MILL AND GENERAL LAYOUT OF THE HIGnLAND LUMBER COMPANY, SETII, W. VA. 



tain his headquarters at Detroit and at that point can be immediately 

 reached by customers in Michigran and nortborn Ohio. 



W. T. Culver Has Varied Interests 



W. T. Culver, general manager of the Stearns Salt and Lumber Com- 

 pany, Ludington, Jlicb., and vice-president of the Michigan Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, has recently taken a mild whirl at the 

 political same. He has auno\inced himself as a candidate for the office of 

 regent of the I'niversily of Michigan. By training and inclination Mr. 

 Culver is peculiarly fitted for the office, and having a wide personal and 

 business acquaintance throughout the state, his chance for election is 

 mighty good. 



Lewis Doster Joins AJJiins' Ranks 



Lewis Doster. formerly secretary of the Hardwood ALinufacturers' .Vsso- 

 ciation of the United States, has accepted the position of assistant general 

 sales manager of E. C. Atkins & Co., Inc.. saw manufacturers of Indianapo- 

 lis, Ind. Mr. Doster has been connected with lumber manufacturing since 

 the beginning of his business career, and accepted the position of secretary 

 of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association six or seven years ago. and 

 continued in that capacity up to two years ago when he resigned the 

 secretaryship and has since been handling various enterprises directly 

 connected with the lumber field, lieeping him iu constant touch with the 

 lumber manufacturers. 



As a consequence of tl'is and his identity with the Hardwood ^lanu- 

 facturers' Association, ho occupies a strikingly strong position in the 

 handling of the Atkins" products. In addition to having an intimate and 

 wide acquaintance he has a close knowledge of the workings of the 

 business. 



Mr. Doster's headquarters will be with the main office in Indianapolis, 

 but he will naturally spend most of his time among the mills throughout 

 the United States. 



N. A. Gladding, general sales manager of the Atkins company. Is indeed 

 fortunate in securing the services of a man who is so uniquely qualified 

 to carry on this work. H.^nowooD Record wishes Mr. Doster every success 

 in his new field of endeavor. 



C. M. Crawford Dies 



On Sunday, .Tanuary 10. C. M. Crawford, vice-president and treasurer 

 of the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company, Coal Grove, O., died after a long 

 illness. Hard work and insufficient rest brought on a state of ill health 

 which he had been fighting for a long time. Mr. Crawford was just about 

 to start for Battle Creek. Mich., when a period of reaction set in. which 

 he did not recover from. 



Mr. Crawford had been president of the company, prior to his position 

 at the time of his death, for seven years- He was l>orn at New Castle. 



Pa., and when he died was fifty-five years of age. His first step In the 

 lumber business took place at New Castle, where he was associated with 

 his father in the retail end of the trade. In ISO!) he located at Coal 

 Grove, accepting the position of general manager of the Yellow Poplar 

 Lumber Company. F. C. Fisher was president at that time, but at his 

 death eight years ago Mr. Crawford was installed in his place. Mr. Craw- 

 ford's son, W. A. Crawford, is now secretary of the company. 



Mr. Crawford was one of the best-known and most popular large hard- 

 wood manufacturers in the South. He had been connected with the Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association as treasurer since the organization of 

 that body twelve years ago. He also took prominent part in all affairs 

 of this association, in fact was considered a loading figure in that work as 

 well as other efforts pertaining to the hardwood business. 



Mr. Crawford leaves a widow and three children and a sister in Pitts- 

 burgh. The funeral was held at Coal Grove and interment was made at 

 New Castle, Pa. 



The Highland Lumber Company 



The Highland Lumber Company, Inc., of Scranton and Philadelphia, Pa., 

 was organized in 1913 to acquire tinil)er and timliorland, to manufacture 

 lumber and other wood products, and to develop the other natural re- 

 sources on its properties. The oompan.v owns in fee 21,000 acres of 

 choice hardwood timberland and owns the timber on 9.000 additional 

 acres, in Highland and Bath counties, Virginia. It has also contracted 

 for all the timber on ."il.SOO acres in Boone county. West Virginia, and has 

 a long-time lease on one of the largest and most modern and efficient saw- 

 mills in West Virginia, located at Seth, Boone county, and is successfully 

 operating this mill, producing an average of 70,000 feet of lumber per day. 

 Photograph of the mill and general layout of the whole operation at 

 Seth is shown on this page. 



The Highland Lumber Company is preparing to erect two large mills 

 on its Virginia lands and to construct a standard gauge railroad connect- 

 ing these mills and properties with the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad. The 

 mills on the Virginia and West Virginia properties manufacture white 

 oak, red oak. poplar, chestnut, pine, hemlock, ash. walnut and miscellaneous 

 woods, the bulk of the timber being white oak. 



The company has a capital stock of $1,000,000, the officers l>eing : 

 W. L. Connell, president ; J. K. Griffith, vice-president ; George Uouck. 

 second vice-president and genera! manager; C. Paul Hagenlocher, third 

 vice-president: T. J. Foster, treasurer, David Cottle, secretary. 



The company's operations are idially located both as to timber and 

 transportation. It has recently purchased from the Lackawanna Coal 

 & Lumber Company its entire logging equipment with which it will 

 operate the lumber business formerly operated liy the Lackawanna Coal 

 & Lumber Company in Boone county. Wist Virginia. It has leased from the 

 Lackawanna company its double band sawmill and entire property con- 



W. T. CULVER, LUDINGTON, MICH. 



LEWIS DOSTER. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 



THE LATE C. M. CRAWFORD, COAL GROVE, 

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