HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Bliss & Van Auken are opi'latlnK tliell- plant 

 day and niyht and experience a veiy satisfaetijiy 

 volume of business. They priiduce tliMiring and 

 hai'dw<K)d lumhei" and are doin;; a lai'jie whole 

 sale and retail laisiness. 



W. 1). Yuunj; & Co. are operating their plant 

 day and night. Trade is fairly sood. The firm 

 has aecjuired enough stoek in the tree for a lif- 

 teen years' eut and is negotiating for a lot 

 more. 



The taking over liy the Vanderbilt interests 

 of the Detroit & Charlevoix or Ward railroad, 

 extending from Krederic to East Jordan, will 

 bring several hundred million feet of hardwood 

 timber to the Saginaw river mills. A short line 

 is to be built southeast of Deward. twelve miles 

 west of Frederle, in order to elfeet a change in 

 the eastern terminal of the road from Frederic 

 to <;rayling. and tliis spur will run through a 

 large bmi.v of standing timber owned by Sailing. 

 Hanson & Co.. which will be cut and hauled lo 

 the Sailing and Hanson mill at 4frayling. 



The White Bros, of Boyne <'lty have placed 

 all their standing timber east of the .Mackinaw 

 division of the .Michigan Central on the market. 

 This indicates that they have abandoned their 

 pro,ject for extending tlieir road now rtmning 

 from Koyne City to (iaylord. east to Alpena, as 

 was expected some time ago. Ba.v City jjarties 

 are negotiating for some of this timber. 



Tile McCormick-IIay Lumber Company at Sag- 

 inaw lias been doing a good business In native 

 hardwood stocks and in southern hardwood. 

 The company buys heavily in the South and 

 ships direct to custcmiers. It has also purchased 

 a number of million feet of hardwoods at Bay 

 City. 



The Kneeland. Buell and Rigelow plant is 

 manufacturing hard maple lath extensively. 

 'I'hey are used largely for crating, titling tlie 

 purpose tinely. and a good trade lias been wi>rked 

 up. Several million pieces have been sold this 

 season. 



The II. M. Loud's Sons Company is sliipping 

 a large quantity of hard timber to I»etroit for 

 the MU-higan Central tunnel under the I)etroit 

 river, and a number !>f million feet to Port 

 ArthiH" on the north shore of Lake Superior 

 for harbor imprc)vement work. 



The ^lershon-Iiacon Company is cutting out 

 a large iiuantit.v of box material from bee<'h 

 and other hardwood culls. 



Grand Bapids. 



K. N. Sailing and wife of Manistee, were in 

 the city Jtdy 1. Local hotels are well filled 

 with furnltiu'e people in attendance on the fur- 

 niture exhibits. 



A. L. Dennis of Dennis Bros, has opened a 

 family cottage at Highland Park tor the sum- 

 mer. 



"Ren" Barker, veteran editor of Ueed City, 

 speaking of the recent visit to that cit.v of Ben 

 Wolf, the <;rand Rapids lumberman, says : "Ben 

 and the I'ditor were friends back in Hu^ days 

 when Cadillac was called Clam Lake: Lake City, 

 Muskrat Lake, and Kalmouth, Pinhook. The-^e 

 Itioneer days, from 1877 to 1H,S4, were the hap- 

 piest of our lives." 



Bankruptcy proceedings have Iteen started in 

 the I'nited States district court here by a num- 

 ber of creditors, mostly Muskegon men, against 

 the .Sipuire Clothes Pin Company of Muskegon. 

 Tile company is charged wltli selling the prop- 

 erty w Itliimt reference to tlie creditors. The 

 case will probably be heard in August, The pe- 

 titioners are: W. W. Barcus, Henry A. Bauk- 

 nei'ht. .T. tJ, Bauknecht, Paul E, Bauknecht, V. 



A, Backstrom, East Shore Woodenware Com- 

 pany, ,L J, Howden Company, Charles S. C^lover, 



B. W. Ladd, C. A. Ladd. Adam Pyle. Towner 

 Hardware Company, Morton Manufacturing Com- 

 pany and the Morse Livery and Transfer Com- 

 pany. 



Lewis M. Curry has organized a ,1;10.000 stock 

 company at Howell for the manufacture of re- 

 frigerators. 



Charles M. Ilackley. son of Muskegon's great 

 benefaitor and philanthropist, has bought Mrs. 

 C. H. Ilill's resi<leDce, said to be the tinest home 

 In Muskegon, and will spend his winters there, 



C, J. Wiilson, for many years with tlie (Irand 

 Rapids & Indiana railway in this city, has ac- 

 cepted a position as assistant superintendent 

 and general freight and passenger agent of the 

 Boyne City, (iaylord & Alpena railroad and has 

 removed to Boyne City. 



The ,Mlchigan Wagon and Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, which is removing its plant from Jackson 

 to St. Johns. .Mich., will soon start operations in 

 tlie new location. 



Cleveland. 



C. S. Chesliro, secretary of the Louis Werner 

 Sawmill Company, St. Louis, and family, are 

 spending a few days in this city. 



C. H. Mead, master car builder of the Panama 

 Canal & Railroad, was a visitor in this market 

 recently. He reports operations moving along 

 rapidly on tlii' isthmus. 



Several local lumbermen .ioined the Builders' 

 Exchange excursion on a trip to Mackinac Is- 

 land on the Fourth. 



Poplar remains firm and the demand is greater 

 than the supply. White and red oak are mov- 

 ing satisfactorily : prices about the same. Bass- 

 wood finds ready sale in this market at good 

 prices. Thick white oak and ash are being 

 sought by manufacturers who are having con- 

 siderable trouble supplying their needs. 



Indianapolis. 



Another new veneer plant is announced for 

 this cit.v — the Central \'eneer Company, which 

 will begin liusincss within the next few weeks. 

 The company was organized by James E. Pitts, 

 Edmund M. Thornton, John A. Ilartman. Her- 

 man J. Bernard and Henry C. Thornton with 

 .■SL'O.OOd capital stock. It expects to manufac- 

 ture and sell veneers on a large scale. 



With a new and modern plant, the Francis 

 Brothers' Woodworking Company has begun 

 business at Rushville. The company went to 

 Rushville from Cincinnati and received a sub- 

 stantial lionus. 



Heirs of the late Herman Lauter, well-known 

 furniture manufacturer of this city, have re- 

 organized the company as the II. Lauter Com- 

 pany and will continue the business as for- 

 merly. The new compan.v is incorporated at 

 .fl.lo.OiKI with Alfred, Helena, Flora, Eldina and 

 Sara Lauter and Carolyn L. Robinson as the in- 

 corporators. 



A planing machine at the factory of the 

 Iloosier Cabinet Works. Newcastle, was ruined 

 a few days ago by a piece of shell found in the 

 heart of an oak that had been obtained in West 

 Virginia. The shell was undoubtedly one that 

 had been tired during tlic t'lvil War and was in 

 an excellent state of preservation. 



It is announced that the company formerly 

 known as the Heath Morris Company of New 

 Albany is hereafter to be known as the New* 

 .^Iban.v Box and Basket Company. 



July -8 has been set by the Indiana State 

 Railroad Commission as the date for hearing 

 tlie lumber shippers and railroad men on the 

 question of a revision of log freight rates. The 

 commission lias addressed a number of questions 

 to the railroads bearing on the subject, asking 

 whether shippers should be charged for the 

 weight of or be required to furnish the stand- 

 ards used on loading or be required to furnish 

 other appliances for loading. It is charged in 

 the complaint before the commission that the 

 present rate is excessive and that the cla.sslfica- 

 tion is Improper. 



On the morning of July 4 Peter Lommel, 

 superintendent of the plant of the Conners- 

 ville Furniture Company at Connersviiie, was 

 found dead in the wheel pit in the factory en- 

 gine room. His body was badly mangled and 

 it is believed that his death was accidental. 



S. B, Detwiler and C, A. Kupfer of the For- 

 est Service are in Indiana, preliminary to a for 

 cstry survey of the state. The rapidly disap- 

 pearing timber supply has caused the govern- 

 ment to start a movement that will interest 

 farmers of Indiana in forestry. The experts 

 will study the conditions surrounding the suc- 

 cessful growing of different hardwoods in vari 

 ous parts of the state. 



Frank P. Abbott, the energetic son of V. T, 

 Abljott, a well-known Iumbt*rman of Goshen and 

 East Chicago, has entered the political game. 

 Young Abbott seeks political honors as the 

 mayor of "Boyville," the summer camp for boys 

 to be opened at Winona Park. Master Alibott 

 is confident that he will poll at least ."idO votes 

 from the cities of Goshen. Elkhart. Mlshawaka 

 and South Bend alone. There will be approxi- 

 mately .■?,00(l boys in the camp for the sum- 

 mer. 



Dealers and contractors state that there is 

 a constantly Increasing demand this sea.son for 

 oak for finishing purposes in house construc- 

 tion. During the present scarcity of oak, bard 

 pine is being used largely with an oak stain. 

 Although locally lumber prices are at the top 

 notch, there is no falling off in building opera- 

 tions, as evidenced by the fact that during June 

 building permits in Indianapolis reached .fl,ii,">4,- 

 (•0()..->l, as against $4t)!»,m7 in June, liHiti. 



An increase in capital stock from ,$,"i(),(i(Hi to 

 .$7.-1.000 has been made by the Indiana Tie Com- 

 pan,v of Evansvillo. 



The Muncie Lumber Company of Muncic. the 

 Case-Fowler Lumber Company of Rushville, the 

 Donner Lumber Company of Greencastle, and 

 Joseph Blnford & Son of Crawfordsville have 

 discontinued business. 



Bristol, "Va. 



The Tug River Lumber Company of this city 

 will charter its new railroad from I'Mberton. Wise 

 county. Virginia, to the headwaters of Powell 

 river. This road is a narrow gauge line and 

 extends back to the company's timber property. 

 The company's big band mill, recently erected 

 on the headwaters of Powell river, has ijeen 

 placed in operation and is now running regu- 

 larly. 



O. H. Vial, a prominent lumber manufacturer 

 of Mountain City, Tenn.. was in Bristol this 

 week. 



W. *i. McCain, head of the well known lumber 

 firm of W. (i. McCain & Son of Neva. Johnson 

 county. Tennessee, was a visitor at the local 

 market this week. Mr. McCain's firm has ex- 

 tensive operations in Johnson county, including 

 a big band mill at Neva. 



Another Johnson county lumberman was here 

 last week. T. K. Garland, bead of the T. K. Gar- 

 land Lumber Company. This concern owns a 

 large tract of timber in Shady and has lieguu 

 cutting same. 



James Denman of the W. M. Uittcr Luinbei- 

 Company of Columbus, ( ►., was here this week 

 on business. Mr. Denman has charge of the 

 company's big operations at Saglna and Pineola. 

 N. <'., where it has a big band mill and an 

 extensive tract of timber. 



Paul Cline of the Tipp City Lumber Com- 

 pany at Altapass. X. C., was a visitor in the 

 city this week. This company is beginning to 

 cut near Altapass on the South & Western on a 

 large scale, 



F, Y, Fellows of Philadelphia, representing 

 Sohle Bros., well known hardw'ood dealers of 

 that city, was a visitor in the city this week. 



A. H. .Miller and others, who are at the bead 

 of the Ilagerstown Table Works, one of the big- 

 gest furniture manufacturing plants at Hagers- 

 town, Md., are in the city with a view to making 

 heavy purchases of hardwood. 



Irving Whaiey. general manager of the East 

 River Lumlier Company of Tamrosb. <;iles 

 county, Virginia, was in the city this week and 

 took part lu the Fourth of July celebration, Mr. 

 Whaiey was formerly with the Tug River Lum- 



