February 10, 1916 



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The Campbell Lumber and Manufacturing Tompany of Toledo, O., lias 

 been incorporated with a capital of $200,000 to deal in lumber. The in- 

 corporators are George W. Campbell, James PI. Campbell, John W. Sulli- 

 van, K. W. Campbell, W. E. Campbell and Geo. E. Schroth. 



H. W. Ilorton, of the W. M. Hitter Lumber Company reports a good 

 demand for stocks both from the retail trade and from factories. Prices 

 are Arm in every locality and every change is towards higher levels. 

 Retail stocks are not very large and dealers are making an effort to 

 cover in anticipation of a good building demand. Shipments are rather 

 prompt despite the growing car shortage. 



J. A. Ford of the Imperial Lumber Company reports a good demand 

 for hardwoods with prioes ruling stronger. Future prospects are brighter. 



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The Stratemeyer Lumber Company recently was incorporated for .$15,000, 

 with O. P. Stratemejer, the head of the concern, and Clyde B. McDonald, 

 H. K. Dlckerson, William N. Nelson and M. Eegenbogen interested in the 

 company. It will broaden out its activities considerably, and the business 

 will continue along the same lines as formerly, only on a more extensive 

 scale, dealing in Tennessee and Kentucky hardwoods and some yellow pine. 

 Mr. Stratemeyer said that he would extend the scope of buying and was in 

 position and anxious to take up whatever is available in the hardwood line. 

 The only material change in the company is the taking in of George Hill. 

 Mr. Hill formerly was in charge of the Somerset branch of the company. 



Reparation to the extent of $342.28 was awarded the Basil E. Keniiy 

 Lumber Company of Frankfort, Ky., by the Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion on account of alleged overcharges by the Louisville & Nashville. The 

 contention was over thirty-eight carloads of switch ties shipped in I!I14 

 and lOl.T from Frankfort to various points. 



\V. H. Settle and George W. Clephane. partners as the W. II. Rettlr Lum- 

 ber Company, Madisonville (Cincinnati), last week brought suit in the 

 Supreme Court to test the ruling of the State Public I'tilities Commission 

 on the recent order affecting freight rate charges from Oakley to Madison- 

 ville. two Cincinnati suburbs. These two suburbs are but two miles apart, 

 yet the Settle company alleges that the charges are as great between the 

 two towns as for a fifteen-mile haul. The complaint is that the commis- 

 sion failed to correct the discrimination, hence the application is made to 

 the court for relief. 



The Haskell & Barker Car Company, Michigan City, Ind.. lias been 

 formally transferred to a syndicate of eastern capitalists, including W. E. 

 Cory and Frank A. Vanderlip. The dea! has been pending Cor some time. 

 The company is a heavy lumber consumer in this and the Indiana district. 

 The consideration was not made public. 



The Matthews Boat Company, Port Clinton, which has been a heavy 

 consumer of the high-grade hardwoods in the manufacture of line pleasure 

 boats, has increased the scope of its business by reorganizing under the 

 name of the Matthews Company with capital stock of $820,000. It will 

 manufacture new automatic electric lighting plants and numerous elec- 

 trical contrivances in addition to pleasure boats. The incorporators are 

 S. J. Matthews. Willard Reed, M. C. Cosgray, F. H. do Witt and George A. 

 True. 



It was announced last week at the local office of the Baltimore & Ohio 

 that a system of lumber reclamation will immediately be enforced. The 

 road contends that in these days of rate regulation, short hours of employ- 

 ment and the long-expected rise in the price of lumber, railroads through- 

 out the country are forced to look to savings through conservation, economy 

 and efficiency in order to pay dividends to stockholders and reserve a 

 margin of surplus for safety. Instead of piling up its old freight cars 

 in a heap and burning them, this company will reclaim the lumber and 

 metal parts of worn-out equipment and utilize this salvage in countless 

 ways. Lumber is resawed and planed until the outside weather-beaten 

 defects have been removed, then is made into smaller sizes and shipped 

 from point to point over the road for use in repair work, in the erection 

 of small buildings, etc. The mechanical department estimates that this 

 saving of lumber especially amounts to $20 for each car, which in the 

 aggregate will reach a big sum within a year. 



The W. E. Heyser Lumber Company lost its suit against the Kanawha 

 & Michigan Railroad, the Interstate Commerce Commission deciding that 

 the demurrage charges assessed by the road on a carload of lumber from 

 Handley, W. Va., to Detroit was not unlawfully imposed. 



The Amherst Lumber Company has increased its capital stock from 

 $30,000 to $40,000. 



Petitions for rehearing of the Western Advance Freight rate case so 

 far as rates on agricultural Implements are concerned, was filed recently 

 with the Interstate Commerce Commission by representatives of the 

 manufacturers in the Middle West. Their main contention is that the 

 railroads did not offer sufficient evidence to justify the increase authorized 

 by the commission. The increases granted range from one-half cent to two 

 cents per one hundred i>ounds. 



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The building permits for January show an increase over last year's 

 valuations for the same period. The permits for January, 1916, amounted 

 to $.560,975, while the amount for the preceding year was $537,297. A 

 large percentage of these permits was for residence structures which far 

 exceed those in the permits of a year ago. 



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T TS growing conditions ENFORCE an unvarying 

 -•■ uniformity of color and grain. Its texture has a 

 silky softness that delights and contents your werkers. 



ITS beautiful, clean boles make possible unusual 

 widths and lengths in which we specialize. 



The follovving values, 

 All Kentucky Stock Should Attract You 



4 cars 4/4 S. Wormy Oak 



5 cars I16-I6 Oak Fencing 



25 cars 9/4 No. 1 Com. PI. Red Oak 

 4 cars 4/4 No. 1 Com. PI. White 



Oak 

 3 cars 5/4 No. 1 Com. & Bet. PI. 



Bed Oak 

 2 cara 4/4 1st & 2d Qtd. White 



Oak 

 2 cars 4/4 No. 1 Com. Qtd. While 



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3 cars 4/4 No. 3 Com. Poplar. 

 3 cars 4/4 No. 2 A Com. Poplar 

 3 cars 4/4 No. I Com. Poplar 

 1 car 4/4 Stained Sap Poplar 

 1 car 4/4ill in. and up Agricul- 

 tural Poplar 

 10 cars 4/4 No. 2 Com. & Bet. 



Soimd Wormy Cliestnut 

 10 cars 4/4 No. 1 Com. & Bel. 



CliestDut 

 1 car 4/4 Log Run Buckeye 



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MANUFACTURERS 

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