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HARDWOOD RECORD 



is receiving barges of logs all the time, the latest shipment being one of 

 about 700,000 feet of ash. 



A good seasonable trade is reported by E. H. Luehrmann of the 

 C. V. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber Company. Nearly everything in the 

 hardwood line is being called for and the company is able to take care of 

 all orders. 



, E. W. Blumer. sales manager of the Lothman Cypress Company, has 

 just returned from an extended eastern trip. He states that prospects are 

 fine for a big business through that territory this fall. He got several 

 good sized orders during bis trip. He also states that the Oshkosh fac- 

 tory is doing an excellent business. 



The executive board of the Lumbermen's Club of St. Louis, at a meeting 



Bluestone Land & Lumber Company 



MANlir.*CTi;KERS 



WEST VIRGINIA HARDWOODS 

 Soft White Pine, Oak, Poplar, Chestnut, Hemlock 



RIDGWAY 

 PENNSYLVANIA 



MII,r. FACILITIES 

 COMPLETE PLANING 



Band Sawed Stock 



AT HALF PRICE 



STEAM SKIDDER 



AND LOADER COMBINED 



Clyde Modern Equipment. Used 

 about sixty days. Operations dis- 

 continued. No further use for it 



For Particuiars Write 



GOGEBIC LUMBER CO. 



GRAND RAPIDS, IMiCH. 



SAWYER GOODMAN CO. 



MARINETTE, WIS. 



Mixed Cars of Hardwood, Bass- 

 wood, White Pine and Hemlock, 



a.id Posts 



Cedar Shingles 



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 



bold June 27, put itself on record as recommending tlie continuance of 

 the Commerce Court and the board voted to send telegrams to the 

 Hon. Champ Clark, the United States senators from Missouri and also to 

 the representatives from this state, asking them to vote to that effect when 

 the matter came up. 



-^ ARKANSAS > 



The Archer Lumber Company of Helena, Ark., is erecting a large hard- 

 wood sawmill at that place. The company purposes to have the plant in 

 operation by Aug. 1. The new mill will give employment to about 100 

 men. Tbe company has recently bought a large tract of timber In the 

 southern part of Phillips county. 



Tbe Kentark Land & Timber Company of Pine BlufC, Ark., has recently 

 been incorporated with a capital stock of $250,000. This concern is backed 

 by Louisville and St. Louis capital and has for the chief stockholder 

 \V. C. Hudson of Pine Bluff. The company will do a general manufac- 

 turing business. 



The Henry Wrape Company, manufacturer of cooperage supplies at 

 St. Louis, Mo., has recently bought 2.000 acres of timber near Barber 

 Lake. Ark. This tract was purchased from A. C. McComb of Assand, 

 Wis. Mr. McComb has also recently sold 1.200 acres of timberland in 

 White county. Ark., to J. J. Tally of St. Louis, Mo., the consideration 

 being .$24,000. 



E. M. Arnold, formerly of Cherry Valley. Ark., recently purchased 

 machinery for a new handle mill at Imboden. Mr. Arnold is an extensive 

 timber worker and is favorably impressed with the growth of hickory 

 in tbe Imboden vicinity. This now mill will probably be in operation 

 for several years, as there is a large supply of material in that county. 



The Gap Lumber & Stave Company of Caddo Gap. .\rk.. has recently 

 filed its certificate of incorporation increasing its capital stock to $25,000. 



=•< MILWAUKEE >-= 



The John S. Owen Lumber Company of I^au Claire. Wis., one of the 

 largest lumber companies in the slate, has filed an amendment with the 

 secretary of state increasing its capital stock from $500,000 to $1,000,000. 



E. H. Gilkey. Edward Schofield and H. R. Miller of Shawano have incor- 

 Iiorated the Gilkey Luml>er Company of Shawano, The capital stock is 

 .$.50,000. 



The H. M. .lohnston Lumber Company of Reedsbnrg has sold its busi- 

 ness in that city to a newly organized company incorporated as the Reeds- 

 burg Supply Company. H. M. .Johnston is president ; C. E. Phillips, vice- 

 president : .T. S. Alexander of Wausau. secretary-treasurer. The capital 

 stock of tbe new company is $75,000. 



The Monasha Wooden Ware Company has resumed operations at its saw- 

 mill near Ladysmith. The largo stock of logs Is expected to keep the 

 mill busy until near the end of the year. 



Forest fires destroyed camp No. 5 of the Oconto Company recently, 

 causing a loss of several thousand dollars. 



Capt. .T. D. Sarles of the gas boat Avis has been engaged for the past 

 several weeks in picking up logs for the Wells Lumber Company of 

 Menominee. The logs are those washed up on the beach on the east shore 

 of Green Bay. They are rolled into the water, made into rafts and towed 

 across the bay. Five men are employed in the work. 



Albert II. Murphy, one of (he well-known lumbermen and capitalists of 

 Green Ba.v. b:is left with bis wife and two sons for California, where the 

 family will make lis future home. Jlr. Murphy. Ix'sides being interested 

 in many business enterprises, was connected with the Jlurphy Lumber 

 Company here since 1894 as manager, until the sawmill was sold to the 

 Northland Lumber Company seven years ago. 



Emil Durr. one of Milwaukee's pioneer lumbermen and a widely known 

 business man of this city, died recently at his home. ^45 Hanover street, 

 ;iged seventy-three years. :Mr. Durr was born in Milwaukee in 1840. His 

 first business venture was with T. H. .Tudd & Co.. lumber merchants. 

 Later he formed a partneisbip with .lohn Rupgee, establishing the first 

 lumber yard on the Burnham canal. He was prominent in fraternal 

 circles and held several public offices. Mr. Durr is survived by three 

 cbildren, two brothers and one sister, 



William H. .T. Kieekhefcr. vice-president of the ICieckhefer Box Company 

 ;ind connected with a number of business enterprises, died at his home, 

 jn04 riigbland boulevard. .Tune .30. Mr. Kieekhefer recently underwent 

 .■in operalion for cancer, lie was fift.v-six years old. He was a prominent 

 Lutheran of this state, holding various offices in church organizations, 

 and was well known in social circles. Mr. Kieekhefer is survived by bis 

 vvife and eight children. 



Louis F. Patrick, for more than forty years secretary and confidential 

 man of Senator Isaac Stephenson, the Marinette lumberman, was over- 

 I ome by heat in the street at Washington on .luly 2 and died soon after. 

 Senator Stephenson returned home recently to spend his eighty-fourth 

 lilrthday nnniversar.v. but Mr. Patrick remained in Washington with Ms 

 wife. Mr. Patrick passed bis seventieth birthday on .lune 5 last. He 

 leaves .a wife. 



Isaac Lang. New York representative of the Onrney Refrigerator Com- 

 liany of Fond du Lac, died in Xew York recently, Mr. Lang had been 

 identified wifh tlie Fond du Lac company for the past twenty years and 

 was well known in that city. His son. Maurice Lang, who had been 

 associated with him. will take charge of the New York branch as successor 

 lo bis father. 



The pl.int of the Bayfield Box & Lumber Compnny at Bayfield was 



