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to utilize about 3,000,000 feet o£ logs left unsawed, and a twelve years' 

 supply of timber now available to the company from the Couderay Indian 

 reservation by special arrangement with the government. The Bekkedal 

 company has purchased the Stillwater (Minn.) mill of the David Tozier 

 Lumber Company, and will transfer it to Couderay at once. The capacity 

 will be about 70,000 feet in ten hours. 



The Red River Manufacturing Company, Antigo, Wis., which purchased 

 the Kaufmann mill at that point two years ago, and has gradually 

 improved the property, is erecting a new concrete power plant and other- 

 wise enlarging the power output. According to M. J. Elstad, secretary- 

 treasurer, the company expects to get a large supply of logs this season 

 and anticipates a more extensive and longer cut than since it took over 

 the mill. 



The Law,son Aircraft Corporation, Green Bay, Wis., has completed the 

 first model of its 110-horsepower military tractor biplane and turned it 

 over to the government for official tests. 



The Hoagland Manufacturing Company, Waupaca, Wis., maker of a 

 variety of hardwood products, specialties and novelties, will build a 

 shop addition, 25x66 feet, and a new sawmill shed. Considerable new 

 power and manufacturing machinery will be installed. 



The Wisconsin Potash Company, Tomahawk, Wis., organized recently, 

 is building a new plant near the mill of the Mohr Lumber Company, which 

 is interested in the concern. Officers are : President, J. S. Griffith ; vice- 

 president, L. H. Wheeler ; secretary, F. H. Burbach ; treasurer, E. Hoenisch. 



A voluntary petition in bankruptcy has been filed by the Kurth Broom 

 Company, Milwaukee. The assets are $1,447 and liabilities $2,545. 



One of the most modern and up-to-date sawmills in the South will be 

 erected for the Wisconsin-Alabama Lumber Company at Sycalauga, Ala., 

 by the I). J. Murray Manufacturing Company, Wausau, Wis. The mill 

 will contain two band saws and one resaw and will cost about ?oO,000. 

 Completion is specified in five months' time. W. C. Landon, Wausau, 

 Wis., is general manager of the Alabama company. 



The George D. Taylor & Sons Company, St. Paul, Wis., is negotiating 

 for the purchase of the plant and property of the Tomahawk (Wis.) 

 Stave & Heading Company, which has been idle for several years. It is 

 stated that the new owners will rehabilitate the property and put it into 

 immediate operation after the purchase is completed. 



The Ladysmith Potash Company, a Michigan corporation with a capital 

 stock of $3,000 and headquarters at Menominee, Mich., has been granted 

 a charter to do business in. Wisconsin. The local interest is located at 

 Ladysmith, Wis., and H. J. Fosbender is official representative. 



The G. D. Booth Lumber Company, Marshfleld, Wis., has taken over 

 all of the properties of the Booth-Schumaker Manufacturing Company, 

 Including a large mill at Chippewa Falls, Wis. The Booth-Schumaker 

 company has filed articles of dissolution and will retire from business. 



The D. & D. Panel, Hanger & Glue Company, Sheboygan, Wis., has 

 been incorporated with a capital stock of .$25,000 to take over the clothes 

 hanger and veneer panel business conducted for the past five months by 

 Herman Davis and son. Jerome, at Sheboygan. 



The American .Auto Body Company. Milwaukee, incorporated some time 

 ago with $75,000 capital, intends to build a four-story manufacturing 

 plant, about 60x200 feet, of fireproof construction. David J. Borun, 

 531 Casw'ell block, is treasurer. 



The Challoner Company, Oshkosh. Wis., maker of mill machinery and 

 equipment, has -lismantled its foundry department and will rebuild it for 

 the manufacture of anti-skid devices for motor trucks, tractors, etc. 



The Ayer & Lord Tie Company. Chicago, has been awarded the contract 

 for creosoted wood block flooring for tlie new ordnance plant being erected 

 in Milwaukee by the Wisconsin Gun Company, at a cost of $200,000. The 

 main shop is 130x300 feet in size. Henry J. Wiegand is general manager. 



The Tipler-Grossman Lumber Company, Green Bay, Wis., has started 

 work on the erection of a new and modern band-saw mill on its extensive 

 hardwood and hemlock timber holdings between Long Lake, Wis., and 

 Sawyer, Mich., on the Chicago & Northwestern line. The mill will be 

 40x150 feet in size and have a capacity of 35,000 feet in ten hours. It 

 will be ready December 1. A townsite named Tipler is being established 

 at the mill site. 



The E. J. Pfltfner Company, Stevens Point, Wis., has completed the 

 reconstruction and modernizing of its planing mill, the nucleus of which 

 is the plant partly destroyed by fire several months ago. A complete 

 complement of new machinery, including planers, matchers, molders, rip 

 saws, etc., all operated by individual electric motors, has been installed. 



The Winnebago Furniture Company, Fond du Lac, Wis., is now employ- 

 ing fifteen women in various parts of the plant because of the shortage 

 of male help. The experiment has been so successful that it will be 

 gradually extended as the needs of the company require. 



The Midland Creosoting Company, Toledo, O., is furnishing the wood 

 flooring for the new $75,000 private garage and machine-shop of the 

 Pfister & Vogel Leather Company in Bay 'View, Milwaukee. 



The F. Block! Manufacturing Company, Sheboygan, Wis., has engaged 

 in the manufacture of a new type of double-walled, non-freezing wood 

 silo designed and patented by Robert Hartenberger of Sheboygan Falls, 

 Wis. The silo consists of a series of double hard-oak ribs, held hori- 

 zontally about four inches apart and vertically about two feet, by oak 

 crosspieces fitted snugly between each two pairs of concentric ribs at 

 intervals of three feet. The ribs are bent after being heated by steam, 

 forming sections three feet long. The inside wall is constructed of jointed 

 redwood and" the exterior of spruce, cedar or fir. 



We will give our be^ 



attention to service on 



the following 



DRY LUMBER 



FOR 



IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT 



At our ArkansEis and Wisconsin 

 plants we are daily putting new stock 

 into piles, the quantity of which 'will 

 appeal to the caureful buyer. 



THE 



G. W. JONES 

 LUMBER CO. 



Manufacturers of 

 Northern and Southern Hardwoods 



APPLETON, WISCONSIN 



SOUTHERN PLANT 

 Forrest City Mfg. Company, Forrest City, Ark. 



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