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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Robert L. Gates, secretary of the Jobn L. 

 Gates Land Company o£ Milwaukee and son of 

 the millionaire lumberman, John L. Gates, was 

 married at Chicago recently to Miss Maymc 

 Doyle, a stenographer formerly in the employ of 

 the Gates Land Company. 



William Crooli of Eureka, Cal., an employment 

 agent, has been in northern Wisconsin recruit- 

 ing woodsmen for service in the far West. 



Various improvements are being made at the 

 sawmill of the M. II. Sprague Lumber Company 

 at Washburn. A new engine and resaw are 

 being installed and the capacity of the plant is 

 being increased. 



The H. M. .Tohnston Lumber Company of 

 Baraboo has increased its capital stock from 

 $25,000 to $7.5.000. 



Henry Labrie of Rice Lake has taken a two- 

 year contract for logging with the Arpin Lum- 

 ber Company. 



The Monticello planing mill, ow-ned by Wittwer 

 & Urban at Monticello, has been sold to George 

 Bleiler of Postville. 



The plant of the Roddis Veneer & Lumber 

 Company of Marshfleld is crowded with orders 

 and is in busy operation. 



WAUSAU 



The S. W. Miller Piano Company of Sheboy- 

 gan, will build a new factory in the spring. 

 Plans have been drawn and several factory sites 

 are being considered. At present it manufactures 

 about sixty-flve pianos per month. 



Herbert E. Cooley, formerly of Fredonia, has 

 opened a cheese box factory in West Bend, and 

 will consume large quantities of elm. 



Plans are well under way for the establish- 

 ment of a wagon factory in Edgerton, the com- 

 pany to have a capital stock of ?oO,000. Nels 

 iaalverson, superintendent of the Stoughton 

 Wagon Company and owner of several valuable 

 plants, will be in charge. The manufactory 

 will start with about one hundred hands. 



The Underwood Veneer Company of Wausau 

 has increased its capital stock from $20,000 to 

 $120,000. 



The Central Lumber Company will cut 9,000,- 

 000 feet of timber this winter east of Knowlton. 

 This company is provided with all modern log- 

 ging equipment. 



J. H. Schepp, will saw out a stock of 7,000,- 

 000 feet of hardwood logs at Pine River this 

 winter. He will then overhaul his mill and 

 install new machinery. 



The Kiel Furniture Company of Kiel. Wis., 

 has secured permits to erect new buildings 

 valued at $20,000. One will be a boiler room, 

 one a dry kiln, another a warehouse. 



Work has been commenced on the building of 

 the new sawmill of the J. R. Davis Company 

 at Phillips, which will replace the mill destroyed 

 by fire October 20. The plant will be larger 

 than the one burned and modern in every detail. 



Because of the high tariff placed on its goods 

 the Gold Medal Camp Furniture Company of 

 Kacine will establish a factory in Ontario, Can., 

 where orders for foreign shipment will be manu- 

 factured. The company has increased its stock 

 from $00,000 to $300,000. 



The Crocker Chair Company of Sheboygan is 

 building a four-story addition at a cost of $8,000. 



A load ot thirty-four logs, scaling 14.130 feet, 

 was recently hauled by one span of horses at 

 the camp of Geo. Monty near Crandon. 



Stimulated by a rising market for all lumber 

 products, logging operations in Wisconsin and 

 northern Michigan are unusually active this 

 winter. The cut will be much larger than for 

 several years. 



Most ot the wholesalers who depend on con- 

 tiocted stocks for their supply have been out 

 lately looking over northern hardwood supplies. 

 They report that the season has been very favora- 

 ble for logging and that there will be a larger 

 output of birch, maple and basswood this spring 

 than there was last year. There is an abundance 

 of snow and the recent cold snap has put the 

 roads in good shape. The scarcity and high price 

 of birch has given an impetus to logging where 

 there is good birch timber, but no one fears over- 

 production in that line now. 



C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark, the local 

 liardwood wholesalers, has returned from an ex- 

 tended trip through southern territory, where he 

 was looking up supplies for their trade. He trav- 

 eled to Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma and 

 Texas, and found the hardwood mills all enjoy- 

 ing prosperity and selling their upper grades 

 readily. He says they are getting quite an ac- 

 cumulation of the low-grade stocks, which will 

 cause trouble. The supply of hardwood in better 

 grades in the South he found to be small, and 

 most of it too green to ship. 



E. Paj'son Smith and F. H. Long of the 

 Payson Smith Lumber Company have been in 

 northern Wisconsin looking at some large propo- 

 saicns in the way of hardwood stocks for con- 

 tracting, but Mr. Smith reports that his company 

 already has a large line arranged for and does 

 not care to increase it much at this time. 



F. .T. Lang, representing the Wisconsin Land & 

 Lumber Company of Hermansville, Mich., is in 

 the city looking after the Twin City trade. He 

 was prevented by illness from coming at his 

 usual time, during the retailers' convention, but 

 has recovered and is hustling for trade again. 



E. H. Broughton. manager of the hardwood 

 clepartment of the Krueger-Powell Lumber Com- 

 pany, has been in Wisconsin territory looking at 

 some stocks offered for sale. 



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

 has returned from several days' business trip in 

 ^^'isconsin. 



SAOINAW VALLEY 



MINNEAPOLIS 



The Twin City factories are enjoying a splendid 

 run of orders for spring delivery, and prospects 

 for the hardwood trade have never been better. 



The snow has been deep and it came on in the 

 lumber woods before the ground was frozen, 

 which has interfered to some extent with log- 

 ging. Some operators are winding up, while 

 others will continue cutting and hauling as long 

 as the snow lasts. The output of eastern Michi- 

 gan this winter is expected to be considerably 

 larger than that of a year ago. 



S. L. Eastman of Saginaw, who is also the 

 heaviest stockholder in the S. A. Robinson Lum- 

 ber Company, operating a new mill near South 

 Branch, Ogemaw county, has purchased the mill, 

 equipment and timber of the Prescott-Miller 

 Lumber Company, near Rose City, C. H. Pres- 

 cott & Sons being the heaviest stockholders. The 

 deal involves about 10.000,000 feet of timber. 

 This will be cut and railed to the Robinson mill. 

 The Prescott-Miller mill will cut up the stock in 

 its mill yard. 



The Cheboygan mills manufactured 6,720,000 

 feet of hardwood lumber last year. The Embury- 

 Martin and Olds mills are both cutting hardwood 

 at the present time. All the lumber manufac- 

 tured last season has been sold. 



M. D. Olds is operating three camps and has 

 five jobbers getting out logs, which are being 

 hauled to the mill over his new railroad. His 

 road runs south from the mill at Cheboygan, 

 naving twelve miles and a half of main line with 

 eight miles of branches. In the spring another 

 branch of seven miles will be constructed. 



The machinery in the sawmill of the Michel- 

 son & Hanson Lumber Company at Lewiston, 

 which after eighteen years' operation will go out 

 of commission about May 1, has been purchased 

 by Louis Jenson of Sailing and will be moved 

 to upper Michigan, where a mill will be put up 

 on lands acquired by Mr. Jenson. 



The Batchelor Timber Company's mill at West 



Branch manufactured 5,000,000 feet of hardwood 

 luml>er last year and is being stocked for a good 

 run the present year. 



The new mill of the N. Michelson Lumber 

 Company at Michelson, Houghton Lake, manu- 

 factured 300,000 feet of hardwood. Michelson 

 is a new town the company has founded. It has 

 a twenty-year cut of mixed timber and, beside 

 the mill and shingle mill, has a number of busi- 

 ness buildings and houses for the help. 



The Handy Brothers' new wagon factory to 

 replace the one burned at Saginaw, December 

 15 last, will be in operation early in March. 

 One hundred men will be employed. 



The Mershon-Bacon Company's new hardwood 

 box factory will largely increase the capacity 

 of its plant. The company is doing a very sat- 

 isfactory business. 



The Johannesburg Manufacturing Company 

 recently sold 5,000,000 feet of maple lumber, 

 which goes to the Thomas Forman Company's 

 flooring plant at Detroit. 



The new hardwood flooring mill erected by the 

 Hanson-Ward Veneer Company at Bay City is in 

 operation and employs eighty-five hands. The 

 company also erected new dry kilns and ware- 

 house and has a large lumber yard in connection, 

 which is being stocked with several million feet 

 of lumber. 



CADILLAC 



There has been no general change in the hard- 

 wood market during the past two weeks. The 

 market for maple and birch is strong ; soft elm 

 is firm ; beech is slow ; basswood is not active, 

 and ash and rock elm are quiet. 



The recent snow storms in Michigan have im- 

 peded freight traffic to a considerable extent, 

 tying up the Northport branch of the G. R. & I. 

 for a week and delaying traffic on the main line 

 and other branches has also handicapped manu- 

 facturers in getting out logs, more of which 

 have been cut by the farmers in this vicinity and 

 hauled to Cadillac than for several years. It is 

 estimated that 2.000,000 feet of hardwood logs 

 will be brought into Cadillac on farmers' sleighs 

 this season. 



F. A. Diggins. Joseph Murphy and D. B. 

 Kelloy of Cadillac and H. A. Beaver of Beaver 

 & Diggins are in Corpus Christi, Tex., on a 

 shooting trip. 



Charles T. Mitchell of the Mitchell Brothers' 

 Comp.my writes from the island of Jamaica of 

 a pleasant trip and weather conditions fine. He 

 expects to visit points in Cuba and in the United 

 States before returning home. 



There is a general scarcity of box cars in 

 which to load flooring and higher grades of 

 lumber. 



The Michigan Shippers' Association, compris- 

 ing many manufacturers at Grand Rapids and 

 other points in western and northern Michigan, 

 together with representatives from Saginaw, Bay 

 City, Flint, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, etc., re- 

 cently had a conference with the Michigan State 

 Railroad Commission in regard to reduced rates 

 to the eastern seaboard. The Michigan railroads 

 refused to make any reduction in the rates, and 

 this movement is to put the question before the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission. It is expected 

 that the state commission will aid the shippers 

 in bringing the question before the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission. 



Pellston, Emmet county, a husky city of 2,000 

 population, ten years ago was a wilderness. Lum- 

 bering made the town and still is the means of 

 support to a large majority of its population. 



Tindle & Jackson and the Pellston Turning & 

 Manufacturing Company ship large quantities of 

 broom handles. Tindle & Jackson are also inter- 

 ested in the manufacture of lumber and have a 

 thoroughly up-to-date sawmill. 



The Pellston Planing Mill Company is a manu- 

 facturer of maple flooring, basswood and hemlock 

 siding. There is also a Bogardus Land & Lura- 



