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HARDWOOD RECORD 



September 



1922 



Keaumont, to perfpot permanent organization in this city. Tbore were 

 about 100 members of the lumber fraternity present. W. A. PridOie. twice 

 grand snark of the universe, was the principal speaker. 



The Nona Mills Company, Ltd., has sold its sawmill, tram road and log- 

 ging equipment. 40 tenant houses, ten million feet of manufactured pine 

 and about 200.000.000 feet of pine timber, to the Powell Lumber company 

 of Lake Charles. La. The company retaineil the land and all hardwood 

 timber. 



.Vndrew Kaulbach. for more than ten years general sales manager for 

 the Nona Mills Company, announces "that be will not retire from the lumber 

 business as a result of the company going out of the manufacturing busi- 

 ness. Mr. Kaulbach has been extremely successful as a sales manager 

 and during these years has built up a line of friendship among dealers 

 from the hikes to the gulf and the Atlantic to tbe Pacific. lie stated that 

 he considered his real friends were in the lumber world and he would not 

 consider going into any other line of business. 



After being closed down for several months while repairs were being 

 made and new machinery installed, the Voth Hardwood company has 

 started up its mill at Voth. The plant will now have a capacity of 150,000 

 feet a day. This plant was formerly owned by the Keith Lumber Company. 

 The Kirby-I5onner interests are large stockholders which insures pi*actically 

 an inexhaustible supply of hardwood. 



TORONTO 



The Acme Timber Company. Limited, has been organized, with head- 

 quarters at Sudbury^ and an authorized capital of $100,00(1. The new 

 company is authorized to deal in and manufacture hardwoods, conduct 

 logging operations, etc. 



An Ontario charter has been granted to the Streetsville Lumber Com- 

 pany, Ltd.. which has-just l)een organized at Streetsville. Onf.. with an 

 authorized capital of Jl.'jO.OOO. The new company will deal in hardwooils 

 and conduct general lumbering operations. 



The Canadian Western I,umber Company reports the quantity of lumber 

 liianufactured during July at 11. 433. 300 feet, as against S. 391.507 feet in 

 .Tuly, 1921, an increase of 3,101,793 feet. During the month 11.192.094 

 feet were sold at $273,589, as compared with 9,96G.175 in July. 1921. for 

 which a price of $234,886 was realize<l. Aggregate lumber manufactured 

 from January 1 to July 31. amounted to (>0.49o.l42 feet, as compared 

 with .i5,,''i03,318 feet and lumber sold 67.081.745 feet, compared with 61,- 

 904.899 for the correspomling period in 1921. Aggregate price realized 

 amounted to $1,549,853 compared with $1,440,481, an increase of $109,372. 



There is a great shortage of labor in the .Sudbury district, according to 

 Superintendent Edwarcl Manor of the Ontario GovernuK-nl Kmployment 

 Bureau, who reports that this week he was 1,458 men short of meeting 

 the demand for lumber camps. 



The present couilition of the lumber business, and the fact that the 

 hardwood limits in Maine and others in the I'nited States are liecoming 

 depleted, is causing attention to be directed towards the hardwood possi- 

 bilities in New Brunswick. -Americans interesteil in hardwo<Ml manufac- 

 ture have been in New Brunswick conducting investigations, and have been 

 favorably impressed with the opportunities. There is also the possibility 

 that lumbering firms in the province, which have directed their attention 

 to the manufacture of .soft woods, will alter or extend their plants to 

 manufacture hardwoods. 



WISCONSIN 



The Connor Laud & Lumber Company of Laona is making preparations 

 for extensive logging operations the coming winter, and hundreds of men 

 will be employed in the woods. A big extension is being constructed to the 

 company's logging railway in Forest county. Several logging camps will 

 be in operation. The sawmill of the company has closed for a short period 

 to undergo the .s4*asonal overhauling, but every employe has been retained 

 and assigned to other duties. 



William C. Schulz. K. U. Cook and F. W. Pfeifer of Walertowu have 

 incorporate*! the Perfection Table Slide Company, to manufacture table 

 slides and wooden novelties. The capital stock is $125,000. 



$50,000 corporation has been formed at Platteville under the style of 

 Platteville Toy & Garment Company, to manufacture and deal in toys, 

 garments, etc. M. A. Bishop, J. J. Ruble and J. Tracy are interested. 



With a capita! stock of $50,000, the Lake Side Craft Shops of Sheboygan 

 have been incorporated by Francis Williams. Gordon Osborn and Lloyd T. 

 Jenkins, all of that city, to manufacture wooden products. 



The sawmill of the L. M. Reed Lumber Company at Prentice has closed 

 after a short season's run. with a cut of only about 150,000 feet. For 

 next season tbe plant will be in condition to handle a cut of at least 

 2.000,000 feet. 



Rebuilding of tbe plant of the Crandon Last Company, recently destroyed 



y fire, is being considered by officials of the company. According to 



reports, tbe plant will be rebuilt at Crandon, owing to the available timber 



supply in that vicinity, although several other cities are attempting to 



obtain the plant. The loss occasioned by the fire September 4 has been 



estimated at between .?250.000 and $500,000, which iiKUul»-< the plant and 

 two large warehouses filled with lasts. 



Camps are now under construction by Weber & Anderson, loggers of 

 Shawano, who will log on an extensive scale near Argonne and Iron Moun- 

 tain during the coming season. The camps will be ready for operation 

 early in fall. 



Rapid progress in rebuilding is reported from Phillips, where the Knee- 

 land-McLurg Lumber Company is replacing the big stiwmill destroyed by 

 lire last May. Heavy new machinery is in place and the building enclosed, 

 so that tbe big plant will be ready to begin sawing about the middle of 

 October. 



With the Wisconsin political situation advanced to a point where the 

 re-election of Gov. John J. Blaine is assured, discussion is heard of appoint- 

 ments that are to be made by the incoming administration as the terms 

 of important administrative officers expire early next year. Of interest 

 to lumbermen is the prospective appointment of a successor to C. L. tlar- 

 rington, conservation commissioner, in charge of the forestry division. 

 whose term expires in February. It has not been learned whether Governor 

 Pdaine will reappoint or select a new man for the position. 



The Ogema Lumber Company of Ogema, Wis., is building a large lumber 

 shei-l near the Soo Line tracks at Ogema. 



Heads of the various departments of the Charles W. Fish Lumber Com- 

 pany of Elcho, Wis., were guests at a dinner given in honor of Mr. Fish's 

 birthday anniversary. He was presented with an elaborate rocking chair. 



The plant of the Chicago Box Company, formerly the Kenfield-Lamoreau 

 plant at Washburn. Wis., manufacturers of box shooks and heading, has 

 inaugurated a night shift, adding an additional crew of fifty men. Busi- 

 ness has been brisk at this plant for several weeks, and prospects are 

 )>right for tbe coming season. 



While at work in the vicinity of Lake Mildred near Rhinelander, Wis.. 

 Peter Kurtzman and H. Munsell, timber cruisers, encountered a pack of 

 seven or eight timber wolves. The timber men were compelled to fire 

 every shot in their revolvers and then attack the beasts with their clubs 

 in order to drive them oflf. One wolf was killed. Tbe men will collect the 

 state bounty of $50 on this wolf, whose body they brought to Rhinelander 

 as mute evidence of their story. 



Tbe New Dells Lumber Company of Eau Claire. Wis., expects to saw 

 between eighteen and twenty million feet of lumber the coming year. A 

 great many improvements, including the building of several miles of track 

 to the new timberland. the building of a new log slide, and many minor 

 repairs, have been made during the summer. Prices for 1023 will hold 

 to their present levels, according to company officials. 



Tbe first meeting of creditors of the Oshkosh Pattern Works was held 

 :il the office of Referee in Bankruptcy, C. H. Forward, in Oshkosh. Lester 

 Zeller. owner of tbe works, recently tiled a petition in bankruptcy setting 

 forth liabilities of $SS0.45 and a.ssets to the value of $950. 



The Ilelneman Lumber Company of Merrill expects ti> let logging jobs 

 in a short time, for the cutting of from 10,000,000 to 12.000,000 feet of 

 mixed timber in Lincoln and Marathon counties. The 1922 log cut will 

 lie in some of the company's best timber. As soon as the log contracts are 

 let and the logging roads built, the Merrill mill will open for the winter. 



The Chicago & Northwestern railroad has received two cars of ties, 

 treated with pintsch gas and zinc chloride, from the Forest Products 

 laboratory, Madison, Wis., which will be placed on the main line near 

 Madison. A study of tbe worth of this particular type of preservative 

 will then be made by the Forest Products laboratory. Officials at the 

 laboratory claim that on a general average preser\-pd ties give double the 

 service of those untreated, and yet only one-third of the 120.000,000 used 

 annually are so treated. The Forest Service estimates that a saving of 

 one and one-half billion ftet of lumber would result wert* all ties used 

 annually treated in tbe proper manner. 



Nearly 3.000,000 feet of logs will be cut by tbe firm of Munsert & Per- 

 kins, loggers of Clintonville. Wis., on property between Laona and Laona 

 Junction, according to plans divulged by the partners. 



August C. Heckman. for tbe past 12 years mill builder for the D. J. 

 Murray Company of Merrill, and previous to that millwright for 20 years 

 for the Merrill Lumber Company, died at his home in Merrill of heart 

 disease, which came as an aftermath, to typhoid fever. Mr. Heckman 

 was 70 years old. and is sur\*ived by his wife, nine children and four 

 grandchildren. Mr. Heckman served two years as city alderman of Mer- 

 rill, and in the course of his life has put up some of the largest mills in 

 the United States. 



Fire starting in the warehouse and office of the Door County Produce 

 Company at Sturgeon Bay badly damaged tbe pleasure boat factory of 

 Walter Hartel, destroyed tbe warehouse and office of the produce com- 

 pany, and threatened the L. D. Smith shipyard before being subdued by 

 firemen. One of the boats destroyed in the Hartel factory was a prac- 

 tically completed 32-foot cabin cruiser. The Hartel loss was not covered 

 by insurance. 



The J. B. Laun Company of Kiel, Wis., is having plans prepareii for 

 the erection of a new saw planing mill. The building will be constructed of 

 brick and will be two stories high. It will be located in the yartls of the 

 company at Kiel. The old mill of the firm has been dismantled and the 

 machinery is being prepared for installation in the new plant upon the 

 completion of that structure. The company expects to make Its own o<ld , 



