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T. S. MILLER. MANAGER HARDWOOD DE- 

 PARTMENT STEVENS-EATON CO. 



The equipment of the plant includes three 

 •veneer slicers of the W. H. 'Williams pat- 

 ent; one and a half round for stump and 

 burl work; seven veneer saws, all of which 

 are installed in the veneer part of the plant. 

 The saw mill proper is equipped with two 

 modern band mills of the Clark Bros, make; 

 one edger and two trimmers, manufactured 

 by same concern; live rolls and other me- 

 chanical means for carrying the products 

 and refuse away from the saw. The build- 

 ing in which the sawmill and veneer plant 

 are located covers an area 100 by 200 feet. 

 The veneer department is provided with a 

 modern Coe drying equipment to enable 

 it to handle rush orders. The yards at 

 Astoria contain about three miles of alley 

 ways in which lumber products are stored. 



Charles H. Thompson, president of this 

 concern, was in 1SS6, at the death of his 



COLEMAN \V. liUOWNSON, SKI ICETARY AND 

 GENERAL MGR. SEACOAST LBR. CO. 



father, who was sole owner of the business, 

 prepaiir.g for a medical course, but in an 

 unlooked-for extremity, he relinquished his 

 desire for a pi-ofessional career and as- 

 sumed full charge of the business, which 

 had already reached a considerable magni- 

 tude. During 1he tweiity two years of his 

 management ihe firm has prospered until 

 it is without a rival as an importer of the 

 l;eaut)ful Laguna mahogany. When Charles 

 II. Thompson took charge, the firm was 

 l.andling 250,000 to 300,000 feet annually; 

 the increase since then has been very great. 



Robert W. Higbie Company 



The extensive and systematically con- 

 ilucted lumber operations of the Robert W. 

 Higbie Company at New Bridge, St. Law- 

 rence county. New York, are represented 

 in New York City by ofiices at 45 Broad- 

 way. This company is cutting from a tract 

 of 25,000 acres of timber land, largely 

 hardwoods, and is supplying its trade with 

 some unusually fine stock. The company's 

 plant at New Bridge is a model of efficiency. 

 It has its own railroad, owned by the Eobert 

 W. Higbie Company, and is fitted with mod- 

 ern machinery, among which are Climax 

 locomotives, Russel skidder equipment and 

 Bamhart log loaders. The plant includes 

 a high-class single band sawmill, and a 

 short log mill, which is used for cutting 

 broom handle stock. A large engine house 

 and machine shop, capacious barns, a camp 

 house of good size, offices and a commissary 

 go to make up this most complete and well- 

 equipped operation. 



The company produces about 40,000 feet 

 of lumber a day and about two carloads 

 of broom handles a week. It distributes 

 annually through the New York office be- 

 tween '15,000,000 and 20,000,000 feet of 

 hardwoods. The enterprise is under such 

 excellent control that it runs with unusual 

 smoothness and regularity. The history of 

 the concern records but few shut-downs 

 even for a day, and the work goes on both 

 summer and winter. 



Eobert W. Higbie, president of the com- 

 pany, is a man of keen discrimination and 

 a lumberman of no meagre talent. He has 

 a faculty of selecting assistants who are 

 worthy of the name and who give the 

 concern excellent service. Mr. Higbie en- 

 joys a wide popularity among the lumber 

 trade all over the country, as is evidenced 

 in his election to the presidency of the- 

 National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' As- 

 sociation at its last annual meeting, held at 

 Cincinnati in March of this year. 



H. Hirschberg 

 H. Hirschberg, wholesale hardwoods, 99 

 Nassau street, has been successfully engaged 

 for over twenty years in the lumber busi- 

 ness. Formerly, he was a manufacturer of 

 hardwoods in Tennessee and Arkansas. At 

 this time he does a strictly wholesale busi- 

 ness, with direct mill connection. He dis- 

 tributes annually from 10,000,000 to 15,000,- 



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coo feet of hardwoods through New York 

 and surrounding territory. 



A. T. Peale Ltunber Company 

 The A. T. Peale Lumber Company, Flat 

 Iron building, a reliable and responsible 

 factor in the wholesale lumber business of 

 New York City, has a mill output of West 

 Virginia spruce which aggregates 200,000 

 feet per day. It handles the output of two 

 red cedar shingle mills, and having transit 

 cars ready at all times, is able to make 

 prompt and satisfactory deliveries. Its 

 North Carolina short leaf pine mill connec- 

 tions, for kiln-dried, rough and dressed 

 stock, are unsurpassed for satisfactory 

 grades and well-manufactured stock. Hard- 

 woods of all kinds are under contract, rep- 

 resenting the cuts of mills whose stock 

 secures continued business and satisfaction 

 always from its patrons. The volume of 

 hardwoods, cypress and poplar handled 



A. C. WYLLY, JR., MGR. HARDWOOD DEPT. 

 SEACOAST LUMBER CO. 



