HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Incidentally it was learned that the members 

 who will attend (he Hoo-Hoo annual at Atlantic 

 I'lly are likely to he Vicegerent Bhimenstein, J. 

 B. \\"all. M. M. Wall, A. \V. Kreinheder, I. X. 

 Stewart, J. J. Slossman, F. M. Sullivan and pos- 

 sihly A. Stewart and F. C. Beyer. 



Saginaw Valley. 



The sawmill of the Kneelaud-Bigelow Com* 

 pany. which has heen operated without inter- 

 mission day antl night for the past year, will 

 shut down the last day of the month for ten 

 days for an overhauling and such repairs as 

 may he found necessary, when it will resume 

 operations for another year. This company 

 brings down a train load of saw logs every day 

 from Montmorency count}', where it has exten- 

 sive timber holdings, and these have been 

 strengthened by the purchase of 2,000 acres of 

 land from the \V. II. White Company of Boyne 

 City, estimated to contain nearly .30,000,000 feet 

 of timber, located contiguous to tlie company's 

 other holdings. It was a cash deal. The company 

 will operate four lumber camps this winter. 



Frank Bncll is running eight camps with a 

 steam loader and crews aggregating" GOO men 

 who receive from .fliS to $40 a month and chuck 

 thrown in. He is now loading 100 cars with 

 logs every day. He is putting in logs for sev- 

 eral firms, including the Kneeland, Buell & Bige- 

 low Company at Bay City, Bliss & Van Auken at 

 Saginaw and a number of others. 



S. L. Eastman reports that the flooring busi- 

 ness is doing well with a fair movement and 

 that prices are satisfactory. He is a little short 

 of men at his plant, but is well satisfied with 

 conditions. Mr. Eastman is one of the most 

 extensive dealers in hardwood lumber and floor- 

 ing in this section of the state. He usually car- 

 ries several million feet at his plant and this 

 season is carrying 8,000,000 feet at Bay City. 



Walter D. Young, his wife and brother and 

 the latter's wife landed at Liverpool last Friday 

 morning. They wire a pleasant voyage and an- 

 ticipate an enjoyable trip abroad. Mr. Young 

 has given business very close attention of late 

 and needs a rest. The party expects to be ab- 

 sent two months. Meantime the plant at Bay 

 City is being operated day and night and reports 

 business prosperous. The firm will manufacture 

 20,000,000 feet of hardwood this year, a good 

 portion of which goes into flooring. 



The Strable Manufacturing Company's new 

 flooring plant at Saginaw is doing a nice busi- 

 ness and working up a fine trade. H. A. Batch- 

 elor and his son Henry, and son-in-law, ,7. T. 

 Wylie, are heavy stockholders in this company, 

 and they are also the members of the Batchelor 

 Timber Company, operating a sawmill at West 

 Branch, cutting about 12,000,000 feet of hard- 

 wood annually. .Just now the mill is sawing 

 chiefiy beech and mai)le. The mill was pur- 

 chased a year ago from the Gale Lumber Com- 

 pany, was almost entirely rebuilt, "many im- 

 provements made, including an electric lighting 

 plant and dry kilns. \\'bi'n the comi>any bought 

 the mill it had 70,000,000 feel of standing tim- 

 ber to stock the mill and it has since added to 

 its timber resources by purchase. The logs 

 reach the mill over the Mackinaw division of the 

 .Michigan Central. West Branch is only a little 

 over fifty miles from Bay City and the company 

 has very satisfactory arrangements tor trans- 

 portation of both logs and Ihe manufactured 

 product. 



Bliss & Van Aukeu report a steady and satis- 

 factor.v business in flooring and hardwood lum- 

 ber. Their plant has been operated with a full 

 crew all season. The firm does a large retail 

 trade in the valley and adjacent territory aside 

 from the car trade outside. 



The Mershon-Bacon Company at Ray City is 

 cutting up a large quantity of beech and othei- 

 h.-u-dwood culls into box material. 



Il;iudy Bros., also at Bay Cily. arc culling op 

 some niillinns nf feet of liardwond iiiln linx male 

 rial. 



The Bousefield Woodenware Works Company 

 is using a number of million feet of basswood, 

 ash and elm timber, but has been somew^iat 

 liandicapped by reason of scarcity of labor. 



The M. (iarland Company at Bay City is fur- 

 nishing the machinery for the new Uichardson 

 Lumber Company's mill being erected at Bay 

 City, and which will begin sawing in October ; 

 also the machinery for the new mill of Keys 

 & Warboys at Tower, Mich. 



The new factory of the Saginaw Table Com- 

 pany of Saginaw is completed. It is 02x220 

 feet and is two stories high, with basement. It 

 is built of white sandstone brick and cut sand- 

 stone trimmings. The company has orders 

 enough on hand to keep the factory running at 

 full capacity for six months. 



Grand Rapids. 



A. L. Dennis of Dennis Bros, has returned 

 with his family from a fortnight's visit with 

 friends at Ann Arbor and Chelsea. 



Memories of the past were stirred recently at 

 Grand Haven by the arrival of the schooner 

 Forest, a three-master; with a cargo of 300,000 

 feet of lumber for the Challenge Refrigerator 

 Company from the Georgian bay region. For- 

 merly the harbor was filled with crafts of this 

 description. 



The Alaska Refrigerator Company of Muskegon 

 has bought the factory and property of the 

 Square Clothes Pin Company of Muskegon 

 Heights, the consideration being $10,200. The 

 Alaska Company has turned out 50,000 refriger- 

 ators so far this year. 



John Watkins has contracted to furnish the 

 Advance Thresher Company of Battle Creek 

 with 2,000,000 feet of lumber, mostly oak, with 

 •some elm and basswood. Mr. Watkins owns 

 .'1,000,000 feet of standing timber within twenty 

 miles of Battle Creek and has also made large 

 contracts to furnish railroad lies at SO cents 

 a piece. He will put in a small mill at Bellevue 

 and another near Hcjnor. 



The new flooring plant of the W. E. Williams 

 Company at Traverse City has been completed, 

 lirick buildings now replace the frame struc- 

 tures destroyed by flre on March last. 



The Goshen Veneer Company of Goshen, Ind., 

 has bought the saw timber in Getty's grove, 

 north of Shelb.v, Oceana county, and it is being 

 cut this summer. 



Fred Olin and Joseph Willcy have leased the 

 mill site and water power at South Boardman 

 formerly owned by S. A. Wellman & Co., and 

 they are erecting a plant for the manufacture 

 of lumbering tools, to be operated by water 

 power. 



Indianapolis. 



A notable addition to hardwood circles of 

 Indiana was made a few days ago when the 

 Maley Hardwood Lumber Company was organ- 

 ized at Edinbnrg with a capital stock of $511,000. 

 The men interested in the concern, and who are 

 mostly practical hardwood men, are Henry 

 Maley. William Ccunpton, James S. Grant, Fred 

 E. Fansler and Milas Drake. A yard and mill 

 will be established at once and all grades of 

 hardwoods will be manufactured and sold. 



Kingan & Co., local meat packers, are build- 

 ing a box factory that will cost .$20,000. It will 

 be three stories high, of concrete and hrick. 

 Boxi's for the company's own use will be manu- 

 factured. 



The Southern Lumber Company of this city 

 is buildin.g 22 houses on Tecumseh street that 

 will cost $20,400. About fifty houses will be 

 built by the company this season. All of the 

 houses now under construction are to be cot- 

 tages costing about $1,200 each, but later in the 

 season several double houses, to cost from $3,500 

 10 $1,500 each will be built. 



Julius W. rinncll, probably one of the Itest 

 kin»vvu lumbermen in the state, has organized 

 ciglil lumber cuuipauics with a total capitaliza- 



tion of $10'.1,500. He is associated in the com- 

 panies with men who live In the towns where 

 the various companies will be located. Yards 

 will be located at Greenwood, Lebanon, Frank- 

 lin, Colfax, Itushville, Danville and two yards 

 at Shelbyville, 



The Indiana Moulding and li'rame Company 

 filed articles of incorporation In this city Aug. 

 13 and will locate a plant at Laporte, where 

 mouldings, cottage rods, curtain poles and pic- 

 ture frames will be manufactured. John B. 

 Shick. Robert Pelan, Joseph S. Brofaut, Antone 

 and Peter Fara have invested $25,000 in the 

 company. 



John P. Brown, editor of Arboriculture and 

 timber expert of Connersville, recently delivered 

 an address in Richmond before the Horticultural 

 Society of that city, in which he endeavored to 

 interest farmers in forestry. He said the rapid 

 disappearance of lumber for manufacturing pur- 

 poses made it imperative that steps be taken at 

 once to repleiiish the supply. He said farmers 

 would find it as profitable to grow trees for 

 cross ties, telegraph poles and furniture lumber 

 as to grow grain. 



The strike of chairmakers at Tell City reached 

 such a stage a few days ago that two com- 

 panies of state militia were ordered to that 

 place. There were no unusual demonstrations, 

 however, and the soldiers were ordered away 

 the next day. The chairmakers in the three 

 local factories, all of which are under the con- 

 trol of one company, have been out for several 

 weeks. 



Plans are under consideration by the H. T. 

 Conde Implement Company of this city for build- 

 ing a plant for manufacturing delivery wagons, 

 buggies and surreys. Work will start within a 

 short time. If it is finally decided to build. 



The Long-Knight Lumber Company is doing a 

 lar.ge business, despite the usual summer dull- 

 ness, and is offering on its August stock list 

 1011,000 feet of 2-inch common and better plain 

 red and white oak, 75.000 feet of 1-inch plain 

 ted oak, besides a large quantity of 5/4 common 

 and better plain oak and 6/4 common and better 

 plain red oak. 



One of the busiest concerns in the city is the 

 Perrine-Armstrong Company, which has a large 

 mill on Y'andes street, besides large mills at 

 Fort Wayne and Lafayette. 



Bristol, 'Va.-Tenn. 



Col. Robert F. Mlddleton of the Cumberland 

 Valley Railway, an important branch of the 

 I'ounsylvania system, was in Bristol during the 

 latter part of the week and gave It out that 

 his road had Just agreed to supply the Norfolk 

 & Western with about twenty-flve empty cars a 

 day for several weeks. This, it is believed, will 

 contribute materially toward the relief of the 

 situation. Colonel Mlddleton is a commercial 

 solicitor for the I'ennsylvania and is looking 

 after the purchase of a large amount of oak 

 slock for his comjinny in this section. 



Lewis ('. Stone, commercial agent of the Cin- 

 cinnati. Hamilton & Dayton Railway, was an- 

 other railroad otficial who called on local manu- 

 facturers and wholesalers last week and discussed 

 the car shortage. Mr. Stone reports that the 

 famine is affecting the middle west, but he hopes 

 to see a better supply of this class of railroad 

 equipment in the early fall. 



The Hoo-Hoo concatenation which was to have 

 been held in Bristol will be held at Mountain 

 City Wednesday, August 21. George A. Mc- 

 Crary of this city has just received the ap- 

 pointment from Supreme Scrivenoter J. H. Baird 

 of Nashville as temporary viceregent and will 

 hold the concatenation at Mountain City. Mr. 

 McCrary is an enthusiastic member of the order 

 and it is generally conceded that the appoint- 

 ment was a wise one. He will serve instead of 

 Irving Whale.v, the regular vicegerent of East 

 Tennossee, who is at Talmasb. Va. Indications 

 are Ihat the meeting will be largely attended 



