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HARDWOOD RECORD 



February 25, 1922 



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OUR SPECIALTY IS 



American Walnut Lumber and Veneers 



Our Band Mill at Cincinnati is in daily operation and we now 

 carry a stock of over three million feet of walnut lumber. 



We have also ready for prompt shipment three million feet of 

 walnut long wood veneers, half million feet of walnut stump- 

 wood and one million feet of African and Central American 

 mahogany veneers. 



We Also Handle MAHOGANY Mexican, PhiUppine 



The Kosse, Shoe 8c Schleyer Co. 



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EASTERN BRANCH: 

 8 E. Lexington St., Baltimore, Aid. 



opened for business at 470 South Uigh St., Columbus. Charles F. Biede- 

 mann is general manager. 



Samuel Snider, formerly president of the J. J. Snider Lumber Co., of 

 Columbus, died at his late residence, 1580 Granville avenue, from paralysis. 

 He came to Columbus with his brother, J. J. Snider, from Somerset, O., 

 In 1891, and founded the business. A controlling interest In the business 

 was purchased by J. E. McNally in 1913, but the name was not changed 

 until about two years ago. He was born In Perry county. 



The Automatic Wood Turning and Specialty Co.. of Limeville, O., has 

 been incorporated with a capital of $10,000 by E. W. Carter, Sr., John W. 

 Carlstine and others. 



SOUTH BEND 



The regular luncheon and business meeting of the South Bend Hardwood 

 Club held Monday noon, February 20, was well attended and most of the 

 time was spent in discussing advertising and traflBe matters. 



A letter from President Taylor of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation was read, commending the stand of the club In its expression of 

 confidence in the Sales Code Committee. 



Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Schadt left Friday, February 10, for Southern Cali- 

 fornia, where they expect to spend a month or six weeks In and around 

 Los Angeles. Harry says he is combining business and pleasure on this 

 trip, but failed to say what percentage the mixture would be. 



Home Office: Cincinnati, Ohio 



Lock Box 18, St. Bernard Branch 



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MEMPHIS 



The A. J. Chestnut Lumber Company, BufTalo, N. Y., has opened a 

 branch office in Memphis under the management of F. B. Longwell, who 

 le t"mporarily located in the Randolph building. The company plans to 

 operate a yard here. Frank A. Peltier, recently with the Tustln Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, is assistant to Mr. Longwell. The company proposes to 

 buy and sell considerable blocks of hardwood lumber to consuming in- 

 terests. 



The Gayoso Lumber Company is planning to develop the timber on Its 

 large tract of land In Grenada county, Mississippi, which contains 60,000,- 

 000 to 65,000,000 feet of oak, ash. gum and other hardwoods. It proposes 

 to remove Its band mill from Blaine, Miss., to Grenada some time this 

 summer. The company has already begun construction of a tram road 

 from its timber holdings to Grenada as the first step in its development 

 program. It has completed cuttlng^ Its timber in the Blaine territory. 



This firm, in addition to the Blaine mill, has a large hardwood plant at 

 Memphis. It is principally owned by W. A. and C. R. Ransom. 



The Frisco system announces that approximately 318,000,000 will be spent 

 during 1922 in Improving Its road bed, repairing its equipment and pur- 

 chasing new cars, locomotives and other needed facilities. Most of the 

 repair work is being done at the shops at Springfield, Mo., Fort Scott, 

 Kan., and Yale, Ark., the site of the terminals just west of Memphis. 

 Thousands of cars of all kinds will be repaired during the year at an 

 estimated cost of about $900 each, according to officials of the company. 



W. H. Russe, who recently severed active connection with the hardwood 

 lumber Industry through sale of his interest in Russe & Burgess, Inc., 

 to Franklin T. Turner and associates, who have since organized the Tumer- 

 Farber-Love Company, has gone to Florida to recuperate from a recent 

 attack of influenza. He Is accompanied by Mrs. Russe. 



W. J. Lamb of the Lamb-Garry Lumber Company, Vioksburg, Miss., was 

 a recent visitor in Memphis, his old home. He reports that the mill of his 

 firm is operating on full time, and that it is finding business steadily 

 increasing. 



J. F. Mclntyre of J. F. Mclntyre & Sons, Pine Bluff, Ark., another 

 ex-Memphlan, spent some time in this city during the past week. He says 

 that his mill is operating and that, while there is no particular rush, 

 orders are coming in at an increased rate and business Is fairly good. He 

 was identified here some years ago with the old Memphis Rim & Bow 

 Company and the Memphis Veneer & Lumber Company. 



WISCONSIN 



The Northern Woodenware Company of Crandon, manufacturing candy 

 pails, lard tubs, ice cream tubs, etc., has completed a new dry kiln unit, 

 23 by 84 feet, and in the spring will make a thirty-foot addition to the 

 sawing room. A short time ago a new 150-horsepower engine was Installed 

 and other improvements have been made to increase the efficiency as well 

 as the capacity to meet a steadily growing demand. 



The Bckkedal Lumber Company of Couderay recently hauled what Is 

 said to be the largest train of logs ever carried by a steam log hauler. It 

 consisted of sixteen sleighs, brought to the Couderay mill from the camps 

 near Chief Lake, on the Court d'OreiUes Indian Reservation, a haul of 

 eight miles. 



C. C. Collins & Rons, Inc., is the name of a new $100,000 corporation 

 organized at Madison to manufacture and deal in lumber, lumber prod- 



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