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HARDWOOD RECORD 



estimated at $5,000, partly covered by insur- 

 ance. It is thoiiKbt that the plant will be re- 

 built, as the company has a sawmill a short dis- 

 tance away. 



M. .T. Wallrich of Shawano. Wis., a director 

 of the " Wisconsin & Northern Railway Com- 

 pany, has niioouncod that the company has se- 

 cured a concession from the government to build 

 five additional miles of road through the Me- 

 nominee Indian reservation, where more than 

 .?.50.000 worth of timber, damaged by fire, 

 must l)e taken care of at once. He also states 

 that the main line will be extended from Sha- 

 wano to Appleton as soon as the money market 

 becomes more settled. 



Fire walls for lumber yards will be advocated 

 In Milwaukee by Building Inspector E. V. Koch, 

 lie claims that the unprotected yards are a 

 great fire hazard. 



The Diamond Dowel Company has been or- 

 ganized at Norwalk, Ohio, but has leased the 

 plant of the Tomahawk (Wis.) Woodenware 

 Company and will operate in that city. 



Preparations for the winter logging opera- 

 tions are being made by the Heineman Lumber 

 Company of Heinemann, Wis., several logging 

 contracts having already been awarded. The 

 company plans to put in between 15 and 20 

 million feet this season. 



WAUSAU 



The Merrill Timber Company of Merrill is 

 the name of a new firm lately organised lor the 

 purpose of dealing in timber lands and to act 

 as a holding company. The incorporators are 

 C. W. Bruce, John Lokmoen, and A. T. Curtis. 

 These together with A. B. Nelson, S. Armeberg, 

 Harry Allen, F. C. Riemers, John Moe, Pete 

 Paulson and Thomas Larson are the stock- 

 holders. 



The Wright Lumber Company of Merrill, 

 which lost its sawmill by fire early last sum- 

 mer, has commenced the work of rebuilding. 

 The new mill will be 102 by 42 feet. The com- 

 pany has enough logs cut to feed the mill for a 

 year, and enough timber to supply the mill 

 for a number of years. 



Edgar is in a fair way to secure a veneer 

 manufacturing plant soon. A company is being 

 organized for that purpose and more than half 

 of the stock has been subscribed. It is pro- 

 posed to capitalize it at $30,000. Reinhold 

 Meyer of Merrill will move his plant in Merrill 

 to Edgar in case the company is organized and 

 will add new machinery. Those back of the 

 scheme figure on buying boilers of sufficient 

 capacity as to operate an electric light plant in 

 connection. Tributary to Edgar is a large sup- 

 ply of hardwood to stock such a mill. 



The Antigo Lumber Company has commenced 

 the erection of a sawmill in Antigo, which it is 

 expected will be in running order shortly after 

 the holidays. The company a ^ort time ago 

 contemiflated moving to Antigo. 



The Signor-Chrisler lumber yard in Chippewa 

 Falls has been purchased by the North Star 

 Lumber Company of Minneapolis at bankrupt 

 sale, before C. M. Merrill, trustee, in Eau Claire. 

 The North Star Lumber Company owns yards 

 in Bloomer, Elk Mound and elsewhere and will 

 enlarge the Chippewa Falls yard. The com- 

 pany proposes to expend $50,000 in Improve- 

 ments in Chippewa Falls. 



A set of legging camps belonging to the 

 Connor I^umber & Land Company and located 

 between Blackwell and Waubeno was recently 

 destroyed by fire. Fourteen set of logging 

 sleighs were also burned, besides other valuable 

 cjiuipment. It Is thought someone purposely 

 started the fire during the caretaker's absence. 

 The loss Is $5,000. 



A change In the affairs of the Brooks & Ross 

 Lumber Company, operating Just south of Wau- 

 sau, recently took place. John D. Ross pur- 



chased the interest of his partner, E. W. 

 Brooks. Both are Chicago men and have been 

 associated for a great many years. A few days 

 after Mr. Ross became sole owner he announced 

 that he would rebuild the sawmill destroyed in 

 (he village of Scliofield last summer. Work of 

 clearing off the debris from the old site has com- 

 menced. It is proposed to have the mill in 

 operation shortly after January 1. The mill 

 destroyed had a capacity of 1,000,000 feet every 

 ten days, and the new mill, it is planned, will 

 be fully the equal of the one burned. The firm 

 has at least ten years' sawing in sight. 



Hardwood dealers in this locality say that 

 business is improving at a healthy rate. Promi- 

 nent wholesalers predict that stocks will be 

 exhausted by January 1. The movement of all 

 kinds of lumber is active. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



The box factories of the Twin Cities re- 

 port a nice revival of business, which has 

 been slow lor the time of year. The usual fall 

 trade did not materialize in September owing 

 to the conservative feeling of wholesale houses, 

 but they have been getting good business through 

 the country districts, and the consequence is 

 that box orders are now coming in in good vol- 

 ume, and calling for delivery as prompt as 

 possible. The result is a demand lor bass- 

 wood culls and to some extent for birch and 

 other hardwoods. 



A. S. Bliss of the Payson Smith Lumber Com- 

 pany is absent on a business trip East and 

 South. He was last heard from at Indian- 

 apolis, and is going from there to New York 

 and other points, getting in personal touch 

 with some of the company's correspondents and 

 customers. 



E. H. Patterson of Patterson Brothers, whole- 

 sale dealers at Fifleld, Wis., was in Minne- 

 apolis on business a few days ago. 



L. M. Borgess, representing the Steele & 

 Hibbard Lumber Company of St. Louis, re- 

 cently called on the Twin Cities trade. He 

 brought a report of strong conditions and ad- 

 vanced prices on oak and other stocks handled 

 from the South. 



Minneapolis building permits for nine months 

 of the present year came to a total of $11.- 

 811,460 for a total of 5,120 permits. The cor- 

 responding period of last year gave a total of 

 4,673 permits, with a total cost of $10,015,701. 



C. L. Kellogg of the Parker-Kellogg Lumber 

 Company, pine and hardwood manufacturers 

 at Rice Lake, Wis., was here for several days 

 looking Into business conditions and talking 

 with friends in the trade. 



output for the year will make a good showing 

 at the end. 



Ross & Wentworth stock the Campbell-Brown 

 Lumber Company's mill. They have been get- 

 ting a number of million feet of logs by rail, 

 and one operator in Cheboygan county is now 

 cutting and skidding 2,000,000 feet for them, 

 which will come here by rail. Last week they 

 received a raft containing 3,000.000 feet, brought 

 down Lake Huron, and they also received some- 

 thing like a million feet of logs brought down 

 on vessels. This firm is doing a very good 

 business. 



'i'lie S. L. Eastman Flooring Company has 

 erected a large warehouse for stock storing pur- 

 ' poses on its premises. The company will put 

 out some 10,000,000 to 12,000.000 feet of floor- 

 ing this year, and in addition it handles con- 

 siderable hardwood lumber. 



The H. M. Loud's Sons Company at Au Sable 

 has shipped a number of cargoes of hardwood 

 lumber this season, some of which went to 

 lower lake points, some West, .and a considerable 

 quantity of timber went to Canadian ports for 

 harbor improvement purposes. It also has 

 moved out quite a large stock of oak by rail. 



R. Hanson & Sons' fine hardwood sawmill at 

 "Y-Town," about a mile from Grayling, is now 

 running in its second year. The firm has pur- 

 chased the planing mill outfit of the Michelson 

 & Hanson Lumber Company at Lewiston. the 

 latter company having exhausted its timber 

 and is winding up its business. The sawmill ma- 

 chinery was sold time ago to S. Meister of Bay 

 City, and R. Hanson & Sons will move the plan- 

 ing mill to Grayling, where it will be set up 

 and operated in connection with their saw- 

 mill. 



Y'uill Brothers of Vanderbilt are operating 

 two large logging camps near that place, cut- 

 ting stock and shipping it by rail to Walter 

 D. Y'oung & Co.'s large hardwood and flooring 

 plant at Bay City. This company has had a 

 successful season to date and shipping a large 

 quantity of flooring out by rail. Foreign ex- 

 port shipments are also large. 



The Richard.son Lumber Company at Bay 

 City is operating two or three camps and its 

 stock all comes in' by rail. The mill shut down 

 recently for repairs, but was idle only one week. 

 It is operated the year through, running ten 

 hours daily. 



The Kneeland-Bigelow sawmill plant is run- 

 ning day and night without a hitch, and the 

 Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow mill, owned by the 

 same firm, is operated ten hours dally through 

 the year. Dry lumber stocksf held' by this firm 

 are comparatively light. 



SAOINAW VALLEY 



Saginaw Valley Is the largest manufacturing 

 district for hardwood lumber In the state, some 

 63,000,000 feet being the output last year and 

 the current year will show up fully as well in 

 all probability, while it is estimated that more 

 stock manufactured at other points is bought 

 and handled by the dealers here than the 

 quantity manufactured. The territory tribu- 

 tary to Siiginaw Valley, extending from (he 

 Saginaw river- north to Cheboygan, along the 

 Huron shore, Detroit & Mackinac railway, and 

 Mackinaw division of the Michigan Central 

 railroad, known as Northeastern Michigan, in- 

 cluding the valley, manufactured last year 

 180,084,011 feet of hardwood lumber, compared 

 with 78,000,000 feet of pine and 147,000,000 

 feet of hemlock, so it will be observed hardwood 

 is king in this part of the state, and it will 

 continue so, since the pine product is steadily 

 diminishing. While the year has not been such 

 as looked for at its beginning, in regard to 

 trade, the mills have all been operated and the 



GRAND RAPIDS 



President Charles W. Garfield of the Michigan 

 Forestry Association is arranging the program 

 for the annual meeting, which will be held In 

 Kalamazoo Nov. 15 and 16. The date of this 

 convention has been postponed a week on account 

 of election. The meeting will open Tuesday even- 

 ing, with illustrated lectures by O. C. Simonds, 

 the landscape architect of Chicago, and Professors 

 Walter Mulford and Filibert Roth of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Wednesday 

 morning's session will be in charge of the State 

 I'ublic Domain Commission. During the after- 

 noon there will be a series of talks, the topics 

 including the farm woodlot, forestry In the 

 schools and women's work In the forestry move- 

 ment. If possible some of the prominent lumber- 

 men of the state will be secured to discuss the 

 practical side of the problem. Officers will be 

 elected Friday evening. 



Walter C. Winchester Is making fortnightly 

 trips to Winchester, Wis., where the Turtle Lake 

 Lumber Company Is operating its band mill 

 steadily throughout the year, cutting about 16,- 

 000,000 lect annually of hardwoods, hemlock and 

 pine. 



