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HARDWOOU RECORD 



wiirrt 1.. Davis of the Edwaid L. Davis Lumber 

 Company. Clauds Sears of that company, who 

 is a member ol' the Entertainment Committee 

 of the Hardwood Club, is working his mental 

 apparatus unusually hard framing up some 

 -stunts" for the hardwood lumber convention in 

 June. He believes that it will be a hummer. 



John Davey. who is known as the "tree doc- 

 tor." will deliver a lecture here shortly on the 

 subject of "Our Wounded Friends, the Trees." 

 Mi: Davey is said to bo an expert on the care of 

 trees, anil will be brought here under the aus- 

 pices of the Woman's Outdoor Art League. 



It has been announced that the recommenda- 

 tion of the Kentucky Itetail Dealers' Association, 

 v.hich convened here recently, regarding the 

 adoption of the strip count instead of face 

 measurement as a basis for handling flooring, 

 ceiling and other dressed and matched lumber, 

 has been indorsed by the retailers of Louisville, 

 and that it will go into effect beginning March 

 15. The Louisville Lumbermen's Club, the or- 

 ganization of brokers and retailers, had a beef- 

 steak dinner at the Louisville Hotel March 5. 

 William C. Ballard is president of the organ- 

 ization. 



Senators P.aynter and Bradley, representing 

 Kentucky at Washington, are joining with Rep- 

 resentative Langley in an effort to secure ,i;.50,- 

 000 additional for the improvement of lock 14 

 on the Kentucky river. The river is much used 

 I'y the lumber people. 



The I,ouisville Bridge Company may double 

 track its bridge across the Ohio at Fourteenth 

 street. The announcement of this probability 

 has interested the hardwood men, as a great 

 deal of lumber shipped out of here goes over 

 that bridge, which is used by the Pennsylvania 

 and the Mouon railroads. The single track has 

 cramped its facilities considerably. 



The State Railroad Commission has adopted 

 the demurrage rules approved at the national 

 convention of the Association of Railroad Com- 

 missioners. Average demurrage, giving credits 

 when less time than the limit of forty-eight 

 hours is consumed in unloading, is the feature 

 of the system. The Hardwood Club recom- 

 mended that this feature be incorporated when 

 the subject was up for discussion at Washington. 



Improved business conditions all over the 

 South arc indicated by the report of the Louis- 

 ville & . Nashville Railroad Company for the 

 three weeks of February covered by the report. 

 An increase of $.341,000 is shown, while since 

 July 1, the beginning of the fiscal year, the 

 increase in gross earnings is $3,496,000. 



The lumber interests of the state are much 

 interested in the good roads bills now in the 

 legislature. It is feared that the session will 

 adjourn before they are put through. They are 

 the result of the adoption of the good roads 

 amendment to the state constitution at the No- 

 vember election. Bad roads are the bane of Ken- 

 tucky lumbermen, many mills being idle right 

 now because it is impossible to transport logs 

 ever the muddy highways. 



The report of the building inspector for Feb- 

 ruary shows that 130 permits were issued for 

 a total of $318,088, as compared with 151 per- 

 mits in February, 1009, representing $100,000. 

 The gain of more th.an 200 per cent is consid- 

 ered encouraging. 



Lumbermen of Louisville recognize an old 

 friend in E. L. Roederer, who has been ap- 

 pointed division agent of the Big Four railroad 

 with headquarters in Louisville. He was for- 

 merly located here, and owing to bis familiarity 

 with the lumber situation and his desire to help 

 the hardwood market, he won a place in the 

 hearts of the local men. 



The Moody-Mitchell Lumber & Building Com- 

 pany has filed an amendment in the county 

 clerk's office enlarging the scope of its business 

 and fixing the amount of its indebtedness at 

 $70,000. Those interested are John Mitchell, 

 W. II. Feltman and J. R. Kirwan. 



ASHLAND 



Vansant, Kitchen & Co. placed in operation 

 their double band mill last week and have on 

 a supply of logs that will run them for a short 

 time. They did not receive the amount of tim- 

 ber on the tides of last week that they had 

 expected, as the rise in the Big Sandy and its 

 tributaries was not sufficient to bring out a large 

 supply of timber. Large amounts of poplar 

 lumber are being loaded out at present, making 

 room for the new stock. The company is now 

 making a specialty of long oak timbers in addi- 

 tion to poplar lumber. Regarding present condi- 

 tions, the oflice reports that the receipt of 

 large orders and inquiries are more plentiful 

 than they have been since before the panic of 

 two years ago. 



B. F. Vansant, lumber dealer of Morehead, 

 Ky., was a business caller in our city and vis- 

 ited our lumbermen. Mr. Vansant has a very 

 optimistic feeling as to the lumber business for 

 tiis year and is very much pleased over the 

 outlook. 



Leon Isaacson, vice-president of the Yellow 

 Poplar Lumber Company, was a recent business 

 caller in the city. He advises that a large sup- 

 ply of timber was received on the tides of last 

 week, although not as much as was expected. 

 The company is very busy in the logging opera- 

 tion some distance from Elkhorn City, and ex- 

 pects with the new splash dam it has in the 

 brakes of the Big Sandy to get out more timber 

 this season than ever before. 



The Wright-Saulsberry Lumber Company is 

 running its mills again and loading out a number 

 of cars this week, consisting of oak and pop- 

 lar lumber and oak timbers, shipping, especially, 

 some very long oak timbers, of which material 

 it makes a specialty. The company received 

 a fair supply of timber on the tides and it is 

 expecting more on the tides of this spring than 

 it has received thus far. Business with the 

 company is very satisfactory and prospects are 

 very encouraging for this year. 



The Miller-Crosier Lumber Company, the new 

 firm of Huntington, reports the work of building 

 new houses for its men and also the hotel and 

 commissary building at the large mill it is erect- 

 ing near Anthony, W. Va., moving along nicely. 

 Mr. Miller advises that the company has a large 

 portion of the right-of-way graded for the rail- 

 road, which is being constructed for the purpose 

 of hauling its timber to the mills on the C. 

 ,& O. railway. The company expects to be in 

 operation in a short time. 



The Dimension Lumber Company of Herkimer, 

 N. 1'., is operating its band mill at this place. 

 This is the first it has had this mill in opera- 

 tion for some time on the account of having 

 no timber. The company is putting the lum- 

 ber on sticks, which will later be shipped to its 

 own factories, where a large portion of its lum- 

 ber is consumed in the manufacture of dimension 

 stock and furniture. 



August Schmidt of the Herman Lumber Com- 

 pany spent several days last week on a business 

 trip to Louisville, Ky. Very good reports are 

 received from this company's office as to the 

 present conditions of business and the amount 

 of orders received. The company makes a spe- 

 cialty of cutting its lumber into knock-down 

 furniture stock, shipping it mostly to eastern 

 customers. 



ST. LOUIS 



Building operations during the month of 

 February fell off in comparison with February of 

 last ye'av. The total estimated cost of the 

 buildings proposed in the 557 permits issued 

 during the month was $1,229,263 against $2,170,- 

 041 for the 655 permits issued during February, 

 1909. This shows a decrease of $940,778. New 

 buildings last month aggregated $1,111,405 and 

 $117,768 was spent in alterations. 



The following is a report of the movement of 

 lumber at this market during February: Re- 

 ceipts by rail during February, 1910, were 13,488 

 cars; during February, 1900, there were 11,398 

 cars ; an increase of 2,094 cars in 1910. Ship- 

 ments by rail during February, 1910, were 9,230 

 cars ; shipments by rail during February, 1909, 

 were 8,243 cars, an increase of 988 cars during 

 this year. During February of this year there 

 were 37,000 feet received by river. Last year 

 there was none. There were no shipments by 

 river either last February or this February. 



The lumber inspected and measured by the 

 Lumbermen's Exchange of St. Louis during 

 February was as follows, as reported by Secre- 

 tary A. H. Bush : 



Plain oak, 290,352 ; cypress, 54,787 ; maple, 

 1,704 ; ash, 83,718 ; poplar, 39,755 ; sycamore, 

 245 ; Cottonwood, 93 ; cherry, 154 ; locust, 22 ; 

 spruce, 16,065 ; pecan, 12,469 ; gum, 14,406 ; 

 quartered oak, 57,333 ; hickory, 4,882. Total, 

 576,075 feet. 



The Federal Court of Appeals has affirmed the 

 verdict of the United States Court for the west- 

 ernt district of Arkansas against the St Louis 

 Stave & Lumber Company, finding it liable for 

 damages of $1,894.43 for timber cut from gov- 

 ernment land in Arkansas. An improper survey 

 of the last is said to have occasioned a mis- 

 understanding about ownership of the timber. 



A good business is reported by the Krebs- 

 Scheve Lumber Company. Many inquiries are 

 coming in and the company looks for a good 

 demand for hardwood lumber during the spring 

 months. 



R. L. Page, manager of the hardwood depart- 

 ment of the Alf. Bennett Lumber Company, re- 

 ports a nice trade on all items on the hardwood 

 list. The sales of gum during the past few 

 weeks have been quite large. The company's 

 facilities for handling and the promptness with 

 which it can ship lumber, owing to its mill con- 

 nections, is a great advantage that it has over 

 the majority of hardwood dealers. Alf. Bennett, 

 president of the company, has returned from a 

 business trip to Little Rock, Ark. 



The F. C. Moore Lumber Company has changed 

 its name to that of the Moore-Jordan Lumber 

 Company, and its capital stock has been in- 

 creased from $2,000 to $10,000. F. C. Moore, 

 president of the old company, is a well-known 

 hardwood lumberman, and one of the board of 

 directors of the Lumbermen's Exchange of St. 

 Louis. On February 1 the office of the company 

 was moved to its yard in the north end. where 

 it has excellent shipping facilities. 



Gum and other items on the hardwood list 

 are reported in good demand by the Garetson- 

 Greason Lumber Company. 



After attending numerous conventions through- 

 out this territory, Julius Seidel, president of the 

 Julius Seidel Lumber Company, is at home. He 

 says the prospects eTerywhere_ are very good for 

 hardwood lumber, just as soon as the spring de- 

 mand begins. 



A steady trade in all hardwood lumber items 

 is reported by E. H. Luehrmann of the Chas. F. 

 Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber Company. This 

 is particularly true of red gum. 



The Gram & Noser Lumber Company, whole- 

 sale hardwood lumber, dissolved a few days ago. 

 However, it is reported that both members of the 

 old firm will go into business again in a short 

 time. 



The Noser-Eppler Lumber Company was in- 

 corporated on March 2, to deal in all kinds of 

 lumber. The capital stock is given at $6,000. 

 Those interested are Thomas J. Noser, Louis R. 

 Eppler and Anthony Kulage. 



LITTLE ROCK 



According to railroad men, there has prob- 

 ably never been such a demand for building 

 material before in the history of the railroads 

 in this section of the country ; at least, material 

 for railroad construction work, bridge timbers. 



