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HARDWOOD RECORD 



(Leading Manuiacturers) 



WE OFFER THE FOLLOWING 



Band Sawn Stock 



600,000 ft. 4 4 Common & Better Sap Gum 



200,000 ft. 4 4 Common & Better Red Gum 



250,000 ft. 5 4 Common & Better Red Gum 



75,000 ft. 6 4 Common & Better Red Gum 



50,000 ft. 8 4 Common & Better Red Gum 



This stock contains a good percentage of 14' 

 and 16' lengths and is of excellent widths 



W. W. GARY, "Zr 



HARDWOOD LUMBER AND LOGS 



OUR SPECIALTY 



St. Francis Basin Red Gum 



WE MANUFACTURE 



Southern Hardwoods 



Gum, Oak and Asli=^= 

 J. H. Bonner & Sons 



Mills and Office. 

 QCIGLEY, AKK. 



rostofflce and Telegraph Office, 

 HETH. ARK. 



ARCHER LUMBER COMPANY 



HELENA, ARKANSAS 



Manufacturers of 



HARDWOODS 



SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES 



We can furnish your entire 

 requirements in Hardwoods 



OUR SPECIALTY — RED GUM 



St. Francis Basin Hardwoods 



100,000' 4/4" Ists & 2nds Plain White Oak 

 100,000' 6/4" No. 1 Common Red Gum 



Band Sawn Bone Dry 



75 per cent. 14 and 16 feet long 



PROMPT SHIPMENT 



Geo. G. Brown & Company 



Proctor, Ark. 



1 hour from Memphis 

 on C. R. I. & P. Ry. 



plans which have been anuouuced by the .American Creosoting Company^ 

 which has offices in Louisville, for the construction of a creosote plant at 

 Woodward, Ala. The company will establish a plant in connection with 

 coke ovens which are now in operation, and will make creosote and other 

 coal-tar products, thus getting the material which it uses in its fourteen 

 plants. The company Is one of the largest concerns in the wood- 

 I>roserving industry and uses an immense amount of material. 



F-umbermen do not appear to understand the motive back of a bill which 

 has l)een introduced in Ihc state legislature, the purpose of which Is to 

 repeal the act creating the state board of forestry. The board, through the 

 state forester. .1. K. Barton, has done excellent work, a recent report 

 showing that during the past autumn fires which destroyed 350,000 board 

 feet of timber were put out by the county fire wardens appointed by the 

 department. The loss would unquestionably have been much greater wlth- 

 nut tlioii- assistance. 



> WISCONSIN -<= 



The Middl^ton Lumber Company of Kipon has been Incorporated with 

 .f45.000 capital. G. .T. Middlelon. F. T. Chittenden and J. A. Middle- 

 ton are the incorporators. 



The Lincoln Box Company of Merrill has been incorporated by Charles 

 F. Hackbart, J. G. Wenzel and George Misterek. 



The Eagle River Lumber Company "of Eagle River has been incor- 

 porated to manufacture and .sell lumber and other timber products. 

 The capital stock is .fl2.000 and the incorporators are Fred W. Bebn, 

 Theodore A. Brenner. Henry Leppla and Herman F. Behn. 



The Westfleld and Fall River Lumber Company of Mosinee has filed 

 an amendment to its articles of incorporation increasing Its capital 

 from $1.S.000 to $1.50.000. 



The Paine Lumber Company and other Oshkosh lumbering concerns, 

 which have been closed for improvements, overhauling and repairs, 

 will soon be running full force. The Paine concern will resume opera- 

 tions In Its entire plant after a long idleness. The H. McMillen, the 

 Foster-Lothman and the Gould mills have already resumed operations. 

 Hundreds of unemployed have been supplied with work. The Diamond 

 Match Company has awarded a contract to the Coddlngton Engineering 

 Company of Milwaukee to erect a large fire proof addition, four stories 

 high and 6."» by 110 feet In size. 



The E. W. Ellis Lumber Company, Grand Rapids, has commenced 

 its season's cut and expects to soon begin both day and night shifts. The 

 first shipment received by this concern was thirty cars of hardwood logs, 

 arriving at Grand Rapids Saturday. .January 17. It Is expected this 

 season's cut will exceed that of last year. 



The work of making repairs In the Connor sawmill at Stratford has 

 been completed. About fifteen million feet of logs will be cut the com- 

 ing season. 



The NeillsvIUe Cheese Box Manufacturing Company has closed up its 

 business at Nelllsville, having sold its business to Blum Brothers, of 

 Marshfleld. who will enlarge their factory at Marshfleld and conduct 

 the entire business in that city. The Nelllsville plant Is closed. 



The Great Northern Pail Company, whose plant was destroyed by fire 

 recently at Glllett, will replace the old plant with a modern structure, 

 100 by 80 feet in size, which Is to cost $15,000. The plant Included an 

 electric plant which supplied the village. Joseph H. Murphy Is presi- 

 dent ; H. C. Sorenson. vice-president ; W. W. Smith, manager. The gen- 

 eral offices, formerly located at Green Bay, will be removed to Glllett. 



Work has been commenced at the new woodworking plant of L. S. 

 Barber & Sons at Butternut. The concern will manufacture broom, 

 handles but will cut table leg squares for a period, for which product alt 

 such lumber that cannot be used for broom handles Is used. / 



The Hannahs Manufacturing Company of Kenosha has made plans to 

 double Its capacity by several large additions. Excavation work has been 

 started on a machine room, to be one story and 85 by 120 feet. Adjoin- 

 ing it will be four new dry kilns, each 18 by 120 feet. A new power 

 plant will change from steam to electric drive. A glue room for veneer- 

 ing will be two stories and 60 by 220 feet. A warehouse will also be 

 erected, two stories and 60 by 122 feet. The new dry kilns will give 

 the concern a capacity of 40,000 feet of dry lumber dally. 



The Tomahawk Veneer & Box Company, which was Incorporated In- 

 September, 191.3. has commenced operations. The concern purchased 

 the No. 2 saw and planing mills of the Bradley company, taking pos- 

 session on November 1. and the planing mill has been remodeled to meet 

 requirements in producing veneer and cheese boxes. Max Meyer Is mana- 

 ger of the plant, which has produced its first product. Rhelnhard Meyer Is 

 president ; W. H. McDermott. treasurer : George L. Sladek, secretary ; 

 Julius GromoII, vice-president. 



As a memorial to their father, the late William Carson, a pioneer 

 lumberman of Eau Claire, the daughters of the lumberman, Mrs. James- 

 Mclntire and Mrs. Theodore K. Long of Chicago. Mrs. Jocelyn McGrath 

 and Mrs. C. W. Lockwood, Eau Claire, have purchased from the Eugene 

 Shaw estate Half Moon Lake Island, one of the beauty spots of the city, 

 comprising 1.35 acres, and presented it to the city of Eau Claire. It 

 will be known as Carson Park. 



The Haevers Logging Company of Green Bay has erected a mill In the 

 woods at the source of the timber supply and will haul the cut lumber 

 from the mill to the shores of Green Bay to be marketed by boats and 

 railroads in the spring. This method has been adopted by the Haevers; 



