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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Hooton Hardwood Co. 



Manufacturers and Wholesalers 



SOUTHERN HARDWOOD LUMBER, 

 LOGS AND TIMBER 



CHOICE WHITE OAK 



Even color — soft texture 



7 cars — 4-4 Ists and 2nds Plain 

 12 cars— 4-4 No. 1 Com. Plain 

 5 cars — 4-4 No. 2 Com. Plain 



Good widths and lengths — Dry- 

 Also large stock all grades and 

 thicknesses plain Red Oak 



Terre Haute, Indiana 



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Revived Inland Navigation 



Our cargo of 350,000 feet of Oak and 

 Gum from our Jeffris, La., mill on its 

 way up the Mississippi River on the 

 new Gas Producing, Self Propelled 

 Steel Barge. 



This cargo was unloaded at St. Louis, Mo., 

 and Alton, 111., on August 1st and 2nd 



WE HAVE MORE IN STOCK 



D. K. Jeffris & Co. 



CHICAGO 



„«-KT^«„ HARDWOODS YELLOW PINE 



CONCORDIA LAND & IIMBEB CO. MANCHESTER SAW MILLS 

 Jeffris, l,a. Manchester, Ala. 



. h-is accepted the position of managci- of the Holland Furniture Company 

 at Holland, Mich. 



The North American Construction Company of Bay City, manufacturer 

 of ready-cut hou.ses, will not build a plant at Essexville, as previously 

 announced, having instead purchased the mill property of Mershon-Bacon 

 at Bay City. It will be extensively repaired. The decision not to build 

 at Essexville followed a question as to the legality of a bond issue voted 

 by the village to buy a site for the plant. 



It is announced that the sawmill of the Eddy Lumber Company in the 

 Lake Linden district of the upper peninsula will continue in operation 

 for about a month. The mill has been cutting more than 30,000 feet of 

 lumber per day and has been operated steadily since early spring. Prepara- 

 tions to open the winter camps before long are being made. By November 

 15 it is expected the company will be lumbering on two tracts. 



Wittock & Son commenced logging at Randville, Mich., under con- 

 tract for the .1. W. Wells Lumber Company. The logs will be shipped 

 to the Wells mill at Menominee. 



An involuntary petition in bankruptcy has been filed in the United 

 States district court at Bay City against the Saginaw Wood Products 

 Company of Gaylord, manufacturer of wood specialties; 



F. E. l-arker, president of the Mersbon, Eddy, Parker Company, which 

 operates a plant at Saginaw, says regarding the situation after a trip 

 to the East : "The European war has resulted in a material check on 

 building operations, which has adversely affected the trade. However, 

 most of the eastern yards are carrying fair stocks and have done a 

 larger business than would have been expected under existing conditions. 

 There is a tendency the country over to confine buying to immediate 

 necessities." The company's plant at Saginaw is running seventy-five 

 per cent of normal. While in the East Mr. Parker obtained a good-sized 

 order for export doors, which is now keeping the factory busy. 



Work on the construction of the Manistique Cooperage Company's new 

 factory at Manistique will be started soon. The plant when completed 

 will comprise eight buildings and will liavc a large capacity. The com- 

 pany will keep a large stock of timber on hand and for that purpose will 

 erect a big stock shed. The eight buildings when completed will com- 

 prise as modern a cooperage plant as is possible to build. The company 

 will use birch, beech and maple, of which there is plenty standing near 

 Manistique. 



A test case to establish an important point in the income tax regula- 

 tions has been started in the United States district court at Grand 

 Kapids by the Mitchell Brothers Company of Cadillac, Mich. Action has- 

 been filed against Emanuel J. Doyle, collector of internal revenue, as the- 

 nominal defendant. The suit is brought to recover ,$2,700 in taxes, but 

 the primary object is to make unnecessary the payment of further sums 

 which will have to be paid unless the company's contention is established, 

 namely that it has the right to deduct from the tax during the four 

 years from 1909 to 1912 for depreciation in capital assets. 



Lake shipping is apparently picking up toward the close of navigation. 

 Considerable lumber Is being received at Bay City. The North American 

 Construction Compauy has received 2,500,000 feet of lumber from the- 

 Loud Lumber Company, at Charles, and 409,000 feet from St. Ignace- 

 on the steamer Buckley and 261,100 feet on the steamer M. Sicken from, 

 the same point. Bradley, Miller & Co. have received 401,000 feet from 

 Duluth on the steamer J. P. Donaldson. The same company has Just 

 received 661,000 feet on the steamer Dayton from Duluth and 267,790' 

 feet on the A. W. Wright from Sprague, Ont. E. B. Foos & Co. have 

 received 283,377 feet from Blind River. 



In the circuit court of Oakland county at Pontiac, Mich., Judge Smitb 

 has granted an order admitting the final account of Receiver C. A. 

 Harris of the Michigan Oak Flooring & Interior Finish Company as- 

 filed and amended. The order included that the assets of the company, 

 including plant and real estate, be turned over to the D. E. Hewitt Lum- 

 ber Company of Huntington, W. Va., to which practically all of the 

 creditors have assigned their claims at sixty cents on a dollar. The 

 Hewitt company is a large manufacturer of hardwood products at Hunt- 

 ington and it is announced that if the Pontiac plant is not opened and' 

 operated the firm contemplates operating it in connection with the 

 Huntington interests. The Michigan Oak Flooring and Finish Company 

 went into receiver's hands -August 1912. 



It is refreshing, particularly at a time when talk of depression and' 

 curtailment rules the world of speech, to note the action of the Dwight 

 Lumber Company, manufacturer of hardwood flooring, mouldings and 

 interior finish, in remodeling its plant at Detroit, Mich., so as to have 

 double the capacity in 1915 that it now has. This company entered the 

 finish business four years ago and each year its trade has Increased in 

 comparison with the growth of Detroit. Business bas been good this 

 year. 



Although it is not generally known, the Dwight Lumber Company en- 

 joys considerable export trade with England in interior finish, which 

 trade has all been built up in the last four years. Many homes in the 

 British Isles are finished with the "made in Detroit" product and officials 

 of the company say that the business has been little disturbed by war. 

 Shipments are being made steadily. 



One of the landmarks of Bay City's early lumber days is passing with 

 the dismantling of the Gates sawmill. It was built in ISe.'i by Gates & 

 Fay, and has been idle for three years. The mill cut 50,000 feet a day 

 and in single sawing seasons its cut averaged 9,500,000 feet. For half a^ 

 century it operated steadily. 



