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HARDWOOD RECORD 



J. W. Hastings & Son will open liids June 25 for rebuilding a saw- 

 mill at Big Sandy, Tenn., machinery to cost about $1,000 ; daily capacity 

 10,000 feet. 



W. A. Rockwell and B. V. Hamilton are having erected at Ilarriman. 

 Tenn., a modern band sawmill, with a daily capacity of about 30,000 

 feet. The firm will erect all necessary dry houses and buildings for 

 handling the output, and hopes to have the plant in operation Ijy 

 July 1. 



The River.side Lumber Company of Knoxville, Tenn., has been granted 

 a charter by the secretary of state. Authorized capital stock is 

 $50,000. 



=•< LOUISVILLE y- 



The W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company is now permanently repre- 

 sented in Chicago, an office having been opened in the McCormick building. 



Kentucky Lumber Company 



MANUFACTURERS 



POPLAR, PLAIN AND QUAR- 

 TERED OAK, RED AND SAP 

 GUM, ASH, CHESTNUT, BASS- 

 WOOD, HEMLOCK, WHITE PINE 



Mills at 



Bumside, Ky. Williamsburg, Kj , 



Isola, Miss. 



Sales Office 

 Cincinnati, O. 



|C I N C I N N ATI 



IHardwood Manufacturers and Jobbers I 



SHAWNEE LUMBER CO. ~ 



HARDWOODS, WHITE PINE and HEMLOCK 



Sales Office — South Side Station — C. H. & D. R. R. 



JAMES KENNEDY & CO., Ltd. 



OAK, POPLAR AND OTHER HARDWOODS 



FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING 



The Kosse, Shoe & Schleyer Co. 



WALNUT, OAK, AND OTHER HARDWOODS 



103-4-5 CAREW BUILDING 



OHIO VENEER COMPANY 



Manufacturers & Importers FOREIGN VENEERS 



2624-34 COLERAIN AVENUE 



CHARLES F. SHIELS & CO. 



SPECIALISTS IN WIDE STOCK 



POPLAR, OAK, CHERRY, BIRCH 



GEORGE LITTLEFORD 



REDCEDAR, CHERRY 



OFFICE: 1203 RICHMOND STREET 



SWANN-DAY LUMBER CO. 



Mfrs. YELLOW POPLAR and WHITE OAK 



SALES OFFICE— SECOND N.\TIONAL BANK BUILDING 



RIEMEIER LUMBER CO. 



^OAK, POPLAR, C H E S T N U T ii 



^ SUMMERS AND GEST STREETS M 



It is in charge o£ Ben Stoll, who has had much experience in the hard- 

 wood trade of that market. The Brown company has pursued a policy- 

 of steady expansion, having enlarged both its producing and sales facili- 

 ties of late. 



Edward S. Shippen, president of the Louisville Point Lumber Company, 

 has returned from Catlettsburg, Ky., where he went to look over the log 

 market. He picked up a nice bunch of walnut logs. The logs are 

 excellent both as to size and quality. 



H. E. McCowen, president of the Ohio River Sawmill Company, whose 

 home is in Salem, Ind., has been spending more time in Louisville than 

 heretofore, the increasing business of the local company demanding much 

 of his attention. , 



The Norman Lumber Company and the Richland Parish Lumber Com- 

 pany, local concerns with mills in Louisiana, have fully recovered from' 

 the slight interruption caused by late Jioods in the lower Mississippi 

 valley. There was not at any time enough waller in their yards to cause- 

 any damage, and the only result was a short cessation of manufacturing- 

 operations. 



.Tames L. Berry, a pioneer sawmill man of Louisville, died at his home- 

 in this city recently at the age of fift,v-four. -M* Berr.v started manu- 

 facturing lumber at Fisherville, Ky., later coming to Louisville, where he 

 formed a partnership with Edward L. Davis. The latter bought out the in- 

 terest of his partner after several years and established the Edward 

 L. Davis Lumber Company. Mr. Berry had not been active in business 

 for some time before his death, which was due to heart trouble. 



The Louisville Hardwood Club has enjoyed some admirable papers from 

 its members lately, the program of business talks arranged several months 

 ago having been carried out to the advantage of the club and individuaV 

 members. Recent addresses have been by D. E. Kline of the I.ouisville 

 Veneer Mills : T. M. Brown of the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Com- 

 pany, and Stuart R. Cecil of the Booker-Cecil Company, Mr. Kliue 

 discussed the necessity of figuring costs in the sawmill business: -Mr. 

 Brown went into the changes which have taken place in the hardwood' 

 trade in recent years, and Mr. Cecil handled the buying end of a whole- 

 sale lumber business. All of the addresses were full of wit and wisdom, 

 and were followed by discussions in which most of those present par- 

 ticipated. 



The Louisville Veneer Mills has the champion pie-baker of .Teffersnu 

 county in its employ. She prepares the lunches which are served for tht^ 

 office force and department heads of the plant, and not only puts on 

 the regular menu in fine style, but likewise adds an artistic finishing 

 touch by tvirning out, on occasion, such pies as are looked back upon 

 with the fondest of recollections. Those having business dealings with- 

 the concern are advised to reach there In the neighborhood of the noon 

 hour, and to secure In advance, if possible, a schedule of the pie days 

 of the Kline maitre de cuisine. 



The Hardwood Club of Louisville has decided to ci>-operate with Maley 

 & Wertz and other hardwood manufacturing concerns of EvansviUe as. 

 well as other cities which are interested, in taking up \vth the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission the question of having the Louisville & 

 ,\ashville Railroad change its tariff so as to make it possible, in vising 

 the transit privilege, to ship out hardwood lumber for hardwood logs. 

 Instead oi offsetting tonnage in the form of individual woods. Tho- 

 probabilities ar<', however, that before the case is finally disposed of. it 

 will take the form of a request for the institution of flat rates, which 

 would, of course, eliminate all of the red tape and dilhculties incident 

 to the effort to secure the doulHful advantages of transit. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission will soon pass upon the case 

 put before it by local hardwood concerns, which asked that the matter 

 of the bridge toll figuring in rates in and out of this city he properl.v 

 adjusted. At present the rates in from tho South include a bridge toll, 

 though Louisville is on the south bank of the river; while shipments out 

 likewise contain a charge to cover crossing the bridge. The local shippers 

 take the logical ground that they, ought to pay only for service that they 

 actually get. 



The Mengel Box Company is putting up some additional sheds at 

 Twelfth and Dumesnil street.s. where its box factory is located. The- 

 concern does some lumber rehandling here, though its mills are at 

 Hickman, Ky., and Mengelwood, Tenn. 



.T. V. Stimson, tho well-known hardwood manufacturer, was in Louis- 

 ville recent l.v, and confirmed the report of his acquisition of an ad- 

 ditional mill in Memphis. He said that after this year the mill at Owens- 

 boro. Ky.. which has been running for twelve years, will probably be 

 closed down and dismantled, as most of the available timber has been 

 cut out. 



The Louisville & Nashville Railroad has recently raised its rates oi» 

 lumber from points in Tennessee and Alabama to Louisville, the In- 

 crease being from one to two cents. It is said that other roads servine 

 this territory arc contemplating similar action. 



W. A. McLean, president of the Wood-Mosaic Company of New .VIbany. 

 Ind,. reports that the recent fire which deslroyed the lompany's mill at 

 Highland Park, a suburb of Louisville, woiihl lause no serious Interrup- 

 tion to business. The wants of customers will be supplied from the large 

 stocks of lumber carried at the yard, which was not damaged, while the 

 veneer and flooring operations, all being conflned to the New Albany 

 and Roihesfer plants, will go on Just as before. The company will Im- 

 mediately rebuild on the site of the burned mill. 



