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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Aagust 10, 1922 



The Veneer Dryer 



recommended by 



the largest and 



best mills — 



Ask any user about the quality of 

 dried veneer; the output compared 

 with rated capacity; the depend- 

 abihty of operation — 



Ask, for instance — 



Nickey Bros., Inc. 

 Allen Eaton Panel Co. 

 Buffelen l^umber Co. 

 Chicago \^eneer Co. 

 Floyd County \^eneer Mills 

 Hamilton-Hill Veneer Co. 

 Hanson-Ward Veneer Co. 

 McCleary Timber Co. 

 Mengel liox Company 

 Poinsett Lumber & Mfg. Co. 

 Portland Manufacturing Co. 

 Southwestern Veneer Co. 

 Stout Lumber Company 

 Southern Veneer Mfg. Co. 

 St. Louis Basket & Box Co. 

 Wood-Mosaic Co. 

 Richford Manufacturing Co. 



Our Catahi/ue, Xo. 57, explains the 

 "Proctor" Dryer. Send for one. 



PROCTOR & SCHWARTZ, Inc. 



Formerly the Phila. Textile Mach'y Co. 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



Superior, with 1,000 shares common and $50,000 In preferred stock. 

 Incorporators are H. W. Dietrich, George B. Dietrich and George 

 A. Carlson, Superior. 



A disastrous fire was averted at the plant of the Sawyer Goodman 

 Co., Marinette, when a detective motor catching fire dropped into 

 a planing- box at the mill, the box confining the flames all night. 



nfflcfrs of the Northern Casket Co., Fond du Lac, were re-elected 

 tor the ensuing year at the annual meeting of the company. William 

 Mauthe continues as president and H. R. Potter, secretary and treas- 

 urer. Favorable reports were made on the past year's business. 



Con.struction is under way on the foundation of the first of a group 

 of industrial buildings for Mattefs Brothers at Antigo. The first 

 unit is 80 by 200 feet to be used tor the manufacture of interior finish 

 ami toys. A railway spur has been surveyed to the building site. 

 Other units to be erected include a warehouse, dry kiln, sheds and 

 a sawmill. 



Tlie Heath Cedar Co. of Marinette has begun the construction of 

 a large addition to its plant, the former Brown-Mitcheson sawmill. 

 The concern will do interior finishing construction and also build 

 silos. The present factory is 130 by 50 feet, three-story, while the 

 addition will be 100 by 50 feet, one-stor>' high. Operations are ex- 

 pected to be started in September. 



Mark Faine, owner of the Mark Paine Lumber Co., Superior, who 

 was recently reported seriously ill from a stroke, died in that city 

 at the age of 74 years. Mr. Paine was born in Mobile, Ala., and 

 started in the lumber business with his brother. Franklin Paine, at 

 Carlton, Minn. Since 1888 he was in business at Superior. 



Hearing on complaint filed by the Twin City Auto Body Works, 

 Xeenah, against the Konz Box & Luinber Co., Appleton, charging 

 the Appleton concern with unfair competition, has been postponed 

 by the Wiconsin Department of Markets. It is charged by the Neenah 

 firm that the Konz Company was discriminating in prices charged 

 for cheese boxes for the purpose of destroying the business of the Twin 

 City concern. 



The Park Falls Lumber Co. will erect a concrete building. 104 by 

 133 feet, to provide quarters for eight dry kilns, in the south yards 

 of the company at Rice Lake. A transfer, 64 by BOO feet, will be 

 extended from the planing mill and a storage shed, 100 by 183 feet, 

 will Ije erected for storing green lumber. Work is to be completed 

 by fall and the sawmill then placed into operation for day and night 

 run. Contemplated is the construction of a large finishing plant 

 where dry dimensions will be finished 'and packed ready for shipment 

 to furniture factories. 



The Edward Hines Lumber Co. is pi'oposing to establish a model 

 town at Loretta, one mile west of Draper on the Omaha road at the 

 junction of the Hines logging railroad where the lumber company 

 maintains its round house and shop crew. The new town is to become 

 the center of logging operations for the Hines company in Northern 

 Wisconsin. A sa^A'mill may be constructed there. 



.\n jinnouneement of interest to the hardwood industry has come from 

 Keno.>ih.i, stating the sale of the Yule Interests, the large rontrolling 

 interest in the business of the Bain Wagon Company of 

 that city, to Dixon & Griswold, Los Angeles, Cal. The new 

 owners lire taking immediate possession and the business will be carried 

 on witliout interruption. George A. Yule, president of the corporation 

 sinre the death of (ieorge Yule, one of the founders of the company, will 

 retnin his position. The executive management of the wagon company will 

 be vested jointly In W. L. Dixon and J. F. Griswold, who come to Kenosha 

 from I,os .Angeles to take over the operation of the business. The Bain 

 company has if4no.000 capital stock and the new Interests are understood 

 to own over ninety per cent of the stock previously held by George A., 

 William IT. and (inrdon Yule. The plant is the largest wagon making 

 plant in the United States and has been in business since It was founded 

 hv Edward Bain in 1840. The Yules purchased all of the Bain interests 

 in Kill. 



Work of rebuilding the sawmill of the Kneeland-McLurg Lumber Com- 

 pany, Phillips, destroyed by fire in May, Is now under way. The new 

 mill will rest on the concrete foundation of the former mill, although the 

 superstructure will not he as large. The new mill will be a single band 

 and resaw, equipped with new and modern machinery electrically driven. 

 The <laily eap.ieity will be from 100,000 to 120,000 feet of lumber. The 

 null will be completed by next October. William A. Graham, who had 

 ch;tr;;e nf btiilding the Morse plant for the Keneland-McLurg company, is 

 snperintendlng the new construction at Phillips. 



ileorgp n. Ilipke has started a crew of men raising logs and converting 

 them into lumber at Stanley. The timber was purchased by Mr. Hipke 

 and the late George H. Chapman from the Northwestern Lumber Company 

 on completion of operations by the company about a year ago. A large 

 portion of the logs in the mill pond are white oak and birch. The cut will 

 r'-quire about three months. 



('(instruction will soon be under way on the new twv>-etory brick and 

 ciii Tete planing mill of the E. .7. Pflffncr Lumber Company. Stevens Point. 

 Tit- luilding will be 60 by 100 feet with full basement. The first floor will 

 pr"\ide space for the offices and a hot room for storing finished lumber, 

 hni'ivv.ind flooiing and other luml>er products, in addition to housing the 



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