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HARDWOOD RECORD 



November 25, 1918 



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' THEO. FATHAUER CO. | 



1428 CHERRY AVENUE | 



Telephone Diversey 1 824 | 



HARDWOOD LUMBER i 



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CHICAGO. ILL. 



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CAR AND CARGO LOTS 



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which brought out the fact that the trade is looking forward to being 

 able to pick better labor tor about the same wage, but not that there 

 will be any decline of importance in labor for some time to come due to 

 the long time required for demobilization of the army, and high food 

 prices that will be maintained while the United States is compelled to 

 feed a large percentage of Europe. 



It was the opinion of those present that the food demand will hold up 

 the demand for lumber from the box manufacturers. The furniture trade 

 and auto trade are expected to become active about the first of the year, 

 and the musical instrument trade is picking up. Building should start 

 in the spring and should aid gum. quartered oak. and other interior woods, 

 and poplar siding almost at once. 



=-< ARKANSAS >.= 



The receiver for the Bryant Lumber Company has filed a suit in the 

 United District Court at Little Rock against the Pourche River Lumber 

 Company and the Fourche River Valley & Indian Territory Company, in 

 which a judgment for $818,504 is asked. The complaint alleges that the 

 Fourche River Lumber Company built a tap line railroad through a gap 

 in the mountain range near the towns of Bigelow and Fourche, in Perry 

 County, Ark., where the mills are located, for the purpose of effecting rail 

 connection with the timber lands lying on the opposite side of the range 

 and belonging to both of the companies, and that by this means the 

 Fourche River Lumber Company forced the Bryant Lumber Company into 

 the hands of a receiver. It is stated that the land in the gap between the 

 mountains was the property of the Bryant Lumber Company, the Fourche 

 River Lumber Company obtaining a right of way through it, and that 

 after the road was constructed, the operation of the road as a common 

 carrier was denied, shipment of lumlier other than that belonging to the 

 Fourche River Lumber Company was also denied. A conspiracy between 

 the two defendants is alleged to have been entered into for the purpose 

 of forcing the Bryant Lumber Company, a competitor of the Fourche River 

 Lumber Company, out of business, and that the end was attained by mak- 

 ing It necessary for the Bryant Lumber Company to have Its affairs placed 

 in the hands of a receiver. The suit was based upon the federal anti- 

 trust law. 



=-< WISCONSIN >.= 



To facilitate the reversion of Milwaukee industry from a war to a peace 

 basis, the Milwaukee Association of Commerce has created a "reconstruc- 

 tion council," composed of forty-eight of the leading manufacturers, busi- 

 ness and professional men of the city. The council already is at work 



and doing some constructive pioneering work In behalf of employers and 

 employes as well. The general lumber trade is represented on the council 

 by Fred J. Schroeder of the John Schroeder Lumber Company. 



The death is announced of Herman G. Foster of the well-known firm of 

 Foster Brothers of Tomahawk, Wis. Mr. Foster was born on June 11, 

 1886. and his death occurred November 3. 



The Holt Hardwood Company, Oconto, which some time ago took over 

 the entire interests of the W. E. Williams Company, hardwood flooring, 

 etc.. has made public its intention to greatly enlarge its facilities, follow- 

 ing the close of the war. The sawmill department will first be improved 

 by the installation of a hot pond and much new machinery and equipment. 

 Other departments also will be increased in size and new lines of produc- 

 tion added. The plant has been running at capacity during the war 

 period on government flooring orders and also handled a vast amount of 

 dry-kilning work, some of which came from as far as Kentucky and 

 Tennessee and was received and shipped in timber form. 



The Wisconsin Toy Manufacturing Company. Milwaukee, has been or- 

 ganized with a capital stock of ,'54,000 to manufacture and deal in toys, 

 wooden and metal novelties, etc. The incorporators are Royal Siedentopf, 

 E. A. Stein and Oscar Martin. 



The Four Wheel Drive Auto Company, Clintonville, one of the largest 

 government contractors for military trucks in this country, recently took 

 over virtually the entire capacity of the Silent Washer Company of that 

 city as a department to provide boxes and crating for shipping trucks. 

 The Silent company, which manufactures domestic washing machines, 

 expects to resume operations on a full schedule within a short time, 

 federal restrictions on material having been lifted. 



The restriction by sawmills at Antigo of all wood waste and refuse to 

 their own consumption because of the fuel shortage has resulted In the 

 granting of increased rates for commercial current to the Antigo Electric 

 Company, by the State Railroad Commission. At a hearing held recently, 

 the company showed that in 1917 it utilized 9,311 tons of sawmill refuse 

 or hog feed ; seventy-flve cords of slabwood, and 1,692 tons of coal. The 

 loss of sources of hog feed has Increased the requirements of coal to 

 approximately 3,600 tons per annum. 



The Garvey & Weyenberg Construction Company, Appleton, a large high- 

 way contracting concern, has arranged to utilize its organization during 

 the coming winter in logging work for sawmill and paper mill companies 

 in the North. Practically its entire force of men will be thus kept intact 

 and much of its equipment will be useful in the woods work. The base 

 of operations will be near Monico, Wis. 



George H. Hipke, manager of the North Western Lumber Company, 

 Stanley, has accepted appointment as a member of the board of trustees 



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