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HARDWOOD RECORD 



and Fcrd Brenner of Ferd Brenner Lumber 

 Company attended the meeting of the National 

 Lumber Exporters' Association, which was held 

 in Washington, D. C, in January. 



J. M. Card of the J. M. Card Lumber Com- 

 pany left recently to look after business In con- 

 nection with a mill at Tuscaloosa, Ala., and to 

 purchase timber supplies. 



Capt. A. J. Gahagan recently celebrated the 

 fortieth anniversary of his coming to Chatta- 

 nooga. Many of the most prominent citizens of 

 this section were hi s guests. 

 St. Louis. 

 The Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company re- 

 ports an increasingly active call for nearly all 

 the leading hardwoods. Ash, red and white 

 oak and cypress are figuring pretty largely in 

 their outgoing shipments these days. 



Manager Keown of the International Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company states that this con- 

 cern has made arrangements to take the out- 

 put of oak and poplar of the Sherrod plant at 

 Greensboro. Ala. The International Company 

 has had quite a nice call for poplar of late. 



The John F. Scobee Lumber Company suc- 

 ceeds to the business of John F. Scobee & Co.. 

 Mr. Scobee havmg purchased the controlling 

 interest. A. R. Stevens, who retires from the 

 firm thus dissolved, will engage in business for 

 himself and is making arrangements to that 

 end as rapidly as possible. 



The Gram & Noser Lumber Company is the 

 name of a new hardwood concern which has 

 opened up for business recently at the Levee 

 and North Market street. Thos. J. Noser and 

 Frank J. Gram, the principals in the company. 

 were formerly identified with local hardwood 

 dealers, and are well known to the trade as 

 capable men in their line. 



S. C. Major of the S. C. Major Lumber Com- 

 pany. Memphis. Tenn., was among the recent 

 visitors to the city. 



Noah Drumm, for a long time connected 

 with the local Lumber Exchange in the 

 capacity of deputy inspector, has become in- 

 spector for F. H. Smith of this city. 



A hardwood department will hereafter be 

 quite a feature of the business of the O'Neill 

 Lumber Company, with yards at Broadway 

 and Gratiot street. Ralph Warner will have 

 charge of this branch of the business. A com- 

 plete and well assorted stock of hardwoods 

 will be carried. 



The new secretary of the Lumbermen's Ex- 

 change of St. Louis, to succeed L. M. Bor- 

 gess. Is Paul J. Davidson, a bright, energetic 

 and capable young man who for several years 

 past has been employed in various capacities 

 by .several of the leading local concerns. He 

 Is a hard worker and bids fair to prove popu- 

 lar In his new position. John R. Massengale 

 of tho Massengale Lumber Company has been 

 made treasurer of the Exchange, and his ad- 

 vent to the office Is hailed with much satis- 

 faction. J J „, 

 The firm of Steele & Hlbbard has added W. 

 C. King to Its traveling staff. Mr. King was 

 previously identified with the King & Bartels 

 Company of Cleveland and Is a man who 

 knows his business thoroughly. He will have 

 a good strip of northern territory to work 

 for this aggressive St. Louis concern. 



Kansas City. 

 The big annual convention of the Southwest- 

 ern Lumbermen's Association, which was held 

 here on January 2?„ 24 and 2.-., brought together 

 a very large number of lumbermen. The Kansas 

 City wholesalers, with their accustomed cordi- 

 ality, entertained their guests In an elaborate 

 and enjoyable manner, and during the week 

 devoted the most of their time to seeing that 

 their customers had a good time. A. Tucker, 

 representing the T. Wllce Company. Chicago, 

 and D. S. Ilutchlnson, representing the Nash- 

 Tllle Hardwood Flooring Company, Nashville, 

 Tenn., had headquarters at the Midland, where 



they entertained their customers during the 

 meeting. 



A. II. Connelly has just returned from a ten 

 days' trip to Arkansas and Tennessee mills, 

 having made Memphis his headquarters while 

 away. He says he never saw the hardwood mill 

 country so full of buyers nor such a dearth of 

 lumber In shipping condition. The mills are 

 operating under difflculty owing to bad weather, 

 and the active demand is making mill men very 

 independent. 



Jay Tschudy of the J. H. Tschudy Hardwood 

 Lumber Company has been south among tlie 

 hardwood mills for the past ten days, and 

 expects to return to Kansas City about the 10th 



of the month. 



Nashville. 

 Nashville is to have a new planing mill that 

 will help to relieve the congestion that is 

 reigning at present owing to the large amount 

 of building. Henderson, Baker & Co. have 

 bought a lot on the corner of First avenue. 

 North, and Taylor street, and In the near 

 future will establish a planing mill of some 

 capacity. It goes without saying that the 

 new enterprise will have all and more than it 

 can do, like the rest of the planing mills in 

 Nashville. 



The principal carriage manufacturers of 

 Nashville have pefected an organization and 

 are holding regular weekly meetings at the 

 rooms of the Board of Trade. Joseph L. 

 Vogeley has been elected president of tlie 

 organization; John J. Todd, secretary: J. H. 

 Jamison, first vice-president; B. C. Stllz, sec- 

 ond vice-president, and G. D. Greer, treasurer. 

 The official name given the organization is 

 the Nashville Carriage & Wagon Makers' As- 

 sociation. Local manufacturers believe much 

 good will result by reason of this organization. 

 They believe they will be not only of mutual 

 benefit to each other but will help build up 

 Nashville as a center for carriage and wagon 

 manufacturing. 



Quite an outpouring of prominent citizens 

 from the Cumberland river valley was wit- 

 nessed In Nashville last week, when three 

 United States engineers granted a hearing, 

 as representatives of the Rivers and Harbors 

 Committee of Congress, with a view of ascer- 

 taining if further improvements on the Cum- 

 berland would be justified. Particular stress 

 was given to the need of Improvement on ac- 

 count of the poor facilities for getting lum- 

 ber to the market. The vast stands of tim- 

 ber up the river were detailed, and it was 

 shown that frequently lumber lay on the 

 bank for a year or two awaiting transporta- 

 tion by boat. Sometimes it was washed away 

 by freshets while awaiting tr.ansportatlon. 

 Gen. G. P. Thurston, president of the Prewltt- 

 Spurr Manufacturing Company, was one of 

 the prominent lumbermen who appe.ared be- 

 fore the engineers and urged that the work 

 of improving the Cumberland be pushed to 

 completion rather than abandoned. 



Lewlsburg, Tenn., is to have a new Indus- 

 try, the Lewlsburg Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company. The company will erect a band 

 sawmill and planing mill and will engage in 

 the manufacture of every kind of building 

 material. C. B. Craig was elected president: 

 T. C. Black, vice president: J. H. Alford, sec- 

 West Nashville. 



Nashville men have Incorporated a lumber 

 company to do business In Memphis. The 

 new firm Is known as the Gayoso Lumber 

 Company, with a capital stock of $50,000. The 

 Incorporators arc Messrs. John B. Ransom, A. 



B. Ransom, W. A. Ransom, R. T. Wilson and 

 Charles C. Trabue. W. A. Ransom will man- 

 age the business m Memphis. It Is under- 

 stood that he will close out his business In 

 West Nashville to W. A. Ransom & Co. 



At a recent concatenation of IIoo-Hoo 

 called by 'Vicegerent Snnrk W. A. Binkley of 

 Middle Tennessee the following "kittens" 



were made members of the popular order of 

 lumbermen: C. E. Dewes of Nashville; J. H. 

 Major, Lynnville, Tenn.; L. W. Benbow and 

 C. H. Smith, Jr., Shelby\'llle, Tenn.; G. T. 

 Parrish, Cedar Hill ; J. H. Cllnard, Adams 

 Station: J. W. Vernon, Louisville; S. A. 

 Frazier, Pulaski, and J. B. Joseph and F. L. 

 Estes of Nashville. 



John B. Ransom. Mrs. Ransom, Misses 

 Mary and Elizabeth Ransom and Mrs. R. T. 

 Wilson and baby leave soon for Palm Beach, 

 Miami and Rock Ledge, Fla., for a stay of 

 several weeks. They will be joined later by 

 R. T. Wilson, son-in-law of Mr. Ransom. 

 The party will probably go to Cuba before re- 

 turning. 



M. F. Green of the Davidson-Benedict Lum- 

 ber Company has gone to Indian River and 

 Rock Ledge, Fla., for several weeks of hunt- 

 ing and fishing. 



D. June & Co., who operate a big sawmill, 

 boiler and traction engine plant at Fremont, 

 Ohio, are figuring on removing their plant to 

 Nashville. James W. Miller, a representative 

 of the company, has been in Nashville look- 

 ing into the advantages offered by this place 

 and he expressed himself as being most 

 favorably impressed. The Nashville Board 

 of Trade has taken the matter up. 



A charter has been granted the Elder Car- 

 riage Wood Company of Franklin County, 

 with a capital stock of $2,000. The incorpora- 

 tors are W. S. Elder, G. S. Misner, H. M. 

 Templeton, Dick Taylor and Geo. E. Banks, 

 Jr. 



L. E. Rooks, a prominent sawmill man of 

 Humboldt, Tenn., is putting In a new planing 

 mill in connection with his sawmill. He pro- 

 poses to manufacture all kinds of finished 

 stock. 



Hamilton Love, the popular young lumber- 

 man who is a member of the well-known firm 

 of Love, Boyd & Co., is confined to his home 

 with an attack of grip. His many friends 

 are glad to learn that his indisposition Is 

 nothing serious and that he will be out again 

 soon. 



The Glasgow Planing Mill Company of Glas- 

 gow, Ky., has increased its capital stock from 

 $5,000 to $30,000. The mill will be more than 

 doubled in capacity and a siding will be run 

 to the plant. 



Capitalists of Henderson, Ky., have pur- 

 chased a large tract of timber land near Daw- 

 son Springs, Ky., and will erect a large plan- 

 ing mill. 



The Milan Heading Factory, belonging to 

 John J. Fuqua, has been burned. Three car- 

 loads of heading and a quantity of staves 

 were destroyed. The loss Is estimated at 

 $10,000 with only $4,000 Insurance. 



Secretary of State John W. Morton has 

 granted charters to two new lumber com- 

 panies. The Uyer-Wllllams Lumber Company of 

 Lauderdale county has a capital stock of $7,000 ; 

 Incorporators: C. T. McDcanunn, W. U. Wil- 

 liams, T. N. and C. W. Dyer and K. H. Ferguson. 

 The Dickson Spoke & Manufacturing Company Is 

 capitalized at $10,000 ; Incorporators : S. G. Hol- 

 land, I'ltt Hensley, J. E. Biggs, J. T. Holbrook, 

 F. S. Hopkins, S. E. Hart and H. D. Hall. 

 Tho principal place of business of the latter 

 company will be at Dickson, Tenn., and the 

 company will manufacture handles, spokes, 

 staves and hubs. 



Prominent Nashville men are among the 

 purchasers of the Florence Wagon Works of 

 Florence, Ala. From $100,000 to $150,000 ad- 

 ditional capital Is to be put Into the new 

 comp.any. Among tho Nashville men Inter- 

 ested are A. H. Robinson, vice president of 

 (ho American National Bank, and Johnson 

 Bransford, a prominent land owner and capi- 

 talist, 



Memphis. 

 The Lumbermen's Club of Memphis held a 

 meeting at Hotel Gayoso last Saturday after- 



