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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Lumber Company near Gleason, Ark. This an- 

 nouncement is made by H. H. Beekman, secre- 

 tary and general manager. The company will 

 give employment to about 400 men. The com- 

 pany is already operating its hardwood mill at 

 that point. 



Judge Duffle, according to information re- 

 ceived here, has succeeded .1. C. Ong as president 

 and general manager of the Ong Chair -Company 

 of Malvern, Ark. The plant is now running on 

 full time and is giving employment to more than 

 100 persons. It has recently made a large pur- 

 chase of gum to be used In the manufacture of 

 its output. 



The Dierks Lumber & Coal Company. DeQueen. 

 Ark., has resumed operations at Its big hard- 

 wood mill at that point, which had been closed 

 down for some time as a result of the flnanclal 

 depression. It is understood that the company 

 has gotten out considerable timber and that It 

 proposes to continue in steady operation. 



The Gates Lumber Company of Wllmar, Ark., 

 has also recently resumed on full time. The 

 company has been running on a seven-hour 

 schedule for nearly a year. Increase In volume 

 of business under way is responsible for the de- 

 cision to enlarge the output. 



NASHVILLE 



Sharpe & Horn, well known .Nashville real 

 estate men and timber dealers, have disposed of 

 valuable holdings in Alabama timber lands to 

 the newly organized Cherokee Lumber Company 

 of Nashville. The tract embraces several thou- 

 sand acres of valuable oak and poplar timber 

 located In Colbert county, Alabama. The Chero- 

 kee Lumber Company will at once set about 

 developing the tract and a big sawmill will be 

 erected In the near future. 



Andrew II. Gennett, formerly of Nashville, 

 but who moved to Seneca, S. C, several years 

 ago to engage In the lumber business with bis 

 brother Nat, Is visiting friends and relatives 

 here now. The Messrs. Gennett have been 

 unusually successful in their venture. Start- 

 ing out with small capital and small holdings, 

 they have built up a big business. 



A special from Bristol, Tenn., announces that 

 a large tract of timber in that section has re- 

 cently been sold to eastern capitalists for $15 

 an acre. This same property, the dispatch 

 says, was on the market a year ago at |10 an 

 acre. 



Davidson county has recently l)een treated to 

 a visitation somewhat akin to night riders. The 

 trouble was at McLaln & Kussell's big stave 

 mill near Bellevue, about fifteen miles west of 

 Nashville. On two nights, shots were flrcd 

 into the camp from the surrounding darkness 

 and the fusillade was also accompanied by 

 showers of rocks. Sheriff Sam IJorum was sum- 

 moned from the city, but was unable to locate 

 any of the marauders. The tent was occupied 

 by a number of timber cutters. Fortunately 

 no one was Injured. No cause for the attack 

 has been learned. 



One of the most Important steps ever begun 

 in the way of protecting the timber resources 

 of the state of Tennessee, has originated at 

 Dickson, Tenn., at u meeting of the Dickson 

 County Farmers' Association. The association 

 unanimously adopted resolutions to memorial- 

 ize the next legislature, which meets the first 

 Monday In January, to enact a general forestry 

 law that will afford sufficient protection lo the 

 forests of the state against the present rate 

 of timber slaughter that threatens soon to lay 

 waste the state's forests. The leaders In the 

 movement declare that the farmers of the coun- 

 ty have awakened to the alarming fact that 

 at the present price of lumber, which Is con- 

 tinually advancing, they can not make neces- 

 sary improvements on the farm except at ex- 

 travagant and profitless expenditures, and that 

 If conditions continue as they are, it will soon 

 be out of the question for the farmer to at- 



tempt to build. The farmers declare they are 

 now paying timber dealers from $26 to $30 a 

 thousand for what was a few years ago only 

 ordinary culls. The Dickson county farmers 

 believe that by taking this advance step they 

 will win the hearty cooperation of other 

 counties In this, a most laudable and necessary 

 movement. 



K. V. Faber of Nuremberg, Germany, only 

 son of Johann Faber, the noted Australian pen- 

 cil manufacturer, was a visitor to Nashville 

 during the past week. Mr. Faber has traveled 

 extensively through America and is now mak- 

 ing a tour through the cedar regions, and at 

 the same time making investigations concern- 

 ing other woods that might be adapted to the 

 manufacture of pencils. lie expresses regret 

 over the waste the early settlers committed In 

 handling their cedar. Ue declares In fact that 

 the cedar wasted by our forefathers would to- 

 day be worth millions of dollars. The Johann 

 Faber I'encll Works are just now engaged In 

 building their 'first .Vmerlcan factory at New- 

 ark, N. J. Young Faber may be placed In 

 charge of this factory. While stopping In 

 Nashville he was accompanied by \V. U. Tar- 

 rlsh of the Gulf Bed Cedar Company. 



A special from Columbia, Tenn., announces 

 that a larger mill than its predecessor Is to be 

 erected on the site recently occupied by the 

 lilverside planing' mills, destroyed by fire two 

 months ago. The building and machinery will 

 cost about $12,000, and the plant will also In- 

 clude a chair factory. The plant will begin 

 operations about January 1. 



Progress that Is quite satisfactory regarding 

 the work of Improving the Cumberland river 

 with a view of making it navigable all the year 

 round. The report Is that work has been 

 pushed, both up and down the stream, during 

 the low water of the summer. I'resldent Bryan 

 suggests that the best way to stimulate Inter- 

 est in the matter of improving this waterway 

 is to hold annual conventions. Steps arc now 

 under way to hold a convention for the lower 

 river In the near future, probably at Clarks- 

 vllle. The great bulk of the lumber that reaches 

 Nashville comes down Cumberland river In 

 rafts. 



The middle span over the new Cumberland 

 river bridge at Nashville has been swung, most 

 of the false work has been taken out and 

 traffic Is now possible up the river. It will 

 be possible now to get lumber through to points 

 below the bridge when the first tide material- 

 izes. 



A special from Knoxvlllc announces the death 

 there of W. E. Seabrook, a tie and lumber In- 

 spector of the Southern Kallway. Ue got oft 

 one train and stepped in front of another. 



The Nashville Builders' Kxchangc has been 

 organized here with II. W. BurtoS as piesident ; 

 T. L. Herbert, first vice-president; It. T. 

 Crelghton, .second vice-president ; John Oman 

 Jr., treasurer, and Haynes McFadden, secretary. 



An incendiary act that is a little out of the 

 ordinary is reported from Wurtburg, Tenn. 

 EUey Woods of that place left a load of lum- 

 ber by the roadside while hauling It In to the 

 plant of Sexton Bros, from Greasy Creek. Dur- 

 ing the night some one set fire to the wagon 

 and burned it, together with Its 1,100 feet of 

 Umber. 



A special from Martin, Tenn., announces an 

 Important lumber deal as having been con- 

 summated at that place. The consolidation of 

 the Martin Lumber Company and the J. A. 

 Vowell Lumber Company is announced. The 

 consolidated concern is said to be an unusally 

 strong one, both financially and from the 

 standpoint of ecjulpnu'nt. 



BRISTOL 



Attorneys S. C. Williams, J. N. I'owell, C. B. 

 Allen and J. Fred Johnson, who went to New 



York last week to confer with the creditors of 

 the several lumber corporations headed by Mr. 

 Allen, for which receivers were appointed a few- 

 days ago, returned this week and as a result of 

 an agreement entered Into by the majority of 

 the creditors, the plants of the Allen Panel 

 Company, Standard Oak and Veneer Company 

 and the Interior Hardwood Company at John- 

 son City, Tenn.. were again put In operation. 



It was the desire of the majority of the 

 creditors to have the plants continue operation 

 if possible, and through the efforts of Mr. Allen 

 and J. Fred Johnson, the latter representing the 

 City National bank of Johnson City, one of the 

 creditors, the agreement was effected and the 

 mills again started. It Is said that the com- 

 panies have been doing a profitable business, 

 even up to the time of the appointment of re- 

 ceivers, which was due to entanglements with 

 eastern Interests and following which a receiver 

 was appointed for the well-known hardwood firm 

 of William E. Uptegrove & Bro., of Brooklyn. 

 N. Y., and Johnson City, Tenn. There is much 

 gratification among the lumbermen here at the 

 outcome. 



Adams, I'ayne & Gleaves of Lynchburg have 

 Just purchased all the property, including mills, 

 yards, etc., of the Magic City Lumber Com- 

 pany, situated at Koanoke, Va. The deal Is a 

 very Important one and Includes a large amount 

 of property and will give the new concern added 

 facilities for the conduct of its large business. 

 The transaction Is one of the most lmt>ortaut 

 that has been recorded In this section for some 

 time. The mills will continue to be operated 

 as heretofore. 



The Carolina, Clincbfield & Ohio railroad will 

 be completed as soon as possible and will open 

 up a vast area of timber land that has hitherto 

 not been accessible. Norman B. Beam of Chi- 

 cago, a well-known capitalist who Is associated 

 with Thomas F. Kyan in the $100,000,000 syndi- 

 cate that has purchased the timber and coal 

 lands and building the railroad, was In Bristol 

 this week, in bis private car. He will spend 

 several days goinc over the properties In which 

 he is Interested In this section. Mr. Beam ex- 

 pressed great hope In the Industrial future of 

 the South and declared that he believed with 

 the recovery of the mining and lumber Industries 

 from the recent slump that this section was 

 entering upon an era of unprecedented pros- 

 perity. 



The railroads here continue to report heavy 

 traffic. The business of the Norfolk & Western 

 has Increased so that it Is expected that the 

 reduction made In the wage scale of several 

 thousand employes a few months ago will be 

 restored next month. The statement made by 

 I'resldent Johnson at that time, that as soon as 

 the gross earnings reached $5,000,000 a month 

 again, the reduction would be made good. The 

 statement Just Issued by the comptroller shows 

 net earnings for last month of $4,850,000, which 

 Is little below normal. The lumber Industry has 

 contributed its share to the Increase In ton- 

 nage. 



The Altoona Lumber Company has Just been 

 organized at Pulaski, Va., and incorporated un- 

 der the laws of Virginia. The company will do 

 a general wholesale and manufacturing lumber 

 business. 



The StoneHullng Lumber Company has 

 leased the four-story brick building It Is erect- 

 ing on State and Third streets to the Virginia- 

 Tennessee Hardware Company for a term of 

 years. 



B. P. Bare, the well-known Baltimore hard- 

 wood man, was buying lumber on the Bristol 

 market this week and went South on business. 



Wesley Paine, a well-known lumberman, and 

 for forty years a prominent sawmill operator 

 of Spoltsylvania county, Virginia, dropped dead 

 at his home at Mountain View a few days ago, 

 while engaged in cleaning a gun. preparatory to 

 a squirrel hunt. 



