HARDWOOD RECORD 



John A. McDonnell of Chippewa Falls, Wis., 

 authoi- ot "Lumberman's Log Scale Record," and 

 known as one of the best scalers in the busi- 

 ness, died suddenly of heart failure. He lived 

 in Chippi-wa Falls for thirty years. 



The English Manufacturing Company of Ap- 

 pleton. Wis., is building a large addition to its 

 dry kilns. Other improvements are projected. 



About 150,000 feet of choice hardwood timber 

 in the yards of the A. J. Lindemann-Hoverson 

 Company, Fourth and Russell avenues, Milwau- 

 kee, was destroyed by fire last week. The barns 

 were saved and the immense plant was not 

 touched. 



The North Star Lumber Company, a Minne- 

 sota corporation, capitalized at ?500,000 and 

 $50,000 interests in Wisconsin, has filed a state- 

 ment to do business in this state. 



The veneer plant of the Morris Manufactur- 

 ing Company at Morris, Wis., is being dis- 

 mantled. The company was forced to close be- 

 cause its timber supply gave out. The plant 

 was erected only twelve years ago. 



WAUSAU 



The Rogers Lumber Company of Nashville is 

 doing the heaviest business in its history this 

 winter. Besides having more men in its camps 

 than ever before, cutting logs, it is complet- 

 ing three and one-half miles of railroad to a 

 tract of timber on Post lake owned by Morse 

 & Tradeweli. The Rogers company has con- 

 tracted to build the railroad to the timber and 

 saw 20,000,000 feet of logs. The contract 

 binds the company to saw 2,000,000 feet per 

 year. The cutting of this timber, in addition 

 to that owned by the company, gives employ- 

 ment to many men. The company this fall ex- 

 tended its own line of railroad and now has a 

 total ot twelve miles. An additional locom'otive 

 has been purchased. 



The Wolf River Chair Company of New Lon- 

 don has installed a 200 kilowat dynamo, which 

 will supply 250-horsepower. The dynamo weighs 

 twelve tons. The installation of this dynamo 

 gives the company a large additional power 

 over the old steam engine it supplants. 



The Bradley Lumber Company of Tomahawk 

 recently lost a suit in which it was the prose- 

 cuting party. In the fall of 1906 Henry 

 Mundt of Dubuque, Iowa, arrived in Toma- 

 hawk in quest of Christmas trees. He was di- 

 rected to a Mr. Hicke, who bargained with Mr. 

 Mundt tor all the trees in a swamp on Mr. 

 Hicke's farm. The Dubuque man supposed all 

 of the swamp belonged to the farmer, but it 

 did not, and he removed several thousand trees 

 from the Bradley company's land. After be- 

 ing bound over for trial Mundt took French 

 leave and was caught only a few months ago. 

 Claude Foote of Whiting felled a giant maple 

 which, in falling, bent a beech tree and the 

 latter, like a catapult, sprung back and in- 

 stantly killed the man. 



This will be a very busy winter around Bay- 

 field. It is said that upwards of 1,000 men 

 will be employed in the woods in that lection. 



For the first time in its history logging opera- 

 tions will be conducted on Isle Royale this win- 

 ter. This is the largest fresh water island in 

 the world. After the tug boats have made 

 their last trip to the island with supplies, the 

 crew will be cut off from communication with 

 the world until late in April, 1910. The Long 

 Point Lumber Company of Duluth is cutting 

 the timber. 



The Gooding & Mylrea Lumber Company of 

 Wausau, with mill at Wittenberg, will cut 

 about 1,000,000 feet of logs this winter in 

 Forest county. 



The Moore & Galloway Lumber Company of 

 Fond du Lac, which is logging near the town 

 of Galloway, has just completed two long 

 spurs of logging railroad. The company Is 



cutting an immense lot of logs, which are be- 

 ing hauled by rail to the firm's sawmill in 

 Fond du Lac. The company employs a steam 

 loader. 



The Raymond Log Loader Company of 

 Marinette reports a very good business in its 

 sales department this season. 



The Schroeder Lumber Company of Ashland 

 will cut about 20,000,000 feet of logs in the 

 vicinity of Saxon this winter. 



The Wiedeman-Lindem Company of Marinette 

 is supplying the hardwood Interior finishings 

 for a large postoffice building being constructed 

 in the West. The company is installing new 

 machinery, which will increase its output. 



The following Wausau lumber companies 

 will cut a total of nearly 1,000.000,000 feet of 

 timber this winter : The Barker & Stewart Lum- 

 ber Company will cut 25,000,000 near Glandon ; 

 this company will also buy some from smaller 

 concerns and farmers. The Alexander Stewart 

 Lumber Company will cut 14,000,000 feet at 

 Grandfather Rapids; this company is the princi- 

 pal stockholder in a large body of timber pur- 

 chased by Wausau parties some time ago in 

 northern Michigan. The question of whether 

 to build a mill near the tract or to ship the 

 logs to Wausau is being discussed by the own- 

 ers. If the latter plan is adopted this tract 

 alone will keep the Wausau mill in operation 

 for ten years. The Jacob Mortenson Lumber 

 Company will cut 13,000,000 feet of logs around 

 Parrish and Bloomville; the Fred Schubring 

 Lumber Company about 10,000,000 feet near 

 Einzle, and the Brooks & Ross Lumber Com- 

 pany (with mill at Schofield) about 30,000,000. 

 The latter company will have three camps in 

 Vilas county, one in Langlade county, and one 

 each at Rosholt and Mercer. All of the logs 

 cut by these companies will be hauled to their 

 mills by rail and sawed. In addition most of 

 them will buy small stocks of farmers and 

 others. 



The Monico Lumber Company of Monico Junc- 

 tion has been organized. B. F. Jillson is presi- 

 dent, P. E. Kabel vice-president and treasurer, 

 A. K. Jillson secretary. 



The Wisconsin Veneer Company's plant in 

 Rhinelander is temporarily closed on account of 

 a shortage of logs. It is expected that a supply 

 will be received soon sufficient to keep the plant 

 in continuous operation. 



The CoDsolidated Farm Company of Marsh- 

 field which is a cooperative colony, has pur- 

 chased the Aug. Stecker mill, near that city, 

 and 4,000,000 feet of timber. 



The W. H. Hatten Lumber Company of New 

 London presented all its employers with a tur- 

 key for Thanksgiving. This is an annual cus- 

 tom with this concern. 



The Foster Lumber Company of Hiles will 

 cut about 18.000.000 feet of logs this wintiT 



The Vollmer-Below Lumber Company, Marsh- 

 field, has purchased the Maxwell mill at Mel- 

 len. The plant has a capacity of 50,000 feet 

 per day. The company owns a tract of timber 

 near the mill which will be cut. The mill will 

 be operated this winter. 



The John R. Davis Lumber Company of 

 Philips, which lost its mill by fire a few weeks 

 ago announces that it will rebuild on a larger 

 scale. The company has also intimated that it 

 may move away from Philips. 



The Ingram Lumber Company, which has 

 been doing business at Ingram for several years, 

 has cut all its timber in that section. 



A deed has just been recorded at Wausau 

 for a large tract of land in Marathon county, 

 sold by the Joseph Dessert Lumber Company 

 of Mosinee to the Mosinee Land, Log & Lum- 

 ber Company. It conveys over 3,000 acres and 

 the price paid was .$133,000. It has several 

 million feet of timber on it. 



The Chicago & Northwestern Railway Com- 

 pany has sold to the Flanner-Steger Land & 

 Lumber Company of Chicago 8,500 acres of 



timber land near Crandon. The price paid was 

 .?127,454. The latter company owns a sawmill 

 at Blackwell, to which the logs ■will be shipped. 

 The absence of snow and cold weather so far 

 has made logging conditions in northern Wiscon- 

 son anything but favorable. 



DETROIT 



Building permits in Detroit during the month 

 ot November showed a gain of more than 48 per 

 cent over November, 1908. During last month 

 permits for 412 new buildings at a cost of 

 $1,414,770, as against 243 buildings at a cost 

 of .$972,800 in 1908, are reported. The total 

 building operations for the eleven months of this 

 year amount to $13,217,780, a gain of 37 per 

 cent over the corresponding period of 1908. 



A bill has been filed in the Wayne circuit 

 court by the Detroit & Mackinac railway to 

 compel the state railway commission to allow a 

 larger rate on lumber from the upper peninsula. 

 The railroad alleges that because of the thinning 

 off of the timber in the upper peninsula and the 

 heavy competition of the water lines it is not 

 getting enough business to afford to carry lum- 

 ber at the present rate. 



W. W. Watterson of the Radeker Lumber Com- 

 pany of Parkersburg, W. Va., was in Detroit last 

 week, a visitor to E. W. Leech's hardwood lumber 

 yards. 



The last boat load of hardwood lumber was 

 brought to the Thomas Forman docks last week 

 by the steamer M. T. Green. The cargo was 

 maple from Boyne City. 



The Auto Wheel Company has been organized 

 at Lansing with a capitalization of $150,000 

 to manufacture automobile wheels. It is a 

 reorganization of the Lansing Spoke Company. 

 The plant of the company has been purchased 

 and new buildings will be erected. 



"Nick" J. Whalen and other well-known Michi- 

 gan men are to start a furniture factory In 

 Bartle, Cuba, the machinery for the plant already 

 having been shipped. Mahogany will be the 

 chief wood used. It is expected to secure most 

 of the skilled labor in Michigan. 



SAOISAW VALLEY 



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The hardwood lumber industry is holding its 

 own. Nearly all the mills on the river will be 

 operated during the winter. These include the 

 Bliss & Van Auken mill at Saginaw, which Is 

 operated the year through, with a fine flooring 

 plant in connection with the sawmill. The flooring 

 business has improved greatly during the last 

 ninety days and in addition to an increased do- 

 mestic consumption large quantities are shipped 

 abroad. Bliss & Van Auken are having a fine 

 run of business and the plants are busy. The 

 Strable Manufacturing Company, also at Sagi- 

 naw, operates a flooring plant. A considerable 

 portion of the raw material comes from the 

 sawmill of the Batchelor Timber Company at 

 West Branch, that company being heavy stock- 

 holders of the Strable concern. The S. L. East- 

 man Flooring plant is having a successful run. 

 The company has received a large quantity of 

 stock from the Kneeland-Bigelow Company at 

 Bay City, taking 12,000,000 feet in 1908 and 

 8.000,000 feet the present year. In addition 

 the company will receive a lot of maple lumber 

 from the S. A. Robinson Lumber Company at 

 Goodar, Ogemaw county, in which Mr. Eastman 

 is one of the stockholders. The plant of W. D. 

 Young & Co., at Bay City, is running its saw- 

 mill and flooring plant day and night and is 

 pushed to keep pace with its orders. It is only 

 a question with the firm of getting its stock 

 shipped to the buyer. A good portion of the 

 output goes to Europe. The firm is confident 

 that flooring prices will shortly advance. The 

 work of erecting the new Hanson-Ward flooring 

 plant at Bay City is being pushed rapidly and 



