May 1", l!tl5. 



rili: [.ITTI.E HOCK I.I -MBlOIt & MAXUl'ACTUItlNC CO.MrAXY Sl'E- 

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A Srr.EXDiD COLLECTIOX OF LUGS AWAITING LOADING FOU THE 



LI'ITLE ROCK LIIAIBER & lIANUFACTUniNG COMPAXY, 



LITTLE ROCK, ARK. 



.lolin A. Roitz aiKl his brothor, ChMiions, in 1845 nn<l tbo mill was openod on 

 May 5 of that year. The partnershli) of the two brothel's was rtissohxHl in 

 1 s."i."; and John A. Reitz beoanie the sole owner. Later Mr. Reitz took bis 

 -nns. .lolni .\. Reitz, .Tr.. and Franeis .T. Iteitz, into the business with Iiini and 

 It was tln-n that the business eaiue to be Itnown as ,Iohn A. Reitz & Sous. 

 Followin;; the death of .lohn -\. Reitz and the subserinent departure of John 

 A. Reitz, Jr., for the 'West, Francis J. Reitz purchased the holdiufc' in the. 

 mill of bis brothor and those of the mother's estate and became the sole 

 <jwner of the plant in 1890. Mr. Reitz still retains full ownership. 



Among its other distinctions the mill has the record of manufacturing 

 more liardwood lumber than any other single mill in the country during the 

 period between 188". and 1893. Mr. Reitz says this fact has been establishe<l 

 by a comparison of authentic trade reports from all over the country. The 

 lirst mill built in 184.5 was burned ten years later. A second mill was imme- 

 diately erected and in 1873 was rebuilt into a new- building which was n 

 great enlargement. The third building was destroyed by tire in 1907 and 

 was replaced .soon after by the present mill. 



W. p. Harris 



The Harris Manufacturing Company, Johnson City, Tenn., announces 

 the death on Saturday, April 24, of W, P. Harris, who had been president 

 of the organization for a good many years. 



The Harris Manufacturing Company has been actively engaged in the 

 uianufactuie of hardwood lumber and hardwood flooring. It is one of the 

 old institutions of Tennessee, and Mr. Harris was widely known throughout 

 the hardwood manufacturing and consuming trades. • 



George L. Fish 



The Alton Lumber Company, Buckhannon, W. Va., announces that its 

 president, George L. Fish, died at Buckhannon on Tuesday, April 27. The 

 .\lton Lumber Company has been a prominent manufacturer of West Virginia 

 hardwoods for a good many years and Mr. Fish was well known in the 

 general lumber trade. 



Aged Lumberman Dies 



A fevt- days ago at his home at Otwell, Pike count.v, Ind., a few miles north 

 of Evansville, occurred the death of Jacob Bowers, aged one hundred and 

 three years, said to be the oldest lumber manufacturer in the state of Indi- 

 ana. For over sixty years Mr. Bowers had operated a saw"raill in the same 

 place, and was well known to lumber manufacturers in southern Indiana, 

 western Kentucky and southern Illinois. He was a man of considerai>lo 



means and regarded as one possessed of keen business judgment. His wife 

 and all his children had been dead for several years. Mr. Bowers looked 

 after his business affairs up to a few days before his death. 



Will Erect Planing Mill at Paterson, N. J. 



Tlie Uilliston Lumber Company of Paterson, X. J., announces that plans 

 were tiled with the building inspector of Paterson for the erection of a one- 

 story planing mill on land adjoining the lumber yard, but sufficiently re- 

 moved so as not to affect Insurance. The mill will be on East Thirtieth 

 street, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth avenues, and is to be occupied 

 under lease by the Mutual Wood Working Company. 



The members of the Dilliston Lumber Company are Robert Burns, 

 Albert A. Price and Frank Carrot, all long time residents of Paterson, and 

 for some time connected with a local planing and sawmill. 



The new plant will have besides the usual planing and saw machinery, 

 band saws, router, variety machines and other special machines adapted 

 for the special work required by the silk mills, dyeing establishments, loom 

 and other factories of Paterson's varied industries. 



Kuntz-Freihaut 

 Charles Kuntz, Jr., a wagon manufacturer of St. Louis, Mo., well known 

 among the hardwood lumber manufacturers of that .section, and Miss Mary 

 Freihaut of Evansville, Ind., were united in marriage at St. Mary's Catholic 

 Church, Evansville, on Tuesday, Jlay 4. Several St. Louis people attended 

 the wedding. 



Interested in American Machinery and Methods 



Hardwooi> Record recently received a letter from O. L. Remington, gen- 

 eral manager of William McLean & Co., Melbourne, Australia, merchants, 

 engineers, manufacturers and importers. Mr. Remington has been making 

 his headquarters at Indianapolis for the past few weeks and will shortly 

 be in Chicago. He states he has recently arrived in the States with one 

 of his engineers, and some of the things they are investigating are methods, 

 new machinery and developments in the lumber field. 



Mr. Remington advises also that he is making a short visit to a relative 

 in Indianapolis and within a week or so will join his engineer, H. P. 

 :McCon, who i::as been spending bis time in Chicago, and that the two will 

 work together in the various centers of the East and then go across to 

 England. 



CHARLESTON, MISS., COXTAINS AN ASSORTMENT RT'N NIXG FROM THIN STOCK IP TO TWO INCH. IT WILL BE fSEII IN 

 MAXDFACTDRE 



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