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iinpoitiinr issues of tact in favoi- of llie com- 

 plainant in tlic damage suit of Evans & Stinnett 

 vs. tlie Wavoily Timber & lion Company. About 

 "j.riOO acres of timber lands in Humphre.vs county 

 are involved in the suit and about *(iT.(Ri(i dam- 

 ages are claimed. The complainants insist that 

 the land was to be sold to them for .f2.65 an 

 M-re. 11 is now worih about ?15 an acre. 



.\u announcenieni iliat will be received with 

 pleasure by local lumber dealers is that Hamilton 

 Love of Love. I'.oyd & Co.. will return to Nash- 

 ville ibis niuulb. and will hereafter make Nash- 

 ville his home. Mr. Love for several months has 

 been livins ai a New York hotel, representing his 

 titm in that city. He will make periodical trips 

 to the metropolis from time to time, but Nash 

 ville will be his headquarters. Mr. Love has a 

 host of friends in Nashville who will welcome 

 his return. 



\V. V. Uavidson. Millard Fillmore Green and 

 .loseph N. Ilicks of the Davidson-Benedict Lum- 

 ber Company leave shortly for a three weeks' 

 stay in the Land of I'Mowers. Tliey have winter 

 homes on Indian river in Florida and will enjoy 

 a spell of hunting, tishing and general recrea- 

 tion. Kach is an enthusiastic fisherman and 

 always comes liack with a good stock of up-to- 

 ■ late tish tales. 



I). S. Hutchinson, the genial sales manager 

 oi [he .Nashville Ilardwood Flooring Company, 

 reports a rnsliing business, orders pouring in 

 from all directions. Recently the firm sold three 

 cars of beech Hooring to an Atlanta firm, getting 

 the contract over several eastern firms. Other 

 .ars were shipped to Kritisli Cnlumbia and some 

 111 (Jreat Britain. 



Among the recent visitors to the Nashville 

 lumbermen were the following gentlemen : Mr. 

 -McCourland of W. E. Kelly & Co.. Chicago; Mr. 

 lobin of Moetzcr v^c Tobin. Des .Moines. Iowa : 

 and \V. J. Cnde, the latter a prominent lumber 

 man from Kimmins. Tenn. 



It is reported that the plaiil of the Never 

 Lumber Company, on the Louisville & Nashville 

 railroad, near Selma, Ala., has been sold 1o 

 Pennsylvania capitalists for $200,000. 



The Coffee Siirings Lumber Company has been 

 organized at l>othan, Ala., with a capital stock 

 of $2.3,000. 



A coutra<-t for the rebuilding of the recently 

 burned Harriman Hoe & Tool Company has been 

 let. The loss has been adjusted and it is an- 

 fiounced that the new plant will be bigger and 

 better than the old. 



' Memphis. 



V. E. .Ston.?braker, western manager of the 

 I,. II. liage Lumber Company and vice president 

 and active manager of the Crittenden Lumber 

 Company, has resigned both positions, effective 

 Dec. :!1. at which time he will assume the presi- 

 dency of the Crittenden Railway Company, re- 

 cently chartered with a capital stock of 151.50,600, 

 for the purpose of building a line fifteen miles 

 long between Earle and Heath, Ark. Mr. Stone- 

 braker says he will retain his stock in the Crit- 

 tenden Lumber Company and that his headquar- 

 ters will continue In Memphis. The road will 

 run through one of the fincsi timber sections in 

 Arkausas and will furnish direct connection be- 

 tween the St. Louis. Iron .Mountain & Southern 

 and the Kuck Island systeni. 



Mr. I'liornell of New Vork. representing Vida 

 I'lcoracll * l.'o. of Baneloniu Spain, Is In this 

 Ity. Mr. I'icomell says the Spanish market Is 

 n healthy condition and Ihat (here Is a good 

 olume of hii.flneHS considering the prices demnnd- 

 i d on this side of the water. 



E. E. Taenzer & Co.. Im-.. lumber manufactur- 

 ers of this city, have Instltuled suit In the Clr 

 Hit Court here against the Chicago, Rock Island 

 ,v I'acihc Railway Cotnpany for damages In the 

 um ot .'friO.ofHi. The plainlllTH allege that the 

 l.-OMidanl haK damnged them to the extent Indl- 

 iitil through failure lo comply with a contract 

 . move lumber from a mill at Round I'ond, Ark. 

 I hiM Is the flrst suit ot this character here grow- 

 ing out of the car shortage In the central South 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



and for thi,-i reason Ihc uuliomc Is iiwaili'il wilh 

 considerable interesl. 



The car situation in Arkansas is reported ralli 

 er better now than a fortnight ago; there nvr 

 still numerous complaints from Mississippi. It 

 is dithcult to get the empties and to have llie 

 loaded cars moved pro|ierly. a feature which is 

 no inconsiderable liMiidicjip to the trade as a 

 whole. 



The Memphis Cigai Ho.x Coiupauv has n'ade 

 apiilication f(U- a clinrlcr. capital stock .flti.noo. 



The .New South .Memphis Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation has been organized for the purpose of 

 bettering the stivei railway ser\ ice between that 

 point and Memphi.-i proper, securing a freight 

 house, and obtaining from the railrcads the same 

 rale for shipment io outside points from there 

 as from Memphis proper.' The membei-ship is 

 composed largely of lumber and woodworking 

 companies, the following among the number ; 

 American Art Wood Manufacturing Company. 

 Keiined.vMorelock Stave Company. Lesli .Maim 

 racliiring (.'onipany, Columbia Package Compjiny. 

 I'lorencp l*ump & Lumber Company, I-Iughart & 

 Kendal, and Memphis Bridge Company. 



(ieovge L. Henrion, superintendent and grii 

 oral manager of the plant of the American Car 

 & Foundry Company, Binghampton, a suburb of 

 Memphis, together with other manufacturers, is 

 making an effort to establish a colony of Poles 

 at this point to help solve the labor problem. 

 The .\mpricin (^ar & Foundry i_'omjiany i.-^ i>ne 

 of tile largest woodworking concerns in this city, 

 ronsiiining enormous qtiaiitities of hartiwood Iniu 

 oer in I he manufacture of box and llat cars. 



Dispatches from .lackson. Miss., are to the 

 elTect that the Southern Railway and the Mobile 

 & Ohio have secured the 60,000 acres of hard- 

 wood timber lands in the Pearl river valley 

 bought some months ago by Foley Brothers & 

 Larson, St. Paul capitalists. The correspondent 

 takes the view that the purchase of the timber 

 holdings h.v these interests assures the building 

 of a line of railway through the Pearl river val- 

 ley, .vliich is one of the finest hardwood sections 

 In the South, The price paid for the timber 

 lauds Is said to be in excess of JT.'.o.oilO. 



The final meeting of the Lumliermen's Club 

 of Memphis will be held at the Hotel (layoso next 

 .Saturday at w'liich tlic work of the yvnv will be 

 i-ounded out. 



Among prominent luinbernien who are vis- 

 itors in the Memphis market this week are: 

 1'. \V. Gilchrist and W. A. Gilchrist, respectively 

 president and vice president ot the W. E. Smith 

 Lumber C(). and the Three States Lumber Co.. 

 whose principal ollices are in this city, and whose 

 large operations are in this vicinity: .1. N. 

 .Scatcherd of Scatcherd & Son, Buffalo, who op- 

 erate two sawmills in Mempnis ; Lew I.esh of the 

 Lesh & Matthews Lumber Company, Chicago. 

 who has a large yard here; W. M. Hopkins of 

 the Theodore Kalhauer Company, Chicago; Theo- 

 dore A. Schneider, ba.ver of the BrunswlcU-Balke- 

 (.!ollr>nder (.'ompan.v, Chicago; .Tames Cronan of 

 the I'ro'ian & Smith Lumber Company. Portage- 

 ville. Mo.; Mr. Hart of Price & Hart, the well- 

 known exportej-s of New York City, and H. .1. 

 Gott of llaniillon II Siilmon .V Co.. New Yoi-k 



City. 



Kau.sas City. 



Kansas *'ily luiiiberuicti are looking for an 

 unusually large attendance a! I he annual con- 

 vention of the SoHlhwestern Lumbermen's Abbo- 

 ciution. which will be held here on .lannary 2:1-2.1. 

 The association has maile a good gain In mem- 

 bership for the year and will have close to 

 •J.iUHI membei-H by the I Inn' the convention meets. 

 Pi*eparatlons are being iiiadi* for an excursion to 

 Ciibn fllreclly after the close of I he convent Icni. 

 In i-esponse to jin Imiulry from the secretary, 

 tiliiety-three piTsons have sigulllod their desire 

 for a I rip of this kliul, and the details of this 

 ex<'urslon wlL he announced wllhtn the next 

 week. The trip will lake ten days from the 

 time of li'aving Kansas city, und thi> total ex 



pense per person will be slightly less than 

 ."Sloo. including accommodations at the best 

 hotels while in Havana. It is necessary to have 

 inn persons in order to secure the rate, but it is 

 lii'lieved Ihat twice this number will want to 

 lake in the trip when the details are announced. 



,1. N. Penrod of the American Walnut Com- 

 pany, who has been in Europe in the Interest 

 of his ((inipaii.v since early in November, arrived 

 in New York this week and will be home by 

 Christmas. It Is understood that Mr. Penrod 

 had a very successful trip and closed a number 

 <if tine contracts. 



The .Mercantile Lumber tS; Supply Company 

 has recently moved from the Dwight building to 

 its owu building at 90(1-908 Baltimore avenue. 

 H. \V. .lacques, president of the company, .says 

 the demand for railroad and car material, also 

 for wagon stock, has broken all records for the 

 past few montlis. 



(!. H. Lowry of (lie Beeknuiu Lumber Com- 

 piiiiy has just returned from a business trip to 

 St. l.cmis. Chicagvi and Michigan iioints and 

 stales that the hardwood people at all points 

 111' visited are as independent as in this terri- 

 tory : Hint they are having a strong inquiry 

 ami ar-i- very bullish on prices. 



.\. 1 1. Connelly of the Connelly Hardwood 

 Lunilii'i' Company says that business has lieen 

 vt'vy active up lo the present time, and he looks 

 lor a strong demand during the forepart of 1900. 

 He says that the low condition of mill stocks 

 will result in very firm prices for some time to 

 come. 



A. L. Houghton spent a week among the 

 liarihvood mills of Arkansas this month and says 

 that at all points he visited there was great 

 complaint regarding the car shortage, which. 

 be says, has never been so serious as during the 

 past thirty days. 



F. E. Gary, manager of the Baker Lumber 

 Company, Memphis, Tenn., was in Kansas City 

 last week visiting the trade. He reports an 

 active demand in .Memphis territory, witli prices 

 rigidly firm. 



.7. H. Tschudy will leave here right after the 

 lirst of the .vear for a trip among the Southern 

 mills, and expects to be away the greater part 

 of the month. Mr. Tschudy says that the de- 

 mand is above normal for the time of year and 

 that it has been very satisfactory sini'e early 

 in the summer. 



Minneapolis. 



The Rub.v Lumber Company of Ruli>'. Wis., 

 in whirl) P. R. Hamilton and 'W. H. Sill of the 

 Minneapolis Lumbor Company are interested, 

 has completed its rail connection with the 

 Omaha road at Sillhawn, and is now possessed 

 of excellent shipping facilities, Loggins oper- 

 ■ations are now going forward in charge ot the 

 company's own men. and some logging has 

 been under wa.v for them by a contractor for 

 a month or more. The mill has resumed saw- 

 ing after a suspension since September 1, 

 and has now a good stock on hand. It turns 

 out birch, elm, ash and basswood. The now 

 railroad is known as the Wisconsin. 'Ruby & 

 Southern. P. I!. Hamilton rilurned a few days 

 ago from a trip of Inspection to Ruby. W. H. 

 Sill ot the .same company reports a fair de- 

 mand con.slderlng the time ot year, with a 

 prospect of some heavy buying after the first 

 of .lannary. 



F. H. IjOwIs, the local wholesaler, says the 

 hardwood market is looking bctler than ever. 

 Stocks are not plentiful, which Is about the 

 only drawback, as the prospects aro there will 

 he plenty of demand for evcrythliiK this winter 

 and spring. The factories are l)us.\' and will 

 be large consumers after the holiday seasiui 

 has passed, and from the Inqulrbs being made 

 I hey will buy heavily. 



E. Pnyson Smith of the E. Payson Smith 

 Lumber Company reports an active demanil 

 and some large sales of southern oak to 

 the railroad people for car repair and construc- 

 tion material, switch ties. etc. Thi' mills have 



