November 25, 1918 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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of the Chippewa county Insane asylum and poor farm. Mr. Hipke's 

 principal duties will be to supervise the business administration. 



The Girard Lumber Company, Dunbar, has completed its season's run, 

 which probably will be the last. The mill has been in continuous opera- 

 tion for more than thirty years. The sawmill will be dismantled and the 

 machinery and equipment shipped to other mills. The planing mill will 

 continue to operate for some time to clean up the supply of raw material 

 now on hand. 



Logging and lumber operators at Wausau are making a vigorous protest 

 against the proposed discontinuance of a short line of the Chicago, 

 Milwaukee & St. Paul from Glandon, Marathon county, southward. Part 

 of the trackage already has been torn up. The line furnished the only 

 feasible means of getting out timber in Hewitt and Easton townships, 

 which still contain a large acreage of standing wood. 



J. F. Vielmeth. assistant general manager of the Porster-Mueller Lum- 

 ber Company, Hlles, was married last week to Miss Florence Armstrong 

 of Kaukauna. Wis. Mr. Vielmeth is one of the best known logging and 

 lumber operators in northeastern Wisconsin. 



The wholesale and retail hardwood trade at Milwaukee looks forward 

 to one of the busiest and most active seasons in history during 1919 be- 

 cause of general abandonment by that time of federal regulations that 

 were imposed in favor of the most urgent war essentials. So far as 

 dwelling construction is concerned, the coming year is expected to be by 

 far the best yet known. Building permits issued in Milwaukee this year 

 will not exceed $5,000,000 in aggregate value, while the best record up 

 to this time has been $16,000,000 in a single year. A huge demand for 

 hardwoods and veneers for musical instruments, furniture and other wood- 

 working industries which have been obliged to run at low speed during 

 the present year also is anticipated. 



The late Orrin H. Ingram of Eau Claire, who passed away recently, left 

 an estate valued at more than $1,000,000. The principal beneficiaries are 

 Erskine B. Ingram and Mrs. Edmund 11. Hayes, son and daughter. Con- 

 gregational church, Sunday school and mission organizations receive he- 

 quests aggregating nearly $40,000, and $15,000 is distributed among the 

 grandchildren. 



The Anchor Ship Building Company of Washburn, organized some time 

 ago. is proceeding with the work of establishing yards and shops despite 

 the close of the war. It is believed that the shipbuilding facilities of the 

 United States will be pressed to capacity for a good many years to come 

 to compensate for the enormous losses of bottoms during the war. Wash- 

 burn capital has come forward handsomely in support of the new in- 

 dustry, there being no inclination to hold back because hostilities have 

 come to an end. 



The Milwaukee Association of Commerce is gathering information among 

 Wisconsin manufacturers in respect to tariff changes. This is lieing done 

 in compliance with request of the foreign trade bureau at Washington. 

 William G. Bruce, general secretary of the Milwaukee organization, ex- 

 presses the belief that the volume of export trade will be considerably 

 reduced unless tariff changes are made to meet the increased cost of labor 

 and materials. He points out that in the chair industry, for instance, 

 Austria and Germany were able before the war to manufacture and ship 

 chairs into Wisconsin at a cost of eight dollars a dozen, while it cost 

 Wisconsin makers eighteen dollars a dozen to produce chairs alone. 



The death of Benjamin F. McMillan of McMillan, Wis., one of the oldest 

 and best known timber and sawmill operators of the North, occurred on 

 November 14. Mr. McMillan succumbed to an attack of pneumonia after 

 an illness of two weeks' duration. He was born at Fort Covington, N. Y.. 

 in 1844, and came to Wisconsin in 1865, becoming connected with logging 

 and lumber interests in Wood County. Later, with his brother, Charles, 

 he established a sawmill in Marathon county. The brothers dissolved 

 partnership in 1878. Benjamin McMillan building a large mill. In 1873, 

 a mill was opened in Marsbfleld and still later a large sawmill community 

 was founded in southeastern Marathon county, and named McMillan. In 

 1890 the Winnebago Furniture Company was established in Fond du Lac, 

 and this still is being managed and directed by Charles McMillan. The 

 interests of the McMillan family are broad and largely concentrated in 

 logging, lumber and woodworking. Mr. McMillan was also extensively 

 Interested in banks. The funeral was held at Stevens Point on Novem- 

 ber 14. 



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Chicago is showing little disposition to try to force the issue on hard- 

 wood sales, being content to wait developments, which appear as very 

 promising. Experience in the past has so conclusively proven the utter 

 impossibility of really accomplishing anything in sales through sacriflcing 

 prices that the responsible element of the local trade is selling very 

 little low-priced stock. While naturally no one expects much progress 

 on the building program so far as residence construction is concerned, all 

 are convinced of a wholesale opening up with the beginning of building 



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