May 25, 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The C. C. MeBgel & Bro. Company has added to Its steamship tonnage 

 402 tons, through the purchase of the steam schooner, "Hornet," for 

 $85,000 from Fred Linderman of San Francisco. The lumber carrier for- 

 njerly was used in handling lumber on the Paeiflc, but has been under lease 

 for the past year. The vessel will be used in bringing logs from Nicar- 

 aguan ports to Pensacola, Fla., and will carry lumber and general cargo 

 on outbound voyages. 



-•< ARKANSAS >•= 



The Myers Stave & Manufacturing Company of Corning has filed a cer- 

 tificate with the secretary of state showing an increase of its capital stock 

 from $50,000 to $100,000. 



Piel Brothers are erecting a hoop mill at Lake Village. The material 

 for the foundation is on the ground, and it is planned to have the mill 

 completed and in operation within the nest sixty days. 



The Saline River Hardwood Company, Pine Bluff, has added two floor- 

 ing machines in its plant. This gives it a total daily capacity of 65,000 

 feet of hardwood flooring. 



The Arkansas Railroad Commission last week entered an order fixing new 

 demurrage rates. According to this ruling, after twenty-four hours of free 

 time, demurrage will be charged on cars at the rate of $2 per day for the 

 first five days and thereafter at the rate of $5 per day. It has recently 

 granted a new milling in transit basis for the benefit of the box and basket 

 factories on petitions of plants located at Hope and Jonesboro. These 

 plants manufacture a quality of timber that has a very high percentage 

 I if waste, and consequently, they have not been able to get the percentage 

 from logs that would entitle them to the benefit of the old milling in transit 

 basis. The amount of manufactured product required under the new order 

 is twenty per cent. 



The Cotter Stave Company plant at Cotter has been reopened by I. P. 

 Jones of Fayetteville, who owns a large number of stave mills in Arkansas, 

 and who is vice-president and a large stockholder in the Oklahoma Land & 

 Timber Company. 



=-< WISCONSIN >.= 



The Hardwood Products Company, Neennh, is in the spirit of national 

 conservation and preparedness. It has turned over a large piece of ground 

 near its plant to be used by employes of the concern for planting gardens. 



C. Firehammer & Sons Company, Horicon, has sold its lumber, planing 

 mill and fuel business to O. B. Cotton & Sons, who recently sold an ex- 

 tensive lumber business in Sabula, Iowa. 



The John Week Lumber Company, Stevens Point, which for some time 

 had a crew of men at work in Wausau unloading tan bark, recently was 

 forced to discontinue operations because of a scarcity of gondola and ore 

 cars as the result of government requirements. 



The Wilbur Lumber Company, Waukesha, recently started work on a 

 new addition to its millwork plant, making the floor space of the concern 

 approximately 10,000 square feet. 



Indians of the Menomonie reservation, near Appleton, have offered their 

 sawmill and lumber plant at Neopit, $100,000 in cash, and themselves as 

 soldiers to the United States government. The squaws are being instructed 

 in first aid and Red Cross work. 



C. F. Kade, president of the C. F. Kade Fixture and Show Case Company, 

 Plymouth, recently announced that, because of unsuitable living facilities 

 for its employes, the company is contemplating a removal of its plant to 

 some city better adapted to the individual private needs of the workers. 



The Joerns Brothers Manufacturing Company, whose Sheboygan plant 

 was destroyed by fire several months ago, has taken over the establishment 

 of the Coye Furniture Company in Stevens Point, and will operate it in 

 connectioji with the Joerns table factory in that city. 



A. L. Robarge, doing business as the Northern Lumber Company, 410 Jef- 

 ferson street, Milwaukee, has filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy, list- 

 ing assets at $13,079.28 and Uabilities at $24,357.89, of which $22,160 

 are unsecured. 



The Kenfield, Lamoreaux Company, box shook manufacturer, Washburn, 

 recently augmented its source of mechanical power with the insfnllation of* 

 a 250-h.p. Buckeye type engine. The company only recently erected a new 

 powerhouse. 



The L. O. Gildner Company, special furniture, Milwaukee, will erect a 

 one-story and basement factory building. 12-inch concrete and brick con- 

 struction, corner Park place and Newhall, at a cost of $3,000. 



The .Vmerican Chair Company, Shebo.vgan, has awarded contracts for 

 the erection of a new four-story brick warehouse, to be built on Eleventh 

 street, between Niagara and Ontario avenues. 



The plant of the Coye Furniture Company, Stevens Point, now in con- 

 trol of Joerns Brothers, employs many women in its policy of trying to over- 

 come the drastic labor shortage. The work is easy, and pays well. The 

 extension of woman labor into nearly every department of the plant grew 

 out of the success with which experiments were made as to the effectiveness 

 of employing women in the furniture industry. 



H. C. Gowran of the American Cabinet Company, Two Rivers, has been 

 re-elected, for the fourth time, president of the Dental Manufacturers' 

 Club, the membership of which is constituted of leading manufacturers of 

 dental goods in the country. The club meets annually, the 1917 meetiUiS 

 being held in Des Moines. The annual convention next year will be held 

 In Washington, D. C. 



"Life ain't in holdin' a good hand Jmt i» playin' a pore hand well.' 

 —The Old Cattleman. 



Stocks are badly broken, yet here 

 is what we have to ofiFer in 



DRY LUMBER 



for 



Immediate Shipment 



Northern Stock 



2 cars 1" L. R. Black Ash. 



3 cars 1" 1 & 2 Birch. 



3 cars 1" No. 1 C. Birch. 



2 cars ll/s" C. & B. Birch. 



2 cars II4" No. 1 & No. 2 C. Birch. 



5 cars 1" No. 2 & No. 3 C. Birch. 



2 cars 1" No. 1 C. Red Birch. 



1 car 1" No. 3 C. Basswood. 



3 cars II4" No. 1 & No. 2 C. Maple. 



6 cars 1" No. 3 C. Maple. 



2 caffs 11/2" No. 3 C. Maple. 



4 cars l%" No. 3 C. Maple. 



2 cars 13^" No. 3 C. Maple. 



6 cars 2" No. 3 C. Maple. 

 1 car I" No. 3 C. Oak. 



Can be surfaced and resawed if desired. 



Southern Stock 



3 cars 2" C. & B. Red Gum-. 



4 cars 1" No. 2 C. Sap Gum. 



3 cars 1" 1 & 2 Quartered White Oak. 



5 cars I" No. 1 C. Quartered White Oak. 



4 cars 1" No. 2 C. Quartered White Oak. 

 1 car 11/4" 1 & 2 Quartered Wliite Oak. 

 1 car 2" 1 & 2 Quartered Wliite Oak. 



7 cars 1" 1 & 2 White Oak. 



6 cars 1" No. 1 C. White Oak. 



8 cars 1" No. 2 C. Wliite Oak. 



At our Arkansas and Wisconsin plants we are 

 daily putting new stock into pile, whose texture 

 and quality wUl appeal to the careful buyer 



THE 



G. W. JONES LUMBER CO. 



Manufacturers of 

 Northern and Southern Hardwoods 



APPLETON, WISCONSIN 



SOUTHERN PLANT 

 FORREST CITY MFG. COMPANY, Forrest City, Ark. 



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