HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Till' '. raliam t'ouutj Lumber t'diiipaiiy last wi-ek starti'd Its liand mill 

 at Jiidsou, N. C. The company has started otlii-r mills In that section 

 and Is now operating on a large scale. Frank Buell of liay City, Mich., is 

 general manager and in charge of the operations. The company acquired 

 the Whiting timherlands in Graham county. 



O. II. Vial returned thi.s week from western North Carolina. He has 

 purchased a n.OOD-acre tract of timber on the Murphy branch of the 

 Southi'rn and contracted the logs to the (iraham County Lumber Com- 

 pany, lie has already begun logging. 



The It. C. Dufl' Lumber Company, which is operating a band mill at 

 Duffiild. Va.. has purchased an additional boundary of timberland and 

 -will move to it as soon as its present supply is exhausted. 



^-< ST. LOUIS >■- 



r.uilding operations in St. Louis for March showed a falling off of 

 al)onI 14 per cent, compared with last year, according to the report 

 •of the building commissioner. The estimated value of buildings for 

 whicl permits were issued in March was $1,2GS..S7S. In March last 

 year the pernuts amounted to .?l,4."iO,034. 



The receipts and shipments of lumber at St. Louis for March were 

 17,c;."i."i cars of lumber received, as against 16,735 cars of lumber received 

 <iuring March last year, a gain of 020 cars. Shipments were 10,5t).5 

 <ars last 'hionlh. against 11, .'UO cars during March last year, a decrease 

 ■of 77,''» cars. 



Mayuard C. .Tohnson, an ofiicial of the Gideon-.^nderson Lumber & 

 Mercantile I'ompany, of St. Louis, with the i)lanl at (iideon, Mo., died 

 at Cape Girardeau, JIo., where he was taken when he contracted 

 imeumonia, Mr. ,Iohnson formerly lived in St. Louis, but has been 

 residing at Gideon tor several years. His wife was the daughter of 

 W. P. Anderson, the president of the company. She died a year ago. 

 Two children, twelve and fourteen years old. survive. 



=-< LOUISVILLE y- 



William Burke of the Burke tiolf Company, Newark, i>.. was a siieakcr 

 at a recent meeting of the Louisville Hardwood Club. He discussed the 

 features of that business with reference to the use of lumber in the 

 inauufacttire of sticks. Hickory is used for the shafts, and dogwood and 

 jiersimmon for the heads. He said that the requirements of the trade 

 are so severe that the lumbi-i-man who expects to supply it must study 

 them carefully. 



The W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company is operating its mill at 

 Frankfort, Ky., but at present is not running at Fayette, Ark. T. M. 

 Brown reports business to be irregular, but looking up somewhat. 



The furniture trade is better than it has been, though it is stated 

 that the manufacturers of popular-priced goods are doing better than the 

 makers of high-grade equiiiment. However, the call for material from 

 this trade has been increasing somewhat, and this is an encouraging 

 ■development. 



The Modern Woodworking »'omi)any, lluti W. Main street, Louisville, 

 has been buying some machinery for its new shoj), including a saw, 

 tenoner and sander. Frank Ilillerich is superintendent. 



W. W. Brown of the Hamilton Manufacturing Comi)any, Two Rivers, 

 ^Vis., who was in Louisville recently, is a type of the manufacturer of the 

 n(*w school. He was formerly in the lumber business, and understands 

 it thoroughly, and is now devoting all of his time to the purchase of 

 lumber for the Hamilton company, which has a large plant devoted to 

 the manufacture of printers' and dentists' furniture. He believes that 

 luml)ermen and consumers could get closer together to their mutual benefit. 



The Norman Lumber Company of Louisville has .signalized the con- 

 centration of its interests in this city by again taking an active i)art in 

 the work of the Louisville Hardwood Club, of which A. K. Norman, head 

 <if the company, was the first president. Now that it is no longer oper- 

 ating a null in Louisiana, the local yard and interior finish plant will get 

 all of the attention of Mr. Norman. Kdwin .Vorujan. bis son, •ho has 

 been ill for some time, is rajjidly iiii|)rovirig. and it is hoped will soon be 

 well enough to resume active conned ion with the business. 



Oscar Sears, a Lexington, Ky.. timberman. has sued the Mowbra.v & 

 Robinson Comimny and the Kentucky Kiver Timber & Coal Company to 

 have the former company held the trustee of the latter, or to have It 

 held to have purchased Its property under an agreement between Sears 

 and the Mowbray & Kobinson Company. The suit has grown out of an 

 option taken by Sears on the property of the Kentucky Itlver Tlmiier & 

 <'oal Company for .?2.5,0nii. borrowed from the Mowbray & Kobinson 

 Company, to whom the option was assigned. They made use of it and 

 l)OUght the property, amounting to about 33,000 acres, and Sears now 

 claims that he was "frozen out" of the deal. 



State Forester .1. E. Barton is busy making appointments of county 

 wardens to patrol the forests and fight fires and other sources of dam- 

 age. The various local associations of timber owners, especially in east- 

 ern Kentucky, are also active in supporting wardens, and the railroads 

 for the first time have shown interest In the work, and an anxiety to 

 help prevent fires, many of which are declared to have been caused by 

 sparks from locomotives. With the government about ready to establish 

 Its forest reserve in eastern Kentucky, interest In the subject on the part 

 of the lumber trade and the public is greater now than It has been for 

 a long time. 



H. .\. McCowon, head of H. .\. McCowen & Co. of Louisville and also 



Kentucky Hardwoods 



1 car 1" 1s & 2s Chestnut — 25% 14-16' lengths, average 



14" wide, 

 3 cars 1" No. 1 Common Chestnut. 



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

 5 cars I'i" Sound Wormy Chestnut, 50% 14-16' lengths. 



2 cars 1',2" Sound Wormy Chestnut, 50% 14-16' lengths. 

 5 cars 4/4 No, 1 Common Poplar, 40% 14-16', 



2 cars It-i" No. 1 Common Poplar, 60% 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 ^< y No. 1 Common Plain White Oak. 

 1 car ll'i" No. 1 Common Plain White Oak. 



1 car I'/z" No, 2 Common Plain White Oak. 



Duskirk-Kutledge Lumber Co. 



BAND MILLS: 



INC. 



LEXINGTON. KY. 



Quicksand, Ky., Straight Creek, Ky, 



J. K. WILLIAMS 



A. T. WILUAMS 



Williams Lumber Co. 



(MANUFACTURERS) 



WHOLESALE 

 HARDWOOD 



LUMBER 



Band Mill Planing Mill Dry Kiln 



Fayetteville, Tenn. 



We manufacture PLAIN and QUAR- 

 TERED OAK, ASH, CHESTNUT and 

 other HARDWOODS 



Our Specialty is Quartered White Oak 



We Manufacture Dimension 

 Stock —Hickory a Specialty 



