THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



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76 to 84 Steuben street, Jersey City, wns 

 totally destroyed at a loss of $100,000, on 

 ■which there was au insurance of $90.(XI0. 

 Six firemen were hurt by a falling wall. 

 About 100 men are temporarily thrown out 

 of employment, but the work of rebuildin'j 

 will be begun as soou as possible. 

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 Uouvernoui- E. Smith, hardwoods, has re- 

 turned to the city after an enjoyable vaca- 

 tion around Niagara Falls. 



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Price & Hart, of IS Broadway, will soon 

 be in better position than ever before to 

 handle their immense hardwood business. 

 They are the selling agents of the Gauley 

 Company, whose holdings at Camden-on- 

 Gauley, W. Va,. comprise about ITO.OOC 

 acres of spruce, hemloclv, oak, poplar, ash, 

 cherry, etc. At the present time the plant. 

 which is shut down, is being equipped 

 with modern machinery of the most effi- 

 cient character, while the building of a 

 number of necessary tram roads will make 

 the company independent of the uncer- 

 tainty of river supply hereafter. . 

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R. J. Kidman, of Churchill & Sim, Lon- 

 don, has returned home after his usual 

 annual -iauying trip. 



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That well-known hardwood manufac- 

 turer and dealer, R. W. Higbie, of J."> 

 Broadway, whose efforts to have the inter- 

 state commerce laws enforced are appre- 

 ciated by the trade, despite the fact that 

 they have often let liim fight his battles 

 practically imaided, has been lionored by 

 being elected a member of tlie Interstate 

 Law Association, which is fighting to give 

 the commission power to enforce as well 



as make laws. 



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The United States Lumber Company, 

 Jersey City, has recently been incorporated 



with $100,000 capital. 



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S. E. Kellar, IS Broadway, who too!: 

 away with him orders for a million and 

 a quarter feet of maple flooring when he 

 visited the Carolinas a month or so ago, 

 has started for that section again. 



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Among the recent visitors to the metrop- 

 olis were Frank C. Rice, of the Rice & 

 Lockwood Lumber Company, Springfield. 

 Mass., and M. S. Tremaine, of the Mont- 

 gomery Door & Box Company, Buffalo, 

 N. Y. 



Mr. Geo. H. Gibson has resigned as man- 

 ager of the advertising and publication de 

 partment of the B. F.. Sturtevant Company 

 of Boston, Mass., to accept an appointment 

 with the International Steam Pump Com- 

 pany, having offices at 114-118 Liberty 

 street. New York City. Mr. Gibson was 

 formerly connected with the Westinghouse 

 Companies' Publishing Department, o? 

 Pittsburg, Pa., and was for two years a 

 member of the editorial staff of the En- 

 gineering News of New York City. 



NASHVILLE NEWS. 



N, O. Gray of Kuttawa, Ky., and M. C. 



Ollarra of O'Harra, Ky., representing a 



New York firm, were in Knoxville this 



week looking toward the estaljlishment of 



a .«r)(),000 hardwood plant. 



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The Nashville Lumbermen's Club and 

 the manufacturers and insurance com- 

 panies and city department have managed 

 to get tlieir heads together and secured 

 a decrease of 10 per cent in the insurance 

 rates on lumber and lumber plants in the 



city of Nashville. 



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S. P. Hostler, a representative of the 

 Empire Lumber Company, Buffalo, N. Y., 

 was a recent visitor in the Nashville mar- 

 ket. 



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The Nashville Spoke & Handle Com- 

 pany has been absorbed by the Turner & 

 Day Company of Louisville and other 



points. 



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Jacobs & Dews. Nashville hardwood 

 lumbermen, have dissolved partnersliip, 

 Mr. C. E. Dews having purchased the in- 

 terest of Mr. Jacobs. The company will 

 be known in the future as the Dews Lum- 



Iier Company. 



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J. W. Drynan, of Hugh McLean & Co., 

 Buffalo, N. Y.. was here recently. Mr. 

 Drynan looks for a considerable easiness 

 in tlie market and states that he finds 



stocks more plentiful than he expected. 



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The Murray Land & Lumber Company 

 is a new organization at Knoxville, Tenn., 

 with a capital of $100,lX)0. The incorpo- 

 rators of this company are: W. H. Gass, 

 president of the Knoxville Banking Com- 

 pany; E. G. Gates, cashier of the Me- 

 chanics' National Bank; Frank Parnell, for- 

 merly of Parnell Bros., old Indiana lum- 

 bermen; Hugh M. Johnston, cashier of the 

 Knoxville Banking Company, and George 

 A. Murray, one of the pioneer lumbermen 

 of not only East Tennessee, but of the 

 South, as he has been manufacturing and 

 shipping liardwood lumber for the last 23 

 years. This company proposes to pay at- 

 tention particularly to timber lands for the 

 present, but will manufacture lumber later 

 on. 



The Blanton-Thurman Lumber Company. 

 Memphis, Tenn., who manufacture and 

 deal exclusively in cypress of the soft ye! 

 low Mississippi variety, report trade con- 

 ditions in that commodity excellent. The 

 kind of literature they send out regarding 

 their product is of the kind tliat gets busi- 

 ness. They tell you all about it in a brief 

 but forcible manner. Here's a sample: "It 

 is bright yellow, soft, smooth, tough, strong 

 and flexible, and for ease of working is 

 next to white pine. It is equal to either 

 white or yellow pine for interior finish and 

 superior to either for all outside work. 

 We invite your business and guarantee 

 satisfaction." 



Timber Lands 



We offer the following bargains in southern 

 timber lands and saw mills. 



CO.\L AND TIMBER BARGAIN. 

 Ten thousand acres of hardwood timber, 

 including oals. ash. poplar. hicl£ory. etc.. in 

 Eastern Tennessee, estimated to cut 40,- 

 000,000 feet, underlaid by several fine 

 veins of coliing coai ; quiclJ 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 continu- 

 ous body ; longer river front than other 

 way ; has white oali, red oali. hicliory, gum. 

 cypress, ash. elm, beech, maple and other 

 varieties of timber common to this country ; 

 price is $3 per acre ; good title. File 72. 

 A VALUABLE TRACT. 

 Twenty thousand acres in Haywood 

 County and 5.000 acres in Madison County, 

 N. C. : a 25,000-acre tract of virgin tim- 

 ber — poplar, oak, chestnut, cucumber and a 

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

 about 3,500 merchantable timber ; Pigeon 

 liiver is the boundary line for 9 miles ; the 

 railroad is now running to Waterville, just 

 across the river ; the railroad is building 

 up about four to Ave miles on same side of 

 the river, and then near Cold Spring Creels 

 they are to cross the river and will run 

 over this tract four or five miles ; Ten- 

 nessee state line is another boundary line : 

 price of this tract is $7.50 : title is good ; 

 this will make good cattle ranch when tim- 

 ber 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 access- 

 ible to all these mills : details upon appli- 

 cation to interested parties. Refer to File 

 72. 



HERE'S A FORTUNE. 

 Thirty-five thousand acres hardwood tim- 

 ber in Arkansas, at $8.50 per acre ; guaran- 

 tee it to cut 12,000 feet to the acre, mostly 

 white and red oak. hickory, ash and gum ; 

 lies on navigable river less than 100 miles 

 from Memphis, and trunk line railroad runs 

 through it north and south, east and west, 

 affording exceptional shipping facilities; 

 property must be sold to settle an estate, 

 but it "takes money: land for agricultural 

 purposes, fully worth .$6 per acre after 

 timber has been cut. File 156. 



AN ARKANSAS BARGAIN. 

 Twenty-two thousand acres hardwood at 

 $9 The following are the estimates in 

 millions ; White oak, GO ; red oak. 30 : elm, 

 40 ; Cottonwood, 25 : gum, 12 ; hickory, lo ; 

 white ash, 10, with considerable cypress 

 and about 50 ties to the acre: title perfect; 

 average haul to shipping point, two miles ; 

 no dreamers, but actual purchasers or their 

 responsible representallve. File lu. 



A WISCONSIN TRACT 

 Of over 6.500 acres and estimated to cut 

 10.000,000 feet of bas-swood. f^'UO.OOO oak 

 6 000,000 birch, 3,500,000 elm, 2.000,0(0 

 maple, 5,000,000 hemlock, I.OOO.UOO ash. 

 with several thousand railroad ties, with 

 100,000 cords of wood : land for farming 

 is very best and should sell readily at from 

 $(> to" ,$10 per acre; 720 acres of tliis is 

 under permit and timber only Is luciuded 

 in this offer ; 5,855 acres of land goes with 

 the deal • price $65,000, part cash, balance 

 in annual pavment.s for three or four years 

 at 6 per cent. File 166. 



But wliv enumerate? X\ c handle large 

 and small timber tracts in all parts of the 

 country: We also handle Southern farm 

 lands, "old colonial estates, improved fanns 

 suitable for general farming and stock, as 

 well as -unimproved lands, especially suited 

 for goats and sheep. Wc make a specialty 

 of locating woodworking factories, saw 

 mills and kindred industries. 



Being familiar with the South and ts 

 manv advantages and opiiortunitles for In- 

 vestment, wc ask you to consult us. 



SOUTHERN LAND CO., 



134 MONROE STREET, CHICAGO. 



J F. OLSE,\, Formerly Agent lor the 

 Laadand Industrial Oepartnicnt for 

 the Snuthern and the Mobile and 

 Ohio Railways, Manager. 



Dealers in '^oiith.ri. TiiiilM-r. llin.TiiI 

 and l-'niiniiis l.an"l«. 



