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HARDWOOD RECORD 



December 10, 1916 



Walnut 



Of Character and Color 



Manufactured at Kansas City, U. S. A. 

 Large Stock of All Grades and Thickness 



Thirty-five years' experience 



IN WALNUT ONLY 



Prompt Shipment, and 

 Guaranteed Inspection 



FRANK PURCELL 



515 Dwight Building, KANSAS CITY, MO. 



The following stock is in excellent 

 condition, ready for immediate shipment 



4/4 No. 3 Elm & .\^li 24,000 



5/4 No. 3 Elm & .\sh 35,000 



6/4 No. 3 Elm & Ash 74,000 



8/4 No. 3 Elm & Ash 3,000 



4/4 No. 1 & Btr. Birch 51,000 



4/4 No. 2 Birch 250,000 



4/4 No. 3 Birch 202,000 



5/4 No. 3 Birch 78,000 



4/4 No. 3 Basswood 25,000 



5/4 No. 3 Birch 8.000 



4/4 No. 3 Maple 1,000.000 



5/4 No. 3 Maple 387.000 



Ideal 



Hardwood 



Sawmill 



Ar« puKIng In pile every month 

 two end one-half million feet of 

 oholoeet Northern Mlohlgan Hardwood* 



Stack Lumber Company 



Masonville, Michigan 



J. H. iloses has recently leaseil an olil gin at Corning and converted it 

 into a spolie factory. SiJokes for automobiles will be made principally. 

 Fifteen men are employed at present. 



The Garden Land and Timber Company, Luxora, Ark., filed articles of 

 incorporation on November 29. The new company is capitalized at $1,500. 

 and has for its incorporators George E. Carten, Alvin Wunderlich and A. 



C. Eckert. 



The Portable Stave Company of Wynne, Ark., filed articles of incor- 

 poration on November 29 with a capital stock of $1000. The incorporators 

 are E. Block, H. A. Block and E. Hamilton. 



A mill for the manufacture of beer barrel staves is to be started at 

 Flippin, Ark., in the near future, according to a report from that place. 

 There is an abundant growth of virgin timber in that section. 



The commissioner's deed for the property formerly owned by the H. 



D. Williams Cooperage Company, of Leslie, Ark., was recently filed in the 

 office of the circuit clerk and recorded at Mountain Home. The property 

 was conveyed to the Export Cooperage Company, which company bought 

 in the property under the foreclosure sale. The property, which was sold 

 for 1108,000, embraced several thousand acres of hardwood timber located 

 in diflerent parts of the state. The deed was made up of 19 closely written 

 pages and bore $173.50 worth of revenue stamps. 



-■< WISCONSIN >.= 



The Wisconsin Box Company has awarded contracts for a sawmill at its 

 plant at Wausau, Wis. The mill will have a capacity of 40,000 feet of 

 lumber per day, will employ twenty-five men and operate by electricity. 



The Center City Woodwork Co., Milwaukee, has filed an amendment to 

 its articles of incorporation increasing the capital stock to $6,500. 



A firm to manufacture sash and doors has been formed at Prairie du 

 Chien, Wis., by George Gricsbach and Pat Cecka, both of that city. A 

 plant has been established. 



The Phoenix Chair Company of Sheboygan, Wis., is reported to have 

 plans under way for extensive improvements of its plant. A new con- 

 necting bridge is included in the improvements. 



The hardwood luniher business of Hammer Brothers at Ilillsboro, Wis., 

 has been succeeded by the Ilillsboro Hardwood Lumber Company, in which 

 I'". .\. Wopat is Interested. 



Charles Duvall, of Riplingcr, Wis., is constructing logging camps where 

 about 800,000 feet of timber will be put In this winter. The logs will be 

 landed jit Stump's spur. 



The J. S. Stearns lAimber Company has finished the annual repairs to 

 the sawmill at Odanah, Wis., and operations are now ln'ing resumed. The 

 concern will operate six lumber camps this winter, employing about 1,000 

 men, and expects to cut about ."iO, 000, 000 feet of timber. This is princi- 

 lially hardwood and hemlock. Day and night shifts will he operated at 

 the mill, employing about ."lOO men. 



Walter Curtlss of Lake Geneva. Wis., has sold to E. J. Brown of Spring 

 Prairie, and John Ilamm of Burlington. 1,000.000 feet of standing timber 

 in southern Wisconsin. This is one of the largest deals of its kind that 

 has been made in that section. The timber, consisting of oak, ash and 

 other hardwoods, will be cut immeiliateJ.v and manufactured into lumber. 



The Beaver Dam Box and Silo Man\]facturing Company is erecting a 

 large lumber shed and warehouse at its plant in Beaver Dam. Wis. The 

 iMiilding will be SO by 150 feet, equipped with lumber piling machinery as 

 well as equipment for sawing and dressing the lumber. \ side track runs 

 lUrectly into the interior. 



Overhauling of the mill of the Jacob Mortenson Lumber Company at 

 Wausau, Wis., has been completed and operations will be resumed as soon 

 as logs arrive. More than 100 men arc employed in the mill and yards 

 when operating. 



The Fuller Goodman Lumber Company recently incorporated at Oshkosh, 

 Wis., with $100,000 capital stock, is headed by F. A. Fuller as president. 

 It. ft. Goodman of Marinette. Wis., is secretary. 



The Klnzel Lumber Company of Merrill, Wis., has disposed of its waste 

 and refuse burner In the Dunlevie Lumlier Company of Allenhurst. Ga. 

 The burner is being dismantled for shipment south. The nUHlcr!: methods 

 of using what was formerly considered waste wood for various commercial 

 purposes has made the burner obsolete at the Merrill plant. 



Fre<i D. Leavens has succeeded I^. Ij. Gibbs, resigned, as manager and 

 superintendent of the Antigo. Wis., factory of the Crocker Chair Company, 

 of Sheboygan. Wis. Mr. Gibbs held the position for twenty-five years, 

 ever since the Crocker Interests purchased the Antigo plant from the 

 llermann-Begllnger Company. 



The Northern Furniture Company and the American Manufacturing 

 Company, two of the leading woodworking concerns of Sheboygan. Wis., 

 have announced a monthly bonus for employes who have been In service 

 for one month or more. 1'he Northern company will add $5 per month 

 to each pay check. The .\merican concern will pay 10 percent of the 

 vcgular wages of all employes of a month or more, which will be lietween 

 400 and 500 people. The first bonus will be paid January 2 on December 

 wages. 



The dry kihi of the N. S. Washburn Lumber Company at Sturgeon Pay. 

 Wis., which Is used during the winter as the sawmill, was destroyed by 

 fire. The loss of $1,500 is fully covered. The building will be replaced 

 liy a new dry kiln and the sawmill will be remodeled. 



The Wollaeger Maiinf.u turing ('om|iany. maker of bank and office fix- 

 tures at 2S Juneau avenue. Milwaukee, sustained the loss of a dry kiln 



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