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rial brought to Ludingtou for luauufacture aud calling £or a further expen- 

 <ilture of labor and money before being ready for market. The outbound 

 shipments totaled 3,507 cars and this was divided as follows : Lumber, 

 1,970 cars ; salt, 1,537 cars. 



When it is considered that this tremendous business was carried on 

 <lurinK a year of nation-wide uncertainty and depression iu business, its 

 magnitude can be better appreciated. In spite of quiet l)usiness conditions 

 all over the country, the Stearns interests have gone ahead with their 

 operations and are splendidly prepared to take the fullest advantage oi 

 the business revival which is sure to come. 



Large Fumlsliiiig Store Uses Gum for Window Display 



Garrett Lamb, president lU' the I>anil>-i''ish i^imiluT ("oiiiiiany, whose 

 residence is at Clinton, Iowa, was in Chicago this week attending the 

 <iirectors' meeting of that corporation. 



Mr. I..amb told a representative of II.\udwO(->d Rkcokd that the l)iK 

 furnishing store of Dolau Brothers at Clinton, Iowa, is about completini; 

 a. beautiful window display using llgnred red gum panels, .\ccording tn 

 Mr. Lamb's description, the wood is showing up with remarkable beauty 

 which reveals the result of conscientious work all the way through from 

 the veneer lathe to the finishing. 



The panels are of unusual size, being up to sixty-four inches wide and 

 seventy-two inches high. In fact, the company had considerable difficulty 

 in finding a manufacturing institution that had presses large enough to 

 make them up. 



The stock is all selected gum and a significant part of the whnle 

 proposition is that Dolan Brothers finally chose gum after giving careful 

 ■consideration to other woods ordinarily used for this purpose. 



This is surely a remarkable commentary, and one which is t-ntirely 

 justified, on gum. The wood will be stained Circassian walnut. The 

 display is ninety feet long and will give ample opportunity for effeetivi'Iy 

 showing off the best features of figured gum eiibinet work. 



A Bemarkable Machine 



Hardwood Uecokd has just received a circular describing a reinarkat)Ie 

 apparatus manufactured by Lewis T. Kline of .\lpena, Mich. The ma- 

 4:hine is an automatic lathe whidi, operated by one man for ten hours, 

 turns out from 30,000 to 50,000 wood turnings. The remarkable part of 

 the apparatus is its extreme versatility as the variety of turnings which 

 the machine can make is really remarkable. Mr. Kline has establlshid 

 a world-wide reputation in the manufacture of these machines and also of 

 his excelsior manufacturing appliances. 



Interesting Pamphlet from Arthur D. Little, Inc. 



HAUDWOOI> IU:COI{0 b.ts I-eeei\eil ;iri illlelesting paniplilet from -Vrthiii- 



X). Little, Inc., Boston. .Mass.. a well known lii-iii of chemists, engineers 

 and managers. The pamphlet <leals with various features of the present 

 war situation as to probable effects upon our own sources of supply of 

 raw materials, and analyzes the possibilities of this country's profiting 

 through more intensive utilization. 



Arthur D. Little, Inc., Is one of the leading concerns in its line in tiie 

 country. It makes a business of intensive study of plants for close utiliza- 

 tion of resources as well as organizing plants and dealing with other (pes 

 . tlons of efficiency. 



Big Lumber Company Be-opens MiU 



.\t a meeting of the board of directors of tln' Laiiih Fish Lumber Com 

 pauy, Charleston, Miss., which was held in Chicago a few days ago. it 

 was decided to immediately re-open the entire operation at Charleston. 

 According to the expressed opinions of the entire directorate of this 

 organization, the situation warrants its making this move, as the Lamb 

 Fish Lumber Company firiuly anticipated active renewal of business, which 

 will be gradually developed beginning with the early months of this year. 



The Lamb-Fish Lumber Company is a concern manufacturing 40,l)(iii.0ii(i 

 feet of hardwood lumber a year under normal circumstances, and while 

 it had an immense stock on Its yards at the time it closed down at the 

 beginning of the war, this stock of some 20,000,000 feet has been pretty 

 badly broken and continued increase in inquiries has led the company 

 to believe that it is good policy to replenish low supplies. 



It has on Its mill yard, in good condition and well protected, some 



ti.iiOO.iHMi leei of logs, mainly oak, which, according to W. B. Burke, vice- 

 president and general manager of the coiupany, are the finest logs that 

 his concern has ever put in. They are especially selected and when manu- 

 factured into lumber should make a mighty attractive proijosltlon to dis- 

 criminating purchasers. 



.Vccompanylng this ntitict' Is a cut illustrating the plant of the Lamb- 

 Fish Lumber rompany, which gives some Idea of the magnitude of this 

 operation. 



Sixty-second Anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Boyle 



.Mr. and .Mrs. ('laren<e I'.oyle .)f riiieago have he.'u spending the holi 

 days at I'asadena. Cal., where they went primarily to attend the sixty- 

 second wedding anniversary celebrated by Mr. Boyle's father and mother, 

 Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Bo.vle, at S45 .-Vtchlson street. Others members of 

 the family who were present were Mrs. W. B. McCorkle, Chas. E. Boyle 

 and Mrs. .\. N. Urown and her sons. 



The old couple are both well past eighty years of age, but are remark- 

 ably well iinil enjoying serene old age. They went to Pasadena four 

 years ago from Indianapolis, where they lived most of their lives. Mr. 

 Boyle, Sr., is a retired lumliernnin and was married to Miss Mary Ilalsted 

 at MIehiganlowii, Ilid.. where th.^y lived :\t that time. 



W. M. Bitter Lumber Company Be-opeus Mills 



Killing the latter months of 1914 several of the mills owned by tiie W. 

 M. Ititter Lumber Company, Columbus, O., were closed. At a meeting 

 held just before the first of the year, it was unanimously decided, on ac- 

 count of optimistic reports from salesmen and geni'rally better tone and 

 increases in prices, that it would be a wise policy to re-open these mills 

 and this policy was put into effect on January 1. 



The mills were opened on an eight-hour basis, 

 company to cut more lumber than it did in 1914. 

 Increased only as the sales increase. 



At the same meeting there were changes made in the positions of some 

 of the employes. .1. W. Mayhew, formerly sales manager, was appointed 

 as assistant to the president : F. B. Tryor, former assistant sales man- 

 ager, became sales tnanager ; K. N. Horton, former sales manager of the 

 central division, became assistant sales manager, and A. .1. WllUaiqs, 

 former sales manager of the eastern division, became eastern sales man- 



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Pertinent Information 



Lumbermen Win Export Gum Bate Case 



The Southern llanlwiMMi 'I'l-athe .Vssoeiation b;is won .-inother signal vic- 

 tory before the Interstate Commerce Commission. .1. 11. Townshend. 

 secretary and general manager. Is in receipt of information from Washing- 

 ton that this body has held that, while the rate on hardwoods other than 

 gum from .Memphis tr» New Orleans is reasonable, a reduction Is ordered 

 from points in MIsslsslpiii to the Crescent City. .Ml points north of the 

 main line of the Houtlurii Hallway In that state are given a rate of 11 

 cents and all points below the main line of the same road in that state 

 are given a rate of lo cents. This decision was handed down In the case 

 known as the Bellgrado Lumber Company et al. vs. the Illinois Central and 

 Yazoo & Mississippi Valley roads and has been pending before the com- 

 mission for quite a while. 



While the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association lost so far as Memphis 

 proper Is concerned, much gratification Is felt over the reduction In rates 

 from Mississippi points. ,V number of Memphis firms own and operate 

 mills In Mlssissipj)l and will thus get the benefit of the lower rates on 

 their shipments to New Orleans for export. The principal firms here 

 affected by the ruling arc It. .1. Darnell, Inc., with mills at Batcsville and 

 Leiand, Miss. ; the Bellgrade Lumber Company, with mill at Isola, Miss. ; 

 Russe & Burgess, Inc., with mill at Isola; Taylor & Crate, with mill at 

 Hlncllff and the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company, with mill at Charleston, Miss. 

 A number of other firms here operate mills in Mississippi and It Is 

 estimated that the total saving in freight will be between $15,000 and 



GBNF,RAL VIEW OF TIIE SI.MN S.WVMII.L I'LANT OF THE LAMB-FISH i.f.MRER COMPANY, CHARLESTON, MISS. 



