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HARDWOOD RECORD 



mond. Ky.. was sold at auction tie lattei- part 

 of December to Hiram Blow & Co. of Louisville, 

 Ky. The new purchasers announce that unless 

 better freight rates can be obtained at Rich- 

 mond they will move the plant to Cincinnati. 

 The Hume Company was rated as one of the big 

 gest concerns of its kind in the South. 



Proceedings in bankruptcy were instituted a 

 fortnight ago against the Borcherding Lumber 

 Company of this city. lu the petition filed it 

 was charged that the company is insolvent and 

 that it has admilled in writing its inability to 

 pay its bills and was willing to be adjudged 

 bankrupt. A receiver was also asked for. 



Cliattanooga. 



The planing mills of this city are doing an 

 immense business because of the phenomenal 

 building going on here. The building permits 

 issued for the year 1005 amounled to ?1,25G,315. 

 as against $772,259.23 for the year 1904. Local 

 architects claim that they have done $2,000,000 

 worth of business during the past year and pre- 

 dict that the total for 1000 will amount to 

 $S,500,000. 



The first lumber concern organized this year is 

 the Zack Taylor Lumber Company, which has 

 applied for a charter to do a general hardwood. 

 pine, building material and box business in this 

 city. Its capital stock is $30,1100 and the privi- 

 lege is asked to increase this to §100,000. Z. K. 

 'laylor is president and general manager of the 

 company and Sam Strause, secretary and treas- 

 urer. The company has purchased the ground, 

 plant, machinery and holdings of the Chatta- 

 nooga Boat Oar Company on the Tennessee river, 

 and this plant will be overhauled and supplied 

 with machinery of the latest design. Mr. Taylor 

 has been with the East Tennessee Lumber & 

 Manufacturing Company for a number of years 

 and is a lumberman of wide experience. The 

 Chattanooga Boat Oar Company has decided to 

 remove to a small town near Nashville. The 

 change will be made in the near future. 



The Loomis & Hart Manufacturing Company 

 received racst of the 2,000,000 feet of logs which 

 came down the river in December. This com- 

 pany has made a special effort to obtain a supply 

 of logs to keep its mill running ten or eleven 

 months each year. The mill will probably not 

 rue more than eight or nine months during 1906, 

 as present indications are that it will not be pos- 

 sible to get a supply of logs for a longer run. 



The King-Baxter Lumber Company has com- 

 menced extensive improvements on its plant here. 

 A large addition is being erected and several 

 new planers and sash and door machines will be 

 Installed. As soon as these Improvements are 

 completed the company will increase its capacity 

 to 40,000 feet per day. 



Bennett & Wltte of Clncinnoll have established 

 a branch office in this city to cover the field of 

 Tennessee, Georgia, .\labama and North Caro- 

 lina. T. C. Burford of the Burford Lumber 

 Company, Adairsville, Ga., has been placed in 

 charge of the Chattanooga office. 



W. F. Best, foreign representative of the Ferrt 

 Brenner Lumber Company, has Just returned 

 I lom a trip to Europe. 



M. M. Erb. vice president of the Casi: Lumber 

 Company, has returned from a trip to Missis- 

 sippi and south central points, 



J. A. Porter of Bennett & Wltte, Cincinnati, 

 was a visitor among local lumbermen recently. 



J. M. Stone of the Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany of Buffalo. N. Y., greeted local lumbermen 

 a lew days ago. 



,L M. Card, president of the .T. M. fa id Lum- 

 ber Company Is In Cincinnati. 



St. IiOUiS. 

 The annual election of officers of the Lumber- 

 men's Exchange of St. Lonis was held on Tues- 

 day, Jan. 2. at the exchange rooms In the 

 Security Building. The following officers and di- 

 rectors were elected : President, E. H. Warner : 

 vice president, Frnnz Waldsteln •. directors. C. K. 



Thomas, W. W. Dings, W. A. Bousack, It. J. 

 O'Reilly, .huk 1'. Richardson, J. R. Massengale 

 and J. A. Braun. Tlie arbitrators elected were 

 ,T. L. Benas, U. A. Koerner. .1. R. Massengale. 

 F. C. Moore and C. E. Strifler. The directors 

 chose L. XI. Borgess secretary and treasurer, he 

 having filled this position with great credit to 

 himself and the exchange for several years past. 



Roland F. Krelis, for many years identified 

 with the well-known hardwood firm of Steele & 

 Ilibbard. has severed his connection with them 

 and has accepted a position with the Ozark 

 Cooperage Company, iu the Frisco Building, as 

 manager of their lumber department. Mr. Krebs 

 will give a good account of himself in his new 

 position. 



Thomas W. Fry of the Chas. F. Luehrmann 

 Hardwood Lumber (^orapauy has recently re- 

 turned from a tour among llie mills of the com- 

 pany, where he superintended the putting of the 

 plants in shape for operation. The Luehrmann 

 company reports an active demand for liard- 

 woods, especially gum, which is selling readily 

 at improved prices. 



A shipment of tupelo gum table legs recently 

 received by Kelly R. Chandler found a ready and 

 eager purchaser in the St. Louis Furniture Work- 

 ers Association, the lot being of choice quality. 



A branch of the International Hardwood Com- 

 pany has been opened at Mobile. Ala. Two new 

 dry kilns are being installed at the mills of the 

 company in Mississippi. 



The plant of the Columbia Box Company, re- 

 cently burned, is now being rebuilt. The con- 

 struction is on the slow combustion principle, 

 .ind will increase the company's capacity con- 

 siderably. 



The Bayou-Chicot Lumber Company has been 

 organized with a capital stock of .1i25,000 at 

 (Ipelousas. La., and will cut from a tract of tim- 

 Ijer which is the property of the I'lummer Lumber 

 Company of St. Louis. The Bayou Chicot Com- 

 pany will erect a band mill with 25.000 feet 

 lapacity daily and expect to be cutting oak and 

 poplar by the first of March, the entire output 

 heing taken by the riummer company. 



,T. N. W'oodbury. until recently lumber sales 

 manager of the Ozark Cooperage Company, has 

 relinquished his connection with that concern, 

 and on ,Tan. 1 engaged in the wholesale hardwood 

 commission business, with headquarters at 410 

 Hank of Commerce Building. St. Louis. Mr. 

 Woodbury has had a wide experience in hard- 

 wiods, and his enterprise should be a successful 

 one. 



Nashville. 



W. M. Davis, purchasing agent for K. A. How- 

 ard & Co. of San Francisco, has been in Nash- 

 ville for several days and made extensive pur- 

 chases here. Mr. Davis has formerly been 

 purchasing his lumber west of here, mostly at 

 Memphis. He bought fourteen cars of hardwood 

 fiooring and interior finishings on his trip from 

 Nashville dealers and declares that in the future 

 E. A. Howard & Co. will be a regular patron of 

 Nashville mills. 



The Monterey Slave & Lumber Company of 

 Monterey, Tenn., has .lust closed a deal whereby 

 all the timber, lands and machinery of the com- 

 pany have been sold to John W. and George N. 

 Welch for $."{0,000, The purchasers will nianti 

 facture lumber, staves and headings. The former 

 owners of the plnnl: will go out of business. They 

 have about .$05,000 worth of lumber and staves 

 on hand ready for the market. 



W. W. Earthmnn of Murtrecsboro, Huthcrfoi<l 

 county, Tenn., died recently at the age of 8S 

 years. For a number of yeai;s he was senior 

 member of the well-known llrni of Knrthmnn & 

 Co. of Nashville, Murfreesboro and lilckson, 

 Tenn. He wn:i the father of the well-known luni 

 liermen, W. B. and I O. Karlhman. 



Mldiai'l H. Savage of Clarksvllle, Tenn., has 

 Hold lo Judge II. L. Lnnsdeu a 000-Bcrc tract of 

 timber land In Davidson county for $16,000. 

 Most of It Is ridge land and Is covered with an 



abundance of hardwoods. Mr. Savage bought 

 the land two years ago for $8,000 and has there- 

 fore more than doubled his money. 



('onsiderable damage was done to timber iu 

 Dickson county a few days since by a cyclone. 

 The wind covered a path about fifty feet wide- 

 and mowed down all timber in the way. 



Two popular young business men of Fayette- 

 ville, Tenn., have organized the Elk Buggy Com- 

 pany at (iriflin, Ga., with a capital stock of 

 .-<25,000. 



The Robinson-McGill Manufacturing Company 

 lias been organized at Shelbyville, Tenn.. with 

 a capital stock of $100,000. The new concern 

 will engage in the manufacture of carriages, bug- 

 gies and other vehicles, as well as harness. The 

 stock has all been paid in. T. M. Robinson, W. 

 J. McGill, Charles S. Ivie. H. C. Dyer, G. A. 

 Woods and R. W. Clark are interested. Several 

 slates will be covered by this company and it 

 V, ill give employment to quite a number of men. 



.loseph J. Toms, formerly general agent of 

 the Tennessee Central Railroad Company, has 

 resigned that place to accept a position with the 

 veneering plant of Wm. E. Ilplegrove & Bro. of 

 Brooklyn. .Mr. Toms has been in the railroad 

 business for about fifteen years. 



Federal Park, comprising the Nashville custom 

 house yard, has been greatly improved by the ad- 

 dition of a handsome water oak, flie gift of the 

 Centennial L.xposition Association. The tree was 

 presented by Captain M. B. I'ilclier. representing 

 the association. 



>\'. i:, Doolittle. owner of the East Sparta 

 Saw & rianlng Mills, has sold to George Crout 

 and Flinn Baker. Mr. Doolittle retired on ac- 

 count of poor health. The purchasers are prac- 

 tical lumbermen. The consideration was about 

 $7,000. 



James G. Cunningham, the well-known lumber- 

 man formerly with Lieborman, Loveman & 

 O'Brien, has accepted a position with the T. B. 

 Stone Lumber Company of Cincinnati. He has 

 opened up an otlice In Nashville. 



Preston B. Cunningham, with the Beidler Lum- 

 ber Company of Chicago, has returned lo that 

 city after a pleasant visit to relatives in this 

 city. 



The Central Tennessee Coal & Timber Com- 

 pany of Moore county has been granted a charter. 

 The company is capitalized at $100,000. 



Nat Gonnett. formerly of Nashville, who has 

 l>eon in the lumber business for several years in 

 South Carolina, was home for the Christmas 

 holidays and spent a pleasant week with rela- 

 tives and friends. 



The Burroughs Lumber Company of McMlnn- 

 ville, Tenn.. is expected to move its plant to 

 N.ishville in the near future. 



The Cumberland Lumber Company has been 

 organized here, those principally Interested being 

 C. F. Rhea, S. S. Hull and Charlie Rhea. This 

 concern succeeds the Frank & Jones Company, 

 which goes out of business. 



Hamilton Love has returned from New York 

 and has resumed his former duties with Love, 

 Boyd & Co. 



J. H. Baskctte of the Prewltt-Spurr Manui'ac- 

 lurlug Company has attracted considerable atten- 

 tion as a member of the city council from the 

 Seventi'cnth ward by having Introduced into the 

 council the measure that requires all wires to be 

 placed underground In Nashville. This idly Is 

 a network of overhead wires and the ordinance 

 will necessitate the removal of hundreds of thou- 

 sands of dollars' worth of big cedar posts, which 

 will be snapped up eagerly by local dealers. 



There Is a good tide In Cumberland river and 

 from now on the lumbermen will have little 

 troubia In getting down their rafts. The Nash 

 vllle Tie & Cedar Comiiany has Just tied up two 

 big rafts of cedar and four of cross ties. 



.Most of the Nashville lumbermen are planning 

 to go to Louisville. Ky., on Jan. 16 and 17 to 

 attend the annual session of the Hardwood Man- 

 ufacturers' AHsoclntlon of the United States. A 

 very helpful and Interesting meeting Is expected. 



