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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Eastern capitalists who are contemplating 

 locating a large factory in Detroit are trying to 

 secure as a site tine retail yards of the McClure 

 Lumber Company. The McClure brothers are 

 gradually disposing of their retail stock that 

 they can give more time to their large mills in 

 Alabama. 



The Standard Tie Company of Detroit has 

 Just completed the purchase, through O. B. Law, 

 timber broker of that city, of a 9,000-acre tract 

 of fine hardwood timber land in Desha county, 

 Arkansas, known as the St. Louis & Arkansas 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company's property. 

 This timber was owned and operated by the 

 Paddock-Hawley Iron Company of St. Louis. 

 The consideration is private. The Standard Tie 

 Company will commence lumber operations at 



once. 



Saginaw Valley. 



Speaking nf conditions Chas. A. Bigelow. 

 manager of the Kneeland-P.igelow and the 

 Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow mill plants at Bay 

 City, said : "Everything is moving nicely, the 

 mills are cutting out a lot of stock, much of 

 which is sold long ahead and some for the 

 entire season, and trade in all kinds of hard- 

 wood lumber is good. There isn't any accumu- 

 lation of dry lumber and we are shipping some 

 that is green. In fact, we have been loading 

 cars with maple timber sold to Ohio and Penn- 

 sylvania concerns that is almost green from the 

 saw." 



The Eastman Flooring Company is putting out 

 a lot of fine maple flooring and Is building a 

 pair of cement dry-kilns, which will Increase the 

 capacity of the plant. Mr. Eastman has re- 

 turned from the East, coming back in a new 

 touring auto. 



Vt'. D. Young & Co. are hurrying forward the 

 work on a new warehouse at their plant, the 

 contract for which was let some ten days ago. 

 The building is '200 feet long and 24 feet wide, 

 and is of brick with cement foundation. There 

 is a space of 100 feet between the old ware- 

 house and the new one, which is to be roofed 

 in and machinery installed, which will increase 

 the facilities of the plant. The firm is doing a 

 remarkably fine business and the plant is oper- 

 ated by day and night shifts. 



A great deal of hardwood lumber is being 

 turned out this season by portable sawmills be- 

 tween Bay City and the straits of Mackinaw. 

 These small plants cut from 6,000 to 15,000 

 feet a day, and they find plenty of business. 

 There are small lots of timber averaging from 

 200,000 to a million or more feet scattered all 

 through this part of the state that are out of 

 reach of the large railroad mill plants, and this 

 timber is being converted into lumber by the 

 portable mill. Probably twenty five of these 

 mills are in operation in the territory referred 

 to. Great improvements have been made in 

 these mills and they are now so constructed 

 that they can be packed up and moved about 

 as handily as a circus. 



Robert Mitchell is buying and shipping hard- 

 wood lumber by rail from Millersburg, and will 

 move a number of million feet during the sum- 

 mer. 



It is estimated that there is enough hard- 

 wood timber in Presque Isle county to stock 

 the mills there fifteen years, and a lot of timber 

 is being cut and railed to Alpena. 



The Kneeland-Bigelow Company and the Knee- 

 land, Buell & Bigelow Company have more than 

 200,000,000 feet of timber to come to Bay City 

 to he converted into lumber, enough to stock 

 the two mills for twenty years, and they are 

 negotiating for some 50,000,000 feet more. 



H. A. Batcheior of the Batchelor Timber Com- 

 pany says it will take more time than was first 

 calculated to place the Gale mill at West 

 Branch, recently purchased. In proper condition. 

 The stock will come to the mill by rail from 

 Crawford and Otsego counties, having been pur- 

 chased some years ago from the Ward estate. 



Charles O. Rodgers, formerly of the Rodgers- 

 Allison Lumber Company, operating a sawmill 



at Logan, north of Bay City, three weeks ago 

 bought 3,000 acres of hardwood land of the 

 Chocolay Land Company in the upper peninsula. 

 The deal also included a sawmill. Mr. Rodgers 

 had an opportunity to make a good thing and 

 he has resold to Louis Jensen of Gaylord. The 

 sawmill has a capacity of 20,000 feet a day and 

 is in operation. It is announced that Mr. Jen- 

 sen will organize a company with a capitaliza- 

 tion of $400,000, purchase additional acreage 

 and operate on an extensive scale. 



There are many hardwood logging camps in 

 operation north of Bay City and the summer 

 has been cool and nice for logging. The Knee- 

 land. Buell & Bigelow Company is running seven 

 camps and the Kneeland-Bigelow Company four. 



As fine a lot of white ' birch timber as ever 

 came in contact with axe and saw is coming to 

 the Saginaw river over the Mackinaw Division 

 of the Michigan Central, to be used in the manu- 

 facture of toothpicks and other specialties. It 

 was cut on Bois Blanc island some few miles 

 from Cheboygan. 



Extensive improvements have been made at 

 the Hanson-Ward veneer plant in Bay City and 

 it is running overtime, having orders booked 

 way ahead. Some fine birch and maple are cut 

 into wide sheets a thirty-second of an inch in 

 thickness. 



John J. Flood is still cutting hardwood logs 

 for W. D. Young & Co, He has a contract to 

 manufacture a quantity of maple into lumber 

 for Sailing, Hanson & Co. 



E. Germain is using a lot of native hard- 

 woods in the manufacture of pianos besides the 

 mahogany he has imported from Africa. He 

 has a large number of hands engaged in this 

 business and has made of it a marked success. 



Grand Eapids. 



The Thomas MacBride Lumber Company 

 of this city, operating mills at Laketon, Luce 

 County, and at Buckley, formerly New Wex- 

 ford, in Wexford County, lias increased its 

 capital stock from $30,000 to $40,000. 



The Henderson-Ames Company of Kalama- 

 zoo has leased the factory formerly occupied 

 by the Kalamazoo 'W^agon Company and will 

 start the manufacture of lodge furniture, em- 

 ploying at the outset 150 men. The company 

 is operating a similar factory in Columbus. O. 



President Chas. W. Garfield of the Michigan 

 Forestry Commission has received a number 

 of letters from owners of timber lands in the 

 state with reference to the need of fire laws 

 for better protection of young forest growth. 

 J. D. Hawks of Detroit, president of the De- 

 troit & Mackinac railroad, writes that he will 

 give hearty support to such a measure. 



The D. Perkins Refrigerator Company of 

 Battle Creek will remove its plant to Port 

 Huron. 



Up to July 4. 4,200 furniture buyers had 

 registered in this market, and they have 

 placed very liberal orders. There are about 

 175 manufacturers showing their lines in the 

 downtown exhibition buildings, while the local 

 concerns as usual are exhibiting their lines 

 in their factory show rooms. 



The manufacturers are working into better 

 lines of stuff. Genuine leather has supplanted 

 the various imitations in covered goods and 

 the cheaply finished Mission furniture is fast 

 giving place to the early English, which is 

 practically an improved Mission. It is the 

 opinion of some dealers that the Mission 

 style, even in the better grades, has had its 

 day, but this opinion is by no means generah 



The Carrollton Furniture Company of Car- 

 rollton, Ky.. showing a fine line of dressers, 

 chiffoniers, etc.. in this rharket, is operating 

 its own band sawmill, cutting walnut, poplar, 

 oak, ash and other woods on its lands in 

 Kentucky, and rafting them down the Ohio 

 river to the mill. The mill has been burned 

 three times during the past nine years. It 

 was rebuilt in May, and is now equipped with 

 sprinklers. All oak is quartered, the walnut is 



cut into firsts and seconds, and with the pains 

 taken in sawing first grade lumber the mill 

 cuts only about 30.000 feet a day. 



An eastern manufacturing concern is show- 

 ing very clever "American" mahogany pieces 

 made of birch, and "American" quartered 

 oak made of plain white oak. The difference 

 in price between the real and the imitation 

 in this furniture will average about twenty- 

 five per cent. The treatment of the wood is 

 made with such skill that men who call them- 

 selves experts cannot tell the genuine from 

 the imitation. 



Milwaukee. 



The John Schroeder Lumber Company has 

 taken out a permit for a dry kiln addition to 

 its large plant on Walnut, Cape and Commerce 

 streets. The new structure will be as nearly 

 fireproof as possible, and cost about $25,000, 

 Work has already commenced and will be 

 pushed to an early completion. It will add 

 three more kilns to the company's already ex- 

 tensive plant. 



The Washburn, Wis., mill of the Edward 

 Hines Lumber Company of Chicago was de- 

 stroyed by fire July 1, causing a loss of $100,- 

 000, covered by insurance. Repairs costing 

 $7,000 had just been completed when the fire 

 broke out. 



Evidence tending to show an alleged attempt 

 to defraud the government being lacking. Court 

 Commissioner D. E. McDonald of Oshkosh dis- 

 charged Leander Choate, Benjamin Doughty. 

 James Doughty, James M. Bray and Thomas 

 Daly of Oshkosh, under indictment by an Ore- 

 gon grand jury for alleged land frauds. The 

 government to sustain the charges in the in- 

 dictment had brought Henry J. Cole, Jefferson 

 Howard, Butler F. Ilelman and Sumner Park 

 from Oregon as witnesses. 



Asheville. 



The Aslieville Lumber Exchange, recently or- 

 ganized, held its semi-annual meeting here Tues- 

 day afternoon, July 3. There were fully fifty 

 lumbermen and manufacturers from this and 

 other sections of the state in attendance. The 

 report of the committee, of which Dr. C. A. 

 Schenck is chairman, on securing better freight 

 rates on hardwoods from this section, in effect 

 stated that the committee had met Mr. Thomp- 

 son of the Southern Railway, and that it felt 

 certain concessions would be made. The com- 

 mittee also reported that the freight officials 

 of the Southern did not meet at Lake Toxaway 

 last month as expected and that the committee 

 therefore had had no opportunity to present 

 the request of the Asheville Lumber Exchange 

 for lower rates on certain hardwoods. The com- 

 mittee was instructed to continue its efforts, 

 and to secure an audience with the freight oflB- 

 cials at as early a date as possible. Trade was 

 reported to be in good shape in North Carolina. 

 There is a continued healthy demand for hard- 

 woods, while prices remain firm. 



The Three M Lumber Company of Swain 

 county, North Carolina, has sold its holdings to 

 William S. Harvey of Philadelphia, who will 

 transfer the property to the Southern Spruce 

 Company, a corporation chartered under the 

 laws of the state of New Jersey. The Three M 

 Lumber Company's holdings consist of 31,000 

 acres of virgin forest lands in Swain county, 

 together with railway tracks, locomotive and 

 other property, including sawmills. George W. 

 Morris was vice president of the Three M com- 

 pany. 



The Hoo-Hoo of western North Carolina had 

 a great time here the evening of Tuesday, July 

 3, After the initiation of seventeen kittens the 

 Hoo-Hoo were transported to the Kenllworth Inn 

 by special car, where an elaborate banquet was 

 served. One of the features of initiation was 

 driving the kittens over the principal streets of 

 the city chained together like convicts. Judge 

 H, B. Stevens of Asheville, a prominent lawyer, 

 jurist and now lumberman, led the procession. 



