November 10. 1916 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



For Greatest Range of Uses ^ 



and 



Easiest Handling 



buy the 



Thi "HOOSIER," the rip saw which makes profitable 

 dimension manufacture and grade refining at the mill 

 possible Hundreds of users already — you will be an- 

 other if you will let us tell you all about it — Will you? 



Hoosier Self Feed Rip Saw. This machine has earned thousands 

 of dollars for owners in the manufacture of dimension lumber, crating, 

 etc., because its entirely novel design, resulting in surprising ease of 

 operation and adaptability, makes possible a profit where a loss is 

 often expected in this work. The 



Hoosier Self-Feed Rip Saw 



has a positive and powerful feed which handles the heaviest material 

 the sawmill takes just as readily as the lightest. 



The table, raised and lowered with the crank in front of the ma- 

 chine, is always level — always securely locked. 



The Hoosier rips anything up to 6 inches thick and 17 inches wide. 

 It feeds 35, 75, 100 or 150 feet a minute. 



Manufactured exclusively by 



The SINKER -DAVIS COMPANY 



INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 



.1>30.000 worth of line white and red oal; that was stacked in the yards. 

 That the entire plant was not destroyed is due to the fact that the wind 

 blew in the opposite direction, also the efforts of the crew of more than 

 250 employes of both mills separating the stacks of lumber. The blaze 

 it Is believed was started by small boys who dropped a lighted match 

 in the dry grass at the far end of the lumber yards. The loss is covered 

 by insurance. Although the mill is located outside of the city limits, 

 the city lire department was appealed to and promptlj' responded. 



J. C. Rea of the Indiana Cooperage Company, who recently pur- 

 chased the plant of the Vincennes Cooperage Company at Vincennes, 

 Ind.. reports trade very good with indications that it will continue all 

 winter. Mr. Rea has been making a great many barrels for the oil fields 

 in eastern Illinois. 



Bert Tisserand of the J. C. Greer Lumber Company says that trade this 

 fall has been much better than last year. He says trade in southern 

 Indiana and western Kentucky is especially good just now. 



William H. Schnute, secretary and treasurer of Schnute, Holtman & 

 Co., planing mill owners and retail lumber dealers, died on Friday morn- 

 ing, November 3. at his home at 1G05 Lincoln avenue, after a short illness. 

 Mr. Schnute was known to a wide circle of friends. He is survived 

 by his widow, Mrs. Fredericka Schnute, one son, William Jr., and one 

 daughter, Sarah, and two brothers. Jlr. Schnute was a member of the 

 Evansville Retail Lumber Dealers' Association and a committee appointed 

 from this association drew up suitable resolutions on the death of Mr. 

 Schnute. 



The next regular meeting of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club will 

 take place on Tuesday night, November 14, at the New Vendome hotel. 

 Several important business matters are to come up before the club and 

 the various standing committees that were recently named by President 

 Wertz will make reports. 



--< MEMPHIS > 



Plans are going ahead rapidly for the rebuilding of the plant of the 

 Chickasaw Cooperage Company which was destroyed by fire here eight 

 days ago. Before the flames were entirely extinguished Walker Wellford, 

 secretary-manager of the company, wired mantifacturers of tight coop- 

 erage machinery to send representatives to Memphis in order that orders 

 for the necessary equipment might be placed ■without loss of time and in 

 order that the rebuilding of the plant might proceed at once. The site 

 Is now being cleared of the debris and, as soon as the necessary material 

 can be secjred, actual reconstruction will begin. The fire was not only 

 one of the most spectacular in the history of Memphis but it was also one 

 of the most disastrous. The loss is placed at something over $300,000 



while the insurance was $365,000. The offices and the warehouse for 

 storing finished barrels were saved, together with considerable heading 

 and stave material piled on the yards. The insurance adjusters have 

 been busy ever since the Are and their report is expected soon. The com- 

 pany has a large barrel factory at Gretna, la., and this will be used as 

 far as possible to take care of the business of the company until the 

 new plant is ready several months hence. The old plant of the company 

 at Sycamore Ave. and N. Front street was dismantled some months ago 

 and cannot be used. 



Nickey Eros., Inc., have purchased the timber on a farm of 3,000 acres 

 near Penton. Miss., belonging to J. A. Kirby of Germantown, Tenn., for 

 a consideration of from $35,000 to $40,000. It is estimated that there are 

 about S, 000. 000 feet of oak, gum and cypress on the property. The new 

 owners operate a big sawmill at Memphis and they will proceed to cut 

 the timber and bring it to the city for conversion into lumber with as 

 much rapidity as possible. 



N. C. McGennis & Co. have secured the contract for digging twenty 

 miles of drainage canals that will result in the reclamation of about 

 12,000 acres of swamp lands near Oxford, Miss. The work will cost $90,- 

 000 and bonds have been sold to finance the undertaking. 



Lumbermen here are taking a lively interest in aiding other business 

 men in securing one of the farm loan banks for Memphis because of their 

 belief that such an institution would prove of inestimable benefit to all 

 lines of activity and because they further believe that it would greatly 

 stimulate development of cut-over lands and add Immeasurably to their 

 value. John W. McClure. secretary of the Bellgrade Lumber Company 

 and president of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association, appeared 

 before the farm loan board which is investigating the claims of various 

 cities to these banks and said that, in his opinion, thousands of acres 

 of idle cut-over lands would be placed in immediate cultivation and that 

 the movement in this direction alone would insure 100 per cent increase 

 in the population of Memphis in ten years. In short he expressed the 

 view that these farm loan banks would be the making of the South through 

 furnishing the necessary capital on a reasonable basis for developing the 

 immense areas of land now untouched. In an interview on the subject 

 Mr. McClure gave instance after instance where the crops grown on cut- 

 over lands had more than paid for the property the first year and that 

 in one case the cotton and seed grown this year on a tract of cut-over 

 lands had yielded $160 per acre. The original cost, he said, is about $15 

 per acre while the cost of clearing varies from $20 to $25 per acre. He 

 believed that capital at reasonable rates would work wonders and he ex- 

 pressed the view quite strongly that Memphis should have one of these 

 institutions. 



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