in i: HARDWOOD RECORD. 



luiuy would cunie to I'liiultorloiid Cutini.v, 

 Teiinossee. iind dovolop ll« jtroixTtlos. Tho 

 foiii|miiy Is couipiisod Ijircol.v of Now York 

 cnpltallsls mid has iM-fii imrchiisiiiK uoiiu' 

 lo.iKiOiiiTi' irsu'ts about I'rab «trrliard a nil 

 other iiilddlf Tciiiii'ssci' |iulnts ulotiK 1li<- 

 Ti-iiiu'SM'c I'l'iilral ICjillrond. 

 • • • 

 .1. r. MiMlllfii. who Is n saw mill owner 

 near Knoxvlllc, was badly liurt in nn ex- 

 plosion in his mill n day or two ago. to- 

 gether with two of his employes. The 

 ten-horseiMiwer iHiller explwled. well nigh 

 demolishing the mill. McMillen had i>nr- 

 chasoil the boiler Just two days before. 



MEMPHIS MATTER. 



Memphis. Tenn., August 10. 

 The Memphis lumbermen have had a 

 summer touch of the car troubles and were 

 for a few (hiys put in constant dread. The 

 devotees of the trade here have their mills 

 running steadily. Some of the manufac- 

 turers have seized upon August as their 

 vacation time. A good many retail and 

 planing mill establishments have starte<l 

 up in Memphis of late. 



• • • 



F. E. Gary, of the Baker Lumber Com- 

 pany, has returned from a trip to Michi- 

 gan. 



• • « 



Messrs. J. Brewer and Thomas Mcl-'ar- 

 land of Chicago were recent visitors in 

 Memphis lumber circles. 



• • • 



The Chickasaw Lumber Company has 

 just begun operations at a new planing 

 mill in Southeast .Memphis. 



• * • 



The Bluff City Lumber Company is a 

 new industry In the retail lumber lines in 

 the same portion of town. 



• * * 



T. B. Allen, the well-known Memphis 

 stave exporter, is summering in Canada. 



• • • 



H. Petri, who represents Antwerp con- 

 nections in this city, has gone to Euro|ic 

 on a trip, but will return in about two 



months. 



• • • 



Mr. Arthur, of the Arthur Lumber Com- 

 pany, has returned from a visit to his' old 

 home in St. Paul, Minn. 



• • « 



~B. R. Thompson, a lumberman from 

 Grand Itapids. Mich., was in Memphis .'•cv- 

 eral days last week. 



• • • 



Dave Trippett, formerly of Indiana, is 

 now in .Memphis regularly, representing 

 tlie wholesale hardwood manufacturers, 

 Bomer Bros, of Brownsville, Tenn. Mr. 

 Trippett is looking after the shipment of 

 stock out of South Memphis. 



• * * 



R. S. Couch of Melbourne, Australia, wiis 



in Memphis a few days ago looking afiir 



lumber interests. 



« * « 



Marshall Long, of the J. O. Nesson Lum- 

 ber Company, is in Canada for a few d.Tv.';. 



CINCINNATI GOSSIP. 



The Clncinnali llnnhvuod I.unibt-r Com- 

 pany have purchaseil a valuable timber 

 tract near Hen-a, Ky., on the Kentucky 

 Central Railroad, which Is practically a 

 branch of the L. & N. Mr. ItosUen says 

 they will have over a million feet of pop- 

 lar, white oak and chestnut, of tine large 

 quality. They began sawing some two 

 months ago and will be in shape to start 

 shipping by tlie time the fall trade ojiens. 



* * * 



.s. M. Burgess & Co. Is the name of n 

 new company In which Cincinnati parties 

 arc interested. They are now erecting a 

 lirst-class band mill at Rockport, Ky.. 

 which Is at the Intersection of Green River 

 and the Illinois Central Railway. Messrs 

 T. .1. Moffelt and E. W. Rolibins of Cincin- 

 nati and S. M. Burgess of ItockiMirt Is the 

 composition of tlie lirni. Tlic cut will con- 

 sist of plain and quartered oak, poplar and 

 hickory. They have now in their own 

 rights some six million feet of timber. 



* * • 



L. W. Radina. of L. W. Radina & Co.. 

 is away on a vacation. He will hunt and 

 lish for a couple of weeks at Wawasee, 



Ind. 



* * * 



Tlie Cincinnati lumlierincn that handle 

 walnut and cherry, particularly those who 

 export, are pleased with a recent action 

 of the Central Freight Bureau. Heretofore 

 walnut and cherry have been excepted 

 from the regular lumber tariff on the 

 grounds that they were expensive woods 

 and from points south and tJirougli Cin- 

 cinnati to eastern terminals and seaboard 

 points they carried an excess of from IK: 

 to 3 cents per hundred pounds extra. 

 Through the efforts of the railroads di- 

 rectly connected with Cincinnati, particu- 

 larly that old lumliermeirs favorite, the C. 

 H. & D. Ry.. and on evidence furnished 

 by some few lumbermen who deal largely 

 in walnut and cherry, this extra burden 

 has been olficially removed and walnut and 

 cherry are now taking the same rates as 

 all other varieties. 



» * * 



The Wernicke Timber Land Company is 

 the name of a recent incorporation, the ob- 

 ject of which is to deal in timber, timber 

 and other lands and the products thereof. 

 The olticers of the company are O. H. L. 

 Wernicke of Cincinnati, president and gen- 

 eral manager; R. C. Caldwell of Louis- 

 ville, Ky., secretary, and Eugene E. Adams 

 of New York, treasurer. Mr. Wernicke is 

 well-known in hardwood lumber circles, be- 

 ing vice-president of the .Globe-AVernicke 

 Company, large manufacturers of office and 

 library furniture. Mr. Wernicke states 

 they will confine their operations to the 

 southern field, and especially to a strip 

 of country along the Mobile. .lackson it 

 Kansas City Railway, which is now pros- 

 pected and built in parts between Jackson. 

 Tenn., and Mobile, Ala. The company 

 owns several tracts of land along the right 



of way, and are offering InducemeiitK to 

 owners of liuid In that vicinity to join 

 them and get the Itonellt of cheap devel- 

 o|inieiit. It Is In reality the merging of 

 valiinbic properties under one manage- 

 ment ailing the stretch traversed by the 



road. 



* * • 



M. I!. I'arrin Is now en route to Europe, 

 having sailed Wednesday, the litth Inst., 

 lie will be gone two months, the time lie- 

 ing devilled largely to business of oak 



llooring nature. 



* • • 



The Cincinnati Lumbermen's ("lub will 

 hold its first monthly meeting of the sea- 

 son on September 7. 



AT MINNEAPOLIS. 



,\. S. Bliss, with llie R. Connor Com- 

 pany or Miirslilicld. Wis., has moved to 

 .St. I'aiil and will remain hero as the Twin 

 City representative of the company. He 

 Is making the company an active factor 

 here in the hardwood market, especially 

 with biisswood products, but also handles 

 white cedar products and hemlock. He 

 is now living at 1G84 Van Buren street, .St. 

 Paul, and makes his headquarters at 

 home, but expects later to have a desk In 

 the Lumber Exchange, Minneapolis. 



* * * 



E. Payson Smith. Jr., tlie local dealer in 

 southern hardwoods and yellow pine, has 

 returued from an eastern trip, which com- 

 bined business and pleasure. Accumpanied 

 by Mrs. Smith, he went down tlio great 

 lakes to Buffalo and Tonawanda. taking 

 in Detroit and Cleveland and making sales 

 on the way. He reports a successful, as 

 well as enjoyable, trip, and says he found 

 a lively market in the East. 



* * • 



Otto Meyer of St. Louis, representing 

 the Bonsask Lumber Company, looked in 

 last week and did business with several 

 Minneapolis jobbers. He says that prices 

 here are too low in proportion to the rest 



of the country. 



* * * 



Oscar Nelson, of the Braluuii I.,uiuli<r 

 Company. Braham, Minn., hardwood man- 

 ufacturers and retail dealers, was in Min- 

 neapolis last week. He says they are 

 making a ' good cut and Sading an ex- 

 cellent market for their stock, which is 

 largely elm. 



STRIKE SETTLED IN ST. LOUIS. 



The strike declared by the teamsters' 

 union against the lumbermen on July IC 

 has been called off. More than 800 men 

 were out and 135 firms were so affected 

 that they were practic.illy out of business 

 during the greater portion of the strike pe- 

 riod. The union, at its meeting on the 

 evening of August 4, told the men to go 

 back to work, and the majority applied 

 for their old positions on Wednesday 

 morning. As a. number oT men had been 

 given employment to replace the strikers, 

 a large number of those who voluntarily 



