THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



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NASHVILLE NEWS. 



The trade continues well sustaiuetl, and 

 the general local situation -with the saw 

 mills appears to be one of activity. Stocks 

 are very moderate. Quartered and plain 

 ■white and red oak, poplar, ash, chestnut. 

 cedar and walnut, the last two in a small 

 degi-ee, share in the trade. 



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The Case Lumber Company of Chatta- 

 nooga has purchased a large tract of land 

 upon which it will erect a lumber plaut 

 to cost about $25,000. The company owns 

 a considerable amount of timberland in 

 Tennessee and North Georgia. 



:it $ * 



John B. Ran.som, of John B. Ransom 

 & Co., has returned from an eastern trip. 



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The Dayidson-Benedict Lumber Com- 

 pany have their mills here and in East 

 Tennessee running, and report a widely 

 distributed trade in the domestic market 

 and the shipment of some quartered oak 



and walnut. 



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

 summer as usual in Nova Scotia, but this 

 time at his own hotel. In company with 

 other capitalists he is developing a favor- 

 ably located Canadian health and pleasure 



place. 



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The Southern Lumber & Box Company 

 is working principally in Putman County 

 at its lumber operations. The mill and 

 factory at Nashville are getting their logs 

 from that source. 



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The last building for the large new 

 lumber plant of D. M. Rose & Co. In South 

 Knoxville is nearing completion, and that 

 firm will be able to facilitate its business 

 better than ever before. The establish- 

 ment is quite large and employs more than 

 a hundred men. 



his company could do to lill orders that 



come in. 



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C. F. Osborne, of Osborne & Clark, the 

 well-known hardwood firm of Minneapolis, 

 is on a trip of inspection to the firm's re- 

 tail yard at Erie, 111. 



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C. M. Stevens of St. Croix Falls, Wis., 

 the well-known hardwood manufacturer, 

 was in Jlinneapolis a few days ago, calling 

 on l)usinoss acquaintances. 



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The Brainerd-Deckert-Blamer Company 

 of Minneapolis, which has recently opened 

 a yard for llling mixed car orders, has 

 moved to a more roomy location in the 

 northern part of the city. 



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Frank Carter of Menomonie, Wis., a 

 prominent dealer in hardwood stock, was 

 in Minneapolis a few days ago placing 

 some of his supply with local manufac- 

 turers. 



AT ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. 

 F. L. Ilawn of Sillhawn. Wis., manager 

 of the mill of the Ruby Lumber Company, 

 was in Minneapolis a few days ago, con- 

 ferring with his associates in the company, 

 Messrs. Hamilton & Sill of the Minneapolis 



Lumber Company. 



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E. Paysou Smith, Jr.. the wholesale 

 dealer in southern hardwoods and yellow 

 pine, left Jlinneapolis recently for a busi- 

 ness trip, which takes in St. Louis and 

 several points in Alabama and Mississippi. 



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John D. Spalding, with the Frederick W. 

 t'pham Company of Chicago, was in Min- 

 neapolis a few days ago, attending a meet- 

 ing of the hardwood men. and looking after 

 the interests of his company here. 



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A. II. Kuth, representing the C. W. 

 Jones Lumber Company of Appleton, Wis., 

 was in Minneapolis recently, but was not 

 hustling for business. He said it was all 



CINCINNATI GOSSIP. 

 During the past few days the lumbermen 

 of this city have been favored with calls 

 from some members of the lumber news- 

 paper fraternity. C. Y. Kimball, editor of 

 the Hardwood Record, and John W. Long, 

 editor of the New York Lumber Trade 

 Journal, being the visitors. 



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Hush McLean, of Hugh McLean & Co. 

 of Buffalo, N. Y., recently spent a day with 



Cincinnati lumbermen. 



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Another welcome visitor to the Cincin- 

 nati market was C. R. Mengel, of C. C. 

 SIcngel, Jr., & Bro. Company of Louisville, 



Ky. 



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On Jlonday night. May 11. the Cincinnati 

 Lumberman's Club will hold iis monthly 

 meeting and banquet. The meeting will be 

 an Important one. as it is the occasion of 

 the annual election of officers. Another 

 tiling to lend it importance is the fact that 

 it is the last meeting of the club prior to 

 the annual meeting of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association. A large at- 

 tendance is expected and a goodly repre- 

 sentation of Cincinnati Innibernien will be 

 found at Indianapolis on May "21. 



REMOVAL NOTICE. 



Stillwell & Co. of Detroit. Mich., an- 

 nounce the removal of their office quarters 

 from nSl West Fort street to ."501 Stevens 

 building, at 31 to 30 Grand River avenue, 

 near the Griswald House. 



The Licking Coal & Lumber Company, 

 composed of Parkorsburg, W. Va., capi- 

 talists and lumbermen have purchased 

 .^.881 acres of fine timber and coal land In 

 Morgan County, Kentucky. A railroad 

 from .Morohead to West Liberty is now 

 being built and will pass through the 

 land. The company will begin operations 

 this week. 



Timber Lands 



We otter the following bargains in southern 

 timber lands and sawmills. 



COAL AND TIMBER BARGAIN. 

 Ten thousand acres of hardwood timber, in- 

 cluding oak, ash. poplar, hickory, 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 TENNESSEP]. 

 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 

 liody ; longer river front than other way ; 

 haswhite 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. if3 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 SOO.OoO.OOO 

 feet of pine and 50,000,000 feet of 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 YALUABLE TRACT. 

 Twenty thousand acres in Haywood 

 County and 5.000 acres in Madison County, 

 N. C. : a 2o,000-acre tract of virgin timber — 

 poplar, oak. chestnut, cucumber and a little 

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

 3.500 merchantable timber: Pigeon River Is 

 the boundary line for miles; the lallroad Is 

 now running to Waterville. just across the 

 river ; the railroad is building up about foitr 

 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 state line Is another 

 boundary 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 Western Tennessee : two 

 of 20.000 feet capacity and two of 10,000 

 feet : timber adjoining and accessible to all 

 these mills : details upon application to In- 

 terested parties. Refer to File 72. 



We arc also able to point out available lo- 

 cations tor woodworking and furniture fac- 

 tories where local capital will take stock with 

 competent and responsible managers. 



SOUTHERN LAND CO., 



134 MONROE STREET, CHICACO. 



J. F. O/.Sfi.V, Formerly Agent for the 

 Land and Industrial Department lor 

 the Southern and the Mobile and 

 Ohio Rallnays, Manager. 



nealers in !*ou»h<>ro Tinilier. Mineral 

 ami Fnriiiiiis I.ainlH. 



