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HARDWOOD RECORD 



April 10. 1918 



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HICKORY 

 Oak and Ash 



Dimension Stock for 

 All Purposes 



Gainesville and Gunntown Florida 



Union & Planters Bank Bldg., Memphis, Tenn. 



General Sales and Export Office 

 11 Broadway, New York City 



Lenox Lumber 



OAK 

 POPLAR 



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American Lumber & Mfg. Co. 



PITTSBURGH, PA. 



& St. I'aul Railway Company at Milwaukee have started work on the 

 eonstruitlon of 5,000 freight cars under a certificate of authority just 

 Issued by Director General of Railways McAdoo. The entire working 

 forces In both the locomotive and car shops on March 1 were placed on 

 an overtime basis to offset the difBculty In procuring additional help. 



The National Toy Manufacturing Comjiany, Milwaukee, has been Incor- 

 poratid with an authorized capital stock of $15,000 by A. G. Goehner, 

 Henry Goelzcr and Oscar J. Goelzer to engage in the production of wooden 

 toys and novelties. 



The rioncer Furniture Company, Kau Claire, Wis., Is now employing 

 twenty women In the cabinet and finishing departments In positions for- 

 merly occupied exclusively hy men. The replacement with women is made 

 necessary by the acute shortage of male help. The women, however, arc 

 being employed only in the lighter Industrial duties. 



The .Standard Manufacturing Company, Appleton, Wis., will become one 

 of the largest manufacturers of sash, doors, blinds and other millwork when 

 plant i-.\tonslon.s now being undertaken are comi)Ietcd. The work will 

 involve a total expenditure of nearly $100,000. It includes the erection 

 of a now factory. 120.vl20 feet in size, and the purchase of machinery 

 costing about .$15,000. Robert O. Schmidt is treasurer of the company. 



The Automatic File & Index Company, Green Bay, Wis., has increased 

 its capital stock from $25,000 to $150,000 to accommodate the growth 

 of its business and to provide funds for doubling the present capacity of 

 the plant. A two-story addition to the present two-story shop, making 

 a four-story factory, 100x175 feet, and a four-story wing, 24x100 feet, 

 will be erected at once. F. L. G. Straubel is president and general man- 

 ager of the company. 



The Twin Ports Pattern Works, 130 Ogden avenue, Superior, Wis., which 

 manufactures all patterns required by the Globe Shipbuilding Company 

 of Superior, has just completed work on one of the largest and most 

 intricate patterns it has yet built. The model is for a 12M!-foot propeller 

 for an ocean-going vessel under construction for the government at the 

 Globe yards. 



The Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company has awarded contracts for the con- 

 struction and equipment of a new saw and splitting mill costing about 

 $100,000 in connection with its furnace and chemical plant at Kipling, 

 Delta county, Mich., near Gladstone. An experimental mill has been in 

 operation for the last year and a half. When the new mill is finished, all 

 logs will be shipped direct from the camps to Kipling for reduction Into 

 charcoal kiln and retort material. The daily capacity will be 200 cords. 

 Every hit of waste will be utilized by by-product processes. 



The Park Falls Lumber Company, Park Falls, Wis., has awarded con- 

 tracts for about ten miles of cement sidewalk in "White City," the big 

 employes' colony which it has built up within the last two years to provide 

 adequate housing facilities at cost to its workmen and their families. 



The Wilbur Company, Milwaukee, has been incorporated with a cap- 

 ital stock of $25,000 by George H. Wilbur, secretary and treasurer of the 

 Willau- Lumber Company, 908 Pabst building, Milwaukee, and Ross H. 

 Wilimr. No statement of the new company's purposes is available. 



The Collins Lumber Company and the W. H. Stevens Lumber Company, 

 Ithinflanoer, Wis., encountered strike troubles during the latter part of 

 March, but operations were not seriously interrupted. The demands of 

 the men were rather vague and indefinite, but generally amounted to a 

 request for an increase of twenty-flve cents a day in wages. 



According to figures which have just become available, a total of 

 17,000,000 feet of lumber were manufactured in the government sawmills 

 at Neopit. in the Menominee Indian reservation, located between Shawano 

 and Antigo, Wis., during 1917. Indians resident in the reservation re- 

 ceived a total wage of $80,000. The Neopit operation up to January 1 

 lias increased the assets of the Jlcnominee tribe to the extent of the value 

 of the entire manufacturing plant, inventoried at more than $1,000,000. 



The completion of several public school buildings in Milwaukee has been 

 seriously delayed by the Inability of the contractors to get delivery of 

 lumber supplies from the South. The Milwaukee board of school directors 

 has appealed to the Milwaukee representatives in Congress to induce 

 Director General of Railways McAdoo to issue priority orders. The lumber 

 is tied up in the yards of the Pioneer Lumber Company, Jackson. Miss. 



M. J. Escoll, field collector of the Milwaukee Public Museum staff, 

 delivered an illustrated lecture before the Rotary Club of Milwaukee last 

 week on the life of the lumberjack in the camps of the John Schroeder 

 Lumber Company, Milwaukee. Excellent views of woods operations in 

 the vicinity of Ashland, Wis., were shown. In the course of his lecture 

 Mr. Escoll said that there are 833,000 men employed in the lumber industry 

 of Wisconsin at this time, which means that 20 per cent of all men 

 engaged in manufacturing industries in this state are engaged in the lum- 

 ber trade. After holding first rank as a producer of lumber from 1900 

 to 1903, Wisconsin now stands sixth in the list of states in which lumber 

 is cut. Still, at least one-half of the territory embraced by the state of 

 Wisconsin consists of woodlands, Mr. Escoll said, and the state is far 

 from the point of exhaustion of these resources. 



Upon the arrival in Wisconsin of Lieut. Grant Stephenson, U. S. N., 

 on .\pril 1, the remains of the Hon. Isaac Stephenson, who died on March 

 15. were finally committed and sealed in a crypt in the Stephenson mau- 

 soleum in Forest Home cemetery. Marinette, Wis. The funeral services 

 were held March IS, and the casket was left in the aisle of the mausoleum 

 pending the coming of the only son, who was called from duty in French 

 waters. Lieutenant Stephenson entered active duty in the United States 



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