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Nashville cai-peuters are greatly liandicapiJed 

 iu uot being able to get building material fast 

 enough, and a move is being engineered to estab- 

 lish a big carpenter mill and custom shop. There 

 are at present two large mill concerns in Nash- 

 ville that cater to the custom trade and several 

 smaller concerns do a business of about .$25,000 

 a year each. T. J. Chrislman. a well-known car- 

 penter and contractor, is working up the organi- 

 zation of the planing mill and carpenter shop. 

 He believes that If the same is not built by 

 .Nashville parties outside capital will surely see 

 I he situation and take advantage of it. 



The Nashville Mantel Company has been or- 

 ganized by several parties Interested in the 

 Southern Lumber & Box Company. Charlie Hunt 

 is prominently interested in the new concern. 



J. H. Baird and John W. Love leave soon to 

 go as delegates to the Board of Trade Conven- 

 tion to assemble in Washington City. They will 

 represent the Nashville Chamber of Commerce. 



Memphis. 



.\t a meeting held on Jan. G at the Gayoso 

 Hotel by the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis the 

 following officers were elected for the ensuing 

 year : W. R. Barksdale of Barksdale. Denton & 

 Co.. president ; W. S. Darnell of L M. Darnell & 

 Son Company, first vice president ; F. E. Gary of 

 the Baker Lumber Company, second vice presi- 

 dent, and George C. Ehemann, secretary and 

 treasurer, the latter being re-elected. Directors 

 chosen were ; J. W. Thompson of the J. W. 

 Thompson Lumber Company, Frank Robert.son of 

 the Goodlauder-Robertson Lumber Company, and 

 U. J. Darnell »t R. J. Darnell. Inc.. retiring pres- 

 ident of the organization. .\t this meeting it 

 was also decided to have the annual banquet at 

 the Gayoso Hotel on Jon. 13. 



Secretary George C. Ehemaun's report showed 

 that the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, which 

 was organized seven years ago with twenty-five 

 members, has increased until it now embraces in 

 its membership sixty-five influential men. repre- 

 senting strong, progressive lumber firms. The 

 organization has become one of the strongest in 

 the t'nited States and, through its working with 

 the railroads and in other directions, it has ac- 

 complished a great deal for the benefit of the 

 lumbermen of this city. One of the most im- 

 portant accomplishments of the year just ended 

 was the securing of the ninth annual convention 

 of the National Hardwood Lumber .Association, 

 which will be held here. May 17 and IS. 1906. 

 .\ vote of thanks wns given the retiring board of ■ 

 directors for its efficient work. 



Thompson & McClure. Randolph Building, this 

 city, have made arrangements for a new yard In 

 North Memphis with about double the capacity 

 of the old one. It is located at the intersection 

 of the Illinois Central and the line of the Union 

 Railway Company (belt), thus giving physical 

 connection with every road entering this city. 

 The company is storing considerable ash on these 

 yards. The S. C. Major Lumber Company will 

 occupy the old yards when the stock of Thomp- 

 son & McClure has been removed. 



The Lumbermen's Club of Jlemphis. at the last 

 meeting of the old year, presented Secretary 

 George C. Ehemann with a handsome gold w-atch. 

 chain and fob, the latter set with a large dia- 

 mond, and both fob and watch handsomely en- 

 graved in monogram. W. H. Russe of Russe & 

 Burgess made the presentation speech. In addi- 

 tion to the other presents. Mr. Ehemann received 

 a handsome students' electric lamp which was 

 the subject of rather peculiar remarks from Mr. 

 Russe, as Mr. Ehemann is a single man. The 

 gifts express iu some measure the appreciation of 

 the members of the club for the excellent service 

 rendered during the past year by Mr. Ehemann. 



S. A. Grobbeu of Pederson & Grobben. Milwau- 

 kee, Wis., manufacturers of sash, doors, blinds 

 and interior finish, is circulating among lumber- 

 men of this city. 



.\t a meeting of prominent manufacturers of 

 cottonwotd lumber held here a short time ago it 



was the consensus of opinion that there is the 

 greatest shortage in the supply of this wood 

 known in recent years, the deficit compared with 

 average holdings amounting to more than fitly 

 percent. 



Max .Sondheimer. president of the E. Soud- 

 heimer Company, who spent the greater i)art ot 

 the Christmas holitlays in t'hicago, in company 

 with his family, has returned. 



George C. Ehemann of Bennett & Witte. and 

 secretary of the Liunbermen's Club of Memphis, 

 spent the holidays with his mother in Cincinnati, 

 but is now down to business again. 



R. M. O'Hara, formerly connected with the 

 Ranger Ilardwtiod Company of Big Creek, Tex., 

 has been employed by James E. Stark & (.'0., with 

 headquarters in North Memphis. 



The Mississippi river is rising somewhat, but 

 there is not enough water to bring out any large 

 quantify of timber. The latter is not cut and 

 ready for flotation and. with the bottoms remain- 

 ing so wet, the log crop promises to be rather 

 light this season so far as the river mills are 

 concerned. 



Russe & Burgess have the largest supply of 

 oak logs in their yards for a number of months 

 and the timber is still coming in. 



Minneapolis. 



.\u important business change is announced, 

 having taken place Jan. 1. A. H. Barnard has 

 bought out the interest of P. W. Strickland in 

 the firm of Barnard & Strickland, wholesalers 

 of hardwood lumber and cooperage in this city, 

 and the firm is dissolved. Mr. Strickland will 

 remain in the lumber business, but his plans are 

 uot perfected as yet. The partnership has lasted 

 five years : before that ilr. Barnard was in the 

 hardwood business alone for seven years. Mr. 

 Strickland came here from ApoUonia. Wis., where 

 he was associated with Weyerhaeuser & Co., and 

 formed the connection in 1901. which has been 

 harmonious and successful. Mr. Barnard will 

 continue the business along the same lines, deal- 

 ing largely with the factory trade. 



Some idea of the magnitude of Minneapolis 

 building operations can be gained from the com- 

 parison of building permits for 1905, represent- 

 ing a total expenditure of .$8,715,094. with pre- 

 vious years. The total for 1904 was $6. 659. .375. 

 and .the three previous years were in the neigh- 

 borhood of $0,000,000. From 1894 to 1900. in- 

 clusive, Minneapolis permits did uot reach 

 $4,000,000 in any year. The huilding season has 

 hardly stopped this year, and a great deal of 

 work is still going on, bringing a demand for 

 all kinds of interior finish during a season which 

 is usually dead in that respect. 



Receipts of lumber in Minneapolis for 1905 

 were 107,312.000 feet : for 1904. 147,676,000 

 feet. While only a small part of these totals 

 were hardwood, they show the growth of Minne- 

 apolis as a market for outside lumber. It has 

 come from every direction, and includes fir, 

 cedar, hemlock, yellow pine and hardwood. The 

 local factories have been using more lumber 

 from distant points since the big advance in 

 white pine prices. 



E. Payson Smith of the E. Payson Smith Lum- 

 ber Company left this week for the South on a 

 business trip of two or three weeks' duration. 

 He will look over stocks In southern Missouri 

 and Tennessee and make an inspection of his 

 own holdings in Alabama. It is quite possible 

 that he will close a bargain for some Alabama 

 timber which he has in view before returning. 



The mill of the Buswell Lumber & Manufac- 

 turing Company, being built at Buswell. Wis., 

 will be in operation by Jan. 15, according to 

 F. W. Buswell of this city, who is back from a 

 trip of inspection. A crew is at work in the 

 timber getting out logs. The mill will saw W'hite 

 pine, hemlock, birch, basswood, elm, maple and 

 ash, and white cedar posts and poles and tam- 

 arack piling will also be turned out. 



Asa Paine, Minneapolis agent for the '£. Wilcg 



Company of Chicago, has secured offices in the 

 Lumber Exchange at 200 and 201, moviug from 

 the Masonic Temple. Mr. Paine is now handling 

 brick as well as hardwood flooring. 



Louisville. 



Louisville is to have a new veneer plant to 

 cost $75,000. While the names of those con- 

 stituting the company have not yet bten made 

 public, it is understood that a site has been 

 purchased in the western end of the city, which 

 will connect by switch to the K. & I. R. R., and 

 it is said that machinery has already been con- 

 tracted for to equip the plant, work on which 

 will begin soon. 



The International Slack Cooperage Manufac- 

 turers' Association will meet at the Gait House 

 in Louisville, Jan. 10 and H. This association 

 is made up exclusively of manufacturers of slack 

 cooperage stock and differs from the National 

 association in that it does not include dealers. 

 Emil Pott of Cape Girardeau, Mo., is president 

 and Clarauce J. DeLaney. Hough, Mo., secretary. 



E. M. Overstreet has incorporated the South- 

 ern Stave & Lumber Company under a new name. 

 William Glover, formerly a member of this com- 

 pany, withdrew some time ago and his interest 

 was taken over by C. A. Overstreet and E. C. 

 Miller of Franklin. Ind. The corporation will 

 be known as the Southern Lumber Company and 

 have a capital stock of $25,000. The following 

 are stockholders : Clinton A. Overstreet. Elquist 

 C. Miller of Franklin. Ind., E. M. Overstreet of 

 Louisville and Guy Bolander of Junction City. 

 Ky. The company has been practically out of 

 the stave business for several years, hence the 

 elimination of that part of the name, E. M. 

 Overstreet is the active manager of the business, 

 and has a commodious office in the Keller Build- 

 ing. 



J. M. Hodges of Bowling Green. Ky., was a 

 visitor in town this week. Mr. Hodges, formerly 

 a buyer for Caflisch Bros., entered the hardwood 

 business for himself with headquarters at Bowl- 

 ing Green a short time ago and is building up a 

 very fair trade. 



Albert R. Kampf reports that the new year 

 is bringing better prices for plain oak. which 

 he says have advanced from one to two dollars 

 over those prevailing at the end of the year. 

 The car material outlook is also good. Inquiries 

 for small dimension stock are frequent, but bu.v- 

 ers are still fighting against advances in price 

 so that this business is not as satisfactory as it 

 might be. Poplar is looking good and has scored 

 some advances, but is considered good property 

 to hold even at present prices for the chance 

 that there may be still further advances. 



The Kentucky Veneer Works has just un- 

 loaded a lot of new quarter-sawed flitches for 

 making quarter-sawed veneer. Mr. McCracken 

 says he is now well stocked up on flitc'nes. Busi- 

 ness with the Kentucky Veneer Works is moving 

 along nicely both in sawed stock and rotary cut 

 oak and gum. 



Ed Eheubesky. who has been doing a little 

 wholesale hardwood business, with Frank B. Rus- 

 sell as associate, is broadening his operations 

 and expects to do a share of the hardwood com- 

 mission business in Louisville from now on. He 

 is located at 513 Columbus Building, and is well 

 equipped for the work, being quite familiar with 

 the manufacture and grading of hardwoods. 



James S. Callaway of the Callaway Lumber 

 Company says that he has not a single, com- 

 plaint to make of the hardwood business at pres- 

 ent. He has had a fair run of business all win- 

 ter, and the outlook is very encouraging, with 

 the tendency of prices upwards. 



Ashland. 



Things are unusually quiet. Mills have all 

 been idle for several weeks, for want of logs, but 

 a rise is reported at the head of the Big Sandy 

 and a log run is expected. 



The market continues firm, but shipments are 

 light since the first of the yeai-. as the different 



