HARDWOOD RECORD 



59 



])r. Hei-mann von Schrenck. chairman of the 

 Missouri State Forestry Commission, declared to 

 the ICnglemann Club and its guests at Shaws 

 Oarden in this city a few' nights ago, that any 

 dii'ei't ii'gislation by the state with a view to 

 slopping the rapid and continued decrease of 

 wood production in Missouri is impracticabb.'. 

 He spoke on "Forestry in Missouri." but said a 

 great deal about conditions outside the state. 

 As an initial movement, lie said there was only 

 one thing to do and that is to appoint a state 

 forester witli connections at the University of 

 Missouri, who would have power to institute a 

 state wide scheme of education in forestry. He 

 advocated that the state lay out forest lands in 

 the Ozarks and southern part of Missouri and 

 limit the production of trees to pine and oak. 

 He also advocated the example set by the state 

 of Louisiana, in placing an annual tax of one 

 cent an acre on forest lands to pay for the sup- 

 port of the .State Forestry Commission and its 

 work. 



MILWAUKEE 



The Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul road is 

 running a survey through the northern part of 

 Wisconsin and Michigan, in the Iron river and 

 Stambaugh country. This section of the road 

 will run through some of the finest hardwood 

 tracts in these states. A survey somewhat sim- 

 ilar was commenced several years ago but was 

 abandoned on account of building the raclflc 

 coast extension. 



The American Seating Company, of Kacine. 

 Wis., recently released a shipment of thirteen 

 carloads of seats for the Denver. Col., city 

 schools. This plant is being rushed to its ca- 

 pacity at the present time, many large orders 

 being received for seats and desks which must 

 be filled before the fall term of school com 

 mences. 



The Gurney Refrigerator Company of Fond 

 du Lac. Wis., is planning a large addition to 

 its plant. The roof of the entire building is to 

 be raised and another story will he added. A 

 new dry kiln will also be erected. The work 

 will cost ii;2.=i,oori. 



ITie Sheboygan Wood Turning Company of She- 

 boygan, Wis., is installing new equipment in its 

 plant. Ten new alternating current motors Itave 

 been installed and it is planned to use electrical 

 power throughout the plant, each machine to 

 have an individual motor. 



Preparations are being made by .T. IT. Quenl 

 & Co. of Rhinelander. Wis., to dispose of their 

 large planing mill. The offices of the firm will 

 be kept open, however, until all outstanding ac- 

 counts are settled. 



The Kurz-Downey Company of Bayfield, Wis, 

 is contemplating the installation of new ma- 

 chinery in its mill and the erection of a large 

 excelsior plant. 



The JIatten Lumber Company of New London. 

 Wis., has begun .sending its crews of men to the 

 logging camps in the northern woods, prepara- 

 tory to commencing the season's cutting. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by the 

 Rosenthal Folding Furniture Company of West 

 Allis, The company has a capital stock of .f30,- 

 000 and the incorp'orators are : August Rosen- 

 thal, G. H. Rosenthal and Annabel Hickey. 



The I. Stephenson Company's sawmill at Wells, 

 Mich., with the e.xception of a few minor ad- 

 justments, has been completed and is considered 

 the largest and best equipped plant of its kind 

 east of the Rocky mountains. The company re- 

 cently purchased a tract of .^.000 acres of mixed 

 limber laud in Marquette county from Greenboat 

 Brothers of Escanaba, Mich. 



Arrangements have been completed by th 

 North Star Lumber Company, owner of a saw- 

 mill at Bloomer, Wis,, to saw a large quantity 

 of logs for Oscar Hooey of Rice Lake, There 

 are aliout 2,000,000 feet of these logs which will 



be shipped into Bloomer by rail from Couderay. 



Louis Scharbau of Wausau, W'is,, has pur- 

 chased the plant of the Chicago Excelsior Com- 

 pany at that place. During the past year Mr. 

 .^charbau has operated the plant under a lease, 

 but he now intends to make extensive improve- 

 ments and additions which will greatly increase 

 the facilities of the business. 



The Daniel Shaw Lumber Company of Kau 

 Claire, Wis., has commenced clearing the Chip 

 pewa river of the stray logs which have caught 

 upon the rocks during their course down the 

 river. Some of these logs have laid there for 

 I he past twenty years waiting for high water 

 to carry them on their journey, but it has never 

 arrived. 



IL P. Bird of the Bird & Wells Lumber Com 

 jiany of Wausau. Wis., is rapidly recovering 

 from his series illness. Mr. Bird has been ill 

 for several weeks and for a time his life was 

 despaired of. 



'i'lie Keith & Ililes Lumber Company. of Cran- 

 don. Wis., has commenced work on a half mile 

 extension which is to be built to its line at the 

 old Mclniiis camp. 



The Mitchell-Lewis Motor Company of Itn- 

 cine. Wis., has announced that it will tear down 

 its present wagon factory and erect a new and 

 modern structure in its place. Automobile bodies 

 will also be manufactured when the new building 

 lias been completed. 



Much progress has been made in the construc- 

 tion of the new buildings for the Phoenix Manu- 

 facturing Company, sawmill equipment manu- 

 facturers, at Eau Claire, Wis., during the past 

 month. Practically all of the steel work has 

 been set in place and the walls are being put up 

 as rapidly as possible. 



The Bradford-Culver Timber Company of Eau 

 Claire. Wis., has filed an amendment to its arti 

 cles of incorporation increasing its capital stock 

 from .'i;2."..Ono to .$100,000. 



SAQINAW VALLEY 



MINNEAPOLIS 



The Lumbermen's baseball team won its sixth 

 straight game for the season June 18. The vic- 

 tory last scored was 10 to 3. over the team 

 representing the First National bank, which was 

 taken into camp once before by .S to 7. With 

 that exception the games have not been very 

 close, and the lumbermen have shown themselves 

 ;( speedy aggregation, improving with each week. 

 The team is looking for games with lumbermen's 

 teams from other cities. 



A. S. BlLss of the Payson Smith Lumber Com- 

 pany has gone on a vacation and is in retirement 

 on some lake or other where the fishing is sup- 

 posed to be good. As to whether it is or not, 

 time and his return v,ill tell, 



George S, Agnew, who has been in the hard- 

 wood wliolesale line here, is now in Texas look- 

 ing into a business proposition whicli may result 

 in Ills remaining there. 



E. P. Arpin of the Arpin Hardwood Lumber 

 Company. Grand Rapids, Wis., was here a few 

 days ago on his way to northwestern Minnesota, 

 Mr. Arpin and two brothers have branched out 

 quite extensively into contracting and have the 

 digging of some large drainage ditches in this 

 state this summer. He says they have just a 

 fair business, with the emphasis on upper grades. 

 Ctjmmon hardwoods are i]uiet. but the prospect 

 for summer and fall business is very favorable. 



Another Minneapolis sawmill has closed down 

 for good, leaving only four at work. The Car- 

 penter-Lamb Lumber Company, liaving practi- 

 cally finished up its logs, has sold those that are 

 still to come to the C. A. Smith Lumber Com- 

 pany and has shut down its mill. 



L. C. Nolan of the Nolan Brothers Lumber 

 Company, hardwood manufacturers at Memphis, 

 Tenn.. but formerly of St, Paul, was up last 

 week on business, looking after some orders from 

 the factory trade. He reports a ver.v good de- 

 mand for the better grades of stock. 



The new Hansou-Ward flooring plant at Bay 

 City has added some more machinery, and is now 

 in full operation and doing a fine business. 



The Bousefield Woodenware plant at Bay City, 

 one of the largest in the world engaged in the 

 manufacture of tubs for butter, lard. etc.. which 

 has been idle some months, has resumed opera- 

 tions. This plant utilizes a considerable amount 

 of basswood yearly, 



Tlie mill at Bay City of the Richardson Lum- 

 ber Company has been operated steadily since 

 the beginning of the year, running ten hours a 

 day. The logs come from the North, a train 

 load coming in every day. This plant is owned 

 by the Richardson Lumber Company of Alpena, 

 and it has enough timber to keep ils mills run- 

 ning a long time. 



The Robinson Lumber Company, of which S. L. 

 E'astman of Saginaw is the principal owner, is 

 extending its logging road north of South 

 Branch, Ogemaw county, near its new mill, to 

 reach more timber. Early in the season tho 

 company purchased tlie holdings of the Prescott- 

 Miller Lumber Company near Rose City. The 

 last of the lumber manufactured by the Prescott- 

 Miller concern is being shipped out. and the mill 

 is to be dismantled. The timber bought is esti- 

 mated at 10.000.000 feet. 



Walter D. Young of W. I). Young & Co. is 

 planning a business and pleasure trip abroad. 

 His concern's plant has made a great run during 

 the season. The trade has been steady and 

 shipments have been heavy. Large exports of 

 flooring are made to Europe. 



D. W. Briggs, more than forty years a resident 

 of Saginaw, prominent in banking and lumber- 

 ing circles for years and a member of the Briggs 

 «: Cooper Company, Ltd., a large handler of 

 hardwood lumber products, is about to make 

 I'ortland, Ore., his future home. He is heavily 

 interested In timber properties on the coast and 

 in British Columbia. 



The Wylie & Buell Luml>er Compauy has been 

 extending its Haakwood branch of the Michigan 

 Central six miles to reach 7.j. 000,000 feet of 

 timber which will come to the Saginaw river, 

 Tuere has been a scarcity of men of late for 

 woods work and for peeling hemlock bark, but 

 more are oCfering the last few days. 



The Michelson & Hanson Lumber Company at 

 Lewiston. which shut down its sawmill early in 

 .May, is shipping away the sawn lumber on the 

 dock and winding up its aCeairs, The Sailing- 

 Hanson and R. Hanson & Sons plants at Gray- 

 ling, and the Johannesburg Manufacturing Com 

 pany, a few miles from Grayling, all have timber 

 for twelve to twenty years' run. 



CADILLAC 



A. W. Newark, secretary of the Cadillac Han- 

 dle Company, is in Spokane. Wash., on a busi- 

 ness and pleasure trip of three or four weeks' 

 duration. 



W. W. Jlitchell and family are attending home- 

 coming week at Hillsdale, Mich. 



A. Gibbs of the Gibbs, Hall & Allen Company, 

 Grand Rapids, was a Cadillac caller last week. 



W. K. Jackson of Jackson & Tindle. BuBEalo. 

 N. Y., stopped at Cadillac a few days ago while 

 cnroute to Pellston, where his firm has a mill. 



Cadillac is to have a new industry, Wilcox 

 Brothers, who have a stave and heading mill, 

 will now add the making of barrels. This was 

 done in order to fill an order for 5.000 barrels 

 recently received. Although this is the first time 

 this company has undertaken to make barrels it 

 is probable that this line will become an im- 

 portant feature of its business. The stave mill 

 is about to close and the heading department 

 will close for a week or ten days, but the barrel 

 department will run throughout the shipping 

 season. 



