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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Cherry lumber moves well, so that I. N. 

 Stewart & Bro. are busy through the quiet sea- 

 son Thev have lately received shipments from 

 Pennsylvania and have more on the way. Plain 

 oak is selling from the South to buyer direct 

 It is still about the scarcest of lumber 



Lumbermen go down the river under the aus- 

 pices of the Lumber Exchange, August 3. and 

 the Hoo-Hoo on the 15th; that sort of outing 

 is most desirable, and a delightful time is 

 planned for both occ asions. 



Detroit. 

 The Yeomans Lumber & Boi Company has 

 given a trust .hand mortgage for the benefit of 

 all its creditors to Henry Wineman, Jr. rhe 

 creditors include a number of well known hard- 

 wood houses, among them C. Crane & Co., < In- 

 cinnati; Vansant, Kitchen .V Co. and the Keys 

 Fannin Lumber Company of Ashland. Ky. . Ad- 

 vance Lumber Company. Cleveland. Ohio, be 

 .id,s nearly all the Detroit wholesalers. The 

 „,- the '..■..mans concern total nearly $60, 



and .1.- trustee states that thee are not 



enough assets to pay over 40 cents .... the dol- 

 lar. R. H. Vansant of Ashland. Ky., attended 

 the creditors' meeting. . 



Brownlee & Co. are beginning to get in their 

 hardwood stocks b, vessel, most of the lumber 

 coming from Lake Superior. The firm are build 

 in S 'Jin i feet of new docks. 



The official report of the recent National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association meeting a. Buffalo, 

 which is jus. out. shows only lour members o, 

 the association located in Detroit Vigorous 

 efforts are being made to Increase this membei 



ship to more respectable pr > 



The McClure Lumber Company has made an 



other purchase of nardw 1 timber lands In the 



ricinity ..f Eutaw, Ala., the figure being $28,- 



, The purchase ia near tbelr new mill and 



makes the total numbei ol acres owned by them 



Tn Alabama jus, 8, Their mill wil be 



started August I, some timber for its construe- 



ton having 1 o delayed. The M., lures last 



week sold 400. teet of birch lumber to a 



Toledo concern. George Mc< lure -ays they in- 

 tend to dispose of their Golu street yard, the 

 sale price to be about $6,000. 



Detroit vesselmen predict the gradual removal 

 of the lumber district from the west end ol De- 

 troit to River Rouge. "It is only a ma. 

 time when the government will have to dredge 

 the Rouge to accommodate the largest lumber 

 boats" said a marine man. "Vessels drawing 



Seen feet can now go no tar r than 



Wabash bridge. This takes In Rest**, Brown- 

 ,ee and the Dwlght plants. The railroads have 

 driven the lumber interests down stream by buy- 

 ing the river front." 



Saginaw Valley, 

 w i, sfoung & C Ba 3 Cltj an- buying 



a lot of oak in the log and cutting It up to 

 suit Hoar trad.-. The larger portion ol Mich 

 iga „ oak was taken off by stave inanufa, -Mir- 

 ers years ago. but there is occasionally a small 

 lot to be found. The quality Is not quite as 

 good ,- a rah as ......hern oak. but it makes 



good furniture and bouse finishing lumber. 

 xv D. SToung & I o report business as holding 

 up very weU. Thej are running daj and night 

 and sending a lol ol flooring abroad 



The McCormlck-Hay Lumbei i ompanj o( Sag! 

 na , , briuging up quantities ... oak from the 

 south, mostly Arkansas. This concern la hand 



001 Of dw I lumber ibis 



I, has bought 300, teet of ash cut at 



the Gates mill at Bay City. 



I. w. Snyder of Bay City is Interested with 

 the New River Lue pany, recentlj oi 



g aft l - red a double hand mill 



near ■ th « company has 



1,1 10,1 acres of hard I I '' 'an' 1 



, ,t, maple. 

 Phe tract is estimated 

 feet ' ! -" ''"'' Mr. Snyder 



left for the south on Monday. The mill is to 

 be built this summer, and a twelve-mile spur 

 road Into the timber will be constructed in the 

 near future. 



The Eastman Flooring Company of Saginaw 

 is taking the maple lumber of two or three 

 concerns, among them the Kneeland-Bigelow 

 Company, and the Wylie & Buell Lumber Com- 

 pany. Mr. Eastman says that business is just 

 fair, but prices are much better than a year 

 ago. 



The Custer Manufacturing Company is look- 

 ing over the northern part of the state for a 

 sit,- for a clothespin factory. Representatives 

 of the company are favorably, impressed with 

 Wolverine, there being an abundance of hard- 

 wood timber in that vicinity. Beech and birch 

 are mostly utilized. The factory is to be three 

 Stories high and employ seventy-five hands. 



E. II Covlll has been operating a small mill 



:,i Ortonville, lienesee county, and will move it 



,,, Haitian.!. There is a good deal of seal 



I,,,-, I hardwood timber in that region, mostly 



tracts owned by fanners, and beech, 



„,: cherry," elm, oak and ash are found. 



onally butternut is found along the water 

 - and some hickory. Mr. Covin cut up 

 black cherry tree a tew days ago that pro- 

 duced l. feel of lumber, the nee measuring 



forty Inches at the si. imp. 

 A. C. White finds a moderate call for 



wood stock. He has picked up a lol of .his 

 ., .,,.,. ... stock iii .-astern Mi.bigan and takes 

 the desirable basswood output of three or four 

 a, ills on the river and also buys up north. 



prescott ,v s.nis are operating a mill aboul 

 two miles from Rose City, "here they own a 



good i t of hardw I timber. Th itpul 



of the plant is aboul 3 feel a day. 



I work of building the Cook, Curtia S 



Miller hardw 1 plant at Grand Marala Is being 



poshed to completion. it is I equipped 



with a hand saw, edger, trimmer, slasher and 

 s.avo and heading machinery. The power is 



, furnished by a 3 lorsepower Corliss en 



The plant will be supplied with a hot- 

 water vat so thai it can be operated In cold 

 weather. The hardwood lumber will be shipped 

 bj lake, and the staves and heading by rail. 



Indianapolis. 

 Arthur L. Wright, who recently started a 

 planing mill "m Indianapolis, has been appointed 

 a deputy tactorj Inapt 



lniring the first six months of 1905 a total 

 of 2,099 building permits were issued here, as 

 against 1,664 for the corresponding period of 

 last year These permits called for a total 

 outlaj of $3,376,513, and if the same rate is 



kept , i the remaining five months 



year L905 will show a total expenditure of more 

 than $6,500,000 for new buildings In Indian 

 apolls As il is the year can not help but be 

 the banner building year in the city's history 

 for the record of last year, which was I he 

 largest up to dale, has already been almost 

 equaled. Several large downtown buildings 



have I n built .his year, and there havi 



more than 2,( -esldences erected ibis spring. 



The contractors and carpenters of the cltj have 

 haa the busiest year in their experience, and 



Indications are thai there will be no le 



from now on till cold weather sets In and in- 

 terferes with building operations. 



The report of Bradstreet'a for the first bIi 

 months of the year shows that a total of se\ 

 enty-flve new industrial enterprises have been 

 added to the city's ind.isi.-b-s since Januarj 

 i ., against a total of but fifty-five new tai 

 torles tor the whole of 1904. This shows that 

 h, other lines of activity besides the building 

 line Indianapolis is enjoying a splendid era ol 

 prosperity. Among the new Industries estab 

 llshed here Ibis y.-ar are many large and 

 wealth] concerns. While many of them are 



new firms, a g Hy number are factories re 



v.-d to the city from the various smaliei 



towns of the state being attracted by the supe- 

 rior facilities offered here. 



Grand Rapids. 



The July furniture sales are practically over 

 and it is considered a conservative estimate 

 that orders have been placed for ten million 

 dollars worth of goods. It has been a little 

 better than the average season with most 

 manufacturers. Eastern buyers have been 

 conservative again, but western and southern 

 men have more than made good this deficit. 



The number of buyers visiting this market 

 this season will reach 900, which is a better 

 attendance than that of a year ago. Some of 

 the local factories have sold one-half their 

 output. 



The Beechwoods, a tract of hardwood cov- 

 ering over 2 ires, and the only large tract 



of virgin forest left In Muskegon county, has 

 been placed on the market by C. E. Covell and 

 M B Covell of Whitehall. Residents of 

 Muskegon regret that this fine body of tim- 

 , no. a.... I township is to be cut off. 



Bristol. 

 i, [ E mi id he,-,- that W. M. Ritter, presi- 

 dent of the w. M. Hitter Lumber Companj 

 Columbus, O., and a party of associates are 

 atlng a deal for the South & Western 

 Rallwaj -x. ending from Johnson City, Tenn., 



,,, spin..- Pine, v c . and that ibis Is a sequel 

 to the recent purchases of timber lands ,„ ibis 

 .,., ,,,.,, DJ eastern capitalists, with whom it is 

 aimed Mr. Kilter is associated. The South 

 „x Western, which is owned by George L. Carter, 

 a prominent railway magnate of this city, is 

 an important connecting link with the pro 

 po 8 ed sea coast connection to South Carolina. 



ii, nclals of the south & Western In mis 



,i, v w ui not confirm the report, or make any 

 statements in regard to this matter, but It is 



generally unders .1 



The new mill of the R. B. Wood Lumber 

 Company, Baltimore, Md., in carte, county, 

 Tennessee, will bi started next week. The mill 

 has a capacity of 10,000 feet of hardwood lum- 

 ber per day. and will employ one hundred and 

 fifty men. Ii. E. Wood, president of the com- 

 pany was ui Bristol last week and when inter- 

 viewed by a EiBDWooD Ribcobd representative 

 mated thai be was much pleased with the pros- 

 pects of the new plant in Carter county, and 

 believed It would soon be turning out stock ... 

 lis fullest capacity. Ills company has recently 

 purchased 7."00 acres of rich timber land in 

 Carter county, from the Boston Iron & Timber 

 Company, of Boston, Mass. Mr. Wood added 

 that his company is erecting two large mills 

 in Cherokee county. North Carolina, which will 

 soon be put Into operation. 



Buyler .v. Company of New York City have 



jusl purchased 6,1 acres Of rich timber land 



i„ Sevier county. Tennessee. The tract is known 

 -,s the Glen Alpine tract and is rich in hard- 



w s A branch railroad will be built Into 



the territory and cutting on the stock begun 

 Immediately. 



Blaine Denton, a prominent young lumberman, 

 met a tragic death In the W. M, Hitter Lumber 



,- pain's camps near Garters, Tenn., las. week, 



where he was suddenly killed by a rolling log. 

 .1. 11. Bryan "f lb.- the ltryan Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from cranberry. N. C, where 

 be spent a week Investigating his mills In that 

 section. Mr. Bryan reports everything In tine 

 shape at the mills. 



,; ge i: Davis oi the George r. Davis Lum- 

 ber Company haa ..turned from a business trip 

 w points in Tennessee and Virginia In th. 

 teresl of his business and reports a successful 



trip- . . 



I ii Wilkinson is making a number "i im- 

 provement In his plain in South Bristol, which 

 will Increase the output conslderablj 



