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HARDWOOD RECORD 



May 25, 1918 



tigh lights of exceeding Interest. His original business was known as 

 the L'Anguille Lumber Company. This company operated the old Hoffman 

 mill at Marianna, this being the first band mill In that country. 



He became Interested In Arkansas timber through trading a lot of bug- 

 gies of his own manufacture for some land near the mill. This land is 

 DOW being logged and contains as good a cut of white oak as has been 

 brought out in the last ten or twelve years. The old L'Anguille Lumber 

 Company was organized locally around Marianna and Mr. Miller owned 

 considerable interest. 



Eventually he moved to Kansas City about the time of the Kansas City 

 boom, he having invested heavily in Kansas City real estate. This prop- 

 erty, however, went "bad" and in the meantime the lumber company was 

 kind of a sink hole for a number of years. In 1890 It wound up hope- 

 lessly involved and Mr. Miller had to buy enough stock to protect himself, 

 and then eventually went to Marianna and took charge. 



The early days were replete with harassing conditions as not only did 

 he start under great diflBculties, but was seriously handicapped by trouble 

 In getting sufBcient backing to carry him through. He managed, how- 

 ever, to keep going and in 1893 the firm finally got on its feet and by 

 1898 had all debts cleaned up. It is said that since 1S93 there has never 

 been a year that the firm has not made money, the sales last year running 

 to about $600,000. 



A short time before his death Mr. Miller, Sr., was talking over the 

 old days in Arkansas lumbering. In reminiscing he went back to 1901 at 

 which time he said he was able to command about $100,000, and, having 

 this, his sons wished him to buy timberland which was then selling at 

 from five to ten dollars an acre. He, however, concluded to wait "until 

 it was cheaper." This timber which then could have been bought at five 

 dollars, and which In fact had been turned down at fifty cents per acre, 

 was purchased twelve years ago for $12.50 per acre and today the same 

 timber is worth about $75 per acre. 



The first timber sale of any magnitude entered into by the company 

 was a tract bought in 1900 at Marianna. The purchase was made on the 

 basis of $3 an acre and about six months later the land was sold for $10 

 an acre. Some of the land Is said to be worth from $100 to $125 per 



The company's operations extend mainly from L'Anguille river ; most 

 of the timlier comes from the St. Francis river. It now logs mostly from 

 its own land but Ijuys in the open market as well. It controls some 

 <;,000 acres of timberlands. 



This organization is the result of the hard work, intelligent manage- 

 ment and the honest effort of Benedick Miller, and it is entirely safe 

 to predict that the methods which have proven such an inspiration to 

 those who have come in full control will be carried on. Max D. Miller 

 now becomes president of the company, he having been sole manager of 

 the operation for some time past. 



r.enedick Miller leaves his widow and seven children. 



took place at the cemetery at Paola on Monday, May C. 



Handy Electric Barker 



Barking Drum Company, 440 South Dearborn street, 

 )wn manufacturers of barking drums, has just produced 



a new hand barker. This was first developed for taking off the small 

 patches of bark sometimes left on the wood after passing through the 

 barking drum. It has, 

 however, proven very 

 useful elsewhere. 



The accompanying cut 

 shows an illustration of 

 the workings of the 

 barker, which is sus- 

 pended from any con- 

 venient point and bal- 

 anced by weight. The 

 barker is easily handled 

 by one man while the 

 work may be held with 

 the other hand. 



The cutter head Is on 

 a shaft which connects 

 it direct with the motor, 

 which has ample power 

 for the work. 



The length of the barker is about two feet and t'he weight about fifty 

 pounds. 



Sondheimer Company Expanding Rapidly 



Charles C. Dickinson, sales manager of the E. Sondheimer Company, 

 Memphis, Tenn., announces that on May 1 that company opened an office 

 at 15 Whitehall street. New York, N. Y. Harry M. McDowell is acting 

 as general eastern sales agent. 



The company also announces the erection of two new mills, one just 

 completed at Tullulah, La., and the other at Sondheimer, La. The 

 Tullulah mill is now in operation while the new mill at Sondheimer will 

 be started about June 15. Also beginning the first of June, the company's 

 mill at Baton Rouge, La., will start on a day and night shift. 



These mills with those located at Junks and Newellton, La., will give 

 the company an approximate output of 250,000 feet of high grade southern 

 hardwoods daily. 



The company continues to maintain its large distributing yard at 

 Memphis where it carries a constant stock of from 3 to 5 million feet of 

 high grade ash and oak lumber. 



MOTOR 



B\RlvER 



Adds to Manufacturing Capacity 



La., informs Hardwood 

 L;i.. has been purchased 

 l.uiiihiT Company, and 

 II li:i^ :in eight-foot band 

 r;i| i.ity. and its entire 

 cjMnilJituy as sales agents 



manufactured and first- 

 he output 





v^lltVTION '^1 \f,ED m E C \TKINS 



M(,(.I\(, CO^GRI SS, HLNTINGTOX 



The Climax Lumber Company of Alexani 

 Recoicu that the sawmill plant at Ilazi-lwc 

 by F. M. Prltchett, president of the l!ot;ii]; 

 will be placed in operation about June 1 11 

 and seven-foot resaw, with a 50.000 f.. t • 

 production will be handled by the Climax Lui 

 for the coming year. 



The stock will be band sawed, equalized, 

 class in every respect. 



The Climax company also announces that it has take 

 of a mill at Belleview, La., on the Southern Baciflc railroad. This' mill 

 has lieen operated by Lynch & McBride and has a daily capacity of 

 20,000 feet. 



Atkins Puts on Clever Display 

 At the recent meeting of the Appalachian 

 .ogglng Congress at Huntington, W. Va., E. 

 '. .\tkins & Co., Inc., the saw people of Indian- 

 pulis, put on an interesting cross-cut sawing 

 i>iitest as a part of the demonstration of the 

 ross-cut saw. 



J. W. Moate of the Atkins company read a 

 aui-r on iioss-cut saws before the demonstra- 



.Mr. Moati-'s article dealt with the evolution 

 (if the saw, taking it back through the ages to 

 its very origin, which goes back to the period 

 <if ancient Greek mythology. In his article Mr. 

 Miiate says that the saws of the ancient Greek 

 rarpi'ntiTs were almost the same form as ours, 

 this li,-iug illustratiHl in the painting still pre- 

 si'rved aniimg the antiquities. He sketched then 

 thi' ilevelopmeut of the saw through the period 

 of industrial awakening and told of the difficul- 

 ties of Introducing it. due to prejudice of those 

 who feared their means of livelihood was 

 tbrrati'ucd tbroiisli this labor-saving device. 



■rill' Mitirli' thru described the modern saw 

 aiHl liiinys 111.- ria.li'r around to the saws dem- 

 .uistiated iit the exhibition, namely, the Atkins' 

 silver-steel segment ground cross-cuts. 



Mr. Moate sketched the excessive cars and 

 the exceedingly high quality of materials going 

 into this product, saying that the steel used is 

 actually as fine as that used in the highest 

 quality of razor blades. 



He then described the Atkins' segment grind- 

 ing process. 



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