HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Company is one of the most catliolic lumber 

 institutions in the United States, manufac- 

 turing annually in the North Country up- 

 wards of 30,000,000 feet of birch, gray elm, 

 hasswood, maple, white pine, Norway, tam- 

 arack, hemlock and 

 cedar; in the South 

 Country it is equally 

 ]ir()minent in the pro- 

 duction of oak, red gum, 

 I vpress, ash, cotton- 

 wood, hickory and pop- 

 l;ir. 



This article will treat 

 |ia: ticularly of the 

 splendid hardwood for- 

 ests and manufacturing 

 operations of the Hack- 

 Icy-Phelps-Bonnell Com- 

 pany centering at Hack 

 ley. Wis. Hackley is 

 the termiuus of a ten 

 mile branch of the 

 Gogebic division of the 

 Chicago & Northwestern 

 Railway, 370 miles north 

 of Chicago. This branch 

 leaves the main line at 

 the little town of Con- 

 nver. 



Hackley is picturesquely .situated at the 

 upper end of Big Twin lake. This beauti- 

 ful body of water, with the timber-clad 

 hills surrounding it, is about five miles in 

 length, and the town of Hackley, witli its 

 lumber vards, sawmills, executive ami 



merchandising buildings, hotel, warehouses 

 and homes, occupies a stretch of lake front 

 more than a mile in length. 



The timber holdings of the Hackley- 

 Phelps-Bouncll Company in this section 



THE McGIFFERT STEAM LOG LOADER. 



comprise upwards of 40,000 acres in Vilas 

 country, Wisconsin. The holdings of the 

 company extend over the state line into 

 Iron county, Michigan. These timber prop- 

 erties liave lu'i'U selected with a great deal 

 of care during the past six years and repre- 



sent as a whole as fine a body of hardwood 

 timber as grows in the northern country. 

 Vilas county is a part of the picturesque 

 lake country of Wisconsin and abounds in 

 numerous small lakes. The land is of a 

 very high type from an 

 agricultural viewpoint, 

 and eventually the en- 

 tire section will be 

 transformed into one 

 of the finest farming 

 regions of the state. Of 

 the timber the magnifi- 

 iM'nt red birch predomi- 

 nates. Next in import- 

 ance is the white bass- 

 wood, for which north- 

 ern Wisconsin is so 

 celebrated. Of third 

 importance is the graj' 

 elm, which nowhere 

 grows of better quality. 

 In this mixed forest 

 h.-inl maple is found to 

 some extent, and inter- 

 spersed are a consider- 

 able quantity of mag- 

 nificent white pine, 

 Norway, hemlock, tam- 

 arack, balsam and 

 cedar. The entire area is of a slightly 

 rolling character, thus making logging rail- 

 road construction comparatively easy. The 

 company has already built nearly twenty 

 miles of standard gauge railroad, in main 

 line ami lir.i nclios, into its tiniVier holdings. 



HACKLEY, WIS.. LUMBER YARD AND MILL FROM DOCK FRONT. 



