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HARDWOOD RECORD 



XEWLY KEFITTED JIILL OF C. & W. KRAMER CO. AT 

 HELENA, ARK. 



OFFICE AND PART YARD ARCHER LUMBER COMPANY, 

 HELENA, ARK. 



000 feet of stock a year, largely quartered oak, 

 with a small sprinkling of railroad dimension 

 stock. 



Eed oak and red gum are produced and the 

 Barr-Holaday Lumber Company is one of the 

 few concerns that operated every day during 

 the late panic, without stopping for any cause 

 but accident, a fact of which Mr. Barr is 

 somewhat proud, and with good cause. 



The force at Isola, headed by B. A. Holaday 

 as manager, looks after the manufacturing end 

 of the business, while the sales end is handled 

 by W. I. Barr at Greenfield, Ohio. 



The Archer Lumber Company 



The Archer Lumlier Company of Helena, 

 Ark., is now occupying new offices, and the 

 lumber yard which the concern is putting in 

 at Helena is generally conceded a model of 

 its kind. The company will shortly have the 

 yai'd stocked to_ its capacity, when it will make 

 a good picture, and it is hoped that some good 

 views of it may be presented to Eecord read- 

 ers in a future edition. 



Forrest City Manufacturing Company 



At Forrest City, Ark., the plant of the For- 

 rest City Manufacturing Company, of which 

 A. J. Tipler is the new superintendent, pre- 



sents a rather unusual feature in sawmilling. 

 The logs are brought into the mill from the 

 different roads entering Forrest City and the 

 cars are taken up an incline with the load in- 

 tact. The logs are unloaded into the mill 

 from the side of the ear, while the run of the 

 carriage and the mill is in the opposite direc- 

 tion from that usually found in a plant of 

 this kind. There is an absence of any compli- 

 cated machinery attending this system of log 

 delivery, as the car is brought up by a simple 

 friction device. When the car is unloaded it 

 runs down the incline through an automatic 

 switch and out into the yard without any 

 further handling. 



Mr. Tipler has recently assumed charge of 

 the Forrest City plant and is making many 

 changes and advantageous improvements. Thi^ 

 yard is being well stocked, and from the height 

 of the Eock Island tracks the mill and yard 

 present an unusually neat appearance. 

 How Paepcke-Lelcht Handle Logs 



The Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company at 

 Helena, Ark., does not trust to the vagaries 

 of the Mississippi river for its log supply. 

 The accompanying photograph gives a good 

 idea of how these logs are handled. The 



steamer ' ' Herman Paepcke ' ' tows these barges 

 laden with logs from different points along 

 the river and delivers them intact at the mill, 

 without loss. 



The swinging boom, mounted on a barge, 

 movable with the rise and fall of the river, 

 handles the logs quickly and effectively from 

 any point near the mill and places them on 

 the log car as fast as the mill can take care 

 of them. Should there be a surplus at any 

 time the derrick stores them conveniently 

 along the bank, the load on the barges being 

 constantly diminished so they are sent off 

 after a new load, thus furnishing the mill 

 with a regular supply of logs that is far 

 more reliable than the old way of rafting on 

 the river. 



C. & W. Kramer Company 



The C. & W. Kramer Company of Richmond, 

 lud., has recently purchased at Helena, Ark., 

 a band mill which it has overhauled and put 

 in first-class shape. This operation is under 

 the direction of H. M. Kramer, the superin- 

 tendent, and will cut timber from Princedale, 

 Ark., the mill at that point having been 

 burned some time ago. The plant is somewhat 

 unique in that it has one derrick so placed 



OFFICE BARIMIOLADAY H .\11:i:k 

 MISS. 



'iJl'ANY, ISOLA, 



A RED GUM ALLEY, BARR-HOLADAY LUMBER COMi- 

 PANY'S YARD, ISOLA, MISS. 



