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;:roater capacity by onethlrd than the old plant 



.1 In full commission will work a force of 450 



.lids. All the machinery is provided with 

 direct conpocted motors. The tirni has Its own 

 electric Hehting plant and is InstnlllnK a pow- 

 erful pumpins station for fire protection. 



The manufacture of tie-plugs is quite an 

 Industry in the valley. At Twining Whitney & 

 Taylor are cutting tie-plugs for J. W. Jaynes, 

 and he Is buying up large quantities of ash, 

 beech, maple, elm and birch bolts at $.1 a cord. 

 Bolts are retjulred to be 40 Inches long and not 



<s than si.'c Inches in diameter. 



Another industry is that of cutting and fur- 

 nishing hardwood timber for mine props, a large 

 quantl y of timber being used. 



The flooring business appears to have been 

 fairly good during last year. W. D. Young & 

 Co. experienced a hiatus by reason of the de- 

 struction of their plant and it will be some 

 little time before they will be able to start the 

 new plant, but the firm has taken care of its 

 trade fairly well, having leased and operated a 

 small flooring plant at Haakwood owned by the 

 llaak Lumber Company. 



The S. L. Eastman i'loorlng Company handled 

 a large quantity of flooring last year, and a 

 number of million feet of hardwood lumber in 

 addition. 



The Strable Manufacturing Company's plant 

 at Saginaw was active and bandied a large 

 amount of business last year. 



elm and hemlock. The wainscoting for the most 

 part Is white maple, with light gray finish. The 

 floors are hardwood. There are sli private of- 

 flios and each will be equipped with furniture 

 and furnishings of special design. 



Grand Bapids. 



The forty-first semiannual furniture exhibi- 

 tion opened In this city New Year's day. The 

 number of buyers on hand for the opening was 

 less than usual, and the real business opening 

 did not take place until Jan. 0. There is always 

 more or less uncertainty as to what the volume 

 of business will be, and the interrogation mark 

 is rather larger than usual this season. How- 

 ever, there is a feeling that the buying will 

 prove far more liberal than has been antici- 

 pated. The number of lines shown here is more 

 varied than last season and includes several 

 H'anufacturers who have never had exhibits in 

 this or any other market before. 



The Spiegel Furniture Company of Shelbyville, 

 Ind., a new concern making kitchen cabinets, is 

 showing its line here. The cabinets are made 

 entirely of red gum or satin walnut. Charles 

 Spiegel, an old manufacturer of Shclbyvilie. says 

 there is not a foot of any wood but gum used 

 In the factory. The wood is kiln dried from 

 the saw, then air-dried, and then put through 

 the kiln a second time. 



The ■' Luce-Kedmond Chair Company of Big 

 Kapids, Mich., is using considerable red gum 

 and the wood matches up well with Circassian 

 walnut. 



The Northern Furniture Company of Sheboy- 

 gan, Wis., is showing a big line of furniture, 

 comprising 800 distinct patterns. The North- 

 ern Is by far the largest manufacturer of white 

 maple furniture in the country. The company 

 also has a large line of goods In ash, natural 

 finish and of excellent appearance. 



Oak and mahogany continue to \M the great 

 leaders in furniture woods. Circassian walnut 

 la also having a phenomenal run. 



Maynes Bros., wholesale and retail lumber 

 dealers of Cadillac, have incorixjrated under the 

 name of the Haynes Bros. Company, with a cap- 

 ital stock of %VlhMW. of which ?100,0UU Is paid 

 In. The incorporators are E. J. Haynes, C. E. 

 Haynes and L. C. Stevens. Stock to the amount 

 of $25,000 is held for employees who may want 

 to Invest, or for future development of the 

 business. The business was founded by James 

 Haynes In 1872. 



The magnificent new oBice building at Cad- 

 illac, owned Jointly by Cobl)S & .Mitchell, Inc., 

 and the Mitchell Bros. Company, was finished 

 at holiday time and Is now occupied. Special 

 furniture for the building has been ordered. 

 The interior finish Is of beech, birch, maple, oak. 



Coliunbus. 



The Columbus Sawmill Company, which has 

 a large plant at 344 Dublin avenue, has just 

 completed one of the best years in Its history. 

 Despite tlie financial flurry and the general busi- 

 ness depression, the statement shows very sat- - 

 Isfactory earnings during the year. 



The Ohio and Tennessee Lumber Company, in 

 which a number of people from Columbus and 

 Alliance are interested, has moved its mill from 

 Fulton to Hcnning, Tenn. After the mill is set 

 up it Is expected that operations will be re- 

 sumed. 



Arrangements have been made for a Hoo-Hoo 

 concatenation to be held at the Great Southern 

 Hotel. Columbus, January 22, In conjunction 

 with the annual meeting of the Union Associa- 

 tion of Lumber Dealers. A class of candidates 

 will be initiated and a banquet will be served. 

 Several of the national oflBcers will be present. 



Columbus lumber companies which have mills 

 in the Southern states have joined in the gen- 

 eral movement of closing down operations until 

 the demand is better. The General Lumber 

 Company, which has two mills at Ashland, Ky., 

 has closed down temporarily. The company has 

 sawed up all the logs in the river and has quite 

 a large stock on hand. It is believed that oper- 

 ations will l)e resumed soon. 



The W. M. Bitter Lumber Company, which 

 has mills in a number of southern states, has 

 closed down ail its operations except a bill tim- 

 ber mill in West Virginia. The occasion is 

 being taken advantage of for repairing and re- 

 building some of the machinery. 



J. W. Mayhew. sales manager of the W. M. 

 Bitter Lumber Company, has the following to 

 say regarding lumber conditions ; "Things are 

 now easy, but we are bound to have improve- 

 ment soon. With many of the mills throughout 

 the South closed down and some buying going 

 on among the trade, the demand is sure to im- 

 prove. Prices will likewise advance. The out- 

 look Is distinctly brighter from every standpoint. 

 Orders are better and collections are improv- 

 ing on every side." 



Fred A. Wilson, who has been in charge of 

 the Pittsburg agency of the W. M. Bitter Lum- 

 ber Company, has been promoted to assistant 

 sales manager, and will be located at the home 

 office in Columbus. 



The W. M. Bitter Lumber Company has re- 

 ceived word from its two foreign branches lo- 

 cated at London and Liverpool that the foreign 

 market is glutted. Good prices abroad, together 

 with the weakness in this country, caused many 

 to import in large quantities. In many cases 

 the cargoes were simply consigned abroad and 

 these proved to be a drug on the market. Prices 

 are weakening in every branch of the hardwood 

 trade in I'.ngland. 



The fact that many manufacturing establish- 

 ments are preparing to open their plants causes 

 a hopeful feeling in the hardwood business. 

 Many of the plants are large users of hardwoods 

 and their resumption will mean increased de- 

 mand from that source. 



II. C. Crelth of H. C. Crelth & Co. reports a 

 better outlook. "Our traveling salesmen were 

 started out Monday," he said, "and we expect 

 larger orders. They will cover the state pretty 

 tlioroughly. and from reports received so far 

 indications are quite favorable." 



Traveling salesmen for the manufacturers and 

 jobbers of hardwoods in Columbus were all 

 started on the road Monday and an active cam- 

 paign has been started for business. 



are seven buildings. Including the office build- 

 ing, power plant, mill, dimension and flooring 

 sheds and a large stable. 



Building permits Issued In the city last year 

 amounted to $3,787,555.80. as compared with 

 ?5..'i.'i0.!l71.80 In 1906. The greater part of the 

 business was done between March and October 

 and the business during November and Decem- 

 ber was about 70 per cent less than in the cor- 

 lespiindlng months of 1906. 



Among recent visitors in Evansville was M. 

 A. Wright of C. Leary & Co., London, England, 

 representatives of Maley & Wertz. and Otto 

 Haas, also of London, representative of the 

 Hermann Manufacturing Company, also an 

 Evansville concern. 



Morton C. Bankin, engaged in the lumber busi- 

 ness in Tcrre Haute for more than thirty years, 

 was run down by a train in that city last 

 month and killed. He took great interest in 

 political affairs and was also prominent in the 

 work of the state and national lumber asso- 

 ciations. 



The office of the Meyer Lumber & Hardwood 

 Company at Batesvllle was entered on the night 

 of Dee. 26 and the door blown off the safe. 

 As a large deposit had been made in the bank 

 that day the burglars only found $3.12 and a 

 couple of revolvers. 



J. W. rianell, formerly a line yard operator 

 of this city, who is now interested in a dozen 

 lumber yards scattered throughout the state, has 

 organized the Jamestown Lumber Company at 

 JUmestown with ?5.000 capital. Others inter- 

 ested in the company are J. F. Coombs and W. 

 Z. Mulligan. 



The hearing on a debit and credit system of 

 demurrage which was to have started before the 

 Indiana Uailroad Commission last month, has 

 been postponed until Jan. 21. In tlie meantime 

 representatives of the Indiana Shippers' and 

 Manufacturers' Association will hold a confer- 

 ence with representatives of the railroads in an 

 effort to reach some agreement in the case be- 

 fore the hearing. 



Edward Eedman of Princeton claims to have 

 established a record in hauling logs in Arkansas, 

 where he was employed by the American Wash- 

 board Company. With three teams in ten 

 months he asserts he earned $24,666.75 and has 

 returned to Indiana to devote his attention to 

 farming. 



Practically all arrangements have been com- 

 pleted for the annual convention of the Indiana 

 Hardwood Lumbermen's Association, which will 

 be held at the Claypool Hotel In this city on 

 Jan. IG. The joint banquet of the Indiana asso- 

 ciation, Betail Lumber Dealers' Association of 

 Indiana, Central Association of Sash and Door 

 Salesmen, Hoo-Hoo and mill supply men. will 

 be held at 5 o'clock on the evening of Jan. 15. 

 Adams & Baymond, veneer manufacturers of 

 this city, have gained a victory over the rail- 

 roads in a decision just rendered by the Indiana 

 Bailroad Commission holding that thin-cut lum- 

 ber shall be shipped at a sixth class rate. Ex- 

 ceptions are made relative to weight and value. 

 It being provided that only thin-cut lumber 

 worth less than $10 per 1.000 feet shipped in 

 car loads of a minimum of 34,000 pounds shall 

 be shipped at the new rate. This excludes 

 veneer* Tlie new rate goes Into effect on Jan. 

 15, and will remain effective for two years, in 

 rendering a decision the commission held that 

 the manufacture of thin-cut lumber for backing, 

 nillng, center stock and cross banding was more 

 extensive than the manufacture of veneering 

 and that while thin-cut lumber was used mostly 

 for making built-up or compound wood, berry 

 boxes and carriers of different kinds, veneering 

 was used for decorative purposes. 



Indianapolis. 

 The new plant of the Dynes Lumlwr Com- 

 pany i-; practically completed and Is one of the 

 largest and most modern In the city. There 



Milwaukee, 

 The Milwaukee Car Manufacturing Company 

 has Incorporated at Milwaukee with a capital 

 of $50,000. The Incorporators are Fred Pabst, 

 Bobert Nunnemacher and T. F. Howe. 



