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T is the privilege of the Hardwood 

 KeCOED to depict by picture and 

 pencil the operations of one of 

 the foremost hardwood lumber pro- 

 ducing houses in the T'nited States — the 

 Hackley -Phelps -Bonnell 

 Company, of Grand 

 Rapids, Mich. 



This company is a 

 comparatively new in- 

 stitution and was organ- 

 ized in 1904 by the con- 

 solidation of the timber 

 and lumber interests of 

 W. A. Phelps, his son 

 C. A. Phelps, and asso- 

 ciates, of Grand Rapids. 

 Mich.; of John H. Bon- 

 nidi and associates, also 

 of Grand Rapids, and 

 of the late Charles H 

 Hackley, of Muskegon. 

 Mich. While Mr. Hack- 

 ley never took an active 

 interest aside from a 

 financial one in the con- 

 cprn, his name was 

 ])laced first in the com- 

 pany's title in ciefer- 

 ence to his distinguish- 

 ed history in commercial lumber affairs. 

 The Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company 

 has had a history of successful expansion 

 since its inception that has scarcely been 

 equaled by any similar concern in the 

 country. While its financial and s;encral 



business headquarters have been main- 

 tained at Grand Rapids, Mich., it has ex- 

 panded in all directions until today it is 

 one of the largest hardwood stumpage own- 

 ers in \\isconsin, with an immense indus- 



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trial operation at Hackley, in that state, 

 which, considered from the viewpoint of a 

 complete utilization of the forest, stands 

 first in that part of the lumber producing 

 countrv. It has some minor mills in the 

 state of IMicliigan and operates also in In- 



diana, Kentucky, Arkansas and Mississippi. 

 The company maintains a southern branch 

 office and two large yards at Evansville, 

 Ind., where it assembles the cuts of 

 tlip various mills which it operates in In- 

 diana and Kentucky. 

 It also has a southwest- 

 ern branch office at 

 Helena, Ark., where it 

 has two large yards 

 and where a large por- 

 tion of the Arkansas 

 stock is centralized. 

 The company has an 

 extensive operation in 

 Leflore county, Missis- 

 sippi, where it is inter- 

 ested in a large sawmill 

 and a full parapher- 

 nalia of logging rail- 

 roads. Back of this 

 operation is 6, .500 acres 

 of fine delta timber 

 land. The company 

 also owns a 4,000 acre 

 tract of i-ypress and 

 oak in Arkansas coun 

 ty, Arkansas, where it 

 is getting out some of 

 the highest class 

 cypress and oak found in the Southwest. 

 In addition to its own southern milling 

 operations it controls the cuts of numerous 

 other mills in Kentucky, Indiana, Missis- 

 sippi and Arkansas. 



Altogether the Hacklc_y-Plic)]is-Bonnell 



BASSWOOD. 



GREY ELM. 



HARD MAPLE. 



