HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The Beyer-JIorr.er Lumber Company of Pren- 

 tice, Wis., lias been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of ?5,000 by C. G. Beyer, A. E. Kaiser and 

 E. E. Morner. 



The rhoenix Manufacturing Company of Eau 

 Claire, Wis., despite the fact that it erected an 

 addition to Its plant only a year ago, has decided 

 to begin the erection in the spring of another 

 addition to be devoted to the manufacture of 

 logging machinery. 



The Hatton Lumber Company of New London, 

 Wis., has completed its season's cut at its saw- 

 mill and will begin the installation of three new 

 boilers, each with a capacity of 150 horsepower. 



The Baker-Zcllmer Lumber Company of Osh- 

 kosh. Wis., has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $25,000 by K. C. Scobre, B. B. Baker 

 and F. E. Zellmer. 



The Adams I'atent Wheel Company, manufac- 

 turer of a new patent wheel, spokes, handles, 

 brackets, pins, etc., will establish a new plant 

 at Cassville, Wis. 



Wisconsin lumbermen and coopers have been 

 interested iu the announcement that the new 

 Bawmill of the Northwestern Cooperage & Lum- 

 ber Company of Gladstone, Mich., has been placed 

 in operation. The plant is one of the finest of 

 its kind in the West. 



The Kaukauna Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Kaukauna, Wis., has decided to install 

 another department for the manufacture of sash, 

 doors, windows, stairwork and veneer work. 

 Work on a new addition is being rapidly com- 

 pleted and this will be equipped with new and 

 modern machinery in order to prepare for the 

 company's new field of manufacture. 



The Meilen Lumber Company of Mellen, Wis., 

 has purchased the Glidden veneer plant and the 

 Nash Lumber Company of Shanagolden, Wis. 

 The acquired holdings of the Mellen company 

 now comprise three logging railroads and 100,000 

 acres of timber lands. 



The sawmill of the Owen Lumber Company of 

 Owen, Wis., has been closed for the season. 



Joseph and John Wolfinger, the woodenware 

 manufacturers and pea packers of Dundas and 

 Brillion, Wis., are establishing a new $30,000 

 woodenware factory at Eland. It will be com- 

 pleted in the spring and will employ seventy-five 

 men. 



The sawmill plant of the Kurz-Doweny Com- 

 pany has started cutting box lumber and will 

 continue to run all winter. The construction of 

 the main box factory will be started early in the 

 spring and a force of new men will be employed. 

 The plant now employs thirty-five men. 



A new -blower system is being placed in the 

 plant of the Phoenix Chair Company at Sheboy- 

 gan, Wis. The exterior work on the new boiler 

 house is now being done and the new system will 

 be in operation within a short while. 



Great improvements have been made on the 

 Heineman Lumber Company at Ueineman during 

 the summer. Among the improvements are two 

 new engines and a new engine house. As soon 

 as all the improvements have been completed the 

 mill will be started up and the usual activities 

 around Heineman will be resumed. S. Heineman. 

 president of the company, said that the business 

 outlook was very good and that his company was 

 getting ready to do great work. The hemlock 

 and hardwood business is still unsatisfactory, 

 but impro\'ements are noted monthly. 



The C. A. Goodyear sawmill of Tomah, Wis., 

 will soon be completed and the plant, which has 

 been shut down since last May, will resume op- 

 erations within a very few days. The mill will 

 be ready to start on the completion of the elec- 

 tric power plant, which is to run both saw and 

 planing mills, as well as furnish current for the 

 city lighting and power system. 



The sawmill belonging to George Bidder of 

 Amery, Wis., has probably the oldest sawmill 

 crew in the United States. The youngest of this 

 crew is past sixty-five years of age and the old- 

 est is nearly seventy. John Burns is the young- 

 est member and William D. Thompson is the 



oldest. The work is so well done that one would 

 think much younger men than these were em- 

 ployed by the mill. 



The D. J. Murray Manufacturing Company of 

 Wausau, Wis., well-known manufacturers of log- 

 ging and sawmill machinery, has nearly com- 

 pleted the erection of its new machine depart- 

 ment. The remainder of the work and the work 

 of erecting a new molding department will be 

 resumed next spring. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



Hamilton Broughton decided to stay with the 

 Forbes-Everts Lumber Company, instead of go- 

 ing into the fruit raising business in the West. 

 He has gone to the mills of the company at 

 Van Buren, Mo., where he will get into the 

 manufacturing end of the business. 



F. A. Nolan, hardwood wholesaler of St. Paul, 

 returned recently from a trip to the West coast. 

 Mr. Nolan visited the Seattle fair and several 

 of the West coast cities. 



The Peterson-Moore Lumber Company, hard- 

 wood wholesalers of St. Paul, has moved Its 

 oflices from No. 603 in the Manhattan building 

 to No. 522 in the same block. 



K. C. Schulz, with the Goodman Lumber Com- 

 ' pany, Goodman. Wis., was in Minneapolis re- 

 cently on a business trip. 



A committee of St. Paul members has in hand 

 the preparations for the coming annual meeting 

 of the Northwestern Hardwood Lumbermen's As- 

 sociation, which will be held In that city on 

 Tuesday, December 7, to be followed by the 

 annual dinner of the association in the evening. 



WAUSAU 



The MacKinnon Manufacturing Company of 

 Grand Rapids recently sold an order for 1,000 

 wagons to a jobber in St. Paul. 



The A. H. Stange Lumber Company of Merrill 

 is enlarging Its dry kiln by adding two more 

 sections. The kiln at present has a daily ca- 

 pacity of 100,000 feet. The company recently 

 completed a large lumber shed, adding to Its 

 extensive facilities for handling all kinds of dry 

 stock. 



Joseph II. Stenger of Mendota, III., recently 

 sold to Alfred J; Wrolstad of Waupaca ten for- 

 ties of hardwood lands situated in the town of 

 Ainsworth near Antigo. The price paid was 

 $12,000. 



B. F. Wilson, a prominent Wausau lumber- 

 man, has gone up into the Alberta country of 

 Canada to look after timber holdings. 



On May IG, 1000, the village of Auburndale 

 suffered a severe loss from fire, which started 

 in a pile of 1,200 cords of maple and birch wood 

 belonging to the R. Connor Lumber Company. 

 The wood was piled on the right of way of the 

 Wisconsin Central railway and the fire spread 

 from it to the village. As a result of the fire 

 old line insurance companies paid $60,000 In- 

 surance. Nine mutual companies also carried 

 policies on some of the property and paid losses 

 to the amount of $10,000. Now these mutual 

 companies have brought suit against the railway 

 company to recover the amount each disbursed. 

 They claim that the fire in the Connor com- 

 pany's woodpile started from a spark from one 

 of the railway company's locomotives, and but 

 lor the company's negligence the fire would not 

 have occurred. 



George D. Booth has purchased the Interest 

 of his partner, C. E. Blodgett, In the Blodgett- 

 Booth Lumber Company, with headquarters in 

 Marshfleld. He will hereafter conduct the busi- 

 ness under his own name. The company recently 

 sold a large tract of standing oak to the Upham 

 Manufacturing Company of Marshfield, receiving 

 $28,000 for same. 



J. W. McNally of Escanaba, a walking boss 

 for the United Logging Company of Watersmeet, 



was attacked a few days ago by a disgruntled 

 employe in the camp office. After the latter 

 had compelled him at the point of a revolver to 

 write a check for $250, Mr. McNally was beaten 

 into insensibility. 



The United States Steel Company has re- 

 cently made additional purchases of timber lands 

 in northern Michigan. It is the policy of the 

 company not to cut any of its timber, but to 

 buy, cut, what it needs for present use. 



Carl Solberg of Philips was recently awarded 

 a judgment of $2,S50 against the Bobbins Lum- 

 ber Company of Rhinelander. He lost two fin- 

 gers while in the employ of that company and 

 sued for $S,OO0 damages. The judgment, if paid, 

 will be paid by a liability company. 



Clarence Suess of Ironwood, who sued the 

 Stearns Lumber Company of Ashland for $5,000 

 damages, was awarded a judgment of $3,500 a 

 few days ago. While in the employ of the de- 

 fendant company he was severely burned by the 

 bursting of steam pipes. 



The K. Connor Company's mill at Stratford 

 has closed for the season. The Brooks & Ross 

 Lumber Company's mill at Schofield has closed 

 until after the holidays. The company cut 30,- 

 000,000 feet of mixed woods the past season. 

 The Barber & Stewart Lumber Company's mill 

 in Wausau has closed until the first of the new 

 year. The Alexander Stewart Lumber Com- 

 pany and the Jacob Mortenson Lumber Com- 

 pany, both of Wausau, are still in operation, but 

 will close soon. The mills of those two com- 

 panies and of the F. Schubring Lumber Com- 

 pany will saw stocks of hardwood as soon as 

 good sleighing permits logs being hauled to the 

 mill. The Underwood Veneer Company of Wau- 

 sau will buy a large stock of logs this winter, 

 as well as cut some from its own lands. 



The Mosinee Land, Log & Timber Company 

 has purchased of the Joseph Dessert Lumber 

 Company 3,345 acres of hardwood lands, situated 

 west of Mosinee. The lands, it is said, will cut 

 21,000,000 feet of logs. There are 200,000,000 

 feet of timber in that locality, including this 

 tract. 



The Wisconsin Fruit Package Company of 

 Crandon is making extensive improvements. A 

 building SOxlOO feet, two stories high, Is going 

 up. The company Is also building a water works 

 plant and an electric light plant of its own. It 

 is erecting a new office building and five cot- 

 tages, the latter to be purchased by employees on 

 monthly Installments. The company will erect 

 twenty-five of these cottages. With the com- 

 pletion of the improvements now under way 

 the concern will be able to turn out 10,000 bas- 

 kets per day, besides crates, berry boxes and 

 furniture veneer; for the latter there is ever 

 an increasing demand. The company started 

 business six years ago, employing six hands. Now 

 the force numbers ninety. 



One thing which will interest all lumbermen, 

 factorymen, manufacturers or employers of labor 

 in Wisconsin will be the action taken by the 

 legislature this winter towards passing an in- 

 dustrial insurance or employers' liability law. A 

 legislative committee has been at work all sum- 

 mer In gathering data to work on and is yet at 

 sea in its conclusions, according to Chairman 

 A. W. Sanborn of Ashland. The chief difficulty 

 of the committee is in formulating a plan of 

 Insurance which will not be burdensome to the 

 manufacturer, and yet be a just recompense to 

 the injured employe. Two plans are under con- 

 sideration. One is to repeal all laws which give 

 a manufacturer an opportunity of escaping an 

 adverse judgment in a damage suit on the 

 grounds of contributory negligence, and furnish 

 a flat rate of Insurance, a board of arbitration 

 to settle disputes. The other plan is to assess 

 all employers, the funds to be handled and dis- 

 bursed by the state, after a board of arbitration 

 has fixed the amount of insurance due the in- 

 jured employe, or to the beneficiary if the em- 

 ploye be killed. Mr. Sanborn says he has ascer- 

 tained that the mill and factory men of Wis- 



