THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



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Company. Quantities of lumber that was 

 overflowed will have to be sold at a sac- 

 rilice and all the foundations will have 

 to be renewed. The Record was favored 

 with photographs showing the situation 

 in different parts of the mill yard during 



the high water. 



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By the way — the J. W. Dickson Lumber 

 Company will be suceeded by the J. W. 

 Dickson Company, who will continue the 

 manufacturing end of the business, sell- 

 ing their entire cut to the J. O. Nesson 

 Lumber Company, whose recent organiza- 

 tion was mentioned in these columns re- 

 cently. 



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.J. W. Thompson, president of the .T. ^\'. 

 Thompson Lumber Company, is in Arkan- 

 sas, and will conclude his stay in the hard- 

 wood state with a short western spin. 



ity and some $150,000 to $200,000 ex- 

 pended in developing the timber and min- 

 eral resources. 



NASHVILLE NEWS. 



The Cliffy Creek Lumber Company of 

 Davidson County have been granted a 

 charter, with a capital stock of .$2V,000. 

 The incorporators are Elihu Doddington. 

 G. E. Richards. "William JI. Jones, Walter 

 L. Whiteacre, Edward J. Flantt. \Yilliam 

 H. and David H. Thomas. 



AV. J. Cude, of Kimuiins. Tenn.. has just 

 purchased, from the Louisville & Nashville 

 Railroad Company a tract of 3,000 acres 

 of timber in Lewis County, and will be- 

 gin to put the same on the market. 



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liie Benodict-Love Lumber Company at 

 Calhoun, S. C. but which has part of its 

 constituents members in Nashville lumber- 

 men, lost about 20,000 logs in the recent 

 overflow of the Seneca River. 



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The Legislature of 'Tennessee has en- 

 acted two new laws regarding lumber in- 

 terests. One provides and regulates for 

 the recovery of damages suffered by ripa- 

 rian owners or lessees by reason of rafts 

 and such things being tied or otherwise 

 fastened to trees or rocks on his or her 

 property. The other amends the law and 

 gives longer time — si.\ty days — for the 

 owner to recover floating timber, logs. etc. 

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The lumbermen in Nashville have been 

 receiving good supi)lies of logs lately, and 

 while not much dry stock is cut up and 

 ready for shipment, orders ai-e being re- 

 ceived right along now. Oak, chestnut and 

 poplar are sharing the business. 



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Henry Oppenheimer, president of the 

 International Commercial Company, New 

 York, has lately been making obser- 

 vations in different counties of mid- 

 dle Tennessee with reference to tim- 

 ber interests. He was in Nashville 

 for several days. Pittsburg capital- 

 ists are interested in the syniiicitce, 

 and, after certain details relative to getting 

 the timber on the market can be arranged, 

 several mills will Vie erected in that vicin- 



BUEFALO BITS. 



H. J. Kreinheder, of the Standard Lum- 

 ber Company, has returned from Hot 

 Springs, Ark., where he has been sojourn- 

 ing some time. He is much improved in 



health. 



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W. A. McLean, of the Wood Mosaic 

 Flooring Company of New Albany, Ind., 

 and Rochester, N. Y.. paid a flying visit 

 to his brothers here — Hugh McLean & Co. 

 — last week, on his way from the Indiana 

 mills to Rochester. 



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T. J. McGevy, agent of the Lackawanna 

 Line, with headquarters at Memphis. 

 Teuu.. is in Buffalo for a few days hust- 

 ling for business and seeing his numerous 

 frienas and acquaintances. 



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The death of James Crate, of the firm 

 of Taylor & Crate, which occurred on the 

 4th inst., has occasioned expressions of 

 regret from all over the country. He had 

 many friends both in and out of the trade 

 here, all of whom pay homage to his ca- 

 reer, both as a business man and public- 

 spirited citizen. He leaves a wife and 

 three daughters to mourn his loss. 

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F. W. Vetter, manager of the Empire 

 Lumber Company, has left for a visit to 

 their mill plant in Arkansas, and expects 

 to be gone for a month. The recent floods 

 in the South did not prove to be serious 

 with them — they were practically in opera- 

 tion every day, although iimning at some 

 disadvantage a portion of the time. 



ST. LOUIS SAYINGS. 



G. B. Fulton, of the Chas. F. Luehr- 

 maun Hardwood Lumber Company, is to 

 be married on the evening of April 29 to 

 Miss Fannie Willcox of this city. The 

 ceremony is to be iserformed at the resi- 

 dence of the sister of the bride, Mrs. T. W. 

 Fry, after which Mr. and Mrs. Fulton will 

 make an extended trip. 

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Theo. Plummer, of the Plummer-Bene- 

 dict Lumber Company, reports an active 

 demand for poplar and cypress, the two 

 woods of which he handles more than any 

 others, and he has been able to secure the 

 delivery of several large river lots during 

 the past few weeks. 



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W. A. Bonsaek, of the Bonsack Lmiiber 

 Company, states that his business has 

 never been in better shape than at pres- 

 ent, and that he is able to keep both his 

 buyers and his salesmen busy and to ac- 

 complish results at both ends of the line, 

 lie thinks the outlook is excellent. 

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St. Louis is preparing to turn itself in- 

 side out next week because of the World's 

 Fair dedication ceremonies, and it is prob- 



Timber Lands 



We offer the following bargains in southern 

 timber lands and sawmills. 



COAL AND TIMBER BARGAIN. 

 Ten thousand acres of hardwood timber, in- 

 cluding oali, ash, poplar, hickoiy, etc., in 

 Eastern Tennessee, estimated to cut 40,000,- 

 000 feet, underlaid by several fine veins of 

 coking coal ; quick deal ; $5 per acre. Refer 

 File 90. 



IN WESTERN TENNESSEE. 

 Four-thousand-acre tract ; located in 

 Hatchie River bottom, a floating and navi- 

 gable stream seven miles south of Browns- 

 ville, Tenn. ; lies in one solid and continuous 

 body : longer river front than other way ; 

 has white oak. red oak, hickory, gum, cypress, 

 ash, elm, beech, maple and other varieties of 

 timber common to this country. Price is 

 $3 per acre ; good title. File 72. 



1,500 ACRES— ATTALA COUNTY, MISS. 



Railroad runs through land ; price, $7 per 

 acre ; same cleared, with good houses, fine 

 water and rich land. Timber estimate is as 

 follows : 



2,000,000 feet gum. 

 1,500,000 feet white and red oak. 



300,000 feet poplar. 



300,000 feet pine. 



700.000 feet hickory. 

 1,500,000 feet cypress, ash, elm, maple, holly, 

 etc. 



Refer to File 32. 

 840 ACRES— LE FLORE COUNTY, MISS. 



One and a half to two miles from rail- 

 road ; price. .13 per acre for land and timber ; 

 quit-claim deed, but good, won in courts. 

 Timber estimate is as follows : 



700.000 feet white and red oak. 



200.000 feet ash. 

 1,000.000 feet gum. 



20.000 feet cypress, elm. ash, holly, etc. 



File 32. 



A BARGAIN IN HARDWOODS. 

 Five thousand acres hardwood on Cumber- 

 land Mountain, within three miles of rail- 

 road ; estimated to cut 10.000,000 white oak. 

 5,000,000 , poplar, 5.000.000 chestnut and 

 5,250,000 hickory and other timber, including 

 walnut ; a portion underlaid with coal ; price, 

 $3 per acre. File 21. 



YELLOW PINE AND CYPRESS. 

 Two hundred and thirty thousand acres in 

 Florida of long-leaf yellow pine timber, solid 

 body, virgin state, never having been turpen- 

 tined or milled ; estimated to cut 300.000,000 

 feet of pine and 50,000,000 feet o£ cypress ; 

 water transportation to the coast and a rail- 

 road is surveyed through it : the tract is well 

 watered and 'would make good grazing land ; 

 price, $2.25 per acre. File 21. 



A VALUABLE TRACT. 

 Twenty thousand acres in Uaywood 

 County and 5.000 acres in Madison County, 

 N. C. : a 25,000-acre tract of virgin timber — • 

 poplar, oak. chtetnut. cucumber and a little 

 cherry ; will cut 5,000 feet per acre, about 

 3.500 merchantable timber : Pigeon River Is 

 the boundary line for 9 miles; the lailroad Is 

 now running to Watervillc. just across the 

 river ; the railroad is building up about four 

 to five miles on same side of the river, and 

 then near Cold Spring Creek they are to cross 

 the river and will run over this tract four 

 or five miles: Tennessee siate line is another 

 boujidary line : price of this tract is $7.50 ; 

 title is good : this will make good cattle 

 ranch when timber is taken off. File 1. 



DO YOU WANT A SAW MILL? 



Four saw mills in Weslern Tennessee ; two 

 of 2U.0(I0 feet capacity and two ot 10,000 

 feet : timber adjoining and accessible to all 

 thes(> mills : details upon application to in- 

 terested parties. Refer to File 72. 



We are also able to point out available lo- 

 cations for woodworking and furniture fac- 

 tories where local capital will take stock with 

 competent and responsible managers. 



SOUTHERN LAND CO., 



134 MONROE STREET, CHICAGO. 



J. F. OLSEN, Formerly Agent for the 

 Land and Industrial Department for 

 the Southern and the Mobile and 

 Ohio Ifallways, Manager. 



Dealers in Southern Timber. Mineral 

 and Farming liandH. 



