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turn hopefully to the St. Louis market ^vhen 

 others have failed him. 



Tlie loeal dealers exercise an eternal vigi- 

 lance over the railroads so that a serious car 

 famine is practically unknown. The Mer- 

 chants' Terminal, controlling the St. Louis 

 end of twenty-three great railroad systems, 

 lends hearty cooperation to the lumbermen 

 in supplying ears. Vast quantities of hay, 

 grain, stock and lumber come into St. Ix)uis 

 daily, depositing hundreds of empties which 

 the companies are only too glad to have 

 reloaded for shipment, as this obviates un- 

 profitable haulage of empty cars. As a rule, 

 from six to tweho hours is all that is required 

 to get a car from, the Merchants' Terminal 

 onto a lumber switch. The lumber yards lie 

 on the north and south ends of the city along 

 the Merchants ' Terminal Belt, and each yard 

 is plentifully provided with spurs. 



There are twenty-three great railroad sys- 

 tems in St. Louis, as follows: Chicago & 



h:is little difficulty in getting lumber in amJ 

 out of St. Loui.s. In this connection it is in- 

 teresting to note that last year the railroads 

 brought. a|)pr()ximately, 1.50,0UO cars of lum- 

 ber into St. Louis. 



Tn speaking of St. Louis transportation 

 facilities, that famous old water-way whi<'h 

 Mark Twain has immortalized should not be 

 omitted. A score or' more years ago the 

 swift current of the Mississippi conveyed 

 millions of tret of timber annually from 

 the great northern forests to St. Louis, 

 where two or three large sawmills were lo- 

 cated. In tho.se days that city was the 

 natural distributing center for all the north- 

 ern lumber consumed in the lower Mississippi 

 and Ohio valleys. White pine was almost 

 universall.y used, such a thing as utilizing 

 the southern forests not being thought of. 

 The position of St. Louis in lumber history 

 is therefore unique in that it now controls 

 the larger part of the southern shipments 



of this mighty river is about over. No more 

 will its 18,000 miles of navigable waterway 

 be the outlet for the forest products of the 

 valley. Still, the Mississippi has not lost 

 its value to the lumber dealers of St. Louis. 

 It exercises a uuist salutary influence over 

 the railroads, tending to prevent ex- 

 tortion in freight rates. Another influence 

 of the river has been the c-ntering of many 

 trunk lines at St. Louis, it being important 

 in the old days for railroads to bring various 

 commodities to the Mound City for distribu- 

 tion by water and to gather up the com- 

 modities which had been brought to St. Ijouis 

 by boat. This centralization of railroads 

 has given the city direct connection with the 

 whole country and has made it a logical cen- 

 ter for rail transportation as it was in the 

 old days of river transjxirtation. 



While the white pine business flourished, 

 siunething like thirty years ago, some of the 

 dealers began to get calls for hardwood. A 



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Alton (.Missouri JJivision) ; Missouri Pacific; 

 Krisco; Wabash (West); Chicago, Rock 

 Island & Pacific; Missouri, Kansas & Texas; 

 St. Louis Southwestern ; St. Louis, Iron 

 Mountain & Sfjuthern ; St. Ijouis, Iron Moun- 

 tain & Southern (Illinois Division); Illinois 

 Central; Louisville, Henderson & St. Ijouis; 

 Louisville & Nashville; Mobih' & Ohio; 

 Southern; Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern; 

 ( hicago & Alton; Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chi- 

 cago & St. Louis; Vandalia; Wabash (East); 

 Toledo, St. Louis & Western ; Chicago, Peoria 

 & St. Louis; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; 

 St. T»uis, Keokuk & Xorthwestern ; Chicago 

 & Kastern Illinois. 



In shijiping east, dealers have the i-lioice 

 of the B. & O, Big Four, Vandalia, C. & A., 

 C. P. & St. L., C. & K. I., Southern and 

 Burlington; for shipments north the Bur- 

 lington. Wabash, Kock Island, C. & E. L, 

 <-'. & A., C. P. & Kt. L. and Illinois (Jcntral; 

 for the west Missouri Pacific, Wabash, Bur- 

 lington, Af. K. & T., Kock Island and Frisco. 



Out of this assortnicnt of roads the trade 



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Just as it did the lumber of Wisconsin and 

 Minnesota before the great southern hard- 

 wood belt was opened. 



Before the advent of the railroads, the 

 lumber of the South was brought up the 

 .Mississippi river in barges. As the business 

 grew, the boats became more numerous until 

 the lumber traffic on the river was a great 

 one. Most of the old boats that used to 

 l)ly between St. Louis and the lumber centers 

 of the So\ith have long since laid their over- 

 worked frames upon the mud banks to decay, 

 but a few of the later ones are still in com- 

 mission. .\s the railroads threaded their way 

 into the southern forests, the river lumlier 

 trade began to dwindle away until now the 

 receipts by water are less than i;.">,lMlil,uill) 

 feet annually. While the march of progress 

 cannot wait for log rails to be flouted diiwn- 

 stroani from the norllicrn hrnbir ilistrids, 

 or for the flat-bolbini bo:its to iM;ikc their 

 way laboriously against the current willi 

 lundier from the South, there is a shadi' of 

 sadness in the thought that the great work 



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few of them went out of their way to favor 

 customers by supplying their hardwood 

 wants, but for ten years no one thought of 

 carrying a stock of hardwoods. It remained 

 for William Druhc to first see the tremen- 

 dous possibilities in this line. About a 

 score of years ago he established the first 

 hardwood yard in .St. l>>uis, putting in a 

 stock of bl.uk w;ilnul, then the reigning 

 favorite. From that time the success of the 

 hardwood industry has been phenomenal. 

 Within twenty years it has advanced until 

 now there are more than a score of largo 

 shippers in St. Louis who operate local hard- 

 wund yards, with fully Hi:il iu;iny local jol)- 



lic'is who shi)) direct Ir Ihc mills in tho 



Soulli. .\iiiong Ihc impiirtnni ciuicerns are: 

 ('has. I''. I.uchruuinii Hardwood Lumlier < 'o., 

 Thomas & Proetz l.undier Co., Sleei A: llili 

 bard, Anu'riciin Hardwood Lumber <'o.. Win. 

 Ilrulic, Mosbcrger-O'Kcilly l.uiiilicr Co., 

 .Masseiigale |jund)er (^o.', Lolhuian Cypress 

 Co., .\lcce Stewart & Co., Plummcr Lumber 

 Co., Bousack Lumlier Co., Wahlstein Lumber 



