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HARDWOOD RECORD 



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^ A wood steaming cylinder, the use of 

 which insures the quick drying of all 

 kinds of Lumber without seasoning de- 

 fects, stain or warp, to less than normal 

 weight and with a minimum shrinkage. 



^ operating cost much less than yard- 

 ing practice. 



^ Can be employed with or without a 

 dry-kiln. 



^ Lumber from the saw can be air-dried 

 in from ten to forty days; kiln-dried in 

 from one to six days. 



^ A new Kraetzer Preparator is being 

 installed every week by some of the 

 foremost and most astute lumbermen in 

 the country. 



^ The demand for Kraetzer - Cured 

 Lumber, owing to its superior quality, 

 is in such excess of supply that it com- 

 mands a handsome premium. 



C| While we know "new ideas hurt some 

 minds as new shoes hurt some feet," 

 will you not investigate? 



^ Complete information for the asking. 



The Kraetzer Company 



537 South Dearborn Street i 



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Kasper. Sherwood, have incorporated as the Sherwood Lumber Company 

 with a capital stock o£ $10,000. 



The Taylor County Lumber Company has been incorporated at Rib Lake 

 by r. E. Marcus, Charles Miller and Leo Miller with a capital stock of 

 .$10,000. 



The .T. I'^ountain Lumber Company of Appleton has increased its capital 

 stock from $20,000 to $50,000. 



Machinery for manufacturing several kinds of baskets will be installed 

 in Ibe plant of the Wisconsin Wood Working Company at Two Rivers. 

 The veneer for the baskets will be cut on the lower floor of the plant and 

 the two upper floors devoted to the basket-making department. Manager 

 Conant has had considerable experience in this line. 



The Northwood I-"urniture Company of Chippewa Falls has installed new 

 Mnd improved machinery in its plant, which will increase its output 

 materially. A varnish machine of the latest type, using compressed air, 

 will enable one operator to do the work of several men and save on the 

 vainish. The double-end tender in the machine room is another improve- 

 ment. M. Jay rozanski is manager. 



The Moore and Galloway Lumber Company of Fond du Lac has begun 

 an important addition to its plant on West McWilliams street. The new 

 liuilding is to he a two-story building. oG feet wide and about 250 feet 

 long. A portion. 3G by 42 feet, will he used as a glazing room and the 

 reniainder as a warehouse. The first portion will be brick and concrete 

 and the remainder of mill construction. 



A bill has been passed by the legislature and signed by Governor 

 McGovern which authorizes the city of Milwaukee to designate certain 

 sections of the city as factory or business districts. The twin hills, intro- 

 duced by Assemblyman Estabrook. also provide for authorizing the city to 

 set apart certain sections to he known as residence districts. 



J. L. Davis of rhilipps, who has been associated with the Gillette- 

 (■('I.eary Lumber Company of Ladysmith for the past year, has sold his 

 interest in that firm to 1". E. Gillette. Mr. Havis has fitted up offices in 

 the Ivneelaud-Mc I.urg Lumber Company's building in Philipps and has 

 ^'one into the wholesale and commission lumber business. Mr. Davis 

 was formerly salesman for the John R. Davis Company of Phillips. 



Louis Foster, aged forty-nine, son of the late George H. I'ostir. founder 

 of the Foster Lumber Company, died at his home. 764 Mineral street, 

 June in. after a prolonged illness. Mr. Foster was connected with the 

 I'oster Lumber Company and lor a number of years had been in charge 

 of the south side branch. Hesides his widow, he is survived by his 

 mother and two sisters. 



William Ilohues, aged eighty-three, a millionaire lumberman of Menomi- 

 nee, died recently. He was born in Miramlchl iirovince. N. B., in 18S0. In 

 IR.j.S he came to the upper peninsula, where for thirty-eight years he 

 engaged in logging with the late Samuel Stephenson. He was superin- 

 tendent of the IClrby-Carpenter logging operations. In 1897 he built a 

 logging railroad seventy-live miles long. He was prominent in various 

 business enterprises in Menominee. His wife, four sons and one daughter 

 survive him. 



Senator Lsaac Stephenson, the well-known Marinette lumberman, cele- 

 brated I he annlvi'rsary of his eighty-fourth birthday on June 18. Mr. 

 Stephenson came from Washington, D. C, to spend the day with his 

 family at .Marinette. * 



Donald W. Connor, in charge of the hardwood sales department of the 

 R. Connor Company of Marshflcid and assistant in the management of 

 that business, was killed at Fremont. Wis., when the automobile he was 

 driving skidded and turned over, pinning hlni beneath and causing his 

 death forty-five minutes later. lie was the siui nf former Lieut. -Gov. 

 Connor. 



The Hardwood Market 



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The most conspicuous feature of the Ciiicago trade right now is the 

 labor controversy between the local labor unions and the Hullding Con- 

 struction Employers' Association. This controversy started, it is claimed, 

 because in a certain large building in Chicago the electricians' union 

 insisted upon Ihe contractors employing high-priced emergenc.v men 

 who were paid big wages for merely silting around and waiting for some 

 i-mergency to turn up which would require their senMces. It was main- 

 tained by the builders that the regular electricians could take care of 

 these emergencies just as well and tbe.v discharged the extra help. This 

 resulted in a strike on the part of the unionists in that building, whicb 

 spread to other buildings and as a retaliatory meastire the employers 

 tmanimously declared for a lockotit in all buildings in Cook county. As a 

 result all big work is tightly tied up and there is no immediate prospect 

 of a settlement. It has been predicted that the matter of adjustment 

 would either come speedily or the matter would be strung out for an 

 indefinite period. At present there does not seem to be very much dispo- 

 sition on the part of the builders to take back their men, and tbe situ- 

 ation is really serious as far as building, and, consequently, as far as the 

 luniln'r trade is concerned. 



In addition, the tisual hot weather dullness is very apparent locally, 

 and there is some little talk of sales below market both on building lum- 



