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QUALITY FIRST CONSIDERATION 



Florence Pump & Lumber Co. 



INCORPORATED 



Memphis, Tennessee 



THE OLD RELIABLE — TWENTY YEARS BEFORE THE TRADE 



Manufacturers of Rough and Dressed Hardwood Lumber, Crating Stock cut to lengths, 

 Hardwood Furniture Stock, Ceiling, Siding, Flooring, Mouldings, Exterior and In- 

 terior Hardwood Trim and Finish, Baluster Rail built up, and Solid Bored Colonial 

 Columns, Wood Pumps, Well Curbs, Farm and Supply Tanks, Etc. 



WE are now prepared to ship Solid Bored Columns from our Crews, Alabama, 

 plant, especially equipped for making solid bored columns exclusively, or 

 we can ship in mixed cars from our manufacturing plant. 

 Send us your inquiries for anything in Mill Work. You take no chance buying 

 from the Old Reliable. 



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The Florence Pump & Lumber Company started its existence at Florence, Ala., 

 twenty years ago, making wood pumps and columns and supplying its owners, the 

 Dempster Mill Manufacturing Company, of Beatrice, Neb., with woodwork for 

 their mammoth wind mill and farm implement plant. 



The company's reputation for high class work and honest dealing soon became 

 world-wide, and demands for goods from customers in other lines soon made it 

 necessary to take on new lines, until the plant at Florence, Ala., could not, on ac- 

 count of lack of space, be enlarged to take care of the fast increasing trade. 



The president of the company, C. B. Dempster, of Beatrice, Neb., saw the neces- 

 sity for larger quarters and began a search for a location adapted to the require- 

 ments of the fast increasing business. After searching the country over, the present 

 location at Memphis was finally decided on, and the mammoth plant covering 1 5 

 acres was built, giving employment regularly to 250 men the year round. The 

 company recently equipped a plant at Crews, Ala., to manufacture solid bored col- 

 umns. It owns large tracts of timber lands at Dubbs, Miss., and now has in opera- 

 tion a sawmill to supply its requirements in oak lumber. 



The manager, T. L. Green, began his career in the lumber business twenty years 

 ago with Harris & Cole Bros., of Cedar Falls, la., where he remained nine years, 

 leaving to engage with the Florence Pump & Lumber Company, at Florence. Ala., 

 eleven years ago. 



