HARDWOOD RECORD 



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hardwoods to begin with, and later expect to 



Jir.ndlo some southern stocks. 



SAaiSAW VALLEY 



The hardwood lumber industry made a fairly 

 good showing last year, taking into account the 



fact that conditions of the market during the 



first eight months of the year were not favor- 

 able. Reports from the following firms in the 

 Saginaw Valley and eastern Michigan are as 

 follows : 



Feet. 



\V. D. Young & Co.. Bay City 22.659,549 



Richardson Lumber Co., Bay City 



and Alpena ^2 mills) 7,550,000 



Campoell-Brown Lumber Co., Bay 



City 4,327,000 



Kneeland-Bigelow Co., Bay City.... 9,256,057 



Knapp & Scotl. Bay City 2,509,000 



Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow, Bay City 9,182,996 



S. G. M. Gates Estate, Bay City 1,834.000 



Bliss & Van Auken, Saginaw 8,000,000 



-Miehc'lson-Hanson Co., Lewiston.... 10.369,000 



Johannesburg Mfg. Co., Johannesburg 8,780.445 



L. Jeuson. Sailing 2,000,000 



Batchelor Timber Co., West Branch . 5,000,000 



Estate L. Cornwell, Wolverine 1,844,000 



T. E. Douglas & Co., Lovells 449,614 



Embury-Mariin Lumber Co., Cheboy- 

 gan 3,000,000 



M. U. Olds, Cheboygan 3,630,007 



R. Hanson & Sons, Grayling 3,305,969 



Robinson Lumber Co South Branch. 2,000,000 



Lobdell & Churchill Co., Onaway. . . . 15,400,000 



Island Mill Lumber Co., Alpena 4,200,000 



Churchill Lumber Co., Alpena 4,000,000 



S. F. Derry & Co., Millersburg 7,299,944 



U. M. Loud's Sons Co., Au Sable.... 5,922,740 



Andrew Kent. Omer 500,000 



Masters & Bowden, Ossineke 100,000 



.Macumber & Bale, Black River 500,000 



.John Beck, Alpena 545,300 



D. Fleming, Rose City 45,000 



N. Michelson Lumber Co., Michelson. 300,000 



Gardner, Peterman & Co., Onaway.. 1,500,000 



Downie & Son. Harrisville 50,000 



Vuill & Son. Harrisville 25,000 



.]. Kantzler & Son. East Tawas 392,000 



W. A. "Bates, l.upton 25,000 



J. F. Spens & Bro.. Rogers 230,590 



Nelson Lumber Co.. ( .i-bovgan 100,000 



R. P. Holihan, Milb-r.^lmrg 600,000 



Robert Wilkins, Turuei- 400,000 



Wm. Colby, Hubbard Lake 150,000 



Gustave Brilinski. Ossineke 400,000 



Matt Jordan, Mclvor 240,000 



Uarman Bros. & Johnson, AuGres. . . 375,000 



A. Wheeler, AuGres 100,000 



O. J. Peters, Emery Junction 100,000 



Harriet Leslie & Sons, Wittemore-. . . 218,000 



Robinson Bros.. Long Rapids 275,000 



E. Truax. Long Rapids 202,000 



H. E. Buchanan, Selina 1,000,000 



W. Lewandowski, Posen 60,000 



Robinson & Stevens, Posen 900,000 



Michigan Cooperage Co., Turner.... 3,500,000 



Davidson & McDonald, Black Ri%er. 250,000 



F. (i. Cowley. Oscoda 300.000 



J. McCready. Twining 60,000 



D. McRae, Greenbush 15,000 



W. Kennedy, Bolton 50,000 



Gardner & Richards. East Tawas... 550,000 



A. Silks, Hawks 30,000 



Forest Lumber Co., Tower 2,150,000 



Prescott-Miller Co.. Rose City 4,000,000 



Herman Hoett & Son, Rogers City.. 1,600,000 



F. W. Gilchrist (Est.J, Alpena 5,000,000 



Sailing-Hanson Co. (Est.), Gravling. 8,000.000 



Stephens Lumber Co. (Est.), Waters. 5,500,000 



. Total 182.708.881 



The cut of the last three named firms is esti- 

 mated, no oflicial report having been received. 

 The report of the cut covers the territory north 

 of the Saginaw river to Cheboygan, inclusive, 

 and taking in the Huron shore and Mackinaw 

 dirision of the Michigan Central, and Detroit 

 & Mackinaw Railway mills. 



There are, it is estimated, about seventy-five 

 small portable mills in this territory cutting 25,- 

 000 feet and upward from which no reports are 

 at hand. The pine and hemlock output of these 

 plants is not included in the foregoing figures. 



The mill owned by George Redhead, near Ala- 

 baster, which has been sawing lumber for Gard- 

 ner & Richards of East Tawas, was burned last 

 week, involving a loss of $1,500 with no insur- 

 ance. 



Ross & Wentworth of Bay City are bringing 

 4.000.000 feet of logs from Cheboygan county to 

 Bay City by rail. 



Frank Wood has finished putting in 1.500,000 

 feet of maple near Gaylord. 



The hardwood lumber industry in the valley 

 and eastern Michigan was never in more satis- 

 factory condition than right now. Lumber 

 manufacturers and dealers experience no difll- 

 culty in disposing of all the stock they can pro- 

 duce at top prices and many firms have sold 

 stock to be cut. It is estimated that more than 

 100,000,000 feet in the lower peninsula has been 

 sold for future delivery which is yet in the log. 



Logging operations of all small operators arc 

 winding up. A number of large operators log 

 the year through. North of Bay City in Otsego 

 county there was hauling on sleds all last week, 

 but the roads are becoming soft and the sleigh- 

 ing there will soon be gone. 



DETROIT 



CADILLAC 



D. H. Day. the big hardwood operator of 

 Glen Haven, is having a large smoke stack 

 built by the Cudney Boiler Works of Cadillac. 



The same company is repairing logging loco- 

 motives tor the Cummer-Diggins Company of 

 Cadillac and the Mitchell Brothers Company of 

 Jennings. 



W. W. MitchelKand wife have started on an 

 eastern trip. They will spend the Easter season 

 at Atlantic City and visit their daughter at 

 Washington, D. C, before returning home. 



A. P. Irish of the Fuller & Rice Lumber & 

 Manufacturing Company. Benjamin Wolf of 

 Wolf Brothers Company, and Fred H. Emery, all 

 of Grand Rapids, were among the lumbermen 

 visiting this city this week. 



W. S. Schoat, superintendent of Estate of 

 David Ward, Deward, was a recent Cadillac 

 business visitor. 



The Williams Brothers Company of this city 

 and Manton has in stock more than fifty per 

 cent of the last blocks that will be used by the 

 shoe industry in America during 1911. The fac- 

 tory at Manton covers five acres and has a stor- 

 age capacity of 1,500,000 blocks. The Cadillac 

 plant covers seven acres and has a storage 

 capacity of 2.000.000 blocks. This industry was 

 started by George F. Williams in Manton more 

 than twenty-five years ago, and has gradually 

 grown to its present dimensions. None but the 

 best maple and basswood are used in the manu- 

 facture of these blocks and extreme care is exer- 

 cised in drying the stock. Only the rough 

 blocks are turned out in Michigan, the finished 

 forms being left to the manufacturers in the 

 East. Quite a number of carloads of the rough 

 product are exported in the course of a year. 



Nessen City lumbermen have put in a larger 

 Quantity of logs this winter than usual. These 

 logs go largely to the Buckley-Douglas Lumber 

 Company at Manistee. 



Two years ago the veneer plant at Reed City 

 was partially destroyed by fire and has been 

 closed ever since. There is every indication 

 that the plant will be rebuilt. A new company 

 has been organized with a capital of $75,000. 

 part of which has been subscribed. 



The Pringle Inn at Mears, one of the old land- 

 marks of lumbering days between Muskegon 

 and Ludington. has been burned. At one time 

 ihis was the onl.v stopping place of the stage 

 line between tlie two cities. 



Congress has made an appropriation of $20,- 

 000 for the improvement of Arcadia Harbor, 

 Manistee County. The harbor at Arcadia has 

 been in such condition that lake boats of any 

 size could not enter. 



Thursday of this week. March 24, Examiner 

 -McCornack, acting for the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission, will hear at Cadillac the complaint 

 of the manufacturers of lower Michigan against 

 the transcoutinr^nlal railroads for discriminating 

 rates on hardwood lumber and flooring to Pacific 

 Coast terminal';. Wm. A. Percy of Memphis, 

 Tenn.. has been engaged as attorney for the 

 manufacturers. Representatives of various rail- 

 roads, the Michigan Railroad Commission, be- 

 sides the interested manufacturers are expected 

 til be present. 



The retail lumber dealers of Detroit, includ- 

 ing all of the hardwood dealers, gave a banquet 

 lest Friday night at the Log Cabin Inn in honor 

 of the wholesale dealers, and a most enjoyable 

 evening resulted. Eighty-six lumbermen were 

 present. Besides a fine feed, to which the lum- 

 bermen did justice, there was an enjoyable musi- 

 cal and literary program. The "joy committee" 

 which arranged for the good things consisted 

 oC E. K. Uartwick. A. P. Terbes, F. J. Weber 

 and W. A. C. Miller. 



R. R. Clark of the Peninsula Bark & Lumber 

 Company of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., stopped 

 off in Detroit last week en route to his home 

 from the eastern markets. Mr. Clark said that 

 he ffiund the hardwood market much better in 

 the We.st than in the East. He said the de- 

 mand in the Middle West for northern hard- 

 woods is exceptionally •healthy. 



W. W. Kelly of the Brownlee-Kelly Company 

 has rcturn.'d from his eastern vacation and is 

 now in Cheboygan superintending the sawing of 

 a iarge lot of hardwood lumber. 



.\ startling illustration of the great boom ia 

 the automobile industry in Detroit occurred here 

 iast week. The Detroit Column Company, the 

 largest manufacturers of wooden columns in the 

 country and large consumers of hardwoods, de- 

 cided to erect a new plant to accommodate its 

 rapidly increasing business. A site was picked 

 out and work started on a fine new brick build- 

 ing at the north end of the city. The walls 

 had risen but a few feet above the ground 

 v\'hen along came stockholders of the Warrea 

 Motor Car Company, who were looking for a 

 plant and offered a tempting figure for the build- 

 ings under way. and secured an option on the 

 same. The first of the week the motor car 

 company took up the option and closed the deal 

 and will now go ahead and complete the build- 

 ing. The Detroit Column Company will remain 

 in its old plant, at Holden and the Michigan 

 Central railroad, until a new site can be secured 

 and new arrangements for building made. These 

 auto companies are whirlwinds when they get 

 down to business. 



J. F. Deacon, wholesale dealer, 60 Buhl block, 

 says that business has improved rapidly in the 

 iiast couple of weeks. 



The Dwight Lumber Company Is extremely 

 busy these days. Orders for its special brand 

 of thin hardwood fiooring are pouring in in 

 great volume. "We are way behind on our or- 

 ders for thin flooring." said Secretarjf John 

 Lodge of the company, "and the factory is work- 

 ing hard to catch up. It is a pleasant sort 

 of worry, however." The company has secured 

 .space at the Detroit Industrial Exposition this 

 summer for an exhibit of its thin hardwood 

 flooring. 



"The spring boom is well under way and busi- 

 ness is improving rapidly," is the report from 

 E. W. Leech. "All indications are for big busi- 

 ness this spring and summer." 



Thomas Forman of the Thomas Forman Com- 

 pany was out of the city on a business trip the 

 latter part of last week. 



Marcus SchalT. the new state forester, just re- 

 turned from a trip through northern Michigan 

 and says that in his opinion the first thing 

 for the state to take up is the matter of fire 

 protection. "Preserve what timber we have now 

 and never miud about planting more," is the 

 way Mr. Schaff sums it up. 



GRAND RAPIDS 



The Lumbermen's Club will hold its regular 

 monthly business meeting Tuesday evening, 

 March 29. 



The Northland Lumber Company, in which 

 members of the Wolf-Lockwood Lumber Com- 

 pany of this city are interested, with mills at 



