THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



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in.:;- in larfiv orders. The company now 

 lias 150 natives worliin.s in the camps 

 and on the last rise floated down 1,000 tons 

 <>r hagoliany. They have recently estab- 

 lished branch ottices in Detroit. Cleveland 

 and Cincinnati. In a few weeks the com- 

 pany will begin to push its other woods — 

 Spanish cedar, Zapote, Guayachu, Barri 

 oud I'opiste. These ari' cheaper woods 

 than mahogany, but are susceptible of a 

 very high polish and are already being 

 used quite extensively as substitutes in a 

 number of cities. The ofticers of the com- 

 pany are: Joseph M. Douthet. president; 

 John >I. Lyon, vice-president; Robert 1). 

 JlcGonigle. .secretary and treasurer; 

 Cluirles G. Alton, assistant treasurer and 

 hnancial agent; John K. Wheeler, solicitor; 

 William H. Alton, resident manager iu 

 Mexico. 



MEMPHIS MATTER. 

 The mills are busy at Memphis these 

 days. Init the manufacturers are unable to 

 accumulate dry stock. It is shipped now 

 in a state well-nigh green in many in- 

 stances. There is a continued disposition 

 on the part of Memphis manufacturers to 

 press out in the soutliern territory for 

 timber 'tracts. Several deals have been 

 made recently by Memphiaus in cypress 

 and a few deals of importance in hard- 

 woods. 



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Bennett & Witte have moved their ottice 

 from North Memphis to the Southern Ex- 

 press buikling. George C. Ehemann is iu 

 charge of the same. This Arm does quite 

 a heavy business in hardwoods through 

 their Cincinnati, Memphis and recently 

 establish Chicago offices. 



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W. F. Stiffel, a well-known lumberman 

 from St. Louis, was in the Memphis market 



this week. 



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Crosby iV: Beckley of New Haven, Conn., 

 liave just closed a deal for 5,000 acres of 

 timberland near Drew, Miss. • A timber 

 railroad will be built in connection with 

 the development of the land. 



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M. L. Connelly, a hardwood lumberman 

 from Kansas City and a member of the 

 Connelly Hardwood Lumber Company, 

 was here a few days ago replenishing his 

 stock from some losses sustained while 

 his lumber was iu transit and was carried 

 away or lost in the flood. 



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The Darnell-Love Lunilier Compauy is 

 cutting up stocks of hardwood right along 

 at their new mill at Darling, Miss. The 

 company has its office in this city in the 

 south end. Quite an amount of its stock 

 is seut to export lields. 



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O. II. Gardner, a well-known hardwood 

 manufacturer at Mercer, Tenn., is grad- 

 ually concentrating his lumber interests at 

 Jackson, Tenn.. at the junction of the 

 Illinois Central, Mobile and Ohio and Nash- 



ville. Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad. 

 He still runs a mill at Mercer and has an 

 otHce there, and for a year past has been 

 llu' leading si]irit in the Banner Lumber 

 Company of .lackson. Mr. Gardner is an- 

 other good product from the state of In- 

 diana and is quite a factor in the inland 

 lumber trade of Tennessee. 



The apartment house being constructed 

 for Lou Lesh and other Chicago capitalists 

 on Adams street, this city, is moving up a 

 pace and will be a thing of beauty for- 

 ever. The wise men about Memphis think 

 it will also be a good investment. 



C. C. Men.gel. of C. C. Mengel & Bro. 

 Coinpany. Louisville, was in Memphis re- 

 cently. 



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James Kern of Buffalo. N. Y., was here 

 a few days ago looking after the interests 

 of the Jaues-Keeney Lumber Company. 



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R. M. Chamliliss. secretary of the 

 Mahannah Lumber Company of Memphis, 

 has just returned from a trip to Canada 

 and the East looking after the lumber in- 

 t( rests of Ills firm. They entered South 

 Memphis about a year ago and are build- 

 ing up quite a nice trade in hardwood prod- 

 ucts. A. E. Mahannah looks after the 

 milling interests down in Mississippi. He 

 came to Tennessee from Cleveland, O., and 

 has been working in lumber a great many 

 J ears. 



NASHVILLE NEWS. 

 Old Nashville that has never thought 

 herself very backward as a lumber mar- 

 ket, iu spite of the mutterings of her 

 neighbors, is moving up a few notches 

 tliese days in securing woodworking 

 plants and general distributiug offices for 

 woodworking products. This is true of 

 stave, lumber and wagon manufactories. 

 The Chamber of Commerce is out for 

 everything .good now and several enter- 

 prises of importance have come or are 

 liointed this way. Nashville is a mighty 

 big southern town, but has not as yet 

 seen proper to drag in her sui)urbs and 

 l)astures in Davidson County and call 

 them Nashville, though they all contribute 

 to her business. She is very well satisfied 

 and looks on with evident complacence at 

 the doubling U|i of Menqibis. I'.irmingham 



and Atlanta. 



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W. V. Davidson, of the D.ividson-Bene- 

 dict Company, is taking his vacation at 

 Monterey, Tenn. The Davidson-Benedict 

 Company owns and operates several lum- 

 ber mills up on the Cumberland IMateau 

 about Monterey. M. F. Greene, general 

 manager of the same company, is spending 

 a portion of the summer in company with 

 his family at Lake Chautan(iua, New York. 



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Warner Ross, of the Ross Lumber Com- 

 pany, Jamestown, N. Y'., has been speudin^^ 

 some days iu and around Nashville. His 



liini buys oak. ash and chestnut out of the 

 South and are prominently identified with 

 the cherry lumber trade in the East. They 

 keep a yard at Lawreuceburg, Tenn., but 

 contemplate making contracts for mill cuts 

 ill the woods. 



Hamilton Love, of Love. Boyd & Co., 

 has returned from a trip to Boston. 



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L. W. Crow, of the Mobile Lumber Com- 

 pany of Mol)ile. Ala., was in Nashville a 

 lew days ago. His company is opening up 

 some new mills .-ibont Mobile. The con- 

 cern is now capitali-/.ed at $2,000,000. They 

 also have a mill at Rigbee, Ala. The con- 

 cern cuts hardwoods, yellow ])ine and 



c.^press. 



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Henry J. Gott. of H. H. Salmon & Co., 

 New York, was in the Tennessee lumber 

 markets receutl.v buying stoclv. He place<l 

 several lar.ge orders here and in East Ten- 

 nessee. 



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A continued effort is lieing made by the 

 Nashville commercial bodies to secure in 

 addition to the location of a general dis- 

 tributing house for the South here a fac- 

 tory from the R. O. Evans Company of 

 Green Bay. Wis., that manufactures 

 church and school furniture. It is thought 

 that the company will erect their factory 

 htre, too. 



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J. M. Overton and others of Sparta, in 

 White County, have just sold a timber 

 tract they recently purchased. The price 

 it last brought was $25,000. It contains a 

 lot of poplar timber, some of the poplars 

 over SO feet long to the first lindjs, and 

 tliey will make six big 10-foot cuts. 



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The Bryan Lumber Company of John- 

 son County. Tennessee, is preparing to 

 enter the lists iu East Tennessee. The in- 

 corporators are R. E. Donnelly, H. A. Don- 

 nelly. E. E. Butler, R. H. Butler and J. S. 



Wagner. 



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E. B. Chester has started a dimensiou 

 stock factory at Brownsville, Teim., and 

 will manufacture golf sticks and baseball 



bats. 



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Nashville and Algood. Tenn.. parties 

 have purchased a site here for a large new 

 spoke factory that will manufacture 

 sjiokes. The style of the firm will be the 

 Rock City Spoke Factory. 



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W. J. Harlan. mana.ger of the Jacksou 

 Lumber Company of Lockhart, Ala., was 

 iu Nashville a few days ago. Mr. Har- 

 lan's company has just completed the erec- 

 tion of a saw mill with a capacity of 

 80,000,000 feet annual capacity and has 

 built the moflcl tiown of Lockport, lighted 

 with electricity and with a complete sewer- 

 age system, where less than six mouths 

 ago there was a primeval forest. The 

 tract of land belonging to the Jacksou 

 Lumber Company consists of 175,000 acres 

 of lougleaf yellow pine. The company is 



