HARDWOOD RECORD 



tance in fire fighting wliich was offered to tlie 

 state. 



Negotiations are being carried on between tlie 

 Edward Hines Lumber Company of Cliicago and 

 the Coolce and O'Brien people of Duluth for a 

 large timber transfer. The amount under con- 

 sideration is nearly a billion feet of white pine 

 and Norway, together with several miles of rail- 

 road and numerous sawmills. 



The Hamilton Manufacturing Company of Two 

 Rivers has received several substantial contracts 

 recently from the postoffice department for fur- 

 niture to be used In postofflces in various parts 

 of the country, among them offices at Key West 

 and Providence, R. I. 



The recent cold weather has increased appli- 

 cations at the Milwaukee labor bureaus for work 

 in the lumber country, which begins as soon as 

 the weather gets cold enough. 



Laur O. Peterson, well-known foreign lumber 

 dealer and extensive importer of Copenhagen, 

 Denmark, recently called upon the Johnson Lum- 

 ber Company of Milwaukee. Mr. Peterson re- 

 ports that trade is fairly good in the foreign 

 lumber field. 



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

 Lumber Compan.v, with offices at 1411 Majestic 

 building, made a recent business trip to Chicago. 



President Roddis of the Roddis Lumber & 

 Veneer Company of Marshfleld, Wis., recently 

 called upon Milwaukee dealers. 



L. M. Borgess, secretary of the Steele & Hih- 

 bard Lumber Company of St. Louis, and Thomas 

 Poe of the Plummer Lumber Company of the 

 same city lately called upon the Milwaukee hard- 

 wood trade. 



The C. L. Colman Lumber Company of La 

 Crosse, operating fifty-four yards about the state, 

 is now located in its new oflSce building. The 

 new structure is a model for everything that is 

 nos-el and up to date. The area is 58x96 feet 

 and the location is 111 Fifth street. The com- 

 pany, since its organization in 1854, atid its in- 

 corporation in 1899, has made remarkable prog- 

 ress in the lumber field. 



Judge R. P. Salter of Colby, Wis., a recent 

 visitor in Milwaukee, recalled the forest fires of 

 1893, when his mill and 8,000,000 feet of dry 

 lumber narrowly escaped destruction by fire. 



Fred W. Hornibrook, well-known lumberman 

 of Ontario, Can., who made Milwaukee a stop- 

 ping place recently, called attention to the fact 

 that the lumbering industries of Canada instead 

 of traveling westward are moving straight north, 

 where extensive operations are being carried on. 



The Sawyer-Goodman Lumber Company at 

 Marinette has finished the work of rebuilding the 

 tramways destroyed by the disastrous fire ex- 

 perienced by the company some weeks ago. 



Among the jecent steamer arrivals at the Mil- 

 waukee port were the Susie Chipman, Robert C. 

 Weate, Alice Statford and the City of Grand 

 Haven, all loaded with lumber. 



A local mill fire department has been organized 

 among the employes of the Bird & Wells Lumber 

 Company at Wausaukee. 



The Jacob Morlensou sawmill at Wausau is 

 again in operation despite the fact that the 

 yards of the company are well stocked with fin- 

 ished lumber. 



The sawmill of the Rice Lake Lumber Com- 

 pany at Rice Lake, Wis., will be remodeled ex- 

 tensively and will be operated in connection with 

 the hardwood mill of the company. The plant 

 will be kept in operation steadily throughout the 

 coming winter and summer. 



The big mill of the Northwestern Lumber 

 Company at Stanley has been closed down for a 

 time. It is' expected that as the winter logging 

 of the company progresses the plant will again 

 be put Into operation. 



A new office building, 28x40 feet, will soon be 

 erected by the Heineman Lumber Company at 

 Helneman, including private and general offices. 

 The mill of the company at Helneman is again 

 busy after the shutdown made necessary because 

 oC forest fire dangers. 



Fire destroyed the yards of Hollister, Amos & 

 Co. at Oshkosh, recently, to the extent o'f ?5,000. 

 Some 200,000 feet of planks and hemlock timber 

 was destroyed. The origin of the fire is un- 

 known. 



The Appleton Hub & Spoke Company is en- 

 gaged in shipping its winter cut of white and 

 red oak logs from Kaukauna, Wis. Some forty 

 carloads of. the finest spoke and hub timber ever 

 purchased will be forwarded to the plant at 

 Appleton. The company will continue buying oak 

 and birch in the Kaukauna district throughout 

 the coming winter. 



Work on the new plant of the Frost Veneer 

 & Seating Company at Antlgo to replace the 

 establishment destroyed by fire some weeks ago 

 is progressing rapidly and present plans are 

 that everything will be in readiness for opera- 

 tions to be resumed some time in November. The 

 new str-.icture will be 66x250 feet and will offer 

 23,100 feet of floor space. The machinery and 

 equipment will be entirely new and up to date 

 and a much larger force of men will be employed. 



The Michigan Elm Hoop Company is busy 

 erecting its new plant at Marinette, the new lo- 

 cation of the company. The Witbeck site is 

 being made use of and the company will be able 

 to secure shipments by both rail and boat. 



l"he Wall-Spalding Lumber Company, which 

 owns the water rights at Big Falls, is replacing 

 the present dam with a new $20,000 structure. 

 It is understood that the company will furnish 

 electrical power to several surrounding towns. 



The Peninsular Box and Lumber Company of 

 Menominee, Mich., with a branch at Crivitz, 

 Wis., has filed articles to operate in Wisconsin. 

 The capital stock is given at $25,000, of which 

 $10,000 is represented in Wisconsin. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



E. Payson Smith of the Payson Smith Lum- 

 ber company has gone South to look after 

 the company's hardwood and yellow pine in- 

 terests. He will spend most of the time in 

 Missouri, where the company has a good out- 

 put of oak for the northern and eastern 

 market. 



W. H. Sill of the Minneapolis Lumber Com- 

 pany is back from a visit to Ruby, Wis., 

 where the mill of the Ruby Lumber Company, 

 in which they are interested, is located. There 

 were some bad forest fires iiround their prop- 

 erty and two of their camps were burned, 

 also a stock of ties. The Are was a bad 

 one in the open cutover lands and along the 

 railroad, but Mr. Sill is convinced that it did 

 not get into their green timber to any serious 

 extent. 



The sash and door factories of the Twin 

 Cities are still hustling to get out special 

 work, a good part of which calls for hard- 

 wood materials. There is fine activity in 

 Ijuilding circles, and Minneapolis in Septem- 

 ber issued 539 permits tor a total estimated 

 cost of $861,200, compared with 420 permits 

 last year for that month, with a total cost 

 of $753,525. The record for the year will be 

 somewhat behind the bonanza figure of last 

 year, but in nine months 4,461 permits have 

 been issued, totaling $7,455,660, while in. the 

 same months last year there were 3,998 per- 

 mits, totaling $8,059,625. The smaller average 

 cost of building operations this year indicates 

 a greater proportion of medium-size resi- 

 dences, taking hardwood stock in a good share 

 of them. 



Osborne <<i Clark, wholesalers of hardwood 

 lumber here, are interested in the State bank 

 of Ladysmith, Wis., wliich was burglarized 

 September 29 and about $3,000 taken from th<» 

 safe. Insurance covered the loss. 



H. M. ttalsted of Halsted & Boraem, the 

 local wholesale dealers, has been over in Wis- 

 consin calling on customers and looking into 

 the condition of stocks. 



L. Britt Craven. Minneapolis representative 

 of the Radford Sash & Door Company, Osh- 

 kosh, Wis., has moved his offices from 1119 

 to 1014 Lumber Exchange, to share quarters 

 with Charles Van Pelt, eastern representative 

 of the Ferry-Baker Lumber Company of 

 Everett, Wash. 



Local box manufacturers report that con- 

 are being made by the mills upon 

 which can now be had for $2 

 to $2.50 a thousand less than in the summer. 

 This is attributed to the fact that the box 

 business has been quiet and the mills have 

 an unusually large stock of low-grade lumber 

 on hand which they have become anxious to 



Minneapolis lumber receipts for September 

 n^ere 14,764,000 feet. Last year they amount- 

 ed to 17,920,000 feet. Shipments for Septem- 

 ber were 16.864,000 feet, while last year they 

 totaled 17,968,000 fuet. 



SAQINAW VALLEY 



The Michigan Central is hauling from five 

 to eight train loads of logs every day, of which 

 seventy-five per cent come to the Saginaw river. 



The N. Michaelson Lumber Company, which 

 recently erected a sawmill at Houghton lake, 

 is being reached by a spur of the Grand 

 Rapids & Indiana railroad, starting in from 

 some point in the vicinity of Cadillac, and 

 the cut of the mill will go out tliat way. 



Mr. Bigelow. manager of the Kneeland, 

 Buell & Bigelow Company's plants at Bay 

 City, is very much impressed with the im- 

 provement in trade. One of the mills is be- 

 ing operated day and night and the other ten 

 liours a day. The firm has started camps in 

 Montmorency county and is putting in logs 

 which are railed here. The other mill is 

 stocked by Wylie & Buell Company, who are 

 running seven camps. Wages for woodsmen 

 are some lower this winter, but the cost of 

 supplies for feeding men and teams is higher 

 than usual. 



There is a good volume of business in maple 

 flooring and the plants in the valley are all in 

 operation, but values are unsatisfactory. 



Heavy rains in the northern part of the 

 state last week smothered the forest fires, but 

 they are breaking out again here and there. 

 There was very little rain in the valley. 



Mershon Bacon Company at Bay City have 

 had a very good run for some weeks on hard- 

 wood box shooks. W. B. Mershon and a party 

 of choice companions, all lumbermen or con- 

 cerned in timber property, left Wednesday for 

 a Jolly outing and hunt in the Saskatchewan 

 country. These parties have been annual 

 events since 1884. Some proficient hunters and 

 story tellers are in the party. 



T. E. Douglas & Co. have started their new 

 sawmill at Lovell's. north of Bay City. It is 

 modern in makeup and takes the place of a 

 mill burned early in the season. 



Lewis Jenson is making extensive improve- 

 ments to his mill plant at Sailing. He is 

 erecting a plant 48x60 to be rigged with ma- 

 chinery for dressing lumber, and an addition 

 to the sawmill which will be fitted out with 

 a t>and saw and resaw. He has at least a ten 

 years' stock of timber available. 



S. F. Deny is rebuilding his sawmill at 

 Millersburg, and will operate a number of 

 camps putting in 4,000.000 feet of hardwood 

 logs which will be cut into lumber for manu- 

 facturing concerns at Flint. 



Prescott, Miller & Co., operating a sawmill 

 near Rose City, seventy-five miles north of 

 Bay City, have extended their logging railroad 

 three miles to reach 12,000,000 feet of timber, 

 The mill was shut down some time ago, but 

 the entire lumber cut of the season was sold 



