HARDWOOD RECORD 



February :i5, 1917 



Walnut 



Of Character and Color 



Manufactured at Kansas City, U. S. A. 



Large Stock of All Grades and Thickness 



Thirty-five years" experience 



IN WALNUT ONLY 



Prompt Shipment, and 

 Guaranteed Inspection 



FRANK PURCELL 



515 Dwight Building, KANSAS CITY, MO. 



You Can See Logs Like These 

 on Our Yard Any Day 



CTIMCHM VENEER AND LUMBER 

 OiliViijUil COMPANY, INC. 



p. O. Box 1015 Memphis, Tenn. 



MANUFACTURERS 



Hardwood Lumber, Rotary Cat 

 Veneers, Rotary Cut Gum Faces, 

 Cross Banding and Cores. 



The Clayton Lumber Company's holdings at Eau Claire. Wis., have been 

 purchased by Gus Schueneman. Horse Shoe Lalie. Wis. 



Sixty men are being employed at the plant of the Eau Claire Box & 

 Crating Company, Shawtown, Wis., and .shipments are going forward to 

 the entire market, although the plant has been in operation only ten days. 

 The Oshkosh Box & Lumber Company, Frederick Heise, Oshkosh, Wis., 

 sole owner, has entered bankruptcy proceedings with liabilities of $4,838.16 

 and assets of $2,343.03. 



Under contract to furnish its entire output to the Lee Broom & Brush 

 Handle Company, the new factory of the Northern Product Company Is 

 now in operati(m at Glidden. Wis. The company was formerly located at 

 Merrill. Wis., but decided to locate nearer the supply of timber by removing 

 its entire plant, an investment of $100,000 to Glidden. 



An order for tiO.OOO dozens of candy pails has been placed by an eastern 

 concern with the Wisconsin Woodworking Company at Two Rivers, Wis. 

 The raw lumber needed to fill the order will require the service of 500 

 cars in transit. 



The Automatic Cradle Manufacturing Company, Stevens I'oint, Wis., will 

 give its employes a bonus of $1,900 to be paid weekly up to June 0, 1917. 

 There are 100 employes. 



The Appleton Broom Manufacturing Company. Appleton. Wis., has been 

 incorporated with a capital stock of $3,000 by JI. Spector, II. S. Priest and 

 J. I. Cohen. 



The C. P. Kadc Fixture & Show Case Company, Plymouth, Wis., is 

 offering treasury stock for sale at $50 per share, none of which will be 

 sold below par. The company tripled its business during l'Jl(i. 



The Racine Manufacturing Company, manufacturer of taxi-cab and 

 touring-i-ar bodies, has added a night shift to handle its many Chicago and 

 New York orders, among which is one from the Walden W. Shaw Livery 

 Company. Chicago, for seventy-flve taxicab bodies. 



The Curtis (Wis.) sawmill, recently destroyed by lire, is being replaced 

 by a new mill, which Arthur Tonn expects to have in operation by the 

 middle of April. 



The John Weix Lumber Company's mill at Romeo, Wis., was destroyed 

 by fire recently. 



The Drew Manufacturing Company has taken over the plan of the Edger- 

 ton Wagon Company, Edgerton, Wis., and will engage in the manufacture 

 of sanitary barn equipment. 



The new olfice of the ^;o^th'^^'estern Lumber Company at Chippewa Falls 

 has been completed and is already occupied by Manager Geo. II. Hinke and 

 his assistants. 



The Mattefs Brothers Company, Antigo, M'is., has been incorporated and 

 capitalized at $.-10,000 with Gus and August Mattefs and W. A. Maertz as 

 incorporators. 



The Boloit Box Board Company, Beloit, Wis., has been incorporated with 

 a capital stock of $100,000. The incorporators are Fred M. Coons, J. A. 

 Fisher and M. E. Coons. 



More than 14,000 acres of cutover hardwood land in Sawyer county, 

 Wis., will be put on the market at once by the Faast Land Company, Eaa 

 Claire, Wis. 



Shortage of log cars because of the general demoralization in freight 

 traffic has necessitated the shutting down of the steam skiddcr at the 

 camps of the J. W. Wells Lumber Company, Menominee, Mich. No allevi- 

 ation of the situation is expected before March. 



Plenty of snow' for sledging and sufficient zero weather to keep the roads 

 hard have been a grejit boon to the lumber industry in Cloverland, Upper 

 Peninsula. G. A. Bergland, Milwaukee, Wis., has arranged to cut 20.000,000- 

 feet near Bergland, Mich., and expects to run his mill there all summer. 

 Millions of feet of timber are arriving at St. Ignace, Mich., where the 

 Jones & Kerry Company's mill is located. Other logging companies are 

 employing by far more men than ever before. 



The coal situation recently forced the 0. J. Sorensen sash and door 

 factory. La Crosse, Wis., to shut down. More than a hundred men were 

 thrown out of work temporarily. 



The Menasha Wooden Ware Company, Menasha, Wis., is estiiblishing a 

 candy-pail factory at Ladysmith, Wis. 



The Park Falls Lumber Company, Park Falls, Wis., will erect another 

 new "white city" of tifty modern residences on a forty-acre site purchased 

 in Park Falls. 



The Segelke & Kohlhouse Compaiiy. sash and door manufacturer at La 

 Crosse. Wis., will build a three-story warehouse. CaxlTO. 



The Hardwood Market 



-< CHICAGO >- 



Chicago is having about the same troubles these days as most other 

 important assembling and distributing points, the diaicuities incident to 

 international complications seeming to be less severe than those resulting 

 from car scarcity. This nation-wide condition which promises calamity 

 if not remedied, affects the lumber business in a good many ways, both 

 dir«ctly and indirectly. It is making the shipments of supplies to Chicago 



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