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HARDWOOD RECORD 



May 25, 1917 



Modem Hardwood Operations 



Russe & Burgess, Inc., Memphis, Tenn. 



THEIR CUSTOMERS' INTERESTS WATCHED IN THIS SHED 



KRAETZER PREPARATOR WORKING ON THEIR GUM 



The new hardwood sawmill erected by Russe & Burgess, Inc., Memphis, 

 Tenn., contains all of the latest approved appliances and equipment for 

 manufacturing first-class lumber in large quantities. Some features of the 

 equipment include .;ne l.j"x8' latest improved McDonough band mill ; one 

 GO" three block McDonough carriage with Troutt rope power set works, 

 which enables the operator to cut lumber to jt" fraction: 12"x.3S' shotgun 

 feed with 6" Allis valves ; one latest improved Hill steam nigger 8".\10"x 

 6' : one 60" five-saw 

 jumbo edger ; one Mc- 

 Donough overhead 

 trimmer 30" nine 

 saws ; one eleven-saw 

 40" slasher ; one 10" 

 7' latest improved 

 Mershon resaw, which 

 is driven by motor 

 power, which is fur- 

 nished with 187 K. 

 W. or K. V. A. gener- 

 ator, which is 350 h. 

 p. The main engine 

 is 4j0 h. p. and can 

 develop 500 h. p. 

 There are four boil- 

 ers, 72"x20', h. p. be- 

 ing about 175 each, 

 or 700 h. p. for all. 

 These boilers are au- 

 tomatically fed. 



There is a 48" 

 Milts & Merrill hog 

 to grind fuel which is 

 automatically fed to 

 the furnaces. 



The output is 75,- 

 000 to 80,000 feet board measure in ten hours. 



Russe & Burgess have been in business tor twenty-eight years. In 1909 

 they incorporated under the name of Russe & Burgess, Incorporated. 

 That was done to enable some of their employes to acquire stock in the 

 company. The land holdings are all in the name of Russe & Burgess, 

 co-partnership. They have been in the export business for the past twenty- 

 five years, and 1913, which is the last normal year of which there is a 

 record, ninety-two per cent of turniwer was for European consumption. 



A GOOD MILL WHICH CUTS GOOD LOGS 



They maintain a sales office at No. 1 Fenchurch street, London. The 

 secretary of the company, G. A. Farber, with a competent force of sales- 

 men, has full charge of this branch of the business. 



They operate a oand mill at Isola, Miss., manufacturing a general line 

 of hardwoods one inch and thicker. The Memphis mill makes a specialty of 

 thin lumber. 



George Burgess of this company died at ^lemphis about two weeks ago. 



I'. Stenning Coate, 

 prominently identified 

 with the cotton trade 

 of Memphis and the 

 i^outh for a number of 

 years, has purchased 

 the entire interest of 

 the estate of the late 

 (Jeorge D. Burgess In 

 the firn^ of Russe & 

 Burgess. Inc., and has 

 .■issumed active man- 

 agement of the office 

 and tinances. 



.\ meeting of the 

 stockholder will be 

 held in Memphis, May 

 25, at which time Mr. 

 I'oate will be elected 

 to official position In 

 the firm. Some changes 

 are likely to be made 

 at that time but no 

 announcement is pos- 

 sible until the meet- 

 ing has been held. 

 Mr. Coate has been 

 nvestor in hardwood timberland holdings and he 

 of large purchases of tinil)crlands b.\' Mem- 



for some years a large 



has assisted in the financiu 



phis firms, including Russe & Burgess, Inc. 



Mr. Coate devoted all of his time in the cotton trade to the export field, 

 with the result that he has an intimate knowledge of all phases of the 

 export business, a knowledge which will be of very great value to him in 

 his new position since Russe & Burgess, inc., are engaged almost wholly 

 in the exportation of southern hardwoods. 





LOGS LIKE THESE EVERY DAY 



EFFICIENT LAYOFT FOR MODERN MILL 



