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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Late Nashville News. 



Nashville lumbermen are admittedly disap- 

 pointed with spring trade thus far, and do not 

 hesitate to state that it has not come up to 

 their expectations. The market for April was 

 better than for March, but at that was not 

 equal to an average month of 1907. Lumber- 

 men, however, are not attempting to disguise 

 the situation, and are about ready to resign 

 themselves to the belief that no marked im- 

 provement will be noted until next fall. 



Poplar continues to be a leader, and the 

 dealers have had little trouble in preventing the 

 prices in this wood from showing the decline 

 that is noted in the case of some of the other 

 hardwoods. Few of the big concerns are run- 

 ning up to normal and the buying is in small 

 quantities, purchasers getting what they need 

 and no more, frequently less. Inquiries are 

 plentiful, hut the absence of the usual stream 

 of buyers, in this market is not any longer the 

 subject of comment. Most of the plants are 

 able to get enough business to keep things going 

 on reduced time, and as a matter of fact are 

 not looking for any big business. Quartered 

 oak is holding its own in a satisfactory manner, 

 as are also hickory and chestnut. Ash is off a 

 bit in quotations. 



Nashville lumbermen are grieved over the 

 death of the mother of one of the most popular 

 and one of the most prominent of the lumber 

 dealers of this place, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Love, 

 mother of John W. Love of Love, Boyd & Co. 

 She died Thursday night at the home of her son- 

 in-law, J. W. Boyd, in East Nashville, and was 

 72 years of age. Heart disease was the cause. 

 Mrs. Love was a member of one of Tennessee's 

 most prominent families, a beautiful Christian 

 character, a dutiful wife and a fond mother. 

 She is survived by her three sons, John W., 

 Hamilton and James R. Love, the two former 

 local lumbermen, and by three daughters, Mrs. 

 Frank Swope of Carthage, Tenn., Mrs. Walter 

 Pierce of Hendersonville, Tenn., and Mrs. J. W. 

 Boyd of Na.shville. Only one of the children 

 were at any distance at the time of Mrs. Love's 

 death, Hamilton being in a hospital in Balti- 

 more, where he was being treated for rheuma- 

 tism. He was summoned to Nashville, however, 

 and was able to make the trip. 



A damage suit fnr .^'-•■"•'i' ' - - ' — ■ ,^iit 



in the local ciiouit . m 



& O'Brien against _a 



and St. Louis railw::;. - .sh- 



ville railroad and the L.iiiisvillr uii.l Nashville 

 Terminal Company. The lumber company claims 

 that sparks from a passing engine that belonged 

 to one of the three defendant companies set 

 fire to its big planing mill and to some lumber 

 stocks in the summer of 190G. A great fire 

 ensued in which several million feet of choice 

 stacked lumber was consumed, and also a big 

 planing mill. The rails of the three defendant 

 companies run close by the yard of the lumber 

 company. 



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Lumliir (uijiiiany ivill pr.sitle over the exercises. 

 A big banquet follows the exercises. 



Dull times in the lumber business have not 

 affected one branch of the lumber Industry, and 

 that is the cross tic feature. The railroads 

 in this section are buying ties at a lively rate 

 and dealers are also making large shipments to 

 other points for railroads more remote to this 

 section. 



Advices from Wartburg, Tenn., announce that 

 lumber conditions look good in that immediate 

 section. Practically all of the mills which had 

 been shut down there have resumed operation 

 and things look decidedly busy. 



Some 110,000 feet of lumber belonging to 

 Sadler, Crabtree & Co. of Jackson county, Ten- 



nessee, and recently unloaded in Nashville for 

 sale, has been attached by hill in chancery 

 court filed by W. T. Hardison & Co. The lum- 

 ber was attached to satisfy a freight bill of 

 ?1,155.S4, the complainant company running a 

 tow boat line. 



News from Saginaw Valley. 



There is more activity in lumber production 

 than there was. Four mills are in commission 

 that only recently started, and are cutting out 

 stock. The Gates mill was the last to start. 

 It will cut about 6,500,000 feet. 



The old Flood mill, originally the Drake mill 

 at Bay City, burned last week. The loss was 

 estimated at ?15,000. The mill has been idle 

 over a year. It was built in 1S62 and changed 

 hands a number of times. 



J. E. Swackhamer. who has been employed 

 by the Richardson Lumber Company at Bay City 

 the past year, where the company has erected 

 a new mill, has been appointed superintendent 

 of the new mill. The plant Is putting out 

 55,000 feet a day. 



C. A. Bigelow went to Petoskey this week to 

 attend a meeting of the Hardwood Dealers' 

 Association. 



James Cooper says be does not think the 

 lumber business will be active very soon. He Is 

 doubtful if there is any boom for a year or two 

 and believes this year will be rather slow. He 

 says the demand for lumber Is not anything 

 near what it should be, while conditions are 

 anything but satisfactory. 



The Kneeland-Blgelow plant is running day 

 and night and the Detroit mill Is being operated 

 ten hours daily. 



The Detroit and Mackinac Is hauling a large 

 quantity of logs into Alpena. One trainload of 

 sixty cars went in there recently. 



Alex Mlchaelson is building a mill in Roscom- 

 mon county which will be connected with the 

 outside world by a branch of the Grand Rapids 

 & Indiana running in from Cadillac. A town 

 is scheduled in connection with the enterprise. 



S. L. Eastman Flooring Company recently 

 contracted for 6,000,000 feet of maple to be 

 cut. The prices are approximately what the 

 same stock sold at last year. 



Some fine logs have been hauled from the 

 North to the Bliss & Van Auken mill. The mill 

 stock comes down from Otsego and Cheboygan 

 counties. 



The Cook, Curtis & Miller hardwood sawmill 

 at Grand Marals has put on a night shift and 

 is being operated day and night. 



• It is figured that the present volume of busi- 

 ness is 40 per cent less than last year. 



YuiU Brothers have Just started a log','ing 

 camp six niiU's north of Vaiid. rl.ilt. 



The Haul. : ■ ■ - ,|uit opera- 



tions somi its flooring 



mill at Ila it is said, 



will again . i! i here is con- 



siderable timber availuLk'. 



The Sailing-Hanson Company of Grayling Is 

 reported to have about closed a deal for a 

 chunk of timber from the Ward estate, adjacent 

 to some of its own timber. It was expected that 

 a large quantity of the Ward lands were to be 

 put on the market, but this is denied. 



Some manufacturers state there is little it 

 any life in the hardwood industry at the mo- 

 ment and others see a little more favorable 

 outlook. On the river there Is considerable 

 doing, with all the sawmills and flooring mills 

 in operation. Log run quotations for maple are 

 $17 to $10: l..i,li i, h.1.1 at $16 and $17 and 

 elm brings s- ■] • ' i riiore is some inquiry 



for birch. 1 sis and $20. Bass- 



wood is lii hut the trade will 



take all tli.i - i <f-^3 and $25. Red 



oak is worth .?.;ii ,iiul .$:;:>. stocks are not ex- 

 cessively large. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



Bennett & Sons' lumber mill at Freesoil, Mich., 

 has commenced operations after a recent shut- 

 down. They have nearly 2,000,000 feet of logs 

 in the river at that point. 



The plant of the Cunningham & Kitchen Lum- 

 ber Company at Tinsman, Ark., was completely 

 destroyed by fire April 24. J. E. Ritchie, a 

 prominent farmer^ and millman. was also a loser 

 in that a new sawmill outfit which he had re- 

 cently purchased was stored in one of the com- 

 pany's sheds. 



The work of planting trees in western Canada 

 is being taken up vigorously by the Southern 

 Pacific this spring, and many thousand young 

 saplings will be set out along its right of way 

 in Alberta and Saskatchewan. 



The Blackstone Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated at Marshfield, Tt, with a capital of 

 $20,000. 



The hardwood mill of the Sawyer & Austin 

 Lumber Company at Pine Bluff, Ark., one of the 

 largest in the Southwest, resumed operations 

 this week after a suspension of four months. 

 The plant employs between 400 and 500 persons. 

 Other hardwood plants are resuming in the 

 South and Southwest, although the demand for 

 hardwood lumber is not nearly up to the average 

 lor this time of year. 



The Consolidated Lumber Company has been 

 organized at Farkersburg, W. Ta., to deal In 

 timber and operate sawmills in the Green river 

 district of Kentucky. It is capitalized at $200,- 

 000, and the incorporators are L. Dudley, J. M. 

 Dore,' G. W. Carney, G. C. Enoch, F. P. Moats, 

 all of Parkersburg. 



The Monongahela Tie & Lumber Company has 

 been organized at Brownsville, Pa., and is capi- 

 talized at $50,000. E. D. Gribble is president. 

 The company owns several hundred acres of 

 valuable timber land In West Virginia and its 

 plant is now ready for operation. 



The Stondall Lumber Company of Madison, 

 Wis., has Increased its capital stock from $120,- 

 000 to $400,000. 



The Crocker Chair Company of Sheboygan, 

 Wis., has purchased from V. F. Sanborn & Co. 

 of Ashland, Wis., 6,103 acres of hardwood tim- 

 ber land In Houghton and Bariga counties, Michi- 

 gan. The timber will he cut in the mills at 

 Sidnaw and shipped to Sheboygan to be re- 

 manufactured. The Crocker Chair Company Is 

 on the lookout for still further purchases of 

 northern timber land. 



Frank G. Carpenter, a correspondent of the 

 Chicago Tribune, writes from Kampala, Uganda, 

 Africa, that an Englishman of his acquaintance 

 has a large concession of woodland running 

 along the Nile, Just below where that great river 

 flows out of Lake Victoria. He says the tract 

 embraces about 150 square miles, and is so situ- 

 ated that the timber could be thrown In the 

 rfver and floated down to Khartom were It not 

 for certain falls of the Nile. As it is, the chief 

 market will probably be British East Africa and 

 other countries reached by the Uganda railway. 

 The forests on the land are magnificent and the 

 correspondent alleges that many mahogany trees 

 are ISO feet high and four or five feet in diam- 

 eter, perfectly straight, and running up to a 

 great distance without branching. One of the 

 other hardwoods resembles teak, and some va- 

 rieties will almost turn the blade of an ax. The 

 owner expects to do a great deal with the wood, 

 because it resists the attacks of white ants and 

 is therefore valuable for railway ties. He now 

 has orders for 300,000 ties, with three varieties 

 of wood from which to supply them. In addi- 

 tion to the timber trees, the concession contains 

 about 2,000,000 rubber trees. The plan now^ is to 

 cut the underbrush and map out the forest so 

 that each part can he easily cared for. About 

 90O men are already at work, and double that 

 number will be employed very shortly. Villages 

 will be built on the tracks and the laborers 

 trained for the work at hand. 



The Sawyer-Goodman Company of Marinette, 

 Wis., Is busy sawing on railroad tics for the 



