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HARDWOOD RECORD 



(lie second and third floors of the east and west 

 wings of the new Wisconsin state capitol building 

 in course of erection at Madison. The build- 

 ing will cost approximately $6,000,000. The 

 present contract of the WoUaeger company, which 

 nns secured on the unit basis, is estimated at 

 about $35,000, but it is belieyed that the total 

 contract price for all of the wooden furniture 

 for the entire buildLng, will, cost at least $200,000. 

 The wood which will be used in the construction 

 of the many pieces of furniture include Cuban 

 mahogany, quarter-sawed white oalt and Cir- 

 cassian walnut. 



WAUSAU 



F. S. Hobbins of Rhinelander has purchased 

 a tract of hardwood near Three Lalses, on which 

 it is estimated there is 20,000,000 feet of tim- 

 ber. 



The Zetterholm Manufacturing Company of 

 Ashland recently shipped fifty pairs of skis, or 

 Norwegian wooden snow shoes, to Alaska, the 

 longest shipment the company has ever made. 

 F. W. Ob off and Carl Ball of the city of 

 Merrill are building a sawmill which will have 

 a capacity of 30.000 feet per day. The com- 

 pany has made contracts for sawing which will 

 take several years to fill. The latter is the 

 inventor of a log floater, for taking "dead- 

 heads" out of the river. 



A question involving nearly $uO,000 in tolls 

 for the use of booms and river driving improve- 

 ments will be settled by a suit brought by the 

 Menominee Kiver Boom Company, Marinette, 

 against the A. Spies Lumber and Cedar Company 

 of Marinette for $7,000. The alleged uncollected 

 tolls from other companies amount to more than 

 $40,000. During the years the boom company 

 has been operating several million dollars have 

 been collected from lumber interests on the 

 Menominee river for tolls, under a charter held 

 by the company. 



The John R. Davis Lumber Company of 

 Phillips intends to log heavily this coming 

 winter. The company will employ at least 

 1,000 men in the woods and about 500 in its 

 saw and planing mill. The company has 25,- 

 000,000 feet of timber to cut. 



Six miles of logging railway is being con- 

 structed by the E. Connor Lumber Company of 

 Laona. When completed this will give the 

 company twenty-five miles of railroad. The 

 company has three locomotives and sixty cars. 

 It is not the intention to log as heavily this 

 winter as last. At present about 400 men are 

 employed. 



Hamilton Roddis, secretary-treasurer of the 

 Roddis Lumber and Veneer Company of Marsh- 

 field, was operated on a short time ago for ap- 

 pendicitis. He is fast recovering his health. 



A building is being erected in Wausau to be 

 used by the United States government as an 

 experimental mill in determining what woods 

 are adapted to pulp and papermaking. It will 

 be put in operation Dec. 1, and will be the only 

 plant of its kind in the United States. Experi- 

 ments will be made with several of the hard- 

 woods, notably white birch. In addition to 

 native wood, other species will be brought from 

 Canada. The cost of the building and equip- 

 ment will be in the neighborhood of $40,000. 



John Dietz of Cameron dam fame is again 

 in the spotlight. His latest escapade is the 

 shooting of a man and barricading himself in 

 his log shanty and defying arrest. Dietz came 

 liefore the public eye about six years ago when 

 he refused to let several million feet of logs 

 belonging to the Chippewa Falls Log & Boom 

 Company pass through the Cameron dam, wU'ch 

 was located on his property. He demanded a 

 toll of 10 cents per thousand, but this the 

 company would not pay. Whenever log drivers 

 attempted to open the gates of the dam, or 

 ofiicers tried to serve injunctions on him, he 

 drove them off at the point of a rifle. Even- 



tually, after the logs had become badly worm- 

 eaten, the company was forced to drag them 

 out of the river, haul them overland and dump 

 them into another stream. In that fight Dietz 

 had (he sympathy of a large majority of the 

 people of the state, but by defying the stale 

 of Wisconsin in the present fight, he has lost 

 the sympathy of most people. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



Hardwood timber in the vicinity of Hill City, 

 Minn., will be used in the new plant of the 

 National Woodenware Company, and auxiliary 

 of the Armour Packing Company, which is being 

 constructed. The new plant takes the place of 

 one formerly operated in Michigan, where the 

 timber was cut out. The company has a small 

 railroad which connects with the Great North- 

 ern, and a large tract of timber. The plant, 

 which will represent an investment of about 

 $100,000, will turn out lard pails and other 

 packages on a big scale, with a force of 150 to 

 200 men constantly employed. It will include a 

 sawmill, heading mill, power house, fuel sheds, 

 varnishing house, finishing rooms, dry kilns, 

 warehouses and a main factory building, spread 

 over an area of five acres. The consumption of 

 timber is figured at about 10,000,000 feet a year, 

 and the plant will consume everything from 

 bolts 2t^ feet long up to the largest saw logs. 



Hardwood men interested in Wisconsin mills 

 say that the prospects do not indicate any in- 

 crease in logging operations this winter. Owing 

 to the curtailed season last year there was a 

 prospect of shortage, and it was thought that 

 there might be occasion to increase the output 

 next season. It may nm somewhat heavier as to 

 birch and maple, but the dullness in basswood 

 seems to call tor retrenchment in that line, 

 rather than the other thing. 



D. F. Clark and C. F. Osborne of Osborne & 

 Clark, Minneapolis, have returned from a busi- 

 ness visit to their properties in Wisconsin. Mr. 

 Osborne is now in Illinois looking after his retail 

 lumber and farming interests in the vicinity of 

 Erie. 



A. F. Krebs of the Krebs-Shefve Lumber Com- 

 pany of St. Louis spent a week here calling on 

 (he trade and getting in touch with the hardwood 

 market conditions and prospects in the North- 

 west. 



E. Payson Smith of the Payson Smith Lumber 

 Company, Minneapolis, has returned from a busi- 

 ness trip to Chicago and other cities. 



GRAND RAPIDS 



"We have no complaints to make about busi- 

 ness," says O. A. Felger of the Hackley-Phelps- 

 Bonnell Company. "Our trade has been uormal 



and we are looking forward to a good fall busi- 

 ness in hardwoods." 



Reports from the office of the Nichols & Cox 

 Lumber Company state that it is very busy, and 

 has been right along. 



W. A. Hall of (he Gibbs, Hall & Allen Com- 

 pany is making short business (rips in the state. 

 He visited Holland and towns in the western 

 part of the state last week. 



John Griffen, general manager of the Elk 

 Itapids Iron Company, was in the city Oct. 5, 

 on his way home from a business trip to Chi- 

 cago. 



Arthur M. Manning of the Stearns Company, 

 who came here recently from Cadillac, is the 

 proud father of a little daughter, born Oct. 4. 

 He received a number of congratulatory tele- 

 grams from his friends in Cadillac. 



Among recent callers on the local trade were 

 the following : Philo E. Hall of Detroit, dealer 

 in South American timber ; J. I. Boldman, repre- 

 senting the Faust Bros. Lumber Company of 

 Paducab, Ky., quartered oak and poplar; E. P. 

 Morden of O. P. Hurd Jr. & Co., dealers in 

 hardwood lumber at Cairo. III. ; C. O. West of the 

 Roy Lumber Company. Cincinnati : Ramsey Ap- 

 plewhite of the Kimball Lumber Manufacturing 

 Company, St. Louis, with mills at Laark. La. 

 Mr. Boldman of the Faust company formerly 

 represented the Big Four Lumber Company of 

 Toledo, the change being made Sept. 1. 



N. J. G. VanKeulen of (he VanKeuIen & 

 Wilkinson Lumber Company is in the South on 

 a short business trip. 



The P. C. Fuller Company, organized to handle 

 timber lands, largely in the upper peninsula, will 

 open a suite of olDces soon in the Michigan Trust 

 building. William C. Anderson, former secre- 

 tary of (he Fuller & Rice Lumber & Manufactur- 

 ing Company, is associated with Mr. Fuller. 



The Couple-Gear Company, manufacturer of 

 heavy auto trucks on Buchanan street, is a busy 

 plant, having upwards of $150,000 worth of un- 

 filled orders on its books. 



President Charles W. Garfield of the Michigan 

 Forestry Association is arranging details of the 

 annual meeting, to be held in Kalamazoo Nov. 8 

 and 9. If possible he will secure Walter C. 

 Winchester of this city and some of the Cadillac 

 lumbermen for talks on forestry. 



The Grand Rapids Lumbermen's Association 

 met for dinner and a short business session at 

 the Morton house Sept. 30. Traffic Manager 

 Ewing was present and gave the members an 

 interesting talk on freight rates. 



James S. Warren, iudustrial commissioner of 

 the Business Men's Club of Memphis, was at 

 (lie htad of a Memphis delegation which attended 

 the national convention of Board of Trade men 

 held in this city Oct. 6 and 7. Mr. Warren was 

 one of the speakers on the topic, "Methods of 

 Securing New Industries.'' 



Hardwood Market. 



(B7 HA3D'W00D BECOBD Sxclnsive Market Beporters.) 



CHICAGO 



A canvass of the t^'hicago trade seems to indi- 

 cate that local lumbermen have been spoiled by 

 phenomenal business and unusual prices prevail- 

 ing a few years ago. They are more than apt to 

 compare business conditions as they exist at 

 present and have existed for some time back 

 with those of the old days and are not satisfied 

 with a state of affairs which requires an unusual 

 amount of hustle to meet the increasing and 

 already sharp competition for orders. 



When first approached the usual answer from 

 the average lumberman is that business is ex- 

 tremely discouraging, but when further ques- 

 tioned he usually admits that this month has 

 been an improvement over the same month of 

 last year and "(hat there has been a slight but 



nevertheless apparent improvement over August 

 i-ondi(ions, just as August was an improvement 

 over July. Nothing startling in the way of 

 business acceleration is promised, but there is 

 absolutely no reason to believe it will get any 

 worse. In fact, a steady normal advance 

 towards fair business conditions is a practical 

 certainty. 



While the general tendency of the buyer is 

 still (0 make purchases only la small lots (many 

 concerns usually buying by the carload now 

 being satislied with wagon load shipnients) there 

 are many bright spots on the horizon. For in- 

 stance, one large furniture concern in town re- 

 ports that its entire year's output is already 

 sold, and that it will require considerable quan- 

 tities of lumber during the year. While the 

 hand-to-mouth buying is discouraging in some 

 aspects, still it seems that this condition of 



