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HARDWOOD RECORD 



consin have paid out more as judgments in suits 

 with injured emploj'es than they would have 

 done had some form o£ industrial insurance been 

 in force. The manufacturers are divided in 

 favoring and opposing the passage of such a law. 



Louis A. Maier has resigned as cashier of the 

 First National Bank of Medford to manage the 

 affairs of the Mellen Lumber Company, Mellen, 

 lately organized, and capitalized at $1,000,000. 



At a recent meeting of the stockholders of 

 the Edgar Veneer & Box Company it was de- 

 cided to dissolve and return to each stockholder 

 the money paid in. The company was capitalized 

 at $15,000. 



A. J. Reicke has begun the reforestation of 

 tut-over lands in Marathon county. He has set 

 out 17.000 young trees up to date and will con- 

 tinue the work. The trees are planted in rows 

 eight feet apart. 



The Kandy Manufacturing Company of Grand 

 Rapids has completed a large two-story addition 

 to its plant. It was established four years ago 

 and is one of the growing institutions of north- 

 ern Wisconsin. The company recently imported 

 a shipment of mahogany from Africa, for which 

 it paid $550 per thousand. The company manu- 

 factures all kinds of furniture and lixtures and 

 makes a specialty of old English library tables. 

 It has begun the manufacture of an iceless soda 

 fountain. 



SAQINAW VALLEY 



Wort on the new flooring plant of the Han- 

 son-Ward Veneer Company at Bay City is being 

 vigorously pushed and the plant will be ready 

 for business early in the winter. The company 

 has timber sufficient to stock the plant for 

 years. Mr. Hanson is also interested in the 

 firm of R. Hanson & Sons and Sailing-Hanson 

 Company at Grayling and Michelson & Hanson 

 at Lewiston. The Ward end of it holds 77,000 

 acres of timber property, estimated to contain 

 several hundred million feet of hardwood. 



W. D. Young & Co.'s sawmill and flooring 

 plant are being operated day and night. A 

 heavy business is being done for both the domes- 

 tic and foreign trade and the company is turning 

 out a fine brand of maple flooring. 



Jobbers and loggers are about all in the 

 woods. Owing to the short stocks of b<3th hard- 

 wood and hem'ock and the increased demand it 

 is expected that every stick that can be made 

 available will be cut during the winter. Lumber- 

 ing is expensive, due to high wages and exces- 

 sive cost of supplies. 



YulU Brothers' sawmill at Logan, on the 

 Mackinaw division of the Michigan Central, has 

 shut down. The firm has 5,000,000 feet of 

 stock in the yard and will put in a large quan- 

 tity of timber during the winter. They cut a 

 large quantity of timber which comes to W. L). 

 Young & Co. at Bay City. 



Both the Kneeland-Bigelow Company and the 

 Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow plants at Bay City 

 are running full time, the first day and night 

 and the latter days. These plants cut up fifty- 

 live carloads of saw logs every day. The Knee- 

 land-Bigelow Company is running four camps in 

 Montmorency county and cuts its own logs, 

 while the Kneeland-Buell & Bigelow plant is 

 stocked by the Wylie & Buell Lumber Company. 

 The latter company will put in 50,000,000 feet 

 during the ensuing year, of which 22.000,000 

 feet will come to the Bay City mill, some 

 12,000,000 will go to Bliss & Van Auken at 

 Saginaw and the remainder to various patties. 



The Batchelor Timber Company at West 

 Branch has made some improvements to its mill 

 and overhauled it for the winter run. The out- 

 put of this plant is about 12,000,000 feet. 



The H. M. Loud's Sons Company of An 

 Sable some years ago purchased several thou- 

 sand acres of hardwood timberland in Presque 

 Isle county of Hoeft & Son of Rogers City. 

 Some of this timber was damaged by fire and 



logging operations have been started. It is ex- 

 pected that several million feet will be cut this 

 winter. 



The Island Mill Lumber Company and the 

 Richardson Lumber Company at Alpena are tied 

 up by reason of the action of the Alpena Power 

 Company. All three of these plants are located 

 along one side of a branch track of the Detroit 

 I*!, Mackinac railway, the Power company next 

 to the main line. It is building a dam and 

 claiming that the land on which the siding is 

 laid and where it joins the main line belongs 

 to it. The Power people tore up the track a 

 neek ago to make room for materials for build- 

 ing purposes. Now with rush orders on their 

 hands the two lumber companies find themselves 

 unable to ship out their stock. 



CADILLAC 



The A. F. Anderson mill at South Boardman 

 has cut 76, GOO feet of hemlock luml>er in one 

 nay's run of ten hours, and has averaged 70,150 

 feet of hemlock lumber per day for six days in 

 succession. April 1, 1909, this mill sawed in 

 ten hours 50,100 feet of hardwood lumber, mostly 

 maple. 



Eight miles of bounty roads will be built in 

 Wexford county the coming year. These roads 

 are made possible, by the liberal contributions 

 from the Mitchell Brothers Company, Cobbs & 

 Mitchell. Inc., .Murphy & Digglns and others. 

 The county at large has appropriated $15,000 

 for the coming year. 



About 250,000 feet of timber has been cut 

 from Marion Island by the owner for the pur- 

 I'ose of establishing tire lanes to lessen the dan- 

 ger of fire. The contract for hauling this 

 timber away has l>een given to Captain Emory 

 of Bowers Harbor, where he will cut the logs 

 into lumber at his mill. There is still consid- 

 erable valuable timber on the island which will 

 not be cut. 



Justice S. Stearns, the millionaire salt and 

 lumber man of Ludington, Mich., has been elect- 

 ed president of the First National bank of that 

 city to succeed George M. Stray, whose stock, to- 

 gether with that of his son, W. H. Stray, consti- 

 tuted the controlling interest of the bank. Mr. 

 Stearns will conduct his duties as president of 

 I he bank with that of his salt and lumber in- 

 terests. 



The railroads are taking an active interest in 

 Ihe work of preventing forest tires and em- 

 piOyees of several roads have been discharged 

 tor removing apparatus used for preventing the 

 spread of sparks. 



One year ago Metz and other small towns 

 were destroyed by the terrible forest tires and 

 loss of life occurred. Today the majority of 

 those driven from home are better off than be- 

 fore the fire. Metz has been rebuilt and is as 

 thriving as ever and hundreds of acres of land 

 have been cleared this season as result of the 

 fires. Lumbering has been more extensive and 

 much timber will be cut this season. 



Thine is a movement on foot to have the Pere 

 Marquette railroad build the so-called "Missing 

 Link" in its system between Leota and Strat- 

 ford. This question has been taken up by the 

 Saginaw and Missaukee counties, as well as in 

 the Traverse City district. Property owners 

 offer the Pere Marquette free right of way. 



Another movement has originated in Clare 

 county to take up the present line between Clare 

 and Harrison, and move it in order to take in 

 Coleman, therel;y tapping a rich farming dis- 

 trict, eliminating many heavy grades and re- 

 ducing the mileage by ten miles. 



D. H. Day, chairman of the Grading Rules 

 Committee of the Jlichigan Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers' Association, located at Glen Haven, 

 Mich., has been made president of the Western 

 Michigan Development Bureau. It is expected 

 that this bureau will aid many western and 

 northern towns in developing their resources. 



The question of uniform grading of hemlock 

 lumber is being discussed by many of the Michi- 

 gan manufacturers, and a movement is on foot 

 having that in view. With that end reached, 

 the marketing of hemlock will not be so much 

 a problem as at the present time. 



Bruce Odell of the Cummer-Diggins Company 

 is not only a good man for the lumber business 

 but is an authority on the growing of alfaUa 

 in Michigan. He has published a little pamphlet 

 which will be of interest to anyone wishing to 

 look into this matter. 



W. W. Mitchell and wife, C T. Mitchell and 

 F. J. Cobbs and wife have returned from a 

 month's trip to Oregon, Washington and other 

 western states. 



A. W. Newark, secretary of the Cadillac 

 Handle Company, has returned from a trip to 

 his lumber camps near Cross Village. Some of 

 Ihe finest birch timber in the lower peninsula 

 is being cut near Cross Village and loaded on 

 train and brought into Cadillac, where it is 

 sawed. 



Howard Edgerton of the Cadillac Handle Com- 

 pany and wife have returned from a trip to 

 Cleveland, Ohio. 



M. E. Thomas, sales manager of the Cobbs & 

 Mitchell. Inc., and the Mitchell Brothers Com- 

 pany, is out on a three weeks' trip visiting the 

 trade in the East. 



Bruce Odell of the Cummer-Diggins Company 

 has returned from a business trip at Kalamazoo. 



Mrs. Frank Harding, wife of Frank Harding 

 of the Wetzell Turning Works, died recently at 

 M'etzell, Mich., and was buried at her former 

 home at Allegan. 



DETROIT 



.\lden Oliver Carter, secretary of the Dwight 

 Lumber Company, died on Wednesday, November 

 o. Mr. Carter was known in the hardwood trade 

 from coast to coast. He was sixty-one years of 

 age and although born in Chelsea, Mass., he 

 spent his business life in Detroit. He resided 

 at 06 B^orest avenue in this city and is survived 

 by his widow, a son and a daughter. 



H. W. Hubbard, Jr., of Toledo, formerly asso- 

 ciated In business with his father in Toledo, 

 has become associated with the Advance Lumber 

 Company of this city. Mr. Hubbard is tempo- 

 rarily quartered in the Hotel Pontchartrain. 



Arthur Dennis of Cincinnati, a former Detroit 

 lumberman, visited in Detroit last week and 

 renewed old acquaintances. He is now con- 

 nected with the St. James Lumber Company. 



"Business is looking up and everyone is cheer- 

 ful ; improvement is shown in all branches since 

 you called last time," was the cheering word 

 handed the Record correspondent at E. W. 

 Leech's big hardwood lumber yard. 



The E. W. Leech team in the Lumber Bowling 

 League is still clinging to the last place, but 

 members of the team hope to begin climbing out 

 of the cellar pretty quick. 



C. R. Duggan of Tindle & Jackson spent sev- 

 eral days out of the city last week on a business 

 trip. 



The steamer Parks is at the docks of the 

 Thomas Forman Company on the Rouge river 

 with a cargo of hardwood lumber from Alpena. 

 The Forman mill is very busy and Mr. Forman 

 says that business still continues to boom. 



For the month of October building operations 

 in Detroit totaled $1,115,515, a good increase 

 over the corresponding montlw in previous years. 

 Permits were taken out for 363 new structures 

 to cost $1,206,100, as compared to 314 new 

 structures in October, 1908. Permits for 87 

 additions were taken out, an increase of 25 over 

 October, 190S. The grand total for the month 

 represented an increase of $301,685, or a gain 

 of more than twenty-seven per cent over the 

 same mouth in 1908. 



The automobile trade is contributing largely 

 to building operations in Detroit and vicinity as 



