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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Dermott Land and Lumber Company 



DERMOTT, ARK. 



Miller Lumber Co. 



MARIANNA, ARK. 



We have on our yards, in good shipping 

 condition, five million feet assorted Hard- 

 woods, consisting of Red and Sap Gum, 

 Quartered and Plain Oak, Ash, Cypress, 

 Cottonwood, etc. 



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The A. H. Andrews Co. 



115-117 S. Wabash Avenue 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



doors and blinds, bas completed plans for tbe remodeling of its power- 

 bouse and will install considerable new power equipment, including: 

 boilers, motors and generators. 



The Kenfleld-Lamoreaux Company of Washburn has placed its sawmill 

 on a daj? and night shift and will continue on tbe double shift all winter. 

 The company's box and crating plant is in busy operation. 



The J. S. Stearns Lumber Company of Odanah has filed a complaint 

 with tbe Interstate Commerce Commission against the Chicago & North- 

 western railroad, charging that rates on lumber from Odanah to various 

 stations on the defendant's line are excessive. Reparation of $2,433 Is- 

 asked. 



The Shawano Hub Manufacturing Company has been incorporated at 

 Shawano with a capital stock of .$40,000 by W. C. Landon and T. S. 

 Davis, well-known lumber manufacturers of Wausau, and George T. 

 Harding of Merrill. Mr. Harding, formerly with the Kaul hub concern 

 at Merrill, will manage the new concern. 



At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Merrill Veneer 

 Company of Merrill, the following officers were elected : President, Louis- 

 Leidiger : vice-president, F. W. Kubasta ; secretary and treasurer, W. A. 

 Eunge. The company has placed its plant in operation. 



The Paine Lumber Company of Oshkosh bas shipped an extensive and 

 attractive exhibit of its goods to be placed on display at the Panama- 

 Pacific exposition at San Francisco. The center of the display will com- 

 prise a replicT. of tbe double door entrance of the Canadian parliament 

 building, hand carved and of mahogany. Around this center will be 

 grouped a full representation of the styles of doors and other goods 

 manufactured by the Oshkosh concern. 



=-< ARKANSAS >•= 



The .\rkansas Oak Flooring Company of Pine Bluff, which was Incor- 

 porated under the laws of the state in January with a capital stock of 

 $50,000, has purchased a building site, consisting of five acres, just 

 west of the city limits at Pine Bluff. Work on the construction of the 

 new plant has been begun and will be rushed through to completion. 

 It Is gxpected that the plant will be ready for operations by .\prll 10. 

 It will have a daily capacity of .30,000 feet and will employ sixty men. 

 The principal stockholders In the new corporation are George and L. M. 

 Anson of Wisconsin, James W. Reynolds and H. W. Coles of Pine Bluff. 



The Golden Stave Company of Cottner, .\rk., on .January 26 filed" 

 articles of Incorporation with the secretary of state, placing the capital 

 stock at $10,000, of which $7,000 has been paid up. Ray R. Ramey,. 

 K. Billlngsley, R. F. Wood and J. W. Williamson are the principal stock- 

 holders. 



The big hardwood mill at Pine Bluff, owned and operated by J. F. 

 Mclntyre & Sons, which has been closed down since September of last 

 year, resumed operations on January 22 and Is now employing about 

 l.'JO men. 



The Southwestern Veneer Company's plant at Cotton Plant, Ark.,, 

 which Is one of the largest of Its kind In the state, began operations 

 anew In January, after having been closed since the outbreak of the- 

 European war. 



The Pine Bluff Spoke Company has Just received an order to get out 

 50,000 spokes to be used on the field gun carriages of the English and 

 French armies. 



The Mays Manufacturing Company of Leslie, .<rk., has recently been 

 awarded a contract by the Fort Smith Wagon Company to manufacture- 

 4,000 wagon wheel hubs which will be used by the French government. 



=-< DETROIT >= 



Edwin L. Thompson, president of tbe Detroit Lumber Company, one- 

 of the largest retail lumber comp.inies In tbe Middle West, died suddenly 

 on .January .'iO, at the age of seventy years, He was born In Vermont 

 and came to Michigan in 1886. .\t that date he began work in a lumber 

 camp at Lapeer and he shortly afterward organized the firm of Thompson, 

 Rich & Co. In 1875 he formed the firm of Piper & Thompson and five 

 years later organized the firm Delta Lumber Company. lu 1862 he 

 became president of the Brunswick Lumber Company of Brunswick, Ga., 

 which office he held until 1886. He first came to Detroit In 18S1 and 

 in 1883 organized tbe Thompson Lumber Company. Sixteen years later 

 he formed the Detroit Lumber Company of which he was the active 

 head until his death. As a mark of esteem all lumber companies Id 

 Detroit suspended operations the afternoon of his funeral. 



The wood and manufactured products thereof exported from the port 

 of Detroit in the fiscal year of 1914 had a total value of $3,779,172. 

 While the general total was somewhat lower than In 1913, wagons 

 shipped last year set a record, their value amounting to $375,302 in the 

 month of October alone. The total Is Included in the grand total of all 

 vehicles, automobiles, carriages, etc., which was $7,196,666. 



The Zeeland Furniture Company of Zeeland has closed a successful 

 year, having paid a dividend of twelve per cent, the banner dividend In 

 the history of the company. Officers have been re-elected as follows : 

 President. G. Van Tongren ; vice-president, R. DeBruyn ; secretary and' 

 treasurer. C. Van Loo ; directors, the officers and B. Glerum, R. Kampen 

 and G. Keppel ; manager, Benjamin Van Loo. 



The Superior Seating Company of Muskegon will manufacture 1,100- 

 desks a day In February and 1,200 a day in March, according to the- 



