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HARDWOOD RECORD 



September 10, 1917 



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1 Plain & Qtd. Red & White i 



I OAK I 



AND OTHER 

 HARDWOODS 



i Even Color 



St. Fraucis river, a lew miles East ot Piggott. The timber was bougbt 

 from Bowell & Wood and G. W. Marshall. 



Sales of timber from the two national forest reserves in Arkansas for 

 the year ending June 30, 1917, yielded a revenue ot $11,381.21, of which 

 $7,298.81 was from the Arkansas forest, and $4,088.40 was from the 

 Ozark national forest. There are about 290,000 acres in the Ozark national 

 forest, and 627,000 acres in the Arkansas national forest, making a total 

 of nearly 1,000,000 acres or about 1,400 square miles of land in Arkansas 

 that has been sold by the National Government. 



Little Rock received 619 carloads of lumber during August, 1917, accord- 

 ing to the monthly freight statement issued by the Little Rock Board of 

 Commerce. This is an increase of 178 carloads over the receipts during 

 August, 1916. An increase of 144 carloads is also shown for August, 1917, 

 over August, 1916, in the number of shipments made from Little Rock. 

 ^ . fYt , ^ The actual increase of receipts and shipments is not fully shown by the 



iSOft 1 eXtUVe S above figures, however, as cars this year have been loaded much heavier 

 — than in previous years. A considerable part of the increase in receipts is 

 = due to the lumber consumed in erecting the buildings at Camp Pike for 

 S the use of the army of about 45,000 men, who are being stationed at that 



MADE f MR) RIGHT 



OAK FLOORING 



We have 35,000,000 feet dry stock— all of 

 our own manufacture, from our own tim- 

 ber grown in Eastern Kentucky. 



S PROMPT SHIPMENTS = 



[ The MOWBRAY I 

 I & ROBINSON CO. I 



— (incorporated) s 



I CINCINNATI, OHIO | 



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— place. 



Have you seen any better Walnut logs than tbent 



"T^HEY all grew right in Indiana where 

 *■ hardwoods have always held the 

 choicest farm lands. The best growth of 

 timber as well as the best yield of wheat 

 comes from good soil. The soundness of 

 the log-ends shows that they fed on the 

 fat of the land. My 



Indiana Oak 



comes from the same soil 



CHAS. H. BARNABY 



Greencastle, Indiana 



=-< WISCONSIN >.= 



E. A. Tanner, Delta, la., and James F. Tanner, Springfield, Wis., are 

 contemplating the establishment of a plant at Prairie du Chien, Wis., to 

 utilize a large supply of black walnut timber and walnut logs along the 

 Mississippi at this point, for the manufacture ot aeroplane lumber, rifle 

 stocks and veneer for furniture and other purposes. An egg case manu- 

 facturing plant also is to be established to use basswood, cottonwood and 

 other soft timber. 



Ben D. Stone, formerly interested in the Rainy Lake Lumber Company. 

 Virginia, Minn., and in recent months residing at Wausau, Wis., has become 

 associated with the Bissell Lumber Company, Marshfleld, Wis., and has 

 moved to that city with his family. Mr. Stone is a brother-in-law to 

 F. K. Bissell. 



The Hardwood Products Company, Neenah, Wis., has taken a large con- 

 tract for manufacturing munition containers for the government, and 

 will immediately employ e.\tra crews for day and night operations. The 

 contract is said to be worth approximately $1,000,000 and will require the 

 entire output of the plant for many months. 



The Lawson .\ircraft Corporation, organized several months ago at 

 Green Bay. Wis., and now operating in leased quartets in the former plant 

 of the .\merlcan Woodworking Machinery Company, has broken ground for 

 a plant of its own, to cost about $00,000. The company is capitalized at 

 .?:JOO.OOO. Alfred W. Lawson is vice-president and general manager. 



The Niirthwestern Cabinet Company, Menomonie, Wis., has been incor- 

 porated with a capital stock of $10,000 by William A. Johnson, F. L. 

 Ulnman and Frank Dassow, to manufacture phonograph and musical 

 instrument cabinets and similar goods. 



The Falls Manufacturing Company, Oconto Falls, Wis., is erecting a 

 225-foot reinforced concrete smokestack to supply its two large power 

 plants, recently enlarged. The stack will be the largest structure of its 

 kind in the world. 



The D. & D. Hanger Panel Glue Company has been Incorporated at 

 Sheboygan, Wis., by Jerome P. Davis, Herman Davis and Harriet Davis. 

 The capital stock is $23,000. 



The Northern Furniture Company, Sheboygan, Wis., is taking bids for 

 the erection of a si.x-story finishing plant and warehouse, of brick and con- 

 crete, with mill floors, to cost about $100,000. The work is in charge ot 

 Architect W. C. Weeks, Sheboygan. 



The .\utomobilo Ice-Bo.\ Manufacturing Company, Superior, Wis., has 

 been organized with .'J.'JO.OOO capital to manufacture self-contained refriger- 

 ating units for automobiles, motorlioats, etc. Uustat Engelbrikt, Nels L. 

 Jensen and Theodore Meronk arc the incorporators. 



The Giddings & Lewis Manufacturing Company, I'ond du Lac, Wis., 

 has disposed of its entire sawmill machinery department to the D. J. 

 Murray Manufacturing Company, Wausau, Wis., which now becomes the 

 largest maker of such equipment in the country, from the standpoint of 

 variety of product. The sale includes all rights, patterns, designs, trade- 

 marks, etc. Giddings & Lewis band mills and le-^aws, both vertical and 

 horizontal, are widely known throughout the world. The Fond du Lac 

 concern is now confining its attention to lathes and other machine tools. 



The Cruiser Motor Car Company, .Madison, Wis., has been Incorporated 

 with $250,000 capital under the laws of Maine and will build a plant in 

 Madison at a cost of $100,000 to manufacture a touring and roadster type 

 of automobile, completely equipped for quick conversion into a camping 

 outfit. The government already has agreed to take 500 of the cars for 

 army service, it Ls stated. Winthrop J. Burdick, Chicago, is vice-president 

 and general manager. 



The Northern Wood Products Company, Glidden, Wis., is building an 

 addition and in?^t;illing more machinery to effect a more extensive utiliza- 

 tion of the raw material at its disposal. The new department will furnish 

 employment for many girls and women because of the light nature ot the 

 work. 



The Stoughton Wagon Company, Stoughton. Wis., is equipping one of 

 the former buildings of the Gerard Lumber Company in that city as a saw- 

 mill, to be operated by electric power. 



Uieboldt & Woltcr, Sturgeon Bay, Wis., are adding several new wood- 



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