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HARDWOOD RECORD 



hardwood factory lumber and other factory lines 

 entirely. They have offices at 317 Lumber Ex- 

 change. 



G. W. Everts of this city has sold his interest 

 in the Forbes-Everts Lumber Company to enter 

 into wholesale business for himself. His offices 

 are located at 1119-20 Lumber Exchange. 



C. P. Koon of the Beldenville Lumber Com- 

 pany, Bruce, Wis., was here recently on business. 

 He told of their fighting a forest fire which 

 took about a million feet of their birch and pine 

 logs. 



C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark, this city, 

 has returned from a short business trip to Erie, 

 111. 



The Osgood & Blodgett Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of St. Paul lost about $5,000 worth of 

 lumber a few days ago by a fire in its yard. 



The North Side Sash & Door Company of Min- 

 neapolis had its entire plant wiped out by a 

 fire the night of April 29, taking four buildings 

 and all their contents, for a total loss of 

 $70,000, which was only partly covered by insur- 

 ance. 



D. F. Clark of Osborne & Clark is on his way 

 home from a protracted business trip to the 

 West Coast. 



SAai\AW VALLEY 



John Kantzler & Son of Bay City have been 

 overhauling their sawmill at East Tawas and 

 they now have it ready for the season run, with 

 a stock of 3,000,000 feet of mixed timber to 

 convert into lumber. The firm also operates a 

 lumber yard "at Bay City. 



C. A. Bigelow went to Detroit to attend the 

 quarterly meeting of the Michigan Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association on May 5. 



The Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow sawmill is shut 

 down for a general overhaul and to receive a 

 battery of four new boilers. 



The maple flooring business is active. Some 

 manufacturers would like a little better prices, 

 but the volume of business is large. W. D. 

 Toung & Co. are running day and night and 

 making heavy shipments every week. The S. L. 

 Eastman Flooring Company is running to full 

 capacity, as is the Strable Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, and Bliss & Van.\uken. 



The Kerry-Hanson Flooring Company at Gray- 

 ling has increased its capital stock to ?150,- 

 000. This plant has had an active season and 

 is moving out a large quantity of flooring. 



The Johannesburg Manufacturing Company 

 and the Sailing-Hanson Company are shipping 

 out over the Mackinaw division of the Michigan 

 Central a large quantity of maple lumber. 



Construction work on the Welsh & Kerry 

 Flooring plant at Reed City is being prosecuted 

 vigorously. It takes the place of a plant burned 

 March 26. The main building is wood with con- 

 crete foundation, and the dry kilns and power 

 house of concrete. C. T. Kerry of Saginaw, also 

 associated with the Kerry-Hanson Flooring Com- 

 pany at Grayling, is a member of the Welsh & 

 Kerry Company. He is also of the Kerry & 

 Schultz Lumber Company, operating a yard at 

 Saginaw. 



The Wylie & Buell Lumber Company is mak- 

 ing the roadbed tor an extension of the Haak- 

 wood branch of the Michigan Central — -six miles 

 — to reach 75,000,000 feet of timber. 



The Hanson-Ward Veneer Company, operat- 

 ing a veneer plant and a new flooring plant at 

 Bay City, has added more machinery to its plant, 

 which Is running nicely and turning out a fine 

 brand of flooring. 



Plans are being formulated for the erection of 

 a sawmill plant to be operated in connection 

 with the wood alcohol and charcoal iron plant 

 to be built on the old Kern mill site on the 

 west side at Bay City. The mill will furnish 

 a lot of refuse for the wood alcohol plant. The 

 company will make a large investment. 



DETROIT 



Never before in the history of the hardwood 

 flooring trade in this city have conditions been 

 so rosy as at the present time. Leading manu- 

 facturers declare that business is fully twenty 

 per cent better than the best previous year In 

 the trade. All of the factories are rushed to 

 the limit and orders continue to pour in in 

 great volume. This Is due to the fact that De- 

 troit is enjoying the biggest building boom in the 

 history of the city. More of the better class 

 homes are being built than ever before. 



The Dwight Lumber Company furnishes an 

 excellent example of the great activity of the 

 flooring trade. The big factory of this concern 

 was never so busy before and is working over- 

 time to get orders out. The Kotcher Lumber 

 Compare which has a large floor manufacturing 

 plant, the Detroit Parquet Flooring Company, 

 and other concerns in this branch of the trade 

 also report high tide conditions. 



The many automobile factories for which De- 

 troit is noted all over the world continue to be 

 liberal buyers in the hardwood market. For 

 their purposes poplar and hickory are the pre- 

 ferred woods, and a great scarcity of this tim- 

 ber is reported in the local market. Prices, too, 

 have advanced accordingly. 



Announcements of new plants for local auto- 

 mobile companies continue to be made every few 

 days. The latest are that work will be started 

 on big factories for the Mosier Company, the 

 Hudson Company and the General Motors Com- 

 pany within a few days. Just now the General 

 Motors Company will erect a plant for the man- 

 ufacture of light delivery trucks, but later will 

 build a $2,500,000 plant in Detroit for the 

 general manufacture of automobiles. 



Local contractors are up to their ears in 

 work and are unable to care for all of the build- 

 ing which is planned in the city this spring and 

 summer. This has led to a rather odd situation, 

 outside contractors from many cities figuring on 

 jobs. Some of the outside contractors after 

 sizing up the building boom in Detroit decided to 

 establish branch offices in this city to gather in 

 some of the plums. 



During April permits were issued by the de- 

 partment of buildings for 414 new buildings to 

 cost $1,033,555 and for 79 additions to cost 

 $101,145. 



Having closed a successful bowling season 

 the lumber concerns represented in The Lum- 

 ber Bowling League are now planning the organ- 

 ization of a baseball league to consist of eight 

 teams. Local hardwood dealers are great base- 



hall enthusiasts and have entered into the plana 

 for a league with much energy. 



Among the out of town dealers in Detroit dur- 

 ing the past week were Mr. Mosier of Columbus, 

 Mr. Weiler of Cleveland, and W. E. Heyser 

 of Cincinnati. A representative of Nickey & 

 Sons of Memphis, Tenn., was' also In the city on 

 business. 



GRAND RAPIDS 



R. B. Redfern. vice-president of Owen Bearse 

 Company, mahogany and hardwoods, Boston, 

 called on the trade recently. 



The Northland Lumber Company, of which 

 Fred A. Diggins of Cadillac is president and In 

 which the Wolf brothers of this city are inter- 

 ested, is busy cutting hardwood at its Green 

 Bay, Wis., mill. The output this year will be 

 15,000,000 feet. 



W. C. Hall, secretary of the Gibbs, Hall & 

 Allen Company, returned May 5 from a short 

 business trip to Detroit and Toledo. 



J. T. Sullivan of James E. Stark & Co., Mem- 

 phis, Tenn., and S. P. Coppock of S. P. Coppock 

 & Sons, Ft. Wayne, were in the city May 4. 



Official opening day for the June-July furni- 

 ture sales has been announced for June 24 and 

 the manufacturers are getting their samples 

 ready for display. The Exchange building, which 

 was completely destroyed by fire during the 

 January exposition, is being rebuilt and will be 

 completed in time for the coming show. 



J. A. Strack, representing the Hugh McLean 

 Lumber Company, hardw'ood lumber and veneers, 

 Buffalo, was a recent caller on the local trade. 



The call of the gamey trout on May 1 lured 

 away quite a number of local sportsmen to the 

 northern streams. Bob Woodbridge is with the 

 party at Rainbow on the Pere Marquette river. 



A number of local furniture men will attend 

 the annual meeting of the National Association 

 of Furniture Manufacturers, which will be held 

 at the Auditorium hotel, Chicago, May 10 and 11. 



The Fruit Belt Package Company, capital 

 $10,000, has been organized at Northport for 

 the manufacture of fruit packages, including 

 barrels, heading and staves. The incorporators 

 are Wra. Putney of Kent City, Michael Brady of 

 the Brady Cooperage Company, Manistee; C. H. 

 Westen and C. A. Kelson of Northport. The 

 sawmill plant of C. H. Westen will be utilised 

 and new machinery added. 



Prof. Baker, head of the forestry department 

 at the State Agricultural College, has secured 

 appointments in western forest reserves for each 

 one of the twenty-three members of the junior 

 class during the summer. The students will 

 receive $75 per month, plus valuable experience. 



Hardwood Market. 



(By HARDWOOD BECOBD Esclnsive Uarket Bepoxters.) 



CHIC AGO 



While the general condition of depression in 

 the lumber business, which prevailed at the time 

 of the last Issue of the Record, is still in evi- 

 dence, there is a slight tendency to get back 

 to normal in most quarters. There seems to 

 have been no apparent reason for the slump, 

 although it is generally reported that transporta- 

 tion has been tied up pretty generally along 

 all shipping lines, and it may be that this has 

 resulted in supplying the consuming Interests 

 with stocks in a way which has caused an over- 

 supply. Thus they are not anxious to buy at 

 present., but it is evident that in the course of a 

 short time they will have to call for the regu- 

 lar allotments, as most of the factories are turn- 

 ing out the full quota of goods. Almost all 

 lines of lumber are commanding the regular 

 prices and have not felt any slump In that di- 

 rection, although orders have been very slow. 



The trade in oak remains about as usual, al- 

 though many grades are hard to get. The usual 

 scarcity of red oak prevails, and all classes of 

 heavy, oak construction timber are more or less 

 short, prices along this line being extremely 

 uncertain and fluctuating. The demand is very 

 fair. Quartered-sawed white oak still commands 

 the usual high regard, and the price has re- 

 mained without any variation to speak of, al- 

 though the sales are not now as active as they 

 were a short time ago. The supply of firsts 

 and seconds, plain red oak on the Chicago mar- 

 ket, seems now to be more extensive than at any 

 time for several months past, the prices being 

 more or less fluctuating. 



Cypress has felt the prevailing tendency to 

 weaken, though prices are just as firm as ever, 

 and there is no tendency among the Chicago 

 trade to cut In order to secure sales. While 

 there is no over-abundance of stock in any lines 

 throughout the general market, orders are not 

 coming in as fast as might be desired. However, 



