HARDWOOD RECORD 



date, no l)<>Hoves tlint tbe country Is now goloe 

 through a very ilii>rmiKli pcrUui of reailjust- 

 mont In prices iiiul I'spcrlally In tlnanclal meth- 

 ods and that within a few months the good 

 tffiHts of this are hcnind to 1)0 apparent. He Is 

 not relaxing his efforts to get at the trade, bnt 

 keeps his ofUces In the Commonwealth sky- 

 •craper very busy. 



The Morgan Carriage & Wagon Company of 

 Beaver Falls. I'a.. has been organized by IJnvlil 

 G. Morgan. Ilonry \Y. Hlum. lieorge W. War- 

 rick. E. M. Hays and Samuel K. Gallagher. A 

 plant will be erected. 



Western I'ennsylvanla Is getting Its full share 

 of new ohalr factories. Two new concerns have 

 recently Invaded Union City, which was already 

 known as the largest chair manufacturing point 

 In the country. At ConnellsvlUe, Pa., another 

 chair factory Is being made ready. At Corry. 

 Pa.. S. .r. Weller. C. A. llubbols and .7. l^. Lyons 

 of Union City, l*a.. have purchased a silo and 

 will operate a handle and novelty plant. 



cherry, trade In that wood keeping up surpris- 

 ingly well. The o()ncorn anticipates an early 

 resumption of buying and is making plans 

 accordingly. 



Buffalo. 



Ituffalo luinbormon w*'r'f asko<l ttt jciin in Iho 

 movement against the new inspootion rules of 

 the National Hardwood I.umlior .Vssoclation 

 Inaugurated by the New York i.umbi'r 'i'rade 

 Association, but declined. 



O. E. Yeager is getting in quite a lot of new 

 stock — oak, poplar and ash — good stuff all of It. 

 Though not much needed at the present time, it 

 Ik hound to come Into demand sooner or later. 

 and Mr. Yeager is wisely anticipating the wants 

 of his customers. 



Soatcherd & Son are striving ti» oatoh up on 

 the oak domaud during the present dull time. 

 They have had dithculty in liuding stock to till 

 orders and are now in hopes of getting ahead of 

 the call and accumulating a little choice ma- 

 terial. 



A. Miller takes an optimistic view of the 

 situation and predicts an early return of nor- 

 mal conditions. He Is getting hardwoods from 

 ihc South and from Canada which he feels will 

 serve him in good stead when business does 

 pick up. 



F. A. Beyer fell from a street car recently 

 and was slightly injured. He has not been out 

 to his otficc since, but expects to be able to 

 return to business in a few days. J. F. Knox 

 Is looking after the mills of the concern in 

 Missouri. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company 

 reports business somewhat dull at present, but 

 they are not urging f)rders, the plan being to 

 hold stock as the r<»inpany believes trade will 

 pick up rapidly after the tirst of the year. 



F. M. Sullivan of T. Sullivan & Co. Is in the 

 West looking after a cargo of ash and elm. This 

 will round up the firm's line of stock and put 

 them in shape to take care of the wants of their 

 trade when the demand is more active. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company's 

 yaril has a particularly well assorted line of 

 stock just now. witii a fine lot of oak. poplar 

 and chestnut. Their southern connections enable 

 them to keep tliis in good shape, and they 

 quickly fill In all gaps made by sales. 



1". W. Vet tor reports trade as good as could 

 be expected under the circumstances. IHs yard 

 Is well supplied with southern hardwoods, and 

 ho is constantly adding desirable grades. 



Current report has It that G. Ellas & Bro. 

 are carrying a big stock of ail kinds of hard- 

 woods, but the concern does not consider It at 

 all exieptlonal. Their stock is always a large 

 and well assorted one. They are running their 

 mill strong and report that timber movements 

 are slacking off somewhat. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company and Its 

 many allied Interests are all runnnlng full time. 

 These companies have such an extensive trade 

 that a temporary lull does not have much effect 

 on their business and they are really glad of the 

 opportunity to catch up on orders. 



I. N. Stewart & Bro. are handling a lot of 



Bay City and Sagiiiaw. 



The mills iind plants in tliis section afe gener- 

 all.v In operation: some men have been let out, 

 but in the main labor Is well employed. 



Frank Bnell. who employs 700 men In log- 

 ging In tile upper part of tl>e lower peninsula, 

 says that he is not going to curtail, i)Ut will 

 handle 40,000,000 feet of logs the coniing year. 

 A large portion of tiioso come to llie Saginaw 

 Valley. 



Haak Brothers of tbe Haakwood Lumber 

 Company of Haakwood, a lumber liamlet founded 

 a few years ago by them, and where they oper- 

 ated a number of years, Init recently transferred 

 their interests west, are offering 10,000,000 feet 

 of timber for sale. They were in Bay City Sat- 

 urday endeavoring to Interest W. I). Young in 

 the timber. It is hardwooil. bought by the 

 Haak people nine years ago and hi'Ul for a rise. 

 It may bo dithoult to get an advance upon it at 

 present, tbougb should conditions dear up and 

 business resume its wonted activity it is prob- 

 able no dithculty would be experienced in dis- 

 posing of it at its worth. 



The Knoeland-Bigelow Company is still run- 

 ning its mill day and night and operating four 

 camps. <Jne good thing for the trade is that 

 practically the entire output of this company, 

 as well as that of Kneeland, Buell & Bigeiow, 

 this year was sold early in the season, hence 

 the people operating these plants have no large 

 accumulation of stock in hand. They take a 

 hopeful view of the outlook and are not disposed 

 to believe that the industry will suffer to any 

 great extent. 



The sawmill of tbe Batchelor Timber Company 

 at West Brancli is shut down pending somewhat 

 extensive repairs before starting on the winter 

 run. 



The Gilchrist mill at Alpena, which has been 

 cutting hardwood all the season, has shut down 

 and the firm is putting in a stock for next sea- 

 son. 



Sailing, Hanson & Co. of (Jrayling are having 

 a refuse burner constructed, 100 feet high and 

 43 feet in diameter. 



Grand Bapids. 



Dr. Thomas E. Will, secretary of the Amer- 

 ican Forestry Association, lectured at the Kyer- 

 son rublic Library November IS on "The Appa- 

 lachiau-Wbile Mountain l<'orost Ueserve," being 

 introduced by Charles W. Garfield. Ur. Will has 

 just closed a series of lectures in Wisconsin and 

 is now touring Michigan. He is not only awak- 

 ening greater interest in forestry matters but is 

 urging that the pressure of public sentiment be 

 brought to bear on Congress to put through the 

 bill now pending, creating a large reserve in the 

 Appalaclilan and White 'mountains. 



Tlio money situation is forcing conservatism 

 with many lumijor ofierators. The White In- 

 terests of iioyuo City, which involves railroad, 

 camps and mills, aiiiiuunce a reduction of 10 

 per cent in wages. 



I'"ire destroyed the handle factory of the D. H. 

 Kelly Company at Lucas November IS. Loss, 

 .<4.000. insured. Thirty men were employed. The 

 company will rebuild. 



Involuntary bankruptcy proceedings have been 

 brought against William Harrison, former presi- 

 dent and founder of the Harrison Wagon Com- 

 pany of this city. The petitioners are Frank G. 

 Wright *: Co., Chicago : A. H. Cllne of Bluffton, 

 Ind., and the Fourth National Bank of this city, 

 their claims aggregating $8,204. It Is alleged 

 that Mr. Harrison, while insolvent, preferred cer- 

 tain creditors In the payment of liabilities. 



The Madison Square Board of Trade of this 

 city Is taking steps to form a company for build- 

 ing necessary molds for construction of all-cement 

 houses, according to the iilans of Thomas A. Edi- 



son. According to the Edison plan not only tbe 

 walls but partitions, floors, stairways, mantles, 

 bathtubs, washstands, beating Ques and even the 

 hot air furnace may be built of cement. Tbe 

 cost for material entering Into a two-story ten- 

 room house of this description Is placed at 

 ••SI, 000, provided It Is built on sandy soil, so that 

 material excavated for the cellar maj' be used. 



George W. Euller of Central Lake has bought 

 the sawmill of i;iIbort Hoopfer at Kapld City. 



The Hi'itnforth I^uniber and Shingle Company 

 of Nortbporl lias decided to discontinue lumber- 

 ing operations on High Island for the winter, 

 wliere twenty-six men arc employed at present. 

 The machinery and equipment will be left on the 

 island until operations are resumed. 



The Lumbermen's Association of Grand Hap- 

 ids will hold its regular monthly business meet- 

 ing and dinner at the Livingston Hotel Tues- 

 day evening, November :;0. At the October 

 meeting a committee composed of L. L. Skill- 

 man. E. I'roslon Itlce and Carroll F. Sweet was 

 appointed to look into the matter of establish- 

 ing a local lumbermen's credit bureau and this 

 comniittoe will rofiort in favor of such a bu- 

 reau. 



Columbus. 



The Columbus l-iiiubcriiieirs Credit Associa- 

 tion, which was organized several months ago, 

 will soon make radical changes in its constitu- 

 tion and liy-iaws. At a recent meeting of the 

 association plans were made for a general meet- 

 ing at which the changes will be reported. New 

 officers will be chosen and a successor to Secre- 

 tary Bleile appointed. One of the changes pro- 

 posed is to admit to membership manufacturers 

 as well as wholesalers and retailers, and also 

 dealers in all lines of building materials. 



It is now announced that the large mill being 

 erected by the I'oweli Lumber Company will not 

 be completed before tbe first of the year. Delay 

 in shipment of materials for the mill is the 

 cause. This will be one of the largest mills in 

 tlie state when completed. 



The General Lumber Company has not cur- 

 tailed production at its mills at Ashland, Ky., 

 despite the unsettled financial conditions which 

 prevail over the entire country. They have 

 three gangs of men busy cutting for the mills 

 and believe that conditions wilt soon become 

 brighter. 



The W. -M. Itilter Lumber Company is running 

 its large mills in West Virginia, Tennessee and 

 Kentucky to full capacity. It is announced that 

 unless conditions become much worse the entire 

 force of men will be kept at work. 



Indianapolis. 



Lawn swings, porch swings and steplad- 

 ders w'iil be manufactured by the Herbert A. 

 Myers Manufacturing Company, just organized 

 at Warsaw. The comi)any, composed of H. A. 

 .Myers, C. W. Scott and D. A. Peterson, has $20,- 

 000 capital. 



-V one-story brick factory. 50 by lUu feet, Is 

 being built at South Bend by the St. Joseph 

 Lumber and Manufacturing Company. 



Koman Cue, a Mexican timber land owner, 

 visited the Talge Mahogany Company in this 

 city recently. He spent two weeks in Indian- 

 apolis and saw practically every point of inter- 

 est. His timber tracts arc located In the Mexi- 

 can mountains and they contain large quantities 

 of mahogany and cedar, some of which is shipped 

 here. 



A piano factory will lie located at Linton 

 shortly and will manufacture a piano Invented 

 by J. W. Galloway of that city and which con- 

 tains no Iron or steel In Its construction. East- 

 ern capitalists arc Interested. 



J. D. Baker & Sons Is the name of a new 

 corporation at Keudallvlllc that will manufac- 

 ture adjustable tables and other kinds of furni- 

 ture. The company has Incorporated with .$30,- 

 000 capital. 



