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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 25, 1921 



Hunt, Washington & Smith 



MAN UF ACTUREB8 



SOUTHERN HARDWOODS 



TENNESSEE RED CEDAR— RED CYPRESS 



EXECUTIVj; OFFICES 



^o.^^M^'^.'^riSo^^fv^K^ NASHVILLE, TENN. 



*'WE WANT YOUR ORDERS'* 



OAK— POPLAR— CHESTNUT 



Soft Texture Virginia Stock 



OAK DIMENSION. PINE DIMENSION 



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



WARREN ROSS LUMBER GO. 



BAND MILL. AND YARD. JAMESTOWN, N. Y. 



VVe are running our mill continually, manufacturing all kinds 

 of Hardwoods, and maintain a complete stock here. We 

 ship direct from the mills all kinds of Northern & Southern 

 Hardwoods, also Mahogany. * 



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We have very complete stocks of 

 dry lumber in 4/4 to 16/4 thickness 



DOMESTIC HARDWOODS, Inc. ''T^^%%kr'' 



We offer COMPLETE STOCK 



WISCONSIN OAK 



"TRY US' 



MAPLE 



4/4" No. 1 Com. & Btr..S can 



4/4" No. 2 Com 4 can 



5/4" No. 2 Com. & Btr. .6 care 

 8/4" No. 2 Com. & Btr. .4 care 

 10/4" No. 2 Com. & Btr. 2 care 

 ie/4" No. 2 Com. & Btr.l ear 



BIRCH 

 4/4" No. I Com. & Btr. .3 cars 



4/4" No. 2 Com 5 care 



5/4" No. 1 Cora. & Btr.. 3 care 

 8/4" No. 2 Com. & Btr. .3 cars 

 8/4" No 1 Cnm, & Btr.. 2 cais 

 12/4" No. 2 Com. & Btr.l car 



Brooks & Ross Lumber Co. 



SCHOFIELD, WISCONSIN 



(SALES OFFICE AND MILL) 



The Tegge Lumber Co! 



High Grade 



Northern and Southern 



Hardwoods and Mahogany 



Specialties 



OAK, MAPLE, CYPRESS, POPLAR 

 Milwaukee,, Wisconsin 



Company, has returned from a trip through Oklahoma, Missouri aud 

 Kansas In the interest of that organization. He reports that exportation 

 of hardwood lumber is continuing at the rate of approximately 750,000 

 feet a week through this company. 



LOUISVILLE 



stockholders of the Kentucky Wagon Mfg. Company, Louisville, recently 

 approved resolutions, enabling the officers to increase working capital for 

 extension of the business, through stock Increase, bonds, or notes, the 

 increase to be from $500,000 to $1,500,000, the amount being left to the 

 officials. 



It is tipped In Louisville that J. Graham Brown, of W. P. Brown & Sons 

 Lumber Company, will be appointed by Mayor Smith to the honorary 

 position of a director of the Louisville Board of Water Works, to succeed 

 Edward P. Humphrey, whose term expires In a few days, 



Louisville lumbermen have been Invited to attend the mid-season meeting 

 of the Appalachian Logging Congress, which will meet at the Sinton Hotel, 

 Cincinnati, April 28 to 30. 



Edward L. Davis, of the Edward L. Davis Lumber Co., reports that his 

 sales for the past few days have been up to production of his mills, and 

 that the situation Is showing steady improvement. 



The Wood Mosaic Company reports a slightly better demand for hard- 

 woods. Business with the flooring department has shown especial improve- 

 ment, and that division is getting busy. 



The Norman Lumber Company reports good business, and sales of 

 capacity production, demand for poplar siding and poplar lumber picking 

 up nicely. 



P. B. Lanham, president of the Lanham Hardwood Flooring Company, 

 has started work on a new dry kiln which will replace one that was badly 

 damaged by fire on January 1. 



J. S. Thompson of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Associatton, R. L. 

 Olcott of W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Co., A. L, Mussellman and H. J. 

 Gates of the Louisville Point Lumber Co., represented the local interests 

 at a meeting of lumbermen with railroad executives at Memphis on March 

 15, at which discussion was heard relative to present high freight rates 

 on lumber. Mr. Thompson stated that the meeting was satisfactory. In 

 spite of the fact that no Immediate relief is In sight, due to the labor 

 situation as affecting the carriers. 



WISCONSIN 



The Suring Manufacturing Company has been incorporated with a capi- 

 tal stock of $35,000 at Suring, to build and operate a box factory, veneer 

 and heading mill. Work will begin about April 15. Equipment Is now being 

 purchased. The backers of the enterprise are A. J. Wilcox of Green Bay 

 and A. C. Kubiak, formerly of Sobieskl, Wis. Mr. Kubiak will have the 

 active management of the business. 



The American Seating Company at Manitowoc has awarded contracts 

 for the erection of a two-story factory addition. 48 by 120 feet in size, 

 of brick, concrete and steel construction. With new equipment and other 

 machinery, the Improvement will cost about $35,000. The general con- 

 tractors are Edward R. Herman & Company, local. 



The Hubert Woodenware Company of HUbert has decided to discontinue 

 business and will retire. The equipment of its mill and factory has been 

 purchased by the Konz Box and Lumber Company of Appleton, which will 

 build several small additions to its factory to accommodate the machinery 

 and thereby increase Its capacity to the point demanded by its orders. All 

 departments of the Konz plant are operating on a full time schedule with 

 a maximum number of men. The new branch factory at Seymour, operated 

 as the Seymour Woodenware Company, will be ready to start operations 

 about April 1. It was built during the past winter to replace the factory 

 destroyed by fire in the spring of 1920. 



The Randolph Wagon Works at Randolph, manufacturing heavy duty 

 farm wagons, trucks and trailers, has accepted plans for a new factory 

 to be erected immediately. It will be 100 by 120 feet in size, one story 

 high, of brick and mill construction and cost about $50,000, including 

 equipment. William Gossin is president and general manager of the 

 company. 



The Brown Safety Ladder Company of River Falls, Wis., has disposed 

 of its plant, equipment and business to Andrew Myhre, of Stillwater, Minn., 

 who Intends to operate the. plant as a general sash, door, mlUwork and 

 wood products factory. Mr. Myhre is a miUwork expert of long experience 

 and was associated in executive capacities with large sash and door Inter- 

 ests in Stillwater and other Minnesota cities for many years. 



The Appleton Wood Products Company of Appleton, which up to this 

 time has specialized in the manufacture of meat blocks and similar butch- 

 ers' supplies, has decided to augment its line with a number of specially 

 designed articles for meat markets and hotels. The first to be put into 

 production is a meat truck built of maple, and when made for hotels will 

 be highly finished for use in trucking dishes to and from dining rooms. A 

 combination meat block, sink and drain Board for hotels and restaurants 

 and a casing table with center drain will also be made in quantity. 



Otto E. Knoke of Hatley, who undertook the erection of a new sawmill 

 at Appleton last fall, but Intermitted the project because of conditions, will 

 resume construction work at once and push the building to completion. It 

 was inclosed before work was suspended late last fall and will soon be ready 

 to receive machinery and other equipment. Mr. Knoke operated a sawmill 



