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HARDWOOD RECORD 



coach and luting one of the passengers/' How- 

 ever, the trip was enjoyable and more so was 

 the sight of Marshfield. Mr. Finney of the 

 Marshfield Land & Lumber Company gave me a 

 courteous welcome, and although a very busy 

 man found time for a half hour's chat. One of 

 the finest suites of offices visited is that of the 

 R. Connor Company of Marshfield and the office 

 force is entirely in keeping with their ideal sur- 

 roundings. The K. Connor Company operates 

 four mills in the vicinity of Marshfield and sev- 

 eral retail yards throughout Wisconsin. Theo- 

 dore Tack, salesman for the firm, is one of the 

 pleasantest men it was my privilege to meet 

 on the trip. The same can he said of the gentle- 

 men connected with Vollmar & Below and the 

 Hafer & Kalsched Company. 



B. P. McMillan of the B. F. McMillan Com- 



HARDWOOD .MILL. .1 S. OWEN LUMBER 

 COMPANY, OWEN, WIS. 



pany of McMillan, wis., was absent attending 

 the Buffalo convention, hut A. E. Heche did the 

 honors in a genial style. 



Prom Marshfield to Ban Claire by the North- 

 western Line is ,|tiite a jump, but my Eau Claire 

 experiences were of the best of the trip. The 

 North Western Lumber Company's offices at 

 Eau Claire and mill at Stanley, Wis., are among 

 the best in Wisconsin. ' Mr. Barber, president of 

 the company, is a very affable gentleman and 

 gave me a very hearty reception. Eau Clair. Is 

 a thriving city anil boasts of a number of fine 

 concerns, among which are the Daniel Shaw 

 Lumber Company, the Kau Claire Bos & Lumber 

 Company, the Dells Lumber Company, the Plo 

 neer Furniture Company, and last but not least, 

 the Phoenix Manufacturing Company. In con- 

 nection with Eau Claire interests is the Chip- 

 pewa Lumber & Boom Company, located at 

 Chippewa Fails, an ideal site tor an ideal firm. 



From Bau' Claire to Stanley is but a short dis- 



' i I L, JOHN It. DAVIS LI MBER COMPANY, 

 PHILLIPS, WIS. 



tance and to make the acquaintance of Ge< 



II. Chapman, mans i ..(" the North Western 

 Limit s plant there, is worth a longer 



trip. ' of iiiis firm are beautifully fin- 



ished in qn .] birch wainscoting with 



basswood celling. The plant at Stanley Is among 

 the largest in Wisconsin and Its general appear- 



ance shows the efficient management of Mr. 

 Chapman. 



At Thorpe I bad the pleasure of meeting 

 Messrs. Busk and Hudson of the Nye, Lusk & 

 Hudson Company, which made up for the dis- 

 comforts of the disagreeable trip by freight train. 

 A two-mile drive to Owen's mills from Witthe 

 behind a pair of bronchos, over a road full of 

 rots, made me "long for home and mother" and 

 hope the wheels would withstand the strain 

 until the end. But the plant of the J. S. Owen 

 Lumber Company repaid for the trip and par- 

 ticularly the acquaintance of A. it. Owen, its 

 • Hi. j.nt manager. A view of the Owen mill 

 accompanies this article, hut it does not do it 

 justice. While at < iwen I ran across a curiosity 

 to oak manufacturers, namely, a slice from the 

 top of a 50-foot white oak log, which measured 

 24 inches in diameter underneath the bark. This 

 was one of the largest logs cut in Wisconsin, a 

 view of which accompanies this article. 



To Winona on the C M. ,\, St. P. and up to 

 St. Paul along the river was among the most 

 beautiful sights of the trip. 



In St. Paul the hardwood contingent com- 

 prises the Abbot! Manufacturing Company, Stan- 

 ton lie Long >V Co., Gribben Lumber Company, 



Hardwood 1 Company, the Lamb Lumber 



Company. 1\ A. Nolan Company, Osgood & 

 Blodgetl Company, A. B. Peterson Company, the 

 St. Paul Sash. Door & Lumber Company and 

 many more. A visit to the Lumber Exchange 

 Building convinces one that lumber interests 

 thrive in Minneapolis. Among the representative 



hardw i firms are the w. C. Bailey Lumber 



ii Barnard & Strickland Company, Os- 

 borne & Clark, I. l'. Lennan, Minneapolis Cedar 

 & Flooring Company, Asa Paine Company. G. II. 

 Tennant Company, B. M. Thompson Company. 

 .in, I c \| McCoy. Minneapolis has many fur 

 nlture manufacturing concerns, one of the largest 

 being the White Enamel Refrigerator Company. 



From St. Paul to Eau Claire by the C. M. & 

 St. P. I traveled; then on the Wisconsin Central 

 to Phillips. Wis., where Is located one of Hie 



finest plain- ..I Wise sin. the John It. Davis 



Lumber Company. P.. W. Davis, manager of the 

 firm, gave me a most courteous welcome, and 

 Mr. lie Marr. superintendent of plant, took me 

 through the saw and planing mills and machine, 

 blacksmith and wagon shops, also through the 

 electric light plant which they operate and 

 which furnishes the electric light to the town. 

 Mr. De Marr also courteously drove me to the 

 company's stock farm, where the pork, beef and 

 wheat used in the winter and summer camps 

 are raised. The John R. Davis Lumber Com- 

 pany is one of ill. largest and finest 1 visited 

 and it*, appearance as a whole speaks for the 

 excellent management of Mr. Davis and Mr. De 

 Marr. Here I had my first ride on a logging 

 train, going twenty miles up Into the woods on 

 the rond operated by the Davis Company, and 

 i he experience was novel and exciting from start 

 to finish. A particularly tine view of the Davis 

 Company's saw mill accompanies this article, 

 as does a No a view of a rollway of their hard- 

 wood logs 



At Butternut I had the pleasure of meeting D. 

 L. Altman, manager of a branch mill of the 

 ]■:. .1. Pfiffner Company of Stevens Point. Wis. 



On the Wisconsin Central Railroad I next 

 visited Glidden and drove four miles to the Nash 

 Lumber Company, located at Shanagolden. Guy 

 \a-ii. manager of the plant, is one of the most 

 genial and courteous of gentlemen. The Nash 

 Company has s nest complete plant and is oper- 

 ating a double i an hand saw. Just for experi- 

 ment I limed a cutting, and from the time a 

 log 22 inches In diameter was put upon the car- 

 riage squared up and reduced to 1-incb and 

 2-inch plank I counted two minutes and forty- 

 two seconds. Rather quick work and very well 

 done. In with the speed of cutting 



I heard a story of a sawyer who came to the 

 Nash Company : nil was put on the night shift. 

 Two days later he was seen at Glidden on the 



SECTION TOP o'l FF.FT WHITE OAK, J. S. 

 OWEN LUMBER COMPANY. 



depot platform about to leave. Knowing the 

 man was an expert sawyer and that the Nash 

 Company only employed such, one of the station 

 men inquired why he left. The fellow evidently 

 was ashamed to tell that he did not like to 

 work so hard. He replied, "Well, the pay was 

 good, but the lights hurt my eyes." A neat way 

 of evading a direct statement that he was not 

 overfond of work. 



My brief visit with Mr. Foster of the Foster- 

 Latimer Company will always be among my 

 pleasant remembrances. The plant of the com- 

 pany is complete in every detail. 



The representative firms of Hurley, Wis., and 

 Ironwood, Mich., are the Scott-Howe Company, 

 the Hager Lumber & Fuel i 'ompany and the 

 Hurley Lumber & Fuel Company. 



At Ithlnelander I made the acquaintance of 

 Charles A Conro, Mi-. Donaldson of the Mason & 

 Donaldson Company, II. G. Robb'.ns of the Rob- 

 bins Lumber Company and C. P. Crosby, and 



HARDWOOD ROLLWAY. JulIN R. DAVIS 

 II MBHR COMPANY. 



also visited the Stevens Company's mill, the 

 Johnson ,V Ilininan Company, Brown Bros. Com- 

 pany and the i.hieal Lumber Company. 



Then by the Northwestern Line to Antigo, 

 where I called upon the Antigo Building Supply 

 Company, the Columbia Manufacturing (.'ompany, 

 Crocker chair Company, Frost Veneer Company, 



