HARDWOOD RECORD 



29 



'Round About the Southern HardWood Country 



A Mill With Concrete Floors 

 The Miller Lumber Company of Marianna. 

 Ark., operates one of the model sawmill 

 plants of the South. The concern believes 

 in clean factory floors so far as is prac- 

 ticable, and when the new mill, illustrated 

 in connection with this article, was built the 

 entire ground floor was concreted. This 

 plan has worked out to excellent advantage 

 and the company finds that these floors con- 

 tribute greatly to the ease with which the 

 plant is kept in ship-shape and things gen- 



most convenient and compact. Without any 

 crowding, Mr. Bowman has put a most ef- 

 tective little mill in small space. The mill 

 has a daily capacity of 25,000 feet. The 

 company is accumulating a fine stock of 

 well-manufactured lumber a^d is in shape 

 to handle trade with dispatch. It has a 

 good stock of fine logs on the yard and the 

 buyer is always on the alert for desirable 

 lots of timber. The company does not own 

 any timber land, but will buy its logs on 

 the open market. This mill has only re- 



XKW B.WIl S.WVMII.I. (pF MCIFFETT. f.oWMAN & Ul'SH. IIEMPHIS, TENN. 



erally clean in the lower pait of the mi-1. 

 which is so unusual as to elicit comment on 

 all sides. A great many sawmill operators 

 seem to have the idea that because dirt ac- 

 cumulates rapidly about their factories that 

 there is no use trying to keep them clean, 

 and so do very little toward having things 

 in good order. Removing the accumulation 

 of weeks' standing is no easy matter and 

 is also expensive, so that anything which 

 will make it easy to keep rid of dirt and 

 prevent its accumulation is clearly economy 

 as it is easily understood that the mill will 

 produce better stock when the machines are 

 in good condition and the operatives are in- 

 spired by a clean and neat shop. The Miller 

 Lumber Company's premises show a keen 

 appreciation of these facts and the quality 

 of its product bears out the statement that 

 a model plant turns out fine stock. 



A Late Addition to Memphis Sa'wmills 



Shown in connection with this article is 

 a halftone of the new band sawmill of Mof- 

 fett. Bowman & Rush at Memphis. This 

 mill is a gem for compactness and arrange- 

 ment. It is small but very complete and 

 not a foot of space is wasted. There is 

 ample room to work in and the layout is 



(enlly I ccome one of the active manufac 

 tiire:s of the good lumber that keeps up the 



fame of Memphis as a hardwood producing 

 center. 



The concern succeeds the Moffett-Bow- 

 man Lumber Company which carried on a 

 successful business as a manufacturer and 

 wholesaler of hardwood lumber at Madison, 

 Ind. On moving to Memphis, Mr. Rush 

 joined the concern which now has a strong 

 working force and is in fine shape to handle 

 trade expeditiously. 



An Interesting Log Transfer 



The aerial transfer illustrated in connec- 

 tion with this article is an ingenious con- 

 trivance fitted up to handle logs at a mill 

 at Monroe, La. This mill is located on the 

 east side of the Ouachita river and the log- 

 ging road and timber are on the west side. 

 To avoid moving the mill this transfer was 

 fitted up. The logs are bound with chains 

 and picked up by the traveler, carried across 

 a wide river and delivered to the log chain 

 at the mill a carload at a time. Lumber 

 from the other mills along the logging road 

 is also brought over on the tram and hauled 

 to the planing mill by wagons. 



The Weeping Willow 



A tree familiar in most parts of the coun- 

 try, and one of graceful appearance and 

 highly valued for ornamental purposes is the 

 weeping willow. This tree attains its finest 

 f::-awth in the river lands of the state of 

 Louisiana. Its long, drooping branches and 

 broad, spreading head make it a handsome 

 shade tree, and its wood is greatly valued in 

 the manufacture of baskets. This tree is 

 not the same species of willow that grows 

 along the water courses or the edge of 

 streams. These trees branch off very near 

 the ground and have not a single sym- 

 metrical trunk. 



MoiiKF. SAWMir.r. iiF Mii.i.Kii i.iMi;i:i; ihmfanv at makianna, ark. 



