

 well cleaned up. but it has about SdO.OOO.OOO 

 feel of hardwood timber standing. It is believed 

 llie mill will be rebuilt. 



The rietroit & Mackinac railway has con- 

 structed a three-mile spur from the Rose City 

 division on the south branch to reach S.000,000 

 feet of hardwood timber which ,T. W. McGraw 

 of Bay City is having manufactured by a large 

 portable sawmill. 



Cheboygan Is putting forth an effort to secure 

 a large woodenware plant. 



Considerable trouble Is experienced in this 

 part of the state to get enough men for work 

 in the mills and camps. Camps are being started 

 all through the timber districts where jobbers 

 can get the men. Wages are high and supplies 

 also unusually costly. 



Grand Rapids. 



The failure of the BeUling-Hall Manufactur- 

 ing Company and the closing down of its three 

 factories at Belding was a hard blow to that 

 town. It is still hoped that the factories will 

 resume operations. The United States court, 

 sitting at Grand Rapids, has denied the peti- 

 tion of Frank Jones, receiver for the Belding- 

 llall Manufacturing Company, to be given pos- 

 session of 800,000 feet of hemlock lumber re- 

 plevined from the company by the Mercer & 

 Ferdon Lumber Company of Grand Rapids the 

 day before the company went into the hands 

 of a receiver. 



It is announced that the hardwood mill of 

 Cook, Curtis & Miller, located at Curtis on 

 the Manistique railroad, W'ill be closed down 

 during November, the deer hunting season, for 

 I he convenience of its Nimrod employees no less 

 than for the purpose of making extensive repairs 

 .'11 ihc plant. 



The Browne-Morse Company has been organ- 

 ized at Muskegon with $55,000 capital to suc- 

 ceed the Gray Manufacturing Company in the 

 manufacture of office furniture and tiling devices. 



The Oval Wood Dish Company of Traverse 

 City has replaced its wooden'vats at the factory 

 with ten large ones built of cement and grout. 

 Logs have been coming in fast and the plant 

 is again in operation. 



The Elk Rapids Iron Company has finished 

 its season's cut and its sawmill is shut down. 



The plant of the Reynolds Wagon Company, 

 located just outside the city of Kalamazoo, was 

 burned October 19. The loss is estimated at 

 $25.0CiO. insured at $15,000. 



William Goltry and George Lucas have the 

 contract to lumber oft" a tract of 2o0 acres 

 of timber tor Crawl & Co. of Harbor Springs. 

 The timber is estimated at 2.000,000 feet. 



The Michigan Furniture Company of Ann 

 Arbor is tompletiug a large adilition to its plant. 



The Eastern Basket and Veneer Company of 

 Buffalo. N. Y., and Holland, Mich., capital $600,- 

 000, has filed articles of association with the 

 secretary of state. 



The Record of Petoskey says : "William H. 

 White, president of the W. H. White and the 

 Boyne Cit.v Lumber Companies, is quite indig- 

 nant over the report that he is about to leave 

 Boyne City. He says that while he has sold 

 some of his holdings, he has no notion of leav- 

 ing, and Ihat the industries in which he Is 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



Miterested will go on just as herelufore. The 

 growth of Boyne City- and the lumber compa- 

 nies are very closely interwoven. The W. H. 

 White Company, organized in 1SS3, has grown 

 to be one of the big concerns In this part of the 

 country. Mr. While is also president and gen- 

 eral manager of the Boyne City. Gaylord & 

 Alpena rallmad. lie is a prominent factor in 

 all that Is for the betterment of the town, and 

 the people of Boyne are rejoiied that he Is not to 

 leave." 



The Electric, Land and Development Company 

 at a recent meeting held at Traverse City voted 

 lo Incorporate with $1,000,000 capital for the 

 pvirpose of dcveicijing power from the Manis- 

 tee river. This is a reorganization of the old 

 company, composed largely of Traverse City capi- 

 talists. The company has holdings whereby 

 It can develop 20,000 horsepower from four 

 power dams, and it proposes to deliver power 

 from the first dam to Traverse City, Cadillac 

 and Elk Rapids. It is planned to use this 

 power for operating electric cars over the pro- 

 posed road from Traverse Citj' to Charlevoix. 

 The contract for building this road has been let 

 lo the Carter Construction Company. 



Colvun'bus. 



II. W. Putnam, president and treasurer of 

 the General Lumber Company, returned last 

 week from Asheville, Ky., where he closed a 

 deal for the purchase of a large double baud 

 mill located at that place. The mill was owned 

 by Jacob Lelcht and has a capacity of 50,000 

 feet daily and is said to be one of the best 

 equipped mills on the Ohio river. The General 

 Lumber Company bas been operating a large 

 mill at Martin. Ky., and has under lease two 

 more mills located at Marysville and Hammond, 

 Ky. The concern operates large timber tracts 

 in Lawrence, Johnson and Martin counties, 

 Kentucky, and uses the. Big Sandy river to reach 

 the mills on the Ohio river. By a reorganiza- 

 tion of the General Lumber Company some time 

 ago, J. W. Taylor retired as president and was 

 succeeded by H. W.. Putnam, who had been 

 secretary for several years. Mr. Putnam was 

 also made treasurer. George R. Hedges is vice- 

 president and Frank M. Raymond secretary of 

 the company. 



W. M. Bitter, president of the W. M. Ritter 

 Lumber Company, with headquarters in this city, 

 and which operates extensively in West Virginia, 

 \ ir^inia. Kentucky, Tennessee and other southern 

 states, returned October 18 from a three months' 

 trip in England and continental Europe. He 

 was accompanied by his wife, and a large part 

 of the time was spent in touring the Old World 

 in an automobile. Mr. Ritter combined busi- 

 ness with pleasure and he inspected the com- 

 pany's branches at Liverpool and London. He 

 reports an active export market, although con- 

 ditions abroad are very quiet. The Liverpool 

 branch is in charge of Hy Brown, who also 

 manages the London office. In charge of Ines 

 'i'righton. Of the 7,000 cars annual output of 

 the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, about 25 

 per cent is exported to the Liverpool and London 

 branches. The company has about seventeen 

 traveling salesmen on the road at the present 

 time. 



Local hardwood manufacturers report an ac- 

 tive demand for beveled siding and drop siding. 

 The market in both classes is quite strong, and 

 the supply is limited. 



The Powell Lumber Company will, about No- 

 vember 15, place in operation its large planing 

 mill at the plant at 33 West Vine street. The 

 mill is designed for remanufacturing purposes 

 and is the first one of its kind established in 

 central Ohio. The mill will turn out heavy 

 timbers for car sills, bridge work and the like. 



John R. (jobcy ,S: Co. report an active trade, 

 notwithstanding the dullness in the market. 

 Mr. Gobey says : "The market bas been so 

 swift for the past few years that a little 

 breathing spell Is not unwelcome." 



Indianapolis, 



A new sawmill is being built at Yazoo City, 

 Miss., by Ilie .\lalcy UardwootI Lumber Com- 

 pany of Edinburg. Ind. It will have a dally 

 capacity of 30,000 feet. The company will saw 

 gum and oak principally for foreign markets. 



The Capitol Veneer Company is building a 

 new plant In this city at West McCarty street 

 and the Belt railroad. A building, to be used 

 as a sawmill and ci^iar factory, will cost $5,000, 

 while the warehouse will cost about $1,.')00. 



Williani Cain, for forty years associated with 

 his brother, Thornton P. Cain, In the lumber 

 business at Richmond, died in that city a few 

 days ago. He was born in Chilllcothe, Ohio, but 

 spent the most of his life in Richmond. Death 

 was caused by apoplexy following a year's ill- 

 ness. 



Building materials exclusively will be manu- 

 factured and sold by the S. & J. Manufacturing 

 (Company, organized at Connersville by Thomas 

 H. Stoops. Andrew W. Jackson and Anna M. 

 Stoops. The company has .$25,000 capital stock 

 and will equip an up-to-date plant. 



Members of the Indiana Manufacturers' and 

 Shippers' Association are starting a movement 

 for a debit-and-credit system of charging de- 

 murrage which would give the shipper a re- 

 bate for releasing cars before the expiration of 

 the forty-eight hours' free time allowed. The next 

 Legislature will be asked to incorporate an 

 amendment in the shippers' law covering the de- 

 sired point. 



The Durham Tie and Lumber Company has 

 been organized at Borden by J. C. Durham, C. 

 E. Bierly and S. W. Burns, who have invested 

 $10,000. A general lumber business willbe con- 

 ducted, with a specialty of railroad ties. 



Barber & Boicourt of Wolcottville and Kuntz 

 Bros, of Shirley have established lumber yards 

 at Beech Grove, the new town southeast of the 

 city where the New York Central Railroad Com- 

 pany is erecting its new shops at an expenditure 

 of several million dollars. 



Plans have been completed by the I>ynes Lum- 

 ber Company for its new plant at Thirtieth 

 street and the Monon railroad tracks which is 

 to replace the old plant on Maryland street sold 

 a few days ago. Seven buildings are being erect- 

 ed, including an office building, two large dimen- 

 sion sheds, a flooring shed, planing mill, finish 

 shed and a heating plant, the latter to be of 

 brick. The company has a site G60xl25 feet and 

 will have a private switch the entire length of 

 the yard. 



It is announced that the Blanchard-Carlisle 

 Company of Kokomo, dealers in finished lumber, 

 has voluntarily dissolved partnership and that 

 the business will likely be continued under a 

 new name. 



Daniel Wertz of Maley & Wertz, Evansville, 

 Is spending a week in Kentucky and Tennessee 

 buying oak logs. 



J. O. and W. S. Brannum and Elbert Kecne 

 have organized and incorporated the Brannum- 

 Keene Lumber Company here, investing $23,- 



000. A modern plant will be installed and the 

 company will handle a full line of lumber and 

 will probably deal in timber. 



A branch plant is to be established at Shelby- 

 ville by the Indianapolis Casket Company of 

 this city and will be in operation about January 



1. Casket shells will be manufactured at the 

 new factory and brought to this city to be fin- 

 ished and sold. 



A selling trip through the Northwest is being 

 made by Bedna Young of Young & Cutsinger, 

 Evansville, dealers in hardwoods. He will be 

 gone for some time. 



Railroads have announced their intention of 

 contesting the right of the Indiana Railroad 

 Commission to order the placing of switches and 

 sidetracks. A few days ago the Lake Erie and 

 Western railroad was ordered to place a switch 

 at the lumber yard of S. P. Jennings, New- 

 castle, who was to hear the cost with the un- 

 derstanding that it was to be refunded at the 



