June 10, 1913. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Wis., has been placed in operation and will be busy for the remainder of 

 the season. About 150 men are being employed. 



The KnoelandMcLurg Lumber Company of Phillips, Wis., has hit upon 

 a plan of reducing the high cost of living at its lumber camps, which 

 could well be followed .by other lumber manufacturing concerns. Last 

 year the concern raised twenty acres of potatoes, harvesting 0,000 

 bushels, of which 4,500 were consumed in the company's logging camps 

 and 1,500 bushels were sold. This year, thirty acres of potatoes were 

 planted and a twelve-acre vegetable garden planted to beans, peas, cab- 

 bage, onions, beets, carrots, rutabagas and corn. 



John Manser sawmill at Kelly, Wis., has sawed its last log and it 

 is reported that the plant will be closed down for good. The mill was 

 one of the oldest in that section of the state, having been built in 1873. 

 Mr. Manser has not decided whether he will sell the mill machinery or 

 move it to some other location. 



The big sawmill of the Rice Lake Lumber Company at Rice Lake, 

 Wis., has finished its cut of hardwood and is cutting hemlock. 



William H. Upham, former governor of Wisconsin and a well-known 

 lumber manufacturer of Marshfield, Wis., was married on June 1 to 

 Miss Grace Mason at Beaufort, N. C. Mr. TJpham's first wife died two 

 and one-half years ago. Mr. Upham is 74 years old and his bride Is 40. 



Applying the caterpillar traction device to a motor truck for the 

 first time commercially, the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company of 

 Milwaukee has entered the motor truck field by turning out a new 

 truck, especially designed for lumbermen, farmers, road builders and 

 others who have to do heavy hauling over poor roads or no roads. 



Due to the efforts of the J. H. Kaiser Lumber Company, the New Dells 

 Lumber Company and the Evans Lee Company of Eau Claire, co-operating 

 with the Civic & Commerce Association of Eau Claire, Wis., Wisconsin 

 grown luml)er will be used In the erection of the new state normal school 

 at Eau Claire. The earlier specification called for the use of western 

 fir and pine and not Wisconsin woods. 



The Hardwood Market 



-< CHICAGO >• 



Business In Chicago is still far from good, but the gradual clearing 

 up of the building strike situation is having its effect. No officially 

 definite action is seen, but there have been statements, apparently com- 

 ing from good sources, to the effect that the mill workers are all back 

 on their Jobs and that a great many of the individual carpenters have 

 made separate agreements. The exact truth of this is difficult to verify, 

 but that there is an Improvement in the situation is Indicated by a 

 slightly better tone in the deals in lumber for building purposes. 



The city was threatened with a further demoralizing strike last week 

 when the trouble between the tr.Tction employes and traction companies 

 came to an acute point, which threatened an actual break. However, 

 the differences seem to have been patched up and the demoralizing 

 effect that v/ould have resulted from this still further tie-up has been 

 avoMed. 



The brighter prospects surrounding local building constituted the 

 chief feature of development in the situation here during the past 

 couple of weeks. Aside from this, the factory trade is continuing along 

 without any notable change In either direction, but it with other indus- 

 tries has been affected by the strike situation and will naturally be 

 slower later in responding to a return of active building. However, 

 spotty orders are being placed for a fair amount of bardwood lumber, 

 although of course the pending furniture shows will rather tend to hold 

 up any very active purchases until it is certain whether any more 

 notable development will follow. 



-■<, BUFFALO >• 



The hardwood trade has not improved to any extent during the past 

 two weeks and most of the lumber moving is in special lines. Whole- 

 salers who are in touch with concerns needing stock lor the filling of 

 war orders are able to move some lumber, but the general factory de- 

 mand is small. The war Is having a depressing effect upon domestic 

 trade and cutting off exports, as the rates of freight are about three 

 times those of normal times. Some of the local yards have bought 

 largely during the past few months, believing that good times are likely 

 to arrive before long and that dry stocks will not be plentiful when 

 wanted. 



While maple and oak continue to be the staple woods, there is a 

 better demand than formerly for white ash. A number of yards report 

 having had good sales of it. Black walnut could be sold in good quantity 

 If it were procurable, as it is wanted by the gun makers, but in Its 

 absence mahogany is being used more largely. There is less doing In 

 birch than a short time ago and poplar and basswood are moving slowly. 

 Flooring in maple and oak Is in pretty fair demand. Prices are generally 

 depressed in hardwoods and there is great competition for what orders 

 develop. 



There is not much optimism expressed as to the immediate future, and. 



J. K. WILLIAMS 



A. T. WILUAMS 



Williams Lumber Co. 



(MANUFACTURERS) 



WHOLESALE 

 HARDWOOD 



LUMBER 



Band Mill Planing Mill Dry Kiln 



Fayetteville, Tenn. 



We manufacture PLAIN and QUAR- 

 TERED OAK, ASH, CHESTNUT and 

 other HARDWOODS 



Our Specialty is Quartered White Oak 



We Manufacture Dimension 

 Stock — Hickory a Specialty 



