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The Wilkinsou planing mill on tbe Southern railway, which was pur- 

 chased by the Stone-Huling Lumber Company, will be put into operation 

 again in a few weeks. It is being equipped with new machinery. The 

 Stone-Huling Company will later discontinue its old mill on the Southern 

 railway. 



Irving Whaley of the Whaley-Peed Lumber Company has gone to 

 eastern Kentucky to spend several weeks looking after the installation 

 of new mills. The new company has purchased a good sized area of 

 hardwood timber in that territory. 



H. E. Pierpont of Chicago, general freight agent of the Chicago, Mil- 

 waukee & St. Paui railway, who is interested in the Paxton Lumber 

 Company, of this city, is a visitor in Bristol this week on business. The 

 Paxton company is doing a good business. 



J. A. Wilkinson, who is conducting a large hardwood agency, as repre- 

 sentative of a number of large domestic and foreign concerns, has re- 

 turned from a two weeks' trip. Mr. Wilkinson is shipping out a large 

 amount of stock for the concerns he represents and has several inspectors 

 in Virginia and West Virginia taking up the stock at the mills. 



=-< LOUISVILLE y- 



• The Louisville Hardwood Club will have an exhibit at the Kentucky 

 State Fair, September 15-20, in Louisville. State Forester J. E. Barton is 

 arranging a display of products of the forests in this state, and called 

 on the club to co-operate. This the organization agreed to do, and the 

 result is that work is now being done which Insures an excellent display 

 by the local lumbermen. The plan is to show a board of each kind of 

 wood native to or manufactured in Kentucky. This gives a wide scope to 

 the exhibit, and promises to give a display that will put most people, 

 <'ven those familiar with the average woods, to thinking. Each board 

 will be dressed for two-thirds of its length, and finished for one-third, so 

 that the three stages of its appearance from the time it leaves the saw- 

 mill until It is ready for use will be presented to the observer. This 

 idea was suggested by T. Smith Milton, sales manager of the Louisville 

 Point Lumber Company, who is in charge of the work of getting the ex- 

 hibit together. Tlie Alfred Struck Company is doing the dressing and 

 finishing. The woods to be shown include mahogany, cypress, pine, dog- 

 wood, ash, sycamore, plain and quartered ; white oak, plain and quar- 

 tered ; red oak, plain and quartered ; maple, poplar, elm, willow, basswood, 

 locust, beech, buckeye, hickory, Cottonwood, birch, cherry, butternut, pecan, 

 walnut, black gum, mulberry, elder, chestnut, coffee tree, sassafras, cedar, 

 cucumber, hackberry, persimmon, gum, plain and quartered red. and sap. 

 Much interest has been shown locally in the report of the Census 

 Bureau, which indicates an advance during 1912 by Kentucky in point 

 of lumber production. The cut last year was 641,296.000, a gain over 

 1911 of nearly 9,000,000 feet. The fact that eastern Kentucky as a lum- 

 ber producing section was Just being opened up in 1912 means that this 

 year's cut will be much larger than last. Another factor favorable to 

 an increased output is that Kentucky river mills handled a larger volume 

 of logs this year than for a long time, getting enough to keep them run- 

 ning almost without a break. Crop conditions have not been particularly 

 good, and plenty of labor and horses has been available, and the result 

 of this has been that many small country mills which have not done 

 much lately have run most of the summer. Railroad reports are that an 

 unusually large number of logs, as well as much lumber, has been brought 

 out to their stations from interior points, all signs indicating a large 

 movement. Just now some of the smaller mlllmen are discontinuing 

 operations because of the comparatively easy condition of the market ; 

 hut their contributions, as a whole, to the year's cut have been material. 

 A brief has been filed for the Norman Lumber Company and other 

 local hardwood concerns in the case of those companies against railroads 

 in the Southern and Central Freight Association territory. The brief 

 attacks the present adjustment of bridge tolls, as a result of which it is 

 alleged that Louisville is discriminated against severely. The brief says, 

 among other things : "We submit that the discrimination against Louis- 

 ville is due to the failure of the carriers serving Louisville and Cincin- 

 nati to the North and East to recognize the well-established principle, 

 that differentials diminish with increasing distance and vanish when 

 the mileage on which the differential is based becomes inconsiderable in 

 proportion to the total mileage from the basing point to destination. If 

 this principle were recognized, the bridge toll would disappear on long 

 liauls and the differential between Louisville and Cincinnati on east-bound 

 traffic would diminish as the distance Increases. We insist that there is 

 remedy for the intolerable rate adjustment under which Louisville suffers 

 and that this commission should apply it." 



T. M. Brown of the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company has been 

 in Chicago during the past week. Mr. Brown plans to go east to attend 

 the world's series baseball games nest month. 



D. E. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills has returned from Chicago, 

 where he attended a meeting of the Panel Club, of which he is a leading 

 member. 



Harry J. Gates of the Louisville Point Lumber Company has returned 

 from a trip to eastern points, in which he found the demand for lumber 

 to be satisfactory. 



P. G. Booker, president of tbe Booker-Cecil Company, is rapidly im- 

 proving after a severe attack of typhoid (ever and will probably be out 

 again shortly. 



Saline River Hardwood Co. 



Main Sales Oitice 



Pine Bluff, Arkansas 



Manufacturers of 



Genuine Forked-Lea! White Oak 



Red and Sap Gum 

 Red Oak and Asti 



§ We offer to the trade a remarkably SUPERIOR lumber 

 product. 



Q Our TIMBER is virgin forest growth of the highest 

 type. 



Q Our MILLS are new and produce accurately manufac- 

 tured stock. 



q Our LUMBER !s all KRAETZER-CURED — treated with 

 steam under pressure directly from the saw — insuring 

 quick drying to light weight, freedom froni seasoning 

 defects and stick-marking, splits and stain. 



^ Kraetzer-cured lumber will "stay where you put it." 



^ Dry kiln and oak flooring plant in connection. 



(] We solicit the inquiries and orders of critical and dis- 

 criminating buyers. 



^ For straight cars of Yellow Pine, or mixed cars with 

 Oak Hooring, write LONG-BELL LUMBER COMPANY, 

 Kansas City, Mo. 



Two Factors With Which 

 You Are Familiar 

 Regulate Timber Values 



Supply — it cannot increase during the life of 

 this generation. 



Demand — for wood and wood products will 

 not decrease during the life of this generation, 

 if ever. 



Caught between these two forces which are 

 moving toward each other steadily, timber 

 values literally are being 



Shoved Up 



by the pressure behind them. 



For these reasons timber is a good investment 

 whether bought for present or future operation or 

 as an investment. 



Timber now is being offered at prices which will 

 make your investment profitable, not in many years 

 but in a few years. 



You are entitled to information about timber 

 bargains. Ask for it. 



James D. Lacey & Co. 



Timber Land Factors 



Chicago, 111., 1750 McCormick Building 



Portland, Ore., 1104 Spalding Building 



Seattle, Wash., 1009 White Building 



