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HARDWOOD RECORD 



gerated. Owing to heavy rains and high water 

 logging in the bottoms is practically at a stand- 

 still. Most of the mills have had to shut down 

 much earlier than usual, and as there is little 

 prospect of better conditions for some time to 

 come, the mills are going to have a very scanty 

 log supply. There is very little dry stock to be 

 had. In northern territory he reports quite a 

 brisk demand for factory stocks, coming at a 

 time when business is usually very dull. This 

 Mr. Smith attributes to the fact that dry lum- 

 ber is scarce and that wise buyers are getting 

 Heir orders in early to make sure of getting 

 what they waut. 



Considerable building is still in progress in 

 the Twin Cities and the sash and door factories 

 continue to deliver quantities of finish. Floor- 

 ing is also an active article. The permits issued 

 in November by the Minneapolis building in- 

 spector had a total value of .$549,130, while 

 St Paul showed a total of $570,249. The total 

 for eleven months in Minneapolis was $8,983,4 10 

 compared with $8,499,540 in the same period 

 last year. St. Paul's record was $6,534,890, 

 compared with $5,942,700 iu the eleven months 

 of 1005. 



D. F. Clark of Osborne & Clark, local whole 

 salers, the new president of the Northwestern 

 Hardwood Lumbermen's Association, says there 

 is a strong tendency on the part of dealers to 

 contract for green lumber, and that a consider- 

 able portion of the new cu1 has already I n 



sold. The indications are that the production 

 ,,1 northern hardwood will fall off, and there is 

 a very fair demand for dry stock, which is not 

 abundant. 



The St. Croix River Lumber Company of St. 

 Taul is about to build a new planing mill in 

 that city, a brick structure with the latest im- 

 proved machinery. 



The Learned Lumber Company is the name of 

 a new concern established in Minneapolis to do 

 a general wholesale lumber business. G. A". 

 .Learned and C. E. Learned are at the head of 

 the enterprise. Both have till recently been con 

 luihd with the Bruce-Edgerton Lumber Com- 

 pany of this city, line yard operators, one as 

 buyer and the other as manager at Sioux Falls. 



The Northwestern Cedarmen's Association has 

 voted to hold its annual meeting January S in 

 Duluth. • 



The Minneapolis cedar & Lumber Company, 

 dealers in white > ■■■■Lir I hardwoods, have re- 

 moved their offices in (his city to the tilth floor 

 of the Lumber Exchange, where they have se- 

 cured larger space. 



Toledo. 



The Milburn Wagon Company and the Wit- 

 ter Manufacturing Company were the ouly 

 two concerns to suffer by fire during the 

 year. Both concerns have rebuilt for in- 

 creased capacity. The Buckeye Parlor Furni- 

 ture Company are contemplating erecting' a 

 big plant during the coming year in the south 

 part of the city. 



For two weeks during the month, a grand 

 jury groped about to unearth a national lum- 

 ber trust during the session held at Lima. O. 

 No convicting evidence could be found that 

 would implicate local lumber dealers of that 

 town, but the prosecuting attorney believes that 

 the trust is higher up the ladder, among the 

 owners of stumpage and wholesalers. 



G. B. Stlne. of - the Belcher Stine Lumber 

 Company, which concern is sawing up a tine 

 tract of oak and other timber at Belcher. Ark., 

 is here (o spend the holidays with his family. 



T. L. La Doux will have charge of the Mason- 

 Donaldson Lumber Company's office in Rhine- 

 lander after January 1. 



Braun Bros, of Athens will install six ma- 

 chines in their plant for the manufacture of 

 hardwood phius. used in paper mills to roll 

 paper on. Two and one-half million will be 

 manufactured the first year. 



George W. Price of Wonewoc will move the 

 machinery of his plant to Crandon, where b* 

 will manufacture cross arms and pins for tele- 

 graph poles. Elm will be used. 



The I'. MacKinnon Manufacturing Company 

 01 Grand Rapids has installed hub manufacture 

 ing machines in its plant, which will be op- 

 era i ed all winter. The company has a large 

 stock of logs. 



('. A. Goodyear, who operates a mill and has 

 large hardwood yards in Toman, was recently 

 married to Mis. Emma A. McBean in Chicago. 



The Yawkey Itisseli Lumber Company of Ilaz- 

 i linn st has opened an office iu Chicago, in 

 charge of Edward Deschamps. 



As a result of a recent purchase of timber 

 lands. Edward Lynch of Grand Rapids has 

 resumed operations at his mills in Milladore. 

 The purchase was made from the Frank Cody 



tate and includes timber enough to keep his 

 plant in operation for two seasons. 



Ah. .ut 10,000,000 feet of timber owned by 

 the Wisconsin Veneer Company of Rhinelander 

 has been made easier of access by the build 

 ing of two miles of railroad into the tract. The 

 company is constantly acquiring more timber 

 and recently closed a deal for a big tract near 

 Gagen. 



Mcssling Bros, of Appleton recently pur- 

 chased -a tract of timber land near Longwood, 

 Clark county, valued at $50,000. They gave 

 $30,000 and a deed to lie- Briggs hotel in Ap- 

 pleton, valued at $3J 



The Wisconsin-Louisiana Land Company 

 osed a deal in Marshfteld recently with R. \Y. 

 Durfey of Vicksburg, Miss., and K. F. Mertz of 

 Milwaukee for 7,800 acres of oak lands in 

 Louisiana. The work of cutting the timber 

 and manufacturing il will begin at once. While 

 in Marshlield Messrs. Durfey and Mertz also 

 closed a deal with the- Seubert-Haskins Lumber 

 Company of Cologne, Minn., for a tract of 

 17. tino acres iu the same stale, adjoining the 

 lirst mentioned tract. Much of the' limber will 

 be cut into wine cask and barrel stock. 



A deal is pending for the purchase of the 

 Jones Lumber company's screen door plant in 

 Antigo, by the Port Washington Chair Com- 

 pany of which A. Dennet of Sheboygan is presi 

 dent. If the deal is consummated the plant 

 will be equipped for a chair factory. 



-An effort will be made to organize a com- 

 pany for the manufacture of tables in Nellls- 

 ville. It is proposed to build a factory in con- 

 nection with George W. Trogner's saw and 

 planing mill. 



Some of the hardwood companies of Oshkosh 

 are cutting large supplies of logs for next 

 season. The Paine Lumber Company has a 

 number of camps in operation in Langlade 

 county. The company employs about 500 men. 

 I' 1 [ccllisier Amos Company is also operating 

 i amps in the same county and is employing 

 about -on nun. W. .1. Campbell has five camps 

 in Chippewa and Taylor counties and has 250 

 men at work. The Morgan Company, the R. 

 McMilleu Company and Radford Brothers & 

 ' ' inpany will be supplied by other firms and 

 jobbers. 



All loggers report plenty of snow and favor- 

 able conditions, aside from the question of 

 labor. Men are very scarce and are paid 

 the highest wages in the history of Wiscon- 

 sin logging operations. They are demanding 

 hotel accommodations, daily newspapers and 

 other privileges, which the operators readily 

 grant, glad to secure the men at any price. 

 It will cost at least a third more to cut logs 

 this year than it did two years ago. 



A deal was recently closed in Marinette for 

 one of the largest timber sales in' tin.' history 

 of lumbering operations in that county. The 

 Oliver Mining Company bought the sawmill of 

 the Cedar River Land Company near Spalding 

 .Mid practically all of the available timber 

 lands left in the county. The deal also in- 

 cludes in addition to the sawmill and 65,000 

 of land in that county, thousands of 

 in iu Dickenson and other counties in the 

 northern peninsula of Michigan. This collec- 

 tion of kinds originally belonged to Ross 

 Brothers & Cann of Spalding, under the name 

 of the Spalding Lumber Company. The mem- 

 bers of ibis firm were not very well off when 

 they went into the busiin ss. and they were 

 i i i borrow- heavily of the Bradley-Watkins 

 i onipany of Tomahawk, Wis. Putting too much 

 money into improvements, the firm was unabli 

 to swing its liabilities and with Bradley and 

 W'atkins a new firm was organized. Later. 

 Ross Bros. & Cann disposed of their interests 

 and the mill was shut down. It will be the 

 last large deal in that section, for it includes 

 almost all available timber lands. 



The Uniform stave & Package Company, 

 recently organized in Ashland with $400,000 

 capital stock, will start its new plant in opera 

 (ion January 1. William Arnett, formerly man- 

 ager of a Marshfield veneer mill, will have 

 charge of the plant. 



HardWood Market. 



(By HARDWOOD RECORD Exclusive Market Reporters.) 



Wausau, Wis. 



A new 'hardwood firm, Stapleton, Barnes & 

 Edmonds, of Rhinelander, has closed a deal 

 whereby it acquires possession of timber lauds 

 in Oneida counly owned by Ales. McRea, also of 

 thai city. There are 5,000,000 eeet of timber 

 on the property. Since organization three 

 months ago the company has secured title to 

 several thousand acres of land. 



Chicago. 



Strength marks every feature of local hard- 

 si i conditions: While the supply of southern 



woods almost without exception has beeD de- 

 ficient for months and the price high, just 

 now it seems that northern woods are having 

 their inning. Bass wood is almost as scarce 

 as poplar and Cottonwood, and is showing in- 

 creased values, Birch is in good call, in fact, 

 better than at any time in its history. Cray 

 elm, which has been in oversupply at manu- 

 facturing points all the year, is now receiving a 

 good deal of attention on the part of buyers, 

 and during the last few weeks has been very 

 Closely picked up. .Maple of all grades and 

 thicknesses is sharing its full proportion of de- 

 mand and there are no surplus stocks in any 

 part of the north country. 



The weather conditions prevailing in the 

 South, together with the car shortage, have 

 made it almost impossible to either secure 

 stock or to ship whatever there was in sight. 

 There is a dearth in all varieties of oak, poplar, 

 cottonwood and gum, with no prospects of the 



markel situation being relieved for many months 

 to come. 



There promises to be a demand for hardwoods 

 in the local market throughout the winter which 

 will be in excess of the ability of trade to 

 supply. 



Boston. 

 The market for hardwood lumber in New Eng- 

 land has not shown any great amount of activ- 

 ity during the two weeks under review, so far 

 :■- new business )•- concerned. All consumers 

 have orders of more or less volume placed, and 

 would be glad, to have them delivered. Il is 

 difficult to get prompt delivery and in many 

 instances orders placed three and four months 

 ago are either tied up at the mill for want of 

 cars or have been sidetracked in transit so that 

 they have not arrived at their destination as 

 yet. The manufacturers of house finish are busy 

 and are constantly in the market for small lots. 

 Furniture manufactures continue busy and the 

 prospects are that a good demand will follow 

 the 1st of January. 



