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HARDWOOD RECORD 



(Leading Manufacturers) 



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. 



Eleven Miles West of Memphis, Tenn. 



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 



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HARDWOOD LUMBER AND LOGS 



OUR SPECIALTY 



SI Francis Basin Red Gum 



WE MANUFACTURE 



Southern Hardwoods 



Gum, Oak and Ash _ 



J. H. Bonner & Sons 



Mills and Office, 

 QCIGUBY, AKK. 



PostofBce and Telegraph Office, 

 HETU, ASK. 



bnildiiig, anil i-ii;^^iscil in jobbing' hanlwiMid and Umibei- in cur loi..-.. Mr. 

 lirnus was formerly tiavellng salesmau for the U. Connor Lumber Com- 

 pany and more recently sales manager of the Atwood Lumber and .Man- 

 ufucturlui; Company of I'ark Kails where lie remained until that liusiness 

 was taken over by the nines Lumber Company. 



The A. IL Stanpe Company of Merrill has niovil iniu iis ii.w ot- 

 liees in the former Lincoln County Bank bnililin;;. 'I'here are Iwo 

 stories and the basement devoted to ofllces of this concern. 



The vlllnKe of Craniion is the scene of great logging operations at 

 this time, liesides the annual output of 12.00f),00(l feet of bardwood by 

 the local company, Keith & Hiles Lumber Company, .McGee of Shawano 

 is banking at Kocky Siding, a mile and a half from the city on the IVlican 

 branch, 8,000,000 feet of hardwood besides several thousand cords of pulp 

 wood ; the Underwood Veneer Company has a large crew near the Pell- 

 can branch witl; a logging railroad and a lifty-ton logging locomotive 

 hauling to the l>ranch : Morse and Tradewcll of Antigo have built a 

 logging railroad to the branch and are rushing out thousands ot feet 

 daily ; the Rhinelander Veneer Company has a crew of thirty men load- 

 ing logs on the Keith & Hiles logging railroad and numerous jobbers 

 are cutting logs and pulpwood. On an average fifty cars loaded with 

 logs arc sent out ot Crandon to the main line daily. While the late 

 coming of snow; and cold weather retarded logging operations for a 

 period the work is now going on with great activity. 



The various camps ot the Menasha Woodenware Company of Mcnasha, 

 located in northern Wisconsin and Michigan, are working full crews 

 now that the weather has turned favorable for logging operations. 

 Long trains of logs are arriving daily at Menasha from the camps. Sev- 

 enty men are working in the two Ashland camps and about halt that 

 number in the two Mosinee camps of the John Weeks Lumber Com- 

 pany of Stevens Point. Logs are being received in great numbers at 

 the mill in this city. The Weeks company also has six contractors 

 putting in logs at diHerent places. The E. ,7. Pflflfner Company ot 

 Stevens Point also h.id a large crew logging in .\shland county. These 

 logs, however, are manufactured at the mill of this concern located at 

 Sell's Spur as during the past two seasons. The big sawmills at Antigo 

 are now receiving logs faster than they can be cared tor. The Faust 

 Lumber Company of that city has commenced the season's cut, following 

 the lead of the other milLs. 



Lumbering concerns in Marinette li.ave been expanding and enlarging 

 their scope in their Jincs or' products during the past tew months. 

 The Michigan Hoop Company has installed five thousand dollars worth 

 of new equipment iu a now addition for the manufacture of trunk slats 

 in addition to its regular line of hoops and staves. The big Kreiter 

 Piano Company plant will increase its output to twenty-five pianos daily 

 to meet the demand of outside companies who have I heir instruments 

 manufactured here. The General Appliance Company on Main street has 

 a large volume ot business lined up for the coming season on a new 

 product, a complete line of porch furniture. 



Articles of incorporation of the La Pointe Lumber Company of 

 Meiiomonie have been tiled with the secretary ot state. The capital 

 stock is $35,000 and tlie incorporators are G. W. La Pointe. M. Maulne 

 and W. W. La Pointe. 



The Phoenix Chair Company ot Sheboygan has filed an amendment to 

 its articles of incorporation thereby increasing its capital stock from 

 ¥.•100,000 to $700,000. 



An addition to the shops nf c. Mattison & Sons, manufacturers or 

 wood-working macliinery, Heloit, is being erected on Fifth street. The 

 construction will be of brick and of similar architecture as the present 

 liuilding. The addition provides (or 1,.300 square feet additional floor 

 space. 



The largest dental furniture factory in the world, the American 

 Cabinet Company of Two Rivers, is doing a rushing business. It em- 

 ploys 800 men and only recently secured additional help from the Mil- 

 waukee Free Employment Bureau, the labor supply in Two Rivers having 

 ran short. Its products are .sent to every country in the world. 



The Wisconsin Railroad Commission has granted a certificate of 

 public convenience and necessity to the Minneariolis. Merrill & Marinette 

 Railroad Company to build a line from Merrill to .\thens. a distance 

 of twenty-one miles. The road is located in the lumbering region and 

 will undoubtedly be used to a great extent in hauling logs and finished 

 lumber. 



The planing mill of the .Vrpin Hardwood Company at .\tlanta was 

 totally destroyed by Are on Sunday night, February 8. The origin is 

 not known and is somewhat ot a mystery as there were no boilers on 

 the plant, the steam being furnished to the engines from the boilers of 

 the sawmill. The loss is estimated at .$35,000 and is covered by 

 insurance. 



The Wisconsiu Railway Commission has made several I'ulings that 

 are of interest to lumbering. Farm wagons, formerly in the first classi- 

 fication, were place<i in the second, at a reduction of about twenty per 

 cent in the co.st of .shipment. The complaint was made by the North- 

 western Wagon Company of Fort Atkinson on the North- Western line 

 but the rates alTect all lines. The commission denied the petition 

 of the Oshkosh Fuel Company and the Wausau .\dvancement Association 

 for an order to the Milwaukee road to reduce its rates on wood, lumber 

 and boxes. The Omaha railroad was granted a certificate of public 

 convenience and necessity for the construction of a ten-mile branch 

 into tile lumbering region, from Kaiser to Park I'alls. 



