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HARDWOOD RECORD 



VIEW TAUT GREAT PLANTj^ M. B. FARItlX LII-M- 

 BER COMPA"NY. 



The concern operates two mills, one at Burn- 

 side, Ky., and one at Williamsburg, Ky. 

 A few years ago the Williamsburg sawmill 

 and planing mill burned. This was a large 

 institution, practically four good-sized mills 

 under one roof. Its capacity was 1.50,000 

 feet per day. The mill which replaced it is 

 smaller, but more modern and convenient. 

 It is one of the finest mills in the South. 

 The Burnside mill was destroyed liy fire in 

 ■1897, but was rebuilt at once. It has a ca- 

 pacity of 90,000 feet daily. The Williams- 

 burg plant is located on the Cumberland 

 river, and the Burnside plant at the junc- 

 tion of the Cumberland and the Big South 

 Fork rivers. Both of these waterways tap 

 the company's main timber holdings. In 

 addition to these mills the concern owns 

 and operates a njill at Haversham, Tenn., 

 a modern fcandmill of 30,000 feet daily, ca- 

 pacity, cutting poplar and oak -exclusively. 

 The officers of the company are Charles 

 ilinshall, president and treasurer; J. H. 

 Keyes, vice-president and general manager. 

 These two gentlemen live at Terre Haute, 

 Inil., and are not active in the management 



M. B. TARRIN. PRESIDENT M. B. FAliRIX LUM- 

 BER COMPANY. 



of the business. Ralph McCrackcn is head 

 of the sales department, and although only 

 twenty-six years of age, has remarkable 

 ability along this line. He knows the lum- 



UNLOADING POCK AND DRY KILNS. M. B. FAK- 

 RIN LUMBER COMPANY. 



ber business as a veteran, lumberman, and 

 handles the entire selling end of this large 

 institution very creditably. The milling op- 

 erations are under the able supervision of 

 W. E. Delaney. Secretary George P. Wood 

 lives at Louisville. 



The annual output of the company is 

 about 30,000,000 feet. In addition to the 

 general offices at Cincinnati a large plot of 

 ground has been leased at Sixth and Burns 

 streets, where yards will be established, 

 stoclied with a well-assorted line of hard- 

 woods. The Kentucky Lumber Company 

 handles all kinds of hardwood; oak and 

 poplar are its specialties. 



Duhlmeier Bros. 



In 1898 C. F. Dulilmeier and his brother, 

 W. F. Duhlmeier, organized the firm of 

 Duhlmeier Brothers, which is well and favor- 

 ably known to users of hardwoods practi- 

 cally the world over. These energetic young 

 men have increased the volume of their 

 business year by year, and the story of their 

 progress makes a good-sized chapter in lum- 

 lier history. 



The firm 's yards are located on a siding 

 of the C. N. O. & T. P. E. K. fronting cm 

 Wade street and extending to McLean ave- 

 nue. Plain and quartered oaK, poplar, ash, 

 hickory, chestnut, birch, mahogany, bass- 

 wood, walnut, cherry and maple are the 

 woods handled by this concern. The stock 

 averages about 1,500,000 feet. The total 

 sales last year approximated 20,000,000 feet. 

 Besides the yards in Cincinnati, Duhlmeier 

 Brothers operate seven yards in various 

 parts of Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, car- 

 rying a stock of 5,000,000 feet in Tennessee 

 alone. 



The Freiberg Lumber Company. 

 Although but twenty-seven years of age, 

 Harry A. Freiberg carries upon his shoul- 

 ders the responsibilities of one of the great- 

 est lumber enterprises in Cincinnati. This 

 necessarily means that, although young in 

 years, Mr. Freiberg is a lumberman par ex- 

 cellence, and what he is today is the result 

 of his own thrift, energy and far-sighted- 

 ness. He has been engaged in the lumber 

 business ever since he left school. His lum- 

 ber training was acquired with the E. E. 

 Beck Lumber Company, which business has 

 been controlled by the Freiberg Lumber 

 Company since February of this year. When 



I.NTERIOR OAK FLOORING WAREHOUSE, M. B. 

 FARRIN LUMBER COMPANY. 



Mr. Freiberg first entered the employ of 

 the Beck Lumber Company he saw the way 

 the wind was blowing and laid his plans 

 carefully tn fit himself for the work he pro- 

 posed to (111. Long after the employees had 

 gone home for the night, this young man 

 pored over his Spanish and various works 

 on business methods. Mr. Freiberg now 

 speaks Spanish fluently, which gives him 

 tlie gieatest advantage in dealing with the 

 mahogany timber growers of Mexico. For 

 a number of years he was a heavy stock- 

 holder in the E. E. Beck Lumber Company, 

 and he took over the business at the begin- 

 ning of the year, organizing the Freiberg 

 Lumber Company, with himself president, 

 and William E. Shimpton, a lumberman of 

 wide experience, secretary and treasurer. 

 The company operates one of the largest 

 yards in Cincinnati, occupying an entire 

 square on McLean avenue, bounded by Pop- 

 lar and Dalton streets, on a siding of the 

 C. N. O. & T. P. E. E. The company carries 

 a large stock of fine imported and domestic 

 hardwoods at all times. 



Tabasco mahogany, walnut, quartered oak 



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WILLI AJI n. HAY. VICE-PRESIDENT M. B. FAR- 

 RIN LUMBER COMPANY. 



and Indiana white oak are the products of 

 the concern. Mr. Freiberg goes into Mexico 

 himself and buys Tabasco logs direct from 

 the cutters, shipping it from all parts of 



