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Texas, where President Taft' spent several days 

 while he was on his trip. A gasoline launch has 

 beeft arranged for, dogs hare been secured and 

 all the paraphernalia for duck, quail and snipe 

 shooting. - 



'''llf.. \.inp''i''°" £I$YiI«'po;i r>UKtber Cotapiw*? hn»i 

 been having qu ite a f onrt riiali nf business. It is 

 sending out a large amount :ol^ upper grade gum 

 at good prices. ■■<■.: i -.m. 



George E. Hibbard, vice-president of the Steele 

 & Hibbard Lumber Company, •tays there is only 

 a moderate degree of activity in the hardwood . 

 market, frhe call for plain and quartered red 

 oak is good and the upper grades of cypress are 

 also in iair demand. All the orders- are for quiet 

 shipment. - The prospects for nest season are - 

 most promisiiDg. - :. tr \. .r- k.r. 



The sa wmJdl of the Henry Quellnmlz ;liumber & 

 Mill Company, at Brookings, Ark., bas recently 

 started up after a thorough overhauling. Many 

 improvements have recently been added. 



The office of the International Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company has recently been moved to 1421 

 Wright building. The new location is well 

 adapted for handling its increasing business. 

 C. S. Stanley of the company is down at the 

 mills on business, and W. E. Keown, president. 

 Is still in the West, where he went some time 

 ago for his health. 



The Fullerton-Moses Tie Company, the incor- 

 poration of which was mentioned recently in this 

 paper, has elected its officers. The company 

 might be called a subsidiary company of - the 

 Chicago Lumber &-Coal Company, as S. H. Ful- 

 lerton is president, J. C. Cremer is secretary 

 and Frank Goepel is treasurer. The headquar- 

 ters of the company are at Ava. Mo., where 

 L. B. MoseSj the vice-president and general man- 

 ager, is located. - Mr. Moses is welt known in- 

 the lumber trade in Kansas City. The company 

 will buy and sell white oak ties. 



Charles A. Tilden, under ihe name of the 

 Charles A. , Tilden- Lumber Coaapany, has bought 

 cut the business of A. ('. Baii-d and will be lo- 

 cated in Mr..Baird's, old office at 1310 Wright 

 building. Mr. Klden will handle yellow pine, 

 hardwood and Pacific coast lumber. 



MILWAUKEE 



George Mason of the Mason Donaldson Lum- 

 ber Company of , Rhinelander. Wis,, ' recently 

 called upon the Milwaukee trade. ' ' 



W.' E. Cooper, president of the Cpoper & 

 Maxson Lumber Company of Milwaukee^ geiieral 

 wholesalers, has returned from a trip of in- 

 spection at his different retail yards about the 

 state. G. M. Maxson. secretary of the company, 

 has returned from northern Wisconsin. 



L. A. Parker of the American IJardwoo^ ^m- ^ -- ^- ■ -^ . .^ ._. 



ber Company of St. Louis^-%qi?V!PVii. "Upon iYf^ C^^^^s 1?^ * f'i^V'^^ 

 the Milwaukee trade. " .*■>..■ ■*~*i,VmbSVm!W. *<(-ho Tecftitr 



The Cumberland Frjiit Package :.GqmBfiny has 

 been incorporated at Cumberland with a capital 

 stock of $20,000. The company will begin the 

 erection of a'new factory building at once whicli 

 will be 60x60' feet in dimensions and equipped 

 with the latest woodworking machinery. The 

 plant will use birch, basswood, ash, elm, maple, 

 poplar and pine in the manufacture of the 

 Ewald folding bei-ry boxes. It' is,,expectecl that 

 the plant wilt be 'ih' operation within ttf^ee' 

 months' time. ' ' ' ' ''' 



The Vohmar-Below Lumber Company of 

 MarshDeJd has purchased the ilaxwell sawmill 

 at Mellen aijd will operate the plant this win-, 

 ter. The mill has a capacity of about 30,o6o 

 feet daily.', __^ /. . ''.. \,. '..' '.'^'.. ,',^^., 



The yettef iffahufacturing C'bmpan^' of'^jte-^' 

 vens Point has "con^plefed arrarig^nigiits'Tor the 

 installation of electric power iq its woodworking 

 plant. Considerable new mifchmery will also be 

 installed.' ' '" ' "'"' ' ' . ' 



The C. A. Goodyeaf Luinber Cdtiibanyof' Tbmali 

 has conipleted the ifetalStion of a new electrical 

 power plant of 1,200 horsepower. KeW tiiaclit'hery 



has been added'and ' tile 'plant now ha^'i'^ally 

 capacity of 100,000 feet. ' •'■'' -•■'■-' 't'-' i^ 



The Manash.i Manufacturing Company is erect-'' 

 ing a new plant .it Goodrich for the manufacture 

 of wooden plugs. ' 



The Lane-Coos Land Company has' "been Incor- 

 porated at Appleton witli a capital stock of 

 .$SO,000 by B: G.' Jones, Pred F. Wettengel and 

 .1. v. Canavafl; The 'corporation owns 6,000 

 acres of timber land in Oregon. ' 



Thfe' Kiel Furniture Company fe 'Kiel, 'Wi^.. 

 which recently purchased the furniture plant of 

 the B. A. Kipp Company of Milwaukee, has taken 

 out a permit for the erection of a hew $30,000 

 plant adjoining the Kipp trtartt at Milwaukee. 



The Menasha Woodenware Company of Menasha 

 has dosbd a contract with the- Rofebins Lumber 

 Company' o"f RhineWnder to cut''!^0,000,000 feet 

 of timber frotpJ'the Metfasba cdmpany's holdings. 

 The deal 'means that b6th''plants of the Robbins 

 company at' Rhinelander' *ill be' kept'lii'-'ope^ii- 

 tion this week. ' ' ' ' ''-"• ' ' '■ 



The entire timber holdings o'f ' the jose'pii Des^ 

 serf Lumber Company west ■ of the Wisconsin 

 river, consisting of 3,345 acres, have been pur- 

 chased by the Mosinee Land. Log and Timber 

 Company. The tract contains considerable hard- 

 wood. 



The' insurance on the plant of the John R. 

 Davis Lumber Company,' which was destroyed by 

 fire recently wilh a loss of $l.i0.00O, has been 

 adjusted. It is announced that the plant will 

 be rebuilt. ' ', _ 



The Edgar Veneer &' Box Company ' of Edgar 

 has been dissolved by common consent of the 

 stockholders and Uiat portion of stock paid in 

 on the capitalization of $15,000 has been paid 

 back to the owners. The company has been in 

 existence but a few months and dissension among 

 the meinbers resulted in this step. 



Kenfleld & Lamoureaux have begun the erec- 

 tion of another addition to their box factory 

 at Washburn. The addition will be 10(^x30 feet 

 in size and will be equipped with the latest ma- 

 chinery. The plant is now rushed with orders. 



The Alexander Stewart Lumber Company, the 

 Barker & Stewart Lumber Company and the 

 Mortenson Lumber"Company have all closed their 

 plants after a successful run. ' 



The Flambeau River Lumber Company has 

 been incorporated nt Ladysmlth with a capital 

 .stock of $100,000 by E. K. Hughey of Bellevue. 

 Iowa, and James F. Mitchell and Willard E. 

 Thompson of Ladysmlth. The company owns 

 10.000 acres of timber land in the Flambeau river 

 district. - 



Assemblyman William M. Bray, well-Iniown 

 young lumber manufacturer of Oshkosh, has pre- 

 senteij dock property to his home city valued 

 at $15,000.^ The gift_ was made in memory of 

 M. Bray, the pioneer 

 tJy died, and Leander 

 Cboaie,^^^ f»^.oSeer. ^umbeunan and late part- 

 ner "of tti'e el3er"Mr. Bray. * 



Lumbermen""an over Wisconsin aVe interested 

 irfTH?"afii9Wl^ccment -^iat'ft^ old 'iBt5?TreB'"gSp" 

 in the, Chippe wa rlTer- at -ChtpppWa Falls has 

 been clos.ed. It was iii operation for thirty 

 years, ' ' ' .^ 



Business men of Mbsinee "are eideav'ohng to 

 Induce the Mosinee Lan3, tog &. LumliE^r ' CoTd- 

 p.aiy. which has purchased the "timber holdings 

 of the Joseph Dessert Lumber Company, to move 

 its sa.wmill from Four Milp cre^ to Slosinee. 



jte. lumber yards of C! .4!, "N'ye of |'Corniieopia 

 were destroyed fey' tire' recehtl.v with a loss of 

 $14,0.00.; wifh irisurance^'o'f $iO,Cro6.' The sa^niiri 

 of . Mr. Xye was say'ed. , , . ."' „",[■, .^. 



Tbe special committee of 'die''''w'fscon's{n I&gis-' 

 lature on forestry ,' water powers and ' drainage, 

 held a session at the Hotel Pfester. Milwaukee, 

 for the consiHei-afTon of 'importanfproblems. in- 

 cITJaWg* lUL' ^•onservntion otrfWie ti|BDei suyylj. 

 State Forester E . - M t Grr»t*-»d*re^sed the com- 

 mittee' 'and' 'teYO<StM'^tlie''■y3^Stetii'''6i'^l5nlriffi6g 

 slash.'^ '"■'■'■">-■' '■'-■'-' '■' '"■■■' ■■■ " -'•^=^"* 



MINNEAPOLIS 



Information has 'beeh received h*re this week 

 that- about the' first of the year-'the rates on 

 lumber and lumber products from Minneapolis, 

 St. Paul and Duluth and northern Wisconsin and 

 Michigan points to Eastern Trunk Line territiiry 

 will be tediiced-. The new rates Wiir be the same 

 as those in efffect two years ago. The hardWOod 

 lumber manufacturers of Wisconsin have beSh 

 working for this rediiCtioB for some time and 

 have lieeh a-lily assisted by the traffic department 

 of one of the 'li6e!,-, 'whose Officials haive believed' 

 right -along that the i-ate in Effect two years ago ■ 

 was high enough."' 'i^ftef the -present rates were- 

 put' into elT-ett BhiplUcnts of luhlber' eastward 

 fell' of? 'Fully '^ixtypelr cent. 'The opposition to 

 the restoration of the rates in effect two years 

 ago came principally from those lines that get 

 a longer haul on lumber shipped to the South- 

 west. 



____^ building. BSWits for itg^jnonths 



amounted t(n$ll,lSO,Soo. ^and' were thirty-two 

 per cent larger~than for the'same' period of last 

 year. ' . ' .' •,' . i. 



The MinneapbllS rffilS""taye ' fliiished "cutting 

 lumber for the season. "The 'output of ifhe mills 

 this year is about SO.OOO.OOO feet greater than 

 last year, when the cut was 1-89.000.000 feet. 



L. C. Nblan' of the Nolan Brothers Lumber 

 Company, Memphis, Tenn., has been in the North 

 on business during the past two weeks. 



The Northwestern Hardwood Lumbermen's As- 

 sociation wilt hold its annual meeting^'' aV'St;' 

 Paul on December 7. -"n- •i-i:ii,i.,:. 



SAGINAW VALLEY 



Men are being called for to quite an extent 

 in the lumber woods, and some firms are ex- 

 periencing difficulty in getting good men. Wages 

 range from $24 to $28 in the Ibwer peninsula, 

 and $30 to $35 north of the straits. Indica- 

 tions point to the cutting of a large quantity of 

 timber during the "winter. The improvement in 

 the lumber trade and the general revival of busi- 

 ness and industry are the stimuli to activity in 

 the woods. All of .the larger firms will put in 

 all the stock they can liandie and get to the 

 mills. Ross & Wentworth are lumbering north 

 of Grayling, and they buy enough additional ■ 

 stock to keep the Campbell-Brown lumber mill 

 at Bay City busy. This tkTii has had a successful 

 year. 



The Bliss & 'Van Miken mill and flooring mill 

 are running the ,vear through and have had a 

 good business. The Wylie & Buell Lumber Gow- 

 pany is furnishing the stock for the plant, which 

 comes down over the Mackinaw division of 

 tile Michigan -Central. The W.- D. Young & Co. 

 plant at Bay City is running both sawmill and: 

 floo»'ing inlll day and night and shipping large 

 quantities of maple flooring - abroad. The Mer- 

 shon-BacOB Company has. done a large business 

 this year in the manufacture of hardwood lumber 



into box stuffy The R:iv Citv Box & Lumber 



Compan y has [ also lituMlIed .^mpre or less ha rd- 

 wood in the production (jf bS'x " stuff. ^ ~"~ 



The Richard''so'n■^^um6e'^ Company s mill will 

 ryn' through i;!ie winter, as usual. The' plaht 

 has a hot-water pond for winter operations. It' 

 recei-ves about ' twenty-five c&rs'o'f log's''ifr6m th'e' 

 North daily.. ... 



The construciiort 'of thfe''tfaiy6ii-#ard-'Cdiiip'4Hy" 

 m'aple flooring mill it'' :Bay,_''City' is being 'ymshed 

 as ra'pidly 3^ pos5ihie?"'i't'''-n-jil he equiiiped 'witl! 

 up-te-dale 'machinery .•■'■'':|.!in<5ther large fldOriUg 

 pla'nt 1^ in 'process 6t inciifiatioii at B'ay' City. ' 



The , Michel'soil &"Tiansotf Liiinbef''eompaii'j''s 

 plant at Lewistpn Wlir iiiiish its cut in 'a''iteij^" 

 month? and'wiU' then be removed. •.'.'^'- ■ 



T;he 'Saliing-Hanspn' mills at! Grayling have 

 enough stock to oper'at^ 'frit' t''«renty'''yc!irs ot' 

 .more. The Joh'anni^^tiurfe >fenufa'cturing Com-" 

 pany's plant at Johah'nestrarg; sbme'twetftr miles 



