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HARDWOOD RECORD 



September 25. 19-^1 



The Successful Mahogany Manufacturer 

 Must Have an Adequate Log Supply 



ShowinK our fresh water pond within the Mississippi River at New Orleans, where our 

 steamers discharge their loss afttr completinR a long journey from the tropics. This pond 

 is approximately one-liaU tnile lonpr: has a storaRC capacity of three to four million 

 feet of Mahogany logs, so that we are always assured of adequate supply: there our choice 

 Mahogany logs are stored in a most advantageous manner, safe "Against the river currents 

 and storms, floating freely without chains, ready to go thru our mill. 



This Mahogany pond is the only one of its kind: all other features of our operations have 

 hecn worked out with equal care. 



the business under the style of Merrill Wood Products Compan.v, with a 

 capital stock of $12,000. 11. II. Ceaglske is a.ssociated with him in the 

 enterprise. The priucipal product up to, this time has been plugs and cores 

 lor paper rolls, but additional lines will be addetl. 



Otto B. Knoke, formerly of Ilatley, Wis., has placed his new hand mill 

 at Appleton, Wis., in operation. It is a steam plant and has a daily 

 capacity of 35,000 feet. The etiuipment is of the most modern type obtain- 

 able and handling of logs and lumber is done almost entirely by machinery. 

 There are two 300 horsepower boilers and a hot pond located adjacent to 

 the railroad tracks. The mill is equipped with a 12-inch band saw work- 

 ing on eight-foot pulleys. A planing mill will be added at once and be 

 ready to handle the product of the sawmill by November 1. 



The Stafford-Caloric Company of Janesville, Wis., formerly the Caloric 

 Company, is resuming full time operations on tireless cookers. In recent 

 months it has been devoting major attention to the production of folding 

 chairs, of which 300 to 400 a day are being turned out. One contract 

 calls for 30,000 chairs, which are being made for the Acme Chair Com- 

 pany of Be<l Wing, Minn., the factory of which was burned last December. 



The Kewaunee Manufacturing Company of Kewaunee. Wis., which 

 specializes in seating and similar equipment for schools, colleges, theaters, 

 etc., has been obliged to add a night shift at least for a month or six weeks 

 in order to All Bpeclflcations. The company has beeu able to operate its 

 plant at capacity without interruption for the last year and has business 

 enough on the books to mnintain such schedules until the close of the 

 .year and longer. 



The Howling Alley Builders Company of Milwaukee has recently beeu 

 incorporated with a capital stock of $40,000 by Charles A. Wendt, Fred 

 Wcndt, ,Ir., and Ilattie Wendt, members of the Wendt Billiard Manufac- 

 turing Company, 70,'> Thirtieth street, Milwaukee. The concern Is widely 

 known as a maker of Idlliard and pool tables, cabinets, cases, etc.. and 

 the new concern will develop a rapidly growing business in building 

 bowling alleys and etjuipment. 



The Northern Sash & Door Company of Hawkins, Wis,, is putting the 

 finishing touches on its new mill and factory, which will be ready to com- 

 mence operations about December 1. The main building is 70 by 170 

 feet and thi- dry kiln 36 by 40 feet. Jens Jesdahl, formerly of Bhillips, 

 Wis., is president and manager. 



The Kissel Motor Car Company of Hartford, Wis., has recently reopened 

 its woodworking shops, which were closed for some time, due to the con- 

 ditions in the automobile industry. The body shop has enlarged its staff 

 of workers as well. 



Charles P. Hazeltine, a pioneer lumber operator in the Wisconsin River 



valley and banker of Wausau and Schotield, ilied recently at his home in 

 Ripon. Wis., at the age of 85 years. With I)r. William Schofleld, Mr. 

 Hazeltine in 1870 established a sawmill, planing and shingle mill at 

 Schofleld, which In 1883 was sold to the Brooks & Ross I>uml)er Company, 

 which is still operating the plant. He was a native of New York state 

 and served through the Civil war. 



Henry P'ord and son of Detroit, who, within the past year, organized the 

 Michigan Lumber, I,and and Iron Company, with headquarters at Iron 

 Mountain. Mich., and built a large sawmill and planing mill, are starting 

 work on another unit of this large plant, which consists of an automobile 

 body shop. This is learned through the award of a contract for furnish- 

 ing the structural steel for this building (o the WordenAllen Company of 

 Milwaukee. The new sawmill will furnish practically the entire supply 

 of hardwoods and other lumber, material and stock used in the Tord auto- 

 mobile and tractor industries and will feed the new body factory at Iron 

 Mountain as well as the main and branch plants In Detroit and other 

 cities. 



The Cadillac Washing Machine Company of Chicago, which recently 

 absorbed the Oden Machine Company of the same city, is negotiating for 

 the plant of the former Clinton Creamery Supply Company at Clinton, Wis., 

 as a branch plant. It is a $500,000 corporation and has outgrown its 

 Chicago factory. Clinton capital will take a financial interest to secure 

 the industry. The Cadillac company has several important contracts, 

 among them one from the Romona Trading Corporation of San Francisco, 

 i-alling for 2,500 machines a year and involving about .$200,000. E. A. 

 Ri'inman and H. D. Payne are the princi[)al olh<'ers. 



The Hardwood Market 



CHICAGO 



There has lieen a further improvement in the tone of the Chicago hard- 

 wood market duting the past 15 days. Reports coming from Memphis of 

 oak and gum items sold for substantial advances have added confidence to 

 the local sellers, though they have not been selling a great deal of flooring 

 oak on this particular market. The furniture industry continues to take 

 considerable stock, though the orders are still of conservative size. Further 

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