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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Northern Timber 

 Price Record 



ISod — J^t'leL'teil White Hme. luitluns; to 51 per acre. 



lS7(i — Selected Wli'te Pine, nothing to S5 per acre. 



ISSO — Fair White and Norway Pine. SIO to S7 5 

 per acre. Hardwoods, demand light at nominal prices. 



iSyo — Fair White and Norway Pine $2.50 to $S 

 per thousand feet. A better call for hardwoods at 

 higher prices. Light demand for hemlock. 



-l')oo — White and Norway Pine timber S4 to SlO 

 per thousand feet; hardwoods 50 cents to Sl.5u pei 

 thousand, hemlock, 2 5 to 7 5 cents per thousand. 



1910 — White and Norway Pine, grouped as 

 "Northern Pine" S7 to Si 5 per thousand feet: hard- 

 woods §2 to S7; hemlock $1.5o to ?2.50. 



Regardless of when northern timber was bought, it 

 yielded the buyer a good profit. 



The history of northern timber values is being 

 repeated in other sections. 



James D. Lacey & Co. 



Timber land Factors 



Chicago, 111., 1750 McCormick Building 



Portland, Ore., 1107 Spalding Building 



Seattle, Wash., 1009 White Building 



fl Fitzgibbons & Krebs Patent Ele- 

 vated Traveling Derrick propels itself 

 on 28-ft. gauge track. 



^ No guy wires. 



fl Write to O. M. Krebs, Mallory 

 Branch, Memphis, Tenn., or to P. F. 

 Fitzgibbons, Chattanooga, Tenn., for 

 pamphlet fully illustrating and explain, 

 ing the derrick. 



Also ask for list of users. 



aliout throe or fmir weeks ago, entailing a loss of aliout .$"J."i.OOO. witli no 

 iiisiiraiice. The liDilding has been rebuilt and the new machinery will lie 

 installed at once. 



K. II. lOwing. I'li-merly manaiiPr of the K. II. Kwing Lumber Company 

 of Ileber Spiings. .\rli.. whose plant was destroyed by Hie a few weeks 

 aRO, Is now at the liead of a new goneern that will establish a new Industry 

 in thai city. The ni>\v company, composed of Mr. KwInK, Karl Brice and 

 Lewis Thompson, lias recently purchased the old (iardiner gin plant and 

 proposes to convert it into a wagon and implement facttn-y. The new 

 Industry will utilize the almost ini'Xbausllble supply i>f while oak and 

 oilier hardwoods in that section. Tlie machinery for the new plant has 

 been purchased and will be on the ground in a few days, at which time the 

 work (^r installing it will be begun. 



.VcciM'ding to the report of thi' Iiiiled Slalis Cinsus liur.-'an. Arkansas 

 Ir'iids all the states of the fnion In llie prodiiclion of red gum. for the 

 .vear l!)!.". The total number of f<'et for the Tniled Stales is given at 

 (>!I4. 200.000 feet, and Arkansas' part is placed at :ill. 020.000 feet. 



It is said that the movement for the lumbermen's excursion, making a 

 liiiir of .\rkansas and visiting the large mills of the slate, is again to be 

 revived by the .Vrkansas Lumbermen's Club. The plan now is to take the 

 trip in the early spring. President C. .\. Bnshner plans within the next 

 ftnv dSys to appoint a special committee to look into the excursion project 

 and arrange for the week's schedule. This trip will be participated in 

 by both hardwood and yellow pine manufacturers, and through it they 

 expect to gain much information concerning tlie other fellow's method of, 

 opi-rating mills. They wiW also devote a considerable part of their time 

 and attenlion to colonization work and plans for selling cut-over timber- 

 lands. 



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v.. 11. Roderick of .Tuda has purchased the branch lumber yard of Ibe 

 lleddles Lumber Company at Brodhead and will operate it in connection 

 with the yard at Juda. having an assistant at the latter place. 



The Kewaunee ^lannfacturing Company of Kewaunee is erecting a 

 third story to one building and a fourth to another to facilitate the 

 manufacture of furniture and wooden fixtures. 



Peter Kpley Wilson, manager of the St. Louis interests of Knapii. 

 Stout & Company, lumber manufacturers, from 1894 until the business 

 was closed in 1004. died at Menomonie on December 29. He was president 

 of the Wilson Land and Lumber Company, liaving charge of its St. Louis 

 business at the time of his death. He was also connected with the 

 St. Louis Lumber Compan.v. ^Ir. Wilson was a former mayor of Menomo- 

 nie. He was a son of the lale T. B. Wilson. Sr., and a grandson of 

 Capt. William Wilson, founder of Knapp, Stout & Company. He leaves a 

 wife and two children, besides several brothers in business at Menomonie. 

 William F. Rediske. secretar.v-treasurer of the Interior Woodwork Com- 

 pany of Miiwaulcee. has been nominated as candidate for president of the 

 Builders and Traders' Exchange of Milwaukee. The election will be held 

 Tuesday. .January 1.3. 



George Langley. one of the best known lumbermen and loggers in 

 northern Wisconsin, married Miss JIayme Strickland, a prominent ciuli 

 woman and I'ducational worker of Merrill. Mr. and Mrs. Langley will 

 reside in Merrill. 



The Wisconsin Retail Lumber Dealers' Association will hold its conven-i 

 tion at the Hotel \\'isconsin. Jlilwaukee. Februar.v 17 to 19. ilore than 

 live hundred retail lumbermen from all parts of the state are expected. 

 The officers are : Frank Bodden. Horicon. president ; .\lliert Schalier. 

 .Innesville. treasurer, and .\dolph Pfund. Milwaukee, secretary. 



'I'he factor.v of the Schoen & Waiter Company, trunk manufacturers. 

 Milwaukee, was threatened by fire when an ad.|oining structure burned. 

 The lire department saved the plant after a hard fight. 



The Wisconsin Woodworking Company of Two Rivers lias received one 

 of the largest orders for woodenware ever placed in this countr.v. The 

 order covers 57.000 dozen pails to be delivered during 1014- It will 

 require sixty furniture cars to handle the product. The raw material, 

 such as wire, heading material, bottom stock and staves, will require six 

 hundred cars. .T. F, Conant is at the head of the company. 



The Wisconsin & Northern Railroad Company received a new engine at 

 Shawano direct from Schenectadj'. X. Y. The locomotive is larger than 

 any of the present ones, which was necessary on account of the increase 

 in the size of the logging and freight trains. 



'I'lie Northern Casket Compan.v of Fond dii Lac is making improvements 

 which will include the erection of a third story to the wooden portion of 

 the plant, the installation of an automatic sprinkler system to protect the 

 entire structure against fire, and the installation of an automatic dove- 

 tail glue .ioiner. the only machine of its kind in this section. The addition 

 will be fiO by 120 feet and provide 7.200 additional feet of floor space. 

 It is made necessary b.v the increase in the company's trade in solid 

 mnlioganv. Circassian walnut and fine oak cabinets. 



The Northern Floor Surfacer Company of Green Bay has recently per- 

 fected a machine for rubbing baseboards and wainscoting. The floor 

 surfacing machine of the company has met with decided success and the 

 new product will likely find favor. -\ machine has been shipped to 

 Chicago, where it will be used on twenty miles of terrazzo base in the 

 new Cook County hospital. 



The Forest Service station maintained at Wausau by the United States 

 department of agriculture has been closed and the machinery is packed 

 for shipment. The electrical etpiipment. advertised for sale, as noted, has 



