HARDWOOD RECORD 



M. D. Olds of Cheboygan, Mich., a well- 

 known Michigan hardwood man, called upon 

 the local trde this week. 



One of the most important purchases made 

 by a Cleveland company in the past year or 

 two was consummated a few days ago by the 

 ofHcers of the Advance Lumber Company who. 

 in partnership with a large coal concern pur- 

 chased 28,600 acres in Boone and Logan coun- 

 ties West Virginia. The territory is densely 

 wooded, with large oak and poplar trees for 

 the most part. A large double band mill is 

 to be installed and the property developed at 

 once After the lumber is removed the coal 

 company will develop the mines. The Coal 

 River & Western railroad affords shipping fa- 

 cilities for the new tract. It is expected that 

 a large quantity of timber will be removed 

 from the land within the next year. The oak 

 trees on the property are said to be of ex- 

 cellent quality and size and will be fine for 

 quartered oak. 



weather continues to improve buying will 

 stimulated. The hardwood trade shows 

 greater disposition to buy." 



MILWAUKEE 



COLUMBUS 



The ofJiees of the East Side Lumber Com- 

 pany have been moved from the former lo- 

 cation. Lilley and McAUisfer avenues, to the 

 new site at the intersection of Main street 

 and the N & W. tracks. The office building, 

 which is a modem structure, has been com- 

 pleted and a large part of the stock is at the 

 new site. All the purchases which have been 

 made in the past few months have been 

 shipped to the new location. The mill and 

 machinery will be moved in about two 

 months. N. J. Fountain is president of the 

 company and Edwin A. Prentiss, treasurer 

 and manager. The company reports good 

 business in the new location. 



W M Ritter, head of the W. M. Ritter 

 Lumber Company, is expected home soon from 

 a short trip to the London and Liverpool 

 branches of the company. Mr. Ritter has 

 been much improved in health by the trip. 

 He may make another European trip later 

 in the year. The Ritter company is operating 

 practically all its mills in the southern states. 

 The poUcy of the officers of the company is 

 to manufacture only what lumber is needed to 

 fill the demand and for that reason the oper- 

 ations have been limited to part force arid 

 short hours. Preparations -are being made 

 to -radually increase the output. Stocks on 

 hand are low. J. Mortimer, superintendent 

 of the company's plant at Bluefields. W \a., 

 was a caller at the Columbus office of the 

 company recently. 



Charles W. Seaman of the Domestic Lum- 

 ber Company reports improvement in the 

 hardwood business. The offices of the com- 

 pany, which are located in the Schultz 

 building, have been open only a short time. 

 Mr. Seaman believes that the lowest point in 

 the trade has been reached and that from 

 this time on the demand will improve. 



Kenneth McLoed. president of the Ameri- 

 can Hardwood Company, is spending some 

 time in St. Louis and Sedgwick, Ark. The 

 last named town is where the property of the 

 company is located. Preparations are being 

 made to begin the work of development. 



H. C. Creith of H. C. Creith & Co. re- 

 ports a slightly better demand for hardwoods 

 in this section. Mr. Creith only recently re- 

 turned from an extensive trip among the mills 

 of the South. 



John R. Gobey of John R. Gobey & Co. is 

 more optimistic of the future. "The lumber 

 trade in this section is improving and I be- 

 lieve that conditions will become better as 

 the season advances," is the statement of 



' F Everson Powell of the Powell Lumber 

 Company, discussing the lumber outlook said: 

 ••The fine weather is having a good effect on 

 the lumber business in central Ohio. If the 



Former Attorney-General Mylrea of Wau- 

 sau. who has given up the practice of law and 

 is now engaged in the lumber business in his 

 home city, was a recent Milwaukee visitor. 

 Mr. Mylrea was of the opinion that prices 

 would be advanced by fall and that at pres- 

 ent lumber has reached bed-rock prices. 



Former Governor W. H. Upham of Wiscon- 

 sin, one of the well-known lumbermen of the 

 state, with Mrs. Upham was a recent Mil- 

 waukee visitor. Mr. and Mrs. Upham have 

 lately returned from a trip abroad. Cairo, 

 Egj-pt, was the farthest point visited, and 

 places of interest on the Continent were also 

 included in the itinerary. 



Lieut. Gov. W. D. Connor of Wisconsin, the 

 millionaire lumberman of Marshfield, was in 

 Milwaukee not long ago on a business trip. 

 Mr. Connor believed that the prevailing prices 

 of lumber should encourage prospective 

 builders. 



Former State Senator W. H. Hatton of 

 New London, one of Wisconsin's leading lum- 

 bermen and the legislator to whom is due the 

 setting aside of the forest reserve in the 

 state, was among Milwaukee visitors the last 

 week. 



Charles Stolper, Sr., president of the Charles 

 Stolper Cooperage Company and one of the 

 pioneer coopers of Wisconsin, recently died at 

 his home in Milwaukee at the age of 76 years 

 from a stroke of paralysis. From a small be- 

 ginning. Mr. Stolper developed one of the larg- 

 est and best known tight cooperage plants in 

 the country. 



Fire recently caused damage to the amount 

 of $10,000 in the Milwaukee cooperage plant^ 

 of Kenneth W. Jacobs. Warehouse and dry 

 kiln and much stock were destroyed, all partly 

 covered by insurance. Sparks from a passing 

 locomotive are believed to have started the 

 conflagration. 



That the Koch & Loeber Manufacturing 

 Company of Milwaukee, . manufacturers of 

 wood and willow ware, which has recently 

 been forced into involuntary bankruptcy, has 

 been operated for four years at a loss, has 

 lately developed. 



D. G. Arpin. of the Arpin Lumber Company 

 of Grand Rapids, Wis., was a recent Milwau- 

 kee visitor. 



A Hoo-Hoo concatenation will be held in 

 Milwaukee on June 11. W. R. Anderson, Vice- 

 gerent Snark of Wisconsin, is conducting an 

 active campaign for new members, and it is 

 expected that the Wisconsin roll will be greatly 

 increased. 



Robert Blackburn, Milwaukee wholesale lum- 

 berman, made a recent business trip to north- 

 ern Wisconsin. 



Milwaukee parties are interested in the con- 

 struction of the palatial residence of Edgar 

 P. Sawyer, millionaire lumberman of Oshkosh, 

 Wis. The building will be finished in oak 

 and mahogany and will include all modern 

 features, exceeding any home in western Wis- 

 consin. It will cost $25,000. 



C. W. HeafEord, formerly connected with the 

 land department of the Wisconsin Central 

 railway, has opened a Milwaukee office for 

 the Gulf Coast I.and Company, which is largely 

 interested in railroads and' timlif-r lands. 



The novelty of rough > ' ''■'? the 



part of teachers was ' d at 



Wausau when outdoor ■ '• his- 



tory were held in Pin.- i i ■ n achers 



of the city schools. Lumb.rmcn just back 

 from the northern woods talked to the chil- 

 dren on trees, explaining the nature and char- 

 acteristics of all of the big trees in the park. 

 Bearing the largest sawmill that has ever 



been shipped from the Northwest, a special 

 train recently passed through Milwaukee from 

 Menominee, Mich., on its way to Port Barre. 

 La. The mill and equipment will be em- 

 ployed by a southern lumber company who 

 will pay the manufacturing company a bonus 

 of $500 if the mill arrives on time. 



Forest fires were again raging in northern 

 Wisconsin the past week, but were quenched 

 by heavy rains. Heaviest losses were expe- 

 rienced at Elmhurst, Wis., where the lumber 

 yards of Assemblyman E. F. Nelson were en- 

 tirely destroyed and a large number of logs 

 belonging to the Brooks & Ross Lumber Com- 

 pany of Wausau and Joseph Duchac & Co. of 

 Antigo. Damage in this vicinity is estimated 

 to be $25,000. Fires along the Pike river in 

 the vicinity of Dunbar, Amberg and Pembine 

 destroyed much standing timber and young 

 growth. 



The Wisconsin Woodworking Machinery 

 Company is a new masufacturing plant that 

 will soon be located at Oshkosh. The com- 

 pany, which is now in the course of forma- 

 tion, will manufacture a sander which will 

 do the work of the sander ordinarily sold at 

 $1,000, but which will be sold at considerably ■ 

 less than that figure. Several other styles of 

 woodworking machines will also be turned out. 

 Brush fires in the vicinity of Superior, Wis., 

 destroyed the portable sawmill of Murphy 

 Bros., together with 250,000 feet of lumber and 

 1,000,000 shingles. 



Judgment for more than one-third of a 

 million dollars was recently awarded at Osh- 

 kosh. Wis., by Judge Burnell in the circuit 

 court in favor of the Oak Lumber Company 

 . of that city against R. B. Blanks. E. T. Lam- 

 kins and W. A. Brown of Monroe. La., former 

 officers and directors of the Monroe Lumber 

 Company. Judgment amounting to $360,000 

 was rendered by default for breach of con- 

 ' tract, and was one of the largest ever Awarded 

 in Winnebago county. 



The George M. Rieton Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Sheboygan, Wis., is erecting a three- 

 story building to be used as a factory for the 

 manufacture of furniture specialties, among 

 them piano stools and barroom fixtures. 



The total drive of logs of the Marinette 

 Boom Company for the present season is esti- 

 mated to be 54,000.000 feet, some 5,000,000 of 

 which were held over from last year. Crews 

 at the sorting gaps are now busy, and water 

 conditions in the stream are the best. Log 

 driving In general in the northern Wisconsin 

 lumber country is well under way and it is 

 said that the total drive will almost equal that 

 of last year. 



The Edgar Stave & Veneer Company at 

 Edgar. Wis., is soon to erect a new stave 

 factory. 



Moore Bros, of Marinette. Wis., have gone 

 into bankruptcy, with liabilities of $10,000 

 and assets of $3,500. The firm controlled a 

 large lumber mill which recently burned, en- 

 tailing a loss of $12,000 not covered by insur- 

 ance. 



Some 6,000,000 feet of logs held up at Cam- 

 eron Dam, Wis., for three or four years by 

 John Dietz, recently passed through Lady- 

 smith. The drive was under the charge of 

 W. E. Moses, of Northfield, Minn., who has 

 the contract for moving the logs so long 

 held up. 



The woodworking plant of George Price at 

 Crandon, Wis., has been enlarged and twelve 

 additional men are to be employed. 



The sawmill of the A. H. Stange Company 

 at Merrill has been opened and is now run- 

 ning full blast. The company's sash and door 

 plant one of the largest in the country, which 

 has been operating on an eight-hour schedule, 

 is now being operated ten hours daily. 



The H. W. Wright Lumber Company at 

 Merrill. Wis., has closed its sawmill for a time 

 owing to a surplus of lumber in the yards. 



