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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The FuUerton-Kruegei- Lumber Company, a 

 Minnesota corporation, with a capital stock of 

 §25,00,0 and Wisconsin interests of $12,500, has 

 nied a statement to transact business in Wis- 

 consin. John D. Kenneby of iarson is the Wis- 

 consin agent o£ the company. 



WAUSAU 



For a day recently there was exhibited in the 

 office of a hotel at Marshfleld a picture that 

 attracted unusual attention. It was the work 

 of an artist, but was not done with brush and 

 paint. It was an Egyptian scene, and showed 

 the pyramids in the distance and a life-sized 

 lion in the foreground. The whole scene was 

 worked out in thin veneer glued to a backing. 

 The coloring, which was very true, was pro- 

 duced by using different varieties of veneer. 

 The picture was GxS^i feet in size. The de- 

 signer is a Chicago man, but the greater part 

 of the work was done in the Roddis Veneer 

 Company's factory in Marshfleld. From a dis- 

 tance, so neatly were the different shades of 

 veneer blended, that it looked very like an oil 

 painting. 



The F. MacKinnon Manufacturing Company 

 of Grand Eapids has put its hub mill in opera- 

 tion again after several months' idleness. The 

 company has contracted for about 600 carloads 

 of logs, which it is thought will be insufficient 

 to fill its present orders. 



The Quaw Lumber Company has put its mill 

 at Edgar in operation again, after being idle 

 since last spring. The company's main office is 

 located at Wausau. 



The Roddis Lumber & Veneer Company's mill 

 at Park Falls has started sawing on a stock of 

 8,000,000 feet of logs. Besides owning fifteen 

 miles of logging railway, the company has 23,000 

 acres of land, containing some of the finest 

 virgin timber to be found in northern Wiscon- 

 sin. 



Sumner I'rescott. secretary and treasurer of 

 the Prescott Company of Menominee, manufac- 

 turers of sawmill machinery and builders of saw- 

 mills, has disappeared. An investigation has 

 shown that a reorganization of the company is 

 necessary. It is planned to reorganize with a 

 capital of .$450,000. Overbuilding and extension 

 of business on a limited capital are said to be 

 the causes of the present condition of the com- 

 pany's affairs. 



The fifty-second annual winter run of Senator 

 Isaac Stephenson's sawmill in Marinette began 

 a few days ago when the Ludington mills were 

 started. Senator Stephenson has been engaged 

 in the lumber business for sixty-two years, be- 

 ginning his operations on the Escanaba river. 



It has been announced that the A. H. Stange 

 Lumber Company of Merrill has purchased 250.- 

 000,000 feet of timber, which will be shipped to 

 and sawed at Merrill. 



D. E. Riordan of Ashland has .iust closed a 

 deal for the G. F. Sanborn Land Company of 

 that city, which is selling its land and timber 

 holdings in Wisconsin and Michigan as rapidly 

 as possible. The deal just completed is for a 

 tract of hardwood located near Lake Gogebic 

 and involves a consideration of more than $100,- 

 000. Senator Isaac Stephenson was the pur- 

 chaser. About 7,400 acres are included in the 

 tract. All of it is situated in Ontonagon county. 

 Three of the five mills in Marinette will be 

 operated this winter, Nos. 1 and 2 of the N. 

 Ludington Company and No. 1 of the Sawyer- 

 Goodman Company. 



Although $100,000 was the amount set by the 

 La Crosse Industrial Association, and the 

 amount has been subscribed, subscriptions are 

 still coming in unsolicited. The association will 

 be capitalized at $125,000 and articles of incor- 

 poration have been filed, with the following 

 named as incorporators : B. M. Wing, William 

 Doerflinger, F. W. Sisson, G. S. Vanbucken and 

 A. H. Schubert. The association will spend 



$'_'5,000 per year to secure new industries for 

 the city. 



There is not an idle manufacturing plant in 

 Fond du Lac this winter, and every factory is 

 taxed to its capacity. The F. W. Grondt Broom 

 Company, which consumes a considerable amount 

 of hardwood for broom handles, has moved into 

 larger quarters. At Oshkosh manufacturers 

 look forward to a prosperous year. The Paine 

 Lumber Company is building a brick factory 

 building and dry kilns. The R. McMillan Lum- 

 ber Company has completed a new brick factory 

 which will be occupied soon. The trunk manu- 

 facturers of the city predict a big year's busi- 

 ness, with advanced prices. The furniture man- 

 ufacturers say that the market is overstocked, 

 but that good prices are looked for, and that 

 there will be some advances along certain lines. 

 In Wausau every woodworking plant is in oper- 

 ation except the mill of the Alexander Stewart 

 Lumber Company, which is closed because of a 

 shortage of cars with which to ship logs. 



With a capital of $10,000,000 the Mitchell- 

 Lewis Company of Racine has been incorporated, 

 an amalgamation of the Mitchell Motor Com- 

 pany and the Mitchell & Lewis Company. The 

 reorganized company will manufacture automo- 

 bile bodies. With the combination the control 

 of extensive plants in Minneapolis, Chicago, 

 Portland and Paris will come under the single 

 company. NVnv buildings costing over $500,000 

 will be constructed at once. Architects are 

 drawing plans for a four-story building 150x400 

 feet and a one-story building 102x250 feet. 



Charles A. Bigelow resident manager of the 

 Kneeland-Bigelow Company and Kneeland. Buell 

 it Bigelow Company, has been in Detroit the 

 present week attending the quarterly meeting 

 of the Michigan Hardwood Lumber Manufac- 

 turers' Association. The two local plants of 

 these concerns manufactured 18,439,053 feet of 

 hardwood lumber last year. Both plants run 

 the year through, the Kneeland-Bigelow plant 

 day and night. The Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow 

 plant will install a new battery of boilers 

 early in April and some other repairs will be 

 made. 



At Cheboygan the Cheboygan Manufacturing 

 Company, which has operated a planing mill and 

 factory is building a saw mill which will be 

 in operation early in February. The company 

 is now getting into its yard a stock of logs. 



The maple flooring plant of the Hanson-Ward 

 Company at Bay City is rapidly approaching 

 completion. It will be up-to-date and will han- 

 dle a crew of seventy-five or one hundred hands. 

 It will begin operations within a month. 



The lumber firm of McTiver & Hughes at 

 Onaway has dissolved. S. M. McTiver succeeds 

 to the business and will remove his oflice 

 from Onaway to Perue Spur, where the firm has 

 built a band saw mill of 50,000 feet daily 

 capacity. 



Last year R. Hanson & Sons of Grayling 

 er»cted a fine hardwood mill at Grayling, where 

 Ihey manufactured 3.305.969 feet of hardwood 

 lumber. 



SAOINAW VALLEY 



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The snow is very deep in the lumbering dis- 

 tricts in this section, ranging from twenty 

 inches to three and a half feet, and in some 

 localities it interferes seriously with active log- 

 ging operations. North of the Straits some 

 camps have quit trying to operate until the 

 snow settles. Generally, however, good prog- 

 ress has been made and an unusually large stock 

 of logs will be secured. The large firms are 

 getting in all the stock available and there are 

 more small operators than usual in the woods, 

 owing to the good prices lumber is bringing 

 and the excellent outlook. 



Thomas Denton of Saginaw has a crow in 

 the woods getting out TO.OUO cubic feet of rock 

 elm timber for the Quebec market. Mr. Denton 

 purchased a large body of timber In Wexford 

 county, and is operating there. 



W. B. Tubbs of Gladwin has bought a body 

 of hardwood timber near that place, and will 

 put up a portable mill, where it will be manu- 

 factured. 



The plant of W. D. Young & Co. at Bay City 

 is being operated day and night, the larger 

 percentage of the stock cut going into flooring, 

 the market for which has greatly improved. This 

 plant manufactured last year 22,659,549 feet 

 of hardwood lumber, considerably more than 

 the average for some years past. 



The annual feed and meeting of the Saginaw 

 Valley Lumber Dealers' Association, held at the 

 Weuonah Hotel, Bay City, January 7, was thor- 

 oughly enjoyable. At the business meeting, S. L. 

 Ea°stman was elected president to succeed John 

 M. Miller, and Walter D. Young was elected 

 vice-president. B. C. Bingham was re-elected 

 treasurer and G. P. W'aller, secretary, was also 

 re-elected. The menu cards were of curly maple 

 veneer and artistic as well as pleasing from 

 the epicurean viewpoint. Covers were laid for 

 sixty. The organization, is largely of a social 

 character, although there is unanimity of action 

 in many matters in the handling of business 

 accomplished by the association. 



The Richardson Lumber Company of Alpena 

 operates two saw mills, one at Alpena, which 

 manufactured 2,500,000 feet of hardwood last 

 year and the other is located at Bay City and 

 runs' the year through. It manufactured last 

 year 5,000,000 feet of hardwood lumber. 



Not as many retailers as usual attended the 

 annual meeting of the Northwestern Lumber- 

 men's Association in this city January IS to 20. 

 The association declared that retailers would 

 not consent to odd lengths being forced and 

 shipped without order. Frank J. Lang, who 

 comes each year to the convention in the inter- 

 ests of the I. Stephenson Company, Wells, Mich., 

 was prevented from attending this year by ill- 

 ness. 



E. Pavson Smith of the Payson Smith Lumber 

 Compan.v is in Missouri looking after the man- 

 ufacturing end of the business, accompanied by 

 L P Arthur, manager of the Chicago office. 

 Mr Smith sends word that the prospect is for 

 an advance of $2 to $3 on oak this spring. 

 Some additions have been made to the staff of 

 the company. Frank H. Long, formerly National 

 inspector, is now looking after the concern's 

 stocks in Wisconsin. F. S. Barnard of Minne- 

 apolis has gone down to Hough, Mo., as assis- 

 tant manager at the mill of the Missouri Hard- 

 wood Manufacturing Company, under T. E. 

 Youngblood. The force in the Twin Cities has 

 been increased by the addition of P. M. Young- 

 blood, a brother of the manager at Hough. 



George S. Agnew, the local wholesaler, has 

 returned from a business trip to southern Texas. 

 The Fullerton-Krueger Lumber Company, re- 

 cently incorporated, has taken over the busi- 

 ness "of the Chicago Lumber & Coal Company in 

 Minnesota and Wisconsin, including a hemlock 

 and hardwood stock at Saxon. Wis. The new 

 concern also acts as selling agent for the south- 

 ern stocks of the Chicago Lumber & Coal Com- 

 pany. J. H. Krueger is president of the com- 

 pany J. E. Dougherty vice president, and C. M. 

 Smal'lev secretary and treasurer. E. H. Brough- 

 ton who, for some years, has been sales manager 

 here for the Forbes-Everts Lumber Company, 

 a concern with hardwood mills at Van Buren, 

 Mo has ioined the Fullerton-Krueger Lumber 

 Company and has charge of its hardwood de- 

 partment. 



DETROIT 



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About $10,000 worth of hardwood lumber, 

 trimmings and mouldings were destroyed by fire 

 in the yards of the H. W. Harding Company 



