HARDWOOD RECORD 



President, S. B. Reese ; vice president, N. Good- 

 man ; secretary and treasurer, E. Slaughter, 

 with B. Mlnear of Morehead as general super- 

 intendent. This company now owns and operates 

 all the booms and log ponds, and controls all 

 bank leases on the Licking river, from Farm- 

 ers for a distance of about eight miles up the 

 river, and Is without doubt the largest operation 

 of its kind in the state. It has now stored in 

 its booms and log ponds over eighty thousand 

 logs, consisting of the finest poplar and oak. 

 This timber is owned- by the S. B. Reese Lumber 

 Company, the Licking River Lumber Company 

 and the Farmers Lumber Company ; also some 

 ties belonging to Wheeler-Holden Company. The 

 Boom Company advises that it does not expect 

 any more logs this season and that the mills 

 will be furnished from the present supply on 

 band for the season's cut. 



Edward Barber of Illingworth, Ingham & Co. 

 of Cincinnati was a business visitor in the city 

 last week, returning from Farmers. Ky., where 

 he had been loading several cars of export oak 

 received from the Licking River Lumber Com- 

 pany. Mr. Barber returned to Cincinnati via 

 fronton, Ohio, looking after business Interests 

 at that place. 



W. A. Biggs of Wilson & Biggs, Greenup, Ky., 

 was a business visitor in the city last week. Mr. 

 Biggs' firm deals largel.v in ties of all kinds 

 and sizes. They handle, as well, considerable 

 bill oak. Mr. Biggs advises that business is Im- 

 proving, but is not to be compared with that 

 of last year. 



F. G. Eberhart, Jr., president of the Licking 

 River Lumber Company of this city, who spent 

 last week with this company has returned to his 

 home in Mishawaka. Ind. 



T. N. Fannin of this city, of the Keys-Fannin 

 Lumber Company of Herndon, W. 'Va., is on a 

 business trip through the East In the interests 

 of his company, 



M. W. Thomas, who for a number of years has 

 been associated with lumber concerns of this 

 city and vicinity, two of the most prominent 

 ones being O. F. L. Beckette & Co. and the Ash- 

 land Lumber Company, of which latter company 

 he was president for several years, has severed 

 his connection with these companies. Mr. 

 Thomas has not yet decided definitely as to 

 his future plans, but will not engage in active 

 business for some time. He has been unusually 

 successful in his business career and possesses 

 considerable property. He owns the new three- 

 story double front Citizens' Bank building erected 

 here last year, and is at present building for 

 himself a tine residence on Winchester avenue, 

 one of the principal streets of the city. The 

 Ashland Lumber Company will continue to oper- 

 ate as formerly, and will not admit any new 

 member to take the place of Mr. Thomas. The 

 present owners of the company are Messrs. Scott, 

 Beckette and Meredith. 



J. E. Burke, secretary of the Wright-Salisbury 

 Lumber Company, and Miss Eva Marie Chapman 

 surprised their many friends in this city re- 

 cently by announcing their marriage, which oc- 

 curred Feb. 19 last. Mr. Burke and happy bride 

 are on a honeymoon trip, visiting the Great 

 Lakes, Niagara Falls, and other points of In- 

 terest. This young couple have hosts of friends 

 who wish them a long, useful and happy life. 



William C. White, the Catlettsburg timber 

 merchant, was a business visitor In the city 

 this week. Mr. White states that the timber 

 market in bis city is very quiet, there being 

 practically no stir in the timber business. 



J. H. P. Smith, president of the Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, Is in Cincinnati on business. 

 Fred Plschel, secretary and manager of the 

 PIschel Lumber Company of Salt Lick. Ky., 

 spent a day in the city this week on his re- 

 turn from one of their large timber tracts in 

 Magoffin County, where they have a number of 

 men at work putting timber Into the river. 

 Mr. Plschel reports quite a volume of business 

 and expresses himself, as most manufacturers, 

 that the lumber cut from timber now being 



logged will bring better prices than the pres- 

 ent market. 



The mills of the city and vicinity are all 

 running full time with the exception of one. 

 All the sheet-iron and wire mills are running 

 full time with the exception of the A.C.&I. 

 furnace. 



R. G. Page, secretary of the Licking River 

 Lumber Company, is on a business trip through 

 Ohio. Michigan and Indiana, and will be out 

 of the city several days. Mr. Page secured 

 some orders for hardwoods, and states that the 

 lumber supply of the consuming trade is far 

 below normal and that they are placing orders 

 for very small amounts. He also says that if 

 an Initial 50 cents or $1 per thousand could 

 be realized, buying would be stimulated to such 

 an extent that it would be difficult to supply 

 the demand, as all the consumers would want 

 to cover their shortages and Increase their 

 stocks at the lowest prices, and this would 

 surely increase the demand and raise prices. 



Charles Kitchen of Vansant, Kitchen & Co. 

 is proving an enthusiastic candidate for the 

 congressional nomination, and Is spending the 

 greater part of his time visiting the influential 

 politicians of this district. 



The Yellow Poplar Lumber Company of Coal 

 Grove, Ohio, continues to operate full "time and 

 IS putting on sticks a large amount of fine 

 poplar lumber. This company has applied to 

 the War department for permission to construct 

 a splash dam in the Russel Fork of Levisa Fork 

 of the Big Sandy R.lver, about a quarter of a 

 mile below the moSCi of Round River in Dick- 

 inson County. Va. It owns a large amount 

 of timber which comes through these creeks 

 into the Big Sandy, and through the Big Sandy 

 into the Ohio, to be manufactured at the nlant 

 at Coal Grove. 



The Chesapeake* Ohio Is a very Impor- 

 tant factor in this territory, and lumbermen are 

 pleased to note the resumption of improvements 

 on several of its branches. Beginning the 

 first of this month they resumed the work, 

 which was abandoned about a year ago of 

 double tracking from Huntington to Charleston, 

 W. \a. ; considerable improvements will be made 

 on the Lexington Division, as well as the Big 

 Sandy. This will not only Improve the service 

 of the road, but there will be a demand for 

 more labor, lumber, timber and steel. 



E. S. Stephens, Inspector for Duhlmeler Bros 

 of Cincinnati, was in the city several days last 

 week, during which time he purchased several 

 cars of lumber from local dealers. Including 

 four cars from the Hardwood Lumber Company 

 and several cars from the Licking River Lum- 

 ber Company, which stock he inspected and 

 loaded at their mill at Farmers, Ky. 



W. Salisbury, secretary and manager of the 

 Park City Lumber Company of this city, re- 

 ports good business for last month. His com- 

 pany has been awarded the contracts for sup- 

 plying all the lumber for the new Central Fire 

 Station building and the new ten-room school 

 building, both to be erected this season. Mr 

 Salisbury, with many other Ashland citizens 

 looks favorably on the outlook 



CHARLOTTE 



The Western Carolina Lumber & Box Com- 

 pany Is the name of a new corporation now 

 establishing a large plant for the manufacture 

 of boxes at Blltmore. N. C. The new plant will 

 be in operation in less than thirty days and the 

 output of the company will be box shocks. It 

 Is understood that the company has already dis- 

 posed of Its output for a year In advance. 



A charter has just been granted the Wil- 

 mington Sash, Door and Lumber Company of 

 \\iimlngton, N. c., at a capital stock of «20,000. 

 N. E. DeCover and Norwood Giles of Wilming- 

 ton are the incorporators, and the company Is 

 authorized to engage in a woodworking and 

 general lumber business. 



The principal offices of the Asheboro Lumber 

 Manufacturing Company have just been changed, 

 by amendment to the company's charter, from 

 Asheboro to Fayetteville, N. C. 



The charter of the McClamrock Mantel Com- 

 pany of Greensboro, N. C. has been amended 

 so that the capital actually paid In Is $18,000 

 instead of .$32,000. 



A deal has just been closed at Winston- 

 Salem, N. C, by the Lamb-Fish Land Com- 

 pany, which owns 250,000 acres of fine timber 

 land In Mississippi, by which the company ac- 

 quires property located on the line of the 

 Southern railway, upon which it will immedi- 

 ately erect a large box shook factory. The 

 mill will be about 70x150 feet, and work will 

 commence at once. Machinery for the manufac- 

 ture of plug tobacco boxes, from gum and oak 

 lumber, will be installed. 



A charter has just been granted the Carolina 

 Hardwood Lumber Company of Asheville, N. C. 

 at a capital of ?15,000. Incorporators are 

 R. P. Baer of Baltimore, and others. The 

 company is authorized to buy and sell timber 

 lands, manufacture all kinds of hardwood, oper- 

 ate saw mills, etc. 



After being closed down for a considerable 

 length of tinie the plant of the Greensboro 

 Furniture Manufacturing Company of Greens- 

 boro, N. C, is now in full operation. The 

 company has recently received a large number 

 of orders and hopes to continue full operations 

 uninterrupted. 



On June 1 the large crate manufacturing 

 plant of H. T. Baker, located at Magnolia, 

 thirty miles from Wilmington, N. C, was burned. 

 The loss amounts to about $3,000. 



The engine and boiler rooms and sawmill 

 of the Whitevllle Lumber Company, located 

 at Whitevllle, N. C, were burned recently, loss 

 being estimated at about .$100,000, with only 

 partial insurance. About 200 men are tempo- 

 rarily idle, due to the fire. 



The sawmill of J. A. Hyatt, located in Lan- 

 caster county, S. C, was burned recently, caus- 

 ing loss of about $1,000. 



Every lumberman of this state is deeply 

 Interested in the fight which the North Carolina 

 Corporation Commission Is making before the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission against the 

 Norfolk & Western against discriminatory and 

 e-xcesslve freight rates. The recent action of 

 the Southern and the Seaboard railways, in 

 joining the N. & W. in the suit is of wide- 

 spread interest. The Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission has just notified the Corporation Com- 

 mission of this action and great Interest centers 

 on the hearing of the cases, which will be held 



MINNEAPOLIS 



An excellent demand for hardwood for doors, 

 mlllwork and interior finish in the Twin Cities 

 Is Indicated for the season that Is now Just 

 fairly started. Last season was a big one In 

 these lines, the heaviest ever known, and the 

 volume of operations was shown by the record 

 breaking total of building permits. This year 

 they are running a little behind, but are far 

 above the average, and from the amount of 

 flgurini; tlial i-i lifhig done the building demand 

 is . I I -. Minneapolis permits for 



M;: with a total estimated cost 



of ; year In May there were 



7ii>. ; with a total cost of $1,626,- 



42o. 'llif touil i^r five months of the present 

 year was $3,490,505, compared with $4,057,085 

 for the same months last year. The St. Paul 

 record for May was $891,499, a slight Increase 

 over last year, when the record was $889,542. 

 The total for five months was $2,167,597, while 

 for the same months last year It was $2,853,043. 



E. Payson Smith of the Payson Smith Lum- 

 ber Company has gone for a short business trip 

 to southern points to look after their hardwood 

 and yellow pine Interests. A. S. Bliss, who Is 



