HARDWOOD RECORD 



cated. In 1S54 he went to New York City and 

 later to St. Louis, wliore be worlied for the Iron 

 Jlountain Railroad until he formed a partnership 

 with Joseph Bogy and entered the wholesale 

 commission business. Afterwards he became a 

 partner In the Clarksou-Christopher Lumber 

 'company, which later became the R. M. Fry 

 Lumber Company. Mr. Fry recently moved to 

 New York to reside with his daughter. 



After a spirited debate, the East St. Louis 

 city council granted the Booker Lumber Company 

 a permit to establish a lumber yard inside the 

 East St. Louis city limits. George W. Booker 

 is the principal owner of the Booker Lumber 

 Company, also owning yards in Valley Park, in 

 St. Louis County and in St. Louis. He sold the 

 company eighteen months ago to the Goedde 

 I'ampany, under an agreement not to engage in 

 the lumber business in East St. Louis for five 

 years, but it is understood he has made a new 

 arrangement with the Goedde people and is 

 about ready to again open the yard. 



The C. F. Liebke Hardwood .Mill & Lumber 

 Company is preparing for a big demand for hard- 

 wood stock within the next month or two. 



At the annual election of the Fred Helm Lum- 

 ber Company, held on February 2. the following 

 officers were elected : President and treasurer, 

 Pauline Ganahl ; vice-president, Mrs. Walburga 

 Ilcim ; secretary, Leo V. Ganahl : general man- 

 ager, Adolph W. Ganahl. The Ganahl brothers, 

 Leo and Adolph, are hustling young business 

 men and have conducted the business for a long 

 time. 



The annual meeting of the .Tulius Seidel Lum- 

 ber Company was held on January 30 and re- 

 sulted in the election of the following officers : 

 Julius Seidel, president and treasurer; Frank 

 Seidel, vice-president, and W. E. Beckman, sec- 

 retary. The following directors were chosen : 

 Julius Seidel, Frank Seidel, W. E. Beckman, Otto 

 Moser and W. M. Kienli. On the following day 

 the annual banquet of the company was held at 

 Faust's restaurant. Julius Seidel made an ad- 

 dress on "The Policies of the Company for 1911." 

 Addresses were also made by the vice-president 

 and others, after which one of the local theaters 

 was visited. 



The Garetson-Greason Lumber Company is 

 having a fairly good demand for gum and high- 

 grade plain sawed oak. Other items on the 

 hardwood list are also in demand. 



According to George E. Hibbard, vice-president 

 of the Steele & Hibbard Lumber Company, 

 almost all classes of hardwood lumber stock are 

 in good request and the prospects are good for 

 a fine trade when the spring season opens. At 

 present its business is all that could be expected 

 under the existing conditions. 



NEW ORLEANS 



F. J. Stevens of the Giichrist-Fordney Com- 

 pany, Laurel, Miss., visited local friends re- 

 cently, and transacted business for his company. 



B. D. Stevens of the Berlin Machine Works 

 at Detroit. Mich., passed through New Orleans 

 recently, euroute home from a visit to points 

 in Louisiana and Texas. 



W. P. Best, vice-president of the Ferd Bren- 

 ner Lumber Company, and general manager 

 of the Alexandria (La.) plant, was a recent 

 visitor in New Orleans. 



J. W. Perkins, sales manager of the Climax 

 Lumber Company. St. Landry, La., was a re- 

 cent visitor to New Orleans. Mr. Perkins is 

 one of the old standbys of the hardwood manu- 

 facturing business in the South, and is decid- 

 edly popular with the trade. 



L. W. Ford, secretary of the Goodlander- 

 Robertson Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn., 

 passed through New Orleans the first part of 

 this month enroute tor a visit to Central and 

 South America. He expects to be absent for 

 some time. 



An important timberland case will be con- 

 sidered at the forthcoming session of the fed- 



eral court at Biloxi, Miss. It is that of John 

 W. Fordney vs. lifty defendants throughout 

 Hancock, Marion, Pearl River, Simpson, Law- 

 rence and Lincoln counties, Mississippi, and in- 

 volves a large area of timber lands. The case 

 turns inainly on the constitutionality of an act 

 of the legislature of Mississippi passed in 1871, 

 creating the Pearl River Improvement & Navi- 

 gation Company, to which said lands were pat- 

 ented without consideration. Later these were 

 patented to the defendant or those from whom 

 they secured title, under the act governing the 

 swamp and overflow lands of the state, and 

 it is to set aside these later conveyances that 

 the suit is filed. The same question is now 

 before the supreme court of Mississippi, but 

 involves only forty acres under the act of 

 1871. The supreme court declared the act 

 unconstitutional, but the lawyers representing 

 Mr. Fordney have secured an order from the 

 supreme court rema_nding the case for further 

 hearing. 



The steamship Alberta elearfd from New 0;'- 

 leans February 11 with what is said to be the 

 largest cargo of liardwood lumber and logs 

 shipped by one m,an to one buyer at one port iu 

 Europe from the port of New Orleans. The ves- 

 sel carried 600,000 feet of ash. white oak and 

 gum lumber and poplar logs. The shipment was 

 made by John Oriol to Jose Taya's Sons Com- 

 pany, Barcelona, Spain. 



MILWAUKEE 



Offices of the recently organized Wisconsin 

 Manufacturers' .\ssociation have been opened in 

 the Germania l)uilding, Milwaukee, in conjunc- 

 tion with the Merchants & ^lauufacturers' -\sso- 

 ciation. 



C. A. Chamberlin, wealthy lumberman of Eau 

 Claire and one of the founders of the former 

 Empire Lumber Company of that city, recently 

 died while in the barber's chair in the Eau 

 Claire Club. Death w-as caused by apoplexy. 

 Mr. Chamberlin was sixty-five years old. 



Among the lumber concerns recently incorpo- 

 rated in Wisconsin is the Bayfield Box & Lum- 

 ber Company of Bayfield with a capital stock of 

 $50,000. The incorporators are Arthur L. Kurz, 

 Harry M. McNeil and Henry Wachsmuth. 



The factory building of the Thomas Coaster- 

 Toy Company was destroyed on February 20, 

 entailing a loss of between $25,000 and $30,000, 

 only partly covered by insurance. The offices, 

 warehouse and yards were saved. The plant 

 will be rebuilt at once. 



A measure will soon be introduced in the Wis- 

 consin legislature compelling " the railroads to 

 adopt a style of spark arrester for smokestacks, 

 which is approved by tlie State Railway Com- 

 mission, to clear their rights of way of all dead 

 timber, ties, brush and dry grass and in dry 

 seasons to patrol their tracks frequently. The 

 measure has the support of State Forester E. M. 

 Grifllth. 



As a result of an amendment to the Indian 

 appropriation bill, the government sawmill on 

 the Menominee reservation at Neopit will be 

 permitted to cut 40,000.000 feet of timber during 

 the present season. Only 20,000,000 could be 

 cut under the existing law. The change will 

 enable the burned over area to be cleared. 



The new $30,000 addition of the Randolph 

 Wagon Works at Randolph is nearing comple- 

 tion. The new structure will be used for the 

 blaeksmithing, woodworking departments and for 

 office purposes. About twenty new machines are 

 yet to be installed. J. J. Bloehwitz is president 

 of the company. 



WAUSAU 



operative undertaking between the United States 

 Department of Agriculture and the university. 

 The state has erected the building, and the De- 

 partment of Agriculture has supplied the equip- 

 ment and apparatus and will maintain a force 

 <if from thirty-five to forty persons to carry on 

 tile work. Facilities are at hand for almost any 

 test of wood that practical conditions may re- 

 quire. 



The Rib Falls Lumber Company's mill in the 

 northern part of Marathon county, Wisconsin, 

 was destroyed liy fire a few days ago. The loss 

 was covered by insurance. The company had 

 saw^ed out about 1,000,000 feet. The remainder 

 of the logs, which are mostly hardwood, will be 

 hauled to the company's other mill at Rib Falls 

 for sawing. 



^^'. J. Meyers of Rockland has bought 3,000,- 

 000 feet of logs from farmers in the vicinity of 

 Wrightstown, for the Appleton Woodenware 

 Company of Appleton. 



Peter Arnovitz of Marinette has purchased the 

 i^aw and planing mill of the Spies Lumber Com- 

 pany of Oconto. It is expected that the ma- 

 chinery, or at least a largt part of it, will be 

 moved to Marinette. 



Wilson Brothers of Quebec, Canada, have crews 

 of men getting out ship timber in the vicinity 

 of Wausau. Every piece of rock elm or white 

 oak they can secure is being purchased. Most 

 of this timber is shipped to the great ship yards 

 of England. 



The Martin Ellingson sawmill at Milan was 

 destroyed by fire a few days ago. It will be re- 

 built in the spring. 



The new mill of the Brooks & Ross Lumber 

 Company at SchoDeld has Just been put in running 

 order and will be operated day and night all the 

 rest of the winter. This mill has all the latest 

 improved machinery. The company will cut 

 largely hardwood this winter. 



SAQINAW VALLEY 



A laboratory has been established at the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin to aid, through experiments 

 and demonstrations, the lessening of waste in the 

 manufacture and use of wood. It is a co- 



The hardwood lumber output of the mills on 

 the Saginaw river last year was: 



Feet. 



W. D. Young & Co 15.413.832 



Richardson Lumber Clompany 0,500,000 



Kneeland-Bigelow Company S. 816,645 



Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow Company.. 0.293,395 



Campbell Lumber Company ". . . 1.000,000 



Knapp & Scott 4.0S6.977 



S. G. M. Gates Estate 2,500.000 



Standard Hoop Company 477,000 



Bliss & Van Aukeu 7,000,000 



Total 59,176,826 



The hardwood output of these mills in 1900 

 aggregated 02,768,602 feet. Last year the hem- 

 lock output exceeded that of hardwood, while 

 the preceding year hemlock was 20.000,000 feet 

 less than hardwood. The hardwood and hem- 

 lock industry is bound to maintain proportions 

 of considerable magnitude for many years to 

 come, some firms having a twenty years' cut still 

 in sight. 



The winter has been fairly favorable for woods 

 operators, although there has been more snow in 

 the North than desirable the greater portion of 

 the time. Stocks of maple in hand are reported 

 some 25.000,000 feet short of a year ago. The 

 quanlity of logs being put in this winter is esti- 

 mated at about normal for recent years. 



W. D. Young has gone to California to take a 

 much needed rest. 



Local lumbermen operating hardwood sawmills 

 so far as heard from arc opposed to Canadian 

 reciprocity. They don't believe the free entry 

 of sawed lumber of all kinds from Canada will 

 be of benefit to the lumber trade of the valley 

 or country in general. 



II. Walter has erected a small mill on the 

 north branch of Kawkawlin river, a few miles 

 from Bay City, and is putting in a stock of logs. 



At AuSable the H. M. Loud's Sons Company 

 handled a large quantity of long hardwood timber 

 sold and shipped to Canadian points for harbor 

 improvement work. It also manufactured 4,151,- 



