HARDWOOD RECORD 



large block of timber will be manufactured and 

 placed on tlie maiket as (iiiickly as possible. A 

 logging railroad, and all apinirtcuant equipment 

 necessary to the operation of tlie plant and 

 bauling of tbe logs will bo purchased at once. 



At , a meeting of the stockholders of the 

 Bristol Door & Lumber Company, held in I3os- 

 ton last week. J. Kuffnm. who has for many 

 years been its president, resigned and W. (i. 

 Came, secretary of the corporation, was elevated 

 to the presidency. .Tohn C. Anderson, presi- 

 dent of Ihe Ki:st National I!ank of Hristol. was 

 elected vice president, and II. r. Wyman. an 

 «.\-perienccd lumberman of Johnson City. Tenn.. 

 was elected secretary and treasurer. The work- 

 ing capital of the company will be materially 

 increased and its output augmented by the ad 

 dition of new machinery for wliich the com- 

 pany is now iu the market. This concern has 

 a large band mill, and an extensive planing and 

 woodworking plant in Bristol, and enjoys an ex- 

 tensive New England trade. 



J. H. Holloway of the liolloway Lumber 

 Company of Philadelphia was in Bristol last 

 week on business. This concern has made con- 

 tracts for a large amount of hardwood stocks 

 from east Tennessee mills. 



H. M. gpiegie of Geo. M. Spiegle & Co. of 

 Philadelphia came to Bristol last week in the 

 Interest of his company. Mr. Spiegle was ac- 

 companied by Mr. McGee of the same concern. 

 The Clairfield Lumber Company, which was 

 recently granted a charter of incorporation in 

 Tennessee with a capital stock of .$80,000, will 

 construct a band sawmill at Clairfleld, Tenn.. 

 with a daily capacity of 30,000 feet. The com- 

 pany owns about 12,000 acres of timberland in 

 Claibourne county, and its primipal office is 

 at Winchester, Ky. W. B. Woodward of Wash- 

 ington Courthouse, Ohio, has been elected gen- 

 eral manager. 



The Fisher & Berry Lumber Company has 

 been incorporated at Flatwoods, W. Va., with 

 a capital stock of ?S0,000 and will do a gen- 

 eral manufacturing and wholesale lumber busi- 

 ness. The incorporators are : C. C. Davis. 

 ■G. D. Maple, A. W. Berry, B. S. Berry, G. P. 

 Gillespie airtl others. 



At a consideration of $200,000 the Surry 

 Lumber Company of Baltimore, Md., has pur- 

 chased through Norfolk, Va., brokers a 7,000 

 acre tract of rich timber land lu Surry county. 

 Virginia. The company already operates mills 

 In this county and will manufacture the tim- 

 ber just bought. 



The Glady Fork Lumber Company, recently 

 Incorporated in West Virginia with a capital 

 stock of .SlOO.OiiO. has i)urcba.spd from the 

 Glady Lumber Company almost its entire hold- 

 ings, including 2.000,000 feet of timber, band 

 mills, ft.-., near Elkins, W. Va., for a considera- 

 tion of .■i;:;u«,000. .r. G. Babb has been retained 

 by th<' company as superintendent. 



A. S. McDowell of Bristol has been retained 

 by the Telllco P.iver Lumber Company, at 

 Telllco Plains. Tenn., as manager of its large 

 lumber operations at that place. Mr. McDowell 

 left this week to accept the position. 



The Back Fork Lumber Company hai been In- 

 corporated at Hacker Valley. W. Va., with a 

 ■capital slo.k of $2.-.,000, riic chief offices of 

 the company will be at Buchanan. W. Va. 'Hie 

 Incorporators named in the charier are: T. .T. 

 Hefner of Buchanan. W, Va. : C. B. Cutrlght 

 and W, A. Smith of Clarksburg, W. Va., and 

 C. 1. Farnsworth and W. I!. Cutrlght of Bu- 

 chanan. 



Memphis. 



.\cllve preparnllons are now being made for 

 the aniiuul convention of the National Hard 

 wood Lumber A.ssociatlon to be held In this 

 city .May li and 4. A short time ago President 

 Barksdnle of the Lumbermen's Club of Mem- 

 phis, appointed the following (Inance committee: 

 K. .L Jinrncll. ilialruian. W, S, Darnell, !■". !•:. 

 iJnry, .s-. B. Anderson and fJeorgc C. Ehemnnti. 

 .\t a meeting held Saturday afternoon two other 

 • ommlttwK were named: General arrangements 



^V II Kii.sse. chHlrman; II. 10. Bacon, J. W. 



Dickson. James E. Stark and E. E. Taenzer. 

 Entertainment— J. W. Thompson, chairman : C. 

 W. Holmes, E. E. Goodlander, John W. McClure 

 and F. E. Stonebraker. These committees will 

 have charge of all features connected with the 

 convention. George C. Ehemann, secretary of 

 the club, is in receipt of advices suggesting that 

 the number of delegates will be between 300 and 

 400. 



Fire destroyed the box factory of Moore & 

 McFerren in North Memphis a tew days ago, to- 

 gether witli about twenty cars of lumber on the 

 siding of the Illinois Central adjacent to the 

 plant. The loss to the railroad company was 

 quite heavy while that to Moore & McFerren 

 is estimated at .'575,1100, with insurance of HoG.- 

 300. Moore & McFerren havp already leased 

 tlie box plant of the Cochran I.unilier Company, 

 which bad been dosed down for some time, aiid 

 are operating this how. They will begin imme- 

 diately the rebuilding of the burned plant which 

 they propose to have in readiness for operation 

 within seven or eight weeks. Very little of the 

 stock of lumber on the yards was burned. Moore 

 & McFerren mar,iifaciu;-i> cottonwood. cypiess. 

 gum and other hardwoods, as well as boxes and 

 box shoolis, ceiling, siding and other similar 

 wood products. 



George Banks, of Banks & Co., lumber manu- 

 facturers of Hernado, Miss., has purchased tbe 

 timber rights on (540 acres of timber lands in 

 Le Flore county, Mississippi, and will develop 

 this property right away. The company now 

 has a mill on the section adjoining the more 

 recent purchase. The limber rights were 



formerly controlled by Indiana interests. 



Application for a charter has been filed by the 

 Darnell-Wilson Lumber Company of this city, 

 capitalized at .$50,000. The incorporators are • 

 It. J. Darnell, president of R. J. Darnell, Inc. ; 

 A. M. Love of the Darnell-Love Lumber Com- 

 pany : K. J. Wiggs of H. J. Darnell, Inc. ; H. D. 

 Elder, E. A. McKenzle, A. H. Murray and J. 

 Milton Wilson. The company will engage Ifi a 

 general hardwood lumber business. 



Two prominent foreign visitors to the Mem- 

 phis market during the past few days were : 

 W. B. van Berlekom. an importer of American 

 hardwoods, with headquarters at Amsterdam, 

 Iloiiand, and Alfred Beling, also an importer! 

 with headquarters at Antwerp, Belgium. 



While logging conditions have materially im 

 proved in the territory contiguous to Memphis, 

 the railroads are not yet able to furnish all 

 tbe cars neces.sary for promjit transportation of 

 logs into this city, and numerous complaints 

 have been made on this score. This matter was 

 made a subject of discussion at the last meet- 

 ing of the Lumbermen's Club. The regular rail- 

 ro.id committee, of which C. W. Stover is presi- 

 dent, was asked to take up the matter with 

 officials of the roads involved with a view to 

 ameliorating conditions as soon as possible. 



The .Missouri Pacific system announces the 

 opening of lis Memphis, Helena & Louisiana iinc 

 between La Tour, Ark., and McGhee. Ark., for 

 traffic. Tile distance between the two points 

 Is about 70 miles through a magnificent timber 

 section which is Just Ijeginning to be opened up. 

 Work is rapidly progressing on tbe line between 

 .Marlanna. Ark., and Memphis. The comple- 

 tion of this iiart of the road will give the 

 .Missouri Pacllle system, in conned Ion with the 

 Texas & I'adflc railroad, a Gould |iroperty. 

 a direct line from .Memphis to New Orleans, thus 

 relieving in .some measure the congestion on the 

 Illinois ('enlral fiom this city to New Grieans. 

 Lumbermen express pleasure at the near cotn- 

 pleiion and avallablllly of this road. 



Tbe i;dwar(ls Fain I.und>er Company, whose 

 prinilpal offices are at Oknsli, Miss., has filed 

 articles of Incorporation under the laws of Ar 

 kansas with a view to eatabllshlng hardwood 

 mills In that slate. The capital stock Is placed 

 at ¥50.000 and the Incorporators are: W. A. 

 I'ain, ]■;. W. Tllton, Jr., and Ebenezer Hlcbards. 

 H. E. Bacon of the Bncon-N<ilan Hardwood 

 Company and tbe Lamb Ilardtvoud Lumber Com- 

 pany IwiK returned from a trip to Cincinnati 



where he went to attend a meeting of the Hard- 

 wood Dimension Association when it was com- 

 bired with tbe Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation. 



J. P. Sullivan of the J. P. Sullivan Lumber 

 Company has returned from Tyler, Miss., and 

 other points south, where he went to look after 

 Interests of his company. 



A. N. Thompson of 'niompson & McClure 

 has been spending some days in Mississippi 

 looking after tbe mill and cpllier affairs n( iliis 

 company. 



Nashville. 

 The Nashville Tie & Cedar Company has just 

 landed a nice contract to furnish chestnut and 

 cedar telephone and telegraph poles to the 

 Home Telegraph Company, which is building 

 a telephone and telegrapli line through Nash- 

 ville from Franklin, Tenn., to Russellvllle, Ky. 

 Several thousand poles are to be furnished and 

 the work of placing them is now iu progress. 

 The poles average forty feet in length and are 

 large and strong. John W. Love of Love, Boyd 

 & Co.. is general manager of the Nashville Tie 

 & Cedar Company. 



Cumberland river is high and as there is 

 considerable timber along the banks, cut and 

 stacked ready for shipment, boats are "mak 

 ink hay while the sun shines." 



Several eastern and western lumbermen have 

 visited Nashville the past few days. Among 

 them was E. D. Keezeney, a wholesale lumber 

 buyer of New York City. E. F. Dodge, presi- 

 dent of the P. G. Dodge Lumber Company of 

 Chicago, was here recently, lie bought ex 

 tensively near Dickson. Tenn. 



J. H. Baskctte, secretary and general man- 

 ager of the Prewitt-Spurr Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, is in Galnesboro, Jackson county, buying 

 logs for his company. 



D. S. Hutchinson, sales manager of the Nash 

 vllle Hardwood Flooring Company, has just 

 returned from a most satisfactory trip through 

 the West. In February his company enjoyed 

 the largest business for any one month. 



Love, Boyd & Co. have just finished negotia- 

 tions for about 7.000 acres of timber In Wil- 

 liamson and Hickman counties, middle Tennes- 

 see. Tliey will begin cutting at once. 



The Davidson-Benedict Company has Just piir 

 chased a large quantity of timber in the nortli- 

 ern part of Georgia. In that state the company 

 is known as the Blue Itidge Lumber Company. 

 The Joseph Sdiefl'er Lumber Company was 

 recently organized with a capital stock of $2."i.- 

 000. Henderson Baker of Henderson Baker >'ii 

 Co. has been elected president : Jo.sepli Schdl'cr 

 is vice president and general manager ; W. L. 

 SchefTer is secretary and treasurer. Mr. Baker 

 still retains his wholesale lumber yard, while 

 the new company will run a planing mill. 



Dispatches from Bristol tell of the burning 

 of the lumber plant of Allen & Blankenbeckler 

 at that place, entailing a loss of $30.ci(in. par 

 tially insured. 



The Phlllipsburg Land Company, owning 

 about 15,000 acres of timber lands near Cross- 

 vllle, Tenn., has sold tbe same to the Southern 

 Contracting & Development Company of New- 

 York City. The purchasers will develop their ac 

 qulsltlon In the near future, one of the pro- 

 jected Improvements being a branch line of 

 railroad from I'rossvllle. In the early summer 

 they will establish several plants for tbe manu 

 facture of the timber token from their holdings 

 The lumber plant of .\rcnlz Brothers, just 

 across Ihe Tennessee line at Decatur, Ala., was 

 destroyed by fire on Feb. 28, enlalllng a loss of 

 nboul .f2t.OOO, Insurance less than half. -Ml ma- 

 chinery and buildings. Including a dry kiln and 

 75,000 feet of lumber, were lost. Some one evi- 

 dently threw a lighted cigar Into a pile of 

 sawdust, causing the dhsasler. 



The charter of the Southern Lumber & Box 

 Company has been amended to change its name 

 to the Southern Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, and Increase its capital stock from .f60.- 

 000 to .?10(l,000. The comimuy will continue 



