December 10. 191S 



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group. The Ashland mill operated onl.v a day shift during the past sea- 

 son, as in 1917, due largely to the acute shortage of men which prevented 

 the maintenance of a full complement of a night shift. 



The Robbins Lumber Company, Rhinelander, is reported to be prepar- 

 ing to make extensive improvements in its planing mill during the winter 

 and early spring. 



The Phoenix Chair Company. Sheboygan, has broiien ground for a brick 

 and mill factory and warehouse addition, four stories high. 



The Xew Dells Lumber Company, Eau Claire, resumed the operation of 

 Its big sawmill and planing mill on December 2, after a short recess dur- 

 ing which important improvements and repairs were made to the entire 

 plant. The company is anticipating a big input of logs during the coming 

 winter and plans to carry on logging operations during the summer of 

 1919 in order to insure a full supply. Prospects for business during the 

 new year are regarded as very bright by officials of the company. 



The Lawson Aircraft Corporation. Green Bay. has completed arrange- 

 ments for continuing the manufacture of complete airplanes and supplies 

 for commercial purposes as soon as its government contracts for military 

 requirements have been fllled. However, the company probably will not 

 carry out its original plan of establishing a large assembling and testing 

 plant in or near Milwaukee, as proposed during the period of the war. 



The Park Falls Lumber Company, Park Falls, began operations for the 

 winter season on December 2, with a larger force than it was able to 

 collect at any time since a year ago. According to officials of the com- 

 pany, the' labor situation Is relatively much easier, due to the release of 

 men from other industries and the attraction of good wages at the mills 

 of the North. 



The Anchor Shipbuilding Company. Washburn, organized several months 

 ago with a capital stock of $500,000, is proceeding with the establishment 

 of a shipyard on Chequamegon l)ay, and is now engaged in preliminary 

 construction work. The company regards the prospect for business ex- 

 cellent in spite of the cessation of hostilities. 



A report from Glidden says that logging and lumber companies in 

 that vicinity now are offering $5p per month as wages for common woods 

 work and $55 tor sawyers and teamsters, providing the men will work 

 twenty-six consecutive days. A bonus of $50 per month is offered if the 

 laborer remains fflfty-two days. In ease the men fail to work twenty-six 

 days, the wages are reduced .$5 a month. It is said that all of the larger 

 employers of woods labor have adopted this schedule. 



The G. W. Jones Lumber Company, Wabeno, ended one of the most 

 active season's runs on November 30. after having Men in continuous 

 operation night and day since January 7. The mill will resume work im- 

 mediately after the holidays and it is expected to duplicate this year's 

 record. 



The Hardwood Market 



< CHICAGO > 



Chicago is still marking time as tar as hardwood sales are concerned. 

 The trade is watching with interest the .development of building permits 

 for construction, a good deal of which will be under way during the winter 

 months. For the most part, building already arranged for is large con 

 struction. The smaller building, such as dwellings, apartment houses, etc., 

 will probably not get well under way until the spring months bring more 

 favorable building weather. The woodworking trade as a whole is taking 

 more lumber now than had been expected, and members of the Chicago 

 fraternity appreciate that it is altogether logical to expect slow demand 

 under present conditions. Elaborate and complete inventories must be 

 accomplished before any general expansion can be expected. 



=-< BUFFALO >• 



Vestal Lumber 

 & Mfg. Company 



INCORPORATED 



POPLAR 



100,000 4/4" Com. 



150,000 6/4" Com. 



25.000 3" Com. 



20,000 3" 2 Com. 

 200,000 4/4" 2 Com. 

 100,000 6/4" 2 Com. 



OAK 



10,000 3" 1&:2 Plain Red 



50,000 2" Com. Plain Red 



50,000 6/4" 1&2 Plain White & Red 



50,000 4/4" 1&2 Plain White 



35,000 4/4" 1x2 Quartered White Oak 



75,000 4/4" 2C Plain Red & White 



ALL BAND— GOOD WIDTHS— DRY 



KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE 



BAND MILLS AT 

 VESTAL -^iSfil^Sir FONDE,KY. 



The Buffalo hardwood yards are finding the inventory season interfer- 

 ing with the purchase of lumber and not much increase in demand is 

 looked for until after the first of the year. The demand has been rather 

 light since the war ended as many plants have been getting back to a 

 peace basis. Optimism is felt as to the probability of good business for 

 a series of years, but just when such an improvement will start is a 

 matter of opinion. An immense export trade is counted on in hardwoods 

 and other lumber, in order to replace the destroyed buildings abroad. 

 Furniture manufacturers^ who have done little for some months, are 

 planning to resume operations in a more extensive way as soon as pos- 

 sible. Big contracts in the building trade are pending and will be carried 

 out If the money market permits. 



Lake receipts of lumber at Buffalo during November were 4,109,1.35 

 feet, as compared with 4.935,000 feet in the same month of last year. 

 Low grade stocks have been coming in extensively, bu the general lake 

 trade in hardwoods has not been big. 



Buffalo building permits for November showed a gain over the same 

 month of last year. The total costs were $609,000. as against $504,000. 



All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if You 



Have you seen any better Walnut log» than theief 



THEY all grew right in Indiana where 

 hardwoods have always held the 

 choicest farm lands. The best growth of 

 timber as well as the best yield of wheat 

 comes from good soil. The soundness of 

 the log-ends shows that they fed on the 

 fat of the land. My 



Indiana Oak 



comes from the same soil 



CHAS. H. BARNABY 



Greencastle, Indiana 



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