HARDWOOD RECORD 



PLAIN OAK, QUARTERED OAK, 

 CHESTNUT, WALNUT, HICKORY 

 POPLAR, ASH, MAHOGANY. 



THE PURPOSE OF THIS PAGE 



B NThe prime purpose of this page is to emphasize the importance of Louisville as the leading Hardwood Market; 

 to point out the distmct advantages of our position as a great distributing center for the consuming trade — in a word, 

 to justify the title of Louisville as a "Hardwood Gateway between the Producer and Consumer. " 



Louisville has been literally forced to the front rank of American Hardwood Markets by its unexcelled possession 

 of natural advantages. The most advantageous position on one of the great navigable highways of the continent, a 

 railrcad center of the first importance, contiguous to limitless raw materials at the very door of the consuming trade and 

 with an accurate knowledge on the part of our manufacturers and jobbers of the requirements thereof, there is abso- 

 lutely no reason why Louisville should not be looked to by every user of Hardwood as the most natural and logical 

 market. 



Every demand of the consumer can be supplied here on account of the co-operation and earnest desire of the firms 

 mentioned below to make Louisville the leading Hardwood Market. Their fairness and willingness to exchange 

 information and Lumber enables them to fill every order with expediency and in its entirety regardless of the size or 

 assortment. 



E. B. NORMAN & COMPANY 

 EDWARD L. DAVIS LUMBER COMPANY 

 LOUISVILLE POINT LUMBER COMPANY 

 C C. MENGEL & BROTHER COMPANY 



OHIO RIVER SAW MILL COMPANY 

 W. P. BROWN & SONS LUMBER COMPANY 

 THE NORMAN LUMBER COMPANY 

 LOUISVILLE VENEER MILLS 



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