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HARDWOOD RECORD 



February 10. 1922 



View of a Splendid Figured Red Gum Log at the Holly Ridge Lumber Co.'s St. Landry Mill 



And to this natural richness there is added, in the i-iitting of the 

 lumber, the very best manufacturing methods, inspired by the con 

 scientious desire of the Holly Ridge Company to produce the finest 

 quality of gum lumber that natural conditions and human ingenuity 

 can combine to make. 



The mill at. Meeker was painstakingly designed to do the best 

 that can be done in the way of manufacturing ash lumber. That 

 a superior quality of ash is being turned out at this mill is no mere 

 assumption. It is proved beyond the possibility of dispute by the 

 simple fact that during the years this mill has been cutting, prac- 

 tically all of its ash has been exported and yet there have been but 

 few complaints. That is a record that speaks with convincing elo- 

 quence. 



Both the Holly Ridge and Meeker mills are prepared to manu- 

 facture dimension stock that will meet the most exacting specifications. 



That the Holly Ridge Lumber Company is prepared to maintain 

 for an indefinite period the exacting standards it has set for itself, 



is assured by the fact that the company now has under title 100,- 

 000,000 feet of timber with an ample reservation. About half of 

 this is gum of the splendid character spoken of in connection with 

 the St. Landry mill. This gum develops plenty of figure in sawing. 

 The remainder of the timber consi.sts chiefly of oak, cypress, ash and 

 elm. The cypress on the company's holdings is excellent stock with 

 very little shake. 



It is really a pleasurable experience to walk through the company's 

 timber holdings. The commanding stature and large girth of the 

 trees is extremely impressive. The timber grows straight and tall, 

 and the heavy festoons of Spanish moss that hang from the high, 

 spreading limbs give one the impression of great and strong old age. 

 One sees that there is honest worth in these ancient grey-haired trees 

 or they would not have endured so long and so well the vicissitudes 

 of forest existence. 



It is a happy coincidence that it has fallen to the lot of an 

 organization such as the Holly Ridge Lumber Company to convert 



A View of the Monroe. La., Mill 



Bird's-ey» View of the St. Landry Mill 



