Marcb 10, 1919 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



41 



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ICZIL 



RED GUM y 



lOOM' 4/4 No. 1 Com. 



PLAIN 



12M' 8/4 FAS 



PLAIN 



3M' 8/4 No. 1 Com. 



PLAIN 



lOOM' 4/4 No. 1 Com. 



QUARTERED 



15M' 8/4 FAS 



QUARTERED 



8M' 8/4 No. 1 Com. 



QUARTERED 



IVe have the above amounts on 

 hand in dry stock, manufactured 

 on our own band mills, and can 

 make 



PROMPT SHIPMENT 



MILLER LUMBER CO. 



MARIANNA. ARK. 



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ticius in tbe viciriity ol i.raini \ jcw. Wis., uill iijh> I lie siuiiig and summer 

 season, due to the unfavorable conditions existing during the greater part 

 of the regular winter season. The company is short of men and has asked 

 employment offices in a numher of large cities to furnish additional labor. 



The Sawyer-Goodman Company, Marinette, Wis., has acquired about 

 seventeen miles of the trackage and right-of-way of the Wisconsin & 

 Michigan Railroad, which is being dismantled. The purchase will enable 

 the Sawyer-Goodman interests to reach liy rail a large tract of timber 

 which will be logged during the coming two or three years to supply the 

 main sawmill in Marinette. The company has completed logging opera- 

 tions near Crystal Falls, Mich., which covered a period of ten years. The 

 large crew will be shifted to extensive holdings near Sagola, Mich., where 

 the company owns a sawmill, acquired last year and since greatly improved 

 and enlarged. 



The MacDonald-Krause Lumber Company, Ehinelander, Wis., has been 

 incorporated for the purpose of specializing in northern hardwoods and 

 dealing in all kinds of lumber and forest products. Offices have been 

 opened in the Hiljerman building at Ehinelander. C. A. MacDonald is 

 president and Harry H. Krause secretary. Until April 1 Mr. MacDonald 

 will remain in his position with the C. C. Collins Lumber Company at 

 Ehinelander. 



The Fraser Lumber & Manufacturing Company, Appleton, Wis., has 

 opened a branch .sales office and distributing station at Nichols, a new 

 station on the division which the Wisconsin & Northern Eailroad has con- 

 structed from Shawano, Wis., south to Appleton, which is now the terminal. 



The Eissell Lumber Company, Eliinelauder, Wis., is engaged in the work 

 of greatly enlarging and improving the former properties of the Stolle 

 Lumber & Veneer Company at Tripoli, Wis., which were acquired by the 

 Bissell interests a year or more ago. A new planing mill was completed 

 and placed in operation late in January. It is equipped with an American 

 No. 65 planer and a MacDonald resaw, and a Yates unit will be installed 

 at once, together with a new Woods machine and a Greenlee rip table. 

 The new sawmill is rapidly nearing completion. The equipment includes 

 a new Murra.v resaw, a 20-foot trimmer, and a new edger and lath mill. 

 The veneer mill has been entirely overhauled and two new boilers have 

 been installed, giving a battery of four to, run the saw and veneer mill. 

 The company is employing from 80 to 100 men in woods operations and 

 uses two steam log haulers. The input by the end of the season is expected 

 to reach 12,000,000 feet. 



The A. H. Stange Lumber Company. Merrill, Wis., according to reports 

 from the North, is preparing to establish a sawmill operation at Star I^ake. 

 Wis., in the vicinity of which town the company has extensive timber hold- 



ing.s, .^lai- LaliC mill- was a piuiiiainii iiuul'-.- in \\ iscniisin lumlier liroduc- 

 tion, but of late years no operations have been carried on. The old sawmill 

 at this point, the reports say, will be replaced with a new plant, since it 

 will require from fifteen to. twenty years to exhaust the supply of timber. 



The Lawson Air Transportation Company, Milwaukee, has been organ- 

 ized with $25,000 capital by Alfred W. Lawson, founder of the Lawson 

 Aircraft Company, Green Bay, Wis., which he served as vice-president and 

 general manager. The purpose of the new concern is to build a new type 

 of bi-plane for passenger and express service in intercity traffic, at first 

 between Milwaukee and Chicago. The first craft is being built by Mr. 

 Lawson and ten experts from the Green Bay plant at the factory of the 

 Cream City Sash & Door Company, Milwaukee. 



The -Vppleton Hub & Spoke Company, Appleton, Wis., has encountered 

 some delay in the construction of its new mill, replacing the plant recently 

 destroyed by fire, but hopes to be able to resume operations by April 1 or 5. 



The Wisconsin Shipbuilding & Navigation Company, organized nearly a 

 year ago b.y prominent Milwaukee business men, and having an authorized 

 capital of ,115,000,000, has completed arrangements for the establishment 

 of plant and yards at Kewaunee, Wis., on Lake Michigan, where citizens 

 have provided a forty-acre site on the inner harbor and agreed to invest 

 .?100,000. The Thomas Engineering Company, 133 Liberty street, New 

 York, has been engaged to desi,gn and supervise the construction of the 

 plant, which will involve an initial investment of about $400,000. Among 

 the buildings will be a sawmill, 50x100, and a joiner shop, 50x150 feet. 

 J. W. Barber, Milwaukee, is secretary. 



The late Isaac Stephen-son, Marinette, prominent lumber operator and 

 at one time United States senator, left a personal estate valued at $2,899,- 

 375 in an appraisal recently filed in the probate court at Marinette. This 

 does not include the Stephenson Trust, organized in 1916 and having an 

 estimated value of about $2,500,000. The personal estate includes princi- 

 pally stock in the N. Ludlngton Company, numbering 3590 shares, valued 

 at .$556,450 ; Stephenson Land & Lumber Company, 3000 shares, $420,000, 

 and stock in banks at Marinette, Milwaukee, Chicago, Menominee, Mich., 

 and other cities. 



, Michael Corry, Sr., a pioneer of the Menominee river lumber district, died 

 at his home in Marinette, Wis., gn February 22, at the age of eighty-four 

 years. He was a contemporary of the late Isaac Stephenson. Mr. Corry 

 left an extensive estate. 



Carl Blumenthal, secretary and manager of the Ossit Bros. Company, 

 Milwaukee, manufacturer of church furniture, carved goods, etc., was killed 

 by a train on February 27, while returning to Milwaukee from a business 

 trip. It is believed he may have fallen from a coach. 



