the Tliajei- Lumhei' Company of Dauiasnis. \'n. 

 Tile companj' will fell theii' timber and linul it 

 over the i ew road to their large band mill at 

 Damasdis. The Whitins Lumber Comimiiy and 

 other parties own valuable timber whidi is lie 

 iuj; opened up by the Laurel river railnay. 



George E. Davis &• Co. ind .1. A. Wilkensun 

 of Bristol are associated in the punhase of 

 almost 20.000.000 feet of hardwood timher in 

 central Virginia on the SoutJiern railway. .\1 

 icady one large mill Is engaged in cutting the 

 stock, -md three others will be started the lirst 

 of the year. Mr, Wilkensou has contracted a 

 large bulk of th€ stock to his foreign associates, 

 while the Davis cojnpany will sell partly on the 

 domestic market. The tract is about twelve 

 miles square and contains oak. poplar, walnut 

 and spruce. 



L. C. llassinger has returned to bis home in 

 I'eimsylvania after spending some time inspect 

 ing and going over the Hassinger Lumber Com- 

 pany's properties in Carter and .Tohnson couu- 

 tics. Tennessee. Mr. Hassinger was endeavoring 

 to select the most advantageous location for 

 the large double band mill which the company 

 v,-ill construct for the cutting of its .$2.')0.iio(i 

 tract of timber laud. 



Cincinnati. 



T. 11. Stone of the T. P.. Stone Lumber Coul- 

 pany and T. .1. Moffett of the Maley Thompson & 

 Moffett Company have returned from N'ew York, 

 where they combined business with pleasure. 



C. Crane & Co. of this city have purchased 

 2.tiO(J acres of coal and timber lands in Logan 

 county. West Virginia. The timber will prob- 

 ably be allowed to stand for several years, but 

 shafts will be sunk and the coal taken out of the 

 ground immediately. The sale was made by 

 G. O. Smith of Wheeling. W. Va. 



C. E. Littell of Littell & Co. is home from a 

 business trip to ChicagO- 



Thc llyde Park Lumber Company has acquired 

 a ai.-t-acre tract of land in Hyde Park, a Cincin- 

 nati suburb, for .$10,000. A plant and yards will 

 he established on the site. 



Williaui Duhlmeier and B. A. Kipp. hardwood 

 lumbermen, were elected "directors of the Cin- 

 cinnati Kurniture Exchange at the annual elec- 

 tion on Dec. 12. William ,L Sextr i was unani- 

 mously chosen president. 



The Xocton Lumber Company of this city, capi- 

 tal ?10.000. has been granted a charter. The in- 

 corporators of the firm are J. B. .\rnett. L. W. 

 .\rneit. .1. H. N'octon. Talton Embry and H. L. 

 Gordon. 



Thomas P. Kgau of the J. A. Fay & Egan 

 (.'ompany has abandoned his intention of speudiug 

 the winter months at Havana. Cuba. With Mrs. 

 Egan he will .soon start on an eastern and south- 

 ern Irip. 



The hai-dwood trade is well represented on the 

 new .standing committees of the Cincinnati Busi- 

 ness Men's Club. T. .L Moffett, ex-president of 

 the organization, has been appointed a committee 

 nf ,me to represent the club in the .\ssociated 

 Organization of Clubs. M. B. Farrin has been 

 named on the Ohio River Improvement Commit 

 tee and C. F. Korn on the Railroad Terminal 

 l-'aciliti"s Committee. 



.1. I'. Shafer and George Dome, well known in 

 this <ity, have started in business for themselves 

 Ml .Middletown. O. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



:ile(l here amounting to .«;V.0110.I100. The Chatta- 

 nooga & Tennessee Iliver Power Company, which 

 is to build the lock and dam power plant here, 

 wants .$;!.. "lOO.OdO bonds, the Carbon ilill Coal 

 & Coke Company of Cumberland county, Tennes- 

 see, wauls .t;2.:i<io.O('0. and tlie .\mericau Brake 

 Shoe & I'onudry Company, with plants in Chi- 

 cago. New Jersey and Chattanooga, applied for 

 .•Sl.OOO.Ooo bonds. 



The Berry Stave & Lumber Company's dimen- 

 sion mill is overrun with orders and is working 

 a heavy force in an effort to supply demands. 

 The mill is now one month behind on its 

 orders. 



D. S. Buck, formerly with the J. M. Buck 

 Lumber Company. Johnson City, has accepted 

 a position as inspector for the J. M. Card Lum- 

 ber Company of this city. 



L. G. Banning, a prominent lumber dealer of 

 Cincinnati, ()., called on Chattanooga lumbermen 

 I his week. 



M. M. Erb, vice president of the Case Lumber 

 Company, .spent Sunday in Birmingham, Ala. 



W. M. Fowler, treasurer and general man- 

 ager of the Case Lumber Company of tills city 

 and president of the Fowler-Personett Lumber 

 Company of Birmingham, Ala., spent last week 

 in the latter city. 



Hugh Card of the John M. Smith Lumber 

 Company of Nashville was a visitor here re- 

 <*ently. 



Ferd Prenner. president of the Feid iirenner 

 Lnmb".- Company of this city has returned from 

 a trip to Norfolk. Va.. where he inspected his 

 branch plant. He says trade is very active in 

 the Virginia city. 



Messi-H. Retheau and Pierrian, leading lumber- 

 men of Paris, France, spent several days in 

 this city recently, buying large supplies. 



J. K. Mills of Maley, Thompson & Moffett. 

 Cincinnati. (>.. made heavy purchases here re- 

 cently. 



S. Rnbeustein. representing the Great Eastern 

 Timber Company. London. England, visited vari- 

 ous points in 1'ennessee during the past few 

 days. He purchased fifteen cars of lumber here. 



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Chattanooga. 



According to statistics Chattanooga led all 

 cities in building during the month of Novem- 

 ber, the percentage of gain being 38o. The re- 

 port of the auditor of the postolBce department 

 for the year ending June 30, 190.5, shows that 

 the postoflice receipts of the Chattanooga olBce 

 amounted to $228,655.48, as compared with 

 $75,33S.."i9 for 1896, The receipts of the loial 

 office for the year 1005 were almost double those 

 of Knoxville. and v;ere greater than those of 

 Mobile and Birmingham, Ala., and (^larleston. 

 S. C, 



Within a week documents for mortgages were 



St. Louis. 



The Stoneman-Zearing Lumber Company of 

 Chicago has removed its sales office from that 

 city to St. Louis, with headquarters in the 

 Frisco Building. The president of the com- 

 pany. Geo. W. Stoneman, will make St. Louis 

 his place of residence. George W. Stoneman 

 & Co. will continue their mahogany and veneer 

 business at 76 "W^est Erie Street. Chicago. 



The St. Louis Lumber Dealers' Association 

 held a meeting and banquet on Thur.sday even- 

 ing. December 14. at the Missouri Athletic 

 Club. There was a large attendance, and some 

 very good speeches were made by leading 

 members of the association. The speech on 

 "Discounts." by Julius Seidel, the toastmaster. 

 was a starter, and the talks on car service and 

 the benefits of association work which fol- 

 lowed were highly appreciated b.y all. 



A large log derrick and boom are to be built 

 at the plant of the C. F. Liebke Hardwood 

 Mill & Lumber Company in the north end. at 

 a cost of $8,000. 



A fine assortment of stock is being arranged 

 for the Tennessee as well as the local yards 

 of Steele & Hibbard. and their receipts of 

 cypress and hardwoods are now running into 

 large figures. 



J. N. Woodbury, manager of the lumber de- 

 partment of the Ozark Cooperage Company. 

 Frisco Building, reports a good trade in hard- 

 woods generally during the past month or six 

 weeks. 



The past year has been a good one with E. 

 H. "Warner, •ft-ell known St. Louis hardwood 

 dealer, and he considers the outlook for the 

 new year as giving promise of even better 

 things. His yards are well stocked with a 

 large assortment of hardwoods of choice va- 

 riety. 



A very encouraging increase of business dur- 



ing the past few months, as compared with 

 the .same period in 1904, is reported by several 

 of the leading hardwood concerns, among 

 them the Plummer Lumber Company, which 

 notes an increase of fifty iier cent for the three 

 months preceding December. 



Among the lumbermen in the local colony 

 who have recently returned from trips is A. 

 E. Aude. who has been South looking over 

 the hardwood situation at Portageville, Mo., 

 where his company, the A. Boeker Lumber 

 Company, has a mill cutting oak and' gum 

 lumber. Mr. Aude found the stocks in the 

 South badly broken, on all sides, with weather 

 interfering very considerably with logging, and 

 shipments rendered most difficult by reason 

 of the prevailing car shortage. 



Nashville. 



There is a movement on foot in Nashville 

 just uow that will prove of great interest to 

 all pencil manufacturers and cedar dealers in 

 the country. An ordinance is soon to be Intro- 

 duced in the cit.v council requiring all wires to 

 be put under ground. This will mean the build- 

 ing of conduits, and that overhead wires will be 

 a thing of the past. Nashville is a network of 

 overhead wires and there are hundreds of thou- 

 sands of dollars' woith of tine cedar posts stand- 

 ing all over the city. Some of the cedar posts, 

 on which wires are suspended, cost .$35 and $40 

 apiece, and could not now be duplicated for any 

 price. Many are thirty and more inches iu diam- 

 eter. .\ll of them will have to be cut down or 

 pulled up. and pencil companies, dealers in 

 cedar piling, etc.. will be in a scramble to secure 

 the timber. Cedar has become so valuable now 

 that it is being replaced by creosoted pine and 

 locust for poles. 



The sawmill of J. B. F. Briggs at Waverly, 

 Tenn.. has been destroyed by fire. The- origin 

 of the fire is unknown. There was no insur- 

 ance: loss. $800. 



Hugh C. Card of the John M. Smith Lumber 

 Company of Nashville has acquired extensive 

 lumber interests in Mississippi, and .just uow 

 is erecting a large hardwood mill in Bir- 

 mingham. The Hugh C. Card Lumber Company 

 has bought several thousand acres of timber 

 land in .-Mabama. A sawmill with a capacity of 

 75,000 feet a day is being put up. Most of the 

 laborers were taken to Alabama from Nashville. 

 Rafts of lumber are reported moving briskly 

 on the Cumberland at this time, thanks to the 

 recent tide. A few days since a big cedar raft 

 arrived, consigned to the Nashville Tie & Cedar 

 <_'ompany. Several smaller cedar rafts have come 

 down from the beadv»-aters of the river. 



Holland &' Holland are soon to start a churn 

 factory at Humboldt, Tenn. These gentlemen 

 are from middle Tennessee, hut believe there is a 

 fine opening for such business in Gibson count.v. 

 A deal is on foot in Nashville for the organi- 

 zation of a boat repairing company, with dry 

 docks fifty feet wide by two hundred feet in 

 length. Captain Tom Gallagher is mentioned as 

 ruanager of the concern, and Phil I'ettit of Jef- 

 fersonville. Ind., will be foreman. Such a plant 

 would be a great boon to the Cumberland river 

 interests, as at present all boats have to be 

 i-ei)aired several hundred miles below Nashvill©- 

 A certificate of the charter of the Anchor 

 Block Mills has been registered at the court 

 house at Clarksville, Tenn. This is a New York 

 concern with a capital stock of $50,000, author- 

 ized to do a general lumber and manufacturing 

 business. The company will deal in shuttle 

 blocks and manufacture different wooden articles 

 in this state. The incorporators are Edmund 

 Gardner of Lancashire, England: E. J. Beech- 

 croft and J. B, McConnell of New York. 



A boiler exploded last week at the plant of 

 Lane, Burriss & Wade, near Cookeville, Tenn., 

 wrecking the entire plant. Andrew Lane and 

 Robert Wade were killed. The company ran a 

 saw and shingle mill. 



A Jury in the chancery court of Davidson 

 county, at Nashville, has just decided some very 



