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Texas, where President Taft spent several days 

 while he was on his trip. A gasoline launch has 

 heefi arranged for, dogs have heen secured and 

 all the paraphernalia for duel;, quail and Snipe 

 shooting. — 



Tte„ABUy.'icaS H?itI»-PP4 lain^ber Compao^-has^ 

 been having quite n good rush of hjiajness. It is 

 sending out a large amountot upper grade gum 

 at good prices. 



George E. Hibbard, vice-president of the Steele 

 & Hibbard Lumber Company. 'Says there is only 

 a moderate degree of activity in the hardwood 

 market*. -fShe call for plain and quartered red 

 oak is good and the upper grades' of cypress are 

 also in fair demand. All the orders- are for quick 

 shipment.- The prospects for next season are - 

 most promising. 



The sawmill of the Henry Quell malztumber & 

 Mill Company, at Brooliings. Ark., has recently 

 started up after a thorough overhauling. Many 

 improvements have recently been added. 



The office of the International Hardwood Lumr 

 her 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 Compan.v, 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. II. Ful- 

 lerton is president. J. C. Cremer is secretary 

 and Frank Ooopel is treasurer. The headquar- 

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

 Lt Bt Closes, the vice-president and general man- 

 ager^ is lociitcd. Mr. Moses is well known in- 

 the lumber trade in Kansas City. The company 

 will bu.v, and sell white oak ties. . 



Chivrles . A. Tilden. under Jhe iiam.e of the 

 Charles A.,Tilden-:X.umber Company, has bought 

 cut.; the business pf A., C. Baird and will be lo- 

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

 builcUng. Mr. '-Cilden will handle yellow pine, 

 hard,9'Qo4,and Pa<:ilic coa^t lumber. 

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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, general 

 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 ^ardwoo^ Uum-^ 

 her Company of St. Louisi^i'filJ.-ai.^'IcjJIlei}, -upon < 

 the Milwaukee trade. 



The Cumberland Frjiit Package :.Cqm(j^ny. h&s 

 been incorporated at Cumberland with a capital 

 stock of 'if2i,000. The company will begin the 

 erection of a new factory building at once which 

 will be GOxdO' feet in dimensions and equijiped 

 with "the latest woodworking machinery. The 

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

 poplar and pine ip the manufacture of the 

 Ewald 'folding befry boxes. It' is. expected that 

 the plant will be In operation within three 

 months* time. 



The Voilmar-Below Lumber fcompany of 

 Mqrshflejd has purcliased the' iiaxweli sawmill 

 at Mellen a^id wtll operate the plant this win-, 

 tcr. Tije mill has a capacity of about ."iO.ObO 



feet daiiy; '._,.',; / ,' [ ,]'] ,, ;!'';':',.; "'T;!.:,'^ 



The yetter Sfanufacthring'dompanjy' of'/^fe 

 vehs Point hasconiplefed arrangements' for the 

 Installation of clectr,ic pijwer lij' Its woodworking 

 plant. Considerable new macbinery will also be 

 mstalled. 



Th'e'C. A. Goodyeaif Lumber Coin tiany •Of' Tbmati'' 

 has completed the itistalHtion of a new eledtrical 

 power plant of 1,200 horsepower. NeW rd'actiiiDery 



has been added and the plant nbw' ila^'i "Saily 

 capacity of 100,000 feet. " ■-'■'■'■'■ '^i'' 



The Manasha Manufaoturin.g C&lnpahy is erect- 

 ing a new plant. It Goodrich for the manufacture 

 of wooden plugs. ' 



The Lane-Coos Land Company h.a's'-been Incor- 

 porated at Appleton with a cip^ital stocit of 

 .$80,000 by 'ft. G. .Tones, JVed 'F. Wettengel and 

 .T. V. Canav'a'H. The corporatioh owns 6,000 

 acres of timber land in Oregon. 



Thfe' Kiel ITurniture Company Hf Kiel, 'Wig., 

 which recently purchased the furniture plant of 

 the B. A. Kipp Company of Milwaukee, h.as taken 

 out a permit for the erection of a hew'$SO,000 

 plant ad,ioining the Kipp fllant at MiKvaukee. 



The Menasha Woodonware Company of Menasha 

 has closed a contract with the- Rnbbins Lumber 

 Company o'f Rhihelrtndcr to cut' do.000.000 feet 

 of timber from the Menasha ('•rtmpany's holdings. 

 The deal me.ans that both' plants of the Bobbins 

 company at Rhinelander will be' ket)t''W'opefh- 

 tion this week. ' > 'JiJi. 



The entire timber holdings of' the- josepli Des- 

 sert Lumber Company w'est ■ of the Wisconsin 

 river, consisting of 3.345 acres, have heen 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 wUh a loss of $1.^0.000, has been 

 adjusted. It is announced that the plant will 

 be rebuilt. 



The Edgar Veneer & Box Company of Edgar 

 has heen dissolved by common consent of the 

 stockholders and that 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 members resulted in this step. 



Kenfleld & Lamoureaux have begun the erec- 

 tion of another addition to their box factory 

 at Washburn. The addition will be lo6x30 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 at I.adysmlth with a capital 

 slock of $100,000 by E. K. Hugbey of Bellevue, 

 Iowa, and .Tomes F. Mitchell aTid Willard E. 

 Thompson of Ladysmitb. The company owns 

 10.000 acres of timber land in the Flambeau river 

 district. 



Assemblyman William M. Bray, welUmo'wn 

 young lumber manufacturer of Oshkosh, has pre- 

 senteiJ dock property to his hnmp city valued 

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

 -Ri'^y's ""late- f atbcr-,-^. M. Bray, the pioneer 



MINNEAPOLIS 



uratemK'rf'. *^ho Tec^tly died, and Leander 

 C\iBaXB.-.a^Sfi ^^ov^aev lugibe^an and late part- 

 ner "of tfie""cl3er'.Mr. Bray. ^ ' 



Lumbermen' all over Wisconsin ai-e interested 

 in^Tirr'anTrffiTpccment tSat'-Vh** old •j?6TmfW"gSp" 

 in the, Chippe-wtr-riTer-irt -CtTrpTi^Wa Falls has 

 been cIos,ed. It was Ih operation for thirty 



years,' ',^ . ' .'"| 71...... .-.■.", ..'.,:, 



Business'^meii o'f Mbsinee'iire endeavoHng 'Co 

 induce the 'iVrosinee tanS, 'to'g & Lnmbtr '' Com- 

 pany, which has purchased tiic timber holdings 

 of the Joseph Dessert Lurnbqr Company, to move 

 its' sawmili from Four Mil? ere<fk to Mosinee. 



Tte, lumber yards of C! A,' 'N'ye of |'Corndcopia 

 wet-? destro.ved bjy' lire i;ecentl,v with a lOss of 

 $14,0,00.; with ihsurancc^of .$'lO,(IO().; _The sawmill 

 of Mr. Nye was sayed.^^^^ _' ^^ ^^ _'^^"..'".^. " .. __,,' 

 Tbe,spec,ial committee of 'Ae ''Wisconsin Ifefeis-^' 

 lature on forestry,' wat'er powers "and drainage", 

 held a session at the Hotel ■fflster, Milwaukee, 

 for the consiaeratTon^oT'impoftant'problems, in- 

 clfldTri^ nil' l;onsorvatic«i ot^tifie tifUKei .miJlJl.f. 

 State Forest(ir-er-M-. Griffith-addressed the com- 

 mittee 'a'pd''!layocatea''the'''^S^^teta"/tA'"'frurii'itg 

 slash. 



Infoi'matiOn has' been received here this week' 

 that' about the' first of the yeai^ 'the rates otf ' 

 lumbei' 'and lumber products from Minneapolis, ' 

 St. Paul and DuUitb and northern Wiscdhsin and 

 Michigan points to Eastern Trunk Line territ6ry 

 will be 'redliced-. The new rates Wiir be the same 

 as thofee' In effbct two years ago. The harrtWO'od 

 lumber manufacturets of Wisconsin have beeu ■'' 

 working for this reduction for some time an'd 

 iiave l)eeti alily assisted by the traffic depattmeiit 

 of oh'e Of the 'iirtek, 'whose offiielals have believed' ' 

 righfalong that tU'4 fate in ^'ffedt twix years ago'' 

 was high enotl^b.'' '^^ftel' the -p'esSnt i-ates were' 

 put' into .effeet shipments of lumber' eastward 

 fell* off fully Sixty per 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. 



lyftneaEPji^ buildingTP<(Viinits for ',.tjn,J?,2St&£ 

 amounted to ; $ll.lSO.SiS. 'a'nd were thirty-two 

 per cent largei^tlfa'n Ydr the same period of last 



year. . , ., . ■....,.. .'. 



The Minneap'olis ih'iilS ''have' finished "cuttitig 

 lumber for the season. The output: of the mills 

 this year is about 80,000,000 feet greater than 

 last year, when the cut was 189,000,000 feet. / 



L. C. N<ilari" of the Nolan Brothers Lumber 

 Corhpahy, Memphis, Tenn:, has been In the' North 

 on business during the past two weeks. 



The Northwestern Hardwood Lumbermen's 'As*-' 

 sociation will hold its annual meeting ' at' St." 

 Paul on December 7. 



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SAQINAW 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 lower 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 tlie general revival of busi- 

 ness and industry aj'e the stimuli to activity in 

 the woods. All of the 1-arger firms will put ,in 

 all the stock they can handle and get to the 

 mills. Ross & Wentworth are lumbering north 

 of Grayling, and they buy enough udditional' 

 stock to keep the Campbell-Brown lumber mill 

 at Bay City busy. This tti^m has had a successful, 

 year. ' 



The Bliss & Van Miken mill and flooring mill 

 are running the year through and have had a 

 good business. The Wyiie & Buell Lumber Com- 

 pany is furnishing the stock for the plant, which 

 conies down ovSr the Mackinaw division of 

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

 plant at Bay City is running both sawmill a'ni}: 

 flooding hrlti day audi -night and shipping large 

 quantities of maple flooring ■ abroad. The ,Mer- 

 shon-Bacon Company has- done a large business 

 this year in the manufacture of hardwood lumber, 



into box stuff, The Bav City Box & Lumber 



Compan y has [ also l^iUKUpd . mpre or. less hard- 

 wood In the production of bb'x ' stuff. 



The Richar(i'sb'n'"Luml5e'r Company s mill will 

 inn' through t'jie winter, 'as usual. The' plaht 

 has a hot-water pond for winter operations. If 

 recei-res about twenty-five' ArS' of lo^s''from tKe' 



North daily. , , . 



'fhe construcfioil 'of M'tfatf^oii-'V^'ara'dbiSp'dVly^ 

 ra'aple aobrin'g' mfll jtf'teayj'titj-' iS' being ' l'ush?ea' 

 as rapidly i^. possible? '"if \ViiI beequiiipea ''^i\ 

 up'-te-date 'hia(;hinci'y.''''';'.\n})ther large atiHritig' 

 plant. IS In'pi-ocess of inciiSatloiJ at B'Ay City. ' 



The ilichel'sOri Sc'liniisoti Liimbef-'eompatfJ^ 

 plant at'Lewtstpn Wi'lf finish its cut 'In 'a''ifeW' 

 months and'wili' then be'remoyca.' '^'^'T. 



The ■Sallihg-llahson' mills at Grayling have 

 enough stock to operat^ tdi-' t'wenty"yeilTS ''6r" 

 .more. The johAnnq^Hutk INfanufactiiring Com-' 

 pany's plant at JohSh'hesbiirg; sbme'twenftii" mHes 



