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HARDWOOD RECORD 



June 10, I'.M.'i. 



Kentucky Oak 



results in 



Satisfied Artisans 



meaning 



Money Saved 



ITS growing conditions ENFORCE an unvarying 

 uniformity of color and grain. Its texture has a 

 silky softness that delights and contents your workers. 



ITS beautiful, clean boles make possible unusual 

 widths and lengths in which we specialize. 



The followincf v.iliic-;. 

 All Kentucky Stock Should Attract You 



C cars 4/4 No. 2 Common 



Plain White. 

 2 car.-s 4/4 lat & Znds Plain 



White. 

 S cars 4/4 Ko. 1 Common 

 Plain White. 

 16 cars 4/4 No. 3 Common 

 Plain Mixed. 

 G cars 6/4 No. 3 Common 



Plain Mixed. 

 1 car 6/4 No. 1 Common Plain 

 Red. 

 50 cars 4/4 No. 1 Common 



Plain Red. 

 80 cars 4/4 No. 2 Common 

 Plain Red. 



3 cars 4/4 Sound Wormy s 



Plain. m 



1 car 4/4 No. 2 Common & s; 



Better Ash. g 



CHESTNUT. 5 



10 cars 4/4 1st & I'nds. m 



10 cars 4/4 No. 1 Common. ^ 



10 cars 4/4 Sound Wormy. ^ 



1 car 6/4 Sound Wormy. ^ 



1 car 8/4 Common & Better. = 



2 cars 4/4 iBt & 2nds Poplar. = 

 2 cars 4/4 No. 2 A Common = 



Poplar. ^ 



1 car 4/4 Agricultural Pop- ^ 



lar 11" and up wide. = 



1 car 6/4 Beech Log Run. s 



E. R. SPOTSWOOD AND SON I 



M.ANUFACTURER.S f 



LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY | 



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SPECIAL PRICE 



FOR QUICK SALE: 



No. 1 Com. Hickory : 

 8 cars Ij^" to 4" 



No. 1 Com. Poplar: 

 15 cars ^" to 4" 



No. 1 Plain Oak: 



20 cars 1" to 4" 



No. 2 Plain Oak: 

 5 cars 1" 



No. 1 Common Ash: 

 3 cars 2" 

 1 car 214" 



Goodlander-Robertson 

 Lumber Company 



MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALERS 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



Yards anil Office: 



Kansas Avenue Memphis, Tenn. 



turcrs of southern Indiana nnd northern Kentucky. 



Walter K. Ilinunt i>r llie lilount I'low Company of this city, and well 

 known ainonK the hiinlxr numnfactiirors, reprosentcd the mnnufnctiirers 

 of KvanKvlllc nt the mectini; of the ran-.\nierlcans at WnMhluclon, 

 D. C, lately. It 1« expected that the manufacturers here will select 

 Mr. Blount ns their representative for the trip to be mndo hy huslnrss 

 men nnd manufacturer.'; of the United States to the South American 

 countries some time during the next few months. The trip Is now 

 hclnR planned. 



The Cumberland Kallroad, a coal-carrying line extendlns from near 

 BarboursvlUc, Ky., Into the Brush Creek conl fields In Knox county, 

 Kentucky, n distance of twelve miles, Is considering bnildlng the line 

 frnm the presont terminus at Warren to JelUco, Tenn., a distance of 

 eighteen miles. Proctlcnlly all the grading and tunneling for the 

 additional extension to Jelltco wns done six years :igo but the work 

 was suspended. An extensive coal nnd timber field will be opened up 

 to development by the completion of the extension. 



.T. C. Greer of the J. C. Greer Lumber Company Is back from a busi- 

 ness trip on the roud. He says he believes business is some better 

 and that the future is bright, 



.Mbert Stnrbuck, owner of the Stnrbuck sawmill at Pctersburii, Ind., 

 was a recent business visitor in nvausvillc. He has been running 

 his mill <in pretty good time during the past month or two. 



Contract for the new bank of the Old State National bank here was 

 let a few days ago to a local compony, the contract price being ?22.'>,O00. 

 Work on the new building will start at once. The structure will be 

 six stories high and will be located on Main near Fourth street. 



While the furniture factories In Evansvllie arc not ranning at full 

 capacity, business is coming along all right and the manufacturers 

 believe that this year, taken as n whole, will be a shade better than 

 last year. Chair and table factories are being operated on pretty good 

 time and plow manufacturers report business only fair. 



During the past month a great many good logs have been brought 

 here from Green, Pond and Barren rivers In western Kentucky. Most 

 of these logs were received by ,Tohn A. Reitz & Sons and Clemens Reltz 

 & Sons. In spite of the fact that millions of feet of timber have been 

 cut from the Green river valley during the past twenty-five years 

 considerable timber still remains there. 



Handle and stave factories along the Green river valley have been 

 fairly busy during the past month. The stave factories send a great 

 many staves to the Evansvllie port by barge In the course of a year 

 and from here the staves are shipped to the eastern and southern 

 markets. 



The .T. T. Moss Tie Company of Evansvllie, Ind., will get J.'!4."?.75 with 

 six per cent interest from April 1, 1912 from the Southern Railroad 

 Company in reparation for overcharges on twenty-eight carloads of 

 railroad ties shipped from Evansvllie to Chicago, 111., by order of the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission. 



On Saturday, May 29, the marriage of Mrs. Alice Marble Little of 

 Evansvllie, and Joseph Edward Kelley, a lumberman of Chicago, occurred 

 at the home of Mrs. S. W. Little. Immediately after the wedding Mr. 

 and Mrs. Kelley departed for Chicago, where, after June 15, they will 

 be at home to their friends at 5429 East End avenue. Mrs. Kelley was 

 a social favorite in Evansvllie and has many friends in that city. 



Bert Tisserand of Evansvllie, representing the Brooks-Scanlon Com- 

 pany, of Kentwood, La., has been traveling In the southern part of 

 Indiana during the past few days. He reports business in some lines 

 good while in other lines It Is off. For three years Mr. Tisserand was 

 connected with the J. C. Greer Lumber Company at Evansvllie, Ind., and 

 Is well known to the trade In several states. His present headquarters 

 for the liidciksSennlou Comiinny are at Indianapolis and he has charge 

 of Indiana and Ohio. Mr. Tisserand is a young man and has established 

 a reputation as a "live wire." 



=■< MEMPHIS >= 



The Bradley Lumber Company, Warren, Ark., is running Its plant 

 at that point both day and night. This Is one of the few firms in 

 the Memphis territory which has found sufficiently large orders to 

 justify operations on such an extended scale. 



It Is announced In dispatches received here from Pine Bluff, Ark., 

 that A. B. Newman, formerly of Chicago, but now of Clio, Ark., has 

 transferred to the Chicago Land & Timber Company, of which he Is 

 president, 40,000 acres of timberland In Jefferson, Grant and Cleve- 

 land counties, as well as the plant of the old Clio Lumber Company, 

 at Clio. The consideration stated Is "$2D and other valuable consid- 

 erations." The deed bore $.'i50 In war tax stamps and this has been 

 accepted as Indicating a value of $350,000. Mr. Newman purchased 

 the property at a United States court sale some months ago, acting 

 as trustee for himself and others who have since organized the Chicago 

 Land & Timber Company. It i.s further stated that a part of the Clio 

 mill has been leased to Edgar Brewster who is manufacturing boxes at 

 that point on a somewhat liberal scale. 



W. S. Martin, recently elected president of the Union Railroad of 

 Memphis to succeed J. L. Lancaster, resigned, has arrived in Memphis 

 and assumed his new duties. Mr. Martin came here direct from Denver, 

 where he was general manager of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad. 



Building operations here are gradually expanding and this is giving 



