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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Charjes A. Bigelow this business, as well as 

 that of Kneeland, liuell & Bigelow fompany, 

 has proved a wonderful success. 



The Sti'able Manufacturing Compiiny ei'ected 

 last winter at Saginaw what is pronounced one 

 of the most complete plants of the kind in the 

 United States, and it has been doing a steady 

 business with orders eniingh to keep M moving 

 briskly. 



Bliss & Van Aukeu are doing their usual 

 amount of business. The outlook for the Arm in 

 a business way for the fall and winter Is ex 

 cfllent. 



The S. Ij. Eastman Klooriug Company has 

 not experienced any idle hours or let-up in busi- 

 ness this season. Mr. Eastman is one of the 

 largest operators in the West and constantly 

 carries a stock of nearly 20,000. OUO feet of 

 lumber. This year he handled practically the 

 entire cut of lumber suitable for flooring manu 

 factored by the Kneeland-Bigelnw and liuell 

 plants. 



At Onaway, uorth of Bay City, on the Huron 

 shore, Gardner. Peterm;in & Co. have enlarged 

 their plant and increased its capacity by install- 

 ing some new machinery, and are now erecting 

 a tramway 1,500 feet long. This concern has 

 taken a contract to cut .55,000,000 feet of lum 

 her 'u the p..=„j-[r seven years for the Lobdell 

 & Churchill Company. 



Tue wcodennorKs of the Standish Manufac 

 luring Company were burned last week. Con 

 siderable stock in process of manufacture was 

 also destroyed. The building burned was ."jOxl.'iO 

 feet area and contained the sawmill and much 

 other woodworking machinery. The lumber in 

 the yard was saved. The loss is estimated at 

 *1iK0Oii. well insured. 



Grand Bapids. 



A. E. Anderson of Cadilhie aud \V. N. Kelley 

 of the Kelley Lumber & Shingle Company, Trav- 

 erse City, were in Grand Rapids Sept. 10. 



The Imperial Furniture Company has plans 

 for enlarging its table plant in this city next 

 year. Manager Stuart I'^oote is aiming to have 

 the largest table plant in the world and has 

 very, nearly realized his ambition already. 



A.' B. Dennis of Dennis Brothers, his two 

 daughters and chautEeur narrowly escaped se- 

 rious injury recently when their touring car 

 was struck by a street car at the corner of 

 Fifth and Madison avenues. The car was 

 whirled completely around on the wet asphalt 

 pav-ement, but aside from a shaking-up the occu- 

 pants were uninjured. The automobile suffered 

 ^^ome minor damages. 



The Algoma Timber & Lumber Company, capi 

 tal $120,000, was organized last week in this 

 city and will do business at Algoma, Ont., where 

 a large tract of timber has been acquired. The 

 stockholders holding equal shares each are Henry 

 G. Dykhouse of the Acme Lumber Company and 

 IFenry Idema of this city, W. W. Hanchett, 

 ,Iai'ob Van Putten, J. J. Cappon and George E. 

 Kollen, all promineiit business men of Holland. 

 A statement recently filed in the probate court 

 at Muskegon by executors shows that nine 

 months have served to disburse practically the 

 entire estate left by Thomas Munroe, the wealthy 

 lumberman-banker of that city, who died last 

 fall. The sum disbursed, which included many 

 legacies and bequests, has been over $300,000 

 since .Ian. 7 last. 



Murphy & Diggins, Cadillac lumbermen, who 

 have been assessed large taxes for school pur- 

 poses in Colfax township, Wexford county, in 

 districts where no school was held for several 

 years, have been informed by the state depart- 

 ment of public instruction that such assessments 

 are illegal and that the taxes can be recovered. 

 The Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company is building 

 a model town in the Swanzey district of Mar- 

 qiiette county, com-prising an area of 440 acres, 

 lying between the two branches of the ESscanaba 

 river. It will be called Gwinn, in honor of 

 William Gwinn Mather of Cleveland, presfdent 



qf the company, and waterworks, sewers and 

 electric lights will be provided, also telephones, 

 with all wires laid underground. TTnsightly bill- 

 boards will also be forbidden. Plans have been 

 [irovided for a fine hospital and modern high 

 school building and library. Twenty-four dwell- 

 ing houses have been built and the company has 

 awardel contracts for thirty more, each of dif- 

 ferent design and all having modern conveni- 

 ences. Streets in the residence portion are be- 

 ing laid out eighty feet in width, and the nat 

 ural lieanty of the place will be enhanced by 

 parks and trees, making it one of the prettiest 

 towns in the state. 



The I. N. Conrad Iron Company, Boyne City's 

 newest industry, has started manufacturing op- 

 erations. The company was in business twenty 

 years at Mt. Pleasant and twelve years at Stan- 

 ton, Mich., and turns out mill and woodworking 

 uiachir ery. 



William Beitner & Son of Traverse City have 

 bought forty acres of hardwood timber located 

 on the Avery place, near Silver lake. 



Fred Smith is now in charge of the Elk Rap- 

 ids and Boyne City plants of the I^ake Superior 

 Iron and Chemical ConTpany and will live in 

 Elk Itapids. 



Industrial prosperity at East Jordan has in- 

 tluenced the state bank of that village to in- 

 crease its capital stock from $20,000 to $30,000. 



The Holland Vereering Company at Holland 

 is having plans prepared for an addition, 40x50 

 feet, two stories and basement, to its factory 

 at Holland. This Is' the third enlargement of 

 the plant that has been necessary on a<'count 

 of a fast developing business. 



A. J. Whitworth, manager, of the Grand Rap 

 ids Desk Company's plant at Muskegon Heights, 

 has resigned and will return to Grand Rapids. 



Indianapolis. 



An important decision, abolishing the "milling 

 in transit" regulation, establishing a sliding 

 schedule of log rates and covering a number of 

 other points, was handed down by the Indiana 

 Railroad Commission on Sept. 20. The decision 

 was in the case of the Nor.h Vernon Lumber 

 Company against several Indiana railroads who 

 required that in order to get a reduction from 

 regular lumber rates on log hauls the finished 

 product must be shipped over the line hauling 

 the logs. In the future this will be done away 

 with and the following rates established : Ten 

 miles or less, 2.5 cents ; 10 to 20 miles, 3 cents : 

 20 to 40 miles, 3,5 cents ; 40 to 50 miles, 4 

 cents ; 50 to 65 miles, 4.5 cents ; 65 to 80 

 miles, 5 cents ; ,S0 to 100 miles, 5.5 cents ; 100 

 to 123 miles, B cents: 115 to 150 miles, 6.5 

 cents : 150 to 175 miles, 7 cents ; 175 to 200 

 miles, 7.5 cents ; 20U to 250 miles, 8 cents and 

 250 to 300 miles. cents. The minimum car 

 capacity is fixed at 34,oo() pounds and 500 

 pounds allowance must be made for standards 

 used in loading, the consignor to furnish the 

 wire. 



Jacob P. Smith, a well kuowu local lumber- 

 man, has moved his offices from 514 State Life 

 building to 932 in the same building. 



J. W. Hankins, formerly with the Dixie Lum- 

 ber Company of St. Louis, is now chief clerk for 

 the Robinson Lumber Company of this city. 



The Schelosky Table f.'ompany has been organ- 

 ized at Evansvllle and promises to become a 

 substantial addition to the rapidly growing fur- 

 niture industry of that city. The company will 

 make a specialty of tables and desks, although 

 other lines of furniture will be manufactured. 

 Moritz H. aud Adolpb R. Schelosky and John 

 Peters. Jr., are the directors. The capital stock 

 is $40,600. 



The Evansvllle Veneer Company has received 

 a shipment of eleven mahogany logs from the 

 forests of Africa. Tile logs made just two car- 

 loads aud were valued at approximately $3,000. 

 The shipment is said to be the first ever re- 

 ceived in southern Indiana from Africa, 



A contract has been let by the New Albany 

 Veneering Company for the construction work 

 on its new plant at New Albany and the work 

 is to be rushed to completion in order that the 

 plant can be occupied during the early part of 

 the winter. The company was organized last 

 month with $100,000 capital stock and promises 

 to be one of the largest concerns of its kind In 

 Indiana. 



If is iinilcrstood that the C. P. White Lumber 

 Company of Boonville is to locate at Evansvllle 

 shortly. A suitable site has been obtained along 

 thi> Illinois Central railroad tracks, near the 

 new location of the Henry Maley Lumber Com- 

 pany. The company handles a full line of 

 hardwoods, 



A planing mill to cost $20,000 Is being 

 Hrected by tfte Hercules Btiggy Company of Ev- 

 ansvllle, It will be a two-story brick structure. 



Two meetings of carriage manufacturers were 

 held here during (he last two weeks, ostensibly 

 for the purpose of forming an organization that 

 will boost the price of carriages and other pleas- 

 ure vehicles. Some seventy-five manufacturers 

 were present and it is understood that an in- 

 crease of 10 per cent at the beginning of the 

 season was agreed upon. Manufacturers claim 

 that the price of lumber for manufacturing pur- 

 poses is so high that an increa.se in cost of the 

 finished product is necessary to come out even, 

 much less to make a profit. 



Samuel J. Record of Connersvllle, who holds 

 an important position with the Forestry Service, 

 has been spending several days in Indiana, fol- 

 lowing an extensive investigation of the national 

 timber supply throughout the country. 



.M. M, Krb, who until recently held an im 

 portanf position in the Birmingham, Ala,, lum- 

 ber Held, and J. I). Case of Connersvllle have 

 formed the Case Lumber Company and will 

 locate in Connersvllle. 



Students at Purdue University have started 

 tb^' course in forestry established at the begin- 

 ning of the school term and are starting on an 

 extensive test of Indiana woods for manufac 

 turing and building purposes. At present the 

 streagih of longleaf pine is being tested, but 

 later a complete investigation of Indiana hard 

 woods relative to their strength and the soils 

 best adapted for their growth will be taken up, 



L. L. and D. D. Langton, sons of II. A. Lang 

 ton, head of the Langton Lumber Company of 

 Terre Haute, exporter of hardwoods, have re- 

 turned from a two months' trip through Europe. 

 They were accompanied by Manager I'rager of 

 the export department and while away secured 

 some fine walnut for their gunstock business. 



The Interior Hardwood Company of this city 

 has about completed the- extensive improvements 

 they have been making during the SBmmer 

 months and are enjoying an unnaually heavy 

 business. 



The National Hardwood Flooring Company of 

 Indianapolis has moved a few doors from thi' 

 old location. It is still in the Pembroke Arcade, 

 the change ijeing necessary becanse of the rapid 

 growth of the business. 



Bristol, Va.-Tenn. 



According to a statement issued this week by 

 C. Boice, he is not concerned in the failure of 

 the Boice & Grogan Lumber Company, Boston, 

 further than that William B. Woodward of 

 Washington Court House, Ohio, to whom he 

 sold all of his stock in the company, owed him 

 a balance of about $30,000 on the purchase 

 price. Mr. Boice further states that at the 

 time he retired from the concern which he or 

 ganized and disposed of his stock, he agreed to 

 allow the company to use his name In a busi 

 ness way for a period of ^wo years. 



John J. Rumbarger of the Rumbarger LutHber 

 Company. Philadelphia, is buying lumber in 

 this section and reports business Very good. 



Emil Guenther, a prominent hardwood dealer 



and manufacturer of Philadelphia, spent the 



entire part of last week looking after business 



interests in Bristol and Johnson county. Ten 



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