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HARDWOOD RECORD 



saving are boing made. Arraugcmonts are about 

 completed wltL U. F. Steryzk of Galax, Va., to 

 take the management of the plant about Au- 

 gust 1. He has had twenty-six years' experi- 

 ence in the furniture business. The firm hopes 

 to opei'ate its plant throughout the year in the 

 future, giving employment to a large number 

 of men. 



The Mason-Donaldson Lumber Company of 

 Uhlnelander will hereafter be represented in Chi- 

 cago by W. G. Commcntz, who heretofore has 

 been representing the G. W. Jones Lumber Com- 

 pany of Appleton. Mr. Commentz succeeds L. 

 i;. Smith. 



The Wisconsin Furniture Company's plant at 

 NeillSTille was destroyed by fire a few days ago, 

 supposedly catching from spontaneous combus- 

 tion. The company will at once rebuild. 



Forest fires are still burning all over the state. 

 There has been scarcely any rain all summer. 



The large mill of the Brooks & Ross Lumber 

 Company at Schofleld was destroyed by fire re- 

 cently. The loss is estimated at $75,000 ; fully 

 covered by insurance. The mill had a cutting 

 capacity of 1,000,000 feet in ten days. John 1). 

 Ross of Oak Park, 111., and H. L. Brooks of 

 Chicago are the main stockholders of the com- 

 pany. No decision has been reached regarding 

 rebuilding. 



The B. F. McMillan & Brother Company of Mc- 

 Millan has been a heavy loser since the forest 

 fires started. Tlie company lost 500,000 feet of 

 logs, besides a large amount of standing tim- 

 ber. 



The Soo Railroad Company has lost over ,$200,- 

 000 worth of timber in Wisconsin by fires. 



All Chicago & Northwestern railway trains 

 which pass through the timber belt of Wisconsin 

 liave this summer been provided with fire fight- 

 ing apparatus, on account of the many danger- 

 ous forest fires. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



Controversy between the Minneapolis and 

 St. Paul business men who have undertaken 

 to entertain the National Conservation Congress 

 and the officers of the congress was ended .lune 

 20 at a meeting in Chicago, followed by a 

 conference in St. Paul, at which details of the 

 program were worked out. The local men ob- 

 jected to the character of the program, which 

 was made up very much on Pinchot lines and 

 anti-Taft. Concessions were finally made. 

 President Taft was invited to come and open 

 the congress on September 5, which is made 

 "governors' day" and governors of all the states 

 invited to come and talk. L. D. Brandeis of 

 Boston and Col. W. R. Nelson of Kansas City, 

 who were objected to, have declined to come. 

 The program will include Senators Nelson and 

 Clapp of this state. September 6 will be "Roose- 

 velt Day." 



The local Lumbermen's Baseball team is 

 awaiting a formal challenge from the Chicago 

 lumbermen, who have signified through Carl L. 

 Saye their desire for a game. The local boys 

 want a game in each town, for the benefit of 

 some charity. The lumbermen's team lost its 

 first game of the season .July 16 to the Ben 

 Franklin club, by a score of 10 to 0, but ex- 

 pect to reverse it with a return game. 



E. Payson Smith and wife of this city, with 

 L. P. Arthur and wife of Chicago, have finished 

 a delightful automobile tour. They took Mr. 

 Smith's machine and went down by boat to 

 Clinton, Iowa, then took two days across Illi- 

 nois to Chicago, spent two days there, ran to 

 Milwaukee and Madison, stopping in each place, 

 and a day in La Crosse, . making the whole 

 trip back here in the machine. Mr. Smith 

 is head of the Payson Smith Lumber Company 

 and Mr. Arthur, the Chicago manager. Mr. 

 Smith Is going next week with a party of Twin 

 City and i^hicago business men. stockholders 



in the company, to show them the company's 

 mill at Henderson Mound, Mo. 



T. E. Youngblood, southern representative of 

 the Payson Smith Lumber Company, with head- 

 quarters at Maiden, Mo., has returned home, 

 after a vacation of two weeks spent here and 

 at roundabout lake resorts. 



The Buswell Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany is rebuilding its plant at Buswell. Wis., 

 which was totally destroyed by fire. The fire 

 burned about twelve million feet of lumber, 

 mostly hardwood, destroyed the mill and all 

 other buildings, and did damage estimated at 

 $285,000. The Insurance is only $185,000. The 

 plant will be rebuilt, as the company has about 

 25,000,000 feet of timber in the vicinity, with 

 more available. 



W. D. Bartell, for the last fifteen years as- 

 sociated with Upham & Agler of Chicago, has 

 opened a brancli office for that concern in Min- 

 neapolis. O. O. Agler accompanied Mr. Bartell 

 here and helped him secure a location. They 

 have done business in this city for a number 

 of years, but never before have maintained 

 their own office. 



Albert La Berge of Stetsonville, Wis., whole- 

 saler of hardwood and hemlock lumber, was 

 here a short time ago on his way home from 

 a business trip through western Canada. 



Dean Samuel B. Green of the school of for- 

 estry. University of Minnesota, died suddenly 

 July 11 while at the summer school of forestry 

 at Itasca state park. His death is a great 

 loss, as the school had been built up lai'geiy 

 by Ills individual efforts. Funeral services were 

 held here and interment was at the old home, 

 Chelsea, Mass. 



DETROIT 



The factory of the Thomas Forman Company 

 on the River Rouge is very busy these days. 

 Two big cargoes of hardwood lumber are ex- 

 pected in a few days and the company has a 

 lilg supply of hardwood lumber .on hand on 

 its docks. Thomas Forman was out of the city 

 on business last week. 



Secretary John Lodge of the Dwight Lum- 

 ber Company announces that he will not be a 

 candidate to succeed himself as a representative 

 in the Michigan legislature. Mr. Lodge, how- 

 ever, says that he will be a candidate for the 

 office of alderman in the first ward in Detroit 

 where he resides. Mr. Lodge has a large circle 

 of friends and should be successful in his cam- 

 paign. Ho gives as his reason for withdrawing 

 from the race for the legislature that his duties 

 at the Dwiglit company will not allow him time 

 to properly represent this district in the legis- 

 lature. 



The annual report of Henry A. Dupont shows 

 that during the fir.st six months of the present 

 year 2,074 buildings were erected at an esti- 

 mated cost of $6,700,203. The total number 

 of new additions was 450 and the estimated 

 cost $1)46,105. The month of June was the 

 greatest building month in the history of the 

 department, permits for 437 new buildings and 

 80 additions at a total cost of $1,959,540 being ' 

 issued. 



Detroit continues to maintain its reputation 

 as the center of the auto Industry. The auto 

 output for 1910 will be 137,450 cars at a total 

 cost of $1. '12,074.000. 



Hardwood Market* 



(By HA3D'WOOD HECOBD Exclnslve Market Beporteri.) 



CHICAGO 



Very little change is evident in Chicago from 

 the conditions that prevailed two weeks ago. A 

 quiet market is evident everywhere, nobody 

 seeming to buy any more than is necessary to 

 supply present demands. However there is 

 nothing alarming in this situation, considering 

 the time of the year, and almost everywhere 

 there is a clieerful sentiment, a disposition to 

 overlook present laxity arid to anticipate a 

 liealtby picking up by the first or middle of 

 September. There is no use denying the fact 

 that sales are mighty slow just at present but 

 on the other hand a great deal of satisfaction 

 can be derived from consideration of the fact 

 that all through the present and recent dullness 

 of trade a panicky state of mind has been alto- 

 gether lacking. There has been no disposition 

 whatever to dump stocks, either from the mill 

 points or upon the consumers, and i>ractirally 

 without exception prices are being maintained. 

 This is especially evident among the mill men 

 who seem perfectly willing to wait rather than 

 sacrifice a fair profit. As a consequence th<' 

 prevailing prices are really good, generally 

 speaking, and it has been prophesied that when 

 the fall trade opens up in good shape, figures 

 will pass any previous marks. 



Red oak on the Chicago market is now in 

 very fair demand and upper grades are not 

 easily procured. There is no difficulty in se- 

 curing all the quartered white oak necessary 

 as the over cut is evidently far from exhausted. 

 Lower grades are plentiful and find but a poor 

 market. While prices on uppers are good the 

 poorer stocks do not bring very much. 



Ash and hickory remain about as before witli 

 the selling in upper grades fairly well. There 

 is almost no market for poorer stocks just now 

 and they probably will he in excess of demand 

 for some little time. 



Gum as usual is going well, especially red. 

 The consuming trade for this class of W',.od 

 seems to require a considerable supply con- 

 stantly, a fact which renders it one of the best 

 sellers on the market. Sap gum is not so 

 lively, though several concerns around town are 

 looking for Fas sap. 



The upper grades of poplar and Cottonwood 

 still sell themselves, but lower grades have a 

 much slower movement, though the tendency 

 to buy, as instanced in the last Record, still is 

 evident. Wide stocks of good grades are scarce 

 on the market at present and command good 

 prices. 



Shop cypress is a little short in some quar- 

 ters and the demand for all grades, while btiU 

 "summery," Is very satisfactory. The fact that 

 cypress is going into building construction on a 

 considerable scale undoubtedly helps out very 

 materially, as the iiuilding record shows a con- 

 slant increase. Mill prices are firm, the only 

 tendency to cut being evident where firms are 

 anxious to clean out a certain line for the sake 

 of convenience. 



Maple, birch and elm are all excellent sellers 

 in the upper grades. The northern mill men 

 are mighty stiff on prices and give promise that 

 there will be no lower level for good grades. 

 Basswond, both from the North and from the 

 South, is slow. 



The railroad people continue their policy of 

 retrenchment and are buying only what is ab- 

 solutely necessary. The tie market even is 

 feeling its effect and the roads evidently are 

 playing a strong game of bluff to scare people 

 into believing that they are up against it. And 

 yet they continue to pay enticing dividend.^ on 

 mythical stock. Heavy timbers of all sorts are 

 at a standstill. 



Flooring manufacturers are optimistic and 

 continue lo turn out their regular line of stock. 

 They seem to he free from the tribulations of 

 the average lumberman. 



