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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The Story of a Great Gum Manufacturing Concern. 



llaoufaeturing a carload of lumber every 

 forty-five minutes is going some; maintain- 

 ing this average every working day in the 

 year is still better. When a manufacturer 

 reaches the point where his mill can be de- 

 pended upon for such an output regularly 

 he has made a valuable contribution to lum- 

 ber history and he may be congratulated 

 heartily upon his achievement. 



To reach this enviable position several 

 things are necessary, the most important of 

 which is system. Timber, equipment, means 

 of transportation, capital and plenty of busi- 

 ness ability are necessary to start with, but 

 no plant can be made to turn out an aver- 

 age of a carload of hardwood lumber every 

 forty-five minutes each working day in the 

 year without the application of a thorough 

 business system. 



Tliis admirable record is being made every 

 day by the Uimmelberger-Harrison Lumber 

 Company of Morehouse, ilo. Here the com- 

 pany has a thoroughly up-to-date plant 

 which must be seen to be fully appreciated. 

 Aside from reducing the actual manufacture 

 of gum lumber to a science the company 



has always endeavored to maintain as nearly 

 perfect yard conditions as possible, and it is 

 largely owing to this fact that the perfectly 

 manufactured and dried red gum of the 

 Himniclbergcr-IIarrison Lumber Company is 

 known so favorably. 



The yards arc laid out in squares, and 

 with the special object always in view of 

 obtaining a perfect circulatiou of air through 

 the lumber. At intervals a hundred-foot 

 plowed space intersects the yard as a fire 

 protection. The grounds are thoroughly 

 equipped with water mains and fire plugs, 

 and a system of stationary nozzle towers 

 is used which almost eliminates the danger 

 of fire. A five-hundred gallon pump is used 

 to maintain water pressure and there is also 

 a special auxiliary pump for additional fire 

 service. By these abundant precautions the 

 dauger to the 15,000,000 feet of hardwood 

 lumber which is nearly always to be fouud 

 on sticks in the company's yards is reduced 

 to a minimum. The yards are on both the 

 Iron Mountain and Frisco railroads, and the 

 extensive system of switches affords excellent 

 facilities for handling the incoming timber 



and outgoing manufactured product. 



A noticeable feature about tlie plant is the 

 new mill, known as Mill No. 2. It is a 

 substantial brick and frame structure, 

 equipped with a band saw and baud resaw. 

 and turns out an average of 50,000 feet of 

 lumber per day. Mill Xo. 1 contains one 

 band and one circular saw with a band re- 

 saw and has a capacity of 80,000 feet every 

 ten hours. The company also operates a plan- 

 ing mill and two dry kilns. The planing 

 mill is modern in every respect, and is run 

 to its full capacity of 50,000 feet per day 

 to keep up with the constantly increasing 

 demand for gum ceiling, flooring, siding and 

 finish. The dry kilns are operated under 

 the Sturtevant hot blast system and have a 

 combined monthly capacity of about 1,000,- 

 000 feet. 



The plant is managed under a system simi- 

 hir to the great packing houses of Chicago, 

 the element of waste being practically elimi- 

 nated. This naturally has been .an important 

 factor in the almost phenomenal success 

 achieved by this company. 



The plant of the Himmelberger-Harrison 



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