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HARDWOOD RECORD 



wood. California sugar pine, Oregon cedar, 

 fir, spruce and other Pacific coast woods, as 

 well as the usual well-assorted line of hard- 

 woods. 



A good demand for cottonwood and gum 

 is reported by the C. E. Strifler Lumber 

 Company. Some pretty good contracts 



appear on the books for both these woods, 

 but the company i.s particularly busy with 

 cottonwood shipments. 



The Druhe Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 receiving from Its mills in the South con- 

 siderable .luantities of ash, poplar, oak and 

 cypress. The company is well satisfied with 

 the general condition of trade, and is count- 

 ing on a seasonably good demand for the 

 remainder of the twelvemonth. 



Both sales and shipments of the Plummer 

 Lumber Company have shown decided activ- 

 ity of late. The company's poplar sales 

 aggregated for the past month, on local 

 account alone, over half a million feet — all 

 high-grade stock. Outside sales of this wood 

 were also quite heavy for this period. 



The St. Louis office of R. H. Downman. 

 the cypress king, which has been maintained 

 during the prevalence of yellow fever quar- 

 antine, has been closed, and Messrs. Lewis 

 and Hunter who were in charge have re- 

 turned to the headquarters at New Orleans. 



Nashville. 



Recently an order for two carloads of lum- 

 ber was shipped to Atlanta by the Prewitt- 

 Spurr Manufacturing Company over the N. & 

 C. railroad. It developed that the lumber had 

 been ordered on a forged letter head, that of 

 the Long-Bell Lumber Company of Kansas City, 

 one of the biggest companies in the country. On 

 learning of the forgery a representative of the 

 Prewitt-Spurr Manufacturing Company hastened 

 to Atlanta and succeeded in tracing the lumber 

 and disposing of it without loss. An investi- 

 gation showed that two men, Messrs. Brown 

 and Akers, were implicated in the transac- 

 tion. Brown was arrested and Akers was 

 found dead from the effects of an overdose of 

 morphine. The company will prosecute 

 Brown. 



A special from Cincinnati states that the 

 Anlt & Jackson Company has accused an em- 

 ploye at Algood, Tenn., with having stolen ten 

 cars of lumber, aggregating in value about 

 «] 0.000. A warrant was issued for the man, 

 but he fled, leaving $200 on deposit in an Algood 

 bank. Some of the lumber in question was sold 

 In Cincinnati. 



Pulaski, Tenn., is to have a new carriage 

 factory in operation by Jan. 1. The plant 

 will be managed by R. H. Harris of Prospect. 

 Tenn. Associated with him are T. B. Daly. 

 J. H. Ragsdale, Wiley Abernathy and F. B. 

 Yarbrough. 



The Clarksvillc Furniture Company has 

 bought a lot at the corner of Franklin street 

 and Hornberger avenue, 210x300 feet, upon 

 which Its plant will be erected at once. It is 

 proposed to have the plant running by Jan. 1. 



E. O. Buchannan, secretary of the National 

 Spoke Manufacturers' Association, is at 

 work organizing a J50.000 spoke manufactur- 

 ing concern for this city. "I have been work- 

 ing to that end for several months," says Mr. 

 Buchannan. "and I can state very soon that 

 a company has been organized. The spoke 

 business Is different from anything else, and 

 the man who puts his money In it can see a 

 return from the first. In Nashville we have 

 the raw material, the rates and the labor, 

 and I think the factory Is a certainty." 



The secretary of state has granted a char- 

 ter to the Southern Stave Company of Ham- 

 ilton county, capital stock $10,000. The In- 

 corporators are H. W. Bagg, E. S. Glnn.ine, 

 H. H. Barr, W. P. Moore and F. A. Bacher. 



The Nashville Transportation Company r.as 

 honored John W. Love, the clever lumber- 

 man of the firm of Love. Boyd & Co., by 

 naming Its new boat for him. 



G. V. Patterson and J. H. Major have pur- 

 chased the saw and planing mill of F. W. 

 Snead & Co. at Lynnville, Tenn., for $35,000. 

 The new firm will be known as Rutherford & 

 Major, 



The American Pencil Company has arranged 

 for the establishment of a large factory at 

 Shelbyville, Bedford county. Tenn. A site 

 has been chosen and the machinery is ready- 

 to be installed as soon as the factory is com- 

 pleted. The company owns large tracts of 

 standing cedar timber and stumpage and is 

 buying cedar rails all over the country. In 

 fact, so scarce has cedar become now and 

 so great is the demand that pencil companies 

 will put up any kind of a fence a farmer 

 desires if he will only swap his old cedar 

 rails. 



A charter has been granted to the Embree- 

 ville Timber Company of Jonesboro, Tenn. 

 The capital stock is $250,000 and the incorpo- 

 rators are Emil Peltz, D. W. Baldrom. J. F. 

 Clark, W. L. Sykes. C. E. Krueson. O. Pat- 

 tison, L. G. Stevens. A. E. Edgecomb, M, B, 

 Stebbins, G. J. True. B. A. Gee, H. S. Hol- 

 comb, F. P. Taylor, J. C. Bench. M. L. 

 Kleck, F. D. Freeborn, G. H. Cobb and W. W. 

 Marsh. 



Recent visitors to Nashville were Messrs. 

 H. W. Ritter, W. F. Coulter, E. B. Whit- 

 field and F. L. Smith of Clarksville, Tenn. 



Memphis. 



The shot-gun quarantine of 1905 has passed 

 into history so far as Memphis, West Ten- 

 nessee, Arkansas and Mississippi are con- 

 cerned. The recent cold wave removing all 

 prospect of the spread of yellow fever, the 

 city and state Boards of Health acted 

 promptly. There are still a few local quar- 

 antines at small towns in Mississippi and 

 Arkansas, but these are few and unimpor- 

 tant. Travel is now unrestrained and as a 

 result lumbermen are visiting the South in 

 great numbers. 



With the removal of the quarantine another 

 problem has presented itself — the scarcity of 

 cars in the interior, and the difllculty experi- 

 enced in getting loaded cars moved after the 

 empties have been furnished bj^ the rail- 

 roads. The situation in Memphis is fairly 

 favorable, largely because of the belt line.. 

 The worst congestion and lack of cars appear 

 to be on the Illinois Central and its branches 

 in Mississippi and the St. Louis, Iron Moun- 

 tain & Southern with its numerous feeders 

 in Arkansas. 



The foreign market has not improved to 

 any extent and is further handicapped by the 

 sharp advance in ocean freight rates from 

 New Orleans and other ports on the gulf and 

 Atlantic seaboard. This advanced rate 

 necessitates an advance In prices on the 

 other side at a most inopportune time. 



W. H. Russe. of Russe & Burgess, presi- 

 dent of the National Lumber Exporters' 

 Association; Elliott Lang, secretary of that 

 organization, and A. L. Foster of the J. W. 

 Thompson Lumber Company, returned this 

 week from Baltimore, where they went to 

 appear before the federal grand Jury In 

 connection with the clean through bills of 

 lading case filed last May by John L. Al- 

 cock & Co. of Baltimore. The proceedings 

 were conducted behind closed doors and 

 nothing has been given out by the Memphis 

 witnesses. 



C. L. Wllley, who operates a large veneer 

 plant in Chicago will establish a veneer plant 

 In Memphis of like capacity, A deal for a 

 site of 15 acres in North Memphis has been 

 closed, and as soon as Mr. Wllley returns 

 from Liverpool, about Nov. 18. he will begin 

 the construction of the plant. Mr. Wllley 

 ships large quantities of mahogany from Cen- 

 tral America and Africa to Liverpool. The 

 Central American product has heretofore 

 been shipped via New Orleans and Memphis 

 to Chicago, but In the future will bo shlfipeil 



lo Memphis from which point it will be dis- 

 tributed. 



Rapid progiess is being made by the lUi- 

 nuis Central in building its belt line east 

 of the city. The line will leave the main 

 track of the Illinois Central at Woodstock, 

 north of the city, make connection with the 

 Louisville & Nashville and the Nashville, 

 Chattanooga & St. Louis tracks, which will 

 be used for a part of the distance, and then 

 run from there to Nonconnah. south of the 

 city, where the main track will again be 

 joined. This road will establish physicaJ 

 connection with every railroad in the city 

 and will prove a decided boon to lumber 

 interests. 



George C. Russe of L. Methudy, St. Louis, 

 was in the city a few days ago. Owing to 

 the central location and the better train 

 connections of Greenville, Miss., he will here- 

 after make that city his headquarters. 



At a recent meeting of the Lumbermen's 

 Club two new members were received: C. E. 

 LeCrone of the Advance Lumber Company, 

 and Keith Blanton of the Blanton-Thurman 

 Lumber Company. The meeting was well 

 attended, there being about forty persons 

 present, including a number of visitors. 



J. W. Thompson of the J. W. Thompson 

 Lumber Company has just returned from 

 an extensive trip, and reports conditions 

 everywhere exceptionally healthy." The de- 

 mand for hardwoods, he says, is active, and 

 prices firm with upward tendency. 



A. N. Thompson of Thompson & McClur<» 

 returned a few days ago from the company's 

 mill at Itta Bena, Miss. He says mills In 

 that section are seriously handicapped In pro- 

 duction by bad weather which rendered log- 

 ging operations in some instances impossible. 



O. P. Hund, Jr., of O. P. Hund, Jr., & Co,, 

 Cairo, 111., was in Memphis this week. He 

 reports an active demand for hardwoods In 

 his section. 



The C. W. Stover Lumber Company, Ten- 

 nessee Trust building, this city., is estab- 

 lishing yards in North Memphis whicli will 

 afford increased facilities for handling busi- 

 ness. 



George W. Stoneman of the Stoneman- 

 Zearing Lumber Company and Geo. W. 

 Stoneman •& Co. of Chicago was a recent 

 Memphis visitor. 



L. E. Campbell of the Campbell Lumber 

 ("ompany is building a handsome home In 

 the Annesdale Parle subdivision which is 

 rapidly becoming one of the handsomest resi- 

 dence districts of the city. It will cost 

 $12,000. 



New Orleans. 



Much interest is manifested by New Or- 

 le.ins cypress manufacturers in the forth- 

 coming meeting of the Southern Cypress 

 Manufacturers' Association to be held in this 

 lity Nov. 22 and 23. The meeting will be a 

 most Important one to cypress Interests. Since 

 the raising of quarantines the committees 

 have been getting together, formulating their 

 reports. The committee on revision of in- 

 spection rules has formulated a preliminary 

 report, copies of which have been sent to 

 members of the association. The purpose of 

 this Is to call forth as much discussion and 

 as many suggestions as possible before the 

 association meets. Such suggestions as meet 

 the committee's approbation will be Incorpor 

 rated in the revised report. By this means 

 it Is hoped to reduce discussion In the meet- 

 ing to a minimum. There has been no change 

 in the Inspection rules since 1S97, and It will 

 be somewhat of a problem to formulate uni- 

 form rules which will be generally acceptable. 

 The committee on form of price list will meet 

 within the next few days and prepare a report 

 lo be submitted to the association. 



Quarantine regulations have greatly Im- 

 proved within the past two weeks, although 

 there are still disagreeable restrictions In ef- 

 fect. Practically all Mississippi and Louisiana 

 :ir<' now open to travel and Alabama has just 



