HARDWOOD RECORD 



dent of a like nature the firm has suffered. 

 In 1906 the boiler in their mill in Holcomb. 

 Chippewa county, exploded, killing seven men. 



Dr. A. W. Truitt. W. H. Myhea, Davis Smith 

 and Dan Healy. all ot Wausau, have bought 

 the interests of the Northwestern Land Com- 

 pauy of Kenton, Mich. The ileal includes 

 .S.OOO acres of hardwood lands located in the 

 upper peninsula of Michigan. The sale was 

 mad'.' by Norman J. Dolph of Spokane, Wash. 



The Frost Veneer Company, whose plant in 

 Antigo was destroyed by Are last June, has 

 decided to rebuild and preliminary work is now 

 under way. The new building will be of the 

 same capacity as the old one and on an aver- 

 age fifty hands will be employed the year 

 around. 



The J. I. Case Company of Racine is con- 

 structing a complete flre protection system. 

 This will include a tunnel five feet wide and 

 six feet high under Root river, through which 

 water service pipes will be run to the lumber 

 yards. A steel water tower 100 feet high, 

 capped by a 100,000-gallon steel tank, will be 

 built to supply the sprinkling system in the 

 factory building. The company will obtain its 

 water through its own pumps. 



The Bird & Wells Lumber Company, ot 

 Wausaukee, has resumed operations after a 

 siiutdown of several months. It has been de- 

 cided by the company to cut hardwood only 

 for the present. 



The Rhinelander Manufacturing Company 

 has started its factory with a full force. The 

 plant was shut down for a few weeks while 

 alterations and repairs were being made. The 

 chief product of the company is refrigerators. 



The J. W. Wells Lumber Company of Me- 

 nomonie, has commenced logging operations, 

 to supply its mill during the autumn and 

 winter. The mill is temporarily shut down be- 

 cause of the shortage of logs. 



C. H. Worcester, formerly of Marinette, 

 Wis., and T. A. (Veen of Ontonagon, Mich., 

 have purchased the interests of the O. V. Mc- 

 Millan Company, of Chassell, Mich., and have 

 formed the Greenwood Lumber Company. The 

 former is president of the new company and 

 Mr. Green is secretary and general manager. 

 The transaction is a large one, involving about 

 15,000 acres of timber land, sawmill and other 

 property. The company has sufficient timber 

 to keep its plant in operation fifteen or twenty 

 years and it is more than probable that be- 

 fore the present supply is exhausted other 

 timber will be secured. The output of the 

 mill is to be materially increased. Work has 

 been started extending logging i-ailroads, etc. 



The Per.schkc Manufacturing Company of 

 Neillsville reports a prosperous business at 

 present. The company's specialties are silo 

 staves, church furniture, creamery packages, 

 barrel heading, cattle stanchions, door and 

 window casings and all kinds of mill work. 



The Joerns Bros. Manufacturing Company, 

 which has been operating plants in St. Paul, 

 Stevens Point and Sheboygan, is considering 

 the consolidation of all of them either at 

 Stevens Point or Sheboygan. The company 

 manufactures tables and other stock of a like 



The A. II. Stange Company of ilorrill is 

 operating again on full time, after curtailing 

 its output for several months. 



A short time since the sawmill and about 

 L'.OOO cords of wood belonging to Stier & 

 Zuehlke of Wood's Spur was destroyed by 

 fire. By hard fighting the lumber yard was 

 saved. A few days later a high wind fanned 

 some dying embers into a flame and before it 

 was discovered the whole yard was on fire. 

 The yard contained upwards of 2,000,000 feet 

 iif lumber. 



The Hatenburg Furniture Company of She- 

 boygan Falls intends to locate its plant in 

 North Fond du Lac, providing it can secure 

 certain concessions from the business men of 

 the latter town. 



About 200,000 feet of liardwood logs belong- 

 ing to Denison, Liver & Coerper, near Moon, 

 were consumed by forest fires this week. The 

 North Fork Lumber Company's plant at North 

 Fork was destroyed from the same source ; 

 loss $100,000. 



The Hamilton Manufacturing Company of 

 Two Rivers has contracts to supply the fix- 

 tures for the federal buildings in Providence, 

 R. I., and Key West, Fla. 



W. II. Hatton and W. H. Dick of New Lon- 

 don have lose their mill at Phillips, Miss., 

 the same being burned recently. It was a new- 

 mill with a capacity of 50,000 feet per day. 

 The loss is $50,000, partly covered by insur- 

 ance. As the firm owns a large tract of oaks 

 in that section it is likely the mill will be re- 



MINNEAPOLIS 



1.. M. I'.argess. reprosentinir the Si.'hIc & llili- 

 bard Lumber Company of St. Louis, has been 

 spending a short vacation at Lake Minnetonka 

 with his wife. He called on the Twin City trade 

 before leaving, and returned home September 18. 



V. F. De Vinny, who has been purchasing 

 agent of the Great, Western railroad for several 

 years and has been with that company since it 

 began business in 1885, has resigned to go into 

 the wholesale lumber business. He came from 

 St. Paul to Minneapolis and will have an office 

 in the Lumber Exchange. He will make a spe- 

 cialty of lumber used for railroad purposes and 

 will carry a line of hardwood for car material. 

 He is also sales representative for the fir and 

 cedar products handled by the Lumber Manu- 

 facturers' Agency ol Centralia, Wash. The deal 

 was arranged a few days ago at the tjme of the 

 visit of J. G. Startup of Seattle, sales manager 

 for the agency. Mr. De Vinny is a native of 

 Pennsylvania and began work* as a surveyor, 

 helping to locate the original line of the Great 

 Western in Minnesota. 



P. R. Hamilton and W. H. Sill of the Min- 

 neapolis Lumber Company have returned from 

 Ruby, Wis., the location of the Ruby Lumber 

 Company's mill, which they control. They spent 

 a week looking things over at Ruby. 



H. M. Halstad of Halstad & Booraem, the 

 local wholesalers and representatives of the 

 Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber Company, is 

 back from a vacation trip of two weeks' 

 duration. 



F. M. Bartelme, the local hardwood whole- 

 saler, left last week for a rather extended trip 

 to call on concerns that use material in his line. 



C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark, the local 

 wholesalers, is back from Erie, 111., where he 

 was called by the death of his mother. Mrs. 

 Elizabeth M. Osborne. She passed away at the 

 old family h^me in Erie, September i;i. at the 

 age of seventy-five, having survived her husband 

 six years. The funeral took place September 16 

 and was attended by all of the surviving chil- 

 dren, ten in number, six sons and four daughters. 



SAOINAW VALLEY 



the whole northern part of Michigan burned to a 

 crisp by the drouth and forest fires. The fires 

 have swept over an area extending a few miles 

 north of Bay City to within a few miles of the 

 Straits of Mackinac and nearly the entire width 

 of the lower peninsula. Many farmers lost 

 fences and buildings and townspeople in many in- 

 stances sustained loss. Scvei-al <iiiall ^;iw nnil 

 shingle mills burned. Some l.>i;s v.u.l.l. .1 up were 

 burned. The injury done to hard\\...«l liinlur is 

 in killing it under the intense heai u, wlii. h it 

 has been subjected. Vast tracts of land have 

 been burned over which contained heavy j;rowths 

 of young timber. Much of the fire swrpt over 

 what is known as "cut over" hinds. These are 

 lands from which the pine timber has been taken, 



but they contain large quantities of valuable 

 hardwood and a great deal of this has burned. 

 Where green timber stands well together the fires 

 have not caused damage to any extent save, per- 

 haps, at the edges. 



There are more than one hundred small saw- 

 mills along the lines of the railroad and in the 

 interior of northern Michigan, and these have 

 been subjected to a severe test. On the South 

 Branch L. A. Ewing's mill burned Thursday, in- 

 volving a loss of $5,000, with no insurance. 

 Iverson's mill in Missaukee also burned with a 

 loss of $9,000. Other mills were saved only 

 through hard work. It is fair to state that 

 probably every mill crew in all that territory has 

 been engaged in fighting fire the last three weeks. 

 Frank Buell. who is operating seven camps and 

 is sending sixty carloads of logs to the Saginaw 

 river every twenty-four hours, had his entire 

 force of over 500 men out the best part of last 

 week fighting the fire back from logs and camps. 

 The smoke was so dense the greater portion of 

 the time that men could not find their way into 

 camp. 



The Stephens Lumber Company, operating a 

 big plant at Waters, sustained considerable loss, 

 but the two hundred men employed did splendid 

 work in saving property. 



The Garland Manufacturing Company at Bay 

 City has been full of business of late, building 

 four band sawmill outfits. One is now being in- 

 stalled in the local plant of W. D. Young & Co., 

 the firm increasing its single band mill to a 

 double band mill ; another goes to Boyne City for 

 W. H. White & Co., who are adding another band 

 saw outfit to their single band mill ; another for 

 a single band mill now being erected at Grayling 

 by R. Hanson & Sons, and a fourth goes to 

 Houghton Lake to be installed in the sawmill 

 which the N. Michaelson Lumber Company is 

 erecting at that place. 



Mor-li"ii r.:,r.,u (•.>mpany's plant at Bay City 



has I II iin-\ "I liitc manufacturing box shooks 



from liiir.lw I liiiiil.i'i-. Beech, maple and birch 



riir l;ii^ \l\ii iiiiupany is to locate a plant 

 I'ur iii.iUiiiu ^-lMr^, baskets, etc., at Carrollton, 

 just 1h !.,« Sijiii.iu. and will employ thirty or 

 more hauds ;u tlie nutset. Maple, birch, bass- 

 wood, beech aud other woods will be used. 



The Batchelor Timber Company has shut down 

 its West Branch mill a month while improve- 

 ments are being made. 



Lobdell & Churchill, at Onaway, have shut 

 down their plant a few weeks pending extensive 

 repairs. 



'The flooring trade is reported as picking up, 

 both as to demand aud the movement. W. D. 

 Young & Co. have booked many orders and are 

 shipping a good deal of stock abroad. The S. L. 

 Eastman Flooring Company is doing a steady 

 business. The Strable Manufacturing plant and 

 the Bliss & Van Auken plant are doing business 

 and considerable business, too, and all report 

 an improvement. 



The Kneeland-Bigelow Company is gettmg a 

 trainload of logs by rail every day. This com- 

 pany is making sales every day and Mr. Bigelow 

 says there has been a decided improvement in 

 business the last sixty days. 



The Richardson Lumber Company is running 

 its sawmill at Bay City and bringing logs down 

 by rail. 



The Lulkin Rule Company has brought a con- 

 signment of hardwood logs from Venezuela to 

 Saginaw. 



Ed Germain every year brings a consignment 

 of mahogany saw logs from Africa to Saginaw 

 to be converted into veneer for his piano factory. 



CADILLAC 



Forest lires are still raging aud the atmos- 

 phere is very smoky and cloudy all the time. 

 The Cummer-Diggius Company have beeu fight- 

 ing fire for the last two weeks and there has 

 been, no rain to put a check on the 



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