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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Tile now mill of the W. P. Brown & Sons 

 Lumber Company is working well at Madlson- 

 ville. and some recent shipments from there 

 have been pronounced unusually fine. It is cut- 

 ting some oak and poplar lumber secured from 

 the southwestern part of the state. T. M. 

 Browu. illustrating the importance of this mar- 

 ket, recently called attention to the fact that 

 several shipments have been made from here to 

 the Pacific coast. Seattle. Portland and other 

 western cities getting Kentucky lumber. 



Claude Sears is now out of town, doing some 

 prospecting for the Edw. L. Davis Lumber 

 Company. Mr. Sears believes that the hardwood 

 himlieruien sheiild play on the sate side, and 

 that instead of shoving prices up they should 

 be allowed to remain steady so as to give the 

 consumer a chance. Business with the company 

 Is good. Both mills are running. 



Sam E. Booker of E. B. Norman & Co. is 

 devoting much attention just now to the com- 

 pany's box factory. The demand for packing 

 boxes is picking up. Most of the logs lost by 

 the company during the high water of the 

 winter, when ice prevented their being handled, 

 have about been recovered, and they are now 

 being sawed at the company's mill on the point. 

 Barry Norman believes that plain oak. which is 

 in unusually good demand just now, is destined 

 to go somewhat higher. 



Harry J. Gates of the Louisville Point Lumber 

 Company has a new automobile and has let a 

 few kinks out of it now and then on Fulton 

 street. He has yet to reach liis limit, however, and 

 one day when' the Hardwood Record man was 

 in the car with him be went about forty miles 

 an hour. He still thinks he can do better than 

 that. Mr. (iatcs and Ed Shippen are very busy 

 these days, and the volume of lumber they are 

 handling compared favorably with that of any 

 previous month at this period. 



J. C. Wickliffe, secretary of C. C. Mengel & 

 Dro. Company, is on the other side of the water 

 just now. having gone abroad in the interest of 

 the export business of the firm, which has been 

 growing at a rapid rate. Mr. Wickliffe will visit 

 England, Scotland. France, Germany and Russia 

 during his stay. 



Mr. Hamlin of the Righter Lumber Company. 

 Philadelphia, visited Louisville recently and was 

 a guest of honor at a meeting of the Louisville 

 Hardwood Club. 



Not to be outdone by any of his competitors. 

 Mart Brown (not Mark, if you please) has 

 gotten a brand-new Packard for the benefit of 

 the visitors to Louisville who will he here during 

 the convention. Mr. Brown traded in his old 

 Stoddard-.Tohnson for it. and he and his little 

 brother Graham are much delighted with the 

 new car. 



Quartered oak is quieter, according to A. E. 

 Norman of the Norman Lumber Company. He 

 believes that everybody who could do so manu- 

 factured qiiai'ti'i'"' oak out of his logs, with the 

 result thai then> has bcM>n proportionately too 

 much of it on the market. There is a big 

 demand, however, for plain oak. he said. 



The Ohio River Sawmill Company is piling up 

 an immense stock at its South Louisville yards. 

 and R. F. Smith, the local manager, is beini; 

 kept busy liandling it. There is a steady demand 

 for lumber from furniture factories in which 

 H. A. McCowen of that company is interested. 

 and that alone would keep an ordinary lumber 

 yard going. 



The Southern Veneer Company has made 

 plans for enlargements which will give it about 

 as big a capacity as is enjoyed by any .veneer 

 mill In this part of the country. The company 

 has bought sixty feet more of ground adjoining 

 the present plant and will put the sawmill there, 

 using the space, gained by the change for a 

 flitchlng di-i)artmenl. New machinery and motors 

 will be added, and about .$'25,000 sp.^nt. The 

 total investment represented by the plant will 

 be $eO,000. Business is very good. 



Frank Russell of the Kentucky Tie & Stave 

 Company recently stated that timber has ad- 

 vanced over 100 per cent and that lumber and 

 forest products generally must keep pace with 

 the cost of production. He gave several in- 

 stances showing how the cost of stumpage has 

 risen, and made it plain that the trend of 

 lumber, ties, staves and similar products is 

 bound to be up^'ard instead of down. 



County cfficials in southern Indiana have 

 received word from the State Board of Forestry 

 calling thi'ir attention to the laws intended for 

 the protection of the trees from fire, and calling 

 upon them to lend their efforts in this direction, 

 losses from forest fires having lieen very great 

 in the past few years. 



Lumbermen and other shippers protested vig- 

 orously a few weeks ago against the announce- 

 ment by railroads that a charge of .$1 will be 

 made for tariff sheets hereafter. The protest 

 had effect, for it was announced later that the 

 charge would be for duplicates only, and that 

 the originals would be furnished without cost. 



C. C. Mengel is one of those who are leading 

 a movement for the erection of an equestrian 

 statue of Gen. .Tohn P.. Castleman of this city, 

 who is the father of the park system and a 

 leading citizen generally. It is believed, how- 

 ever, that if Col. Mengel keeps pegging away 

 they'll be doing as much for him one of these 

 days. 



Arbor Day. April .S. was generally observed in 

 Louisville, school children planting many trees 

 all over the city and state. Maple, pin oak and 

 ash were the most popular varieties which went 

 into the soil. 



' .John B. Atkinson, regarded as Kentucky's 

 leading forestry expert, has written an article 

 embodying his discoveries in connection with the 

 growth of trees. He has planted l.O.'JO.OOO dur- 

 ing the past twenty years, most of them being 

 black walnut, catalpa speciosa. black locust and 

 yellow poplar. 



Railroad earnings by roads in this section 

 continue to show good gains, indicating a 

 healthy condition of business. The Louisville & 

 Nashville gained roughly a quarter of a million 

 .hiring the first two weeks of April, while for 

 the current fiscal year the gain Is $4,701,000. 



C. C. Mengel of the Mengel Box Company was 

 one of a delegation of leading business men who 

 went to Frankfort to protest against an arbi- 

 trary increase in the assessment for state taxa- 

 tion amounting to twenty-five pi'r cent. It Is 

 now conceded that the increase will be reduced. 

 The Asher Lumber Company has purchased 

 from the Wilson Lumber Company 1.000.000 f.'.'t 

 of timber located on the Little Clear Creek. The 

 timber is rather inaccessible, and a railroad will 

 have to be built to get into it. 



Edward A. Mehler. who has been conducting 

 the Mehler Lumber Company, has been adjudged 

 n bankrupt in the federal court. His unse.-ured 

 lialiilili.'s amounted to .f.'i.fiSn. 



The Corey-Scheffel Lumber Company has libd 

 articles of incorporation, giving its capital stock 

 as ?:!0,000. A. .1. Corey. B. A. ScheCfel and A. ,1. 

 Bruce are the incorporators. 



Reports from Tennessee indicate that during 

 the dry weather a few weeks ago there was a 

 hi'avy destruction of forests. The neighborhood 

 of Bristol. Tenn.. was greatly affected, and the 

 loss to lumbermen, it was reported, ran into the 

 hundreds of thousands, many operations being 

 burned out in total or in part. The John T. 

 Di.'.ion Lumber Company lost S. 000. 000 feet of 

 fine timber on Elk creek, .^.".O.OOO being the 

 estimated damage. 



It is believed that the proposed Tennessee. 

 Alabama & Kentucky railroad, which is in- 

 tended to run between Chattanoo,ga and Louis- 

 ville, would open up a great deal of timber lands 

 which have not been touched as yet on account 

 of the lack of railroad facilities. Rutledge Smith 

 of Cookesville. Tenn., is president of the com- 

 pany. 



Louisville hardwood men are much interested 



In the work being planned by the Kentucky 

 River Hard%vood Company, which is reported to 

 have bought 27.000 acres of land in Breathitt 

 and adjoining counties and will build a railroad 

 and set up several sawmills to develop it. Much 

 of the work, it is reported from Jackson, will 

 be done in connection with the Stevenson Lum- 

 ber Company. The Lexington & Eastern will 

 probably extend its line to Quicksand, where the 

 lumber company's railroad is, in order to give 

 proper facilities. 



ASHLAND 



Vansant. Ivitchen & Co. have revently acquired 

 a very valuable tract of fine virgin forest, Ken- 

 tuck.v poplar, situated on Quicksand and Little 

 creeks of the Kentucky river. This consists of 

 from 60 to 75 million feet, and the consideration 

 was about $1,500,000. This is the purchase known 

 as the Stevenson Lumber Company, and sold by 

 it to the Carroll Hardwood Lumber Company, 

 and includes the timber of the Kentucky Union 

 LumlxT Company's lands and adjacent thereto, 

 on 27,000 acres of property. The Lexington and 

 Eastern railroad will complete its road to the 

 mouth of Quicksand, and a tram, with full log- 

 ging equipment, will be built to that point. The 

 logging and timber, operations will be under 

 Johnson. Bushkirk & Co. of Huntington. Van- 

 sant. Kitchen & Co. are already in possession of 

 this tract, and within six mouths they will begin 

 to receive the logs, which are to be brought to 

 their mill at Ashland, to be sawn into lumber, 

 where their yard facilities for handling this 

 stock are so large and so conveniently arranged. 

 The Wright-Saulsberry Lumber Company has 

 made somi' changes in the past few weeks. J. E. 

 Burke, formerly secretary of the company, has 

 withdrawn and is now with Vansant, Kitchen & 

 Co. At a meeting of the directors the firm name 

 was changed to the Wright-Kitchen Company, 

 .Tames Kitchen being made vice-president and 

 Chas. J. Kitchen secretary-treasurer. The com- 

 pany reports a splendid business, not being able 

 to fill the orders that are being received. It has 

 recently installed a machine to cut dimension 

 stock, an innovation which promises to be both ■ 

 paying and practical. 



The Hermann Lumber Company has within the 

 last two days purchased a fine tract of timber in 

 Greenup county of about L.'JOO acres of fine virgin 

 forest oak and poplar. August Schmidt reports 

 business good, shipping out as rapidly as the 

 stock can be sawed. 



Vansant. Kitchen Co.'s band mill at Vilas, 

 vihicb was removed to Bilvia. has now resumed 

 oi.eration. and is employing a large force ot men. 

 The Whisler & Scearcy Company. Ironton, O.. 

 rei)orts business satisfactory. Its mills are 

 operating steadily, and the prospects for a tide 

 are now more encouraging than for the past few 

 weeks, so that enough lumber may be received 

 to keep the plant running throughout the 

 summer. 



S. D. Morgan, formerly of the Kile & Morgan 

 Company, Columbus, O.. hut now manager of the 

 Ironton Lumber Company, reports business very 

 satisfactory. He says oak bill .stuff is moving 

 out well, and a good demand for all grades of 

 poplar, especially No. 1 common and better, and 

 wide poplar moving out especially fast. Mr. 

 Morgan says his concern is practically out Of 

 logs, and is anxiously awaiting a timber run. 



R. H. Vansant of Vansant. Kitchen & Co. is In 



New Orleans this week attending the meeting of 



tli.' National I.,umber Manufacturers' Association. 



\V. L. Watson, a lumberman of Mahan, W. Va., 



spent April 17 with his family in this city. 



Chas. J. Kitchen of the Wright-Kitchen Com- 

 lian.N , has returned from Parkersturg, W. Va., 

 w l;ei-e he was looking after timl:-er. 



P. M. Bradley, a lumberman of Jlorehead, Ky., 



was a business visitor iij Ashland the past week. 



J. W. McCansey. a prominent lumberman of 



Grand Rapids, Mich., was here on business with 



our millinen last week. 



