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HARDWOOD RECORD 



was decided to increase the capital stock of 

 the concern from $50,000 to $75,000. The com- 

 pany rccentl.v completed the erection of a large 

 addition to its plant. 



Extensive improvements are being made by 

 the Antigo Lumber Company on its power plant 

 at Antigo. Wis. l"he old power plant has been 

 removed and a new 200 horsepower engine and 

 two large boilers have been installed in iU 

 place. 



Xels Malverson, who for twenty years has 

 been superintendent of the plant of the Stoiigh- 

 ton Wagon Company at Stoughton, Wis., has 

 resigned to take a similar position with the 

 Bdgerton Wagon Company at Edgerton, Wis. 

 Mr. Halversou says that he expects to have the 

 new plant in operation before the end of Oc- 

 tober. 



According to reports sent out from Wau.sau, 

 Wis., Wisconsin lumbermen are not planning on 

 a large cut for the coming season. At pres- 

 ent there is a large supply of hardwood and 

 hemlock on hand. Several companies will lum- 

 ber only on lands which were burned over by 

 lorest fires during the past spring and sum- 

 mer so that the timber may be saved. 



The Sawyer-Goodman Company of Marinette, 

 Wis., will soon commence logging operations 

 near Amberg. A large quantity of white pine 

 which was burned over by forest flres, will be 

 cut and shipped to Marinette. 



The Eggers Veneer Seating Company of Two 

 Rivers, Wis., is installing a complete new dust 

 collecting system. 



A new bolt mill has been added to the plant 

 of the Xorthwood Furniture Company at Chip- 

 pewa Falls. Wis. The concern will, in the fu- 

 ture, manufacture all of the lumber which will 

 be used in its factory. 



The Kaeine (Wis.) Stool Company has pur- 

 chased an additional tract of land upon which 

 are located several buildings, which will be 

 equipped with necessary machinery and used to 

 enlarge the facilities of the plant, which has 

 become overtaxed, owing to the heavy demand 

 lor stools. 



The Northern Furniture Company of Sheboy- 

 gan, Wis., has completed the installation of a 

 new intake from Lake Michigan. The water 

 thus obtained will be used as additional pro- 

 tection against fire. A new fire pump will 

 later be installed. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



Producers here are beginning to ligure on 

 the coming winter's cut in Wisconsin. The 

 season was cut so short last year that there 

 is bound to be a shortage and the scarcity of 

 Dirch and maple probably means a good many 

 more logs of those woods put in this winter, if 

 the season is at all favorable. 



W. H. Roddis of the Roddis Lumber & Ve- 

 neer Company, Marshfield, Wis., was a business 

 visitor in the city a few days ago. 



G. W. Everts, formerly of the Forbes-Everts 

 Lumber Company, but now representing the Pay- 

 son Smith Lumber Company, has been In the 

 city a few days this week. He reports a fair 

 trade and a very good outlook for the later 

 fall business. 



Scott Chambers of Stanley. Wis., with the 

 Northwestern Lumber Company, was in town 

 a few days ago looking into the hemlock and 

 hardwood market in the interests of his com- 

 pany. 



Some improvement is noted in the country 

 trade, which is calling for wagon stock and 

 llooring to quite an extent, but the outside 

 demand on the whole is light and spasmodic. 

 City trade is better, though it is hardly up 

 to what the dealers generally expect at this 

 time of the year. Factories as a rule are busy, 

 with plenty of orders ahead, but they are buy- 

 ing stock in small quantities and only as it is 

 needed. jfi 



Holders of first and second birch are able to 

 get almost any price for it. Maple is also 

 commanding stronger prices from week to week. 

 The factory grades of oak are selling fairly well, 

 at unchanged prices. The furniture factories 

 are not buying as much as usual, but the sash 

 and door people are taking considerable oak as 

 well as birch. The basswood market is the 

 weakest. Some mills have been offering stock 

 at a sacrifice and prices are weak, though the 

 basswood supply in the upper grades is also 

 quite limited. As to low-grade stocks, the mar- 

 ket is even more quiet than a short lime ago. 

 Railroads are not in the market and have been 

 doing very little, their wants being confined 

 almost to a tew orders for bridge timbers and 

 switch ties. 



DETROIT 



The Brownlee-Kclly Company, large dealer in 

 liardwoods, is building a large addition to its 

 planing mill on the Rouge river. This will in- 

 crease the output of the mill fifty per cent and 

 the daily production will be 150,000 feet. 

 The working force will be increased from SO to 

 125 men. An electric mill is to be erected on 

 the company's docks on the rough to facilitate 

 the handling of lumber unloaded from boats. 

 The company has twenty acres of land on the 

 Rouge river, but its business has grown so 

 steadily that all of this land is in use. 



John Lodge, secretary of the Dwight Lumber 

 Company, was made the republican candidate 

 for alderman in the First ward by a large ma- 

 jority at the primaries last week. 



Thomas Forman of the Thomas Forman Com- 

 pany was out of town during the past week on 

 ii business trip. 



"Trade conditions show considerable improve- 

 ment," said Mr. Leech of the E. W. Leech Com- 

 pany, "and are on the upward tendency. We 

 are doing very nicely." 



.7. V. Stimson of Huntingburg. Ind., and Mr. 

 Glazier of Pittsburg were Detroit visitors dur- 

 ing the past week. Both were here on business 

 and called on hardwood dealers. 



Announcement is made that activities will be 

 resumed at the big Buick automobile plant. 

 Financial difficulties have been straightened out 

 and the plant will open full force in a few 

 days. 



Indications are that fall building operations in 

 Detroit will exceed the record of any previous 

 .year. More of the better class dwellings are 

 to be built than ever before and in these large 

 quantities of hardwood finish and flooring will 

 be used. Hardw-ood men generally look for a 

 fairly busy fall and winter. 



SAOINAW VALLEY 



The hardwood industry is holding its own in 

 this section. The mills have been operated 

 steadily through the .season, and with the ex- 

 ception of a lull during the months of July 

 and August, the volume of business has been 

 good, and shipments more than normal. Dry 

 lumber has been sold and shipped up to the 

 saw and some manufacturers are shipping green 

 stock. 



It is calculated that the output the present 

 year will average up with that of last year, 

 but some manufacturers express the opinion that 

 the output of logs the coming winter will not 

 he as large as it was last year. Much, however, 

 will depend upon trade conditions. The trade 

 is now taking all that is offering at a much 

 higher range of prices than was obtained a year 

 ago, and the manufacturers will go into the 

 winter with smaller unsold stocks than usual. 



Shipments in eastern Michigan are being made 

 freely by boat and rail. The H. M. Loud's Sons 

 Company of Au Sable recently shipped 70,000 



feet of maple uppers by boat to Cleveland and 

 214,000 feet to Chicago, and is making some 

 good shipments of oak by rail through Bay 

 City. 



Camps are being established and firms that 

 operate the year through are increasing their 

 forces. Men are fairly plentiful for woods work 

 and the wage ranges from $24 to $30 in this 

 section. North of the Straits higher wages are 

 usually paid. 



The sawmill of the Batchelor Timber Com- 

 pany at West Branch, which was shut down a 

 few days to repair the engine, has resumed op- 

 erations. This plant manufactures a lot of fine 

 maple lumber, which goes to the Strable Floor- 

 ing Company plant at Saginaw. 



S. Meister of Bay City has bought the ma- 

 chinery — Garland band and Mershon resaw outfit 

 — out of the sawmill of the Michelson-Haasou 

 Lumber Company at Lewiston, which finished its 

 cut and went out of commission in May. It will 

 be sold and set up in some other mill. The 

 ijusiness of the company at Lewiston is nearly 

 cleared up. 



Tlie Goldie cooperage plant at Bay City, re- 

 cently burned, is to be rebuilt but along some- 

 vrhat different lines. A planing and tie mill 

 will be erected if present plans are made effec- 

 tive. 



Smith & MesicU. who are lumbering exten- 

 sively in Presque Isle county, near the terminus 

 of the M. D. Olds logging road, which runs 

 down the lake shore some fifteen miles south of 

 Cheboygan, have entered into a contract with 

 M. D. Olds and the Detroit & Mackinac railway 

 tor handling their output. A logging road will 

 be constructed to reach the Smith & Mesick mill, 

 about five miles. 



GRAND RAPIDS 



Edwin F. Sweet, former mayor of this city 

 ;ind a candidate for Congress on the democratic 

 ticket to represent the Fifth district, has opened 

 a vigorous campaign and has good prospects of 

 winning out in the contest with Mr. Diekeman 

 of Holland. 



The Fuller & Rice Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company, which has been reorganized with in- 

 crease of capital stock to $200,000. is one of the 

 strongest concerns of the state now. its new 

 board of directors including F. A. Diggins of 

 Cadillac and prominent men of this city. Car- 

 loU F. Sweet is president and general mana- 

 ger. 



II. J. Hanohett, aged ninety-four years, the 

 oldest resident of Big Rapids, died September 

 20 at the .home of his son in that city. In 

 earlier years he was a lumberman in Mecosta 

 county, with headquarters at Lumbertown. a 

 jilace that no longer exists. He leaves two sons 

 nnd a daughter. V. H. Hanchett is at the head 

 (if the Hanchett Swage Works and was shut 

 down for two days on account of his father's 

 death. 



Secretary Hall of the Gibbs, Hall & Allen Com- 

 panj' returned September 22 from a short busi- 

 ness trip in the state. 



W. H. Boland of the Valley City Lumber 

 Company is home from a two weeks' trip -on the 

 road, including Detroit, Toledo and other cities. 



The Stearns Company reports that its August 

 business was one hundred per cent ahead of Au- 

 gust a year ago. 



Among recent callers on the hardwood con- 

 sumers in this market are the following : Leo 

 Garvey, representing the Butcher Lumber Com- 

 pany of Detroit ; Charles W. Kuehl, Saginaw : 

 W. E. Penrod of the F. H. Atwood Lumber Com- 

 pany, manufacturer of hardwood lumber at 

 Cairo, 111. ; F. H. Young, resident manager of 

 the hardwood firm of Upham & Agler. Clarks- 

 dale, Miss. ; C. C. Hubbard, manager hardwood 

 department of George D. Grifiith & Co., Chi- 

 cago. 



L. L. Skillman of the Skillman Lumber Com- 



