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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Xoniian Lumber Company will occupy Ji big lot 

 ou Maguolia between Ninth and Tenth, some 

 time dui-iug: tbe summer, which will double the 

 room it now has. Mr. Norman is very enthusias- 

 tic and feels that he is justified in taking over 

 liie new ground. 



K. L. Davis of the Edward L. Davis Lumber 

 Company states, without hesitating, that Louis- 

 ville will handle lots of lumber this year. Busi- 

 ness is verj' good with this firm and the most 

 .substantial way it can show it is by adding to its 

 jiresent holdings the plant that the Norman 

 Lumher Company will vacate in the summer. 



At the Ohio liiver Saw Mill Company, K. F. 

 Smith has just finished putting in a new 50- 

 liorsepower motor and expects business will be 

 much better than normal. 



Mr. Spicker of the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Com- 

 pany says the company has made arrangements 

 lor a big business in 1910. The importations 

 of mahogany into the United States in 1909 

 were in the neighborhood of 37,000,000 feet 

 and this concern has already contracted for 

 importations amounting to 11', 000,000 feet, or 

 practically one-third of the entire amount of 

 iualiogany imported into this country last year, 

 in tfl'elve shipments averaging 1,000,000 feet per 

 month. Mr. SiJiclier states that the first cargo 

 is on its way now and will be here any day. 



D. C. Harris, secretary of the Hardwood 

 Club, was in Chicago the greater part of last 

 week and, while not in the best of health on 

 his return, was busy at his desk Tuesday morn- 

 ing. 



H. J. Gates of the Louisville Point Lumber 

 Company reports plenty of orders on hand. He 

 regards jjrospects ■ for lUlO very optimistieall}'. 



The Ohio river has been a matter of much 

 concern to the lumber industry in this section 

 (luring the last month, especially since the thaw 

 set in about ten days ago. An ice gorge which 

 formed about eighty-five miles below Louisville, 

 at a point called Wolfe Creek, caused an unnatu- 

 ral rise in the river of some twenty feet. C. C. 

 Mengel. chairman of the Louisville Board of 

 Trade, Kiver Navigation Committee, sent a tele- 

 gram to Somitor Bradley and Kepresentative 

 Swager Sherley at Washington, urging them 

 lo seek immediate relief from the Secretary 

 of War and to liave him give orders to local 

 government engineers to have tbe gorge dyna- 

 mited. Luckily, the thaw beat the dynamite, 

 and unless heavy rains continue above, the dan- 

 ger is now over with. 



Business mL'n in general in Louisville and 

 vicinity are so well pleased at the news from 

 Washington, coucerning the agreement for the 

 appropriation for the improvement of the Ohio 

 river, that the Commercial Club will arrange 

 a big jollification to celebrate what is considered 

 a great victory. The Commercial Club has sent 

 a telegram thanking President Taft for the 

 interest he has shown in the improvement in 

 the Ohio in his message to Congress. 



According to the agreement reached in tiie 

 llivers & Harbors Comruittee on Ohio river 

 improvements, :fUO,000,000 will be spent on an 

 average of $5,000,000 a year for twelve years. 



The report of the Louisville &. Nashville Rail- 

 road, for the part of the fiscal year beginning 

 July 1 and ending January 31, shows an increase 

 in the earnings of $2,443,798, and a later state- 

 iuent of the controller of the road shows that 

 the revenue for the first week of January of this 

 year was $104,250 more than for the same 

 week of 1009. 



At a public meeting at the Gait House Febru- 

 ary 3, under the auspices of the Kentucky Rail- 

 road Commission, the proposed new car service 

 and demurrage rules, urged by the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission will be discussed. It is 

 very probable that the new code, which differs 

 but little from tbe old one in effect here, will 

 be accepted, as very good reports come from 

 Indiana, where they are now in force. The 

 new rules differ from those now in effect in 

 tluii ihi-v incorporate what is known as the 



average agreement. It means that if a shipper 

 takes only twenty-four hours in which to unload 

 a car, instead of forty-eight, he will be given 

 credit for one day in unloading another car of 

 the same kind of merchandise. 



John Hancock, engaged in the lumber busi- 

 ness at Kumsey, Ivy., and one of the best known 

 lumoermen in the Green River Section, died 

 recently at Evansvillc, Ind., aged fifty-two years. 



turers who are members of the association, and 

 had a meeting with R. G. Page and R. H. Vau- 

 sant, who are members of the Construction Oak 

 Committee. Manufacturers here are looking for- 

 ward to the coming meeting at Cincinnati Feb- 

 ruary 1, 2 and 3. 



ST. LOUIS 



ASHLAND 



Tile W. II. Dawkins Lumber Company elected 

 the following officers at its annual meeting : W. 

 II. Dawkins, president ; D. G, Dawkins, vice- 

 president, and W. E. Berger, secretary and treas- 

 urer. This company reports 1909 as a very 

 satisfactory year of busines.s, having sawed over 

 10,000,000 feet of poplar lumber. It has on hand 

 at the present time a large stock of lumber and 

 a nice lot of orders at prices much more satis- 

 factory than sixty days ago. 



The Licking River Lumber Company received 

 advice from its Farmers, Ky., office that it has 

 on a very high tide in Licking river and is re- 

 ceiving large amounts of timber in addition to 

 the large supi)ly it already has on hand. The 

 company has had its sawmill closed for the last 

 three weeks on account of heavy ice, but ex- 

 pects as soon as weather conditions are more 

 favorable to run steadily, as a nice lot of or- 

 ders for car stock, planking, etc., have been 

 liookcd. The hardwood flooring factory at Hunt- 

 ington. W. Va., is running steadily and turning 

 out large amounts of flooring which are being 

 shipped to regular customers. The company is 

 erecting another now dry kiln, which will ma- 

 terially increase its present capacity in turning 

 out oak flooring. 



The Wright-Saulsberry Lumber Company will 

 be known as the Giles Wright Lumber Company. 

 E. L. Saulsberry disposed of his stock to the 

 other stockholders of the company and will re- 

 lire from the lumber business after April 1. 

 Mr. Saulsberry will remain in the employ of the 

 company until that time looking after its tim- 

 ber interests up the Big Sandy. The company 

 was organized this week as follows : Giles Wright, 

 iiresident ; Charles Kitchen, Jr, vice-president and 

 treasurer, and John Burke, secretary. The man- 

 agement of the company will remain as before. 

 Recently the company installed a new electric 

 plant of its own. which will enable it to operate 

 the mill an.y extra time necessary. The com- 

 pany reports business very satisfactory and is 

 starting oD: very encouragingly tor the year 1910. 



John C. King of the Greenbrier Lumber Com- 

 pany, Neola, W. Va., was a recent business caller 

 here, en route to the company's operations from 

 a business trip through the East. He advises 

 business satisfactory and prospects encouraging 

 for this year. 



L. C. Smith of the Cranor-Smith Lumber 

 Company, Prestonsburg. Ky., called on our lum- 

 bermen, returning home from a trip through 

 Ohio and Michigan. Mr. Smith advises that 

 the buyers are more tree with their orders, and 

 prices are more satisfactory than they have 

 been. 



Leon Isaacson of the Yellow Poplar Lumber 

 Company, Coal Grove, Ohio, was a business caller 

 in our city, en route to Elkhorn and surrounding 

 territory, looking after the timber interests of 

 the company. Mr. Isaacson says the company 

 is expecting a large run of timber and is work- 

 ing its timber operations very heavily at this 

 time in order that it may have a large supply of 

 logs for this season's run. The new splash dam 

 which was recently completed is valuable in aid- 

 ing the Yellow Poplar, as well as other com- 

 panies, in getting their timber through the 

 breaks of the Big Sandy. 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association of the United States, 

 was a business visitor in our city this week in 

 consultation with a number of our manufac- 



E. L. Page, manager ol tue uardwood depart- 

 ment of the Alt. Bennett Lumber Company, re- 

 ports conditions as satisfactory, jjlthough bad 

 roads are somewhat handicapping promi)t ship- 

 ments from the mills. A great many inquiries 

 tor all items in the hardwood list are coming 

 in. Orders are also numerous and some of them 

 are of large volume. Good prices are being ob- 

 tained, owing to the superior quality of the 

 lumber shipped from the Bennett mills. 



T. W. Fry, secretary of the Charles F. Luehr- 

 maun Hardwood Lumber Company, with his 

 wife, loft a few days ago for Florida. They will 

 remain there during the balance of the winter, 

 owing to the ill health of Mrs. Fry. Mr. Fry 

 will make frequent visits to St. Louis, but his 

 stays will be short. 



W. E. Chivvis, who makes a specialty in wal- 

 nut lumber, says the domestic demand is of fairly 

 good proportions, but the export trade is quite 

 good. 



Thomas E. Powe, president of the Powe Lum- 

 lier Company, is feeling pretty good over hard- 

 wood prospects. He reports a great many in- 

 quiries being received and from indications a 

 great many of the inquiries will develop into 

 orders. As soon as the present disagreeable 

 weather is over and spring opens, he believes 

 there will be quite a rush for lumber. 



E. W. Elumer, sales manager of the Lothman 

 Cypress Company, is out on the road again, 

 after remaining in the city only long enough to 

 make an inventory of stock. The company is 

 in excellent position to fill cypress orders and 

 can take care of all that may come in, as they 

 have some twenty-five million feet of high-grade 

 cypress in pile in the St. Louis yards. Mr. 

 Blumer is looking for a big cypress demand this 

 spring, and he also anticipates prices will ad- 

 vance. 



L. M. Borgess, sales manager of the Steele & 

 Ilibbard Lumber Company, has gone out on a 

 selling trip. He only remained in the city dur- 

 iug the holiday season, and then left to cover 

 his territory. From the inquiries that have been 

 received from the territory Mr. Borgess has gone 

 out to cover he will have a good trade. 



A nice mill work season is looked for by Albert 

 Ilohrens, general manager of the St. Louis Sash & 

 Door Works. He says inquiries are coming in 

 nicely and from the amount of building in sight 

 in this section, that will begin to start just as 

 soon as the weather becomes settled, he looks 

 lor enough orders to keep their people busy. 



Inquiries are coming in well Roland F. Krebs 

 of Krebs-Scheve Lumber Company reports. A 

 good many orders are in sight. Several big ones 

 have already been entered on the books. 



C. M. Jennings of the Berthold & Jennings 

 Lumber Company has returned home from a two 

 weeks' stay in the East. His trip was a business 

 call. 



The stockholders of the North St. Louis Plan- 

 ing Mill Company, at their annual meeting held 

 a few days ago, elected as directors : William 

 l.olhman, Henry Luedinghaus, Jr., W. D. Hemen- 

 way, John Fix, W. J. Wilderman. W. R. Irvin, 

 Henry Niehaus, F. W. Kuhlman and Henry 

 Speck. 



Harry It. Seartz. president of the Colonial 

 Timber & Lumber Company is visiting the mills 

 of the company this week. 



E. H. Luehrmann of the Charles F. Luehr- 

 maun Hardwood Lumber Company reports a fine 

 business thus far this year. Last year business 

 was heavy and from the way it is beginning 

 this year, there is every likelihood that there 



