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in Louisville, occupying a site formerly used as part of the lumber yard o£ 

 the Edw. L. Davis Lumber Company. 



The rules of the Southern Logging Association have been secured by local 

 log buyers, jind It is expected that they will be adopted for use In that 

 connection. 



The Iventucky court of appeals has held that the city cannot exempt new- 

 industries from paying the school tax, which is a state levy, though col- 

 lected by the municipality. The decision was rendered in the case of the 

 North Vernon Lumber Company, whose Louisville sawmill was exempted 

 from city taxation under the ordinance intended to attract new plants. 



The Parkland Sawmill Company expects to have its mill at Beech and 

 Woodland avenues running by April 1. Charles Talbot is now busy putting 

 it in shape and getting logs for its operations. Manufacturing flitches for 

 the veneer trade will probably be a specialty. 



Forest fires in Pike county, Kentucky, l.nst week did considerable damage, 

 but were finally extinguished without spreading beyond the area where 

 they first originated. The flre wardens of the state forestry department dirt 

 good work in fighting the flames. 



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The John Schroeder Lumber Company of Milwaukee, operating a large 

 sawmill at Ashland, Wis., expects to put in approximately 10,000,000 feet of 

 hardwood and hemlock on Stockton island this winter. It has had three 

 camps in operation on the island since last fall, employing about 300 men. 



The Morgan Lumber Company, well-known sash and door and lumber 

 manufacturing concern of Oshkosh, Wis., has completed plans for the erec- 

 tion of another new factory building. The structure will be fireproof, three 

 stories high, S0xl94 feet in dimensions, and will cost about .$25,000. 



The Phoenix Manufacturing Company of Eau Claire, Wis., manufacturer 

 of sawmill equipment, has increased its capital stock from $200,000 to 

 $250,000. 



The Shawanee Lumber Company has been incorporated at Randolph, Wis., 

 with a capital stock of !f4,100 by Milan R. SutlifE, Jennie B. Sutliff, S. O. 

 Jones and Ralph E. Wagner. 



The Faust Lumber Company of Antigo, Wis., has increased its capital 

 stock from $100,000 to $125,000. 



The Schmidt & Stork Wagon Company of West Bend, Wis., has been Incor- 

 porated with a capital stock of $55,000 by Fred Schmidt, Fred Stork and 

 August C. Fuge. The business was formerly conducted under the firm name 

 of Schmidt & Stork. 



The N. Ludington Company of Marinette, Wis., recently cut six Norway 

 pine poles, each 72 feet long with a 27-inch butt and 19-inch top, to be 

 used at the plant of the Pike River Granite Company. The strip of timber 

 near Wausaukee, from which the poles were cut, is considered one of the 

 finest pieces of Norway pine in the countr.v. 



John F. Ross and M. P. McCullough, two well-known Wisconsin lumber- 

 men, oflieials of the Brooks & Ross Lumber Company of Schofield, Wis., were 

 among the incorporators of the Builders' Lumber Compan.v, just launched 

 at Wausau, Wis., with a capital stock of $25,000, to conduct a lumber and 

 general building material business. Officers have been elected as follows : 

 President, W. H. Thom ; vice-president, John F. Ross ; secretary and treas- 

 urer, M. P. McCullough. 



Kopplin & Kopplin of Iron River, Wis., are erecting a new sawmill, adjoin- 

 ing their planing mill and power house. The company has a large supply 

 of logs on hand and expects to have the new plant ready for operation by 

 May 1. 



William Marik, operating a woodenware and furniture plant at Sturgeon 

 Bay, Wis., has completed plans for erecting an addition, 30x40 feet, to his 

 factory next spring. 



It is reported from Peshtigo, Wis., that the Peshtigo Lumber Company has 

 sold 40,000,000 feet of standing timber to the J. W. Wells Lumber Company 

 of Menominee, Mich. The timber, which will be sawed at the Wells mill in 

 Menominee, will prolong the operation of the plant for several years. 



The general otiices of the H. S. Thompson Lumber Company have been 

 moved to New Richmond, Wis., where the company operates a yard. The 

 concern has another yard at Mondovi, Wis. H. S. Thompson will move from 

 Minneapolis to New Richmond. 



The Arpin Lumber Company of Grand Rapids, Wis., Is branching out in 

 the retail lumber business and has established yards at Bruce, Exeland, 

 Glen Flora and Tony, Wis. D. J. Arpin, Jr., is the active manager of this 

 phase of the company's business. 



Nathan Paine, vice-president of the Paine Lumber Company of Oshkosh, 

 Wis., operating one of the largest sash and door plants in the world, has 

 denied the rumor that the company contemplates selling its output or its 

 plant to Sears, Roebuck & Co. of Chicago. lie says that no change in the 

 company will be made, and that it will continue to manufacture Its goods 

 as In the past. 



Fred A. Diekmann. president of the Diekmann Manufacturing Company, 

 Green Bay, Wis., died on March 5, following an operation, at the age of 

 Blxtv-two vears. Mr. Dieckmann was born in Germany in 1853 and emi- 

 grated to the United States In 1870. He is survived by his widow and three 

 daughters. 



Senator Isaac Stephenson, prominent lumberman of Marinette, Wis., re- 

 ceived the greatest ovation in his life on March 9, when he returned to 

 Marinette after the adjournment of Congress, which marked the end of his 

 term as senator. The whole city turned out to meet him and conducted the 



HartUvood logs on the way from th- 

 woods to the mill 



Dry Birch 



We have on our yards located at Rib Lake, Wi.s- 

 con.sin, at the oresent time, one million feet of 

 dry 4/4 No. 1 Common and Better Birch, 500 M 

 feet of 4/4 No. 2 Common, 600 M feet of 4/4 

 No. 3 Common. All of this stock was sawn 

 during- the winter of 1913-1914; and is, therefore, 

 absolutely dry. This stock was band sawn, full 

 thickness, and well manufactured. 



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