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HARDWOOD RECORD 



purebascs of timber lands. It at present has 

 twenty years' sawing In sigtt. 



The government mill at Neopit on the Me- 

 nominee Indian reservation had a narrow escape 

 from being burned recently. It required the 

 work of the entire male population of the village 

 to save it. 



Col. I. Watson Stephenson died recently at 

 his home in Marinette of tuberculosis. He was 

 thirty-three years of age. He was the eldest 

 son of United States Senator Isaac Stephenson, 

 the millionaire lumberman. 



The Chippewa Falls Chair Company's plant 

 was struck by lightning recently and was en- 

 tirely consumed by fire. The loss is $'20,000. 



The Libnum Chemical Company will at once 

 build a plant at Marinette. It is proposed to 

 manufacture alcohol, acetic acid and byproducts 

 from wood shavings and sawdust. The plant 

 will be one of many to be located in the United 

 States by New Yorl; and Chicago capitalists. 

 F. G. Hood, formerly a Peshtigo lumberman, is 

 president and general manager. 



The A. Streich & Brother Company of Oshkosh 

 will soon extend its present quarters, so as to 

 triple its capacity. The company manufactures 

 wagons, sleighs and lumber companies' para- 

 phernalia. A large three-story brick building 

 will be erected and modern machinery will be 

 installed. The lirm has for a long time main- 

 tained an offlce in Chicago. A lot has been pur- 

 chased on West Lake street, that city, on which 

 a four-story building, fireproof and modernly 

 equipped, will be erected. This will be used as 

 a warehouse and for display rooms. The firm 

 began business in 1860. 



An investigation of the wood using industries 

 of Wisconsin just concluded shows that more 

 than 930,000,000 feet of lumber, valued at 

 approNimately $20,000,000, is utilized annually 

 in the numerous lines of manufacture. This is 

 but part of the lumber industry of the state, 

 the figures not covering' the volume of material 

 turned out by .the sawmills of the state, as well 

 as other forest products which are not considered 

 .as raw material for further manufacture. In 

 1860 Wisconsin ranked seventh in the list of 

 states in quantity of lumber produced. Then it 

 gradually arose until in 1900 it ranked first. In 

 1908 it was fifth. For the last mentioned year 

 data was furnished by 899 sawmills, reporting 

 a total production of 1.613,315,000 feet, or 4.9 

 per cent, of the total of all mills in the country. 

 In recent years the decrease in the cut of white 

 pine has been offset by the increase in the cut 

 of iemioci and hardwood. The state ranked 

 third in the cut of maple, first in birch, bass- 

 wood and elm. first in ash in 1908. The growing 

 employment of dimension stock in furniture and 

 chair factories and by makers of vehicles and 

 agricultural implements has done much to lessen 

 the waste of material. However, from five fo 

 thirty-five per cent of material goes into the 

 firebox under the boilers. The state forester is 

 working out a plan for a closer utilization of 

 material with a view of increasing the profits 

 of lumbermen. It is the intention of the forester 

 to outline a plan whereby producing and con- 

 suming iiiiliistries di-pendi nt on wood may be 

 perpetuated and enlarg(-d. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



Prospects are that Minneapolis will eclipse all 

 former records in the way of building, and the 

 figures of building permits show plainly why 

 the sash and door factories have been so rushed 

 this season. Permits for seven months aggre- 

 gated .?9. 270, 520, compared with $7,006,465 for 

 the same months last year. 



The Lumbermen's baseball team got even with 

 the Ben Franklin club team, the only one which 

 has beaten the lumljermen this season, by win- 

 ning in a return game to the tune of 18 to 14. 

 A third game is planned to decide the proposi- 

 tion. 



T. H, Smith, wholesale dealer of Wausau, 

 Wis., was a business visitor in Minneapolis this 

 week, looking over the symptoms of the hard- 

 wood market. 



A. S. Bliss of the Payson Smith Lumber 

 Company has returned from a short business 

 trip to Winnipeg, where he was informed that 

 farmers In the newly rettled country north of 

 the Canadian Pacific main line have good crops 

 this year, and consequently will he in the mar- 

 ket in good shape this fall. E, Payson Smith 

 of the same company is on a business trip in 

 northern Wisconsin. 



Anthony Hein of the John Hein Company, 

 lumber manufacturer at Tony, Wis., was in the 

 city a few days ago. He reports that while it 

 has been very dry most of the summer, they 

 recently had some good rains that have done 

 away with the danger of forest fires. 



C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark is back from 

 a business trip to his yards and farm at Erie, 

 111. 



C. P. Koon of the Beldenville Lumber Com- 

 pany, Bruce, Wis., came to the twin cities a few 

 days ago to look after some hardwood matters. 



Arthur H. Barnard, president of the North- 

 western Hardwood Lumbermen's Association, is 

 very proud of his twelve-year-old daughter. Miss 

 Katharin, who wrote a three-act play for an 

 entertainment given by some of the young chicks 

 at a neighborhood party at Lake Minnetonka 

 and acted one of the parts herself very credita- 

 bly. 



SAOINAW VALLEY 



This section of Michigan suffered considerably 

 since early in June by reason of dry and hot 

 weather. In the northern timber districts some 

 losses were sustained from fire. The Wylie & 

 Buell Lumber Company had $6,000 worth of 

 logs burned, but the loss was covered by insur- 

 ance. Many small lots of logs and other forest 

 products were burned or damaged. Of late scat- 

 tering showers have relieved the situation. 



The hardwood industry has never been so con- 

 spicuously active as this year until early In 

 July, since when it has eased off a little. Plants 

 have been operated at capacity and the only 

 diinculty has been in getting enough stock to 

 supply the trade as fast as ordered. 



The flooring plants have been active. The 

 W. D. Young •& Co. factory has run a good por- 

 tion of the season with day and night shifts. 

 The firm has had orders booked for all the 

 stock it could put out, a considerable portion 

 of which is for export. A trainload of saw 

 logs from the north reaches the plant every 

 day. Mr. Young is thoroughly satisfied with 

 Imsiness conditions and optimistic as to the 

 future. 



The S. L. Eastman Flooring Company at 

 Saginaw, whose plant is located at Carrolton, 

 has been in active operation. It will put out 

 some 12,000,000 feet of flooring this year. The 

 Knecland-Bigelow Company at Bay City supplies 

 the Eastman plant with 8,000,000 feet of maple, 

 and the Robinson Lumber Company, in which 

 S. L. Eastman is the principal stockholder, also 

 cuts out a large quantity of maple for the floor- 

 ing plant. 



The Kneeland-Bigelow sawmill shut down two 

 weeks for general repairs and has resumed saw- 

 ing. The suspension is an annual affair, the 

 mill being operated day and night the year 

 through. This flrm is the selling concern for the 

 lumber manufactured by this mill and also the 

 Kneeland, Buell & BIgelow sawmill at Bay City. 

 Recently the interest of Frank Buell in this 

 plant was acquired by the other members of the 

 concern. The business of the flrm has been 

 excellent until the last month, when it eased up 

 a bit. No trouble has been experienced in sell- 

 ing every available board of dry stock and at 

 good prices. Mr. BIgelow leaves August 6 for 

 an auto trip to the White mountains. 



The Knapp & Scott mill at Bay City, formerly 

 tlie riargreave plant, is cutting hardwood and 

 hemlock for the Ward estate and has run day 

 and night all season. 



The new flooring plant of the Hanson-Ward 

 Company at Bay City has been running steadily 

 since it began business early in the season. It 

 has plenty of raw material to draw from and 

 is building up a flne business. 



It is calculated that the S. G. M. Gates estate 

 sawmill at Bay City will finish its timber supply 

 this season unless additional stock should be 

 purchased. The last log has reached the mill 

 from the holdings of the estate. The mill has 

 manufactured about 6,000,000 feet a year for 

 some years past, the logs coming by rail from 

 off the Detroit & Mackinac railroad. 



The Bliss & Van Auken and the Strable Manu- 

 facturing companies' flooring and hardwood 

 plants at Saginaw have experienced a good sea- 

 son. There has been a large export demand 

 for flooring, and the domestic trade is reported 

 as con^derably better than it was last year. 



Kerry & Shultz, who operate a yard on the 

 old Wright Lumber Company's premises at 

 Saginaw, have had a fairly good trade. E. T. 

 Kerry of this concern is also connected with 

 Walsh & Kerry, who have recently started a 

 new flooring plant at Reed City to replace one 

 burned last March, and also of the Kerry-Hanson 

 Flooring Company, operating a fine flooring plant 

 at Grayling, north of Bay City. This plant is 

 doing an extensive business. 



The Johannesburg Manufacturing Company's 

 plant at Johannesburg, north of Grayling, is 

 having a good season and is cutting a large 

 quantity of fine maple lumber, a large portion 

 of which goes into fiooring. 



The Detroit & Mackinac railroad rate case 

 attracted some attention during the past week, 

 testimony being heard before a special commis- 

 sioner. The state railroad commission fixed a 

 rate on lumber products hauled over this road, 

 which the shippers north of Alpena claimed dis- 

 criminated against them in favor of Alpena ship- 

 pers, who liave the benefit of water competition 

 in freights. The railroad company enjoined the 

 commission from putting its rate into effect until 

 a hearing could be had. ^ Large interests are af- 

 fected, particularly lumbermen shi|6ping stuff 

 from Onaway. Tower, Millersburg and other 

 points off the Detroit & Mackinac line north of 

 Alpena. 



The plants of H. M. Loud's Sons Company at 

 Au Sable have been running overtime. Orders 

 are coming in freely and a large quantity of 

 stuff is being moved. 



Silas McTiver, a lumberman at Onaway, and 

 who has operated extensively in Presque Isle 

 count.v for a number of years, has filed a volun- 

 tary petition in bankruptcy, and Guy D. Henry 

 of Alpena has been appointed receiver. The 

 liabilities are scheduled at $70,000, of which 

 $5,000 is open accounts and the remainder mort- 

 gages. The assets are believed to range from 

 $100,000 to $150,000. 



GRAND RAPIDS 



W. T. Culver of the Stearns Company, Luding- 

 ton, was in the city August 4. He was on his 

 way to attend the Detroit meeting of hardwood 

 manufacturers. 



Otis A. Felger, secretary of the Hackley-Phelps- 

 Bonnell Company, returned Saturday from the 

 Detroit meeting of hardwood people. 



Chas. McQuewan left for St. Catharines, Ont., 

 with a crew of men from the Grand Rapids Boat 

 and Canoe club, to take part in the Canadian 

 Henley races. He is coach and head of the crew. 



E. W. Stiles of the Stiles Bros. Company is 

 confined to his home by illness. 



O. J. Smith of the R. G. Peters Salt & Lumber 

 Company, Eastlake, was in the city on business 

 Aug. 6. 



A. F. .Vnderson of Cadillac with his family 



