August 25, 1922 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



51 



\Coiiiitiiicd from 0<tiiv :v^\ 

 ment of a new manager for the hardwood department, Harvey Moynan, 

 assistant in charge vi the department. Mr. Mdvnan succeeds Chris A. 

 Walker, who resigns to go with the Hoffman Brothers Company of Fort 

 Wayne, Ind. 



Henry Ford is beginning to look South for his spokes, according to 

 indications reaching here. The Yazoo Spoke Company of Yazoo, Miss., 

 reports that within the past few days it was the recipient of one of the 

 largest orders for spokes ever placed by Mr. Ford. 



"The Imperial Lumber & Stave Export Company" is the name of the 

 latest entrant into the exporting business at New Orleans. The new outfit 

 is composed of C. J. Hay and W. C. Campbell and occupies offices in the 

 Canal-Commercial Bank building. Mr. Hay is president and Mr. Campbell 

 is vice-president of the new venture. Both are well known to the lumber 

 trade and more especially so to the stave export phase of it. 



Jerusalem, ancient, Biblical Jerusalem, is entering the Southern hard- 

 wood market of the United States of America for cross-ties. A cargo of 

 37,500 oak cross-ties left the port of Mobile, Ala., some days since bound 

 for Haifa to be forwarded thence to Jerusalem. 



WISCONSIN 



The Rockwell Manufacturing Co., of Milwaukee, has plans under way 

 for the construction of a factory building on Park place. The structure 

 will be one story, 200 by 54 feet, concrete foundation, brick walls, wood 

 trussts. The general contract has already been awarded. 



Construction of a factory addition to the plant of the Seaman Body 

 Corporation, 1732 Richards .street, Milwaukee, is to be started shortly. 

 Bids have been closed for a brick and timber structure. L-shaped, 423 by 

 100 and 225 by 100 feet, construction to be similar to present plant. 



Work has begun on the excavating for the new dry kiln to be erected 

 at Center and Eight streets, Racine, by the H. & M. Body Corporation!. 

 The rapidly growing business of this concern has necessitated the con- 

 struction of additional dry kiln facilities. 



The big sawmill of the Connor Land & Lumber Co.. at Laona, is to be 

 closed for extensive repairs and overhauling. New machiaiery will be 

 installed in the plants. The work will require several weeks and oper- 

 ations arc expected to be resumed by early fall. 



A. J. Tipler has acquired the interests of W. J. Grossman in the Tipler- 

 Grossman Lumber Co., hardwood manufacturer and wholesaler. Green Bay. 

 The present policies of the concern will be continued. The company will 

 continue manufacturing lumber at its modern band mill at Tipler, Wis. 



The Universal Fibre Co. has leased as an addition to its plant at She- 

 boygan a building 50 by 75 feet. The company recently increased its 

 capital stock from $5,000 to $25,000 amd is expanding its production of 

 fibn* furniture. Last November the concern started in business at 1002 

 Indiana avenue and has enjoyed a steady growth. 



S. C. Close, of the Close Lumber Co., Minneapolis, was seriously injured 

 in an automobile accident when the car in which he was riding collided 

 with aaiother machine near Wausau. Mr. Close was riding with his brother- 

 in-law, E. O. Farber, a jeweler of Merrill, Wis., who, with other occupants, 

 also sustained injuries. 



Construction work is progressing on the plant of the United Shoe Last 

 Co., at Crystal Falls. The big structure is now enclosed and the roof 

 completed. A combined warehouse and dry kiln building is yet to be 

 constructed. This will be 400 by 58 feet, contaiaiing twelve dry kilns 20 

 feet square and 12 feet high. 



The Langlade Lumber Co., Antigo, has begun clearing the right-of-way 

 for an extension of its logging railroad. It will be about eight miles long 

 and extend south from Pearson into the northern part of the town of 

 Price, tapping the largest timber holdings of the company. The company 

 is operating two summer logging camps and loading Crews are moving out 

 logs of last winter's cut. Five or six lumber camps will be operated by 

 the company next year, and its jobbers will run about as many more. The 

 sawmill at Antigo has been shut down for overhauling w*hile the planing 

 mill is continuiaig to operate. 



According to advices received in Milwaukee frcun Washington, D. C. 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission will take until April 29 next year 

 to thoroughly investigate lumber rates from California to Wisconsin and 

 Minnesota. The commission has suspended a proposed chaoige in new 

 individual joint rates and regulations on lumber until that date. Rates 

 now in effect will continue until the commission has thoroughly gone into 

 the matter. 



It is hoped to begin operatioms of the new Automatic Seating Co. plant 

 at Superior in September, according to John Grieff. secretary and treasurer 

 of the newly organized concern. The company will manufacture a new 

 style chair in the former American Bedding Co. plant. Perry J. Ekstrand 

 is president and George Carlsau vice-president. The tirm was incorporated 

 for $200,000. The new chair is so constructed that the seat raises and 

 lowers automatically as the person using it sits down or rises. 



The J. W. Wells Lumber Co. and the Von Platen-Pox Company are the 

 only Upper Peninsula firms that are conducting logging operations oai an 

 extensive scale at this time. The coal shortage is being felt while full 



Manufacturers 

 of 



Stimson's 



HARDWOOD 

 LUMBER 



Annual Output: 50 Million Feet 



J. V. Stimson 



Huntingburg, Ind. 



Stimson Veneer & Lumber Co. 



Memphis, Tenn 



J. V. Stimson Hardwood Co. 



Memphis, Tenn., and Helena, Ark. 



Plain and Qtd. Red and White 



£«en iJ /\ JV Soft 



Color AND OTHER Texture 



Hardwoods 



Soft Yellow Poplar 



MADE (MR ) RIGHT 



OAK FLOORING 



PROMPT SHIPMENTS 

 The 



Mowbray 8C Robinson Co. 



(INCORPORATED) 



CINCINNATI, OHIO 



