HARDWOOD RECORD 



Company at Thessalon, Ontaiio. The property was Involved in the Love- 

 land & Stone failure two years ago. Lovehind was heavily Interested in 

 the North Channel Company. K. B. Foss & Co. have extensive timber 

 holdinjrs near Thessalon and had cut timber at Bursts & Co.'s sawmill 

 at Thessalon until it was destroyed by fire two years ago. 



The Robbins Table Company is building a two-story addition to its 

 plant at Owosso. Extensive improvements have been made in the machine 

 and finishing rooms o£ the factory. 



Dudley E. Waters, chairman of the board of directors of the Grand 

 Rapids National City Bank, has purchased the capital stock in the Kling- 

 man Sample Furnilurc Compan,v, held by the estate of Philip J. Klingman. 

 The capital stock of the company is now $150,000. 



Business is good at the plant of the Charlotte Chair Company at Char- 

 lotte, Mich. The company is now buildTng a new brick dry kiln and will 

 make improvements within the factory. The chair company is Charlotte's 

 Infant industry and has already shown a remarkable growth. 



Furniture and musical instrument companies at Holland, Mich., see 

 great prospects of Increased foreign trade as a result of the European 

 war. They will begin an active campaign in those South American coun- 

 tries formerly supplied by the nations now at war. Advertising matter 

 printed in the language of the Latins has already been circulated in 

 South America. 



Working hours in the plant of the Singer Sewing Machine Company 

 at Nile.s. Mich., liave been reduced one-third as a result of the European 

 war. The new order calls for five days' operation at eight hours a day, as 

 against six days at ten hours heretofore. Only sewing machine cases 

 are manufactured at the plant at Niles. 



Cobbs & Mitchell Inc. of Cadillac, Mich., who own a large tract of 

 hardwood timber in Monroe township, Sheboygan county, will lumber that 

 tract this winter. Preparations are already being made. A spur will lie 

 constructed into the timber belt from the Embury-Martin Lumber Com- 

 pany's branch railroad near Freedom. 



The Grand Rapids Furniture Association after an existence of three 

 years will dissolve. Tlie dissolution is blamed to a lack of Interest but 

 its passing will in no way affect the Grand Rapids furniture market. 



Archie .T. Clark, cashier of the Brtaiiey State Hank at Brlmley. Mich., 

 has purchased the interest of Ilussel P. Chatfleld in the Bad Axe Lumber 

 Company at Bad Axe, Mich. The firm will hereafter be known as Whitney 

 & Clark. 



Recent heavy rains saved Michigan hardwood lumbermen thousands oi 

 dollars when they quenched the forest fires that were gaining headway in 

 the northern Michigan hardwood belt. Members of the Michigan National 

 Guard bad niiderl.-iken to flght the fires just before the rain fell. All 

 immediate danger of further flres has passed. 



The Ypsilanti lU id Furniture Company of Ionia, Mich., will not be 

 forced lo suspend operations on account of tile European war cutting off 

 the reed supply. .\s soon as the war cloud became positive. General Mana- 

 ger I'red A. Cbapman made a flying trip to New York, where he imme- 

 diately biiiighl u|i all rr.eds on the market. Enough were obtained to 

 operat. iIp iii.ini i\ months and the company already had enough stock 

 on Ikitm! I i . ii. III. for a similar period, so that now a continuous run 

 of a .v.:ii 1^ I ii.;. If business warrants it. 



The l.|ii\.i Maiim.irturing Company of Menominee apparently was not 

 so fortunate as the Ionia firm. The Lloyd company makes go-carts and it 

 will be obliged to draw on the reed supplies of the United States, which 

 are reported to be difficult to obtain at an increase of twenty-five per cent 

 in price since German imports ceased. 



Fire destroyed the sawmill of the Jackson & Tindle Lumber Company 

 at Pelleston, Mich., at a loss of $40,000. The fire was discovered early 

 Monday morning in the boiler room and before an effort could be made 

 to check it it had spread throughout the njiH. The village fire depart- 

 ment and volunteers devoted their energies to saving thousands of feet 

 of lumber piled near the mill. It is not known whether or not the 

 mill will be rebuilt. It was in operation and about 100 men are now 

 employed as a result of the flre. 



Lightning entered the planing mill of the Mann Lumber Company at 

 Muskegon, over an electric wire and started a fire th.it for a few mo- 

 ments threatened to destroy the plant. 



.According to figures of the United States Department of Agriculture, 

 the farmers of Michigan spend more money annually for firewood than do 

 the farmers of any other state. They consume 2,539,000 cords of wood 

 valued at .?10,CC:!.000. The entire state consumes 2.700.000 valued at 

 $16.5r.7,000. 



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The Hardwood Market 



< CHICAGO >■ 



While local lumbermen were in a more or less frenzied condition when 

 European hostilities opened up, they seem to have adopted a much more 

 philosophical turn of mind and. while they are of course still expressing 

 intense Interest in developments abroad and their effect on this country, 

 the general tendency seems to be to stick pretty close to the grindstone 

 and to refrain from becoming panicky even in the remotest degree, while 



nimfanftinn Sforlt ^" "'" »"PP'y y°" «'»'> CLEAR 



l^imenSlOn OIOCK cuttings of ,oft Kentucky Oak 

 or Poplar so that they will COST you considerably LESS 

 THAN the same cuttings if BOUGHT AS LUMBER. 

 Make Us Prove It 



Birch Veneers. Also Elm, Maple and Basiwood 



WE MANUFACTURE FINE ROTAKY CUT 



STOLLE LUMBER & VENEER CO. Tripoli, Wi«. 



us QUOTE TOU 



LABORERS FREE 



Free of charge to employers, we supply all classes 

 of laborers and mechanics, of any nationality. 



Loggers, Railroad Graders, Cooks, Flunkies, Team- 

 sters, Engineers, Saw-filers, Bark-Peelers, Sawyers, 

 Swampers, Cant-hook men, and good men for general 

 labor work. 



Men pay own railroad fares to the works. We have 

 good men on hand to work around sawmills and lumber 

 yards by the day or by month. 



Write all particulars in your first letter, wages, work- 

 ing conditions, etc. 



Xiong- Distance Phone Franklin 3529 



Diamond Labor Supply Co. 



32 So. Canal Street, 



Chicago, 



The Tegge Lumber Co. 



High Grade 



Northern and Southern 



Hardwoods and Mahogany 



Specialties 



OAK, MAPLE, CYPRESS, POPLAR 

 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 



