HARDWOOD RECORD 



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SANFORD & 



MILL AT MENOMINEE, 



people for the improvement of navigation in our 

 nvers in some way whicli will yield practical 

 i-esults. 



"Pending further opportunity for action by 

 Congress, the work of the commission should be 

 continued with the view of still further perfect- 

 ing the general plan by additional investigation, 

 and by ascertaining defluitely and speciflcally 

 why the methods hitherto have failed. To this 

 end I ask that the present members of the Water- 

 ways Commission continue their most commend- 

 able public service." 



Well Known Michigan Hardwood House. 



The Hardwood Recokd is pleased to present 

 herewith several pictures of the northern lumber 

 operations of Sanford & Treadway at Menominee, 

 .Mich. This well-known house was established 

 in 1844, and has been prominent in the New 

 England trade ever since that time. It maintains 

 its home office at New Haven, Conn., and manu- 

 lactures and ships all varieties of northern and 

 southern hardwoods. 



The company owns 6.000 acres of fine timber- 

 land on Roan mountain in eastern Tennessee ; 

 from this tract it cuts forty to fifty thousand 

 feet daily, which is handled through the Roan 

 mountain and Elizabethtown, Tenn., yards. At 

 these points the company has excellent shipping 

 facilities. Through another timber tract near 

 Mountain City, Tenn., it handles out a large 

 amount of stock daily. At the present time it 

 has on sticks in these throe yards several mil- 

 lion feet of hardwoods. The disposition of this 



stock is made through the New Haven offices, 

 and by traveling representatives located at Bal- 

 timore, Md., and Columbus, O. 



The company's northern operation at Menomi- 

 nee, Mich., makes a specialty of basswood, hand- 

 ling all grades and thicknesses in the rough and 

 also finished timber. The office is in charge of 

 W. C. Mansfield, who also conducts sales opera- 

 lions in southern hardwoods in the northern 

 markets. 



The Menominee plant is fully equipped with 

 the most modern planing mill machinery and 

 complete dry kilns, and is now operating entirely 

 on basswxiod moulding, bevel-siding, ceiling and 

 other specialties ; these products are shipped out 

 by the Ann Arbor, Chicago & North-Western and 

 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroads, to all 

 points of consumption. 



In addition to basswood a well-assorted stock 

 of ash, soft and rock elm, birch and other north- 

 ern woods are maintained in the Menominee 

 yards. 



Death of Peter Benson. 



Peter Benson, widely known to lumbermen as 

 a member of the house of James Kennedy & Co. 

 of Glasgow, Scotland, and American manager for 

 that company, died at Colorado Springs on June 

 14. Mr. Benson was forty-nine years old and 

 came to this country several years ago, residing 

 first at Ft. Wayne, Ind., and later at Cincin- 

 nati, where the company's offices are now located. 



Ross McCulloch and Van B. Perrine of Ft. 

 Wayne went to Colorado Springs immediately 

 upon receiving notice of Mr. Benson's demise and 



brought the body back to the former city for 

 burial. Something of the esteem and afifection 

 with which Mr. Benson's American friends re- 

 garded hjm may be appreciated from the fact 

 that they wished his body buried in this country 

 — with permission of his relatives in Scotland — 

 that they might have the privilege of dropping 

 an occasional flower upon his grave. 



Peter Benson was a man of unusually strong 

 and lovable character. He reflected all that is 

 finest and most admirable, and because of these 

 gifts he made fast friends whose sorrow over his 

 death and devotion to his memory will last 

 through life. In the words of one of them, 

 "Keen and forceful and just in his dealings with 

 all men, he was also thoughtful and tender and 

 helpful, and so his going away is a deep grief 

 to the wide circle of men and women to whom 

 he bad endeared himself." 



Frost Veneer Plant Destroyed. 



In a fire which broke out at Antigo, Wis., June 

 1.". the plant of the Frost Veneer Seating Com- 

 pany .-xt that place was destroyed and the loss is 

 estimated at about J50,000. The operation rep- 

 resented one of the old industries of the city and 

 was a branch of the company's operations at 

 Sheboygan, Wis. The origin of the fire is un- 

 known. Only the rain which was falling at the 

 time prevented the blaze from spreading to other 

 adjoining buildings. The burned buildings ini 

 eluded the factory proper and the warehouses, in 

 which were stored a large amount of valuable 

 furniture and seats. The company has about 

 2,500,000 feet of logs on hand. The seventy-flve 

 men employed will be thrown out of work for 

 several months as a result of the catastrophe. 



YARD, SANFOI 



TREADWAY. 



