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leal plant is now waiting for the completion of 

 the still house destroyed hy fire some weeks ago. 

 The building is all up but the appanilns is not 

 yet here. The CummerDlggius flooring plant 

 had been shut down a few weeks but they re- 

 suineil business this week, as did the C'ol)l)s & 

 Miti'hell flooring plant. Nearly everything in 

 town is again running full forces full t-inu>, and 

 business in the city is in good condition. 



The Cadillac Veneer Company held its annual 

 meeting last week. H. W. Ingersoll of Elyila. 

 Ohio, was re-elected president ; F. II. Foster of 

 E:iyrla, Ohio, vice president : K. W. Ben.1amin of 

 Cadillac, secretary and treasurer, and Charles 

 Thompson, ('adillac. manager. Tlie otHcers, to- 

 gether with 1). C. Kaldwin of IClyria, constitute 

 the Hoard of Directors for the coming year. 



The elegant city hospital given Cadillac by the 

 late Delos !•'. Diggins was fornially opened on 

 January lil. It will be conducted by the Sisters 

 of Mer<-y. It has beds for thirty people and is 

 a model of convenience and beauty. 



J. C. Knox, secretary of the Michigan Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association, returned a few 

 days ago from a trip to Minneapolis and Eau 

 Claire. At the latter place he attended a meet- 

 ing of the Wisconsin association. 



Wausau. 



K.xtcnsive improvements, aggregating thou- 

 sands of dollars, are being made in the power 

 equipment of the Morgan Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, Oshkosh. Three boilers, one engine and 

 a large heater are being installed. The boiler 

 house was extended during the summer to make 

 room for the additional equipment and to add 

 to the capacity of the veneer mill. The new 

 engine is of I.OOO horsepower, making the aggre- 

 gate horsepower of the plant 1.400. The heater 

 is rated at 1.500, being equal to that of the 

 boilers. The total cost of the improvement will 

 he $1(1.000. 



Luniliermen are not complaining much about 

 the unusually mild weather and absence of snow 

 in Wisconsin tills year. At the time this is 

 written (January 21) there is not enough snow 

 in this section to make sleighing, a condition 

 seldom witnessed. Still loggers are getting 

 along better than they would if there was a 

 heavy fall of snow, for the weather has been 

 cold enough to make ice roads. 



In conversing with a Recoki) correspondent 

 a prominent Wausau hardwood dealer recently 

 said: ■The manufacture of wooden toys has 

 undergone important changes am] made quite a 

 dilTerence in the hirdwood trade in recent years. 

 Not only have kinds and quautity been in- 

 creased, but quality has been improved by the 

 general substitution of hardwoods for soft woods 

 formerly used by toy makers. The pine .iump- 

 ing-jack of forty years ago may have been as 

 dear to the hearts of the little ones as are the 

 soldier automatons of today, but it was not so 

 well made or so handsome, and tlie soldiers will 

 stand more iiard knocks because they are made 

 of maple or liirch. More playthings are made 

 for the children of today than the child of a 

 generation ago dreamed of. He had his rock- 

 ing horse, sled, top and perhaps a Noah's ark. 

 l>ut his visions and hopes went no farther. To- 

 day the birch and maple forests of Wisconsin 

 and the ash and hickory of the middle West are 

 transformed by lathe and scroll saw into beasts 

 of the forest and field, birds of the air, fishes of 

 the deep, appliances, games, vehicles, building 

 blocks and other playthings without number." 



The Northwestern Lumber Company has re- 

 sumed operations in its mill in Stanley, after 

 an idleness of two months. The mill will run 

 day and night, logging camps will he filled with 

 crews and there will be no curtailment of out- 

 put. 



The old Barker & Stewart Lumber Company's 

 mill at Ashland has been sold to the Chicago 

 Lumber Company of Manistique, Mich. It is 

 being dismantled and movi^d lo the northern 

 peninsula of Michigan. 



A two-story sawmill is nearly completed in 

 Stevens Point, built by W. W. Mitchell. It 

 seems strange at tliis late day to see a mill be- 

 ing built in that section, it being predicted tiiirty 

 years ago (hat Ihe available supply of saw logs 

 would be exhiiusled in ten years. The pine is 

 gone and hardwood is being shipjied in by rail 

 from the North. 



The Oreenwood Heading and Lumber Com- 

 pany has been (U-ganized al Greenwood, Clark 

 county: capital slock, ,$S.OO(i : Incorporators. 

 lOrastus Itowen, \^*. H. I'alms, Thomas Kahey 

 and John Shanks. 



The Uadger Stave and Lumber Company of 

 Madison is another recent organization. Its 

 capital stock is $2.1,000 : incorporators. Chandler 

 H. Chapman. William I). Turner and Frances 

 B. Chapman. 



The Outer Island Lumber Company of Wau- 

 sau is the name of a new organization ; capital 

 stock .f :tO.OOO ; incorporators. A. L. Kreutzer. 

 Charles A. Kreutzer and Paul II. Kremer. 



The Doyon-Rayne Lumber Company of White- 

 water has filed articles of incorporation : cap- 

 ital stock, .|:i0.000 ; incorporators. George F. 

 Uayne, Bertrand 11. Doyon and George C. Spren- 

 gcl. 



The Chicago and Northwestern Railway Com- 

 pany has withdrawn all its timber lands in 

 Wisconsin and northern Michigan from the mar- 

 ket and will use them for the growth of tie and 

 bridge timber for its 7,500 miles of track. It 

 is following the example of the Cleveland Clio's 

 Iron Company, which is systematicall.v reforest- 

 ing its more than 1,000,000 acres in the upper 

 peninsula. The Northwestern has upwards of 

 400.000 acres in Wisconsin and Michigan, and 

 not an acre will be sold at any price. The cut- 

 ting will be done systematically and the under- 

 brush and refuse cleared away. Trees will then 

 be planted which will make good tie timber, the 

 planting being done on a plan approved by Gif- 

 ford I'inciiot. Oak, maple, elm, cedar, hemlock 

 and tamarack will be used for ties and all will 

 be treated with the creosote preservative proc- 

 ess at the company's great plant in Escanaba. 



The government has asl;ed for bids for build- 

 ing three mills in the "blown down district" on 

 the Kesliena Indian reservation. Millions of 

 feet of tfmlier, blown down in a cyclone a few 

 years ago will be cut at these mills. Some of the 

 hardwood, it is said, is now practically worth- 

 less for lumber. 



The Crocker Chair Company of Sheboygan has 

 started its plant in operation after several 

 months' idleness and will give employment to 

 1.000 men. The Garton Toy Company of the 

 same place has also resumed business. 



About 400.000 feet of hardwood logs are being 

 hauled daily over the Redisson branch of the 

 Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Rail- 

 way this winter. They are hauled to Chippewa 

 Falls and Rice Lake mills. 



The Girard Lumber Company, of Dunbar, is 

 operating an improved log handler this winter 

 which takes logs off cars with safety to em- 

 ployes. It can also be used in picking up 

 sunken logs from the pond. 



The mill of the Northwestern Lumber Compa- 

 ny at Stanley, Wis., has resumed operations after 

 being closed for two months. 



The Snow Lumber Company, Edgar, has re- 



sumed operations with day and night crews and 

 is cuffing aliout 75.(100 feet daily, mostly mixe(3 

 hardwoods. 



Toledo. 



A blow was dealt the Toledo lumbei- dealers 

 by the supreme court at Columbus when it held 

 the >'alentlno anti-trust law valid and <'onstltu- 

 fional, thus barring all hope ai relief from that 

 source for the twenty-seven dealers who nearly 

 a year ago were sentenced to the workhouse by 

 tlie common pleas court here for a term of six 

 montiis on an alleged violation of that law. 



The cases of the lumber dealers .were im- 

 mediately appealed to the circuit court, where 

 they have been continued from time to time 

 pending the decision of the supreme court In 

 (be Toledo ice cases. As the ice cases raised 

 virtually the same grounds of objection as the 

 lumber cases and as they have beeJi looked upon 

 as a precedent for the lumber cases, the de- 

 cision of the supreme court this morning came 

 with crushing force. While the highest court 

 held that the law itself is valid, it also held that 

 the lower court exceeded its authority in im- 

 posing a workhouse sentence which involved 

 menial labor as a part of the punishment, but 

 ordered that the cases he remanded to the lower 

 court for resentencing, limiting that court to 

 the imposition of a .iail sentence if imprisonment 

 is desired. 



In the lumber cases the defendants were also 

 given a workhouse sentence of six months, which 

 by the decision of the supreme court was a 

 flagrant excess of authority and one which will 

 result in the remanding of those cases by the 

 circuit court for resentence, as was done by the 

 higher court. Should this be done the only hope 

 for a reversal will lie in the Supreme Court of 

 the L'nifed States, wliere it is said tlie cases will 

 be carried. This action will be taken upon the 

 theory that the Valentine law is in contraven- 

 tion of the Constitution of the United States. 

 The lumber cases will again be called in the cir 

 cult court here within a few days. 



The S. N. Ford Lumber Company is the style 

 of a new concern organized at Mansfield, Ohio, 

 to take over the business of S. N. Ford of that 

 city. It will be incorporated with a capital stock 

 of .$50,000. Mr. Ford will retain an interest, 

 the balance of the stock being taken by local 

 business men of that cit.y. 

 The plant will be rebuilt as soon as possible. 



J. D. Watson and W. H. Hople, of Tiffin, O., 

 are erecting a sawmill on their timber tract near 

 Yamacraw, liy., to supply materials for use at 

 the new handle factory which they recently in- 

 stalled in that city. Both gentlemen are now 

 on the ground looking after the improvements. 



The I'erkins lumber plant at Carey. O.. was 

 destroyed by fire last week. The loss will ap- 

 proximate $10,000, including about $1,000 worth 

 of finished product. The plant carried .'i;2,000 

 insurance. 



Fire which caused several thousand dollars' 

 worth of damage broke out in the yards of the 

 West Alexandria Lumber Company at West 

 Alexandria. O.. January 10. The blaze started 

 in the office and spread to the lumber sheds and 

 planing mill before anything could be done. A 

 high wind wafted sparks into several parts of 

 the town and numerous small fires occurred. The 

 plant will he reljuiit as soon as the losses are 

 adjusted. 



Hardwood Market. 



(By HAHD'WOOD BECOBD EscltisiTe Market Beporters.) 



Local trade is entirely of 

 variety. Salesmen who ordinarily would go out 

 and sell ten to fifteen cars a week are now glad 

 to get orders for two or three. The consuming 

 trade is buying only for immediate necessities. 

 The average Jobber feels very optimistic over the 



Chicago. 

 Ihe hand-to-mouth value of his lumber and is playing a waiting 

 game. There is very little price cutting reported 

 from any source. The situation is well in hand, 

 and both buyers and sellers believe there will be 

 a renaissance of very fair trade within the next 

 sixt.v days. 



