HARDWOOD RECORD 



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E. L. Warren of the Warren-Whaley Lumber 

 Company is back from a trip to the East. He 

 left orders for more than 2,500,000 feet of lum- 

 ber, for spring delivery. 



W. S. Whiting of the Whiting Manufacturing 

 Company was here this week and visited his 

 <:ompany"s band mill at Abingdon, where he 

 found things moving along nicely. He says that 

 the outlook for the lumber trade was never bet- 

 ter than it is right now. 



There is not a car shortage in this section, 

 though the railroads report that all their trans- 

 portation equipment has been pressed into ser- 

 vice by the general increase in business. 



Judge Hal H. Haynes of Bristol a few days 

 ago beard a cross-bill, filed by C. B. Allen, ask- 

 ing for a 'receiver for the Standard Oak Veneer 

 Company. He took the matter under advise- 

 ment. Some weeks ago be dissolved an injunc- 

 tion appointing a receiver for the company, on 

 the ground that the proof did not show that it 

 was justified. 



One million dollars is involved in a coal and 

 timber land deal just consummated, whereby a 

 West Virginia syndicate, headed by D. A. Ohley, 

 acquires a 29.0011 acre trad ot land in Buchanan 

 and Dickinson Counties. Virginia. 



The yards of the T. W. Thayer Lumber Com- 

 pany, at Damascus, Va.. near Bristol, were de- 

 stroyed by flre this week, entailing a loss of 

 .?.'*.(IOO, with no insurance. 



W. M. Ritter of Columbu.s. Ohio, head of the 

 W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, which operates 

 extensively in this section, is here this week 

 with a iiarty of friends on a bunting expedition. 



LOUISVILLE 



Thanksgiving was spent hy the bardwuud men 

 in the most enjo.x'able w:i.\'s. Business was. of 

 course, ijuite abandoned. Some bunted, others 

 attended the big football game, which is always 

 tin occasion ol delight to Louisville people, 

 though it is only a "prep" affair, and others 

 stayed at home and played with the children. 

 It would perhaps be invidious to say who did 

 which, so the division will just be allowed to 

 stand as stated. 



Members of the Hardwood Club are much 

 pleased with the announcement that the good 

 roads amendment to the state constitution, 

 which it was reported at first had been snowed 

 under at the election November 2, won by a 

 majority of 5.000, as shown by the official 

 count. A banquet is to be held here December 

 15 for the purpose of celebrating it. 



J. E. Davis, brother of Edward L. Davis 

 of the hardwood company of that name, was 

 in town last week. He said that many logs 

 are being cut and that operations have been 

 e.xtended until late this fall on account of good 

 weather. Good roads are getting more plentiful 

 in the southern part of the state, especially in 

 Logan, Simpson and Barren counties. His men 

 have cut enough white oak logs to last both 

 the Glasgow and tbe local mill for four months. 



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

 Iiany was one of those who bunted Thanksgiv- 

 ing. He had pretty good luck and shot a lot of 

 quail. He is hunting again this week, being 

 almost inseparable from his dog and gun at this 

 season of the year. He said that business is 

 good and prices steady, and that shipments have 

 been up to the average. 



The Louisville Point Lumber Company people 

 have all they can do.. Business is good and 

 prices are holding up well. As soon as the 

 river rises logs will begin coming down from 

 the mountains. The company gets all ot its 

 logs by water, some of them coming from points 

 back in the hills 150 miles from a railroad. A 

 lot of this is low-grade stuff, however, which 

 wouldn't do to transport by any more expensive 

 method. 



D. E. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills, 

 the new member of tbe Hardwood Club, is much 



pleased with his experience with that organiza- 

 ii<in, and said that he hopes to get as much from 

 it in a social way as in the way of business 

 advantage. He is preparing for tbe annual 

 meeting of the veneer men this month and thinks 

 that higher prices will be the principal topic 

 lit conversation there. Mr. Kline has noted dur- 

 ing tbe past year or two an increasing demand 

 lor Circassian walnut, which be said is being 

 sold in this country principally by English 

 firms. Regarding another feature of the veneer 

 business Mr. Kline said : "The gum men ought 

 to realize that gum is here to stay and that it 

 will command better prices if they'll only ask 

 for them.'* 



J. G. Brown of W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber 

 Company is down South looking after getting 

 out lumber for his company. T. M. Brown, who 

 is staying on the job, said that everything is 

 in fine shape and that the demand for all grades 

 is good. 



Clarence R. Mengel, president of ('. C. .Mengel 

 & Brother Company, spent Thanksgiving playing 

 golf. J. C. Wickliffe, secretary of the company, 

 has returned from tbe West Indies. During the 

 heavy storms which passed over that section be 

 was at Inaugh, a port of the Bahamas. D. C. 

 Harris, traffic manager of that company, who is 

 a member of the Transportation Committee of 

 tbe Hardwood Club, was much interested in tbe 

 plan of demurrage suggested by tbe National 

 Association of State Railroad Commissioners at 

 its recent meeting in Washington. This prac- 

 tically coincided with the suggestions made by 

 tbe Hardwood Club to the subcommittee of that 

 organization. A. T. Siler, chairman of the Ken- 

 tucky Railroad Commission, has announced since 

 his return from the Washington meeting that 

 he favors reciprocal demurrage, or in lieu of 

 that average demurrage. He said that a meet- 

 ing to consider this question will be held shortly 

 after January 1. 



Barry Norman of E. B. Norman & Co. watched 

 the high school football team play and win 

 Thanksgiving day. He used to be a member of 

 that eleven himself, so that he enjoyed its tri- 

 umph luigely. A week or so before he had taken 

 an automobile trip with his father, A. E. Nor- 

 man, and hunted quail in the fastnesses of 

 Shelby county. They had good luck. Business 

 with his company is good, he said, and the box 

 factory, which is being looked after by S. E. 

 Booker, is working overtime to take care of all 

 the orders which have come in. 



The mill of the Menge! Box Company at Hick- 

 man narrowly escaped being burned when the oil 

 mill of Richmond & Bond was consumed with a 

 loss of ¥100,000. The employes of tbe company, 

 who have a flre department of their own, turned 

 out and prevented the flames from reaching the 

 box factory. The company has subscribed $5,000 

 to a fund for the construction of a levee at 

 Hickman to prevent an overflow ot the Missis- 

 sippi, and the levee will be built at once. It will 

 cost ,f 10,000. 



The creditors ot the Kentucky River Poplar 

 Company, which has been put into the hands of 

 a federal receiver, are seeking to compromise 

 their claims, and a meeting for this purpose was 

 held recently at Lexington. Lumbermen believe 

 that the company is inherently sound. 



An interesting fact was brought out recently 

 in a local paper which stated that four of the 

 largest industries of their kind in the world 

 are located immediately adjoining each other in 

 South Louisville. Three of them, as it happened, 

 are interested in tbe production or consumption 

 of lumber. The companies are the Kentucky 

 Wagon Manufacluring Company, C. C. Mengel & 

 Brother Company. B. F. Avery & Sons, plow 

 manufacturers, and the Standard Sanitary Com- 

 pany. Thry have a combined capitalization of 

 .$15,000,000 and employ 5,000 men. 



Kentucky lumbermen are much pleased with 

 the showing of this state in the census report 

 of the lumber business covering 1908. It is 

 shown that there were 1.530 active mills in op- 



eration, a gain of eighty over the preceding 

 year, and that Kentucky is first in the production 

 of oak, the amount being 138,863,000 feet, or 

 30.4 per cent of the total production. Kentucky 

 is one of four states which furnished two-thirds 

 of the output of yellow poplar, and is well up in 

 the production of red gum, though this showed 

 a decrease compared with 1007. In the produc- 

 tion of hickory, walnut and sycamore this state 

 was ranked among tiie leaders. 



The Waller Manufacturing Company of Lexing- 

 ton suffered a loss of .$2,000 by flre December 2. 

 It manufactures furniture. 



The cost of the furniture which has gone into 

 the new capitol of Kentucky at Frankfort is 

 given as $50,000. It is made of mahogany and 

 oak and is the output of a Milwaukee concern. 



Henry Wolke, former president of a furniture 

 manufacturing company of that name, died te- 

 (cntly in I'asadena, Cal. 



The Salt Lick Lumber Company has increased 

 its capital st<x-k from $50,000 to $100,000. It is 

 located in Bath county. 



Mr. and Jlrs. Charles C. Mengel have an- 

 nounced the engagement ot their daughter. Miss 

 Jane Potter Mengel, to Arthur Dwight Allen. 

 Mr. Allen is connected with the Belknap Hard- 

 ware & Manufacturing Company in an executive 

 capacity and is prominent socially. 



Here is a budget of local railroad news : The 

 Louisville & Nashville, in order to anticipate a 

 car shortage, is making 1,200 new freight cars. ^ 

 Tbe Louisville & Nashville is reported to have 

 bought the Lexington & Eastern with tile inten- 

 tion of extending it into eastern Kentucky's coal 

 and timber country. The Mountain Central rail- 

 road is being extended from Campton to Hazel 

 Green for the purpose of opening up more timber 

 land. The Covington & Big Stone Railway Com- 

 pany has incorporated for $150,000. It will 

 build a line into eastern Kentucky. Owensboro 

 may be the terminus of a new railroad projected 

 from Indianapolis. The name of the new road 

 is the Chicago, Indianapolis & Evansville. It will 

 go through some valuable timber and coal lands 

 in soitthern Indiana and western Kentucky. The 

 Traffic and Transportation Club, which numbers 

 many lumbermen in its membership, has openfed 

 iieadquarters at 128 South Fourth avenue. J. B. 

 Ford of the Southern railway is president. 



A. E. Norman has many claims to fame. He 

 is the head of the Norman Lumber Company", 

 a foremost hardwood concern; he is president 

 ot the Louisville Hardwood Club, and he is the 

 father of a family of good football players and 

 chips oft the old block in the sense of being good 

 lumbermen, too. But he has a new distinction, 

 that of chairman of the building committee of 

 Ihe Fourth Avenue Baptist church. The church 

 is building a handsome new edifice at Fourth 

 avenue and Oak street, and tbe cornerstone was 

 recently laid. Mr. Norman took a prominent 

 part in the ceremony, reading a history of the 

 church and detailing the efforts of the con- 

 gregation to secure the new building. The church 

 is one of the largest and most active in the 

 city. 



ASHLAND 



The Yellow Poplar Lumber Company opened 

 its large splash dam in the "Breaks" ot Big 

 Sandy Friday, December 3. The opening of 

 this large splash dam was of great interest to 

 all river operators, it being the first of its kind 

 ever constructed. -V large number of photog- 

 raphers were on the ground taking various pic- 

 tures of the dam and logs, and a very large 

 crowd of people from a number of cities in this 

 section witnessed the opening of same. The 

 work on this dam occupied several months and 

 a channel of three miles has been cleared 

 through the canyon, which will enable the tim- 

 ber to drift through with less difficulty and 

 expense than ever before. The company will 

 receive a very large supply ot the finest poplar 



