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iiishing botli rough and dressed lumber to 

 the market in large or small quantities. 



The plant of the Chattanooga Chair Com- 

 pany was recently destroyed by fire entailing 

 a loss on the business of about $7,000 and a 

 loss to the building of S2.000. The cause of 

 the (ire is unknown. 



Mayor Jlorris has received a letter Irom H. 

 C. Davis of Monmouth, Dl., in which infor- 

 mation is asked concerning the chances of 

 putting up a cigar box factory in Nashville. 

 The letter has been referred to the Retail 

 Merchants' Association. 



The special committee of Nashville lumber- 

 men and business men appointed by its busi- 

 ness organizations to secure data on Cumber- 

 land river, to be presented to the Rivers and 

 Harbors Committee of Congress in order to 

 induce that body to further the improve- 

 ments on the Cumberland, has made its re- 

 port to Maj. H. C. Newcomer, United States 

 Engineer in charge of the local work. The 

 report is able and exhaustive and contains 

 much valuable information. It was found 

 tliat about one hundred and twenty varieties 

 of timber grow in the Cumberland basin. ■ 

 There are about 7,500,000 acres in forests, not 

 less than 3,000,000 acres of which is still vir- 

 gin land. This added to the timber left on 

 cut-over area, will give a yield of 5,000 feet 

 of merchantable timber to the acre. Nash- 

 ville was found to handle about 150.000,UO« 

 feet of lumber a year, most of it drawn from 

 the Cumberland river basin and brought in by 

 river and rail. The improvement of the Cum- 

 berland would give an outlet for large lumber 

 products, such as logs, cross ties, staves, etc.. 

 the entire year. 



J. H. Baird of the Southern Lumberman, 

 who was appointed a member of the Federal 

 Rate Regulation Association, has just re- 

 turned from a meeting of the association helil 

 in St. Louis. Mr. Baird will at once begin 

 an active canvass for members in Nashvillo 

 and he believes he can induce several hun- 

 dred Nashville men to Join. 



Captain John T. Green, the veteran river- 

 man who has brought millions of feet of lum- 

 ber down the river in his time, died recently 

 at the age of 76 years. 



The building boom that has been on in this 

 section for some time continues unabated and 

 the touch of cold weather has not served to 

 deter operations. Contracts are being taken 

 just the same. The permits for October have 

 been among the largest of the entire year. 



J. B. Ransom. A. B. Ransom, Marvin Ran- 

 som, Richard T. Wilson and Horace H. Tra- 

 bue have secured a charter of incorporation 

 for what will be known as the Tennessee 

 Realty & Warehouse Company. The com- 

 pany is capitalized at $100,000 and will do a 

 real estate and warehouse business. The in- 

 corporators are well-known business men, 

 four of them having heavy interests in lum- 

 ber. 



Memphis. 



Elliott Lang, secretary and traffic manager 

 of the National Lumber Exporters' Associa- 

 tion, Tennessee Trust Building, this city, has 

 t<;ndered his resignation to take effect at the 

 close of the current year, which, according 

 to the time of organization, ends about the 

 last of January, 1906. Mr. Lang has been sec- 

 retary of the organization since Its inception 

 about six years ago and has been largely In- 

 strumental in bringing It to its present posi- 

 tion of value to lumber exporters. He will 

 enter the lumber business about the first of 

 January, but Is not yet ready to give out 

 details of his connections. He will look after 

 the affairs of the National Lumber Exporters' 

 Association until the next annual meeting, the 

 latter part of January, when It Is expected 

 that a successor will have been chosen. 



The car situation In thi.s territory continues 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



rather unsatisfactory and lumber interests are 

 considerably handicapped on this account. 

 The greatest trouble is in small towns in Mis- 

 sissippi and Arkansas, where there is no com- 

 petition among roads. 



The Crittenden Railroad Company, incor- 

 porated some time ago to connect Earle, Ark.. 

 on the" Iron Mountain with Heath on the 

 Hock Island-Frisco system, which are about 

 fifteen miles apart, has nearly completed the 

 line and work is now being pushed on ter- 

 minals at Heath. It will prove a most impor- 

 tant factor in the development of the timber 

 resources of the section. 



Sigmund Willner, vice president and general 

 manager of the American Art Wood Manufac- 

 turing Company which was incorporated here 

 some months ago. says that the plant in 

 South Memphis will be in readiness for opera- 

 tion in a short time. Most of the machinery 

 has been installed and the test made some 

 days ago proved quite satisfactory. The com- 

 pany will employ a patented process for forc- 

 ing the sap out of logs and replacing it with 

 a coloring fluid by means of hydraulic pres- 

 sure. The coloring matter may be solid or 

 variegated. 



S. B. Anderson, president of the Anderson- 

 Tully Company, has acquired the Arnold resi- 

 dence on Poplar boulevard, paying therefor, 

 according to current report, about $75,000. It 

 is one of the handsomest homes in the city. 



Oliver Krebs, of Highland Park, 111., has 

 come to Memphis to look after the installation 

 oi the new hardwood lumber mill to be erected 

 here by the Hugh McLean Lumber Company 

 nf Buffalo. 



Tlie Dudley Lumber Company of Grand 

 K.apids, Mich., which is represented here by 

 I). W. Baird, is putting in lumber yards in 

 New South Memphis. 



The C. W. Stover Lumber Comijany is put- 

 ling in yards in the northern part of Memphis 

 on the Belt line. 



The G. B. Lesh Manufacturing Company, 

 which removed here some weeks ago from 

 Warsaw, Ind., has completed its plant for 

 the manufacture of wood wagon stock and 

 plow handles, and will begin operations 

 shortly. 



The Green River Lumber Company, which is 

 owned by A. B. Nickey & Son of Princeton, 

 Ind., has about completed its plant in North 

 Memphis and will soon be cutting lumber. 

 It has large yards in connection with the 

 plant. 



W. S. Darnell of the I. M. Darnell & Sons 

 Company has gone on a visit to his old home 

 in Indianapolis, Ind., where he will remain 

 for some time. 



The T. J. Orr Land & Lumber Company 

 has completed the installation of two mills in 

 the territory tributary to Heath, Ark., and is 

 now erecting a third one. The plans of the 

 company are for the erection of tour mills. 

 The company is working in conjunction with 

 a large firm in Cincinnati. 



George C. Russe, southern representative 

 of L. Methudy, St. Louis, with headquarters 

 at Greenville, Miss., Is receiving the congrat- 

 ulations of his numerous friends here on the 

 arrival of a daughter. 



George C. Ehemann, of Bennett & Wltte, 

 recently returned from a trip to Birmingham, 

 Ala., on which he was accompanied by W, A. 

 liennett of Cincinnati, who reiurnod to Memphis 

 with him. He reports a good demand for hard- 

 woods at satisfactory prices. Mr. Benrtett 

 has returned to his headquarters at Cincin- 

 nati. 



A. L. Foster, of the J. W. Thompson Lum- 

 ber Company, Is becoming very popular with 

 the courts. Only a short time ago he went 

 to Baltimore to appear before the Federal 

 Grand Jury In the bill of lading case of John 

 L. Alcock & Co.. and soon after he leached 

 home he was nabbed for Jury service here. 



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

 Lumber Company, who recently returned from 

 a trip in the interests of the firm, reports a 

 good demand for lumber and declares that 

 prices received are very satlsfactorj'. 



S. C. Major, of the S. C. Major Lumber 

 Company, has gone on a business trip to St. 

 Louis, Chicago and other points. 



F. B. Robertson, of the Goodlander- Robert- 

 son Lumber Company, has returned from an 

 extended trip to Mexico, on which he was 

 accompanied by his wife and child. He re- 

 ports a very enjoyable trip and strengthened 

 connections of the firm in that country con- 

 siderably. 



Hans Forcheimer, of Hugo Forcheimer, 

 prominent exporter of New Orleans, was in 

 Memphis a few days ago. 



A concatenation of Hoo Hoo was held here 

 last Saturday night for the express benefit 

 of Norman A. Wright, of C. Leary & Com- 

 pany, London, Eng., who has been the guest 

 of Russe & Burgess for some time. As it 

 was not generally known that there was to 

 be a concatenation there were only a few cats 

 on hand, but it is learned from some of those 

 in attendance that the few there made a very 

 vivid impression on both the mind and body 

 of Mr. Wright. W. H. Russe was the presid- 

 ing genius of the occasion. 



Louisville. 



E. L. Davis & Co. report the hardwood mar- 

 ket as improving on all sides, the demand in- 

 creasing and prospects bright. The call for 

 wagon material they say is active, but they 

 are not accepting any at the prices offered 

 for green stock, preferring to cut and dry their 

 stock and supply fill-in orders to those who 

 are in urgent need and willing to pay better 

 prices. 



The Turner-Day & Woolworth Handle Com- 

 pany of this city, among the foremost manu- 

 facturers of hickory handles in the world, re- 

 port the hickory handle business in good shape 

 all around. Their plants are running steadily 

 and turning out quantities of first-class han- 

 dles. There is not only a good domestic trade, 

 but the export trade is also brisk, especially 

 in Australia. 



Sam W. Calloway, who was quite seriously 

 injured some time ago by his buggj' being up- 

 set, has during the past two weeks been able 

 to get out again and look after business. 



Albert R. Kampf notes a very active inquiry 

 lor car material, not only from the domestic 

 trade, but from foreign sources as well. How- 

 ever, he says the prices offered in the domestic 

 trade are not what tliey ought to be. and the 

 Inquiries from the foreign trade are showing 

 some remarkably stringent specifications. 

 Think of cutting car oak free from heart, 

 knots, shake and wane, in sizes up to 20 

 feet in length and 6x19 Inches In cross section. 

 That, however. Is how some of the foreign 

 specifications read. 



T. Smith Milton, who is associated with R. 

 M. Cunningham here, says there is nothing in 

 the way of exciting news in the hardwood 

 trade with them, unless It be found in the 

 illlllculty to secure cars, which Is a source of 

 considerable worry. The demand, especially 

 for oak. Is good. 



J. T. Morgan it Co., complain of car short- 

 age also, but say that aside from this the 

 hardwood trade is in very good shape and they 

 have no cause to complain. The scarcity of 

 cars, however, keeps stocks broken in their 

 yards here and soniellmes they have to go 

 outside and buy stock to fill orders. 



The Kentucky Railroad Commission has 

 been giving a hearing at Frankfort to a num- 

 ber of local lumbermen and others who liave 

 complaints of discrimination in rates, espe- 

 cially pertaining to shipments of logs, lum- 

 ber and ties from local points. Among the 



