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HARDWOOD RECORD 



ply comes from the highest type of this 

 wood that grows in the Icnown world. The 

 famous old-time white oak of Ohio and In- 

 diana is reproduced in practically the same 

 quality in Kentucky and Tennessee, in West 

 Virginia and Virginia, and the prototype of 

 the red oak formerly growing in profusion 

 in northern Indiana and Ohio, southern 

 Michigan and Wisconsin, is available for 

 Cincinnati's lumbermen throughout the 

 great lower Appalachian range, where it is 

 known as mountain oak. This species, how- 

 ever, is of exactly the same botany and of 

 equal character with the famous red oak 

 of the more northern ranges of 

 early lumber history. 



Cincinnati has for more than 

 half a century been the center 

 for the manufacturing distribu- 

 tion of the magnificent yellow 

 poplar of the Ohio valley, Ken- 

 tucky and West Virginia and the 

 more remote regions of Virginia 

 and North Carolina. It is still 

 the chief commercial center for 

 this magnificent wood. Cincin- 

 nati's favorable freight rates 

 enable it to reach out for sources 

 of supply of southern white and 

 red oak to all parts of the great 

 Mississippi valley and no incon- 

 siderable amount of the oaks of 

 that region are marketed by its 

 dealers. In lesser, but still great 

 quantities, is available the splen- 

 did chestnut of Kentucky, Teu- 

 nesse and North Carolina ; 

 the hickory from a wide range 

 of territory; the white ash from 

 more remote .southern fields, and 

 during the last few years the city 

 has developed as a center for the 

 distribution of a large quantity 

 of red gum and latterly is hand: 

 ling a good deal of tupelo. Cer- 

 tainly Cincinnati is a very catho- 

 lic market, for there is scarcely 

 a wood of commercial importance 

 that grows in the United States, 

 or for that matter in foreign 

 countries, that cannot be found 

 in a considerable quantity ready 

 for immediate shipment in the 

 various yards of the Cincinnati 

 lumber contingent. 



The hardwood export trade of Cincinnati 

 is a considerable factor in the total of its 

 annual handlings. Several houses located 

 there do nothing but an export business; 

 some in oak, poplar and ash, others in wal- 

 nut and sundry other woods. 



Licking, Kentucky and Green rivers. Cin- 

 cinnati owes a large share of its furni- 

 ture, piano, carriage and wagon making 

 factories to its favorable location with 

 respect to sources of supply. 



Eailroad Facilities 



While Cincinnati is the terminus of half 

 a dozen great railroad systems, tapping on 

 the east the rich forests and heavily wooded 

 mountain slopes of Virginia and West Vir- 

 ginia; on the south, Kentucky, Tennessee, 

 Alabama, Georgia and the two Carolinas, 

 and on the southwest, Mississippi, ."Arkansas 



The Great Waterway 



The Ohio river is a tremendous factor in 

 contributing to Cincinnati 's success as a 

 lumber market, as more than two hundred 

 million feet in logs and lumber are an- 

 nually floated down that stream from the 

 timber tracts along the Ohio, Big Sandy, 

 the Guyandotte, the two Kanawhas, the 



(■II.\MBEn (IF COMMERCE AND ADJOINING MITCHEI.r, 

 The Latter Contai.ns Offices of the 

 Bayou Land & Lumber CoiiPANY. 



and Louisiana, which overlap the rich 

 sources of forest proilucts, it is the only 

 city in the land that has the distinction of 

 owning a great trunk line railroad. This 

 is the Cincinnati Southern, extending from 

 Cincinnati 330 miles southward to Chatta 

 nooga, and is under lease as one of the 

 main lines of the Southern Railway System, 

 with branches penetrating to every section 

 of this great southern empire of wealth. 



The various railroad lines entering Cin 

 einnati are the Baltimore & Ohio, the Chesa- 

 peake & Ohio, the Cincinnati, Hamilton & 

 Dayton, the Southern Railway (the Cincin- 

 nati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific), the 



New York Central Line (the Cleveland, Cin- 

 cinnati, Chicago & St. Louis), the Louisville 

 & Nashville, the Pennsylvania Lines (the 

 Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis), the Nor- 

 folk & Western, the Erie, the Cincinnati, 

 Lebanon & Northern and the Chicago, Cin- 

 cinnati & Louisville railroad. There are 

 also numerous electric lines which material- 

 ly increase and extend the facilities and 

 conveniences in the movement of persons 

 and freight from and into the city. 

 Statistics 

 The last reports available from the Cham- 

 ler of Commerce show that in 1907 there 

 were handled in the Cincinnati 

 yards of the railroads 149,772 car- 

 loads of lumber, which represent a 

 little less than 65 per cent of the 

 actual lumber business transacted 

 annually, as a large portion of the 

 lumber sold by Cincinnati dealers 

 is shipped direct from the point 

 of manufacture to the ultimate 

 wholesale consumer. During that 

 same year by river 10,66.5,000 feet 

 of lumber were shipped. The 

 freight tonnage of Cincinnati in 

 1907 was approximately 2.5,000,000 

 tons. 



Allied Business Enterprises 

 Outside of the woodworking in- 

 stitutions, which form a large por- 

 tion of Cincinnati 's manufacturing 

 greatness, it also produces a vasf 

 quantity of tools and appliances 

 that are dependent upon the lum- 

 ber industry for their sale. One 

 of the largest, if not the largest, 

 manufacturer of woodworking ma- 

 chinery in the world is located in 

 this city, the J. A. Fay & Egan 

 Company, and there are more than 

 a score of minor concerns making 

 sawmill and sundry woodworking 

 tools. 



< 'incinnati 's receipts of manu- 

 factured iron and steel in 1907 

 were more than 572,000 tons, and 

 the estimated value of machinery 

 made in that city annually is more 

 CILDINO. ^'^'^^ twelve million dollars. Cin- 

 cinnati, makes more than eighteen 

 million dollars' worth of shoes; 

 eighteen million dollars' worth of 

 clothing; twenty-three million dollars' worth 

 of soap, and ten million dollars' worth of 

 furniture, office equipment and coffins. 



A Financial Center 



As a financial center Cincinnati stands 

 high for strength and soundness. Its bank-^ 

 ing institutions have always been conducted 

 along conservative lines and never in a case 

 of financial depression has Cincinnati been 

 a severe sufferer. The average annual bank 

 clearances for the past five years have been 

 in excess of $1,250,000,000. The credit of 

 lior financial institutions is equal to the best 

 in the land. As a demonstration of Cin- 



