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HARDWOOD RECORD 



sawmill, planing mill and interior finish plant tor the manufacture of rough 

 lumber, interior finish, plow handles, dimension stock, bent wood, novelti'!-*' 

 and tobacco hogsheads. George T. Lester of the Lester Lumber Company 

 planned the construction of the plant which when complete will involve an 

 expenditure of some $50,000, and which will probably be in operation aboiii 

 the beginning of 1916. When this is completed the company's plant at 

 Figsboro will be removed to Martius^illf. 



Apparently Well-Adapted to Its Work 



The cost of laying trackage ordinarily prohibits the use of logging rail- 

 roads in working over tracts of timber that are not extensive. The cost "f 

 motor power and loading trucks is ordinarily inconsequential as compared 

 with the cost of actually putting down the tracks, building trestles, digging 

 cuts, grading roads, etc. It would seem that an apparatus that is being put 

 on the market by a Pennsylvania company should go quite a little way 

 toward solving this problem in connection with those tracks where the use 

 of standard or even a narrow gauge oiiuipment is not at all feasible. 



The cut that accompanies this story illustrates the trucks and trackage 

 with which the small operator could handle his lumber taken out of his 

 woods economically and effectively. 'Hiis is manufactured by the Orensteiii- 

 .\rthur Koppel Company, Koppel, Pa., wiiich firm furnishes portable tracks 

 made up in fifteen-foot sections and mounted on steel ties so that eomparii- 

 tively no grading is required and light capacity cars suitable for operation 

 on sixteen thirty pound rails are furnished, the capacity ranging from liv 

 to ten tons, which can be hauled by either horses or light locomotives. 



The interesting point about the idea is that the Initial cost of laying such 

 track is very small and there is practically no depreciation as the track can 

 be taken up in complete sections and shifted from one place to another imm"- 

 diately willuiut damage. 



The lars furnished for use with this track are of the lightest construction, 

 as will bo seen from the illustration. l)ut the condition of strength, of 

 course, is taken into consideration throughout. 



When not loade<l the two trucks ar(> coupled together, but when loaded 

 wjth logs they can be placed at any distance apart to conform with tli" 

 length of the logs. 



rL\HDwooD Hecokp takes pleasure In giving a little publicity to this idea 

 as it appears it should solve a problem that has confronted owners of small 

 limber tracts worth developing, and would suggest that they get in toucn 

 witli the Orenstein-Arthur Koppel Company and get more complete descrip- 

 tion. 



Lumbermen's Underwriting Alliance 

 The Lumbermen's i^nderwrlting Alliance, Kansas City, Mo., has moved its 



oltices from suite 1101 It. A. Long building to suili' 1118 same building, 



oilices recently vacated by the IMerks lAimher & Coal Company. 



The Dierks company moved out on account of the necessity for larger 



quarters and these oflices gave to the Lumbermen's Underwriting Alliance 



the necessary additional room which has lx>en demanded by its increased 



business. 



IT. S. Epperson, attorney and manager for the Alliance, writes from tlie 



West where he has been for somi> time that lie is i^ntirely recovered from a 



lialnfiil alTeitiou of the right ear. 



Keith Lumber Company Changes Location 

 The Keith LumlK-r Coinpan\. wliidi has been located at Fourteenth and 

 Wood streets, Chicago, tor the past twenty-one years, has just moved its 

 entire yard, plant and office to I.atlin near Twenty-second street. The 

 Ilaltlmore & Ohio Railroad Company sec'.ires the old yard for storage and 

 railway coaches. 



The new yard of the Keith company extends on both sides of Laflin street 

 from the rircK-and I as excellent swilcbin'.; facilities, giving connedions with 



all of the reads going out of the city. The company has erected a fine new 

 office building finished up in red gum, the purpose being to give visualized 

 advertisement of the excellent finishing qualities of that wood. 



In 1870 W. S. Keith organized the Keith business, which was operated 

 under his name up to 1890. \A"hen it was originally started the company 

 maintained north and south side yards, but these were consolidated In 

 1894. 



F. E. Bartelme is now president of the company and J. M. Hiel, secretary 

 and treasurer. Mr. Bartelme has direct charge of the domestic departinent. 

 while Mr. Kiel devotes his attention mainly to the foreign woods. 



The Keith company has been well known for the diversified aud high-class 

 character of stock it carries, as it is usually in a position to figure on almost 

 any kind of wood, either foreign or domestic. It has gained an enviable 

 reputation in all of its transactions, and its new quarters will unquestion- 

 ably enable it to give even better service than in the past. 



A Northern Michigan Logging Operation 



The Hichardson & .\very Company of Raco, ilioh., which w'as organized 

 some months ago. is at work on its tract of 42,000 acres of hemlock and 

 hardwood located north of the Duluth, South Shore & .\tlantic Railway in 

 Chippewa county, Mich. The corporation was organized to operate this 

 tract. The timber is owned by Sewell L. Avery of Chicago, Waldo A. 

 .\very of Detroit and the E. Richardson Company of Saginaw, Mich. They 

 owl! all the stock in the new concern. The officers are L. M. Richardson, 

 Saginaw, president : S. L. .'Vvery, Chicago, vice-president ; W. A. Avery, 

 Detroit, treasurer, and H. C. Richardson, Saginaw, secretary. The com- 

 pany was forced to commence operations on account of a fire which caused 

 serifuis danmge to the east end of the tract last summer. It has been 

 logging the burned timber duiing the past winter and will complete it this 

 summer. It has built a sawmill in the new town of Raco, which is located 

 on the D. S. S. & A. railway about twenty miles west of Sault Ste. Marie. 

 The principal equipment of the mill Is a single Garland hand saw and a 

 Mershon resaw. It expects to cut and manufacture about 15,000,000 feet 

 this year. In future years the cut will depend entirely on market condi- 

 tions. There are built and In operation twelve mile:i of logging railroad, 

 to which will be added .nbout five miles this year. 



Leaves Licking River Lumber Company 



.1. D. Kindig. who has lieen manager of one of the departments of the 

 Licking River Lumber Company of South Bend, Ind., for several years, 

 has recently become associated with the Iluff-Stickler Lumber Company, 

 which will continue the wholesaling hiiSiness with offices In the Dean 

 building. South Bend. 



. .Mr. Kindig has been closely associated with the hiii-dwood consuming 

 irade, and will handle that end of the business. Mr. IlulT aiul Mr. Stickler 

 will give their attention to the yard trade in Indiana and Michigan. 



James E. Stark to Control Memphis Veneer and Lumber 



Company 



.lames K. Stark of .lames E. Stark & Co., Memphis, Tenn., has .just 

 acquired control of the Memphis Veneer and Lumber Company, also of that 

 city. Final details of the transaction were consummated a few days ago. 

 The deal involves a Idg stock of mahogany timber which is on the yard and 

 under cpntract involving some ,?750.000, Inchiding Honduras and Soutli 

 .American stock, and also the sawmill and veneer plant at Memphis. It is 

 stated that the sum of about a million dollars is Involved in the transaction. 

 Till' capital stock of the Xleniphis Veneer aud Lumber Company is $250,000. 



Mr. Stark has l)een 

 actively Interested in 

 th<' hardwood industry 

 in Memphis f<u- a good 



idi; 'iiti ri<s AMI i'niir.\r,i,i.: track, maup: by tiii-: ciKDx.-^iia.N 



ARTHUR KOPI'EL COMI'ANY, KOI'PEL, V\. 



.1. E. STAUK, Willi RECK.NILV SECURED 

 1 oNTROL of .MEMPHIS VENEER & LUMBER 

 COMI'ANY. 



