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HARDWOOD RECORD 



June 25, 1919 



VESTAL LUMBER 

 & MFG. COMPANY 



INCORPORATED 



Soft Textured Oak 



Poplar 



Black Walnut 



Tenn. Red Cedar 



KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE 



BAND MILLS AT VESTAL 



A SUBURB OF KNOXVILLE 



FONDE, KY. 



Lidgerwood Cableway 

 Skidders 



with Mechanical Slack Puller 

 Multiple Skidding Lines 



These exclusive features of the Lidgerwood Skidders 

 reduce time of hooking on logs to a minimum. 



Send for catalogues 



LIDGERWOOD MFG. CO. 



Orvtnators of Overhead and Ground Steam Logging Machinery 



Chicago 9G Liberty St., New York Seattle 



New Orlflans; 

 Woodwird. Wight & Co.. Ltd. 



Canada: 

 Canadian Allli-Chalman. Ltd., Toronto 



they export. It is now a question of just liow mucli tliis loss wiil be and 

 whether the cargo will stand it. One prominent exporter stated that he 

 was making an effort to get around this loss by substituting short lengths 

 of hardwood for pine. While there was no market for short pine sticks, 

 it was not always that way with hardwood, for many factories could use 

 short lengths of hardwood to good advantage and would be willing to pay 

 the fuller market value. Being heavy, most of the hardwood is very desir- 

 able in the bottom of the hold. 



The International Ship Tards of Orange launched the five-masted barken- 

 tine "City of Waco" on June IS and will probably close down after the 

 two remaining hulls go into the water. 



J. W. Link, the former Orange lumberman, but now president of the 

 Beaumont Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, has returned from a three 

 weeks' trip to Philadelphia, where he has been in conference with the ship- 

 ping board. Mr. Link stated that their SOOO-ton dry dock would be com- 

 pleted in August. 



Ben S. Woodhead, president of the Beaumont Lumber Company, is mak- 

 ing a scouting expedition through the North. 



Texas exporters are rejoicing over securing a director of operations from 

 the shipping board for Texas, which will obviate the necessity of going to 

 New Orleans over the matter of securing ships. It was charged that the 

 New Orleans director favored his home port, with the result that Texas 

 was losing out in the distribution of ships. 



WISCONSIN 



The Milwaukee Association of Commerce has in preparation a foreign 

 trade book printed in the Spanish language, containing descriptive ma- 

 terial about Milwaukee and Wisconsin industries and a list of manufac- 

 turers who produce export articles. The publication will go to the Latin 

 American countries and will be distributed through the consular service 

 and commercial organizations. The prominence of the veneer, panel, seat- 

 ing, furniture and other industries which consume hardwoods principally 

 is given cognizance in the book. 



The Webster Planing Mill Company, Appleton, established more than 

 forty years ago, will change ownership about July 1. The property was 

 placed on the market a short time ago, following the death of the senior 

 partner and active manager, Clark B. Webster. B. W. Discher, Seattle, 

 Wash., is negotiating for the purchase of the mill, water power and other 

 property on behalf of western interests. 



The Crocker Chair Company, Sheboygan, reopened its factory at Antigo, 

 Wis., on June IG for an indefinite run on heavy orders for furniture and 

 furniture parts. The Antigo sawmill ended its season's cut on June 13 

 after a continuous run since January 2. The Elcho sawmill will continue 

 operations for some time longer. The furniture factory will devote par- 

 ticular attention to working up southern lumber, including black walnut, 

 quarter-saweil white and red oak, and red gum and cypress. It is stated 

 that red gum is one of the newer favorites for furniture, since it can be 

 made up to closely resemble Circassion walnut and mahogany. 



The Barlow-Seelig Manufacturing Company, Ripon, signed contracts 

 June 17 with the Immel Construction Company, Fond du Lac, for the erec- 

 tion of a $25,000 factory addition, 50x120 feet. The Barlow-Seelig com- 

 pany manufactures domestic washing machines and other similar labor- 

 saving devices. 



The National Box & Novelty Company, Shebo.vgan, has completed plans 

 for the erection of a four-story fireproof factory building, 60x150 feet, at 

 Fourteenth street and Kentucky avenue, to cost about $50,000. The archi- 

 tects are Juul & Smith, Sheboygan. 



F. S. Robbins, proprietor of a large flooring mill at Rhinelander, which 

 is operated by the Mason-Donaldson Lumber Company under a lease expir- 

 ing October 1, will continue the operation. He has sold an interest in 

 the mill to Albert .-Vbendroth, for thirty years connected with William 

 Horner of Reed City and Newberry. Mich., who has resigned his position 

 of manager at Newberry to go to Rhinelander next fall as active manager 

 of the Robbins mill. The facilities will be increased and equipment in- 

 stalled for the production of other products in addition to flooring. 



The Borgeson-Hleb Manufacturing Company, Merrill, has been organized 

 to build and operate a factory for the manufacture of handles, dowels, 

 pins, toys and other hardwood products. The main owners are J. H. Hieb, 

 president of the Hieb-Becker Box & Manufacturing Company, Merrill, and 

 C. E. I'.orgeson, Evanston, 111., proprietor of a hardwood products factory 

 at Racine. Mr. Hieb will continue as managing director of his company 

 and Mr. Borgeson will be represented by James A. Holpuch, who has been 

 managing the Racine factory, the equipment of which will be moved to 

 Merrill to form the nucleus of the new mill. 



The North American Casket Company, St. Paul, Minn., is moving Its 

 plant and headquarters to Fox Lake, where a new factory costing $45,000 

 is now under construction. The building will be 80x230 feet, one story 

 high, and Is to be ready about August 15. 



The Priestley Lumber Company, Milwaukee, has been incorporated with 

 a capital stock of $10,000 to do a general wholesale lumber business. The 

 principal stockholders are Glenn W. Priestley and Eugene E. Wallace, who 

 owned the former W. E. Priestley Lumber Company, Milwaukee, dissolved 

 a year ago when the partners entered the ser%'ice. The offices are located 

 at 621 Railway Exchange building. 



The Creamery Package Manufacturing Company, Chicago, awarded the 



