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been enjoying the benefits. A. S. Bliss bas re- 

 turned to work after two weeks' rest. T. E. 

 Voungblood. the company's manager at Maiden, 

 Mo., is still away on a tisbing trip at Chii'ago 

 Lake, .luly 3 E. I'ayson Smith and wife, with h. 

 P. Arthur, manager of the Chicago ofHee. and 

 Mrs. Arthur left by boat down the Mississippi. 

 They will travel by boat as far as t'linton, Iowa, 

 and then take Mr. Smith's touring car across Illi- 

 nois to Chicago, and from Chicago north ami west 

 through Wisconsin to Minneapolis again. 



The Minneapolis Lumber Company, which 

 wholesales the product of the Uuby iaunUer Com- 

 pany and other Wiscon.sin mills, with bcad(|uar- 

 ters here, announces the opening of a branch 

 office at ,540 First National Bank building, Chi- 

 cago. It will be in charge of 1'. S. Hamilton. 

 a son of P. R. Hamilton, one of the partners, 

 who has been associated in the business for 

 some time, and is familiar with the stock and 

 the selling proposition. 



George S. Agnew, who has been in the whole- 

 sale hardwood business in Minneapolis for two 

 or three years past, bas decided to stay in Te.xas, 

 where he went recently to look over the ground 

 for business opportunities. He has purchased 

 an interest in a retail lumber yard at Mission. 

 Texas, near Brownsville. 



- George W. Everts, formerly with the Everts- 

 Fall Lumber Company, and later with the 

 Korbes-Everts Lumlwr Company, hardwood pro- 

 ducers, has sold out his other interests and bas 

 .joined the staff of the I'ayson Smith Lumber 

 Company. He is looking after the trade Itetween 

 here and St. Louis. 



SAOINAW VALLEY 



The Kneelanrt-Kigelow Company's sawmill at 

 i;ay City shut down July G for a couple of weeks 

 for a general overhauling, ffben that is finished 

 it will start a day and night run for another 

 year. This firm shipped 4.:;27,000 feet of lum- 

 ber by rail in the month of June. In fact, the 

 company has moved between three and four mil- 

 lion feet a mouth since the beginning of the 

 year. The company bas sold a large fjuantity of 

 maple lumber lo be cut. 



The sawmill of the Kneeland. Buell & Bigelow 

 Company, lioth mills being operated by the same 

 company, has resumed operations after having a 

 new battery of boilers installed and other re- 

 pairs made. 



W. D. Young & Co. have experienced a busy 

 season, 'llieir plant has Ijeen operated day and 

 night the greater portion of the time since the 

 beginning of the year and the demand for stocks 

 has been so urgent that it has been a matter of 

 getting the material to the customer. 



Yulll Brothers of Vanderbilt. on the line of the 

 Mackinaw Division of the Michigan Central, fur- 

 nish a large rjuantily of logs to W. D. Young 

 & Co., and are tjuilding a branch road which 

 opens up oO,000,0(iii feet of timber that will come 

 to Bay City to be manufactured. The branch 

 touches the main line at Vanderbilt. W. D. 

 Young expects to go to Europe on a business 

 trip shortly. The firm has a large export busi- 

 ness in maple fioorlng. 



The Wyiie & Buell Lumber Company of Sagi- 

 naw, owning large bodies of timber north of the 

 S!;ginaw river and putting in for various parties 

 In tlie valley -td.OOO.OiKi feet of logs annually, 

 has built six miles of track on what is known 

 ns the llaakwood branch of the Mackinaw Di- 

 vision, which will reach 75,000,000 feet of tim- 

 ber. This will be cut and shipped to mills on 

 Hie Saginaw river. 'The Urm just started a log- 

 ging camp four miles south of Tower, which 

 will employ sixty hands. 



The T. E. Douglas & Co. sawmill at Lovells, 

 east of Grayling, burned last week, involving a 

 loss of $l:;,o...i, with only ,f,'>,OU0 insurance. It 

 Is not believed the mill will be rebuilt. 



The Ulchardson Lumber Company's sawmill at 

 Bay City has bi'en operated steadily the entire 



year ' to date. The logs come to the mill by 

 rail and the company is having a very success- 

 ful run. 



Woodworth & O'Malley of Bay City are bring- 

 ing about 2,500,000 feet of logs from the upper 

 peninsula to Bay City to be manufactured. 



March 26 the maple flooring plant of Welsh 

 & Kerry at Keed City was destroyed by fire, in- 

 volving a loss of some $35,000. The firm has 

 erected a new plant, which is in operation. C. 

 T. Kerry of this firm resides in Saginaw, wnere 

 he is associated in the operation of a lumber 

 yard, the firm being Kerry & Shultz, and he is 

 also manager of the Kerry & Hanson flooring 

 plant at (irayling, north of Bay City. The lat- 

 ter plant has been particularly busy during the 

 season. The product is shipped out over the 

 Michigan Central. 



The new Hanson- Ward flooring plant at Bay 

 City, which began operations early in the sea- 

 son, is having a good run of business, giving 

 satisfaction to the owners. The firm operates a 

 large veneer plant in connection with tlie floor- 

 ing iiiill and employs nearly two hundred men. 



At Saginaw the S. L. Eastman Flooring Com- 

 pany has been running with a full crew all the 

 reason, and has shipped a large quantity of floor- 

 ing abroad as well as doing a fine domestic 

 business. The Strable Manufacturing Company 

 is also operating a flooring plant at Saginaw 

 and having a fine business. 



CADILLAC 



The water power companies of the state are 

 urging the State Baliroad Commission to let 

 down the bars to a certain extent in relation 

 to bond issues. They claim if they had more 

 freedom in the issuing of bonds they would 

 cause the state to develop taster than at any 

 previous period and would 'spend more than $:i0.- 

 0110,000 in developing the water power. 11 is 

 slated that there is 400,000 horsepower of uu.de- 

 vcloped water power in Michigan, which is 10(1,- 

 (100 horsepower more than the steam power 

 now used in the state. If the water power were 

 developed it would also be a great saving in coal, 

 as the 202 water powers now developed save an- 

 nually 2,000,000 tons of coal. 



The Bay View Furniture Company of Holland 

 is building a large addition to its factory on 

 Black Lake. This addition will be 80x100 feet, 

 three stories high and will greatly enlarge the 

 capacity of the plant. Forty employes will be 

 added to the present crew of workmen. 



At this extremely dry season forest flres are 

 very destructive and State Game and Forest 

 Warden Tierce is taking every precaution to 

 prevent any outbreaks. One or two flres in the 

 upper peninsula are likely to sweep over wide 

 stretches of country. The greatest menace is 

 the timber slashings, and Mr. Tierce is urging 

 Ihe owners to dispose of this as rapidly as pos- 

 sible. The railroads are rigidly enforcing the 

 rules to keep their rights of way clear, and if 

 the timbermen are careful they hope to get 

 Ibrougb the dry season without any serious flres. 



Traverse City is to lose one of her oldest land- 

 marks, the refuse burner of Hannah & Long, 

 which will be removed to the upper peninsula. 

 The machinery of the mill has also been sold 

 to the John F. Ott Lumber Company and will 

 be taken north. This retu.se burner was built 

 by J. J. Fay, Jr,, for the purpose of disposing 

 of the sawdust and pine slabs which were 

 counted a nuisance before the days of conserva- 

 tion. The city forbade the dumping of saw- 

 dust in the lake and the burner was constructed 

 to take care of it. 



J. C. Knox, secretary of tlie Michigan Hard- 

 wood .Manufacturers' Association, is on a busi- 

 ness trip to Detroit and Grand liapids for a 

 few days. 



GRAND RAPIDS 



Charles A. Tbelps of the Hackley-Thelps-Bon- 

 iiell Company, accompanied by Mrs. Phelps, went 

 lo Hackley, Wis., this week, where the com- 

 pany's mills are located. 'They will spend the 

 summer there. 



L. L. Skillman and W. L. Fas.sett of the Skill- 

 .■uan Lumber Company are in the South on a 

 short business trip. 



The furniture exposition is now at its lieiglit 

 and indications point to a satisfactory business. 

 The atlendance of buyers so far runs about sixty 

 ahead of a year ago and the total number will 

 exceed one thousand. The number of lines of 

 manufacturers on exhibition will not quite reach 

 three hundred, the largest showing ever made 

 oere. llie samples are very largely in oak and 

 mahogany, though maple, gum, birch, walnut, 

 ash and some other woods also figured in the 

 display, line concern of Allentown, I'a., making 

 high-grade stuff, largely reproductions of cele- 

 brated Sheraton, Chippendale and Heppelwhite 

 pieces in England, is using quarter-sawed hard 

 maple with beautiful effect in imitation of the 

 expensive rosewood used in the originals. Of 

 the two the maple is the better wood. 



Ited gum is creeping into nearly all the lines 

 .md the manufacturers of high-grade stuff who 

 scoffed at it a few seascms ago are using it 

 more and more. White oak with fumed flnisli 

 is used largely by manufacturers of Mission 

 stuff. Xot much figured birch is being used, 

 Ibr trade preferring tuna mahogany, which sells 

 at practically the same price. William Widdi- 

 lomb. the oldest manufacturer here, is still 

 using quite a bit of Michigan birdseye maple in 

 bedroom furniture. It makes very liandsoiiie 

 furniture. 



Trade of the better class usually lakes ma- 

 hogany goods. flni.shed in the nalural tone, but 

 Ihe manufacturers do not encourage this since 

 an imperfection in the wood can easily be hid- 

 den by stains, and if finished natural this wood 

 could not be used. Some very striking effects 

 are produced in Circassian walnut goods, the fig- 

 ure in this wood having such diversity and 

 richness of coloring. The most beautiful figure 

 in this wood is said to come from the stump 

 bcliiw ground. 



Hardwood Market. 



(By HA3I>'WOOD BECOBD Exclnsive Uarket Bepoxtera.) 



CHICAGO 



'The last couple of weeks in Chicago have seen 

 a more encouraging change in the situation in 

 most lines of the lumber trade. A good many 

 of the remanufacturers are evincing a tendency 

 lo buy, though some are still pretty slow in 

 orders. Furniture manufacturers are still doing 

 a poor business, and as a consequence those of 

 Ihe trade dealing in stock consumed in this line 

 are feeling the effect. On the other hand, the 

 car builders are placing considerable orders, and 



ilie ciulbiok seems to be very favorable. The box 

 manufacturers have come out of their rut to a 

 sliglit extent, and handlers of low grades of Cot- 

 tonwood and poplar are more favorably impressed 

 with the situation. A good deal of low-grade 

 cottonwocKl is used in the manufacture of wash- 

 ing boards, and this is a market which is usu- 

 ally pretty steady. This trade demands common 

 slock, but without stain of any sort. Office and 

 store furnishing people and remanufacturers in 

 similar lines are doing about the same busi- 

 ness as two weeks ago. 



The general sentiment seems to be favorable 

 lovvurds better times in the near future, and 



