HARDWOOD RECORD 



ifter his many surgical operations resulting 

 from the Pennsylvania railroad wreck at Har- 

 rlsburg. 



The plant of the Mercer Milling Company at 

 Mercer, Pa., was badly damaged by lire latelj 

 and will have to be rebuilt. The Arm had in 

 storage a large quantity of dressed and unsea 

 soned lumber, doors, sash, etc. its mill was 

 also considerably damaged. 



J. M. Hastings of the J. M. Bastings Lumber 

 Company has gone to Nova Scotia to superlr, 

 tend the enormous timber operation in which 

 he Is largely interested. The company which 

 he organized to develop this Immense tract 

 expects to cut 60,000,000 feet of lumber a yeat 

 when it is fairly started. 



Detroit. 

 The McCIure Lumber Company will sell out Its 

 retail hardwood lumber yards in Detroit. The 

 three brothers, George, Albert and Charles, will 

 devote their entire time to the extensive hard- 

 wood and yellow pine operation at F.utaw, Ala. 



This is a very complete mill, turning out 30, 



feet of hardwood lumber per day. The mill Is 

 at the junction of the Black Warrior River and 



the Qi n & Crescent Route, and the railroad 



has named the point "Md Mures Station." The 

 company owns two large yards in Detroit, which 

 they are negotiating to sell, besides a quantity 

 of hardwood stock at the yard of the Thomas 

 Forman Company which must be closed oul 



Detroit hardwood lumber dealers arc hustling 

 to get all their vessel loads of hardwoods into 

 their Detroit docks before the close of navigation. 

 This means heavy stocking up in local yards. 

 Brownlee & Co. are getting in a great many boat 



1 Is, as is also the Thomas Forman Company. 



R. 11 Vansanl of Vansant, Kitchen & Co., Ash- 

 land. Ky . was in Detroit recently. He booked 

 several big orders for poplar which is used in 

 the manufacture of automobile bodies. 



J. E. Dutton of the Worcester Lumber Com- 

 pany. Ltd., of Chassell, Mich., visited Detroit a 

 l'exv days ago. 



The Dennis & Smith Lumber Company has 

 just closed a contract with the Michigan Steel 

 Boat Company for a large consignment of cypress 

 and oak. 



A. J. Nicholson of Holmes & Nicholson, Alpena, 

 Mich., was in Detroit on business recently. 



R. J. Darnell of R. .1. Darnell. Inc., Memphis, 

 Tenn., was in Detroit recently en route home 

 irom Kurope. 



The managers of the Lumber Carriers' Asso- 

 ciation of the great lakes met in Detroit Oct. 4, 

 and a committee was appointed to prepare a 

 feasible proposition for the handling of freight 

 for the boats next year. The committee consists 

 of .7. A. Calblck and W. D. Hamilton of Chicago 

 and C. T. Williams of Cleveland. This committee 

 is to report at the annual meeting of the asso- 

 ciation which will be held at the end of the 

 season. Prolitable rates, elimination of possible 

 connivance between owner and dealer, and the 

 placing of vessel agents on a salary will he some 

 of the things to be considered by the committee. 

 The present system of establishing a rate and 

 expecting all the members of the association to 

 stick to it doubtless will be abandoned. It is 

 proposed to leave the ratemakiug power with 

 the board of managers and to employ a general 

 agent to look after the lumber carrying business. 

 Vessel agents who are now members of the asso- 

 ciation will be paid a salary instead of depending 

 upon commissions. The first boats to come will 

 be first served, and there will be certain prices 

 for carrying good loads and less desirable 

 This will remove the possibility of complaint thai 

 one vessel got a good load at the same price that 

 another got a bad one. 



Grand Rapids. 

 The John D. Raab Chair Company, capita! 

 $20,000, lias been organized here to manufai 

 high-grade chairs. J. D. Kaab. designer for 

 Win. A. Berkey Furniture Company, is pre 

 and manager. 



All the Officers Of the Macey Wernicke Compain 



reelected tor another year, i > n i 

 w .i in. !..■ i, g neral manager 



The Wolverine Show Case .v fixture Comp 

 a reorganization of the Wolverine i-v 

 pany, has b orated with $10,000 capital. 



■ irge Zoerhof, Martin 

 ''"si and i;. M. Ferguson, the two Oral named 

 gentlemen being factory managers 



President the Muskegon Chamber ol 



Commerce has returned from Chicago, when- he 

 secured signatures for the removal of a part of 

 manufacturing plain of the Brunswlck-Balke 

 Collender Company to Muskegon, it is expected 

 that ground win be broken (or the buildings ibis 



month. Ti ntract requires the company to 



start operations with 300 bands. 



'I' 1 "' mi" s ,,i the recent ting held in 



ibis city for the organization of He- Michigan 

 Forestry Association, with other forestry a 

 will be issued to members in the form of a 

 brochure 



A doz airloads oi' machinery irom the table 



Cactorj ai si. .lohns stand on the shim 

 Cadillac awaiting the completion of the new 

 plant there The si. Johns Table Company is 



o i' the largest concerns ■>! the kind in the 



suite and it s output on removing to Cadillac will 

 ted. 



i in- Cadillac Water & LJghl Company has 

 purchased by Grand Rapids ami Cadillac In 



ors, and a r ganization effected with ?oili>. 



capital lie' water and electric light plants 



have Peril own,,] and operated for a II 11 III I .. 



years by W. W. Cummer, who retires to give his 

 entire attention to ids large lumbei Interests in 

 Florida. The new board of directors Is composed 

 as follows: 1.. II. Witney, Amos s. Musselman. 

 Edward Fitzgerald, Claude Hamilton, n 



Sullivan. W. II Gay and W, II. Anderson ol 

 Grand Rapids, F. A. Digging and Henry Know] 

 ton of Cadillac. 



The Central Paper Company of Muskegon has 

 just completed installing a circular sawmill at 

 Nogi, eighteen miles from St Ignace, on the Soo 

 railway. I any has three and a half 



million feel "i birch and hemlock logs in the 

 Carp river to be cut ibis fall. 



The Northland Lumber Company has been in 



corporated in this city with $200, apltal, of 



which $135,000 is paid in. The company has 

 purchased hardwood, pine and hemlock timber 



lands in Ontonag ounty and now holds about 



15,1 acres. A mill will be put in later. The 



officers areas follows: President, F A. Digging, 



Cadillac: vice president, David Wolf; secretary- 

 treasurer, Benjamin Wolf. 

 The Dudley Lumber Company ot this city has 



opened a new yard at Memphis, Icuii The yard 

 is located on the V. ,V M. V. R. R. tracks, oppo 

 site the vard of the Cuirl Stover Lumber Com 



pany, and has piling room for 3,000, 



Oak "ill he the company's specially ai this pi 



The Engel Lumber Company of this cltj 

 opened a new distributing yard on Godfrej ave 

 nue, on the line of the Grand Rapids a Indiana 

 and l'ere Marquette tracks 



General Freight Agent Leavenworth of the 



G. R. & I. R. R the Au-iist and Sep 



temher freight traffic on bis road was the largest 



of any -responding months In its history. The 



Increase is very laraely from forest products 



This is a particularly good rep,.n to g, 

 railroad in a state the forests of which are said 

 well nigh denuded. 



Saginaw Valley. 

 .1. s. Goldie of Cadillac was in Saginaw \ 



,ek en his return from Buffalo, where be 

 sold a quantity of maple, lie is cutting largely 

 special orders for agricultural Implements and 

 furniture and says his business ibis season has 

 been very prospero 



The Daytou Last Block Works in Grayling 



consumed i timber this year In 



the manufacture ">' last blocks in the rough and 



finished tenpins. The company are.,- 



iluable timber which Insur- 



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Minimi, e a number of years. The product la 



led to Australia ualu and othsr 



foreign countr i Ud to be the largest 



"l the kind In the world 



The new maple Booring plant of the Kerry Ic 



Han Company, built at Grayling thu 



" "lib a I !_' eel. (a |„ 



actlvi inslnesa, as 



1,1 alnpl. slock and eni 



to keep Ho- factory in operation. 



W. D Young & Co. of Bay city hare sold the 

 cai plant operated in connection with their 

 sawmill an, i flooring Cactorj ic Dup. in ,\ • 

 Phllai i plant manufactures 



« i all ohol and It li -.ud the capacity ot the 



plant i- to I"- do, ,i, i.d. Til.- sawmill and flooring 



'"lux oi W. D, x"0UDg A CO. ai.- run day and 

 night, I la company getl down by rail and 



amps. 



The Wylle & Buell Lumbei i pany, itny 



two tralnloads ot b._-s every day 

 from the North i ■ ondni ts thi 



Itini; ol the compan] an. I ha- 



camps in operation. The Michigan Central 

 is extending the Haakwood branch ..r the Mackl 



naw dlvlslo each timber owned in the Wylle 



a Buell i oncern. 



Kneeland-Blgelon Companj ol Baj I ity is 



running day and night and Is cutting 20, 1,000 



i lumber ibis year on Dlght and day runs. 

 Mr. Blgelow, tie- manager, has something 

 in the way of limber in band that will d. 

 within thlrt] days, and doubtless the man 

 luring i i lie compan] will be emended. 



The sawmill oi tie Bowman I. umber Company. 



Is In operation. 



lie company has 4,01 res .,[ timber land to 



cut from. 



The McCormick-Hay Lumber Companj 



naw rep 18 :. and oak 



eclally wanted. The company brings 



most "I the i i coin Arkansas 



Holmes & Nicholson of Alpena shipped a cargo 

 aple to Buffalo last week. car- 



goes are lo be Shipped to < : iojl. 



is some scattering black walnut In this 

 i the slat, and agents are picking it up at 

 good pi 



Bristol. 

 The .1. M cud Lumber Company of chatta 



nooga, Tenn., recently purchased 1,8 ,000 



■ •I' timber on lauds in lie Kail, county, 

 bama, and is installing additional machine . 

 facilitate the cu ame. 



F. M Welles, vice prcsi.1- -asnier of 



Central Union Realty ( New York 



city, is ■ > . looking after the urtea 



timber Inti in this state 

 Mi v mpanj "w ns over five thousand 

 acres ol rich timber lands ,.n the Cumberland 

 Plutenu, in I w hl.h li 



mined to dispose of at a hence \i 



Welle ii trip. TI easily ao 



. essih'c u. railroad facilities, and It will [< 



which will .ut ami 

 market Ho timber without delay. The land 

 contains iron and oil In small quantities. 



lumber mill of II I . Wyman was de 

 Btroyed bj Br* at Johl . nn . last week, 



entailing a loss ■■< (16,000. Mr, Wyman had 



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The Paul W, Fleck Lumber Company "f Bris- 

 tol has ODI B -tate 

 and I Philadelphia, to facilitate 

 hsndllng ti (port busl- 

 hnt of the company, will 

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