HARDWOOD RECORD 



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report satisfactory prices, but orders are coming 

 in very slowly. 



ST. LOUIS 



diaries E. Tliomas of tbe Tlumias & I'roetz 

 Lumber Company which also operates the Bel- 

 zoni Hardwood Lumber Company at Belzoni, 

 Miss., says that the plant nas been running 

 without stop since the first of January. This 

 is an excellent record. Charles E. I'roetz, of 

 tbis concern, has returned home from Ocean 

 Grove and Asbury I'arli, N. J., leaving bis fam- 

 ily for the summer. Mr. Proetz will return 

 hiter and spend a few weeks and will then 

 bring his family home. 



A good volume of business is reported by the 

 Charles F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany. Nearly all items on the hardwood list 

 are called for. There is a particularly good call 

 for the company's specialty, red gum. Oak, 

 both plain and quartered, is also in good re- 

 quest. 



Henry Ilafner of the Ilafucr Manufacturing 

 Company is pleased with the amount of busi- 

 ness being done by his company. He says it is 

 mucli .better than it usually is at this season, 

 and he looks for a fine trade this fall. 



-V fair amount of business is being done by 

 Ihc Powe Lumber Company. Tom Powe reports 

 inquiries as being quite plentiful with the usual 

 number of orders. 



A good demand for all items on the liard- 

 vvood list is reported by Franz Waldstein of 

 the Waldstein Lumber Company. While the 

 volume of business is not what it should be, 

 there is enough to indicate that buying is still 

 going on but in a limited way. 



The Milne Lumber Company has been having 

 a good business for a couple, of weeks past. 

 Several good-sized orders came in from out-of- 

 town customers, indicating that buying is going 

 on all the time. 



George E. Hibbard of the Steele & Hibbard 

 Lumber Company says his concern has been get- 

 fiug its share of business thus far this summer. 

 The better grades are mostly called for and 

 prices are quite satisfactory. 



MILWAUKEE 



Owing to the lack of sufficient water to fur- 

 nish power to operate the machinery, the large 

 mill of the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Com- 

 pany at Chippewa Falls, Wis., was closed re- 

 cently, throwing 450 men out of employment. 

 Rains which have occurred since that time have, 

 however, been a great benefit to the lumber 

 industry and the mills are again in operation. 

 For a time it was thought that it would be 

 necessary to stop operations on the big log 

 drive on the Menominee river, owing to the low 

 condition of the water. If this had been nec- 

 essary it would have meant the closing of sev- 

 eral large sawmills, as several of them are 

 wholly dependent upon the logs brought down 

 the river. 



The Kankakee Specialty Company, manufac- 

 turer of the Mary Ann washing machine at 

 Green Bay, Wis., has filed a petition in in- 

 voluntary bankruptcy. The assets of the con- 

 cern consist of washing machines valued at 

 $1,10G.S.3, machinery worth $5,514.8.5 and pat- 

 terns valued at $1,075. The liabilities listed 

 are $300 due workmen in wages, secured claim,g 

 to the amount of $2,500, and unsecured claims 

 aggregating $2,131.32. 



The largest local lumber deal of the sum- 

 mer was closed recently at Chippewa Falls, 

 Wis., when A. H. Edminister of Holcombe, Wis., 

 and Peter Robinson of Chippewa Falls pur- 

 chased a 3.500 acre tract of excellent hardwood 

 timber land situated In Chippewa county, ten 

 miles southeast of Holcombe, from E. C. Still 

 and J. H. Hamilton of Minneapolis. The 

 consideration was .'?."'.fl.noo. 



Fred Olhoffi and Carl of Merrill, Wis., have 

 taken a contract to clean out all of the dead- 

 heads, or sunken logs, on the Wisconsin river 

 between Grandfather and Merrill. They are now 

 constructing a sawmill in which the logs will 

 bo sawed, after which the lumber will be de- 

 livered to tbe various lumber companies to 

 whom it may belong. The mill will have a 

 capacity of 30,000 feet a day. 



The Northwestern Cooperage & Lumber Com- 

 pany of Gladstone. Mich., is largely increasing 

 the capacity of its plant and is also putting 

 in a flooring mill. To care for the increased 

 power demands, it has placed an order with the 

 Allis-Chalmcrs Company of Milwaukee, Wis., 

 for a .jOO k.w. alternator with an exciter and 

 for thirty-six squirrel cage induction motors 

 and a switchboard. 



The sawmill of the Willow Kiver Lumber 

 Company at New Uichmond. Wis., is cleaning 

 up its .season's cut of hardwood and will busy 

 itself the balance of the season on hemlock. 

 A large concrete dry kiln has recently been 

 added to the company's plant. 



I'lans are being prepared by the Ahnapee 

 Veneer & Seating Company of Algoma, Wis., 

 for the erection of a large fireproof addition 

 to be built to its plant. The new portion 

 will be two stories high, 48 by 160 feet. Walls, 

 ' roof and floors will all be of reinforced con- 

 crete and the window frames will be of steel, 

 with wire woven window glass. 



Colonel I. Watson Stephenson, the eldest son 

 of Tnited States Senator Isaac Stephenson o£ 

 the I. Stephenson Company, died on July 18 at 

 his home in Marinette. Wis., after an illness 

 of eighteen months with tuberculosis. He was 

 thirty-three years of age and for several years 

 had been gtjneral manager of the N. Ludington 

 Company, besides being an officer and director. 

 He was also interested in several other large 

 corporations. 



Ground has been broken for the new power 

 house which is to be erected by the Graef 

 Manufacturing Company of Appleton, Wis. It 

 is planned to equip all of. the machines with 

 electric power, to be generated in the new 

 power house, which will be 42 by 60 feet and 

 two stories high. 



Fire, which is supposed to have resulted 

 from -T. spontaneous combustion, destroyed the 

 factory' of the W^isconsin Furniture Manufac- 

 turing Company at Neillsville, Wis., recently, 

 together with a large quantity of completed 

 furniture. The loss will run between $75,000 

 and $100,000, partially covered by insurance. 

 It is probable that the factory will be re- 

 built. 



According to a recent report prepared by the 

 Mandt Wagon Company of Stoughton, Wis., the 

 business transacted during the year ending July 

 1 showed an increase of 25 per cent over that 

 of the previous year. During this period the 

 company has erected a new power house, foun- 

 dry, a large wing to the wood shop and the 

 erection of a new blacksmith shop and a sieel 

 storage are now under way. 



Building operations have been commenced by 

 the Mitchell-Lewis Motor Company of Racine. 

 Wis., in the erection of a new building, which 

 will be used In the manufacture of automo- 

 bile bodies. The building which formerly oc- 

 cupied the site was used as a wagon factory. 

 The new structure will be the largest factory 

 in the city. 



The Brooks & Ross sawmill at Scofleld, Wis., 

 was destroyed by fire recently, causing a loss 

 of $50,000. The company owns enough stand- 

 ing timber in the neighborhood to keep a mill 

 busy for at least ten years, but It Is un- 

 certain whether the mill will be rebuilt. 



The foundation for 'the large addition which 

 is being built by the Northern Casket Com- 

 pany at Fond du Lac, Wis., has been com- 

 pleted and the brick walls are now being put 

 \\\i. This portion of the plant will be used 



in the manufacture of oak, mahogany and other 

 wood finish cases. 



The sale of the Lake Superior Iron & Chem- 

 ical Company to a new coiiipany of the same 

 name, organized in New York, involved $8,558.- 

 r>03. Besides several chemical and charcoal 

 plants which were involved in the transfer, 

 801,709 acres of hardwood timber lands were 

 taken over by the new concern. 



The J. H. Queal Company of Minneapolis 

 has closed out all of its interests at Rhine- 

 lander. Wis. The planing mill which has been 

 operated by this concern for several years has 

 been purchased by the Robbins Lumber Com- 

 pany of Rhinelander. 



The Mellen Lumber Company has completed 

 its hauling operations from tbe old veneer com- 

 pany's property near Glidden, Wis., and has 

 removed its equipment to Shanagolden, where 

 tbe work is being carried on. 



The woodworking plant of George W. Price, 

 which was recently removed from- Crandon to 

 Shawano, Wis., has been reorganized as the 

 George W. Ptice Company, with ofBcers as fol- 

 lows : President. A. Kuckuk ; vice-president, R. 

 A. t'pham ; treasurer. J. C. Schweers ; secre- 

 tary and manager. George W. Price; directors, 

 Joseph Black. M. J. Wallrlch, George W. Price, 

 A. Kuckuk and R. A. Upham. 



The new sawmill under construction at Phil- 

 lips, Wis., by the John R. Davis Lumber 

 Company will be one of the largest north of 

 the Ohio river. The building will be practi- 

 cally fireproof and will have a total floor space 

 of 46,000 square feet, equally divided between 

 the first and second floors. Each of the ma- 

 chines will be operated by an individual elec- 

 tric motor. 



W. E. Hallonbeck of Wausaukeo. George P. 

 Eisman, formerly of Menominee, and Wesley 

 Wells of Kallaspell, Jfont., are negotiating for 

 the purchase of 100,000,000 feet of standing 

 timber near Glendale, Oci;. The deal also in- 

 cludes a large sawmill and a logging railroad. 



During a recent electrical storm the factory 

 of the Chippewa Falls (Wis.) Chair Company 

 was struck by lightning, which started a fire 

 that could not be checked until it had de- 

 stroyed the factory, 90.000 feet of hardwood 

 lumber and 3.000 chairs stored in the ware- 

 bouse. The loss is estimated at $25,000, with 

 insurance of $9,000. Obligations will consume 

 the insurance and as a result the capital stock 

 of $15,000, which is owned by local parties, 

 will be a total loss. 



WAUSAU 



The Arpin Lui.iber Company of Arpin recently 

 lost about 4,000,000 feet of logs near Excland 

 by fire. 



In the death of Harry Park of Ashland the 

 Northwest loses one of its best known loggers. 

 He operated extensively in Michigan, where he 

 had an immense logging contract, which will re- 

 quire several years to complete. 



The Ballinger-Finchot controversy has brought 

 into the limelight the logging operations on the 

 Menominee Indian reservation in Wisconsin. The 

 secretary had no personal knowledge of the op- 

 erations, but from reports made to tbe depart- 

 ment most deplorable results have been ascer- 

 tained as to the manner in which tbe business 

 has been conducted. The reports that are prom- 

 ised to be filed will show that the losses sus- 

 tained by the Indians will approximate $700.- 

 000. 



The plant of the Northwood Furniture Com- 

 pany of Chippewa Falls is closed down for re- 

 pairs and improvements. A bolt mill has been 

 installed and hereafter the company will cut its 

 own lumber. The comp.iny has a large supply 

 of fifty-inch bolts on hand. New and up-to-date 

 machinery is being installed in the factory and 

 other changes for economy of space and labor 



