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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Kentucky Hardwoods 



14-16' lengths, average 



1 car 1" 1s & 2s Chestnut— 25<: 



14" wide. 

 3 cars 1" No. 1 Common Chestnut. 



5 cars 1" Sound Wormy Chestnut. 50','e 14-16' lengths. 

 5 cars I'j" Sound Wormy Chestnut, 50''^ 14-16' lengths. 



2 cars 1' 2" Sound Wormy Chestnut, Wo 14-16' lengths. 

 5 cars 4/4 No. 1 Common Poplar, 40:'r 14-16'. 



2 cars 1' 4" No. 1 Common Poplar, 60';'o 14-16'. 

 1 car 1" Clear Sap Poplar, 40'!, 14.16'. 



5 cars 1" No. 1 Common Plain Red Oak. 

 5 cars 1" No. 2 Common Plain Red Oak. 

 5 cars 1" No. 1 Common Plain White Oak. 

 5 cars 1" No. 2 Common Plain White Oak. 



3 cars Hi" No. 1 Common Plain White Oak. 

 1 car V/2" No. 1 Common Plain White Oak. 



1 car V/z" No. 2 Common Plain White Oak. 



Duskirk-Kutledge Lumber Co. 



BAND MILLS: 



LEXINGTON. KY. 



Quicksand, Ky., Straight Creek, Ky. 



OUR LINE 



WEST VIRGINIA 



HARDWOODS 



Embraces practically all the 

 commercial species in this sec- 

 tion. Our lumber is all carefully 

 manufactured and graded on 

 National rules. 



We solicit the opportunity of 

 proving this claim and offer the fol- 

 lowingf list which 



WE WOULD LIKE TO MOVE NOW. 



2 cars 4/4" firsts and seconds chestnut 



5 cars 4^4" No. 1 common and better chestnut 

 1 car 5/4" No. 1 common and better chestnut 

 SO cars 4/4", 5/4", 6/4" and 8/4" sound wormy and No. 2 

 common chestnut 



1 car 5/4" No. 1 common and better red oak 

 10 cars 4/4" No. 2 common and better oak 

 10 cars chestnut telephone poles 



5 cars 4/4" No. 1 common and sap poplar 



3 cars ^-inch slack barrel staves, 40 and 42 inches long 



2 cars 4/4" oak table tops, 40 and 42 inches long 



Alton Lumber Company 



Biickhannon West Virginia 



Band Mill, >U11 Creek, W. Va. 



fir<iilar Mills, Xoild, W. Va. 



the circumstauccs. lie is looking (or a much better run of order.;; after 

 the completion of the semiannual inventories. Prices arc ruling steady at 

 the levels which have prevailed for some time. 



.1. A. "Ford of {he Imperial Lumber Compau.v reports a better feeling in 

 the hardwood trade generally. 



The Ohio Public Utilities Commission in a recent finding has ruled con- 

 trary to the Interstate Commerce Commission with reference to the status- 

 of "tap lines.'" It i.olds that railroad companies operated by indu3tri.1l 

 concerns only, when having a separate charter, can share in the freight 

 revenue of Joint shipments. 



.According to the report of the Columbus building inspector for the year 

 1914, there were 2,736 permits issued for structures estimated to cost 

 .•JG.SSD.OeS, as compared with 2,654 permits and a valuation of ?5,50S,408 

 in 191."!. In December, 1914, there were 86 permits issued for structures 

 estimated to tost ^1,005.200, as compared with 139 permits and a valuation 

 of .$432,5.50 in Ueccmber, 191.". 



=-< TOLEDO y 



Harry Y. Williams, proprietor of the Williams chair factory, died at his 

 home in Toledo as the result of pneumonia. Hi' was aged sixty-eight 

 years. Mr. Williams has been in business in Toledo since 1867. 11*' came 

 here from Lebanon, O., and the body was taken there for burial. 



The Inilldiug work begun in Toledo in 1914 represented .f99,00u greater 

 outlay than for the previous year. The buildin,:: permits issued for the 

 year just closed amounted to ,$6,085,182 while those for the year 1913 

 amounted to but .$5,986,079. There were 2,75S permits issued <iuring 1914, 

 wliich is 363 more than in 1913. 



The Ohio workmen's compensation law was lield valid in the supreme 

 court at Washington, Tuesday, when a decision was handed down sustain- 

 ing the decision of the supreme court of Ohio in favor of Harry n. Klagg 

 against the Jeffri-y Manufacturing i'ompany of Columbus. 



The <Iotshall -Manufacturing Company reports business quiet. President 

 Gotshall says that railroads are not placing any orders for new equip- 

 ment yet but he is expecting a good spring business. 



The Booth Column Company is busy with its annual invintory. The 

 plant is running at about half capacity. President Booth reports column 

 business slow. The concern has recently added the making of automoliile 

 bumpers to its regular line and new machinery is now being added for 

 this department. .Mr. Booth reports many orders on the books and a live 

 business. He anticipates a good column Ijusiness in the s|)ring. 



The Skinner IteiKling C(>mpany reports a light demand, l)ut indications 

 of a good business later in the season. The di'ujand for farm wagons it 

 is expected will be heavy, and a large buggy manulacturer is anticipating 

 a large run on buggies this spring. 



-< INDIANAPOLIS > 



The lireer Houghton Lumber Company has tiled notice of dissoUitiott 

 with the Indiana .secretary of state. 



The Houghton Lumber Comiiauy has increased its capital stock front 

 .$5,000 to ?25,000. 



Lum Howell and Chester Hollius have opeueil a sawmill at Kokomo 

 and will handle se<!ond-growth timber. Howard county has been without 

 a sawmill since 1890. 



Willi an aulhorlzeil capltallzatii'U of $9,00(1, the Kord ^timber Company 

 has been orgaid/.ed and incorporated at Princeton by A. Hale Ford, Nellie 

 .\. Kord and K. A. Ford, 



Andrew .7. Scliu. who had been identified with the hardwood lumber and 

 timber trade man.v years, died at his home in Kvansville recently at the 

 age of seventy-nine. 



Building permits Issued by the city last year aggregated $7,933,552 as 

 I'onipared with $9,361,97.3 in 1913. There was an increase last year in the 

 nnml>er of permits issued. 



.The Big Kour railroad shops at Beech drove, which wer(? closed several 

 weeks, have resumed operations with a full force. It is announced the 

 l>lant will work full time during 1915. 



The Burnet-Lewis Lumber Company has l)rought suit for receiver 

 against the Sun Kealty Company which has been engaged in building 

 bouses and selling them on the partial payment plan. 



Bogus checks, signed with the name of the Inti'rior Hardwood t'ompany 

 of this city, by M. A. Thorpe, treasurer, are lieing circulated in Florida 

 and other southern states. The checks are drawn on the National City 

 bunk of this city with which the hardwood company has no account. 



-< MEMPHIS >-- 



T. H. Sanip>"ni of Ni-w Orlfaus^ luis ln.'<.ii In MtMiipliis during; thf' [uist ft'W 

 days lookinj: over tlio situntion with a view to ererting a plant for tlie 

 treatniont of gum lumber. Ho says that ho can take a white sap log and, 

 by a chemical process, make it as rich in color as seasoned red gum. Mr. 

 Sampson proposes to begin operations here on a somewhat limited scale, 

 ills initial plant Is to cost about $o, 000, but it will be enlarged from time 

 to time if the treatment which he proposes to use is as successful as 

 ho anticipates. Mr. Sampson was a special guest of the Lumbermen's 

 Cluli of Memphis some weeks ago. at which time he went into full explana- 

 tion of his process and what it would accomplish. He also exhibited 

 samples treated by his process and these were regarded as remarkably 

 good. 



