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sivo at tho outsot, it is the bost paving material on tlic niarl<ot. Tlie city 

 ot Milwaultee laid 50,333 yards of croosotod bloel; pavemi'nt during l'.ll'i, 

 according to statistics compiled. Tliis material was used on tlie principal 

 llioroughfare. Grand avenue, wliere other Iiinds of paving material have 

 been used with poor results in previous years. 



,Iosi"pli Assenmachor of Hartford announces the opening of a box factory 

 in connection with his planing mill at 343 Branch street. He will manu- 

 facture various kinds of boxes and cheese molds. 



The Xliller-Olcolt Lumber Company of Cumberland Is putting In a 

 surfacer machine, matcher, siding saw and a rip saw, to l>e operated hy 

 power from a gasoline engine, and will soon have the planing mill in 

 operation. 



Kitzgil)bon Brothers of Monroe have awarded a contract for the erection 

 of an addition to their carriage factory. It will be of brick, three-story, 

 and measure 2G by 60 feet, costing $5,000. 



The Curtis & Yale Company of Wausau has disposed of its No. 2 plant 

 to H. E. McEachron. The plant was formerly used in the manufacture 

 of wood products and screen goods until the quarters were moved to the 

 TOain i)lant on Clinton street. Since that time the plant has biou UM>\ 

 liut it is said that some new industry will soon occupy it. 



Sawmills at Oconto are being shut down for the season, as usual. The 

 Holt Lumber Company finished sawing at its mill and work was immo 

 diatfly started on overhauling the machimry and preparing for another 

 year's run to Iiegin after the first ot the new year. 



A large transaction, involving $300,000 worth of stock in the Phoenix 

 Chair Company of Sheboygan has been consummated with the purchase 

 of the stock of the estates of T. M. BlacjkstocK and Mead by A. C. Hahu, 

 treasurer of the chair company. Tho concern operates one of the largest 

 cliair factories in the country and was founded by the late T. M. Black- 

 slock, who held the majority of the stock. The sale was made to settle 

 the estate of the late Mr. Blackstock. Mr. Hahn. the new owner, started 

 with the concern as a boy and he assisted Mr. Blackstock in developing 

 the business, later becoming treasurer. Francis Williams, representing the 

 Mead interests, has been president since Mr. Blackstock's death. The 

 Phoenix company is .Sheboygan's pioneer manufacturing institution, and 

 its plant, located near the North-Western passenger station, is one of the 

 largest in the city. During the past year the plant has been further 

 enlarged by the construction of a large brick warehouse. 



The plant of the Great Northern Pail Company at Gillett was destroyed 

 l)y fire on December 5. The fire, of unknown origin, started in one of the 

 dry room departments at an early hour of the morning and had gained 

 such headway before the Are department arrived that the flames could 

 not be gotten under control. The stock and adjacent warehouses were 

 saved. The factory and machinery are a total loss, estimated $17,000, 

 l>ut are covered by insurance. As the plant included an electric lighting 

 plant which furnished the lights for the town, business was for a tinic 

 suspended. Smith & Murphy of Green Bay, principal owners, will rebuild 

 at once, replacing the destroyed structure with a modern one. 



Alex E. McDdnald, aged seventy-three, millionaire lumberman and banker 

 of Chippewa Falls, died from hardening of the arteries after an illness 

 of several years, on December 17. He was interested in several lumber 

 companies and president of the Lumbermen's bank. One son, A. McDonald 

 of Portland, Ore., survives. 



The Albrecht .Manufacturing Company of Kew-aunee is having a new 

 lumber shed erected in its yards east of the main factory. It will have 

 dimensions of 52 by 100 feet, with concrete foundation and be a double 

 deck, metal clad structure, with windows the entire length of the roof. 

 The Kewaunee Manufacturing Company is also erecting a large addition. 

 Melchior Eichert. a well-known retired lumberman of Wausau. died in 

 that city after a lingering illness, at the age of seventy-eight years. He 

 at one time conducted a sawmill near Rib Mountain, 'jut retired from 

 the lumber business fifteen years ago. He was a native of Germany, and 

 came to Marathon county thirty-three years ago. Besides his wife one 

 daughter survives him. 



Louis Rueping. president of the Fond du Lac Table Manufacturing 

 Compan.v, head of several other large industries and prominent in local 

 financial and business circles, died at his home in that city following a 

 stroke of apoplexy at the age of seventy-four years. Mr. Rueping was 

 Ijorn in Germany and has been interested In Fond du Lac Ijusiness affairs 

 since 1854. He is survived by his wife, four daughters and one son. 



T«'am track storage charges, which had been added to demurrage charges. 

 according to certain railroad rules, will be done away with in Milwaukee 

 on all railroad lines, according to well informed authorit.v. The rule is 

 important to lumbermen who ship logs and lumber by rail. The rate of 

 $1 a da.v demurrage per car and $2 a day per ear for team track storage 

 has t>een in force. The shippers held that this was in effect tripling 

 the demurrage charges and made a vigorous protest. Tlie rule caused so 

 much trouble and so many complications that the railroads decided to 

 discontinue it after January 1. The track storage item will be dropped, 

 which will mean a very material saving to shippers. The plan to extend 

 the rule to state shipments will no doubt be dropped also. 



The Keith & Hlles Lumber Company of Crandon is in negotiations 

 with Messrs. Hines and Bennett, government Indian agents, for the sal< 

 of 2,500 acres of cut-over lands just east of Crandon upon which tin' 

 government will locate remnants of the tribes of Pottawottomie Indians. 

 now scattered over Wisconsin and Micliigan. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission has handed down an order direct- 

 ing the Northwestern Railroad Company to make reparation to the T!uited 



(Leading Manufacturers) 



Our Corps of Inspectors 



Intelligent! Highly Trained! 



Conscientious! 

 is assurance that you will get 

 what your order calls for 

 when you buy Gum from us 



Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Company 



Cape Girardeau, Missouri 



Quartered Red Gum 



Plain and Quartered Gum, Two Years on Sticks 

 4/4", 5, 4 ", 6/4" and 8/4" Thicknesses 



3"»No. 1 Common 

 and Belter 



Soft Elm 



Bone 

 Dry 



Mark H. Brown Lumber Company 



Hardwood Manufacturers Mounds, Ark. 



Eleven Miles West of Memphis, Tenn, 



MILLER LUMBER CO. 



Marianna, Arkansas 



We offer for shipment during the next six 

 months, at the rate of a car or two per 

 week, 25 to 50 cars No. 1 and No. 2 Common 

 Gum SIS 9 16" thick. We are also in posi- 

 tion to furnish for prompt shipment 4 4 to 

 8/4 1st & 2nd and No. 1 Common Red Gum. 



YOUR INQUIRIES SOLICITED 



All band sawn stocic. good percer 

 equipment backed by 25 years' prac 

 of proper handling of your orders, 

 wood lumber and box shooks. 



age 14 and 16' lengths. Modern 



