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his company's general offices. The company's 

 band mill here has been closed down for some 

 weeks, having completely exhausted its timber 

 supply. 



The band mill of the R. E. Wood Lumber 

 Company at Buladeen, Carter county, and that 

 of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company at Hamp- 

 ton, both near Bristol, are getting in full time 

 and are turning out much stock. Both have a 

 large amount of timber in that section. 



The Carolina. ClinchHeld & Ohio railroad was 

 this week completed to Spartanburg, .S. C. from 

 Dante. Va. This line penetrates a rich timber 

 region and will be extended westward to Elk- 

 horn City. Ky., and southward to the south At- 

 lantic sealward from Spartanburg. W. M. Rit- 

 ter of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company of Co- , 

 lumbus. Ohio, is deeply interested in the new 

 road, which has cost in excess of $30,000,000. 



ASHLAND 



.J. II. Ivestcr. secretary of the .Southern Hard- 

 wood Company, has returned from an extended 

 business trip tliruugh the South, buying lumber 

 for his company. Pie advises business greatly 

 improved in that section and says there is a 

 scarcity now of the higher grades of oak and 

 poplar in the South. 



The Whisler & Scearcy Company, Ironton, O.. 

 has begun sawing on its mill at Farmers. Ky., 

 but has closed down the Ironton mill, having 

 sawed out the present supply of logs. The com- 

 pany is expecting to do a large business at 

 Farmers the coming year, and has a large 

 amount of timber, which will enable the plant 

 to run longer than usual. 



Wm. r^ckman. vice-president of the Licking 

 River Lumber Company, in charge of the band 

 mill and yards at Farmers. Ivy., spent a few 

 days at the company's office here this week. Its 

 mill, which has been closed for two weeks put- 

 ting in new boilers and doing general repair 

 work, is again In operation and now ready for 

 a steady run, as the company has enough logs 

 to run it for eighteen months. The office reports 

 the receipt of a great many orders and large 

 shipments of stock. 



.T. L. Lytic of the J. L. Lytle Lumber Com- 

 pany, I'ittsburg, Pa., called on our lumbermen 

 this week. Mr. Lytle advises business very 

 satisfactor.v. 



The Reese-Kitchen Lumber Company, with 

 general office here and a band mill at Wrigley, 

 Ky., reports business very good. The mill is 

 running in fine order and the company is putting 

 on stick a large amount of very fine oak and 

 poplar, which will be ready for the markets in 

 B short time. 



H. G. Irwin, of the Erie Lumber Company, 

 Erie, I'a., spent a few days in the city recently. 

 He gave encouraging reports for lumber business, 

 in his city and advised that his company is re- 

 ceiving a large amount of orders for both hard- 

 woods and pine. The company owns and oper- 

 ates a large mill in the South, which manufac- 

 tures largely pine and some oak. 



The Yellow Poplar Lumber Company, Coal 

 drove, O., has its band mill closed at present, 

 hut is running its planing mill and yard crews 

 on full time. The large concrete splash dam 

 which is the largest of its kind in tiie world, is 

 nearing completion, and will soon be ready for 

 use. This dam is being built in the Breaks 

 of the Big Saudy and will enable the company 

 to splash logs through the Breaks most any 

 time of the year. While the company has gone 

 to great expense in erecting this dam. it will be 

 a great money saver to it. enabling it to get 

 the logs through the Breaks and to the mill at 

 Coal Grove shortly after they are cut and 

 before the sap is damaged, which was the case 

 prior to this time, as the logs were quite often 

 bunched above the Breaks and left there for 

 years, until very high water floated them out. 



C. E. Wilson of the R. G. Page Lumber Com- 



pany is on a business trip through Ohio. The 

 company reports business very satisfactory and 

 the receipt of some very desirable orders in car 

 and implement stock. 



The Ashland Lumber Company Is having a 

 \'ery satisfactory business in its planing mill 

 aud retail yards, having on hand more contracts 

 than it is able to lill at present. The band mill 

 is closed now, having sawed out the entire log 

 supply, but the company advises it is busily 

 engaged getting out new timber for next season's 

 run. 



LOUISVILLE 



The annual meeting of the Louisville Hard- 

 wood Club was to have been held Tuesday 

 evening, November 2, but at that time, when 

 the regular weekly\dinner brought the members 

 of the club together, it was decided to postpone 

 the annual affair for two weeks. Tuesday 

 night, also, was the evening of the election, and 

 :is most of the hardwood men were interested 

 in its outcome they wanted to get out and see 

 what happened. Mayor Grinstead, the Repub- 

 lican, had been picked as a winner of the mayor- 

 alty race by most of the hardwood people, but 

 W. O. Head, the Democratic nominee, surprised 

 everybody by winning easily. There's not a 

 luml)erman on the new administration, more's 

 I he pity. 



It is likely that the annual election will not 

 be as tame an affair as it was thought it might 

 be. Though there was a general feeling at first 

 I bat A. E. Morman, of the Norman Lumber 

 Company, who guided the club through its first 

 .\car. would probably be chosen to run things 

 tor anothi'r year, it looks now as if a good- 

 natured rivalry may develop between his sup- 

 porters and those of one of the other members. 

 T. M. Brown of W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber 

 Company is a hot favorite for the place, but 

 he insists that lie doesn't want it. Ed. L. Ship- 

 pen of the Louisville Point Lumber Comjiany, 

 who is now vice-president, has also Iteen men- 

 tioned, as has Edward L. Davis of the Edw. L. 

 Davis Lumber Company. As a matter of fact, 

 however, whether Mr. Norman or Mr. Brown or 

 Mr. Shippen or Mr. Davis is elected, the club 

 will have a good head, because you couldn't 

 throw a rock into a crowd of hardwood men — 

 and more especially Louisville hardwoodmen — 

 without hitting a man who would make a good 

 executive. In most any position you cared to put 

 him. 



The reduction of rates out of Louisville into 

 northern Illinois and Michigan has gone into 

 I'Ifect, the date decided upon by the railroads 

 lieing November 1. The Hardwood Club's Trans- 

 portation Committee secured this reduction, and 

 its members are correspondingly elated over it. 

 The rate proposition will be thoroughly gone 

 into during the next year, and it is likely that 

 by studying conditions and comparing Ijouis- 

 ville's situation with other cities the club will 

 be able to secure other advantages for its 

 members. 



The general election November 2 knocked out 

 most of the work that was to have been done 

 on that day, at least as far as the hardwood 

 men were concerned. Several mills shut down 

 completely, these including C. C. Mengel & Bro. 

 Company and the Edw. L. Davis Lumber Com- 

 pany. The Ohio River Sawmill Company oper- 

 ated with a small force, and the yards of the 

 other companies were run with so depleted a 

 force of men that comparatively little was ac- 

 complished. Business has been so rushing of 

 late, however, that the hardwood men were 

 really glad of a chance to breathe again. 



Members of the Hardwood Club say that buy- 

 ers are coming to the city now in larger num- 

 bers than ever before. This is attributed to the 

 aggressive campaign of the club in calling atten- 

 tion to the advantages of buying in this market, 

 which has put Louisville decidedly on the hard- 



wood map. So successful has the club been in 

 advertising the city as a hardwood market that 

 its fall and winter advertising efforts will soon 

 l>e put into effect again. Some of the out-of- 

 lown men who have been here lately are Sam 

 10. Barr of the Lilley Lumber Company, New 

 ■^ ork ; K. W. Hobart of Hobart & Co., Boston ; 

 Mr. Latham of the Monarch Lumber Company, 

 I'biladelphia : Mr. McParland of Chicago; John 

 Smith of Dickson. Tenn.. and others. 



The Commercial Club, of which most of the 

 Hardwood Club men are members, had a harvest 

 home dinner two weeks ago, and owing to the 

 oddity of the affair, everything that was served 

 Imving a flavor of the soil and life on the farm, 

 several of the hardwood manufacturers attended 

 it. It happened on Tuesday night, and for a 

 time there was a move in favor of abandoning 

 the meeting of the club and going to the dinner 

 in a body. This was finally given up, however, 

 owing to the number and Importance of the 

 trade topics -which are considered at meetings 

 these days. 



Much intei-est is being taken by the club in 

 I he convention of the National Hardwood Lum- 

 Ijer Association, the annual convention of which 

 will be held here next year. The new adminis- 

 tration of the club will appoint committees 

 which will start work at once, mapping out the 

 scheme of entertainment and deciding on the 

 various details- 4hat must be considered in con- 

 nection with the convention. The club intends 

 to make the entertainment interesting and novel 

 as well as elaborate. 



Barry Norman, of E. B. Norman & Co. has 

 installed water works at his plant on the 

 I'Oint. He happens to be close to the river, and 

 by putting in a pump and other necessary ma- 

 chinery he has eliminated a bulky water bill. 

 He said that the saving in this respect will pay 

 for the plant in two years. Thus it will be 

 seen that while the river creeps up and floods 

 Mr. Norman occasionally it is pretty useful at 

 times also. The company's business is picking 

 up right along. High-grade poplar is getting 

 scarce, Mr. Norman said, and prices on it are 

 stiffening. S. E. Booker, who looks after the 

 l>ox factory, said that business in that direction 

 is picking up right along. 



E. L. Shippen of the Louisville Point Lumber 

 Company reported business as good. H. J. 

 Gates of the company has been out of town on 

 a business trip, in which he found the demand 

 for lumber excellent. Mr. Shippen coincided 

 with Mr. Norman s views as to the scarcity of 

 poplar. 



T. M. Brown of W. P. Brown & Sons Luml)er 

 Company said that h" iness Is so heavy that 

 it is getting to be somewhat of a prpbiem to 

 lake care of it. Prices are somewhat better, he 

 said, especially with regard to plain oak. Al- 

 though the lower grades of most items are still 

 moving slowly, they are showing improvement. 

 W. I'. Brown, the retired head of the firm, was 

 down from Indianapolis the other day, and John 

 Smith of Dickson, the southern buyer of the 

 tirra, was up from Tennessee. Mr. Smith com 

 minted on the increasing scarcity and advancing 

 price of timber. That ought to be a pretty good 

 reason lor advancing prices on lumlwr, accord- 

 ing to Mr. Brown. J. G. Brown of the company 

 is on the job, as usual and is keeping things 

 moving, too. 



R. E. Smith of the Ohio River Sawmill Com- 

 pany, said that the company is having trouble 

 keeping up with its orders, and tliat business is 

 flowing in from all branches of trade. In order 

 to look after the work at mill points Mr. Smith 

 was out of town most of this week. In order to 

 improve the railroad facilities of the company's 

 mill, the location of which is almost ideal, Mr. 

 Smith said that an L. & N. switch is to be put 

 in shortly. A Southern switch is already in 

 operation. The company will probably erect a 

 new office building before long. It is using 

 temporarily the old residence which came with 

 the land. The building is over fifty years old 



