HARDWOOD RECORD 



BROADSIDE VIEW OF ONE OF AA 



ROWN & SONS LI'MBER COMPANYS YARDS. 



Xt'w Alljauy, immediately across the river 

 from Louisville; a sawmill at Highland Park, 

 a suburb of the city, and a wood-mosaic 

 flooring plant at Rochester, N. Y. The mov- 

 ing spirit of this enterprise is W. A. Mc- 

 Lean, vice-president and general manager. 

 The source of supply of the New Albany 

 plant is entirely from the choicest oak tim- 

 ber standing in southern Indiana, while its 

 Highland Park mill is stocked from Kentucky 

 and Tennessee timber. 



An important lumber manufacturing insti- 

 tution of Louisville is that of E. B. jVorman 

 & Co., Inc. Of this corporation E. B. Nor 

 man is president and treasurer; E. Carna 

 ham of Oneida, Ky., vice-president and sec- 

 retary, and A. E. Lanning superintendent of 

 mills. The company has a modern band 

 'sawanill plant on the Ohio river at Louis- 

 ville, and nearby a shook factory. Its log 

 supply comes out of the Big Sandy and the 

 Kentucky rivers, and is floated in rafts to 

 its log harbor eight miles above Louisville, 

 where the logs are dropped down in strings 

 to the sawmill. This company specializes in 

 (lak, ash, basswood and chestnut, and manu- 

 factures large quantities of white oak tim- 

 bers for sliipbuilding and railroad work up 

 to si.xty feet iu length. The company's mills 

 have an annual output of 10,000,000 feet, 

 and it also buys a large amount of stock 

 from interior mills to supplement its own 

 large manufacture. Several pictures accom- 

 panying this article show portions of the 

 lundier operations of E. B. Norman & Co., 

 Inc. 



plants at Louiiville is that of the W. P. 

 Brown & Sous Lumber Company. The com- 

 pany's offices and principal yard are located 

 at Sixth and Hill streets, and it has a sec- 

 ond yard at Ninth and Zane streets. The 

 W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company capi- 

 talizes and operates several mills in Ken- 

 tucky and Tennessee, and groups its stocks 

 at Louisville for distribution to its trade. 



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which extends over a large poi-tion of the 

 United States. The company is made up 

 of the veteran Indianapolis lumberman, W. 

 P. Brown, and his two sons, who are in 

 active charge of the operations — J. G. and 

 T. M. Brown. 



The Norman Lumber Con\pany, of which 

 A. E. Norman is president, carries a large 

 and varied assortment of hardwoods of all 



southern varieties at its big Third street 

 yard, and operates sawmills at St. John's 

 and New Hope, Ky. Mr. Norman is one 

 of the pioneers in the hardwood trade of 

 Louisville, and has a patronage ranging from 

 Louisville throughout the entire North and 

 East. 



The Eihvaril L. I)a\is Lumber Company is 

 another important hardwood manufacturing 

 concern of Louisville, of which Edward L. 

 Davis is president; J. L. Berry, vice-presi- 

 dent; C. M. Sears, treasurer, and J. E. Davis, 

 secretary. This company operates a sawmill 

 at Louisville, another at Glasgow and a third 

 at Pinevilie, Ky. It specializes in oak, hick- 

 ory, ash and dimension stock. 



The Louisville Lumber Company at 

 Twenty-ninth and Chestnut streets is one of 

 tlie comparatively new hardwood houses of 

 the city, but is operated by men well posted 

 iu the business. It has a large and well-ap- 

 pointed distributing yard at Louisville, and 

 operates four sawmills — three in Jackson and 

 one in Houston county, Tennessee. James S. 

 Escott is president; Theodore Harris, vice- 

 president; Henry C. Wilback, secretary and 

 treasurer. Alfred Struck, general manager, 

 is ably assisted in the active work of the 

 enterprise by Charles H. Stotz. This com- 

 pany specializes in oak, poplar, chestnut and 

 hickory, in all thicknesses from three-eighths 

 to four inches. 



Another comparatively new concern is the 

 Southern Lumber Company, with general 

 offices at 312 Keller building, Louisville. Of 

 this company E. C. Miller of Franklin, Ind., 

 is president; C. A. Overstreet, vice-president. 



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