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venes in January, and it is believed tliat its pas- 

 sage may readily be effected. The bill provides 

 for the application of conservation methods to 

 the vast timber resources of Kentucky. If made 

 a law it will establish a State Board of Forestry, 

 which will prescribe the age and condition of 

 trees that may be felled by lumbermen, and which 

 will otherwise deal with the problem of operating 

 timber lands of Kentucky. The bill also pro- 

 vides for the institution of a course in forestry in 

 the public schools of the state. 



.Toseph Bowling is reported to have established 

 a well equipped sawmill of considerable capacity 

 near Ilowardston. ICy, 



MILWAUKEE 



Lumber camps all over northern Wiseuusiu are 

 breaking up because of the mild weather. The 

 deep snowfall early in November covered the 

 swamps and roads and prevented freezing, so 

 that logging operations have been carried on 

 with difficulty. Fairly good roads were made on 

 the higher grounds, but the warm weather of late 

 has broken these up and made hauling and skid- 

 ding almost impossible. 



United States Senator Isaac Stephenson, well- 

 known lumberman of Wisconsin, stopped off in 

 Milwaukee recently on his way from Washington 

 to Marinette to .spend the holiday recess of Con- 

 gress. 



A petition in bankruptcy has been filed in the 

 federal court in Milwaukee against the Antigo 

 Lumber Company of Antigo by C. Malug. Marion. 

 Wis. ; Kichard Healy, Jr.. and R. M. Briggs, 

 Antigo. who allege that the company has debts 

 aggregating more than $10,000. The Milwaukee 

 Trust Company has been named trustee. 



The Elmwood Lumber & Grain Company of 

 Elmwood, Wis., has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $50,000 by C. K. Averill, F. A. 

 Springer, A. E. Way and William Herpost. 



C. H. Christiansen is erecting a new sawmill 

 at Chippewa Falls. Besides sawing the logs from 

 160 acres of timber land, which he recently pur- 

 chased, he will do custom sawing. 



The sawmill department of the new hub mill 

 which is being erected in Merrill by Andrew 

 Kaul, Jr., formerly of Maine, has been i)laced in 

 operation. The entire plant will not be com- 

 pleted for some weeks yet. Veneer, speed bobbins 

 and spools will be turned out as a side line. 

 Hubs will be furnished to the Studebaker Cor- 

 poration of South Bend. Ind. 



The Graef Manufacturing Company of Appleton 

 has installed much new equipment in its 

 sash and door and interior wood-working 

 plant. The entire plant is now electrically 

 operated, each machine being driven by a sepa- 

 rate motor. New dust and waste removing appli- 

 ances have been installed. The company's new 

 dry-kiln, five times as, large as the old one, is 

 now being used. 



W. E. Daggett, a wealthy lumberman, farmer 

 and dairyman of Marinette, died suddenly on 

 Dec. IT at his logging camp near Bundy. He 

 was sixty-one years old and is survived by a 

 widow and one son. His fortune was estimated 

 at .$400,000. 



WAUSAU 



The Northern Wisconsin Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Chippewa Falls, has transformed a part 

 of its plant into a furniture factory and will 

 make a specialty of tables and chairs. 



The T. D. Kellogg Lumber & ilanufacturing 

 Company of Antigo, will log extensively in the 

 vicinity of Polar and clean up its holdings. 



Geo. W. Langley of Merrill, has been given a 

 contract to cut 5,000.000 feet of timber for the 

 Bradley Company of Tomahawk. 



McGeorge Bundy. president of the Bundy Lum- 

 ber Company, operating at Bundy, died recently 

 at Antwerp, Belgium, where he had been receiv- 

 ing medical treatment. He was flfty-six years 



of age, and is survived by his wife and three 

 sons. 



Marshflcid lumbermen report they will cut 

 only about two-thirds as much timber this win- 

 ter as they did last year. The Upham Manu- 

 facturing Company, however, will employ as 

 many men as usual. 



The Wallrich Land Company of Shawano, will 

 cut about 2,500,000 feet of maple timber in the 

 vicinity of White lake this winter. 



The Mason & Donaldson Lumber Company of 

 Rhinelander, has sold the sawmill town of 

 Donaldson to Geo. T. Ilalber of Minneapolis. 



At a recent meeting of the stockholders of 

 the Edgar Veneer & Manufacturing Company of 

 Edgar, it was decided to increase the capital 

 stock from .|15,000 to $25,000. F. W. Gardner, 

 M. N. Schill. Chas. J. Sharpe. Aug. Baesmann 

 and Gustav Hermann were elected to the di- 

 rectorate. 



The J. W. Wells Lumber Company of Jlenom- 

 iuee will employ about two hundred men this 

 winter in the vicinity of Wausaukoe. The com- 

 pany will operate a steam log skidder and loader. 

 The timber will be hauled to Girard Junction on 

 the company's own logging trains and from there 

 to the mill in Menominee by the Chicago, Mil- 

 waukee & St. Paul Railway. 



During the past .year the sawmills of Wausau 

 I'Ut about 100.000.000 feet of lumber as follows : 

 The Barker & Stewart Lumber Company, 30,- 

 000,000 ; Jacob Mortenson Lumber Company. 

 12.000,000: Alexander Stewart Lumber Com- 

 pany. Ltd.. 15.000,000 : F. Schubring Lumber 

 Company. 14,000,000; Brooks & Ross Lumber 

 Company. 24,000,000. 



SAOINAW VALLEY 



Sawmills on the Saginaw river have been 

 operating steadily during the year with a single 

 exception, the Gates mill which did not begin 

 until late in the year, and which has sawed 

 .'I.OOO.OOO feet of lumber for the Lobdell & 

 Churchill Manufacturing Company of Onaway. 



Large quantities of hardwood lumber manu- 

 factured along the line of the Michigan Central 

 railroad, Mackinaw division, extending from Bay 

 City to the Straits of Mackinac, find a market in 

 Bay City and Saginaw, the output last year being 

 :!4,225,0.34 feet. The Huron Shore mills also 

 send a large quantity of lumber to the valley and 

 the output last year was 61,572,132 feet, making 

 the total for the entire district here and tribu- 

 tary thereto 144,076,392 feet. It is estimated 

 the total output the current year will possibly fall 

 a little short of that of 1910. but doubtless not 

 to exceed 12.000.000 to 15,000,000 feet. 



The Detroit & Mackinac railway extending 

 from Bay City to Cheboygan, has just finished a 

 luancb from the main line into Rogers City. 

 Regular train service has been inaugurated, and 

 the road will furnish an outlet for large quan- 

 tities of lumber. The Loud-Hoeft Lumber Com- 

 pany, operating a large hardwood mill at Rogers, 



has been forced to move all its lumln'r during 

 the season of navigation. 



Ross & Wentworth of Bay City have purchased 

 a large quantity of logs now being cut on the 

 II. M. Loud's Sons Company's lands near Au 

 Sable, to be railed to Bay City and manufac- 

 tured. 



Manufacturers of maple flooring in the valley 

 have complained more or less of sharp competi- 

 tion, and some hold that the prices obtained for 

 (heir manufactured product should have afforded 

 a larger margin of profit. However, the year will 

 close fairly satisfactorily. In the valley W. D. 

 Young & Co.. the Hanson-Ward Veneer Company, 

 the S. L. Eastman Flooring Company, the Stra- 

 ble Manufacturing Company, and Bliss & Van 

 Auken, have turned out from 8.000.000 to more 

 than 18.000,000 feet of flooring, each. The 

 Kerry & Han.son Flooring Company at Grayling, 

 of which C. T. Kerry of Saginaw is active ■man- 

 ager, handles some 12.000,000 feet of manufac- 

 tured flooring a year, and has experienced a fair 

 trade. 



CADILLAC 



The city council of Cadillac has granted the 

 Williams Brothers Company a block and a half 

 of additional land to be used by this company, 

 and has also agreed to close two streets now 

 running through the Williams Brothers' yard. 

 This company recently purchased a large block 

 of timber from A. F. Anderson, and now has 

 enough timber to operate the factory for at least 

 fifteen years. 



The Escanaba Veneer Company of Escanaba 

 has sold all of its old stock and is getting in a 

 fresh supply of timber. The 'mill is using birds- 

 eye maple exclusively, and expects to make this 

 the banner year. 



The sawmill of S. Crawford & Sons of Cedar 

 River which was burned some time ago, has 

 been rebuilt and will be operated day and night. 



The Sailing-Hanson Company of Grayling is 

 operating ten logging camps and it is estimated 

 that 30,000.000 feet of logs will be put out this 

 winter. 



The Rikerd Lumber Company of Lansing, on 

 account of increase of business has been com- 

 pelled to build a new warehouse and office build- 

 ing. 30x80 feet, four stories high, two below and 

 two above the level of the street. 



G. A. Swanson of Tustin, has bought 800.000 

 feet of timber near Hobart and expects to get out 

 a million feet of lutnber the coming winter. 



L. George Johnson, whose parents still live in 

 Cadillac, has been appointed chief forester for 

 the state of California. 



The Petoskey Block & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Petoskey, is receiving large orders from 

 all over the world for its butcher blocks. It 

 recently shipped a carload to Vancouver, B. C, 

 another to San iYancisco and still another to 

 I..OS Angeles. These cars contained about 40.000 

 pounds each and were consigned to jobbers. 



The Hardwood Market 



CHICAGO 



Allowing for the seasonable dullness which can 

 always be expected at this time of the year, 

 there is unquestionably a noticeable improve- 

 ment in the Chicago trade, and indications are 

 that tliere will be a satisfactory business during 

 1912. There has been a decided healthy de- 

 mand for various lines of stock, the most 

 noticeable being for ash. car stock, railroad 

 material, box material and red and sap gum. 

 Cypress dealers report an encouraging condition 



of the market, due to various reasons, the most 

 important being the stimulus in the demand for 

 silo stock. There has been no apparent tendency 

 to cut prices which have maintained a very 

 fair level. Building operations are moving along 

 about as usual, and there is every prospect of 

 active building trade during the spring. On the 

 whole the Chicago lumber business, both in 

 hardwoods and building material, will close up a 

 very satisfactory year, and will start 1912 with 

 the firm belief that it will show a marked im- 

 provement. 



