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NfheduJ'j its plant is now operating on. Tlie company reports heavy 

 orders, boolced. 

 . There is yet evidence of lumberint; at Ilastings. A fair number of 

 logs is being delivered to the T. B. True factory and the Ilaiifax saw- 

 mill north of llr.sangs is manufacturing a considerable quantity of lum- 

 ber, most of which will be delivered to the furniture factories at Grand 

 Itapids. 



An addition which will materially increase the capacity of the Falcon 

 Manufacturing Company's plant at Big Rapids is almost completed. The 

 company lately added the manufacture of kitchen cabinets to Its line, 

 which necessitated additional space. 



Oliver Lacombe & Son of Negaunee are conducting logging operations 

 near Magnum. They have contracted to log sixty acres of land within 

 three years but operations this year, if they continue the rest of the 

 season the way they have been started, will leave little to do next season. 

 Mining companies and railroads of the upper peninsula arc buying most 

 of the cut. 



The Michigan Washing Machine Company of Muskegon Heights re- 

 ports more than ?225,000 worth of business already booked. The com- 

 pany's plant will have to turn out 140 washing machines per day for 

 six months to clear the orders away. A $15,000 power equipment 

 installed last summer enables the company to make a larger output. 



The plant of the Manistee Manufacturing Company is now being 

 operated full time. It had been running five days a week and eight 

 hours' a day. The company booked considerable business during the 

 furniture expositions. 



Otis A. Felger of Grand Rapids, president of the Felger-Robbins Lum- 

 ber Company which operates a mill at Havana, Cuba, has directed his 

 company to buy 1,000,000 feet of Cuban mahogany logs which will be 

 manufactured at Havana. 



The Williams Brothers Company of Cadillac recently made another 

 shipment of last blocks to England. The company formerly shipped 

 considerable to Germany but since the beginning of the war has made 

 no shipments to that country. 



The I^angeland Manufacturing Company of Muskegon is now operating 

 its plant in that city full force. It recently bought 1,000,000 feet of 

 hardwood and hemlock at Manistlque and Hiawatha, Mich., which is 

 being delivered at the rate of five cars a week. 



Wells, Higman & Co., manufacturers of baskets, operating factories 

 at St. Joseph and Traverse City. Mich., have protested against the pro- 

 posed uniform basket act on the ground that, if it becomes a law, it will 

 render much of their valuable machinery useless. 



The Embury-Martin Lumber Company's mill at Cheboygan has resumed 

 day operations and a night crew will be added shortly. The company 

 will manufacture considerable hardwood lumber from logs cut at Munro, 

 Mich. Teams are delivering about 50,000 feet per day and the supply 

 at Munro will last until navigation opens when logs cut in the upper 

 peninsula will be delivered at Cheboygan by water. 



The Illinois Manufacturing Company has been incorporated at Detroit 

 to manufacture boxes, cases and other woodwork. Isaac Bloom is the 

 principal stockholder. 



D. N. McLeod of Garnet will begin operations in his mill at that place 

 about February 15. Between 6,000,000 and 7,000,000 feet of lumber 

 will be manufactured this season. He has a large force of men at work 

 in the woods and when the mill is started a total of 200 men will be 

 employed. 



The Copper Country Commercial Club, an upper peninsula organiza- 

 tion, reports negotiations with a lower Michigan maple flooring manu- 

 facturer relative to the location of a flooring plant in the upper peninsula, 

 near one of the large stands of hardwood. 



=-< CHICAGO >• 



The hoped for improvement in business has not yet shown up in any 

 more concrete form than a possible increase in the number of inquiries 

 coming from the factory trade and the railroads. Business all over the 

 country is still pretty quiet and nothing of special encouragement has 

 been seen indicating an advance in prices. Inactivity in the various 

 building woods is at least partially explained by the bad weather condi- 

 tions which have continued to hold up practically all the building opera- 

 tions in which lumber is an important article as raw material. 



The local trade, however, is still looking forward to a considerably in- 

 creased demand as the spring months approach, and realizes the fact 

 that there has been hardly time for sufficient readjustment and settling 

 down of conditions to justify very much in the way of increased bnsimss. 

 Quite a few new firms have been started in the local trade within the 

 past few weeks, which would indicate not only that the incorporators of 

 those firms had sutfieient confidence in the situation to secure sulHcient 

 backing but that the backers themselves must have felt that a favorable 

 change was imminent, otherwise they probably would not have been 

 willing to make these various investments. 



Factory and yard trade are all buying lumber although probably not 



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