HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The Northwestern Lumber Conipniiy Is rushlug logging work In Its camps 

 ill the Hannibal country. The camps will cut from 35,000,000 to 40,000,000 

 i.'.f this yen:-, .-onsisting of hnrilwoort, hemlock and pine timber. Thi ; 

 .lit will keep the big mill at Stanley going all summer and will not ueees 

 -.late so much summer logging as was done last .vear. The company 



■ nstructed twelve miles of new railroad for summer logging last season 

 L-.iil many logs were cut and hauled to the mill. 



The Johnson Creek Lumber Company has finished Its timber cutting in 

 I hi' vicinity c{ Knowlton and sold the sawmill to the Vetter Manufactur 

 I [if Company of Stevens Point. The Vetter company has purchased up 

 wards of 1,600 acres of timberland and a forty-acre mill site In Maratheiii 

 .'"unty on the Little Kau Claire river. The sawmill will be removed to 

 ihat place, where there are about 10,000,000 feet of hardwood and hem 

 lock. Tl.i w-ik of moving will not be completed until fall, so that sawing 

 ol'cratlons will not be started until next winter. 



With the close of the driving season of 1913-1014, the Menominee River 

 Hiioni Company of Marinette has completed Its forty-sixth year with ;i 

 record of having bandied almost 11,000,000,000 feet of timber duriuf; 

 tliat time. The drives on the Menominee will not continue for many niotr 

 years, but Marinette sawmills will carry on their operations with liarci 

 wi'od brought by rail after the wind-up of river operations. 



Vh(! Kiiukaura Lumber & Manufacturing Company will start up in 

 Hi' new plant at Kaukauna, which replaced the structure destroyed bj 

 lire a year ago. The machinery has been removed from the temporary 

 structure and placed in the new mill. The machinery is driven by indi- 

 vidual electric motors. The building itself Is of modern construction. 

 Ill ing made of concrete, steel and brick. Windows are provided on three 

 sides, steam heating Is provided throughout the entire structure, auto 

 inatic dust collectors and an automatic sprinkler system have lieen in- 

 stalled for lir.' luotection. 



The sawmill at Xorth Craudon which was purchased by .T. A. Walsh 

 fiom H. L. Koe about a year ago has been sold to Julius Monnetto of 

 I'larson, Langlade county. Mr. Monette will remove the mill to a site 

 mar Pearson and operate it there. It has a dally capacity of 30,000 feet. 



Charles W. Fish of Elcho has made a large cut of timber this season 

 and expects to bring in about 10,000,000 feet of logs. During January, 

 wlien many loggers were taking their men out of the woods, Mr. Fisb 

 fceiit his entire crew at work with the idea that there would surely be 

 some sleighing this winter. Now that the snow has come he has been 

 hauling his cut and will complete the work shortly. 



The Shawano Land- & Timber Company is said to be contemplating 

 «rectlng a sawmill near Rice Lake to work up the timber which it owns 

 in that locality. This winter camps have been established near Crandon 

 and Elcho. The proposed mill near Rice Lake will do away with long 

 hauls of the timber to a sawmill. 



The Steven & Jarvls Lumber Company of Eau Claire has purchased 

 Mid is now shipping 500,000 feet of oak, basswood and maple lumber at 

 i;iehland Center. The lumber will be used in the manufacture of furniture 

 iiiid interior finish. The company has also purchased 3,000,000 feet of 

 standing timber at Ash Ridge, Soldier's Grove, La Farge and Tevera. 

 Tl'.ls timber will be sawed and shipped this .year. 



The new Lincoln Box Corapan,v of Merrill has closed contracts for fur- 

 nishing the necessary machinery for the new plant. The machinery will 

 be completed about the time the new plant is completed, so that work 

 van be started immediately. J. G. Wenzel is president and George Mis- 

 tcrek secretary. 



The Kenfield-Laiuoreaux Lumber Company has started both day and 

 night operations at the sawmill In Washburn. Bolt material has been 



mlng in at such a rapid rate that it is practically necessary to run the 

 - wmill full time. 



Logging contractors of northern Wisconsin are liable to great losses 

 unless snow falls and remains on the ground for another month. The 

 winter's cut is about half completed and the roads are bare, making haul- 

 ing Impossible, according to reports from Cable, Wis. Half of the logs 

 are lying where they are cut and If they are not taken out this winter 

 they will rot. The swamps In which they are lying are Inaccessible unless 

 snow covers the ground. This condition is said to be prevailing In nearly 

 all of the fifty camps in the section near Cable. 



The Randolph Wagon Works at Randolph recently closed a most sue 

 cessful year. It is one of the big Industries of Randolph and affords 

 employment to about forty employes. During the past year the concern 

 shipped 3,800 wagons and paid out about .f25,000 in wages. 



.Moving pictures of lumbering operations featuring a large steam hauler 

 A re taken recently at camp No. "i, near Cornell, Mich., of the I. .Stephen- 

 ■ n Company of Marinette. It Is at this camp that a large steam hauler 

 IS used to haul the logs from the. woods to the Escanaba & Lake Superior 

 i;allroad. 



Six heavily loaded sleighs, composing a train which a steam caterpillar 

 log hauler was hauling down hill recently, wrecked the caterpillar of the 

 Holt Lumber Company at its camp fourteen miles northwest of Lake- 

 wi^od. Tlie (aterpiUar was demolished by an avalanche of logs from the 

 log sleighs attached thereto. The big engine became unmanageable about 

 half way down the hill, causing the logs to break away and crash Into the 

 hauler. No one was Injured. 



The new mechanics' institute of the University of Wisconsin at Madi- 

 son will be opened this month. Fifteen scholarships, representing twelvi' 

 trades, will be distributed throughout the state. There will be offered 



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