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HARDWOOD RECORD 



HOTEI- AND BOAKDING HOUSE AT HACKLEY. 



OPERA HOUSE AND ('AFE AT HACKLET. 



The maple is of a very good type, but con- 

 stitutes only about 1.7 per cent of the total. 

 White pine is scattered among the hard- 

 wood growth and is of splendid character, 

 and the hemlock, cedar and other "woods 

 are likewise excellent. 



The illustrations accompanying this arti- 

 cle are generally self-explanatory. The 

 titlepage exhibits the magnificent type of 

 red birch in which the Haekley-Phelps-Bon- 

 nell Company's forest abounds, and the pic- 

 tures on the following page are typical of 

 the basswood, gray elm and hard maple 

 growth. 



The illustration showing the great roD- 

 way of hardwood logs with the fine teams 

 of horses in the foreground was photo- 

 graphed with particular reference to show- 

 ing the high class of live stock that the 

 Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company employs 

 in its woods work. The picture of the great 

 steam loader handling logs exhibits a stand- 

 ard type of the McGiffert log loader, manu- 

 factured by the Clyde Iron Works of Du- 

 luth, Minn. This machine is performing 

 very effective service and materially econo- 

 n izes the cost of log loading. The large 

 illustration on the third page of this article 

 was made in front of the company's gen- 



eral store and office building and shows the 

 dock front on Big Twin lake, with the ad- 

 mirable lumber piling in the yard and the 

 Ills: sawmill in the distance. The broadside 



INDIAN WOOD CHOPPERS AND WIVES. 



view of the plant was taken from the upper 

 floor of the still house of the chemical 

 works, and shows only the sawmill and 

 lumber yard. At the right of the picture are 



the cooperage plant and planing mill, while 

 at the extreme left are the numerous houses 

 which make up the village of Haekley. It 

 will be observed by the illustrations of the 

 mercantile and hotel and other structures 

 that the buildings are unusually high class. 

 The picture of the interior of the store at 

 Haekley illustrates fully the possibilities of 

 a modern mercantile establishment located 

 in the woods country. The little picture of 

 the naphtha launch owned by the company, 

 which is utilized on Big Twin lake, was 

 taken in a particularly beautiful cove of 

 this delightful little body of water, and 

 s.ated in the craft are President W. A. 

 I 'helps, General Manager C. A. Phelps, W. 

 !•:. Barrett of W. E. Barrett & Co., Chicago, 

 nnd Gen. W. E. Bobbins of the C. A. Paltzer 

 l^umber Company of Chicago. 



There is quite an Indian settlement in 

 Vilas county and such of them as can be 

 <'oaxed into working are employed in chop- 

 ]jing wood for the chemical plant. These 

 Indians are almost invariably accompanied 

 in the woods by their wives and papooses. 

 The little picture of the group of Indians 

 was made beside the company's store at 

 Haekley. The illustration of the retort 

 lionsp r,f the chemical ]ilant shows the way 



INTERIOR OF STORE AT llACKLEY. 



MANAGEFiS NAPHTHA LAUNCH ON BIG TWIN LAKE. 



