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LUMBER 



Cut from logs such as 

 these ranks high in 

 quality and grade. All 

 our stock IS from St. 

 Francis River basin logs 

 which produce the high- 

 est quality of Gum lum- 

 ber on the market. 



2 Band Mills 

 100.000 ft. daily capacilti 



MILLER LUMBER CO. 



MARlANNA. ARK. 



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=■< BALTIMORE >-= 



Till' ni'w sawmill at Mobile, Ala., erectPil hy the Magazine Hardwood 

 ronipany. the manufacturing connection of the firm o( Richard P. Bacr 

 & ("ii.. of Baltimore, was put regularly in operation two weeks ago and 

 DOW turns out appro.xlmately Its full capacity of lumber, some 60,000 feet 

 per (lay. Richard P. Baer. senior member of the firm, went down to Mobile 

 to see the plant started. The mill Is almost directly across the river from 

 a lilg new shipbuilding establishment, which is expected to take a con- 

 siderable portion of the mill output. The plant is a double-band and 

 rrsaw equipment, and is fitted up with all modern Improvements, being 

 one of the most complete hardwood mills in the South. The old mill is 

 being dismantled. 



J. McD. Price, formerly secretary <.f the National Lumber Exporters' 

 Association and later in the wholesale lumber business here, expects to 

 leave for Kurnsville, N. C, this week or in the next few days to take up 

 his duties as manager of a sawmill to be erected there by Interests with 

 which Fred Arn of the J. M. Card Lumber Company and president of the 

 National Lumber Exporters' Association. Is connected. .\ large tract of 

 timber, mostly spruce, has been secured in Yancy county, and a sawmill 

 Is to be erected, with a branch railroad to facilitate shipment of the 

 product. The timber is stated to be among the finest of Its kind in the 

 South. 



The F. X. Ganter Company, manufacturers of show cases and office 

 fi.xtures, has asked for a permit for the erection of two factory buildings, 

 both of them to have three stories and one to be of brick. One Is to cover 

 a lot 200 by 70 feet and the other 123 by 65 feet. 'The cost of the two- 

 structures Is estimated at ?32,450. The company's business has expanded 

 greatly and additional room became necessary. 



While the house building plan in connection with the sheltering of the 

 Increase In the force to be employed at the shipbuilding plant of the Beth- 

 lehem Steel Company at Sparrows Point, near Baltimore, still halts, because 

 of differences between the government and the company, a part of the 

 project. Involving the erection of quarters for the single men at Dundalk. 

 will be proceeded with. Bids for the erection of 204 frame houses, four 

 kitchens and mess halls and a boiler house have been asked of a number 

 of builders here, and it is expected that the proposals will he opened in 

 the next few days. The cost of the improvements is estimated at not less 

 than ?700,000. The entire cottage building program Is estimated to 

 Involve not less than $5,000,000 and to provide for 1,200 frame cottages 

 for married men. The government wants to advance SO per cent of the 

 money, and desires the company to furnish the rest, the government taking 

 as security a mortgage on the cott:i^M> ami th.- land. The company, for 



its part, thinks the goviTiiincnt should supply the entire amount nicdfil. 



Clarence Wood of the R. E. Wood Lumber Company, this city, is on a 

 trip to the company's mill in Swain county, N. C. and during his absence 

 Mr. Bledsoe is looking after the selling end, as II. J. Bowman, the sales 

 manager, is ill. 



After many delays there Is at last a fair prospect that the remaining 

 cars of the fifty-seven of hardwoods intended for export, which were held 

 up under the British order In council of March, 1910, will soon lie under 

 way across the Atlantic. Harvey M. Dickson, secretary of the National 

 Lumber Exporters' Association, succeeded last year In obtaining permis- 

 sion from the British minister of shipping in Now York. Camp Guthrie, 

 to have the lumber, which had been started prior to the Issuance of the 

 order In council, to go forward. When It came to securing steamer room, 

 however, a new difficulty was presented. Much of the lumber had been 

 shipped to Norfolk and Newport News, and the steamers sailing from there 

 required no dunnage. It thus became necessary to make reshlpment to 

 Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. This again caused a blockade, 

 because the railroads had meanwhile been placed under embargo, and would 

 not furnish cars or move them. Mr. Dickson then sought to arrange for 

 water transportation to Baltimore, and In this he has now proved suc- 

 cessful. Three of the cars arrived here on .\prll 17 by steamer, and the 

 other thirteen were expected within a day or two after. This will clean 

 up the entire fifty-seven cars. From here the lumber will go to Europe, 

 steamers having been found to take It. Only the most determined efforts 

 and everlastingly keeping at It made the shipment of the lumber at all 

 possible. 



William Vogodes, one of the office force of Richard P. Baer & Co., has 

 been appointed an ensign In the navy. He enlisted last summer and has 

 been at the training school at .Tamestown. 



=■< CLEVELAND >-- 



Hardwood interests of the Cleveland districts have offered their financial 

 and moral support to the movement of the Cleveland Housing Company 

 to obtain some of the proposed ?00,000,000 appropriation for housing for 

 munition plant workers. This bill Is now pending in Washington, and its 

 successful passage is looked tor almost any day. The Interest of the hard- 

 wood trade here is centered in this move particularly because the principal 

 outlets for hardwoods in the Cleveland section Is in housing construction, 

 and there Is practically none of that going on now. About the only other 

 outlet for hardwoods is heavy stork for mill construction, and this does 

 uot mean an awful lot of hardwood business. 



If is pointed out by lucmlicrs of the trade that there Is Immediate need 



All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if Vou Mention HARDWOOD RECORD 



