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HARDWOOD RECORD 



poshed toward completion, and it is hoped to 

 have the plant in operation early in July. The 

 company has some 50,000 acres of hardwood tim- 

 ber land, enough to keep the plant in operation 

 many years. Sailing, Hanson & Co. are also 

 interested in the Thos. Forman Company flooring 

 plant at Detroit and furnish maple stuck for it, 

 estimated at over 10,000,000 feet annually. The 

 Grayling factory will have a capacity o£ about 

 reet. 



S. L. Eastman is having 2.500,000 feet of 

 maple manufactured in Bay City which will be 

 worked up into flooring at the Eastman Floor- 

 ing plant at Carrollton. He also purchased a 

 block of maple of the Kneeland-Bigelow 

 cany of Hay City, which goes into flooring. 



The i ! iod sawmill at Bay City is cutting hard- 

 wood logs for W. D. Young & Co. The mill was 

 idle some days on account of not getting logs 

 down, but now has a stock coming along. W. D. 

 Young & Co. are also running day and night 

 and much of .the maple flooring product is being 

 moved to Europe, the concern having large con- 

 tracts in the foreign market. The firm manu- 

 factures a considerable quantity of hardwood 

 lumber which is sold in the domestic market. 



The Bliss & Van Auken hardwood mill at 

 Saginaw is bein-r operated day and night. 

 ■ - Bliss mill at Saginaw, which has been 

 cutting hardwood a numbei ol seasons, is not 

 running I his year. I h ■■ Inter M B 

 cu1 out about 3,000,000 Eei I of hardw ood at a 

 large portable mill In Gladn In ci tj 



The old Buell sawmill ar Gaylord is to be 



convert-. i Into a hardw 1 novelty mill, as 



owners hai a world of hardw i material that 



can be utilized in various specialties. 



The Kneeland Blgel pany has 



teel of lumber in the yard and tin- 

 plant is running day and night. 



Fires In the com and 



iin Sti Mackinaw did considerable dam- 

 age to Imber a few days ago, bul the heavy 

 rains late in the week extinguished them. A 

 considerable quantity of maple and elm logs 

 were destroyed in Gladwin county. C. S. Tolles, 

 in that county, lost 50,000 feel of logs and a 

 small sawmill. The Gale Lumber Company at 

 West Branch lost a skldway of logs 



The W. II. White Companj of Boyne City is 

 erecting a maple flooring plant, the building to 

 be B0xl05 feet. The company owns so.OOO acres 



of hardw I timber lands. It is interested In 



ii nsi ruction of a railroad to Gaylord which 



will bring a considerable portion of its product 

 to the Saginaw river. 



Kunzie & Dillingham of Hawks, on the De- 

 troit & Mackinac railway, have started their 

 saw mill and howl factory. The mill cuts 20,000 

 feet of hardwood lumber daily and fifty dozen 



bowls. 



D. A Stratton Is erecting a large hardwood 

 handle and lumber plant at Tower which will 

 employ a large force. 



Indianapolis. 



W. W. Knight, of the Long-Knight Lumber 

 Company, is In New York City attending the 

 trustees' meeting of the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Association. 



The Walnut Lumber Company has just re- 

 ceived six carloads of fine walnut lumber. 



The Rensselaer Lumber Company has been In- 

 corporated here with a capital stock of $15,000. 

 The directors are Isaac Colborn, Frank J. Don- 

 nelley and George O. Bales. 



Indianapolis hardwood lumber dealers are 

 just now interested In the coming annual meet- 

 ing of i he National Hardwood Lumber Associa- 

 tion which will be held at Buffalo, N. Y., May 

 18 and 19. Several Indianapolis dealers will 

 attend. 



The Indiana Lumber & Veneer Company report 

 that they are very well pleased with the success 

 of their new veneer house recently opened In 

 New York City. 



Vicegerent W. H. Matthias announces that he 

 will hold a concatenation at Indianapolis, Ind., 

 May 13. The ceremonies will be conducted in 

 the Dennison Hotel. In connection with this 

 iieuation a banquet and vaudeville will be 

 given. All Hoo-Hoo are invited to attend and 

 purr. 



Undoubtedly the year 1905 is going to be 

 the banner building year in the history of 

 Indianapolis. The city is now enjoying a con- 

 dition of prosperity and the amount of building 

 which is being done is fairly indicative of 

 satisfactory business conditions in other lines. 

 Inning the first four months of the present year 

 there were issued permits for buildings to cost 

 £2,022,537. This is more than twice the total 

 amount represented by the permits during the 



-ponding period of 1904 when permits were 



i for buildings to cost $966,646. In fact, 



the permits for the first third of 1905 are just 



half the amount of those issued during the whole 



L904, when the building permits amounted to 



$4,072,135. The 490 permits for April of this 



amounted to $553. 62S, as agaiust 4"5 per- 

 mit^ amounting to $3SS,0S1 for April of last 

 year. The principal down town building that 

 is being erected now is the big eight story de- 

 ore building for L. S. Ayres & Co. 

 The Western Union Telegraph Company, the 

 Board of Trade and the Knights of Pythias will 

 also begin the erection of big buildings before 



ose of the present summer. 

 While they do not bear directly upon the hard- 

 nation, it is interesting to note 

 some tacts concerning Indiana In 1904 that 



have jusi I a compiled bj Joseph II. Stubbs, 



chief of the state's bureau of statistics. These 



show that Indiana has an area of 35,910 square 



with a population of 2,516,482 The 



stati lias taxable propertj i anting to $1,576,- 



1 . •-, sonal propertj amounting to $377,- 



1 1 0,730 and corp ■ property amount -ng to 



$196,850,021 'i he state has L0.192 mil 



railroads, assessed at $165,873,369 and 998.17 

 and strei I railwaj Urn 



i at $13,702,394 There was constructed 

 in Indiana In 1904, 1,025 miles of gravel roads. 



making a total of more than I5.i nlles, One 



hundred and torty-flve thousand seven hundred and 

 forty-nine miles of telephone lines, with an 

 assessed valuation of $7,240,198 have been 

 og within the stale. Indiana has farms 

 $621,317,039 and last year produced 

 U) 802 on:, bushels of oats and I :;2.859, 173 

 bushels of corn, making It rank fourth In the 



t ni is a corn producing state. Indiana leads 



the world In the production of building stone, 

 and the Onion In the production oi poultry and 

 eggs li ranks fourth in the output of coal. 

 while In the amount of farm machinery manu- 

 factured it ranks first. Its school fund is sur- 

 ed by that of but one state In the Union. 

 Fifty-two cities within Hoosier boundaries 

 a population in excess of 4,000. To her 124,954 

 factory employees the state paid last year $53, 

 ii'Jii. 77i; in wages. Indiana's products in various 

 lines in 1904 were: Meals, $52.4'.isj.'.i77 : iron, 

 $17,989,272; Hour and feed. $16,827,918; glass, 

 $16 163,643; wagons and buggies. $11,774,962: 

 furniture, $7,559,767; dress goods. $7,407,621. 

 The state's output of oil last year was more 

 than 20.000,000 barrels. The state has 438,845 

 taxable polls. Truly Indiana is "no mean state." 



Ashland District. 



T. N. Fannin and J. E. Walker of the Keys- 

 Fannin Lumber Company. Ashland, have re- 

 turned from a business trip to Graham. Va., 

 where the company has a large planing mill. 



J. W. McCausey, treasurer of the Union City 

 Lumber Company, Grand Rapids. Mich., was 

 a visitor in Ashland and vicinity several days 

 last week, en route to the mills of that com- 

 pany, located in Menifee county, Kentucky. 



W. It. Vansant of the Biggs & Vansant Lum- 

 ber Company, Huntington. W. Va„ has returned 



from a business trip through the East and Can- 

 ada, in the interest of his firm. 



W. H. Nigh of Ironton, Ohio, has returned 

 from French Lick Springs, Ind., where he has 

 been for some time recuperating. 



The Keys-Fannin Lumber Company, Ashland, 

 has just closed a deal which involves about 

 10.000 acres of virgin forest in Wyoming county. 

 West Virginia. In addition to the poplar tim- 

 ber on this tract, which is of a very fine qual- 

 ity, there is also a plentiful growth of oak 

 and hemlock. The Deepwater Railroad runs 

 through this property, which greatly facilitates 

 the logging of the timber, and as the planing 

 mill of this company is located at Graham, Va.. 

 a distance of about twenty-five miles from the 

 heart of the timber, the deal is looked upon as 

 very favorable. The firm contemplates erecting 

 one, and possibly two, band mills upon its hold- 

 ings, the construction of which will likely begin 

 some time during the coming fall. 



James C. Cow-en, manager of the hardwood 

 department of Schultz Bros. & Benedict of Chi- 

 cago, was in Huntington. W. Va., several days 

 lasi week, in conference with Chesapeake & Ohio 

 Railway officials regarding a switch to be placed 

 near Yauceburg. Ky.. where this company has 

 contracted Cor a large block of lumber. 



K. II. Vansant, president of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, held a meeting of 

 the ov ioard of that association at Mem- 



phis. Tonic, on April 29. The other members 

 of this board are J. B Ransom, vice president. 

 Hashville, Tenn. ; !'. i I Ischer, treasurer, Coal 

 Grove, Ohio; William Wilms. Chicago; W. M. 

 Bitter, Columbus, Ohio; R. M. carrier, Sardis, 



Miss,, ami C Crane, l hi' illicit i, 1 Ihio 



D. K. Jeffrls of Kentucky River Lumber Com- 

 pany and Chicago Car Lumber Company, whose 

 main offices are in Chicago, passed through 

 Ashland om et te to Charles- 



ton, R 7a.. on business fur his companies. 



s. M Bradley, th'e tie and lumber man of 

 Morehead, Ky., was a visitor in Ashland several 

 days last week. 



Charles Russell, R. II. Vansant, John Russell 

 and Charlea Kitchen, members of the firm of 

 The .1. w. Mahan Lumber Company, located at 

 Mahan, W. Va., have returned from a business 

 trip to that place, where they held a meeting 

 with W. L. Watson, general manager of the 

 oni em. 



W. J. Fell, the lumber manufacturer of Salt 

 Lick. Ky.. was a business visitor in Ashland 

 and vicinity last week. 



Lewis Hester of Columbus. Ohio, secretary of 



iio Hardw 1 Manufacturers' Association, called 



on the lumber manufacturers in Cr on Ohio, 



and I loo- in ' ii. W. Va.. last week. 



Memphis. 



The Lumbermen's Club "1" ibis city will send 

 a strong delegation to the forthcoming animal 

 convention of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association at Buffalo. All will go in a body, 

 including members of the association in the 

 surrounding territory, and all will have buttons 

 bearing the following inscription: "Lumber- 

 ii 's club. Memphis. Tenn.- Palmer for Presi- 

 dent — No Change In Rules." In addition to the 

 foregoing policies, the Memphis delegation hopes 

 to secure the surveyor-generalship of deputy in- 

 spectors for G 'ge I. Smith, who has been in 



charge of the Memphis district as deputy inspec- 

 tor for a number of months. These matters 

 were decided upon at a meeting of the club 

 held on April 29 and resolutions were adopted 

 endorsing the administration of Earl Palmer, 

 president of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association, and instructing the local delegation 

 to support him for re-election. Max Sondheimer. 

 president of the E. Sondheimer Company, and 

 W. A. Gilchrist of the Three State I.umbet 



C pany and the W. F. Smith Lumber Com- 



panj were admitted to membership, thus bringing 

 i be- total to fifty-live active members. An hon- 



