December 



192(1 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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having beeu issued for only 50G residences, bungalows and cottages and 

 145 duplex flats, not including 16 buildings combining stores and apart- 

 ments. 



Tbe Rice Lake Hub & Spoke Works at Rice Lake is overhauling Its 

 factory and enlarging Its power plant. Including the construction of a 

 larger smokestack and the Installation of a new boiler and some other 

 equipment. The concern expects to resume operations immediately after 

 .Tan. 1 on a much larger production schedule than heretofore. 



The Miller Manufacturing Company of Marinette, which built a new 

 sash, door and millwork factory during the past year in place of the plant 

 which was destroyed by fire in 1018, is so crowded for capacity that it 

 will begin work at once on a 60-foot addition. The factory is running at 

 normal capacity and has contracts enough to keep up this schedule until 

 early spring. It recently was awarded a $50,000 contract for the mill- 

 work and trim on a new high school at Oconto, Wis., and numerous other 

 church and school work is on the books. 



The A, P. Christensen sawmill at Anacker, Columbia county, is I»eing 

 operated at capacity to till orders for home-grown red and white oak 

 stock, logged in the vicinity. The mill recently shipped two full carloads 

 to the Randolph Wagons Works at Randolph for hubs, spokes and general 

 vehicle material. At the present rate of production the oak timber supply 

 in Columbia county and vicinity is adequate to keep the Christensen mill 

 ■busy for a number of years forward. 



The American Toy Company of Marinette has engaged Derrick Hubert, 

 architect, Menominee, Mich., to prepare plans for a new factory to cost 

 about .$40,000, including the additional equipment which will be required. 

 Work probably will start early in the spring. M. Haslanger, president 

 of the Marinette & Menominee Box & Lumber Company, is head of the 

 toy enterprise. 



Louis R. Schmidt, president of the Standard Manufacturing Company 

 of Appleton, a large woodworking concern, died Dec. 13 after a l)rief illness 

 from pneumonia. He also was heavily interested in the Combination Door 

 Company of Fond du Lac and the Standard Body Company of Appleton. 



News comes from the Upper Peninsula tliat the Consolidated Lumber 

 ■Company, of which Leo C. Harmon is president, has closed its sawmill at 

 Manistique. Mich., permanently. It will be sold as it stands or be dis- 

 mantled. The reason for the action is that the mill is now far removed 

 from the company's tlmberlands and the long haul of logs has caused 

 operations to be conducted at a loss for some time past. The Consolidated 

 is the oldest concern of its kind in Manistique. and one of the oldest lumber 

 manufacturers in the Upper Pennisula. it having been established in the 

 *arly days of the Civil War period. 



The application of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company 

 ■for a revision of existing rates for hauling logs was the cause of a hearing 

 held in the Federal building at Milwaukee recently, when representatives 

 of lumber manufacturers in Wisconsin and Upper Michigan appeared before 

 an examiner of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The new tariffs 

 ■sought by the railroad, it was stated by the witnesses, would advance the 

 <;ost of transporting logs from !i!,S to $.H.50 per thousand feet above the 

 recent general increase of .?5 per cent in freight rates. The railroad in 

 Its petition asks abrogation of the present tariffs and substitution in their 

 stead of rates based on weight. The present rates are computed according 

 to the number of feet and distance carried. The lumber operators -were 

 represented at the hearing by F. M. Elkinton of Milwaukee. Companies 

 operating in Green Bay. Marinette, Menasha, Kiel, Wis., and Menominee 

 and Ontonagon, Jlich.. were represented. A report of the hearing will be 

 forwarded to the Interstate Commerce Commission at Washington, which 

 ■will take the petition under advisement and announce its decision later. 



The Hardwood Market 



CHICAGO 



The hardwood market is experiencing the usual holiday season curtail- 

 ment of activity in addition to the depression which already gripped it. 

 Only the smallest amount of business has been transacted in the past 

 week or two, though inquiries have been numerous from all sources of 

 demand. This Is taken to indicate, however, not the intention to buy, 

 but merely the curiosity to. determine the market price of hardwoods for 

 inventory purposes. The market is not expected to reach its pivotal point 

 until after the first of the year, when the consuming industries and 

 dealers start on tJieir new .year schedules. In the meantime reports of 

 further huge curtailment of production, in both northern and southern 

 territories continue to pour in. 



MEMPHIS 



Further curtailment of hardwood lumber production has taken place 

 during the past fortnight, and it is regarded as certain that, with other 

 mills to close down before the end of the year, output during the first 

 part of 1921 will be not more than 10 to 15 percent of normal. Some of 

 the large.^t plants in the Memphis territory have gone out of commission 



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