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HARDWOOD RECORD 



happy occasion. One hundred and sixty were 

 seated around the table, and an elegant menu 

 was quite a welcome feature o( the occasion. 

 J. A. Dougherty acted as toastmaster. The 

 guests w-ere welcomed on behalf of the exchange 

 by President R. T. Crayton. Other memliers 

 responded with appropriate talks. At the annual 

 meeting of the exchange which followed a fen- 

 days later. It. T. Crayton was re-elected presi- 

 dent ; E. T. Lewis, vice-president : W. J. Wallace, 

 second vice-president; and T. H. Evans was re- 

 elected secretary. New members of the directo- 

 rate were chosen as follows ; C. H. Butler, Jr. ; 

 .T. W. Patrick, W. R. Smith, H. E. Parmer, W. H. 

 Grewar, F. .T. Ehrhardt, H. A. Cooper, Joseph 

 Lightman, J. S. Minton, II. M. Sawrie, J. P. 

 Fulcher, and Charles Sykes. The report of the 

 secretary for the .year showed excellent growth. 



Friends of the popular Nashville lumberman. 

 Richard T. Wilson, have feared that for a 

 time he would lose one of his eyes. However, 

 it is now believed he will be able to save the 

 optic. Mr. Wilson was arranging some part 

 of Mrs. Wilson's electric automobile when a 

 piece of rubber saturated with strong acid from 

 an electric battery flew into his eye. Prompt 

 medical attention was secured, and he is now 

 believed to be on the road to recovery. 



Col. Irby Bennett, now of Memphis but for 

 many years a prominent citizen and business 

 man of Nashville, was a visitor to the city a 

 few days since, and was warmly welcomed by a 

 host of friends here. Colonel Bennett is now 

 engaged in the lumber business, he and his asso- 

 ciates having large interests in Arkansas timber 

 lands. 



J. M. Welch, a prominent timberman of 

 Monterey, Tenn., was a visitor to the city during 

 the past week. 



Simon Lieberman, the veteran Nashville lum- 

 berman, has gone on a visit to Florida in com- 

 pany with a congenial party of Nashville 

 friends. His destination was Homosassa, on the 

 west gulf coast, and his mission is that of fishing 

 and having a good time, at both of which he is 

 an expert. He returned from a former visit 

 with the record catch on the trip, a 9y2-pound 

 black bass. Mr. Lieberman, it might also be 

 stated, will probably be chosen president of the 

 Nashville Board of Education. 



Quite a number of the local lumbermen are 

 getting ready to attend the big annual conven- 

 tion of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion in Cincinnati next week. 



BRISTOL 



H. L. White of the White Lumber Company, 

 Butler. Tenn., was in Bristol last week. Mr. 

 White's company is now engaged in the con- 

 struction of a modern eight-foot band mill near 

 Elk Park. N. C. It adjoins a large boundary 

 of timber which was recently acquired. The 

 company will have an office at Johnson City, 

 Tenn., and a sales agreement with Floyd-OIm- 

 stead Company of Philadelphia. A line of 

 logging road eight miles in length has been 

 built, connecting the mill with the timber and 

 making enough timber available without an ex- 

 tension for more than a year. The new mill 

 will be put into operation about February 1. 



The Roanoke Hardwood Flooring Company 

 was recently organized at Ro.inoke, Va. It will 

 carry on a general manufacturing business, deal- 

 ing principally in hardwod flooring. The com- 

 pany's capital stock is $50,000, 



(Jodsey Brothers have closed down their mill 

 in Bristol for a few days on account of the 

 wet weatlier, following a heavy snow of last 

 week. The firm now has sixty-five carloads 

 of lumber on sticks at Its mill and will begin 

 shipping this stock out about the first of 

 March. The mill will be started again in a 

 lew days. The lumber will have to be hauled 

 a few hundred yards to the switch of the 

 Feter-McCain Lumber Company, at tlie hitter's 

 band sawmill. 



The city of Bristol, Va., is experimenting in 

 the use of wood block for paving. The city pur- 

 chased from the United Wood Preserving Com- 

 pany of Norfolk and New Tork, sufficient blocks 

 for the repaying of two streets, and on these 

 thoroughfares the brick pavement, which has 

 been laid only eight years, has been torn up 

 and the wood put down. The cost of laying the 

 wood was much greater than the brick, though 

 the general belief is that the wood block will 

 be cheaper in the long run. 



Advices have been received b.v lumbermen 

 here to the effect that the name of Flint, Fry- 

 ing & Stoner Lumber Company of Dunlevie, W. 

 Va., which does considerable business in the 

 Bristol territory, has been changed to the Thorn- 

 wood Lumber Company, J. B. Flint retiring 

 from the business. 



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LOUISVILLE 



Tlio Louisville Hardwood Club missed its 

 weekl.v meeting January IT, breaking its record 

 for the first time in many months. There was a 

 good reason for this, however, as almost the 

 whole club went in a body to Indianapolis to 

 attend the convention of the Indiana Hardwood 

 Lumbermen's Association. The trip proved en- 

 .loyable. as the Iloosiers are winning a reputation 

 for knowing how to entertain. 



The trip to Indianapolis followed one to 

 Memphis, which was taken January 11 for the 

 purpose of looking into conditions In one of 

 the leading hardwood markets and determining 

 upon the outlook for 1911 with information about 

 conditions in both Louisville and Memphis in 

 mind. The situation was found to be much the 

 same in the Tennessee metropolis as in Louis- 

 ville, the demand having opened up under the in- 

 fluence of the activity of the new year, and pros- 

 pects for sales having assumed a roseate hue. 



The eastern Kentuck.v timber development sit- 

 uation continues to be of great interest. The 

 Louisville & Nashville, which now controls the 

 Lexington & Eastern, is building a OS-mile ex- 

 ti'Usion of the road into that part of the state, 

 and has announced that its expenditures for 

 the work will total $3,500,000. The line in 

 many respects will be a remarkable piece of 

 construction work. Much discussion is alsti 

 caused b.v the announcement from New York 

 that a syndicate of Dutch bankers has purchased 

 1,100,000 acres of timber and coal lands in 

 eastern Kentucky, most of them being in 

 Breathit. Knott, Letcher and adjoining counties, 

 and that twenty sawmills will soon be set up 

 for the purpose of operating them. 



J. G. Brown of the W. P. Brown & Sons Lum- 

 ber Company, has been in the South recently, 

 stopping at Dickson. Tenn.. to look after the 

 operation of the mill which the company has 

 there. 



Claude M. Sears of the Edw. L. Davis Lumber 

 Company, will leave Louisville for a trip to some 

 of the consuming markets late this month. Busi- 

 ness with the companj' has opened ui) well and 

 prospects appear to be favorable. 



A. E. Norman of the Norman Lumber Com- 

 pany, reports a good demand for gum. Business 

 with the company has improved since the open- 

 ing of the new year and the outlook is excellent. 

 J. L. Dawson, the southern representative of 

 the firm, was in Louisville recently. 



Business with the C. C. Mengel & Brother 

 Company, mahogany manufacturers, is improvin.g 

 steadily, and shipments are being made in good 

 volume. The veneer mill of the company is 

 running to its capacit.v. and a good demand 

 for thin stock is being noted. D. C. Harris, 

 traffic manager of the company, is active at 

 present in the interest of the Transportation 

 Club of Louisville, of which he is a director. 



Clarence R. Mengcl, president of C. C. Mengel 

 & Brother Company, has purchased a 6-eylinder, 

 7-passenger, 1011 model, foredoor Pierce-Arrow 



touring car. It is regarded as one of the 

 fastest and most powerful motor cars in Louis- 

 ville. Speaking of cars, Harry Gates of the 

 Louisville Point Lumber Company, has received 

 from the factory his big 6-cylinder Matheson, 

 which was rebuilt so as to include all the new 

 1911 features. The car is one of the smoothest 

 running in town. 



Final figures on building operations for 1910 

 showed that I^ouisville made a good record last 

 year, the total amount spent being ¥3,780,000, 

 a gain of nineteen per cent over 1909. 



The Congleton Lumber Company has been in- 

 corporated at Lexington with a capital stock of 

 $60,000. J. W. Congleton is president of the 

 company. 



The Ohio River Sa^v ]\Iill Company has, 

 amended its articles of incorporation reducing 

 itrs capital stock from $100,000 to $.-iO,000. R. F. 

 Smith of the company said that business with his 

 concern is good. He accompanied the Hardwood 

 Club on its trip to Memphis and Indianapolis. 

 H. F. McCowen, head of the concern, was in 

 Louisville recentl.v. 



E. B. Norman of E. B. Xorman & Co.. is one 

 of those interested in seeing the lumbermen 

 take an active part In the campaign for better 

 railroad rates on wooden packages, a campaign 

 which is now being prosecuted by the National 

 Classification Committee. Mr. Norman pointed 

 out recently that wooden boxes consume the low- 

 grade lumber of the sawmill, and that unless 

 something is done to encourage their use cull 

 lumber will be impossible to dispose of. The 

 box factory of E. B. Norman & Co. is doing 

 a good business. 



The annual meeting of the Ford Lumber Com- 

 pany of Ford. Ky.. was held recently and resulted 

 in the election of the old officers without change. 

 Edward L. Shippen and Harry Gates of the 

 Louisville Point Lumber Company, are members 

 of the Ford company, which had a good year in 

 1910. 



D. E. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills, 

 was in Cincinnati recentl.v. Harry Kline of the 

 same firm, has been in the South of late. Mr. 

 Kline reports the demand for veneers opening up. 

 and is looking forward to a good demand for 

 thin stock and glucd-up panels during the coming 

 year. 



Fred McCracken of the Kentucky Veneer 

 Works, was in some of the bigger consuming 

 markets recentl.v and found the situation favor- 

 able, although buyers are disposed to hold off 

 for a few weeks longer. Mr. McCracken regards 

 the situation as essentially sound, however, as 

 furniture manufacturers and other veneer users 

 had a good year and should experience a repe- 

 tition of it in 1011, He believes the furniture 

 i>xhibits will have a good deal to do with the 

 development of business during the next few 

 months. 



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ASHLAND 



The warm weather of last week brought a 

 nice tide in both the Guyan and Big Sandy 

 rivers. C. Crane & Co. got out about thirty 

 days' run from the Guyan river, while the 

 Yellow Poplar Lumber Company, and the W. H., 

 Dawkins Lumber Compan.v got out the same 

 amount from the Big Sandy river. The present 

 cold weather has stopped the raises, and no 

 more runs of timber arc looked for before 

 February. 



The W. H. Dawkins Lumber Company says its 

 business in 1910 was fair, and it looks for a 

 lietter year in 1911. The first three weeks 

 of January started off well, and it reports, orders 

 coming in rapidly. Mr. Dawkins says the lower 

 grades will command better prices during this 

 .war, and that .just as soon as the rate question 

 is settled everything will move along smoothly. 



The Southern Hardwood Company says it 

 will have its mill running on the new tract 

 in Johnson county, Kentuck.v, in about thirty 

 days if the weather slays good, J. H. Kester of 



