HARDWOOD RECORD 



S. W. RICIIEY, RICHEY. HALSTED & QUICK 



varieties of southern hardwoods. 



Leaving the Union Trust building, we 

 cross to the southeast corner of Fourth and 

 Walnut streets, and enter the First National 

 Bank building, an eighteen-story structure. 

 On the sixteenth floor of this building are 

 located the offices of the Hardwood Manufac 

 turers' Association of the United States, in 

 charge of Lewis Doster, secretary. 

 Yale Lumber Company 



In the same building are located the head- 

 quarters of the Yale Lumber Company, 

 which were opened October 1, 1909. H. R. 

 Stone is the resident manager, and M. H. 

 Stone looks after the affairs at the com- 

 pany's plant at Yale, Ky., where it operates 

 a double band mill with a capacity of about 

 40,000 feet daily. The concern handles gen- 

 eral hardwoods, making a specialty of oak 

 and poplar. It also operates a heading mill 

 at Yale and does a heavy business in rail- 

 road ties. 



Shawnee Lumber Company 



On the fourteenth floor is the ofiice of 

 the Shawnee Lumber Company, in charge of 

 J. C. Rash, with J. H. Hardwiek and F. D. 

 Shore as managers of the yellow pine di- 

 vision. This is the Cincinnati office of the 



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 LUMBER COMPANY. 



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Brodhead-Garrett Company, with plant at 



Clay City, Ky. H. G. Garrett is president 



of these allied concerns. The company has a 



band mill with a capacity of 40,000 feet daily. 



It handles general hardwoods and operates 



mills on the L. & E. railroad and the Bed 



river. 



James Kemiedy & Co., Ltd. 



On the seventh floor of the First National 

 Bank building are the offices of James Ken- 

 nedy & Co., Ltd. The headquarters of the 

 concern are at Glasgow, Scotland, and it 

 oiierates yards and offices, at London and 

 Liverpool also. The Cincinnati office, which 

 is devoted to buying, is in charge of Stuart 

 Menzies. The concern handles general 

 hardwoods, and specializes in wagon and 

 dimension oak for export. The company 

 was established in Glasgow in 1871 by James 

 Kennedy, the governing director. 



The Ferd Brenner Lumber Company 



On the fifth floor of this liuilding is the 

 elegant suite of offices of the Ferd Brenner 

 Lumber Company, of which Ferd Brenner 

 is president; W. F. Best, vice-president; 

 L. G. Banning, treasurer, and R. C. Wit- 

 beck, secretary. The company always has 

 on hand a well assorted stock of southern 

 hardwoods, specializing in oak and ash and 



FRED DULING. SALES MANAGER GRAHAM 

 LUMBER COMPANY. 



gum for export. It operates mills at Alex 

 andria. La., and has offices and large yard: 

 at Salisbury, N. C. It has branch offices als( 

 in niany of the leading capitals of Europe. 



The Kentucky Lumber Company 



On the tenth floor of the First Nationa 

 Bank building are the offices of the Kentuck 

 Lumber Company, of which C. Minshall i 

 president and treasurer; J. H. Keyes, vice 

 president; Ralph McCracken, secretary an 

 sales manager. W. E. DeLaney is gener; 

 manager. The company operate a band mi 

 at Burnside, Ky., of 50,000 feet dail 

 capacity, and another at Williamsburg wit 

 a capacity of 40,000 feet daily. The con 

 pany handles a general line of souther 

 hardwoods and specializes in poplar. 1 

 has a local yard at Burns street and the C 

 H. & D. railroad. 



Schrader & Skiles 



On the same floor with the Kentucky Luu 

 ber Company is the office of Schrader 

 Skiles, formerly of Knoxville, Tenn., whei 

 they operated for nineteen years befoi 

 coming to Cincinnati, locating there t^^ 

 years ago. They are general hardwood con 

 mission merchants. C. G. Schrader presidi 

 at the Cincinnati office. 



WILLIAMSBURG PLANT, KENTUCKY LUMBER CO. 



