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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The jards of tbe Norman Lumber Company 

 are filling up fast with lumber from southern 

 mills, and as orders are piling in at a rapid 

 rate also. Mr. Norman and his assistants are 

 ■being kept busy handling the two opposing 

 streams. During the summer the company will 

 •move Its quarters to the Magnolia street site 

 secured some time ago. 



Claude Scars of the Edw. L, Davis Lumber 

 ■Company has returned from a trip East, in 

 which he secured several large orders. The 

 Glasgow mill of the company is now running, 

 ■as is that in South Louisville. 



J. C. ■n'ickllffe, secretary of the C. C. Mengel 

 & Bro. Company, sailed March 26 for Liverpool. 

 He will be gone two or three months, and will 

 visit E'ngland. Scotland. France. Russia. Italy 

 and nearly all the Continental countries. His 

 trip is in connection with the export mahogany 

 trade of the company, which has been growing 

 at a rapid rate. The company has always been 

 a large exporter of lumber, and this branch of 

 the business Is to have Its full share of the at- 

 tention from now on, Julius Sicker, sales man- 

 ager of the company, has returned from a trip 

 to New York. C. R. Mengel. head of the com- 

 pany, recently visited the company's Chicago 

 hranch and found everything In good shape. 

 Everybody around the Mengel offices is smiling 

 just now and offering congratulations to Charles 

 ■Heimerdinger, shipping clerk, whose home ou 

 Forest avenue was visited by the stork last 

 -week, bringing triplets, all girls. 



D. C. Harris, traffic manager of C. C. Mengel 

 & Bro. Company and secretary of the Louisville 

 Hardwood Club, will have the distinction of 

 speaking for the shippers of Louisville at a 

 meeting of the Traffic and Transportation Club, 

 to be held April 11. The subject under discus- 

 sion Is to bo the new demurrage and car service 

 Tules which went into effect April 1. and In 

 addition to Mr. Harris, representing the ship- 

 pers, there will be addresses by a car service 

 man, a local agent and a superintendent. An- 

 other stunt the Traffic Club Is to pull off is a 

 trip around the city to view the terminals of 

 the various roads. This will be April 12, and 

 nearly all of the lumbermen will go, as the 

 swing will touch the plants of most of them. 



Recent visitors to the hardwood market In- 

 clude John L. Cochran, of New York, and Mr. 

 Hamlin, representing the Uighter Lumber Com- 

 pany, of Philadelphia. There are more buyers 

 coming to Louisville for their hardwoods than 

 ■ever before. 



D. E. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mill re- 

 ports the volume of business satisfactory. Ve- 

 neers are being turned out at his mills for dellv- 

 ■ery In all parts of the country and for use in 

 nearly every veneer-consuming Industry. 



Among local Industries which have started re- 

 cently and which interest the veneer men here 

 Is the Inman-Plerson Furniture Company, a $100,- 

 ■000 company which is now completing its plant 

 at Thirtieth and Kentucky streets. 



J. Taylor Green, who has been with the Big 

 Four here as chief clerk to the general freight 

 agent, has been made traffic manager of the 

 Indiana Veneer & Panel Company and the Stout 

 Furniture Company, both of New Albany. 



R. L. Thomas, who owns a hardwood mill at 

 Ford, Ky., and who has been prominent on the 

 turf for a long time, has announced his retire- 

 ment from the racing game,' and says that he 

 will stick to lumber from now on. 



The Adler Lumber Company has filed amended 

 articles of incorporation increasing Its capital 

 stock to $75,000. Those signing the articles are 

 C. L. Adler, R. S. Hill and B. A. Meyer. The 

 company Ls to operate in connection with the 

 Beckwlth Organ Company. 



Dry weather Is responsible for a good many 

 recent fires affecting lumbermen. From Pine- 

 ville, in Bell count!}'; South Park, Jefferson 

 county; Sergent, In the Cumberland mountains; 

 Allen county, in Southern Kentucky, and other 

 timber districts reports have come of the de- 

 struction of trees by fire, A fire destroyed the 



sawmill of Pat Murphy at Stanley. Ky., and 

 the same cause resulted In a loss of $20,000 at 

 Lawrenccburg, where the warehouse and lumber 

 yard of the People's Supply Company was 

 burned. 



Jerry Childrens of Campton, Ky.. died re- 

 cently of heart trouble. He was engaged In 

 manufacturing lumber and ties. 



Owing to activity In connection with coal 

 lands In eastern Kentucky, caused by the con- 

 struction of the Black Mountain and ■Wasloto 

 Railway, man,v extensions of roacLs i-unning into 

 that section are planned. The one referred to 

 win build a 22-mile extension up Poorfork, a 

 branch of the Cumberland river, while it Is re- 

 ported that roads In Virginia will probably ex- 

 tend their lines across the mountains into Ken- 

 tucky. That section is full of timberlands which 

 on account of lack of transportation have hardly 

 been touched. 



According to word received from Washington, 

 the Rivers & Harbors appropriation bill to be 

 recommended by the committee will carry appro- 

 priations of more than $4,000,000 for the Ohio 

 river and will also take care of other streams 

 in this section In which tbe lumbermen are In- 

 terested. 



The Union City Lumber Company, Rothwell, 

 Ky,, has sold Its timber holdings and lumber, 

 including a railway which it built, to W. Rus- 

 sell Tabor, S. S. PInney and B. G. Lyons, of 

 Mt. Sterling. The amount Involved was $20,000. 



The Louisville & Nashville statement for the 

 first half of March has been Issued, and shows 

 that big gains In earnings are being made, re- 

 flecting a healthy condition of business all over 

 the South. Since July 1, the beginning of the 

 fiscal year, the gain has been close to $4,000,000. 



Building In Louisville is going ahead at a 

 rapid rate. March showed 29S permits issued, 

 representing $336,000, while the corresponding 

 month of 1909 recorded 352 permits with $345,000. 

 A gain is shown, however, in comparison with 

 the building done during the first quarter, which 

 during 1910 showed building amounting to $927,- 

 000, as against $579,000 last year. 



ASHLAND 



John \V. Kitclieu has just returned from a 

 business trip In the North, and reports trade 

 conditions good; poplar and oak In No. 1 common 

 and better are good. 



John ■W., Powell, a lumberman from Canisteo, 

 N. Y., was a recent business visitor In the city. 



S. S. PInney of Mt. Sterling, W. R. Tabor and 

 R. Y. Lyons of Rothwell, Ky., have purchased 

 the Red River Railway Company and the Union 

 City Lumber Company In Menifee county, Ken- 

 tucky. .1. W. McCausey, who has been at the 

 head of the lumber company for the past twelve 

 years, will devote his time to the Michigan State 

 Life Insurance Company, of which he is presi- 

 dent. The lumber company will be operated 

 under the name of Ihe Rothwell Tie Company, 

 but the railroad will continue to be known as 

 the Red River Valley Railroad. 



J. Y. Darling of Cincinnati, O., was a promi 

 iient lumberman In our city this week. 



R. li. Vansant reports business good. The 

 mill Is In steady operation, but the timber sup- 

 ply Is short — the last tide having brought a com- 

 paratively small supply of logs. 



The Berwind-White people are directly inter- 

 ested In a gigantic deal just closed by Z. T. Vin- 

 son of Huntington, W. Va., and John C. C. Mayo 

 of Paintsville, whereby a tract of 100,000 acres 

 of timber and coal land In Kentucky, lying on 

 Peters Creek, between the Tug and Levlsa forks 

 of Big Sandy river has been sold. The consider- 

 ation involved approximated $3,000,000,000. 



Whisler & Searcy of Ironton are pretty busy 

 these days filling orders. The company is well 

 pleased with the business outlook. Its mills- at 

 Ironton and Farmers (Ky.) are both in operation, 

 with plenty of timlier to keep them going for 

 some time. 



The W. R. Vansant Lumber Company, with 

 mills at Rush, Ky., is doing a fine business. It 

 Is having a particularly steady demand for com- 

 mon and better plain and quartered oak. 



The Southern Hardwood Lumber Company re- 

 ports a steady improvement in its business. March 

 proved to be an exceptionally good month. J. H. 

 Kester Is In Ohio calling on the trade In the In- 

 terest of his firm. 



The W. H. Dawklns Lumber Company's mill 

 Is running steadily but the supply of timber Is 

 not very large. However, there are enough logs 

 on hand to keep the mill busy until May or June. 

 Business Is good an3 the company Is receiving 

 more orders for high grade stock than it can fill. 



The Reese-Kltcben Lumber Company, with 

 mills at Wrigley and sales office In Ashland, re- 

 ports a satisfactory business. It is turning out 

 a fine lot of oak and poplar. 



August Schmidt, manager of the H. Herrman 

 Lumber Company, has just closed a deal where- 

 by his company acquires a fine lot of timber 

 along the Big Sandy. Mr. Schmidt reports busi- 

 ness good. 



Among prominent visiting lumbermen In the 

 city the past week are: B. O. Brill of the J. G. 

 Brill Car Works, Philadelphia: H. S. Hall, rep- 

 resenting Richey, Halsted & Quick of Cincinnati: 

 W. J. Pulling of Windsor, Can.; John Hall of 

 Scofield Brothers. Philadelphia, and J. W. Tay- 

 lor, representing the Domestic Lumber Company 

 of Columbus, Ohio. 



ST. LOUIS 



While the building operations for March, ac- 

 cording to the report of the building commis- 

 sioner, showed a falling off in totals, as com- 

 pared with the corresponding month last year, 

 yet by the new system which the building com- 

 missioner inaugurated at the beginning of the 

 month, clearly showed In just what class of 

 structures this lalllng-off occurred. There was 

 a decided increase In the number of private 

 homes over the same month of 1909. More than 

 ISO of these were of brick and cost less than 

 $20,000. The aggregate amount of money which 

 will be put In homes, as called for by permits 

 issued In March, is more than $550,000. The 

 tendency toward the construction of flats and 

 apartment houses or "tenement houses" as all 

 are termed now was noticeable, and the figures 

 considerably exceed those of a year ago. There 

 were 160 tenements costing each less than $15,000 

 and totaling more than $700,000 started during 

 the month. The building commissioner predicts 

 continued activity for this month and well Into 

 the summer. 



The following Is a report of the movement of 

 lumber at this market during March: Receipts 

 by rail during March, 1910, were 17,601 cars; 

 during March, 1909, there were 12,728 cars, an In- 

 crease of 4,873 cars in 1910. Receipts by river 

 during March. 1910, were 120,000 feet; during 

 March, 1909, 236,000 feet, a decrease of 116,000 

 feet this year. Shipments by rail during March. 

 1910, were 11,491 cars; shipments by rail during 

 March, 1909, were 9.261 cars, an increase of 2,230 

 cars this year. Shipments by river during 

 March, 1910, were 40.000 feet,- during March, 1909, 

 270,000 feet, a decrease of 230.000 feet this year. 



Arthur E'. Holmes, a widely known lumberman 

 from Detroit, Mich., with several other lumber- 

 men met a few days ago In the office of the 

 Lumbermen's Exchange to discuss forest conser- 

 vation and other questions vitally touching the 

 lumber Industry. Freight rates were discussed 

 as well as the problem of dealing with future 

 fluctuations in prices. 



Early In March Julius Seidel, chaliman of the 

 entertainment committee of the Lumbermen's 

 Club, sent a letter to Mr. PInchot, inviting him 

 to be the guest of the Lumbermen's Club while he 

 was In St. Louis In connection with his visit to 

 the Ozarks, with Gov. Hadley and the members 

 of the Forestry Commission of Missouri. Mr. Sei- 

 del received the following reply; 



