HARDWOOD RECORD 



pany are looking to the fishing preserve owned 

 r,y them in northern Canada now and R. D. 

 jicl-ean is talking the initial vacation in that 

 flirection. Yard business is strong. 

 Detroit. 



The death of Rudolph Boltz ocoirred recently 

 after a long illness from dropsy. lie was one 

 of the first manufacturers of special furniture 

 and store fixtures in Detroit and was an exten- 

 sive user of hardwoods. 



Hertz & Hosbach, hardwood finishers. Fourth 

 and Uolden avenues, have secured the contract 

 tor the interior finish and sash work of the new 

 country Club at Gross Tointe. which is Ijeing 

 erected at a cost of $60,000. The woods used 

 are oak and whitewood. 



J H P. Smith, of I'arkersburg. W. Va., was 

 ■1 visitor in Detroit on business in connection 

 with the Dennis & Smith Lumber Company, De- 

 troit, of which he is a member. A. S. Dennis, 

 the other partner, expects to leave for Virginia 

 in a week to visit the firms various hardwood 

 mills in that state. 



There is a good movement of hardwood lum- 

 ber considering the season, all the factories in 

 Detroit and vicinity reporting plenty of orders, 

 one of the signs of the times is the decline ot 

 wagonload trade in hardwood lumber, and sev- 

 eral of the yards which have iu former years 

 depended upon this trade are going out of the 

 vard business and will confine their attention to 

 direct shipments from mill points. Practically 

 all hardwood lumber consumers nowadays are 

 able to buy in carload lots, which makes it 

 iiard sledding for the retail hardwood yards. 



Col George F. Loud of the H. M. Loud's Sons 

 Company at Au Sable, Mich., was in the city 

 this week. lie states that his firm still has 

 fifteen or twenty years cut at Au Sable, the 

 .-tock being practically all hemlock and hard- 

 wood. „ ^, 



Walter R. Hall, of Waiter R. Hall & Brother 

 sailed this week for a short vacation trip to 

 l-urope He was accompanied by his father, who 

 i* past seventy years of age. The firm's inter- 

 ests will he looked after in his absence by 

 Thomas A. Hall, the junior partner. 



Owing to the sharp advance in hemlock prices 

 during the past year cull hardwood is being 

 used to a considerable extent for construction 

 purposes. Brownlee & Co. are making a spe- 

 cialty of it and report a large business in this 

 1 ine. 



handles, flooring, bicycle rims and other spe- 

 cialties besides sawing about 16,000,000 feet of 

 lumber every season. 



Will McCormick of the McCormick-Hay Lum- 

 ber Company of Saginaw says that his firm is 

 having a fine trade, almost everything in the 

 shape of lumber being wanted. The company 

 has handled more or less southern oak, but will 

 go into it heavier than ever this fall and win- 

 ter. Mr. McCormick says he finds prices gen- 

 erally firm. He has bought a quantity of elm 

 recently and says ash is particularly strong 

 and basswood is selling welL 



Large quantities of hardwood go into the 

 manufacture of woodenware, staves and heading 

 in this section. At LaRoque, north of Alpena, 

 a bowl factory is in active operation. A. 

 Wheeler is operating a large stave and heading 

 factory at Bay City. Bouseflleld & Co., also of 

 Bay City, operate the largest woodenware fac- 

 tory in the world, using several million feet of 

 basswood and other hardwoods annually, as 

 does also the Palmerton Woodenware Factory 

 at Saginaw. Gardner and Peterman of Saginaw" 

 operate a stave and heading plant at Twining, 

 another at Onaway, and still another at Millers- 

 burg. The Chicago Last Factory Company is 

 operating a plant at West Branch and the Day- 

 ton Last Works at Gaylord both use hundreds 

 of thousands of feet ot maple in the m.anufacture 

 ot shoe lasts. 



Saginaw Valley. 



Mershon, Schuette, Parker & Co. have started 

 Ibe manufacture of box shooks of hardwood. 

 For some grades of boxes it works admiralily 

 and it is likely it will be utilized extensively. 



Handy Bros, bought all the beech culls manu- 

 factured by Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow Company 

 which are utilized in the making of boxes, and 

 they also contracted all the basswood culls this 

 concern will cut this year, which will go into 

 box material. 



It is estimated there is nearly 1,000.000,000 feet 

 of hardwood timber tributary to the Detroit & 

 Mackinac railroad between Bay City and Che- 

 boygan, and there is a much larger quantity 

 tributary to the Mackinac division ot tbe Mich- 

 igan Central. 



Hundreds of thousands of feet of hardwood 

 lo^s are lying along the track of the Detroit 

 6^ Mackinac railroad between Alpena and Che- 

 boygan. They are picked up by a train and 

 loaded with a steam loader, then freighted to 

 manufacturing points along the line. Many of 

 them are hauled into Alpena. 



Lumbermen cutting hardwood logs in the 

 woods state that it is impossible to get men 

 enough to handle the business ; in fact, help 

 was never so scarce. 



The Lobdell-Bailey Manufacturing Company 

 at Onaway is turning out spindles for grill work 

 which is used over arches in private residences, 

 having placed machinery in its plant for the 

 loirpose. This company is also manufacturing 



Grand Bapids. 



Edward C. Allen of the Gibbs, Hall & Allen 

 Company visited the company's office in this city 

 last week. Mr. Allen is operating a hardwood 

 mill at South Leroy on the G. R. & I., which 

 has been in operation for the past thirty years, 

 and enough timber still remains in that vicinity 

 for a cut of several years' duration. 



John Ilawkes, a veneer talesman of Cincin- 

 nati, who has been in this market during the 

 furniture exposition, sold American walnut 

 crotches in this city thirty-three years ago. He 

 introduced French walnut burls here, now known 

 as Circassian walnut, and this class of veneers 

 is being used extensively in the better lines of 

 bedroom furniture. 



George B. Daniels has resigned his position 

 with the Acme Lumber Company. 



The furniture sales just closing in this market 

 have been of such volume as to insure busy fac- 

 tories throughout the year. Though not a 

 record-breaker in volume, the sales have been 

 quite a percentage heavier than a year ago, espe- 

 cially in furniture of the better grades. Among 

 the last to leave the market were the Pacific 

 coast buyers, and they have been liberal pur- 

 chasers of the medium and better stuff, in spite 

 of predictions that San Francisco would not be 

 iu position to want furniture for some time to 

 come. 



Indianapolis. 



Papers were recently filed with the secretary 

 of state showing the consolidation of the Cres- 

 cent Handle Works of Evansville and the Hart- 

 ley Handle Company of Muncie, the new firm 

 to be known as the Globe Handle Company. The 

 capital stock is .?50,000, with the following direc- 

 tors : William A. Hamilton, Albert J. Ott, .Tohn 

 K. Slack, Baud W. Hale and George F.. Wil- 

 liam A. and Harry D. Hartley. The new concern 

 will operate at Evansville, the Muncie plant 

 being moved there. 



The Home Planing Mill at Muncie has been 

 incorporated with a capital stock of $15,000. 

 Directors ; William S. Perdine, Daniel B. Miller. 

 Irvin L. Morrison. Insley J. Moser, John F. 

 Wright. John T. Clark and William O. Bowers. 



The Cardwell Lumber Company of Decatur has 

 lieen incorporated with a $10,000 capital stock. 

 Directors : Rufus K. Allison, John W. Vail, 

 Aaron T. Vail, Joseph E. Thomas, Don L. Quinn. 

 Charles S. Niblack and French Quinn. 



Because of a scarcity of lumber in its vicinity 

 the heading factory owned by Samuel Dunbar 



of Wabash, Ind., has been moved to Quigley, 

 Ark. 



Mrs. Calvin Myers of Bentonville, Ind., re- 

 cently sold four large poplar trees that brought 

 her a total of .$275. The trees yielded a total of 

 13,000 feet of lumber, the yield of the largest 

 one being 3,000 feet. 



Asheville. 



Trade has been dull in Asheville and western 

 North Carolina during July. This, however, Is 

 nothing more than the hardwood dealers expect, 

 as July and August are always dull. The buyers 

 are off on summer vacations and few contracts 

 are made during these two months. The mills 

 are not idle, however, and when the season 

 again opens in September all the mills will have 

 good supplies of the best woods. 



The secretary of state this week chartered the 

 Plymouth Lumber Company of Plymouth, N. C, 

 with $150,000 capital stock, 6 per cent of which 

 is preferred and $50,000 paid in. E. J. Conklin 

 of Plymouth and New York parties are the stock- 

 holders. 



The Enterprise Lumber Company's plant ot 

 Goldsboro, N. C, was badly damaged by fire re- 

 cently. The property destroyed amounted to 

 about $13,000, covered by insurance. The plan- 

 ing mills and the dry houses were not damaged. 

 Joseph S. Stone of Lumberton, N. C, was re- 

 cently instantly killed by the explosion of a boiler 

 at his sawmill at Long Branch, six miles from 

 Lumberton. He was attempting to remedy some 

 irregularity while the regular engineer was away 

 when the boiler exploded, killing him instantly. 



Bristol. 



Ewell Lee Warren and bride, formerly Miss 

 Trula Leigh Keenan, who were married on July 

 11 at Trenton, Tenn., have returned to Bristol 

 and will reside here until September, when they 

 will move to Baltimore, Md. Mr. Warren is 

 prominently associated with the R. E. Wood 

 Lumber Company of Baltimore, which operates 

 largely in this section. 



William E. Uptegrove of William E. Upte- 

 grove & Brother, New York City, announces that 

 the $110,000 cigar box lumber plant of the com- 

 pany at Johnson City, Tenn., which was recently 

 destroyed by fire, will be rebuilt and the work 

 of reconstruction will begin at a very early 

 date. The work of liquidating the $75,000 in- 

 surance which was carried on the plant has 

 been begun. 



W. R. Stone, Jr., of the Stone-Huling Lumber 

 Company, has returned from a delightful vaca- 

 tion in Virginia. 



W. O. Came, president of the Bristol Door & 

 Lumber Company, is now in a hospital at Bos- 

 ton to undergo an operation for appendicitis. 



G. P. McCain of W. G. McCain & Sons of 

 Johnson county, Tennessee, was over from Neva 

 this week. 



Lemuel Gardner, who for several years repre- 

 sented the A. M. Turner Lumber Company of 

 Pittsburg as buyer and inspector at Damascus, 

 Va., and other points In the South, died in Bris- 

 tol last week of softening of the brain. He re- 

 sided at Boston and has a family in that city. 

 The remains were shipped to his old home in 

 Wisconsin for interment. 



J. Alwyn Cannon of the Richland Lumber 

 Company has returned from Baltimore and 

 Ocean City, where he spent a delightful vacation 

 as the guest of E. E. Jackson, Jr., of the King- 

 ston Lumber Company of Laurel, Miss. 



H. W. Neily of the Rumbarger Lumber Com- 

 pany of Philadelphia : J. H. Folsom, represent- 

 ing the Rode-Uorne Lumber Company of New 

 York ; E. H. Hollman of the E. H. Hollman 

 Lumber Company of Philadelphia were in Bris- 

 tol last week on business. 



Among other visitors to Bristol the past week 

 were : E. B. Miller, representing Harry S. Hay- 

 den of Chicago : W. L. Douglas of the Crosby- 

 Beckley Company ot New York City ; John 

 T. Dixon of the John T. Dixon Lumber 

 Company at Elizabethton, Tenn. ; George H. 

 Mell of Kane, Pa. ; William M. Dickey of 



