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HARDWOOD RECORD 



HUNTINGTON 



Thf Kentucky Hardwood Company is very 

 busily engaged in grading for its railroad which 

 will be built from Jackson, Ky., to the large 

 racts of timber recently purchased near that 

 place. The company is drawing plans and lay- 

 ing out the grounds this week for the large 

 band mill which will be built at once to manu- 

 facture this timber. A short time ago the com- 

 pany sold all the large poplar to the Vansant, 

 Kitchen & Co. of Ashland. Ky., which will be 

 shipped by rail to the latter's band mills at Ash- 

 land. The company expects to manufacture all 

 the oak and other timber unless it is successful 

 In disposing of the timber at a satisfactory 

 price. 



W. C. Wilson, in charge of the Licking River 

 Lumber Company's mill office at Farmers, Ky., 

 spent a few days in the general ofhce of the 

 company in this city, returning to Farmers Mon- 

 day morning. Mr. Wilson advises that the tides 

 of the first two weeks of June on the Licking 

 river brought out a very good supply of timber 

 and the company will he able to run the mills 

 for some time. Advice from the company's otBce 

 in this city is to the effect that it has plenty 

 of orders for the band mill at Farmers as well 

 as for its hardwood flooring factory here. Prices 

 received are satisfactory and the present pros- 

 pects encouraging. 



C. Crane & <^'o. of Cincinnati received a large 

 number of poplar rafts of timber out of the 

 Guyan river on the rise of the last week. This 

 rise in the Guyan was a profitable one, bring- 

 ing out between 50.000 and 75.000 logs ; out of 

 this amount the Crane company owned a greater 

 portion. C. Crane of the concern spent several 

 days in this city during the tide looking after 

 the timber and other interests of the company 



S. E. Barr, New York representative of the 

 Lilly Lumber Company, mingled with our lum- 

 bermen last week, buying several cars of lumber 

 while here. He advises business in all lines n 

 little quiet at this time in his city, but expresses 

 his opinion that it will not last very long. 



G. W. Crosier, manager of the Miller-Crosier 

 Lumber Compan.v's mills at Anthony, W. Va., has 

 returned to that place after a few days' busi- 

 ness trip to the company's office here. He says 

 the mill is in steady operation now and plenty 

 of orders are on hand to keep the mill going. 

 Everything is in a good condition for a steady 

 run and the railroad from the mills to the tim- 

 ber has been completed. 



J. P. Walker, a lumberman of Danville, W. 

 Va., was a business visitor in the city this week. 

 Mr. Walker operates a number of small mills 

 in this state and advises business very satisfac- 

 tory, with prices better than they have been for 

 three years. He is optimistic over the present 

 outlook for millmen and expects to buy new 

 tracts of timber within the next sixty days. 



LOUISVILLE 



Since tile National Hardwood Lumber Associa- 

 tion convention adjourned the members of the 

 Louisville Hardwood Club have received many 

 messages from their guests expressing pleasure 

 at the splendid entertainment provided for them. 



The feature of the convention that pleases 

 Louisville lumbermen particularly is the election 

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

 Lumber Company as director of the association. 

 Although one of the young men of the trade, he 

 and his brother, J. G. Brown, who are now the 

 active members of the firm since the retirement 

 of their father, are making a reputation for 

 their ability to do big things in a big way. Mr. 

 Brown's selection is considered also a great thing 

 for the Louisville market and would seem to in- 

 dicate that Louisville is now accepted as on" 

 of the leading hardwood markets of the country. 



Business with the Edward L. Davis Lumber 

 Company is rather quiet, as is to be expected ai 



this season. Claude M. Sears of the firm said 

 that the demand is principally for quartered oak. 

 The company has been buying more than the 

 usual quantity of logs this year, which are of 

 fine quality, making up to some extent for the 

 higher prices which are being paid. 



A. E. Norman of the Norman Lumber Com- 

 pany said that lumber is now being piled in the 

 new yard at Ninth and Magnolia streets. Build- 

 ings are also being erected, and Mr. Norman 

 hopes to get in his new quarters in the next 

 few weeks. He is considering installing a plan- 

 ing mill. When the Norman Lumber Company 

 moves, its present quarters will be used as ad- 

 ditional .yardage by the Edward L. Davis Lum- 

 ber Company. 



The steamship Indianapolis, chartered by C. 

 C. Mengel & Bro. Company, docked at Pensa- 

 cola last week with a cargo of 700.000 feet of 

 mahogany logs from the British Honduras camps 

 of the company. The logs are now beginning to 

 arrive in Louisville. 



Louisville hardwood men are interested in the 

 development of the oak timber held by the Rich- 

 land Parish Lumber Company of which C. C. 

 Mengel is president. The company is about 

 ready to begin operations, its big reinforced con- 

 crete sawmill having been completed. It has a 

 capacity of 1.000.000 feet a month. Quartered 

 oak will be manufactured almost exclusively. 



Hardwood lumber firms which receive or ship 

 lumber over the HIinois Central railroad have 

 received notice that this line has put the uni- 

 form bill of lading into effect. The Louisville 

 & Nashville and the Southern railway are still 

 using the standard hill of lading adopted by the 

 traffic association for this territory. 



Many local lumbermen attended the meeting 

 of the Transportation Club at the Gait House 

 last week. Rate matters were discussed b,v R. 

 L. McKellar, assistant freight traffic manager of 

 the Southern railway. 



A sawmill and 3,"».000 feet of Hardwood lum- 

 ber, belonging to Dr. B. O. Rand, were burned 

 at Milton. Ivy., June 11. The loss was $5,000. 



Reports from the western part of the state 

 are to the effect that high water in the Green. 

 Rough and Big Barren rivers washed away thou- 

 sands of logs and railroad ties, causing a con- 

 siderable loss. Most of the logs were owned by 

 western Kentucky mills. 



The railroads are trying to devise a set of 

 regulations to prevent substitution of tonnage 

 on grain at transit points, follow-ing a decision 

 of the Interstate Commerce Commission declar- 

 ing tliat while fiat rates would not be made 

 mandatory, no substitution mtist be allowed. 

 Lumbermen here are of the opinion that at tran- 

 sit points where rehandling of lumber is per 

 mittcd the same sort of rules will be made to 

 apply, and so are watching the grain question 

 with interest. 



Plans have been completed for a new bridge 

 to be erected across the Ohio for the Kentucky 

 & Indiana Bridge Company at a cost of $2,000.- 

 000. The company is owned by the Southern 

 Railway, Monon and the B. & O. The bridge 

 will be a double track structure and of much 

 heavier con.struction than the present one, and 

 traffic to the North out of Louisville over the 

 roads mentioned will be greatly facilitated. 

 Louisville hardwood men believe that the new 

 bridge will be of great advantage to their busi- 

 ness. 



Railroad building promises to be undertaken 

 in Kentucky on a large scale shortly, and 

 through sections where timber abounds. E. J 

 Hunter of Chicago is said to be the head of a 

 company which will build from Mt. Olivet into 

 the eastern part of the state through timbei- 

 country of importance, while it is reported that 

 the Louisville & Nashville is surveying over the 

 extension proposed some time ago by the Lex- 

 ington & Eastern, and will probably build from 

 the present terminus of that road into Letcher 

 county and on into Virginia to connect with the 

 Atlantic Coast Line, which is controlled by L. & 



N. Interests. This would mean much for timber 

 development. The construction of the Burling- 

 ton railroad bridge at Metropolis, III., will result 

 in northern roads, which wish to connect with 

 southern lines in order to be able to handle the 

 traffic which is expected to result from the com- 

 pletion of the Panama canal, building extensions 

 from the bridge. Inasmuch as there is much 

 timber in western Kentucky which is rather in- 

 accessible on account of poor transportation fa- 

 cilities, this construction should prove of vast 

 benefit. 



ASHLAND 



The W. H. Dawkins Lumber Company spvg 

 business is much improved and thinks the pr,^s- 

 pects are very good. It has received a fine Ic, 

 of timber in the past two months, enough to 

 run the mill the balance of the year. Its mill 

 at Ironton is running extra time at present. 



The Southern Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 pleased with this month's business, which was 

 even better than May's volume. J. H. Kester 

 of this firm was recently summoned to Cairo, W. 

 Va., by the illness of his father. 



Vansant, Kitchen & Co. report business ma- 

 terially improved. They are moving out a lot 

 of low-grade stock and say prices are firm and 

 collections good. R. H. Vansant of the firm left 

 for a business trip to Asheville, N. C, this week. 



The J. W. Kitchen Lumber Company says busi- 

 ness is good ; orders are plentiful ; prices firm 

 and the month of June promises to show a bet- 

 ter record than May. The company is operating 

 its mill at Wrigley. Ky. J. W. Kitchen is in th.! 

 South tills week on business connected with the 

 lirm, 



A tract of land owned by Z. Fannin has re- 

 .'ently been acquired by J. B. Stevens and the 

 Watts-Ritter people of Huntington. The tract 

 consists of some very rich mineral and timber. 

 The land lies in Martin county, this state; and 

 wliile not so extensive as some boundaries re- 

 CLC.'ly sold along the Big Sandy river, it is an 

 extremely valuable one. 



G. H. Griffin of London, Eng., Chas. Abbott of 

 Boston, Mass.. John Robb of Philadelphia and 

 W. J. Fell of Salt Lick were hardwood buyers 

 prominently connected with the trade who have 

 been interviewing the Ashland lumbermen this 

 week. 



A deal was recently consummated whereby the 

 JlcCormick Lumber Company of Mt. Sterling and 

 v.. F. McCormick of Lexington, Ky., have ac- 

 quired the plant of the Reliance Lumber & 

 Manufacturing Company of Winchester, taking 

 possession July 1. The deal involves many thou- 

 sands of dollars. Frank McCormick will have 

 charge of the Winchester concern. 



ST. LOUIS 



The Lumbermen's Club uf St. Louis will be 

 the host of all the lumbermen of the city, 

 whether members of the club or not, and their 

 families, on a river excursion and picnic at 

 Montesano Springs Park June 29. All lumber 

 concerns will close that day. The steamer Grey 

 r:agle has been chartered and will leave at 10 

 o'clock in the morning for the park. Games ami 

 races of all kinds will occupy the time of the 

 picnickers when not interested in eating. A 

 championship baseball game between the Hard- 

 wood lumbermen and the yellow pine dealers will 

 be one of the features. The entertainment com- 

 mittee comprises Julius Seid':l. chairman. J. A. 

 Ilafner and J. F. Schneiders. 



Reuben Campbell, secretary of the Alf. Ben- 

 nett Lumber Company, was recently married to 

 Miss Marie Dillon of this city. On their return 

 from a honeymoon tour West the bridal pair will 

 be at home to their friends at the home of Judge 

 and Mrs. Dillon until plans for their future home 

 are completed. 



