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FOR IE,N AI{D TWENTY YEARS

Thcrc GUARAITITEED P IONEER

ROOFS "r" ooriib.iog rpcciGcd by lcadn ' ing rrchitectl. .Dcalcrr who carry Pionccr productt will bcncfit from thir iatcnrivc ralcl crnpeign.

For 13 yean thir ompany has been ma,king trudrq mormtain rtager, city, inter city and street raihuay burscr. Its truckg and burser have made good frqn logging camps to the lighte* delivery wodr.

Built by wertern men who lmow wertern conditionc; they are ruperior for wor* under thece conditionr.

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Milling Hardwoods in Mississippi

afe how cutting from fifteen to eighteen million feet per year, of all gr,ades of gum, and Forked Leaf and Cow Oak, which is said to be of a very fine texture.

George C. Brown & Company rvas formed in Tennessee about thirty-five vears ago. They make a specialty of Tennessee Aromatic Red Cedar, cutting close to one million feet per month of this stock, and shipping a large pdrtion of this amount to the Pacific Coast. Their operations for red cedar are located at Birmingham, Ala., Greensboro, N. C,. and Huntsville, Ala. In addition they have many small mills located in the mountains, cutting cedar from scattered tracts.

This company pays particular attention to the drying of their stocks, and have spent considerable time in the laying out of the drying yards at the Grenada mill. They have installed all gravel alleys, all bottoms are of concrete, and the yard is high and well drained on a piece of ground that has four sides exposure with very litle forest growth rvithin a half mile.

These pictures, of the operations of George C. Brown & Company, Memphis, at their hardwood mill at Grenada, Miss., will be interesting to the rvestern dealer.

The mill, pictured in the swampy region of this great hardwood state, was built by this co'mpany in 1922. after they had dismantled their operations on a tract of land in Arkansas, after ten years cutting in St. Francis and Crittenden Counties.

They moved their entire mill to Grenada, where they