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GEXEUAI. VIEW OF PLAXT. FREIBDRG LUMBER COMPANY. 



CARGO MEXICAN TABASCO LOGS AT CINCIXXATI MILL, KKKIBURG 

 LUMBER COMPANY. 



it was replaced by a baud mill, and this a year 

 later was replaced by a larger one. Last 

 year the company purchased a large boundary 

 of virgin timber in eastern Kentucky, con- 

 sisting principally of white oak and yellow 

 poplar, with some very tine ash and hickory. 

 The larger prime logs are brought to the 

 Cincinnati mill to be manufactured. The 

 others are being cut on two circular mills 

 which have been installed on the timber prop- 

 erty. The K. & P. Lumber Company makes 

 a specialty of white oak and walnut, in both 

 of which it does a large export as well as 

 considerable domestic business. 



The Pease Company. 

 The Pease Company is known to the 

 trade as one of the largest manufacturers 

 of building materials, doors and interior fin- 

 ish in the country. The house was organized 

 in 1893 with C. H. Pease, president, G. M. 

 Paine, vice president, and H. W. Brock, secre- 

 tary. The company 's warehouses cover three 

 and a half acres of ground, comprising 180,- 

 000 square feet of floor space. The wood- 

 work factory, utilizing fifteen acres, contains 

 200,000 square feet of floor space. The com- 

 pany has excellent shipping facilities, and 

 makes and jobs all kinds of building m.'i- 

 terials. 



Leland G. Banning. 

 Leland G. Banning is one of Cincinnati 's 

 most prominent lumberniou. Mr. Banning 

 has been in the business for more than a 

 score of j'ears, and has in that time gained 

 for himself and his associates an enviable 

 reputation. .\s a .iobber he controls the 

 output of some half dozen mills in the 

 South. In addition to shipping direct from 

 the mills, he maintains a yard in Cincin- 



nati at Eighth street and McLean avenue, 

 where he carries at all times a large stock 

 of all kinds of hardwoods. He makes spe- 

 cialties of mahogany and quartered oak. 

 T. B. Stone Lumber Company. 

 The T. B. 8toae Lumber Company occu- 

 pies an enviable position in Cincinnati 's 

 hardwood trade. Thomas B. Stone, presi- 



W. STllXK, .SKCRETARY T. 

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dent dl' the concern, is a veteran lumberman, 

 ,-ind lie is training his son Will to follow in 

 his footsteps. 



The T. B. Stone Lumber Company was 

 organized some ten years ago with T. B. 

 Stone, president, and W. W. Stone, secre- 

 tary. Jt manufactures and jobs all kinds 



of southern hardwoods, operating large mills 

 near Knoxville, Teun. Two yards are main- 

 tained in Cincinnati, one at Hopkins and 

 Dalton streets, the other at Liberty and 

 McLean avenue. One yard is for oak and 

 ash exclusively, and the other for poplar, 

 basswood, chestnut and gum. The mill 

 capacity is between 75,000 and 100,000 feet 

 per day. 



T. B. Stone has been continuously in the 

 lumber business in Cincinnati for over thirty 

 years. Will Stone has taken an active part 

 in the business .since 1898. Four years ago 

 the firm of Stone & Hinckley was organ- 

 ized as a selling agency to handle yellow 

 pine for the T. B. Stone Lumber Company. 

 The Malay, Thompson & Moffett Company. 



The house of Maley, Thompson & Moffett 

 was established many years ago in Dayton, 

 O., as a copartnership, and operated a single 

 band mill at that point for some years. 

 About ten years ago it was moved to Cin- 

 cinnati, and the mill plant reerected at the 

 corner of Eighth street and McLean avenue. 

 .V few years afterward the copartnership 

 was changed into a corporation, organized 

 under the laws of Ohio. From time to time 

 the business has been expanded until it now 

 comprises a complete sawmill and dimension 

 mill, and a veneer plant, which is located at 

 the corner of Eighth and Evans streets, Cin- 

 cinnati. Besides this, the company has a 

 large sawmill and dimension plant near 

 Delhi, O.; a simUar institution in western 

 Kentucky, and an extensive plant operating 

 oxclusivel.v in mahogany in the city of 

 Havana, Cuba. 



This company has in its veneer plants a 

 complete outfit of slicers, rotary machines 



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KENTUCKY Lf.MBER YARD, E. E. BECK LUMBER COMPANY. 



KLXTUCKY LOG YARD, E. E. BECK LUMBER COMI'iN> 



