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HARDWOOD RECORD 



May 10, 1919 



LIGNUM VITAE BOXWOOD 

 SNAKEWOOD 



We handle all TROPICAL HARDWOODS 



EBONY 

 ROSEWOOD COCO BOLO 



C. H. PEARSON 



29 BROADWAY NEW YORK CITY 



i 



VESTAL LUMBER 

 & MFG. COMPANY 



INCORPORATED 



Soft Textured Oak 



Poplar 



Black Walnut 



Tenn. Red Cedar 



KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE 



BAND MILLS AT VESTAL 



A SUBURB OF KNOXVILLE 



FONDE, KY. 



general lumber dealers, has been reestablished with headquarters at 621 

 Railway Exchange Building. The business was dissolved in July, 1918, 

 following the entrance of the principal owners into the military service. 

 They are Glenn W. Priestley and Eugene E. Wallace, who have had more 

 than ten years' experience as wholesalers in the Wisconsin and neighbor- 

 ing territory. 



Henry Lee, for ten years mill superintendent of the Rice Lake Lumber 

 Company, Rice Lake, has become associated with the Lee Brothers Lumber 

 Company of Rhinelander. Mr, Lee's father, John Lee, is a member of 

 tile company. 



The Henshaw-Worden Lumber Company, Antigo, has purchased the mill 

 and other property known as the Kellogg mill in that city and will reopen 

 the plant, which has been idle this season. The Kellogg mill was estab- 

 lished in 18S0 as the Antigo Hub & Manufacturing Company, and when 

 acquired by H. B. Kellogg in 1883 was continued as the Antigo Hoop & 

 Stave Company. It was in virtually continuous operation from that time 

 until late last fall. 



A new toy and novelty factory is to be established at SchlelslngervlUe, 

 Washington county, where local Interests are forming a stock company to 

 engage in manufacturing in the former L. Rosenheimer building. 



John J. Bichner, formerly with the Hamilton Manufacturing Company, 

 Two Rivers, has organized the Portage Furniture & Cabinet Works and Is 

 opening a woodworking plant at Portage. 



The Creamery Package Manufacturing Company, Chicago, with one of 

 Its main plants at Fort Atkinson, Wis., has announced plans for enlarg- 

 ing this branch at a cost of .^250.000. A factory addition, 90x200 feet, 

 and an auxiliary building, 40x90 feet, will be erected Immediately. Both 

 will be four stories high. Later a new central power and heating plant 

 will be installed. The present working force of 400 will be increased to 

 600 or 650 when the additions are ready late in the summer. H. H. Curtis 

 is general manager of the Fort Atkinson works. 



F. W. Ollhoff, Merrill, sustained practically the total loss of his saw- 

 mill on May 1 when Are of unknown origin burned It to the ground. The 

 planing mill, office and yards were saved by a turn of the wind. Mr, 

 OllhofE's loss is estimated at $30,000, with no insurance. However, he 

 intends to rebuild as soon as practicable. 



The Eagle River (Wis.) Lumber Company resumed the operation of 

 its sawmill late in April and expects to run at maximum capacity for the 

 largest cut in the history of the plant. 



Charles W. Fish, Antigo, owner of the Chas. W. Fish Lumber Company, 

 with three large mills in northern Wisconsin, has purchased the entire 

 interests of the Foerster-Mueller Lumber Company of Hiles, consisting of 

 a sawmill with an annual capacity of 20,000,000 feet, 12,000 acres of tlm- 

 berland and fifteen miles of logging railway, sixty-five dwellings and other 

 property. With the Fish mills at Antigo, Birnamwood and Elcho the new 

 acquirem(^nt gives the Fish company an annual capacity of from 65,000,000 

 to 70,000,000 feet a year, or one of the largest in the North. The timber 

 tributary to the Hiles mill Is estimated at 300,000,000 feet, containing a 

 large percentage of hardwoods. 



The Jenkins Machine Company, Sheboygan, manufacturer of woodwork- 

 ing tools and machinery, will erect a duplicate of its present main shop, 

 45x196 feet, to double its capacity. 



The Drost Box Company, Manitowoc, has awarded contracts for the 

 erection of a two-story factory addition, 40x100 feet, to provide adequate 

 capacity for handling its rapidly growing business. 



The Wisconsin Land, Log & Lumber Company of Woodrutt, has been 

 incorporated with a capital stock of .$25,000 by Arthur K. Rouse, George 

 J. Cahill and William H. Cantwell, to deal in logs, lumber, lands, real 

 estate, etc. 



Martin Boldt & Son, Applcton, are enlarging the capacity of their wood- 

 working plant by the Installation of a considerable list of new machinery 

 and equipment items, contracts for which have been placed. Oscar Boldt 

 Is manager of the plant. 



J. S. Thompson, proprietor of the Badger Box & Lumber Company, 

 Grand Rapids, Wis., which lost its mill and factory by fire in January, 

 has decided to relocate the industry at Black River Falls, where local 

 capital has become interested and where a large supply of suitable raw 

 material Is available. The business has been incorporated as the Black 

 River Falls Box & Manufacturing Company, with A. L. Pongratz as presi- 

 dent, and Mr. Thompson as vice-president and general manager. A new 

 plant will be built and equipped at an estimated cost of $50,000. 



Henry Hanson, superintendent of the Wausau Land & Lumber Company, 

 has moved his headquarters from Malvern, in Oneida county, to the gen- 

 eral offices at Wausau as a matter of convenience In handling the business. 

 The John Schroeder Lumber Company, Milwaukee and Ashland, which 

 has been conducting extensive logging operations on Stockton and Oak 

 islands of the Apostle group. Lake Superior, has completed arrangements 

 to establish woods operations on Micliigan island as well. The cut will 

 go to the Ashland sawmill. 



James McCrossen, Wausau, one of the founders of the Montreal River 

 Lumber Company, Hurley, and for many years identified with the northern 

 Wisconsin log and lumber industry, died at Pasadena, Cal., on -\prll 25, 

 at the age of eighty-one years. 



The Miller Broom Company, LaCrosse, broom and handle manufacturer, 

 has started erection work on its new plant, 80x200 feet, one-story, to 

 cost $30,000 with complete equipment, Albert L. Miller is proprietor. 



