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HARDWOOD RECORD 



manufacture of buggy, wagon and implement 

 stock and veneers. The incoryoi-ators are : 

 President, R. T. Martin, vice-president and gen- 

 eral manager. W. B. Baker : secretary, Mortimer 

 Frauentbal ; treasurer, H. F. Fix. 



The John Deere Plow Company of Arkansas 

 has been chartered and has opened for busi- 

 ness in this city. Capital .$ 10,000. Incor- 

 porators are Charles W. Mansur and Michael 

 .T. Burke, St. Louis, and J. W. and P. F. Carey. 

 Little Rock. 



The increase of capital stock of the Ft. Smith 

 Traction Company, as certified to the secretary 

 of state, from .?!, 000,000 to $G.500,000, is taken 

 as an indication of extensive additions and im- 

 provements by that company at Ft. Smith. 



Contrary to a report recently gaining currency 

 that the Cbapman-Dewey box factory at .Tones- 

 boro had suspended business, that company will 

 reopen for active operations within a few 

 months, according to authentic reports. 



The Iron Mountain Railway Company, it is 

 authoritatively announced, will on March 1 in- 

 crease its shop force to the full complement 

 of 1,800, instead of 1,600, as now. It is also 

 understood that the additional car shops. 150 

 liy 300 feet floor space, planned prior to the 

 panic, are to be built this year. This will en- 

 able the handling of 100 cars at ofie time in 

 repair work, or more than twice the present 

 number. 



The annual report just made by the Ft. 

 Smith Wagon Company shows 1900 to have been 

 tlie best year in the history of the company. 

 This is the largest manufacturing concern in 

 Ft. Smith and one of the largest of its kind in 

 the South. Among the stockholders at the an- 

 nual meeting just held were : S. H. Velie, presi- 

 dent, Kansas City ; William Butterworth, first 

 vice-president, Moline, III., and T. N. Peck, sec- 

 ond vice-president, Omaha. W. H. Johnson, 

 local manager, entertained the visitors at a 

 dinner at the Goldman hotel. 



MILWAUKEE 



p. E. Gilbert of the S. C. Major Lumber Com- 

 pany of Memphis. Tenn.. recently called upon the 

 Milwaukee hardwood trade. 



The present mild weather is hurting logging 

 operations in various sections of the Wisconsin 

 lumber country. The winter thus tar has been 

 very favorable in most sections of the state, with 

 the exception of .Vshland. and lumbermen say 

 that the total cut will be large. 



Several changes have been made in the opera- 

 tion and management of the plants of Joerns 

 Brothers Manufacturing Company, manufacturers 

 of various furniture lines. The plant at St. 

 Paul, Minn., has been discontinued and the manu- 

 facturing will be confined to the plants of the 

 company located at Sheboygan and Stevens Point, 

 Wis. These will be under the management of 

 C. A. Joerns. The wholesale business at St. Paul 

 *^*ill be in char.Te of Paul Joerns. 



The Mandt Wagon Company will expend nearly 

 S75,000 on new structures at its plant at Stough- 

 ton. this summer. Among the buildings to be 

 erected will be a modern, three-story blacksmith 

 shop of flre proof construction. Machinery is 

 now being installed in the company's woodwork- 

 ing plant. 



The new box factory of Joseph Dietzler at 

 Hartford is now in operation. A specialty is 

 being made of cheese boxes. 



Ralph Wells, son of John W. Wells, the million- 

 aire lumber manufacturer of Menominee, Mich., 

 was married at Whitewater, Wis., recently to 

 Miss Frances Winchester of that city. The 

 couple will reside at Burnt River. Ont., where 

 the groom is general manager of the large inter- 

 ests of the J. W. Wells Lumber Company at that 

 place. 



The Darling Land & Timber Company of Mil- 

 waukee has been incorporated with a capital 



stock of $5,000 by Jesse Darling, R. N. Tutford 

 and E. L. Muther. 



Cyrus H. McCormick, president o£ the Inter- 

 national Harvester Company, was up from Chi- 

 cago recently to attend the banquet which he 

 gave the operating and sales managers of the 

 company's Milwaukee plant. It was hinted by 

 Mr. McCormick that the Jlilwaukee brancli might 

 be enlarged within the near future. 



The Racine Stool Manufacturing Company has 

 lieen incorporated at Racine with a capital stock 

 of .$20,000. The company has leased the plant 

 of the Belle City Sash & Door Company and will 

 manufacture piano stools, benches and racks. 

 Sol. Grollman. former superintendent of the piano 

 stool department of the Racine Manufacturing 

 Company ,is the president and manager of the 

 new company. 



The Racine Manufacturing Company at Racine 

 has erected several temporary dry kilns on the 

 site of its former plant destroyed by fire. Build- 

 ing operations on the plant proper will begin in 

 the spring. 



The Callapoola & Rock Creek Timber Company 

 has been incorporated at Washburn to manage 

 the timber holdings in the West owned by resi- 

 dents of Washburn, Ashland, Iron River and 

 other nearby points. 



Twenty Wisconsin representatives of the North 

 Star Lumber Company of Minneapolis, Minn., 

 recently met in social gathering at the Galloway 

 hotel at Eau Claire, Wis., with George P. Thomp- 

 son and H. C. Woiforth of the general offices of 

 the company. 



The new sawmill of the Scott & Howe Lumber 

 Company of Hurley has been placed in operation. 

 The new plant replaces the one destroyed by fire 

 last summer. It has a large daily capacity and 

 is modern in every respect. 



The sawmill of the Stearns Lumber Company 

 at Washburn is being thoroughly overhauled 

 preparatory to a busy run this season. 



The annual meeting of the Webster Manufac- 

 turing Company, chair manufacturers of Su- 

 perior, resulted in the election of the following : 

 President, A. W. Highfield ; vice-president. H. V. 

 Gare ; secretary, T. G. Alvord ; treasurer. Grant 

 Graham. 



Charles P. Romadlia, founder of the Romadka 

 Brothers Company, a trunk manufacturing con- 

 cern of Milwaukee, recently passed away at the 

 age of sixty-seven years. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



Hardwood lumbermen here wlio handle their 

 own logging report that there has been little 

 unfavorable weather in the past month, and 

 (heir operations in the Wisconsin woods have 

 gone ahead very successfully. There has been 

 plenty of snow, which is essential in the terri- 

 tory where timber is so scattered as much of 

 the hardwood now is, and yet it has not been 

 excessively cold. It has been rather soft at 

 times and has threatened to end hauling, but 

 the nights have always brought a good freeze. 

 A good quantity of logs is being put in. as the 

 present high prices of birch and basswood are 

 very attractive. 



The local building movement continues with- 

 out any sign of abatement. In fact, after the 

 records had all been broken by the 1909 figures, 

 Minneapolis began the new year with another 

 increase for January, showing up with permits 

 for buildings to cost $002,395, compared with 

 $377,840 for the same month of 1909. 



A big deal in the door and millwork trade has 

 been put through here, in the sale of the City 

 Sash & Door Company's wholesale yard, ware- 

 house, trademark and good will to the Carr 

 & Collier Company, just incorporated. The new 

 concern is an offshoot of the Carr. Ryder & 

 Adams Interests of Dubuque, la., and the deal 

 was carried through by J. T. Carr. The plant 



here will be managed by W. E. Cullen, who has 

 been identified with the same concern in 

 Dubuque. 



Scott W. Chambers, representative of the 

 Northwestern Lumber Company of Stanley, Wis., 

 was here during the week of the retailers' con- 

 vention, in the interests of its hardwood and 

 hemlock stocks. 



SAOINAW VALLEY 



In the lumbering districts north of the Sagi- 

 naw river the snow is rather deep In many 

 localities for active operations in the woods. 

 The large operators who have facilities for mak- 

 ing ice roads manage to get along fairly well, 

 but the smaller concerns have had to quit 

 business temporarily. During the early part of 

 the winter the weather was not sufiiciently 

 cold to make a solid bottom and the swamps 

 and low grounds did not freeze. Conditions in 

 that particular have somewhat improved. 



The lumber output of the Saginaw river 

 mills increased last year on all grades. Dur- 

 ing the early months the industry was slow, 

 pending the disposition of the tariff, but the fall 

 months noted a marked expansion all along 

 the line and the year closed with trade in the 

 best condition since 1907. The hardwood out- i 

 put of the mills during the year was : | 



Feet. ' 



W. D. Young & Co 22.ij.".9..-.19 



Campbell-Brown Lumber Co 4.327.1100 



Richardson Lumber Co 5. Odd. 000 



Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow Co O.Isl'.OOO 



Kneeland-Bigelow Co 9.2."if,.d57 



Knapp & Scott 2,.">d9.iid0 



S. G. M. Gates Estate l.S.'U.OOO 



Bliss & Van Auken (Saginaw) S.Odd.OOO 



Total . . ." 62,708.002 



The hardwood output in 1908 amounted to 

 40.147.074 feet. 



The Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow Company has 

 let the contract for the installment of a new 

 battery of four boilers which will be put in 

 early in April. 



The Island Mill Lumber Company at Alpena 

 is installing three new boilers. As soon as the 

 work is finished, the mill will be started cut- 

 ting hardwood, a "hot-water" pond having been 

 established. 



The Richardson Lumber Company at Alpena 

 is also installing a new battery of boilers and 

 making other extensive repairs to its plant. 



The new hardwood flooring plant of the Han- 

 son-Ward Company at Bay City has been fin- 

 ished and is in operation. It is a modern plant 

 and is finely equipped. The timber comes down 

 the Mackinaw division of the Michigan Central. 



The Kneeland-Bigelow Company last week 

 sold S.OOO.OOO feet of maple flooring, to be cut 

 this spring, to the S. L. Eastman Flooring Com- 

 pany of Saginaw. A like quantity was fur- 

 nished the Eastman people last year. 



The Campbell-Brown Lumber Company's mill 

 at Bay City is in operation, cutting lumber for 

 Ross & Wentworth. 



W. D. Young & Co. are having a fine run. 

 Their plant is in motion day and night. The 

 market for flooring is active and the firm is 

 up to the neck in business. Mr. Young says 

 it is only a question of getting the stuff to the 

 customers fast enough. The flooring trade has 

 picked up marvelously during the last sixty 

 days. 



John Widdicomb, founder and active head of 

 the John Widdicomb Company, dropped dead 

 from rheumatism of the lieart Feb. 5 while at 

 work in his oflice. He operated two of the larg- 

 est furniture factories in Grand Rapids and was 

 one of the oldest manufacturers there. 



The Grand Rapids board of trade held if.i 

 annual election and banquet Feb. 1. The new 

 directors include Chas. W. Garfield, pn-sident of 

 the Michigan Forestry Association, and Ed v. in F. 

 Sweet, who is well known to lumbermen. 



