HARDWOOD RECORD 



89 



WICKES BROTHERS 



Satgirva-w, Mich. 



Designers and Builders 

 of the 



Wickes 



Vertical Water Tube 



Safety Steam 



Boiler 



IT SHOWS 



Lowest Cost to Produce 



Dry Steam. 



Lowest Cost to Clean 



Perfectly. 



Lowest Cost to Maintain. 



Also manufacturers of 



High Pressure Tubular Boilers, Feed Water 

 Heaters, Water Filters 



CATALOGUES FREE 



WICKES BROTHERS 



Sa.ginaw, Mich. 



Sables Offices: 



New York Philadelphia Pittsburg Chicago Detroit 



Boston New Orleans Birmingham San Francisco 



A CONSERVATIVE 

 INVESTMENT 



Yielding 1200% per year, indefinitely 



According to the lestiinoiiy of users, the Gordon Hollow Blast Grate 

 saves or earns its own cost every tliirty daj's, which means a profit of 100% 

 per month, or 1200% per year . 



Your profits depend on your output, your output on your machinery, 

 your macliinery on your engine, your engine on your boilers and your 

 boilers on the "fire on your grate. 



Governments all over the world use forced draft on their war vessels; 

 and all workers in iron use a blast to melt the metal. 



In like manner progressive sawmill operators everywhere use the 

 Gordon Hollow Blast Grate to force their fires and crowd their boilers. 

 It enables them to burn wet or green sawdust or slabs, and to make from 

 25 to 50% more steam than with an ordinary grate. 



The next time you are near a blacksmith snop. step in and note how 

 wonderfulyl the blast that issues from the tuyere quickens combustion. 

 The Gordon Hollow Blast Grate is the same thing exactly multipUed a 

 hundred fold. 



Such is our unbounded 

 confidence in the great— 

 a faith based on sixteen 

 years of practical experi- 

 ence — that we will sliip 

 you an outfit on thirty 

 day's trial, you to test the 

 apparatus in any manner 

 you may see fit. and if 

 for any reason you con- 

 clude you do not care to 

 keep it, we will pay the 

 freight both way.s. 



Does this not look as 

 though we were acting in 

 good faith? 



The Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Co. 



GREENVILLE, MICHIGAN 



The Largest Manufacturer of Grates, Edgers and Trimmers in the 

 World. 



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THIS LETTER 



Grand Rapids Veneer Works, 



Grand Rapids, Mich. 



Gentlemen: It is now two months since we remodeled 

 our kilns and added your patent process, and we want to 

 say to you that we are glad we made the change. We can 

 now dry our lumber in about half the time it formerly took, 

 and the saving in time is but a small part of the advantage, 

 as the lumber dried under the new process comes out in 

 much finer condition. It is entirely freed of all sap and 

 none of it is warped or cheeked. 



We can cheerfully recommend your system to parties 

 needing ^in up-to-date system. Yours truly, 



Schiller Piano Company. 



WRITE 



Grand Rapids Veneer Works 

 GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN 



