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HARDWOOD RECORD 



November 25. 1921 



CHICAGO OFFICE 



N. S. JOHNSON 



39 W. ADAMS ST. 



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Paul D. Durant and Bernard V. Brady, members of a Milwaukee law flim 

 with offices in the Wells Building, 120 Wisconsin Street. It is assumed 

 that they represent members of the John Schroeder Lumber Company of 

 Milwaukee, which operates large mills in Ashland and conducts extensive 

 logging on the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior. However, for the pres- 

 ent no definite information will be given out in regard to the enterprise. 

 The Standard Manufacturing Company of Appleton, started work about 

 the middle of November on the construction of its new sawmill. A new 

 power house addition doubling the size of its boiler room is being com- 

 pleted and a new smokestack is being provided. Contracts have been 

 placed for practically all of the machinery and equipment. The new mill 

 is expected to be ready to start operations about the middle of December. 

 The Combination Door & Screen Company of Fond du Lac is taking bids 

 for the construction of a three-story factory addition, 50 by 50 feet in 

 size, with concrete foundations, brick walls and mill floors, estimated to 

 cost between $35,000 and $40,000 with new equipment now being pur- 

 chased. The plant is located at lSO-190 Buggies Street. H. J. Schmidt is 

 general manager. 



The Stoughton Wagon Company of Stoughton, sustained an estimated 

 loss of from $200,000 to $300,000 by fire which on November 14 almost 

 totally destroyed its motor truck department shop, a brick and mill build- 

 ing which was part of the original plant and turned over for motor truck 

 assembling about two years ago. It had been intended to erect a modern 

 factory building next spring to accommodate the growing motor truck 

 business, and as the result of the fire, it is likely that work will begin 

 immediately. In the meantime the truck operation will be carried on so 

 far as practicable in the wagon and sleigh factories, which are working 

 only part time. Twenty completed trucks and about an equal number in 

 process were ruined beyond salvage. Nearly all of the equipment of the 

 truck shop will require replacement. Other buildings of the plant were 

 saved. The total insurance, carried on general form, is $1,087,500, and 

 the loss is figured about 25 per cent. 



The Independent Truck Body Corporation of Milwaukee is a new cor- 

 poration organized with $30,000 capital stock to manufacture bodies, cabs 

 and tops for motor trucks. 



The Moore & Galloway Company of Fond du Lac has decided to under- 

 take logging operations this winter on a scale about equal to that of nor- 

 mal years. This is another of the large operators in the North which in 

 recent weeks has been so encouraged by improvement in the demand that 

 activities are being put back on a nearly normal scale. The Moore-Galloway 

 interests have about 2,000,000 feet in the woods left over from 19201921 

 w^inter woods work near Elderon, in the vicinity of Wittenberg. In 

 addition there are about 5,000,000 feet of standing timber which it expects 

 to log this and next winter. Two camps with 150 men have been re-estab- 

 lished. All of the logs will be shipped by rail to the main mill in Fond 

 du Lac. 



Both of the principal owners and officers of the Priestley Lumber Com- 

 pany, 612 Railway Exchange Building, Milwaukee, a large wholesale lum- 

 ber concern, were married during the past month. On Saturday, October 

 29, Glenn W. Priestley, president, was married to Miss Berenice Mack of 

 Stevens Point, Wis. On Wednesday, November 2, Eugene Edwards Wal- 

 lace, secretary and treasurer, was married to Miss .\lice Mary Hlchardson 

 of Sioux City, la. 



It is reported that Mettefs Bros. Company of Antigo. Wis., is planning 

 to start work shortly on the construction of a new sawmill which will 

 cost about $50,000 with equipment and machinery. The building will be 

 00x180 feet In size. 



The E. Z. Box Company has been organized by Marshfield and Owen 

 capital to engage in the manufacture of cheese boxes and similar packages 

 and containers, especially a design recently patented by E. Zeidler, office 

 manager of the Blodgett Cheese Company of Marshfield, after whom the 

 new company is named. Members of the Owen Lumber Company have 

 become heavily interested. A new factory is under constrtiction at Owen 

 and is expected to be ready to start operations early in December. Officers 

 of the new company, all resident in Owen, are: President, G. E. Anderson ; 

 vice-president, Earle W. Kidd ; secretary and treasurer, H. M. Wollum. 



The Kneeland-McLurg Lumber Company of Phillips, has recently opened 

 its new sawmill at Morse, In Ashland county, Wisconsin. 



John I. Evans, president of the Evans-Lee Lumber Company of Eau 

 Claire, Wis., passed away recently after a brief illness, at the age of 59 

 years. Mr. Evans was bom in New York and went to Eau Claire in 1888, 

 becoming a prominent figure In the lumber industry of northwestern Wis- 

 consin. He was a Knight Templar, 32 degree Mason and Mystic Shriner. 



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BALTIMORE 



The tract of approximately nine and a half acres on the Philadelphia, 

 Baltimore and Washington railroad, between Calverton and Garrison 

 roads, this city, which was recently purchased by Gilbert Bros. & Co., has 

 been taken over by the new owners, and the work of fitting it up for the 

 uses of the corporation, which is engaged In the lumber and mill work 

 business, is to start without delay. A sash, door and blind factory, dry 

 kilns and other structures, including an ofiice building, are to be erected, 

 and other facilities of the most modern sort will be provided. The com- 

 pany will concentrate its business there from the present place at East 

 Falls and Eastern avenues, and two or three other locations now occu- 

 pied in the Eastern section of the city. 



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