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HARDWOOD RECORD 



mD GUM 



(Leading Manufacturers) 



WE OFFER THE FOLLOWING 



Band Sawn Stock 



4/4 Com. & Better Sap Gum 

 4/4 Com. & Better Red Gum 

 6/4 Com. & Better Red Gum 

 5/4 & 8/4 Is & 2s Red Gum 



Quartered and Plain Red and White Oak 



This stock contains a good percentage of 14' 

 and 16' lengths and is of excellent widths 



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HARDWOOD LUMBER AND LOGS 



OUR SPECIALTY 



St. Francis Basin Red Gum 



WE MANUFACTURE 



Southern Hardwoods 



- Gum, Oak and Ash 



J. H. Bonner & Sons 



MiUs and Office. 

 QCIGLEY, ASK. 



rostofflce and Telefn^ph Office. 

 HETU, ABK. 



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ARCHER LUMBER COMPANY 



HELENA, ARKANSAS 



Manufacturers of 



HARDWOODS 



SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES 



We can furnish your entire 

 requirements in Hardwoods 



OUR SPECIALTY — RED GUM 



ST. FRANCIS BASIN 



RED GUM 



(Kraetzer Cured) 



Flat-Dry-Bright-Band Sawn 



Write for lists and prices 

 GEO. C. BROWN & CO., PROCTOR, ARK. 



(30 miles from Memphis, on C. R. I. & P. Railroad) 



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Fire, which was discovered in the early morning of October 11, de- 

 stroyed the George Moore Handle Factory at Ashdown, Ark. Practically 

 the whole plant was in flames when first seen. The factory had been 

 closed down for several days on account of the poor market for its output, 

 and the origin of the fire is unknown. Two cars of lumber, which were 

 standing near the factory on the tracks of the Memphis, Dallas & Gulf 

 Railroad, were also badly damaged. The total loss, including plant and 

 lumber, is placed at $i,000, with some $1,500 insurance. 



The H. D. Williams Cooperage Company of Leslie. Ark., will soon install 

 machinery for the purpose of finishing up barrels. This addition to the 

 company's plant will mean the employment of about fifty additional men. 

 E. B. Griswold & Co., Cotter, .\rk.. Is enlarging its plant by installing 

 new machinery which will increase the number of products turned out 

 by the company, .\moug other things a large planer is being placed. 

 The company has heretofore manufactured only pencil slats, but from now 

 on it will turn out other dimension stuff and finish cedar lumber. E. B. 

 Griswold, as the head of the company, is planning to still further en- 

 large the plant's capacity so that it can produce fan handles, advertising 

 pencils and other novelties. 



George W. Hays, governor of .Arkansas, recently received S9,9S0 from 

 the Treasury Department of the United States government as the amount 

 due from the sales of timber during the past year from the Ozark and 

 Arkansas Forest Reserves in this state. This sum represents twenty-five 

 per cent of the total amounts realized from the sales of timber from 

 these reserves during the year 1013, and will be used in building roads 

 through the sections of the state in which the national forests lie. 



That the railroad company was liable for damage resulting to stave 

 bolts through deterioration while waiting for transportatiou 10 be pro- 

 vided was the finding of the .Jefferson county circuit court on October 17 

 in the case of A. D. and F,. D. Paul against the Saint Louis. Iron Moun- 

 tain and Southern Railroad Company. The plaintiCEs sued to recover 

 damages alleged to have been sustained by them by reason of the de- 

 terioration in value of certain stave bolts on account of the delay oc- 

 casioned by the railroad company in providing transportation, and a 

 judgment was given in the sum of $7-S.20. 



The Neely sawmill, which has been in operation about six miles from 

 Poughkeepsie, Ark., during the past several months, was closed down on 

 October 16. The shut down was occasioned by the fact that numerous 

 orders have recently been cancelled by the wagon manufacturing concerns 

 to whom the Neely company sold its output. The mill has had a pay- 

 roll of $'2,000 per month, and its closing down at this time will be keenly 

 felt by the people of that community. 



Very unique has been the experience of the Noris Mill Company be- 

 cause of the European war. This company owns and operates a mill in 

 Dallas county, Arkansas, near the town of Fairvicw, and formerly era- 

 ployed several hundred men in and about the plant. On the breaking out 

 of hostilities in Europe the company felt forced to close down, as the 

 export market on which it depended had been shut off. It happens, how- 

 ever, that the head of the company is an Englishman, and recently the 

 mill received orders from England for several cars of spokes to be 

 shipped to the British army, to be used in making spokes for the cannon 

 carriages. So the mill has been reopened, and is now cutting hardwood 

 with the energy as of other days. 



It is stated by those who should know that the production of hardwood 

 in Arkansas at present is not more than thirty or forty per cent of 

 normal. Fully fifty per cent of the larger mills have been closed en- 

 tirely, or are running only on short time. Still others are planning to 

 close down in the near future. The prices are standing about on the 

 level with those of two weeks ago, and there appears little inclination on 

 the part of the mills to push their stocks on the market, even though 

 the stocks -on hand at present are slightly in excess of what they were 

 this time last year. It seems sure, however, that the policy of curtail- 

 ment that is being so generally followed Just now is bound to reduce 

 the supply to the place where it will demand a good price. The millmen, 

 for the most part, believe that the future holds in store considerable 

 buying that has been put off about as long as it can be. 



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The M. H. Sprague Lumber Company's sawmill at Washburn has been 

 closed down for the season. 



Edward Cornillie, a member of the firm of Cornillie Brothers, Milwau- 

 kee, manufacturers of saloon and refrigerator fixtures, died on October 

 15, at the age of 67 years. Mr. Cornillie was engaged in the fixture manu- 

 facturing business for half a century. He is survived by his widow, one 

 son, George, and a brother, Charles. 



The A. E. White Machine Works of Eau Claire, turning out a line of 

 saw swages and shapers, has completed the work of remodeling its plant 

 and will install considerable new equipment within the near future, in 

 order to increase its capacity. 



The Menasha Wooden Ware Company, operating plants at Menasha 

 and Ladysmith, has completed the erection of an addition to its Lady- 

 smith branch. The company Is now remodeling its dry kiln at Lady- 

 smith. 



The Kenfleld-Lamoreaux Company of Washburn is now operating Its 



