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HARDWOOD RECORD 



October 10, 1919 



The company is now building an addition to its modern new plant to be 

 used as storage rooms and garage, which when completed will allow for 

 considerable additional machinery to be installed In the main plant now 

 being used for storage purposes. 



The Hamilton-Merryman Lumber Company, Marinette, has sold 4,700 

 acres of cut-over land in the Pine Creek district near Iron Mountain, 

 Mich., to Idaho interests for sheep raising purposes. 



The Kieckhefer Box Company, Milwaukee, to allow for its rapidly ex- 

 panding business, is erecting an addition, 40 by 50 feet, to its plant at 

 Sixteenth and Canal streets, at an approximate cost of $10,000. 



George Quayle, former resident of Bayfield, and prominent in northern 

 Wisconsin lumber circles, being at one time assistant manager of the 

 former Pike Lumber Company and later assuming charge of logging opera- 

 tions In the Bahama Islands for the Red Cliff Lumber Company, has re- 

 cently been appointed secretary of the Oregon State Chamber of Commerce, 

 at Portland, Ore. 



The Hannahs Manufacturing Company of Kenosha, having outgrown 

 its present facilities is searching cities of northern Wisconsin with an 

 aim to purchase or erect a branch plant. Lynn T. Hannahs, treasurer of 

 the company, explained that it was useless to ad4 any further additions 

 to its present plant at Kenosha, due to the existing shortage of labor in 

 that city. Negotiations are now being carried on at Oshkosh, and it is 

 expected that a branch might be established there, at a cost to exceed 

 .$50,000. 



The Winther Motor Truck Company of Kenosha, will establisli a branch 

 plant at Milwaukee to cost about $250,000. A suitable site has been 

 secured and building operations will start at once. According to Martin 

 Winter, president of the firm, a single contract recently received calls 

 lor $4,750,000 worth of motor trucks. This and several other large orders, 

 necessitates the immediate expansion of its facilities. 



P. H. James, who bought and assumed immediate management of the 

 Eau Claire Potash Company, Eau Claire, Wis., has changed the firm name 

 to that of The Badger Potash Company. Mr. James is a man of many 

 years' experience in this line, having been associated with his father in 

 jnanufacture of potash in Wausau. 



The Menominee Weather Strip Company, Menominee, Mich., has recently 

 been incorporated with a capital stock of $5,000 to engage in the manu- 

 facture of weather strips. The incorporators are Carl Olsen, Louis Ender 

 and E. L. Clark. 



The Republic Lumber Company, Marinette, received a large cargo of 

 lumber, containing 1,014,000 feet, from West Niebish, Mich. The cargo 

 is the largest received in many months and was loaded on the steam lum- 

 ber barge Sidney O. Neff and the tow barge Wisconsin. The lumber was 

 unloaded at the Republic yards on the Stephenson Island docks, 



Oswald DickoflP, employed for several years by the Chas. W. Fish Lum- 

 ber Company at Elcho, has been appointed manager of the company's mill 

 ■it Antigo. During the war Mr. Dickotf was in government service in- 

 specting spruce In the lumber camps on the West coast. 



F. W. Ollhoff is erecting a new mill on the site of the former mill prop- 

 erty, recently destroyed by fire. The company has been reorganized, and 

 some of the most prominent lumbermen in this vicinity added to its 

 directorate. The stockholders of the new company are F. W. Ollhoff, J. A. 

 Emerich, J. H. Hieb, E. T. Bisbee, A. C. Friday, Ernest Leidlger, G. P. 

 Kraft, John Brandt, John Selover, John Ament, Paul Dalsky, F. P. 

 Muchinski and John Hlnimelsbach. 



The Reichow Furniture Company, Milwaukee, has filed amendments to 

 its articles of incorporation changing the firm name to Reichow-Rogan 

 Furniture Company. The incorporators of the new company are Harry C. 

 Reichow and Walter G. Rogau. 



The Lloyd-Mc.Mplne Company of Appleton, has purchased 10,000,000 

 feet of standing timber from the Keith & Hiles Lumber Company, rep- 

 resenting the largest timber deal consummated in this vicinity in many 

 years. The tract is located near SJone Lake In Forest county and will 

 provide extensive logging operations for several years. Numerous camps 

 will be erected at once. William Taylor and Lament Boyer have been 

 placed in charge of logging the new tract. 



The plant of the Algoma Panel Company at Birchwood, is being ex- 

 tensively overhauled and remodeled and considerable additional machinery 

 will be installed with an aim for increased production. The plant Ls 

 closed pending the completion of the work. 



The sawmill and lumber yard of the N. Ludington Company, Marinette, 

 lias been sold to the H. P. Below Lumber Company of that city. Accord- 

 ing to H. F. Below, president of the company, the sawmill will not be 

 put to use and will possibly be leased to other interests, while the yards 

 will be used as the distributing center of the company's operations. Its 

 yards at Wells, Muskegon and Detroit, Mich., will be discontinued and 

 all operations concentrated at Marinette. The deal constitutes one of 

 the largest lumber manufacturing plants in the Northwest, operated for 

 over fifty years by the late Senator Isaac Stephenson of Wisconsin, 



Henry Catencamp, who.se mill near Tilleda, was recently destroyed by 

 flre is erecting a new mill on the north bank of the Wolf River in East 

 Shawano. The mill will have a capacity of 40,000 feet per day, and will 

 employ from forty to sixty men. 



The Miller Sash & Door Company, Marinette, has again moved into its- 

 offices in the building formerly occupied, being remodeled and refitted 

 after a damaging flre. 



The Murray-Mylrea Company of Antigo. manufacturer and repairer of 

 liniHi mill wheels and other mill machinery, has recently Installed con- 



siderable machinery to care for tlie larger manufacture and repair work. 

 A new planer has been added capable of handling work 3 feet wide, 4 feet 

 high anil 10 feet long and a lathe that will take work up to 6 and 8 feet 

 in diameter. 



The W. S. Seaman Company, Milwaukee, to allow for its rapidly 

 expanding business has been incorporated as the Seaman Body Corpora- 

 tion with a capital stock of $120,000, to manufacture, buy, sell and deal 

 in autos, bodies, parts, etc. The incorporators are Harold Seaman and 

 Irving Seaman, 



The A. J. Welier Company, Racine, has been incorporated to succeed 

 A. J. Weber & Co., with a capital stock of $25,000 to engage in the 

 manufacture of sash, doors, interior woodwork, etc. The incorporators 

 are Anthony J. Weber, Elizabeth Weber and Jerome J. Foley. 



The Hardwood Market 



CHICAGO 



The situation locally is good mainly because so much building work is 

 being rushed so as to g^\ it under cover before the cold weather and also 

 because factory buying is holding up excellently. This holds for all 

 classes of factory buying with the possible exception of box factories, as 

 all linos including furniture, finish, pianos, talking machines, etc., are 

 doing a big volume of business. Factory stocks in this section are not 

 large and local operators are finding considerable trouble in getting cars 

 through because of the excessive shortages of cars at shipping points. 

 The difficulty in filling orders from the mills is also continuing and the 

 price situation is keeping up just as strong as ever. The local trade and 

 those selling in this market are very well pleased with the condition and 

 expect it to continue for .some time in the future. 



Building work in the Chicago district since the strike settlement has 

 been limited not by the demand but only by the help available. Thou- 

 sands of carpenters went to other cities during the strike and work will 

 not get 100 per cent under way here until they have returned. Probably 

 the loss of those who stay away permanently will be made up by tl^ose 

 new men who are attracted here by the high wages. 



BUFFALO 



The hardwood trade has been on a fairly large scale during the past 

 few weeks, though slowing down to some extent because of the steel 

 strike. At most yards a pretty good volume of business is reported, how- 

 ever, and the strike is not expected to be as much a detriment as was 

 feared at first. The sale of lumber to the planing mills is reported good 

 and the building trade is keeping up at an active rate. It has been pos- 

 sible for builders to get hardware and other materials, though the supply 

 in the hands of most wholesale dealers is much curtailed. 



The principal varieties of hardwoods are moving fairly well. Some 

 yards have been getting a pretty good export business during the past 

 month and others been making many direct shipments from the mills, 

 in which they are having trouble because of the scarcity of cars. The 

 flooring demand is keeping up actively and the difficulty is to get the 

 needed supplies. Prices on maple flooring have had a big advance and 

 the mills as a general rule are well sold up for several weeks. 



Nothing has been done in the lake hardwood trade the past month and 

 the receipts of all kinds of lumber by lake have been unusually small. 

 Where cargoes have been ordered by lake they are usually subject to a 

 considerable delay and it Is hard work to find men either to load or unload 

 cargoes. 



Buffalo building permits for September numbered 448, with total costs 

 of $1,256,000. This compares with 277 permits and costs of $483,000 in 

 the same month of last year, making a gain of 160 per cent, or the largest 

 gain of any month this year. For the first nine months of the year the 

 total cost of permits was $9,204,000, as compared with $5,874,000 In that 

 period of last year, or a gain of over 56 per cent. The total building 

 work here so far this year runs a very little under that of 1917. 



BALTIMORE 



The demand for hardwoods which for a time seemed to ease off and 

 reflect diminished activity, has shown a quickening Influence of late, and 

 is now again quite brisk, with the buyers apparently in a mood to take up 

 stocks In impressive quantities and with the range of prices much the 

 same as they have been for some time. It looks as if the top notch in 

 values had been reached. Of the various woods in general use poplar 

 appears to be among those in most urgent and largest demand, and the 

 volume of business attains proportions that must afford much satisfac- 

 tion to the producers. The quotations are well sustained at the advanced 

 levels, and the dealers here are In search of supplies to take care of the 

 orders that come in to them. Chestnut appears to have taken the lead, 

 and under the stimulus of the brisk inquiry and the attractive prices 

 offered, considerable lumber has been brought out of late, without in the 

 least imposing a halt upon the calls for shipment. Other hardwoods also 

 are in excellent demand, a kind of revival having taken place, with the 

 indications favoring the belief that the requirements of the consumers 



