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HARDWOOD RECORD 



mills, at Village, Tex., and Holly, la., and also 

 does a wholesale business in hardwood, redwood 

 and hemlock. E. W. Eastman of Minneapolis is 

 president. L. D. Eastman of Lancaster, Wis., 

 vice president, and C. II. Dietrich, Minneapolis, 

 secretary. 



The Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company of 

 Hermansville. Mich., has issued a new edition 

 of its I. X. L. flooring booklet, which is being 

 distributed broadcast to the trade. 



Chauncey R. Lamb of this city, who is largely 

 interested in the Bacon-Nolan Hardwood Com- 

 pany of Memphis, has returned from a business 

 trip to that city. He says that the company is 

 about to build another mill, and has others 

 in contemplation, which will make it the largest 

 hardwood producing concern in the world. The 

 company owns large bodies of timber in the 

 Mississippi river bottoms that will keep it going 

 for a number of years. It now operates a mill 

 at Chancy. Miss. The 'new mill to be built will 

 have two band saws, a resaw and other all mod- 

 ern equipment. 



Halsted & Booream, the new hardwood firm 

 located at St. Anthony Park, Minn., has opened 

 offices in the Northwestern Furniture Exposition 

 building in that suburb, and is therefore well 

 located to supply the factory trade. They will 

 carry a complete line of both northern and south- 

 ern hardwoods, and in addition will handle west 

 coast lumber. The members of the firm. H. M. 

 Halsted and H. Booream. were formerly with the 

 Abbott Manufacturing Company of St. Paul. 



Wausau, Wis. 



J. G. Kandy, manager of and principal stock- 

 holder in the Colby Novelty Company, Colby, 

 Wis., has moved the plant to Grand Rapids 

 and organized the Kandy Manufacturing Com- 

 pany ; capital stock, ¥25.000. A sash, door and 

 blind factory has been purchased, which will 

 be converted into a home for the institution. 

 To get the company to locate in Grand Rapids 

 the citizens of that town had to subscribe 

 $4,500 worth of stock. The company will manu- 

 facture hotel, church and saloon fixtures and 

 hardwood finishings and novelties. 



E. P. Holmes has withdrawn from the 

 Wheeler. Holmes & Timlin Company of Wausau, 

 and the concern has been reincorporated under 

 the name of the Wheeler-Timlin Lumber Com- 

 pany. 



The Stolle-Earndt Lumber Company, with 

 plant at Tripoli, has been hiring additional 

 crews with the object of rushing; summer log- 

 ging operations. The company has a hardwood 

 mill with a cutting capacity of 45.000 feet 

 daily. A lumber yard is maintained in Minne- 

 apolis. 



The North Western Lumber Company, of 

 which the head is Col. J. T. Barber of Eau 

 Claire, has given orders to George H. Chapman 

 of the Stanley plant to advance the wages of 

 all men in the company's employ at that plant. 

 The raise is very liberal and amounts to more 

 than ten per cent of the old scale. The change 

 was voluntary on the part of the company, which 

 has made a number of such raises in the past 

 few years. 



The most valuable timber shipped out of Wis- 

 consin the preseut year was a quantity of rock 

 elm ship timber, cut in Marathon county by a 

 Canadian concern. Only tall, straight rock elm 

 trees were selected and after they were cut 

 down were hewed into square timbers. About 

 fifteen carloads were recently shipped to Green 

 Bay, where they were reloaded on vessels and 

 carried down through the great lakes and St. 

 Lawrence river, and will finally land in the 

 great shipyards of Liverpool, where they will 

 bring .$125 per thousand feet. 



Lemke & Nickel, Wausau. have sold their 

 cut of 3,000,000 feet of mixed hardwoods to the 

 Wausau Lumber Company. 



C. A. Bentley of Milwaukee, an old lumber 

 dealer, has been appointed by the treasury de- 

 partment to collect of Marinette dealers the $2 



duty on the lumber being shipped in there from 

 their Canadian mills. 



A crew of 125 men employed in the mill of 

 the Davis & Starr Lumber Company in the 

 village of Weston, Dunn county, have struck 

 for a ten-hour day. They were working eleven 

 hotu'S. The people of the village refuse to allow 

 outsiders to be brought in to take the strikers' 

 places. 



Nearly all the lumber in the Marathon Lum- 

 ber Company's yards at JIarathon City was re- 

 cently destroyed by fire. The blaze started near 

 the mill, but fortunately the wind carried the 

 fire away from the plant and it was saved. The 

 yards contained about 3,000,000 feet of white 

 oak, maple, birch and basswood, all choice stock. 

 The owner, Philip Menzner, was partially pro- 

 tected by insurance. He still has quite a stock 

 of logs in the pond to saw. 



The Quaw Lumber Company, Edgar, has fin- 

 ished a cut of 5.500.000 feet of hardwood. The 

 compan.v secured a better grade of logs the past 

 winter than usual. 



William Brehmer has purchased the interest 

 held by his former partner, the late Louis Salz- 

 man. in a mill and yards west of Wausau. The 

 mill was built four years ago, and a well tim- 

 bered hardwood country surrounds it. 



C. H. Donaldson of Mason & Donaldson, 

 Rhinelander, is to be married to Miss Leona 

 Cordell Cole in Denver, Col., on Tuesday, June 

 12. 



Theodore S. Wilkin, of the Wilkin-Challoner 

 Company, Oshkosh, has won an important suit 

 involving opposing claims to the invention of 

 an improvement in gang sawmils. The defendant 

 was Charles E. Cleveland, of the Giddings & 

 Lewis Manufacturing Company, Fond du Lac. 

 The complainant alleged that Cleveland used a 

 sketch of an invention made by >A'ilkin as the 

 basis of an improvement, and manufactured two 

 machines. In a suit in the patent ofiice and an 

 appeal to the board of patent examiners Wilkin 

 was successful in establishing his claims. Cleve- 

 land apealed to the court of last resort and was 

 defeated. 



Hardwood Market. 



(By HABDWOOD BECOBD 



Chicago. 



The local trade is featureless. A fair de- 

 mand obtains for oak, poplar and Cottonwood. 

 Handlers of maple seem to have renewed con- 

 fidence in the possibilities of this wood, and 

 during the last month a good many orders have 

 been placed with Michigan and Wisconsin 

 operators by local jobbers, for increased sup- 

 plies. There is one feature of northern hard- 

 woods that has not prevailed until recently, and 

 that is that the coarse end of all woods is being 

 closely picked up for box and crating purposes. 

 Generally the local jobbers feel optimistic over 

 the situation and believe that tliey will have an 

 excellent business year. 



Boston. 



Exclusive Market Beporters.) 



such stock at this time considers himself in 

 possession of a good asset. Current activities 

 injjuilding circles and general lumber consuming 

 lines are good ; the amount of building planned 

 for this year is thus far in excess of last year, 

 notwithstanding that 1905 was a record breaker. 

 In the various hardwoods, poplar, ash, birch 

 and chestnut in the better grades are still in 

 first call, with dry stocks scarce and prices very 

 firm. Low-grade lumber is easy, but prices are 

 fairly well maiutained. Beech is improving in 

 call, particularly heavy stuff for temporary struc- 

 tural work. In quartered oak and maple there 

 is ample stock for current wants and the market 

 is not overactive. The flooring situation is in 

 fair shape : in oak flooring the demand is such 

 as to make it somewhat difficult to secure prompt 

 service in the matter of special orders. 



Values in the hardwood market are very firm 

 and in most instances the demand is of a 

 satisfactory character. Manufacturers of in- 

 terior finish, sash and doors, furniture and desks 

 are busy and in the market for hardwoods. 

 The export trade is fair, but is not as active 

 as it would be if prices were lower. Letters 

 received from abroad indicate that buyers are 

 holding out of the market as far as possible 

 owing to high prices. 



Many of the local yards are very well sup- 

 plied with hardwoods, having bought in antici- 

 pation of higher prices. Good quality dry stock 

 is reported as scarce. The call for plain oak 

 is fairly active. The supply of inch stock is 

 small and prices are firm at $53 to $55. Quar- 

 tered oak is in fair demand. Values are firmer. 

 One inch firsts and seconds are quoted at $78 

 to $80, and in some instances dealers will not 

 sell at less than $81 to $82. Brown ash is very 

 firmly held, but the demand has been checked 

 somewhat by high prices. The market for maple 

 flooring is firm and the demand fair. Cypress 

 is a little better off than it was. Whitewood is 

 firmly held, with the demand fair. 



Ne'w York. 



The conditions in the local hardwood market 

 are quite satisfactory. The demand for good, 

 well manufactured hardwood in the better grades 

 is very fair, and the supplies of dry stock are 

 short, although there is the usual accumulation 

 of low grade lumber. Prospects are favorable 

 for a continuance of present prices and market 

 conditions throughout the summer. Buyers re- 

 turning from manufacturing points all bring the 

 same tale of short stocks in the better grades 

 of the most desirable hardwoods, such as plain 

 oak, birch, ash, poplar, etc., and everyone in 

 the wholesale trade who has any amount of 



Philadelphia. 



The local market remains firm, and dealers 

 report plenty of inquiries. Hardwoods have for 

 a long time been doing well in this market, with 

 the result that the present year has been so far 

 the best in the history of many firms. At least 

 three big dealers have reported that their busi- 

 ness has doubled. Quite a number of other 

 concerns, which heretofore have been doing little 

 In hardwoods, have awakened to the fact that 

 the demand is exceeding the supply, and have 

 entered into contracts with mills that will en- 

 able them to get into the market extensively. 

 Several other firms have established departments 

 for hardwoods and find them paying well. 



Sales in cherry have not been as heavy during 

 the last fortnight as previously, this wood being 

 hard to get. Stocks of poplar also continue 

 short. Oak and chestnut are still the leaders, 

 prices In the latter seeming to be on the in- 

 crease. Quartered oak and ash are brisk and 

 basswood rather high. Large quantities of 

 cypress are coming into the market, frequent in- 

 quiries justifying the heavy shipments. Hickory 

 still continues good ; stocks in local yards are 

 low. The dominant feeling in the local market 

 is that the summer and fall trade will be equal 

 to any ever had here. This condition will be 

 well taken care of as the total of the mill 

 contracts heid by local wholesalers has scarcely 

 ever been surpassed. 



Baltimore. 



There is no change to note in the hardwood 

 situation, except that the inquiry seems to be 

 somewhat halted. The opinion prevails widely 

 that prices are too high and buyers as a conse- 

 quence show some hesitancy about placing or- 

 ders. They are compelled to satisfy current 

 needs, but are holding back on providing for 



