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HARDWOOD RECORD 



W. J. Fell of Salt Lick, Ky., was a business 

 caller here this week. Mr. Fell is operating on 

 full time the stave plant he opened up in Ash- 

 land a few months ago. and advises business 

 lery satisfactory. 



■ Vansant. Kitchen & Co. are loading out a 

 large number of cars of lumber, car oak and 

 switch ties this week, and are operating their 

 mills every dav. 



ST. LOUIS 



George E. Uibbard. vice-president of the Steele 

 & Hibhard Lumber Company, feels encouraged 

 over the present outlook. He says there is 

 ever.y prospect of a good business soon after the 

 first of the year, when inventories have been 

 taken and when the retail dealers find out Just 

 what items they want. 



E. L. Page, manager of the hardwood depart- 

 ment of the Alt. Bennett Lumber Company, says 

 his department has been having an unusual trade 

 in high-grade lumber for this time of the year. 

 Alf. Bennett, president of the company, returned 

 from an extended trip through the South last 

 week. He did considerable business while awa.v 

 and some big deals in hardwood were pulled off. 



Harry Svvartz has tendered his resignation as 

 treasurer of the St. Louis Lumber Company and 

 has been elected president of the Colonial Tim- 

 ber & Lumber Company, with offices in the Third 

 National Bank building. 



L. Methudy has gone back into the hardwood 

 lumber business in spite of his seventy-five 

 years. For many years Mr. Methudy was well 

 known in the hardwood lumber trade, but re- 

 tired. Now he has resumed the business and is 

 located in the Security building. He will con- 

 fine himself to the domestic trade and will make 

 a specialty of red cypress. 



Miss A. Bauer, who for twenty-three years 

 was connected with Mr. Methudy, having full 

 charge of the office and also buying and selling 

 lumber, has opened an office in the FuIIerton 

 building and will buy and sell hardwood and 

 will also do a commission business. 



J. S. Garetson of the Ciaretson-Greason Lum- 

 ber Company has returned from Washington, 

 where he went as a member of the Missouri 

 Conservation Commission. 



W. H, Richardson of Richardson & Richard- 

 son, Linden, Tenn.. was a recent St. Louis 

 visitor. He reports a satisfactory condition as 

 a rule, but says some trouble has been experi- 

 enced in shipping out luml>er as rapidly as one 

 wishes. 



The Charles F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber 

 Company is fairly well pleased with the trade, 

 says George E. W. Luehrmann. It is too near 

 the end of the year to expect any but a normal 

 condition. The red gum trade, the company's 

 specialty, is making quite a good showing. 



Thomas E. Powe of the Thomas E. Powe 

 Lumber Company sa.ys inquiries and orders are 

 increasing. His business thus far this month 

 has been quite gratifying to him. 



According to George E. Cottrill of the Amer- 

 ican Hardwood Lumber Company there has been 

 a brightening up of business and an improvement 

 in the number of inquiries and orders received. 



MILWAUKEE 



During the course of a recent lecture in 

 Milwaukee State Forester E. M. Griffith made 

 the interesting announcement that the state 

 forestry board of Wisconsin had secured a census 

 of all the woodworking industries of the state, 

 giving the amounts of lumber they use in the 

 different varieties, what proportion comes from 

 outside the state and where the industries ship 

 their products. The idea is to see how near 

 Wisconsin comes to producing the necessary 

 material and what steps can be taken to retain 

 their industries within the state. 



The mill of the Owen Lumber Company at 



Owen, Wis., has been remodeled and will be 



placed in operation at the opening of the new 

 year. 



Tlie Gilkey Timber Company has been incor- 

 porated at Janesville with a capital stock of 

 $400,000 by William Smith. L. A. Avory and 

 I.eona Westlake. 



The Kaukauna Land, Timber & Supply Com- 

 pany, a new concern at Kaukauna, has com- 

 menced logging operations on the Little Wolf 

 liver. 



Announcement has been made of the engage- 

 ment of Ralph W. Wells, a son of John W. 

 Wells, the millionaire lumberman of Menominee, 

 Mich., to Miss Frances Winchester of White- 

 water, Wis. 



The lieadquarters of the Northwestern Lumber 

 Company will be removed from Eau Claire to 

 Stanle.v on January 1. Only the land business 

 of the company will be carried on at Eau Claire. 



K. Jacobson & Co., manufacturers of wood 

 novelties at Racine, are installing a new engine, 

 boiler and other equipment. 



The present winter will be a record breaker 

 tor loggers all over northern Wisconsin and upper 

 Michigan, according to the statements of well- 

 known lumbermen. Not only will there be more 

 timber cut for the mills, but more pulpwood, 

 bolts of all kinds and cedar products will be 

 turned out. Woodsmen's w'ages are higher this 

 year than ever before. 



The saw mills at Bayfield have closed down 

 for the season. The plants of the Red Cliff 

 Lumber Company, the Bayfield Mill Company 

 :ind the Wachsmuth Lumber Company cut the 

 large total of 55,748,479 feet of lumber. 



The Wisconsin Handle Company has been or- 

 ganized at Sturgeon Kay to manufacture handles 

 of all sorts. The Pankratz saw mill has been 

 remodeled and will be used. 



With a loss of more than !^650,000 the entire 

 plant of six buildings owned by the Racine 

 Manufacturing Company, well-known manufac- 

 turers of automobile bodies and piano stools, 

 was destroyed by fire recently. An insurance 

 of only ,$250,000 was carried. Announcement 

 has been made that the plant will be rebuilt at 

 once and that the manufacture of automobiles 

 may be added. The company, which was 

 swamped with orders at the time of the con- 

 flagration, will carry on its manufacture in other 

 nearby plants at Racine until its new establish- 

 ment can be completed. 



It is reported that the American Seating 

 Company will make extensive improvements at 

 its Racine Junction plant during the coming 

 year. A new factory structure and new offices 

 are planned. 



The Thompson saw mill at Washburn, owned 

 by the J. S. Stearns Lumber Company of Odanah, 

 has been closed after a busy season. 



The Berlin Machine Works of Beloit have an- 

 nounced that they will build a new $500,000 

 plant nest year, to be devoted to the manufacture 

 of sawmill machinery. The plant will consist 

 of factory, foundry, tool and pattern shops. 



Timber land to the value of $132,000 has just 

 been sold by the Joseph Dessert Lumber Company 

 to the Jlosinee Log, Land & Timber Company. 

 The land is located in the towns of Mosinee 

 and Emmett. 



The saw mill of the Heineman Lumber Com- 

 pany at Heineman has been placed in operation 

 after a .year's idleness. The plant has been 

 remodeled. 



The new planing mill of the Central I^umber 

 Company at Fifield is fast nearing completion. 

 Five planing machines and extensive equipment 

 in other lines will be installed. 



then start the mill on hardwood timber and run 

 through the winter. 



W. D. Young & Co. will run their sawmill 

 day and night during the winter. The flooring 

 trade is active and the firm crowded to meet 

 its trade, which is steadily expanding. Prices 

 of flooring are expected to advance, as the price 

 of the rough maple is considerably higher. The 

 firm gets a train load of logs from the North 

 every day. 



Surveys have been made of the site of the 

 old Kern Manufacturing Company's mill at Bay 

 City for the new wood alcohol, charcoal iron 

 plant to be started about the first of March. 



The usual stock of logs will be put in in the 

 northern lumbering districts of the state. Many 

 of the interior mills along rairoad lines are 

 operated the year through and logging is con- 

 ducted on a heavier scale during the winter. 

 The Lobdell-Churchill Company at Onaway, and 

 all of the concerns in which Sailing, Hanson & 

 Michelson are interested, at Grayling, Lewiston 

 and .Tohaunesburg, run through the winter, and 

 these concerns have camps actively at work 

 cutting and skidding logs for the supply of these 

 plants. Sleighing is reported good, now that the 

 temperature is low and several inches of snow 

 have fallen. 



E. Foster will cut 250,000 feet of hardwood 

 lumber with a portable sawmill at Spaulding. on 

 Flint river. 



riuring the last season something over a 

 million feet of hardwood logs were rafted out of 

 Cass and Flint rivers. These were great lumber 

 producers in their day, but during the last 

 twenty years they have contributed to the Sagi- 

 naw river mills but a few hundred thousand feet 

 each year. 



Fred Robinson of Bay City has put up a mill 

 in Presque Isle county, near Onaway, which will 

 be employed during the winter cutting lumber 

 for the Churchill Lumber Company of Alpena. 



The Kneeland-Bigelow and the Kneeland, Buell 

 & Bigelow sawmills at Bay City have cut about 

 40,000,000 feet of lumber the current year. These 

 companies have very little dry lumber in the 

 mill yards at present. 



The Dayton Last Block Works at Gaylord. 

 which utilizes about 3,000.000 feet of hardwood 

 logs yearly, has started operations for the winter. 



The Jackson, Wylie & Co. hoop plant at Gay- 

 lord has also started operations for the winter. 



The Mershon-Bacon Company, manufacturer of 

 hardwood box stuff, is building a new box fac- 

 tory, which will be equipped with modern ma- 

 chinery throughout. The plant is 100x150 feet 

 and is distinct from the planing mill, the latter 

 and the box plant having heretofore been under 

 one roof. 



The Kneeland-Bigelow Company has taken an 

 order to saw 25.000 hardwood ties for the New 

 York Central Lines. Those roads are taking 

 150,000 hardwood ties from along the Mackinaw 

 division of the Michigan Central and Bay City 

 for 1910. These ties are to be creosoted before 

 being laid on the tracks. They are manufac- 

 tured from beech, birch and maple timber. 



CADILLAC 



SAOINAW VALLEY 



The Island Mill Lumber Company at Alpena 

 is installing a battery of three boilers and will 



The Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation is planning for a midwinter meeting to 

 be held at the Ponchartrain hotel, Detroit, not 

 later than January 20. 1910. Secretary Knox 

 is urging the members of this association to 

 report their stocks immediately after January 1, 

 in order to make an early meeting possible. 



D. H. Day of Glen Haven not only believes 

 in reforestation but is actually practicing it. He 

 has 1.400 acres of land between Glen Lake and 

 Lake Michigan on which is a considerable growth 

 of sugar maple, beech, red oak, black cherry, 

 white ash, aspen and paper birch, also some 

 white and norway pine and hemlock. This is 

 an exceptional variety of hardwoods to grow 

 within so small a compass, but many of these 



