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MILL BAKK-HOLADAY LUMBER COMPANY, SHOWING 

 I'IXE WHITE OAK LOGS FOR QUARTERED STOCK, 



I'AKT LOlJGI.VG 



that it can pick up logs from three sides of 

 the mill and deliver them on the log carriage 

 without -any further transfer. 



The company has a good supjjly of fine oak 

 logs to cut and expects to manufacture a good 

 deal of quartered oak stock. The plant will 

 ])robably be in operation within a very few 

 days, 



Busse & Burgess, Inc. 



In connection with thLs article is a picture 

 of a fine bunch of oak and gum logs decked 

 at the Memphis sawmill of Eusse & Burgess, 

 Inc, This company has recently entirely re- 

 built its sawmill and has erected a new and 

 modern power plant of large capacity. Its 

 logs are handled both off the cars and to the 

 sawmill by means of an immense steel mast 

 with derrick attachment, as shown in the illus- 

 tration. 



Russe & Burgess, Inc., this season are se- 

 curing the very highest type of oak and gum 

 logs. 



The Dangerous Wolf River 



Wolf river rises somewhere in northern Ten- 



nessee and flows into the Mississippi river just 

 north of Memphis. Although traversing a flat 

 country, it is subject to as many "tide" con- 

 ditions as a mountain stream. When the Mis- 

 sissippi river is high the W'olf flows up- 

 stream, and when the water drops to a low 

 river and high water obtains in the Upper 

 W^olf , it rushes out with potential force, and is 

 regarded as one of the most dangerous streams 

 in the country in which to handle log rafts. 

 However, it is used for a log harbor by the 

 Anderson-Tully Company, by True Bennett 

 and several others. Only by continuous watch- 

 ing can rafts in the river be kept from being 

 driven into the Mississippi and scattered, A 

 good many logs seeking the mouth of the Wolf 

 river for harbor are lifted out of the stream 

 by derricks and piled high on the bank for 

 safety. 



Low Water in the Mississippi and Its 



Tributaries 

 The Anderson-Tully Company has twelve 

 million feet of Cottonwood logs tied up near 

 the mouth of the Tennessee river and various 



EQUIPMENT BARR-HOLADAY LUMBER 

 COMPANY, 



other tributaries, waiting a rise. The Mis- 

 sissippi river is at a low stage at the present 

 time and it will only be with a recurrence of 

 a ri.se in the river that a full log supply can 

 be secured by several of the big Memphis 

 mills. 



The Red Gum Expert 



True Bennett of the Beuuett Hardwood 

 Lumber Company of Memphis is engaged in 

 his usual practice of reducing the best red 

 gum logs obtainable into the finest quality of 

 lumber. Mi-. Bennett has achieved the reputa- 

 tion of knowing a little more about how to 

 turn red gum logs and make the best red gum 

 lumber and how to pile and season it properly, 

 than any man in the business. The red gum 

 from the mill of the Bennett Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company brings a fancy price from every- 

 one acquainted with its merit. 



The Log Output Around Memphis 



Xever in the history of lumber manufacture 

 in the Memphis district has there been such a 

 large quantity of logs put out to the railroads 

 for sale and shipment. Along every side-track 



MILL OF FOREST CITY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 

 FORREST CITY, ARK. 



BARGES AND LOG TRANSFER OF PAEPCKE LEICHT 

 LU.MBER COMPANY AT HELENA, ARK. 



