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HARDWOOD RECORD 



November 23, 1917 



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I Plain & Qtd. Red & White I 



I OAK I 



AND OTHER 

 HARDWOODS 



= Even Color 



Soft Texture = 



I MADE (MR) RIGHT | 



I OAK FLOORING | 



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



S our own manufacture, from our own tim- E 



5 ber grown in Eastern Kentucky. = 



S PROMPT SHIPMENTS = 



I The MOWBRAY I 



1 & ROBINSON CO. I 



= (inc»rporated) = 



I CINCINNATI, OHIO | 



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Open Yard, Narrow Piles, 



Narrow Stickers, Assure 



Uniform Drying of 



LENOX LUMBER 



KENTUCKY SOFT TEXTURED 



White Oak, Poplar 

 Hardwoods 



American Lumber & Mfg.^Co. 



PITTSBURGH, PA. 



Springs, Ky., and various other concerns are ailvcrtlslng for hickory, oak, 

 chestnut, locust or other materials. 



.V new tugboat, christened the "U. M. White," has left Louisville for 

 Cape fraclas, Nicaragua, where she will he placed In operation by the 

 C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company, which had the vessel built at the Howard 

 shipyards. Joffersonville, Ind. This boat will make the trip of 4,500 mllea 

 under her own power, and will batter her way through the Gulf and 

 Carrlbean sea, one of the longest trips ever attempted by an Inland 

 river boat. 



.\t Paducah, Ky., the Ferguson Hardwood Lumber Company is again 

 operating after a layofE of several days while attempting to accumulate 

 a supply of logs, during low stages In the river. Tlie company has lighted 

 lis entire mill with electricity and its derrick operations, so that it can 

 work night shifts from the river to the yards. 



William Webb of Mudllck, Ky., has taken over the P. C. Haynie lumber 

 mill at TompklnsvlUe, Ky.. and he started sawing gunstock flitches of 

 walnut for the government. .T. U. Dlckerson and Andrew Geralds are 

 associated in the movement with Mr. Webb. A fair supply of logs have 

 been received and others are coming fast. 



=-< ARKANSAS >= 



'I'lie I Watt's Lumlier Company, Wihiiar, .\rk., is pl;i lining to install a 

 l)and sawmill for the manufacture of hardwood lumlier in connection with 

 its large pine mill. This company has long been one of the leading manu- 

 facturers of yellow pine of this state, and its entering the hardwood field 

 will be viewed with Interest. The company now owns large areas of 

 hardwood stumpage, believed to be suflicient to prolong the operations 

 of the company Indefinitely. 



r. B. Leonard, operator of a vehicle stock plant at Metropolis, 111., has 

 f-rtmmenoed the erection of a sawmill at Marianna, Ark., to manufacture 

 hickory, pecan and other hardwoods Into lumber. The new mill will have 

 a daily capacity of 30,000 feet. Mr. Leonard has been buying hardwood 

 timber In that section of Arkansas for the past several years, and at last 

 has Ijeen induced to erect the sawmill. This will save him considerable 

 money in the way of freight on the timber from Arkansas to his plant in 

 Illinois. Ills plan now is to manufacture the timber into rough lumber 

 and ship in that state to his Illinois plant to be finished. 



.1. M. Wells of St. Louis has secured an interest in the Marianna Spoke 

 Company, which owns and operates a spoke factory at Marianna, Ark. 

 The company's name will be changed to the Marianna Spoke & Lumber 

 Company. The operations of the concern are to lie largely extended. 



The Southern Cooperage I'onipany is preparing to erect and operate a 

 cooperage plant at Swifton. Ark. 



=-< WISCONSIN >.= 



The M. H. Sprague Lumber Cuiiipauy, Washburn, Wis., has completed 

 its season's run and closed its sawmill for the winter. The planing mill 

 will be kept in operation. 



.\ugust Knoller, DePere, Wis., has traded 4S0 acres of hardwood timber 

 at Pelican Lake, Wis., for the gasoline engine factory and machine shop 

 of the Klemlsh Manufacturing Company, Kewaunee, Wis. The properties 

 each are valued at $12,000. 



C. D. Clarke, formerly of the C. D. Clarke Lumber Company, MerrUl, 

 Wis., has become associated with the Brown Brothers Lumber Company, 

 Ithlnelander, Wis., In an executive position. 



The New Dells Lumber Company, Eau Claire, Wis., has resumed opera- 

 tions In its sawmill after being closed three weeks for repairs and over- 

 hauling. Logs have started to move from the camps, which employ 300 

 men. The New Dells company shipped 2,500,000 feet of lumber to the 

 National .\rmy cantonments at Battle Creek, Mich., and Rockford, 111., 

 in record time during the past season. 



The Rib Lake Lumber Company. Rib Lake. Wis., has placed its new 

 planing mill at that point Into full operation. It is one of the most 

 modern in the country and is electrically operated throughout. 



The Kleckhefer Box Company, Milwaukee, has announced to its em- 

 ployes that it will again pay a 5 per cent lionus on wages of all men in 

 coutlnuous employment during the year. • The bonus Is payable In cash. 

 Last year a similar bonus was paid, but the checks were deposited in 

 iianks to the credit of the men. 



The Simmons Boat Company, Chicago, has purclmsed the controlling 

 interest In the Kacine Boat Company, Racine, Wis., the merger being 

 effected to fivcilitate the execution of government contracts. The Chicago 

 yard will continue to build boats over 50 feet Icuig and the Racine com- 

 pany under 50 feet. O. M. Codske Is supersedeil as vice-president of the 

 Racine company by Ned Simmons, who assumes charge of design and 

 construction In both yards. 



The Willow River Lumber Company, Grand View and Hayward' Wis., 

 expects to cut 20,000,000 feet of logs during the coming winter. It has 

 been able to obtain a fair supply of good woodsmen and anticipates no 

 difficulty in meeting the estimate of Its cut. 



The McDonough Manufacturing Company, Eau Claire, Wis., recently 

 made delivery In record-breaking time of ten complete sawmill units for 

 shipment to France for the fiiited States forestry engineers. The contract 

 was executed in fifty-five days. Ordinarily such work would keep the plant 

 fairly well occupied for eight or ten months. It required 30,000 feet of 

 luiiiiier to box and crate the shipment for ocean transit. 



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