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New Plant of the Philip A. Eyan Lumber Company 



AccompanyiDg this story is a reproduction of a pliotograpli showing 

 the recenlly completed hardwood sawmill of the Philip A. Ryan Lumber 

 Company, manufacturer and dealer in hardwood lumber and logs, of 

 Onalaska, Tex., and Memphis, Tenn. The mill recently started operations 

 at Onalaska. It is equipped with a Clark band mill with twelve-inch 

 saws and with a McDonough resaw equipped with ten-inch saws. The 

 capacity is 50,000 feet daily. The Philip A. Ryan Lumber Company has 

 secured more than 50,000,000 feet of hardwood, running mainly to oak, 

 ash and gum, in the vicinity of Onalaska. 



The Philip A. Ryan Lumber Company is better known in connection 

 with its operations at Memphis, where it has its headquarters. This 

 company was organized at Memphis about two years ago with a capital 

 stock of .f50,000. Philip A. Ryan has been president and treasurer since 

 its incorporation and 

 also is holder of the 

 entire stock of the 

 company and active 

 manager of its opera- 

 tions. His original 

 debut in the lumber 

 field was made with 

 Kelly, Maus & Co. of 

 Chicago about twenty 

 years ago. His next 

 affiliation was with 

 the Deering Harves- 

 ter Company of Chi- 

 cago. With this com- 

 pany he had entire 

 charge of the yards 

 and spent much of 

 his time in buying 

 and inspecting and 

 contracting for hard- 

 wood and yellow pine 

 stocks. Leaving the 

 Deering company, Mr. 

 Ryan went with the 

 McCormick Harvester 

 Company of Chicago, 

 remaining in its em- 

 ploy for about a year. 

 at the end of which 

 time he became affili- 

 ated in a partnership 

 known as the Ryan- 

 McParland Lumber 



Company, of which he was president and general manager. In the course 

 of time this company purchased a mill at Memphis, which it operated for 

 a year, at which time the partnership was dissolved. Mr. Ryan then took 

 the plant and operated under his own name. He subsequently formed a 

 partnership with J. V. Stimson of Huntingburg. Ind.. under the style of 

 Ryan-Stimson Lumber Company. He continued in this capacity until the 

 incoi-poration of his present business. Until the completion of his present 



NEW MILL OF rillLU' A. KiAX LU.MP.i;!; 



mill, Mr. Ryan secured his lumber from a Memphis custom sawmill, which 

 mill sawed the Ryan timber. 



Mr. Ry.nn's business has prospered exceptionally well since its incor- 

 poration and it is confidently predicted that his new move will result 

 entirely jiiofitable to him. 



New Secretary Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 



Owing to the resignation of Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, President W. E. DeLaney announces the 

 selection of William H. Weller of the White-Weller Lumber Company of 

 Buffalo, N. Y., as secretary to succeed Mr. Doster. As before announced, 

 Mr. Doster has become general representative of Joshua Oldham & Sons, 

 Inc., saw works of Brooklyn. Mr. Weller will assume his new duties on 

 May 1, at which time Mr. Doster will retire from association work to 



enter upon his new 

 line of endeavor. 



Mr. Weller brings 

 with him into his new 

 berth a varied and 

 valuable experience in 

 the lumber trade, 

 which gives him an ex- 

 cellent foundation for 

 successful service with 

 the association. He 

 was born in Indiana, 

 Feb. 8, 1870, and be- 

 gan his career with 

 the Terre Haute Car 

 & M::inufactaring Com- 

 pany, which after- 

 wards became an 

 allied institution of 

 the American Car & 

 Foundry Company. He 

 served as an employe 

 of this concern in a 

 minor capacity at first 

 and from time to time 

 advanced until he be- 

 came auditor and gen- 

 eral purchasing a{;ent, 

 having charge of the 

 lumber purchases. Af- 

 ter spending eleven 

 years with this con- 

 cern, in 1901 he went 

 with the St. Louis 

 plant of the American Car & Foundry Company, where he had charge of 

 the hardvood department and in addition managed the three sawmills of 

 the company at Huntington, W. Va., JetEersonville, Ind., and White 

 Plains. Ky. 



In 1905 Mr. Weller went to Seattle, where he became secretary and 

 treasurer of the West Coast Timber Company operating mills in Whatcom 

 county, Washington. In 1907 he returned to his native city of Terre 



iMl'ANY AT ONALASKA. TEX. 



PHILIP A. RYAN, PRESIDENT AND 

 TREASURER PHILIP A. RYAN LUMBER 

 COMPANY, MEMPHIS 



W. B. ROBINSeiN, SECRETARY AND 

 BOOKKEEPER PHILIP A. RYAN LUMBER 

 COMPANY, MEMPHIS 



WM H WELLER, CINCINNATI, NEW SEC- 

 RETARY HARDWOOD MANUFACTURERS' 

 ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES 



