HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Scatcherd & Son are buying more hardwood 

 timber to keep their Memphis mills running, 

 and report business active enough to keep 

 stock down here as well as there. 



The yard of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber 

 Company is just now getting a very satisfac- 

 tory lot of red oak, mostly inch, and all very 

 easily worked. Stock is coming from both 

 Mississippi and Arkansas. 



G. Elias & Bro. are getting so much mill 

 business that they are glad to get the new 

 350-horsepower gas engine into position for 

 increasing the power. Yellow pine by canal 

 is coming in. 



Angus McLean has been making a tour of 

 the western and southern sawmills of the 

 McLean interest lately. The office finds busi- 

 ness considerably improved of late. 



O. E. Ycager is laying in a stock of oak, 

 considerable taken green, to make sure of it. 

 Quartered oak is of late comparatively more 

 active than plain, as the prices are closer to- 

 gether. 



I. N. Stewart & Bro. have lately bought 

 500,000 feet of plain oak and are selling pop- 

 lar at a good rate, with general business in 

 the yard quite improved. 



Buffalo is getting very little hardwood by 

 lake so far this season. It was hard last year 

 to buy anything up the lakes that could be 

 sold at a profit, which sent dealers more gen- 

 erally south after supplies than ever before, 

 where quality is better and prices are not so 

 stiff. 



The Buffalo Maple Flooring Company hav- 

 ing asked its creditors for an extension of 

 time, it has been arranged that James A. 

 White, of the Boyne City firm of W. H. 

 - Co., should act both as a director 

 in the company and trustee for the creditors. 

 He will give most of his time to the business 

 without making any further changes in the 

 management. 



during the next sixty days, as mill stocks U 

 come drier. 



Detroit. 



William E. Williams of the W. E. Williams 

 Company, hard maple flooring manufacturers 

 of Traverse City, Mich., called on Albert T. 

 Allen, the firm's Detroit representative, June 22. 

 He went to Grand Rapids to close a large con- 

 tract. He reports trade very good. The com- 

 pany's plant has been shut down for some time, 

 installing new dry kilns, boilers and engine. 

 The Williams plant will now have a capacity of 

 50,000 feet of flooring per day. The Williams 

 Company is making a three-quarter, half-inch 

 and three-eighths beech, maple and oak flooring 

 in addition to their one and one-eighth and 

 seven-eighths hard maple flooring. 



Mr. Allan reports the sale of three cars of 

 hard maple flooring last week. 



The Wolverine Lumber & Box Company has 

 just received a cargo of basswood culls from 

 Lake Michigan during the past week. 



Clayton Gibson, manager of the same com- 

 pany, will leave for a ten days' trip to the 

 upper lake hardwood lumber points In search 

 of stock for his box factory. 



Mr. Jamieson of Jamieson & St. James, hard- 

 wood dealers of St. Ignace, Mich., spent the 

 past week in Detroit. 



The plant of the bankrupt West Side Lumber 

 Company has been purchased from the trustee 

 by the Central Lumber Company, a new organi- 

 zation of which M. J. Theisen, a well-known 

 Detroit lumberman, is president ; Richard J. 

 Matheson. vice-president and manager, and Her- 

 bert C. Hitchcock, until recently of Bay City, 

 secretary and treasurer. The company will do 

 a general hardwood lumber business, besides 

 operating a box factory. 



Activity in maple flooring factories in Detroit 

 continues, both of the large concerns in this line 

 being well supplied with orders. Stock sawn 

 at lake points during the past winter is now 

 beginning to arrive and receipts should increase 



Saginaw Valley. 



The hardwood ,nds In the territory 



between the Saginaw river and the Strap 

 Mackinaw are now in comparatively few hands 

 and there has been a marvelous appreciation In 

 values. Thirty years ago very little valu<- 

 attached to hardwood of any kind except oak, 

 and the state was literally skinned of that 

 commodity. Aside from oak, pine had the call, 

 and hundreds of millions of feet of excellent 

 hardwood timber thai would now be worth 

 millions of dollars were burned up in clearing 

 the land because it bad do commercial value. 

 Ten years ago any quantity of hardwood land 

 could be picked up at $5 and $10 an acre that 

 is worth $20 to $35 now. Of course, the 

 price is determined by contiguity to shipping 

 point, but about every locality In the lower pen- 

 insula is available for the handling of timber. 

 In the upper peninsula there are hundreds of 

 acres that can be purchased at a much lower 

 figure than is asked In the lower peninsula be- 

 cause the railways are not yet extended to af- 

 ford facilities for manufacture and shipping. 

 Chesbrough Bros, of Bay City own 75,000 

 acres of fine timberlands in the upper penin- 

 sula, a large proportion of which is covered 

 with splendid hardwood timber, and this is but 

 one instance. Saginaw parties own some 40,- 

 000 acres, bought less than a year ago, located 

 largely In Chippewa county. Large sales have 

 been effected in Gogebic county recently, and 

 there are vast areas of hardwood lands in On- 

 tonagon and other counties, heavily timbered, 

 that will not come into market for some time 

 because of remct? location from railways and 

 navigable streams. The timber east of the 

 western division of the Pere Marquette between 

 Bay City and Evart and extending to Lake 

 Huron is pretty well picked up. Along the 

 lines of the Detroit & Mackinac and the Pere 

 Marquette the cutting of hardwood employs a 

 large number of sawmills and an army of help. 



The Wylie & Buell Lumber Company is 

 bringing down three trainloads of hardwood logs 

 a day from the Mackinaw division, and reports 

 a very good trade in all kinds of hardwood 

 with the possible exception of maple. Dry 

 stock was scarce for a time, but the company 

 is now getting some fit stock for market that 

 was cut early in the year. 



The Kneeland-Bigelow Company Is getting 

 logs enough to keep the mill running day and 

 night, and all the maple the firm will cut this 

 year is sold. Nearly all of its basswood output 

 was sold to A. C. White. 



The June freshet was the highest of record 

 in the Saginaw river and the plant of Bliss & 

 Van Auken was forced to close down a few 

 days, but operations have been resumed. The 

 sawmill has been running day and night. The 

 hoop and stave plant of J. T. Wylie & Co. was 

 also shut down about ten days because of high 

 water. 



The hardwood sawmill of J. W. Ferguson at 

 Lott, Iosco county, burned June 13, Involving 

 a loss of $2,000, with no insurance. 



D. A. Stratton is erecting a spool and ban 

 die factory at Tower, on the Detroit & Mackinac 

 railway. The plant will utilize hardwoods ex- 

 clusively, and birch and maple will be largely 

 used. 



W. D. Young & Co. are still running their 

 plant day and night and business continues 



good, about scventy-flve pet cenl of tl utput 



going abroad. " Quite satlsfacl 



being about $3 a thousand better than a year 



ago. 



E. Jochen had a raft of ash logs in the 

 Xlttabawa see river which broke loose during 

 tue , ,. , .,. bet and went over the - 

 banks '"red far and wide. A 



but some 50,000 feet 

 or more will probably be lost. 



I'.rancb, who is an 



he bas lost 200,000 



ap mold during the 



not getting cars to load. 



and has eighty 



tralnlonds to m< 



Grand Rapids. 



Wm - "■ - ' City was In Grand 



Rapids June 21 on business. While here he 

 met Mr. Agnew, formerly of the Pere Mar- 

 quette railroad, who is Mr. White's railroad 

 I in connection with the extension of the 

 Boyne City lines across the state. Mr. White 

 states that there are 300 men at work on 

 the road and that it now reaches eastward to 

 Gaylord and will be extended to Alpena. The 

 completion of this trade artery through virgin 

 territory will prove to be one of the most im- 

 portant industrial enterprises in Michigan In 

 recent years. 



The new mill that is being completed at 

 Boyne City by W. II. White & Co. for the 

 manufacture of flooring and dimension stuff 

 will be in operation in about a month. 



Grand Rapids feels confident of securing 

 the main western manufacturing plant of the 

 Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, now lo- 

 cated in Chicago. The Chicago company has 

 absorbed the Balke Manufacturing Company 

 of this city, a small concern engaged in a 

 similar line of manufacture, and is now seri- 

 ously considering the erection of a large 

 woodworking plant here, in order to avoid la- 

 bor troubles in Chicago. A strike is threat- 

 ened there in July and efforts are being made 

 to secure at once in this market a factory 

 with at least 50,000 square feet of floor space, 

 equipped with machinery, for temporary use. 



The opening of the summer sales of furni- 

 ture in this market was postponed from June 

 19th to the 26th, for the reason that the flood 

 early in the month put many of the factories 

 out of business for several days. Regardless 

 of this notice the early buyers were on hand 

 as usual, also many of the salesmen for out- 

 side lines, who feared a ruse on the part of 

 local manufacturers to open their showrooms 

 ahead of time and get the cream of the or- 

 ders. Consequently, the real opening was 

 about June 21. The display was up to its 

 usual standard of excellence. As to bush 

 conservative men who have looked over the 

 situation carefully state that there will be no 

 slump this season. 



A charter has been granted the Engelwood, 

 Alexandria & Southwestern Railroad Com- 

 pany, which will operate in Madison county. 

 Louisiana, connecting Engelwood with the out- 

 side world. This is the town where the Engel 

 Land & Lumber Company of this city is oper- 

 ating a mill, and the road will be invaluable 

 in shipping lumber from the company's tract 

 of 15,300 acres of hardwood and mixed timber 

 land. 



The Thayer Lumber Company of Muskegon 

 has donated to the citj a site for a new 

 department house, at the east end of the 

 town, for the protection of seven factories anil 

 o residence district. 



The W. L. McManus Lumber Company has 

 been incorporated at Petoskey. with $50 

 capital, taking over the business formerly con- 

 ducted by W. L. McManus. Stock I 

 members of the McManus family. 



Archlteoi ; plans for a Ul 



story modern office building, to be erected tbls 

 summer at the corner of Mitchell and Chapln 

 streets. Cadillac, and occupied by the Mitchell 

 Bros. Company, Cobb i II, the Cadillac 



mpany, the Mltchell-Dlggins I 

 Company, and the Cadillac Chemical Com- 

 pany. 



W. "illy of Cadllla. 



tended the college Cu. 



