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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Indiana :ind Michigan are confldcnt iliat tlw> 

 domanc] for hardwood from carriage. \va>;on 

 ;iud implement manufacturers is going to l)e 

 exceptionally hard to till during the next six 

 months. The effect of this is alread.v showing 

 in a slight but gradual stiffening of price on 

 llie minor hardwoods which have to be s 'cured 

 largel.v from the smaller countr.v mills. 



Buffalo. 



Messrs. .1. S. and M. M. Wall spent some tim.' 

 in New York last week. Their yard is ver.v 

 biis.v with hardwood lumber, with oak leading. 



A. W. Kreinheder has gone south (» look after 

 Kentuck.v and Tennessee lumber. He intends to 

 be at the Cincinnati mer'tins and hopes to get as 

 far west as .Memphis. 



I. X. Stewart & r.ro. are including in their 

 .vard stock a lot of good walnut lumber, which 

 came up from Alabama. It sells well, especiall.v 

 along with cherr.v. with which the .yard is al- 

 ways well supplied. 



F. W. Vetter is among those who are looking 

 to the lake route for filling up the Empire com- 

 I)any's yard here. lie is spending some time on 

 the Laki' Huron shore shipping some cargoes of 

 birch, black ash and maple. 



G. Ellas & Bro. Hnd that it is not much use 

 to depend on timber orders from the South. As 

 a conseijueuce they have a big yard stock on 

 band. 



O. E. Veager is showing his usual full stock, 

 having a lot of birch coming in to swell the 

 former assortment. 



Hugh McLean is making the round of tln' 

 southern sawmills of the McLean interest. 



Scateherd & Son are dealing heavily in oak. 

 often having large consignments of it on the 

 road. The Memphis mills are doing as well as 

 could be expected. Mr. Scateherd will soon be 

 back to business. 



A. Miller is finding more sales tor basswood 

 than he did awhile ago and looks for it to return 

 to full favor if the jirices do not run too high. 

 He is stocking up with a good supply of south 

 ern hardwoods. 



J. F. Knox has returned from a trip to I'euu- 

 sylvania. where he bought considerable maple 

 Keyer. Knox & Co. expect a heavy trade in maple 

 ;ind are jireparing for it. 



Detroit. 



fieorge L. McClure of McClure Hrothers rc- 

 IMjrts that over .fl.OOU.iXIO worth of building 

 is being done in Detroit every month. The 

 boom Is general. Even the manufacturing branch 

 is benefiting by the i-usb. The wagon trade is 

 especially active. 



T'nder date of Oct. 4. tlie Detroit News prints 

 a highly colored story of the life of Rasmus 

 Hanson, the millionaire member of the famous 

 hardwood firm of Sailing A; Hanson of Grayling. 

 .Mich. A four-colunxn at the head of the story 

 reads : "Hardheaded Dane, riling I'p Millions 

 When Most Men Are (Jslerized. Is Hanson, of 

 Grayling. Michigan's King of Hardwood." 



Local manufacturers report plain and quar- 

 ler-sawed white and red oak are scarce. 



Detroit boxmakers. who maintain a protective 

 association among themselves, are planning to 

 better divide the demand for shucks, by combin- 

 ing two firms. A big sale is expected this 

 month. It is expected the Vinton interests are 

 In-anr-hing out. 



Saginaw Valley. 

 A .^ood deal of maple has reci'utly gone into 

 timber for buildings and bridge work and thi' 

 government has taken a number of million feet 

 from the valley for harbor work. One concern 

 supplied over 3,000.0U() feet for Lake Erie gov- 

 ernment purposes. Within two weeks the H. M. 

 I.oud's Sons Company of An Sable has shipped 

 1..1IMI.00O feet of maple to Tonawanda. Thus 

 ii will be seen this wood is selling, even if 

 manufacturers are objecting to the demand 

 and price. There has been less activity and 

 vim also to the flooring market though the 

 plants are all doing a steady business. 



The repairs on the AV. I). Young & Co. saw- 

 mill which include a band re-saw. will increase 

 the capacity of tlii' mill one-third. The sawmill 

 has been shut down while these repairs were 

 being made but the flooring mill lias been oper- 

 ated witbiuit interruption. 



The Flood sawmill at Kay city has taken a 

 c(mtra<-t to cut out a lot of hardwood logs fm- 

 Sailing. Hanson & Co.. of (irayling. and is 

 expecti'd to run during the greater part of lie' 

 « infi-r. 



Southi'rn Michigan parties havi' arranged for 

 the purchase of the Willis hardwood mill plant 

 on the east branch of the An Gres on the bay 

 shore, and will make extensive improvements, 

 increasing the capacity of the plant. 



The demand' for box material is calling for 

 all the heecli and basswood Culls manufactured 

 in this liMalily. The Kneeland. Huell & Bigelow 

 lilaut has a contract for Hve years to furnish 

 beech and basswood culls to the box factory 

 operated l)y ilershon. Schuette, Tarker & Co. 

 at Bay Cit.v. and the latter firm sold a lot of 

 basswood culls to other box flrtns at .f;l.j a thou 

 sand. 



The HIiss & Van .\ukcn plant lias been ste.'ul 

 ily employed day and night during the entirr 

 season manufacturing hardwooil and flooring 

 and th<> firm has had a very satisfactory busi- 

 ness. 



The liafchelor Timber Company is install- 

 ing a complete electric lighting plant in its 

 sawmill and mill premises at West Branch. 



The II. M. Load's Sons Company at Au Sable 

 recently jiurchased a four-fifth interest in the 

 sawmill at Itogers City and timber in rresquc 

 Isle county of Herman Hoeft, I'aul Hoeft re 

 taining a one-fifth interest. The new concern, 

 however, will not begin operations under the 

 contract for about .i .vear. Meantime Paul II. 

 Hoeft is starting nine camps to keep the mill 

 in operation until next fall. 



The scarcity of labor will affect the 

 luatter of putting in logs this winter. It 

 is almost impossible to get men at $26 to $:!2 

 a mimtb and north of the straits ^35 and .f.'^T 

 is being offered for good men. They are scarce 

 at that figure even. It is so everywhere in 

 the lumbering districts. 



Some exceptionally fine haidw.iud logs are 

 being brought down the Mackinaw division of 

 the .Michigan Central for mills on this river. 

 Something like L'lili cars ar.' Iironght down 

 overy 24 hours. 



Ground has been broken on Holland avenue. 

 Saginaw, for a new maple floiuing plant tor 

 (Jeorge strable, formerly of I{<.ed City. Then^ 

 will be four principal buildings in addition to 

 the dry kilns, sheds, etc. The main building 

 is to be ,")0x250 feet, constructed of brick and 

 concrete, one story high and basement. Three 

 dry kilns each T."! feet long are in progress of 

 erection, each to be provided with solid con- 

 crete floors. The boiler house is to be 32xli4 feet. 

 and no wood will be used in its construction. 

 It will be equipped with two Wickes Bros. 

 nater tube boilers of 200 horse power each 

 and motive power will be a :\'>i} horse power 

 Harris-Corliss engine. The warehouse will be 

 ,50x200 feet with steel sides and concrete floors. 

 The Detroit & Mackinac Railway has just 

 received and placed in service three high-powered 

 freight locomotives built by tlic Rogers Loco- 

 motive Works, Paterson, X. .1. They have a series 

 of eiglit driving wheels, fifty-seven inches in 

 diameter, a fire-box beating surface of 21. S 

 square feet and a boiler diameter of eighty-one 

 and one-half inches. The capacity of the tender 

 is fifteen tons of coal and 7,000 gallons of 

 water. The immense weight of the locomotive, 

 which together witli its tender is I,-|S tons, and 

 the unusually large heating sui-face which pro- 

 vides an ample supply of steam at all times, 

 makes it possible to haul trains of from eighty- 

 five to ninety loaded freight cars. The fact 

 that the Detroit & Mackinac roadlted is unsur- 

 passed by any in the state, being laid with 



eighty-five and ninety-pound steel rails, with 

 practically no curves or grades, makes it cer- 

 tain that the maximum of efiiciency can be 

 olitained from the new locomotives. 



Grand Bapids. 



William II. White and wiff of Iloyne City were 

 in (Jrand Uapids Oct. 4. 



Rush Culver, president of the Northern Lum- 

 ber Company of Marquette, called on his friend 

 and business associate, W. F. .McKnight in this 

 city Oct. y. 



Fox & Mason, furniture nurnutacturers of 

 t'orunna. Mich., announce their intention to 

 build a new factory costing .flSO.OOO at Arcadia. 

 Benzie c<uinty. for making cheap and medium 

 grade dressers, chiffoniers and sideboards. Work 

 on the new plant will begin at once. The offlcers 

 of the concern are as follows : President, John 

 Mouat. Arcadia : secretary. George D. Mason. 

 Corunna ; treasurer, Adolph Hasse, Arcadia ; 

 superintendent, S. I. Fox. Corunna. 



Muskegon now hopes to secure the removal 

 of another branch of the Brunswick-Balke-Col- 

 lender Company to that city, the branch devoted 

 to the manufacture of bar-room fixtures and 

 biiwling alleys. 



E. (;. Shorrey of Kalamazoo. Vicegerent Snark 

 for Michigan, announces a Hoo-Hoo concatena- 

 tion (in- Grand Rapids on Oct. 20. This is a 

 postponement from Sept. 28 and a double dose 

 of pleasure is coming to the members. 



George Engel. president of the Engel Lumber 

 Company, will leave Oct. 10 for Englewood, 

 where the company's mill is located. He will be 

 accompanied by E. F. Miller, who has had charge 

 of the offices in this city. Mr. Miller goes south 

 to spend the winter at the Englewood office. 



The Stearns Salt & Lumber Company has 

 transferred its new camp outfit on wheels from 

 Ludington to the scene of its logging operations 

 on the Klondike branch of the Pere Marquette, 

 in Kalkaska county. This logging outfit is 

 nnique in Michigan lumbering operations. The 

 train was fitted up at Ludington, ordinary flat 

 cars being made over into dining room, kitchen, 

 blacksmith shop, sleeping room, hospital, office 

 and steam heating plant, the latter being placed 

 in the center of the train and supplying heat 

 to all the cars. The car platforms are extended 

 four feet on either side and the camp is well 

 equipped with modern conveniences. The train 

 is sidetracked, of course, and tuoved as the log- 

 ging progresses. The company has a tract of 

 fine liardwood timber in tliat section, the cut 

 being estimated at ten years. The logs will be 

 shipped to Ludington for cutting. 



N. J. G. Van Keulen of the Van Keulen & 

 Wilkinson Lumber Company reports early fall 

 busini'ss exceptionally good. Trade is especially 

 brisk in crating stock at this time. 



.1. L. Retting of the Evans & Retting Lumber 

 Company reports an unusual scarcity of cars, so 

 that their business out of Vanceburg, Ky., over 

 the Chesapeake & Ohio, is greatly restricted. 



A number of Grand Rapids lumbermen are 

 planning to attend the semiannual meeting of 

 the National Hardwood Lumber Association to 

 be held at Cincinnati Oct. 2."! and 20. They 

 li'ave this city Oct. 24. 



The Gibbs. Hall & Allen Company of this city 

 is operating three portable mills and will start 

 two more soon, cutting the scattering tracts of 

 hardwood that remain in northern Michigan. 



R. .1. Clark, president of the Peninsula Bark & 

 Lumber Compan.v, Sault Ste. Marie, was in the 

 city a few da.vs ago. lie was on his way to 

 Buffalo and eastern points. 



II. R. Blacker of Chicago and I'atrick Noud of 

 Manistee were in Grand Rapids, Oct. 4. 



M. F. Butters of Ludington, president of the 

 Mason & Oceana Railway Company, states that 

 prospects are now bright for extension of the 

 road to Grand Rapids. Tlie road will he stan- 

 dard gauge : surveyors will begin work on the 

 right of vva.v within a few days. 



Cotifinitcil on juitjf .)5. 



