HARDWOOD RECORD 



33 



Frank Buell will run seven logging camps dur- 

 ing the season. He is furnishing 20,000,000 

 feet annually to the Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow 

 Company at Bay City ; he furnishes the stock 

 lor the Bliss & Van Auken mill ; about 2,000,000 

 feet of basswood for Bouselleld & Co. ; 2,000.000 

 feet of elm for Jackson & Wylie and is operating 

 two sawmills up in the woods in Cheboygan 

 county, cutting 30,000 feet a day. 



The maple flooring plants are doing good busi- 

 ness, there being a brisk demand for that com- 

 modity with prices satisfactory. The Kerry & 

 Hanson Flooring Company at Grayling reports 

 the best business last month since the plant went 

 into commission last season, both in sales, ship- 

 ments and the quantity manufactured. 



The first boat out of Au Sable, owned by the 

 H. M. Loud Sons' Company, the Ketcham, car- 

 ried a cargo of maple to North Tonawanda, 

 X. y., for the owners. 



J. W. McGraw purchased last week a tract of 

 timber in Oscoda county, estimated to cut 1,500,- 

 000 feet of lumber, mostly maple. 



James Norn, who operates a hardwood sawmill 

 at Standish, has sold his property there to 

 Thomas Miln and Is to retire from business. 



James Campbell is cutting .500,000 feet of 

 hardwood at Campbell's Corners, near West 

 Branch. 



Charles Bigelow states that he has sold the 

 entire cut of basswood mill culls that the Knee- 

 land, Buell & Bigelow mill will cut this season 

 at .flo a thousand. The high price asked for 

 pine mill culls for box stuff has forced dealers 

 and manufacturers to buy hardwood culls as a 

 substitute, and basswood, beech and even maple 

 are being utilized. 



The Michigan Contract Company of Detroit is 

 to build a small hardwood sawmill near Millers- 

 burg, on the line of the Detroit & Mackinac Rail- 

 way. 



Frank E. Preston of Detroit and Malcolm Mc- 

 Phee of Alpena have purchased 18.400 acres of 

 hardwood timber land in Presque Isle county. 



W. B. Rouse is cutting up a large quantity of 

 beech, elm and basswood logs into staves and 

 heading at his Bay City factory. 



Grand Bapids. 



Quite a large party of lumbermen will leave 

 this city May 2 at noon to attend the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association convention at 

 Memphis, going via Chicago. The committee on 

 ."irrangements is made \ip of L. L. Skillman, E. 

 Iv. Pritcliett of the Macey Company and C. F. 

 Sweet of the Fuller & Rice Lumber & Manu- 

 facturing Company. An active campaign is on in 

 support of Carroll F. Sweet for a place on the 

 directorate of the National body. 



Grand Rapids lumbermen and furniture manu- 

 facturers responded nobly to the need of quick 

 aid to San Francisco sufferers. 



An inventory of the estate of Charles H. Hack- 

 ley, Muskegon, shows an increase of over ,$330,- 

 000 in the past year, owing in large part to the 

 sale of Hackley & Hume timber lands in the 

 South. An accounting of the executors shows 

 the value of the property at the present time to 

 be $3,891,483.96. 



The Thomas MacBride Lumber Company has 

 a cut of about 0,500,000 feet of hardwood at 

 Wexford, and is operating its mill day and 

 night. 



Lots of dry rock elm lumber have sold for $12 

 per tliousand in the past. Recently the Hart 

 Cedar & Lumber Company sold its standing rock 

 elm tor export at $25, in the tree. The timber 

 is located in Oceana county, and the company 

 received over $5,000 for the elm taken from 

 less than 500 acres. 



being 7 feet : but 7 feet was found defective 

 and the log was cut down to 62 feet. The log 

 as it now stands is 62 feet long and contains 

 7,365 feet of lumber, board measure. Its weight 

 is fully 38 tons. It was purchased by D. L. 

 Ilelman of Warren, C, for $100. This groat 

 stick will be dressed down to 30x30-62 and will 

 lie used as a dredge spud or anchor. The im- 

 mensity of this tree will be realized when it is 

 known that the average run of white oak trees 

 in this section yield less than 800 feet board 

 measure. 



W. J. Fell, wlio is largely interested in the 

 manufacture of staves and lumber at Salt Lick, 

 Ky., was here a few days ago. He reports the 

 demand for his products active, with every in- 

 dication of a good demand for the balance of the 

 year. 



J. C. Roane, of the Weston Lumber Company, 

 Weston, W. Va., stopped at Cleveland en route 

 home. He says the demand for all kinds of 

 hardwoods has Ixcpt tlie company's slocks very 

 low. 



n. R. Cool, accompanied by Mrs. Cool, is in 

 Cuba. Recent letters from him say they are 

 having an enjoyable time ; that they find much 

 of interest to the traveler and are putting in 

 their time to good advantage. 



W. A. Cool, of W. A. Cool & Son, returned 

 last week from a trip south and reports their 

 mill running on full time, cutting about 70,000 

 feet daily, but that cars are scarce. He says 

 this is the complaint made by all the mills in 

 that section. 



Cleveland. 



The largest tree cut in Trumbull county, Ohio, 

 at least for the past fifty years, was a white 

 oak on the farm of C. K. Shlpman in Gus- 

 tavus township. When cut the log measured 

 69 feet in length, the diameter at the stump 



Indianapolis. 



Building operations are now on in full blast 

 in Indianapolis. Notwithstanding the advanced 

 prices that are being asked for material, build- 

 ing activity is unusually strong. Although the 

 year may not prove to be as big as 1905, still 

 it is safe to say the building will be very heavy. 

 Lumber of nearly all grades has advanced ap- 

 proximately twenty per cent, but despite 

 this a great deal of building is being done. The 

 year promises to be a most successful one for 

 Indianapolis lumber dealers. 



The C. W. Allen Company of New Albany, 

 Ind., has been incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $4,000 to deal in hardwoods and hardwood 

 flooring. C. W. Allen, L. O. O'Daniel and W. A. 

 McLean comprise the board of directors. 



The Indiana Lumber Company of Madison, 

 Ind., has been incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $30,000. The directors are John F. Ham- 

 mell, D. C. Bear and Richard Johnson. 



The Capital Lumber Company of Indianapolis 

 has just been sued in the superior court by Man- 

 less V. Sliger for $10,000 damages as compensa- 

 tion for the loss of his right hand while engaged 

 as a rip sawyer in the employ of the company. 

 The complaint alleges that the accident occurred 

 March 10, 1905, after the company had neglected 

 to guard the saw properly according to orders 

 from the state factory inspector. 



Stroh & Co., lumber dealers of Crawfordsville. 

 have sold their yard to a syndicate composed of 

 F. L. Mercer of Chicago, Hart Winchel of Wind- 

 fall, Ind., and J. J. Brannum of Alexandria, Ind. 

 The new company will reorganize under the 

 name of the Crawfordsville Lumber Company. 

 Mr. Winchell will be treasurer and general man- 

 ager of the company. 



Milwaukee. 



Fire caused $60,000 damage to the plant of 

 the M. Hilty Lumber Company, St. Paul avenue 

 and Twelfth street, April 20. though Charles G. 

 Forster, president of the company, immediately 

 after the fire estimated the loss at a much higher 

 figure. The company carried about $75,000 worth 

 of stock, fancy grades of maple and other hard- 

 woods. The plant had been recently improved 

 with machinery, making the value of the factory 

 about $25,000. The plant will be rebuilt at 

 once and arrangements have been made by which 

 orders will be filled as usual. 



Fire fanned by a fierce north wind on April 

 20 destroyed the sawmill of the Robbins Lumber 

 Company, Rhinelander, Wis., one of the largest 

 mills in the Wisconsin valley, causing a loss of 

 $30,000. The flames spread to the yards of 

 J. H. Queal & Co., causing a further estimated 

 loss of $20,000. The big mill of the Johns(m 

 Lumber Company narrowly escaped destruction. 

 Last fall the Robbins mill in the same district 

 was scorclied. 



Representing the Citizens' Business League. 

 Secretary R. B. Watrous will attend the annual 

 convention of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association at Memphis to secure its next con- 

 vention for Milwaukee. 



Market conditions remain unchanged. Heavier 

 movements are expected with the advance of the 

 season and the increased demand in all lines, 

 especially that of furniture. It is expected that 

 the demand for woods suitable for piano stocks 

 will be unprecedented this season. 



Milwaukee is to liave another large and modern 

 piano manufacturing plant, on which building 

 operations will begin at once. It will represent 

 an investment of $75,000. The builders and 

 manufacturers are the Charles F. Netzow Manu- 

 facturing Company, now located on East Water 

 street, this city. The firm has acquired four and 

 one-half acres of land for its plant and the main 

 building will be 60x202 feet, four stories hiKh 

 and of brick. Within five years, the company 

 estimates, it will be so enlarged as to have facili- 

 ties for manufacturing 10,000 pianos and organs 

 yearly. The plant will be completed and ready 

 for operation within five months. 



Bristol. 



R. E. Wood, president of the R. E. Wood 

 Lumber Company of Baltimore, Md., was here on 

 important business last week. Mr. Wood's com- 

 pany now operates large band mills in Carter 

 county, Tennessee, and in Mitchell county. North 

 Carolina, as well as numerous small country 

 mills, and is shipping a great deal of stock out 

 of this section. 



The body of George C. Luppert, lately of the 

 Luppert Lumber Company, who was drowned in 

 the Watauga river near the Luppert operations 

 several months ago, was recovered last week by 

 Mrs. Isaac Estep, after months of search. Mrs. 

 Estep claims that, acting under the impulse of a 

 strange presentiment which she had the night 

 previous, she found the body partially buried in 

 the sand. A tide had washed the sand off the 

 head of the body and it was plainly visible from 

 (he bank. The woman will be paid a large re- 

 ward. The body was taken to the former home 

 of the deceased at Williamsport, Pa., for inter- 

 ment, accompanied by the father, Valentine Lup- 

 pert. and the grief-stricken widow and children. 



Arrangements are being made for a Hoo-Hoo 

 concatenation at Mountain City to be held in 

 the near future. It is reported that about 

 twenty-five lumbermen are anxious to atfiiiate 

 with the order in the Mountain City district, 

 and a large and enthusiastic meeting is expected. 



M. N. OfEett of the Tug River Lumber Com- 

 pany and J. S. Matthews will go to Bluefield. 

 W. Va., on May 6, where they will hold a Hoo- 

 Hoo concatenation. A large number of applica- 

 tions have already been received and one of the 

 most successful concatenations ever held in this 

 .'section is anticipated. 



The Norfolk & Western Railway has revised 

 its schedule of rates on lumber in Virginia and 

 rectified the discrepancies and inconsistencies in 

 the rates which have worked hardships on ship- 

 pers and handicapped buyers in a large measure. 

 The rate from southern mills to Roanoke was 

 formerly higher than the rate to Washington and 

 Lynchburg, thereby enabling stock to be sold 

 cheaper two hundred miles farther distant from 

 the mills than Roanoke and rendering the Roan- 

 oke dealers and others In the region affected 

 powerless to compete with the dealers doing busi- 

 ness on the line given the low rate. The matter 

 was brought before the Norfolk & Western ofli- 



