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yd. The Gilchrist mill at Alpenn hns shut ilonii' 

 und the Brm has sent Its irews Into thi' womls. 



I'rotiresa Is rapid In ih.' onnstnirllun of llir 

 urK \V. l>. Yiiuns A f". plant, and arllvlly Is 

 iiuteJ all nIoUK the line. It has Iouk beea a 

 mutter of remark that the Saginaw Valley cities 

 have not done more to Induce the estnlillshraent 

 of hardwood industries liavio); the Umber re- 

 sources mid chenji fuel Iriliutary to them. In- 

 stead of four maple lloorliig factories there 

 should he a score making this section a center 

 for the prodncllon of that commodity. Just as 

 (irand Itaplds gained notoriety In exploiting Its 

 furniture Industry. The handle business is just 

 now active and a new factory is to be located at 

 Mlllersburg, north of Alpena. There Is an Incx- 

 haustllile supply of timber suitable for wooden 

 sjieclallles iiere. 



At t.)naKay Gardner. I'eterman & Co. have 

 contracted to manufacture So.iWO.OOO feet of 

 Itardwood timber for other parties and they have 

 been busy placing their plant in condition to 

 tackle the job. They have buyers In Presflue Isle 

 nod Cheboygan counties i>lcking up beech and 

 white birch timber. 



There were 403,000,000 feet of hardwood liim- 

 ler manufactured in eastern ilicliigan between 

 Saginaw river and the Straits of Mackinac last 

 year and hundreds of thousands of dollars' worlii 

 of timber Is going to waste. 



One of the largest manufacturers in the state 

 said today that there will not be near as many 

 logs put in this winter owing to scarcity of 

 money, wages and cost of supplies. He further 

 said that hardwood logs, taking the run of the 

 tree, can be bought a little cheaper tlian a year 

 ago. 



Local mills and factories are doing the usual 

 voluire of business. 



The Uichardson Lumlier (Jompany has Just 

 started up its new hardwood mill, and it is 

 said to be the most up-to-date sawmill in Michi- 

 gan. It represents the highest tyjie of con- 

 struction. The plant has a full equipment of 

 the M. Garland Company's sawmill nuichinery. 

 and includes a 1907 model seven fooi Mersbon 

 sawmill resaw. 



Grand Bapids. 



The (irand Itapids. Holland it Chicago liail- 

 way Company will build a freight depot on 

 Island street. Eoth interurban roads out of 

 this city arc building up a large through freiglil 

 business In conn'^ctlon with the Chicago and 

 Milwaukee boats. 



Justus S. Stearns of Ludington was in the 

 city for a few hours November 4, and the news- 

 paper reporters, as usual, tried to get him to 

 talk on politics. "It's all I can do lo keep 

 track of my business Interests without getting 

 Into politics any," was his reply. 



II. C.. refers of Manistee and A. !•'. Ander- 

 son. Cadillac, were in the city November 4. 



.1. C. Knox of Cadillac, secretary of the 

 Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, 

 '.* spendins a fi-w days in this cily wiiii liis 

 family. 



W. S. I'ullen Is not cutting cherry and lilack 

 walnut at his Allegan mill this season, but will 

 make his usual cut of apple wood and will 

 start operations In a few weeks. 



Merrllt Chandler of Onaway has been ap- 

 polnled chairman of the Committee on I'ulilii- 

 Lands and Iteforestation in the constitutional 

 convention now In session at Lansing. He is 

 a pioneer in the reforestation movement, having 

 worki-d with thi' legislature nearly twenty .years 

 ago for Ibe passagi' of a bill to organize a lire 

 warden's dcparluunt and to create forest re- 

 serves of tax lands. 



.According to state papers the It. G. I'eters 

 Salt & Lumber Company of Manistee has plans 

 for hulidinB an electric line from Manistee to 

 'adillac. using the roadbed of Hie Peters nar- 

 row-gauge line running from .Manistee to Lake 

 Mitchell, west of Cadillac The plans contem- 

 plate construction of a dam on IMiie river, in 



South Bi-anch township. Wexford county, where 

 [lower for the road will be generated. 



I'lii' new plant of the Cauadlan Logging Tool 

 I'ouipauy, l^icnled at Sauit Sle. .Marii'. Is now 

 in operation. .Manager ,1. H. Bennett says tliai 

 In tile near future the company will manufac- 

 ture Its own cantbook handles, wiiich will mean 

 an enlarged factory. 



Prospects indicale light logging operations in 

 portions of the upper peninsula this winter. A 

 dispatch from Crystal Kails says : "With com- 

 mon labor at *i;..-.ii per day, oats at "0 cents 

 per bushel and hay at S25 a ton, a jobber must 

 have a big price for his work In the woods in 

 order to come out ahead this year. " 



Columbus, 

 The Cache Lumber Company, which has head- 

 quarters in this city, has acquired a large tim- 

 ber tract near Sedgwick, .\rk. The tract con- 

 tains 4(!,Siiii acres and it is estimated will cut 

 about ,'i:'.4,('.iin,liini feet of lumber and l.."no.OOO 

 ties. A large mill at Sedgwick was also pur- 

 chased, and the work of developing the tract 

 will be started soon. The company is now nego- 

 tiating for adjoining property. Tlie tract is rich 

 iu white and red oak. cypress, iiickory and gum. 

 The long timliers for the new mill being erect- 

 ed by the Powell Lumber Company at its plant 

 at 33 West Vine street arrived Monday from 

 California, and it is expected that the mill will 

 be in operation iiy the first of December. The 

 mill will lie used for remanufacturing timbers 

 for construction work. 



The W. .M. Hitter Lumber Company has not 

 curtailed production in the least. All the mills 

 located in the various southern states are run- 

 ning full time and the prospects are that they 

 will not be closed for some time, if at all. 



The General Lumber Company, which operates 

 several large mills near Ashland, ICy., recenti.v 

 purchased sixteen rafts of logs which floated 

 down the Big Sandy river. The company is run- 

 ning its mills full time. Preparations are be- 

 ing made for placing an additional traveling 

 salesman on the road about the first of the year. 

 The company Is bu.sy filling a contract with the 

 International Harvester Company, hardwoods lie 

 ing shippetl to the various plants of the comiinuy 

 at the rate of nljout a carload daily. 



The Crosby & Beckley Company reports a 

 marked Improvement in the market during the 

 past few^ weeks. "Prices are uncbangcd, but 

 conditions are li(>aitiiier and we believe the worst 

 is over," sai<l one mcnilier of the company. 



Clarence <!. McLaughlin, manager of the Mc- 

 f^aughlin HolTman Lumber Company, sjient sev- 

 eral days iu Chicago and the Northwest recent- 

 ly looking over the lumber situation. He speaks 

 optimisticaily of the outlook. 



Columbus hardwood dealers are nuu h iuti'iest 

 cd in the Injunction granted by the courts of 

 •he Pacific Coast to prevent the Iranscontlnentiil 

 -tilroads from enforcing a higher rate on lum- 

 ber. In case the new rate eventually prevails 

 local dealers will be vitally affcctciL 



Indianapolis, 



'i'hc \. ('. Kies Lumljcr I'ompany. owning 

 two yards, out? at Wasbiugtoii street and tiie 

 licit railroad, the oilier at liailroad avenue 

 and .Audubon road, has sold out lo the Itraii 

 iiuiii Keenc Liimljer Compan.v. Heeds filed show 

 liiat tile considr>ration for the two plants was 

 .'t:!3.iiii>i. 



Broom supplies and luimius will lie munii 

 fjiclured by the Indiana Broom Company, or- 

 ganized here with $2."i,li(HI capital stock hy C. 

 A. Patterson. Hr. i:. C. Backfield and C. I(. 

 Loyd. 



The local olllce of the American Lumber & 

 ICxport <'oinpany, .'>14 State Life Building, has 

 iiecn closed. 



.V sawmill has been built and veneer ma- 

 chinery installed at the plant of the Andrews 

 Cabinet Manufacturing Company, Huntington. 



C. H. Harnaliys plant at ^Jreencastle, thi' 



largest hardwood and veneer mills in Indiana, 

 had a narrow escape from destruction by fire on 

 the night of October 28. In a railroad wreck 

 a burning caboose rolled down an embankment 

 into his yards and almost against one of bis 

 iHiildings. Prompt work by the fire department 

 saved the plant and prevented loss. 



The Indiana Screen & .Manufacturing Com- 

 |iany of this city has changed its name to the 

 Indiana Bank Purniture & Manufacturing Com 

 paiiy. the new name more nearly representing the 

 nature of its business. 



lir. Thomas E. Will, secretary of the Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association, will deliver four lec- 

 tures in Indiana this month and next. It Is 

 probable that the first one will be delivered at 

 Marion, November 20, and the second on the 

 following night at Anderson. These dates have 

 not yet been settled definitely. 



Tell City furniture factories are running with 

 full forces once more after a shutdown of sev- 

 eral months due to a strike. The strike Is esti- 

 mated to have cost Tell City about $100,000 In 

 loss of wages. 



The Washington Handle Company has been 

 organized and will locate at Newcastle, a boom- 

 ing little city about forty miles east of here. 

 Tool handles will be manufactured. C. W. 

 Moueh. .J. T. Tyler and T. C. -Maxwell are the 

 directors and principal stockholders of the com- 

 pany, which has :S10.000 capital. 



It Is estimated that Indiana's supply of hard- 

 woods will he exhausted In about twenty-four 

 years, basing the estimate on the supposition 

 that there are now 8,000,000,000 feet of hard- 

 woods still standing, which are being cut at the 

 rate of 30.000,000 feet yearly. 



Improvements are being made at the plant of 

 the Poster Lumber Company, St. Clair street 

 and North Senate avenue. 



Tile Kendaliviiie l<"uruiture Company. Peru, 

 has increased Its capital stock from $00,000 to 

 .filue.UUO, according to a notice filed with the 

 secretary of state by F. E. Dickinson, president, 

 and M. W. Black, secretary and treasurer. 



Bristol. 

 K. K. Bradley of Bay City. Mich., was in 

 Bristol this week. After the death of his father, 

 the late N. B. Bradley of Bay City, aliout n 

 year ago, Mr. Bradley went to Michigan and 

 is devoting his time to looking after the hlg 

 estate left by the former. He Is still president 

 of the Bradley Lumber Company of Elizabeth- 

 ton, Carter county, Tenn., but announces that 

 Ibis company will probably .sell all of its hold- 

 ings lu'ie. including a liig handmlll at Elizabeth- 

 Ion, timlier lands, railroad, etc. For the past 

 few months Nathan Bradley has been In charge 

 of the property. 



"Business is not by any means bad," said 

 William S, Whiting of the Whiting Manufac- 

 turing ComiMiny of Abingdon, who was in the 

 lity on business this week. "Our mills made 

 a good siiowing during October, and though we 

 are encountering trouliie on account of the car 

 siuirtage, in common witii other siiippers, we 

 I'eei that business is much improved and that 

 tile prospects are much brighter than for some 

 time," 



George i:. Huvis of Geor;;c E. linvls & Co, 

 lias Just relumed from a trip In Virginia. Mr. 

 Havls reports business brisk at the points he 

 visited and the manufacturers all encouraged 

 liy the outlook, 



E. V, Babcack of K. V. Bahcock & Co., Pltls- 

 I'liig, has returued east after spending some 

 lime going over his company's cast Tennessee 

 properties. The company has large Interests 

 near Teliico Plains and operates extensively In 

 other parts of this section. 



,1. P. Duuwoody of the Forest Lumber Com- 

 pany. Piltsburg, was a recent visitor In Vir- 

 ginia. Mr, IHinwoody's concern Is now Inter- 

 ested In local properties. 



C. Boice of the Bolce Lumber Company and 

 Westmoreland Lumber Corporation, the former 

 of Philadelphia and the latter of Richmond. 

 \ a,, has returned from a visit to the east. 



