February 25. 1916 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Shreveport, La., has recently purcliascd a coiitroUlug interest in tliis 

 company. Tlie company is now planning to erect a box factory. II. T. 

 Bennett will remain as manager of tbe plant. 



The Little Itock Mill and Lumber Company recently filed articles of 

 incorporation. The officers and incorporators are D. S. Watrous, presi- 

 dent, Lee Yount, B. S. Hoskins and P. A. I'ount. Its capital stock is 

 $25,000. 



The Perry Manufacturing Company of Little Rock has filed articles 

 of incorporation, showing a capital stock of $10,000. It is authorized to 

 do a stave and heading business. Its officers and incorporators are J. C. 

 Perry, president, M. T. Perry, H. A. Black and Dave Black. 



The Malvern Lumber Company of Perla. has put its sawmill back upon 

 a six ten-hour day basis. For the past three months it has been running 

 but fifty-four hours per week, and operating the band mill only. It 

 intends to resume work with the resaw about March 1, which will bring 

 the output up to full volume, nie company operates a box factory as 

 well as a hard and softwood mill. 



The Moline Lumber Company, Malvern, Ark., has resumed sawing in 

 its hardwood dimension mill after a two weeks' shutdown on account 

 of high water. 



All lumber manufacturers are experiencing a recent tightening in the 

 car situation as the railroads have been unable to move cars into this 

 part of the state from tbe East in anything like sufficient (|uantities. 

 In many cases cars have been marooned by intervening washouts, while 

 a great number of empties have been rushed to the overflowed and 

 threatened areas for rescue and levee work. 



The flood situation as affects this particular territory is a thing of tlie 

 past. Repair work has been completed and the roads and bottoms are 

 becoming a little more passable for teams and logging equipment. No 

 great losses were sustained except in rare cases. 



Veneer makers report a wealth of orders but a scarcity of logs, they 

 are paying an advance of one dollar per thousand for logs but are handi- 

 capped by the past weather couditions In that few logs are being ottered. 



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The Straits Lumber Company of Janesvillc, Wis., has been incor|)0- 

 rated with a capital stock of .1:1,100,000 by J. S. Fifield, George K. King 

 and F. B. Farnsworth. 



The Conway Veneered Door & Mantel Company of Milwaukee has in- 

 corporated under tbe name (»f the Conway Company and will specialize 

 In the manufacture and sale of doors. The capital stock is placed at 

 $150,000 and the incorporators are Wilson J. Conway, William F. Crosby 

 and George D. Gobi. 



The Holt Lumber Company of Oconto, Wis., is preparing to open its 

 sawmill about March 1. when employment will be given to about 150 

 men. The company's mill js now running nine hours a da.v and will be 

 placed on a ten-hour-a-day shift within the near future. The Holt com- 

 pan.v is still hiring men for work in its logging camps. 



The Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company of Ilermansville, Mich., ex- 

 perienced a loss of nearly $50,000 on February Hi, when a serious fire 

 broke out in its hardwood yards. The principal dry maple stock was 

 not damaged, however, and tliere has been no interruption in the opera- 

 tion of the company's flooring factory and mills. There were more than 

 15,000,000 feet of lumber in the yards, valued at over $300,000. 



That the Chicago Lumljermen's Mutual Casualty Company paid a divi- 

 dend of 25 per cent to Michigan policyholders in the loggers' and saw- 

 mill owners' classification, while to the same class of Wisconsin policy- 

 holders it paid only 10 per cent, was the principal development at the 

 hearing held in Madison on February 10 before Insurance Commissioner 

 Cleary upon the complaint of the John H. Kaiser Lumber Company of 

 Eau Claire, and the Turtle Lake Lumber Company of Winchester, Wis., 

 against the Chicago concern, asking that its Wisconsin license be revoked. 

 Commissioner Cleary has taken the matter under advisement. 



Joint rates on lumber from Wausau and Schofield, Wis., to points on 

 the Soo Line, west and north of Junction City, have been established 

 as the result of a complaint filed with the Wisconsin Railroad Commission 

 by the Central Wisconsin Traffic Bureau. The new rates arc three to 

 seven cents lower per 100 pounds. 



The Shawano Lumber Company of Shawano, Wis., has completed ar- 

 rangements for operating its sawmill during the coming summer. Nearly 

 2,000,000 feet of logs will be purchased from C. W. Magee, who is log- 

 ging at Lily. 



A. C. Dodge, pioneer lumber dealer of Monroe, Wis., who had tbe dis- 

 tinction of having been engaged for fifty consecutive years in the lumber 

 business in his city, died on February 14 at the age of eighty-one years. 

 There were probably few Wisconsin dealers who were better known to 

 the wholesale trade than was Mr. Dodge. He was born in Vermont in 

 1834 and settled in Monroe in 1S54. He filled various offices in Monroe 

 and served two terms in the Wisconsin legislature. He is survived by 

 one son and one daughter. 



The Schram Furniture Company of Oshkosh, Wis., which is preparing 

 to move to Ladysmith, Wis., has practically completed the erection and 

 equipping of its new plant in the latter city and it is expected that 

 operations will begin at once. 



E. H. Johnson of Chicago was the highest bidder for the bankrupt 

 estate of the Racine Stool Manufacturing Company of Racine. Wis., 



BAND MILLS. ISOLA, MISS. 



Red Gum 



A few items of bone 

 dry stock 'which 

 will interest you 



3 cars 5 4 No. 1 Common Qtd. Red Gum 



4 cars 6 4 No. I Common < )td. Red Gum 



1 car 8 4 FAS Qtd. Red Gum 



1 cars 4 4 No. 1 Common Plain Red Gum 

 1 cars 5 4 No. I Common Plain Red Gum 



2 cars 6 4 No. 1 Common Plain Red Gum 



IBellgrabc Humber Company 



Itand Mills 

 Ihola, MIks. 



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