May 10, 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The Manufacturers' Building Company was recently incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $100,000 by S. A. Perkins, Conrad Werra and Mayor E. R. 

 Estberg. The plan and purpose of the new organization is to make Wauke- 

 sha a better place for workingmen to live in. Immediate specifications call 

 for the erection of one hundred modern homes, with more to follow. 



The sawmill of the Bowler Lumber Company, Bowler, is busy every 

 day. It is expected that the Bowler company will have at least two million 

 feet of lumber at the end of the season. 



The Antigo sawmDl of the Kellogg Lumber Company recently began 

 Its cut for the present season and will operate until early in the fall. Logs 

 are still being shipped in by rail and will continue to be for some time. 

 The Polar mill began operations several days ago. 



The MacKinnon Manufacturing Company, Grand Rapids, manufacturing 

 wagons, is conserving what was usually treated as waste material by utiliz- 

 ing the small pieces of "excess" in the making of shoe soles. 



The John H. Kaiser Lumber Company, Eau Claire, recently announced 

 that because of the high cost of living a bonus of five dollars will be paid 

 each employe in addition to his regular pay. 



W. H. Brown has severed his connection with the Montreal Eiver Lum- 

 ber Company at Saxon. Parke Dolan, who for some time had charge of the 

 office of the company at Saxon, has been transferred to the main office at 

 Buffalo, N. y. 



The Wisconsin Potash Company, Tomahawk, recently filed articles of 

 incorporation with a capital stock of $2,500. The incorporators are ; J. J. 

 Okoneski, C. B. Bird and R. E. Puchner. 



The Charles W. Fish Lumber Company in Elcho is stimulating the 

 progress of intensive agriculture. It has offered its employes tracts of 

 ground on which they might raise crops and has declared that it will aid 

 them in marketing the harvest next fall. 



Crude potash will be manufactured in Eau Claire by a company headed 

 by Dr. E. R. Baldwin of that city. The ashes will be obtained from the 

 burners and the power plants of the two mill companies in Eau Claire, 

 from the hardwood flooring plant, and from the homes of residents in the 

 city. 



About 175,000 feet of maple flooring was destroyed by a fire which 

 recently damaged property of the Eller Lumber Company, at Thirtieth 

 and Chambers streets, Milwaukee, to the extent of $40,000. Lumber stored 

 In the yarde was saved. The property destroyed occupied more than 30,000 

 square feet of space. 



The sawmill of the Ellis Lumber Company, Grand Rapids, was recently 

 compelled to shut down for a lact of logs. This is the first time that the 

 mill has ever suspended. 



Rieboldt & Wolter, boat builders. Sturgeon Bay, have closed a contract 

 for the construction of the largest ship ever built in that city. It calls for 

 the construction of a n'aft of "canal size," 260 feet over all, 40-ft. beam, 

 with a depth of 24 feet. One hundred extra men will be put to work at 

 once by the firm to facilitate attention to the filling of the big order. 



The Barlow & Seelig Company, manufacturing washing machines in 

 Ripon, will build an addition to its plant on Doty street. The structure 

 will cover an area 64x256 feet. A large order from Russia has forced the 

 plant to increased capacity, besides an increase of business in general. 



The Kenfield-Lamoreux Company, Washburn, recently installed a fine 

 new engine in its plant. The acquisition harmonizes with the new power 

 house erected a short time ago. 



The L. S. Barber & Sons Manufacturing Company. Butternut, has filed 

 articles of incorporation with a capital stock of $10,000. The incorpo- 

 rators are : L. S. Barber, Roland L. Barber and W. B. Barber. 



The Edgerton Highway Trailer Company has begun active operations in 

 its plant at Edgerton. The company was recently incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $180,000. The plant of the Edgerton Wagon Works was 

 taken over and adapted to the production of automobile trailers of the 

 two- and four-wheel type. Officers have been elected as follows : President, 

 J. W. Menhall, Beloit. formerl.v connected with the Warner Trailer Company 

 in that city ; vice-president, M. J. Johnson, Madison, Wis. ; treasurer. A. 

 Mcintosh, Edgerton : secretary, E. Z, Menhall. Beloit. The directors are ; 

 Andrew Mcintosh, B. Wilson, Frank Pringle, J. W. Menhall and C. A. 

 Florey. 



Louis Mueller, president of the H. G. Mueller Lumber and Manufactur- 

 ing Company, Sheboygan, died recently at his home in that city. Mr. 

 Mueller was born in 1864 and became intimate with the lumber Industry 

 at an early age. A wife and three children survive him. 



The Hardwood Market 



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Chicago lumbermen are &till complaining of inactivity in interior finish 

 shops, in fact it is stated that there will be a real shortage in renting 

 space in residence sections on account of the building inactivity resulting 

 from the high cost, the labor shortage, poor weather and other influences. 

 The latter report, however, comes, it seems, from parties who are a little 

 too much interested in spreading this propoganda, that is. from the land- 



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