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is improving the large yards and grounds of the West Allis branch. 

 The big shed, 140 by 320 feet in size, on National avenue, is being 

 reroofed, the offices have been equipped with water and sewer, and the 

 grounds fixed up to harmonize with the new asphalt pavement and cement 

 sidewalks surrounding them. 



The Shawano Land cSt Lumber Company of Shawano has been incor- 

 porated with $30,000 capital stock. F. W. Humphrey, Charles Magee 

 and August Anderson are named as incorporators. 



The W. L. Scott Lumber Comp-iny, a New York corporation with a 

 capital of $115,000. has filed a statement with the secretary of state to 

 do business in Wisconsin. The concern has $5,000 invested in this 

 state. 



For the second time within a month fire broke out in the H. A. 

 Schwartzburg box factory, 517 North avenue, Milwaukee, and partially 

 destroyed the plant. The more recent fire started in the train building, 

 a long twostory frame structure, and spread to the wings. The loss 

 amounts to about $25,000. The H. A. Schwartzburg Estate, owners and 

 operators of the factory, announced to the trade immediately after the 

 fire that the plant was partially destroyed and that arrangements had 

 been made with the Mueller & Son Company to take care of the present 

 and future orders until the plant is rebuilt. Mueller & Son Company arc 

 giving temporary employment to all the employes of the Schwartzburg 

 factory. 



August Freymuth. New London, manufacturer of tubs and other 

 woodenware, has filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the United 

 States District Court in Milwaukee. He lists his liabilities at $5,058.70 

 and his assets at $10,250.37, of which $3,050 are claimed exempt. 



John Tolfree of West Branch. Mich., and M. P. Gale, Saginaw, presi- 

 dent and vice-president, respectively, of the Diamond Lumber Company 

 of Green Bay, spent a few days visiting the mill and plant on business. 



F. H. Parker, president and treasurer of the Mueller & Son Company, 

 Milwaukee box manufacturers, with his wife and daughter, have returned 

 home from a six weeks' motor tour through the East and Canada. 



J. R. Harrington, formerly engaged in the manufacturing business at 

 Crandon, has returned from Helena. Ark., where he had been managing a 

 large woodworking plant. Mr. Harrington will re-engage in the business 

 in this state as his wife was unable to stand the southern climate. 



Robert Hall, well known in the northern lumbering circles and for the 

 last few years engaged in the lumber contracting business at Lauriuni. 

 died at his home in that cit.v, aged sixty years. He had been ill for a 

 short time, but his death was unexpected. Mr. Hall was a native of 

 Canada, coming to this country forty-six years ago and settling in 

 Maine. For many years he was foreman of the John Bagley lumbering 

 interests in Osceola. Later he was identified with northern Michigan 

 lumbering contractors and until his death was engaged in the con- 

 tracting business for himself. His widow, three sons and two daughters 

 survive him. 



J. S. Chase, aged fifty-nine, a former resident of De Pere and for years 

 prominent in the lumbering industry in that vicinity, died suddenly in 

 Anacortes, Wash., where he had been engaged in the lumbering business 

 for the past three years. Mr. Chase was a native of Michigan, coming 

 to De Pere at an early age with his parents. With his father he con- 

 ducted a sawmill at St. Mathews, later called Chase. He succeeded his 

 father after the latter's death. Later he bought the ililton Persons 

 Lumber Company at De Pere. then a sawmill at Pembine, and later the 

 Johann planing mill. In 1910 he left for Anacortes. where he operated 

 a shingle and siding mill. He leaves a widow and three children. 



John EUer, aged sixty-one, prominent in lumbering circles of ililwau- 

 kee, died at his home in this city Monday, Aug. 11. Mr. Eller was 

 engaged in lumbering for twenty-five years and was president of the 

 John Eller Lumber Company. He had been in poor health for several 

 months. Mr. Eller was born in Germany and came here twenty-five 

 years ago. His widow, two daughters. Misses Bertha and Gretchen Eller : 

 and two sons, George F., secretary-treasurer of the lumber company, and 

 Stephen H. Eller, vice-president of the concern, survive him. 



The Mason mill, which was erected way back in the eighties and was 

 at one time the biggest mill in northern Wisconsin, is to be dismantled 

 at the end of this season. For years the mill ran night and day and 

 summer and winter. Now that the Hines interests, which own the mill 

 at present, will finish tlioir sawing by the end of the present season 

 the mill is to be dismantled. With the burning of the Iron River mill 

 a few weeks ago and the determination of the Hines people not to rebuild, 

 it will mean that two big industries will vanish from the lumbering 

 section near Ashland. There are about 15,000,000 feet of logs at the 

 Iron River mill to be sawed. These will be taken to West Duluth. The 

 passing of the mill at Mason will mean much to that town which will 

 now be only a farming town. 



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Secretary John Lodge of the Dwight Lumber Company says that 

 although this is a rather dull season, business with his company has been 

 at least five per cent better than it was for the corresponding period 

 a year ago. The company's hardwood flooring mill is working full time 

 and there is a fair volume of orders and inquiries. Mr. Lodge reports 

 also that prices on all hardwoods are holding up and that he does not 

 expect any decline. 



William Brownlee of the Brownlee Company predicts that during the 



coming year the Detroit automobile industry will use larger quantities 

 ef hardwood lumber than ever before. He also said that prospects are 

 favorable to a busy fall and winter trade as indications .are that buuding 

 operations will be brisk, although the market is rather dull at present 

 because it is between seasons. 



Messrs. Lowrie and Robinson of the Lowric & Robinson Lumber Com- 



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