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HARDWOOD RECORD 



cut the coming winter at the Stevens camps near 

 Parish. The Stevens company will also cut 

 aliout 1,000.000 feet of hardwood and will oper- 

 ate three camps. 



The Mellen Lumber Company, recently incor- 

 porated, has taken over all the interests of the 

 Glidden Veneer Company and the Shanagoldeu 

 Lumber Company, including the vast timber 

 tracts owned by the last two companies, to- 

 gether with the logging railroad and sawmill 

 of the Glidden Veneer Company. The timber 

 land turned over to the Mellen Lumber Company 

 included about 70,000 acres and together with 

 the 30,000 acres already owned by the company, 

 it now controls nearly 100,000 acres. It is ex- 

 pected that the sawmill of the Glidden Veneer 

 Company will be lorn down. 



The Upham Manufacturing Company of 

 Marshfleld, Wis., has purchased the standing 

 timber and lumber in pile owned by the Blod- 

 gett-Booth Lumber Company at Durand, Wis. 

 The timber land included one of the finest tracts 

 of oak in Chippewa county and when sawed into 

 lumber will be brought to Rhinelander for use 

 in the furniture plant of the Upham Manufac- 

 turing Company. It is understood that the con- 

 sideration was .$28,120. 



Daniel Wells, son of J, \V. Wells, a wealthy 

 lumberman of Menominee, Mich., recently re- 

 turned to Marinette, Wis., from British Co- 

 lumbia, where he completed one of the largest 

 purchases of timber made in the West this 

 year. He closed a deal for 700,000,000 feet of 

 timber in the island of Vancouver. 



Announcement has bopn made that the Cream- 

 ery Package Manufacturing Company will stock 

 and operate both its mills at Butternut. Wis., 

 this winter. There were rumors that the plant 

 ivould be moved from Butternut, but this is now 

 lenied. 



The I'hoeni.i; Manufacturing Company of Eau 

 :'laire. Wis., will erect a large plant next spring 

 for the exclusive manufacture of logging ma- 

 ?hinery. 



The new sawmill at Pennington, erected by 

 Dvans & McGregor to replace the plant de- 

 stroyed by fire last spring, has been placed in 

 jperation. A half million feet of lumber will 

 )e cut this season. 



Work is rapidly progressing upon the new saw- 

 nill of the Diamond Lumber Company at Green 

 3ay, Wis. The new structure will be completed 

 )y the close of the year and will replace the 

 ilant destroyed by fire early in the summer. 



The new sawmill of the Kurz-Downey Com- 

 )any near Bayfield. Wis., has been completed 

 tnd is now in operation. The company will erect 

 I large box factory next spring. 



The Cleerman Land & Lumber Company of 

 Jreen Bay, Wis., has purchased of the Sarah 

 ielner estate 1,000 acres of virgin hardwood and 

 edar timber lands at Baldwin, Delta county, 

 ilichigan. It is estimated that 'the tract con- 

 ains 10,000,000 feet. 



The Roddis Lumber & Veneer Company at 

 ilarshfield. Wis., is crowded with orders and 

 nore than 200 employes arc being kept busy, 

 "he manufacture of veneered doors which has 

 leen added as a side line has greatly added (o 

 he business of the company. 



The Central Lumber Company of Prentice, 

 Vis., has begun the erection of a new planing 

 Qill which will adjoin the company's sawmill at 

 "ifleld. The building will be 50x70 feet and 

 ri!l be modern in every respect. 



Gibson &. Donie, loggers at Merrill, Wis., have 

 t cured a contract to cut 3,000,000 feet of logs 

 t Saynor, Wis., for the A. H. Stange Company 

 f Merrill. The firm will also cut 3.000,000 

 oet of lumber for the Heineman Lumber Com- 

 auy in the same county. 



United States Senator Isaac Stephenson, Wis- 

 onsin's leading lumberman, recently passed 

 hrough Milwaukee on his way from Marinette 

 Asheville, N. C, where he will visit his son, 

 . Watson Stephenson. The latter Is rapidlj 

 mproving in health. Senator Stephenson will 



return in time to make the trip down the Mis- 

 sissippi river with President Taft. 



The bus.v sawmill season in Wisconsin is fast 

 drawing to a close and lumbermen are now pre- 

 paring to devote their attention to their log- 

 ging interests. The mills of the Alexander 

 Stewart Lumber Company and the Mortenson 

 Lumber Company at Wausau will run until the 

 river freezes over. The Barker & Stewart Lum- 

 ber Company's plant will close a little earlier. 

 The F. Schubring Lumber Company's mill at 

 Wausau, which has been idle most of the sum- 

 mer, will be placed in operation about Jan. 1. 

 The plants of the John Week Lumber Company, 

 the Clifford Lumber Company and the W. W. 

 Mitchell Company at Stevens Point have already 

 been closed because of the unusually low stage 

 of water in the river. 



The Eau Claire Trunk Company at Eau Claire. 

 Wis., has purchased a site and will erect a new 

 i515,000 plant next spring. The building will 

 be three-story. 100x80 feet and strictly fire- 

 proof. 



The w-ork of extending the branch of the Chi- 

 cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Kailway from John- 

 son's Creek in the town of Knowlton, Marathon 

 county, Wisconsin, is being rapidly pushed. A 

 100,000,000 foot tract of timber will be opened 

 by the new road. The United States Leather 

 Company owns the tract and will begin cutting 

 at once. 



W. B. Baker of Stevens Point, Wis., has taken 

 a force of millwrights and carr.enters to Panama, 

 where he is installing a sawmill for the Amer- 

 ican Land & Lumlier Company. 



Prof. C. K. Leith of the department of geology 

 of the University of Wisconsin may be lost in 

 the Canadian woods, where he is on a trip of 

 exploration. No word bas been heard from him 

 for months. Lumbermen friends of Prof. Leith 

 say that he is too good a woodsman not to be 

 able to care for himself. 



The United States government is transferring 

 r.n its forest products work to Madison. Wis., 

 wliere the new government forestry laboratory is 

 being erected. The .$50,000 structure will bo 

 completed by the close of the present year. The 

 worl? of the new laboratory will he assigned to 

 five different divisions, including wood preserva- 

 tion, -wood chemistry, wood distillation, tech- 

 nology and maintenance. Garvey Cline will be 

 placed in charge, and W. L. Hall, assistant for- 

 ester, will continue in charge of the branch of 

 products. The headquarters of the wood utiliza- 

 tion department will be located at Chicago. 



The Wisconsin legislative committee on water 

 powers is making a thorough investigation of the 

 forest reserve lands of the state. The commit- 

 tee will also investigate the methods of slash 

 piling and burning carried on by the Weyer- 

 liaeusers at Cass Lake. Minn. 



The S. E. Heise planing mill at OrangevMle. 

 Wis., has been purchased by E. F. Timm. A 

 sawmill will be erected and new power will be 

 installed by the new owner. 



A new planing mill is being installed at 

 Zenoni, Wis., by H. D. White and George Gray. 

 Flooring, siding and ceiling will be turned out. 

 A new $15,000 factory will soon be erected 

 at Eland, Wis., by Joseph and John Wolfinger, 

 woodenware manufacturers and pea packers of 

 Dundas and Brillion, Wis. The plant will be 

 completed by next spring and will cmi)Ioy 

 seventy-five men. 



E. D. Washburn of Marinette, Wis., has been 

 made assistant superintendent of the Birds & 

 Wills Lumber Company at Wausau, Wis. 



Xews has reached Wisconsin lumbermen that 

 the plant of the I. Stcphen!?on Company at Wells. 

 Mien., recently destroyed by fire, will be rebuilt 

 at once. The loss was estimated at .135,000, 

 covered by Insurance. 



Leander Choate, wealthy ex-lumberman and 

 prominent banker of Oshkosh, Wis., recently 

 passed away at the age of 75 years. Death was 

 caused by slow paralysis following a runaway 

 accident of a few weeks ago. Mr. Choate be- 



came associated with the late J. M. Bray in the 

 lumber business at Oshkosh in 1862, the firm 

 continuing until the present time. The firm 

 owned a number of sawmills in northern Wis- 

 consin, especially on the Wisconsin and Oconto 

 rivers. Mr, Choate was interested in some fifteen 

 banks of the state. 



The new .f25,000 plant of the Miller Manu- 

 facturin.g Company at Park Falls, Wis., manu- 

 facturers of crates and boxes, was destroyed by 

 fire recently. The fire started in the dry kilns 

 and had gained such headway that it was im- 

 possible to cope with it. The loss is partly cov- 

 ered by insurance. 



The Rhinelander-Portland Timber Company has 

 been incorporated at Rhinelander. Wis., with a 

 capital stock of $200,000 by F. S. Robbins. Ilattie 

 I.. Mclndoe and Xiles A. Colman. The company 

 will deal largely in Washington timber lands. 



The Paulson-Ellingson Lumber Company bas 

 been incorporated at Hawkins. Wis., with a cap- 

 ital stock of .$15,000 by A. M. Paulson. Alfred 

 Paulson and Christ P. Ellingson. 



The Milwaukee Lumber Company is ere(?ting a 

 $11,000 building to replace the structure de- 

 stroyed by fire last summer. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



A. E. Peterson of the Peterson-Moore Lumber 

 Company, St. Paul, wholesalers of hardwood lum- 

 ber, has recently become part owner of the St. 

 Paul Box & Lunlber Company. This conceru 

 operates a box factory in that city, and as the 

 Peterson-Moore company handles a considerable 

 amount of low-grade stock suitable for the man- 

 ufacture of that product, the new arrangement 

 will enable it to dispose of this class of stock 

 in its most salable form. 



Hamilton Broughton. who uutil recently was 

 secretary of the Forbes-Everts Lumber Company, 

 with oflices in Minneapolis and hardwood mills 

 at Van Buren, Mo., has severed his connection 

 with that concern and gone West to engage in 

 the fruit raising business. 



Franklaud Powell, sales manager of the Rice 

 Lake Lumber Company at Rice Lake, Wis., was 

 a recent Minneapolis visitor. His company has 

 a good stock of hardwood lumber on hand, and 

 can ship it in straight cars or with pine and 

 hemlock. 



Wholesalers of hardwood lumber in this mar- 

 ket who are interested in stocks in Wisconsin 

 are hoping that the efforts of the Wisconsin 

 manufacturers to secure a return to the east- 

 bound hardwood rates which were in effect two 

 years ago will be successful. 



SAQINAW VALLEY 



The maple lluoring industry is lively .iust now, 

 every plant in the valley running full time and 

 all are booking lots of orders. 



S. L. Eastman stated that an extraordinary 

 (.lemand has come over from Europe for maple 

 flooring owing to a roller skating rink craze 

 both in England and on the Continent. A goodly 

 portion of the flooring manufactured here is now 

 going abroad. Prices could be a little higher to 

 suit manufacturers. The demand is good and 

 Mr. Eastman's company is moving con'siderable 

 stock. 



W. D. Young & Co. are running their sawmill 

 with night and day crews, and the flooring 

 plant is crowded to its capacity. New dry-kilns 

 liave been added and the entire outfit is in a 

 tine condition. 



Almost daily there comes down over the Mack- 

 inaw division of the Michigan Central to Bay 

 City more than 100 carloads of saw logs, the 

 average quantity handled by the road approxi- 

 mating 135,000,000 feet a year. A number of 

 the lumbering firms here have twenty to thirty 

 years' stock of timber and they are buying 

 everything desirable that .lOins them. 



