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HARDWOOD RECORD 



January 25, 1922 



The Successful Mahogany Manufacturer 

 Must Have an Adequate Log Supply 



Showing our fresh water pond within the Mississippi River at New Orleans, where our 

 steamers discharge their logs after completing a long journey from the tropics. This pond 

 is approximately one-half mile long; has a storage capacity of three to four million 

 feet of Mahogany logs, so that we are always assured of adequate supply; there our choice 

 Mahogany logs are stored in a most advantageous manner, safe against the river currents 

 and storms, floating freely without chams, ready to go thru our mill. 



This Mahogany pond is the only one of its kind; all other features of our operations have 

 been worked out with equal care. 



while there have been some directors' meetings held hero since that tinjf. 

 this is the first convention held here since the organization meeting. 



The Higgins Lumber Co., which has been doing a wholesale business in 

 general lumbers, will hereafter operate a retail business as well, having 

 purchased the business of the .John C. Graham Lumber Co., and taken over 

 Its yard on East Market street. Mr. Graham was formerly in the Roth 

 Lumber Co., sold out last year, incorporated the John C. Graham Lumber 

 Co., and has found that his health wasn't equal to the strain. He becomes 

 a stockholder in the Higgins Lumber Co.. which has moved its wholesale 

 office to the yard. The Higgins Lumber Co. has increased its capital from 

 110,000 to $40,000, and liability limit to .?10n,00(i. S. M. Higgins, .\. K. 

 and L. J. Higgins are the signers of the amended articles. 



A. A. Eglc. sales manager of the K. H. Humphrey Co.. at New Albany, 

 Ind., producers of hardwoods, has been laid up a few days as a result of a 

 fall. 



Edward L. Davis, of the Edward L. Davis Lumber Co., Louisville, re- 

 cently returned from a trip to Mobile, Ala., where the company operates a 

 mlU. 



A. E. Norman, Sr., of the Norman Lumber Co., and organizer of the 

 Louisville Hardwood Club, went to the infirmar.v for a minor operation on 

 January 17. Mr. Norman will be seventy-two his next birthday, but is in 

 fine physical condition, and his family Is not worried especially over the 

 operation, as it is not a serious one. 



H. T. Roberts, who recently resigned as secretary of the Mengel Com- 

 pany, Louisville, has entered the local insurance field, becoming a partner, 

 and has applied for membership In the Louisville Board of Fire Under- 

 writers. Mr. Roberts was with the lumber company for thirty-four years. 



Amended articles were recently filed by the Star Wood Products Co., 

 Increasing its capital stock from $50,000 to $75,000. 



The Dawson Lumber Co., Louisville wholesalers, has surrendered Its 

 charter, and hereafter will operate as a firm instead of a corporation, 

 there being no other change in the organization. The firm is composed of 

 J. L. and R. S. Dawson, brothers. 



G. Wallace Embry, 65 years of age, president of the Emhry Box Co., 

 which operates the Embry Lumber Co., and also head of the Voss Table 

 Co. and prominent member of the livestock industry and a few other 

 enterprises, died on Jan. IS, after an Illness of several months. 

 ■ Howard C. Hobbs and W. H. Day, representing the veneer and lumber 

 departments of the Wood Mosaic Company, have been In the Chicago dis- 

 trict, and around the shows for the past few days. Mr. Day has sent in 

 some very fair orders for oak and walnut. 



The Louisville Point Lumber Co. has been getting in a good many river 

 'togs, and is again buying rail logs, and has stocks on hand that will insure 



steady operation tor some months to come. The company hail planned to 

 shut down about the first of the year but has decideil to go on through 

 to July 1, at least, with steady cutting at the Louisville mills. 



The Wood Mosaic Company is down at the Louisville mills, and plans to 

 remain down until about February 1 while making repairs. Log buying 

 is going right ahead, and sales of lumber are lair. 



WISCONSIN 



The Merrill Handle Company. Morrill, has amoncloil its corporate articloa 

 to provide for an increase in capitalization from .'SSO.non to $1(10,000, con- 

 sisting of 750 shares of common and 250 shares of 8 per cent preferred 

 stock. The new issue will be used for the general development of the 

 business. 



The Rhinelander Box and Lumber Company at Rhinelander sustained 

 an estimated loss of $40,000 to $50,000 by fire, on January 14, which badly 

 damaged the building and equipment. Repairs and replacements will be 

 made at once. The loss Is fully covered by insurance. 



E. A. Drott of Drott & Newell, loggers and luml>ermon of Butternut, 

 Wis., who for some time has been ropresonting tlie Holt Catorpillar tractor 

 in nearby territory, has been given a consideraltiy enlarged field and to 

 better handle the business has established principal headquarters at 1.30 

 South Brown Street in Rhinelander, Wis. The ofBco is in charge of Ray 

 Boyd, who has been in the sales department of the Holt company at Min- 

 neapolis for a number of years. A number of "Northern Logger" type of 

 Holt tractors, equipped with cab, electric lights and snow plow, have 

 been sold. 



The Capital City Lumber Company of Madison has recently increased 

 its capital stock from .$75,000 to $125,000 to accommodate the growth 

 of its business. 



The Moore & Galloway Lumber Comiiany of Fond du Lac resumed 

 operations in its mill factories on January 16, after being shut down for 

 about a week for inventory, during which time necessary repairs and 

 replacements were made. The company has the unique distinction of 

 having run virtually without Interruption all season and I» also intending 

 to continue operations Indefinitely, although logging operations this winter 

 probably will not average more than 50 or GO per cent of the normal input. 



Owners of the Badger Cabinet Company of Plyn\outh, Wis., have not yet 

 determined their course in respect to the reconstruction of the factory, 

 which was badly damaged by lire on January 1. Insurance companies have 

 figured the loss to be from 40 to 50 per cent of the total Insurance amount- 

 ing to $107,000, The plant had been closed December 24 for the holidays. 

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