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HARDWOOD RECORD 



August 10. li)T2 



300,000 



FEET 



5/8 

 LOG RUN 



QUARTERED SYCAMORE 



This quartered Sycamore is band sawed, 

 edged and trimmed. It shows 35% or more 

 long lengths and good widths. We can 

 start shipments at once and load out good, 

 dry stock. The lumber has been sawed 

 from the log, not resawed, and as we manu- 

 facture it in exactly the same way that we 

 manufacture quartered Oak, practically 

 every piece shows figure. 



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NORTH VERNON LUMBER MILLS 



NORTH VERNON 



INDIANA 



YELLOW PINE 



Short Leaf 



SHOP LUMBER 



Steam Dried 1"— 1^"— li^"— 2" 



For Sash, Door and Finish Manufacturers 

 A Good Cutting Grade at Less Than B and Bet. 



LET US TELL YOU ABOUT IT 



KENTUCKY LUMBER CO. 



MILLS: Suiiigent, Ala. Lcxington, Ky. 



STRABLE 

 Lumber & Salt Company 



SAGINAW, MICHIGAN 



Manufacturers 

 Hardwood Lumber, Maple Flooring 



ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES 



MODERN DRY-KILNS AND PLANING MILL 



Insist upon 



Wolverine Maple Flooring 



'Best 



by 



Commission Sustains Rate Complaint 



The Inler-state Commerce Commission has sustained the contention 

 of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association that rates on hardwood 

 lumber and forest products, as per the tariffs issued July 1, are from 

 2 to 4 cents per hundred pounds too high from practically all points 

 west of the Mississippi and from some east of this stream, to principal 

 consuming destinations in the United States, has ordered that they 

 be reduced and has likewise held that shippers are entitled to repara- 

 tion for the excess already paid. 



It is estimated by J. H. Townshend, secretary-manager, that tlie 

 ruling of the commission will save shippers of these commodities 

 approximately half a million dollars 



Perfection Flooring Plant Opens with Impressive Ceremonies 



Tlu' opening of the magnificent oak fiooriug plant of the Perfection 

 Oak Flooring Company, Inc., Shreveport, La., a few days ago proved to 

 be quite an event in the North Louisiana metropolis, with city officials 

 and others of unusual prominence participating in an elaborate program 

 prepared for the event. The factory has a capacity of 60,000 feet of 

 finished hardwood flooring daily, and employs 200 men. It will make 105 

 different grades of oak flooring, material for which will be obtained from 

 Louisiana. Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma. The entire plant covers ten 

 acres and upward of $200,000 is represented in the outlay. Frost-John- 

 son Lumber Company and Arkansas Oak Floor Manufacturing Company 

 ari' the joint and equal owners of the new venture. on<' of the few of its 

 kind in the immensely rich hardwood territory of the far South. It is 

 capitalized at $300,000. Officers are: E. A. Frost, president; U. W. 

 Coles, vice-president and general manager; S. M. Coles, secretary and 

 liK-al manager, and F. T. Whited. treasurer. 



Maassen Forming Hardwood Company 



The J. II. Maassen Lumber Company is n<iw heiiig organized at Memphis 

 and application for a charter therefor will be made in a few days. J. H. 

 Maassen. who recently resigned as manager of the hardwood department 

 of the Chicago Lumber & Coal Company, is. the moving spirit behind this 

 new enterprise, which will conduct its business along much the same lines 

 as the firm with which he was connected until July 1. Offices have been 

 opened at 217 Bank of Commerce building and arrangements have already 

 been made to act as sales representative for the Bradley Lumber Company, 

 Warren. Ark., and the Baldwin Lumber Company. LaFayette, La., exten- 

 sive producers of hardwood lumber and Louisiana red cypress, respectively. 

 The company is also perfecting plans for taking the output of mills In the 

 valley territory. J. P. Neatherland and S. S. Humphries, who are now 

 identified with the Chicago Lumber & Coal Company, will shortly join 

 Mr. Maassen, the latter on August 1 and the former somewhat later. Mr. 

 Maassen has only returned within the past few days from an automobile 

 trip to Biloxi, Miss., where he spent a brief vacation. He was accompa- 

 nied by Mrs. Maassen. 



New Sash and Door Plant Planned 

 The Memphis Sash & Door Comi)any, Memphis. Tenn.. through its presi- 

 dent. L. G. Barnard, announces the purchase of between two and three 

 acres at Railroad avenue and Roland street on which it proposes to erect 

 a new plant to cost between $100,000 and $150,000. It will consist of a 

 main building, 200 by 300 feet, equipped with concrete floors throughout, 

 of fireproof construction and three stories in height. Expansion in build- 

 ing, increased demand for building materials and improved business condi- 

 tions generally are given by the management as the reasons for the de- 

 cision to expand. The company paid something like $16,000 for the site. 



Hardwood News Notes 



CHICAGO 



Jo/A%'£hZ Maple, Birch, Basswood, Elm, Beech 



''i. A. Vaiigsnes.s of tlit Vang.snes.s Lumber Co., has returned to 

 Chii ago after several weeks spent on a vacation with his family in 

 Northern Wisconsin and Michigan. 



^^^ H. Abbott, one of the star hardwood lumber salesmen of the 

 Chicago territor.v, has .ioined the sales force of the Winegar-Gorman 

 Lumber Co.. for which he will cover the Chicago market. Mr. Abbott 

 resigned from the Vangsness Lumber' Co.. on August 1, after nearly 

 a year with this company. For a number of years before joining 

 the ^'angsness company Mr. Abbott was manager of the Chicago 

 offlre of the Charles Gill Lumber Co., Wausau. Wis. 



Tlarold Sill of the Chicago sales staff of the Steven-Jarvis Lumber 

 Co., Eau Claire. Wis., has been transfei'red to Milwaukee, from which 

 center he will cover eastern AA'isconsin for the Steven-.Tarvis com- 

 pany. Mr. Sill was formerly Chicago representative for the H. F. 

 n. w Lumber Co., Marinette. Wis. 



C. Ebenreiter of the Quixley Lumber Company, recently went 

 win, uis family to Kewaskum. Wis., for a brief vacation, 



S, :, Bennett of the Hardwood Mills Lumber Company, 965 West 

 22nd .street, i-ecently spent ten days witli liis family at their cottage 

 at Ih -s Lake, Mich. 



