HARDWOOD RECORD 



About the Licking Eiver Lumber Company. 



The Licking- River Lumber Company, Inc., 

 has an important sawmill and planing mill 

 plant with general offices at Ashland, Ky. The 

 company's mills are located at Farmers. 

 Rowan county. Kentucky, on the Lexington 

 division of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. 



The company owns several thousand acres 

 of standing timber, of which oak, poplar, 

 chestnut and walnut predominate. At the 

 present time it has about 10,000,000 feet 

 of oak and poplar logs cut and in the river 

 and log ponds for next year's supply, and is 

 engaged in securing a considerably larger 

 quantity. 



The company's operating plant consists of 

 an eight-foot band mill complete with plan- 

 ing mill and timber surfaoer. It controls about 

 five miles of booms on the Licking river and 

 owns at Farmers its own hotel and store 

 buildings, and also a large number of houses 

 rented to its employes. It has a large stock 

 of dry lumber on hand and has good shipping 

 facilities to the markets in Ohio, Michigan, 

 Pennsylvania and New York. 



In September, 190S, the Licking River Lum- 

 ber Company's band mill was destroyed by 

 fire. In order that they might take care of 

 their customers promptly a deal was closed 

 whereby it succeeded in purchasing the large 

 band mill, planing mill, logs, booms, etc., of 

 the S. B. Reese Lumber Company of Farmers. 

 Ky. The Licking River Lumber Company 

 promptly added to the plant's facilities, 

 equipped it with electric lights, and contem- 

 plate operating nights until such time as they 

 have made a double band mill out of the 

 present one. 



The company produces oak and poplar lum- 

 ber, and also makes considerable pine and 

 hemlock. It specializes in export oak, car 

 timbers, bridge timbers and ship oak timbers. 

 They report a good volume of orders on hand 

 and consider the outlook for business excel- 

 lent. 



The personnel of the Licking River Lumber 

 Company Is : F. G. Eberhart .Ir. of Misha- 

 waka, Ind., president, who is also secretary 



of the Mishawaka Woolen Manufacturing 

 Company of that city, and is connected with 

 other large financial institutions; William 

 Eckman is vice-president of the company. 

 and manager of the Farmers plant, as well 

 as having charge of the timber purchases; 

 and R. G. Page is secretary and treasurer of 

 the company, residing at Ashland, where the 

 sales offices are located. He has general 



supervision of the entire operations and takes 

 personal charge of the sales department. Mr. 

 Page was born at Elkhart, Ind., in 1876, and 

 has been active in the lumber business since 

 he was eighteen years old. 



Mr. Eberhart and Mr. Page are also inter- 

 ested in the R. G. Page Lumber Company of 

 Ashland, Ky., a well and favorably known 

 lumber house. Of this company, C. E. Wilson 

 has charge of the sales department and offices 

 of the company. 



Change in George D. Emery Company. 



On account of advancing years and failing 

 health. George D. Emery of Chelsea, Mass., 

 has disposed of his stock holdings in the 

 George D. Emery Company and has perman- 

 ently retired from active business. 



SEA, MASS. 



Mr. Emery has been prominently identified 

 with the most important mahogany, Spanish 

 cedar and veneer house in the United States 

 for many years. He has made a reputation 

 second to no one in this great industry and 

 it is a sincere regret to his friends to note 

 that it has become necessary that he should 

 retire from business. 



His interests in the George Emery Com- 



pany have been purchased by Samuel Soger 

 of London, England, the head of S. Seger, 

 Ltd., mahogany dealers of the British 

 metropolis. For many years Mr. Seger has 

 been the European representative of the 

 Emery company and has kept in close touch 

 with its affairs. He succeeds Mr. Emery as 

 president of the corporation, and while he 

 will retain his residence in London and con- 

 tinue to look after the affairs of the English 

 agency, he expects to spend the larger por- 

 tion of the time in the United States, and 

 will take up the active direction of the com- 

 pany's affairs. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



The lumber yard of the Kelly Brothers L;;m- 

 ber Company at Cairo, 111., was destroyed by 

 Are on September 25. They carried insurance 

 of $46,700. The warehouse and office building 

 of the Three States Implement Company were 

 also destroyed : insurance $31,000. 



The American Creosote Company has pur- 

 chased a twenty-acre tract of land adjoining 

 Madison and Venice, Mo., where they will erect 

 a plant for treating lumber. Millions of feet of 

 lumber will be shipped in each year, and after 

 beinK treated with the creosote preparation will 

 be shipped to all ijarts of the world. 



The Illinois-Arkansas Lumber Company, incor- 

 porated under the laws of Illinois, is capitalized 

 .It $100,000. J. M. Rose of Little Rock. Ark., 

 is the Arkansas agent. 



The Crawford County Tie & Prop Company of 

 St. Louis, Mo., has been incorporated with a 

 capital of $2,500 by J. William Taylor, L. P. 

 Crigler and W. S. Scott. 



The Jamestown Hardwood Trim Company of 

 Chautauqua, N. Y., has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $40,000 by Ward H. Wadsworth. 

 Randolph, N. Y. ; Joseph P. Turner, 209 Dyck- 

 man street, New York City, and George Hage- 

 meyer. 209 West 128th street, New York City. 



The plant of the Southern Hub Company at 

 Sheffield, Ala., recently purchased by W. N 

 Conwill, D. K. Evans, R. A. Strickland and W. C. 

 Evans, was put In operation September 14. The 

 new owners are all Sheffield men and will en- 

 large the output of the factory and extend the 

 market. 



The Foster-I.atimer Lumber Company of Mel- 

 len, Wis., is erecting a large addition to its hard- 

 wood flooring plant, which is expected to be 

 completed before the first of the year. The com- 

 pany owns a large tract of maple timber and it 

 plans to use ail available material. When com- 

 pleted the plant will have a capacity of from 

 7.000,000 to 10,000,000 fool of flooring annn;illy. 



Hardwood JVeWs. 



(By HABD-nroOD BECOBD Special Correspondents.) 



CHICAGO 



t'be 1. Stephenson Company of Wells, Mich., 

 a ;;ood portion of whose lumber and hardwood 

 Mooring output reaches the Chicago market, has 

 just purchased an additional 40,000 acres of 

 hardwood land in Maitjuette county, Michigan. 

 This timber holding will supplement the already 

 larse timber se'-tion owned by the company to 

 an extent that will perpetuate their timber oper- 

 ations for many years. 



W. B. Judson, formerly one of the owners and 

 manager of the American Lumberman, Chicago, 

 who within the last few years has resided at 

 Seattle, is spending a month at Chicago. He Is 

 accompanied by his wife and one of his sons. 

 The son will enter the Chicago University. Mr. 

 Judson expresses himself as delighted with the 

 Pacific coast. 



The Kecobd had the pleasure of a call on 

 October G from A. L. Parker, secretary of the 

 S. A. Woods Machine Company of Boston, Mass. 

 He was accompanied by Joel Ettinger, Chicago 



manager of the company's bvisincss in the Middle 

 West. Mr. Parker says the big woodworking ma- 

 chinery house with which he is connected is 

 doing a very fair business and anticipates a 

 speedy revival and increased demand in his line 

 of machinery. 



John M. Diver, general manager of the Cleve- 

 land-Sarnia Saw Mills Company of Sarnla, Ont., 

 was a Chicago visitor on October 6. Mr. Diver 

 states that lumber trade conditions in Canada 

 are better than the sales In this country, al- 

 though the demand is very fair on this side of 

 the border. He says his company has about 

 15,000,000 feet of lumber on hand and 18,000,000 

 feet of logs In boom ready for sawing. 



William J. WagstafC, a well-known Oshkosh 

 lumberman, made a call on the Record October 

 1. Mr. Wagstaff was on one of his frequent 

 Chicago visits. He considers business gradually 

 improving. 



On October 2, W. H. Bower, a well-known 

 lumberman of Kurtz, Ind., was a Hardwood 

 Record caller. Mr. Kurtz reports improved con- 

 ditions in his section of Indiana, 



