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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Dennis Bros. Salt & Lumber Company. 

 Dregge-Grover Lumber Company. 

 Dudley Lumber Company. 

 Fuller & Eice Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company. 



Grand Rapids Lumber Company. 

 Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company. 

 Nichols & Cox Lumber Company. 

 Rice Veneer & Lumber Company. 



Skillman Lumber Company. 



Stearns Company. 



VanKeulen & Wilkinson Lumber Company. 



J. W. Travis & Son. 



Wolf-Lockwood Lumber Company. 



Winchester & Daniels. 



Valley City Lumber Company. 



R. S. Woodbridge. 



VENEERS 



Cutting Veneers With Variable Speed Elec- 

 tric Drive 



It will be recalled that in a recent issue 

 the Record carried a story about the electric 

 equipment supplied by the Allis-Chalmers 

 Company of Milwaukee, Wis., to the W. D. 

 Reeves Lumber Company at Helena, Ark. 

 In this article especial reference was made 

 to the variable speed electric motors that 

 were driving the company 's veneer mills. In 

 a measure this installation was experimental, 

 but it has proven a great success. 



The W. D. Reeves Lumber Company re- 

 ports the following as some of the best cuts 

 made on its veneer mill. These blocks were 

 of gum cut into 5/16 veneer on a No. 2-B 

 White-Blakeslee lathe. 



Log His. run- Blocks 



scalp, ft. ning time. long. in. 



July 24, 1909 31,43u 9 28 & 31 



Oct. 14, 1909 31,138 10 23 



Nov. 2. 1909 30.200 91/2 28 



J.-in. 5, 1910 33,281 10 28 



Jan. 22, 1910 38,496 10 25-28-31 



Feb. 15, 1910 30,707 10 28 



Feb. 1(!, 1910 31,469 10 28 



Mar. 17, lUlO 27,800 10 24 



Mar. 18, 1910 29,500 10 21 & 24 



Mar. 19, 1910 28,300 10 21 & 24 



Mar. 23, 1910 £9,800 10 24_ 



The Walker Veneer & Panel Works of 

 Chicago, writes that trade has been so rush- 

 ing of late that the firm has been compelled 

 to put another man on the road. Wm. J. 

 Cullev will take care of points in the Middle 



West'. 



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R. S. Bacon of the R. S. Bacon Veneer 

 Company, Chicago, and the Bacon-Underwood 

 Veneer Company of Mobile, Ala., is visiting 

 the plant of the latter concern. Mr. Bacon 

 reports from Mobile that veneer mills in gen- 

 eral have about all the business they can 

 well handle, and states that the R. S. Bacon 

 Veneer Company is also about as busy as it 



ever was. 



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Articles of incorporation have been tiled 

 by the Puget Sound Veneer Works of Ta- 

 coma, Wash. The ineorijorators are Fred 

 and Ida M. Ro?sow and David Hill. The 

 company will manufacture panel stock and 

 mill work, also packing crates and fruit boxes. 



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The veneer plant of Sigler, Brorein & Co. 

 at Parma, Mo., whicli was recently destroyed 

 by tire, will be immediately rebuilt. W. G. 

 Brorein, manager of the concern, expects to 

 have the plant in full operation within a few 

 weeks. 



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The New Hope Veneer Company, which 

 was recently organized with $20,000 capital 

 stock, at Elkin, N. C, owns a fine body of 

 hardwood timber which it will begin to cut 

 shortly. It has not yet been definitely de- 

 cided just where the mills will be located or 

 what will be needed in the way of machinery, 

 but the officials of the concern hope to have 

 things straightened away shortly. R. L. Hub- 

 bard and A. G. Crick of the Elkin Veneer & 



Manufacturing Company, have charge of the 

 new enterprise. 



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The veneer plant operated by J. V. Ilan- 

 kinson at Franklin, Ohio, which was recently 

 burned, has been rebuilt and is now in full 

 operation. The factory turns out quarter- 

 sawed white oak veneers, quartered oak lum- 

 ber, hard maple, ash and poplar. 



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The Gemmer Veneer & Lumber Company 

 of Indianapolis, Ind., is operating its veneer 

 miU on full time, making a specialty of quar- 

 ter-sawed oak stock. Of particular interest 

 in this mill is a twenty-four foot carriage 

 and stay-log for one of the veneer saws which 

 allows the sawing of four flitches at one 

 time. The company recently put a new saw- 

 mill in operation. This plant is equipped with 

 new machinery throughout, and is a model of 

 its kind. It contains a Sinker-Davis seven- 

 foot band mill, driven by electric motor, and 

 the edger, log turner, log pull, blower, cut- 

 off saw and filing room machinery are all 

 operated with individual motors. The Gem- 

 mer concern is one of the largest producers 

 of hardwood lumber and veneers in the coun- 

 try. 



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A local paper contains a paragraph in 

 regard to the arrest of Lorenzo D. Buck, 

 president and manager of the Adrian Basket 

 & Veneer Company of Adrian, Mich. Mr. 

 Buck is charged with setting fire to the mill 

 of the Saginaw Heading & Veneer Company, 

 at Addison, in which he is a heavy stockholder. 

 The mills, which were insured for $2,350, 

 with the contents were said to be valued at 

 $1,500 or, perhaps, more. The evidence 

 against Buck is said to be largely circumstan- 

 tial. 



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The Lexington Veneer Company, Lexing- 

 ton, Richland county, Ohio, was recently in- 

 corporated with a capital stock of $30,000. 

 The company will manufacture veneers and 

 boxes. Its incorporators are R., H. F. and 

 C. Thompson, Howard S. Twitchell and J. F. 

 Kramer. 



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The Linderman Box & Veneer Company of 



Eau Claire, Wis., has decided to rebuild its 



plant which was recently destroyed by fire. 



The new structure will be larger and in many 



respects a great improvement over the old 



plant. 



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The Holland Veneer Works of Holland, 

 Mich., is in trouble, bankruptcy proceedings 

 having been started by creditors in the United 

 States court at Grand Rapids. The creditors, 

 witli their claims, include the following: Acme 

 Lumber & Veneer Works, Cincinnati, $3,- 

 143.15; Grand Rapids Veneer Works, $349.75; 

 Henry S. Holden, Grand Rapids, $1,959. 



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Wilmington, N. C, is the location for the 

 new Wilmington Veneer & Basket Company, 

 capitalized at $25,000. 



The Campbell Veneer & Box Company of 

 Edmonds, Wash., has been organized to manu- 

 facture veneers and boxes. The big plant of 

 the Ohio Veneer Company, at Cincinnati, is 

 running full time and is receiving a large 

 consignment of veneer logs over the Southern 

 railroad. 



A Veneer Gauge 



A neat steel circular veneer guage is being 

 marketed by ' ' Birds Eye ' ' Walker, Chi- 

 cago. It contains all practical thicknesses, 

 i. e., 1/40, 1/32, 1/30, 1/28, 1/24, 1/20, 1/16, 

 1/12, 1/10, 1/8, 3/32, 3/16, 1/4, 5/16, 3/8, 

 5/8, 7/16 inch. The gauge is made of best 

 blue steel, very substantial, % inch thick 

 and three inches in diameter. Since it has 

 been placed on the market over 1,600 have 

 been put in use and recently a dozen were 

 shipped to New Zealand. The gauge is the 

 invention of Mr. Walker. It is for sale only 

 by ' ' Birds Eye ' ' Walker, Chicago, at the 

 fixed price of $2. 



Lumbermen's Golf Association Tournament 



The annual tournament of the Lumbermen's 

 Golf Association will be held on Tuesday, June 

 14, at the Skokie Country Club, Glencoe, III. 

 The trophies include the American Lumberman 

 cup, the Hettler cup, a special cup given by the 

 association and the Collins cup. 



All members contesting for the Collins cup 

 must report at first tee not later than 11 a. m., 

 and all members contesting for other events must 

 report at first tee not later than 3 p. m. 

 the Xorth Shore route to Glencoe. 



Arrangements have been made with the Skokie 

 Country Club for the use of the links and club- 

 house by lumbermen members any day after 

 June 5, except Saturdays and Sundays, to en- 

 able them to familiarize themselves with the 

 course. Members will sign tickets for their 

 caddies, meals, etc., with the notation, "Member 

 Lumbermen's Golf Association," on tournament 

 day and prior thereto, should they accept the 

 courtesy of the club. 



The annual dinner of the Lumbermen"s Golf 

 .Association will be held at the Skokie clubhouse 

 on the evening of June 14, and preparations are 

 Ijoiug made for a royal good time. 



The officers of the Lumbermen's Golf Associa- 

 tion are George J. Pope, president: Ben Collins, 

 Jr., secretary, and V. F. Mashek, treasurer, and 

 any man In good repute, over the age of twenty- 

 one years, engaged in the lumber, sash, door or 

 box liusiness or connected with the lumber press 

 is eligible for membership. Therefore the enroll- 

 ment, which now totals about one hundred and 

 fifty, should be increased to double that number 

 during the present year. 



Secretary Ben Collins, Jr.. will be glad to re- 

 cei\e applications for memljership at his ad- 

 dress. 193 Michigan avenue, Chicago. 



