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American White Oak of Quality 



For more than two deftules the Yellow Poplar Lumber 

 Company, with pi'im-ipal offiee and seat of manufacturing 

 operations in Coal Grove. Ohio, has been engaged in the 

 extensive produetion of poplar lumber. Its souree of 

 supply of timber has lain in the upper Big Sandy river, 

 whieli for a eonsiderable jiortion of its course divides 

 Kentucky from West Virginia. 

 During the last few years tln^ 

 company has operated on 

 branches of tliis stream in 

 Dickinson and Buchanan conn- 

 ties, in extreme western Vir- 

 ginia. 



The character of the poplar 

 hiniber that has been produced 

 by this house is too well known 

 to need particular comment, 

 save that it is of the highest 

 type of yellow poplar which 

 has ever been i)roduced in the 

 country. Such has been the 

 reputation of the yellow pop- 

 lar lumber product of the com- 

 pany that its output has stood 

 for the very highest standard 

 of this Avood. 



The Yellow Poplar Lumber 

 Company for years has pursued 

 the manufacture of lumber on 

 somewhat exceptional lines. In 

 its tindjer purchases it has 

 always sought only the choicest 

 virgin timber olitainable, and it 

 has absorbed to a very eon- 

 siderable extent all of the tim- 

 ber of this character in the 

 upper reaches of the Big Sandy 

 river, flowing out of Virginia. 

 It primarily bought yellow pop- 

 lar, but incident to its timlier 

 purchases, secured and still 

 holds a very large and import 

 ant acreage of land, from 

 which it has removed the larger 

 portion of the poplar, leaving 

 a heavy stand of oak on the 

 properties for future opera- 

 tions. This land shows some- 

 thing like forty-tive hundred feet per acre, consisting 

 largely of white oak. 



For the tirst time in the company's history, this year 

 sees it entering the field of white oak lumber production, 

 and it has reduced its poplar output to about twenty 

 per cent of its annual cutting of thirty to fory million 

 feet, the other eighty per cent being largely oak. 



"While the extremely high character of the oak of 



TYPICAL WHITE OAK GROWTH 



YELLOW POPLAR LUMBER COMPANY'S 



HOLDINGS IN VIRGINIA. 



Dirkinsou and Buchanan counties, Virginia, has for 

 years been recognized by timber experts, it was not until 

 actual logging and lumbering operations of this timber 

 had been under way for some time that its surpassing 

 texture, figure, moderate weight and general high cinal- 

 ity have become fully recognized. The majority of 



the growth is straight white 

 oak, Qucrciis alba, and it has 

 been found that the soil that 

 produced the surpassing yel- 

 low poplar of this region is also 

 equally prodigal in the build- 

 ing of a forest of oak, the like 

 of which exists in few places 

 in the world. The soil, 

 till' latitude and compensating 

 altitude, and the rainfall have 

 all contributed to the making 

 of a magnificent forest of ma- 

 tui'e, generally medium sized, 

 and high-class timber that 

 means to the ultimate consumer 

 of oak a renaissance of an out- 

 put of quartered and plain oak 

 lumber that is equal in every 

 respect to the original virgin 

 growth of this wood that pre- 

 vailed in earlier times in In- 

 diana, Ohio and southern 

 ^Michigan. 



On this page is pictured an 

 ordinary specimen of this white 

 oak tree growth as it obtains in 

 the region named, and it will 

 be necessary only to refer to 

 the succeeding pages in this 

 issue of Hardwood Record, in 

 which are pictured six typical 

 varieties of figure in quarter- 

 sawed stock produced by the 

 Yellow Poplar Lumber Com- 

 pany, to convince the most dis- 

 criminating buyer that there 

 exists today in this region no 

 inconsiderable quantity of oak 

 that is worthy of attention. 



The specimens of wood from 

 which these sections were 

 photographed are typical of the entire quarter-sawed oak 

 output of the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company. This 

 company is devoting the same efficient and painstaking 

 care in the accurate production and assorting of oak 

 lumber that it has built its reputation on for years past 

 in the manufacture of poplar. Hence, it is certain fror^ 

 now forward for many years it will be an important fac- 

 tor in high-class oak lumber manufacture and sale. i 



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