Februarj lO. 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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For Greatest Range of Uses 



and 



Easiest Handling 



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? 



buy the 



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 



and is said to be one of the finest mills to be found in the United States. 

 Tile company is using only about half a crew of men at present, but 

 expects to raire this number up to normal in the next few days when the 

 mill will be run at full capacity. 



L. C. Baxter, owner of the Baxter Stave Mills at Jelks, Ark., has sold 

 his holdings, including the mill plant, stock, logs and all equipment, to 

 the Mill Shoals Cooperage Company of St. Louis for $15,000. 



The large tract of timberlands lying about two -miles west of Marshall, 

 Ark., and locally known as the McBiide tract, has been purchased by the 

 Millard Manufacturing Company, w!io will erect a stave mill on the tract 

 in the near future. 



A band mill will be erected by D. E. Ray in connection with his planing 

 mills at Calico Rock, Ark., in the near future. He expects to manufacture 

 oak, sycamore, Cottonwood, hickorj% walnut and gum lumber. 



Articles of incorporation were recently filed with the secretary of state 

 by the Sand Creek Land & Lumber Company of Risen, .\rk. The new 

 company is capitalized at $10,000 and is owned by E. L. Lendon, Jno. T. 

 Haskins, J. W. Elrod, B. F. Quinn, H. D. Sadler and J. L. Sadler, the 

 incorporators. 



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The W. E. Williams Company, DePerc, Wis., started oyerations in its 

 new hardwood flooring plant in that city on February 1, and the first 

 finished goods went into the stockrooms on February 5. The company 

 has an ample supply of hard maple to insure a steady run tor several 

 months, with additional stocks insured after that time. 



The Sanitary Refrigerator Company, Fond du Lac, Wis., has taken 

 occupancy of its new warehouse and oflice building. 



The former Bradley Mill at Tomahawk, Wis., now is in operation under 

 the ownership of the Mohr Lumber Company, which has entirely over- 

 hauled and rebuilt the plant and added a veneer mill. 



W. S. Jellings, Portage, Wis., is cutting thirty acres of timber In the 

 vicinity of Poynette, Wis., with his portable sawrig. 



Mrs. Alice A. McMillen, widow of Robert McMillan, late lumberman of 

 Oshkosh, Wis., left a bequest of $1,000 in cash to the Algoma Street M. E. 

 Church of Oshkosh in her will. 



The Wisconsin Woodworking Company, Two Rivers, Wis., is completing 

 extensive remodeling work and changes in the former sawmill of the Two 

 Rivers Manufacturing Company, which it recently purchased. The mill 

 is being converted into a modern woodworking shop, electrically operated 

 throughout, but will retain some sawing capacity. 



Auxiliary power equipment, consisting of a ten-horsepower electric 

 motor, has been installed in the planing mill of the N. S. Washburn Lum- 



ber Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wis., for the purpose of economical opera- 

 tion when the plant is engaged in light work. 



The Sheboygan Couch Company, Sheboygan, Wis., is again ruuning at 

 capacity, the damage wrought by the flre on December :iO having been 

 fully repaired. The loss was adjusted at $40,000. 



The Langlade Lumber Company, Antigo, Wis., elected the following 

 officers at the annual meeting : President, L. K. Baker, Odanah, Wis. ; 

 vice-president, George Foster. Mellen, Wis. ; second vice-president,' Frank 

 Butain, Bayfield, Wis. ; secretary and manager, J. D. Mylrea, Antigo, 

 and treasurer. A R. Owen, Owen, Wis. 



The annual meetings of stockholders of the Wisconsin-Arkansas Lumber 

 Company, operating at Malvern, Ark. ; the Marathon Lumber Company and 

 Wausau-Southern Lumber Company, operating at Laurel, Miss., were held 

 at Wausau. Wis., last week and all officers and directors were re-elected. 



The Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee, has started 

 work on the installation of the big electric power plant in the new planing 

 mill of the Rib Lake (Wis.) Lumber Company, The plant consists of a 

 22x42 inch simple horizontal non-condensing Corliss engine, .\llis type, 

 direct-connected to a 470 k. v. a., engine type, a. c. generator' of 120 r. p! 

 m., and one 27.5 k. w.. 120 volt exciter of 760 r. p. m. The new sawmill 

 erected by the same company was placed in operation on Feb. 1. It is one 

 of the largest and most modern in the country. 



The equipment in the former Harrington Package Company's plant at 

 Crandon, Wis., purchased some time ago by the Menasha (Wis.) Wooden- 

 ware Company, has been transferred to the Menasha company's plant at 

 Ladysmith, Wis. 



The new sawmill of the Fountain-Campbell Lumber Company, at Lady- 

 smith, Wis., commenced sawing logs at noon on February 2. By February 

 12 it is expected that the big mill will be running day and night with a 

 force of 150 to 175 men. 



The Stevens Point (Wis.) Box & Lumber Company contemplates the 

 addition of a bolt-sawing department during the summer, Work on the 

 new building, 60x60 feet, will be put under way about April 15. The 

 present mill is now producing one full carload daily and employing thirty- 

 five men. 



The West Side Manufacturing Company, 3026 Walnut street, Milwaukee, 

 is making plans for the erection of a new woodworking plant, to be of 

 brick and mill construction, two stories high, 85x80 feet in size It will 

 cost $15,000. 



The Upson mill at Iron River, Wis., will install an auxiliary gasoline 

 power plant because the water power recently constructed is inadequate 

 when the Iron River is at low stage. 



The Liberty Lumber Company, Minneapolis, has purchased the business 



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