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November 25, 1921 



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STERLING 



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Sterling Quality 



is more than a pleasant phrase of words. It 

 represents all our experience and desire to 

 serve. A sample order will allow us to show 

 you our quality and ability to serve you 

 promptly. 



REPRESENTATIVES: 

 GRAND RAPIDS. MICH. . .F. K. TINKHAM 



CHICAGO, ILL G. M. PALMER 



ROCKFORD, ILL K. E. KNUTSON 



Send us your inquiries 



RodcQs Lumber & Veneer Co. 



27 Years at Marshfield, Wis. 



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YOU WILL not 

 appreciate the 

 Mengel grade and 

 the Mengel serv- 

 ice until you have 

 tried "something 

 just as good." But 

 will you not taJ^e 

 our word for it? 



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INCORPOBATED 



Louisville. Ky. 



THE PAST AND PRESENT IN MAHOGANY 



This is a view of the cutting rooms and kilns of new Berkey & Gay plant 



iC'intiiiurd frum pan*' 35) 

 rehandUng, will be run direct to the factory and to the cutting 

 room. 



There are 1 6 kilns, each of which can take care of eight cars, the 

 entire battery having a daily capacity of 35,000 feet of lumber. 



The crating lumber will be handled in exactly the same manner. 

 One corner of the yard has been set aside for storage for this class 

 of material. Here, too, has been installed a lumber piling or ele- 

 vating machine which will automatically raise this crating lumber 

 direct fronr the cars to the packing rooms on the second floor of 

 the factory. 



The kiln dried lumber will go direct from the kilns, still on their 

 trucks to the cutting room without having been handled at all since 

 it left the freight cars. From the cutting room it w^ill pass along to 

 the machine room, thence to the cabinet room, the finishing room 

 and finally to the packing room. Packed, it will pass dow^n a chute 

 to the shipping room and is ready once more for the freight cars. 



Not only has every possible note been taken of economy in han- 

 dling the lumber by way of the kiln cars but the factory is equipped 

 with seven electric freight elevators, which operate at 135 feet a 

 minute. 



The machinery throughout the plant, too, is operated in the 

 most cleanly and economical manner possible. There is not a shaft 

 or a belt in the entire plant. Each machine has its individual motor. 

 The push of a button starts the machine. A movement of the foot 

 stops it. 



The coal for the plant is brought in, just as is the lumber, on the 

 Grand Trunk tracks which enter the yard by w^ay of Bond avenue. 

 It will be brought in in self-dumping gondolas unloaded by the sim- 

 ple pulling of a lever which will let the coal slide into bins beneath 

 the tracks. It is carried by conveyors to the crushers and then 

 drops into hoppers to be fed automatically under the boilers. 



TTiis power plant is one of the features of the new factory in 

 which the officials of Berkey & Gay take the greatest possible pride. 

 There are three boilers of 400 horse-power each, two to carry the 

 load and one to be held in reserve. These boilers furnish the steam 

 to drive a battery of direct connected turbine engines of the Kerr 

 type which supply the power and light for the entire plant. Two of 

 the turbines are of 1,000 horse-power, one for service and one for 

 reserve. One turbine of 300 horse-power is for use when some de- 

 partment is operating at night and one turbine of 1 5 horse-power 

 is to supply the lighting system. The engine room is immaculate. 

 It has white tiled walls. There are no belts, shafting, flywheels, oils 

 or odors and almost no noise. A 10-ton electric crane at the end 

 of the room is for use in doing heavy lifting when one of the ma- 

 chines must be shifted for any purpose. 



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