HARDWOOD RECORD 



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F. M. Sullivan lias returned from a snort trip 

 i" Atlantic < ity and will now look after the 

 hardwood trade of 1 Sullivan & c>. bj lake, 

 which was resumed last season with especially 

 good results. 



11. s. Janes lias made a trip south tor the 

 Empire Lumber Company since taking charge 

 and moving the office down town. He will go 

 to Arkansas soon to look after that pari of thi 

 1 rade, 



Angus Mil. ran. ior some weeks very dangei 

 ously ill. is now so much better thai bis rei 



is considered certain. R. D. McLean lias 1 n 



looking over some of bis Canadian work of late. 



A. .Miller somehow manages to keep a yard 

 well stocked with hardwoods, while his sales are 

 always good. This means that lie is in close 

 touch with southern producing points. 



r. \v. Vetter is filling up his yard as fast as 

 be can and establishing an unloading dock so 

 that the facilities for handling will be of the 

 very best. 



Since Manager Hopkins returned from the Isle 

 of Pines .1. V Scatcherd has been able to look 

 outside matters again. 



The lake trade of G. Elias & Bro. will he 

 argi again this seasou, as the lirm lias a large 

 amount of birch, as well as other hardw 1 lum- 

 ber, waiting to come down. 



Some very good sales of cherry have been 

 made of late by I. N. .Stewart & Bro., hut II. A. 



Stewart had I n south several weeks and made 



g 1 the outgo, besides getting hold of both oak 



and cherry for direct shipment to .New Yi rk 

 points. 



Detroit. 



It is now said that a box and shook manufac- 

 turing company front Wisconsin is trying in gel 

 a suitable location in Detroit. Tile Detroit 

 Board of Commerce and the hardwood whole- 

 sale interests are doing all in their power to 

 have the concern move t" Detroit. 



A dispatch to a Detroit paper says that dur- 

 ing the pasl year twenty tour firms in Michigan 

 manufactured 13,775,928 feet of bardw 1 lum- 

 ber and 58,917,929 feet of hemlock. 



An advance of 12% cents a thousand feet in 

 the carrying charges for the season between Lake 

 Michigan ports and Lake Erie and to St. Clair 

 and Detroit rivers was decided upon by the 

 board of managers of the Lumber Carriers' As.,, 

 elation at a meeting in the Hotel Normandle, 

 Detroit, this month. An advance of a quarter 

 of a cent Is made on cedar posts and an increase 

 of half a cent on cedar ties. 



The Thomas Forman Lumber Company is 

 enjoying a steady growth in its business and 

 'sawing wood all the time," Mr. Forman says. 



William Kelley of the P.rownlee-Kelley Lum- 

 ber Company has returned from his trip to Mex 

 ico and the southern states. 



The lumbermen say the Increase in carrying 

 charges on the lakes will not amount to much, 

 as the vesselmen will take anything they can 

 get when the time comes to move the lumber, 



Saginaw Valley. 



The Richardson Lumber Company of Alpena 

 and R. W. Gilchrist have purchased the old 

 .MiFwan sawmill site on the river front at Baj 



< ity and will erect ther 1 one of the largest 



hardwood plants in the state for the manufac- 

 ture of il 'tag and Other bardwood lumber and 



a plant to work up the refuse into wood alcohol 

 and other by-products. The company ha d 

 twenty-year supply of limber. Plans are now 

 being prepared for the plant, John Eales of 

 Alpena, an experienced millwright will superin- 

 tend the construct! >f the plant, the .M. Gar- 

 land Company will equip the plant with requl 

 site machinery : a band and band lesaw will be 

 the first machinery installed. The logs will 

 c to the mill by rail. 



Another large lumber firm is figuring on lo- 

 cating a similar plant in Bay city. 



The Saginaw Manufacturing Company, which 

 operates a large plant in the production of pul- 



leys, washboards and oilier wood novelties, will 

 ereel an eighty-foot extension i" Its main build 

 Ing. The building will be uniform in width and 

 heigh! with the present structure and will be 

 modern in every way. 



W. D. Young & Co. are running steadily ,|a\ 

 and night and are negotiating for in, ire umber. 



The plant will easily , ot 20, ,000 feet of 



lumber the present year 



s. I.. Eastman says that trade is g 1 in his 



line. Maple ilooring is in much better form than 

 ii was a uar ago and there 1- 1 steady demand 

 lor 1 1 in, lily. 



s 1; \i Gates has a 7,000,000 feel 

 which will be railed in his mill at 1 aj City this 

 spring. 



Lumbermen are bitter over the shortage ol 

 ears. The average supply is one ear received I'm 

 every live wanted. Railroad nun stale thai il is 



difficult io return empties because ai the term! 



nalS they cannot move ibcm mi account of lack 



of motive power. Delivery is practically as dis 

 couraging. it takes all the waj from six to ten 

 weeks to acne and deliver cars to their ilesiina 

 1 ion, 



A charcoal iron plant is being agitated ai Baj 

 cily for the purpose of consuming the vast 

 quantities ot refuse hardwood limber into a mer- 

 chantable commodity. 



More than fifty carloads of hardwood saw log 

 reach Baj City every twenty-four hours. It 

 requires that number to keep the mills in opera 

 lion. 



The sawmill of John McCready at Turner 

 started sawing last week with the largest stock 

 "f logs il has bad in years. 



C. A. I'.igelow of the Kneelaud-Bigelow Com 

 pany slales that he believes tile available Stock! 

 in the bands of niilltnen and dealers are consid 

 erably smaller than they were last year at this 

 lime. This company is an extensive operator. 



The II. M. Loud's Sons Company at Au Sable 

 is lilting out its fleet of four boats for the sum- 

 nn 1 carrying trade. It lias one order for 2,000, 

 DUO feet of maple timber to go to Lake Erie. 



Grand Kapids. 



Grand Rapids has voted for a bond issue <•( 

 si .11110, niio io furnish protection to nianufac- 

 turing ami other interests from Hoods. 



The senate has passed the 2-cent railroad fare 

 bill and it is regarded as very probable that the 

 house will pass the measure and that Governor 

 Warner will waste no time in signing it. This 

 is lb,- governor's pet measure and the roads mosl 

 directly affected will be the Pere Marquette. Ann 

 Arbor and the Big Four. The railroad commis 

 simi bill and the demurrage bill will now be 

 taken up. 



Officials of the electric road operating between 

 this city. Muskegon and Grand Haven, with Chi- 

 1.111,1 connections via one of the lake lines, will 

 call the attention of the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission to the refusal of steam roads oper- 

 aling west of Chicago to pro rale on through 

 business. The claim set up will be that being 



I common carrier the steam roads have no right 

 io discriminate against the electric road and 

 must handle freight on the basis of through 

 rales. The two interurban lines out of i Irand 

 Rapids are doing ,, large freight business. 



The Stearns Sail & Lumber Company of Lud- 

 [ngton advanced the wages of iis men April 1. 

 The company is prepared for a large cut and for 

 an increased business in the stave mill and salt 

 block as well. 



There is persistent talk at: Charlevoix thai the 

 Michigan Central will purchase the Detroit & 

 Cbarlevoll railroad, otherwise known as the 

 "Ward line," which is owned by 1 he Ward estate 

 and is used mostly in hauling logs lo Hie mills 



II Deward. The estate lias a timber cut there 

 estimated to last ten to fifteen years. 



The Manistee Navigation Company has started 

 its season's work of lifting deadheads" from 

 1 be Manistee river, just below Walton. 



11. II I.. Wernicke of the Macey Company has 



I n reelected president ,,l the Lakeside Club. 



Mr. and Mrs. W. II. While of lloyne cily have 

 ret 1 null from their western trip. 



The Harrison Wagon Works has resumed op- 



is in all departments. The creditors' com- 

 mittee is still working Io straighten out Its 

 financial affairs. 



John I'. Bible, the wagon manufacturer, is the 

 newly elected mayor ..1 Ionia. 



John !' Curl, piano manufacturer, was re- 

 elected mayor of Grand Haven without opposi- 

 tion. 



Cm' the first year since Hie spring of 1848 no 

 drive ot logs will pass down the Muskegon rivet 

 His season Only a few "deadheads" will be 



brought down this y '. while formerly hundreds 



of drivers were employed under direction of 

 Thomas Coughlin of Big Kapids. 'I he record of 



logs handled by the Log Owners' Booming 



pany sln.ws i he following decline of Hie drives in 

 Hie past six years; huh, 28,612,327 feci , 1902, 

 ls.|-J_'.';i"i : 1903, 16,371,612; 1904, 16,303,057; 

 1905, I7.::i 1,517 ; 1906, 7,602,132 feet. 



Cleveland. 



.1. I.. Lytic of Pittsburg was in I be city this 

 week calling on the hardwood trade 



W. A COOl "I W. A. Tool & Son is in West 

 Virginia at the company's mill. 



w. w. Reilley of Buffalo was a recent visitor 

 in ibis cily. calling upon bis many friends here. 



Robert II. Jenks of the Robert n. .links Lum- 

 ber Company is in Memphis. Teun. W. A. Spen- 

 cer of this company is spending some time at 

 i heir mills in West Virginia, looking after hard- 

 wood. 



w. P. Hilton, manager of the yellow pine de- 

 partment of the Advance Lumber Company, is 

 temporarily at Baskin, La., where the company 

 lias just started a new operation, consisting of 

 ball yellow pine and red and white oak. The 

 mill is starting off very satisfactorily and the 

 oak is reported to he of especially line quality. 

 This company is also putting in an extensive 

 plain at Cartersville, Ha., which will be in 

 operation about May 15. It is a peculiarly con- 

 structed mill, circular and band, with gang edger 

 and resaw. and it is expected will cut 100,000 

 feet per day of ten hours. At this point the 

 company will cut entirely dimension and has a 

 large kiln capacity to dry the entire product of 



the mill, amounting to al I eight cars per day. 



This plant is in charge of F. II. Enwrigbt. 



Indianapolis. 



It is probable that the new Indiana shippers' 

 bill will go into effect about April 15, when it 

 is expected that Governor Hanly will issue a 

 proclamation declaring the laws passed by the 

 last legislature to he in effect. The law, it is 

 believed, will afford immediate relief from the 

 car shortage Situation, although railroads insist 

 they an- delivering cars as quickly as possible. 

 Il is provided under the new law that shipments 

 must be moved at least fifty miles each twenty- 

 four hours, not including Sundays, holidays and 

 accidents Cars must be furnished without dls- 

 crimination ami the railroads an- subjected to 

 heavy lines tor violations. 



I' I. Galbraitb .N Son of Sunman have com 

 pleted an extensive deal lor timber lands in 

 Decatur county. Ii includes the purchase ot 

 eighty-five acres ot land containing about 2,500 

 while oak. hick, in I maple lice. Xhe tract 



is exi ted io in- i i ,,i oak lumber 



alone. 



Lumbermen along the Ohio river are just re- 

 covering from Hie second serious Hood in three 

 months, which has had a tender to prevent 

 ag Hie mills. Several yards and 

 mills were compelled to cease operations for 



i weeks I ause i il 1 and had 



a net- prepa red to n bus! oess than a 



mi inn-. Among the sufferers was the firm 



.v Conner, who own a veneer mill at 

 New Albany. 



