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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Edna Bradley, daughters of the late Edward Bradley, pioneer lumber- 

 man, and Spencer lUsley are the Incorporators. 



With newly acquired timber holdings, on which are about 600,000,000 

 feet of standing timber, which were turned over on Apr. 1, the Hinea 

 Lumber Company will soon start its sawmill at Park Falls. About 1,500 

 men will be employed at the mill and in the woods, and with a 10-hour 

 day run, the mill will saw between 175,000 and 200,000 feet daily. The 

 present intention is to run steadily on day shifts and during eleven 

 months of the year. The timber will furnish a ten years' supply. 



The J. W. Wells Lumber Company has acquired ten forties of timber- 

 land on the Wisconsin Northern railway from the Sawyer-Goodman Com- 

 pany of Marinette through a deal whereby the latter concern secures 

 scattered timber in the vicinity of Goodman. The Wells company will 

 lay about two miles of spur track into the newly acquired timber and 

 log it during the coming summer, according to Superintendent W. E. 

 Hallenbeck. 



The Van's Harbor Land and Lumber Company of Van's Harbor, Mich., 



WA NT E D 



All Kinds of High-Grade 



HARDWOODS 



S. E. SLAYMAKER & CO. 



Representing ,„„„ „„ Fifth Avenue Building, 



WEST VIRGINIA SPRUCE LUMBER CO., MPU/ vnpkr 



Cass, West Virginia. INtW I UKfw 



■CINCINNATI! 



'Hardwood Manufacturers and Jobbers^ 



CHARLES F. SHIELS & CO. 



SPECIALISTS IN WIDE STOCK 



POPLAR, OAK, CHERRY, BIRCH 



GEORGE LITTLEFORD 



RED CEDAR, CHERRY 



OFFICE: 1263 RICHMOND STREET 



SWANN-DAY LUMBER CO. 



Mfrs. YELLOW POPLAR and WHITE OAK 



SALES OFFICE— SECOND NATIONAL BANK BUILDING 



SHAWNEE LUMBER CO. 



HARDWOODS, WHITE PINE and HEMLOCK 



Sales Office — Snuth Side Station — C. H. & D. R. R. 



RIEMEIER LUMBER CO. 



OAK, POPLAR, CHESTNUT 



SUMMERS AND GEST STREETS 



JAMES KENNEDY & CO., Ltd. 



OAK, POPLAR AND OTHER HARDWOODS 



FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING 



The Kosse, Shoe & Schleyer Co. 



WALNUT, OAK, AND OTHER HARDWOODS 



103-4-6 CAREW BUILDING 



OHIO VENEER COMPANY 



Manufacturers & Importers FOREIGN VENEERS | 



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has closed a deal whereby it comes into possession of a large tract of 

 timbered land in Iron county. Wis. The deal was consummated through 

 the Grimmer Land Company of Marinette for lower Michigan parties. 

 The Van's Harbor company will move its mill from Van's Harbor to Iron 

 county this year. 



The Roddis Lumber & Veneer Company of Marshfleld has increased its 

 timberland holdings by 2.862 acres of timberland in Iron county. The 

 company now has 28,000 acres in Ashland and Iron counties which will 

 supply raw material for many years. The timber suitable for veneer 

 is shipped to the JIarshfield factory, wfiile the remainder is sent to Park 

 Falls to be sawed into lumber. 



The Keith & Hiles Lumlier Company of Crandon has closed a deal with 

 the Chicago & Northwestern railway for the purchase of 3,000 acres of 

 fine hardwood timberland, lying south of Crandon and close to their 

 logging railway. This malses a total of 6,000 acres acquired during the 

 year. 



Charles F. Kade. general manager and vice-president of the M. Winter 

 Lumber Company of Shebo.vgan, has resigned. He disposed of his stock 

 early last summer and at that time resigned, although the resignation 

 did not take effect until the last of March. Mr. Kade has been with the 

 company for sixteen years and will take a much needed rest before en- 

 tering some other business. 



The Pesbtigo Lumber Company, Peshtigo. Wis., will in a few days open 

 its new, modern sawmill, equipped with the best machinery, which re- 

 places the one destroj'ed last year. With the exception of the carriage 

 and "nigger" and the band re-saw, all machinery is ready and connected 

 up. The shingle and tie mill, to be operated with the sawmill, is Hear- 

 ing completion, and the filing room is almost ready. The new brick power 

 house is a 52 by 60 foot structure, with a fuel room 22 feet square and 

 a pump room 16 by 24 feet. A 130 toot smoke stack is being completed, 

 and other equipment ready to start. 



The State Railway Commission is investigating the complaint of lum- 

 bermen of the state against the advance in the cost of transporting logs. 

 The commodity rates, for handling lumber products, in effect when the 

 railway commission law went into effect eight years ago, were for the 

 most part on logs which were to be manufactured into lumber or some 

 other products and shipped again in the manufactured form. These rates 

 involved discrimination which the new law expressly forbade, and the 

 readjustment made the rates uniform and common although not up to the 

 plane of other rales. Now that the railways have been advancing these 

 log-handling rates, more nearly to the level of other traffic, the lumber- 

 men have complained. It is possible that the commission may advance 

 them still further. 



Lyman Oliver Rumery, a resident of Oshkosh since 1854 and one of 

 the last of the lumbermen of the old school, has passed away at his home 

 in that city, aged nearly eighty-six year.s. Mr. Rumery was a native of 

 Maine and came to this state nearly sixt.v years ago with his wife, since 

 deceased. He was one of the first to engage in the logging business, a 

 part of the time with others and at times independently. He is survived 

 by two sons and five daughters : J. P. Rumery of Chicago ; L. O. Rum- 

 ery, Jr.. Miss Carrie Rumery, Mrs. Charles A. Wakeman, all of Oshkosh ; 

 Mrs. J. Howard Clement and Mrs. Francis S. Underwood, both of Mil- 

 waukee, and Mrs. Lewis H. Gunnell of Arlington, N. J. 



=•< DETROIT >•- 



The Thomas Forman Company reports that business is continuing along 

 the same lines and that the mill force is working full time. "Our supply 

 of rough material is getting low due to the floods of a year ago," said a 

 representative of the firm. "The crippled condition of the railroads in 

 Ohio and Kentucky is by no means a pleasing situation for us. While we 

 have a fairly good supply of dressed lumber on hand, it is feared that 

 with the spring rush we will be too handicapped to supply the trade as 

 readily as we would like to." 



Mr. Forman is on his way to the company's mills in Heidelberg. Ky., 

 to rush the rough material to Detroit as speedily as possible. The high 

 wind of last week caused some damage to the compauy's plant, not only 

 to the lumber piles but to the mill as well. A part of the roof of the 

 mill was blown off and some stock was damaged. 



George I. McClure reports that business is brisk in all lines of hard- 

 wood and that prices are high and firm. Mr. McClure says that the 

 auto body companies are starting to buy more freely, after a lull of about 

 three months. The furniture factories are also placing nice-sized orders 

 for immediate delivery. Business in the building trade is increasing every 

 day. 



On account of the increase in the building trade Geo. I. McClure is 

 building a new warehouse 100x40 feet, thereby increasing facilities for 

 carrying more stock. The M. C. R. R. will next week lay another track 

 into the yard. All tracks are 600 feet long and paved for teaming. 



E. W. Leech reports' that business is a little quiet in the hardwood 

 line and that stock is a little scarce. Prices on all materials are re- 

 ported firm. "Wo have done more business this w'inter than we did last 

 and prospects for an early spring rush are very good," says Manager 

 Smith. "The auto body companies and the furniture factories are or- 

 dering freely for immediate delivery and the box companies are begin- 

 ning to show signs of renewed activity. There is a good demand for 

 crating lumber from this source. Building permits issued this winter 

 are largely in excess of last winter and I look for a big business in in- 



