HARDWOOD RECORD 



from Orayliiig. has been cutting: about 14.00(i.0n0 

 feet unnually and has considerable stock in sight. 



U. Hanson & Sons' hardwood mill just north 

 of (Jraylin^i' has been operated steadily durinji 

 the year, cutting about 50.000 feet a day. The 

 Kerry & Hanson Flooring Company's mill at (Iray- 

 ling is running full time and with a fvdl crew. 

 Tiade is reported excellent. 



The Embury-Martin Lumber ('muiiuny at i'he- 

 boygan is putting its plant in condition for the 

 winter run on hardwood. The comi)any is oper- 

 ating eleven camps this winter. 



The new band sawmill of the K. H. Stafford 

 Manufacturing Company at Sand Bay on Bois 

 Bhuic island Just off Cheboygan is expected to 

 be ready for sawnig in a short time. U will 

 < ut about 50.000 feet a day. and the company 

 has purchased S,(M>0 acres of fine hardwood 

 timber. The company will utilize a considerable 

 portion of the output of the mill in "ts manu- 

 facturing Ilia n I ni Innia, Mich. 



CADILLAC 



The lumber trade in this vicinity has been un- 

 usvially good this fall and the manufacturers are 

 having sonii* difficulty in securing proper railroad 

 OQuipmenl for handling their stocks. Prices are 

 lirm. 



1'he Lista Chemical Company, an eastern con- 

 ccrn. has made arrangements to locate in Cadillac. 

 It will use the refuse of wood distillation whicli 

 has previously been burned by the chemical man- 

 ufacturers. This waste or tar will be used in the 

 manufacture of a substitute of asphalt. Same 

 has been tried with suci-i-ss in the East. The 

 new company expects in be in operation in iliirty 

 days. 



The Falmouth I.nriibrr Company, c)pi'riiting at 

 Falmouth. Mich., near <'adillac, has been iucor 

 porated recently with a capita! stock of $!i.ito(i. 

 'J'hose interested are II. B. Helpolsheimer, John 

 Snilzler. II. M. Liesvidd and <Jeorge Liesveld of 

 Grand Uapids. Micii.. and Albert Running of 

 !■ almoufh. 



II. II. Cummer of the <'ummcr Mauufact iiring 

 Company left Cadillac a few days ago on his 

 semi-annual trip to the Cummer Manufacturing 

 Company's plant in I'aris. Tex. lie exiieets to be 

 ahsent about two weeks. 



M. E. Thomas, sales manager of Cobbs & 

 -Mitehell, Inc., and the Mitchell Brothers Com- 

 pany of this city, lias returned from a three 

 weeks' trip in t be l'"ast. lie reports a good 

 trade. 



The Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Assn 

 ciation have undertaken a new line of work in 

 making the otfice of Secretary .1. C. Knox at Ca- 

 dillac a sort of a clearing house for lumber man- 

 ufactured in Michigan. This office is in toucli 

 with the various stocl^s of lumber manufactured 

 in Michigan and will be able to advise the con- 

 sumer wlu're to locate certain kinds and grades 

 cif lumber. It is thought that this work will be 

 oi considerable advantage to botli consumer and 

 manufacturer. 



DETROIT 



The .1. C. Wiisoo Carriage Company has buught 

 the maeliinery of the Humphrey Widman Book 

 Case Company and will occupy the factory at 

 Fifteenth street and Warren avenu^'. for the 

 manufacture of automobile bodies. J. ( '. Wid 

 man. proprietor of the bookcase company, has 

 transferred the manufacturing of bookcases to 

 the factory of J. C. Widman & Co. The business 

 will be handled separately as to the selling and 

 manufi^cturing ends from the business of J. V. 

 Widman & Co. The Wilson company will take 

 ■possession of its new plant and begin turning 

 out autimiobile bodies in a few days, while the 

 manufacture of bookcases will he resumed in the 

 new location shortly. Both companies will use 

 large (piantities of hardwoods. 



II. Schneider of the Dudley Lumber Company 

 of Crand Hapids was a Detroit visitor last week. 

 Mr. Schneider reports good business in his sec- 

 tion and says that the liardwood trade has been 

 booming. 



(liles Wright of the Wright-Saulshery Lumber 

 Company of Ashland, Ky., was in Detroit last 

 week on a business trip. Mv. Wright was re 

 cently elected a senator in his district in Ken- 

 tucky. 



.1. M. ClilTord of .L M. ClilTord & Co. said: 

 "We have been very busy and all grades of hard- 

 wood are moving along nicely. Basswood is the 

 only hardwood lumber tiiat is causing any un- 

 easiness. General conditions, however, are ex- 

 cellent." 



William E. Metzger of Detroit, one of the larg- 

 est automobile dealers in the country, says : "The 

 auto wheels are made of second-growth hickory, 

 most of which is brought into the state for 

 manufacture fi-om southern points. A man wlui 

 owns a large tract of timher in the South told 

 me a few days ago that ;an average of forty 

 acres a day of hickory is being cut now. It 

 happens that sometimes they do not get a half 

 dozen suitable trees in an acr.e. as the wood has 

 to he just right for the puVpose. The demand 

 is so great that heavier wood is apt to find its 

 way into the wheels of commercial vehicles, to 

 make the hickory last longer." 



Clifford F. Blanchard. a Detroit lumbernian. 

 has filed a petition in the local federal courl 

 asking that he he adjudicated a bankrupt. His 

 liabilities are .f I.TNS.t:-;, while his assets total 

 -5050. 



Tlie steamer I'arks unloaded a fine cargo of 

 hardwood lumber from Alpena at the docks of 

 the Thomas Korman Company on the Ilouge 

 river last week. The Parks has been (me of the 

 busiest lumbei' carriers on the lakes this season 

 because of the big demand for hardwood lumber 

 at tlie l*"orman mills, which have had a banner 

 season. Mr. F(U-man n-ports that business is 

 still booming. 



H. W. Harding of the H. W. Harding Lumber 

 Cnmpany reports a i;ood. healthy trade at the 

 two !)ig yards of the company, with a steadily 

 increasing demand ftu- hardwoods. 



The affairs n'f the Kalamazoo Interior Finish 

 Company, wliicb w<'re inund to be badly muddh'd 

 after the disappearance of Louis Larson, manager 

 and secretary of the company, may be straight- 

 ened out and the company will probal>ly be able 

 to pay in full the claims against it. Mr. Larson 

 has returned and is assisting in straightening <nit 

 matters. He said that the company will later 

 reorganize and continue in business. 



Over 2.00(t,00t) feet of fine hardwnc.d lumber 

 was destroyed by fire in the yards \>\' ibe Hudson 



Lumber Company at Garnet last week. The 

 yards contained over 5,000.000 feet of lumber, 

 all of which was destroyed, the total loss being 

 about $70,000. 



GRAND RAPIDS 



Local furniture mauufact urers are issuing no- 

 tict's to the trade of an advance of ten per cent 

 on the new goods. Similar action has been taken 

 at liockford. The North Carolina Case Workers' 

 Association met at Gveenshoro. Novemlier 17, and 

 voted a similar advance, to he effective January 1. 



Preparations are now active for the January 

 furniture exposition. The new samples of out- 

 side manufacturers will begin to arrive soon, and 

 all available space in the exhibition buildings 

 has been taken, which insures the biggest show 

 that this market lias ever seen. 



Parties in Trieste. Austria, have written the 

 <;rand Rapids board of trade asking if the local 

 manufacturers can supply hotel furniture in solid 

 birch at certain prices. It seems that' birch is 

 used quite extensively in the making of furniture 

 ai)road. 



Dak is having a very strong run just now in 

 the furniture trade here owing to the popularity 

 of the Fh-mish and the Early English styles. 

 <'ircassian ualnut is not as popular as it has 

 been, some big concerns like' Berkey & Gay's 

 liaving cut very little of it this season. 



A life insurance company with $100,000 capital 

 and $50,000 surplus, all paid in, has been or- 

 ganized here, with headquarters in the Michigan 

 Trust building. Its board of directors includes 

 several well-known lumbermen. 



(Jeorge J. Dykhouse. son of Henry Dykhouse 

 of the Acme Lumber Company, was married 

 November 17 to Miss Martha Schoegge of this 

 city. 



Charlws W. (iartield. the newly elected presi- 

 dent of the Michigan Forestry Association, ac- 

 companied by his wi'fe. left for the South. No- 

 vember 10. where they will spend several weeks. 



owners of the fioat factory at- Newberry, in 

 Hie upper peninsula, are figuring on enlarging 

 ihe plant by installing machines for the manu- 

 facture of handles. This will keep the mill in 

 operation the year round. 



The amf)unt of wood that goes into automobile 

 bodies these days is cutting quite a figure in the 

 lumber trade. From January 1 to November 15 

 this year thirty-four automobile manufacturing 

 companies have been incorporated in Michigan, 

 and in addition fifty-four companies were formed 

 to make auTora(!bile parts. 



The Stearns Sali & Lumber Company has bro- 

 ken ground for a new salt block at the Fourth 

 ward plant. Ludington. 



Hardwood Market 



(By HARDWOOD BECOSD 



CHICAGO 



Tlu're has been no parti< nl;ir change diirinii' 

 the lawt fortnight in Chicago hardwood marliet 

 <■< nditions. All tho yards are busy. liotli 

 local wholesale operators and visitors from out- 

 side points allege that their Chicago business 

 i-: sli'ong. Some items of stoclj are very scarce, 

 esiieeially in the good end of all varieties of oak 

 .ind in wide good poplar. The prices in tliesi' 

 ilenis ai'e daily stilTening. There is manifesl 

 shortage in the good end of maple and birch 

 witli advancing prices. Nearly all other items 

 are in fair request at satisfactory prices. Tlnu'e 

 is every jn-ospect of a strong fall and winier 

 demand in I his market. 



NEW YORK 



The hardwood market does not show much of 

 activit.v in tlie way of large individual orders. 



Exclusive Market Beportera.) 



I 111 what is lacking in Ibat particular seems to 

 111- more than made up by the aggregate number 

 ot small orders for quick and mixed car ship- 

 ments. The manufacturing trade is picking up 

 and is showing more of a reviving spirit than 

 for some time pasl. The scarcity of special hard- 

 wood stocks and good-grade lumber is having a 

 sympatbetic effect upon prices, which are ex- 

 (cedingly Hrm. with an upward tendency in 

 most cases. Chestnut and some grades of oak 

 are scarce, especially for export shipments. There 

 seems to lie a fair supply of maple and birch. 

 Maple is improving materiall.v in demand and 

 available supplies are being quite rapidly ab- 

 sorbed. I'oplar is lioldiug firm, especially in the 

 belter grades, .lud taking the list all the way 

 (luough. while low-grade stock is not holding up 

 eilher in price or demand with the better grades, 

 Ihi market is absorbing more low-grade stock 

 right along, whicli cannot help but have a benefl- 

 <eut effect upon prices and trade generally when 

 the season advances. 



