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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Mich., and reports from him are to the effect 

 that he is enjoying every minute of his absence, 

 as he generally does when he is away. Stephen 

 .1. Gavin of the St. Louis Lumher Company is out 

 at Salt Lake City. Henry Naber of Chas. Naber's 

 Sons Lumber Company has been down at Hot 

 Springs. 



"Monl" Borgess, secretary of the Steele & Hib- 

 bard Lumber Company, has gone over the North 

 and Northwest quite thoroughly on a selling trip 

 for his company. He sa.vs business will be fine 

 this fall, and he believes it will begin soon after 

 the first of September. 



After a vacation of several weeks on the At- 

 lantic coast. E. H. Luehrmann of the Chas. F. 

 Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber Company has re- 

 turned home. His mother accompanied him on 

 the trip. His brother. George Luehrmann, re- 

 ports business as a little quiet juist at present, 

 but from the number of inquiries that have been 

 coming in recently he believes that about the 

 first of September a good volume of business will 

 develop. 



After a vacation of three weeks spent in the 

 East, F. G. Hanley of the F. G. Hanley Cypress 

 Company has returned to his desk. His wife and 

 tw-o-year-old son accompanied him on his trip. 



■According to Thos. E. Powe of the Thos. E. 

 Powc Lumber Company, hardwood trade condi- 

 tions are much better now than earlier in the 

 month. Common poplar and ash have picked up 

 and several good sized orders have been booked. 



The Lothman Cypress Company has leased a 

 lot opposite the west end of the main yard and 

 will enlarge its yard facilities. There is a piling 

 capacity of 10,000,000 to 12,000,000 feet in the 

 new yard. This means that the company will 

 carry an additional stock. By September 1, when 

 business is expected to begin in earnest, the 

 company will have about 33,000,000 feet in pile. 

 E. W. Blumer, sales manager of the company. 

 who is out on a selling trip, has been sending in 

 a nice lot of orders. He writes that trade is 

 improving and ho looks for a big business 

 later on. 



J. L. Scheve of the Krehs-Scheve Lumber Com- 

 pany is out on a selling trip through the north- 

 ern hardwood selling territory. He will be gone 

 two or three weeks. 



E. W. Wiese of the Thomas & Proetz Lumber 

 Company reports conditions a little better than 

 they were earlier in the month, but the prospects 

 are rbost encouraging. While sales have been 

 rather light, Mr. Wiese says his firm has been 

 getting top prices for all the items sold. 



MILWAUKEE 



W. E. Cooper, well-known wholesale lumber- 

 man of Milwaukee, is in Canada looking up the 

 land holdings of the Cooper-Hughes Land & 

 Lumber Company, of which he is the president. 

 Mr. Cooper has purchased a new forty-five horse- 

 power automobile. 



Henry Drost. founder of the H. Drost Box 

 Manufacturing Company of Manitowoc, Wis., 

 died recently at his home in that city, aged 84 

 years. He is survived by two children, a sou 

 and a daughter. 



The Werheim Manufacturing Company of 

 Wausau, Wis., has been reincorporated as the 

 Werheim Woodwork Company, with a capital 

 stock of $00,000. 



A company of which Melvan Nye of Thorpe. 

 Wis., Charles Giauge of Stanley, C. E. Cooper 

 and August Cirkel of Boyd, are heavy stockhold- 

 ers, has been organized at Boyd, Wis., for the 

 purpose of operating a sawmill and woodworking 

 plant. The old Boyd Lumber & Implement Com- 

 pany's plant will be remodeled and fitted with 

 new equipment for the new concern. The com- 

 pany is capitalized at $100,000. 



Contracts amounting to $48,000 have been 

 awarded by the .\ppleton (Wis.) Chair Company 

 for the erection of its new plant at Appleton 

 .lunclion. The new plant will consist of a large 



factory building, a finishing room, an engine 

 room, a dry kiln and a bending room. 



The Two Rivers Wooden Ware Company of 

 Two Rivers, Wis., is raising the sunken logs in 

 the river at Two Rivers. Thus far about 1,000,- 

 000 feet of lumber has been recovered. 



Building operations have been commenced by 

 the Racine (Wis.) Boat Company on the several 

 new additions recently planned. The buildings 

 will include a large factory and several ware- 

 houses. 



The Anderson Timber & Investment Company 

 of Wausau. Wis., is being organized by E. .T. 

 Anderson and sons, F. W.. R. E. and H. D. 

 Anderson. The company will control about 20,- 

 000 acres of timber land, the estimate of the 

 standing timber being 200,000,000 feet. The 

 company will incorporate with a capital stock of 

 $30,000. 



Land owners representing 4.014,000 acres of 

 timber and farm lands were present at the first 

 meeting of the Wisconsin Advancement Associa- 

 tion, held August i:, at the I'lankinton house. 

 Milwaukee. Officers of the organization, most of 

 whom are prominent lumbermen of the state, 

 who will lead in the work of advertising the un- 

 developed resources of Wisconsin, were elected 

 as follows : President, .7. T. Barber, Eau Claire : 

 vice-president, P. A. Martineau, Marinette : sec- 

 retary, ,Tohn G. Owen, Owen : treasurer, Ben- 

 .iamin Heiuemann, Wausau. A. D. Campbell. 

 Madison, state immigration commissioner, was 

 appointed special agent to secure new members 

 lor the association. Those who signed as active 

 members represented holdings of 1,014,000 acres, 

 which, assessed at 1 cent per acre, will mean au 

 immediate revenue of $10,014. Many who signed 

 as honorary members have signified their inten- 

 tion of becoming active members later, thus 

 bringing more than 3,000,000 acres of land under 

 assessment. 



A voluntary petition in bankruptcy has been 

 filed by Signor, Crisler & Co., lumber dealers and 

 manufacturers at Chippewa Falls. Wis., with 

 mills at Couderay, Signor and Chief Lajje. Lia- 

 bilities are scheduled at $100,000. The company 

 has a government contract for cutting timber on 

 the Lac Court D'Oreilles Indian reservation in 

 Sawyer county, having logged there for seven 

 winters. The contract with the government con- 

 tinues in force for one more year. The com- 

 pany has been in financial difficulties since the 

 panic of 1907, and the bankruptcy proceedings 

 were practically forced by hanks demanding pay- 

 ment of notes reaching maturity, 



Jr-lans have been completed by the Inter- 

 national Harvester Company for two new- addi- 

 tions to be built to its plant at Eau Claire, Wis. 

 The main building will be four stories high with 

 a basement, 85 by 120 feet. A smaller building 

 one-story high and 24 by 105 feet will also be 

 erected. The work will call for an expenditure 

 nf .about $85,000. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



Retail lumbermen of Minneapolis w^ere hosts 

 and a number of wholesale dealers were guests 

 at a big picnic August 13 at Medicine Lake, 

 twenty-three miles west of Minneapolis. Every 

 retail yard in the city suspended for the day. 

 and 72 men gathered at the Lumber Exchange 

 at 8 a. m., where they were loaded into seven- 

 teen automobiles. On arriving at the lake every- 

 body turned loose to have a good time. An auto- 

 mobile lumber truck arrived at noon with two 

 cooks and a load of provisions. Two hearty 

 meals were served. The afternoon was spent in 

 all kinds of hilarity, including a ball game, won 

 by the wholesalers witl» 14 runs to 12 for the 

 retailers' team, foot races and a tug of war, won 

 by the retailers. It was voted to make the 

 picnic an annual affair. 



The Lumbermen's baseball team met its Water- 

 loo August 20 at the third game with the Ben 

 Franklin Club, which was played to decide su- 

 Iiremacy, with $100 a side wagered on the 



event. Bohn and Fryer as the battery for the 

 lumbermen, were properl.v battered, and the 

 printers won by a score of 9 to 4. The game 

 was played at the association park with about 

 400 in attendance. The lumbermen cheered vig- 

 orously for their team till the lid blew off in the 

 seventh inning. 



Arguments In the West coast lumber rate case 

 and exceptions lo the findings of Fred N. Dick- 

 son, master in chancery, were presented before 

 him at a hearing in St. Paul August 19 and 20. 

 Luther M. Walter, of Chicago, appeared for the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission, pleading that 

 Minneapolis and St. Paul should have a lower 

 rate than Omaha. His argument was that the 

 lumber tralHc is heavier by the northern routes, 

 and they have a lower grade to climb across the 

 mountains. The findings of the master are to 

 be submitted before August 27 to the circuit 

 court, which will hear arguments September 15 

 in .5t. Paul. 



E. Payson Smith, of the Payson Smith Lumber 

 Company, has been in Chicago and in Wisconsin 

 territory looking up trade and visiting mills. 



SAOINAW VALLEY 



The hardwood industry in the valley at the 

 moment is quiet. The mills have been in motion 

 all the season, but trade has been quiet since 

 early in ,Tuly. So far as ascertained there have 

 been no reductions in quotations, and prices are 

 much higher than they were a year ago, while 

 dry stocks in this section are much lower than 

 before at this season in three years. Manufac- 

 turers are optimistic and express themselves con- 

 fldentl,y as to the fall trade. The hemlock end 

 of the deal isn't showing the strength and ac- 

 tivity manufacturers and dealers would like. 



Walter D. Young, who was named as one of 

 the Michigan delegates to the Second National 

 Conservation Congress to he held in St. Paul 

 early in September, to represent the Michigan 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, has also 

 been appointed by Gov. Warner to represent the 

 state at the same congress. 



The E. I. Dupont DeNemours Powder Com- 

 pan.v. of Bay City, a concern which purchased 

 the wood alcohol plant of W. D. Young & Co., 

 and which manufactures wood alcohol and other 

 by-products from hardwood, is looking for a lo- 

 cation where an abundant supply of hardwood 

 refuse can be obtained, and if found will erect 

 a large factory. The company is now in the 

 market for 2,000 cords of tag alder and willow 

 wood. 



The Michigan Central Railroad Company had 

 contemplated taking up the track of the Hanpt- 

 man branch of the Mackinaw division in Oge- 

 maw county, but owing to the fact that a large 

 amount of hardwood freight is promised along 

 the line, the abandonment of the branch is likely 

 to be postponed. About $20,000 worth of hard- 

 wood railroad ties will be manufactured on this 

 branch and shipped out this year. 



Frank Buell, of the Wylie & Buell Lumber 

 ("'ompany, a concern owning extensive tracts of 

 hardwood timber in the northern portion of the 

 lower peninsula, and which cuts and rails to 

 the Saginaw river 40,000,000 feet of logs annu- 

 ally, has come out as a candidate for the Repub- 

 lican nomination for Congress in the Tenth dis- 

 trict, contesting the nomination with Congress- 

 man George A. Loud, who is running for a 

 fourth term. Mr. Loud is a member of the H. 

 M. Loud's Sons Company, of Au Sable, one of 

 the largest concerns engaged in the manufacture 

 of hardwoods in Michigan, operating two mills 

 at Au Sable and the Loud & Hoeft Lumber 

 Company mill at Rogers City. Both will make 

 a lively contest in the primaries. 



The Richardson Lumber Company's sawmill 

 at Bay City is making a good record this season. 

 It has had no Interruption and is turning out 

 about 50,000 feet of hardwood lumber daily. It 

 also cuts some hemlock. Mr. Meyers, the resi- 

 dent manager, is well liked in Bay City, The 



