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HARDWOOD RECORD 



lilanning to open a lumber yard with Mr. 

 Schmidt as manager. 



The Oconto and Holt lumber companies of 

 Oconto have begun the season's run of their 

 sawmills. Both of the plants are now running 

 overtime and indications point to a most suc- 

 cessful season. In. the neighborhood of Oconto 

 these companies own sufficient timber to keep 

 them busy at least fifteen years. The day of 

 log drivers has passed in that part of the state, 

 as nearly all of the logs are taken to the mills 

 ■by rail instead of being driven down the Oconto 

 river as in past years. 



WAUSAU 



The J. I. Case Company of Racine has placed 

 an order for twenty-five automobiles of special 

 ■build, to be used by the company's traveling 

 salesmen. 



The sawmill and all but two houses in the 

 little village of Mellrue were recently destroyed 

 by flre. The mill and most of the other build- 

 ings belonged to the Vollmar & Below Lumber 

 'Company of Marshfleld. The loss on the plant 

 Is $5,000. 



The Stange Lumber Company of Merrill will 

 •operate two camps the coming summer. At pres- 

 ent it is erecting a new office building. 



For a second time in a little more than five 

 years the Two Rivers Woodenware Company, 

 one of the pioneer manufacturing concerns of 

 that section, has gone into the hands of a re- 

 ceiver. The Milwaukee Trust Company was ap- 

 pointed receiver by Judge Quarles of the fed- 

 eral court. The liabilities of the company are 

 estimated at $395,000 and its assets at $434,000. 

 The company employs 200 men and has contracts 

 on hand amounting to $140,000. It is said that 

 the plant will not be closed down. Temporary 

 shortage of ready cash caused the trouble. 



The sawmill of Wm. Elliott west of Nash was 

 destroyed by fire a few days ago. A quantity 

 of lumber was burned also. 



The John Schroeder Lumber Company's mill 

 in Ashland is being fitted with a new Corliss en- 

 gine. 



The riatten Lumber Company of New London 

 a few days ago lost 3,000,000 feet of logs by fire 

 at Ellis Junction. 



The past winter was a most favorable one for 

 loggers in Wisconsin. The swamps were well 

 filled with water before cold weather set in, and 

 a continuous temperature between 30 above and 

 SO below enabled operators to reach and handle 

 areas ordinarily inaccessible. There will be 

 more timber cut in the mills this season than 

 last year. 



The car ferry Ann Arbor No. 1, the first car 

 ferry introduced on Lake Michigan, caught fire 

 •a few days ago, five miles off the city of Manito- 

 woc, and burned to the water's edge. Twenty 

 cars filled with dry hardwood lumber were con- 

 sumed. 



An average of 100 cars of logs a day are being 

 brought into Marinette and Menominee at pres- 

 ent. The logs are delivered to the Republic 

 Lumber Company, the Spies Lumber Company, 

 the Sawyer-Goodman Lumber Company and the 

 N. Ludington Lumber Company. 



The Connor Lumber Company at Stratford a 

 short time ago handled 29,000 feet of logs with 

 two teams of horses. The load was twenty-two 

 feet high. 



The Maxson Lumber Company of Milwaukee 

 lias increased its capital stock from $25,000 to 

 $50,000. 



The Monitor Automobile Works of Chicago 

 has decided to locate its factory in Janesville. 

 Local investors are interested in the company 

 to the extent of $67,600. The company will be- 

 gin moving sboii.' 



Isaac Runor's sawmill at Pound was destroyed 

 by fire a few days ago. This was the fifth mill 

 to be burned on the site. 



Fire *a3 discovered In the "pin room" of the 

 Geo. W. Price wood working mill in Crandon a 



few days ago. The fire was extinguished after 

 a large amount of stock had been scorched. The 

 mill turus out hardwood pins for telegraph cross 

 arms, wagon rims, hubs, etc. 



The state of Wisconsin is the first to organize 

 for a national crusade for the protection of na- 

 tional resources. The headquarters are in Osh- 

 kosh, with Assemblyman Wm. M. Bray in active 

 management. Mr. Bray is chairman of the Wiscon- 

 sin committee of the National Conservation As- 

 sociation, of which Gifford Plnchot is president. 

 Assemblyman Edward W. LeRoy of Marinette Is 

 assisting Mr. Bray in the campaign. The open- 

 ing work will be in the nature of addresses in 

 various parts of the state, the idea being to 

 carry on a campaign of education, interesting 

 the public in the movement. At the same time 

 an energetic move will be made to increase the 

 membership to 5,000 or more, those joining the 

 state association being thereby enrolled In the 

 national body also. 



The sawmill plant of the Heineman Lumber 

 Company of Heineman was completely destroyed 

 by fire on April 4. Although a high wind was 

 blowing at the time of the fire the company 

 managed to save its power plant, engine room, 

 planing mill and lumber. The loss is covered 

 by insurance and the company announces that 

 it will begin the construction of a new and mod- 

 ern plant at once. 



CADILLAC 



Hardwood trade in this vicinity is fair and 

 all that could reasonably be expected. The de- 

 mand for all kinds of maple, especially the 

 higher grades, is more than the supply and the 

 stocks of the lower grades are no more than 

 normal. Hemlock is moving freely, and stocks 

 of that lumber are not large. 



Bruce Odell, Cadillac, F. L. Richardson, Al- 

 pena, W. C. Hull, Traverse City, and John C. 

 Ross of Bay City are the delegates who will rep- 

 resent the Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association at meeting of the National Lumber 

 Manufacturers' Association at New Orleans, 

 April 19 and 20. Chas. A. Bigelow of Bay City, 

 president of the Michigan Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers' Association, will also attend this meet- 

 ing. 



The Michigan State Public Domain Commis- 

 sion aims to help reforestation by placing young 

 trees of spruce, pjne, cedar and other varieties 

 in the hands of those desiring to take advan- 

 tage of this plan at the cost of production plus 

 the cost of packing. Two million seedlings 2 to 

 4 years old are available this spring and the 

 commission announces it will arrange to put 

 trees on the market every spring. 



On Lake Michigan navigation has opened 

 earlier than usual this season and a heavy ton- 

 nage will no doubt be bandied. March 23 the 

 steamers Nessen and Fletcher cleared Manistee 

 harbor with cargoes of lumber for Chicago. 



V. C. Allen of Portland, Mich., has sold his 

 lumber yard and elevator to the Portland Mill- 

 ing Company. The deal is a large one and of 

 much importance to Portland. 



SAOINAW VALLEY 



The Kneeland. Buell & Bigelow Company is 

 installing a battery of boilers in its Bay City 

 mill and making other improvements. This mill 

 runs on a ten-hour schedule the year through. 

 Mr. Bigelow says that the business of both com- 

 panies with which he is associated is excellent, 

 and that all the lumber manufactured is sold 

 as fast as it is in fit condition. He believes 

 there will be a still further advance, in maple 

 and birch particularly. 



Lumber firms on the Huron shore north . of 

 Bay City have shipped out an unusually 'Hige 

 quantity of lumber by rail during the winter. 

 The rail shipments are increasing. During March 

 the II. M. Loud's Sons Company shipped out 



110 car loads by rail from An Sable. This firm 

 moves most of its stock by water during the 

 season of navigation, and will load a steamer 

 this present week. Alpena and points north on 

 the Detroit & Mackinac railway have been mov- 

 ing a lot of lumber out by rail. Navigation is 

 now open and several cargoes have already been 

 cleared from Alpena. 



W. D. Young & Co., at Bay City, are shipping 

 out slock as fast as it can be produced, their 

 plant being operated day and night. All of their 

 stock comes from the North over the Mackinac 

 division of the Michigan Central, more than 25,- 

 000,000 feet annually. Shipments of flooring are 

 brisk. 



Several years ago the Loads of Au Sable pur- 

 chased of Hoeft & Son of Rogers City an interest 

 In several thousand acres of hardwood land in 

 Presque Isle county, and the work of cutting the 

 timber was started last summer, as the fierce 

 forest fires in the fall of 190S did considerable 

 damage and it was necessary to lumber a por- 

 tion of the timber to save it. The Loud & Hoeft 

 Lumber Company was organized and the Hoeft 

 Mill at Rogers City has been equipped with ad- 

 ditional sawipg capacity and a large steel refuse 

 burner 24 feet in diameter and 80 feet high is now 

 being constructed. The mill will cut some 10,- 

 000,000 feet and it will be shipped by water as 

 Rogers City is twelve miles from a railroad sta- 

 tion. 



The S. L. Eastman Flooring Company at Sagi- 

 naw is having a good run of business but the 

 company would like stiffer prices for flooring. 

 .4n improvement is noted, however, in this par- 

 ticular. The company is carrying a number of 

 million feet of maple lumber in stock and a large 

 quantity of manufactured flooring. 



The Hanson-Ward Veneer Company at Bay 

 City, which recently built a large flooring plant 

 to operate in connection with the veneer plant, is 

 running ISO hands and business is very brisk. 



The Wylie & Buell Lumber Company is furnish- 

 ing Bliss & Van Auken of Saginaw 12,000,000 feet 

 of logs, this being on a yearly contract. The 

 Saginaw firm also operates a planing mill and 

 lumber yard in connection with its flooring plant, 

 and is doing a good local and outside business. 



GRAND RAPIDS 



Not much change is noted in hardwood lumber 

 conditions here. All choice lumber is firm in 

 price and nothing in the list drags except culls. 



Secretary Otis A. Felger of the Hacklcy- 

 Phelps-Bonnell Company is in the South on a 

 two weeks' business trip. 



George Engel of the Engel Lumber Company 

 left April 6 on a business trip through the east- 

 ern part of the state. 



A. L. Dennis, head of the Dennis Brothers 

 Salt & Lumber Company, will go North on April 

 11 to visit his company's mills at Dighton. He 

 reports everything moving along nicely in a 

 business way, with prospects for an excellent 

 year. 



Ed C. Allen of the Glbbs, Hall & Allen Com- 

 pany, stopped off here April 6 on his way to his 

 home in Leroy. Mr. Allen is interested with his 

 brother-in-law in a mill near Aberdeen, Miss., 

 and has been spending some time in the South 

 looking after the cutting operations. The lum- 

 ber being cut Is largely oak. gum and pine and 

 shipments are being made from Aberdeen. 



A. Gibbs of Traverse City, president of the 

 Gibbs, Hall & Allen Company, was in the city 

 April 1 to attend the Hoo-Hoo doings on that 

 date. 



Fred S. Torrey of the Henry S. Holden Ve- 

 neer Company, was in Detroit April 6 on busi- 

 ness connected with the reopening of the veneer 

 manufacturing plant at Reed City^ It kioks 

 now as though the factorjr nWfild Ue vebuilt at 

 an early date. 



The meeting of the order of Hop-Hoo held at 

 the Livingston hotel, April 1, was a decided 

 success. Wm. A. Hadley of Chatham, Ont., 



