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HARDWOOD RECORD 



mates have been made that the log output 

 will be smaller than a year ago, but there isn't 

 anything to satisfactorily make this apparent. 

 Hardwood lumber is more than a dollar a thou- 

 sand higher than it was a year ago, there is 

 a better tone to the trade, more inquiry and 

 a better winter to operate in. These condi- 

 tions would naturally encourage log owners and 

 millmen to do their best. Early in the season 

 there was a dearth of men, and there are none 

 too large crews now, but lately there is heard 

 less complaint. Teams have been exceedingly 

 scarce and everything that can draw a sleigh 

 is wanted. The supply of teams is inadequate. 

 On the other hand there are no evidences of 

 Spring coming on. 



Last year there was manufactured on the 

 Lake Huron shore approximately 70,000,000 feei 

 of hardwood lumber. Reports are in from all 

 save a few portable and three or four isolated 

 sawmills the output of which is small. This 

 includes the territory between Bay City and 

 Cheboygan and east of the Mackinac division 

 of the Michigan Central railroad, but it does 

 not include the output of the Saginaw river 

 mills, the output of the latter being 55,000,000, 



Lumber was well sold up in the latter part 

 • it" the year and dealers went into the winter 

 with rather light stocks. Meantime the trade 

 has brightened up and there is more inquiry. 

 The prospects for the year appear to be much 

 better than they were a year ago. 



The Athens Lumber Company at Athens is 

 buying and cutting a large quantity of oak and 

 other big timber. The company has two steam 

 loaders engaged in loading the timber and three 

 cars of logs are shipped daily to New York 

 and go thence by boat to England. 



Alpena has bonded itself for the purpose of 

 extending to that city from Gaylord the Boyne 

 City, Gaylord & Alpena railroad. This road is 

 owned by the White brothers of Coyne city, 

 among the largest lumber operators in the state, 

 and it has been in operation to Gaylord since 

 last Spring. It is devoted chiefly to lumber- 

 ing business. If the road goes through to 

 Alpena it will traverse one of the most ex- 

 tensive belts of hardwood timber in the state. 



At Elwell, Tubbs & Son are shipping out by- 

 rail 200,000 feet of hardwood lumber, and John 

 Miller is sawing 500,000 feet of logs for Clark 

 & Hooper. 



At Cheboygan last year M. D. Olds manufac- 

 tured 8,000,000 feet of mixed hardwoods and 

 is making extensive improvements to his mill, 

 including a new band resaw. 



W. B. Mershon of the Mershon-Bacon Com- 

 pany at Bay City left Monday with a party 

 of friends for Arizona and Mexico. 



The Metz Manufacturing Company has pur- 

 chased 2.000,000 feet of mixed hardwood logs 

 and will convert them into lumber. 



The name of the Sandusky Box and Lumber 

 Company at the Soo has" been changed to the 

 Woolworth Land and Lumber Company and a 

 $20,000 sawmill to cut hardwood is to be erected 

 at Neebisb, contract for machinery having al- 

 ready been let. It will cut 50,000 feet of hard- 

 wood a day and will be ready to start sawing 

 August 1. This company is to erect at the Soo 

 the coming season a woodenware plant which 

 will employ 200 people. 



Some slight repairs will be made to the 

 Kneeland-Bigelow Company's sawmill early in 

 the Spring. The mill has been operated day 

 and night since last Winter. Practically the 

 entire output this year has been sold, the East- 

 man Flooring Company taking the maple. The 

 basswood and beech mill culls have also been 

 sold for the entire year. 



been unfavorably affected by the severe weather 

 this winter. 



John L. Retting of the Evans & Retting Lum- 

 ber Company, Harold Davis of the Haekley- 

 Phelps-Bonnell Company and Dick Schornstein 

 have been appointed by President Carroll F. 

 Sweet of the Lumbermen's Association of Grand 

 Rapids as entertaining committee for the meet- 

 ing'of the association March 20. Harry C. An- 

 gell will report at that time as to what he has 

 been able to do in conference with furniture men 

 and others as to the formation of a business 

 men's club. 



H. W. Flatau, who looks after the timber im- 

 porting of the furniture manufacturing house of 

 Harry Lebus. London, Eng., was in this city 

 recently. This company carries 10,000,000 feel 

 of lumber all the time in its yards there. While 

 the larger share of the lumber that is cut up in 

 this big plant of 3.000 employes comes from the 

 States, some of it is secured in Sweden and the 

 Baltic region, while practically all the mahogany 

 use. I is Cuban. Mr. Flatau was of the opinion 

 that timber values have not appreciated in 

 Europe to the extent that they have here in 

 the past six months. 



Michigan Hoo-Hoo will hold a concatenation 

 at the Livingston hotel in this city March 2S 

 About thirty kittens will be initiated. The com- 

 mittee in charge is as follows : Carroll V. Sweet, 

 John Wood and lied .1. Verkerke of the Fuller & 

 Rice Lumber & Manufacturing Company; J. B. 

 Webb and Carl H. Schneider of this city. S. .1. 

 Rathbun of Battle Creek. II. II. Nichola of 

 Charlevoix. <;. M. Gotshall of the Thayer I. urn 

 ber Company. Muskegon; i;. w. Whipple, R. 

 Klunpell and W. P. Vivian of Detroit. 



The newly organized Young Men's Christian 

 Association of Cadillac, which has just raised 

 $30,000 for a new building, has elected as its 

 board of trustees W. W. Mitchell, D. F. Diggius. 

 I'- A. Diggins and F. .1. Cobbs. 



L. J. Tripp, handle manufacturer of Mesick. 

 who removed to Kalamazoo with his family about 

 a year ago, will return to Wexford county this 

 year. 



Louis J. Baker of Petoskey has taken a posi- 

 tion as salesman for the Petoskey Block & Manu- 

 facturing Company, covering territory between 

 Chicago and Omaha. - 



The Alaska Refrigerator Company is operating 

 its sawmill at Muskegon Heights at full capaci- 

 ty. The company has bought over a million feet 

 of logs in Antrim county, mostly elm, beech, 

 maple and hemlock, also a bunch of logs in 

 Dalton township, Muskegon county, mostly ash. 

 Considerable of the stock cut this winter is from 

 bolts and short logs. 



Grand Rapids. 



The Skillman Lumber Company has removed 

 its offices from the Widdicomb to the Michigan 

 Trust building. „ 



H. P. Loiselle, furniture buyer for Henry 

 Morgan & Co., Montreal, visited this market 

 recently. He reports that trade in Canada has 



1 Indianapolis. 



The mill of the National Veneer and Lumber 

 Company has just been completed and opera- 

 tions started, and the plant is one of the most 

 complete in this city. It is located at West 

 Michigan street and the Belt railroad, and at 

 present will employ thirty men. Later about 

 100 men will be employed, to be added grad- 

 ually as the demand requires. 



Within a short time the Davis Cooperage 

 Company of Martinsville will open a new plant 

 at Worthington, operations to begin as soon as 

 the plant is completed. Grant Norman will be 

 general manager and George Burns foreman of 

 the sawmill department. 



Notice has been filed with the Secretary of 

 State by E. V. Knight, secretary, that the New 

 Albany Veneer and Panel Company has increased 

 its capital stock from $34,000 to $102,000. It 

 is understood that the additional capital is to 

 be used in improving the plant and extending 

 the business of the concern. 



The Talge Mahogany Company of this city 

 has just received a large shipment of mahogany 

 logs' from Mexico. While mahogany is coming 

 in rapidly enough to fill present demands, ship- 

 ments are slow and there may be a shortage 

 unless it begins to arrive more rapidly in the 

 city. 



Due to an overheated boiler flue under the 

 floor, the engine room of the Singer Manufac- 

 turing Company at South Bend was damaged 

 to the extent of $5,000 a few days ago. One of 

 the principal losses was that to a 78-inch trans- 

 mission belt worth $2,500. which drove the 

 machinery in the woodworking department. 



The Paul Casket Company has tiled articles 

 of incorporation and will begin at Cambridge 

 City in the near future with a capital stock of 

 $15,000. Those who are interested in the com- 

 pany- and who have been elected directors are 

 E. O. and E. E. Paul and A R. Feemster. 



The Crawfordsville Wire Bound Pox Company 

 has been organized in that city and will become 

 a subsidiary to the Indiana Match Company, as 

 both plants are owned by the same people. 



A new woodworking machinery plant is being 

 built at RushviUe and when completed will he 

 occupied by Charles E. Francis & Bro. 



A tract embracing one-half square of ground 

 has been purchased by the Maas-Neimeyer Lum- 

 ber Company of this city and within a short 

 time the company will erect a fireproof mill. 

 At present the company has a mill of ample 

 capacity to care for its business, but it is a 

 frame building located in their yards. The new 

 mill will be built on the ground just purchased, 

 which is divided from the yards by a street. 



Lumber companies organized in the state dur- 

 ing the last two weeks have been the Gary 

 Lumber Company of Gary and the Huntington 

 Lumber Company of Huntington, capitalized at 

 $00,000 and $15,000 respectively. The directors 

 of the Gary Company are Clyde Gough, W. G. 

 Paxton and .7. W. Paxton. Those of the Hunt- 

 ington company are J. G. La Mont. Niel p 

 Sailing and Myrtle La Mont. 



The North Vernon l'ump & Lumber Company, 

 operating extensive hardwood mills in North 

 Vernon and Louisville, Ky., reports that business 

 is veiy satisfactory at both mills. "Our inspect- 

 ors keep busy shipping orders and we are moving 

 stocks as fast as we can secure cars," said 

 O. R. Platter of the company a few days ago. 

 "We have many inquiries and orders coming in 

 and our new stock list, which will be out in a 

 few days, will not make quite the showing it 

 has heretofore in quantity and assortment of 

 hardwoods. There is a strong demand for oak. 

 poplar and walnut." 



A large addition will be made to the plant 

 of the Rockwood Manufacturing Company. 



1 lie W'orld Furniture Company at Evansville, 

 witli a capitalization of $100,000, and the Wright 

 Furniture Company at Newcastle, with $6,000 

 capital stock, are new concerns in Indiana. 

 Alfred F. Karges and Henry J. Karges, well 

 known vehicle manufacturers, are among those 

 interested in the Evansville company. 



Milwaukee. 



Isaac Stephenson, one of the best known 

 lumbermen in Wisconsin, is being pushed by his 

 friends for the United States senatorship made 

 vacant by the resignation of Senator Spooner. 

 W. H. Hatten of New London, also a well-known 

 lumber dealer with interests not only in this 

 state but throughout the South, has announced 

 his candidacy for the same position at the urgent 

 demand of his friends. 



The Fred Landeck Lumber Company is one of 

 the latest bidders for public favor. Fred Lan- 

 deck has many warm friends not only in Mil- 

 waukee but wherever lumbermen meet, and the 

 indications are that within a short time this 

 will be one of the leading firms in Milwaukee. 

 Its offices are located in the Wells building. 



Market conditions in Milwaukee continue 

 inactive, although lumbermen anticipate a big 

 demand especially in the building lines in the 

 early spring. Building operations the last few 

 weeks have shown considerable falling off, which 

 in a measure has caused a weakening of prices 

 on lumber used for interior furnishing and 

 floors. Chair manufacturers are active and 

 furniture factories are also busy and are placing 



