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this pavement -n-ill be required, besides that to lie used in other parts of 

 the city. L. W. Schruth. a Dakota general contractor, has Ijeen awarded 

 the cohtract on a bid of $95,000. This also includes raising the street to 

 its proper grade, the marshy ground having caused the street and abutting 

 buildings to sink from six to eighteen inches. If this wood pavement will 

 stand up under the enormous amount of downtown traffic it is sate to say 

 that it will replace considerable asphalt and brick pavement in other sec- 

 tions of Milwaukee. 



About four hundred hardwood and hemlock logs which the ,Tohn Week 

 Lumber Company brought to .Stevens Point by rail during the winter and 

 banked on the ice above its sawmill, passed under the boom when the 

 ice in the pond went out recently. They are all of good size and many 

 were recovered at various points on Ihe Wisconsin river, but about a 

 hundred went over the dam at Grand Kapids and but few of these will 

 ever be recovered. 



The Fond du Lac Church Furniture Company has received an order 

 for over $3,000 worth of church furniture which will go more than half 

 way around the world to reach its destination. It will be installed in a 

 new church at Cape Town. South Africa. This is only one of the many 

 orders the company has filled for cities in various sections of the globe. 



The Sheboygan Couch Company, at Sheboygan, is about to erect a large 

 addition to its plant. Contracts are being awarded for the construction 

 of a four-story frame addition, measuring 60 by 1.50 feet. It is to be 

 erected to the plant on North Fifteenth street. 



The large new sawmill of the Kneeland-McLurg Lumber Company at 

 Phillips is now in operation. This mill is the only one Phillips has had 

 since the old Pavis mill burned in 1000. and citizens gave the company 

 much encouragement to re-establish the business in their city. 



The Brunet Falls Manufacturing Company has decided to establish a 

 box factory at Cornell. The plant will be large enough to employ from 

 fifty to one hundred hands. 



The old 1'pham sawmill at Marsbfield is to bo repaired and new ma- 

 chinery installed, after which it will again be operated. The work is 

 under the supervision of G. M. Harder. 



Washburn lumber companies are already at work putting their mills 

 in shape for the season's run. The Spragne Lumljer Company has a crew 

 engaged repairing the mill and putting it into shape to take care of a 

 large amount of logs. The Stearns Lumber Company also has a crew at 

 work on its mill. Roth mills have good supplies of logs on hand and 

 also ready for shipment as soon as work starts. 



The Mohr-Stotzer Ijumber Company, which has l>een operating a big 

 sawmill at Holt, has decided to erect a modern up-to-date mill at Wausau. 

 The mill will have a capacity of about 00,000 feet in ten hours' run, ac- 

 cording to C. F. Mohr of Portage, presidi'nt of the company. The com- 

 pany recently purchased 50,000,00(1 fi'et of timber in Price county from 

 the Fenwood Lumber Company, which -will be brought to the mill by 

 rail. It consists mostly of hardwood and hemlock. .John S. Crifflths. in 

 charge of the Holt plant, will take the active management of the new 

 Wausau mill. 



Phillip Ooerres, who founded the Phillip Goerres Cooperage Company in 

 Milwaukee thirt.v-five years ago, has passed away at his home, 2314 Cold 

 Spring avenue, at the age of sixty-four years. Mr. Goerres was one of 

 the leaders in the business and commereial world of Milwaukee and 

 helped in building up the city as a commercial center of the Middle 

 West. He retired from active business about five years ago, and left the 

 management of the compan.v to Harry E. Friend, president, and Fred 

 W. Ladwig, his son-in-law, who is secretary and treasurer of the cor- 

 poration. The plant is located at 3210-32:;4 Fond du Lac avenue. Mr. 

 Goerres is survived by four daughters — Mrs. Fred L. Douies. Washington. 

 D. C. : Mrs. William .1. Renter. Mrs. Fred W. Ladwig and Mrs. A. Roll- 

 man of Milwaukee. 



The will of Mrs. Margar<^t Schroeder, widow of ,Tohn Schroeder, founder 

 of the John Schroeder Lumber Company of Milwaukee, has been filed for 

 probate. The estate, consisting of $100,000 in real estate and $5,000 in 

 personal property, is left in the hands of her sons, Henry ,T., William A. 

 and Frederick .1.. as executors and trustees, to be held for twenty years. 

 .\t the end of that time the property will be divided between her 

 daughters. Ernestine and Frida Schroeder, Mrs. Louise Kieckhefer, Mrs. 

 Emma Borges and Mrs. Rosa Patitz. The sons received their share of the 

 estate before the will was drawn and no provision for them is made 

 in the will. 



George F. Luehring, secretary of the M. Hilty Lumber Company of 

 Milwaukee, has been re-elected as school director. Mr. Luehring has been 

 connected with the lumber company for twelve years, and was first elected 

 to the school board to fill a vacancy in March, 1912. 



On account of a delay in shipment of some machinery the opening of 

 the Peshtigo Lumber Company's new sawmill at: Peshtigo was delayed for 

 several days. It will have a capacity of 123,000 feet of logs daily, and 

 cost $150,000. Superintendent Woodward is in charge. 



The Midland Lumber Company of Minneapolis has acquired the prop- 

 erty of the F. C. and C. A. Stanley Company of Chippewa Falls. The 

 purchase included the mill, lumber yard and foundr.v. and the yard will 

 be run in connection with the North Star .yard, recently purchased. The 

 mill, which was started thirty-five years ago by C. A. Stanley, has been 

 idle since the founder's death about four years ago, and the resuming of 

 operations will mean luueh to the city. 



The St. Croix Timber Company is at work recovering about 50,000,000 

 feet of rears which had been left along banks and jammed on the center 

 islands in the St. Croix river during the many seasons of logging in that 

 section. For a score or more of years the annual output was from 250.- 

 000,000 to 300,000,000 feet, which were floated to the Stillwater boom. 

 Of late years the decay and washout of dams, which had been main- 

 tained for holding a head of water to supply it to the St. Croix as the 

 log drives were in need of it, made it necessary to depend on rainfall, 

 which would at best create a driving stage for only a few days and 

 large rears were deposited. The high water this month has made it pos- 

 sible to float the rears, and the timber company has a large crew of 

 drivers working from the mouth of the Clam river down to the Nevers 

 dam. This is the last drive of logs on that famous logging stream, the 

 logging industry being a thing of the past on the St. Croix water.s. The 

 only standing timber now on the river is at the headwaters near Bear 

 Lake, to which a logging railroad has been built to convey the logs to 

 market or mill. 



Miss Helen Connor, daughter of Mr. and, Mrs. W. D. Connor of Marsh- 

 field, was married .\pr. 16 to the Rev. Malvin Laird, pastor of the Pres- 

 byterian church at Lincoln, 111, The bride's father is a well-known lum- 

 berman of MarshHeld. 



Glenn Wood Priestley of the W. E. Priestley Lumber Company and 

 Miss Florence Gardner, both of Alilwaukee, were married here on Apr. 9. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Priestley will be at home after .lune 1 at 020 JefEerson 

 street. 



The Stevens-Whiteside forestiy bill which has been introduced in the 

 Wisconsin legislature has brought about considerable argument to the 

 plan which, by terms of the bill, will halt further forest land purchases 

 until a forest reserve commission can investigate and ri'port on the agri- 

 cultural value of the proposed purchases. As the report would not be 

 made before two years, no further purchases could be mar'*^ until then. 

 The arguments for and against the bill are being based on the agricultural 

 value of the lands. If the land is good for agriculture the farmers, timber 

 and land men ar|ue that it should not be tied up by the state. State 

 Forester E. M. Griffith and others in far-or are holding that the land is 

 not good for agricultural purposes, that the reserves hre necessary to 

 keep a regular and uniform flow from the headwaters for waterpower 

 purposes on rivers and prevent floods. 



=< CADILLAC >- — 



.Tosepb Murphy of .Murphy & Diggius and Henry Curtis, superintendent 

 of the Mitchell Brothers Company. Jc-nnings, Mich., have returned from a 

 two weeks" trip to Hot Springs, Ark. 



ost of our logs have developed the finest 

 .mottle and stripe. 



All are producing clear wide flitches and 

 lumber. 



Hence the veneer runs above the average in 

 width. 



Our band saw, sheer and dryer are now run- 

 ning regularly 



Giving us mahogany lumber and veneer to fill 

 any order. 



A particularly beautiful figure for discerning 

 piano trade shows in a number of the 

 logs cut. 



■klothing better was ever produced. 

 %jrour inspection is invited. 



Fred W. Black Lumber Company 



Chicago, 111. 



Take Douglas Park L to 40th Ave. and walk one block South 



