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HARDWOOD RECORD 



B. A. Kirr, B. A. KIPP & CO. 



business, while Mr. Hanna is looking after 

 the producing mills iu the South. Under 

 the present favorable (-onditions it will not 

 be very long before the receivership will 

 be lifted. 



The Farrin-Koni Lumber Company 



Continuing up Millcreek Valley cue comes 

 to the plant of the Farrin-Korn Lumber 

 Company, of which Chester F. Korn is 

 president and Paul Ricliardson, secretary- 

 treasurer. 



The plant is entirely new, having been 

 rebuilt after a disastrous fire of a little 

 over a year ago, and is a perfect model of 

 up-to-dateness, electricity being the motive 

 power. Each machine is operated by an 

 individual motor, and as a consequence, 

 shafting and belting are conspicuous by 

 their absence. About fifteen acres are cov- 

 ered by the plant, which embraces flooring 

 mills, lumber yard and a newly added box 

 factory. The company also produces at its 

 mill in Mississippi, oak, cypress and gum, 

 and makes a specialty of the export trade. 

 At the Cincinnati plant it manufactures 

 oak flooring, moldings and trim, gum and 

 cypress planing mill products, cigar-box 

 lumber and milled furniture parts. 



('IIAIU.ES F. SIIIELS, CHARLE.S F. SHIELS 

 & CO. 



The M. B. Farrin Lumber Company 



Across Station avenue, and adjoining the 

 plant of the Farrin-Korn Lumber Company, 

 is the mill of the M. B. Farrin Lumber 

 Company, one of the most extensive manu- 

 facturers of oak flooring in the world, its 

 product being known as "Century Oak 

 Flooring" to the trade. The plant, like 

 that of its neighbor, is along the line of 

 the C, H. and D. Railroad, and switches 

 and tracks penetrate every portion of the 

 mill and yard, and a hundred ears could be 

 conveniently handled by both companies 

 at one time. The officers are H. J. Pfies- 

 ter, president; W. J. Eckman, vice-presi- 

 dent; A. Metcalfe, secretary and treasurer. 

 The company 's great specialty is Century 

 Oak Flooring and poplar. Its yards have 

 large stocks of all classes of hardwoods. 

 The plant is electrically equipped, the presi- 

 dent being an electrical expert, and at one 

 time electrical engineer of the city of Cin- 

 cinnati. The power plant is a model for 

 getting the greatest amount of energy for 

 the coal consumed. 



The same interests which control this com- 

 pany also operate the Southern Lumber 

 Company at Valley View, Ky., which is of- 

 ficered by H. J. Pfiester, president; D. L. 



JOSEPH K. SIIIELS, CHARLES F. SHIELS 

 & CO. 



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Farrin, vice-president; W. J. Eckman, sec- 

 retary, and C. F. Korn, treasurer. The mill 

 has two band saws and a gang saw, and has 

 a capacity of 60,000 feet daily. It has four 

 miles of booms in the Kentucky river. 



Talbert-ZoUer Lumber Company 



A half-mile above the Farrin plant, along 

 the line of the C, H. and D. Railroad, near 

 its junction with the B. & O. Southwestern, 

 lies the mill and lumber yard of the Talbert- 

 Zoller Lumber Company. The company is 

 officered by W. E. Talbert, president, and 

 .lames A. Zoller, secretary-treasurer, with F. 

 R. Gorbold as mill superintendent. 



The company operates a single band mill, 

 with a capacity of about 15,000 feet per 

 day, and manufactures oak, poplar, walnut 

 and ash. It has adjoining the mill a yard 

 well stocked with hardwood lumber. In ad- 

 dition to the sawmill the concern operates 

 a veneer mill of about 5,000 feet capacity 

 per day, making a specialty of finely-figured 

 quarter-sawed oak. 



The Francke Lumber Company 



A drive of a mile up the valley from the 

 Talbert-Zoller plant brings one to the opera- 

 tions of the Francke Lumber Company on 



OFFICE AiND PART OF YARD. .lOIIX DULWEBER & CO. 



OFFICE AND FRONT OF YARD, E. E. BECK LUMBER COMPANY. 



