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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The Petoskey Block & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany has shut down its plant at Petoskey for 

 two weeks tor repairs, but will start up again 

 the first of the year. 



A special meeting of the common council of 

 Boyne City was held last week and a committee 

 of three was appointed to take up the matter 

 Of giving encouragement toward the erection of 

 a new flooring plant there, a proposition that is 

 being considered by the Boyne City Lumber Com 

 pany. 



W. A. Hosmer of Bellaire has started his saw 

 mill on the season's run. 



Former Mayor W. II. Beach of Holland heads 

 a syndicate of prominent business men of that 

 city which lias purchased the interest of B. I'. 

 Bush in the Bush & Lane Piano Company, and 

 the general offices of the company will be re- 

 moved from Chicago to Holland. Mr. Lane will 

 continue to look after the mechanical end of the 

 business. 



About $2,000 has been spent in repairs and 

 improvements at the pin mill of the Custer 

 Manufacturing Company in Custer. Mason 

 county, and the plant will resume operations 

 during the first week of January. 



Tin. II. JL 0. Lumber Company, capital $300 

 000, has been incorporated with the following 

 Grand Rapids men as stockholders: Fryer Hal- 

 laday, W. J. Breen, Ward B. Miller. Edwin 

 (iweu, George M. Ames and Edward W. Sea- 

 mans. Headquarters will be in Grand Rapids 

 and the company plans to carry on manufac- 

 turing operations in Gogebic county, owning a 

 large tract of timber there. Officers will Ice 

 elected later. 



The Wexford Lumber Company, capital $100,- 



». has been incorporated with the following 



stockholders: A. F. Anderson, Joseph S. 

 ' mi!. bell and Wm. F. Gustine of Cadillac, and 

 Joseph Anderson of South Boardman. The 

 company's sawmill is located at: Buckley and has 

 begun operations. It is estimated that the cm 

 of hardwood and hemlock timber in the vicinity 

 Of Buckley will last at least six years. Officers 

 are as follows: President, A. F. Anderson: 

 vice-president and general manager. J. S. Camp 

 hell; secretary and treasurer. W. F. Gustine. 



Jones & Green of Big Rapids expect to have 

 their new maple flooring plant in operation at 

 Dighton by May 1. The mill will have a yearly 

 capacity of six million feet and it is estimated 

 the supply of timber at that point will last ten 

 years. Jones & Green will continue their Big 

 Rapids mill as usual. 



G. R. Mohr of Chicago, in association with 

 Vern Wood and other Traverse City men. have 

 arranged for purchasing the D. E. Carter fac- 

 iei y at Traverse City for the manufacture of a 

 new type of refrigerator. 



The Cadillac Handle Company is decking logs 



in its yards at Cadillac for use during the 



pring and summer, having a quarter of a 



million feet already stored up. The mill is in 



st< ady operation. 



The Williams Bros. Company will start its 

 mill at Cadillac January ^ after a shutdown of 

 several weeks for repairs. 



Tie 1 ■lie 's oi the Michigan Maple Company 



iii in Grand Kapids December 20 with the Eol 

 lowing board members present : M. I-'. Butters, 

 l.udington ; W. 'J'. Culver. Ludington ; II \ 

 Loud, An Sable: Edward Buckley. Manistee; 

 W. II. White, \V. I.. Martin and M. .1. Fox, 

 Boyne City; R. G. Peters, Manistee; W. I'. 

 Porter, Fast Jordan, and Harry Nichols. Charle- 

 voix. The annual meeting of the association 

 occurs February .", and nothing was done at 



this n ihg except ... ihscuss trade conditions. 



Dry stock I- arce, prices firm, and with the 



scarcity of help In the w Is and the- light snow 



so far the indications are thai the log crop will 

 ■■ light. 



Bristol, Va.-Tenn. 

 E. L. Ritter, Sain Holland, and others of the 



W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, of Columbus, 

 <>., were in the city last week en route to Hamp- 

 ton. Tenn., where the company is putting into 

 operation a newly erected baud mill. 



II. F. Wood, president of the H. E. Wood Lum- 

 ber Company of Baltimore, Md., accompanied 

 by his brother. ('. L. Wood, general manager of 

 the company, came to the city this week and 

 spent several clays here on business 'Ibis 



company is operating extensively in western 

 North Carolina and at Buladeen, Carter County. 

 Tenn., where it has a band mill in operation. 

 The R. E. Wood Lumber Company owns nearly 

 a thousand million feet of poplar, oak, chest 

 nut. hemlock, etc., in North Carolina. Tennessee, 

 and West Virginia. 



Plans are on foot for the development of 

 millions of feet of fine untouched maple timber 

 in Wise county. Virginia, and L. O. Pettit of Big 

 stone Gap, Va., and associates, are interested 

 in the proposed organization of a big chair and 

 furniture manufacturing plant to be located at 



Wise Court HOllSe. 



I'. W. Bevins, who operates several country 

 mills in Scott county, Virginia, near Hiltons, 

 was in the city last week. Mr. Bevins says that 

 be has shipped over five hundred cars of lum- 

 I ci 'from bis Scott county mills this year and 

 has prospects for shipping a much larger volume 

 ncx l year. 



.1 II. Bryan, of the Bryan Lumber Company, 

 is in South Carolina on a trip of inspection of 

 i mpany's mills on the Pee 1 lee river, in 

 thai state 



lie clinch Valley Lumber Company lias 

 moved its offices from Bluelield. W. Va., to St. 

 Paul. Va. The change was made in order to 

 have the headquarters of the company in prox- 

 imity to its operations and timber property. 

 M. It Fussier, formerly "i Bristol, is presi- 

 dent of i be company. 



A. F. Willey, of the .Morton. Lewis >x Willey 

 Lumber Company, has gone to Grand Kapids. 

 Mich., to attend the funeral of his mother-in- 

 law. Mrs. II. .1. Richardson. 



.1. A. Wilkinson has returned from a business 

 trip in Virginia. His new planing mill, which 



has just I n completed, will be put into op 



• ration at once, and his new band mill, which 

 is being constructed, will be ready March 1. 



II ili.es n! the Kingsport Lumber Company 



are being moved from Bristol to Johnson City. 

 This company operates a band mill and a cir- 

 cular mill at Caretta, McDowell county, W. Va., 

 ami receives ulnuit a million and a half feet of 

 lumber per month from the two mills. It has 

 almost ten million feet of sawn lumber, chiefly 

 oak, in its yards at Caretta at present, and 'is 

 disposing of same as fast as possible. 



The Patterson Lumber Company, which re- 

 cently purchased a 7,000 acre tract of timber 

 land ou the French Broad river, on the Ten- 

 c ic cc -North Carolina border line, at a consider 

 ation of S.'.u.iiiiii. is arranging t" develop same 

 at once. A water flume for transporting the 

 logs to the French Broad river, four miles in 

 i, will be built. 



The Buckeye Lumber Company and the Penn 

 Lumber Company, recently organized at John- 

 son City, Tenn.. by W. R. Coon, D. C. 1 Inches. 

 and associates, an getting ready for active op- 

 cral ion. 



F. II. Wilson, who has been superintendent 

 of the W. M. Hitler Lumber Company opera- 

 tions ai Saginaw, N. <',, for some time, has been 

 appointed superintendent of the company's new 

 i perations fifty miles south of Charleston, W. Va. 

 Mr. Wilson was in Bristol this week en route t" 

 West Virginia to take charge of the. new work. 

 I'be company has purchased the business of 

 i he Raleigh Lumber Company, one of the most 

 extensive lumber manufacturing operations in 

 that part of the stale 0. C. Hathaway, who 

 has heretofore been superintendent of the com- 

 pany's operations at Hampton, Tenn., has been 

 appointed i" succeed Mr. Wilson as superin- 

 tendent of the operations at Saginaw, N. C. 



Cincinnati. 



The proposed building of a belt line around 

 Cincinnati will in all probability go through 

 within the next few- weeks, and when the con- 

 struction is completed will benefll every business 

 man in the Queen City. A meeting was held 

 inly by the committee, consisting of Messrs 

 Thomas .1. Molten, chairman, w. A. Bennett 

 and A G. Brunsman, who discussed incorpora 

 ticcn of Hie new enterprise. The company will 

 be incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000 

 This amount is only to cover the preliminary 

 work and will be increased as necessity re- 

 quires The read will extend around the out- 

 skirts of Cincinnati, connecting with all rail 

 roads, and will also invade Kentucky. A bridge 

 will be constructed over the river in the Fast 

 End, which, according t,. estimate figures, will 

 cost $1,000,000. The complete construction' will 

 amount to $10,000,000. About four miles oi 

 road will be laid in Kentucky and about fifteen 

 to twenty miles in Cincinnati, connecting i Ic 

 various railroads and passing through such sub 

 ui'bs as Oakley, Madisonville, Norwood, the Mill 

 creek valley ami others. The Lumbermen's 

 club. Carriage Makers and a host of others 

 have urged the construction for the past three 

 years and the final developments have now 

 cropped out- Lumbermen of Cincinnati i:i 

 speaking of the new belt line .ill assert thai they 

 will derive a meat benefit anil are all willing 

 to subscribe to the stock that will be issued in 

 be near future. 



The K. & P. Lumber Company of this city 

 has reduced ils capital from $150,000 to $75, 

 i. 



J. T. Ilanna of the Wiborg & llanna Company 



Las goni a business nip through the South. 



lie will remain there for some weeks to look 

 after lumber Per his firm. 



Charles Duhlmeier of Duhlmeier Brothers 

 lias returned from a southern trip, where he 

 bat plentj ol logs are seen but little 

 lumber ready for shipment. 



The monthly meeting of the Lumbermen's 

 Club will be held at the Business Men's Club 

 .1 .i unary 7. A discussion of the belt line will 

 he made and several other important things will 

 be dealt with. 



Chester F. Korn of tin- Fan-in Korn Lumber 

 • ompany has left the city for the South on a 

 business trip, lie will be away for a week or 

 more. 



L. G. Banning has recently returned from 

 Tennessee, where he was on a business trip. 



"A g 1 Christmas gift that would please 



iii lumberman in the Queen City is an ample 



; nl of cars to allow shipments and receiving 



of lumber," said Thomas J. Molfett of the 

 Maley, Thompson & Moffett Lumber Company in 

 speaking of the car shortage. 



St. Louis. 



The Thomas & I't'oelz Lumber Company has 

 been making strenuous efforts to accumulate 

 slock, both at the local yards ami at the mill at 



Belzoni, Miss., and has si eded even beyond 



expectations, as the announcemenl is made that 

 i' will have in pile more hardwood lumber on 



January 1 nexl than al any ti in its bistorj 



Early in the month the company received a 

 barge load of lumber, consisting of 700,000 

 feet of cottonwood, poplar and ash, considerable 

 ccf which has already been sold. Another at- 

 tractive item which was recently added to the 



leal stock was 100, feel Of l'i and 1 > ... -inch 



plain white and red oak step plank. Hi inches 

 wide and over. At Belzoni the stock consists 

 of oak and gum mostly, with some cottonwood. 

 cypress and ash. which by the first of the year 



will undoubtedly aggregate 3,000, feel. This 



is surely a commendable record, considering the 

 delays incident to the car shortage, but which 

 hindered the company little, since it logs its mill 

 by river with its own steamboat and barges. 



