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HARDWOOD RECORD 



dent and secretary, and H. C. Slocum, treas- 

 urer and manager. 



At Saginaw the Strable Manufacturing Com- 

 pany has filed articles of incorporation with a 

 paid-up capital stock of $50,000. H. A. Batch- 

 elor and James T. Wylie hold 167 shares each 

 and George Strable 166. The company is 

 erecting a large maple flooring plant at Sagi- 

 naw, which will begin operations early in the 

 new year. It will be stocked with maple cut 

 at the mill of the Batchelor Timber Company 

 at West Branch. This company owns about 

 100,000.000 feet of timber in northern Michi- 

 gan. The Batchelor Timber Company is cut- 

 ting about 12.000,000 feet annually at its mill 

 and is installing a number of machines in its 

 planing mill for working up building ma- 

 terial. 



W. D. Young & Co. have finished making 

 improvements at their Bay City plant and it 

 is running day and night. A new resaw is 

 one of the improvements. 



T. C. Kelley & Co. operate a saw mill in 

 Montmorency county that is cutting 16,000 

 feet of hardwood a day. The concern owns a 

 tract of several thousand acres of land and 

 has a stock of 2.000,000 feet of lumber on hand 



McTlver & Hughes, who operate seven small 

 hardwood mills in the vicinity of Onaway, are 

 putting in 16.000,000 feet of logs to stock the 

 same. 



Henry Laflour is cutting and skidding hard- 

 wood logs in Presque Isle county and will ship 

 several carloads of birdseye maple to Eng- 

 land. 



The Churchill Lumber Company, operating 

 north of Alpena, has over 1.000,000 feet of 

 hardwood logs on skids, which will be railed 

 to the mill at Alpena. F. W. Gilchrist will 

 also cut a number of million feet of hardwood 

 logs for his mill at Alpena. 



J. Kennedy of Bay City is erecting a large 

 stave and heading mill at Posen and is eon- 

 tracting for stock for the same. 



Grand Rapids. 



Carroll F. Sweet of the Fuller & Rice Lum- 

 b i S .Manufacturing Company left for the 

 Pacific cdasl Nov. 2, where he expects to 

 enjoy . two months' respite from business 

 cares. 



Rush Culver of the Northern Lumber Com- 

 pany, Marquette, was in the city Nov. 4. 



M. F. and W E. Butters of I.udington were 

 in Grand Rapids last week. 



The Grand Rapids Hand Screw Company 

 has awarded the contract for erection of a 

 factory building. 60x600 feet, two stories and 

 basement, to be built on Jefferson avenue, 

 east of the Macey Company's plant. The new 

 structure will enable the company to double 

 its present output. 



The Gunn Furniture Company has plans for 

 adding a fourth story to. its large plant at 



Fuller station, in the th limits of Grand 



Rapids. 



The majority of the furniture salesmen who 

 travel out of Grand Rapids are home for the 

 season, and the factory owners are bending 

 every energy to till orders. Very few dealers 

 are cancelling orders, even those placed in 

 July last and still not delivered. In some 

 cases orders are being placed for spring deliv- 

 ery, which indicates an unusual demand for 

 the goods. The season is one of the most 

 prosperous ever known in the furniture trade. 



The Hanchett Swage Works of Big Rapids 

 has plans for enlarging its present factory by- 

 building an addition, which- -will give the com- 

 pany "fifty per cent more floor space. The 

 company is so crowded with business that it 

 i v to employ a day and night crew. 

 Over 100 men are employed and the plant is 

 well equipped. 



The Cadillac Handle Co. is receiving several 

 ids of logs daily at its Cadillac mill and 

 the work of decking for tin' season has be- 

 gun. A new steam decker built by the com- 



pany's foreman, Walter Fell, is used. 



The latest hardwood concern to organize in 

 Grand Rapids is the Gogebic Lumber Co.. cap- 

 ital $500,000. with the following officers: Presi- 

 dent, Albert Stickley; vice president, E. L. 

 Maddox: secretary and treasurer, J. K. V. 

 Agnew. Offices have been opened in the Michi- 

 gan Trust building and the company for the 

 present will concern itself in buying and sell- 

 ing hardwood lands. The company has large 

 holdings in Gogebic county. Mr. Stickley, the 

 largest stockholder, is at the head of the 

 Stickley Bros. Company, large manufacturers 

 of furniture here, while Mr. Agnew was for- 

 merly in charge of the western division of 

 the I'eie Marquettewrailroad. 



Asheville, N. C. 

 The settlement of the machinists' strike on 

 Hi Southern Railway Friday night. Now _'. 

 was a godsend to the lumbermen of this city 

 and western North Carolina. Although the 

 strike was of but few weeks' duration it se- 

 riously affected the hardwood dealers and 

 caused considerable financial loss. The unusu- 

 ally wet weather this summer greatly inter- 

 fered with lumbering and scarcely had this 

 difficulty ended when the machinists went out 

 on strike, and as a consequence the engine's 

 of the Southern went "dead" one aft r the 

 other until it was an utter impossibility to 

 make shipments of lumber. The same condi- 

 tions prevailed on the Murphy line, adjacent 

 to Asheville, from which points much of the 

 lumber was shipped. Three days before the 

 strike ended J. M. Burns of the Tnagusta 

 Manufacturing Company and the Monger Lum- 

 ber Company declared that lumbermen were 

 suffering great financial losses consequent to 

 the strike is now settled and the Southern is 

 results would be serious. He stated that it 

 was impossible to move cars, and that ordefs 

 long overdue could not be delivered. Although 

 the strige and that unless it ended quickly 

 enabled to move some cars of lumber the 

 dealers feel that they are entitled to recover 

 from the road, and the whole question of 

 claims has been placed in the hands of attor- 

 neys. 



Bristol, Va.-Tenn. 



Fred C. Pearre, a well known Baltimore 

 broker, was in the city last week and called 

 on local lumbermen. Mr. Pearre is buying a 

 considerable amount of hardwood stock from 

 the Bristol district. 



Paul W. Fleck of the Paul W. Fleck Lumber 

 ' ompany and manager of its Philadelphia 

 office is in the city on business. 



1.. A. Houseman of Galax, Va., w 7 as in the 

 city en business last week. 



The Faulkner Lumber Company, which 

 operates two big mills at Damascus. Va., has 

 purchased a yard site on the Virginia-Caro- 

 lina railway, about one mile east .if Abingdon, 

 anil proposes to at once establish sorting and 

 shipping yards at this point. 



The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company is push- 

 ing the construction of its big band mill at 

 Hampton. Carter county, Tenn., and expects 

 to have the mill, road, etc., completed and 

 ready for operation by January 1. Twelve 

 miles nf standard gauge railroad from Eliza- 

 bethton to Hampton and nine miles of narrow, 

 gauge road up Tiger's creek to the timber 

 lands of the company are being built. 



Melvin A. Hayes of the R. E. Wood Lumber 

 Company was in the city last week, and re- 

 ports that the big mills of the company at 

 Buladeen, Tenn., are running regularly to their 

 fullest capacity. 



The first consignment of logs from the tim- 

 ber tract el th Came-Wyman Lumber Com- 

 pany, near Bluff City, ten miles south of Bris- 

 tel. was hauled to Bristol over the company's 

 strip of railroad, which has just been com- 

 pleted, and the Virginia & Southwestern, last 

 week Tie logs will be hauled to Bristol as 



rapidly as possible and cut at the band mill 

 of the Bristol Door & Lumber Company, in 

 northeast Bristol. In the spring the company 

 proposes to build a band mill on the timber 

 land. 



John Thomas and Wilier Roller of Bristol 

 have become largely interested in the manu- 

 facture of cypress lumber for shipbuilding 

 purposes in South Carolina. Messrs. Thomas 

 and Roller, who have just returned from the 

 Palmetto state, report that they have pur- 

 chased an immense boundary of cypress tim- 

 ber in an isolated part of the state and that 

 two hundred men are now engaged in the 

 logging and manufacture of this stock. The 

 new concern has contracts for the supply of 

 the stock in large quantities, cut according to 

 stipulated dimensions, and has several lam' 

 portable mills cutting. 



H. W. Neily. representing George H. Mell of 

 Kane. Pa., was in the city on important busi- 

 ness last week. 



The new plant of J. A. Wilkinson in south 

 Bristol is about complete and will be put in 

 operation in about two weeks. A force of men 

 is now engaged in putting in the railroad sid- 

 ings from the Southern yards. The machinery 

 has been installed, and it is hoped that every- 

 thing will be in readiness for the starting of 

 the big lumber plant in a very short time. 

 Mr. Wilkinson- has purchased additional 

 ground for his yards and storage sheds. 



Valentine Luppert of Johnson county was in 

 the city last week. Mr. Luppert reports that 

 the lumber business in Johnson county has 

 been very greatly handicapped by heavy rains 

 and inclement weather during the past few 

 weeks. 



A serious labor problem is just now con- 

 fronting employers in this section generally. 

 The growing tendency of the laboring classes 

 to live in the cities and the great industrial 

 development has resulted in a scarcity of labor 

 all over this section. Lumbermen are com- 

 plaining, as well as mine operators and rail- 

 road contractors, of their inability to secure 

 sufficient labor. Foreign labor has been tried 

 by the railroad construction contractors, but 

 the experiment has not been successful to a 

 high degree. 



Employers of labor in the rural districts pro- 

 pus.- to get together and devise plans to check 

 the tendency of the laboring classes to move 

 to the cities. To do this it is proposed to pay 

 them high wages, provide good houses for 

 them to live in, good school accommodations 

 and commodities at low prices. 



Chattanooga. 



There is a serious shortage of cars for the 

 movement of lumber products in this dis- 

 trict. Speaking of the car shortage, Fred 

 Arm of the J. M. Card Lumber Company said 

 that the scarcity nf cars had cut down the 

 trade of the lumber concerns of this city 

 which do a foreign business about one-.half. 

 "We can't order cars sent to the country, 

 where our mills are located, for they have not 

 sufficient sidings and it takes so long to get 

 them in the country. We are simply up 

 against it." he said. 



The demands for building material in this 

 city are increasing from day to day, and the 

 reports on building permits show that this 

 city has made rapid strides in the last few 

 years. The concerns supplying this demand, 

 the Willingham Lumber Company, the King- 

 Baxter Lumber Company, the McLain Lum- 

 ber Company, Snodgrass & Fields, the Loomis 

 & Hart Manufacturing Company, the Yellow 

 Pine Lumber Company, the Zack Taylor Lum- 

 ber Company, and others, are all exceedingly 

 busy. 



The * ase Lumber Company of this city has 

 abandoned its yards here and removed to Bir- 

 mingham, Ala., where it has been merged with 

 the Fowler-Personett Lumber Company, an allied 

 ..in .in. as the Case-Fowler Lumber Company. 



