1918

"Beloit Iron Works"

Paper Machines:

#126 Olaa Sugar Co.

80" Cylinder        Hawaii        200 f.p.m.

#129 Toyo Shakwai

106" Fourdrinier   Japan         360 f.p.m.

#130 Toyo Shakwai

106" Fourdrinier   Japan         360 f.p.m.

#131 Toyo Shakwai

106" Fourdrinier   Japan         360 f.p.m.

#132 Consolidated #1

120" Fourdrinier;  Wisconsin  450 f.p.m.

#133 Toyo Shakwai

102" Cylinder        Japan        200 f.p.m.

Comments:

Bert Lar son designed first removable fourdrinier, removable

in five sections, for the Consolidated Water Power and Paper

Company at Wisconsin Rapids. It was non-shaking and the only

fourdrinier built on this principle.

Built casting storage area and sand shed for the foundry,

extended machine shop to the south including balcony forming the

South Shop.

Built new concrete stack for the boiler house.

Daylight saving officially recognized on a national level.

The Oneida Paper Company was organized at Stevens Point.

Shop personnel:

Machine Shop              George Ross

Superintendent             D. C. Roberts

Cost Department          C. Ledell

Foundry                        Henry Wahlen

Wood Shop                 A.  Frohmaker

Brass Foundry             Fred Doering

Order Department        Harry Hanson

Engineers-Draftsmen  C. Whipple, J. Hamm,

                                        B. Larson

A sulphate pulp mill with a capacity of twenty tons per day

was built at Stevens Point by the Stevens Point Pulp and Paper

Company.

International Paper Company purchased the Falls 

Manufacturing Company at Oconto Falls, Wisconsin.