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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Kentucky Lumber Company 



MANUFACTURERS 



POPLAR, PLAIN AND QUAR- 

 TERED OAK, RED AND SAP 

 GUM, ASH, CHESTNUT, BASS- 

 WOOD, HEMLOCK, WHITE PINE 



Mills at 



Bumside, Ky. Williamsburg, Kj , 



Isola, Miss. 



Sales Office 

 Cincinnati, O. 



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 ^^K^ 

 Northern and Southern 

 Hardwoods and Mahogany 



Specialties 



OAK, MAPLE, CYPRESS, POPLAR 

 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 9IS^ 



Joseph McGuire, at Haider, agoil eighty years. He was a native of Canada. 

 Three daughters and a sister survive him. 



Jerry G. Anderson, who was connected with the Wilson-Weber Lumber 

 Company of Colfax since 1900, died at his home in that city recently at 

 th:^ age of fifty-four years. He is survived by his wife, nine children, his 

 mother, two brothers and one sister. 



The sawmill of the Iron River Lumber Company, at Iron River, was 

 destroyed by lightning, causing a loss of $30,000, partly covered by Insur- 

 ance. The planing mill and lumber yards were saved and only 400,000 

 feet of lumber in close proximity to the mill was destroyed. The mill 

 will not be rebuilt but the planing mill will be operated the balance of the 

 season. The Hines Lumber Company has overhauled the Park Falls mill 

 and will resume operations with men from Iron River. 



The Northern Hardwood Lumber Company of Marsbfleld has filed a 

 notice with the secretary of state dissolving as a corporation. 



The American Hobby Horse Company has been incorporated by Hans 

 Maison, James G. and G. W. Hammerschlag at Milwaukee. Capital, $6,000. 



.According to an estimate of the standing timber on the government 

 lighthouse reservations on the Apostle islands in Wisconsin, the govern- 

 ment inspectors in the Forestry Service report 5.000 actes. This amount 

 is sufficient to manufacture all the pilings, spar buoys and other material 

 used in lighthouse work on the Great Lakes. 



Directors and officers of the Northern Casket Company at Fond du Lac 

 were re-elected at the annual meeting held recently. William Mauthe 

 was re-elected president and H. R. Totter, secretary and treasurer. The 

 ( orapany reports a most successful year and bright prospects. 



The historic fire tug. The Menominee River, which played an important 

 part in all of the big lumber fires in the vicinity of Marinette and Me- 

 nominee for over twenty-five years, has been sold to Capt. Thrall of 

 Green Bay, who, by the way, built the vessel thirty-five years ago. The 

 Menominee River was condemned by government inspectors early this sea- 

 son and will now bo completely rebuilt and put into commission again 

 ne.\t season. One of the most spedacular fires in which the tug rendered 

 service was the big Sawyer-Goodman Company fire several years ago. 



The end of the operation of the Menominee River Boom Company in 

 the vicinity of Marinette, at one lime the largest of its kind in the coun- 

 try, will come within the next year or two. This year the company has 

 only :.'8,0iW,000 feet to sort and will undoubtedly have less next year. 

 Thi' year of 1915 may mark the conclusion of its business and according to 

 plans already made it will be taken over by the Marinette and Menominee 

 PMI'or Company. There is very liltle pine remaining to be cut on the 

 ]\Ieitorainee or its tributaries and tlie hardwood is brought by rail. As 

 soon as the driving and sorting work is over, the boom company will 

 make arrangements for raising the deadheads that now lie on the bottom 

 of the Jlenorainee and its tributaries. It is estimated that there is 100,- 

 000.000 feet of timber, which will probably be raised and cut in a portable 

 mill. For the past few years the company has been doing some of this 

 work, raising from four to five million feet, which are stored on the banks 

 until the following season and then floated to the mills. 



"Col." Al. Raynor. aged eighty-three, living at Crooked Rapids, near 

 Couderay, well known among the old-time lumbermen as keeper of a 

 famous stopping place at Crooked Rapids, on the Chippewa river, for the 

 past fifty years, has been married to Mrs. Craig, of Birehwood. They hold 

 the record of being the oldest couple ever married la Sawyer county. 

 During the early periods of lumbering in that district the "Colonel" enter- 

 tained many of the old millionaire lumbermen while on their way from 

 Chippewa Falls to the headwaters of the Chippewa river, as the nearest 

 railroad point was Chippewa Falls, 100 miles south. 



J. H. \\'eefl. a prominent lumljerman of this state, who built many saw- 

 mills in 4)shkosh and the northern part of Wisconsin and Michigan, died 

 at Appletnn at the age of ninety-three. His home was in Oshkosh. 



The Hardwood Market 



< CHICAGO >• 



During the last week or two trade locally has showed an appreciable 

 improvement, both in the number and volume of orders. This change has 

 not, however, been startling in its character or unduly encouraging, but is 

 generally accepted as an indication that previous predictions of the fall 

 trade will be well borne out. Chicago lumbermen have for some time 

 freely predietfd that the fall months would see the opening of a highly 

 «atisfactoiy condition in the lumber business. The furniture exhibits in 

 the Chicagr, market turned out to be more satisfactory than the opening 

 week's business indicated. As a result of the sales effected at the exhibits, 

 the local furniture bouses are in a pretty active condition. While they 

 are sdll hesitant about placing unduly large orders, they are in need of 

 considerable stock and are buying a satisfactory amount of lumber in 

 smaller lots. The generally firm condition as to prices continues, with 

 concessions in some items. Meraliers of the local trade buying In the 

 North and South still report that there are no large stocks at any of (he 

 mills in either hardwood producing .section. Wlili the fall demand immi- 

 sent, it is expected that this condition will. In the not very distant future, 



