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of the Dewoy Stave Company of Toledo from $300,000 to $30,000. 



The Blodgett Lumber Company of Warren. Ohio, which has occupied 

 a portion of the plant of the Lyman Paul Company, will move to a 

 Jlichigan town. 



The Kogers-Abbott Lumber Company of Concinnati has been incor- 

 porated with a capital of $25,000 to do a general lumber business by 

 E. C. Rogers, W. H. Abbott. N. E. Abbott, A. E. Rogers and H. L, Rogers. 



The Elk River Coal and Lumber Company of Clay. W. Va.. has opened 

 an office in the Columbus Savings and Trust building, Columbus,- with C. 

 M. Anderson in charge. 



The plant of the Valley Lumber Company of Youngstown. Ohio, has 

 been damaged to the extent of $G,000 by Are of unknown origin. 



Work has been started on the line of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad 

 to connect Columbus and rortsmonth which parallels the Norfolk & 

 Western. The concern will build a $3,000,000 bridge across the Ohio 

 river at Sciotoville. 



The Portage Furniture Company, with an authorized capital of 1^6.000, 

 has opened a factory at Akron, Ohio. 



F. B. Pryor of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company reports a fairly 

 good demand for hardwoods. Prices are pretty well maintained and the 

 prospects for the future are brighter. He says buying on the part of 

 factories is increasing and now counterbalances the retail demand. 



A. C. Davis of the A. C. Davis Lumber Company reports a fairly good 

 demand for all varieties and grades of hardwoods. 



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

 of hardwood stocks in this territory. 



=-< LOUISVILLE >= 



The annual meeting of the Louisville Hardwood Club, which will be 

 held November 10, is monopolizing the attention of lumbermen in this 

 market at present. Owing to the fact that the club will be completing 

 its sixth year, making it one of the veterans among local lumber clubs, 

 hardwood men are keenly interested in seeing that the next year helps 

 to maintain the prestige and influence of the organization. Stuart E. 

 Cecil of the Booker-Cecil Lumber Company is president of the club, his 

 predecessors in the oftice having been Edward L. Davis, T. M. Brown, and 

 A. E. Norman. 



It looks as though lumbermen affected by the Louisville & Nashville 

 milling-in-transit circular, which has been objected to recently on the 

 around that it gives insufficient time in which to claim the refunds, the 

 limit being one year, will have to go to the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission for relief, as the road has refused to grant the petition of the 

 Evansville. Ind., Lumbermen's Club, in which the Louisville Hardwood 

 Club joined. It is a question whether the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission will act. ho\^ever. as its previous decisions have laid down the 

 principle that milling-in-transit is a privilege to be given or not, as the 

 road sees fit. 



PracticaJly all of the sawmills in Louisville have been shut down on 

 account of trade conditions brought about b.v the war. The mahogany 

 mill of the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company is running, but its dimension 

 mill is down. The mahogany trade is as dull as the rest of the hardwood 

 business, apparently, the supply of logs, in spite of the war, being greater 

 than the market requires to supply the present reduced demand. The re- 

 duction of manufacturing capacity in this territory is graphically in- 

 dicated b.v the fact that a local wholesale concern, which required a 

 special bill to be cut up. as the order which it had was for an unusual 

 dimension which was not in stock, found that every manufacturer whom 

 it addressed had either closed his mill or was preparing to do so, and 

 that it was next to impossible to get the sawing done. Some of the 

 Kentucky river mills will probabl.v continue operating, as a logging tide 

 had been running, bringing down a number of logs which n^ll have to 

 be cut up to avoid depreciation. 



Small lumber operators have beeii unusually unfortunate this year in 

 having boiler explosions, suggesting that ignorance or carelessness, or 

 both, have combined to bring about destruction of life and property. The 

 latest casualty was reported from Rodman, near Morehead, Ky.. where 

 the mill of M. T. Dillon was destroyed when the boiler exploded. One 

 man was killed and a number, including the owner, were seriously injured 

 by steam and flying pieces of iron. The cause of the disaster was re- 

 ported as unknown, as in most other cases, but carelessness in not watch- 

 ing the water supply is believed to be the cause in nearly every instance. 



State Forester J. E. Barton's flre-flghting organization, composed of 

 wardens in each county, bids fair to be of great value this season, as 

 the weather has been very dry and the danger of destruction of timber is 

 thereby increased. He has appointed a warden in nearl.v every county 

 where there is much timber, most of them being in the eastern part of 

 the state, though some in the extreme western section have been named. 



A big deal in timber in eastern Kentucky, one of the biggest, in fact, 

 announced recently, is that whereby the Broadhead-Garrett Lumber Com- 

 pany of Winchester, Ky., has taken over 5800 acres of hardwood timber 

 from the Daney Lumber Compan.v. Of this area 2S00 acres lies in Powell 

 county, and will be developed first. A 10-mile standard-gauge road is 

 already equipped, and a band mill will be erected there. The remainder 

 of the timber is in West Virginia, and probably will not be opened up 

 immediately. Green Garrett, who is a member of the state railroad com- 

 mission, is the active manager of the Winchester concern. 



Dimension Stock '^^r7mcr!l'Ju\:::'L^^ 



or Poplar so that they will COST you considerably LESS 

 THAN the same cuttings if BOUGHT AS LUMBER. 



Make Us Prove It 



GARDNER WOOD COMPANY 



FI.ATIRON BI.DG. 

 NEW VOKK. N V. 



Harris Manufacturing Company 

 Johnson City, Tennessee 



'^Harris" Hardwood Flooring 



and Lumber 



Bluestone Land & Lumber Company 



MANUFACTURERS 



WEST VIRGINIA HARDWOODS 

 Soft White Pine, Oak, Poplar. Chestnut, Hemlock 



RIDGWAY 

 PENNSYLVANIA 



MILL TACILITIES 

 COMPLETE PLANING 



Band Sawed Stock 



PHIS 



DUGAN LUMBER CO. 



a""nd"^hrpp"erV^ Harclwoocl Lumber 



MEIVIPHIS 



TENNESSEE 



TSCHUDY LUMBER CO. 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



St. Francis Basin Hardwoods 



SPECIAL BILLS LONG STOCK 

 OAK, ASH and CYPRESS 



1 8 to 30 feet 



Sawed to Order 



MUI * Yards 

 MEMPHIS 



ADDRESS CORRESPONDBNCBTOGBNERAL OFFICE 



603 Republic Bldg. KANSAS CITY, MO. 



VANDEN BOOM=STIMSON LIMBER COMPANY 



Nanofactarers Soflthern Hardwoods 



Red Qum a Specialty 

 Memphis Tennessee 



