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to operate a box factory, a bam] sawmill and a 

 lihinins mill, and will likewise remain in the 

 wholesale hardwood business. The increase in 

 lapital stoclc is made to secure funds with 

 which to erect a liardwood mantel factory. Or- 

 ders have already been placed for the hnilding 

 material and the neces.^aiy machinery will reach 

 Xashville in the near future. Arrangements 

 liave been made to erect sawmills on several 

 raluable timber tracts. At a recent reorganiza- 

 tion of the company the following otHcers were 

 elected : .1. K. McIIwaine. president ; John S. 

 Denton, vice president : Lon Kranli. secretary 

 and treasurer ; T. A. Washington, assistant sec- 

 retary and treasurer; .7. It. McIIwaine. .T. S. 

 Denton. A. P. Jacobs. Lon Frank, Charles E. 

 Hunt, and G. A. Gartner, Jr., directors. 



The Hardwood Lumber Company has been 

 granted a charter by the secretary of state. The 

 capital stock of the company (which is a Knox 

 county organization) is placed at .1-15,000. and 

 the incorporators are: Jesse L. Rogers, W. C. 

 I'arkey. IL E. Fugate, John I'. Rogers and 

 Kalpb L. Rogers. 



Tbe Nashville Carriage \- Wagon Makers' 

 Association met last Tuesday night and dis- 

 <-ussed the subject. "W'oodworking," George 

 ■Greer leading. During the course of his re- 

 marks he made the statement that there are 

 now no young men learning the woodworking 

 •craft, all wood craftsmen being middle aged or 

 old. It was stated that the price of carriage 

 lumber had advanced greatly. Tbe increased 

 siarcity of ash brought up the (juestion of a 

 substitute that might lie used in the wagon 

 business and J. J. Anderson said he had found 

 sugar tree was a most acceptable timber. 



Jolin li. Ransom of John I!. Ransom & Co.. 

 .Mrs. Ransom. Mrs. W. A. Ransom, John B. 

 Ransom, Jr.. Richard T. Wilson and Charles 

 Perkins are spending several w-eeks at Rock 

 Ledge on Indian river, Florida. 



W. I. Choate and S. K. Winstead. lumber 

 manufacturers at Edgewood. recently bought 537 

 -acres of timberland, belonging to the Stokes 

 estate, for $15,010. They prrpose to erect a 

 sawmill at once and later will run a stave 

 plant. 



While excavating at the corner of Third av- 

 enue and Union streets in this city, workmen 

 <lug up a section of an old cedar water main, 

 used in Nashville many years before the Civil 

 War. The pipe, although nearly a century old, 

 was in a good state of preservation. 



-V Nashville firm is trying to put the kindling 

 men out of business with a newly patented sub- 

 stance designated as "Kindleite." It is highly 

 inflammable and is made in the form of small 

 bricks. One will light a Are. The new stuff 

 . smells like a tar preparation. It is manufac- 

 tured by the Nashville Chemical Company of 

 West Nashville. 



The Clarksville Furniture Company, a new 

 foncern in that hustling little town, is about 

 to begin operations, and its outlook is most 

 promising. Much machinery has been installed 

 for manufacturing all kinds of oak furniture. 



Minneapolis. 



E. Payson Smith has incorporated his lumber 

 interests as the Payson Smith Lumber Com- 

 pany. ITie company is incorporated under tbe 

 laws of West Virginia, and has a capital stock 

 of $100,000. E. Payson Smith is president 

 and treasurer, Geo. S. Agnew, vice president, 

 and A. S. Bliss, secretary. These three, with 

 George C. Power of St. Paul and B. L. Smith, 

 form the board of directors. The corporation 

 succeeds to the ownership of timber lands, yards 

 and contracts of an extensive nature in various 

 parts of the South, including Alabama, Missis- 

 sippi, .\rkausas and Missouri. It is the only 

 concern producing southern hardwood that has 

 headquarters, or in fact any permanent oflice 

 in the Northwest. It also deals in yellow pine, 

 northern hardwoods, hemlock, and to some ex- 

 tent in northern pine, lath being one of its 

 specialties. Mr. Smith reports a heavy demand 

 for southern stocks of all kinds, especially for 



low-grade lumber. Low-grade birch and hem- 

 lock are almost out of the market. 



IL E. Bacon of the Bacon-Nolan Hardwood 

 Company, Memphis, Teitu., was in Minneapolis 

 this week on business. 



J, C. Nolan of Nolan Bros. & Laird, St. Paul, 

 has returned from a southern trip. He spent 

 some time with his brothers, L. C. Nolan and 

 E. II. Nolan, who are in cliarge of the mill of 

 the Hacon-Nolan Hardwood Company at Chancy, 

 Miss. He reports that tliey are doing a great 

 business, but that be does not envy them the 

 climate they live in. 



C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark says ili\v 

 stocks are running low in nearly everything, 

 and that oak prices are soaring higher all the 

 time. The factories are buying to a larger 

 extent than usual at this time of year, and the 

 outlook is for a steady trade this spring. 



The logging season in hardwood territory is 

 practically over. Nearly all the winter's snow- 

 was carried away by the thaw during the last 

 of February. The season began a little late, 

 and is closing unusually early, so that a light 

 log output is certain. Northern hardwood will 

 be very scarce this coming season, and prices 

 are expected to be higher than ever. 



P. R. Hamilton of the Minneapolis Lumber 

 Company says this concern is enjoying a steady 

 demand from the factories of the Northwest, 

 and expect some heavier buying later on. Every- 

 thing in dry stock is running low but birch, and 

 there really is not much birch in the couutry. 

 .\ good brisk demand for a few weeks would 

 clean it up. The mil! at Ruby has a fair stock 

 of logs, but work in the woods has stopped, 

 and as it was late in being started because of 

 waiting for the completion of the logging rail- 

 road, tile season was cut very short. 



I. P. Lennon of I. P. Lennon ,.^ Co. says 

 dry stocks are hard to locate In any consid- 

 erable quantity,, and while trade is not heavy, it 

 is exhausting supplies rapidly. 



Ashland, Ky. 



The Herrmann Lumbei' Company has built 

 two big mills on the "Old Clinton tract." 

 recently purchased, about eight miles south 

 of this city. The company will have more 

 than a year's run, as the tract embraces 500 

 acres, with between three and four million 

 feet of timber. 



M. W. Thomas of the Ashland Lumber 

 Company has an immense cement-block ware- 

 house on Front avenue in this city, which he 

 is converting into a roller skating rink. A 

 concrete floor is being put in, and other im- 

 provements made. 



W. J. Fell of Salt Lick has purchased a 

 boundary of timberland in Fleming count.v, 

 Kentucky, and intends to put in several mills 

 to cut staves and lumber. The tract embraces 

 about a thousand acres. 



S. M. Bradley of ]\Iorehead has secured an 

 order for 6,000.000 feet of switch ties, and 

 has closed a deal for seven thousand acres of 

 timberland in Rowan county, from which he 

 expects to supply a part of the ties. 



C. W. Pierce of this city has purchased an 

 interest in the Keyes Planing Mill at Graham. 

 Va., and removed to that place last week. Mr. 

 Pierce has been one of Ashland's leading 

 grocers for a number of years. 



T. N. Fannin came in from Herndon for a 

 few days' visit to his family. 



A contract has been closed by O. D. Garred 

 of Huntington with the American Column & 

 Lumber Company to cut 9,000 acres of tim- 

 ber owned by the latter company on the Clear 

 Fork of Coal- River. The Logan Lumber 

 Company will do the sawing, the logs being 

 conveyed to its mill on a new steel tramroad, 

 built for that purpose. This mill will cut 

 00,000 feet of lumber per day. 



A new double cut-otf saw and a self-feed 

 double jointer have been purchased by the Herr- 

 mann Lumber Company and will be in operation 

 in a few days. August Schmidt, manager of 

 this ctmipaiiy lias i-eturned from a trip to New 



York. While away he secured the services of 

 \\'lii. Kocrner as assistant rorcinau I'or tlie com- 

 pany. 



,1. W. McCausey oi' Giaml Rapids, Mich., and 

 W, .\1. Greer of tin' Kclsey-Dennis Lumber 

 Company of N'orth Toinnvanda. N. V.. visited the 

 markets liere iliis week. 



E. .M. Hampton is on an extended trip 

 through till' Soutli loc-king after some lumber 

 interests. 



>\'. K. Vansant has rt'iurncd from a business 

 t;ip to Cliicago. 



The Fearon Liimliin- iV Veneer Company. 

 Whistler & Si'earcy. the Nigh Lumber Com- 

 pany, the Irontou Luinlicr Company, the Yellow 

 I'cplar Lunilier Conipany. .Mre still well stocked 

 with logs, mostly poiilar. Init some oak. The 

 average cut of jioplar in Ashland and fronton 

 mills is ono.oon feet |ier day. Vansant. Kitchen 

 & Co. alone cut ting lOd.oliti leei. 



Louisville. 



C. W. i;.>ark of the ilreenville Milling Com- 

 I>Jiuy. Greenville. K.v.. says the concern is hav- 

 ing a great trade in , rlie Pennyroyal district 

 this winter and is titilizing lots of the native 

 woods for structural purjioses. It operates a 

 planing mill and gets in from the various coun- 

 try mills poplar, beech and gum, which is manu- 

 factured into framing, siding, flooring and for 

 all manner of structural purposes. 



.Tames S. (Calloway of the Calloway Lumber 

 Company says there is little to complain of 

 in tbe lumber market. There is still some 

 trouble in getting cars at country points and 

 some difficulty about haulings. he says, but 

 prices are in good shape and there is plenty 

 of demand and a fair amount of stock to meet 

 it with when it can be gotten to the railroad 

 and shipped out. 



J. T. Morgan & Co. report the hardwood 

 business in better shape than for some time, 

 and say that things are movin.g nicely on both 

 ends of the line. 



Harry B. Carter, manager of Hiram Blow & 

 Co., says the oak stave trade is booming, and, 

 notwithstanding their great manufacturing fa- 

 cilities, they are loaded to the guards with 

 orders and are having about as busy times all 

 around as they ever saw. 



W. H. Gillette, who manufactures hickory 

 vehicle wood stock, says the only thing that 

 worries him is getting hickory. Trade is in 

 excellent shape and he has all the business 

 he can take care of and manages to get enough 

 hickory to keep moving, but the supply is so 

 scarce compared to the needs that it keeps a 

 man hustling and wondering where the next 

 is to come from. 



The local hardwood firm of Perkins & Petti- 

 bcne has been forced into bankruptcy by its 

 entanglement with the John M. Smith Lumber 

 • 'ompany of Nashville and the F. E. Creelman 

 interests, they having been stock holders in the 

 John M. Smith Lumber Company, which was 

 recently declared bankrupt through this con- 

 nection. Perkins & Pettibone have always en- 

 joyed the full confidence of the local trade, and 

 one and all regret that they have become in- 

 volved in these financial difficulties and hope 

 that they will be able to straighten out their 

 affairs soon and get into the harness again. 



Wausau, Wis. 



A midnight fire in the plant of W. S. Sea- 

 man 4& Co., furniture manufacturers, Mil- 

 waukee, damaged the building and contents 

 to the extent of $7,000. Much of the loss was 

 due to water and smoke. 



The Wausau Lumber Company's new mill 

 at Rib Falls, but recently completed, has been 

 started in operation and will saw out 4,000,000 

 feet of mixed hardwoods. The C. & N. W. 

 Ry. has surveyors at work surveying a line 

 from Edgar to that village. 



W. S. Connor of Marshfleld. who recently 

 returned home from a visit to his logging 

 operations near Laona. states that logging 

 conditions are ver.v bad in the northern woods. 



