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HARDWOOD RECORD 



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To the Owner of 

 Timber Lands 



Far sighted owners of timber 

 lands will take advantage of the 

 times, incident to the European 

 wars, and prepare themselves for 

 the day when the demand for tim- 

 ber is suddenly thrust upon them. 

 It is certain to come at no distant 

 time. Therefore the wise man will 

 cultivate a closer acquaintance with 

 his holdings and the best method 

 of marketing them. Guessing on 

 the quality and price will only lead 

 to complications and possible fail- 

 ure. Let us prepare the way for you. 



Remember, we not only report 

 with absolute accuracy, but assist 

 in selling your property, if desired. 



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L. E. CAMPBELL LUMBER CO. 



Cruiting and Engineering Department 

 2234 Dime Bank Bldg., UKTKOIT, .Ml( It, 



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urraugiiig tin; data so tliat there will not lie .<in much accumulative 

 evidence presented and it Is thought that only a few hardwood lumbermen 

 w^iU be put on the .stand. The.v will show that the lumber business 

 is in such a r<inditlon that it cannot stand the proposed rate increase. 



According to iin advance bulletin given out a few dnvs ago by the 

 lUirean of Ijibor Slatistks. Missouri last .vear stood fiist in the quality 

 and value of sycamore lumber, fourth for cottonwood, and fifth for 

 walnut and elm lumber. There were 1,210 sawmills which operated in 

 Missouri last year, and statistics from these for the year showed the 

 lumber output for the fiscal year was 422,470,0()() feet, which, at an 

 average price of I$1S.2.">, was worth $7,710,078. Missouri held a higher 

 rank and produced more lumber a few years ago than it does now. This 

 was before the vast fertile area of Dunklin, I'emiscott and New Madrid 

 counties bad been turned into cotton plantations, they then being cov- 

 ered with heavy growths of cottonwood, sycamore, cypress, elm, oak 

 and other lumber which prevails in Missouri. The high water mark 

 year for the state was probably 1S99, when 723,7.">4.000 feet of lumber 

 was marketed. In 1900, 719,968 feet was cut and sold. In 1909, there 

 was a revival of the lumber industry for Missouri, 660,159,000 feet being 

 marketed that year. 



The hardwoods utilized for lumber arc oak, maple, red gum, tulip 

 poplar, beech, birch, ixisswood, hickory, elm, ash, cottonwood. tupelo 

 and walnut. More oak is cat for lumber In Missouri than any other 

 lumber. Missouri ranks first for red gum cooperage, but it is surpassed 

 by several other states in the output of red gum lumber. .Sycamore 

 lumber is produced by twenty-eight states, Missouri having produced 

 in the year under consideration, nearly one-sixtli of the entire output 

 of the country. The production is fairly constant from year to year, 

 Missouri in 1914 supplied 8,223,000 feet. 



Of cypress there was marketed 24,146,000 feet, cedar, 4,2S5,000 feet, 

 oak 200,147,000 feet, maple 9,557,000 feet, red gum, 54,564,000 feet, 

 tulip poplar 1,470,000 feet, beech 170.000 feet, birch l.O.'JS.OOO feet, bass- 

 wood 407,000 feet, hickory, 4,060,000 feet, gum 22,279,000 feet, ash 

 6,298,000 feet, cottonwood 11,967,000 feet, tupelo 4,002,000 feet, syca- 

 more 8,223,000 feet, walnut 4,035,000 feet and miscellaneous 562,000 feet. 



L. E. Cornelius, who has been manager of the cypress department of 

 the Chicago Lumber and Coal Company for the past ten years and 

 connected with the company for twelve years, will leave the company 

 on March 1 to go into business for himself. He will handle the output 

 of some four or five southern hardwood mills. He is now down in 

 the hardwood producing territory, visiting the mills he will represent. 

 Kobert P'ullerton, Jr., will succeed him as manager of the cypress depart- 

 ment. 



The .Se.Ksmith-Gorraan Lumber Company lias been organized at Wausau, 

 M'is., to carry on a general wholesale business in lumber. Lamar Sex- 

 smith is president, I<"red L. Sexsmith, vice-president and Walter Gorman, 

 secretary and treasurer. 



The Phoenix Furniture Company of Eau Claire, Wis., has been secur- 

 ing an unusually large number of orders tor new equipment from various 

 banking concerns about the country. Among them was an order from 

 the First National bank of Menomonie, Wis., tor ?10,000 worth of new 

 fixtures. 



W. H. Uatten, head of the Ilatten Lumber Company of New London, 

 Wis., well-known political leader of Wisconsin, has returned from a trip 

 through the South, where he looked after his lumber interests in Alabama 

 and Mississippi. He said that the southern lumbermen are looking for 

 better business soon. 



The Montana Wauraandee Railway Company, with headquarters at 

 -Vlma, Wis., is advertising through F. D. Brandenberg, general manager, 

 for 25,000 ties' for construction of a road of standard and regular dimen- 

 sions. 



The Heineman Lumber Company of Merrill. Wis., has placed its plant 

 in operation after a closedown for necessary repairs. The Jacob Morten- 

 son I^umber Compan.v of Wausau. Wis., has again placed its sawmill on 

 a day and night shift. It is said that the company has about 8,000,000 

 feet of logs on hand. The Keith & Hilos Lumber Company of Crandon 

 placed its mill in operation on' February 15. The Faust Lumber Com- 

 pany of Antigo has resumed operations at its sawmill. 



The MacKinnon Manufacturing Company of Grand Rapids, Wis., has 

 increased its capital stock from ?50,000 to $100,000 and will increase 

 its wagon output to -00 wagons per month. 



The Wisconsin Seating Company of New London, Wis., has moved its 

 office force into the new quarters on the second floor of the new three- 

 story addition. Handsome new furnishings have been installed. 



O. E. Gram, head of the accounting and credit department of the 

 Phoenix Chair Company of Sheboygan, Wis., for the past nine years, has 

 resigned to Join the Crocker Chair Company. 



The Shawano Hub Company, recently incorporated at Shawano, Wis., 

 with a capital stock of .?40.000, has completed its organization by the 

 election of the following officers : President, George Harding ; vice-presi- 

 dent. Albert Trathen: secretary-treasurer. T. S. Davis. The officers, 

 together with W. C. Landon of Wausau and .\. N. Hazelton, are the di- 

 rectors. A site lias been donated by the business men of Shawano and 

 work on the erection of a plant has been started. 



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John J. Comerford has been elected president of the Detroit Lumber 

 Company, the largest retail lumber company in Detroit, to fill the vacancy 

 caused by the recent death of Edwin L. Thompson. In connection with 

 the election of Mr. Comerford, Henry Otis, former treasurer of the com- 

 I)any, becomes vice-president and general manager. Christian H. Hecker, 

 former secretary, becomes secretary and treasurer. The officers and Col. 

 Frank Hecker constitute the board of directors. 



The plant of the Williams Brothers Company at Cadillac is busy on au 

 order of 100,000 rough "ten pins" to be used In a big howling touruey at 

 Peoria, ill. The order comes from the Brunswlck-Baike-Collender Com- 

 pany. • 



Frank W. Squier, prominent Grand Rapids lumberman, died at his 

 liome in that city at the age of sixty-two years. He settled in Michigan 

 at an early age and was connected with Charles B. Kelsey and other 

 (irand Rapids men in the formation of the United Tanners' Lumber Com- 

 pany, of which he became president. Before that time he made many 

 profitable investments in Michigan timber and later acquired considerable 

 holdings in the South and West. 



David S. Shaw, one of the pioneer -Michigan lumbermen, died at the 

 home of his daughter, Mrs. Ross Holmes, at Detroit, at the age of ninety- 

 five years. He retired thirty years ago, at which time he was connected 

 with Rogers & Jenness. then among the large lumber firms. 



The Traverse City Wagon Works has just paid $100 for lumber pro 

 duced from one ash tree, cut in Grand Traverse county. It is thought 

 that it was the last tree of its size in the county. It stood 90 feet high 

 and produced six 12-foot logs, amounting to 2,300 feet. Officials of the 

 wagon works claim it was the most perfect tree ever found in the Grand 

 Traverse section. 



The mammcth new sawmill of Jackson & Tindle, erected at Pellston 

 to replace a mill destroyed by fire several months ago, is completed and 

 will shortly commence operations. It is modern throughout and is 

 equipped with a main drive belt 133 feet long and 4 feet wide. The R. A. 

 Darling planing mill at Pellston will also begin operations shortly. 



The Langeland Manufacturing Company at Muskegon has commenced 

 the erection of a new Uooring plant. Its capacity will be 6,000 feet of 

 flooring per day. Oak, maple, beech and birch flooring will be manufac- 

 tured. 



The Cadillac Cabinet & Construction Company of Cadillac has added 

 another wood product to those already manufactured in that city. It has 

 taken a contract to manufacture 1,000 washing machines for the Florin 

 Washing Xtachine Company of Stanton, Mich. 



The I. E. Dupont de Nemours Company is constructing a plant at Bay 

 City to innniifflctiire .ncntone, a chemical heretofore made in Germany. 



