Feluuary 10, 191G 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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tor business fo be the best that the country has seen in the past several 

 years and feels confident that the lumbermen will get their share of the 

 national prosperity. 



=-< LOUISVILLE >= 



T. W. Brown of the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company and T. 

 Smith Milton of the Churchill-Milton Lumber Company have been se- 

 lected by the Louisville Hardwood Club as its official delegates to the 

 annual of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, which 

 meets in Philadelphia next month. Mr. Brown is a member of the board 

 of trustees. 



Leroy Halyard, heretofore assistant manager of the Southern Hard- 

 wood Traffic Association at Memphis, and now resident manager of the 

 Louisville branch of the association, has gotten his office in good work- 

 ing order. His quarters are in the Courier-Journal building. Mr. Halyard 

 attended the Louisville Hardwood Club meeting February 1. and later 

 held a meeting of the board of governors of the branch, for the pnri)os(' 

 of arranging all of tlie details of the worit, which it is certain will 

 prove very helpful to the local lumbermen. 



K. W. Hobart, the veteran Boston lumberman, was a guest of fh(» 

 Hardwood Cluh recently, and gave some very interesting reminiscences 

 regarding the change In lumber conditions in New England since he first 

 started in business. He called attention to the fact that the carriage 

 and fiirnituri' factories which formerly flourished there are no longer in 

 nperalinn. a few chair concerns being about all that is left of the once 

 important furniture trade; while the number of piano case concerns is 

 also smaller. The result of the change is that the lumber market in 

 Boston is confined largely to building woods. Uight now, he said, owing 

 to the activity of the munitions business, New Kngland is prosperous, and 

 active building operations are in sight. Mr. Hobart pointied out certain 

 undesirable features, in the event of trouble with another nation, growing 

 out of most of the munitions factctrios being located near the coast, con- 

 stituting vulnerable points for attack. 



Allan McLean of the Wood-Mosaic Company, who has become one of 

 the most popular members of the local hardwood trade since he has been 

 in this market, has been confined to his boniie recently by illness. It is 

 hoped t»y liis friends that bo-will soon be able to resume bis work. 



The I'arkhind Sawmill Company of liouisville has been incorporated 

 with $40,000 capital stock by Olof Anderson, W. It. Willett and C. R. 

 Talbot. These men have been conducting the mill under that name for 

 the past year, and have done well. 



ThiG Kentuck.v Veneer Works has recently closed for a large tract of 

 poplar timlier in eastern Kentucky, and has begun shipping the logs to 

 its Louisville plant. Demand for thin stock has been good enough lo 

 keep the plant going at top speed of late. 



rollnwing the dissolution of the partnership between R. L. Boyd and 

 Edward F. Mehler of the Bo.vd-Mehler Lumber Company, the former has 

 started the Boyd Hardwood Lumber Company, while Mr. Mehler has been 

 doing business under the name of the Jeffer.son Lumber Company. Botli 

 concerns will handle hardwoods. Imt Mr. Mehler will also carry a yellow 

 pine account. 



Kdward L. Davis, of the lumber company of that name, recently got 

 hold of one of the finest bunches of walnut trees produced in this terri- 

 tory in many years. Thte trees were grown on the Bonnycastle home- 

 stead, in the eastern section of Liuiisville. and owing to the fact that the 

 family held the home place intact for a much longer time than the sur- 

 rounding property, there were a number of trees still standing long after 

 most (if the mature walnut timber in the vicinity had been cut. The 

 trees were felled a few weeks ago. and the logs are about the finest seen 

 anywhere. They are long and large, most of them being 24 inches and 

 up. and a number show splendid markings. . The logs furnish a fine 

 answer to the question of those who have been wondering where the 

 walnut is coming from, as there are doubtless many other .similar 

 bunches of trees which will be put on the market from time to time. 



The Warren County Cedar Company of Bowling Green. Ky.. has ar- 

 ranged to start a mill and cut only cedar lumber, southern Kentucky 

 still having a good supply of this kind of timber. .T. T. Vance and B. C. 

 White are those interested in the concern. 



J. E. Barton, state forester of Kentucky, has advised that an effort 

 is being made at this session of the state legislature to discontinue the 

 appropriation for the support of the state forestry department, of which 

 he is head. Lumbermen of the state are strongly in favor of the work 

 going on, for it has already demonstrated its practical efficiency, and are 

 planning to do as much as possible in bis behalf. 



.lames Morton Russell of J. N. Russell & Son, Bowling Green, Ky.. 

 died at his home there recently of pneumonia at thre ago of twenty- 

 eight. He was associated in luisiness with his brother. Arthur. 



The Tomlinson Manufacturing Company, Winchester, Ky., which op- 

 erates a large mill and dimension plant, is erecting a warehouse for 

 storing dry stock. 



< MILWAUKEE >= 



The St. Louis Yacht & Boat Company, a Missouri corporation witli a 

 capital stock of ^o4,000 and interests of $30,0ii0 in Wisconsin, has filed a 

 statement to do business in this state. 



Win .1. Kyes, city clerk of Merrill, Wis., f..r the past seven years, lin>: 



All Three of Us Will Be BeneBted if 



V. J. HILL 



L. L. HAMILTON 



The Hamilton Hill Veneer Co. 



EMPORIA, VA. 



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Photograph of American Walnut Rotary Cut Panel 

 produced in our Veneer Plant. We also manufac- 

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ESTABLISHED IN 1880 



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