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HARDWOOD RECORD 



JI:irch 10. 1917 



UMBER AND I 



ELmira,/J.y 



Kovemlier 



9th. 



1915. 



Paepcke Leight ITjr. Co., 

 Chicago, ' 



111. 



QtntlemeD: - 



We are UBlng your Bed Oub laicber in the 

 manufacture of our high class loterior 

 trim and general planing mill work. / 



This gum is giving excellent satisfaction, 

 being highly graded, soft texture, good 

 widths, and long lengths, also dry, straight 

 and flbt. 



Respectfully, 



Harris, kcUenry Ic £aker Co. 



Diet. 

 BEE/LG. 



Of course it is true that 



Red Gum 



is America's finest cabinet wood — but 



Just as a poor cook will spoil the choicest 

 viands while the experienced chef will turn 

 them into prized delicacies, so it is true that 



The inherently superior qualities 

 of Red Gum can be brought 

 out only by proper handling 



When you buy this wood, as when you buy a new 

 machine, you want to feel that you have reason for 

 believing it will be just as represented. 



We claim genuine superiority for our Gum. _ The 

 proof that you can have confidence in this claim is 

 shown by the letter reproduced herewith. 



Your interests demand that you remem- 

 ber this proof of our ability to preserve 

 the wonderful qualities of the wood 

 when you again want RED GUM. 



Paepcke Leicht Lumber Company 



CONWAY BUILDING 111 W. WASHINGTON ST. 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



Band Mills: Helena and BlythevUle, Ark.; Greenville, MUa. 



the outlook for biiilding operations is considered quite good. Reports from ' 

 points In the Memphis territory indicate large activlt.y in the same direc- 

 tion and handlers of building material are looking forward to an excellent 

 business during the spring season. 



The Arkansas Short Leaf Lumber Company, Pine Bluff, Ark., has pur- 

 chased from the Chicago Land & Timber Company 130,000.000 feet of 

 hardwood and yellow pine timber on 40,000 acres of land In Jefferson, Grant 

 and Cleveland counties, together with the Anderson & Saline Klver Railway 

 and the sawmill at Clio, Ark., which, it Is reported, will bo dismantled. 

 The price paid was approximately $300,000. The holdings involved iu the 

 foregoing transactions were formerly the property of the Bluff City Lumber 

 Company which is uow out of existence. J. M. Howards, manager of the 

 Arkansas Short Leaf Lumber Company, says that the acquisition of this 

 timber insures this firm, which is allied with the Long-Bell interests, a 

 supply of raw material for four years. It already had enough In sight 

 for three years, so that it is Insured a sufficient supply for the next seven 

 years. The hardwood timber amounts to about two-thirds of the total and 

 this will be converted into hardwood flooring at the mill of the company 

 at Pine Bluff. It Is understood that the property acquired exhausts the 

 greater portion of the hardwood and yellow pine timber in that territory, 

 the remainder being in comparatively small and rather widely scattered 

 tracts. 



John M. Prltchard, secretary of the Gum Lumber Manufacturers' Associ- 

 ation, is in New York City looking after plans for the gum exhibit which 

 has been installed and which will make an attractive part of the National 

 Complete Building Exposition in Grand Central Palace. The exposition 

 began March 5 and will continue until March 11. These exhibits have 

 done a great deal toward placing gum in the proper light before architects, 

 contractors, buUisrs and other Interests and the association is not hesi- 

 tating to spend the necessary amount to make them as attractive as 

 poBslble. 



The Chickasaw Cooperage Company, Memphis, is rapidly completing a 

 plant at Crowder, Miss., the terminus of the railroad owned by the estate 

 of K, J. Darnell running from Batesville, Miss., a distance of seventeen 

 miles. The Chickasaw Cooperage Company Is rebuilding its plant at 

 Memphis, destro.ved by fire some time ago, but it announced shortly after 

 this work was begun that It would not concentrate all of its more important 

 operations in this territory at Memphis as under the old regime. The 

 building of this plant at Crowder is therefore directly in line with the 

 plans of the company to scatter its risk to a greater degree than heretofore. 

 The necessary timber for the plant at Crowder will be secured from the 

 timber holdings of R. J. Darnell, Inc., which is controlled by the executors 

 of the estate of R. J. Darnell. 



Lumber Interests here are very much pleased with the passage of the 

 flood control bill by Congress. They regard it us the greatest piece of 

 legislation enacted In recent years and anticipate that it will bo of inestim- 

 able advantage to' them through the protection of their mills and other 

 enterprises, to say nothing of the value it will add to the lands which they 

 are clearing from time to time. John W. McClure, president of the 

 Southern Alluvial Land Association, Is authority tor the statement that It 

 is the most valualjje legislation, so far as the South Is concerned, since 

 the establishment of the Panama canal and it goes without saying that his 

 enthusiasm finds its counterpart in the case of every member of that 

 organization. It is estimated that about 10,000,000 acres of these rich 

 alluvial lands, heretofore useless because of fear of overflow, will in the 

 course of time be rendered available for cultivation and that this will add 

 tremendously to the agricultural possibilities of a wide area in the Missis- 

 sippi valley. Lumber Interests are certainly congratulating themselves on 

 the fact that this piece of legislation escaped the final jam In the Senate 

 and came through with the president's signature. Members of the Missis- 

 sippi Levee Improvement Association arc as enthusiastic as the lumbermen 

 and every business organization in the Mississippi valley which helped 

 along in the passage of this measure Is happy that it has been written 

 into the statutes of the nation. 



=< EVANSVILLE >-= 



The next regular monthly :neetlng of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club 

 will be held on Tuesday evening, March 13,. and President Worland Is 

 looking for a good attendance. Several important business matters will 

 come up for discussion. A tempting business men's luncheon has been 

 promised. 



Charles Lieb, Eockport, Ind., who retired from Congress on March 4, 

 after a service of four years, may re-engage In the lumber and box business 

 at Rockport. He was in this business In Eockport for a number of years 

 , under firm name of Lleb & Artman. 



The new handle factory of the Whitemore Handle Company, at Mt. Ver- 

 non, Ind., has about been completed. The company now has a larger ca- 

 pacity than it had in the old factory, and business is reported very good. 



In the republican primaries that were held here Tuesday, March 6, Albert 

 E. Messlck, assistant manager for the Vulcan Plow Company, was nomi- 

 nated for mayor without opposition. Mr. Messick is well and favorably 

 known among the lumber manufacturers in this section. Mayor Benja- 

 min Bosse, president of the Globe-Bosse-World Purnlture Company, also 

 well known among the lumber people, received a renominatlon at the hands 

 of the democratic party. Both Mr. Messlck and Mayor Bosse are men of 

 splendid executive ability. 



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