June 25, 1910 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



49 



DuBose Leaves Lamb-Fish 



L. P. DuBosp, who has bi'on connertod with tho Lamb-Fish Lumber Com- 

 pany at Charleston, Miss., for a good many years as sales manager, re- 

 cently left Charleston and joined the A. J. Higgins Lumber & Export Com- 

 pany, New Orleans, La. Mr. DuBose has been a prominent figure in 

 southern hardwood circles for a number of years and goes into his new 

 worU well equipped both as to domestic and export business as the Lamb- 

 Fish Lumber Company has been one of the largest hardwood exporters in 

 the country for some time. 



George Land, who has been traffic manager, will continue in that capacity 

 as well as in the capacity of sales manager for the Charleston plant. 



Will Open Chicago Office for West Virginia Firms 



C. M. Clark, who has been closely associated with the hardwood busi- 

 ness for twenty-five years and is Itnown practically from coast to coast, 

 arrived in Chicago on 

 June 12 for the purpose 

 of opening up a sales 

 office to handle the 

 sales throughout the en- 

 tire Chicago territory 

 for the Ritter-Burns 

 Lumber Company, Hunt- 

 ington, W. Va. The 

 Eitter - Burns Lumber 

 Company is the sales 

 company for a group of 

 affiliated concerns of 

 Huntington, including 

 the manufacturing end 

 of the Ritter-Burns com- 

 pany, the extensive 

 manufacturing interests 

 of the C. L. Ritter Lum- 

 ber Company and the 

 Turkey Foot Lumber 

 Company. These firms 

 operate their own exten- 

 sive timber holdings in 

 West Virginia with 

 modern band mills. 

 They put out a very 

 high grade line of oak, 

 poplar, maple, bass- 

 wood, chestnut and 

 other Kentucky and 

 West Virginia species. 



Mr. Clark has been 

 associated with the industry, as stated, for the past twenty-five years, 

 having spent the first fifteen years of this period in the manufacturing 

 end, and on the selling end exclusively for the last ten years. He has 

 been associated with some of the largest manufacturing organizations of 

 the country and his acquaintanceship covers not only practically every- 

 body involved in the hardwood business, but the hardwood buying trade 

 in general throughout the entire eastern half of the country. 



Mr. Clark has opened offices at 1424 Consumers building, Chicago, and 

 is now ready to, serve his trade in first-class shape, both from a standpoint 

 of the goods he can offer and the service the big organization behind him 

 is capable of putting forth. His telephone number is Wabash 5882. 



The operations of the West Virginia group referred to are well known 

 and constitute in the aggregate one of the largest manufacturing organiza- 

 tions in the country. 



C. M. CLARK, CHICAGO, RITTER-BURXS 

 LUMBER COMPANr 



Paepcke Leicht Interests in Commercial Veneer Field 



During the height of war activity the Chicago Mill & Lumber Company, 

 the largest and one of the most widely known of the Paepcke Leicht 

 allied companies, bought from the Chicago Veneer Company its big rotary 

 veneer plant at Clarendon, Ark. At the time of the purchase the move 

 was primarily a war measure, but plans were laid whereby the commercial 

 development of the new operations could be pushed to the utmost when 

 the war crisis had passed. Steps therefore were taken immediately after 

 the armistice was signed whereby the plant would be immediately in posi- 

 tion to continue its production of high-grade rotary cut commercial 

 veneers. The Chicago Mill & Lumber Company now announces that the 

 operation is being carried' on on that basis with every provision for ade- 

 quate production of the highest possible type of veneer products. 



The Clarendon plant is recognized as one of the most modern and up to 

 date rotary plants in the country. It is carefully laid out in every par- 



ticular and equipped in 



the most modern man- 

 ner. 



The log yard is 

 equipped with a travel- 

 ing steel derrick, mak- 

 ing possible the storage 

 of several million feet 

 of lumber at one time 

 as reserve supply. Con- 

 crete construction in 

 the boiler and engine 

 rooms minimizes fire 

 hazard and thus gives 

 additional guarantee of 

 service. The manufac- 

 turing buildings are of 

 heavy mill construction 

 with saw tooth roofs. 

 The hazard to life that 

 so often exists in the 

 steaming vats of veneer 

 plants is here elimi- 

 nated by the use of 

 heavy steel, air-tight 

 doors over the concrete 

 vats. 



The equipment of the 

 plant consists of three 

 Capital lathes, 68, 86 

 and 122 inches respect- 

 ively. The material as 

 it comes from the ma- 

 chines is handled on automatic tables up to and away from the clippers 

 and from there a system of tracks in the cutting room and transfer tracks 

 to the dry kilns makes possible a continuous handling of the stock with- 

 out rehandling after it leaves the clippers. 



The drying department is equipped with six progressive tunnel kilns 

 and a Philadelphia Textile dryer, giving a combined drying capacity of 

 over a car of stock per day. The tunnel kilns are used for drying center 

 stock Va inch and thicker, while the textile drier handles the % inch door 

 stock and material below that thickness. 



The departments following the drier are equally well equipped. The 

 inspection building has a modern over-head lighting system and guaran- 

 tees efficient work, while the warehouse has a capacity of one hundred 

 cars of finished material. It is the policy of the company to have on 

 hand at all times an adequate supply of standard sizes and thicknesses, 



L. P. DUBOSE, A. J. IIIGGINS LUMBER 

 & EXPORT CO., NEW ORLEANS, LA. 



MODERN CLARENDON. ARK., VENEER PLANT OF CHICAGO MILL & LUMBER COMPANY 



