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L. Davis of the Edward L. Davis Lumlier Company : Roscoe F. Smith of 

 tlie Ohio Rivor Sawmill Company: and Stuart R. Cecil and P. G. Booker 

 of the Booker-Cecil Company. All are members of the Louisville Hard- 

 wood Club. 



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The meeting of the Lumbermen's Club set tor Jan. 21 has been post- 

 poned until Feb. 4, owing to several lumber conventions taking place 

 during the week of Jan. 21. 



At a meeting of the board of directors of the Lumbermen's Exchange, 

 held Jan. 9, W. W. Milne was re-elected treasurer and George McBlair 

 secretary. At another meeting of this body, held on Jan. 21, several 

 important matters were discussed. Among them were the re-adjustment 

 of the insurance law. the inspection department and the traffic depart- 

 ment. In the matter of insurance, the insurance committee was in- 

 structed to get better -protection by formulating some scheme in the way 

 of a new law. President Smith was instructed to select an inspector 

 who was well posted in hardwoods as well as yellow pine. The traffic 

 mat-ers were placed in the bands of Chas. E. Thomas, who will look after 

 that department personally. Under the new administration the financial 

 condition of the exchange will be made much stronger than in the past. 

 President Smith also announced the names of the various committees and 

 his selectiou was ratified. 



At a meeting of the executive committee of the Lumbermen's Club, 

 held on Jan. 21, the matter of introducing a bill in the Legislature to 

 create a Bureau of Forestr.v was recommended. A number of other 

 matters were also discussed, the nature of which was not disclosed. 



E. "W. Blumer. sales manager of the Lothman Cypress Company, left 

 last week for the Oshkosh, Wis., plant, where he will put in shape several 

 kilns which were destroyed by fire recently. Following this he will go 

 through the eastern territory on a selling trip. 



W. W. Dings of the Garetson-Greason Lumber Company spent several 

 days in Kansas City last week and of course he returned with a nice lot 

 of orders. Mr. Garetson, who has been on the Pacific coast for several 

 weeks, has returned home. Mr. Dings reports that the company is sold 

 up on oak, that all its mills are running and that prices are more than 

 satisfactory. 



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The will of the late Edward Bradley, a well-known Milwaukee lumber- 

 man, has been admitted to probate. The will disposed of an estate valued 

 at $3,600,000, composed of real estate valued at $600,000, and personal 

 property valued at $3,000,000. Each of his three daughters receive one- 

 third of the estate. 



The plant of the Kaukauna Lumber and Manufacturing Company was 

 destroyed by flre on Jan. 12, causing a total loss of the sawmill and dry- 

 kiln, valued at $25,000, with insurance of $10,000. The cause of the flre 

 is unknown. 



The Marinette & Menominee Box Company, of which John A. Cook of 

 Marinette is president, will engage in the manufacture of lumber for its 

 own use in manufacturing boxes. Heretofore the company purchased all 

 its lumber from mills. 



The State Conservation Commission will recommend a one-tenth mill 

 tax for twenty years, the funds to be used for upbuilding the forest 

 reserve. The tax would raise .¥284,000 a year and would permit the pur- 

 chase of timber tracts in northern Wisconsin. State Forester E. M. 

 Grofflth believes that the state must own more than the present 400,000 

 acres. The tax on growing timber should be lowered, he said, and the 

 harvest tax raised to conserve the forests. 



The W. E. Priestly Lumber Company has been incorporated by W. E. 

 Priestly, G. W. Priestly and E. Von Briesen at Milwaukee with a capital 

 stock of $20,000. 



M. H. Hand of Plymouth, proprietor of a successful lumber business, 

 has taken members of his family into the business and incorporated as 

 the M. H. Hand Lumber Company. He will be president of the firm, 

 which has a capital stock of $40,000. 



J. D. Mylrea, C. L. Hale and W. H. Mylrea have incorporated the Hale- 

 Mylrea Lumber Company at Wausau with a capital stock of $12,000. 



The sawmill of the Bayfield Box and Lumber Company has commenced 

 operations, and an immense business in handling hardwood is expected. 

 New life has been put into the plant and a big run of business is planned. 

 At the annual meeting of the Hardwood Products Company of Neenah 

 the election of officers resulted as follows : W. C. Wing, president ; D. L. 

 Klmberly, vice-president : C. B. Clark, secretary : E. D. Belas, treasurer. 



T. T. Jones, formerly with the G. W. Jones Lumber Company of Apple- 

 ton, has assumed the position of manager of the hardwood department of 

 the Webster-Whipple Lumber Company at Minneapolis, Minn. 



Provided that sleighing continues for several weeks more, the logging 

 operations this year in northern Wisconsin will be one of the largest in 

 its history. That the 1913 cut will exceed any previous total by fifty 

 per cent is predicted by prominent lumbermen in that section. The good 

 demand has brought out nearly every operator. 



Mrs. Florence J. Peck of Fond du Lac and Mrs. Benjamin Hopper of 

 Oshkosh have acquired the interest of C. J. Medberry In the Gurney 

 Refrigerator Company. Mr. Medberry was president and general manager 

 since organization, and the sale places the control of the plant, employing 



more than 200 persons, in the hands of the two women. The company 

 started in a small way In 1890 in Oshkosh. After a flre It was moved 

 to Fond du Lac, where It grew Into a $500,000 annual business concern. 

 David .Tack, one of the original founders, died recently. 



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Henry Ballou, general manager of Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., wife and 

 daughter, sailed Jan. 23 for a thirty days' rruisc to the West Indies 

 and will touch at Colon. Mr. Ballon expects to arrive home early in 

 March. 



W. W. Mitchell, president of Cobbs & Mitclitll, Inc., and The Mitchell 

 Brothers Company, wife and daughter have left for a tour In the South. 

 centering around Augusta, Ga. Mr. Mitchell shipped his large touring 

 car and will motor through a portion of the South. He expects to be 

 away from four to six weeks. 



F. J. Cobbs of Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., wife and son will locate at Los 

 Angeles, Cal., for the winter. 



Unless there is more snow in Michigan, outside of what is known as 

 the "snow belt, " parties expecting to put in logs, wood and other com- 

 modities will be minus a sleigh haul. Even in Cadillac the sudden change 

 in the weather has broken the sleighing and as a consequence 300 teams 

 are idle. This will mean a large decrease in the input of logs, unless 

 more snow falls. It is a fact that at Petoskey and Harbor Springs the 

 ground is as bare as in the summer time, and Little Traverse Bay, 

 which is usually frozen with ice at this time of the year, has not yet been 

 frozen. 



The Oval Wood Dish Company of Traverse City has enlarged Its 

 clothes pins department, employing forty additional men. It will turn 

 out one carload of the finished product, amounting to 1,500 boxes of five 

 gross, a day. This company now employs 500 hands and the factory runs 

 continuously during the year. It will use not less than 15.000.000 feet 

 of lumber and produce 1,200 carloads of an average of four cars per day 

 in all of its products, wood dishes, clothes pins, etc. 



The Hardwood Market 



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steady increase in demand on the part of all consuming factors in 

 Chicago have marked the last two weeks in the hardwood business of 

 this city. The inventory season is practically over, and with few excep- 

 tions the local factories are in the market strongly. There continues to 

 he every reason to anticipate strong business during the next year. As 

 in other sections of the country, the furniture tr.ide in Chicago is strong 

 and manufacturers are predicting even greater demands for their product, 

 which naturally will result in increased demand on their part for hard- 

 wood lumber of various kinds. As in the furniture trade, so in the 

 other lines including the implement manufacturers, millwork houses, door 

 concerns, car shops, — all are showing a decided disposition to get hold of 

 sufficient supplies of dry hardwood lumber at any reasonable figure. They 

 evidently have come fully to realize the absolute necessity for buying 

 now wherever they can do so on any reasonable basis. 



There is no boom — present conditions are the result of a natural 

 healthful improvement in all business, which has been reflected particu- 

 larly on the lumber business. 



Local lumbermen have experienced some added difficulty in making 

 deliveries on account of flood conditions in the South. No one Is predict- 

 ing any accumulation of hardwood stocks during the next six months, 

 and all .are predicting at least a maintenance of present hardwood values 

 and a probability of a gradual increase in most lines of staple stock. 



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The local hardwood market conliuucs lirm in the matter of price, though 

 there is noted some decrease in volume, but this is only seasonable and 

 the demand will doubtless pick up after inventories are completed. Stocks 

 are reported low at mill points as approaching the spring seasoj which 

 shows every likelihood of being active. Stocks on hand in most cases 

 are badly broken. Birch and maple continue strong in demand and firm 

 in price, while plain and quartered oak are In good call : ash is also in 

 good demand at good prices. It is expected that the yard and factory 

 trade will shortly be in the market for large supplies. 



-•<, BUFFALO >• 



Trade in hardwoods is quiie satisfactory and has shown a good deal 

 of improvement as the month progressed. Scarcity of the better grades 

 of a number of hardwoods has turned inquiry to the lower grades, which 

 are also in small supply. The demand has been well distributed over the 

 list and the prices of all varieties have been holding firm. Dealers are 

 looking for business to make a good showing for some time ahead, and 

 for prices to hold very strong in most woods. 



Plain oak, both red and white, has as usual led In demand, it being 

 immaterial to many buyers which is supplied. Quartered oak in firsta 



