HARDWOOD RECORD 



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in New York City. At the present time five 

 men are employed in the eastern office, but the 

 force will soon be increased. 



"The whole fire warden system of Wisconsin 

 is faulty from the fact that it is based upon the 

 fighting or putting out of fires after they occur, 

 rather than preventing the starting of fires in 

 the first instances," declared B. W. Griflith, 

 state forester of Wisconsin, recently, when speak- 

 ing of the forest fires. A movement has been 

 started with the idea of establishing forest fire 

 patrols, such as have proven successful in the 

 western states. 



Oshkosh lumbermen who formerly bought logs 

 from the Menomonie Indian reservation, declare 

 that the government sawmill at Neopit is being 

 operated at a loss. On the other hand, Senator 

 La Follettc, who procured the passage of the 

 law that took the logs away from the former 

 method of bidding, declared that any fair minded 

 man, upon investigation, would admit that the 

 enterprise was a success. Charles Nevitt of the 

 Paine Lumber Company, declared that the logs 

 are being bandied at the rate of $10 per 1,000 

 and being sold at the rate of .$S per 1,000. 



The log drive on the Pine river has been com- 

 pleted. Sixteen days were taken in driving the 

 logs into the Wisconsin and according to past 

 performances this record is considered a good 

 one. 



The logging camp of Walter Dudley, near Wau- 

 sau, was wiped out by the recent forest fires. 

 The loss is said to be $1,000. 



The Darling Land & Timber Company of Mil- 

 waukee has been made agent for the Pacific 

 Northwest Timber Company in Milwaukee. 



The Allis-Chalmers Company of Milwaukee 

 is in receipt of an order from the Grays Lumber 

 Company of Hoquiam, Wash., for electrical equip- 

 ment to be installed in the concern's plant. The 

 order includes seven squirrel cage induction 

 motors of different horse power. 



The Michigan Hoop & Stave Company of 

 Marinette is erecting a large piling shed in con- 

 nection with its plant. Plans are now being 

 made for the addition of a berry box and crate 

 department by the company. 



Negotiations are being carried on between the 

 Business Men's -Association of Sheboygan and 

 the Brunswick-Balke-CoUender Company of Chi- 

 cago for establishing a branch factory in She- 

 boygan. This plant would be used exclusively for 

 the manufacture of piano cases. 



The John S. Owen Lumber Company of Owen 

 lias installed a large ten-ton planer of the newest 

 type in its planing mill at Owen. 



A recent fire in the yard of the F. E. Worden 

 Lumber Company at Oshkosh caused a loss of 

 ,'i!20,000. Several firemen were severely injured 

 by a heavy tramway which fell in one of the 

 warehouses which also burned. 



The S. W. Miller Piano Company of Sheboygan 

 has purchased a site upon which it will erect 

 a three-story factory building. The Business 

 Men's Association of the city has agreed to dis- 

 pose of ?5.000 worth of the company's preferred 

 -^tock to aid in the undertaking. 



The A. MeLnecke & Son Company of Milwau- 

 kee, manufacturers of toys and willow ware 

 goods, has completed the erection of a new fac- 

 tory building on Richards street near Keefe ave- 

 nue. The main building is 240 by 60 feet, two 

 stories higlj and constructed of reinforced con- 

 crete. 



The yards and warehouses of the C. W. Allen 

 Lumber Company at Berlin were destroyed by 

 lire recently. The fire originated in a garage 

 from an exploding automobile. The fire depart- 

 ment was unable to check it until damage to the 

 extent of .$100,000 had been done. 



The recent address given by State Forester E. 

 M. Griffith before the Outdoor Art Association in 

 Milwaukee has aroused no little feeling in the 

 northern part of the state. Mr. Griffith said 

 that the cut-over lands now being sold to settlers 

 in that part of the state for $15 an acre could 

 be pnrchased by the state at any time for $2.50 



an acre. A large part of this land, he claimed, 

 is practically worthless for farming purposes 

 after a few years unless fertilized. These state- 

 luents are declared to be untrue in a lengthy re- 

 ply issued by the Marinette Chamber of Com- 

 merce and exception is also taken to Mr. Grif- 

 fith's ideas by Milwaukee dealers in northern 

 Wisconsin lands. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



George S. .Vgnew, who has been engaged in 

 (be wholesale hardwood lumber trade here for 

 the past two years, since severing his connec- 

 tion with the Payson Smith Lumber Company, 

 will go to Texas next week to look over some 

 business propositions in the southem part of 

 I he state. 



E. Payson Smith of the Payson Smith Lum- 

 ber Company is absent on a business trip. With 

 L. P. Arthur, manager of the Chicago office, he 

 has been calling on customers in Illinois, and 

 is going from there west to Omaha and other 

 points before returning home. 



F. M. Bartelme, engaged in the wholesale 

 hardwood trade here, is away on business with 

 some of his correspondents in Wisconsin, but is 

 expected back next week. 



W. C. Meader of this city, who recently sold 

 out his interest in the Foster Lumber Company, 

 iias joined the Bell Lumber Company to take 

 charge of the lumber sales. He is also looking 

 after the supply and has been touring in Wis- 

 consin to purchase hemlock and hardwood lum- 

 ber stocks for shipment to the company's cus- 

 tomers. He reports the purchase of a good 

 line of material. 



Hamilton Broushton of this city was married 

 on April 20 to Miss Eleanor Charlton, also of 

 Minneapolis. They have returned from a wed- 

 ding trip and are now at home at 616 James 

 avenue N. Mr. Broughton has been connected 

 with the hardwood lumber trade here for sev- 

 eral years, first with the Forbes-Everts Lumber 

 Company of this city, and now in charge of the 

 factory lumber department of the Fullerton- 

 Krueger Lumber Company. 



Osborne & Clark of this city, well-known hard- 

 wood wholesale dealers, have bought out the 

 business of the Crissler-Everts Lumber Com- 

 pany and also the John Crissler Lumber Com- 

 pany of Kice Lake, Wis. Both the partners 

 have been at Rice Lake to take an inventory 

 and close up the deal. Mr. Clark, who is now 

 at Rice Lake, has returned from an extensive 

 business trip to the west coast, visiting their 

 trade. 



P. R. Hamilton of the Minneapolis Lumber 

 Company returned this week from a business 

 trip to Omaha, Kansas City, Denver and Salt 

 Lake City. 



SAOINAW VALLEY 



Conditions in the hardwood trade appear to uc 

 satisfactory. The manufacturing plants are run- 

 ning steadily, s^me nf them with day and night 

 shifts, and the volume of lumber moving is larger 

 than the two preceding years at this date. It 

 is asserted by those comi)etent to judge, that 

 there is more doing in hardwood than there is in 

 pine or hemlock. 



The flooring plants are busy. W. D. Young & 

 Co. are operating their plant day and night, and 

 Mr. Young says business is good and it is only 

 a question of getting the goods to the customers. 

 A large portion of their output is for export. 



Frank Buell has gone to North Carolina, where 

 he has a pine operation as a side deal. He is 

 operating seven camps north of the valley, em- 

 ploying five hundred men, and is building six 

 miles extension of the Haakwood branch to reach 

 100,000,000 feet of timber. The Michigan Cen- 

 tral irons the road and puts on the log-hauling 

 equipment. 



A small sawmill in Clement, Gladwin rotinty, 

 owned by Edward Matt, was destroyed by fire 

 May 18. The mill was cutting by the thousand 

 for J. H. Grover, who lost $2,000 worth of 

 lumber. No insurance was carried. 



The S. L. Eastman Flooring Company is hBT- 

 ing a steady run and reports a fair business, 

 much of which is export. 



The Strable Manufacturing Company, which 

 manufactures maple flooring, has had a fine run 

 of business all the season. 



C. T. Kerry of Kerry & Schultz, Saginaw, 

 operating a hardwood yard, reports business good. 

 He is associated with the Welch & Kerry Floor- 

 ing Company at Reed City, which is building a 

 new flooring plant to take the place of one 

 burned in March. It is expected the new plant 

 will be in operation within thirty days. Mr. 

 Kerry is also connected with the large flooring 

 firm of Kerry & Hanson Flooring Company, oper- 

 ating a large plant at Grayling, which is doing 

 a large business. This plant ships out 10,000,000 

 or more feet of flooring a year. 



The Sailing-Hanson Company at Grayling also 

 furnishes a large quantity of maple lumber to the 

 Thomas Forman Company of Detroit. The 

 Johannesburg Manufacturing Company sent a 

 number of million feet of maple to the Forman 

 company early in the spring. 



A new set of boilers has been installed in the 

 Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow sawmill at Bay City 

 and the mill has resumed operations. The Knee- 

 land-Bigelow Company has taken over about one- 

 half of the 47 per cent stock held by Frank 

 Buell in the Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow Company. 

 This plant has been a very profitable venture. 

 Mr. Buell bought the stock less than five years 

 ago at par and sold at three dollars for one •f 

 the original investment. 



Negotiations are in motion whereby the big 

 woodenware plant of Bousfield & Co., said to be 

 the largest in the world, will be converted into an 

 auto body manufacturing plant. There is abuu- 

 dant timber tributary to Bay City available for 

 this plant. 



CADILLAC 



Cadillac is assured by the officials that a new 

 depot will be erected at this point without delay 

 by the Ann Arbor Railroad Company. 



Superintendent J. W. Hunter, F. J. Stimsen, 

 in charge of the maintenance department and M. 



F. Quaintance, commercial agent of the G. S. 

 & I. railroad were here May 14 looking ©rer 

 the ground for the new engine house which is 

 to be erected here. Other improvements in the 



G. R. & I. property will also be made which will 

 reach to about $50,000 for Cadillac. 



.Joseph Campbell, one of Cadillac's pioneer 

 lumbermen, after residing here for twenty years. 

 left for Portland, Ore., recently, where he will 

 engage in the logging business. He and his 

 brolher-in-Iaw, W. N. Ferris, have a tract ef 

 20.000,000 feet of timber to log forty-eight miles 

 up the Columbia river which they expect to raft 

 to Portland within two years. Mr. Campbell is 

 one of the best known lumbermen in this vicinity 

 and in his departure Cadillac suffers e great 

 less. He spent twenty years with the Cummer 

 Lumber Company and after leaving that company 

 became president of the Wexford Lumber Com- 

 pany, with which firm he remained until it 

 ceased operations. 



Birch and maple are very strong at present, 

 beech is slow and ash very slow. Hemlock still 

 occupies a strong position, with depleted stocks. 



Thirty-five Italians recently arrived from Chi- 

 cago to help in the construction of a railroad 

 being laid by the Cummer-Digglns Company 

 through the woods which it will lumber next 

 winter. 



Henry Ballou, superintendent of Cobbs & Uitch- 

 oU, Inc., and who also represented the Mitchell 

 Brothers Company, attended the annaal meeting 



