August 10, 1915. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



41 



that it will hereafter engage in the niaivifacture o£ heavy pumps, in 

 addition to its regular line o£ sawmill niacliiaery. 



Increased activities in the industries throughout the state in the past 

 few weeks are shown in the records of the Milwaukee branch of the Wis- 

 lonsiu Free Employment Bureau. The first call of the season was that 

 lor fifteen woodsmen and six sawyers received last week from Laona. 



Wisconsin lumbermen have received word that the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission has suspended until Novenilier 2'2 the advance of 33 Vj Pcr 

 cent in lumber rates iirom points in Wisconsin to Minneapolis and St. 

 Paul, announced by the Soo road to be put into operation on July 25. 

 A hearing will he held in the meantime, probably in St. Paul or Rhine- 

 lander. Lumbermen interested sent A. K. Solie of Wausau and S. E. 

 Alvord of Rhinelauder to Washington on July 20 to appear before the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission in protest against tlie proposed ad- 

 vance. 



The Brown-Mitchtson Comfiany of Marinette, Wis., is ready to begin 

 the erection of a new sawmill, electrically operated, which will have a 

 capacity of ,•5,000,000 feet annually. The new mill will be of the single 

 eight-foot band type and will be equipped to specialize in the manufac- 

 ture of maple and other lines of hardwood. The plant will be 116x40 

 feet in dimensions, two stories high and of frame construction. 



The sawmill of the Girard Lumber Company at Dunbar, Wis., has been 

 closed as a result of an accident in tbe plant. The drive shaft broke 

 and nearly wrecked the entire engine. 



Albert W. Pettlbone, millionaire lumberman of La Crosse, Wis., one 

 of the pioneers in the lumber business of western Wisconsin, died on 

 .\ugust 2 at the age of eighty-four years. He was formerly associated 

 in business with the Withee brothers in Clark, Chippewa and La Crosse 

 counties and was one of the best-known lumbermen in that section of the 

 state. After the Civil war Mr. Pettibone made a fortune at Hannibal, 

 Mo. He presented Pettibone park to the city of I^a Crosse at a cost of 

 ,$200,000. 



The Sanitary Seat Cover Company of Birnamwood, Wis., has been 

 incorporated with a capital stock of $25,000 by D. W. Van Doren, W. 

 Dailey and L. A. Jiranek. 



The plant of the American Woodworking Company at Green Bay, Wis., 

 has been leased by the Cluley Multiplier Company, a newly organized con- 

 cern. 



The John Schroeder Lumber Company of Milwaukee has placed into 

 .service another scow, which is being used in hauling hardwood logs from 

 Stockton Island to the company's plant at Ashland, Wis. Manager 

 Clark, in charge of the Schroeder company's operations at Ashland, says 

 that about 4.000,000 feet of hardwood will be cut this season. 



The Holt Lumber Company of Oconto, Wis., is now operating its saw- 

 mill on a day shift only, owing to .1 lack of space for piling lumber. 



J. T. Phillips, manager of the Diamond Lumber Company of Green Bay, 

 Wis., and O. W. Brightman, who was manager tor eighteen years of the 

 Bird & Wells Lumber Company's plant at Wausaukee, Wis., have pur- 

 chased tbe plant of the Green Bay Planing Mill Company, a business 

 established twenty-five years ago. Mr. Phillips has been a stockholder of 

 the concern for three years. Mr. Brightman will act as manager. The 

 plant is said to be in excellent condition and the new owners are planning 

 c'l' doing a big business. 



Upon the petition of the Wisconsin Trust Company. A. L. Osborn and 

 J. A. Kim'oerly, Jr., receivers of the Paine Lumber Company, Ltd., of Osh- 

 kosh. Wis., Judge George W. Buruell in circuit court has signed an order, 

 extending the time in which creditors may file claims against the Paine 

 concern until October 15, 1915. It was further ordered that all creditors 

 who shall fail to file their claims with John H. Laabs. clerk of the circuit 

 court, within that time, shall not be entitled to share in any of the benefits 

 of the action — George K. Foster vs. Paine Lumber Company, Ltd., out of 

 which the appointment of the receivership resulted. 



^•< CHICAGO y 



There is a great deal of lumber moving locall}-, there having been no 

 let-up in quantity of sales either as to number or volume. Values are 

 still off, although the condition in this respect is not so unsatisfactory 

 as it has been. There is no marked quantity oc lumber being dumped 

 in Chicago on account of the settlement of the building strike, which 

 fact is accountable tor a considerable measure of satisfaction. 



Optimism is not by an.v means rampant in Chicago, but lumbermen 

 are coming to believe that a slightly more healthy condition is apparent, 

 and that having weathered the storm so far they will be able to survive 

 until the situation is unquestionably on the upward trend. 



=-< NEW YORK y. 



There is little of interest to note In connection with hardwood market 

 conditions in New York, and while the recent spell of warm weather 

 does not account for lack of interest, its effect has been to make the 

 local trade less talkative and therefore conditions seem a little duller. 

 The volume of lumber entering the market is about equal to the average 



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