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HARDWOOD RECORD 



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planning to change its offices to Wausau are denied by C. H. Stange, general 

 manager, who said the company's recent change of name is the only altera- 

 tion made. The name was changed from the A. H. Stange company to the 

 Stange Lumber company. 



The Crocker Chair company of Antigo, Wis., closed a contract for the 

 purchase of two boilers. The improvement indicates that the company is 

 preparing to resume more complete operations of the local factory. A 

 small crew is employed at the present time using electric power. 



The Thompson Wells Lumber company and the Menasha Woodenware 

 company are building jointly a railroad near Marinette, Wis. The two 

 companies own 300,000,000 feet of timber. The bulk of this will be 

 brought to Menominee for sawing. A quantity will go to the plant of the 

 Menasha Woodenware company at Menasha, Wis. 



Ovid M. Butler, former assistant director of the Forest Products Labora- 

 tory at Madison, Wis., has been appointed forester of the American Forestry 

 association and will assume his duties at Washington, a recent announce- 

 ment stated. The laboratory recently received $5,000 from the California 

 Redwood association as a co-operative fund in the study of redwood. A 

 box testing machine has been recently installed at the laboratory, officials 

 further announce. It has proven to be efficient and will be used for all 

 official tests. 



The mathematical theory of probability was used in deciding a com- 

 pensation case involving the employe of the J. H. Kaiser Lumber company 

 at Eau Claire, Wis. The employe appeared in the lumber company's first 

 aid room with a wounded hand. He had it dressed and did not mention 

 the cause of his injury. Two days later he died of blood poisoning. The 

 Industrial commission ordered the company to pay his widow regular 

 indemnity for the workman's death on the theory that a conclusion that 

 tne man had sustained the wound outside the mill would be based "upon 

 an improbability." 



Thomas Lambert, a resident of Oconto, has made a contract with the 

 Oconto Lumber company to put in about two million feet of timber and 

 posts located between Carter and Townsend, Wis. 



The Hardwood Market 



CHICAGO 



The virtual return of tranquillity to the coal mining and railroad indus- 

 tries has restored the confidence of woodusing industries and resulted in 

 an increased activity in the Chicago hardwood market. Assured of more 

 stable and healthful general business conditions the furniture, piano and 

 other industries are going ahead with their manufacturing and buying 

 schedules. The rush for small shipments is not so great as during the 

 strike period, but larger orders are being placed than during that period. 

 The outlook is for a healthy buying condition throughout the remainder of 

 the year, as the woodusing industries have orders booked far ahead and are 

 assured of steady work until the new year with its new problems arrives. 



BUFFALO 



The hardwood demand continues good at Buffalo yards, although it is 

 not as easy as formerly to make shipments. Some roads are much tied 

 up by the traffic congestion and lack of motive power and cars, so that 

 they are obliged to handle freight very slowly. In some cases customers 

 are obliged to get permits for shipments. Lumber ordered from the 

 southern mills comes through very slowly, sometimes requiring several 

 weeks to arrive. Industrial plants are fairly busy and the building trade 

 has shown no signs of falling off. 



The furniture plants are taking a good many orders and are obliged 

 to buy quite a little lumber, although they do not feel like buying much 

 ahead. The report from a number of plants is that additions are being 

 erected in order to care for more business. It is predicted that a great 

 deal of interest will be shown by the buyers in the fall expositions. 



BOSTON 



Much excitement and disturbance exists in the lumber trade here because 

 of the effects of the railroad strike. While general hardwood is in better 

 demand from the wholesalers in a general way, and inquiry for it Is 

 really most active, much trade is being lost because of the difficulty in 

 the way of promising when the lumber will be delivered with any certainty. 

 A good many retailers are trying to stock up the best way they can at the 

 present time, but they are finding it difficult to do so, though they are 

 themselves under the spur of necessity, because of the car shortage. This 

 situation accordingly has given rise to a wide range in prices. And the 

 range widens still more when a man is in a hurry to buy and another can 

 deliver right off to suit him ; he pays a premium, in other words. The 

 whole market is in a pretty firm condition as regards prices. The general 

 tone seems strengthening, when strength Is taken to connote maintenance 

 of present altitude in general prices. The demand for hardwood flooring 

 is pretty active and prices are firm for all lines of stock. For hardwood 

 stock, interior finish is in pretty good demand and is firm. There is an Im- 

 provement noted in the demand for piano stock, for furniture stock, from 





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