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HARDWOOD RECORD 



(Leading Manufacturers) 



WE OFFER THE FOLLOWING 



Band Sawn Stock 



600,000 ft. 4/4 Common & Better Sap Gum 



200,000 ft. 4 4 Common & Better Red Gum 



250,000 ft. 5/4 Common & Better Red Gum 



75,000 ft. 6/4 Common & Better Red Gum 



50,000 ft. 8/4 Common & Better Red Gum 



This stock contains a good percentage of 14' 

 and 16' lengths and is of excellent widths 



INVERNESS, 

 MISS. 

 HARDWOOD LUMBER AND LOGS 



W. W. GARY, 



OUR SPECIALTY 



St. Francis Basin Red Gum 



WE MANUFACTURE 



Southern Hardwoods 



Gum, Oak and Ash = 



J. H. Bonner & Sons 



Mills and Office, 

 QCIGLEY, ARK. 



I'ostoffice and Telegraph Office, 

 HETH, AKK. 



ARCHER LUMBER COMPANY 



HELENA, ARKANSAS 



Manufacturers of 



HARDWOODS 



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We can furnish your entire 

 requirements in Hardwoods 



OUR SPECIALTY — RED GUM 



Stiiunton, Va . and 7.000 acres adjoining, from the estate of Judge H. A. 

 Holt and A. F. Matthews of Lewlsburg, Va. 



Fire visited the furniture factory of George W. Smith & Co., Inc., on 

 .January 'Jl. The damage Is estimated at about $10,000. 



The Southern Timber and Power Company, Wilmington, Dei., was 

 chartered under Delaware laws January 27, with a capital stock of 

 .<! 100.000. 



The annual meeting of the Sawdust Club of the Union League, which is 

 entirely apart from the elaborate and exclusive function held always In 

 December, and to which hitherto no publicity has been given, was held on 

 January 23. It Is simply a good fellowship and social dinner at which 

 all business is eliminated. Frank C. Gilllngham, who has been the 

 president of the club from its beginning, is always re-elected. George 

 Warner was elected secretary and treasurer. 



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Gin'wci IMnchot. tornifrly head of the l''urestry Bureau of the United 

 States, has been chosen as candidate for United States senator from Penn- 

 sylvania on the Washington party ticket. 



E. B. Hamilton of the Hamilton Lumber Company recently made quite 

 an extended trip through northern Pennsylvania and western New York, and 

 found things pretty dull. 



The Foster Lumber Company is getting some nice contracts for 1914 

 and is selling all the lumber it can cut at its country 011118. Most of this 

 is oak and hardwoods for railroads. 



J. J. Linehan, known to all lumbermen in Tri-State territory as an expe- 

 rienced hardwood man, has given up his office at S16 Fulton building and 

 will in the future have his headquarters at Cleveland, where he will handle 

 tlio stocks of the Mowbray & Robinson Company of Kentucky. 



The National Casket Company of this city has let the contract for an 

 additional 80x100 feet to its plant at Asheviile, N. C. 



The Kendall Lumber Company had a mighty good month in January and 

 is well satisfied with the outlook for business this year. 



The Aberdeen Lumber Company has been bringing up some big barges 

 of gum and Cottonwood, and President J. N. Woollett is trying hard to get 

 his full share of business in this line. 



The Henderson Lumber Company of late has been very fortunate In get- 

 ting some good orders for hardwood contracts which will keep it busy much 

 of the year. Most of these were in other cities. 



The Allegheny Lumber Company reports a fine start for the year and 

 says that prices are getting stiffer. 



H. F. Domhoff, president of the Acorn Lumber Company, has added two 

 more salesmen to his force. H. W. Henninger of this company has been in 

 West Virginia recently buying some hardwood stock. 



The J. W. Cottrell Lumber Company Is putting in a new mill at King- 

 wood, W. Va., on the Morgantown & Kingwood railroad, where it will 

 cut oak and mixed hardwoods for railroad and mine properties. 



The Duquesne Lumber Company had a fine month in January and Is well 

 satisfied with general business. 



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At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Maryland Lumber 

 Company, held at the Hagerstown Court House on January 20, the 

 following officers and directors v.'ere elected : President and general 

 manager, John A Denison ; vice-president and attorney. Abraham C. 

 Strife ; secretary and treasurer, Samuel W. Sowers ; directors. John A. 

 Denison, Samuel W. Sowers, E. M. Huyett, W. H. Wyand, Ira K. Gruver, 

 II. W. Shafer, Samuel S. Stouffer, Daniel A. Stickeli, John G. Ernst and 

 A. C. Strife. The company operates a mill at Denmar, W. Va., where It 

 owns some 17,500 acres of timberland and a standard gauge railroad. 

 The output last year was reported to be 124,514,556 feet of lumber, 

 mostly hardwoods. 



The new mill of the R. E. Wood Lumber Company of Baltimore, at 

 Earhart, about seven miles below Bristol, Tenn., was put in operation 

 .about fen days ago and has now begun to run with considerable regularity. 

 It Is a six-inch band and will have enough stumpage to work on for several 

 years. The company owns some 2.500 acres of timber which was acquired 

 last summer. President It. E. Wood and General Manager G. L. Wood 

 of the company have just made a visit of inspection to the plant, and 

 have also gone to other operations, among them those in West Virginia 

 and on Eagle Creek. Swain county, N. C. 



According to information received from Winchester, Va.. surveys have 

 .iust been completed and the route established for a standard guage rail- 

 road 100 miles long, through Grant and Pendleton counties, West Virginia 

 and parts of Highland and Bath counties, V'irginia. The railroad is to 

 run from Petersburg, the southern terminus of the Hampshire Southern 

 railroad, to the Hot Springs branch of the Chesapeake & Ohio, and it will 

 be known as the Petersburg & Columbia Springs Railway. The stotk- 

 holders are John Y. Hite, president of the Potomac Lumber Company and 

 the Forest Lumber Company ; A. R. Watson. John Marcus Hite, Lloyd 

 Bailey and R. L. Long of Fairmont. W. Va. The new road is designed 

 chiefly to afford an outlet for the lumber from the sawmills of the two 

 corporations mentioned. These plants have about 26.500 acres of timber- 

 land to draw upon and are turning out millions of feet a year, mostly 

 hardwoods, which are accounted among the best in the section. The 

 Potomac Lumber Company has a large mill in operation at McNeill, 

 Hardy county. Va., but at present all of its output must be hauled to 



