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logs which came down the rivers from the tim- 

 ber country, the Big Sandy and the Green 

 being the principal streams which have fur- 

 nished means of transportation for the logs. 



Business witli E. B. Nornamn & Co. has im- 

 proved considerably of late, although the de- 

 maud for a time was not as active as it had 

 been, according to S. E. Booker of that firm. 

 The box factory is not running quite as heavily 

 as it has been, ho said. Mr. Booker recently 

 returned from an automobile trip through the 

 blue grass, which he took with a party of 

 friends in his Oldsmobile touring car. 



D. E. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills 

 said that the situation is more than good and 

 that business is coming in in fine volume. 

 Manufacturers are ordering veneers in their 

 old-time way and prices have shown a steady 

 improvement. Figured gum veneers have been 

 in good demand of late. Mr. Kline, who is tak- 

 ing an active interest in the convention of the 

 hardwood lumbermen, will leave Louisville 

 shortly after that to attend the meeting of 

 the veneer manufacturers which will be held in 

 St. Louis, June 14 and 15. 



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

 I,umber Company said that business has been 

 great. Rain held up shipments for a while, but 

 they are getting out the stuff in quantity now. 

 'J'lie yards of the Brown company are occupying 

 .more room every few weeks, it seems, and every 

 inch of available ground is covered with the 

 stock that is being sbipjied in by the company's 

 southern mills. 



Claude Sears of the Edw. L. Davis Lumber 

 Company, has returned from a trip to the East, 

 in which he did a satisfactory business. Ed- 

 ward L. Davis, head of tlie company, has pur- 

 chased a Cadillac 'I'liirty touring car and thus 

 makes the hardwcn il club ]u'etty nearly an auto- 

 mobile organization, as ;i!pnut all of the other 

 t'.rms have cars. 



R. F. Smith of the Ohio River Saw Mill Com- 

 pany said that the company received some xm- 

 usually fine quartered oak from its river mills 

 and that it shows up as well as anything it has 

 had in the yards tor a long time. Shipments out 

 of its plant have been heavy of late. Mr. Smith 

 taid that an extension of the platforms will be 

 made in a short time so as to reach all parts of 

 the yard. 



Edward L. Shippen of the Louisville Point 

 Lumber Company has returned from a trip up 

 the Big Sandy to look after the shipments of 

 logs to the mill of the company from that terri- 

 tory. The company has found the demand for 

 poplar, plain and quartered oak good, and 

 added that a special feature has been the de- 

 mand for the low grades of poplar which have 

 been moving freely of late. 



Victor Lamb, treasurer of C. C. Mengel & 

 Brother Company, has returned from a six 

 weeks' trip to British Honduras, where the 

 <ompany is cutting 5,000,000 feet of mahogany 

 this year. He brought back with him the skin 

 of a puma which was killed by C. L. Dodd, 

 camp foreman in Quantana Roo, in the south- 

 ern part of Yucatan. 



The C. C. Mengel & Brother Company has filed 

 amended articles of incorporation, increasing 

 the amount of its capital stock from $1,050,000 

 to $1,150,000. The additional issue is common 

 stock. 



The "Russ" recently unloaded a cargo of 

 700,000 feet of mahogany from Belize, and these 

 logs are now being handled at the local plant of 

 the company. 



The baseball team representing the office force 

 ot the company has been organized, and after 

 losing the opening game to the team represent- 

 ing the Mengel Box Company, braced up and 

 defeated the nine of the United States Cast 

 Iron Pipe & Foundry Company. Two games a 

 week are to be played. 



(larence R. Mengel. president of the com- 

 pany, received a telephone call from Holland 

 I'orbes, the New York aeronaut, who passed 



through the city on his way back to the Me- 

 tropolis. Mr. Forbes and a companion were 

 seriously injured when their balloon fell in 

 southern Kentucky a short time ago. 



I). C. Harris, traffic manager of the Mengel 

 company. Is one of a comfiiittee of the TrafHc 

 Club which has been conferring with railroad 

 superintendents relative to the demurrage bond 

 question. The superintendents listened to the 

 arguments of the shippers and agreed to con- 

 sider the question. It is now thought likely 

 that the bonds will not be asked, as it was 

 shown that railroads in a number of other cities 

 have not required them of the shippers. 



Among recent visitors to the local market have 

 been O. Gladden of the American Seating Com- 

 pany, Chicago : W. F. Bixby of the Bixby L\im- 

 ber Company, Decatur, Ala. : Secretary Perkins 

 of the .lamestown Table Company, ,7amestown, 

 X. Y., and .7. W. Thompson of the J. W. Thomp- 

 son Lumber Company, Memphis. Tliere is a 

 larger number of lumber buyers coming to Louis- 

 ville now than in many years, and this is at- 

 tributed to the exploitation of the Hardwood 

 Club as well as to the fact that large stocks of 

 fine hardwoods are carried here. 



Plans for the formation of a merger of handle 

 interests in this section, wiiich included the 

 Turner, Day & Woolworth Company of this city, 

 have been declared off and the local company 

 will not enter the combination. An option on 

 the stock of the company expired May 1 and ac- 

 cording to officials of the company it will not be 

 renewed. 



Forest fires have started in the Cumberland 

 mountains, in tlie eastern part of the state, and 

 according to advices from Letcher county and 

 other points in tliat region the damage to tim- 

 ber has been large. 



.Tohn Cobb of Perry county gets $500 from 

 the l'"ord Lumber Company for logs recovered 

 for the concern, the amount being 13 cents a 

 log. The Court of Appeals recently passed on 

 the case. The same court held in the case of 

 the Pulaski Stave Company against the Miller's 

 Creek Lumber Company that a logging contract 

 is assignable. 



Announcement has been made by B. F. Avery 

 &. .Sons, local plow manufacturers, that the new 

 plant of the company in South Louisville has 

 been completed and that the work of installing 

 the machinery is now under way. The com- 

 pany expects to be operating in the new plant 

 m .\ugust. It is a large consumer of hickory 

 and other hardwoods. 



The Louisville Traffic & Transportation As- 

 sociation, of which practically all the lumber- 

 men are members, has decided to incorporate 

 under the name of the Louisville Transportation 

 Club. 



Miss Gertrude Carr of Louisviiie was the 

 bride of Rezin McClure, secretary and treasurer 

 of the Southwestern Veneer Company of Cotton 

 Plant, Ark. They eloped and were married in 

 Cincinnati 



Since July 1, 1909, the beginning of the cur- 

 rent fiscal year of the Louisville & Nashville 

 railroad, earnings have increased $5,246,000, 

 and the indications are that the increase for 

 the year will he close to $7,500,000. Prosperous 

 business conditions in the South account for the 

 big gains. 



Appropriations for the improvement of the 

 Green river, in which lumber men are much 

 interested, are in danger, and it is reported that 

 the Senate committee is opposed to making the 

 appropriation. 



largest number that have come out in years, at 

 one time. There is a sufficient amount of tim- 

 ber to keep all the local plants busy for the 

 next three or four months. This failure of any 

 timl>er to reach the mouth of the river earlier 

 indicates the timber along the lower portion of 

 the river is a thing of the past. The timber 

 now coming out is mostly from the upper coun- 

 ties of Pike, Floyd and Letcher. The lumber 

 companies that are chiefly interested in this run 

 are Vansant, Kitchen & Co., W. H. Dawkins 

 Lumber Company, Wright-Kitchen Company and 

 Yellow Poplar Lumber Company. 



Vansant, Kitchen & Co. are satisfied with the 

 business situation. They have a good demand 

 for oak, both plain and quartered, and report 

 tlieir volume of business good. They are receiv- 

 iug a fairly good amount of logs the present run, 

 which will enable the mill to operate for .some 

 time to come. 



The W. IL Dawkins Lumber Company reports 

 a good run of timber, enough to keep its mill 

 operating for three or four months. This com- 

 pany is not complaining of business conditions, 

 liaving all the orders it can fill. 



The Wright-Kitchen Lumber Company reports 

 business very satisfactorj'. It is running its mill 

 twelve hours per day in order to get caught up 

 with orders. It is cutting considerable oak, 

 for whiclx it has a good demand, with prices re- 

 maining firm. 



A twenty-seven-inch white oak board is being 

 shown witli quite pardonable pride by F. N. 

 Fannin. It was made in the Decatur (.\la.) 

 mill of the Iluntsville Lumber Company, of 

 which firm Mr. Fannin is president. 



The Nigli I/umber Company of Ironton. O.. 

 reports business quiet, but prosjjects such tliat 

 there will be increased activity shown. This 

 company received a good amount of timber on 

 the present rise, which is very encouraging, as 

 its supply was almost exhausted. Another en- 

 couraging feature is the increased demand for 

 T.alnut, which is decidedly stronger than for 

 months past. 



The W. R. Vansant Lumber Company is very 

 optimistic. Its mill at Rush is operating right 

 along. Prospects are bright. The company has 

 1 lenty of orders and prices remain firm. 



Th.-^ Southern Hardwood Company reports a 

 splendid showing for the month of April, witk 

 May promising even better things, as this is the 

 banner month. J. H. Kester, secretary, is at 

 present in Bristol, Tenn., in the interest of tlie 

 firm. 



The Whisler & Searcy Company reports a 

 good tide out of Licking river. It received 1,500 

 logs of very fine poplar and oak at its Farmers 

 mills. This, with its supply of fine West Vir- 

 ginia oak from Parkersburg for the Ironton mill, 

 is enough to keep both the company's mills 

 operating for several months. Orders are plenti- 

 ful, prices firm and collections good. 



The work in the planing mills department is 

 moving along very .satisfacti rily. The .Standard 

 Planing Mill Company and Ashland Lumber Com- 

 pany are both busy, each having some very fine 

 contracts, which are being rapidly pushed along. 



The J. W. Kitchen Lumber Company report 

 business very favorable. Lumber is moving out 

 well, orders plentiful, but there is not enough 

 wide stock to supply the demand. 



R. G. Page of the Licking River Lumber Com- 

 pany has moved his family from this place to 

 Huntington, W. Va., where they will reside. 



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ST. LOUIS 



Business in general in this locality is good, 

 both in wholesale and retail lines. The heavy 

 rains the past week are responsible for one of 

 the heaviest timber runs out of Big .Sandy that 

 has been for some months past. About 600 

 rafts came down on this water, which is the 



.\bout scventj* members of the Tyumbermen's 

 Club, with their ladies, accepted the invitation of 

 E. G. Lewis, extended to the club some time ago, 

 to visit the Woman's Magazine plant at Hnlver- 

 sity City. They met at Delmar Garden on the 

 afternoon of May 10, had luncheon, and then 

 went in a body to University City. 



The arrangements for the picnic of the Lum- 



