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ucts. l)iiil(Uug materials, etc. The incorporators are C. C. Collins, Madi- 

 son ; Harold C. Collins, Rhinelander, and John R. Ross, Wausau, Wis. 

 Manufacturing operations are carried on at Rhinelander. The new ware- 

 houses and distributing station being established on University avenue 

 at Madison will be ready about March 1. 



The Richter Manufacturing Company of Highland, manufacturing ad- 

 justable gates and other specialties, has incorporated its business under 

 the same style, with a capital stock of .$10,000. Frank H. Wepking and 

 William F. Gabler have acquired a part of the interests of James B. Rich- 

 ter and are planning to double the size of the factory and add several 

 other lines of wooden farm necessities. 



The Flanner-Steger Lumber Company of Blackwell, which owns and 

 operates one of the finest flooring mil'.s in tJie northwest, is increasing its 

 capacity to meet improvement in the demand, prospects for spring and 

 summer also being greatly improved. The mill is receiving about six car- 

 loads of logs a day, consisting of some of the finest maple that has ever 

 been taken out of the Forest County region. 



The Wolf River Lumber Company. Manawa, has engaged Thomas W. 

 Orbison, consulting engineer, S12 College Avenue, Appleton, Wis., to under- 

 take improvements in its power plant estimated to cost $35,000 or more. 

 Work will start about April 15. 



The Standard Manufacturing Company, Appleton, which has just com- 

 pleted the erection and equipment of a new sawmill and other improve- 

 ments to its large woodworking plant, has increased its capital stock 

 from $80,000 to $160,000 to cover the investments. R. O. Schmidt is presi- 

 dent, and Elmer Root, secretary. 



The John Schroeder Lumber Company. Milwaukee, which recently pur- 

 chased the Two Rivers Pail factory, idle for more than six months, has 

 resumed the operation of the plant with a crew of fifty hands. Besides 

 pails the factory will manufacture ice cream tubs and similar lines. It is 

 getting large shipments of logs and bolts from the Schroeder mills at Ash- 

 land and considerable stock is being acquired from farmers in the neigh- 

 borhood of Two Rivers as well. 



The G. W. Jones Lumber Company of Appleton has recently effected 

 a material increase in capitalization, which now is fixed at $500,000, divided 

 into $200,000 common and $300,000 preferred stock. 



Ernest Hoenisch, 703 North Street, Tomahawk, has opened a factory 

 with his sons, Conrad, Ernest and Earl, for the manufacture of folding 

 chairs, settees, clothes racks and other household utilities and furniture 

 specialties. In the spring it is intended to erect an addition and purchase 

 some additional equipment. 



The Crocker Chair Company has reopened its sawmill at Antigo, which 

 has been idle for some time, while improvements were made. Two large 

 roUways have been built up on the mill grounds. Logs are being received 

 from five camps conducted by the company and its jobbers. 



The Kenfield-Lamoreaux Company of Washburn is now running its box 

 and crating plants at full capacity, giving employment to from one hundred 

 to one hundred twenty-five men. Sufficient stock is on hand and con- 

 tracted for to insure uninterrupted operations for the remainder of tbis 

 year. Up to six weeks ago the schedule was only partial, but the destruc- 

 tion of the Bemidji (Minn.) sawmill and a revival in business enable the 

 Washburn plant to go on a maximum schedule. 



The Standard Manufacturing Company, of Appleton, has just booked 

 one of the largest single orders for fine interior woo<lwork in its history. 

 It covers the requirements of an eight-story banking house and office build- 

 ing which is being erected by the Security Bank of Sheboygan, Wis., at a 

 cost of $800,000. 



The R. Connor Company of Marshfield and Laona has made a contract 

 with Chester Irish and Peter Bitker of Crandon to take all of the hard- 

 wood timber on a new forty which they have acquired in Forest county. 

 The logs will be shipped as rapidly as cut to the mill at Laona. 



The Northern Refrigerator Car Company of Milwaukee, a new $425,000 

 corporation organized recently by officials of the Cudahy Brothers Com- 

 pany, meat packers at Cudahy, suburb of Milwaukee, is making provision 

 at the main plant for repairing and otherwise ser\'icing "freezer" cars 

 and later intends to provide facilities for building complete cars. Present 

 needs have been filled by the purchase of 500 refrigerator cars from the 

 Pullman Company. 



The Filer & Stowell Company of Milwaukee, widely known in the lumber 

 industry as a manufacturer of sawmill and logging equipment, Corliss en- 

 gines, etc., is enlarging its foundry department l)y the erection of a new 

 cupola house, 45 by 60 feet in size, to provide greater capacity for gray 

 iron casting. 



The Olcott Lumber Company of Cumberland has recently increased its 

 capital stock from $50,000 to $200,000 to accommodate the growth of its 

 business. The principal officers are : President, F. L. Olcott, 1S50 Fifth 

 avenue, Hollywood, Calif. ; secretary, T. A. Olcott, 1035 Lumber Exchange, 

 Minneapolis. 



The Wiese Laboratory Furniture Company. Manitowoc, Wis., at the an- 

 nual meeting of stockholders, reported a satisfactory volume of business in 

 1921 and sufficient orders on the books to keep the full capacity of exist- 

 ing facilities occupied for five or six months forward. It is considered 

 likely that additional provision for manufacturing may have to be pro- 



King Mill and Lumber Co. 



PADUCAH, KENTUCKY 



Manufacturers Southern Hardwoods 



Ash, Elm, Oak, Gum 

 Maple, Cypress, Hickory 



Cypress Shingles 



WE SHIP STRAIGHT OR MIXED CAR LOADS 



HARDWOODS and SHINGLES 



WE WANT TO SELL 



the following 



Dry Northern Michigan 



HARDWOODS 



BIRCH 



4/4 FAS 30,000' 



4/4 Selects 15,000' 



4/4 No. 1 Common 15.000' 



4/4 No. 2 Common 100.000' 



5/4 Selects 55,000' 



5/4 No. 1 Common 10,000' 



5/4 No. 2 Common 80,000' 



8/4 No. 1 & 2 Common... 11,000' 



SOFT ELM 



4/4 No. Z Com. & Btr 100,000' 



6/4 No. 2 Com. & Btr 50,000' 



8/4 No. 2 Com. & Btr 33,000 ' 



ASH 



4/4 No. 2 Com. & Btr lOO.OOO' 



5/4 No. 1 Com. & Btr 45,000' 



HARD MAPLE 

 4/4 S" & Wider, 8' & Longer 



No. 1 Com. & Btr 100,000' 



5/4 No. 1 Com. & Btr 60,000' 



6/4 No. 1 Com. & Btr 100,000' 



6/4 No. 1 Com. & Sel... 60,000' 



6/4 No. 2 Common 150,000' 



8/4 No. 2 Com. & Btr 200,000' 



10/4 No. 1 Com. & Btr.... 80,000' 

 12/4 No. 1 Com. & Btr.... 30,000' 



SOFT MAPLE 



4/4 No. 2 Com. & Btr 150,000' 



6/4 No. 2 Com. & Btr 14,000' 



8/4 No. 1 Com. & Btr 100,000' 



BASSWOOD 



4/4 No. 1 Com. & Btr 100,000' 



4/4 No. 2 Common 45,000' 



HARD MAPLE FLOORING STOCK 

 FOR RAIL OR WATER SHIPMENT 



Band mills at 

 Chassell and Ontonagon, Michigan 



C. H.Worcester Co, 



NOT INCORPOKATED 



19 So. La Salle Street, CHICAGO 



Tilled this year, prospeit.s heiuR for a stenily increase in orilcrs from schools, 

 colleges, professional men and similar sources. 



The Barber & Sons Maiuifacturing Company of liiitternut. Wis., is 

 preparing to resume the production of hroom anil brush handles and similar 

 hardwood specialties about April 1, after a lapse of two years, or since the 

 building housing this department was destroyeil by tire. In that period 

 only the sawmill has bi'cn operated. The manufacture of bandies was 

 started in 1912. 



The Chas. W. Fish Lumlier Company of KIcho, Wis., has started work 

 on the reconstruction of the planing mill of its large sawmill at Antigo. 

 which was badly damaged by lire several months ago. Contracts have 

 been placed for new enuipment. which will be delivered and installed In 

 about thirty days. The planing mill will be electrically operated through- 

 out and will have probably the largest planer in Northern Wisconsin, 

 requiring a 75-h. p. motor. There also will be two 40-h. p and (me 5-h. p. 

 motors. The Fish company operates five distinct mills and is one of the 

 largest producers of hardwoml and other lund)er in the North. 



The Advance .\uto Body Company of Milwaukee is the name of a new 

 corporation organized with $110.nno capital stock to manufacture a gen 

 eral line of automobile bodies. Tbe incrporators are all memliera of the 



