HARDWOOD RECORD 



Lenox Lumber 



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American Lumber & Mfg. Co. 



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HICKORY 

 Oak and Ash 



Dimension Stock for 

 All Purposes 



Gamesville and Gunntown Florida 



Union & Planters Bank Bldg., Memphis, Tenn. 



General Sales and Export Office 



11 Broadway, New York City 



The Modern Pattern Company, 126 Clinton street, Milwaukee, will erect 

 a twostory brick and mill factory addition, 70x70 feet, on Clinton, near 

 Lake street, at an estimated cost of 530,000. 



All machinery and equipment in the new Milwaukee County House of 

 Correction, in the town of Granville, near North Milwaukee, will be 

 equipped with steel safety devices on order of the Industrial Commission 

 of Wisconsin. The principal shops are the chair and woodworking fac- 

 tories. Frank O. Phelps is country clerk and receiving Bids for the 

 mstallation. 



The corporate style of the Wisconsin Couch Company of Ozaukee county, 

 Wisconsin, a subsidiary of the Wisconsin Chair Company. Sheboygan and 

 j'ort Washington, Wis., has been changed to United Phonographs Corpora- 

 tion of Sheboygan. A considerable part of the capacity of the Port Wash- 

 ington, Grafton and Sheboygan plants of the Wisconsin Chair Company has 

 r-een devoted for more than eighteen months to the manufacture of tailing 

 machines and records, and the changes in corporate style will give the 

 phonograph division proper Identity. Otherwise there is no significance 

 in the changes. 



The Standard Manufacturing Company, Appleton, Wis.. has 

 broken ground for a new woodworking plant costing about $75,000, the 

 general contract for which is in the hands of Henry Sprister, 805 Center 

 street, Appleton, Robert O. Schmidt is treasurer of the company. 



The Sawyer-Goodman Company, the J. W. Wells Lumber Company and 

 the Spies-Thompson Company, the principal sawmill concerns of Marinette, 

 Wis., and Menominee, Mich., have voluntarily increased the wages of all 

 men 25 cents a day. The advance affects a total of more than 900 men 

 and will cover the entire month of April. The minimum wage in the three 

 plants goes to $2.75 a day by virtue of the raise. Other employers in the 

 Twin" Cities are expected to do likewise. 



Spring showers last week put an end to forest fires in the vicinity of 

 GUdden, Wis., which for several days threatened to assume serious pro- 

 portions. So far as known, no other forest fires of consequence have 

 broken out in northern Wisconsin so far this year. 



The Michigan Hoop & Stave Company. Marinette, Wis., is being rehabili- 

 tated by Marinette and Sturgeon Bay (Wis.) capital, which will provide 

 ample working funds so that the plant on Witbeck island may resume 

 operations shortly. The factory has been closed for the past year, since 

 The death of Oscar Lyon, Menominee, chief owner, and the company has 

 been in liquidation. 



Henry McGann. Chippewa Falls. Wis., has practically finished the log- 

 ging of pine and other soft wood timber in the vicinity of GUdden. Wis., 

 and beginning next fall will log the extensive stand of hardwood timber 

 m this district. During the past winter Mr. McGann logged 2.000,000 feet 

 of white pine, the last of this grade in the vicinity. All hardwood has 

 been left standing until the softwoods were logged. 



The Kellogg Lumber Company has placed Its big mill at Antigo, Wis., 

 in full operation for the spring and summer season. The mill is not 

 equipped for winter sawing. The season's production is not expected to 

 exceed more than 70 per cent of normal, due to the reduction of log input 

 by reason of labor shortage and extreme weather. 



The Colby Cheese Box & Silo Company. Colby. Wis., has completed its 

 season's sawmill run and as usual the mill will be closed until fall. The 

 mill production during the winter was somewhat larger than normal 

 because of the urgent demand for box veneers, silo staves and other 

 material. 



Fire believed to have been of incendiary origin was discovered in a pile 

 of green hardwood blocks at the plant of the Appleton Toy & Furniture 

 Company. Appleton, Wis., at 3 :30 o'clock in the morning, but exUngnislied 

 with only a nominal loss by the night watchman. \ similar attempt to 

 destroy the factory was made several nights before. The state fire mar- 

 shalls office and local police are making an investigation. 



The John Schroeder Lumber Company, Milwaukee, resumed operations 

 of its big sawmill at Ashland, Wis., on April 15. and expects to maintain 

 continuous running until Chequamegon Bay freezes next fall. Nearly 

 :ill mill employes of last season were back on the job when the mill 

 opened, but the company is not planning to run a night shift this season 

 •ecause of the lack of men, car shortage and other conditions regarded as 

 mfavorable to maximum capacity production. 



The Rice Lake Lumber Company, Rice Lake, Wis., encountered slight 

 labor trouble recently when the teamsters demanded extra pay for caring 

 ior their horses on Sundays. The trouble has been adjusted to the mutual 

 satisfaction of the company and men, and the interruption of operations 

 was negligible. 



The St. Croix River Boom Company, Hudson, Wis., is operating a con- 

 siderable number of portable sawmills along the St. Croix river to con- 

 vert deadheads into marketable lumber. It is estimated that there are 

 at least .->.i.0on.000 feet of logs at the bottom of the St. Crots which the 

 company expects to recover and saw during the next few years. 



George Wunderlich. .\ntigo. Wis., bid in the property of the defunct 

 C. H. Krause Lumber Company of that cify at the public sale conducted 

 by T. J. Itoberts. receiver, on April 13. The plant and real estate brought 

 S2.000 alove the encumbrance, which brought the cost to $9,700. The 

 lumber .stores in the yard was bid in for $2,500, and the office fixtures at 

 $250. Tb.- sale is subject to confirmation by the referee in bankruptcy. 

 Stanuia. Hirers an.l business men of Milwaukee on April 15 established 

 a MilwaiiK.. Industrial Bureau at 900 F street X. W.. in Washington, 



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