June 25, 1919 



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general contract to the Raulf Company, 53 Patton building, Milwaukee, 

 for the construction of previously reported additions costing $250,000 at 

 its plant iu Fort Atkinson, Wis. Ground was broken June 16. 



The Sheboygan Cigar Box & Lumber Company, Sheboygan, is making 

 improvements in its plant and building au addition to its power plant, 

 costing about $15,000 in all. 



Daniel and Martin McDonald, proprietors of a large United States- 

 Canadian logging and lumber manufacturing concern, have purchased the 

 Miller Lumber Company of Appleton, where they were employed as youths. 

 The McDonald interests have their main sawmill at Vancouver, B. C, and 

 principal office at Winnipeg. Branches are maintained at Memphis, Tenn., 

 and Appleton, Wis. ; Saskatoon, Regina and Toronto, Can. 



The Bissell Lumber Company, Marshfield, is planning to establish a state 

 bank at Tripoli, the seat of its saw and planing mills and general manu- 

 facturing operations. Since the Bissell interests took over the Stolle 

 Lumber & Veneer Company at Tripoli a year ago, the community has been 

 nearly doubled in size, making it advisable to furnish banking accoramoda- 

 ■ tlons. B. D. Stone is general manager at Tripoli. 



The Boscobel Table Company, Boscobel, is the new name of the busi- 

 ness heretofore conducted as the Wisconsin Valley Woodworking Company. 

 The company is preparing to build a factory addition and a new dry kiln 

 to handle its large volume of busine^^s adequately. 



Henry P. Hamilton, vice-president of the Hamilton Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, Two Rivers, Wis., died June 15 at Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago, 

 after an illness of several months. He was born near Fond du Lac, Wis., 

 on April 21. 1S62. In 1900 he helped found the big Hamilton woodwork- 

 ing industry at Two Rivers with his brother, J. E. Hamilton. 



The supreme court of Wisconsin has affirmed the judgment of the cir- 

 cuit court of Bayfield county, awarding the M. J. Bell Lumber Company 

 damages of $5,300 against the Bayfield Transfer Railway Company, aris- 

 ing out of the failure of the railroad to provide proper transportation 

 service which resulted in the destruction of a large quantity of logs by a 

 forest fire. 



Miss Eliese Gallet, Chilton, has accepted appointment as assistant 

 sales manager of the Charles W. Fish Lumber Company, with headquarters 

 at the sawmill at KIcho. Miss Gallet is considered one of the ablest women 

 in the northern lumber manufacturing industry. In the last few years 

 she has been conducting a successful wholesale lumber business at Chilton, 

 formerly being associated with a Rhinelander concern and later with the 

 government sawmill at Neopit. 



The Girard Lumber Company, Dunbar, sustained a loss of $45,000 by 

 fire in its sawmill on May 30. The insurance on the plant amounts to 

 $189,000. The Girard company is a member of the J. W. Wells group. 



The Wisconsin Valley Improvement Company. Wausau, comprised mainly 

 of large lumber operators, has increased its capital stock from $350,000 

 to $450,000. W. E. Bfown, Rhinelander, is president, and G. D. Jones, 

 Wausau, is secretary and treasurer. Both are widely known in the lum- 

 ber industry. 



The Hardwood Market 



CHICAGO 



The Chicago trade is a pretty fair indication of the trend of lumber 

 conditions throughout the country. It being the largest consuming market 

 it reflects the developments within the industry as a whole, and just now 

 is feeling its full share of the general activity and the spread between 

 demand and supply. 



It is much more diflicult for Chicago distributors of hardwoods to secure 

 the necessary stocks than it is for them to dispose of such stocks. Prices 

 consequently are following the trend of lumber values throughout the 

 country, advancing with remarkable rapidity. The demand is not based on 

 artificially stimulated call for lumber, as consuming buyers are just as 

 actively proceeding in their own business as they are in the purchase of 

 their lumber. 



The building situation is opening up nicely, and altogether the pros- 

 pects are most encouraging for a long continuance of the present strong 

 conditions. 



BUFFALO 



The hardwood market continues strong and scarcity of stock is the 

 most important feature. The Buffalo yards are pretty well supplied, but 

 in addition to their supplies they find that it is impossible to do so without 

 paying some stiff prices, usually an advance over the last purchase. This 

 strong market bids fair to continue, as the demand upon the mills and 

 yards is increasing. It is expected that a good deal of scarcity of lumber 

 is going to be manifest this fall. 



Plain and quartered oak are in good demand and prices are showing 

 advances. Some mills have withdrawn all quotations until further notice, 

 as they have nothing to sell. Production was curtailed at many of the 

 mills by the long-continued rain of last month. Poplar is increasing in 

 demand and strength. No. 2 common poplar is quite scarce. The furniture 

 factories and automobile concerns are running actively and taking a large 

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