HARDWOOD RECORD 



Stimson Veneer & Lumber Co. 



foiiml that a qmility 

 cost. Quality boards 



BOiitbcru upcrations. Mr. Stimson has alway 



product successfully operates to reduce sclliu 



made from really good timber, faithfully manufactured and careful! 



graded, have retained for Mr. Stimson 's Indiana operations many a 



account which has automatically continued from year to year. Tin- 



same ideals of quality are possible at the southern operations, because 



the timber is there as well as the equipment and experience. 



The Stimson Veneer & Lumber Company has a daily capacity of 

 about 50,000 feet, which is made up of a full line of band sawn 

 southern hardwoods, largely oak, gum and yellow cypress. The oper 

 ation covers some twenty-five acres, includ- 

 ing the yard, which carries a constant stock 

 of about 4,000,000 feet, the output being 

 all air-dried. In addition there is a dry 

 lumber shed, which has a capacity of 2,000,- 

 000 feet of dry stock. 



The plant is equipped with modern AUis- 

 Chalmers band mill and Mershon resaw. 

 The logs are handled on a Browning loco 

 motive crane, which is supported by a steel 

 log derrick for switching and handling 

 logs. The logging equipment consists of 

 modern steam machinery and motive and 

 rolling stock which operates over twelve 

 miles of tram road. 



J. V. Stimson is president of the Stim- 

 son Veneer & Lumber Company and also of 

 the other units in the Stimson operations. 

 The other officers in this particular com- 

 pany are B. F. Katterhenry, vice-president ; 

 R. C. Stimson, secretary, and Richard Pet- 

 rus, sales manager. 



It might be well to give here a brief 

 sketch of the methods which have brought 

 to .1. V. Stimson such success and affluence 

 ill the manufacture of hardwood lumber. 

 A short time ago a small group of hard- 

 wood men happened during a general con- 

 versation to strike the subject of the wealth 

 of the average hardwood man. One of 

 them, a national figure, said that he, a short 

 time before, had made the statement offi- 

 cially that with all Indiana's hardwood 

 laurels, both past and present, and with the 

 great number of prominent hardwood men 

 starting there, he did not know one who 

 could be classed as a millionaire. He then 

 said that J. V. Stimson probably came 

 closer to that enviable position than any 

 other Hoosier. 



Mr. Stimson, as stated, has made a prod- 

 uct which through its worth has held his 

 markets. But with the wane in Indiana's 

 log output this would not have availed him 

 much had he not been able to keep up his 

 production of Indiana stock. Readers of 

 H.uiDTvooD Record may recall that a couple 

 of years ago there appeared in these pages 

 an ilhistrated description of a yard con- 

 taining some 6,000 logs of Indiana forked- 

 leaf white oak. Mr. Stimson has been a 

 successful and economical operator, but in 

 addition to these influences the factors that 

 have made for his position of affluence are 

 his sagacity in providing an unceasing log 

 supply of highest quality. 



THIS GIVES A GOOD INDICn-JON OF TH 



EXTENT OF THE STIMSON YARDS 



