HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Articles of incorporation have been filed by 

 tbe Cedarburg (Wis.) Box & Woodwork Com- 

 pany, recently organized. The concern is capi- 

 talized at $10,000 and will erect a factory 

 immediately. 



The new plant of the Edgerton Wagon Com- 

 pany is now being operated. All of the machinery 

 is run by electric power and the entire plant 

 is modern in all respects. 



A woodenware company to be capitalized at 

 $100,000 Is being organized at Boyd, Wis., by 

 C. E. Cooper and August Cirkel of Boyd and 

 Melvan Nye of Thorpe and Charles Giauge of 

 Stanley. 



Ten thousand feet of lumber and a large 

 quantity of railroad ties belonging to the Rogers- 

 Kuger Lumber Company. Breen & Co., and the 

 Erickson Lumber Company were recently de- 

 stroyed by fire at Dedham, Wis. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



Salesmen from southern concerns have been 

 in the Twin Cities the last tew days looking for 

 the business that is generally done with the 

 factory trade at this season. From all reports 

 they have not, as a rule, been very successful. 

 Buying is still light and the situation rather 

 quiet. As to the future, there is no reason 

 why the trade should not assume its usual fall 

 activity right away, and local people are expect- 

 ing it. 



R. A. Taylor, representing Lee Wilson' & Co. 

 of Memphis, Tenn., was in'Minneapolis last week 

 calling on the trade. Mr. Miller, of the Gayoso 

 Lumber Company, Memphis, also spent some 

 time in the Twin Cities the latter part of the 

 week. 



F. S. Barnard of Hough, Mo., bookkeeper for 

 the Missouri Hardwood Lumber Company, is 

 here on a vacation, visiting at his home and 

 picking up information as to the situation 

 at this end of the line. 



W. P. Miller, of the Minneapolis Cedar & 

 Lumber Company, returned a few days ago from 

 a trip to Gagen, Wis., where his company 

 operates a sawmill. He says it is sawing 

 steadily on hardwood and hemlock logs and is 

 liiliug up a nice stock of lumber. 



A. S. Bliss, of the Payson Smith Lumber 

 Company, has returned from a short business 

 trip to Duluth and other northern Minnesota 

 points, where he was looking over some propo- 

 sitions as to stocks and sales. 



W. H. Sill, of the Minneapolis Lumber Com- 

 pany, has returned from a business trip which 

 extended to Chicago and look in the plant of 

 its subsidiary concern, the Ruby Lumber Com- 

 pany, at Ruby, Wis. 



D. F. Clark, of Osborne & Clark, local whole- 

 salers, has returned from a western business 

 trip. 



SAQINAW VALLEY 



The haruwood market is picking up again 

 after a lull of some thirty days. The mills are 

 running steadily and, owing to the fact that dry 

 stocks were sold ahead very early in the sea- 

 son, enough has not accumulated yet to ship 

 to scarcely meet the trade requirements. 



Thomas Denton, the veteran square timber 

 man of Saginaw, will operate in Wexford county 

 and will cut a lot of rock elm for the Quebec 

 market. 



The hardwood flooring plants have had a fair 

 season and the stock is moving well. A good 

 percentage of the local output goes abroad. 



The S. L. Eastman Flooring Company is erect- 

 ing an addition to its plant to further facili- 

 tate the handling of its output. 



The Batchelor Timber Company's mill at West 

 Branch was shut down ten days owing to a 

 break to the engine, but Is expected to resume 

 operations this week. A large portion of the 



maple output of this plant goes to the Strable 

 Manufacturing plant in Saginaw. 



C. A. Bigelow iias returned from an automo- 

 bile trip in the L"ast. having been absent a 

 month. He comes home to find that business 

 has materially improved. About everything 

 manufactured at his two plants is finding a 

 ready sale. Both mills are in operation, one 

 running day and night and the other ten hours 

 a day. 



The W. D. Young <K; Co. plant is working up 

 with a big crew, and a train load of logs comes 

 to the plant every day. The firm is doing a 

 satisfactory business. 



Operators are getting camps established for 

 the fall and winter, and it is calculated the 

 usual stock will be secured. The Richardson 

 Lumber Company is strengthening its camps 

 in Otsego county and sent a carload of fine 

 heavy draft horses to its camps last week. 



The Goldie stave, hoop and tie mill plant in 

 Jiay City burued Saturday night, involving a 

 loss of $15,000. The loss was nearly covered by 

 insurance. 



The Loud & Hoett Lumber Company, operat- 

 ing a sawmill at Rogers City, cutting some 

 8,000,000 feet of hardwood stock, will put in a 

 lull stock this winter for the mill next season. 



Shipments are reported fairly good by rail 

 from the manufacturing localities in this sec- 

 tion, and prospects are favorable for an in- 

 creased volume of business during the fall and 

 winier months. 



DETROIT 



Many big hardwood cargoes have arrived at 

 the docks along the River Rouge during the 

 past week, most of the lumber being consigned 

 to the Brownlee-Kelly Company and the Thomas 

 Forman Company. The latter company is very 

 busy turning out flooring and hardwood interior 

 finish. 



The candidacy of John C. Lodge, secretary 

 of the Dwight Lumber Company, for the nomi- 

 nation for alderman in the first ward was 

 backed by a great number of prominent and 

 influential business men who believed that the 

 interests of the city could not be placed in better 

 hands. Mr. Lodge made a fine record as a mem- 

 ber of the legislature but could not stand for 

 re-election Iwcause his duties at the Dwight 

 Company would not permit his absence from 

 the city to attend sessions of the legislature. 



There has been a slight lull in the activity 

 of the automobile industry but manufacturers of 

 "buzz" wagons declare that no misapprehension 

 need be felt. Many of the manufacturers to 

 back up their statements are making plans for 

 extensive improvements and additions to their 

 plants looking forward to big Increases in their 

 outputs for next season. 



August building in Detroit broke all records 

 for the city. Permits were issued for 501 new 

 buildings to cost $2,308,645 and 100 additions 

 to cost $191,235, a total of $2,499,880. 



Detroit hardwood men were much interested 

 in the report of State Forestry Warden Charles 

 Pierce to the effect that Michigan's loss by 

 forest fires this year has been exceedingly small. 

 The warden says that in practically every town- 

 ship in the forest districts bands of fire fighters 

 have been organized and that the small loss is 

 due to the energetic efforts of these men. 



The bowling season will soon be in full swing 

 again and teams representing a number of 

 hardwood dealers will be enrolled in the Lumber 

 league. Last "season the E. W. Leech team was 

 not in the running to any noticeable extent. 

 "Watch our smoke this year" is the word from 

 the Leech bunch. 



GRAND RAPIDS 



Adrian VanKeulen, for the past five years with 

 the VanKeulen & Wilkinson Lumber Company, 

 has resigned his position and left tor Cadillac, 

 September 7, whore he will be associated with 

 A. F. Anderson in his extensive manufacturing 

 and selling operations. The Anderson mills are 

 at Buckley and South Boardman. Mr. Van- 

 ICeulen is a clean' young man of exceptional 

 ability and is certain to make good in his new 

 and responsible relations with one of Michigan's 

 leading lumbermen. 



President II. J. Dudley of the Grand Rapids 

 Lumbermen's Association has issued a call f'.»r 

 the first meeting of the fall season, which will be 

 held Friday evening, September 30. During the 

 past two years meetings were held the last Tues- 

 day evening of each month, but this has been 

 changed to the last F'riday in the expectation 

 that coming later in the week there will be a 

 larger attendance. 



J. W. Travis of J. W. Travis & Son, whose 

 home is in Traverse City, is in Grand Rapids on 

 business. C. S. Travis of the firm has recently 

 returned from an extended trip to Virginia. 



Gerald McCoy, secretary of the Rice Veneer & 

 Lumber Company, has returned from an enjoya- 

 ble outing in the Georgian bay district. 



Chas. L. Davis, a prominent table manufac- 

 turer of Shelbyville, Ind., was in the city 

 August 6. 



Among recent callers on the Grand Rapids 

 trade are the following : Otto W. McCowen of 

 Thompson, Thayer & McCowen, Evansville, Ind. ; 

 W. D. Reeves of the W. D. Reeves Lumber Com- 

 pany, manufacturer of hardwood lumber and box 

 shocks at Helena, Ark., and Otto Meyer of the 

 Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company, St. Louis, 

 Mo. 



Carroll F. Sweet has been chosen as chairman 

 of the local Y. M. C. A. Educational Committee, 

 and his associates include E. K. Pritchett of the 

 Macey Company, H. B. Grover of the Dregge- 

 Grover Lumber Company, I. Preston Rice of the 

 Rice Veneer & Lumber Company and Jesse B. 

 Davis, principal of the Central high sch6ol. 

 Chairman Sweet proposes a class in journalism 

 for this year, which will be something unique for 

 Grand Rapids. 



Hardwood Market. 



(B7 HA3DWOOD BECOBD Ezclasive Market Beporteri.) 



CHIC AGO 



The hardwood business still remains rather 

 spotted in Chicago and vicinity. To be sure 

 considerable lumber is being marketed, but the 

 trade is of a catch-as-catch-can variety. Very 

 few large orders are being placed. In the ag- 

 gregate the volume of business Is considerable, 

 but it is of the single car variety. Wholesale 

 consumers seem to be hesitating about laying in 

 stocks and are simply buying for immediate re- 

 quirements. 



Oak seems to be the leader in demand, 

 although there is fair call for poplar, maple and 

 birch. Buyers thoroughly recognize the fact 

 that desirable lots of lumber are in very short 

 supply and with little prospect of an accretion 

 of stocks in first hands for a good while to come. 

 Still there is a hesitancy on the part of buyers 

 to stock up. Evcr.vone seems to be playing close 

 to shore on all business transactions at the 

 present time. This situation was brought about 

 quite largely by the closeness of banking inter- 

 ests in holding borrowers down to a modicum of 

 their actual requirements to transact business. 



