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HARDWOOD RECORD 



TIMBER ESTIMATES 

 Northern, Southern & West Indian Hardwoods 



Estimates 



Maps 



Reports 



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D. E. LAUDERBURN, Forest Engineer Bidg. new iobk, n. y. 



Rockcastle Lumber Co. 

 C. L Ritter Lumber Co. 



OAK-Plain and Quartered, RED AND WHITE 

 POPLAR CHESTNUT BASSWOOD 



Anything in Hardwoods 



Huntington 



West Virginia 



PHIS 



TIMBER ESTIMATES 



KEPORTS INCLI'nED 

 TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP. DETAIL ESTIMATES A WRITTEN RBPOKT 



GARDNER & HOWE 



ENGINEERS 



Clarence W. Griffith "•?.rt« buS^"' Memphis, Tenn. 



DUCAN LUMBER CO. 



a""nd"^'hrp'p"er Karclwood Lumber 



MEMPHIS TENNESSEE 



TSCHUDY LUMBER CO. 



JIANUFACTURERS OF 



St. Francis Basin Hardwoods 



SPECIAL BILLS LONG STOCK 

 OAK, ASH and CYPRESS 



1 8 to 30 feet 



Sawed to Order 



Mill * Yards AnDRESSCORnESPONDENCETOGENERAL OFFICI 



MEMPHIS 605 Republic BIdg. KANSAS CITY, MO. 



any trouble. Mr. Kerrick said that while a small admission fee is charged, 

 the object is not to make money, but to benefit the men, and this object 

 is being realized. 



The Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing Company^ of Louisville, is operat- 

 ing its plant more actively as the result of the war orders which it has 

 received. It will deliver 12,000 portable kitchens, or kitchens on wheels, 

 to the allied armies in France. It has let a subcontract to the Embry 

 Box Company of Louisville, for feed-boxes, tool-boxes, cutting boards, etc., 

 besides one to a local iron-working concern for much of the metal work. 

 The order amounts to several hundred thousand dollars, and will use up 

 a lot of material. The plant had not been operating full time for quite 

 a while previous to the placing of the war order. 



T. M. Brown of the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company attended a 

 meeting of the directors of the National Hardwood Lumber Association in 

 Chicago January 19, afterwards going down with the other directors to the 

 annual of the Indiana Lumbermen's Association at Indianapolis the next 

 day. 



=■< MILWAUKEE >= 



The George Spratt chair factory at Sheboygan, Wis., has been purchased 

 by Thomas McNeill, secretary and treasurer of the Sheboygan Chair Com- 

 pany. The consideration has not been announced, but the value of the plant, 

 together with stock on baud, was placed at $100,000 at a recent inventory. 

 The Spratt plant will be under the management of Mr. McNeill's son, Harry. 

 Mr. Spratt, who has been engaged in the chair manufacturing business at 

 Shcbo.vgan for the past forty-three years, will now retire from business. 



F. 11. Westlake, for six .years general manager of the Milwaukee Chair 

 Company, has left for Bedford, O., where he has accepted a position as sales 

 manager of the B. L. Marble Chair Company, manufacturer of high-grade 

 office furniture. He has also acquired an interest in the concern. 



Thomas J. Neacy, president and general manager of the Filer & Stowell 

 Company of Milwaukee, manufacturer of sawmill equipment and engines, 

 observed his sixty-seventh birthday anniversary on January 17. Mr. Neacy 

 has been connected with the Filer & Stowell concern for forty-three .years. 



The Sheboygan Fruit Box Company of Sheboygan, Wis., has received an 

 order for 2,230,000 white basswood kite sticks. The plant has until August 

 3 to complete the order. The buyers are large manufacturers of kites and 

 other toys. 



The A. H. Stangc Lumber Company of Merrill, Wis., has placed its sawmill 

 in operation. 



The lleddles Lumber Company of Madison, Wis., has made several changes 

 at its yards in southern Wisconsin. Lawrence Ilutson, manager of the yards 

 at Stoughton, Wis., has been transferred to Edgcrton, Wis., succeeding A. E. 

 Skinner, who will now be located in the company's general oCQces at Madison. 

 Chris. Larson, manager at McFarland, Wis., has been transferred to Stough- 

 ton and has been succeeded by Henry Larson, his brother. 



The .ihnapee Veneer & Seating Company of Algoma, Wis., recently made 

 the first payment to its employes on a profit-sharing plan which it started 

 about a j-ear ago. The cash paid amounted to about one month's wages for 

 each man and totaled about .$4,000. The same plan was put in force at the 

 company's plant at Birchwood. 



The Curtis & Yale Company of Wausau has placed its plant in operation 

 on an eight-hour shift. The Brooks & Ross Lumber Company has started 

 sawing operaiions with a full crew. 



The sawmill of the Ilatten Lumber Company at New London, Wis., Is 

 again in operation with a day and night crew. 



A. W. Iligbfield of the Webster Chair Company of Superior, Wis., has left 

 for EnaJand to close a contract to furnish all the chairs needed by a Great 

 Britain wholesale furniture house, which had formerly been distributing the 

 output of three Austrian factories. 



The Henry A. Salzer Lumber Company of LaCrosse, Wis., which has been 

 out of business about ten years, has filed articles of dissolution. This com- 

 pany should not be confused with the Salzcr Lumber Company of Minne- 

 apolis. Five other Wisconsin lumber concerns, all of Superior, have filed 

 articles of dissolution, among them : Cook County Lumber Company, 

 Beaver Bay Lumber Company, North Shore Lumber Company and the Lake 

 County Lumber Company. 



The Foster-Latimer Lumber Campany of Mellen, Wis., has placed an 

 unusuall.v modern train at the disposal of its lumber camp employes near 

 Mollen. The outfit comprises a kitchen car, equipped with all the latest 

 devices, two sleepers, fitted out with steel double-deck beds, and two diners, 

 furnished with individual tables tor seating four people each. The entire 

 train is steam heated, gasoline lighted and furnished with the latest equip- 

 ment. 



=-< DETROIT >-= 



One noticeable feature of the mid-winter furniture show at Grand Rap- 

 ids, Mich., was the prominence given exhibits of rustic furniture, and 

 judging from the effect obtained by the exhibits the possibilities of rustic 

 furniture may be said to be almost unlimited. One of the foremost 

 exhibits at the mid-winter show was that of the Old Hickory Chair Com- 

 pany, of Martinsville, Ind. It attracted wide comment and was one of 

 the beauty spots of the show. The company's space was filled with old 

 hickory furniture, the company being the pioneer manufacturer In that 

 line. Beginning with the manufacture of chairs, which were crudely 

 built, the rustic furniture industry has progressed, as shown by the 



