HARDWOOD RECORD 



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CYPRESS 



We make a specialty of rough or 

 dressed Cypress Lumber and Cypress 

 Shingles in straight or mixed cars. 

 Your inquiries solicited for single car 

 orders or good round lots. Can also fur- 

 nish Sound Cypress Dimension Stock. 



The Borcherding Lumber Co. 



Northern Oilice, 



CINCINNATI. OHIO. 



WILLIAMS & BELL, 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



Hardwood Lumber. 



Quartered Oak Our Specialty. 



Prompt Shipments. 



MURFREESBORO, TENN. 



MISSISSIPPI VALLEY 

 LUMBER COMPANY. 



MAIN OFFirES: 



Lincoln Trust BIdg. 

 Saint Louis, 



branches: 

 Cairo. 111.. Caruthersville. 

 Mo., and Memphis. Tenn. 



Cash Buyers ol Cypress, Cottonwood. 

 Gum and Oak and solicit inquiries trom 

 the Consuming trade for the following. 



CYPRESS: 



750,000 feet 1 inch Ists and 3nds. 



200,000 

 2.1,000 

 8FiO,000 

 l-ii.OOO 

 90,000 

 1,610,000 



m inch Ists and 2nds. 



V/i and 2 inch Ists and 2nds. 



1 and 1 'i' inch select. 

 !',» inch select. 



2 inch select. 



1, I'i, I'i and 2 inch shop. 



COTTONWOOT>: 



2,000,000 feet l-inch, log run or on grade. 



GVM: 



2,500,000 feet 1-inch So. 2 and shipping cull. 

 500,000 " 1 and IK ihcb furniture common. 

 390,000 " 1, IJi and IJi inch sap clear. 



OAK: 



650,000 feet 1, 1% and 2 inch Red and White 

 plain and quarter sawed Ists and 2iids, No. 1 

 and No. 2 common. 



Articles of incorporation have been granted 

 by the Virginia Corporation Commission to the 

 Boice & Buchanan Lumber Company, with sites 

 at Abingdon, Pa. The new company's capital 

 stock is $50,000. C. Boice of Abingdon, who is 

 connected with the Tug River Lumber Company, 

 and Boice, Burns & Offett of Bristol, will be 

 president of the new company, while JI. Bu- 

 chanan, an experienced lumberman of Silvia, N. 

 C,, has been elected vice president. J. W. Bell, 

 cashier of the First National bank of Abingdon, 

 A'a., is secretary and treasurer of the new con- 

 cern. With this personnel of excellent lumber 

 and business men the company is an assured 

 success. They are also chartered to deal in 

 timber lands and will do a general lumber busi- 

 ness. 



C. K. Mount, president of the Iron Mountain 

 Lumber Company of Vaughtsville. Tenn,, was in 

 Bristol on business last week, Mr, Mount ?ays 

 that business with his company is especially 

 good at this season. 



P. W. Bevins, a prominent hardwood lumber- 

 man of Hilstons, .Scott county. Va,, was in 

 Bristol on business last week, Mr. Bevins says 

 that he has a large stock in his yards at 

 Hilstons and that his mills are running to their 

 fullest capacity, 



W. H. Toley of ^ew York was in Bristol last 

 week making contracts with local manufacturers 

 and dealers for export stock. Mr. Toley is buy- 

 ing cliiefly oak stock, and was enabled to make 

 several contracts in Bristol. 



Evaasville. 



George C. Ehemann, representing Bennett & 

 Witte. wholesale lumber dealers of Cincinnati, 

 0„ and Memphis. Tenn., was in the market 

 this week and reports l^sisiness favorable in 

 his locality, 



John I, Shafer. representing C. C, Shafer 

 Hardwocd Lumber Company of South Bend, Ind„ 

 was in this market the past week. 



John Murray of Indianapolis, Ind,. has been 

 in Evansville for the past few days taking up 

 quartered oak flitches for the Indiana Lumber 

 & Veneer Company and reports business in 

 Indianapolis to be quiet, owing to the extreme 

 cold weather, 



Sam Burkholder of the S. Burkholder Lum- 

 ber Company. Crawfordsville. Ind.. was in Evans- 

 ville the past week and reports business picking 

 up. 



Feb. 4 the hardwood band mill of Brosius & 

 Myerhoffer, Greenville. Ky., was burned to the 

 ground at a loss of $5,000, They are now re- 

 building temporarily and will be in operation 

 in the next sixty days. 



Louisville. 



The Chess & Wymond Company has been given 

 a permit to erect another private switch to its 

 b.nrrel plant on Fifth street, this city. 



Matthew Oldham of Mount Sterling, Ky., has 

 bought from the Eastern Land and Improvement 

 Company 1.000 acres of fine coal and timber 

 lands in Wolfe county, near Torrent. Ky.. at the 

 rate of $12.50 an acre. The land contains fine 

 hardwood timber. 



E. L. McLain of Greenfield, O.. has bought 

 seven acres of ground at Thirtieth and Market 

 streets, this city, and is considering plans for 

 a $75,000 woodenware factory. 



The greatest volume of ice ever seen in the 

 Cumberland river has just passed out into the 

 Ohio, carrying everything along the shore with 

 it. A huge raft of logs, brought down by the 

 Doe. was broken up near Smithland. Ky., and 

 scattered. The damage to mill and log interests 

 is heavy. 



The Scobee-Williams Spoke and Handle Com- 

 pany's plant at Winchester. Ky.. was totally de- 

 stroyed by flre Feb. 13. Involving a loss of $30.- 

 000. partly covered by insurance. The flre 

 originated in the boiler room. The company will 

 rebuild immediately. 



The plEtring mill and furniture factory of J. 

 H. McDanell's Sons' Company at Warsaw, Ky., 



was destroyed by fire on the night of Feb. 15, 

 entailing a loss of $25,000. There was no in- 

 surance. The flre started in the boiler room. 



Eastern capitalists have taken over the Vir- 

 ginia & Kentucky Railroad, terminating at In- 

 dian Creek. The road will be extended via 

 round Gap to the Elkhorn coal and timber flelds 

 during the present year, making connection with 

 the C. & O. This will open a vast area of hard- 

 wood timber lands in the eastern section of the 

 state that have remained undeveloped for want 

 of proper and adequate transportation facilities. 



The cold wave which spread over this section 

 in the e.nrly part of the month and the effects 

 of which are still being felt, caused much sufl'er- 

 iiig among log and river men on the Kentucky. 

 Licking and Red rivers. It is estimated that at 

 least 1,500 men were at work on the banks of 

 these rivers night and day all during the month, 

 preparing rafts and protecting them from the 

 ice floes. Many deaths from exposure and in- 

 juries resulting from the excessive cold were 

 reported, 



A lire, thought to have been of incendiary 

 origin, destroyed stock valued at $3,500 in the 

 plant of the Daviss Lumber Company in Alex- 

 andria, Ind,, Feb, 16, 



E, N. Forsyth of Maysville, Ky.. shipped Feb. 

 16 to lumber dealers in Hamburg. Germany, 

 four car loads of black walnut cut from the hills 

 iu Mason county. This makes an aggregate of 

 S150.000 worth of lumber shipped to that coun- 

 try within the nast month. 



Baltimore. 



The hardwood firm of Mottu & Buckingham, 

 which was organized last year, has begun to 

 extend its operations, having heretofore been 

 content to move along quietly. It closed a deal 

 last week for the purchase of 5.500 acres of 

 timberland in Augusta and Rockbridge counties. 

 Virginia, not far from Staunton, on the Little 

 Xorth Mountain of the Shenandoah range. It 

 is estimated that there are upward of 5,000,- 

 000 feet of timber, mostly chestnut and white 

 oak with smaller quantities of other hardwoods 

 in the tract, and that the latter will also 

 yield about 10,000 tons of chestnut bark, which 

 can be profitably delivered to tanneries nearby. 

 The tract is very irregular in shape, stretching 

 along the mountain in a southwesterly direction 

 about nine miles and being in places three miles 

 across. One and perhaps two mills are to be 

 erected. The shipping facilities are adequate, 

 the haul to the railroad being nowhere very 

 long. Operations will be started as soon as the 

 weather and other conditions permit. The land 

 belonged to an estate, but the consideration is 

 not given. Messrs. Buckingham and Mottu are 

 young men, the former having for years held a 

 confidential position with J. Van Hall, a well- 

 known exporter here, who went to Holland some 

 four or five years ago. The firm has an office 

 iu the Builders' Exchange Building, Charles and 

 Lexington streets. 



The widely known and very active hardwood 

 firm of Eisenhauer, MacLea & Co., now located 

 on West Falls avenue, in what is known as the 

 wharf district, will be the first of the concerns 

 doing business there to vacate in order that 

 the contemplated dock improvements can be 

 made. All that section has been reserved for 

 the construction of new wharves, and the prop- 

 erty will pass into the possession of the city 

 either by purchase or condemnation, and the 

 business establishments located on it will have 

 to find other quarters, Eisenhauer, MacLea & 

 Co,, requiring large space, were early on the 

 lookout and last week closed the purchase of 

 what is known as the Kimball-Tj-ler property, 

 fronting on Central avenue. Canton avenue. 

 Eastern avenue and Eden street. The property 

 was formerly used as a can factory, but has 

 of late been vacant. The owners reside in Chi- 

 cago. The new purchase is admirably adapted 

 to the needs of the Baltimore firm, which 

 handles hardwoods in large quantities and car- 

 ries a stock that cannot be excelled here. In 



