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HARDWOOD RECORD 



July 10, 1917 



WE MANUFACTURE bandsawed, plain and quarter sawed 



WHITE AND RED OAK AND YELLOW POPLAR 



We make a specialty of Oak and Hickory Imple- 

 ment, Wagon and Vehicle Stock in the rough. 

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ARLINGTON LUMBER CO., Arliigtw, Keitucky 



Wistar, Underhill & Nixon 



Real Estate Trust Building 

 PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 



CHOICE DELTA GUM Dry and Straight 



WM. E. HILL Co. 



KALAMAZOO MICHIGAN 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



SAW MILL MACHINERY 



"The line that is imitated'* 



Jackers, Kickers, Log Stops and Loaders, Niggers, Steam 

 Feeds, Carriages, Live Rolls, Steam Jump Saws, Trips, 

 Edgers, Trimmers, Slashers, Concave Rolls, Conveyor 

 Drives, Circular Cut-Off Machines, Swing Saws, Drag 

 Saw Machines, Steam Dogs, Steam Splitters, Lath Ma- 

 chinery, Vertical Automatic Engines, etc. 



Little Rock 

 Lumber & Mfg. Co. 



LITTLE ROCK, ARK. 



IN THE 



HEARTofthefinestHARDWOODS 

 Saline River Red Gum 



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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Wh>:te and Red Oak Car Material 



All Lumber Well Manufactured. Dependable Grading • 



At a recent meeting of the club the body went on record as approving 

 the appointment of Charles M. Morford, of Nashville, Tenn., as lumber 

 purchasing agent for the navy, anil sent a letter to Washington highly 

 recommending him for appointment to the responsible position. 



Several of the Louisville lumber concerns handling hardwood lumber 

 have been supplying some of the pine also for the army cantonment at 

 Louisville. Recently an order for 20,000,000 feet of pine was placed 

 with the Southern Pine Association, through the Southern Pine Associa- 

 tion Emergency Bureau, the order being placed by Mason & Hanger Com- 

 pany of Richmond, Ky., who have the general contract on the $6,000,000 

 project. Local yard stocks of pine have about been depleted in supplying 

 the big demand to start the work, which is now getting along nicely. 



The Turner, Day & Woolworth Handle Company has recently installed 

 two new departments, oue to cut persimmon in the rough for golf club 

 heads, and the other to manufacture textile shuttles from dogwood, maple 

 and certain other hardwoods. The company has some big government 

 contracts for various kinds of tool handles, such as pick, axe, shovel, 

 hammer and hatchet handles. The scarcity of hickory and ash has been 

 giving the company some trouble in securing requirements within the past 

 few months. 



At Jlonticello, Ky., the Eassett Hardware JIauufacturing Company has 

 cut out most of the hickory, and has recently decided to move its mill 

 to Oneida, Tenn.. leaving the planer and general offices at Monticello. 

 C. L. Banks, formerly in the auto business at Louisville, recently secured 

 a large interest 'n the company, and he and G. O. Bassett are planning to 

 exi>and operations. 



Fire breaking out in the dry room of the Southern Veneer Manufac- 

 turing Company caused a loss of about .$1,000 and has considerably handi- 

 capped the company In its work. However, repairs are being rapidly 

 made. 



The Kentucky Lumber Company, Lexington, Ky., operating mills at 

 Burnside and Williamsburg, Ky., and SuUigent, Ala., has filed a complaint 

 before the Interstate Commerce Commission against the St. Louis & San 

 Francisco and other railroads, charging discrimination in freight rates 

 in favor of Mississippi delta shippers on gum lumber. Reparation is 

 asked. The cases in question affect shipments from the Sulligent mill. 



Shortly after starting operation on the morning of ,7une 25 the boiler 

 at the plant of John Burkhard, Sr., hardwood manufacturer at Bloom- 

 field, Ky.. let go. resulting in the death of John Burkhard, Jr., serious 

 damage to .John Burkh.ird. Sr., and to Hugh Rose, :in employe. The latter 

 was rushed sixty miles to Louisville and his leg aniiuitated at the hip. 

 .\n investigation of the wreckage showed that sumeone had tampered with 

 the water gauge on the lioller, resulting in low water and the explosion. 



At Stearns. Ky., the Stearns Coal & Lumber Company recently put into 

 effect a fourth war bonus amounting to about five per cent on all classes 

 of labor, and affecting the employes of that company and also of the Ken- 

 tucky & Tennessee Railway. 



.\t a recent meeting of the Kentucky Workmen's Comi)ensation Board 

 at Frankfort. Ky., the case of Steve Ward and Charles Webb, against 

 the D. E. Hewitt Lumber Company, was taken up. and the board held that 

 Jurisdiction In the matter was up to the West Virginia boai-d. The Hewitt 

 comi)any operates on both sides of the Tug river, the boundary line. The 

 twi> men were employed in Kentucky, and later sent to West Virginia, 

 where the accident occurred. As the company had accepted the laws o£ 

 botli states, the case docs not come .under Jurisdiction of the Kentucky 

 board. 



Surprise was registered recently when It was announced that the Broad- 

 head-Garrett Company had permanently closed Its sawmill at Clay City, 

 Ky., after making extensive improvements in the spring. The comi)any 

 in the future will do Its sawing at its Nada, Ky., plant, where facilities 

 for getting logs are better, and will operate the Clay City planer. 



Edwin Norman of the Norman Lumber Company recently returned from 

 a i>oplar buying trij) through the St)uth. For several mouths the company 

 has been having trouble in obtaining enough poplar for its requirements. 



Operations were recently resumed at the plant of the Louisville Point 

 Lumt)er I'ompany. which has been down for a few weeks. The company 

 is cutting principally ash. oak and elm at this time. 



John Churchill and Smith Milton of the Cliurchlll-Milton Lumber Com- 

 pany have been dividing their time between the office at Louisville and 

 the new mill at Greenwood, Miss., there being as usual a lot of matters 

 to look after in connection with getting the new mill running smoothly. 



A visit to the entire chain of sawmills in the South has held the atten- 

 tion of J. G. Brown of the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber CnmiJany tor the 

 Iiast few days. The company's mills are all running and proilucing at a 

 big rate. 



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.Vll is well in Ilayward ! With the receut wa^'e increase lor a number 

 of its men, the payroll of the Willow River Lumber Company, based on 

 monthly remuneration, recently amounted to .'i;i."),000. I'ractlcally the 

 entire sum remains in Ilayward with prospects of the mill continuing 

 at full capacity for several months. 



Hy a unanimous vote the city council of Rliinelander recently passed a 

 rrsolutlon to give the Stevens Lumber Company a bonus of $15,000 to 

 I"' used toward rebuilding the sawmill [ilant nf the company. In that 



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