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compniiy will ocrupy uu ucif of «iound iind Imve 000 feet uf Iraik (or 

 swltililiiK and will carry In stock about 125 cars of hardwood lumber 

 from West Virginia mills. 



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The 



stln-La^-^r Veneer Company is the style of a recently organized 

 concern which will do a general lumber and veneer commission business 

 at Chicago. Sidney Austin and William Eager are the Incorporators. 

 IIeadi|uariers are In the Steinway building. 



J. C. Knox of Cadillac, Mich., secretary of the Michigan Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, stopped at Chicago last week on his way to 

 Eau Claire, Wis., where he attended the meeting of the Northern nemlock 

 & Hardwood Manufacturers' Association. 



George E. Eosler of the Foster-Latimer Lumber Company, Mellen, Wis., 

 and H. B. Goodman of the Goodman Lumber Company, Goodman, Wis., 

 spent several days in Chicago following their attendance at the meetinu- 

 of the Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manufacturers' Association at Eau 

 Claire. 



William Hopkins of the New Kiver Lumber Company, Cincinnati, O . 

 was in Chicago several days of last week. 



M. L. Pease of the Galloway-rcase Company, Poplar Bluff, Mo., spent 

 most of this week with the local trade on business. 



C. H. Barnaby of Greencastle, Ind.. president of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association, was in Chicago last week in conference with Frank 

 I". Fish, secretary of that association. 



F. W. Hanley of the WiUiamson-Kuny Mill & Lumber Company, Mound 

 City, 111., spent most of last week with the local trade. 



James F. McSweyn, president and general manager of the Memphis 

 Band Mill Company. Memphis, Tenn., spent Wednesday and Thursday 

 of last week with the local trade. 



II. C. Ilossafous of Dayton. O., prominent as a veneer manufacturer, 

 was In the city a couple of days last week. 



G. H. Evans of the G. II. Evans Lumber Company, Chattanooga, Tenn., 

 spent several days of last week in Chicago on a business trip. 



W. W. Gillespie has sold his interest in the veneer concern of Houghton 

 & Gillespie, to his former partner, T. E. Houghton. 



Hakdwood Kecokd is in receipt of a postal card from R. S. Bacon of 

 the R. S. Bacon Veneer Company, North Ann street, Chicago. Mr. Bacon 

 has been making an extensive trip abroad investigating the source of 

 supply of Circassian walnut. He wrote from Tiflis, in the province of 

 Trans-Caucasia, Russia, which is in the heart of the Caucasus mountains, 

 from where comes the Circassian walnut of commerce. 



H. C. Miller of the Hardwood Mills Lumber Company, Chicago, left 

 on Thursday of last week for a two weeks' hunting trip in Wisconsin. 

 He went directly to Merrill, from where he struck out into the countr.v. 

 He is equipped for deer hunting and anticipates an enjoyable vacation. 



Thomas McFarland of the Thomas McFarland Lumber Company, Cairo. 

 111., was a recent visitor to the local trade. 



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Charles K. Parry of Charles K. I'arry & Co., sole selling agents for the 

 Carolina Spruce Company. Pensacola, N. C, recently returned from an 

 extended stay at the plant, with the report that they are cutting 90,000 

 feet of spruce and hardwood a day. Mr. Parry says the logs they are 

 turning out, especially in chestnut, oak and ash, are of the highest grade 

 and the best they ever marketed. Mr. Parry also visited their plant in 

 Selma, N. C, where they are shipping short and long leaf pine, of which 

 they have a cut ahead which will keep t'oem busy for the next five years. 



The Whiting Lumber Company reports more liberal orders recently with 

 business keeping fairly steady on the whole. No decided improvement 

 in trading is anticipated until the disturbing local and national questions 

 are settled. 



Robert Vt. Schofleld of Schofield Brothers, owners of the Saltkeatchie 

 Lumber Company, Schofield, S. C. who recently returned from their 

 mill, says they are pushing their plant to full capacity getting out ex- 

 '■ellent stock, among which is some fine poplar and cypress. Mr. Scho- 

 field says business is only fair at this time, but they have many large 

 orders on hand which will keep them busy for some time. 



J. H. Campbell of Currie & Campbell reports business spasmodic and 

 prices weak. They are cutting lumber every day at their mill, but are 

 not inclined to force it on the market. 



Frederick S. Underbill of Wistar, Underbill & Nixon says they are 

 feeling the potent changes in the administration, but there is nothing to 

 denote a panicky condition in the near future. Orders are booked right 

 along, but it requires more hustling to get them as buyers are conservative. 



William r. Shearer of Samuel H. Shearer & Son reports business run- 

 ning along fairly well, with perhaps a shade of Improvement. He does 

 not look for normal trading until the various disturbing political ques- 

 tions are settled. 



Frank T. Rumbarger, well-known lumberman of this city, has joined the 

 selling staff of the Thomas E. Coale Lumber Company. 



The Frackvllle Lumber & Supply Company, Frackville, Pa., was recently 

 chartered under Pennsylvania laws, capitalized at $5,000. 



The Current River Lumber Company, New York, was Incorporated under 

 Delaware laws. Capital $100,000. 



Application was made recently by the Pacific Timber Company to change 

 its name to the California Timber Company, with a capital stock of 

 $500,000. 



RED CUM 



I Leading Manulacturers i 



MILLER LUMBER 



Marianna, Arkansas 



CO. 



ST. FRANCIS BASIN RED GUM 



We offer for immediate shipment: 



5 Cars 4/4 1st & 3nd Sted Gum 

 .5 Cars 5/4 1st & 3nd Red Gum 

 2 Cars 6/4 Ist £ 2nd Red Gum 

 1 Car 8/4 1st * 2nd Red Gum 



3 Cars 4/4 No. 1 Com. Red Gam 

 2 Cars n i No. 1 Cora. Red Gum 

 1 Car 6 4 No. 1 Com. Red Gum 

 t Car 8 '4 No. 1 Com. Red Gum 



3 Cars 4 4 13 to 17" Gnm Box Bds. 



.\U band sawn stock, good percentage 14 and 18' lengths. Modern 

 equipment backed by 25 years' practical experience is our guarantee 

 of proper handling of your orders. We also manufacture other hard- 

 wood lumber and box shooks. 



ARCHER LUMBER COMPANY 



HELENA, ARKANSAS 



Manufacturers of 



HARDWOODS 



SPECIAL ITEMS THIS .MONTH 



PLAIN RED GUM QTRD. RED GUM 



248,075' 4 4 Is & 2s. I 7,716' 4 4 Is & 28. 



402,222' 4 4 No. 1 C. 12,235' 4 4 No. 1 C. 



79,645' 6 4 No. 1 C. | 6,219' 6 4 1» & 2s. 



47,288' 8 4 Is & 2s. 26,805' 6 4 No. 1 C. 



Quartered Red Gum 



Plain and Quartered Gum, Two Years on Sticks 

 4/4", 5 4 ", 6 4 " and 8 4" Thicknesses 



3 " No. 1 Common 

 and Better 



Soft Elm 



Bone 

 Dry 



Mark H. Brown Lumber Company 



Hardwood Manufacturers Mounds, Ark. 



Mil.- West of MemphlK. T^mi. 



