outlined. Following are the names of those 

 present : President W. C. Landon, Wausau ; 

 Treasurer peorge E. Foster, Mellen ; George H. 

 Atwood, Park Falls ; J. H. .Toliannes. M. J. 

 CJuinlan, Soperton ; M. P. McCuIlougb, Schofleld ; 

 .7. T. Phillips, Green Bay ; C. F. Lusk, Owen ; 

 \V. A. Holt, Oconto, and A. L. Osborn, Osbkosh. 

 Forest fires have devastated a large area in 

 Bayfield county, destroying lumber valued at 

 $500,000. The recent heavy rains and snow 

 finally quenched the flames. 



The Cooper-Hughes Land & Lumber Company, 

 with offices in Milwaukee, has disposed of the 

 Cooper-Hughes ranch of 10,000 acres in Mon- 

 tana to Minnesota parties. The consideration 

 was $300,000. 



Schedules filed in Ijankruptcy court by the 

 Two Rivers Woodenware Company of Two Rivers 

 show the liabilities of the concern to be $417,- 

 765.63 and the assets as near as can be figured 

 are worth $479,240.88, including G.OOO acres of 

 land in the northern part of the state. 



The Mosling Laud & Lumber Company of 

 Mosling has filed articles of incorporation with 

 the secretary of state. The capital stock is 

 $35,000 and the incorporators are J. P. Mosling, 

 S. S. Mosling and B. A. Mosling. 



The Appleton Chair Company of Appleton, 

 which recently purchased a site for a new fac- 

 tory building near Appleton Junction, has post- 

 poned building operations owing to the lack of 

 suitable tire protection. The matter has been 

 taken up by citizens and it is probable that the 

 lity water mains will be extended. 



Alfred Fritsch of Vienna, Austria, and Henry 

 ^V. Moritz of St. Petersburg, Russia, dealers in 

 sawmill and woodworking machinery in their 

 respective countries, visited Oshkosh recently. 

 While there they inspected the plant of the E. 

 D. Hayes Machine Company, the product of 

 which they handle. 



The F. O. Kelsey sawmill at Pine Creek was 

 totally destroyed by fire recently. No insurance 

 was carried on the structure and the owner was 

 under contract to saw a large quantity of logs 

 tor the Samsel & Bryant Company. 



According to a recent statement of C. D. Post 

 of Oconto the Mellen Lumber Company has 

 700,000,000 feet of standing timber in two tracts 

 located in Ashland county. This amount, to- 

 j;ether with options which are held on other 

 timber lands, brings the total holdings of the 

 concern up to 1.000,000,000 feet. 



The mill of Mrs. August Fetter, located at 

 Liberty, near Manitowoc, was destroyed by fire 

 lecently causing a loss of $4,200. 



D. F. Smith of Green Bay and proprietor of a 

 woodenware factory at Gillette is making a tour 

 of the state inspecting the different woodenware 

 factories. 



The supreme court has sustained the decision 

 of the lower court in the case of Ephriam 

 Mariner against the Oconto Land Company. The 

 action involved the taxability of the lands in the 

 Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan Ship Canal & 

 Harbor Company's grant. The circuit court held 

 the land taxable and sustained the defendant's 

 tax deeds. This decision was affirmed by the 

 supreme court. 



The H. H. Wright Lumber Company has dis- 

 posed of its electric light plant and business at 

 Merrill to the Merrill Railway & Lighting Com- 

 pany. It will take possession in about a month. 

 The Northern Turpentine Company, which has 

 announced that it will erect a $250,000 refinery, 

 destructive distilling furnaces, box factory, bar- 

 rel factory and machine shops at Kosa, Mich., is 

 taking contracts to clear northern Wisconsin and 

 upper Michigan lands of stumps. 



Fred A. Dennett, of Sheboygan, Wis., is presi- 

 dent of the Wisconsin Lumber & Veneer Com- 

 pany of Mound City, 111., which recently lost its 

 band mill and veneer mill by fire, entailing a 

 loss of $150,000. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



The new factory building which is to be 

 erected by the S. W. Miller Piano Company at 

 Sheboygan W'ill be located at Indiana avenue and 

 14th street. The. Business Men's Association of 

 the city has agreed to dispose of $5,000 worth 

 of the company's preferred stock to aid in the 

 undertaking. 



The Wisconsin Chair Company of Port Wash- 

 ington will erect an addition to its plant which 

 will be used as a warehouse. Steps have been 

 taken to obtain permission from the city coi:ncil 

 to build a bridge across the river to connect 

 the new warehouse with the main factory. 



August Ttraun, who recently purchased the 

 plant of the Sturgeon Bay Boat Manufacturing 

 Company at Sturgeon Bay, is planning to estab- 

 lish a box factory which will employ 100 hands. 

 An addition 122x160 feet has been built to 

 the plant of the Anson-Gilkey-Hurd Lumber & 

 Manufacturing Company at Merrill. New ma- 

 chinery is now being installed and it is planned 

 to have the entire plant in operation by .Tune 1. 

 In order to take care of its expanding business 

 the Sheboygan Woodworking Company has 

 leased the first two stories of the Ebenreiter & 

 Hildebrand factory, which will be used in con- 

 nection with its present plant. 



A night crew has been put on at the large 

 mill of the Stearns Lumber Company at Wash- 

 burn. The daily output of the mill is now esti- 

 mated at 300,000 feet. 



The sawmill of Richard Wilkie, located in the 

 town of Jacksonport, was partly destroyed re- 

 cently by fire. The greatest damage was done 

 in the boiler and engine room where all of the 

 tools were stored at the time. The cause of the 

 fire is not known. 



The repairs, which the sawmill of the New 

 Dells Lumber Company at Menomonie has been 

 undergoing, have been completed and the mill 

 is now in operation. 



The sawmill of the North Wisconsin Lumber 

 & Manufacturing Company at Menomonie has 

 been opened for the season's cut. 



After a shutdown of five months the excelsior 

 factory at Marathon has been placed in opera- 

 tion. The entire output of the plant for the next 

 few years has been purchased by a Chicago 

 concern. 



The Bird & Wells Lumber Company of 

 Peshtigo has made a general increase in the 

 wages of its employes in the mills and yards. 

 Herman Lichtenberg has disposed of his box 

 factory at Mayville to William Zimmerman. The 

 consideration was $2,500. 



F. W. A. Schultz. bookkeeper for the Merrill 

 Woodenware Company at Merrill, has been 

 arrested on a charge of embezzling $1,450 from 

 I he company. Schultz denies the charge and 

 after waiving the examination in county court 

 he was committed to Jail upon the failure to 

 procure bail, which was fixed at $1,500. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed with 

 the secretary of state by the Western Furniture 

 Company of Sheboygan. The capital stock is 

 $3,500 and the incorporators are G. M. Rietow-, 

 John Leick and Ida Leick. 



Senator II. P. Bird of Wausaukee, a promi- 

 nent Wisconsin lumberman, is in a serious con- 

 dition at his home. At the time the latest 

 reports were received his physicians had given 

 up all hopes for his recovery. 



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has .iust closed a deal for a body of hardwood 

 and hemlock timber in Lincoln county, which 

 will cut 80,000,000 feet. The company has 

 decided to rebuild its mill, which was recently 

 destroyed by fire. The company has not decided 

 whether it will rebuild on the old site at Heine- 

 mann, or whether the scene of operations will 

 be shitted to Merrill. It is the intention to 

 build a fireproof structure, modern and com- 

 plete in every respect. 



The R. Connor Lumber Company of Marshfield 

 recently lost 400,000 feet of logs on rollways 

 near Laona, due to forest fires. The loss 

 amounts to about $5,000, with no insurance. 



The Northwestern Lumber Company of Stan- 

 ley has given notice to its employes that their 

 wages will be increased five per cent. The in- 

 crease docs not extend to foremen or superin- 

 tendents. A year ago a similar increase was 

 granted. 



A company which will be capitalized at $45,- 

 000 will build a factory in Clintonville for the 

 manufacture of auto cars. 



The Alexander Stewart Lumber Company of 

 Wausau has purchased a quantity of hardwood 

 logs, being cut off a tract of land near Knowl- 

 ton, owned by the Central Leather Company. It 

 is estimated that it will take ten years to log 

 the tract. 



The Westergaarde Manufacturing Company of 

 Withee, manufacturing all kinds of wooden han- 

 dles, is planning to enlarge its factory. The 

 company is forced to operate day and night at 

 present to keep up with its orders. 



The Mandt Wagon Company of Stoughton 

 ib planning the erection of another factory build- 

 ing, 80x180 feet in size. 



The Jlellen Lumber Company of Mellen has 

 a contract to cut 50,000,000 feet of logs per 

 year for fifteen years, and has options on stand- 

 ing timber in Ashland county, which will bring 

 the total holdings of the company up to 1,000.- 

 000,000 feet. This will furnish enough timber 

 for twenty years' cut, at the rate of 50,000,000 

 each year. This is the largest logging contract 

 iu the history of logging operations in Wiscon- 

 sin. The timber consists mostly of hardwood 

 and hemlock. The company has a railroad pen- 

 etrating each tract, with branches extending into 

 the timber from the main lines, aggregating 

 over thirty miles of track. A steam skidder, 

 costing $14,000, has been ordered by the com- 

 pany. About 1,000 men are now at work. 



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MINNEAPOLIS 



George Langley of Merrill has taken a con- 

 tract to load about 8,000,000 feet of logs on 

 cars in the vicinity of Star Lake. The logs 

 belong to the Bradley Lumber Company of Toma- 

 hawk, the A. H. Stange Lumber Company of 

 Merrill and the Brooks & Ross Lumber Com- 

 pany of Schofleld. 



The Heinemann Lumber Company of Merrill 



This city broke the record on building per- 

 mits again in April, with 832 permits issued, for 

 a total cost of $2,233,610. Last year the fig- 

 ure was $1,401,955. The total for^four months 

 of the present year was $4,748,145, to $2,832,- 

 860 for the same months last year. This means 

 that the wood working concerns are getting 

 loaded up with a fine line of special work orders, 

 many of which call for hardwood. 



E. P. Smith of the Payson Smith Lumber 

 Company left this week for St. Louis, where he 

 will look over the hardwood situation and per- 

 haps close some deals for .southern stock. 



The Foster Lumber Company of this city has 

 been reorganized. It had been a copartnership 

 between W. L. Joyce and W. C. Meader as the 

 active members, but now W. C. Meader has sold 

 out his interest, which is taken by A. C. Connor, 

 and the company has been incorporated. Mr. 

 Connor, who has been interested chiefly in west 

 coast lumber, and has been connected with the 

 Humbird Lumber Company, the Rogers Lumber 

 Company, the western department of the Chi- 

 cago Lumber & Coal Company, and the Central 

 Warehouse Company of this city. Iwcomes vice- 

 president of the new concern. John Joyce is 

 president and W. L. Joyce secretary and treas- 

 urer. Under the reorganization the company 

 ceases to handle yard stocks and will go in for 



