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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Kubjutiou Lumber Company; second vice-presi- 

 dent, W. B. Young of the Lucas E. Moore Stave 

 Company ; treasurer, \V. E. Hoshall of Hoshall 

 & McDonald lirothers ; secretary, L. Palmer, sec- 

 retary of the National Lumber Exporters' As- 

 sociation. The primary object of the organiza- 

 tion is social intercourse, but it will also em- 

 t)ody some business features. 



I'romoters of a large hardwood manufactory 

 are reported to be negotiating for a site In 

 St. Uernard parish, just below New Orleans, 

 on which to build a large plant. The negoti- 

 ations liave been pending some time, but the 

 idoiuity of the men behind the project has not 

 been disclosed. It is said the new company 

 proposes to erect a $250,000 plant. 



In a sensational petition filed in the federal 

 court here Lauritz and Carl G. Peterson, lum- 

 ber importers of Hamburg, Germany, have 

 asked for the appointment of a receiver for the 

 HInton-White Lumber Company, lumber export- 

 ers of New Orleans. Violations of contract by 

 fraud and conspiracy are alleged. It is charged 

 that the Hinton-White company, after having 

 made certain contracts with the petitioners, 

 conspired with the Yellow Pine Company of 

 Louisiana and Carl H. Georg of New Orleans to 

 defraud the complainants by conceiving and ef- 

 fecting a series of transactions which resulted 

 in losses to the complainant amounting to $22,- 

 559.70. The petition further alleges that the 

 corporation is insolvent and that its affairs 

 are being mismanaged to the detriment of its 

 creditors. Lience the request for a receiver. 



The Newport Stave Company of Eldorado, 

 Ark., will build a large stave factory at Robe- 

 line, La. 



The Logan Lumber Company is completing at 

 MansHeld, La., a 60,000-foot daily capacity mill 

 10 cut pine and hardwood timber. 



MILWAUKEE 



There are rumors alloat in Milwaukee that 

 Fred lierrlck, well-known lumberman of this city, 

 is one of the incorporators of the Milwaukee 

 Lumber Company, a new concern which is being 

 organized in the state of Idaho. It is said that 

 the new company will erect a new steel mill. 



VY. E. Allen, president of the W. E. Allen Com- 

 pany, \vholesale lumbermen of Milwaukee, has 

 returned from a business trip in the northern 

 Wisconsin lumber countr3\ 



Patrick l''lanuigan, president of the Sagola 

 Lumber Company of Sagola, Mich., called upon 

 the Milwaukee trade recently. 



T. J. Hughes, vice-president of the Cooper- 

 Hughes Land & Lumber Company of Milwaukee 

 and Great Falls, Mont., has left Milwaukee for 

 a few months' stay at Great Falls. W. E. Cooper, 

 Milwaukee wholesale lumberman, is president of 

 the company. 



G. M. Maxson, president of the Maxson Lum- 

 ber Company, Milwaukee wholesalers, has re- 

 turned from a business trip in northern Wiscon- 

 sin. 



Plans have been completed by the recently or- 

 ganized North Milwaukee Table Company for the 

 erection of a new two-story factory building. 

 It will be of mill construction and will permit 

 of the employment of fifty people. It will cost 

 $5,000. 



The James L. Gates Land Company of Mil- 

 waukee, of which James L. Gates, millionaire 

 lumberman, is president, has won out In the suit 

 brought against it by Richard L. Henschel. The 

 suit, brought in the lower courts and taken 

 to the circuit court, was an action to recover 

 $17,017, the alleged commission due on arrang- 

 ing the sale of 26,180 acres of land in Price 

 county, Wisconsin. The plaintiff, Henschel, had 

 been awarded a verdict in the lower court for a 

 little more than $7,000. 



The Fond du Lac Church Furnishing Company 

 of Fond du Lac suffered a loss of about $15,000 

 recently as the result of the burning of one of 

 its dry kilns liUed with stock. The entire plant 



narrowly escaped destruction. The company has 

 presented a check for $100 to the firemen's pen- 

 sion fund of Fond du Lac as an appreciation 

 of the services rendered at the fire. 



The plan^ of the Green Bay Box & Lumber 

 Company ot Green Bay has been placed in opera- 

 tion after an idleness of several weeks. 



Ebenreiter & Hildebrand of Sheboygan are 

 erecting an addition that will double the size of 

 their present plant. New equipment, including 

 combination rip and cut-off saws, planers, shapers 

 and boring machines, will be installed. 



Experienced rivermen of Wisconsin are pre- 

 dicting that log driving will be hampered this 

 .spring by low water in the rivers. While the 

 winter snows were heavy, there was no frost in 

 the ground and little surface water resulted. 

 There have been but few spring rains as yet. 



The recent warm weather has raised havoc 

 with logging in the Wisconsin lumber country 

 and it is expected that operations will be brought 

 10 a close soon. The season has been especially 

 favorable. 



W. E. Hallenbeck, who recently disposed of his 

 interests in the Bird & Wells Lumber Company 

 of Wausaukee and resigned as woods and rail- 

 road superintendent of the company, has left for 

 Portland, Ore., in the interests of the J. W. Wells 

 Lumber Company of Menominee, Mich. 



The new plant of the Sheboygan Fruit Box 

 Company of Sheboygan has been placed in opera- 

 tion. The main building is 56x98 feet in dimen- 

 sions and is three stories high. A new brick 

 power house 40x50 feet has also been completed. 

 The old factory building will be used as a ware- 

 house. 



The Kaukauua Land, Lumber & Supply Com- 

 liany of Kaukauna, which recently purchased 

 .■;.000 acres of timber land in Forest county, on 

 which there is 25.000,000 feet of pine and hard- 

 wood, has commenced the erection of a nine-foot 

 dam across the Peshtigo river to facilitate log- 

 ;iing operations. 



The Mosinee Land. Log & Timber Company of 

 Mosinee is contemplating the erection of a new 

 saw mill to replace its present plant at Flan- 

 ner. It is expected that the new mill will be 

 located at Mosinee and that it will cost in the 

 neighborhood of $45,000. 



Statistics show that nearly 1,000,000 feet of 

 logs were hauled by team to New London during 

 the past winter. Of this amount the Hatten 

 Lumber Compauy received 300,000 feet, while 

 the chair factory took 70,000 feet. 



The Berlin Machine Works of Beloit. manufac- 

 turers of woodworking machinery, has announced 

 that it will erect a new shop this summer which 

 will be 300x400 feet in dimensions and cost in 

 the neighborhood of $500,000. In addition, the 

 company will erect a new three-story office build- 

 ing. All the new buildings will adjoin the com- 

 pany's present plant and will occupy a site re- 

 cently purchased. When the new structures have 

 been completed it will be possible to employ 

 several hundred more people than at the present 

 time. The main building will be of saw-tooth 

 construction and will be strictly modern in re- 

 gard to design and equipment. 



The Badger State Lumber Company of Durand 

 has filed an amendment to its articles of incor- 

 poration, changing its location to Menominee, 

 Wis. 



The H, & T. Suter Lumber Company has com- 

 pleted its logging operations at Plum City. 

 More than 1,000,000 feet of hardwood was cut. 

 Nearly all the sawmills at Wausau, Edgar and 

 surrounding towns have resumed operations and 

 are now running on day and night shifts. 



The Johnson Creek Lumber & Shingle Company 

 of Knowlton has completed its logging season. 

 It has purchased 1,500,000 feet of logs from the 

 United States Leather Company. 



Lumbermen of northern Wisconsin are organiz- 

 ing an association for the purpose of seeing that 

 I be taxes in their districts are properly appor- 

 tioned and disbursed. At a recent meeting held 

 at Park Falls steps in the organization were 



perfected and plans outlined. The Foster-Latimer 

 Lumber Company, the Atwood Lumber Company, 

 the Koddis Lumber & 'Veneer Company, the Mellen 

 Lumber Company and the Osborne interests were 

 lepresented. Headquarters will be opened at 

 some central point and two or three salaried men 

 will be hired to look after the Interests of the 

 association. 



Skies will be manufactured on a large scale at 

 Ashland by Askel Holier. Orders for more than 

 7,000 pair have already been secured by Mr. 

 Holier. 



A trainload of more than 4,000 refrigerators 

 were shipped to Fort Worth, Tex., by the Gurney 

 Refrigerator Company of Fond du Lac. It is 

 claimed that this was the largest trainload of 

 refrigerators ever shipped in the United States. 



The Sawyer-Goodman Lumber Company, the 

 Republic Lumber Company and the Crawford 

 Lumber Company of Marinette were heavy losers 

 in the fire which recently destroyed the Ann 

 .\rbor car ferry No. 1 at Manitowoc. It is re- 

 ported that the loss will fall upon the Ann .\rbor 

 company. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



Loggiug and hauling came to a sudden stop 

 in Minnesota and Wisconsin last week. The 

 thaw was earlier than a good many would have 

 liked to see, and some logs will be left in the 

 woods. It also put a stop to some catting that 

 would have been done if roads had promised to 

 i-tay. Warmer weather began about the first 

 of the month and made trouble, but the log- 

 gers all expected a turn to come, and were 

 uot prepared for the steady rise in the mercury 

 which put them so completely out of business 

 on the ice roads. 



Twin City wholesalers who have been pros- 

 pecting in Wisconsin for stocks say that the 

 cut of the past season has been very fair, 

 as logging conditions were ideal from early in 

 the winter up to March 1. The present high 

 prices on all better grades of northern hard- 

 wood have a tendency to make the mills hold 

 out for fancy figures this year on contracts, 

 and the work of closing for wholesale supplies 

 has been rather slow, with many hitches. 



The Minnesota Conservation & Agricultural 

 Development Congress, which recently held a 

 tour-day meeting in St. Paul, adopted resolu- 

 tions which include a demand for change in 

 the state law, so that homeseekers can buy 

 state land with the timber, and cut their own 

 logs to pay their way while clearing a farm. 

 The congress, which included 3,000 delegates, 

 also declared for a state good roads tax and a 

 water supply commission. J. E. Rhodes ad- 

 dressed it on "Forest Conservation in Minne- 

 sota." 



J. K. Stack, Jr., of Escauaba, Mich., man- 

 ager of the hardwood department of the Es- 

 canaba Lumber Company, was here a few days 

 ago on business with wholesale dealers in this 

 market. 



R. I''. Krebs of the Krebs-Scheve Lumber Com- 

 pany, St. Louis, has been calling on the factory 

 trade in the Twin Cities and making some sales 

 from his firm's hardwood stocks. 



F. M. Barteljne, local wholesaler of hardwood 

 and hemlock lumber, is back from a trip among 

 the Wisconsin hardwood mills, where he found 

 logging being spoiled by the early thaw, but 

 witli general indications of a good spring cut 

 of hardwood nevertheless, on account of prior 

 conditions beiug so good. 



C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark, Minne- 

 apolis, has been hampered of late by jury ser- 

 vice, which has taken him away from business 

 at a bad time. 



Webster & Whipple, wholesale dealers here 

 who have specialized in factory lumber, have 

 added a hardwood department. It is in charge 

 of W. U. Kemper, Jr., who was formerly with 

 the Mason-Donaldson Lumber Company of Rhine- 

 lander, Wis. They will have a line of northern 



