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Milwaukee with a capital of $100,000. The incorporators are C. J. Heiser, 

 F. H. Berkker and S. H. Hirschboeck. 



The planing mill o£ William Townsend which was partly occupied by 

 the Brittingham and Hixon Lumber Company, at Reedsburg. was com- 

 pletely destroyed by fire recently, probably due to defective wiring. 

 Townsend sustained a loss of about $1,000, the insurance on which had 

 only recently expired. The lumber company also suffered a complete loss 

 of machinery, etc.. covered fully, and will erect a new mill near its 

 yard. 



A deal has been closed whereby Patrick Gorman and son, Walter, have 

 purchased six forties of hardwood and hemlock timber from Zobel Bros., 

 of Ripou. The timber is located near Dunlield, in Lincoln county. The 

 tract will be logged this winter, the contract having been let to Charles 

 Revi. The logs will be hauled about a mile to the railroad tracks and 

 shipped to Wausau. 



The Rietbrock Land & Lumber Company of Athens has acquired the 

 Winch interest in the heading mill at that place. Mr. Kernighan retains 

 his interest in the plant and will be manager. The new owners will run 

 the mill lull time end furnish a steady market for bolts. 



Lumbering activities in the vicinity of Bayfleld have started for the 

 winter and hundreds of men are being sent into the woods. The Wachs- 

 muth Lumber Company has one camp of 100 men under Jack Furlot 

 near Sand River, but jobbers lor the coijipany have started. Jerome Roy 

 has 90 men near the settlement; five miles west of the city R. J. Xelson 

 has sixty ; Napoleon Radideau is working forty men on section 20. and 

 Olof Anderson has opened a camp on Madeline with fifty men. George 

 White, .iobber for the Stearns Lumber Company, is finishing a contract 

 near Squaw Bay and will soon move to Oak Island. The Sprague Lum- 

 ber Company of Washburn has forty men working near Raspberry, and 

 the Bell Lumber Company is operating a camp at Russell for the Ashland 

 mill. The Schroeder Lumber Company is operating the camps on Presque 

 Island, and George Green is making preparations for the usual logging 

 for the Thompson & Fleith Lumber Company near Cornucopia. C. E. 

 Morrill, a cruiser for the Wisconsin Veneer Company, of Rhinelander, is 

 arranging for camps in the northern part of the township of Crandon 

 where the veneer company will cut timber this winter. The Keith & Hiles 

 logging railroad will probably be utilized to bring these logs to the main 

 railroad line. C. W. McGee, of Shawano, is looking after several camps 

 for his company. One has already been established at Dry Lake and 

 another on the creek near Sherman's. Part of the logs cut will be 

 hauled to the Pelican branch at Rocky's siding and the balance from Dry 

 Lake to the Morse & Tradewell spur. Six million feet of logs will be 

 put up by this firm during the winter. 



Fred Itzin of Burlington has completed erecting the veneer mill at 

 Hanson's spur, near Kennedy, which will manufacture veneer for the cases 

 used by the Wisconsin Condensed Milk Company. The time to erect the 

 mill and manufacture the first veneer required just two months. 



\V. B. Stanton, a wealthy retired lumberman of Marinette, was the 

 victim of an unusual automobile accident recently. While driving his car 

 he fell over the wheel, a victim of ptomaine poisoning. The auto went 

 into the ditch and turned turtle, but Mr. Stanton escaped serious injury. 

 Rossiter H. Wilbur, a Waukesha lumberman, and Miss Ethel Hadfield 

 were married Saturday afternoon, Oct. i. Prof. Ganfleld, of Carroll college, 

 officiating. They will reside here, where Mr. Wilbur is a member o£ the 

 Wilbur Lumber Company. He is a brother of Mayor Hawley W. Wilbur 

 of Waukesha. The bride is the only daughter of Mrs. J. J. Hadfield, and 

 is a graduate of the Milwaukee-Downer college. 



A new board of directors and a change in the personnel of the officers 

 of the Racine Manufacturing Company resulted from the meeting of the ^ 

 stockholders recently. The company, organized in 1902, manufactures 

 automobile bodies. In ]:i09 the company suffered a serious loss by fire 

 with practically no insurance. C. A. Hamilton was elected president and 

 general manager : Charles F. Barndt, vice president and factory manager ; 

 F. J. Kidd. treasurer, and Harold Smith, secretary. 



The stockholders of the Mellen Lumlx>r Company, at Mellen. recently 

 held the fifth annual meeting. The directors and officers were re-elected 

 and the usual annual business was transacted. The company has had a 

 V successful year and prospects for the coming year are very bright. 



The Appleton Commercial Club has practically completed negotiations 

 with the Millard Hoop Manufacturing Company for the removal of the con- 

 cern's plant from northern Michigan to Appleton. 



The Oshkosh Excelsior Manufacturing Company, which conducts plants 

 at Oshkosh and Neenah, Wis., is erecting a new plant at Maple Ridge, near 

 Escanaba, Mich., where operations will be started in spring. The company 

 has acquired a good supply of material, mostly poplar and basswood. 



The Loomans Lumber Company of Waupun. Wis., secured the contract 

 for furnishing the state of Wisconsin with the necessary lumber required 

 in erecting the dairy barn at the state prison in Waupun. I. R. Rossman, 

 for several years manager of the Yawkey-Crowley Lumber Company of 

 Waupun. has purchased an interest in the Loomans concern and has 

 become manager. D. J. Loomans will retire from active business. 



The Fred Schubring Lumber Company, Wausau. has gone out of ex- 

 istence, having finished its operations, and consolidated with the Mohr- 

 Stotzer Lumber Company, which has a mill at Holt. The new firm will be 

 known as the Mohr Lumber Company and J. S. Griffith, formerly of Holt, 

 will be manager. The company has large timber holdings in Marathon 

 and adjoining counties. 



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We have selected the finest logs on the mar- 

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2245 S. Fortieth Ave. 



Chicago, 111. 



You Know Something 



About the Land of 



Last Supply 



You know, of course, that the nearest source 

 of adequate lumber supply are the forests of 

 the west, the inter-mountain pines and the fir. 

 spruce, cedar and hemlock of the Pacific Coast. 



In a broad sense, we are at the beginning of an 

 era of 



Competitive Demand 

 for Western Timber 



Mills of the South are exhausting their supply and 



are seeking new locations. 



Timber is disappearing from the market, but not so rapidly 



now as it will on a constantly increasing scale during the 



next decade. Ever.v tract taken off the market decreases 



the supply and increases the desirability and value of those 



remaining. 



The best go first. Investigate now. 



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Timber Land Factors 



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