December 10. 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The Shawano Lumber Company, Sliawnno, Wis., has Increased Its cap- 

 ital stock from $75,0110 to $150,000. K. U. Stelger Is president. 



The Dollar Bn.v Lumber Company, Dollar Bay, Mich., shut down Its mill 

 for the season, after sawing about 5,000,000 feet. Woods operations are 

 being conducted on a scale Indicating a similar cut during the coming 

 season. 



The Kiel Woodenware Company, Kiel, Wis., which Is building a one-story 

 factory addition, S0x:S20 feet, and enlarging Its power plant, Is in the 

 market for a 250kllowatt generator set and new motors ranging from 

 5 to no horsepower. 



The Guslavc Kaye woodworking plant at Grand Rapids, Wis., had a 

 J2,500 loss by fire on November 22. 



The Globe Shipbuilding Company, Superior, Wis., Is being enlarged by 

 the addition of an area of 400xl,.'')00 feet, which Is being equipped with 

 three electric traveling cranes. 



The Ilenshaw-Worden Lumber Company, Antigo, Wis., has been incor- 

 porated with a capital stock of $100,000 to take over saw and planing 

 mills and a large part of the timber holdings ot the Kingsbury & ITenshaw 

 Lumber Company, .\ntlgo. C. E. Ilenshaw, ,1. II. Worden and A. B. Good- 

 rlck are the organizers of the new company. .John J. Kingsbury, senior 

 member of the Klngsbury-IIenshaw concern, died several months ago. The 

 Henshaw-Worden Interests have purchased the steam creeper-tractor, 

 sleighs anil other equipment of the Kellogg Lumber Company. 



F. J. O'Nell has been appointed general manager of the Shawano Lum- 

 ber Company, Shawano, Wis. Mr. Rinehard will continue as superintendent 

 of the mill. 



The Waukesha Sfanufacturlng Company, Waukesha, Wis., established 

 many years ago by Madden Bros., has been purchased by Harry L. and 

 Harlow IL Ferris, Waukesha, who will continue the manufacture of pack- 

 ing boxes, livestock crates, sash and door, etc. 



The Northern Wood Products Company, Glldden, Wis., is erecting a 

 factory addition and Installing considerable new equipment. W. A. Thomas 

 Is president. 



The Dempsey Lumber Company, Tacoma. Wash,, with a branch at 

 Racine, Wis., has been chartered In this state. The capital stock Is 

 $500,000 and the Wisconsin interest is stated to be $36,000. 



The Marinette & Menominee Box Company, Marinette, Wis., which 

 recently purchased the plant and business of the Peninsular Box & Lumber 

 Company. .Menominee, Mich., is transferring the machinery and equipment 

 to Marinette, where It Is being Installed In the former sawmill building, 

 which has been doubled in size and connected with the main factory. A 

 new sawmill was erected about a year ago. The Peninsular company was 

 established in 1S96. Harry L. Ilaslanger is general manager of the com- 

 bined concerns. 



The N. Ludington Company, Marinette. Wis., which opened its sawmill In 

 1858. and has been sawing almost continuously since that time, sawed Its 

 last pine log late In November. From this time on the mill will be operated 

 with logs brought by rail, and the cut will be mixed timber, with a large 

 percentage of hardwoods. The Ludington Company Is owned principally 

 by the Hon. Isaac Stephenson. Marinette, former United States Senator 

 from Wisconsin, Who was active In Its management tor the last sixty years. 



The -Sppleton Hay Tool Company, .\ppleton, Wis., a large manufacturer 

 of car -moving devices, has purchased a large tract of hard maple timber in 

 northern Wisconsin to Insure its plant an adequate supply of bolts for 

 handles for the car-movers. The company is 2,000 devices behind on its 

 orders, many of which come from England and France. Heretofore Its 

 entire supply was furnished under contract by an Oshkosh handle plant, 

 but this Is Insufficient. Handles for car-movers for France are one-third 

 longer than those for other countries because of the smaller car wheels 

 used by French railroads. 



Lumlier manufacturers of Wausau, Wis., are overcoming the acute short- 

 age of cars, which has Interfered seriously with supplying mills with 

 logs, by putting large stocks of logs on roliways along the sidings at their 

 camps, instead of attempting to ship large quantities at once. Logs will 

 be kept on the roliways until they are needed at the mills. Heretofore 

 logging lamps were not equipped with an adequate number ot landings, and 

 the result was that more than twice the number of logs needed each day 

 were shipped to the mills during the winter, when cars are scarce, Instead 

 of distributing the shipments more equally over the spring and summer 

 periods, wlien cars are In more liberal supply. By means of a Judicious 

 handling of logs, mills at Wausau expect to be able to maintain their 

 cut at least at normal during the coming year, and logging operations 

 have been plannofl .accordingly. 



The labor situation shows considerable Improvement and logging opera- 

 tions consequently will be of larger volume than earlier anticipated. The 

 higher scale of wages which Is now being paid has produced a more 

 adequate and steadier supply of men for woods work. However, the situa- 

 tion still Is not entirely favorable and many hundreds of men are wanted 

 In the northern hardwood belt. 



F. C. Barlow, who left the position of superintendent of the sawmill 

 department ot the Phoenix Manufacturing Company, Eau Claire, Wis., to 

 enlist in the Tenth Engineers (Forest) Regiment, which is now in Frame, 

 has written a letter home In whicli he speaks of having been assigned to 

 act as mall censor, but that he expected at the time, which was October .'{0, 

 to be engaged in supervising the work of two companies of forestry en- 



Walnut 



Of Character and Color 



Manufactured at Kansas City, U. S. A. 



Large Stock of All Grades and Thickness 



Thirty-five years' experience 



IN WALNUT ONLY 



Prompt Shipment, and 

 Guaranteed Inspection 



FRANK PURCELL 



515 Dwight Building, KANSAS CITY, MO. 



Low Grade Lumber for 

 Boxing and Crating 



BASSWOOD 



151287 ft 1" No. 2 & 3 Common 



250000 ft VA" No. 2 & 3 Common 



150000 ft 2" No. 2 & 3 Common 



BIRCH 



235000 ft 1" No. 3 Common 



185000 ft 5/4" No. 3 Common 



BUTTERNUT 



18000 ft 1" No. 2 & 3 Common 



SOFT ELM 



85000 ft I'A" No. 3 Common 



HARD MAPLE 



186000 ft 1" No. 3 Common 



110000 ft VA" No. 3 Common 



192000 ft 2" No. 3 Common 



Payson Smith Lumber Co. 



MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 



CHICAGO OFFICE 

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