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HARDWOOD RECORD 



June 10, 1918 



Modern 

 Hardwood Operations 



Geo C Brown & Co 

 Tenn 



phis. 



George C Blown & Co 

 m bu-iiness for the pabt 

 Teii'> the onginal oigit 

 mg located at McMinn% 

 George C Brown and L B Bronn 

 were the originators of the company 

 staitmg -nith a partneiship which 

 later included Butlei Smith nn 1 W 

 B Drake Ten jears Hter th h i 1 

 quarters -were mo\ed from "\I Mii i 

 Tille and located at Nashvill 1 m 



In 1907 a yard was open 1 iii 

 Mem'phis while m 1910 the miin 

 otBce was moved to the Mcmphib \tI(I 

 which was located out on the niith 

 side thi office quarters being in in 



old farm building and the lu: 

 piled on the old film Unds 



\ couple of \eais ago these 

 fortable quaiteis weie given up 

 space taken in the Bank of Comn 

 and Trust building " 

 which IS located a largi percentagi 



and handles a very large amount of 

 gum through the cylinder. 



This product runs very largely to 

 gum In which the Brown company 

 has been a specialist for some time. 

 i large percentage of beautifully 

 figured gum is produced. No small 



mc isure of the success of exploiting 

 gum can be attributed to the active 

 campaigning that George C. Brown & 

 Co have done in the interest of its 

 own business. 



The Proctor sawmill is a modern 

 11 tide and is equipped with an eight- 

 toot Filer & Stowell band mill and 

 1 Mershon band resaw. A new Filer 

 & Stowell steam set works is being 

 installed. The mill and the yards 

 cover some sixty acres, the stock on 

 hand averaging about 8,000,000 feet. 



The officers of the company are 

 L E. Brown, president ; Butler 



Smith, vice-president and H. B. 

 \\ ( iss, secretary and treasurer. 



Mr. W.is- K "De of the best-known 



nil. rn ii.iKlu.i.id manufacturers in 

 ] II Ml 111, III f that he is probably 



ti n in the southern hardwood terri- 



Loadcr Ready ]or Work 



Arriving at Mill 



of the present Memphis hardwood 

 lumber trade. 



The incorporation of the present 

 company occurred in 1910, at which 

 time the offices were moved to Mem- 

 phis. At that time L. E. Brown was 

 president and Butler Smith, vice- 

 president. 



Up to that date the company had 

 operated small mills throughout the 

 country and did a large wholesale 

 business. However, in 1911 a larKP 

 tract of very fine hardwood timbc r 

 was purchased in Crittenden and St. 

 Francis counties, Ark., and the pres- 

 ent mill was located at a station ;i 

 mile west of Proctor, Ark., now called 

 Browns. This mill is a decidedly 

 effective unit and still turns out a 

 production of 65,000 feet dally. 



The Brown mill at Proctor Is 

 equipped with a Kraetzer preparator 



Log Pile at Proctor Mill. Ovming Its Own Log Road, the Con 

 pony Is Seldom Short of Logs 



some of the other aggressive south- 

 ern organizations. Mr. Weiss has a 

 great deal to do with the company's 

 sales and also is a distinctly practical 

 operating man and spends a good deal 

 of his time in the Arkansas mill. In 

 fact, at one time he made his head- 

 quarters at the mill, spending only 

 part of his time in Memphis. 



The Arkansas logging operation is 

 in charge of F. G. Sraeltzer, formerly 

 with the Lundell Land & Lumber 

 Company of Lundell, Ark. Mr. 

 Smeltzer Is a very efBcient man, has 

 a liking for agriculture and is doing 

 splendid work on a portion of the 

 company's cutover land, and expects 

 to continue development right along. 



