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HARDWOOD RECORD 



This gives Alpfna a total liardwood output o"f 

 15,545.300 feet. All of the mills are being 

 stocked, and one or two are now in operation. 

 Isew boilers have been installed in the plants of 

 Richardson Lumber Company and the Island 

 Mill Lumber Company. 



The Michelson & Hanson Lumber Company at 

 Lewiston manufactured 10..3G9,000 feet of hard- 

 wood lumber last year. The mill will exhaust 

 its timber and go out of commission in Hay 

 next. The machinery has been sold to Louis 

 Jenson of Sailing and will be moved to On- 

 tonagon county and set up. the owner owning: a 

 large quantit.v of timber there. 



At Millersburg, S. F. Derry & Co. manufac- 

 tured 7.209.944 feet of hardwood lumber. The 

 mill has shut down and the firm is not lumber- 

 ing to any extent this winter. It will have 

 about 1,500,000 feet to cut in the spring. A por- 

 tion of last year's cut is being shipped from 

 the mill. Holmes & Nicholson have about fin- 

 ished logging in the Wolf Creek country near 

 Alpena. They put in 1.000,000 feet of hard- 

 wood, mostly maple. The logs were manufac- 

 tured into lumber with a portable mill right on 

 the ground. A considerable quantity of the 

 stock is birdseye maple. 



Charles English put in 1,500,000 feet of hard- 

 wood near Alpena for the Island Mill Ijumbcr 

 Company of that place. 



The Standard Hoop Company of Bay City 

 operates a small sawmill in connection with the 

 hoop and heading business. After five months' 

 idleness the mill has resumed operations. The 

 daily output is 120.000 headliners, 60,000 hoops 

 and 20,000 feet of lumber. 



A handle company is seeking through the offi- 

 cials of the Detroit & Mackinac Railroad Com- 

 pany a new location. The concern demands 

 600.000 feet of second growth ash annually and 

 the certainty of a supply for ten years. 



CADILLAC 



C. E. Chenevert of Defiance, Ohio, has fin- 

 ished the cutting of 1,000 pieces of hardwood 

 timber for export to England. In addition, he 

 has cut fifty pieces of square timber from pine 

 to be exported, a rather unusual thing for this 

 country. Mr. Chenevert has worked in Wexford 

 county for three or four years. 



There is still some good timber in the vicinity 

 of Xustin. John Stanseli is shipping to the 

 shipyards on the Clyde, via New Brunswick, 

 three cars of rock elm iogs of finest quality. 

 None of the logs is less than 18 inches across 

 the end and run from 12 to 32 feet in length. 

 They are to be squared and used in ship con- 

 struction. 



The East Jordan Cooperage Company's dry 

 kilns and stock was burned February 24, causing 

 a loss of $13,000. The kiln will be rebuilt at 

 once. 



The Charlevoix Lumber Company has com- 

 pleted its lumbering operations at Twin Lakes. 

 It will run its Charlevoix mill another year to 

 cut its up-lake timber. 



It is stated at Lansing that the railroads 

 are planning to attack the rate of taxation 

 under which they are assessed by the State 

 Tax Commission. There have been a number 

 of conferences of railway officials relative to 

 mode of attack who made a demand on the 

 tax commission for copies of the proceedings of 

 the commission in reviews of the general prop- 

 erty which was refused. 



Antoine E. Cartier, the pioneer millionaire 

 lumberman of Ludington died March 1, as a 

 result of acute kidney trouble. He was seventy- 

 four years old. Mr. Cartier was identified with 

 Ludington's early history, was a public-spirited 

 man and mayor of the city in 1880 and 1881. 

 lie was president of the Northern Michigan 

 Transit Company and head of the Cartier Lum- 

 ber Company. 



Frank J. Cobbs, vice-president and seerftary 



of Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., and wife are spending 

 the balance of the winter at Los Angeles, Cal. 



Charles T. Mitchell, vice-president and man- 

 ager of Mitchell Brothers Company has returned 

 from a month's trip to the West Indies Islands. 



Henry Ballou, superintendent of Cobbs & Mit- 

 chell, Inc., has returned from a three weeks' 

 trip to New Orleans, La., Havana, Cuba, and 

 other points. 



Fred A. Diggins, Joseph Murphy and D. B. 

 Kelley, prominent Cadillac lumbermen, have re- 

 turned from a three weeks' trip to Texas. 



Traffic on Lake City branch of G. R. & I., also 

 Northport branch of same road, has been espe- 

 cially hindered because of the deep snow. One 

 hundred men on each branch have been shovelling 

 for several days to open up the tracks. The 

 logging roads have also had their trouble in 

 keeping their lines open. However, the thaw 

 of the past few days has helped very mate- 

 rially in clearing away the snow. 



Contractors having the job of decking logs 

 for the Cummer-Diggins Company will have 

 finished their work within a week or two. Eq- 

 ward Wing has decked 1,800M feet at Pern 

 Siding without an accident to mar the winter s 

 work, which is considered by woodsmen to be a 

 sign that men are becoming more careful in 

 woods work. 



William Hayden will soon flni.sh decking 

 1,500M feet of logs at McPherson, and Frank 

 Skillet's contract for 500M feet at Peru Siding 

 is about completed. 



Tom Denton, of square timber fame, finished 

 his cut of square timber at Mesick recently. He 

 cut 1.200 pieces of excellent timber at Mesick ; 

 also 400 pieces in Henderson township on the 

 R. G. Peters Salt & Lumber Company's land. 



GRAND RAPIDS 



Fred I. Nichols of the Nichols & Cox Lumber 

 Company, L. L. Skillman of the Skillman Lum- 

 ber Company, and Charles Dregge of the Dregge- 

 Grover Lumber Company have returned from the 

 convention of wholesale dealers held at Cincin- 

 nati and report a very enjoyable time. 



Z. Clark Thwing, manager of the Grand Rap- 

 ids Veneer Works, reports that business is boom- 

 ing in both dry kiln and veneer manufacturing 

 departments. The stock of logs in the yards 

 at the present time is the biggest in ten years 

 and the company is expecting to do a record- 

 breaking business during 1910. 



Otis A. Felger, secretary of the Ilackley- 

 Phelps-Bonnell Compan.v, has just returned from 

 a business trip through the South. He reports 

 an improved tone in the hardwood market and a 



better feeling. With a marked improvement in 

 weather conditions, stock is moving much better 

 and all desirable lumber is on a rising market. 

 Cars are still hard to get, which is the one 

 bad feature in the present situation. 



"Business, in general, is very satisfactory," 

 .says E. F. Miller of the Engel Lumber Company. 

 George Engel, president of this company, is now 

 greatly improved in health and is able to work 

 at the office and yards every day. The company 

 has cut about two million feet of logs this 

 winter In the vicinity of Floodwood siding, on 

 the Pere Marquette road, in Clare county, and 

 since its mill at this point was destroyed by 

 fire last fall it will be necessary to hire the 

 logs sawed. 



"We shall be fully settled in our new build 

 ing by the end of the month," says President 

 Rice of the Rice Veneer & Lumljer Company. 

 "Business is picking up right along with us." 



Henry S. Holden of the Henry S. Holden 

 Veneer Company has returned from a business 

 trip to the company's southern plant at Nor- 

 folk, Va, 



The Wilniarth & Mormon Company, manufac- 

 turers of pulleys, drill grinders and factory 

 tools, report a fine business. The shop equip- 

 ment has been increased, with an increase, also, 

 in the working force of about fifteen per cent. 



The recent death of John Widdicomb of the 

 John Widdicomb Furniture Company has resulted 

 in reorganization of the company, with an 

 increase in capital stock to ,f300,000. The new 

 officers are as follows : President. Harry Widdi- 

 comb, Jr. ; vice-president. Ralph H. Widdicomb : 

 secretary-treasurer. Burt A. Hathaway. 



The Grand Rapids Car Loading Company, a 

 private concern organized two years ago to han- 

 dle carload shipments of furniture to distant 

 points, has been purchased by the Grand Rap- 

 ids Furniture Association, made up of the lead- 

 ing local manufacturers. E. L. Ewing. traffic 

 manager for the association, will also have 

 charge of the car-loading business in the future. 



Marcus SchafE of the upper peninsula is Michi- 

 gan's new state forester. He has just returned 

 from a trip through northern Michigan and says 

 that the first important question for the state 

 to consider is the proper protection of its 

 reserves from fires. Instead of planting more 

 trees, he will urge the preservation of the trees 

 that we now have. 



George E. Donner of Cheboygan, who has com- 

 pleted a five-year lumbering contract for the 

 Wylie-Buell Company, recently cut one of the 

 largest elms known in that section. It measured 

 six feet three inches across the stump and scaled 

 4,448 feet. 



Hardwood Market. 



(B7 EA3D'WOOD BECOBD Exclnsive Uarket Beporters.) 



CHICAGO 



The ■■situation in Chicago is gradually get- 

 ting back to the normal condition, most prices 

 meeting those that prevailed before the panic 

 and some showing considerable advance over 

 any former figures. This can be said of quar- 

 tered oak and the higher grades of birch espe- 

 cially. Owing to the enormous demands of 

 some big Chicago companies, as well as to the 

 increasing popularity of this wood, the upper 

 grades of birch are exceedingly sliort and will 

 continue to increase in value until checked 

 by their own high price. 



Air-dried birch is quoted at from $3S to $40 

 in firsts and seconds. The fact that a large 

 amount of stumpage must be cut to supply 

 the demand for high qualities results in over- 

 production of the low grade stock, hence the 

 prices on low grade are not as high as might 

 be expected. No. 1 common Is worth $24, No. 

 2 common bringing $18. 



Quartered white oak brings an average of 

 $S0. and no good substitute has yet made itself 

 evident. This figure shows a slight inclina- 

 tion to decline on the part of quartered oak, 

 the falling off probably being due to the in- 

 crease in price, which has already reached a 

 figure beyond the means of many people. 



LTpper grades red oak are still in good de- 

 mand, but few firms reporting a full stock. 

 Firsts and seconds inch plain white oak are 

 listed at about $60. 



High-grade hickory plank for wagon stock 

 sell in this market for as much as $55. the 

 supply being commensurate with the demand. 



Following prices prevail for cherry in the 

 Chicago market, eastern and western stock 

 being included: Firsts and seconds are worth 

 from $75 to $80; No. 1 common. $40 to $45; 

 No. 2 common, $22 to $26. Indications are that 

 the prices on the better grades of cherry 

 used for fine cabinet work will continue to in- 

 crea.se until, as with other similar woods, they 



