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HARDWOOD RECORD 



October 25, 1920 



Hunt, Washington & Smith 



MAN U F ACT URERS 



SOUTHERN HARDWOODS 



TENNESSEE RED CEDAR— RED CYPRESS 



EXECUTIVE OFFICES 



«"cV^^SI5B''SfvVB* NASHVILLE, TENN. 



FARRIS HARDWOOD LUMBER CO. 



NASHVILLE, TENN. 



Manufacturers of Southern Hardwoods 



Our SPBclaltlssi 

 QUARTERED OAK, POPLAR AND WALNUT 



MILLS AT NASHVILLE AND MONTEREY, TENNESSEE 



SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES 



''WE WANT YOUR ORDERS" 



OAK— POPLAR— CHESTNUT 



Soft Texture Virginia Stock 



OAK DIMENSION. PINE DIMENSION 



Old Dominion Lumber Co., Inc., Roanoke, Va. 



New.s from Whitesburg, Ky., tells of the marriage of Robinet Gibsoa, 24 

 years of age, of Mayking, Ky., to Miss Nannie Kincer, of the same place, 

 IS years of age. Mr. Gibson operates a sawmill at Mayking. 



The Southern Veneer Company, Louisville, has started work on a $5,000 

 warehouse addition to the present plant, upon which a good deal of money 

 has been spent in improvements during the past year. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed at Ashland, Ky., by the Van- 

 sant Lumber Company, capital $400,000 ; Annie V. Vansant, Maxie L. Van- 

 sant and P. J. Wonn. 



Work will start shortly on rebuilding the woodworking shop of the 

 American Car & Foundry Company, Jeffersonville, Ind., recently destroyed 

 by Are at a loss of $90,000, $50,000 of which was on stock, including 2,500 

 made up talking machine cabinets. 



The Ames Shovel & Tool Company, Warren, O., has about completed a 

 new handle plant at New Albany, Ind., at a cost of $100,000, and is start- 

 ing operations. About 100,000 feet of ash timber is on the yard. 



The Ayer & Lord Tie Company, Paducah, Ky., has started work on a 

 $50,000 tow boat in its own drydock at that point, tor use in the lumber, 

 tie and cooperage stock trade on the Cumberland, Tennessee and Ohio 

 rivers, to be known as the "Betty Lord," and replacing the "Russell Lord," 

 sold to New York interests some time ago. The boat will cost $50,000. 



The Hall Lumber Company, Flemingsburg, Ky., has increased its capital 

 from $4,000 to $8,000. 



Hunt Jones, formerly w-ith the W. R. Willett Lumber Company, Louis- 

 ville, jobber.s of soft and hardwoods, has recently resigned and incorporated 

 the Henry County Lumber Company, Eminence, Ky., capital $.30,000. 

 W. R. Willett and C. H. Willett are charter parties. 



Paducah woodworking plants are somewhat crippled where depending on 

 central station service, as a result of an exploding fly wheel at the power 

 plant, which wrecked the plant, and put street cars, light and power out of 

 commission. It will be some weeks before things are normal again, and 

 the city is now without light or power. 



WARREN ROSS LUMBER GO. 



JA 



want 



We 



12.000' 3" Is & 



JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK 



2,000' 3" Is & 2s Qtd. Red Gum SND. 



0,000' 2" Is & 2s qtd. Red Gum SND. 



10,000' 1%" Is & 2s Qtd. Red Gum SND. 



Deliver Buffalo, N. Y.. rate. 

 Qtd. Red Gum SNT)., del'd Syracuse, N. T., rate 



WISCONSIN 



Ash — Hickory — Beech — Poplar 

 Oak — Cypress — Gum —Tupelo 



Straight cars, all grades and thickness 

 X. H. L. Association rules of inspection 



We specialize in Poplar 5/8" to 5" in thickness.. We have 



LET U.S QUOTE YOU ON ANT OP 

 THE ABOVE STOCK. ANT GltADE 



HOYT PARKER LUMBER GO. 



p. O. BOX 614. Office, 311 City Bank, MOBILE, ALABAMA 



Carolina Portland Cement Co. 



ATLANTA, GEORGIA 



WE WAKT TO MOVE QUICK: 



CHE.STNI'T 



No. 2 and Sound Wormy 200.0on ' 



No. 1 Com. Sound Wormy 100.000' 



QTD. WHITE OAK 



6/4" No. 1 Com. & Btr 2 cars 



QTD. RED GUM 



8/4" No. 1 Com. & Btr.. SND. 2 cars 



SAP GUM 



4/4" FAS 200.000' 



4/4" No. 1 Com 300.000' 



MUlK in GEORGIA, I 



TENNESSEE, ALABAMA and 

 MISSISSIPPI 



WE WANT TO BUY: 



HICKORY 



5/4" -6/4" No. 1 & Btr 10 cars 



PLAIN OAK 



4/4" FAS 100,00(1' 



CHESTNUT 



4/4" FAS 50,000 ' 



SAP GUM 



4/4" No. 2 Com 100,000' 



8/4" FAS 10 cars 



13/17" Boxboards 3 cars 



We can Dry Kiln 



and Surface Stock from our 



Livingston Tennessee Mills 



Send Us Lists of IVhat You Have to Offer or IVant to Buy 



The Macitowoc Church Furniture Company at Waukesha has been 

 obliged to extend its working schedule from ten hours to twelve hours a 

 day in order to keep pace with its orders for edifice furnishings and trim. 

 The working force at present numbers more than eighty men, or twice as 

 many as were employed a year ago. The manufacture of desks has been 

 abandoned temporarily to get maximum output for regular business. 



The Wisconsin Basket Company of Two Rivers, manufacturer of baskets, 

 pails and other woodenware, intends to start work at once on the erection 

 of a new factory costing about $150,000 to replace its plant destroyed by 

 fire on October 7. It is to be of brick and reinforced concrete and of 

 considerably larger capacity than the old factory. Practically a full 

 complement of new machinery and other equipment will be required. 

 John F. Conant is president and general manager of the company. 



The Singer Talking Machine Company, 579 Market Street, Milwaukee, 

 which was established about three years ago, has incorporated its business 

 with an authorized capitalization of $150,000, The factory is undergoing 

 extensive improvements and additional floor space is being taken over 

 to bring production to a point commensurate with the demand. 



The Sutliff-Butts Company of Ashland is the name of a new corporation 

 which has been organized with $50,000 capital by Milan R. Sutliff and 

 Harry H. Butts. It represents the development of a partnership formed 

 sume time ago to act as wholesale distributor of northern hemlocks and 

 hardwoods, as well as western and southern woods. The firm formerly 

 maintained its general ofBces in Park Falls, Wis., but recently transferred 

 its headquarters to Ashland. 



The American Auto Body Company of Green Bay has been organized by 

 a group of .\ppleton men and is equipping an existing factory building for 

 the purpose of manufacturing automobile, motor truck and other bodies, 

 cabs, etc., at an initial rate of about ten daily. The owners are John Perry 

 and Earl and Willard Fraser, sons of Albert Fraser, president of the Fraser 

 I^umber & Manufacturing Company of Appleton. Green Bay was selected 

 as the location of the enterprise because it is a motor truck producing 

 center, with no body building industries, while Appleton has three body 

 factories. The new concern will incorporate next spring. 



The United Fruit Package Company has been organized at Sheboygan 

 and incorporated with a capitalization of $25,000, taking over the part- 

 nership business established some time ago by Henry J. and John E. 

 Opgenorth to manufacture berry crates, boxes, and other veneer packages. 



The Automatic Cradle Manufacturing Company of Stevens Point has 

 increased its authorized capitalization from $15,000 to $100,000. It is 

 now occupying its own factory after sharing part of the plant of the Bukolt 

 Manufacturing Company since its establishment several years ago. 



The Rockwell Manufacturing Company, Sixth Avenue and Park Street, 

 Milwaukee, is building a new dock on the Menomonee canal for unloading 

 and warehousing lumber stocks for its interior woodworking factory. The 

 dock will be '220 feet long and 58 feet wide and connected with the existing 

 manufacturing buildings. 



The Northern Excelsior Mills of Detroit, a Michigan corpoTation, has 

 been granted a charter to do business in Wisconsin. The application says 

 there i.s $45,000 of its capital invested in this State, at Prentice, and desig- 

 nates Ira C. Seabrlng as Its Wisconsin agent. 



