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Back of the geueral store is a large ware- 

 house in which are carried surplus stocks 

 of merchandise and a part of which is occu- 

 pied as a general freight station. On the 

 main street, a block in 

 the rear of the cafe, is 

 the company 's hotel and 

 boarding house, whicli, 

 like all the other insti- 

 tutions of the village, is 

 handled in a model way. 

 Stretching along beyond 

 this general commercial 

 center of the town and 

 facing the lake are 

 rows of white painted 

 workmen's homes, every 

 one substantially and 

 attractively built and 

 which every employee 

 seems to take pride in 

 maintaiuiu};. Of these 

 houses there are 150, all 

 of which are owned by 

 the company and rented 

 at a low rate. 



On a rise of ground 

 back of the sawmill is 

 situated an immense 



chemical plant. o\vne(i i)y ;iii .-illii-d com- 

 pany. This is one of the largest wood 

 chemical plants in the United States, the 

 primary product of which is cliarcoal, and 

 from the gases in the burning of which are 

 produced large quantities of wood alcohol 

 and acetate of lime. Beyond the sawmill 

 is a large structure devoted to tlie manu- 

 facture of barrel heading, where waste mill 

 products are utilized. Nearby is the com- 

 pany's planing mill. 



The Haekley-Phelps-Bonnell Company is 

 conducting a big operation and a long lived 

 one, as it owns in northern Wisconsin up- 

 wards of 300,000,000 feet of standing tini- 



STORE AND OFFICE BUILDING AT HACKLEY, 



1 cr and is constantly adding to its hold- 

 ings. The strictest lines of forest and 

 sawmill economy have been adopted. 

 Every form of tree growth is utilized. The 

 saw timber is converted into lumber and 

 the refuse of the sawmill is either made up 

 into dimension stock in the form of head- 

 ing, etc., or utilized in the chemical plant. 

 Tlie eordwood of the forest is all saved, 

 and after being seasoned is shipped in 

 great lack cars to the cliemical plant, 



where it goes into the retorts on steel cars 

 and is there converted into charcoal. This 

 cdiemical plant is one of the most interest- 

 ing features of the entire operation, as it 

 is built quite largely 

 on new and improved 

 plans. The water em- 

 |doyed in handling the 

 chemicals is drawn from 

 two immense artesian 

 wells and reaches the 

 coolers at almost freez- 

 ing point. The charcoal 

 output of the company 

 is sold under a long- 

 time contract to one of 

 the iron furnaces at 

 Ashland, while the wood 

 alcohol and ai-etate of 

 lime, produced under 

 like contracts, go large- 

 ly into export. 



Thi' tiiiiliiT pictures 

 shown with this article 

 were not selected as re- 

 marknlile tree types, but 

 simply as specimens 

 typical of the Hacklcy- 

 Phelps-Bonnell forest, 

 and only the principal growth is illustrated. 

 Here grows the red birch of the North in 

 its highest perfection, and as this wood con- 

 stitutes fully 35 per cent of the company's 

 holdings it will perforce be a very import- 

 ant factor in the production of birch for 

 many years to come. The quality of the 

 basswood of tliis section is too well known 

 to need much comment — it is the highest 

 class timber of this variety existing in the 

 world. The elm is also of high quality. 



D MILL .Vr UIGHT— STORE, HOTEL AND RESIDENCES AT LEFT. 



