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Stoker Bros, of Saginaw, Mich., who removed 

 to this city recently, have commenced the erec- 

 tion of a plant for the manufacture of loggin;; 

 tools. This will be the only concern of the 

 kind in this section. The plant will cost about 

 Ifliri.OOO. 



The Lookout Planing Mills of this city recently 

 erected an addition to its plant on Montgomery 

 avenue. 16x64 feet in dimensions, adding 2,000 

 feet of floor space. The improvements cost about 

 $1,500. W. P. McBroom is general manager of 

 the concern. 



The Goodstock Dimension Company of Crab 

 Orchard has made an assignment. The assets 

 of the company are rated at $100,000, while the 

 liabilities are only about .$15,000. Cashier 



Mitchell of the Crossville Bank, Crossville, 

 Tenn., has been appointed assignee. R. W. 

 Powell of Crossville is president and general 

 manager of the concern. A reorganization -will 

 be perfected and operations will be resumed in 

 a few weeks. 



The Williams & Voris Lumber Company has 

 just completed the construction of a new switch 

 in the lumber yards on the Chickamauga car 

 line. The track is 700 feet long and projects 

 from the Belt railway. The new addition gives 

 the company more than 2.000 feet of spur tracks 

 in the yards, increasing facilities for handling 

 orders promptly. 



The Hays-Henderson Saw & Supply Company, 

 whose plant has recently been completed on 

 Montgomery avenue, has commenced the manu- 

 facture of high-grade circular saws, machine 

 knives, molding bits, etc. The company will also 

 handle all kinds of mill supplies. W. P. Hays, 

 president and general manager of the concern, 

 has had twenty-one years' experience in the busi- 

 ness. R. B. Henderson, vice president and treas- 

 urer, is one of Chattanooga's most successful 

 business men. 



Walter J. Peake, formerly state senator from 

 this county, has assumed control of the East 

 Tennessee Manufacturing Company of this city, 

 manufacturer of pine lumber and hardwoods. 

 Mr. Peake took the place of his father, C. S. 

 Peake. deceased. 



F. W. Blair of the F. W. Blair sawmill took 

 a trip to Dalton. Ga.. on business recently. 



W. A. Bennett of Bennett & Witte, Cincinnati, 

 O.. is among the visitors here this week. 



Ferd Brenner of the Ferd Brenner Lumber 

 Company has recently returned from Norfolk, 

 Va., where he inspected his branch yards and 

 planing mill at that point. 



William Fowler of the Case Lumber Company 

 returned a few days ago from Birmingham, 

 where the Fowler-Personett Lumber Company, 

 of which he is president, is now in operation. 

 M. M. Erb. vice president of this company, is in 

 Chicago on business. He will visit the East and 

 return in about a month. 



St. Louis. 



W. A. Bonsack of tbe Bonsack Lumber Com- 

 pany is a great believer in unique and attractive 

 methods of appealing to the trade, and is al- 

 ways getting up something that catches the eye 

 and tickles the fancy of the reader. His latest 

 effort in this direction has a poetical setting 

 and will certainly arrest the attention of all who 

 catch a glimpse of the headline. 



The Waldstein Lumber Company is putting in 

 some choice assortments of hardwoods and is 

 making ready for a good fall and winter trade. 

 Franz Waldstein, head of the concern, feels 

 confidont of a brisk demand this season and is 

 making arrangements accordingl.v. Alex Bohn, 

 the company's northern representative, is now 

 making an extensive tour of that section of the 

 country. 



The oflice of E. P. Southgate, deputy inspector 

 at St. Louis for the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association, is now located at his home. S07A 

 North Garrison avenue. He is being kept pretty 

 busy and reports the volume of his work as 

 growing steadily. 



Nashville. 

 Hugh C. Card of Nashville, formerly president 

 and manager of the Southern Hardwood Com- 

 pany, and now a member of the .John M. Smith 

 Lumber Compan.v. has organized the H. C. Card 

 Lumber Company at Laurel, Miss. At that point 

 are the Kingston Lumber Company and East- 

 man-Gardner Company, dealers in pine, but who 

 have also extensive haidwood holdings. The 

 new company will handle the hardwoods in that 

 section, of which there is a large amount. As- 

 sociated with Mr. Card in the new enterprise 

 will be F. W. Pettibone, also a member of the 

 John M. Smith Company, and likewise of the 

 ICingston Lumber Company. Mr. Card leaves 

 for the East this week to secure machinery for 

 the new plant. 



F. E. Longwell. head of the purchasing de- 

 partment of the National Casket Company, Ho- 

 boken, N. J., was in Nashville recently. He is 

 making one of liis periodical rounds of the com- 

 pany's various plants, visiting the buyers under 

 him. 



J. L. Strickland, general manager of the Plant- 

 ers' Lumber Company of Greenville, Miss., has 

 returned home after a short stay in Nashville. 

 Mrs. Strickland remained, in Nashville several 

 weeks en account of the yellow fever in the 

 South. 



A. L. Hayes of the A. L. Hayes Stave Com- 

 pany has been appointed chairman of a joint 

 committee from the Chamber of Commerce, Re- 

 tail Merchants' Association and Cumberland 

 River Commission for the purpose of securing 

 funds with whicli to prosecute the collection of 

 data relating to Cumberland river commerce. 

 The rivers and harbors committee of congress 

 has decided to discontinue the work on the 

 Cumberland unless it can be shown that such 

 work is necessary. The committee has engaged 

 experts to collect and tabulate data to show the 

 necessity of continuing this work. This data is 

 to be presented to the rivers and liarbors com- 

 mittee by Major H. C. Newcomer. United States 

 engineer. Mr. Hayes has sent a circular letter 

 to lumbermen and business men of Nashville 

 and the Cumberland river valley asking their 

 support. 



Citizens of Nashville and lumbermen in par- 

 ticular are rejoiced over the recent declara- 

 tions of President Stuyvesant Fish of the Illi- 

 nois Central and .Judge Alex P. Humphreys, 

 general counsel of the Southern Railway. At a 

 banquet given them at the Maxwell House 

 Thursday night both stated that their roads 

 had acquired the Tennessee Central. The Illi- 

 nois Central takes the western division from 

 Ilopkinsville to Nashville and the Southern ac- 

 quires the eastern division from Nashville to 

 Harriman. Illinois Central and Southern Rail- 

 way trains will shortly be running into Nash- 

 ville. The eastern division of the Tennessee 

 Central goes through a tinely limbered region, 

 and a big system like the Southern is expected 

 to develop it extensively. In Nashville the 

 two new roads are to spend $2,000,000 in ter- 

 minal facilities, and lumber and crosstie people 

 are expecting to get their share of the money. 

 The coming of the Illinois Central and Southern 

 Railway systems to Nashville is regarded as the 

 greatest thing commercially that ever happened 

 for Nashville. 



The new furniture factory which has been 

 secured for Clarksville. Tenn., will be in opera- 

 tion by January 1. The company is capitalized 

 at $25,000. The incorporators are : Jacob 

 Zaph, B. H. Owen, T. E. McReynolds, F. N. 

 Smith and Matt Grocey. Mr. Zaph comes to 

 Clarksville from Lawrenceburg, Ind. The plant 

 will employ seventy-five men and will furnish 

 a tine local market for timber. 



Charles P. Toncray of Elizabethton. Tenn.. 

 has been appointed receiver of the Boston Iron 

 & Timber Company. The company is not liqui- 

 dating because of financial troubles but because 

 two of the largest stockholders have brought 

 suit for its dissolution, George K. Hamble of 

 New York and William Spaulding of Boston. 



Lee Broswell, formerly in the lumber business 

 in Nashville, was shot and killed recently in a 

 pistol duel in St. Louis. He was a nephew of 

 A. F. Broswell, buyer for Lieberman, Loveman 

 & O'Brien. 



M. D. Stone, the wealthy lumberman of James- 

 town, N. Y., who was shot and killed by a 

 friend while hunting last week, was formerly 

 in business in Nashville, being interested in the 

 rnion Lumber Company. He sold his interest 

 in the Nashville company and then went into 

 the Huntsville Lumber Company at Huntsville, 

 Ala. He had many friends here. 



The city engineering department has just com- 

 pleted an official survey of the Nashville wharf 

 with a view of placing the new wharf boat there 

 for business. This acquisition will greatly facil- 

 itate the loading and unloading of lumber, etc. 



Kentucky boasts of a chestnut tree de- 

 cidedly out of the ordinary. It is said when 

 other trees are yielding their crop of burrs in 

 the fall this chestnut is blooming and when the 

 regular crop is gone this tree is covered with 

 young burrs. The frost invariably kills them 

 however. The tree is now in bloom and at the 

 same time is full of opening burrs. It is lo- 

 cated on the A. B. Lewis farm near Bowling 

 Green. 



The secretary of state has granted a charter 

 to the Cumberland Furniture Manufacturing 

 Company of Knox county. The capital stock is 

 $25,000, and the incorporators are : H. L. Rob- 

 ertson, J. C. Sterchi, M. M. Wilson. J. W. Crudg- 

 mgton and R. P. Gentry. 



The Acme Box Company of Chattanooga has 

 amended its charter, increasing its capital stock 

 from $10,000 to $25,000. 



McDonald Bros, of Columbus, O., have closed 

 a deal for a large tract of timber lands in 

 Blount county, Tennessee. A sawmill will be 

 erected at once. Seven hundred men will be 

 employed. 



Andy Ishmael of Buck's Mill, Lincoln county, 

 was killed last week while hauling logs. A log 

 rolled off the wagon on him. His son could not 

 remove it and went some distance to get help. 

 The unfortunate man lived only two hours after 

 help came. 



The Case Lumber Company of Indiana has 

 filed a copy of its charter with the secretary of 

 state. 



Lexington, Tenn., reports a big building boom 

 and lumbermen there are very busy. 



Trenton, Tenn., reports a large number of fine 

 oak logs being shipped from that point. 



Memphis. 



Norman A. Wright, representing C. Leary & 

 Co. of London, is in Memphis, the guest of Russe 

 & Buigess, who are represented in London by 

 the Leary company. Mr. Wright landed about a 

 month ago and arrived in Memphis a few days 

 since, having visited New York, Philadelphia, 

 Baltimore, Norfolk, Nashville, Knoxville and 

 Chattanooga. He will remain here some days 

 longer and will be in this country several weeks 

 before sailing. Regarding the consignment evil 

 he talked quite frankly and freely, saying among 

 other things : 



"C. Leary & Co. have never had anything what- 

 ever to do with the consignment business, being 

 bitterly opposed thereto. Furthermore, this com- 

 pany is doing everything in its power to reduce 

 this practice because of the depression caused in 

 the foreign market thereby, and because of the 

 almost complete impossibility of doing a firm 

 contract business when the market is flooded with 

 consignment lumber that can be picked up at a 

 much more favorable price than that which is 

 handled under regular and businesslike condi- 

 tions. Other large firms there which adhere 

 strictly to firm contract methods also oppose 

 this practice. Tliis evil has assumed considera- 

 ble proportions and it is not apparently lessening 

 any. owing to the fact that new brokers are 

 frequently springing up without any visible 

 means of securing business beyond the soliciting,, 

 of consignments. These brokers are to be blamed 

 to a considerable extent for the practice and for 

 the misrepresentations which are made by their 

 representatives in this country. But it.'should 

 in all fairness be borne in mind that these brok- 



