HARDWOOD RECORD 



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With the Trade 



Old Fumiture Plant to be Remodeled 

 Work bas been started on Installing machinery and remodeling the plant 

 of the Iowa Furniture Manufacturing Company, Clinton, Iowa. The plant 

 was formerly the Ingwerscn Manufacturing Company. The new owners 

 have announced that the furniture factory will be devoted to the manu- 

 facture of chairs, mostly dining room cbalrs. With the Installation of the 

 new machinery, the plant Is to be enlarged and the present machinery 

 will be so arranged as to socnre greater elfieleiiey. 



Hardwood Flooring Plant at Newberry, Mich., Soon to Start 



.\t the end of this month a new hardwood flooring plant now being com- 

 pleted at Newberry, Mich., will be in operation. Construction on the 

 buildings has been pushed, and the installation of the machinery will be 

 rushed with all possible speed. William Horner, who has operated a 

 Uooring plant at Reed City, Mich., for many years, accepted the proposition 

 of the business men of Newberr.v, who offered a bonus of ?5,000 for the 

 location of a branch factory at this city. The buildings will cover a con- 

 siderable area and are all of brick and steel construction. Provision has 

 been made for the growth of the business. 



The main building, in whlcji three flooring machines are Installed, is 

 7O\220 feet. Two other machines will be Installed later. The dry kilns 

 occupy an area of S0.\100 feet. The mill with its three present machines 

 will have an output of 40,000 feet of finished flooring daily, which output 

 will be increased to (Jo, 000 feet when the other two machines are installed. 

 The plant will be operated day and night for some time to come, and will 

 employ a force of from sixty to seventy-five men at the start. 

 New Plant for Manistique, Mich. 



Through the efforts of the Manistique Commercial Club a deal has been 

 closed which will insure to that city another woodworking factory which 

 will turn out broom handles, chair rounds and similar products, made 

 from maple, birch and beech. The new enterprise will represent an invest- 

 ment of about ?2o0,000. The deal was closed between Manistique interests 

 and Frank Sherke of the lower i)eninsula. 



The plant will be located at Manistique in the spring, and will give 

 employment to twenty five Or thirty men who will work the year round. 



Felger Lumber and Timber Company Incorporation 



On March 2 the Felger Lumber and Timber Company was incorporated, 

 with a capital stock fully i)aid in. The principal place of business will 

 be at Grand Rapids, Mich. At a meeting of the stockholders held on this 

 date the following board of directors was elected : Otis A. Felger, Will R. 

 Smith, Will I.. Fassett. Earl H. Felger, George W. Ingram. Later at a 

 meeting of the board of directors, the following officers were elected : Otis 

 .\. Felger, president : Will R. Smith, vice-president and manager ; Will L. 

 Fassett, secretary : Earl H. Felger, treasurer. 



Mr. Felger, president of the company, is secretary and treasurer of the 

 Memphis Band Mill Company at Memphis. Mr. Smith was vice-president 

 and manager of the Stearns company of this city for several years: there- 

 fore his present line of work is somewhat familiar to him. Mr. Fassett. 



the secretary of the company, has been associated with Mr. Felger for a 

 number of years. Earl II. Felger is a son of Otis .\. Felger and bas been 

 connected with the Felger Lumber and Timber Coin|>any for the past year. 

 .Mr. Ingram was formerly connected with Henry (}. Dykehouse. 



The Felger Lumber and Timber Company has been operating here for 

 the past three years as an individual enterprise, handling northern and 

 .southern hardwoods. The new corporation will continue handling the 

 same woods as before and will add to Its line northern and southern pine 

 and hemlock. 



Boston Concern Moves to Canada 



The Atlantic Lumber Company, Inc., whose head office bas been at 

 Boston, Mass., announces that it has moved to 110 Manning Chambers, 

 Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This concern manufactures southern hardwood 

 lumber and has mills at Knoxvllle, Tenn., Walland, Tenn., and Franklin, Va. 

 The purpose of the move is probably to gain a stronger foothold with the 

 desirable Canadian trade. 



Big St. Lawrence Project of William Wbitmer & Sons, Inc. 



One of the most extensive and promising enterprises of recent date Is that 

 of the St. Lawrence Pulp and Lumber Corporation, of Canada, financed 

 and controlled by William Whitmer & Sons, Inc.. and the banking houses 

 of Chandler & Co., Inc., and W. F. Fuqua & Co., all of Philadelphia. 



The company acquired timber rights, held under Crown grant, to a 

 tract of some 040 square miles of spruce, balsam, cedar and birch timber 

 and pulpwood located in the counties (iaspe and Bonaveuture, province 

 of Quebec, a veritable empire of timber. Its mills are located on Chaleur 

 Bay (an arm of the Gulf of St. Lawrence), at the mouth of the Grand 

 Pabos river, which itself forms a spacious bay. Before the tract was 

 taken over by the St. Lawrence company the interests affiliated with Its 

 organization took the first essential step and bad the tract cruised by a 

 firm of expert timber estimators, Messrs. Le Mieux Bros. & Co., of New 

 Orleans, La. 



The property acquired presents practically ideal physical features tor a 

 joint lumber and pulp operation. The main physical features in the success 

 of a proposition of this kind are : First, quantity and quality of raw ma- 

 terial (timber and pulp wood) ; second, workability (ability to get the raw 

 material out of the woods to the mills at proper cost) : third, accessibility 

 of the principal markets for the product. All of these features are pos- 

 sessed to a remarkable degree by the St. Lawrence property. 



With regard to the timber contents, Messrs. Le Mieux Bros. & Co. report 

 that, "the quality of the timber is very good, and much superior to anything 

 that we have heretofore estimated in the Province of Quebec, or in Nova 

 Scotia, or in New Brunswick, in all of which we have done a great deal 

 ol work in the timber. We have found a great area of this tract to be 

 virgin forest : the timber along some of the streams has never been touched. 

 The timber consists of spruce, balsam, cedar, white and yellow birch and 

 scattered white pine. Disregarding the pine and birch, we estimate the 

 quantities of timber on the tract log scale. Quebec rule, as follows : 



Balsam 1,212,000,000 feet 



Spruce 969,600,000 " 



Cedar 121,200,000 ■• 



Total merchantable timber 2,302,800,000 



Pulpwood 4,040,000 cords 



We consider both the above estimates as very conservative, particularly 



OTIS A. FELGER, PRESIDENT OF THE RE- 

 CENTLY INCORPORATED FELGER LUM- 

 BER AND TIMBER COMPANY, 

 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 



WILL L. FASSETT. SECRETARY OF THE RE- 

 CENTLY INCORPORATED FELGER UM- 

 BER AND TI.MBER COMPANY, 

 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 



EARL H. FELGER, TREASURER OF THE RE- 

 CENTLY INCORPORATED FELGER LUM- 

 BER AND TIMBER COMPANY, 

 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 



