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HARDWOOD RECORD 



January 10. 1917 



that have advanced the trade further in the ranks of modern business. His 

 appointment for the three-year term is a just recognition not only of 

 Mr. White but of the industry which he represents. 



Mr. Whfte is president of the Missouri Lumber and Mining Company, 

 the Missouri Lumber and Land Exchange, the Louisiana Central Lumber 

 Company and the Forest Lumber Company. 



Late Wisconsin News 



The hardwood marliet continues about the same as it has been for 

 some months. Woodworliing industries are busy, some worldng twelve 

 hours a day in an effort to catch up with orders on hand. Inventories and 

 other annual wovk are being completed as rapidly as possible. The new 

 year has started in with the excellent business conditions which have 

 featured the industry during the recent months. 



The marliet continues steady and strong. Many purchases of last 

 year have not been delivered, while the present supply of dry stocics is 

 being rapidly bought up. New stocks will not be coming in before May 1, 

 and many orders are being placed for future delivery at present prices, so 

 that the advent of new stocks will hardly have any weakening effects on 

 the market. 



Shipping conditions are still in bad shape. Deliveries cannot be de- 

 pended upon and there is a general shortage of cars to ship the finished 

 products. The shortage of cars is handicapping the transportation of logs 

 to mills in the northern section. The output of forest products this year 

 will be the largest in ten years, according to railroad offlcials in northern 

 Wisconsin. Several large operators have entered the field this winter. 



Building operations continue fairly active and consequently the planing 

 mills are finding this a busy season. Furniture, sash and door and box 

 factories are operating on steady time. The Jlilwaukee road shops here 

 are busy on new car construction and repair work. 



The labor condition in tlie woods is much improved, but the price is 

 exceptionally high. The Milwaukee Free Employment Bureau is sending 

 hundreds of men to the north every week. 



The W. N. Albertson Engineering Company, First National Bank 

 building, Milwaukee, has purchased the lola Saw & Planing Mill Company 

 and the lola Electric Light & Power Company at lola, Wis. E. G. Nehles 

 has been appointed temporary manager. 



The Schram Manufacturing Company of Ladysmith, Wis., has installed 

 additional machinery which will greatly increase the output as well as 

 the number of men employed. 



Oscar W. Sturner has been selected as manager of the Colby Cheese 

 Box & Silo Company at Colby, Wis. He succeeds Fred Grambort, who 

 resigned but will remain in the service this winter to do scaling for the 

 company. 



The Moore Lumber Company, of Tomahawk, Wis., has resumed opera- 

 tions of the former factory of the Tomahawk Veneer & Box Company. 

 The plant, purchased several months ago, will employ from 150 to 200 men. 

 The Marinette and Menominee Box Company has been incorporated 

 at Milwaukee by T. F. Knapp, C. C. Major and F. R. Wahl, with a capital 

 stock of $100,000. 



H. M. Kramer of Rhinelander, Wis., has become manager of the Walsh 

 Lumber Company at Mondovi, Wis. 



The Sheboygan Couch Company of Sheboygan, Wis., sustained a loss 

 by water as well as fire resulting from the explosion of a tank of benzine 

 In the finishing room. Adjoining buildings were saved. 



The sawmill of the Foster-Latimer Lumber Company at Mellen, Wis., 

 has commenced on both day and night shifts since the first of the year. 



William C, Hood, general manager of the American Seating Company 

 of Racine, Wis., and for thirty-five years connected with the firm in 

 executive capacity, resigned to devote his time to other business interests. 

 L. W. Filyes, who has been carrying on logging operations of his own 

 at Antigo, Wis., for several years, has been selected as manager of the new 

 plant which the Charles W. Fish Lumber Company will establish in that 

 city. 



The Sturgeon Bay Fruit Package Company of Sturgeon Bay, Wis., will 

 install additional equipment which will enable the plant to produce cheese 

 boxes during the off season for fruit package manufacture. This will 

 allow the plant to operate the year around. 



The two-story sawmill and other property of the Chaudoir Company 

 at Brussels, Wis., were destroyed by fire recently at a loss of $20,000. 

 Insurance of ?5,500 was carried. A shift in the wind saved the remainder 

 of the little town. 



Joerns Brothers Company, Stevens Point, Wis., has ordered new equip- 

 ment to increase the capacity of the furniture factory at that place. The 

 plant closed down ten days during the holidays for annua! inventory and 

 oyerhauling. 



The Mosinee Land, Log & Timber Company will commence operations 

 at its sawmill at Mosinee, Wis., as soon as the first logs are delivered in 

 the hot pond. The largest cut in years is contemplated by the concern. 



Lee Brothers, who took over the sawmill of the Brown Brothers Lumber 

 Company at Rhinelander, Wis., some time ago, have commenced operation. 

 A steady run is anticipated. 



The main building of the old Barker & Stewart Lumber Company saw- 

 mill on Mclndoe island, at Wausau, Wis., was destroyed by fire, probably 

 of incendiary origin, 



Charles Frederickson, prominent lumber broker and superintendent of 

 the Brown Bros,' mill yards at Rhinelander, Wis,, was Instantly killed 



by a train while checking lumber in a pile alongside the track. He was 

 fifty-one .years old and unmarried. 



William H. Schmidt, Sr., pioneer in the lumber and woodworking in- 

 dustry in Milwaukee and head of the William H. Schmidt & Sons Sash & 

 Door Company, Wauwatosa, died December 30 at tiie age of seventy-three 

 years. He was interested in lumber, sash and door and box factories at 

 various times previously to establishing the pi-esent concern. 



The first car of mahogany logs ever shipped directly into Wisconsin for 

 manufacture into veneer was recently received by ttie Ahnapee Veneer & 

 Seating Company at Aigoma, Wis. A special slicing machine for cutting 

 mahogany and other figured woods into veneer has been purchased and 

 will be set up in the new concrete addition. Tlie machine weighs 6o,000 

 pounds. 



The John Kaufman sawmill at Phlox, Wis., together with other property 

 has been sold under foreclosure of mortgage to Louis Steckbauer of 

 Aniwa. The mill transfer carries developed water power with it. The 

 new owner will operate it with M. Eilstadt, lessee and operator under 

 receivership. 



It is reported from the upper peninsula that the Chicago, Milwaukee & 

 St. Paul railroad will soon acquire the ownership of the Escanaba & 

 Lake Superior road. The company is owned by the I. Stephenson interests 

 and was built primarily for a logging road. It runs from Wells to Chan- 

 ning, a distance of sixty-three mlies. 



The new hardwood flooring plant of the W. E. Williams Company at 

 Oconto, Wis., w^ork on which was commenced October 5, 1910, will prob- 

 ably start operations January 15, The machinery is practically installed 

 and four dry kilns about completed. The main building is 72 by 30S 

 feet ; the dry kiln wing, 80 by 100 feet, and the warehouse 40 by 200 feet. 

 Frame construction is used. The machinery is being installed on the 

 main floor, with drive shafts and connections on the ceiling of the 

 basement. 



Furniture manufacturers of Wisconsin and Minnesota met at the 

 Blodgett hotel at Marshfield, Wis., January 3, to organize a branch of 

 the National Furniture Manufacturers' Association. The branch organi- 

 zation will be known as the Northwestern Case Goods JIanufacturers. 

 Representatives present came from Minnejipolis, Duluth, Sheboygan, 

 Plymouth, Oshkosh, Grand Rapids and Stevens Point. A committee will 

 draw up by-laws of the organization and at the next meeting will elect 

 officers and carry out other plans. Frank R. Upham, of the Upham 

 Manufacturing Company and former president of the national, is active 

 in the work. 



The Fond du Lac Church Furniture Company, Fond du Lac, Wis., has 

 completed the erection of a new three-story, 108 by 96 feet, brick building 

 equipped with modern offices, salesrooms and storage space. The present 

 l)Uilding will be devoted entirely to the manufacture of the church furni- 

 ture products as well as by the Sanitary Refrigerator Company, which 

 the former concern took over some time ago, succeeding the former Bowen 

 Manufacturing Company. 



Arkansas Lumber Into West Virginia 



What is reported to be tlie first shipment of .\rkansas lumber into West 

 Virginia arrived at Charleston early this week in two barges consigned to 

 the West Virginia Timlier Company. The lumber had been on the rivers 

 for about two months, being held up by low water. The barges came from 

 Arkansas City to Point Pleasant and from there up the Kanawha river to 

 Charleston. 



Conditions Favorable and Unfavorable to Logging Around 



Memphis 



The Mississippi river is rising and this means that conditions are im- 

 proving for the transportation of l)oth logs and lumber by water. This 

 applies not only to the Mississippi itself but also to its tributaries and for 

 this reason the increased stage is welcomed liy lumber interests who depend 

 upon this method of handling their log supply. The river here reached an 

 exceptionally low stage during December and for some time it was impos- 

 sible to handle logs by water either on the Mississippi or its tributaries, 

 with the result that there was some stoppage of manufacturing operations 

 where mills depended upon the river for their log supply. It is predicted 

 that the Mississippi at Memphis will go toV a stage of twenty-five and 

 probably thirty feet from the volume of water now in siglit and, if this 

 forecast proves true, there is a very large amount of timber that will thus 

 be made available for the use of mills in this city and section. 



Unfavorable weather conditions have prevailed in this territory during 

 the past three or four weeks. There have been very few days of sunshine. 

 On tlie other hand, there have been many days of rain, sleet or snow and 

 the ground throughout the valley states is thoroughly watersoaked. This 

 has interfered materially with work in the woods, inchiding both the cut- 

 ting and hauling of timber. As a consequence the amount of timber avail- 

 able for the mills is somewhat reduced and this is occurring just at the 

 time when the supply of cars for the handling of logs is considerably 

 Increased as compared with more recent periods. There is a fair supply 

 of timber on the rights-of-way of the railroads and on river banks await- 

 ing transportation hnd because of this fact it is probable that mills will be 

 able to run for some time witliout appreciably feeling the effect of the 

 absence of active operations in the woods. However, it is realized that 

 the weather now will prove a serious factor in the amount of timl)er avail- 

 able a few weeks hence and for this reason iumlier interests are hopeful 

 that it will be possible in the very near future to resume the cutting and 



