HARDWOOD RECORD 



47 



Washington, D. C, March li, 1910. 

 Mr. Julius Seidel, Lumbermen's Club. St. Louis. 



Dear Mr. Seidel : My heartiest thanks for 

 your letter of March 12. Yes. I am coming to 

 Missouri to go into the Ozarlts with Governor 

 Hadley and when I reach St. Lou's, either before 

 or after that trip, it will give me very great 

 pleasure to be the guest of the Lumbermen's 

 Club, as you are kind enough to suggest. 



Please tell the members of tlie club, if you 

 have a chance, how much I appreciate the in- 

 vitation, and how glad I shall be to be with you. 

 Sincerely yours, 



GiFFOED PiNCHOT. 



Mr. Pinchot will talk to the club on forestry. 

 and the meeting will be arranged to be held 

 during Mr. Pinchot's visit. 



The funeral of William A. Bonsack, president 

 of the Bonsack Lumber Company, who was acci- 

 dentally drowned while fishing in Lake Pontchar- 

 train near New Orleans a couple of weeks ago, 

 and whose body was found shortly afterwards, 

 took place from his residence in St. Louis Sun- 

 day afternoon, March 27. Among the pallbearers 

 were several of his associates in the lumber busi- 

 ness. At ttLe request of Mrs. Bonsack, the fu- 

 neral was very quiet. 



At a recent meeting of the directors of the 

 Lumbermen's Exchange of St. Louis the follow- 

 ing resolution was adopted: 



Resolved. That the sudden and unexpected 

 death of William A. Bonsack, president of the 

 Bonsack Lumber Company, who was drowned 

 in Lake Pontchartrain, near New Orleans, on the 

 18th of March, cast a gloom over his many 

 friends and associates in St. Louis. 



Mr. Bonsack was born in St. Louis August 

 7, 1857. He was educated in the public schools 

 of St. Louis and was married in 1894 to Miss 

 Lulu Ringen. Besides his widow, he is sur- 

 vived by two children. He l>egan his business 

 career in 1879. and since then has been a presi- 

 dent of the Lumbermen's Exchange and has 

 served as a director almost the entire time of 

 its existence. His suggestions and counsel have 

 always been wisi' and practical. In private life 

 he has always taken a great intere,«t. and' has 

 been a w^ell-known patron of art and music. He 

 will be greatly missed from the Lumbermen's 

 Exchange, and we. his associate directors, tender 

 our sincere condolence and deepest sympathy to 

 his family. 



Lloyd G. Hakris, 

 Alfred W. Johanning, 

 George E. W. Luehrmann. 



E. L. Page, manager of the hardwood depart- 

 ment of the Alf. Bennett Lumber Company, says 

 that the hardwood business, taken as a whole, is 

 good. Inquiries are coming in plentifully and 

 quite a number of good sized orders have been 

 Irooked. The general outlook for future busi- 

 ness is exceedingly bright. Alf. Bennett, presi- 

 dent of the company, returned from Houston, 

 Texas, a few days ago and immediately left for 

 Kansas City on business. While in Houston Mr. 

 Bennett superintended the opening of the branch 

 office there, organization toeing effected to comply 

 with the laws of Texas. The company will 

 handle hardwood as well as yellow pine, and 

 Mr. Bennett says the Houston office is having a 

 nice volume of hardwood business, principally 

 for export. 



E. H. Warner, the well-known hardwood lum- 

 ber dealer of St. Louis, celebrated his seventy- 

 seventh birthday March 20. For thirty-five years 

 he has been in the lumber business in St. Louis, 

 and is as active as a man many years younger. 



Aftet a couple of weeks spent in the hardwood 

 section of the South, Thos. W. Fry, secretary of 

 the Chas. F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber 

 Company, is back at the office again. He reports 

 that there is every prospect of a good season in 

 sight. The company is enjoying a good business, 

 its red gum sales being especially heavy. 



W. W. Dings, secretary of the Garetson-Grea- 

 son Lumber Company, who went to Chicago a 

 few months ago to establish an office in that 

 city, has returned to St. Louis and will remain 

 here. The Chicago office has been placed in the 

 hands of a competent hardwood manager, so Mr. 

 Dings will not have to remain there, but of 

 course will make frequent visits to that city. 



The Lothman C.vpress Company report a nice 

 business in cypress; in fact, trade lias been ex- 

 ceptionally good in this class of lumber during 

 the past few weeks. Anticipating a big demand 



later on, they are getting in a large stock of 

 cypress, in order to be prepared for the pros- 

 pective business. 



Gov. Hadley has issued a proclamation setting 

 April 11 as Arbor Day in Missouri. He calls 

 for the public schools and citizens to observe 

 it. In his proclamation, he asks that every 

 class and every school in the state plant upon 

 the school grounds at least one shrub, tree or 

 flower. 



MJLWAUKBB 



The John Schroeder Lumber Company, Mil- 

 waukee, has purchased a tract of forty acres 

 near the Butler postoffice, in the northwest cor- 

 ner of the county. This place is expected to 

 l)c a switching point for the Chicago & North- 

 western road's new belt line, and the Schroeder 

 company intends to use the property as a dis- 

 Iributing yard. 



M. J. Wallrich, who with several other north- 

 ern Wisconsin men is interested in the Wiscoasin- 

 Nortlicrn road, while in Milwaukee re<'ently, de- 

 nied the report that the road had been disposed 

 of to the Soo line. It is expected to complete 

 the line this summer. It enters rich hardwood 

 district of nortlicru Wisconsin. 



The Allis-Chaimers Company, Milwaukee, Wis., 

 has furnished the machinery for electric drive 

 in the mill of the Aberdeen Lumber & Shingle 

 Company, Aberdeen, Wash. 



The Northwood Furniture Company, Chippewa 

 Fails, Wis., is planning the erection of a l>oit 

 resaw mill. 



J. W. Arney of Port Huron, Mich., is consider- 

 ing a proposition with the Business Men's Asso- 

 ciation, Sheboygan, Wis., for locating a wooden- 

 ware factory in that place. 



The Kaukauna Land, Timber & Supply Com- 

 pany, Appleton, Wis., has increased its capital 

 stock from $10,000 to $60,000 according to the 

 amended articles of incorporation filed with the 

 secretary of state. 



As a result of the early spring breakup near 

 Republic, Mich., it is expected that many saw- 

 mills will run short of supplies before the sea- 

 son is over, as there are great numbers of logs 

 still on the skidways. It will be impossible to 

 move them .now without hauling, by wagon and 

 as this method is exceedingly expensive it is 

 probable that they will be left until next winter. 



The newly organized Edgerton Wagon Com- 

 pany, Edgerton, Wis., is planning the erection 

 of a new brick factory building 50 by '200 and 

 one story in height. Negotiations are now being 

 carried on for the purchase of a site. The offi- 

 cers of the company are : President, Andrew- 

 Jensen ; vice-president, L. C. Whittet ; secretary, 

 Charles Birkenmeyer ; treasurer, Henry Johnson. 



The large wood shop of the Mandt Wagon 

 Company, Stoughton, Wis., has been completed 

 and the work of installing the three large boilers 

 in the new power house is being rushed so that 

 the old building can be demolished and the old 

 machinery used elsewhere. Contracts will soon 

 be let for a blower, dust collector and about 500 

 feet of galvanized pipe, two feet in diameter, to 

 be used in connection with the conveyance. 



The Plymouth Veneer Company, Plymouth, 

 Wis., has commenced work on its new factory, 

 and it is hoped to have the structure ready to 

 commence operations by August 1. 



In the last live years Wisconsin has dropped 

 down from the first to the fifth state in lumber 

 production. Consequently the Wisconsin state 

 conservation committee is receiving tlie support 

 of many lumbermen in efforts to improve the 

 forest conditions. At the present time over three 

 million acres in fhe northern part of the state 

 have no forest cover : millions of acres are partly 

 covered with dead and dying forests. The state 

 is suffering a great annual loss through the non- 

 utilization of land suitable for forest growth and 

 such continued neglect will mean the ulfimate 

 loss of the wood-using industries. 



At a recent meeting of the officers and direct- 

 ors of the Wisconsin Manufacturing Company, 

 manufacturers of chairs at Jefferson, Wis., it was 

 decided to erect an addition to the plant. The 

 new addition will be constructed of brick and will 

 consist of three stories, 34 by 48 feet. 



The Diamond Lumber Company, Green Bay, 

 Wis., is erecting a new storage shed, 100 by 30, 

 to take the place of the one wrecked by the 

 .snow during the winter. 



Mrs. E. Selle has been recently elected presi- 

 dent of the Selle Excelsior Company, Viola, 

 Wis. Tile general offices have been removed from 

 • -'hicago to Viola and many improvements are to 

 be made to the factory, increasing the daily out- 

 put to 30,000 pounds. 



The large mill of the J. S. Stearns Lumber 

 Company has been started at Washburn and will 

 continue operations during the entire season. It 

 will hv run night and day with a force of 300 

 men and is supplied with logs brought from 

 the Odanah reservation. 



C. Merceir has ceased his logging operations 

 at his camp near Rice Lake, Wis., and will soon 

 start his sawmill. Enough logs are on hand at 

 present to keep the mill running day and night 

 for eiglit months. 



The Simplex Washer Company, Milwaukee, 

 manufacturers of washing machines, has filed a 

 voluntary petition in bankruptcy. The liabili- 

 ties are $1,140.70 and the assets $300. 



The Appleton Chair Company, .\ppleton. Wis., 

 has commenced building operations on its new 

 factory which will be located near Appleton 

 Junction. .4s soon as the new building is com- 

 pleted the machinery and other equipment will 

 be removed to the new structure, which will be 

 much larger than the present one. 



An order has been received by the Meyer 

 Cheese Box Factory, Merrill, Wis., from the She- 

 boygan dealers for 200,000 cheese boxes. The 

 Sheboygan county manufacturers of boxes have 

 been unable to meet the increasing demand for 

 their products from the cheese makers and as 

 a result it became necessary to fall back upon the 

 Merrill factory. 



The earliest breakup that has occurred in years 

 (ijarkcd the closing of the season for the final 

 logging operations near Chippewa Falls. Wis. 

 For the first time in seventy.-five years there 

 will be no log drive on the Chippewa river and 

 this fact marks the passing of the lumber indus- 

 try in northern Wisconsin. All of the pine logs. 

 21,000,000 feet, that are to be cut at the mill 

 of the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company's 

 mill have been brought in by rail. The com- 

 pany's mill at Chippewa was for a long time 

 the largest in the world, and will be run full 

 capacity during the summer so that the firm 

 can complete their operations in that part of the 

 country. 



Work has been commenced by the American 

 Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of 

 chairs, Shebojgan, Wis., on a new addition to its 

 factory. The new part will be 70 by 70 feet 

 and four stories in height, with brick walls 

 and mill construction. 



The Milwaukee Cedar Company has been In- 

 corporated with a capital stock of $36,000. 



The Schmidt Lumber Company, Two Rivers, 

 Wis., has filed articles of incorporation with the 

 secretary of state. The capital stock is $15,000. 



After being closed for several weeks, the 

 Albrc'clit Manufaciuring Company's cheese box 

 factory has resumed operations. Many improve- 

 ments have been made and the output has been 

 increased by one-third. 



Howiand & Ilurd of Merrill, Wis., have com- 

 pleted their logging operations, which have been 

 managed by Julius Posey, with a cut of over a 

 million and a half feet of hardwood timber. As 

 a result of the early breakup, a large amount 

 of timber has had to be loft on the skids. 



The Two Rivers Wooden Ware Company, Two 

 liivers. has sold a large tract of land, including 

 tlie lumber piled on it. located in Two Rivers, to 

 Henrv Sclimldt and Dr. A. M. Farrell, who are 



