HARDWOOD RECORD 



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mills at Empire. Ark., was a serious matter, but 

 preparations for rebuilding are already under 

 way. All loss is covered by insurance and 

 new mill will be larger tbau both the old ones. 

 Meanwhile F. TV. Vetter will remain at his home 

 here awhile to wait till the mill is ready. 



Saginaw Valley. 

 The Michigan Central has hauled over 60< 

 feet of hardwood logs every twenty-four hours 

 during the last month. It is hauling trains 

 daily to Bliss & Van Auken and the Berst Man- 

 ufacturing Company at Saginaw, the former be- 

 ing furnished with stuck for their sawmill by 

 the Wylie & I'.uell Lumber Company at the rate 



of from 8. .iiini t" lu.iiim. hod feet during the 



year, and the latter firm receives about 3,000,000 

 feet annually which goes into the manufacture 

 of toothpicks and other wood specialties. 



J. J. Flood is sawing hardwood, mostly maple, 

 for Sailing, Hanson & Co. of Grayling and will 



probably have :;. ,000 feet or more to saw. 



The maple is cut into inch stock for flooring and 

 will be shipped to Thomas Forman & Co., at 

 Detroit. This firm operates a flooring plant in 

 which Sailing. Hanson & Co. are interested. 



The Gilchrist mill at Alpena finishes sawing 

 maple this week, having cut about o,000,000 

 feet, most of which goes into flooring. 



S. L. Eastman is handling S,0U0,U00 to 10,- 

 000,000 feet of maple flooring this year. He 

 gets all the maple flooring lumber manufac- 

 tured by the Kneeland-Bigelow Company and 

 the Wylie & Buell Company, besides purchasing 

 of other parties. During the time he has been 

 engaged in the flooring business he has built up 

 a handsome trade. He was born in Saginaw. 

 His father was a lumberman before him, and 

 he was rocked in a cradle made of slabs, and 

 his lullaby was the hum of the circular saw. 

 Naturally, he took kindly to the business and 

 has made an unqualified success of it. Besides 

 he is wideh respei ted as a man who gives every 

 one with whom In- does business "a square deal." 

 C. T. Kerry was down from Grayling Satur- 

 day to visit his family, his residence still being 

 in Saginaw. He says the Kerry & Hanson 

 Flooring Company tiled articles last week and 

 perfected its organization by electing Charles 

 T. Kerry, president and treasurer ; N. Nichol- 

 son, vice president, and W. P. Benkelman, secre- 

 tary. I;. II. Hanson, C. T. Kerry, W. F. Benkel- 

 man and E. X. Sailing are the directors. The 

 company is capitalized at $75,000 and expects to 

 have its new plant ready for business July 15. 

 The factory building is 285 feet long by 70 feet 

 wide, spanned with combination trusses, thus 

 leaving the floor space unobstructed by posts. 

 The machinery is ample to give the plant a ca- 

 pacity of 10,000,000 to 15,000,000 feet annu- 

 ally. It will be one of the finest maple flooring 

 plants in existence. 



The Briggs & Cooper Lumber Company is 

 having a satisfactory trade. The company is 

 buying a lot of oak and tilling some large orders 

 for Pennsylvania and other eastern concerns 

 wanting that material. It has been necessary 

 for the company to go south to secure enough 

 oak to take care of its trade. 



J. \V. -McDonald, salesman for Wylie & Buell 

 Lumber Company, has severed his connection 

 with that concern and has formed a business 

 alliance with the II. L. Evans Lumber Com- 

 pany, a hardwood concern operating a number 

 of small mills in West Virginia and other 

 places. Mr. McDonald will be located at Grand 

 Rapids. 



et. In visiting the furniture show 

 open in this city one is struck with the 

 large aniounl of oak used in the various 

 and finishes. Many entire lines are made up in 

 ■ilk .uid tier,. n searcelj a line shown in which 

 this wood dues not enter. 



The Brunswick Balke-Collender *Cc 



» hose large i bi ago plant is now 



-inn down through labor difficulties, has made a 



short term lease of the idle plant of the 



Manufacturing C pany of this city and will 



start operations soon. The company is consid- 

 ering the advantages of this and other Michi- 

 gan cities with a view to removal of its main 

 plant from Chicago to avoid strike difficulties 

 in the future. 



J. I'. Quigley of the J. F. Quigley Lumber & 

 Land Company has been nursing a badly burned 

 hand since the Fourth, received in a mix-up 

 with a cannon cracker. 



i liarles A. Phelps of the Hackley-Phelps Bon- 

 nell Company has been ill at his home for the 

 past month, but is convalescing. 



W. O. Hughart is abroad, and letters state 

 that he is fasl regaining his usual health. When 

 last heard from Mr. Hughart was at the Straits 

 of Gibraltar. 



A. R. Longfellow of the Longfellow & Skill- 

 man Lumber Company and J. E. Reiter, millman 

 for the company, were in the city recently at- 

 tending the annual meeting. The company has 

 enjoyed a very good year and prospects for the 

 future are excellent. The old officers were 

 elected. Mr. Longfellow has completed the 

 company's cut in the upper peninsula. He is 

 at Levering, temporarily, attending the stock 

 shipments. The shipments made this week dis- 

 pose of all of last year's cut and the company's 

 officials are congratulating themselves on this 

 quick cleanup. 



Gibbs & Hall now occupy new and larger of- 

 fices on the second floor of the Widdicomb build- 

 ing. 



The Van Keulen & Wilkinson Lumber Com- 

 pany reports a very satisfactory year so far. 

 Trade has been good during the first six months. 



Grand Rapids. 



The furniture exposition is at its height in 

 this market, with city full of buyers and every 

 one busy. Prospects are better for a good 

 business with the manufacturers than at the 

 opening of the sales, though it is still too early 

 to gauge the situation with accuracy. Few 

 buyers from the south and west have appeared 



Indianapolis. 



The Sedalia Lumber & Coal Company of Se- 

 dalia, Ind.. has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $10,000. The directors are George 

 I.. Thompson, William A. Winnie, Coy C. 

 Thompson and Daniel R. Kramer. 



Robbers forced the safes in the office of the 

 Greensburg Lumber Company at Greensburg, 

 Ind., about one o'clock on the morning of July 

 :; and secured nearly $300 in cash. 



Kearns & Burchett of Mt. Vernon, O., have 

 leased a large tract of land on the Pennsylvania 

 linos near Columbus, Ind., on which they will 

 establish a hoop and stave factory. The erec- 

 tion of the buildings will begin at once, and 

 the manufacturing will commence about Sep- 

 tember 1. 



A novel feature of the Fourth of July cele- 

 bration at Clay City was a monster sycamore 

 log from the yards of the Guirl Lumber Com- 

 pany's mills, drawn by eight horses. This log 

 is one of six that were cut from a large tree 

 on Eel river, ten feet in length. The tree was 

 six feet in diameter, contained 1,700 feet of 

 lumber and weighed five tons. The trunk of 

 the tree is estimated to have weighed thirty tons, 

 from which nearly 10,000 feet of lumber was 

 cat. It is thought the tree was 300 to 400 

 old. 

 The new Indianapolis Federal building is rap- 

 idly nearing completion and probably will be 

 ready for occupancy September 1. The build- 

 ing, which will cost $2,000,000, is said to be 

 the finest and one of the largest in the coun- 

 try. All that remains to be done is the inside 

 decorating, the contract for which was let to 

 John Peirce, tic tor who erected the 



building. The cost of the decorating alone 

 will be $30,000. The finish of the interior is 

 largely in marble and mahogany and the floors 



and tile. The general style of 

 the exterior is Roman. The edifice is planned 

 on the outlines of thi ett. U, with the curye 

 "t the letter facing south. For its size it is 

 """ " 'i all the government build- 



ings, and it is the most thoroughly complete. 



I" point of floor ,. ,.h aiding 



is exceeded by those of only in. i bicago 



Mew York. St. Louis, Philadelphia and San 

 The lot on whirl, the building Stands 

 ' "an- am I is larger than any of 

 those upon which the other huge Federal build- 

 "l the country have been erected. The 

 public entrances are from the corners of the 

 south front. The pavilions at either end form 

 vestibules and have stairway a from 



the streets on both the east and the west. To 

 the north of these vestibules are monumental 

 stairways. Nearly 600 people, including mail 

 carriers and field men of the various depart- 

 ments, will have headquarters in' the new build- 

 ing. Already several departments have been 

 installed and the remainder of the offices will 

 be put in readiness during the next few weeks. 



Cincinnati. 



The Cincinnati Business Men's Club has 

 unanimously indorsed the movement, inau- 

 gurated by the commercial interests of the 

 country, looking toward a new commercial 

 reciprocal treaty between the United States 

 and a number of European nations, notably 

 Germany. The organization will send T. J. 

 Moffett, of the Maley. Thompson & Moffett 

 Company, to the national conference to be 

 held in Chicago. August 15 and 16. as its 

 representative. Mr. Moffett is president of 

 the club. 



Lei and G. Banning was in a party of twenty 

 which left on July 6 for a month's stay in the 

 wilds of Canada. The party will establish a 

 camp site at Point au Barril on Lake Onta- 

 rio. 



Shippers of Cincinnati have drawn first 

 blood in the fight on railroads of the south 

 for discriminating and maintaining a combi- 

 nation in restraint of trade by Federal Judge 

 Speer's decision at Macon, Ga.. that the 

 Southeastern Freight Association is a com- 

 bination in violation of the Sherman anti- 

 trust law. This contention was contained in 

 the petition taken to Washington several 

 weeks ago by M. B. Farrin. president of the 

 Farrin Lumber Company; H. Lee Early and 

 E. E. Williamson, leading officials of the 

 Cincinnati Recei & Shippei ition. 



to which nearly all the hardwood firms in this 

 city belong. Shippers regard Judge Spi 

 decision as an indication of what will follow 



in the Cincinnati cases when President B 



velt takes up the cases in earnest. 



The lumber movement for .1 i5, as 



prepared by Superintendent C. B. Murray of 



the Chamber of Commerce was as follows: 



;ots, 6,311 cars; shipment 05 cars. 



Figures for the same month last year were: 



Receipts. 6,043 cars; shl] nts, 1,679 



Emil J. Thoman of Bennett & Witte was 



quietly married in this city the latter part 



of June to Miss Aleda Staun, a Cincinnati 



ent. Mr. Thoman is secretary of the 



lino!,, nous Club, and has the best wishes Of 



t I I o t . . 



E. W. Moffett of Motion, Robbing & Co., 

 has returned from New York, whore he went 

 onnection with mahogany matt, 



rson, an inventor and an ex- 



ite in chemical mechanics, 



filed suit on July 3 for $66,000 i B. 



Farrin. C. F. Korn and II. J. Pfeistcr. His 



:,ons are that he put in with the 



[its an invention for destructive distilla- 



of wood sawdust and shavings and the 



m of their by i" that 



the defend j .,1 the National Chem- 



ical Company and gave him 160 shares of 



