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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Reports say that forest fires in the hardwood 

 districts surrounding Houghton. Mich., are doing 

 extensive damage and mills and yards which 

 were considered out of danger a short time ago 

 an^ again threatened. 



Due to the prevalence of forest fires in the 

 vicinity of Wausau, the eftieiency of the city fire 

 protection will be greatly increased. It has been 

 found that the water pressure in the system is 

 much too low, and this will be remedied and 

 the department itself will be improved by added 

 forces and equipment. 



I.ieut.-Gov. W. D. fonnor. millionaire lumber- 

 mio of Wisconsin, was a recent Milwaukee visi- 

 tor and expressed the opinion that the present 

 forest fires of Wisconsin are much mure serious 

 than is generally believed. 



former Gov. Edward SchoHeld. anuUicr well 

 kuown lumberman of Wisconsin, called on -Mil- 

 waukee friends last week. 



ti. M. Maxson, secretary of the Cooper & Max- 

 soi. Lumber Company of Milwaukee, wholesalers 

 and retailers, spent the past week in the Wis- 

 consin lumber country. 



Charles E. Tegge. president and treasurer of 

 the Tegge Lumber Company, 084 Park street, 

 and one of the well-known hardwood lumbermen 

 of Milwaukee, reports a decided increase in busi- 

 ness with an improved demand from manufac- 

 turers. 



W. E. Allen, president of the W. E. Allen 

 I.umljer Company, Milwaukee wholesale lumber- 

 man, spent a few* days at Wausaukee, Menominee 

 and Oshkcsh in the interests of his lumber busi- 



\<\ L. Tibbits, president of the Tlbbits-Cameron 

 Lumber Company, and wife have returned from 

 an extended trip to western points. IJenver and 

 several coast cities were visited. 



C. S. Curtis of the Curtis & Yale Company of 

 Wausau recently called upon the Milwaukee 

 iitlices of the company under the charge of 

 George Donald. 



The recent Wisconsin state fair, held In Mil- 

 waukee, brought a large coterie of retail lum- 

 bermen into 111'- <iM. iiri'i wholesalers say that 

 orders were p^'n .'iii iiil;. i,ii-_'cr. 



Contracts h,, Mini-inn.; a total of 15,000 

 chairs for the ucw .Milwaukee auditorium liave 

 been awarded. Unusually low figures were ob- 

 tained and the orders were divided between 

 tliree of the five competing companies. The con- 

 cerns failing to land the contracts later an- 

 ununced that owing to the low prices quoted 

 they would have been unable to have entered 

 into an agreemeut had they been considered 

 favorably. The orders for o|i.i:i ( hjiiv in ihe 



|.a;-(iuet wore given to Ili'.\ « I |-.;.>iii.,~ \ 



WaUcHold Company, represcutc.l la i N\ li^rhcr 

 Kurniture Company of .Milwinik.i ,,i v| _■- ,.,i,li. 

 The Superior Manm "- i''eiv,_.d 



the order for the \ i i i i ilie 



balcony at .^1.73 v;< 'ii- ■ li^.irs 



for the arena and i!.. ,. ;ui:..l . li.ur.^ for the 

 banquet hall will be turuished b.v the same com- 

 pany at $1.03 each and .?1.13. respectively. The 

 order for the opera chairs for the recital hall 

 went to the American Seating Company, repre- 

 sented by the G. M. Rarrett Company, at $2.70 

 each. 



Tlic iiiil]! mill of the Wolf Kiver I'aper and 

 Pi , . I,, ^iiawano has been started and 



II to rebuild its plant de- 



s' May. 



II .Michigan Elm Hoop Com- 

 pauj ui Kus.s, Mich., will be removed to Mari- 

 nette, Wis. The company has secured a loca- 

 tion on Witbeck Island and will engage in the 

 ma lufacture of barrels and kegs. 



A. T. Wheeler, one of the older lumbermen of 

 (lie state, was a recent Milwaukee visitor and 

 recalled lumbering and forest fire fighting in the 

 early days of Wisconsin's history. 



The Stange sawmill at Merrill will lie 

 equipped with three additional macblnes and 

 extensive alterations will be made. 



•I'be i!. C. Wcnte. loaded with 400.iiO(i fi>et of 



lumber, was one of the reci 

 at the Milwaukee port. 



Sawing at the plant of the Merrill Wooden- 

 ware Company at Merrill will be completed by 

 the latter part of October. This department will 

 then be closed until after the opening of tlie 

 ne,v year. The lathe and finishing departments 

 will be kept in continuous operation. 



The Fond du Lac Church Furnishing Com- 

 pany, located at I'ond du Lac. has increased its 

 capital stock from $15,000 to $30,000. Marshall 

 I). Pillsbury is president and N. W. Sallade is 

 secretary of the company. 



The Kaukauna Lumber and Manufacturing 

 Company at Oshkosh recently gave its employes 

 a holiday at one of its club houses in the vicin- 

 it.v, hIh I- ,1 iKli ivy was held. 



I 11 I V I ibe part of the Wausau fire 



i|e]i.: II I ■ -aved the plant of the Wer- 



lieii.i Mimiiii I ii^ Company from destruction. 



Loss to the coiiiiiany is estimated at $1,000, 

 covered by insurance. 



That there is a great deal more lumber in the 

 United States than even the best lumbermen 

 think, is the opinion of Charles U. Smith of 

 Neenah, president of the Menasha Woodenware 

 Company, controlling the largest plant of its 

 kind in the world. Mr. Smith was examined at 

 Appleton recently before the congressional com- 

 mittee, which is investigating print paper and 

 pulpwood conditions. 



Word has been received in Wisconsin that 

 the mill of W. H. llatton and W. H. Dick of 

 New London, Wis., lias been destroyed at IMiil- 

 lips. Miss. The mill had a capacity of "lO.OOO 

 feet dally. The loss is $.50,000, partly covered 

 by Insurance. 



All of the sawmills at Stevens Point are again 

 in operation. The plants were forced to close 

 down for a long time owing to the fact that 

 the government had shut off much of the water 

 supply for navigation purposes. 



A planing mill is being erected at Eagle Klvcr 

 liv .lames Langill to be operated In connection 

 with his sawmill. 



The Foster-Latimer Company at Mollen Is 

 making improvements on Us establishment which 

 will result in location at Mellen of one of the 

 finest hardwood flooring plants in the United 

 States. New buildings of large magnitude are 

 being constructed of reinforced concrete and 

 it is expected that the plant will be completed 

 within two months. When completed the plant 

 will have an annual capacity of about 10,000,000 

 feet of flooring. 



I'atrick Meehan, one of the early Wisconsin 

 and -Minnesota hirnliiriaeu. recently died at Mil- 



What will -awmill in Wisconsin 



is being ere. i, w yerhaeuser Interests 



at Park Fiill- ii i e-inuMied that the plant 

 will turn oul :i(i,imi(i,ii.iii lect of lumber annually. 

 A crew of several hundred men is rushing the 

 establishment to completion. 



.lohn Dletz was seriously in.iured recently by 

 a premature explositui of il.'uainilc tm h:s land 

 at Winter. 



WAUSAU 



iSefore the first of the year Mellen will be 

 able to boast of one of tlie finest hardwood 

 Hooring plants in the United States. By that 

 time the Foster-Latimer Company will have 

 completed the large additions to its plant. 

 The company owns a vast tmet of maple 

 timber and it plans to use every available 

 scrap of material. The new buildings are 

 being constructed of reinforced concrete, and 

 the roofs and floors of cement, so that they 

 will be fireproof. The new factory building 

 will be 76x180 feet in dimensions. The floor- 

 ing of warehouse will measure 56x165 feet. 

 The diT-kiln will consist of three rooms, each 

 sixty-four feet long, and a cooling room forty- 

 four feet long the full width of the kiln. A 

 force of one hundred men is at work on the 



buildings. When completed the plant will 

 have a capacity of from 7,000,000 to 10,000.000 

 feet of flooring annually. All power will be 

 electric and each machine will be supplied 

 with an individual motor. 



Bye. Lusk & Hudson of Stanley are pre- 

 paring to move their mill, located at Eids- 

 wold. to either PoUey or Oilman, where they 

 have a ten years' run. 



Wisconsin and northern Michigan liave suf-- 

 fered greatly from forest fires in the past two 

 weeks as a result of a drought which set in 

 in July. Property of untold value has been 

 destroyed or damaged, and the losses will foot 

 up larger than they did in 1892, when the 

 last fire swept over Wisconsin. Lumber com- 

 panies have found it necessary to close their 

 sawmills and set the crews fighting fire. 

 Others shut down for fear of fire and are 

 keeping a part of their crew at work with 

 lines of hose wetting down mill, lumber plies 

 and yards night and day. Hardwood men 

 have no doubt suffered the most, and to save 

 the timber killed they must log it the coming 

 winter. 



Patrick Meehan, aged seventy years, died 

 recently at his home in Milwaukee after a pro- 

 longed illness. Mr. Meehan was one of Wis- 

 consin's pioneer lumbermen and made a for- 

 tune in the business. He gave much to char- 

 ity. 



A. H. Stange of Merrill has purchased of 

 the Sanborn Land Company of Ashland, one 

 of the few remaining large hardwood tracts 

 of land in Oneida county. The Stange Lum- 

 ber Company will log and saw the timber. 



James Langill of Eagle River is building 

 a planing mill in connection with his sawmill. 

 Besides handling his own products he will do 

 custom work. 



The Kaukauna Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company of Kaukauna is preparing to do a 

 greater business this year than ever. New- 

 machinery, which will be operated by electric- 

 ity, has been installed, and a large force of 

 men will be employed. 



Wright Bros, of Marinette liave announced 

 that they will rebuild the mill which was de- 

 stroyed by fire some time ago. The new mill 

 will be in operation the coming winter. 



D. F. Daley's woodworking plant in North 

 Menomonie is being fitted up with new ma- 

 chinery which will make it one of the most 

 modern institutions of its kind. Machinery for 

 making all kinds of columns, stave joints and 

 spindles of all kinds and sizes is being in- 

 .stalled. and when the plant begins operations 

 within a short time a large force of men will 

 be employed to catch up with orders on hand. 



The R. Alden & Sons Novelty Company of 

 Waukegan, HI., has moved its Waukegan plant 

 to Lad.vsmith and merged it with one it pre- 

 viously owned there. The Waukegan plant 

 was done away with principally to be nearer 

 the base of raw material— lumber. 



The Brooks & Ross I^umber Company, of 

 Scliofield. is expending about $10,000 improving 

 its planing mill, installing new boilers, machin- 



•riic Shroeder Lumber Company of Ashland 

 had a serious Are recently in its yards and 

 dock. 



H. F. Anderson & Son are about to start a 

 carriage factory in Grand Rapids. 



It is estimated that lumber concerns in 'Wis- 

 consin will this coming winter curtail to about 

 40 per cent of their usual cut, unless conditions 

 change. 



F. H. Johnson, of the F. H. Johnson Lum- 

 ber Company, Rhinelander, has disposed of his 

 interests to other stockholders aad with his 

 family has moved back to Lansing, Mich., his 

 old home. He got out of the lumber business 

 on account of poor health. 



The boiler in Behnke Bros', mill In Park 

 Falls exploded recently, killing three men and 

 a ti>am of horses. This is the second aori- 



