HARDWOOD RECORD 



and E. M. Overstreet, secretary, treasurer 

 and manager. This company maintains a 

 large yard at Somerset, Ky., where it gronps 

 small mill stocks. It also operates mills 

 and yards at McKinney and South Fork, 

 Ky. Its source of supply for lumber is 

 one of the best timber sections of "Ken- 

 tucky, and it specializes in oak and poplar. 

 Gamble Brothers, a portion of whose plant 

 is herewith pictured, is an important remanu- 

 facturing institution at Highland Park, en- 

 gaged largely in the production of oak and 

 poplar dimension stock for furniture and 

 kindred trades as well as oak flooring. Gam- 

 ble Brothers have had long experience in the 

 making of dimension stock, and their facili- 

 ties in the way of material, dry kilns and 

 woodworking machinery are such that they 

 command a very handsome trade in their 

 line of production. 



The Kentucky Hardwood Flooring Com- 

 pany has a modern oak flooring plant, which 

 turns out a very high-class product. The 

 company's mill and flooring warehouse is 

 pictured in this article. It enjoys the ad- 

 vantage of being within reach of the very 

 best oak grown in the United States, suit- 

 able for flooring purposes, and with its equip- 

 ment in the way of machinery and e-xpert 

 workers has gained a reputation for the pro 

 ductien of flooring second t 

 country. 



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BRO.\DSIDE VIEW OF FLOORING PLANT. SAWMLL, VENEER MILLS 



Among other important hardwood lumber 

 enterprises at Louisville are the Louisville 

 Point Lumber Company, which operates a 

 large sawmill; the North Vernon Lumber 

 Company of North Vernon, Ind., which 

 maintains a distributing yard at Louisville; 

 and the Ohio River Sawmill Company, which 

 also has a yard there and is a branch of 

 H. A. McCowen & Co. of Salem, Ind. Sev- 

 eral other concerns which are engaged in the 

 manufacture of lumber elsewhere maintain 

 offices in Louisville. 



Veneers and Panels. 

 Louisville and its big New Albany suburb 

 across the river occupy a very important 

 place in the production of veneers and panels. 

 The Kentucky Veneer Works, Inc., of which 

 11. M. McCracken is president, F. I. Brown 

 vice-president, F. C. McCracken secretary 

 and W. Geiger treasurer, conducts a large 

 producing plant at Louisville and makes all 

 varieties of quarter-sawed and sliced cut ve- 

 neers and thin hardwood lumber. The 

 ■ Mcialty of this house is figured and plain 

 ;ihogany veneer. 



.\nother important institution is the Louis- 

 ville Veneer Mills, of which D. E. Kline is 

 the presiding genius. This concern not only 

 manufactures veneers, thin lumber and 



„ ,^ „,TT r-i^MT<'TT<'RT panels hut produces a considerable quantity 

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ISVILLE LUMBER COMPANY. 



