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HARDWOOD RECORD 



stock of $100,000, tlie incorporators being Jolin 

 Brogan, J. D. Jansen and B. J. Shey. 



A school for forest rangers to consist of a 

 two-year course, the winters of which will be 

 spent at the university and the summers in 

 practical work about the state forest reserves 

 or in lumberincr operations in the field, is pro- 

 posed to be established by the University of 

 Wisconsin at Madison. 



The large plant of the Hardwood Products 

 Company at Ncenah is nearing completion and 

 is expected to be ready for occupancy by April 

 1. There will be a main building, power house, 

 warehouse and dry-kilns. Hardwood interior 

 furnishings will be manufactured. 



The sawmill of the Merryman Manufacturing 

 Company at Mai-inette has been placed in opera- 

 tion and is sawing for the Republic Lumber 

 Company. 



The plant of the Michigan Hoop Company at 

 Marinette is in steady operation once more. Ad- 

 ditions and alterations have been made to the 

 plant and new machinery has been installed. 



At the annual meeting of the Merrill Wooden- 

 ware Company the following officers were 

 elected : President, J. A. Emerich ; vice-presi- 

 dent, A. B. Nelson ; secretary, H. H. Hoffman ; 

 treasurer. E. II. Staats ; manager, J. A. Emei-ich. 



The thirtieth annual meeting of the Chippewa 

 Lumber & Boom Company, the Northern Lumber 

 Company and the several auxiliaries was held 

 at Chippewa Falls recently and was attended 

 by Frederick Weyerhauser and other well-known 

 lumbermen of the Northwest. The following 

 officers and directors of the Chippewa Lumber 

 & Boom Company were elected : President, 

 Frederick Weyerhauser ; vice-president. O. H. 

 Ingram ; manager. William Irvine ; directors, 

 Frederick Weyerhauser, M. G. Norton, L. Lamb, 

 O. H. Ingram and William Irvine. The officers 

 and directors of the Northern Lumber Company 

 are: President, Frederick Weyerhauser; vice- 

 president, R. M. Weyerhauser ; secretary, Wil- 

 liam Irvine ; directors, Frederick Weyerhauser, 

 R. M. Weyerhauser, F. C. Denkmann, A. B, Mc- 

 Donnell and William Irvine. 



The large new sawmill of the Antlgo Lumber 

 Company, built to replace the plant destroyed 

 by fire, and one of the largest in the state, is 

 now in operation. 



Paul and John Blum of West Bend have re- 

 cently leased and are installing machinery in 

 the Fuller & Hathaway building at Marshfleld. 

 Thoy will operate a cheese box factory. 



Miss Grace Dorothy Livingston of Wausau 

 and Harry Howard Ileineman, a member of the 

 Heineman Lumber Company of Merrill, were 

 married at Wausau on February 2. 



Flattering offers are being made the Racine 

 Manufacturing Company, Racine, manufacturers 

 of automobile bodies, to remove from that city. 

 The company will offer tor sale .$400,000 worth 

 of new stock lo the people of Racine and if this 

 can be .sold the company -will remain in that 

 city. 



WAUSAU 



The report of the Wisconsin Board of For- 

 estry has been given to the legislature and 

 shows that Wisconsin forest reserves have 

 grown from 40,000 acres in 1903 to 340,000 

 acres at the present time. The timber losses by 

 fires are given as $9,000,000 in lOO.S and .$.5,OOo!- 

 000 in 1910. 



The Antlgo Lumber Company, Antigo, expects 

 to soon have its new mill in operation day and 

 night. It has a capacity of 125,000 feet per 

 day. and the company expects to cut 15,000.000 

 feet during the year. 



John H. WaJechka recently purchased the de- 

 funct Wolfinger Box & Package Company of 

 Eland Junction for $8,000. He expects to soon 

 reopen the plant for business. 



The Moore & Galloway Lumber Company of 

 Fond du Lac is cutting the timber from about 

 8,000 acres of land ad,1aceut to Galloway. The 



timber is largely hardwood and must be logged 

 this winter. 



The chair and furniture manufacturers of 

 Shebo.vgan declare that 1911 will be a banner 

 year for their business. 



Andrew Emerson of Bessemer, a well-known 

 lumberman, has made a voluntary assignment 

 for the benefit of creditors. His indebtedness 

 is said to be $100,000 and his liabilities $50,000. 

 For many years he has operated sawmills, 

 camps and lumber town stores. 



The Wausau Fixture & Furniture Company 

 of Wausau, at the annual meeting of its stock- 

 hoUiors. decided to add new machinery to its 

 plant, which will increase its output about fifty 

 per cent. 



The government's experimental pulp mill in 

 Wausau. the only one of its kind in the world, 

 has been put in operation. It is the purpose of 

 the government to experiment with certain 

 gi'ades of hardwoods to ascertain their value as 

 a substitute for the soft woods at present used 

 in paper making. 



SAOINAW VALLEY 



Grayling, north of Bay City. Is an important 

 lumber manufacturing point. R. Hanson & Sons 

 manufactured .■>.3.">4.547 feet of hardwood lumber 

 last season. Sailing-Hanson Company manufac- 

 tured 7.001.0G9 feet of hardwood lumber, the 

 Johannesburg Manufacturing Company, in which 

 the Hansons are also interested, manufactured 

 6,120,000 feet of hardwood lumber. 



About one-half of the output of the Alpena 

 mills last season was hardwood stock. The in- 

 dividual cuts were : Richardson Lumber Com- 

 pany. 5.000.000 feet ; Beck Brewing Company, 

 2.14fi,000 feet; Churchill Lumber Company. 

 3,000,000 feet: Frank W. Gilchrist, 5,000,567 

 feet ; Island Mill Lumber Company, 5,500,000 

 feet. 



The Kneeland-Bigelow Company at Bay City 

 manufactured 8.816,645 feet of hardwood lumber 

 last season, and the Kneeland. Buell & Bigelow 

 Company put out 9,295.395 feet. The greater 

 portion of the cut of these plants is maple. Last 

 season the firm manufactured 8.000.000 feet of 

 maple for the S. L. Eastman Flooring Company. 



W. D. Young & Co. of Bay City manufactured 

 15,413.832 feet of hardwood lumber last week, 

 probably the greatest output of any single cori- 

 cern in Michigan. A large portion of this stock 

 goes into maple flooring. 



H. M. Loud's Sons Company of Au Sable cut 

 4.0.'jl.8G0 feet of hardwood last season. The 

 company reports an extraordinary demand for 

 maple during the last thirty days, and is ship- 

 ping out by rail much birch, beech and maple. 



GRAND RAPIDS 



The affairs of R. G. Peters and of the R. G. 

 Peters Salt & Lumber Company, Eastlake, have 



been placed in the hands of the Michigan Trust 

 Company as receiver. The proceedings were 

 started by Mrs. Burton of Texas, a sister of 

 Mr. Peters. The total liabilities are approxi- 

 mately two million dollars and the assets it is 

 expected will exceed the liabilities by half a 

 million dollars. The difficulty has been too 

 much -spreading and investment in manufac- 

 turing, mining, railroads, timber lands and vari- 

 ous enterprises. Mr. Peters had large holdings 

 in tlie Manistee & Luther Railroad Company, 

 the Gillette Roller Bearing Company and the 

 R. G. Peters Manufacturing Company of Grand 

 Rapids, the American Wood Block Company of 

 l>elplios, O., iron mines and smelters in Geor- 

 gia, and timber lands in British Columbia and 

 Florida. One of the chief difUculties has been 

 the depression in the iron market: also the fact 

 that the state laws of Georgia bore down 

 heavily on the development of the mining inter- 

 ests there. 



New corporations of tile state include the 

 Or.-.nd Rapids Furniture Temple Company, with 

 .«75.000 capital, an organization of outside fur- 

 niture manufacturers. An eight-story exhibition 

 liuildlng will be erected on Lyon, Division and 

 Ionia streets, north of the new postofflce. 



The business placed with the furniture manu- 

 facturers during the January season has not 

 been quite up to expectations. The orders, how- 

 ever, were for early delivery and the manufac- 

 turers feel sure that their factories will be kept 

 luisy throughout the year. 



W. W. Mitchell of Cadillac is remembering 

 the city of Hillsdale, Mich., his boyhood home, 

 very handsomely. He recently installed chimes 

 i-osting $4,000 at the court house, and now he 

 offers to contribute $5,000 towards erection of 

 a new city ball. 



There is still some hardwood timber in south- 

 ern Michigan. The Phillips Lumber Company 

 of Pokagon. in Cass county, is operating two 

 mills, with a three years' cut in sight, even 

 though the cutting of timber there has been 

 going on for the past seventy-five years. 



Two of the best rifle shots of the state are 

 Grand Rapids lumbermen, namely, Otis A. Felger 

 of the Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company, and 

 Lawton L. Skillman of the SklUman Lumber 

 Company. Mr. Skillman has just been elected 

 liresident of the Grand Rapids Rifle Club. 



The Vilas County Lumber Company has re- 

 Tnoved its offices to Fosterville. Wis. W. S. 

 U iaegar of this city is the new manager in- 

 charge. 



A. F. Anderson, the Cadillac lumberman, was 

 iu the city on business February 6. 



Annual meetings of the Boyne City Lumber 

 Company and the Elm Cooperage Company were 

 held in Grand Rapids, resulting in re-election of 

 the following officers: Boyne City Lumber Com- 

 pany — Pi-esident, W. H. White; vice-president, 

 rhos. White ; .secretary, W. L. Martin ; treas- 

 urer. Henry Idema. Elm Cooperage Company — 

 I'nsident and manager, J. T. Wylie of Saginaw: 

 secretary. W. H. White, Boyne City: treasurer, 

 (if^o. M. Burr, JIanistee. 



Hardwood Market, 



(By HARDWOOD BECOBD Exclusive Uarket BejpoTteTB.) 



CHIC AGO 



\\''{\\ .some exception the state of the hard- 

 wood trade is such as to give the manufacturers 

 as well as the dealers much cause for satisfac- 

 tion. Prices on hardwoods as a whole have 

 slightly increased, which is due to the growing 

 demand. The railroad business has been rather 

 vpiiet. but its future looks promising. The build- 

 ing trade is moving along steadily, several large 

 contracts having been let recently. 



The keynote of the whole situation is the atti- 



tude shown by the railroads for buying, which, 

 i< is believed, depends somewhat upon the de- 

 cision to be handed down soon by the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission on freight rates. The 

 siipreme court decisions on the trusts, now^ pend- 

 ing, also helped to create a feeling of hesitancy 

 throughout the market. 



NEW YORK - 



Tlie Ideal hardwood market shows a very fair 

 run of trade, considering the period of the 



