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HARDWOOD RECORD 



demand has been for nearly everything on the 

 hardwood list. 



W. \V. Dings of the Garetson-Greason Lumber 

 Company reports that business recently has been 

 more than satisfactory. Nearly all classes of 

 hardwood lumber have been called for and the 

 I)rosi)eots for the future are most encouraging. 



Conditions at the plant of the Fred Helm 

 Lumber Company are quite encouraging and 

 A. W. Ganahl says the demand at present is 

 mostly from the building industry. 



The Mosberger Lumber Company is doing a 

 most seasonable business in the hardwood line. 

 .Tacob Mosberger, the president of the com- 

 pany, feels greatly encouraged at the outlook 

 for the future. 



Charles E. Thomas of the Thomas & Proetz 

 Lumber Company has returned from a trip to 

 the new mill of the company at Belzona, Miss. 

 Jlr. Thomas says business is improving at thia 

 point and that the prospects are exceptionally 

 good for the spring trade. 



Thomas Powe of the Powe Lumber Company 

 says the demand for nearly all items in the 

 hardwood trade is good. The company's spe- 

 cialty is wide poplar boards, and these are In 

 fair request. 



MILWAUKEE 



II. M. Halsted, Milwaukee manager of the Ful- 

 lertou & Powell Hardwood Lumber Company, 

 has returned from a business trip to Sheboygan 

 and other Wisconsin points. 



W. K. Cooper, wholesale lumberman of Milwau- 

 kee, with iiis family, is spending a few weeks in 

 southern California. 



Fire destroyed more than 3,000,000 feet of 

 lumber in the .vards of the M. Hilty Lumber Com- 

 pany. Milwaukee, last week, entailing a loss of 

 S1.")0,000 and endangering the entire manufactur- 

 ing district in the Menomouie valley. The 

 origin of the fire is unknown. Officials of the 

 company issued an announcement immediately 

 after the Dre in which they stated that they 

 would continue business in the same manner as 

 herelofore. The bo.\- factory was in no way im- 

 paired by the fire. 



The Allis-Chalmers Company of Milwaukee has 

 been awarded (he contract for supplying and in- 

 stalling the equipment iu the new plant of the 

 nardwood Products Company at Neenah. With- 

 in the next month the plant, one of the largest 

 in the state, will be placed in operation with 200 

 skilled workmen employed. 



The sawmill cities of Wisconsin are opposing 

 the assembly bills, Nos. 401A and 402A now in 

 the state legislature. These measures propose 

 (o annul and prohibit the present traffic ar- 

 rangement.i between the railroads and many of 

 the Uiniber companies of the state, as well as to 

 increase the freight rates on logs, pnlpwood, 

 bolts, etc. 



G. T. noppe of Sheboygan, W. W. Perry of 

 Algoma and August F. Brown of Sevastapol' are 

 organizing a .$20,000 corporation at Sturgeon 

 Bay to engage in the manufacture of berry 

 crates, fruit cases and other wooden utilities. 

 The Dbint of the Sturgeon Bay Boat Company 

 win be utilized. 



■i'he Bain Wagon Company of Kenosha has 

 been sold to (Jeorge Vule, George A. Yule and 

 William A. Yule and a new organization of the 

 • omiiany has been effected. The deal is said 

 to have involved .$1,300,000. George Yule is 

 president of the now company and other officers 

 include: George A. Yule, secretary-treasurer and 

 general manager; William L, Yule, vice-president, 

 and S. C. Newman, a.ssistant secretary. The 

 business will lie conducted under the same firm 

 name. 



The Wolf Uiver Company of New Lon- 

 don has been making various improvements in 

 Its plant, including the installation of individual 

 motors, 



'I'he Northern Forest Products Comp.iny of 



Iron River has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $2.5.000 by P. J. .Savage, M. C. Helmer 

 and F. G. .Johnson. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission has de- 

 cided in favor of the A. George SehuIz Company, 

 box manufacturing concern of Milwaukee, in its 

 complaint against the Chicago, Milwaukee & St, 

 Paul r.tilroad and orders the road to refund 

 .$444 with interest as reparation for an unrea- 

 sonable charge on one carload of wood pulp 

 "cartons from Milwaukee to Spokane, Wash. 



P. T. Finnigan has begun the erection of a 

 new sawmill at Davis Spur, near Wausaukee, 



The Boyd Lumber Company of Boyd has closed 

 a deal for 12,000,000 feet of timber which will 

 be hauled to Boyd and sawed. Most of the tim- 

 ber is located at Crane. 



Frank N. Snell, well-known wholesale lum. 

 borman of Milwaukee, has Died a petition in 

 voluntary bankruptcy. Liabilities are scheduled 

 at $53,893.96 and assets are given at $176,547. 

 Of the assets, an aggre.gate of $121,480 is repre- 

 sented by holdings iu stocks and bonds. Of his 

 liabilities, $15,586 are unsecured claims. The 

 Qrst meeting of the creditors will be held in the 

 Milwaukee bankruptcy court on March 27, 



David Waugh of Rhinelander has been ap- 

 pointed stale lumber Inspector of the Seventh 

 district by Governor McGovern, 



the Mason & Donaldson Lumber Company of 

 Rhinelander, The company will start its own 

 mill April 1, 



WAUSAU 



Hamilton Roddis of the Roddis Lumber & 

 Veneer Company of Marshfleld recently returned 

 from a six weeks' trip to Trinidad, the Barba- 

 dos. St. Thom.as. the Bermudas and the Panama 

 canal. The company i-ecently bought an addi- 

 tional 40-ton locomotive for its Park Falls log- 

 ging railway. 



The newly organized Merrill Veneer Company 

 of Merrill has purchased a site and has the work 

 of building a plant well under way. The com- 

 pany has over a million feet of logs on the 

 ground now, A. Meyer, formerly with the Un- 

 derwood Veneer Company of Wausau, has been 

 engaged to manage the plant. 



The mill of the Bird & Wells Lumber Com- 

 pany at Wausaukee will be closed permanently 

 April 1. The pay roll of this mill amounts to 

 over $10,000 annually. 



The Crocker Chair Company will operate its 

 mill in Antigo until July 1. The cut of the 

 mill is entirely hardwood, the greater part being 

 maple. 



The Maxwell-Davis Lumber Company of Gales- 

 ville. Wis., has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $30,000, The incorporators are W, J, 

 Maxwell, Benj, W, Davis, J. F. Cance. 



The Wright Lumber Company of Merrill has 

 been working eleven crews the past winter near 

 Klinkie. All the logs are being hauled by rail 

 and sawed in the company's new mill, which will 

 be operated day and night for a .year. 



The Wheeler-Timlin Lumber Company of Wau- 

 sau has purchased 6.000,000 feet of choice hard- 

 wood lumber from the W. H. Rogers Lumber 

 Company of Crandon, 



The Brooks & Ross Lumber Company, Scho- 

 field, will cut 4,000.000 feet of hardwood this 

 season, besides other woods. 



The Wisconsin Furniture Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, whose factory in Neillsville was destroyed 

 by fire, has decided not to rebuild. The village 

 raised a bonus, but could not float a bond issue 

 of $30,000 to insure rebuilding. 



A single tree cut in Clark county, Wisconsin, 

 this winter scaled 5.000 feet and sold for $100. 



The N, Lndington Lumber Company, Marinette, 

 cut 10,000.000 feet of logs this past "winter. 



The plant of the newly organized Edgar Veneer 

 Company, Edgar, is nearly completed and will be 

 ready for operation soon. The company has a 

 large supply of logs on hand. 



The Stevens Lumber Company of Rhinelander 

 has sold 1.000,000 feet of logs to the Paine Lum- 

 ber Company of Oshkosh and an equal amount to 



SAQINAW VALLEY 



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The mills on the Lake Huron Shore and on 

 the line of the Detroit & Mackinac railway 

 which extends from Bay City to Cheboygan are 

 large producers of hardwood lumber, a consider- 

 able portion of which is handled in the Saginaw 

 valley. During 1910 these mills produced hard- 

 wood lumber as follows : 



Jt. D. Olds, Cheboygan, 6,283.000 feet. 



Embury-Martin Lumber Company, Cheboygan, 

 5,G00,(iO0 feet. • - . ..e . 



R. Mitchell. Millersburg, 750.000 feet. 



S. F. Derry & Co,. Millersburg, 1.500 000 feet. 



J. F. Spens & Brr.ther. Rogers. 25,000 feet. 



Albert Sellke. Hawks. 15.000 feet. 



Lobdell-Churchill Manufacturing Company, On- 

 away. 0.254,891 feet. i . • 



Gardner, Peterman & Co., Onawav, 3.400.000 

 feet, 



Loud-Hoeft Lumber Company, Rogers, 1,200,- 



Boltou Saw Mill Company, Bolton, 60,000 feet. 

 Beck Brewing Company, Alpena, 2.146,000 

 feet. 



F, W, Gilchrist. Alpena, 5,090,567 feet. 

 Richardson Lumlx'r Company, Alpena, 5,000,- 

 ItOO feet. 



Island Mill Company. Alpena, 5.500.000 feet. 

 Churchill Lumber Company, Alpena, 3.000,000 

 feet. 



Masters & Bowden. Ossineke. 150,000 feet 

 Wm. Colby, Hubbard Lake, 100.000 feet 

 E. Downie & Son. Alcona. 80.000 feet, 

 n. McRae, Greenbush. 140.000 feet. 

 H. M. Loud's Sons Company, AuSable, 4,051,- 

 860 feet. 



Robinson Lumber Company, Goodar, 2,653,186 

 feet. 



•Tohn Kantzler & Son, East Tawas, 400,000 

 leet. 



Matt Jordan, Mclvor, 60,000 feet 

 John McCready, Twining. 20,000 feet. 

 Andrew Ivent, Omer, 75.000 feet. 

 Scattering portable mills, 7,500,000 feet. 

 The Knapp & Scott sawmill at Bay City is 

 shut down a few days to permit the installation 

 of a new battery of boilers. 



The exceptional activity in hardwood it is 

 believed will stimulate the output the current 

 year. Prices are much better than a year ago 

 and the demand is such that dry stocks are sold 

 close up to the saw. The winter has been fairly 

 favorable for logging and operators north of 

 Gaylord are still hauling logs on sleighs. A 

 number of small operators are finishing up the 

 season's campaign this month. 



The S. L. Eastman Flooring Company of Sagi- 

 naw has bought 7,000,000 feet of maple of the 

 Ivneelard-Bigelow Company of Bay City, the 

 lumlier to be cut out this season. For a num- 

 ber of years past the Kneeland-Bigelow Com- 

 pany has manufactured from .seven to eight mil- 

 lion feet annually for the Eastman concern. 



Ross & Wentworth will bring a large quantity 

 of logs down by rail over the Mackinaw division 

 of the Michigan Central to be manufactured 

 here. 



The Hanson-Ward Veneer Company is bring- 

 ing logs from the North. The flooring plant ig 

 manufacturing considerable stock for the export 

 trade. 



Walter D. Young of W. D, Young & Co, has 

 been taking a well-earned vacation in California, 

 However, the company's immense Bay City plant 

 moves on day and night with unceasing regu- 

 larity. The plant has had a good winter run. 



DETROIT 



J. H. P. Smith of the Hardwood Lumber 

 Company, Cincinnati, was in the city on busi- 

 ness last week. 



Mr. Houton of the Strable Manufacturing 

 Company was in the city the past few days on 

 a business trip. 



-illan Brothers have leased one-half of the 

 three acres which for many years they have 

 occupied for lumber yard purposes on Holden 

 avenue, and will occupy the eastern halt of 

 the Land, facing on Holden and Third avenues. 



