Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-08-29
OUR LUMBER DEALERS.
What Representative OF the American
Lumberman Saw in Grand Rapids.
A VISIT WITH THE ARPINS.


From the American Lumberman.
Grand Rapids, Wis, is now a city of
5000 people since it absorbed Contra
liza. 1t is one of the most prosperous
towns in the valley of the Wisconsin
river. Its streets are nicely laid out
and it has many pretty houses on the
high ground above the old Wisconsin
river. Here is where the headquarters
of the John Arpin Lumber Company
are located. It's mill at Arpin,
between Grand Rapids and Marshfield,
has timber supply sufficient to last
several years yet. The two new mills
of the company on the 500 road, one
at Bruce and the other at KEENAN,,
have many years ahead of them. The
Arpin mill is running night and day.
The KEENAN, mill, which saws chiefly
hardwoodS, has shut down for the
season. The mill at Bruce will be
through with the saving for this
season in week or two. At all three
mills the company will manufacture
about 100000 feet this year. of
which %, 100000 feet will be hardwood
lumber, including Eastwood, $500 900
feet of hemlock and 100000 feet Of
pine. Its pine lumber is exception
ally good this year, running over
100000 feet in factory plank.
Grand Rapids, now becoming quite
a railroad center, is located on the
Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul rail-
way, the MarShtield & Port Edwards
road, which was recently purchased by
the Wisconsin Central, and the Green
Bay & Western, and now the Chicago
& Northwestern railway is building
Drinnnfnn ~ Do mir C
to MarShfield. When this road shall
be completed it will give Grand Rap
ids three of the leading trunk lines of
the north as we'll as the Green Bay
& Western. All of these roads, with
the exception of the last named,
reach Arpin, where one of the COM
pany'S mills is located.
e. 2. Arpin speaks very encOurag-
ingly of the trade situation and says
that, with the exception of a few
items in hardwOOdS, lumber is moving
nicely and the company is doing very
satisfactory business. d. j. Arpin,
one of the Arpin brothers, is
interested in the Pigeon River Lum-
Der Company, new concern that was
formed last year by D. J. Arpin and
William Scott. of Grand Rapids:
Herman Finger, of Eagle river; and
Frank p. HiXOn, of La Crosse. The
company purchased large tract of
timber on the north shore of Lake
Superior tributary to the Pigeon river,
down which stream logs are driven to
the lake and from there toWed forty
miles to Fort William, Ont, where
they are sawed into lumber in the
company's mill that was purchased
from Graham 81 Horn. The company
will saw this year about 10000 feet
of lumber that will find a market west
on the Canadian Pacific railway in
Manitoba largely.
THE HOME OF THE KELLOGG BOYS.
Across from the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul depot at Grand Rapids
is comfortable looking office building
on which appears the sign kellogg
Bros Lumber Company" Here is
where Will and Charlie kellogg do
pretty we'll known to the trade in
Wisconsin. Will is probably better
known than his brother as he travelled
for a number of years for the Alex
ander Stewart Lumber Company,
Wausau, and latter for his brother
and himself, who have for the past
six or seven years done a wholesale
business under the name of the
Centralia Lumber Company, which
was changed, by the absorption of
Centralia by Grand Rapids the first of
the year, to the Kellogg Bros. Lumber
Company. Along in the sos the
Kelloggs were located at Vesper in
the employ of the Sherry Cameron
Company, in which school, and good
one it was, they learned the lumber
business.
Besides doing wholesale business
now, the Kelloggs are branching out
q with a line of retail yards, having two
at Grand Rapids, one on each side of
the river, and four at nearby towns,
and it probably will not be many
years before the Kellogg Bros Lumber
Company will be vying with the
Wilbur Lumber Company, Britting-
ham & HiXon Lumber Company and
other big line yard concerns as to
which has the most yards. The boys
are steady and industrious, hard
workers, and at The same time appear
to enjoy life. Owing to the train
being seven hours late the American
Lumberman representative had
good long visit with the KelloggS the
other day and found them to be most
kind and hospitable. They always
have a few extra clay pipes in the
office and box of Standard smoking
tobacco, SO that the visitor within the
gates can enjoy a pipe Of peace and
drink of the cool water that comes
from the old Wisconsin.
GRAND RAPIDS LUMBER COMPANY.
This is the third year of saving for
the Grand Rapids Lumber Company,
which built new mill at Grand
Rapids two year ago last winter and
will this year manufacture about
100000 feet of lumber, running
largely to hemlock with some pine
and hardwood. The mill is equipped
with band and band resaw. The
president Of this company is John
Parrish, an old resident of Grand
Rapids, engaged for some time in the
retail business there. John DAILY,
we'll known logger, is vice president
while Henry Sampson is secretary and
SuperintendS the manufacturing. The
sales department. is under the super
vision of S. ii. Smart Mr.. Smart
Edwards Manufacturing Company
and is we'll known to the trade as an
able salesman. The Grand Rapids
Lumber Company has recently put in
new engines and increased it's power
and is now running its saw mill night
and day.
Near by the mill of the Grand
Rapids Lumber Company in process
of construction is the new box factory
of the Badger Box Company, new