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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The Greble-Sine Lumber Company has made 

 arrangements to handle the cut of several mills 

 in Arkansas and Mississippi. W. H. Greble has 

 been personally looking after these arrange- 

 ments. The company is securing a very nice 

 run of orders. 



Advices received here from Paragould, Ark., 

 are to the effect that the movement of timber 

 in that section is the heaviest on record. One 

 day recently there were 119 cars of heading 

 and stave bolts on the tracks of the Iron 

 Mountain there, besides a large number on 

 the tracks of the Cotton Belt line. Owing to 

 the fact that many of the factories at that 

 point were unable to accommodate all the tim- 

 ber which was deliverable to them, it became 

 necessary for the railroad companies to unload 

 considerable timber on their right of way. 



George D. Burgess of Russe & Burgess, Inc.. 

 has returned from an extended vacation trip 

 which carried him to Chicago, New York, Bos- 

 ton, Philadelphia. Atlantic City and other 

 points of interest. He was accompanied by 

 Mrs. Burgess. 



W. N. Wright of the Wright-Bachman Lum- 

 ber Company, Portland, Ark., has been spending 

 considerable time in Memphis recently. His firm 

 has cut all of its timber on its tract of land 

 near Portland and has suspended operations. It 

 has sold the greater portion of this lumber but 

 still has some to offer and is busy making 

 deliveries on _sales already effected. 



Among the prominent visitors to Memphis 

 during the past few days has been J. B. Wall of 

 the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company. Buf- 

 falo, N. Y. 



W. A. McLean of the Wood-Mosaic Company, 

 Louisville, made some important purchases for 

 his company while in Nashville recently. 



NASHVILLE 



There is great interest in this state in forest 

 'conservation, this being one of the most import- 

 ant hardwood sections of the country. The 

 Southern Commercial Congress, which met in 

 Nashville last spring, appointed a committee to 

 take steps looking to the formation of a com- 

 mission to secure uniform and elBcient legisla- 

 tion. J. H. Baird has been appointed chairman 

 for Tennessee. At the January meeting of the 

 legislature the Tennessee sub-committee will 

 (ndeavor to secure a law creating a forestry 

 commission, acquire land and put into opera- 

 tion an object lesson of the most scientific 

 methods for the conservation of existing timber 

 and encouragement of new forest growth. 



J. W. .\lford & Co., wholesale hardwood lum- 

 ber dealers, have moved their yards and offices 

 from Jackson street and First avenue to Michi- 

 gan avenue, and in the new location will have 

 larger yards and better shipping facilities. 



The Nashville Lumbermen's Club is making 

 determined efforts to secure the 191o convention 

 of the National Wholesale Lumber Dcaler.s' 

 Association. A committee consisting of Chas. 

 M. Morford, chairman ; T. B. Johnson, Olin 

 White and J. H. Baird, has been appointed to 

 press the matter before the executive committee 

 of the association, and emphasize the cordial 

 invitation issued, as well as to give assurance 

 of co-operation of every member of the local club 

 to make the' convention a success. 



The Nashville Lumbermen's Club has received 

 notice from the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 that there will be a meeting of the general in- 

 vestigation of weights being conducted by the 

 commission at Memphis, Dec. 13 and 14. Presi- 

 dent Hamilton Love was authorized to appoint 

 three men to represent the local club at the 

 hearing, and other members will probably at- 

 tend. The case involves the matter of over 

 weights on car lots of lumber. 



E. N. Ralston', secretary of the Ransom Hard- 

 wood Linnber Company, Hope, Ark., was a recent 

 visitor in Nashville. Mr. Ralston's company is 

 controlled by John B. Ransom & Co., this city. 

 He reported important progress in the business 

 in Arkansas. 



BRISTOL 



A largely attended meeting of the creditors of 

 the J. A. Wilkinson Lumber Company, Inc., and 

 J. A. Wilkinson, was held in Bristol last week 

 at the office of Referee in Bankruptcy H. H. 

 Shelton. Mr. Wilkinson's second examination 

 consumed two days and was largely with refer- 

 ence to business transactions with his several 

 brothers and his wife, within a few months be- 

 fore his bankruptcy petitions. It was brought 

 out that he paid his brothers about $20,000 ; 

 gave one of them a second mortgage on his large 

 home in Bristol tor $7,500 and paid his wife 

 certain sums of money during this period and 

 that he paid only one other creditor. It was 

 shown that he had given his wife property at 

 Bluefleld, W. Va., worth $8,000 and had paid 

 her money. The creditors are endeavoring to 

 have these transfers nullified. Creditors of the 

 corporation are contesting the $33,000 claim 

 against the J. A. Wilkinson Lumber Company. 

 Inc.. of Price and Pierce, Ltd., of London, con- 

 tending that it is an obligation of J. A. Wilkin- 

 son. The same is true of an $8,000 claim of 

 the First National Bank of Bristol. Trustee 

 Irving Whaley is getting the assets of the cor- 

 poration in shape to be sold. They are appre- 

 ciated at about $50,000. 



Some of the large mills in this section report 

 that their log supply is running short. How- 

 ever, most of them are operating and expect to 

 get in as much time as possible before the advant 

 nf the rough weather that makes operation very 

 difficult. The same is true of the smaller mills 

 which are much more dependent upon fair 

 weather. The roads are now in only fair condi- 

 tion and consequently there is not as much 

 hauling as there has been during the past few 

 weeks. 



The Tyro River Development Company is in- 

 stalling a new mill in Nelson county, Virginia, 

 where it has purchased a tract of timber. 



Work has been begun on the Black Mountain 

 railway, in western North Carolina, which is 

 being built to open up a new area of valuable 

 hardwood timberland. 



The band mill of the Peter-McCain Lumber 

 Company is running regularly. The compan.v is 

 getting many fine logs from its timberland in 

 the Holston mountains, twelve miles east of 

 Bristol, and within the next year will cross into 

 Carter county. Tennessee, where it recently 

 paid $30,000 for a new tract of timber. 



Investigators representing the forestry depart- 

 ment at Washington were here this week, accom- 

 panied by Congressman Sam R. Sells, in regard 

 to Umberlands in east Tennessee that are to be 

 purchased by the government for the Appalachian 

 Forest Reserve. Congressman Sells said that h" 

 was confident that the government would shortly 

 make extensive purchases in Johnson county, 

 which will be sufficient, he thinks, to justify an 

 appropriation for a new macadamized road oul 

 of that section connecting with the highways 

 leading to Bristol. 



LOUISVILLE 



J. E. Barton, the new state forester of Ken- 

 tucky, who spoke at a recent meeting of the 

 Louisville Hardwood Club, has been elected an 

 honorary member of the organization. He is one 

 of the few men outside the lumber business who 

 have been so honored. As the state will estab- 

 lish a nurser.v in Louisville, Mr. Barton will 

 probably have an opportunity to meet with the 

 club frequently. The organization will have its 

 annual meeting on Nov. 5. Edward L. Davis 

 of the E. L. Davis Lumber Company, is regardcii 

 as a likely candidate for the presidency. 



The Rotary Club of Louisville is a rather 



unique organization, being one of a number of 

 similar bodies scattered over the country. Its 

 unusual featuie is that only one representative 

 from each business may be a member. The 

 lumber and allied trades are well represented, 

 however, among those elected recently being 

 Edward L. Davis of the Edward L. Davis Lum- 

 ber Company ; S. E. Booker of the Booker Box 

 Company ; D. E. Kline of the Louisville Veneer 

 Mills ; Frank B. Russell, a leading stave manu- 

 facturer, and Alfred Struck, an interior finish 

 man. G. D. Grain, Jr., secretary of the Hard- 

 wood Club, is also a member. 



In view of the brisk demand for mahogany 

 continuing, and the supply of African logs in 

 the Liverpool market being unusually small, 

 local mills are continuing to run day and night. 

 The demand for mahogany veneers, which has 

 been rather slow, has shown improvement, and 

 this branch of the trade is now looking up. The 

 effect of the mahogany boom has been to stimu- 

 late the demand for quartered oak, and also 

 to help the status of Mexican mahogany. 



Friends of Col. Clarence R. Mengel, president 

 of the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company, have con- 

 gratulated him upon the fine recovery made by 

 his son, Clarence R. Mengel, Jr., who was re- 

 cently operated on for appendicitis. 



One of the worst blows ever received by Mart 

 Brown of the W. P. Bfown & Sons Lumber 

 Company, was the defeat of the Giants by the 

 Boston Red Sox in the world's series. Always 

 an ardent Giant fan. Mr. Brown was especially 

 fond of Mathewson. and when Matty was beaten 

 in the final game of the great series, Mr. Brown 

 suffered almost as much as the big twirler. 



C. M. Sears of the Edward L. Davis Lumber 

 Company, who has returned from a trip to 

 trade centers in the Middle West, reports an im- 

 proved demand from the furniture factories. 



R. Carnahan, the local timberman, is among 

 those who have secured control of the Kentucky 

 River Timber & Coal Company, which will de- 

 velop 40,000 acres of timberland in Harlan. Les- 

 lie and Clay counties. The property will be 

 opened for development in the near future. 



ST. LOUIS 



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Thomas E. Powe, president of the Thomas 

 K. Powe Lumber Company, accompanied by Mrs. 

 I'owe and their little daughter, left last week 

 for Cheraw, S. C, on a visit to his parents. 

 The.v will be absent for about two weeks. Mr. 

 I'owe, previous to his departure, stated that 

 there was a good demand for ash, in fact his 

 liouse is receiving about all the orders for this 

 wood that it can take care of. Cypress condi- 

 tions also are improving and orders are coming 

 in nicely for this item. 



W. W. Dings, secretary of the Garetson- 

 Greason Lumber Co, states that the only thing 

 that bothers his company is the car shortage. 

 There does not seem to be any likelihood of a 

 l)etterment in the situation. The company is 

 getting only about ten per cent of the number 

 of cars it requires at the mills. Mr. Garetson, 

 who has been absent on the Pacific coast for 

 the past three months, has arrived home from 

 his trip. 



E. W. Blumer, sales manager of the Lothman 

 Cypress Company, has gone East on a selling 

 trip. He will visit Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Buf- 

 falo and other large cities before returning 

 home. Previous to leaving, Mr. Lothman said 

 that the trade in cypress is splendid. Orders 

 were coming in in good numbers and prices were 

 satisfactory. The Lothman Cypress Company is 

 well provided with stock and therefore is able 

 to take care of all orders coming in. Mr. Blumer 

 said that a great deal of business was coming 

 to this market which generally goes to other 

 points and since the fact that stocks are large 

 here is pretty well known to the trade, dealers 

 wanting cypress are looking to this market for 

 their supplies. 



E. W, I.uehrmann of the Chas. F. Luehrmann 



