HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The J. W. Wells Company of Menominee will 



soon Ijuild a large factory for the manufacture of 

 hanlwood tlooring. 



The J. Jeniiings sawmill in New London has 

 commenced operations and has a stocli of logs in 

 sight to keep in steady operation for at least six 

 months. 



A great man.\' Wisconsin woodworking institu- 

 tions have found it impossible to close down 

 their plants this month as is customary, for the 

 purpose of taking inventory of stock. They are 

 all rushed with orders which must be tilled 

 without delay. 



The F. Schubring Lumber Company of Wausau 

 has recently added new machinery to its plant. 



U. A. ilartin, who recently bought a sawmill 

 in Spencer, will start the same in operation as 

 soon as new machinery is installed. 



The Wisconsin Handle Company is the name 

 of a concern which will manufacture all kinds of 

 handles in the city of Oconto. The Pankratz 

 sawmill has been remodeled and eiiuipped for 

 that purpose. 



The Bain Wagon Company of Kaciue is plan- 

 ning the erection of a four-story brick structure. 

 This will greatly increase the company's facili- 

 ties. 



The Jlichigau Hoop & Stave Company of Mari- 

 nette will build a dry kiln. The company is 

 planning to get more piling ground spur tracks. 



The Oelhafen & Lindquist Lumber Company is 

 the title of a new concern which will engage in 

 the wholesale lumber business in Green Bay. 

 Arthur R. Oelhafen and Arthur Lindtpiist, two 

 young men of Tomahawk, are the principal stock- 

 holders. Both have grown up in the lumber busi- 

 ness. The former's father, John Oelhafen, is one 

 of the oldest operators on the Wisconsin river. 



The Smalley Manufacturing Company of Mani- 

 towoc, one of the city's oldest industrial con- 

 cerns, has taken in W. C. Galienger as general 

 manager to succeed J. G. Kelley. Mr. Galienger 

 was formerly with the Appleton Manufacturing 

 Company of Batavia, 111. Nels Windingstad, 

 general superintendent of the first mentioned 

 company, has also retired. The company con- 

 sumes a large quantity of different hardwoods 

 yearly in tlte manufacture of implements. It is 

 planning to enlarge its plant and increase the 

 number of its salesmen, 



.\t the annual meeting of toe stockholders of 

 the Shawano Lumber Company, held a few days 

 ago, Peter Faust of Weyauwega was elected a 

 new director. The board of directors chose 

 E. II. Steger president to succeed the late 

 Leander Choate of Oshkosh. .1. C. Black was 

 elected vice-president and J. J. Steiger secretary 

 and treasurer. The capital stock was increased 

 from Slo.OOO to $75,000, 



The board of trade of La Crosse is raising 

 $100,000 to be Invested in new factories. Over 

 $!)5,000 has thus far been subscribed. The 

 money will be invested at the rate of $2.5,000 

 per year, for the purpose of starting new manu- 

 facturing enterprises and strengthening those 

 which may be in need of assistance for further 

 development. 



The Wisconsin Railway Commission recentl.v 

 ordered the Chicago & North- Western Railway 

 Company to refund to the B. Heinemann Lumber 

 Company of Wausau the sum of $37.84 excess 

 freight charges on five cars of lumber shipped 

 from Rib Falls to Wausau. 



During the past year a total of 29,500,000 feet 

 of lumber was shipped by boat from the port of 

 Marinette, At the same time 3,500,000 feet was 

 imported. 



The Barker & Stewart Lumber Company of 

 Wausau will cut 1,000,000 feet of timber this 

 winter on Copper river. 



The Heinemann Lumber Company of Heine- 

 mann has juSL completed the building of an 

 amusement hail for the benefit of its employes. 

 It is 40x80 feet in size, steam heated and electric 

 lighted. 



The Roddis Lumber & Veneer Company of 

 Marshfield now employs the largest crew in its 



history — 250 men. Its inlaid doors, in which it 

 is the pioneer manufacturer, are meeting with 

 a remarkable sale. 



The Walter Alexander Timber Company of 

 Wausau has bought of the E, ,1. Anderson & Son 

 Timber Company a large tract of hardwood in 

 Wisconsin and Michigan. The logs will be hauled 

 to Wausau by rail and sawed in the mill of 

 the Alexander Stewart Lumber Company. 



Lotz & Gorman are cutting 1,000,000 feet of 

 hardwood on Rib mountain and hauling the logs 

 to the F, Schubring Lumber Company's mill in 

 Wausau. 



CADILLAC 



SAaiNAW VALLEY 



Logging conditions are especially favorable 

 ihe last ten days, the temperature having 

 dropped sufficiently to freeze the ground and 

 swamps so that roads can be made and main- 

 tained. Log hauling is going on to interior 

 mills, and to centers of manufacture, such as 

 Alpena, Cheboygan and Bay City, At the latter 

 place one hundred carloads are brought down 

 every twenty-four hours. A good many million 

 feet are hauled to Alpena and the two large 

 mills at Cheboygan obtain the greater portion 

 of their stock by rail. 



At Alpena the Island Mill Lumbi'r Company 

 is installing a battery of four boilers and when 

 this work is finished and other repairs made 

 the mill will resume cutting hardwood timber 

 for the winter. The Loud-Hoeft Lumber Com- 

 pany, owning and operating on several thousand 

 acres of hardwood timber near Rogers City and 

 incorporated with $1.50,000 capital, have (i.OOO,- 

 000 feet on the skids. This firm will employ a 

 steam log loader and skidder. Messrs. Loud, 

 of the II. M. Loud's Sons Company at Au Sable., 

 are interested in this project. Three years ago 

 they bought a large interest in timber in Presque 

 Isle county with Paul H. Hoett. The latter is 

 treasarer and manager of the firm. H. N. Loud 

 is president. 



The maple flooring industry has improved ma- 

 terially both in the matter of demand and prices 

 and every plant in the valley is active, while 

 large quantities of manufactured st<)<'k are being 

 shipped out by rail. 



Saginaw parties have purchased a large oak 

 Hooring plant at Nashville. Tenn,, and H. A. 

 Batchelor, Jr., who has for some years been 

 associated in t'ue lumber business with his 

 father and J, T, Wylie, left the first of the 

 year for Nashville, to assume the management 

 of the plant. His many friends in the valley 

 are confident he will make good. 



The John D. Mershon Lumber Company at 

 Sagiiiaw, closed the first year of its business 

 with the end of the year and did a fine and 

 steadily increasing business in hardwood lumber 

 products. 



A portion of the machinery for the new Han- 

 son-Ward flooring plant at Bay City has been 

 installed and a portion of the plant will start 

 operations about Feb. 1. If the delivery of 

 machinery is not delayed the entire plant will 

 be in operation in about thirty days. It is up- 

 to-date and will employ over one hundred bands. 



The Berst Manufacturing Company at Saginaw 

 is using 4,000,000 feet of maple and birch in the 

 production of toothpicks, the output amounting 

 10 15,000,000 toothpicks a day. 



The Kneeland-Bigelow and the Kneeland, Buell 

 & Bigelow mill plants manufactured approxi- 

 mately 40,000,000 feet of lumber last year. The 

 mill of the first named company is operated day 

 and night the year through. The latter mill is 

 to have a new battery of boilers installed early 

 in April. 



The annual meeting and bampiet of the Sag- 

 inaw Valley Lumber Dealers' Association was 

 held at the Wenonah hotel. Bay City, Friday 

 evening. January 7. Every lumber company in 

 Ihi' valley is associated with this organization. 



The worst storm uf the season and one of 

 the most severe that has visited this region for 

 a number of years is now raging. For the 

 time being, only the necessary outside work 

 is being done and the railroads are having a 

 hard time to keep their lines open, 



.\I1 of the lumber manufacturers of Cadillac 

 and vicinity are running full time and anticipate 

 one of the best seasons in Michigan hardwoods 

 and also hemlock. 



This is the season when logs and fuel wood 

 are brought into Cadillac on sleighs in large 

 quantities and a remarkably fine lot of maple is 

 being logged and brought in. 



JIurphy & Diggins have a camp near Leetsville, 

 at which point they are putting in a large 

 quantity of hemlock and hardwoods which is 

 brought into Cadillac over the G. R. & i. railway 

 and manufactured here. 



The annual meeting of the Williams Brothers 

 Company was held a few days ago at Manton. 

 At this meeting it was voted to increase tlie 

 capilal stock from $75,000 to $150,000, all the 

 additional stock being taken by the present stoctt- 

 holders. This comijany has a large plant m 

 this city and also at Manton, lumbering beiffg 

 carried on at Mesick, Harrietta and Manton. 

 The plant in this city is one of the best of the 

 many local mills and employs about 100 men. 

 The products of these plants are lumber, last 

 l.tlocks, and ten pins. The company has large 

 holdings of timber laud in Wexford. Missaukee 

 and Grand Traverse counties, and a considerable 

 amount of timber in the upper peninsula. 



Cadillac has lost one of her best and good 

 friends in the death of Wellington W. Cummer, 

 which occurred at Jacksonville, Fla.. December 

 25, lUOO. Mr. Cummer was one of the men 

 who came to Cadillac in the early daj's wltn 

 bis father, Jacob Cummer, entering into the 

 mauiifacture of lumber under the name or 

 Jacob Cummer & Son, He was also interested 

 in other business firms, among them the Blodgett, 

 Cummer & Diggins, and Cummer Lumber Com- 

 pany, which were finally merged into the pres- 

 ent Cummer-Diggins Company, 



In honor to his memory business in Cadillac 

 was suspended from 2 to 4 p. m., the time of 

 the funeral, and memorial services were held in 

 the Congregational church simultaneous with the 

 services that were held in Jacksonville. The 

 mills of the city were also closed for the entire 

 afternoon, and the church where the memorial 

 services were held was filled with friends and 

 associates of the former Cadillac man, Mr. 

 Cummer leaves a wife and three children, Mrs. 

 Mabel Roe, Arthur G, and Waldo E. Cummer, 

 a sister, Mrs. F. A. Diggins. and his mother, 

 Mrs. Jacob Cummer of this city. 



The Michigan State Railway Commission has 

 announced that it will not be governed by the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission on the demur- 

 rage question, and it is expected that as the re- 

 sults of the action taken jurisdiction of the 

 federal body will be taken into court for de- 

 termination. Many shippers from all parts of 

 the state have protested against any change in 

 Ihe present Michigan car service and demurrage 

 rules, and the commission will be sustained by 

 the majority of the large interests involved. 



The Ilillman branch of the Detroit & Mackinac 

 Railway running between Hillman and Alpena 

 has been opened. In order to celebrate the 

 formal opening, the Detroit & Mackinac Railway 

 officials gave a free ride to 700 farmers and 

 citizens from Hillman to Alpena. A special 

 permit was granted by the State Railway Com- 

 uvissioners to allow the distribution of free rides 

 for this purpose. 



D. F. Clark of Osborne & Clark, Minneapolis, 

 Minn., was in Cadillac this week on business 

 connected witii his firm. 



