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company. Mr, Smith reported tin- demand 

 pretty good and a lot of fine stock coming in 

 from the mills. 



Heavy shipments of logs have been received 

 of late hy the local mill of the North Ver- 

 non Lumber Company, and Manager W. N. 

 Hess is running the mill to its capacity. Ow- 

 ing to the fact that the railroad switch which 

 is to be installed in the Dyersburg plant of 

 the company has not yet been put in, there 

 lias l)een some dela.v in moving the sawmill 

 from North Vernon, Ind.. to Dyersburg. 



Barry Norman of E. B. Norman & Co. is 

 managing to find time (o root for the baseball 

 team occasionally and the other day he made 

 the sporting writers sit up and take notice 

 when he gracefully caught a foul fly which 

 landed in his box. R. Carnahan of this com- 

 pany is in the eastern part of the state look- 

 ing over some timber sections in which he is 

 interested. The box factory, in charge of S. 

 E. Booker, is running regularly. The lumber 

 demand was reported quiet. 



Edward L. Shippen of the Louisville Point 

 Lumber Company, has been spending a few 

 weeks at French Lick Springs. The company 

 has been getting a good many logs down the 

 river on recent tides. Another boiler has been 

 installed in the sawmill, increasing its capacity 

 considerably. Harry J. Gates, a member of 

 the company, said that business is still rather 

 dull. 



According to information received by the C. 

 C. Mcngel & Bro. Company, its mahogany was 

 used in a balloon of A. Holland Forbes which 

 lecently made a record-breaking flight. It is also 

 going into the special railway coach of H. I. M.. 

 the king of Denmark. The company has re- 

 cently issued a handsome booklet called "On 

 the Walls of Fame," giving illustrations of the 

 buildings of note in which its product has been 

 used. J. C. Wickliffe, secretary of the com- 

 pany, has returned from his trip abroad, which 

 lasted three months. He made some export 

 arrangements for his company and found a 

 good demand for mahogany. Germany and 

 France are good markets for hardwoods, he 

 said, though a carpenters' strike in Germany 

 is interfering with consumption in the building 

 trades. The company will shortly receive sev- 

 eral million feet of logs, the Elgin and Tot- 

 tenham having been chartered for the purpose 

 of bringing over cargoes from Axim, Africa, 

 while the Indianapolis will bring up a load 

 from British Honduras. The company has pur- 

 chased a passenger launch which will be used 

 in the operations around Belize. Auditor A. 

 L. Gray and L. L. Enos, the latter of whom 

 returned from Axim recently, have been sent 

 temporarily to look after the office at Belize. 



Business was reported by the Louisville Ve- 

 neer Mills to be considerably improved. Though 

 some of the consumers are not running heavily, 

 they seem to be anticipating good business by 

 stocking up on veneers. D. E. Kline, head of 

 the company, looks for the situation to remain 

 good tor some time to come. 



The Southern Veneer Company is busy, ac- 

 cording to report there. George Kretschmer. 

 head of the concern, is on his annual vacation. 

 The company has put a new factory into opera- 

 tion, installing motors and dimension stock ma- 

 chinery in an adjoining building. 



The Indiana Veneer and Panel Company is 

 busy and is keeping up the lick set this spring. 

 The furniture factories, it was stated, are buy- 

 ing in fair volume. 



W. A. McLean of the Wood-Mosaic Company 

 of New Albany has returned from Canada, where 

 he combined business and pleasure, the latter 

 including a trip to Thurso, his parents' home, 

 where his family is spending the summer. 



It Is reported locally that the putting into 

 effect of the regulations of the railroads in 

 this territory regarding the crating of .stoves, 

 which becomes compulsory Oclolwr 1, will i.ave 



the effect of causing man.v of the stove foun- 

 dries to install woodworking machinery. It will 

 of course increase the consumption of box lum- 

 ber and will boom business for a good many 

 box manufacturers. 



The Barnes-Kelly Manufacturing Company 

 and the Owensboro Seating & Cabinet Company 

 have consolidated with a capital stock of ."iiSO,- 

 000 under the name of the Ohio Valley Manu- 

 facturing Company. 



The Kentucky Lumber Company of Whitley 

 county has increased its capital stock to ?400,- 

 000 and extended the term of its existence. 

 The Star Planing Mill Company has been or- 

 ganized at Madisonville with a capital stock 

 of $20,000. L. W. Schmetzer and G. T. Bell 

 are incorporators. * 



Chess & Wymond, coopers of Louisville, have 

 increased their capital stock from $200,000 to 

 $1,000,000. L. H. Wymond, vice-president of 

 the company, said that no extensions are con- 

 templated, but that the surplus of the company 

 had been changed into capital stock. 



The Louisville & Nashville's earnings for the 

 fiscal year which terminated June 30 were $52,- 

 411,000. an increase over last year of $6,085,- 

 000. The company has increased the wages of 

 its Louisville shop employes 6 per cent. 



R. C. Morris is promoting a company to 

 manufacture automobiles in Louisville. It is 

 to have a capital stock of $300,000, and will 

 make a car designed by F, E. Stuyvesant of 

 Cleveland. 



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Vansant, Kitchen & Co. state that wliile the 

 season has been an exceedingly unfavorable one 

 for the lumber business, yet takiug everything 

 into consideration their business is very satis- 

 factory. Their mill is running steadily and 

 prices remain firm. A rise in Blaine and Guyan 

 rivers brought them some timber recently. 



August Schmidt, manager of the Herrmann 

 Lumber Company, reports a very satisfactory 

 business, considering the quiet season. The firm 

 is very well pleased with the volume of busi- 

 ness it is doing. Mr. Schmidt is especially 

 busy, looking after the output of five mills, 

 which are now busily engaged in sawing on 

 the various tracts of timber recently purchased. 

 He is of the opinion that the fall trade will 

 be very good. 



W. H. Dawkins is away on a ten days' visit 

 at West Baden Springs, Ind. His company 

 reports a busy time this spring and summer, 

 notwithstanding the prevailing quietness. Its 

 timber which was expected in February came 

 out on the high waters that have prevailed 

 this spring and summer. The company sees 

 no cause for any uneasiness, as prices are firm 

 and orders are good. 



R. H. Vansant and James Kitchen were busi- 

 ness visitors in Asheville, N. C, the past week. 



The J. W. Kitchen Lumber Company says 

 business is rather quiet, but this is always 

 the case in the midsummer season. It recently 

 received some good orders at firm prices. The 

 mill at Wrigley, Ky., is operating steadily and 

 lumber and ties are being shipped out at that 

 point right along. J. W. Kitchen of the firm 

 just returned from a trip through Michigan and 

 Ohio. 



Tlie M'right-Kitchen Lumtter Company reports 

 a good business. It is busily engaged in get- 

 ting out some large construction timber for boat 

 work, and is also busy on the river, getting 

 its timber into the harbor. It has already be- 

 gun getting out its timber for 1911, the greater 

 part of which is in Elkhoru. 



W. L. Watson, the Malum (W. Va.) lumber- 

 man, spent Sunday with his family in Ashland. 



W. A. Cool, of the W. A. Cool & Son Lum- 

 ber Company of Cleveland, spent part of the 

 week' in Ashland. 



One of the largest tides ever known on the 

 Guyan river was that of this week. Before the 

 raging tide reached Guyandotte at the point 

 of the Guyan river entering the Ohio, it was 

 concluded by the parties owning booms and 

 timber at the mouth of the river to untie all 

 tne booms and timber rafts, allowing them to 

 drift out into the Ohio, for they considered 

 that it would be impossible to hold the timber 

 already in the booms and that which would 

 be brought in on the tide, and they allowed 

 everything to run into the Ohio river loose. 

 A large number of timber rafts belonging 

 to C. Crane & Co., Cincinnati, were towed 

 down the Ohio river a distance below Guyan- 

 dotte for safe keeping. Large companies of 

 men have been busil.v engaged on the Guyan 

 and on both sides of the Ohio from Guyau to 

 the Big Sandy river in catching the timbers. 

 Most of them are reaping great harvests liur- 

 ing this log rup. This great tide of the Guyan 

 attracted the attention of a large number of 

 peoyle in this city, who spent a number of 

 hours watching the running of the timber and 

 the very dangerous work of the drifters. It 

 is only a matter of a short time until this 

 timber running will be a thing of the past on 

 the rivers, as all of the large companies are 

 going to discontinue this means of timber trans- 

 portation and will put into use log trains. The 

 high cost of timber and the great danger of 

 losing considerable of it in allowing it to be 

 placed in the rivers is one of the causes of 

 bringing about this change of transportation, 

 and another is the uncertainty of getting the 

 timber to the mills when it is needed and ready 

 to be manufactured into lumber. 



C. A. Miller, sales manager of the lumber 

 department of the J. W. Johnson Company, has 

 returned from a business trip in the North. 

 Mr. Miller reports the receipt of orders, al- 

 though conditions in general are a little quiet, 

 but prices are holding their own very well, 

 with probably one or two exceptions, but the 

 prices on all high grades have not dropped 

 any. Reports from the company's office is to 

 the effect that it is shipping large amounts 

 of railroad ties, of which it makes a spe- 

 cialty. 



F. W. Dutweiler, president of the F. W. 

 Dutweiler Lumber Company of Toledo, Ohio, was 

 a business visitor in our city recently. He 

 reports business in Toledo a little quiet, but 

 prices remain firm, especially on high-grade 

 stocks. After spending a few days here Mr. 

 Dutweiler left for Charleston and other points 

 in West Virginia, looking after lumber and tak- 

 ing a general supervision of the conditions of 

 tills section. 



R. G. Page, secretary of the Licking River 

 Lumber Company, has returned from a week's 

 trip through the North. Reports from the of- 

 fice this week are to the effect that the firm 

 l^; busily engaged in the operation of its floor- 

 ing mill in this city and its band mills at 

 Farmers, Ky., shipping out large amounts of 

 stock to its various customers. The company 

 expects to saw out its supply of timber at 

 Farmers in the next two months and has or- 

 ders enough to keep its mills running steadily. 



J. K. Sowers and C. W. Peters of the Sowers- 

 Leach Lumber Company were business callers 

 in our city this week en route to Charleston 

 hind other points in West Virginia, buying lum- 

 ber and looking over the general conditions of 

 the lumber supply prices, etc. These gentle- 

 men report business a little quiet in their city, 

 although prices are holding out exceptionally 

 well for this tme of the year. 



The condition of business in this section 

 is very much on the quiet order, although the 

 mills are running and manufacturing large 

 amounts of lumber. The majority of our mills 



