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April 2r>. 11(19 



VESTAL LUMBER 

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Soft Textured Oak 



Poplar 



Black Walnut 



Tenn. Red Cedar 



KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE 



BAND MILLS AT VESTAL 



A SUBURB OF KNOXVILLE 



FONDE, KY. 



Lidgerwood Cableway 

 Skidders 



with Mechanical Slack Puller 

 Multiple Skidding Lines 



These exclusive features of the Lidgerwood Skidders 

 reduce time of hooking on logs to a minimum. 



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LIDGERWOOD MFG. CO. 



Originators of Overhead and Ground Steam Logging Machinery 



Chicago ®6 Liberty St., New York Seattle 



New Orleans: 

 Woodward. Wight & Co., Ltd 



Canada: 

 Canadian AIIIS'Chalmer«. Ltd., Toronto 



known to the lumber men in this section. He is survived by the widow 

 nnd two sons. 



William H. McCurdy, president of the Hercules Buggy Company, accom- 

 panied hy his wife, returned a few days ago from California, where they 

 Kpent several weeks. Mr. McCurdy says he is expecting^ better year for 

 the carriage manufacturers. 



The will of the late Edmon P. Ervin. well-known lumber manufacturer 

 who died at his home at Franklin. Ind., recently, has been filed for pro- 

 bate. The estate is valued at nearly .$100,000, most of it being left to. 

 the widow. 



Lumber manufacturers of this section are interested in the announce- 

 ment that the South American Trade Bureau recently formed In this city 

 has incorporated with a capital stock of .$50,000, and that several branch' 

 offices will be opened in other cities of the Middle West. The purpose 

 of the bureau is to bring the American manufacturers in clovser touch with 

 the merchants and jobber.s of the countries in South and Central America. 



Ltuikling operations in Evansville are more active and building permits' 

 for April show a big gain over March. It is expected that by the first of 

 .May there will be a great deal of construction work going on in Evansville 

 and other towns in southern Indiana, southern Illinois and western and 

 northern Kentucky. The Evansville Planing Mill Company has arrange<l 

 ro build a number of dwellnig houses here during the summer and fall. 

 Mr. .Tohann. president, says the company has plenty to do and that If 

 trade keeps up all year as It started the company will break all records. 

 At .\nderson, Ind., an Investment company has been organized with a 

 capital stock of $100,000 to build many new houses. The M. J. Huffman 

 Construction Company of Evanwville has started work on the new plant of 

 the Mutual Truck Company at Sullivan, Ind. It has just been announced 

 IIkU :in addition will be built to the plant of the McFerson & Foster Com- 

 [i;iuy, well-known box manufacturer. Other manufacturers here are arrang- 

 inj,' to have additions built this year. Planing mills are now busier than 

 tbey have been for some time, and yellow pine dealers and sash and door 

 men say that the outlook is one of encouragement. 



WISCONSIN 



KrL'uUer Bros. Manufacturing Company, St. Louis, Mo., a large maker 

 of shoe lasts, has decided to locate a new plant in Milwaukee, which Is 

 now oonsidcrpd second only to St. Louis as the most important shoe manu- 

 lacturing center in America. Contracts are being awarded for a three- 

 story factory, 100x160 feet in size, to be located at the foot of Lee street 

 and the Milwaukee river. It will cost about $100,000 with complete 

 (.■(|uipment. The project is in charge of Herman .T. Esser, architect, 402 

 Camp building, Milwaukee. • 



The Oconto Company, Oconto, has erected and equipped a sawmill at 

 its No. 15 logging camp, which for the present will be used mainly to cut 

 hemlock ties but is of sufficient capacity to handle general sawing. 



The Wisconsin Textile Manufacturing Company. Two Rivers, will erect 

 a large addition to its plant, which ii> devoted to the production of 

 bobbins, spools, hosiery forms and other wood accessories and specialties 

 for textile mills and factories. The building will be 75x190 feet in size, 

 one story high. The Wisconsin company last year merged with the 

 Alberts & Meyer Manufacturing Company, and recently increased it« 

 capital stock from $25,000 to $50,000. O. B. Alberts is secretary. 



The O. C. Steenburg Company, Fond du Lac, which has been in process 

 • >i liquidation for nearly a year, has disposed of its remaining assets to 

 F. (i. Steenberg, who will wind up the affairs in person. The corporation 

 has been dissolved. It was established in 1868 and has been an import- 

 ant factor in the interior woodwork, fixture, door and sash manufacturing 

 industry of the Northwest. It is expected that the plant will be taken 

 over by other interests and continued in the same or a similar line of 

 production. 



The Rhinelauder Refrigerator Company, Rhinelander, maker of Iceboxes 

 and domestic purposes, is intending to build a factory and warehouse ad- 

 dition. Plans have not been made public, however. R. A. Rieb is general 

 manager. 



The J. H. O'Melia Lumber Company, Rhinelander, announces that Logan 

 Sanderson. Wausau, M'is.. has recently become manager of its hardwood 

 di'pnrtnicnt. Mr. Sanderson formerly was with the B. Ileinemaun Lumber 

 Company. Merrill, and later with the Wheeler-Timlin laimlier Company, 

 Wausau. as head of hardwood sales. 



The International Toy Company, Eau Claire, has purchased two acres 

 at Menomonie and Michigan streets in that city as the site of its new 

 factory, to' be erected at once. The main building will be 60x300 feet in 

 size, crescent-shaped, with an office building in the form of a "grown-up" 

 (loll , house, star-shaped. Much new equipment and machinery will be 

 needed to supplement that now being used in the leased factory when 

 operations are transferred to the new works. 



The Morgan Company, Oshkosh, manufacturer of fine hardwood doorB, 

 Is building a boiler and power house addition to furnish additional capacity 

 for the mill drive. 



The Republic Match Company, Chicago, which has been negotiating 

 with the Chamber of Commerce at Kenosha, Wis., for a prospective fac- 

 tory site, has announced its decision to locate its plant in Waukegan, 

 111., where a lease has been taken on 40,000 square feet in the Terminal 

 building. 



A fine of $1,000 and costs was imposed on the Goodman Lumber Com- 

 I»any, Marinette. Wis., in federal count at Milwaukee when a plea of nolle 



