would be to supply information to lumbermen 

 as to the credit of customers. 



W. A. Bennett of Bennett & Witte, who has 

 been traveling through the South for several 

 weeks, will return before the end of the 

 month. Mr. Bennett writes that business in 

 the South is picking up remarkably well, but 

 that there is a general scarcity of cars. Cot- 

 tonwood is meeting with an especially good 

 demand. 



G. S. Stewart of W. H. and G. S. Stewart 

 is on a buying trip through Kentucky. He 

 will return in a few days. 



The Walter G. Beck Box & Lumber Com- 

 pany is building a three-story factory on 

 Western avenue. As soon as it is completed 

 the firm will move from its present plant on 

 Carr street. 



The term of T. J. MofEett of the lumber firm 

 of Maley, Thompson & Moffett Company as 

 President of the Cincinnati Business Men's 

 Club, expired the middle part of this month. 

 The directors of the club presented Mr. Moffett 

 with a handsome silver loving cup and Mr. 

 Moffett surprised the directors by giving each 

 of them an artistic little silver loving cup. 

 During Mr. MofEett's reign as President the 

 Business Men's Club prospered remarkably. 



The Lorain Lumber Company of Lorain, 

 O., has increased its capital stock from $50,000 

 to $100,000. 



Many business men attended the meeting of 

 the Ohio Valley Improvement Association, 

 which was held at Cairo, 111., Nov. 15-11!. The 

 hardwood trade was represented by Wm. Duhl- 

 meier and M. B. Farrin. Mr. Farrin was 

 chosen a member of the executive committee. 



T. J. Moffett of the Maley, Thompson & 

 Moffett Company will be one of the prin- 

 cipal speakers at a banquet to be held Dec. 



5 for the purpose of booming Cincinnati. The 

 affair will be in charge of the Associated Or- 

 ganizations, which is composed of about thirty 

 industrial bodies, including the Lumbermen's 

 Club. 



C. Crane & Co. of this city are continuing 

 their relentless warfare against "river 

 pirates." This month they secured judgment 

 against a number of persons in the courts 

 at Covington. Ky. The defendants pleaded 

 that logs which they had in their possession 

 had broken loose from a raft, but they were 

 fined $5 each and the logs awarded to Crane 



6 Co. 



Lumbermen and other shippers and receivers 

 here have been appealed to to facilitate as 

 much as possible the loading and unloading 

 of cars by the railroads to relieve the short- 

 age, which has reached an acute stage. The 

 daily shortage in Cincinnati is 3,000 cars and 

 the hardwood industry is suffering with others. 

 Difflculty is also being experienced in securing 

 hands to work in lumber yards and manufac- 

 turing plants. 



J. W. Darling has brought suit against 

 George Fair and the Fair-Crittenden Lumber 

 Company asking for the appointment of a re- 

 ceiver and judgment for money he invested 

 in stock, which he says is worth less than he 

 paid for it, because tlie representations were 

 untrue. He declares the company is insolvent. 

 Mr. Darling also filed suit against the same 

 company for an accounting of transactions be- 

 tween the J. W. Darling Company and the de- 

 fendant. 



The Ault & Jackson Company of West 

 Sixth street is seeking C. C. Everback, their 

 inspector in Tennessee, who is charged with 

 having taken ten carloads of hardwood lumber 

 of which he has made no accounting. Ever- 

 back's present whereabouts are unknown. It 

 is said that Everback sold the lumber to con- 

 cerns in Cincinnati and New York and that 

 his operations have netted him about $2,uoo. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



tile industries. This city is attracting atten- 

 tion all over the country and investors are 

 coming here from every direction. The bank- 

 ing capital and indi\'idual deposits are greater 

 by ten times than I hey were in ISSO. 



W. W. Barnes of Barnes Bros, has installed 

 a sawmill at Trenton, Ga. He will also estab- 

 lish lumber yards shortly on the property 

 formerly occupied by Taylor & Crate, who re- 

 cently sold their plant on the Tennessee river 

 to the Acme Box Company. Mr. Barnes will 

 deal in hardwoods. 



The Fowler-Personett Lumber Company of 

 Birmingham, Ala., is doing a heavy business, 

 the capacity being over 30,000 feet a day. 

 The company makes a specialty of thin quar- 

 tered and plain oak. 



The Case Lumber Company is shipping a 

 great deal of lumber. The present stock of 

 the company is down to about 1.500,000 feet. 



The Interstate Cooperage Company, recently 

 organized in this city, has just finished a 

 large plant at Fort Cheatham for the manu- 

 facture of barrels, principally tor the use of 

 the Standard Oil Company, and will begin 

 operations this week. Keith Webb is super- 

 intendent of the company. 



The J. M. Card Lumber Company has re- 

 cently erected a large shed, 30x70 feet, for the 

 storage of dimension stock. The company has 

 now half a million feet less in stock than 

 it had a year ago. Fred Arn, treasurer of the 

 company, stated that this would be the big- 

 gest month for the company in several years. 

 J. M. Card spends considerable time of late 

 at the company's mill at Paint Rock, Ala. 



Ferd Brenner of the Ferd Brenner Lumber 

 Company will leave in a few days for Nor- 

 folk, Va.. where the company has a branch 

 plant. W. F. Best, secretary of the company, 

 is now in Europe looking after the interests 

 of the company. 



W. J. Willingham. president of Willing- 

 ham & Co., who has been ill for some time, 

 is improving. 



M. M. Erb, vice-president of the Case Lum- 

 ber Company, who recently made a four 

 weeks' tour through the North, Northwest 

 and Canada, has returned. He is very much 

 encouraged over the situation and says the 

 market is very active in the East but a little 

 dull in the Middle West. 



Arthur Gazley of the Ferd Brenner Lumber 

 Company, w'ith headquarters in Toronto. Can., 

 was a visitor here recently. 



W. M. Fowler, treasurer and general man- 

 ager of the Case Lumber Company and presi- 

 dent of the Fowler-Personett Lumber Com- 

 pany, is in Birmingham. 



M. B. Clemens, a large lumber dealer of 

 Bridgeport. Ala., was here recently buying stock, 

 stock. 



W. B. Ross, formerly of the Kelsey-Dennis 

 Lumber Company of North Tonawanda. N. T., 

 has accepted a position as inspector for the 

 Case Lumber Company. 



Capt. A. J. Gahagan, treasurer of the Loomis 

 .>c Hart Manufacturing Company of this city, 

 was recently elected an officer of the Chatta- 

 nooga Manufacturers' Association. 



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Chattanooga. 



Every woodworking enterprise in Chatta- 

 nooga is busy as are also the iron and tex- 



A new concern in the hardwood business 

 here is the J. S. Vaughn Lumber Company, 

 with offices in the Fullerton building. The 

 company will handle all kinds of hardwood 

 lumber. Mr. Vaughn was formerly identified 

 with the Plummer Lumber Company. 



Some good orders for export have lately 

 been booked by W. R. Chivvis, who reports 

 that his trade in walnut is particularly brisk 

 on eastern account. 



The demand for wagon wood stock is re- 

 ported active by the Lloyd G. Harris Manu- 

 facturing Company, also trade in the general 

 hardwood line. 



A tract of about 6.500 acres of hardwood 

 timber lands has recently been purchased by 

 Russell E. Gardner of the Banner Buggy Com- 

 pany of this city, the lands being located in 

 Cleveland, Dallas and Grant counties, Arkan- 

 sas. The company is considering the erection 

 of a new buggy factory somewhere in the 

 vicinity oi this purchase in the near future. 



On the 16th inst. at the rooms of the 

 Lumbermen's Exchange of St. Louis in the 

 Houser building there was a meeting of the 

 executive committee and directors of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Limiber Association. Very 

 little of what transpired has been made pub- 

 lic. Among those in attendance were: Earl 

 Palmer, president, Paducah. Ky. ; O. O. Agler. 

 first vice president, Chicago; P. F. Fish, sec- 

 retary, Indianapolis, Ind.; A. R. Vinnedge, 

 Chicago; Geo. L. Smith, surveyor-general, 

 Indianapolis; W. W. Knight, chairman of the 

 inspection committee, Indianapolis; W. H. 

 Russe, Memphis, Tenn., and E. P. Southgate, 

 St. Louis inspector. Twenty-one concerns 

 made application for membership, and were 

 placed upon the roll. Requests were made 

 for a salaried licensed inspector for Boston 

 by the New England members of the associa- 

 tion. It was announced by Secretary Fish 

 that Walter Tillotson had been appointed to 

 the position of inspector at Grand RapidSj 

 Mich. Other matters of interest were also 

 brought up and discussed and altogether the 

 gathering was productive of much interest 

 and enthusiasm in the affairs of the associa- 

 tion and its future progress. 



Nash-yrille. 



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

 chased the sawmill, machinery, real estate 

 and stock of F. W. Sncad & Co. of Lynville. 

 Tenn. The firm will be known as Patterson & 

 Major, not Rutherford & Major, as erroneously 

 stated in the issue of Nov. 10. 



Nashville's lumber circle has lost a valued 

 and esteemed member in the recent death of 

 W. J. Wallace of the firm of Norvel & Wal- 

 lace. This firm has conducted an extensive 

 business at its large yards on Broad street 

 for many years. Mr. Wallace was a promi- 

 nent Mason and his body was interred in 

 Mount Olivet Cemetery with Masonic honors. 



J. H. Baird of the local firm of Baird & 

 Freeman has just returned from Tallapoosa 

 county, Alabama, where he reports having 

 sold a large tract of timber land to the Hun- 

 nicutt-Neal Lumber Company of Birming- 

 ham. 



E. O. Buchannan. secretary of the Spoke 

 Manufacturers' Association, is still working 

 hard to secure a new spoke manufactory for 

 this city. On Nov. 15 a number of prominent 

 spoke manufacturers visited Nashville and 

 looked into the advantages of the city. Mr. 

 Buchannan is sending out literature showing 

 the timber supplies within easy reach, and 

 giving other facts favoring this city as the 

 permanent location of the plant. He believes 

 his move will meet with success. 



I. F. McLean, the well known stave manu- 

 facturer, has begun work in North Nashville 

 on a stave plant that will cost about $20,000. 



In the near future the Hiram Blow Stave 

 Company of Louisville, which has an office 

 here, will erect a plant to cost about $50,000. 

 The company contemplates moving the Hol- 

 low Rock branch of its business up here. 



The factory of the Whitworth Insulator Pin 

 & Manufacturing Company is nearing com- 

 pletion. The machinery has been received and 

 is being installed. The company will manu- 

 facture pins which will be used to fasten 

 glass insulators on the cross trees of tele- 

 graph poles. Later they will also make the 

 cross trees. Black locust will be used ex- 

 clusively for the work. 



R. H. Lockridge at Latham, Tenn., has 

 just completed a fine sawmill and is now fur- 



