December 10. 1917 



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Modem Hardwood Operations 



James E. Stark & Co., Inc., and Memphis Veneer & Lumber Company 



The name of .'itark has been associated wltb tlie 

 earl.v history of the countr.v, es well as the lumber 

 Industry of the Vniteil States. 



The subject compan.v of this sketch, James E. Stark 

 & Co., Inc.. manufacturers of hardwood lumber, ma- 

 hogany and veneers, has been In the lumber business 

 from the time when the center of this industry was In 

 Albany, N. Y., has followed the westward and then the 

 southward trend of the lumber trade, for the past 

 twenty years, has made itself a potent factor com- 

 mercially, and to-day is representative of the highest 

 tyi'e of development in the manufacture and marketing 

 of hardwood lumber, which includes oak, ash. poplar, 

 mahogany, and all southern hardwoods, as well as sawn 

 veneers, oak flooring, and other forest products. 



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The firm has a band sawmill 

 of 50.000 foot capacit.v, located 

 in Memphis, and a band- sawmill 

 with a capacity of 30,000 feet at 

 D.versburg. as well as a veneer 

 plant at Memphis which produces 

 ."»0.000 feet of sawn veneers dail.v. 

 The illustrations can convey only 

 a partial idea of the very large 

 and continuously expanding opera- 

 tions. 



This compan.v has the one am- 

 bition of increasing efficienc.v. 

 thereby giving the trade a higher 

 standard of product at a lower 

 cost of production ami a relatively 

 lower market price. It operates 

 its own logging equipment. incUul- 

 ing skidders and log loaders, and 

 with ever.v facility for producing 

 high-grade stock, its modern meth- 

 ods of kiln and air-drying tli^' 

 products. It should commend it 

 self to all who are buyers of hard- 

 wood lumber. 



One of its affiliated (■ompani»'s 

 is the Memphis Veneer & Lumbei- 

 Company, manufacturer of lumlier 

 and veneers, ami another is the 

 Memphis Hardwood Flooring Com- 

 pany, manufacturer of oak flour 

 ing. Both are located in Mem 

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The personnel of .lames i:. 

 Stark & Co., Inc.. is made ii|i 1.1 

 thoroughly practical luiTilierni.ri 

 in each department. .lames i;. 

 Stark, the president and cmm utive 

 head, is well enough known as :i 

 liraetlcal lumberman to need no 

 further introduction. .M. C. Hay 

 mond. vice-president, came up 

 through the ranks of the lumber 

 industry in the producing end of 

 the business, having been con- 

 nected with several of the older 

 houses, at one lime operated a 

 mill, and is in full charge of the 

 operjitlng end of the business. 

 .Irihn 1^. Walsh, treasurer' and 

 sales manager, has been assor 

 lateil with the company for a 



good nmny years, anil has become an expert in the 

 marketing of hardwood lumber, vene<,*rs and oak fltxtr- 

 Ing. lie Is thoroughly acguainted with the requirements 

 of the different lines of consuming trade, and is so well 

 and favorably known by that trade that they have 

 learned In trusting to his judgment in lllling orders, 

 that they will be given most careful and painstaking 

 attention. Under Mr. Walsh and associated with him 

 in handling the sales are .1. E. Thomas In charge of 

 lumber, and J. C. Steele In charge of veneer, both of 

 whom are practical lumbermen from the school of ex- 

 perience, and who spare no efforts to hanille orders to 

 the satisfaction of the trade. E. M. Slattery is another 

 graduate from the school of lumber experience, con- 

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