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HARDWOOD RECORD 



prompt shipments from the mills. Mrs. 

 Smith is recovering nicely at home, after an 

 operation -which necessitated a session at a 

 local hospital. 



P. R. Hamilton of the Minneapolis Lumber 

 Company says they are feeling the effect of 

 the Chicago strike. A large part of their 

 market is in the windy city, and most of 

 their customers have deliveries tied up by the 

 strike, and are unable to take stock at pres- 

 ent. There are fair stocks of basswood and 

 birch on hand, but supplies of other woods are 

 not adequate to trade of any consequence. 



One of the newer sash and door concerns of 

 this city, the H. S. Johnson Company, is add- 

 ing new machinery and buildings, having put 

 up a large molding shed on a half block of 

 ground just bought, which will also give room 

 for other improvements. The capacity of the 

 plant will be argely increased. 



Ashland District. 



Among lumbermen visiting in Ashland and 

 vicinity last week were W. J. Fell, Salt Lack, 

 Ky.; E. R. Miller, Yale, Ky.; L. P. Morgan 

 and S. M. Bradley. Morehead. Ky.; J. W. 

 MeCausey, Union City, Mich., and W. A Cool, 

 Cleveland, Ohio. 



J. W. Kitchen, treasurer of Vansant, 

 Kitchen & Co., has returned from a three 

 weeks' business trip throughout the east, and 

 i ports fairly good trade conditions. 



A deal was closed in Huntington, last week, 

 which involves the transfer of the timber on 



renteen hundred acres of land in Lincoln 

 county, West Virginia. It is estimated that 

 ibis timber will make two hundred thousand 

 lies, which will be received by Huntington 

 dealers. 



Last week the first carload of lumber 

 shipped by mil int.. Pikeville, Ky„ was re- 

 ceived at that place, and consisted of material 

 to be used in finishing a large wholesale house 

 now under course of construction there. Pre- 

 vious to about two weeks ago, when the 

 Chesapeake & Ohio Railway completed the 

 extension of its Big Sandy Division from Ash- 

 land to Pikevile, the only means of transpor- 

 tation through the Sandy Valley was by riv- 

 er, Which naturally, was very uncertain, as 

 boats were enabled to make the round trip 

 only after a "tide," and lumbermen of this 

 loealitj will vouch for the statement that 

 these events have of late been few and far 

 i" tween. It is interesting to note that one of 

 the first carload shipments to this new field 

 consisted of hardwood lumber. 



On June 14, at Ironton, O, occurred the 

 marriage of Miss Meta Clark, only daughter 

 of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Clark, and Mr. Dan 

 Moul. of the J. S. Walker Lumber Company. 

 After a tour of the lakes, and a visit with 

 the groom's parents, at Greenville, O. the 

 young couple will make their home in Iron- 

 ton, 



The Giles Wright Lumber Company, ol 

 \ i I ind. Is nicely located in its new head- 

 quarters in the Gaylord building, on Broad- 

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Bristol, Va.-Tenn. 



.1 A. Wilkinson of Bristol has jusi made 

 a purchase of a large boundary of timber lands 

 lying in and around Benhams and Mendota, 

 \ :. in Si. .it :inii Washington counties. This 



timber Is iltui I on and near the V. & S. W. 



Railway, and the fad thai it is in close proi 

 itnity to railway facilities considerably en- 

 bam ii Mi Wllkenson is busily en- 



gaged i" starting mills in cuitlng the newly 



acquired to I The greater pari has been 



-..LI l.i contl id tn foreign buyers, and will 



James n. Bryan, president of (be Bryan Luna 

 I. it Company, and .1. A. Wllkenson are ..." 

 platlDg ;i nil J.- Europe 



P. W. Bevins. a lumberman of Hiltons. Va.. 

 was In Bristol last week on business. Mr. 

 Bevins, who is president of the Bristol Planing 

 .Mills Company, stated that he found business 

 generally in good condition. 



Invitations have been issued to the mar- 

 riage nf Miss Mayme Davis to Eugene Galyon, 

 which will occur at the home of the bride- 

 elect at Knoxville, Tenn., June 2S. The groom- 

 to-be is a prominent figure in the social and 

 business life of tlii- section, and is president of 

 the Knoxville Lumber & Manufacturing Com 

 pany of Knoxville. and is particularly well 

 known in lumber circles. 



Mr. Horance Hosklns, who is associated with 

 J. A. Wllkenson in the lumber business in this 

 city, has returned from a most delightful visit 

 to friends and relatives at Knoxville, Tenn. 



W. G. McCain of Neva. Johnson county. 

 Tenn., of the firm of W. G. McCain & Sons, 

 was in Bristol on business last week. Mr. 

 McCain's company has recently erected a large 

 band mill at Neva to supplant the one re 

 eenlly burned, and the new mill is now in ac- 

 tive operation. It is well stocked with logs 

 and the output is considerable. 



W. I.. Taylor, attorney for the R. E. Wood 

 Lumber Company of Baltimore, Md., was In 

 Bristol last week looking after legal interests 

 Of the company. The R. E. Wood Lumber 

 Company has recently finished the erection of 

 a large band mill, planing mills, logging outfit, 

 and other appurtenances to the carrying on of 

 a large lumber business, on Stony creek, Car- 

 ter county, and have made large purchases of 

 timber lands, which brought Mr. Taylor to 

 Bristol. 



Louisville. 



i: L. Davis uf E. L. Davis & Co., manufac- 

 turers of hardwood lumber, who make quite 

 a specialty of quarter-sawed oak, says the mar- 

 ket for quarter sawe.l ..ak 1ms been a little 

 disappointing this season in the light of early 

 indications. There Is really not much room 

 for complaint, but from the way furniture man- 

 ufacturers started in this spring It looked ;i- 

 if it would be an unusually good season for 

 quarter-sawed oak, while there has in fact 

 been nothing unusual In the demand for this 

 stock, and plain-sawed oak has been selling 

 mull more readily than quarter-sawed stock- 

 all season. In fact, they find no trouble what 

 ever in disposing of all the plain-sawed oak 

 they manufacture. Mr. Davis Is not in any 

 way despondent over the quarter-sawed oak 

 situation, however, ami says he feels that the 

 trade will make up for lost time this fall, and 

 that there will be a ready market for all their 

 quarter sawed stock. 



Mr. William Glover of the Southern Stave & 

 Lumber Company, who Is also Interested in 

 the National Casket Company, is a stanch ad- 

 vocate of chestnut. They have long been using 

 chestnut In manufacturing coffins and there 



Is probably •■ ..f this wood used In coffin 



manufacture today than any other line of 

 business, bin .it Iter classes of manufacturers, 

 especially the furniture manufacturers, have 

 been taking to chestnut at quite a lively rate 

 nf bile vein-.. Mi iMi.vi'r says the only won- 



der is that they did not take to it sooner, for 

 while the wood is heavy when green, after be- 

 coming thoroughly dry it is lighter than pop- 

 lar, and it is one of the nicest woods to work 

 in the factory that can be found in the hard- 

 wood belt of the South. Furniture manufac- 

 turers are using it extensively as a body to 

 veneer over. That is, they use the wormy 

 chestnut for this, and they are also using clear 

 chestnut for face work in some lines of fur- 

 niture instead of oak. and find that it gives a 

 very nice figure. Speaking of the poplar mar- 

 ket, he says that it seems to him that the local 

 market is off a little and has been for some 

 three weeks or more, prices being shaded in 

 some instances from $1 to $3. 



The Louisville Point Lumber Company, 

 which has manufactured considerable poplar 

 this spring, says that no trouble has been ex- 

 perienced In disposing of firsts and seconds, 

 and there does not seem to be any chance for 

 surplus stock in these grades. The company 

 says there may be some accumulation of com- 

 mon and cull stock, but no surplus stock in 

 firsts and seconds, and. in fact, the chances 

 are that prices will advance on these grades. 



Charles Stotz of the Stotz Lumber Company 

 says that the market seems to be improving in 

 high-grade poplar, but low-grade stock Is drag- 

 ging. Speaking of quarter-sawed oak. he says 

 there is plenty of demand for this stock if you 

 want to make the prices. In other words, you 

 inn sell any quantity of quarter-sawed oak If 

 you will sell cheap enough. Prices In the 

 East offer better Inducements than they do In 

 the local territory, but even in the eastern 

 market variations are such as to make chances 

 for business uncertain. 



Among the planing mills here there has been 

 used this season more oak than usual, both in 

 oak veneer and solid. J. N. Struck & Bro. have 

 had an extensive call for oak veneer. The 

 same Is true of George E. Moody & Co. Emil 

 Anderson of the Southern Planing Mill says 



Hull Miev have I ii having a good run of mill 



w.uk all season, and have been using more 

 oak than usual in this work, showing that oak 

 is today the favorite wood for house finish in 

 Ibis locality. 



Perkins *t Pettlbone, wholesale dealers in 

 hardwood, say that inquiries for poplar are 

 more active than they were, especlaly for upper 

 grades, although they are considerable for com- 

 mon stock as well. Common poplar is the bur- 

 den In the market, as logs generally run nearly 

 half common, and as this stock comes in sharp 

 competition with other woods, cutting down 

 I be volume of trade somewhat, the result is 

 that nearly every man that has poplar at all 

 has more common stock to sell than anything 

 else. There is a good demand for poplar bevel 

 siding, and quite a good volume of business 

 i- being done right along, but there Is an occa- 

 sional complaint that prices are not quite as 

 high as they should be. Taking the poplar 

 market altogether, the outlook Is much more 

 cheerful than it was earlier in the season, 

 for the buyers are now beginning to realize 

 that there Is not as much poplar lumber in 

 stock as they thought there would be. and 

 aside from the uncertain figures In low grades, 

 there Is nothing to complain of. 



HardWood Market. 



(By HARDWOOD RECORD 



Chicago. 

 The local situation in hardwoods is very 

 .lull The retail i . I of the trade reports that 

 It is disposing of considerable lumber, but on 



tin- whole the ti is not fifty per cent of 



what it should be Chicago depends very 

 largely on the iuu iiure trade for its distri- 

 bution of hardwoods, and furniture manufac- 

 turers are buying i •■ lumber in June, parti .iu 



Exclusive Market Reporters.) 



on account of their Inability to receive lum- 

 ber in their yards through the medium of non 

 union drivers, fearing that other union work- 

 men will go on a strike, and again because 

 they prefer to wait until after the July furni- 

 ture exhibit and sale to determine the quan- 

 tity of lumber they will require. 



Fortunately the strike is dying a natural 

 and unbemoaned death and there will doubt- 



