March IM. llilJS 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



34a 



Gayoso Lumber Co., Memphis 



The Gayoso company owns its own timber and all facilitips for 

 logging and manufacturing. It is now drawing its principal sup- 

 ply from its tract of 50,000,000 feet of splendid timber from the 

 famous St. Francis basin in Arkansas. The cut consists of splendid 

 gum, oak, ash, liickory, cottonwood, tupelo, cypress and willow. 

 The company has now on sticks u stock of about 10,000,000 feet 

 and when logs permit runs its Memphis mill night and day. It 

 is prepared to load out twenty cars a day at Memphis and ten cars 

 a day at Blaine. It takes more than 400 employees to keep the 

 big business humming. 



The Ransom boys are sticklers on efficiency not only in the 

 manufait'f ■ '"t in the handling of their product. They insist 



PART OF THE MEMPUi-S Loii I'lLE COXTAIXIXG 1,000,000 FEET 



upon proper yarding to the cud that there shall be no unsightly 

 nor confusing accumulation of dangerous refuse and that the piles 

 be so carefully laid and built that the drying process results iu 

 the finest possible finished product. These methods have proven a 

 paying investment in the sales. 



Nobod.v in all the Southern hardwood trade is more popular than 

 are the members of the Gayoso Lumber Company. They arc public- 

 spirited to the extreme and big hearted and genuinely hospitable. 

 Their success is the deserved result of hard work and excellent 

 judgment. 



When the Gayoso 

 company moved to 

 Jfemphis it laid ample 

 foundation for future 

 growth by securing 

 ground for manufac- 

 turing and yard pur- 

 poses, and timber for 

 raw material. Since 

 that time the com- 

 pany has grown 

 steadily. 



At this time it is 

 operating two band 

 mills with a combined 

 capacity of 110,000 

 feet a day. The larger 

 mill is located at 

 Memphis and its out- 

 I)ut per day is 60,000 

 feet of sawed lumber. 

 The other mill is at 

 Blaine, Miss., and cuts 

 50,000 feet a day. 



C. H. EANSONf, Si:( RETAUY. 



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