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HARDWOOD RECORD 



NASHVILLE 



One of the most important lumber sections in 

 or near Nashville is that located just across 

 Cumberland river in East Nashville 'along the 

 bank of the Cumberland river. One after an- 

 other here, in a long line reaching a mile or 

 more up the river front, are such well-known 

 concerns as the Standard Lumber and Box Com- 

 pany ; Prewltt. Spurr Manufacturing Company ; 

 Love, Boyd & Co. ; Standard Furniture Com- 

 pany ; Davidson-Benedict Company ; Nashville 

 Tie and Cedar Company ; Indiana Lumber Com- 

 pany ; E. & N. Manufacturing Company, and 

 many others. These concerns will, in the no 

 distant future, be brought into more direct con- 

 nection with the main business portion of 

 Nashville by reason of the fact that the county 

 Is now engaged in erecting two immense bridges 

 across Cumberland river. The Sparkman Street 

 bridge, Just south of Broad, will run right 

 through the heart of this big lumber section 

 and will afford quick service to the Tennessee 

 Central and the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. 

 Lojis railway and Louisville & Nashville freight 

 yards. The Jefferson Street bridge, which is 

 lower down the river, will tap the Indiana Lum- 

 ber Company's yards and likewise a number of 

 companies along Front or Wall street on the 

 west side of the river. These two bridges will 

 cost together more than $1,000,000. 



A special from McEwen, Tenn., announces the 

 assignment there of L. D. Baker, who executed a 

 deed of trust for the benefit of his creditors, 

 naming J. J. Slanaker as trustee under the 

 in.-itrument. The liabilities are about $22,000 

 and the assets about $10,000. Mr. Baker was 

 the owner of several large sawmills in and near 

 McEwen and was engaged in the manufacture 

 of lumber and cross-ties. The recent financial 

 trouble and the accompanying decrease in the 

 price of lumber were responsible for his assign- 

 ment. 



The many friends of Hamilton Love will learn 

 with gladness that his little son, Hamilton, Jr., 

 Is now doing nicely. The little fellow, who is 

 only five years of age, was recently stricken with 

 typhoid fever, and tor a while much uneasiness 

 was manifested concerning his condition. How- 

 ever, he is believed to be practically out of dan- 

 ger now. His father Is Junior member of the 

 firm of Love, Boyd & Co., one of Nashville's 

 biggest lumber concerns. 



A special from Florence, Ala., announces the 

 Incorporation there of the Kichardson Consoli- 

 dated Lumber Company, with a capital stock of 

 $24,000. The company will do a wholesale and 

 retail lumber and building material business and 

 will have yards at Florence, Haleyvllle and 

 Russellvllle, Ala. The company is in reality 

 a consolidation of the Haleyvllle Lumber Com- 

 pany and the R. & H. Lumber Company of Kus- 

 sellville, Ala. The officers are : President, W. 

 M. Kichardson ; vice-president, D. F. Hargett ; 

 secretary and treasurer, K. C. Redd ; general 

 manager, E. G. I'rosser ; sales manager, J. F. 

 Kichardson. 



"I alius thought er sawmill was the bizziest 

 place I knowed of," said a stranger of rural 

 type In an uptown oflice the other day, "but. 

 Mister, I Jes wan' ter remark right here that 

 I's been around some in my day and seen a 

 passel 0' queer things, but I'll be gosh durned 

 et you ain't got the all-firedest liveliest squirrel 

 In "that air cage ever I seed In all my life be- 

 fore." The country man had stood for some 

 moments looking Intently at an electric buzzer 

 before he said a word, and had even started to 

 put his fingers through the side of the cage to 

 piay with the 'squirrel," when he was restrained 

 from doing the latter, at least. 



WAUSAU 



The Frome Manufacturing Company's plant 

 and lumber yards at Howards Grove, near She- 

 boygan, were destroyed by fire recently. Loss 

 $14,000. 



The Wausau Fixture and Furniture Company 

 recently made about $8,000 worth of improve- 

 ments in its plant, adding eight new machines 

 for the manufacture of hardwood flooring, cas- 

 ings, doors, etc. 



The CollerStange Company of Merrill recently 

 suffered a $7,000 loss through a severe wind- 

 storm. A refuse burner was blown over onto 

 the mill, knocking down the smoke stacks and 

 about 073 feet of piping between the mill and 

 the dry kiln, caving in the roof of the mill and 

 causing more or less other damage. The tops 

 were also blown o(E the company's lumber piles. 



Oificers of the company say that the Mason- 

 Donaldson Lumber Company's mill, which was 

 recently destroyed at Donaldson, will be rebuilt 

 without delay. 



The D. L. Greely sawmill at McCord w^as 

 destroyed by fire recently ; loss $20,000 ; no In- 

 surance. About $200 worth of lumber was 

 burned also. The fire Is thought to be the work 

 of incendiaries. The site and stock of lumber 

 has been sold to Emerson Brothers of Prentice 

 at receiver's sale for $5,000. Mr. Greeiy's cred- 

 itors will receive about 50 cents on the dollar. 



The annual meeting of the Coye Furniture 

 Company of Stevens Point was held recently 

 and the following directors elected : D. E. 

 Frost, F. A. Southwick, A. U. Week, W. B. 

 Buckingham, W. W. Gregory, W. H. and C. M. 

 Coye. At a subsequent meeting the following 

 officers were elected : President, I). E. Frost ; 

 vice-president, F. A. Southwick ; treasurer, W. 

 H. Coye ; secretary, W. S. Young. Reports of 

 the secretary and treasurer show a falling off 

 In business the past year of only 10 per cent, 

 notwithstanding the strenuous times through 

 which It has passed. No additions or expensive 

 improvements are planned for the coming year. 



The Foster-Latimer Lumber Company of Mel- 

 len recently entertained about thirty lumbermen 

 from the Twin Cities and elsewhere who are Its 

 patrons. The delegation arrived in a special 

 car and was tendered a trout breakfast at a 

 hotel. The guests were then taken on board 

 the company's logging railroad train out to the 

 camps, where an elaborate dinner was served. 

 The afternoon was spent In inspecting the mill 

 property, etc. In the evening a six-course din- 

 ner was served at a hotel. The guests were very 

 much Impressed with the company's hospitality 

 and with what they saw. 



Frank O. De Saix has closed out his piano 

 manufacturing business In Chicago, where he 

 has been located for the past eight years. He 

 has gone to Antlgo, Wis., where he Is engaged 

 In a like enterprise under the firm name of Dc 

 Salx & Beckman. 



A Foster City operator has been given a con- 

 tract to take 10,000,000 feet of sunken logs out 

 of the Menominee river. It Is estimated that 

 there are hundreds of millions of feet of such 

 timber In that river. 



TOLEDO 



The Frost Veneer and Seating Company's plant 

 at Antlgo. which was recently destroyed by 

 8rc at a loss of $50,000, will be rebuilt. 



A new and novel question has been raised In 

 the suit brought by the Toledo Storage and 

 Loan Company against Adam Schauss, receiver 

 for the Helper Brothers' furniture concern, 

 lately thrown Into bankruptcy. The plaintiff 

 claims to have purchased the entire stock and 

 paid the cash therefor to Carl Helper, and asks 

 that it be given possession of the stock which It 

 has bought and paid for. The creditors claim 

 that under a new law of the state of Ohio a 

 sale of an entire stock of goods cannot legally 

 be made until seven days' written notice thereof 

 lias been filed with the recorder of the county, 

 and that said notice was never filed, and that 

 the sale was therefore Illegal and the title to 

 the goods did not pass to the purchaser. The 

 plaintiff admits the state law, but contends that 

 It Is not applicable to the federal courts, where 



the present action is now pending. Bankruptcy 

 Referee Fordyce Belford has taken the matter 

 under advisement. The proposition is a new 

 one and is being watched with interest. 



A change was recently made in the stock of 

 the Compressed Preserving Wood Tie Company 

 of Toledo. The concern now has $25,000 of pre- 

 ferred stock drawing per cent dividends and a 

 common stock amounting to $75,000. 



The hearing of the complaint of the Ohio ship- 

 pers against the railroads of the state for the 

 establishment of a seventh class of rates for 

 low-priced commodities. Including lumber and 

 most all kinds of forest products, which was 

 to have been held a few days ago before the 

 Ohio Railroad Commission, has been postponed 

 until some time this fall. An exact date was 

 not fixed for the hearing. 



There has been a change In the name of the 

 Toledo Remodeling Furniture Company, which 

 for three years has been engaged in the manu- 

 facture of store and office fixtures, interior fin- 

 ish, mantels, etc. On July 1 It assumed the 

 name of the Ette Furniture Company. There 

 was no change in the personnel of the con- 



T. E. Coleman, who owns and operates a 

 saw and planing mill at FIndlay, O., recently 

 purchased a fine tract of hardwood timber from 

 G. W. Montgomery, near that city. The timber 

 will be worked up into building materials. 



The Pennsylvania Railway Company and sev- 

 eral other railroads doing business In Ohio have 

 entered extensively Into the plan of raising trees 

 for crosstles. The company this spring planted 

 025,000 young trees, making a total of 2,425,000 

 trees now owned by this one rnllway company. 



CHARLOTTE 



Indicative of the Improvement la conditions 

 affecting hardwood manufacturers of North Caro- 

 lina Is the fact that during the past fortnight 

 several large manufactories have found It profit- 

 able to resume operations after a suspension of 

 .several months, due to the general depression In 

 business. Tha Oak Furniture Company, exten- 

 sive manufacturers of furniture at North Wllkes- 

 boro, has Just resumed operations full time and 

 the Forest Furniture Company of North Wllkes- 

 boro has also resumed operations after a short 

 closedown. Manufacturers in High Point, Lex- 

 ington, North Wllkesboro and other manufactur- 

 ing centers report business active again and that 

 trade Is opening up satisfactorily. 



The I'iedmont Buggy Company of Mouroe, 

 N. C, has Just manufactured what is said to be 

 the first automobile made in the South. It Is a 

 buggy equipped with a 10-horsepower gasoline 

 engine and can go thirty miles an hour. The 

 mmufacture of the auto-buggy by this concern 

 Is considered as significant of the opening up of 

 a new industry In the South, where raw material 

 Is easily accessible. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



Building pcr-iiiis for tin- Twin ritlos continue 

 to average up pretty close to last year, which 

 was a record breaker, indicating that this par- 

 ticular spot is no dead one in the lumber market. 

 The Minneapolis record for June was $876,120, 

 and St. Paul's was $807,542. Last year In June 

 the Minneapolis total was $1,002,025 and St. 

 Paul's was $502,972. The two cities together 

 show an Increase, and on the six months' record 

 they are not far behind last year, Minneapolis 

 showing $4,300,025 to $5.051),6I0 last year and 

 St. Paul $2,975,139 to $3,410,015. 



E. Payson Smith of the Payson Smith Lumber 

 Company has returned from a four weeks' busi- 

 ness trip to southern points, whore their chief 

 Interests are located. He says the production 

 of southern oak mills has been considerably r>" 

 tailed by the high water troubles, which Inn 

 attacked their properties four separate tlni.-~ 

 necessitating a shut down each time. Mr. Smitli 



