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HARDWOOD RECORD 



December 25. 1916 



The following stock is in excellent 

 condition, ready for immediate shipment 



4/4 No. 3 Elm & Ash 24,000 



5/4 No. 3 Elm & Ash 35,000 



6/4 No. 3 Elm & Ash 74.000 



8/4 No. 3 Elm & Ash 3,000 



4/4 No. 1 & Btr. Birch 51,000 



4/4 No. 2 Birch 250,000 



4/4 No. 3 Birch 202,000 



5/4 No. 3 Birch '8,000 



4/4 No. 3 Basswood 25,000 



6/4 No. 3 Birch 8,000 



4/4 No. 3 Maple 1,000,000 



5/4 No. 3 Maple 387,000 



Ideal 



Hardwood 



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Stack Lumber Company 



Masonville, Michigan 



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Our Standard 



QWe are makers of Good Lumber. 



Q For ten years we have been turning out 

 high-grade Hardwoods at our present lo- 

 cation, and thruout those ten years we 

 have been studying constantly to improve 

 our products. 



Q As a result we have established a real 

 STANDARD OF QUALITY. 



^ When our customers speak of GOOD 

 lumber they say "Like Liberty Lumber." 



Q It IS good lumber. Smoothly sawn — 

 pliunp, even thickness — good widths — 

 good lengths— and FLAT. 



^ Good to look at, a pleasure to work — 

 that is "LIBERTY" lumber. 



SEE OCR LIST OF DBT LUMBER IN 

 "HARDWOODS FOB SALE" DEFT., 

 P,4GES 50-51. .AND .VSK FOR PRICES 



LIBERTY HARDWOOD LUMBER COMPANY 



MAKERS OF GOOD LUMBER 

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All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if 



The Kiel Wooilenware Company has purchased additional sites at 

 Campbellsport. on the North-Western Line, and will erect additional 

 liuildings for the manufacture and storing of cheese boxes. A factory is 

 now being operated here, besides larger ones at Kiel and Mellen, Wis. 



Ole Hansen, aged seventy years, a retired lumberman of Eau Claire, 

 Wis., fell dead of heart failure in his home in that city on December 12. 



The woodworking plant of Theodore Soderberg at Barron, Wis., has 

 been purchased by Pelton & Wesslen of Dallas. Godfrey Wesslen. brother 

 of one of the firm members of Duluth, will take charge. 



The Park Falls Lumber Company has added a night shift at its mill 

 in Park Falls. Eighty men are now employed at the mill. Increases 

 will be made in lumber camp operations also. 



Brown & Hamm. who recently took over a contract to cut about one 

 million feet of timber for Walter Curtis, on land near Como, Wis., have 

 installed equipment on the Curtis farm and will begin operations at 

 once. The timber is principally hardwood, probably the largest tract 

 in southern Wisconsin, 



The tug Ashland, owned by the John Schroeder Lumber Company, 

 has cleared from Ashland for ttuluth, where it will be overhauled this 

 winter. The Ash hind is one of the finest tugs on the lakes. 



I'reditors of the United Refrigerator & Ice Machine Company of 

 Kenosha, Wis., will receive a total of 15^^ per cent of their claims. The 

 concern went into bankruptcy in October. 1914. Claims totaling $608,000 

 were filed and the total realized from the sale of the assets was .$110,000. 



Robert JI. Filbey has succeeded H. P. James as manager of the Mil- 

 waukee Basket Company at South Milwaukee, Wis. Mr. .Tames has be^n 

 manager since the plant was reorganized by the J. F. Conant Manufac- 

 turing Company. E. T... Grover returns as plant superintendent. 



The H. Selle Company, manufacturer of excelsior and other timber 

 liy-products, with plants at Marinette. Oshkosh, Green Bay. Wis., and 

 elsewhere, will establish a new $100,000 plant at Manistique, Mich. Fifty 

 men will be employed and 15,000 cords of wood used annually. 



(irant T. Stephenson. Milwaukee lumberman and a son of Isaac Steph- 

 enson, has enrolled as a member of the naval reserve, civilian class, and 

 will go into the service January 1. He will be assigned to duty on one 

 of the battleships. Mr. Stephenson has long been interested in establish-, 

 a naval reserve. 



Tlie Bukolt Manufacturing Company of Stevens Point has secured a 

 $;!i).()00 order f(ir its aut<imatic or self-rocking cradles. The plant now 

 employs 100 men and the capacity will soon be doubled when the new 

 addition is completed. 



The Wachsmuth I..umber Company has closed its mill at Bayfield after 

 a continuous run since early last spring, during which time 10.000,000 

 feet of lumber were produced. A long run is promised for the coming 

 season, as the company has contracted for the output of several logging 

 jobbers in addition to that of three of its own camps. 



Robert GiMMiman, general nmnager of the Goodman Lumber Company 

 of Goo(hnan. Wis., has returned from an extended western trip. Mr. 

 (ioodman is carrying his right arm in splints as the result of being 

 thrown from a carriage wlille driving with Mrs. Goodman in St. Paul. 



Hans M. Laursen, general manager of the Lakeside Lumber Company 

 of Shell Lake, Wis., and assemblyman from his district since 1912, was 

 killed December 9. The automobile which he was driving was struck by 

 a locomotive while crossing tlie railroad track between Shell Lake and 

 Sponner. He was a native of Denmark, and had been in the lumber 

 luisiness in Wisconsin since he was twenty-three years old. A wife and 

 eight children survive. 



The Ilieb Box Manufacturing Company is completing its plant at Mer- 

 rill. Wis., and operations will be started by January 1. Individual 

 electric motors are being provided for the machinery. Gottlieb Hleb 

 will be superintendent of the factory, coming from Bemidji. Minn., 

 where he has been associated with the Bemidji Box & Lumber Company. 



The A. J. Martin I^umber Company has been incorporated with $7."*, 000 

 capital stock by .\. J. Martin, Louis Martin and Ole Foss at Bloomer, 

 Wis. 



The Curtis-Jones-Sells Laud Company has bi'eu incorporated at Wau- 

 sau. Wis., by interests C(mt rolling the Fen wood Lumber Company of 

 Wausau. Max Sells Land Company of Florence and G. D. Jones Land 

 Company of Wausau. The capital is $200,000. Logging, manufacturing 

 and marketing timber and its products are part of the purposes of the 

 new corporation. 



The plant and property of the Stevens I'oint Box Company at Stevens 

 Point. Wis., have been acquried by Samuel Trainor and O. II. Maatsch 

 of Chicago. The Stevens Point Box and Lumber Company is the new 

 firm name and the capital is $25,000. The plant has been overhauled 

 and put into operation. Hemlock and hardwood will be used for box 

 nuiterial in place of pine, which was used by the old concern. 



The pattern storage bouse, machine and blacksmith shop of the Filer 

 & Stowell Company, Milwaukee, were destroyed by fire on December 15. 

 The origin is unknown. The building was used in connection with the 

 manufacture of sawmill machinery, Corliss engines, etc. The loss Is 

 estimated at $350,000, fully covered. 



The Peninsular Box Company, which purchased the plant of the M. & 

 M. Box Company at Marinette, Wis., several months ago, plans to prac- 

 tically double the capacity of the plant, which is operated under the 

 latter name. Improvements are now under way. 



The Upham Lumber Company of Marshfield, Wis., has again taken 



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