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HARDWOOD RECORD 



by W. E. Emery, western manager o£ Every- 

 body's Magazine, with headquarters at Chicago. 



Those in attendance at this meeting were : 



C. H. Moore. Moore & McFerren. Memphis. 



J. H. Bonner & Sons. Heth, Arli. 



Edward S. Little, Little Lumber Co.. St. Louis. 



J. O. Anderson, manager, William EnglLsh. 

 Earle, Ark. „ . 



Robert Thien, American Lumberman. Chicago. 



W. F. Perkins, manager, Climax Lumber Co., 

 St. Landry. La. 



T J. Boston. Tironza Lumber Co., Earle, Ark. 



C. L. Wheeler," J. W. Wheeler & Co., Madi- 

 son, Ark. 



C. E'. Hyde, Hyde Lumber Co., South Bend, Ind. 

 Chas. P. Conger, American Forest Co., St. 



Louis, Mo. „ 



D. S. Watrous, Lansing Wheelbarrow Co., 

 Parkin. Ark. 



W. H. Greble, Three States Lumber Co.. Mem- 

 phis, Tenn. 



Charles L. Harrison. nimmelberger-Harrisou 

 Lumber Co., Cape Girardeau, Mo. 



W. C. Dewey. Chapman-Dewey Lumber Co., 

 Marked Tree. Ark. 



Geo. W. Fooshe, Hardwood Record, Memphis. 



J. D. Allen, Jr., J. W. Thompson Lumber Co., 

 Memphis. . v^ ^ , 



C. L. Williams, western manager Architectural 

 Record, Chicago. „ , , . 



W. E. Emery, western manager Everybody s 

 Magazine, Chicago. 



Geo. C. Ehemann, Bennett & Witte, Memphis. 



Florence Pump & Lumber Co., Memphis. 



John B. Crosby, Chicago. 



Max Sondheimer, E. Sondheimer Co.. Memphis. 



Lewis Doster, secretary Hardwood Manufactur- 

 ers' Association, Cincinnati. 



John H. Friant, Himmelberger-Harrison Lum- 

 ber Co., Moorehouse, Mo. 



A. G. Fritchey, Lamb-Fish Lumber Co., 

 Charleston, Miss, 



W. W. Dings, Garetson-Greason Lumber Co., 

 St. Louis. 



A. P. Steele, Carrier Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Co.. Sai'dis, Miss. 



R. M. Carrier, Carrier Lumber & Manufactur- 

 ing Co., Sardis. Miss. 



F. E. Gary, Baker Lumber Co.. Turrell, Ark. 

 J. W. Tho'mpson, J. W. Thompson Lumber Co., 



Memphis. 



K. H. Barrett, A. II. Barrett & Son, Green- 

 wood, Miss. 



M. P. Fulton. Indiana & Arkansas Lumber & 

 Manufacturing Co., Marianna, Ark. 



J. L. Corn, Highland Lumber Co., Sun Lake, 

 Ark 



W. L. Crenshaw, Bollgrade Lumber Co., Mem- 

 phis. 



P. L. Throne, American Sawmill Co., Helena, 

 Ark 



f'. a. Conkling, Farrin-Korn Lumber Co., Cin- 

 cinnati. 



J. W. Dickson, J. W. Dickson Lumber Co., 

 Memphis. 



John h\ Thomas, Moore & McFerren, Memphis. 



G. V. Nash, Forrest City Box Co., Forrest 

 City, Ark., and Nettleton Box & Lumber Co., 

 Nettleton, Ark. 



Veneers 



HOW •VENEERS SHOULD BE DRIED AND 

 BLEPT FOR PANEL USE 



In my humble opinion much trouble is 

 caused, first by the improper drying of ve- 

 neers and second by using stock too soon 

 after being savred or cut and before it has 

 been aged and tempered sufficiently to in- 

 sure a uniform dryness throughout the en- 

 tire sheet. 



When veneers are sawed or cut, the wood 

 is green and wet, and when subjected to a 

 great heat, sufficient to dry them in a few 

 hours, the result will cause the sheets to 

 wrinkle and blister, and when this stock 

 is glued on and the pressure applied, the 

 uneven places will split or crack, this caus- 

 ing trouble and loss. 



The best results in panel work can only 

 be obtained when veneers are air-dried in 

 n temperature not exceeding 90 degrees of 

 heat, which will require fully 48 hours to 

 dry stock of 1/20 thickness, and then placed 

 in'large solid piles on smooth foundations 

 and kept in a dark, dry warehouse, fully 

 ten or twelve months before using. Then, 

 to complete this ideal process, the stock 

 should be re-dried just prior to using. 



Veneers, when dried and kept in this man- 

 ner for the above mentioned time or longer, 

 will, when used, be strictly smooth, flat 

 and entirely free from any wrinkles or un- 

 even places, and when glued on will be 

 absolutely free from blisters, shrinking or 

 tendency to swell or shrink, and will save 

 20 per cent of the waste that usually occurs 

 from cutting out the badly wrinkled, 

 cracked and split portions of veneers that 

 are dried too rapidly and used too soou 

 after being manufactured. 



Again, veneer stock, especially oak that 

 is kept in solid bulk long enough, will have 

 a more uniform color and shade, and will 

 be found to match better and present a 

 handsomer appearance when finished than 

 stock used without this long seasoning. 



While the above method will add to the 

 cost of veneers, the result will fully justify 

 the increase. — A User of Veneers. 



The Jackson Veneer Company of Jackson, 

 Clarke county, Ala., was recently incorporated 

 with .$20,000 capital stock, of which $4,500 

 has been paid in. The company will engage 

 in the manufacture of veneers and has au- 

 thority to hold timber lands and to operate 

 a veneer and hardwood factory. The in- 

 corporators are J. T. Home, J. H. Savage 

 and others. 



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Ground has been broken for the new ma- 

 chine shops which the Southern Veneer Manu- 

 facturing Company is to erect at Twenty-first 

 and Standard avenue, Louisville. The new- 

 shops will be 185 by 50 feet in dimensions 

 and one story high. It will have a one-story 

 L, 60 by 60 feet. This building is part of the 

 .$50,000 improvements which this company is 

 making at its Louisville operations. The com- 

 pany has enjoyed a rapidly increasing busi- 

 ness and has been compelled to provide addi- 

 tional facilities to take care of its fast grow- 

 ing trade. 



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The Augusta Veneering Company which 

 was organized recently to operate at Augusta, 

 Ga., will be in operation within sixty days. 

 Nine ears of new machinery and other mate- 

 rial arrived a few days ago and the work 

 of preparation is being pushed at a rapid 

 rate. The officers of the company are J. F. 

 Wells, of Pen Yan, N. Y., manager, who will 

 move to Augusta to take up active charge 

 of the work. L. T. Yoder of Pittsburg is 

 president; Vernon J. Hill, recently of JS'ar- 

 lows, Va., but who has taken up his residence 

 at Angusta, is secretary and treasurer. 



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The Adrian Basket & Veneer Company, 

 which lately consolidated with the Saginaw 



Heading & Veneer Company, has moved its 

 plant to Saginaw, Mich. The reason for this 

 change of location was that considerable 

 difficult3' was encountered in keeping raw 

 material in good shape during the summer 

 months at Adrian. Quite a heavy loss was 

 sustained each year by the exposed ends of 

 logs decaying. This difficulty will be over- 

 come at Saginaw by running a side track to 

 the river front and rolling the logs from the 

 cars into the water, where they will be kept 

 until ready for the saw. This is the eleventh 

 year that the factory has been in operation 

 at Adrian and it has a well established trade. 

 By its association with the Saginaw factory 

 it is expected that the business will become 

 one of the largest basket and veneer concerns 

 in the state. 



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The Heimberger - Drinkard Veneer Mills 

 Company has filed articles of incorporation in 

 New Albany, just across the river from Louis- 

 ville. It has a capital stock of $50,000, and 

 the following officers: Adam Heimberger, 

 president; C. L. Drinkard, vice-president, and 

 Harry E. Heimberger, secretary and treas- 

 urer. The company is not a new concern, 

 but simply the incorporation of a firm that 

 has been doing business in New Albany for 

 a long while. 



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A petition in bankruptcy has been filed by 

 the Brillion Lumber Company, the Dundas 

 Woodenware Company and the Cream City 

 Hoofing and Paint Manufacturing Company 

 against the Wolfinger Box & Package Com- 

 pany of Eland Junction, Wis. The latter con- 

 cern has been doing a good business, its princi- 

 pal output being can jackets, berry crate mate- 

 rial, etc., for which large quantities of ehn 

 vre used. Wolfinger, one of the stockholders, 

 it is said, has become involved elsewhere, 

 drawing the Eland Junction plant with him, 

 but the other stockholders say they will pay 

 all creditors in full and continue to success- 

 fully and profitably operate the plant. 



* * * 



A veneer plant will be established in Edgar 

 Wis., soon, Eeinhold Meyer of Merrill being 

 the promoter. Stock to the extent of several 

 thousand dollars has been subscribed. 



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Open Branch Factory in Liverpool 



The National Veneer Products Company of 

 Mishawaka, Ind., is erecting a factory at 

 Liverpool, England, for the manufacture of 

 its well-known Indestructo trunks. About 

 $60,000 will be expended on the operation, 

 which will be fitted with modern equipment 

 and will give employment to 250 men. Her- 

 man Romunder, general manager of the Misha- 

 waka plant and one of the proprietors of the 

 concern, will leave shortly for Liverpool with 

 eighteen carloads of veneer cut in the com- 

 pany's Arkansas mills. This will supply the 

 English branch with material for some time. 

 The Mishawaka plant, it is said, is some 6,000 

 trunks behind on orders. 



