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HARDWOOD RECORD 



May 10, 191T 



Little Rock 

 Lumber & Mfg. Co. 



LITTLE ROCK, ARK. 



IN THE 



HEARTofthefinestHARDWOODS 

 Saline River Red Gam 



Daily Capacity — 75,000 Feet 



BAND MILL 

 Little Rock, Ark. 



CIRCULAR MILLS 

 Emory, Ark. Watrous, Ark. 



High Grade Plain and Qtd. White and 

 Red Oak, Red Gum, Sap Gum, 

 Cypress, Ash, Hickory, Holly, Elm, 

 Maple, Qtd. Sycaniore, Hackberry 



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-Prompt Shipments of- 



Wh<ite and Red Oak Car Material 



All Lumber Well Manufactured. Dependable Grading 



Lidgerwood Portable 

 Skidders and Loaders 



Ground & Overhead Systems 



We build various sizes and types of these machines 

 to meet requirements of every logging operation 



LIDGERWOOD MFG. COMPANY 



Originators of Ground and Overhead Steam L«aolng Machinery 



CHICAGO 96 Liberty Street, NEW YORK Seattle 



New Orleans: Woorlward. Wleht & Co., Ltd. 

 Canada: Canadian Allia-Clialmera. Ltd.. Toronto 



Company of New .\lbany, Ind., which has been getting a good supply of 

 rars during the past few weeks, and managing to get out many shipments 

 which had been held up. 



Things in the South are improving steadily according to J. G. Brown 

 of the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company, Louisville, who is just back 

 from a trip to the mills in Arkansas, where the company is getting a better 

 percentage of car requirements, and making steadier shipments. Produc- 

 tion is increasing steadily. 



.\t Clay City, Ky., the Broadhead-Garrett Company, lumber manufac- 

 turer, recently announced a general increase in wages to its entire force. 

 The company features the manufacture of tobacco hogsheads. 



W. E. DeLaney, Lexington, president of the Kentucky Lumber Com- 

 pany, was recently appointed by the advisory committee of the Council of 

 National Defense on a subcommittee on lumber and forest products to 

 facilitate operations between the Government and the producers of lumber. 

 Mr. DeLaney stated that he was especially well up on Kentucky hard- 

 woods, and expected to be called on in hardwood lumber buying. 



Closely following his return from a business trip Oscar L. Kahl, New 

 .Albany. Ind., secretary of the Wilson Furniture Company, Louisville, died 

 of spinal meningitis. Jlr. Kahl was thirty-eight years old, and a native of 

 New Albany. He is survived by his wife and tliree daughters. 



The Paducah Board of Trade and the Paducah Cooperage Company, In 

 recently winning a case before the Interstate Commerce Commission, regis- 

 tered the thirteenth straight win before the commission. This case was 

 one in which the complainants protested to obtain the same rates on cooper- 

 age stock as on lumber. 



The Wilson-Biggs Lumber Company, Ashland, Ky., with a capital of 

 .?25.000 has been incorporated by Robert E. L. Wilson, William A. Biggs 

 and S. S. Willis. 



Public auction was recently held at Cloverport, Ky., at which the plant 

 of the Cloverport Boat and Manufacturing Company passed into the hands 

 of J. W. Pate, who has prospects for a big season on river boat construc- 

 tion. 



The Elk Fork Railroad Company. Lexington, Ky., with a capital of $25,- 

 000 and a debt limit of .?1, 000, 000 has been incorporated for the purpose of 

 building a forty-mile connecting lin^, and opening a large timber and coal 

 district. It is planned to have this road connect with the Caney Valley 

 road at Elk Fork river in Morgan county, and run through that county and 

 Eliott county, making connections with the C. & O. and the Ashland Coal 

 & Iron Railroad. Among the incorporators are William R. Snyder, J. F. 

 Caywood, Lexington ; H. M. Collins, Frankfort, Ky. ; C. W. Moorman, Ver- 

 sailles ; W. S. Whiting, Elizabcthtown, Tenn., and others. 



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The Walnut Log Company, a corporation organized and existing under 

 and by virtue of the laws of the state of Tennessee, has filed a copy of 

 its charter with the secretary of state of Arkansas and been granted per- 

 mission to transact business in Arkansas. 



The Cotton Plant Veneering Company of Cotton Plant, -Arkansas, has 

 purchased the plant of O. E. Jacobs at Newport, and will begin operating 

 it at once. H. E. Wilkinson is to be in charge as manager. 



C. A. Meadows of Jasper, .\rk., recently sold the white oak timber off a 

 140-acre tract of land for $1,040. 



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The Kenyon Companj', Waukesha, has begun work on an order from the 

 federal government for 175,000 cots, final delivery to be made November 

 30, 1917. The amount involved in the production Is $000,000. 



The Charles W. Fish Lumber Company, Birnamwood, has announced a 

 six per cent bonus to be paid every employe of the company whose total 

 remuneration is not more than $800 a year. 



The sawmill of the Heineman Lumber Company, Merrill, recently began 

 operations with a full crew. 



The John Week Lumber Company of Stevens Point recently began load- 

 ing out tan bark that bad been stored for some time in Dancy. The Week 

 company has about seventy-flve carloads (1,500 cords) in that place. 



The sawmill of the Schroeder Lumber Company, Ashland, recently be- 

 gan sawing a large quantity of hardwood and hemlock. The cowpany will 

 operate only a day crew during the 1917 season. 



After a new boiler has been added to the equipment of the Shawano 

 Lumber Company, Shawano, and a new stack erected, the sawmill will 

 begin a big run to clean up the stock of 1917. 



The lumber business at Wells Is unprecedented. Three steamers recently 

 were loaded at the same time. The Herman H. Hettler took on a load for 

 the East, the T. S. Christie was consigned to Chicago, and the I. Watson 

 Stephenson turned its nose toward Detroit. 



The new mill of the Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company at Antlgo, re- 

 cently erected to replace the one destroyed by fire some time ago, com- 

 menced active operations last week. 



The Badger State Lumber and Land Company has been organized In 

 Stevens Point by J. W. Clifford, who last year sold out the local Interests 

 and two mills of the Clifford Lumber Company. The new concern will 

 operate a string of yards in Wisconsin cities. 



The Marling Lumber Company is building a shed for the storing of lum- 

 ber near the rest of Its building in Grand Rapids. 



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