HARDWOOD RECORD 



May 10, 1918 



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 mous output. 

 Low labor cost. 



Tko Pliiladelplua 



Toztile 



Machinery Co. 



Mutual Fire Insurance 



Best Indemnity at Lowest Net Cost 

 Can Be Obtained From 



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 bernien's Mutual Insurance Company, 

 sylvanla Lumbermen's Mutual 



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The Central Manufact 



Boston, Mass 



insfield. Ohio 



Philadelphia, Pa 



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Swain-Roach Lbr. Co. 



SEYMOUR, IND. 

 We Manufacture '■ 



White Oak Elm Ash 



Red Oak Maple Walnut 



Poplar Gum Cherry 



Hickory Sycamore Chestnut, Etc. 



1 car 6/4 Hard Maple; 3 cars 8/4 Hard Maple; Vi car 10/4 Hard 

 Maple; 'A car 10/4 Soft Maple; Yi car 10/4 Plain Oak; Vi car 12/4 

 Plain Oak; 1 car 8/4 No. 2 com. Gum; 1 car 4/4 Log Run Quartered 

 Sycamore; 1 car 3/8 ists and 2ds Plain Oak. 



At Two Band Mills 



STRAIGHT or MIXED CARLOADS 



PROMPT SHIPMENT 



The Tegge Lumber Gol 



High Grade 



Northern and Southern 



Hardwoods and Mahogany 



Specialties 



OAK, MAPLE, CYPRESS, POPLAR 

 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 



extensive improrements and enlargements and will build steel in addition 

 to wooden boats for the government. Hubert Riesen is general manager. 



The B. Heinemann Lumber Company, Wausau, will remodel a business 

 block in that city into a modern office building for its own purposes. 



The Chas. W. Fish Lumber Company, Birnamwood, Elcho and Antlgo, 

 has purchased seventeen acres adjoining its Antigo mill and yard site to 

 provide much-needed room for storage and piling room. 



The Cream City Casket Company, Milwaukee, will erect a one-story 

 brick and mill addition to its factory at Thirty-second and Cherry streets. 

 It will be 40x120 feet in size and cost about $15,000 with equipment. 



The John Schroeder Lumber Company, Milwaukee and Ashland, Wis., will 

 start work at once on the erection of a one-story addition to the big wood- 

 working plant operated in connection with its main yards at Walnut street 

 and Pleasant street bridge, Milwaukee. The addition will be equipped as a 

 sawmill to furnish material to the Interior woodwork, box, specialty and 

 sash and door mills. B. F. Springer is manager of the manufaeturlng 

 department. 



The Sawyer-Goodman Company's No. 2 mill at Marinette, Wis., was 

 seriously threatened with destruction by fire on April 30. Prompt work 

 kept the loss down to about 8,000 feet of lumber in the yard. 



The Home Company, Clintonville, organized some time ago to finance 

 the construction of workingmen's dwellings to relieve the acute shortage 

 of housing accommodations, has let contracts for building the first lot of 

 twelve houses. Leading manufacturers of the city are behind the move- 



A. G. Preston, Portage, has purchased the Kershaw sawmill at Wyocena, 

 Wis., and has moved it to Randolph, Wis., where it is being used to saw 

 hardwood logs for the Randolph Wagon Company and also doing custom 

 sawing of hardwoods for farmers of the vicinity. 



The Peshtigo Lumber Company, Peshtigo, Wis., has disposed of its entire 

 property to a new company of Fox River Valley capitalists which Intends 

 to convert the sawmill, planing mill and auxiliary buildings into a sulphite 

 and pulp mill. 



The Dunphy Boat Building Works, Eau Claire, is completing work on a 

 government contract calling for fifty-three motor-driven yawls for coast 

 defense service. Further contracts will be placed as soon as the initial 

 order is delivered. 



Employers of Racine, Wis., have taken the first steps toward the organi- 

 zation of a bureau in connection with the Racine Commercial Club, which 

 is to construct homes for workingmen to relieve the great shortage ot 

 dwellings. In this manner it is hoped to fill up the depleted ranks of 

 industry, as under present conditions it is extremely diflScult to attract 

 labor. 



The Rice Lake Lumber Company, Rice Lake, Wis., resumed operations 

 ot its big sawmill on Alay 1 after a lapse of nearly three weeks due to 

 labor difficulties. Differences between the company and the men have 

 l)een adjusted to mutual satisfaction, largely through the mediation ot 

 federal agents. 



Navigation at the ports of Marinette, Wis., and Menominee, Mich., opened 

 April 24 when the steamer Louis Pahlow cleared with a cargo ot lumber 

 from the N. Ludington Company docks for Chicago. 



The John Schroeder Lumber Company, Milwaukee, was obliged to close 

 its sawmill at Ashland, Wis., for a day to adjust a walkout of lumber pliers, 

 who demanded an increase from $3.50 to $3.75 per day. The increase was 

 granted. , 



The Wisconsin Shipbuilding & Navigation Corporation, Milwaukee, has 

 been organized by leading business men of the city to establish a large 

 shipyard in Milwaukee harbor for the purpose of assisting the govern- 

 ment's emergency fieet program. The capital stock of the new company 

 is $5,000,000, and it prposes to build both wooden and steel ships of 

 Welland canal size for transfer from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic ocean. 

 Among those heavily interested in the company is George T. Johnson, presi- 

 dent and treasurer of the Johnson Lumber Company, Milwaukee. L. J. 

 Petit and Fred Vogel, Jr., leading Milwaukee bankers, have offered the free 

 use of a twenty-acre site near the mouth of the Kinnickinnic river, which 

 is considered ideal for shipyard purposes. 



Lumber pliers in the sawmills located at Rhinelander walked out on 

 the morning of May 1 to enforce a demand for an increase of fifty cents 

 a day in wages. The men have been receiving $3.50 and wanted $3.75. 

 The trouble was adjusted within a few hours and the men went back to 

 work in the afternoon. It is understood that one-half of the advance was 

 granted. 



The Trego Lumber Company, Trego, Douglas county. Wis., has reopened 

 its sawmill tor the season and expects to exceed the best previous record 

 of output, due to the broad demand for lumber. 



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