Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-06-17
THE SAW MILLS OF MAUSAU.
All Busy and Are Turning Out Large
Amount of Lumber.

The SAW MILLS OF WAUSAU.
All Busy and Are Turning Out Large
Amount of Lumber.
Mississippi Valley Lumberman
At Wausau the mills of the Alexander
Stewart Lumber Co., the Jacob Morten-
son Lumber Co., and Barker & Stewart
are all saving. That of that first name d
concern started up the twenty-n:nth of
March and has been running night
aud day since that time. They are
turning out about 5, 0O0. 600 feet month
Most of these logs are brought in from
the north by rail and by far the larger
part of them are pine, though they are
saving some hemlock. Mr. Milroy,
who looks after the concern, says that
they are having no difficulty in disposing
of their lumber, the principal trouble
is filling all orders. He says the people
who have to buy their logs in the Wis
consin valley now days are not making
much Of bargain. As an instance of
this he said that recently considerable
number of logs that had from time to
time fallen from the logging train
that comes down the Wisconsin diyis-
ion of the Chicago, Milwaukee d St.
Paul railroad were sold for S12 thous-
and. AS the loggers are cutting pretty
clean and not leaving anything that
can be sawed into lumber of any kind.
these logs did not average very well
and it is hard to see where the pur-
chaser is going to get out much better
than ever.
The mill of Jacob Mortenson Lum-
Der Co. is operated under the manage
ment of Henry Johannes. For about a
year the Jacob Mortenson Co. finished
saving their own timber and rather in
tended to close the mill down for good
but this year they have purchased a
number of hemlock logs and some pine
and are now operating on these.
+. P. Stone is looking after the inter-
ests of Mortenson & Stone at Wausau
as he has for several years past. They
have some dry hemlock lumber on hand
from last years saving and are getting
a few logs that will be cut this year at
the Barker & Stewart. They have sold
the cut of their mill at Garth, operated
under the name of the Garth Lumber
Co, as in years past, to go to Chicago
by boat The Wisconsin river is quite
high and the firms that are getting logs
by rail are assured of all their cut COM
ing into the mills.
Alexander Stewart and Walter Alex
ander of the Alex. Stewart Lumber Co.
returned the latter part of the week
from trip to the west coast where
they have been looking over various
propositions in the redwood and sugar
pine country with view to making
Investments. They are already in
tsrested in operations in yellow pine
il the south but believe they can make
something in the far west and though
they have no information to give out
at the present time it is entirely likely
that within few months at the most
they will be part owners of some large
plant west of the Cascades. Mr.. Stew
art says that he enjoyed his "Trip vest
very much and saw trees that are decid-
eddy unsual in size to man who has
been engaged in numbering in central
Wisconsin.
9. S. Curtis. of the Curtis & Yale Co,
says that they never knew the trade to
be better in the sash and door business.
They are rushed both on stock and odd
work and the capacity of their factory
is entirely inadequate to keep up with
the demand made on them at the pres
ent time. 70 increase their capacity
for both manufacturing and storage
and by removing some of their stock
from their present factory they will
have more room for machinery with
which to turn out orders.
Chester H. Werden, who for num-
Der of years has been manager of
the Brooks & Ross Lumber Co., at
Schoficld, just out of Wausau, has re-
signed his position with that concern
and has gone to Pike City, Ark, where
he is interested in the operations of the
Pike City Lumber Co., recently pur-
chased by him in partnership with Jacob
Mortenson of the Jacob Mortenson
Lumber Co., and other northern lum-
bermen. His place in Schoteld is taken
by Geo. Maxson as manager. Mr. Max
son says that their mill is running
night and day on rail logs brought in
from the north and that they are kept
hustling all the time to keep up with
the orders that come pouring in from
the retail trade.
The Fenwood Lumber Co.. with
Frank Pardoe as vice-president and
manager of the sale department, are
enjoying good demand for the product
of their mills. AT Fenwood they will
have about 100000 of hardwood and
hemlock, at Marathon City, where the
mill of the SchiIling Manufacturing
Co. is saving for them, they will have
about $500, 900 feet, and they have at
Hatley about million and half feet
that was cut last year before they sold
their mill at that point, giving them in
all about 5000, 900 feet. OF which 10, 00O,-
0Oe is hemlock. Most of their hemlock
lumber is new stock and as it is very
heavy they are not pushing sales at the
present time, though in course of six
or eight weeks they expect to have
supply OF dry lumber. Con Werlich,
who has been manager for the Fen
wood company at Fenwood, will start