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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 20, 19 IS 



Eusse & Burgess, Iiicoi-ii<ii:iti'4, Ikivc long been t';imili.-ii- names 

 in the export lumber business, ami their extensive plaut at Memphis, 

 Tenn., has become well known in many foreign markets that buy 

 the highest grades of American lumber. But the foreign business 

 is only a portion of the activities of this firm. Witli a cut ranging 

 from 75,000 to 80,000 feet a day, it is to be expected that the output 

 should make its presence felt not only in foreign fields but also in 

 the domestic markets. 



Eusse & Burgess began operations twenty-nine years ago. Eight 



KRAETZEH I'UKI'AKATOR READY TO RECEIVE LUAU 



GENERAL VIEW OF MILL 



Modern Hardwood Operations 



years ago the business was incorporated for the purpose of enabling 

 employes to buy stock in the company. The large land holdings 

 are all in the name of Eusse & Burgess, co-partnership. In addition 

 to the mill at Memphis, they operate a band mill at Isola, Miss., 

 where they produce lumber of one inch or more in thickness, while 

 the Memphis plant makes a specialty of cutting thin lumber. They 

 have machinery in that mill designed to facilitate the sawing of 

 thin lumber, and the operator is able to regulate the thickness to 

 the fraction of one-sixty-fourth of an inch. This is done with a 

 three-block McDouough carriage with Troutt rope power set works. 



The officers of the company are: W. H. Eusse, president; G. A. 

 Farbcr, vice-president; P. Stenning Coate, treasurer; E. C. Gause, 

 secretary; H. Johannsen, assistant secretary, and W. F. Gammage, 

 sales manager. The company has in operation a Kraetzcr pre- 

 parator for treating lumber under steam pressure for the purpose 

 of hastening the process of seasoning and at the same time improv- 

 ing the quality of the lumber so treated. This apparatus has been 

 in successful operation for several years at the Memphis plant. 



This companj-'s export business dates back more than a quarter 

 of a century, and for the last year before the war, which was 1913, 

 ninety-two per cent of the mill's turnover was for European con- 

 sumption. Since then the conditions have not been normal in the 

 export business any more than in the domestic trade. The company 

 maintains a sales office at No. 1 Fenchurch street, Loudon, and the 

 secretary, G. A. Farbei', with a competent force of salesmen, has full 

 charge of that branch of the business. 



The timber supply was carefully looked after in establishing the 

 business at Memphis. Sawmills without plenty of logs would be 

 like guns without ammunition. The Eusse & Burgess mill was built 

 for hardwoods and it could not have been located any place in the 

 United States where a better or more complete line of hardwoods 

 could have been made available. It is in the center of the southern 

 hardwood region, and supplies can come from all directions, and 

 the pick can be had of thousands of square miles of timber. 



The variety is no less remarkable than the quantity and quality; 

 for more than a score of commercial hardwood species are avail- 

 able; but of course oak and gum head the list. These species reach 



SnOWING YARD LAYOUT FOE AND METHOD OF PILING KRABTZBR CORED GUM 



