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on the market. The company is building a lath 

 mill, to be operated in connection with the 

 sawmill, equipped with three machines, having 

 a capacity of 25,000 hardwood lath a day. The 

 Kneeland. Buell & Blgelow Company is just now 

 cutting a large quantity o£ maple special bill 

 timber, some twenty-two feet long, for break- 

 water purposes at Lake Erie ports. 



The W. D. Young & Co. sawmill is running 

 day and night and business is reported' as very 

 satisfactory. A considerable portion of the floor- 

 ing output is exported. 



The Boman Lumber Company, operating a 

 sawmill at Bomanville. has now over 1,000,000 

 feet of logs in the yard and carries on operations 

 the year through. 



The H. M. Loud's Sons Company. Au Sable, 

 has shipped three carloads of hardwood to Tona- 

 wanda this season. 



Charles Lindell of Millersburg has recently 

 purchased 15,000,000 feet of timber, nearly all 

 hardwood, in the vicinity of Forence, Wis. He 

 removed to the site last week, taking a portable 

 mill along. Mr. Lindell has purchased a new 

 mill of 30,000 feet daily capacity, but when he 

 gets fully established will put in a band mill. 



The Batchelor Timber Company of Saginaw 

 has filed articles of incorporation, with a cap- 

 italization of $200,000, all paid in, to operate 

 in lands and manufacture hardwood products. 

 It owns large boundaries of timber in Charle- 

 voix, Otsego, Grand Traverse and Cheboygan 

 counties. 



The big furniture plant of the Estey Manu- 

 facturing Company at Owosso, was destroyed 

 by Are May 18. The L-shaped brick building, 

 five stories high, was completely destroyed. It 

 was packed to the roof with finished stock, the 

 selling season being dull just now. The loss 

 will exceed ,$250,000, with an insurance of $12G,- 

 000. The concern made only high-grade quar- 

 tered oak and mahogany furniture. 



The Ottawa Hardwood Lumber Company has 

 started its mill at Tawas, and it is expected 

 about 4.000,000 feet of lumber will be manu- 

 factured. 



Grand Kapids. 



Harry C. Angell has purchased the interest of 

 his partner in the firm of Wagner & Angell, and 

 the new firm dealing in lumber and shingles is 

 H. C. Angell & Co. Mr. Wagner, the retiring 

 member, has been in poor health for some time. 

 Mr. Angell returned May 22 from an extended 

 eastern trip. 



Geo. S. Wilkinson of the VanKeulen & Wilkin- 

 son Lumber Company is in northern Michigan 

 on a business trip. 



A. Gibbs of Traverse City, senior member of 

 the Gibbs, Hall & Allen Company of this 

 city, has been spending the past week at the 

 Grand Rapids office. 



A. L. Dennis of Dennis Bros, reports an ex- 

 cellent spring business in all hardwoods. He 

 states that business at their Tonawanda yards 

 during the first four months of the year has run 

 25 to 30 per cent ahead of the record for the 

 corresponding period of last year. 



The mill of the Thomas MacBride Lumber 

 Company at New Wexford was shut down for a 

 few days for the purpose of putting in a steam 

 nigger and loader. 



Grand Rapids lumbermen who are familiar 

 with maple are skeptical as to the success of 

 the experiment of the Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow 

 Company of Bay City in manufacturing maple 

 lath. Some of the reasons they offer are as 

 follows : Maple is heavy and freight rates 

 would be high ; maple Is hard and would neces- 

 sitate boring : It would split and twist. Tam- 

 arack lath was tried In a bouse at Cadillac and 

 twisted so badly that the plaster fell off and 

 new lath and walls were necessary. 



The mill of E. C. Atkins & Co. of Indian- 

 apolis, which was removed this spring from 

 Allegan to Hartford, Mich., will be brought back 

 to Allegan next season. This mill turns out 



handles for the enormous output of saws man- 

 ufactured by this company. The timber chiefly 

 used is old apple, with a little cherry, walnut 

 and other special woods. Ten men were em- 

 ployed in the mill last wunter and lumber for 

 165,000 handles was cut. 



Arthur Hill of Saginaw, a prominent candi- 

 date to succeed Russell A. Alger of Detroit as 

 United States senator, comes over to Grand 

 Uapids frequently and is putting up a warm 

 campaign, even in William Alden Smith's own 

 bailiwick, and it looks as if Mr. Hill would 

 win out. 



Secretary O. A. Felger of the Hackley-Phelps- 

 Bonnell Company, while on a business trip in 

 the South, was summoned home by wire on 

 account of the serious illness of his son. The 

 little fellow was badly pinched about the body 

 In a capstan while at play, and peritonitis re- 

 sulted. 



The steam barge Three Brothers of the W. H. 

 White Company, Boyne City, made a quick run 

 to Chicago and return last week. She left 

 Boyne City late Thursday afternoon with a big 

 load of cedar ties, unloaded at Chicago, took 

 on a hundred head of cattle and was back at 

 the company's docks early Monday morning. 

 The cattle will be pastured on the White com- 

 pany's large farm. 



Oliver Bros., furniture manufacturers of Alle- 

 gan, have bought 320 acres of timber land on 

 Xebish island, St. Mary's river. 



Indianapolis. 



Although there Is considerable building being 

 done here just at this time, it cannot be denied 

 that the higher prices asked for lumber and 

 other building material is having a depressing 

 effect upon building activities. According to 

 statements of Indianapolis contractors, many 

 thousands of dollars' worth of improvements have 

 been temporarily abandoned, because of advanced 

 prices. 



W. H. Freeman, secretary uf the Indiana State 

 Board of Forestry, who has just returned from a 

 visit in Clark county, is preparing recommenda- 

 tions for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company on 

 the proper care of a tract of land which the 

 company owns In that county, adjoining the state 

 forest reservation. Mr. Freeman will submit 

 plans which will enable the company to save the 

 valuable hardwood trees on the tract. It is the 

 Intention to make it a private reserve, similar 

 to that now owned by the state. 



On the evening of May the planing mill of 

 the F. M. Bacbman Company on Lincoln lane in 

 Indianapolis was damaged by Are of unknown 

 origin, the loss being about $20,000, only par- 

 tially insured. At the time of the fire the mill 

 was filled with dressed lumber in anticipation of 

 a heavy building season, but Mr. Bachman had 

 failed to increase his insurance accordingly, so 

 the Insurance covered only about one-third of 

 the loss. 



The Dynes Lumber & Coal Company of Indian- 

 apolis has been granted permission by the sec- 

 retary of state to change its name to the Dynes 

 Lumber Company. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by 

 the Graham & Davis Manufacturing Company of 

 Windfall, Ind., for the manufacture of kitchen 

 cabinets. The company starts with $7,000 capi- 

 tal stock. The directors are James Graham, 

 Isaac Graham, W. J. Davis and Malvin Redlng- 

 ten. 



The Evansville Broom Company of Evansville, 

 Ind., has been Incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $25,000 to engage in the manufacture of 

 brooms. 



time in August. The company will manufacture 

 veneer on an extensive scale from the hardwoods 

 of this section, and its products will be sold 

 exclusively in the North and East. 



The ,1. S. Bailey Company, which several 

 years ago purchased the Craggy Mountain boun- 

 dary, announces that it will shortly begin the 

 erection of a veneer plant at Shope, five miles 

 from Asheville. The J. S. Bailey Company now 

 has a railroad running six miles Into the Craggy 

 Mountains, where it is engaged In getting out 

 chestnut for the United States Leather Company 

 of Old Fort. The hardwood used at the new 

 veneer works will be taken from Craggy Moun- 

 tain boundary. 



George A. Murray of this city made a ship- 

 ment of curly poplar from Asheville last week 

 that has taken nearly two years to collect. The 

 poplar filled a car and measured 13,000 feet. 

 The curly poplar was selected by Mr. Murray in 

 his lumber purchasing operations and stored un- 

 til a sufficient quantity was secured for ship- 

 ment. 



C. E. Lloyd, Jr., of rhiladelphia, represent- 

 ing the Cherry River Boom & Lumber i_"ompany, 

 was here for several days' stay recently. 



Frank Rumbarger of the Rumbarger Lumber 

 Company of Philadelphia was in Asheville on 

 May ;i. 



J. B. Hart of Clarksville, W. Va., who owns 

 65,000 acres of timber lands in western North 

 Carolina and eastern Tennessee, is now in this 

 city for a short stay. Mr. Hart is well known 

 In lumber circles. He built and now operates 

 the road from Newport. Tenn., to Waterville, 

 traversing his timber interests. 



A charter has been granted to the Olympla 

 Furniture & Carving Company of Wllkesboro, 

 N. C, with a capital stock of $3,400. 



The Robbins Lumber Company, capital stock 

 $12,500, has been organized to do business at 

 Elm City, N. C. 



The lumber yards and woodworking plant of 

 George W. Vanderbilt, on the Biltmore estate, 

 were damaged by fire May 19. The loss was 

 $2,500. 



Lumbermen report trade a little quiet during 

 the past fortnight, although good prices obtain. 

 Poplar leads. A more active market is ex- 

 pected in June. 



Asheville. 



The Asheville Veneer Company, a $40,000 cor- 

 poration recently organized here with George 

 A. Murray, a prominent lumberman of western 

 North Carolina, as president, has begun building 

 and will have its plant ready for operation some 



Bristol, ■Va.-Tenn. 



In the case of Bristol Door & Lumber Company 

 vs. J. J. Alley & Co., which has been pending 

 in the courts of Virginia for over a year, in- 

 volving a log contract to the extent of about 

 $8,000, Judge John W. Price has handed down 

 a decision on a hitherto undecided point of law. 

 Alley & Co. contracted to supply the Bristol 

 Door & Lumber Company with a large cut of 

 logs, and would have done so, having felled the 

 logs In the woods, but for the failure of a tide. 

 They delivered the logs eight months after the 

 time stipulated and the Bristol Door & Lumber 

 Company refused to accept them and sued 

 Alley & Co. for the advance money on same. 

 Alley & Co. brought suit against the Bristol 

 Iioor & Lumber Company seeking to compel It 

 to a specific performance of contract. Alley & 

 Co. relied on a plea of "providential hindrance" 

 for their failure to comply with the letter of 

 the contract. After considerable litigation .Judge 

 Price held that "providential hindrance" is not 

 of itself sufficient grounds for the breacli of a 

 contract, and a decree has been entered in favor 

 of the plaintiffs, i.ristol Door & Lumber Com- 

 pany, and judgment awarded for the sums ad- 

 vanced on the logs. 



The Furnace Run Saw Mill & Lumber Com- 

 I)auy of Pittsburg, Pa., has entered the lumber 

 business in this section and established a branch 

 office at Johnson City, Tenn. This company will 

 manufacture and ship stock from this section to 

 its eastern trade. 



Fred Brenner of the Fred Brenner Lumber 

 Company, formerly located at Chattanooga, was 

 in Bristol a few days ago, en route to Asheville, 



