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HARDWOOD RECORD 



April 10, 191T 



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I UM B E R AND rll LL j{0^\ 

 Pimira./I.y. 



Kovem'ber 



9th. 



1915. 



Fnepcke Lelght Vtx. Co., 



Chlcego, 



111. 



Gentlemen: - 



We are using your Red Oun loi&ber in the 

 manufacture of our high claBB interior 

 trim and general planing mill worJc. 



ThiB gum iB giTing excellent satiaf action , 

 lieing highly graded, soft texture, good 

 widthe, and long lengths, also dry, straight 

 trd flbt. 



Respectfully, 



Harris, kcUenry tc Baker Co. 



Diet. ■ 

 EEEAG. 



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 AflUs; Helena and Blythevllle, Ark.; Greenville, MIbs. 



In manufacturing veneers from fancy woods was controlled entirely by the 

 ability to get the stock, and make the cuts ; that the market was taking 

 all the material offered, and that prices were no object, delivery being 

 everything. He stated that walnut was the best seller in price, but that 

 mahogany was controlling the market on volume sales. However, the 

 increase in walnut consumption during the past two years has been 100 per 

 cent, this being somewhat due to the shortage of Circassian. Business 

 handled in January alone was larger than in any one entire year out of 

 fourteen that Mr. Foster has been in the fancy lumber business. For 

 several years he was with the Mengel plant at Louisville. 



T. W. Mlnton & Sons, BarbourvUle, Ky., manufacturers of auto ami 

 vehicle Woodstock, club spokes, dimension stock, etc., have been making 

 a number of improvenjents in the plant, having installed three additional 

 machines and another 150 horsepower boiler. A new stock warehouse 

 has also been started. 



The sawmill of the Park's Ferry Lumber Company, Park's Ferry, Ky., 

 was damaged and $5,000 worth of hardwood lumber destroyed In a recent 

 fire which started in the planer of Dr. G. Martin, which was destroyed 

 at a loss of $9,000, along with two residences valued at $8,000. 



The Louisville branch of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association 

 last week wired to Commissioner McChord of the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission, Washington, complaining against a virtual embargo which 

 has been placed by the Louisville & Nashville holding Its box car equip- 

 ment on its own lines. Secretary R. R. May of the association stated that 

 while no formal notice had been issued to the public, the embargo was 

 In effect nevertheless. 



C. C. Mengel, president of the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company, recently 

 received a wire to the effect that the company's large four-masted auxiliary 

 bark, the "Darigo," had been sighted in American waters following her 

 departure from an English port and running the blockade. The bark will 

 recross the Atlantic for France at once, and will later carry a cargo to 

 Africa, returning to Pensacola with mahogany. A trial run of the com- 

 pany's auxiliary schooner, the "Sam C. Mengel," will be made on April 15. 

 , The vessel has been in drydock, and has had superheated boilers installed. 



LouisvUle hardwood manufacturers report that collections have been 

 abnormally slow of late, many large concerns consuming lumber having 

 taken full time on their bills of late and passed up the discounts. This 

 Is largely due to handling abnormal business on small capital. 



C. H. Willett of the W. R. Wlllett Lumber Company went over to the 

 benedicts on April 4, when his wedding to Miss Margaret Meldrum Miimm 

 of Louisville was solemnized at the Church of the Messiah, the Eev. 



Dilworth Lupton ofiiciating. Mr. and Mrs. Willett ha%'e gone East for 

 the honeymoon. 



At Barbourville, Ky., articles of incorporation have been filed by the 

 Kentucky Stave & Heading Company, with a capital of $2,000. The 

 Incorporators are Evans, J. H. and J. W. Turpin. 



Business with the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company Is very active 

 at this time, due largely to the big increase in the compan.v's facilities 

 for cutting logs. Eight band mills are now in operation, while the demand 

 for oak and other hardwoods is so active that no accumulatons are 

 being made. 



Listing a capital of $5,000, the W. J. Geary Lumber Company, Ashland, 

 Ky., has incorporated, naming W. J. Geary, H. B. Wolcott. Ruth Wright 

 and M. K. Geary. 



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C. W. Matthews & Co., Leola, Ark., has leased a tract of ground just 

 west of Little Rock, and Is now erecting on it a hardwood lumber and 

 planing mill. The company will remove the machinery from Its old plant 

 at Leola to Little Rock, and also add in the construction of the new plant 

 considerable up-to-date machinery. It has begun the cutting of high-grade 

 timber along Fouche Bayou In Pulaski county. 



The Warren Cooperage Company, Warren, C, recently purchased the 

 plant of the Spelce Brothers at Pocahontas, Ark., and will enlarge the 

 plant so as to make it one of the largest in the state. 



The Lauck Lumber Company has purchased the timber from a consider- 

 able tract of land, formerly owned by C. C. Gunnels, near Mena, Ark., and 

 will immediately put Into operation four mills on the property to cut off 

 the timber. 



Damage to the extent of a few hundred dollars was done to the plant 

 of the E. L. Bruce Company of Little Rock on Monday of this week. 

 The exact amount of the loss sustained has not been made public, but It Is 

 known that it was slight, and has not Interfered materially with the com- 

 pany's operations. The loss was covered by Insurance. The E. L. Bruce 

 Company, which Is engaged in the manufacture of hardwood flooring and 

 Interior finish, is successor to the old Kansas City Hardwood Flooring 

 Company, which removed from Kansas City to Little Rock about four 

 years ago. 



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A new folding furniture factory will be built in Stevens Point, Wis., 

 if present plans of John Worzalla materialize. It Is to be known as the 



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