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HARDWOOD RECORD 



If Your Foreman 

 comes in and asks for 

 immediate shipment 



nf the fnllowino- items, we are the ones 

 to help vou out. as we have the stock dry 

 and can ship f|uickly. 



100,000 ft. 

 100,000 ft. 

 110,000 ft. 



50,000 ft. 



75,000 ft. 



25,000 ft. 



1 



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1 

 1 



No. 3 Birch 

 No. 3 Birch 

 No. 3 Black Ash 

 No. 3 Soft Elm. 

 No. 3 Hard Maple 

 No. 3 Red Oak 



We can re-saw and dress any 

 or all of this stock. Write 

 us quick for good service. 



Pay son Smith Lumber Co. 



MINNEAPOLIS MINNESOTA 



Williams 



Lumber 



Company 



FAYETTE VILLE 

 TENNESSEE 



-MANUFACTURERS- 



Middle Tennessee 

 HARDWOODS 



Soft -Textured Qtd. Oak a Specialty 



The -Molir Lumber Company of Tomahawk, Wis., will maintain Its 

 wholesale heartqimrters in that city. F. E. Burbach of Portage has been 

 transferre'l to the wholesale department at Tomahawk. The Mohr Com- 

 pany has taken eharge of the Bradley interests which were acquired some 

 time ago. - 



The Mitchell Motors Company, Racine, Wis., which is the outgrowth 

 of the Mitchell wagon interests, established in 1834. now occupies the 

 new five-story l)ody plant. All bodies for Mitchell cars will now lie made 

 hy the company at its own factory. 



D. n. Pierce and tiustave Seeger, of Appleton, Wis., have organized 

 the Auto Body Company and commenced operations in the former 

 Schneider factory. All types of automobile Ijodies will be nmnufactured, 

 both for pleasure and commercial cars. 



Clark Dodge has purchased the interest of his brother. Leroy Dodge, 

 in the C. &'. Dodge & Son Compauy. at Monroe, Wis., operating a planing 

 mill. Leroy Dodge aca.uired an interest in the Dodge Lundier Company 

 of the sanii' city. 



The K. .1. Pfiffner Lumber Company of Stevens Point, Wis., will cut 

 about l.OOO.UOO feet of hardwood and hemlock around Sell's Spur in 

 Ashland county. The company will also buy some logs, all of .vhich 

 will be sawed at the Sell's Spur mill. The hardwood will be shipped 

 directly to market and the hemlock lumber to the local yards. 



Andrew .Tensen. a well-known lumberman of New- London, Wis., who 

 recently filed a petition in bankruptcy, has been held on the charge of 

 Tuaking- a fals,:' sworn statement to secjire a further extension of credit 

 anil an increased loan at the First National bank of that city. It is 

 alleged that funds were secured on the strength of a false statement of 

 assets and liabilities. There is a probability that the loan will be paid 

 to end the matter. 



Milton A. Spraguc, prominent lumberman and banker of Washburn, 

 Wis., died in that city .Tan. 13, following an operation for intestinal 

 trouble, lie was seventy^three years old. Business houses were closed 

 for four hours on Monday as a mark of respect to Mr. Sprague. The 

 body was cremated at Minneapolis. 



The plant of the American Seating Company at Uacinc, Wis., will 

 probably never be started in full operation again. . William C. Hood, for 

 thirty years connected with the firm, resigned as manager recently. No 

 successor has been appointed and it is reported that a manager will not 

 be necessary. The firm employed more than 300 men here at one time, 

 doing a big business in school seats and opera chairs. 



The Ladysmith Potash Fertilizer Company, operated at LadysmiUi, 

 Wis,, by F. Zitclman, has been succeeded by the Husk County Potash 

 Fertilizer Works. Thomas Baker has acquired an interest with Mr. Zitel- 

 man, and the business is being extended and expanded. Wood ashes 

 from the various woodworking plants are used in the process of manu- 

 facturing. 



W. .\. Bissell of Wausau, Wis,, head of the Yawkey-Blssell Lumber 

 Company, and Frank K. Bissell. vice president and treasurer of the 

 BissellWheeler Lumber Company of Marshfield, have taken over the 

 holdings of W. D. Wheeler in the latter concern. Mr. Wheeler will handle 

 lumber and manufacturers' stocks, having opened offices in the Paulus 

 Block, at Marshfield. undiT the name of W. D. Wheeler & Co. 



The Kenfield-I.amoreaux Company erf Washburn, Wis,, is operating its 

 crating and heading factory on full time with ll,"! men. The sawmill of 

 the concern has started operating day shifts, and will be operating on 

 the double schedule as soon as logs arrive in large enough quantities. 



The annual meetings of the Chippewa Lumber & Boom I'onipany and 

 the Mississippi Hiver Logging Company were held at Chippewa Falls, 

 Wis., .Tanuary 17, in the new offices over the Lumbermen's National Bank. 

 U. M. Weyerhaeuser was elected president of both companies : William 

 Irvine, secretary and treasurer of the Chippewa ; and Thos. Irvine, sec- 

 retary, and E, L. .Vinsworth, treasurer, of tlie Mississippi company. 

 Years ago these meetings brought the most prominent lumbermen in the 

 country to Eau Claire, and were followed by a big banquet. Only a tew 

 of these are left now, William Irvine of this city being the only one of 

 the old guard present. No banquet was held this year. 



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The Hardwood Market 



-< CHICAGO >- 



The Chicago trade is developing rather slowly as is usual in .Tanuary, 

 the hesitancy being dm? to two reasons : one the natural check offered 

 by the furniture shows and the other the continued hope among the bu.vcrs 

 that something will occur to break prices and enalde them to buy their 

 hardwood stocks cheaper. The local trade still retains Its confidence, 

 however, and there is very little doubt that purchases of hardwoods made 

 now will be on a better basis than is likely to be available for a long 

 time to come. Alill conditions are so strong and are so readily reflected 

 to the mill representatives and the wholesale trade in the metropolitan 

 district that there is hardly a possibility of any weakening at consuming 

 markets. The presence of various large northern buyers has been noted 

 at some of the southern conventions, giving a suggestion that the larger 

 firms, whose purch:»ses entail such vast outlaws as to make tli'-m of sur- 



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