September 10, 1917 



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working shops to their shipbuilding plant to facilitate the construction of 

 a frame steamer, 264 feet long, requiring 800,000 feet of oak lumber. The 

 boat was contracted for by the Crosby Transportation Company, Mil- 

 waukee, but has since been taken over by the government. It will come 

 out in May. The new facilities at the yards include a 36-inch band saw. 



The Wisconsin Box Company, Wausau, Wis., has shut down its sawmill 

 for the season and before resuming operations on January 1 will install a 

 large steam boiler to heat water for the log pond. 



Arthur Tracy, Crandon, Wis., has made a new contract with E. O. 

 Anderson, Shawano, Wis., to put in logs. Mr. Tracy will operate the same 

 camps, near Crandon, which were in his charge last season. 



The Crocker Chair Company, Sheboygan, Wis., has supplanted its old 

 rotary mill at Antlgo, Wis., with a new handsaw, and is building a filing 

 room. The rotary mill was in operation more than twenty-five years. 



The Hatten Lumber Company, New London, Wis., is looking forward to 

 the most extensive logging operations in its long career, during the com- 

 ing winter, barring unforeseen obstacles. Three camps will be operated 

 near Galloway and at three points near Rhinelander and Lily, Wis. X 

 number of jobbers also will be employed. Most of the cut will be hard- 

 wood, with considerable hemlock and such cedar as may be encountered. 



The Wisark Lumber Company, Little Rock, Ark., in which Wisconsin 

 capital holds a large interest, has recently disposed of a tract of 12,000 

 acres of hardwood in Arkansas, between Memphis and Little Rock, which 

 was purchased as an investment ten years ago. 



The Martin Toy Company, Wauwatosa, Wis., has been incorporated with 

 $10,000 capital by Oscar Martin, Jr., Richard Evans and A. W. Cutting. 



The Titan Truck & Tractor Company, Milwaukee, has been organized 

 with $100,000 capital by Joseph C. Millmann to manufacture 4 and 5-ton 

 motor trucks. The plant is located at Thirtieth street and North avenue. 

 Mr. Millmann was secretary-treasurer of the Stegeman Motor Truck Com- 

 pany, Milwaukee, since its organization until several months ago. 



Joseph J. Ott, vice-president and general manager of the John H. Kaiser 

 Lumber Company, Eau Claire, Wis., says that Eau Claire faces the most 

 serious fuel shortage in years unless drastic measures are invoked, either 

 to increase the supply of labor in the lumbering districts or to insure an 

 adequate supply for the coming winter. Cut-over lands in Wisconsin are 

 choked with slabwood, Mr. Ott says, but it has been impossible to supply 

 the consuming public with this material on a livelihood basis. 



The Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company, Phelps, is advertising throughout 

 the state for labor for its new sawmill and yards, woods work, chemical 

 plant, etc. The company is completing work on its new plant to replace the 

 mills destroyed by fire early in 1917, but finds the supply of labor extremely 

 short. 



The Silent Washington Machine Company, formerly of Appleton, Wis., 

 has started work on its new plant in Clintonville, Wis., to cost $25,000, 

 and will make three types of farm and home machines, with electric, gaso- 

 line and manual power. The factory will be ready November 1. 



The Oneida Motor Truck Company, Green Bay, Wis., capital stock, $300,- 

 000, will build a new plant costing about $125,000 with equipment. F. E. 

 Burrall is president. 



G. R. Plato, general manager and vice-president of the Northland Lumber 

 Company, Green Bay, Wis., resigned September 1 to take a long rest. He 

 will spend a year in travel with his family. He joined the company 

 twenty-three years ago, taking charge of the erection of a sawmill in 

 Mecosta county, Mich., which later was abandoned. The company pur- 

 chased the Murphy mills in Green Bay and Mr. Plato was made manager, 

 then being elected vice-president and given the general management. 



Alfred A. Laun, New Hoistein, Wis., during the past year in charge of 

 the affairs of the Kiel Furniture Company, Milwaukee, has disposed of his 

 local interests to general manager of the Milwaukee factory. He has 

 moved his residence to Milwaukee. 



Frank Cleveland has resigned as manager of the Mellen Lumber Com- 

 pany's warehouse at Foster, Wis., and has moved with his family to Mellen, 

 Wis. He is succeeded by M. L. Lawler, for seven years employed as scaler. 



William Radford, pioneer lumberman of Oshkosh, Wis., celebrated his 

 eighty-ninth birthday anniversary on August 31. 



William H. Stephenson, superintendent of the Menominee River Boom 

 Company, Marinette, Wis., is mourning the death of his wife, who passed 

 away on August 31, aged sixty-one years. 



Cyrus C. Yawkey, the well-known lumberman of Wausau, Wis., has been 

 elected captain of the Wausau company of the new Wisconsin Home Guard, 

 established by act of legislature to supplant the Wisconsin National Guard 

 while it is in the federal service. 



Hon. Isaac Stephenson, Marinette, Wis., left August 29 on an extended 

 trip through New England and eastern Canada. The main objective is New- 

 Brunswick, where former Senator Stephenson was bom eighty-nine years 

 ago. 



The Hardwood Market 



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 lines of normal consumption for hardwoods, the factories, continue loath 

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