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HARDWOOD RECORD 



employment bureau bas been sending seveial bundled men to tbe northern 

 woods during the past few weeks. Representatives of lumber companies 

 have been stationed at the employment office, lining up workmen to 

 send north. The employing company pays the fare but holds the baggage 

 as security until the employe reports for work. 



The Berlin Machine Works, at Beloit. is about to erect a woodworking 

 machinery manufacturing plant. The structure will be partly one and 

 partly two stories high, of brick and stone construction and with dimen- 

 sions of 294 by 275 feet. 



The last log drive on the Peshtigo river, down which billions of feet 

 of timber has floated in tbe fifty years that logging has been carried on, 

 is that being received by the Peshtigo Lumber Company. The Peshtigo 



Bluestone Land & Lumber Company 



mancfacti:rers 



WEST VIRGINIA HARDWOODS 



Soft White Pine, Oak, Poplar, Chestnut, Hemlock 



Band Sawed Stock RIDGWAY 



PENNSYLVANIA 



COMPLETE PLANING 

 MILL FACILITIES 



AT HALF PRICE 



STEAM SKIDDER 



AND LOADER COMBINED 



Clyde Modern Equipment. Used 

 about sixty days. Operations dis- 

 continued. No further use for it 



For Particulars Write 



GOGEBIC LUMBER CO. 



GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 



SAWYER GOODMAN CO. 



MARINETTE. WIS. 



Mixed Cars of Hardwood, Bass- 

 wood, White Pine and Hemlock, 

 Cedar Shingles aad Posts 



We make a specialty of White Pine Beveled Siding and 

 White Pine Finish and Shop and Pattern Lumber 



The Tegge Lumber Co. 



High Grade 



Northern and Southern 



Hardwoods and Mahogany 



Specialties 



OAK, MAPLE, CYPRESS, POPLAR 

 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 



Lumber Company only recently completed its $150,000 sawmill which re- 

 places the one destroyed by fire last fall. It has a daily capacity of 

 125,000 feet. With the present drive no more logs will be received; 

 at this mill by water but all tbe timber will be sent by rail. 



S. B. Sanderson, manager of the Republic Lumber Company, which re- 

 cently closed out its business at Marinette and G. M. Sanderson have 

 formed the firm of S. B. Sanderson & Co. They will engage In the lumber 

 brokerage business at Slenominee, having headquarters in the Stephenson 

 estate block. 



J. F. Conant & Co. have organized at Two Rivers for tbe purpose 

 of manufacturing baskets, hampers and fruit packages. Mr. Conant la 

 the head of the concern and is also manager of the Wisconsin Woodworking 

 Company at that place. The woodworking company will supply the new- 

 concern with veneer. 



The remaining lot of lumber of the North Wisconsin Lumber & Manu- 

 facturing Company and the Diamond Match Company's warehouse at Hay- 

 ward has been taken over by the Hayward Lumber Company, organized 

 by D. S. Peck. Clay Smith and Wayne Peck. 



The Eureka Cooperage Company is preparing to operate its plant on 

 Racine street, at Menasha. Machinery is being installed as soon as It 

 arrives and the plant will be started as soon as possible. 



W. D. Morgan of Ladysmith Is In charge of a crew of men at Mc- 

 intosh, Ont.. building a sawmill for the Morgan Lumber Company. The 

 machinery of the Morgan company's mill at Hawkins has been shipped to 

 Mcintosh and will be used in the mill. The company has a cutting con- 

 tract for three years. The Morgans will continue the wholesale lumber 

 business and make their headquarters for their Canadian operations in 

 Wisconsin. 



The assembly at Madison has passed to engrossment hill 588A, cor- 

 recting and amending the workmen's compensation act as desired by 

 the industrial commission. The substitute amendment, which takes place 

 of the original bill, fixes a flat rate for injuries and makes other changes. 

 Among these are cutting out the defense of contributory negligence. It 

 also provides that on and after September 1, 1913. every employer of 

 four or more employes shall be deemed to have elected to come under 

 the operation of the act unless prior to that date he notifies the com- 

 mission that he does not so elect. 



A law which has Just been passed by the legislature and signed by the 

 governor is of interest to the lumber Industry. It provides that any per- 

 son, who shall do or piTform any labor or services in cutting, hauling, 

 running, felling, piling, driving, rafting, booming, cribbing, towing, saw- 

 ing, peeling or manufacturing into lumber or timber any logs, timber, 

 stave bolts, heading, staves, pulp wood, coidwood, firewood, railroad ties, 

 piling, telegraph poles, telephone poles, fence posts, paving timber, tan 

 or other barks or in preparing wood for or manufacturing charcoal shall 

 have a lien upon such material for the amount due or to become due for 

 an.v such labor or services, which lien sh:ill take precedence over all oth<'r 

 claims, liens or incumbrances thereon or sales thereof, whether such 

 claims, liens or incumbrances or sales arc made, created or accrue before 

 or after the time of doing such \\'t)rk. labor or services. 



.Toseph Kerwer, for twenty-five years vice president of the Wilbur 

 L\iniber Company of Milwaukee, died recently at his home, 2310 Cold- 

 spring avenue. Mr. Kerwer entered the lumber business when sixteen 

 years of age and was connected with the Wilbur concern for thirty years. 

 He was a native of Milwaukee, having been born In this city in .lanuary. 

 1858. He had been an invalid for the past seven years. The widow and 

 four daughters, all of this city, survive him. 



Herman Kreyberg. vice-president of the C. B. Treyberg Lumber Com- 

 pany. Sheboygan, passed away recently nt a private sanitarium after an 

 illness of several weeks. Death was due to heart trouble. Mr. Frey- 

 herg was sixty-three .years old, having been born in Germany in 1850. 

 He conducted a sawmill and lumber yard in Sheboygan with his brothers 

 for many years, later operating a sawmill at Washington Island for 

 seventeen .years. For the past sixteen years he had been engaged in the 

 Inmbi'r business here. Five children survive him, his wife having died 

 five vt-ars :igo. 



=-< DETROIT >•- 



The Hartwick Lumber Company's yards located at Clay avenue and the 

 Grand Trunk Railway were destroyed by fire on the evening of May 

 31, $20,000 damage resulting. The fire started In a pile of shingles 

 and was caused by a spark from a passing locomotive. The fire spread 

 rapidly and owing to the fact that the fire department was busy with 

 another fire in the same locallt.v, the flames had gained considerable 

 headway before the apparatus arrived. A large stock of hardwoods was 

 destroyed. The stock was fully covered by Insurance. The work of 

 cleaning up the debris was started the morning following the fire. 

 Business was not seriously affected owing to the fact that the company 

 has two other well stocked yards in the city. 



Secri't;uy .lohn Lo(li;e of the Uwight Luralier Company reports that busi- 

 ness has been excellent the past fortnight. The hardwood flooring mill 

 lias been exceptionally busy and orders and inquiries have been plentiful. 

 Mr. Lodge also reports that the demand for hardwoods for building opera- 

 lions is opening up briskly and that a busy season Is in prospect in Ibis 

 line. 



Tbe building industry in Detroit is at Its height and dealers say that 

 it will go down into history as the greatest the cltv over saw. The 



