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were necessary for twenty-one months and ten days. Work will be 

 resumed early this month. 



T. Koba and I. Saito, the two Japanese lumber experts who are visiting 

 this country, Investigating the lumber industry, were in Milwaukee re- 

 cently. Mr. Koba and Mr. Saito expected to visit many of the leading 

 sawmills of Wisconsin. 



The sawmill and planing. mill of the Stolle Lumber Company at Tripoli, 

 near Merrill, Wis., were destroyed by fire recently. The origin of the 

 blaze is unknown. About 100 men are thrown out of employment. 



Edward Prein and his brother, Joseph Prein, are erecting a plant at 

 Chelsea, Wis., for the manufacture of butter tubs and similar lines. The 

 building will be 40x60 feet in dimensions and will be equipped with 

 modern machinery. 



The Flambeau Kiver Lumber Company recently purchased from Melvin 

 Nye, president of the Nye, Lusk & Hudson Company of Thorp, Wis., the 

 logging railroad, running northeast from Crane, a distance of about nine 

 miles. Considerable valuable timber acreage was included in the deal. 



The bids of the J. S. Stearns Lumber Company of Ashland and the 

 Bell Lumber Company of Minneapolis were accepted at the council of the 

 Indians of the Odanah reservation, held recently to consider the awarding 

 of contracts for cutting timber on the reservation. The Stearns company 

 submitted two bids, one on the cedar and the other on the timber in its 

 entirety. The Bell company offered a bid on the cedar. It was voted to 

 accept the Stearns bid ou all the timber exclusive of the cedar and the 

 Bell people's bid on the cedar. 



The John Schroeder Lumber Company of Milwaukee is making various 

 improvements to its planing mill at Ashland. An addition, 24x80 feet 

 In dimensions, is being erected and considerable new equipment will be 

 installed in the plant. The working: force at the mill will be increased. 

 More than 600 abstracts were required for the transfer of the Paine 

 Lumber Company timberlands in Lauglade county to the Foster-Latimer 

 company. The abstracts conveyed 52,000 acres, about one-tenth of the 

 area of the county. The value of the timber on the land is estimated to 

 be about $750,000. 



The Wachsmuth Lumber Company of Bayfield, Wis., expects to log 

 about 16,000,000 feet of lumber this winter. The company will employ 

 about 350 men at its camps on the peninsula. 



The Cook & Brown Lime Company of Oshkosh, Wis., has purchased the 

 Radford Brothers & Company sawmill site in that city and has removed 

 the mill for the purpose of establishing a brick manufacturing plant and 

 .vards on the property. The removal of the Radford sawmill marks the 

 passing of one of the old lumber landmarks of O.shkosh. 



The Langlade Lumber Company of Milwaukee has Just been Incorporated 

 with a capital stock of $1,200,000 by William C. Quarles, John A. Dietrich 

 and Julian Olds of Milwaukee. According to Mr. Quarles. the 52,000 acres 

 of timberland in Langlade county, formerly owned by the Paine Lumber 

 Company of Oshkosh, will be opened at once, although all the plans of 

 the new company have not been announced as yet. 



The s-awmill of the Willow River Lumber Company at Hayward, Wis., 

 which has been closed for several months, will be placed in operation soon 

 and will start on the hardwood cut. The Mortenson Lumber Company 

 of Wausau has placed its sawmill in operation on a day and night shift. 

 The company has logs enough on hand to keep the plant in operation for 

 at least eleven months. The sawmill of the Kingsbury & Henshaw Com- 

 pany at Antigo has been placed in operation. The company recently 

 purchased a large tract of timber'and from the Union Lime Company. 



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Factory and yard inventories have revealed a marked raggedness of 

 stocks which must be filled to take care of the necessar.v demands which 

 are growing constantly. Local lumbermen went through December with 

 very little ill effects from inventories, as both factories and yards showed 

 -a continued disposition to take on a reasonable amount of lumber while 

 buying was still comparatively good. It is expected there will be a slight 

 easing during January, although local reports from the furniture shows 

 give assurance that the hesitation will be nominal. There is nothing in 

 the immediate prospect to mar the outlook for excellent trade throughout 

 1916. 



The local hardwood market has evidently emerged from the dark days, 

 and views the future with more optimism than at any time in the last 

 several years. The year just closed was one of unusual experiences but 

 may be summed up as generally a bad year. Strange to say, the volume 

 of lumber dealt in was not so far below better years, but there was so 

 much lumber obtainable at such low prices that the margin was cut so 

 that trading became frequently a matter of swapping dollars. The future 

 promises a change and unless something now unforeseen comes up the 



You Can See Logs Like These 

 on Our Yard Any Day 



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p. O. Box 1015 



VENEER AND LUMBER 

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Memphis, Tenn. 



MANUFACTURERS 



Hardwood Lumber, Rotary Cat 

 Veneers, Rotary Cat Gum Faces, 

 Cross Banding and Cores. 



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