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East Tawas manufactured 850,000 feet of hard- 

 wood lumber last season. The company expects 

 to manufacture 3,500,000 feet this year. 



Walter McVittle and Frank Barnaby have 

 bought fifty acres of hardwood timber on the 

 Towar farm two miles north of Ann Arbor. 

 They have put in a portable sawmill and will 



manufacture .".tin.., feet of lumber and ship 



it to Detroit. 



The Prescott-Miller Company, at Rose City, 

 manufactured 1,000,000 feet of hardwood lumber 

 last year and is operating a number of camps 

 this winter. 



The Kneeland-Bigelow Company and the Knee- 

 land, Buell & Bigelow Company, operating two 

 large sawmills at Bay City, manufactured 21,- 

 808,006 feet of hardwood lumber last year, the 

 largest output of any one concern in Michi- 

 gan. 



At Millersburg, S. F. Derry & Co. manufac- 

 tured last year 4,340,000 feet of hardwood lum- 

 ber last year, and are putting in only 1,000,000 

 teet of logs ibis winter. 



S. G. M. Gates is putting in 7,500,000 feet 

 of logs near Roscommon, which will come here 

 to be manufactured, mostly hardwood. 



E. II. French of Columbus, O., has been here 

 this week on business. He says that in 1902 he 

 designed, equipped and completed a chemical 

 plant in Bay City for the manufacture of wood 

 alcohol .and other products from refuse wood 

 from the sawmill operated by W. D. Young & 

 Co. The plant was subsequently sold to the Du- 

 pont Powder Company of Wilmington for $100,- 

 000 and is at present being actively operated 

 by that company. Mr. French claims the plant 

 was constructed under a partnership arrange- 

 ment between Young and himself and he is here 

 for the purpose of securing an accounting and to 

 settle the respective rights of the partners. 



Grand Rapids. 



'Hie Emmett Lumber Company of Grand Rap- 

 ids has filed notice of an increase of capital 



stock from $125. to $175,000. The company 



has been operating a mill in Emmett county, 

 but has cut out there, and the reorganized com- 

 pany has bought a tract of 9,500 acres of hard- 

 wood, pine and hemlock located in Iron county, 

 Wisconsin. Officers were elected as follows : 

 President, John J. Foster, Greenville; vice pres- 

 ident, Walter (.'. Winchester; secretary, Claude 

 Hamilton ; treasurer, Henry Idema. 



The G. N. Wagner Lumber & Shingle Com- 

 pany, paid up capital $30,000, has been incor- 

 porated, succeeding the G. N. W 7 agner Shingle 

 Company. 



N. J. G. VanKeulen of the VanKeulen & 

 Wilkinson Lumber Company tells us that Janu- 

 ary was a record breaking month with that con- 

 cern in the matter of shipments. 



W. N. Kelley of the Keliey Lumber & Shingle 

 Company, Traverse City, was in the city Feb- 

 ruary 4. 



The Cadillac Handle Company of Cadillac has 

 increased its capital stock from $65,000 to 

 $200,000. 



W. W. Mitchell of Cadillac has offered to sub- 

 scribe $10,000 to the Young Men's Christian 

 Association fund in that city contingent on the 

 securing of $20,000 additional by February 15. 



The Grand Rapids Lumbermen's Association 

 held its annual banquet at the Livingston hotel 

 this year. President Carroll F. Sweet was toast- 

 master and the principal address of the evening 

 was made by Manager Booth of the Evening 

 Press, the topic being "The Commercial Value 

 of Character." A business meeting was held 

 afterwards and G. B. Daniels, H. G. Dykehouse 

 and J. I". Retting were elected directors to serve 

 three years. At a board meeting held February 

 2 the following otlicers were elected : President, 

 Carroll F. Sweet : vice president, Harry C. An- 

 gell ; secretary, George B. Daniels ; treasurer, 

 William E. Cox. Mr. Angell was made chairman 

 of the railroad and transportation committee 

 and Charles W. Fish head of the membership 



committee. L. L. Skillman, who has served as 

 secretary since the association was organized, 

 declined reelection. He was voted $50 for his 

 faithful services. The association will meet 

 again February 26. 



The Ranney Refrigerator Company of Green- 

 ville has 700,000 feet of lumber at St. Louis, 

 Mich . ready for shipment and has 400,000 feet 

 of logs bought in that vicinity ready for hauling 

 to the railroad. At Elwell the company also 

 has 800,000 feet of lumber ready for shipment. 



Cleveland. 



The J. N. Hahn Box Company is erecting an 

 addition to its box factory. It will be a two 

 story brick building 54x37 feet and 64x80 feet. 



The Southern Lumber Company has been in- 

 corporated by the following; C. H. Prescott, 

 Jr.. W. II. Prescott and O. W. Prescott of the 

 Saginaw Bay Company ; F. W. Sandfear and R. 



E. Gannon, who have been with that company 

 for a number of years, and F. E. Kimball. They 

 will do a general wholesale business. 



F. E. Kimball, formerly secretary and mana- 

 ger of the Central Lumber Company, resigned 

 the first of the year. J. W. Wagner, for a 

 number of years manager of the yellow pine 

 department of the R. H. Jenks Lumber Com- 

 pany, and G. N. Comfort, manager of the hem- 

 lock department of the same company, resigned 

 the first of the year to join (he Central Lumber 

 Company, Mr. Wagner being vice president and 

 manager and Mr. Comfort secretary. 



J. H. Jenks and J. L. Sands of the R. H. 

 Jenks Lumber Company have returned from a 

 trip to Kentucky and West Virginia mills. 



J. C. West of R. M. Smith & Co., Parkersburg, 

 W. Va., and James Miller, representing William 

 Whitmer & Sons, Pittsburg, were recent visi- 

 tors. 



Indianapolis. 



The Southern Lumber Company has been in- 

 corporateil in Indianapolis and has a capital 

 stock of $15,000, held by some of the best 

 known lumbermen in the state. The directors 

 are Oscar A. Jose, Lee Burns and J. T. Shimer. 



John Ghere has been arrested at Frankfort 

 on a charge of embezzlement upon the complaint 

 of John M. Buck, proprietor of the Bluffton 

 handle factory. Ghere has bought timber in 

 various parts of the state for the company for 

 several months and was intrusted with various 

 sums of money. It is charged that he embezzled 

 about $130. He has refused to discuss the case 

 further than to declare that he is innocent. 



The Foster Lumber Company of Indianapolis, 

 one of the largest lumber companies in that 

 city, has just entered the jobbing business in 

 oak and birch veneered doors. In order to care 

 for this new part of its business the company 

 has recently completed a large building. 



Representatives of a number of lumber com- 

 panies have invaded the big deer park of the 

 late Col. Tom Johnson, near Petersburg, in Knox 

 county. The park consists of about 300 acres 

 of primeval forest that until now has never been 

 disturbed. Johnson died some time ago and his 

 heirs were unable to keep the big forest intact. 



Among recent incorporations is the New Haven 

 Lumber & Supply Company of New Haven. Witli 

 a capital stock of $20,000 the company will 

 enter business on a large scale. Directors have 

 been elected as follows : Diederich Rodenbeck, 



F. K. Albersmeyer, C. H. Rodenbeck and H. C. 

 C. Wehrenberg. It is expected that the com- 

 pany will be ready lor business in a short time. 



Asheville. 

 A. J. Coumbe, a prominent lumberman of 

 western .North Carolina, residing at 93 Beardeu 

 avenue, this city, died Thursday, January 29, 

 after an illness of three days. Pneumonia was 

 the cause of death. Mr. Coumbe was probably 

 the wealthiest lumberman in this section and 

 had large holdings in this city. He had been 

 engaged in the lumber business in this city and 

 section for a number of years and was highly 



respected. He was 30 years of age and leaves 

 a widow. 



Col. George W. Clark of New Jersey has pur- 

 chased from W. II. Silver what is known as the 

 Long boundary in Haywood county, consisting of 

 nearly 2,000 acres of timber land. The price paid 

 was $17,000. Another tract of 900 acres of land 

 in Haywood was sold recently to s, Montgom- 

 ery Smith, while an option has been taken on a 

 third tract of 1,700 acres at a fixed price of 

 s|o per acre. A Philadelphia concern has this 

 option. The work of constructing a flume for 

 the transportation of lumber and acid from 

 these properties to the railroad will begin in a 

 few days. 



The hardwood men are enthusiastic over the 

 bright prospect of securing the passage of a 

 reciprocal demurrage law by the present North 

 Carolina general assembly. More than 3,000 let- 

 ters have been sent to lumbermen by the Ashe- 

 ville Lumber Exchange requesting that the hard- 

 wood men of the stale cooperate with the Ashe- 

 ville association in securing an equitable law 

 in the interest of the hardwood industry. Re- 

 plies to a majority of these letters have been 

 received and in every instance hearty cooperation 

 is assured. The legislators — many of them at 

 least — favor such a law as the hardwood men 

 desire enacted and will seek to have the bill now 

 pending passed. 



The Fry-Buchanan Lumber Company of this 

 city has been adjudged bankrupt by United 

 States Circuit Court Judge J. C. I'ritchard. The 

 cause came before Judge Pritchard on petition 

 of the Rumbarger Lumber Company seeking a 

 receiver for the insolvent company. R. M. 

 Ramsey of Marshall was appointed receiver. He 

 has given bond in the sum of $8,000 and has 

 taken possession of all the lumber and other 

 property of the alleged insolvent company. J. J. 

 Britt of this city has been appointed special 

 master to take testimony and report facts and 

 conclusion of law to the court. The receivership 

 of the Fry-Buchanan Lumber Company came as 

 a result of the suit recently instituted by Dr. 

 J. E. Hawthorne against the Fry-Buchanan con- 

 cern in which false pretenses and fraud are 

 alleged. 



Bristol. 



James A. Stone and William R. Stone of the 

 Stone lluliug Lumber Company of this city and 

 Hugh Allen of Middlesboro, Ky., are preparing 

 to organize the Allen Lumber Company at Mid- 

 dlesboro, Ky. The organization of the company 

 is for the purpose of supplying the heavy demand 

 for building lumber in the coal fields of Ken- 

 tucky and Virginia and for the manufacture of 

 hardwood lumber for the eastern trade. 



G. I.. Wood of the R. E. Wood Lumber Com- 

 pany of Baltimore came to Bristol on business 

 last week en route to the company's operations 

 at Buladeen, Tenn. 



The Eagle Hardwood Company, recently organ- 

 ized at Charlottesville, Va., is getting ready to 

 begin active work. 



J. A. Wilkinson has returned from a business 

 trip to Philadelphia. Work on Mr. Wilkinson's 

 new band mill in South Bristol is progressing 

 and he hopes to have same completed and in 

 ..[..•ration in March. The mill is being built in 

 addition to the big planing mills which be has 

 just completed on the same site. 



W. R. Stone of the Stone-IIuling Lumber Com- 

 pany left this week for an important business 

 nip to New Orleans, Mobile, Birmingham and 

 Atlanta. 



George W. Peter of the Paul W. Fleck Lumber 

 Company has returned from a trip to Johnson 

 county, Tennessee, where he has been looking 

 after his company's interests. 



Emil Guenther of Philadelphia, Pa., a whole- 

 sale lumberman of that city, was iu Bristol last 

 week in company with Valentine T.uppert, en 

 route t.. Butler, Johnson county, Tenn. Mr. 

 Guenther has purchased an interest in the Lup- 

 pert Lumber Company, Inc., and will handle the 



