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markets, which are in his opinion in exteMoin 

 shape. 



Ilarig & Co. have secured a lot 22x90 feet al 

 ilie corner of Dalton avenue and Findlay street. 

 adjoinins their present location. It will be used 

 I'or a ?tora!;e yard. 



Chattanooga. 



ISesides the scarcity "f dry stocks, which, un- 

 less somethins conies to pass very soon, will 

 become alarming, local lumbermen are Just now 

 worrying about another problem — the labor ques- 

 tion. Notwithstanding the fact that the Chat 

 lanoga police have been pulling vagrant negroes 

 by the scores for loitering about the streets and 

 the saloons, it is a difficult matter to get laborers 

 •It any price. 



The building uiaierial mills of this city are 

 overrun with orders because of the wonderful 

 building going on in this city. 



Tlie Arnold Lumber Company, manufacturer if 

 poplar siding and other building material, has 

 put in a resaw eiiuipment, and erected several 

 sheds for dry stocks at its plant at East Lake. 

 The concern will make other improvements in 

 (be near future. It has contracts for furnishing 

 material for half a hundred bouses in Ibis 

 vicinity- 



The J. M. Card Luudier Company has jiisi 

 closed a contract for taking the output of a 

 large band mill at Laurel, Miss., which has a 

 capacity of 2U.0(i() feet of lumber per day. .1. 

 M. Card, president of the company, is looking 

 after the interests of one of his mills at Tusca 

 loosa, Ala. 



l-erd Hrenner of the Ferd Krenner Lumber 

 I .inipany of this city and Leiand G. Banning of 

 Cincinnati will tour Germany this summer in 

 automobiles. Tliey will leave about the first of June 

 and their families will accompany them. Mr. 

 Brenner is preparing to remove the ofBce in the 

 Chamberlan building hera to Norfolk. Va., where 

 the concern has a large yard and mills. 



("apt. A. .1. Gahagan of the Loomis & Hart 

 Manufacturing Company assisted the soldiers at 

 lort Oglethorpe in celebrating St. Patrick's Day 

 by delivering a very able address. 



St. Iiouis, 



George II. Rice, a prominent lumberman of 

 Green Bay. Wis., spent a few days in St. Louis 

 last week. 



<•. E. Thomas of the Thomas & I'roetz Lumber 

 r.impany is in the South on a business trip. 



Articles of incorporation were issued last week 

 to the riuttig Sash & Door Company, of Huttig. 

 Iowa, with offices in St. Louis. The capital stock 

 to be used in Iowa is $200,000 and in Missr)uri 

 is .fanii.iiuO. 



Shipments of lumber by cars for the first 

 eleven da>-s In March. l!)0."i, were 2,981 : receipts. 

 -1.749 cars. Shipments of lumber for the first 

 eleven days of March, 1906, were 2..M8 ; re- 

 ceipts, 4,.J38, a slight loss in this year's ship- 

 ments. 



Michael Boeder, a pioneer citizen of SI. Louis. 

 died last week. lie was in his seventy-eighth 

 year and died after a long illness, due to old 

 age. He ca.-ne to St. Louis about seventy years 

 ago and engaged in the cooperage business, which 

 he conducted successfully until about twenty 

 years-flgo, when he was forced to retire on ac- 

 count of falling health. Nine rliildren survive 

 him. 



Conditions are In such exiellent shape both 

 nt the mlllH and yards of the IMummer Lumber 

 Company and orders are so plentiful that no 

 salesmen will be sent out on the road to repre- 

 sent the concern this season. The company Is 

 ,ilso doing an excellent mall-order business. 



The I'ridie Hardwood Lumber Company Is 

 overnished with business which It is finding 

 difficult to take care of on account of the un- 

 favorable weather down at the mills, where log- 

 alng has been hindered for some weeks, .so that 

 the otiipui of lumber Is far from normal. 



The Brownliig Knglneering Company of Cleve- 

 land, ').. ha** fipened an office at SKI Kullerton 



Building, this city, in charge of !•'. M. Fish. 

 This ctunpany is now liuiUling several excellent 

 types of steam log loatlers. 



Nashville. 



Another cbapler has been added l<> liie alTalrs 

 of the ,lohn .M. Small Lumber Cinupauy. whiili 

 was forced into bankruptcy recenlly fidlowing 

 the Creclman entanglement. .\l a reient meet- 

 ing of the creditors of the bankrupt .lohn M. 

 Smith company. ,1. II. Baird was elecied receiver 

 in bankruptcy, and bis boiul was lixed at :^2~k 

 mm. The meeting was held in Mm- "Hire lA' .\. 

 ].. Childress, referee in bankruptcy t"r this the 

 middle district of Tennes.see. Forty or more 

 creditors of the eomiiany were present either in 

 person or represented by attorneys at this meet- 

 ing. Clarence Harrow representing the Haul; of 

 .\merlca of Clilcago and C. S. Latham, of .Mien. 

 Latham & Young, also of Chicago, i-onduiled Ibe 

 principal examination. .lohu JI. Smilb. when 

 examined, stated that he liad originally received 

 .'f40.000 worth of stock in return for I be hnuber. 

 really and other property put into the business 

 of the .Tohn M. Siuith Lumber Company by him. 

 He said he sold a portion of this stock (o I'. 

 \V. I'ettiboue for $20.7.'i0, receiving ,$12.ii(iii in 

 .asli. six deposit certificates for .fl.S.IO eaili on 

 the bank of Defiance. ()., and also two notes. 

 Mr. Smith staled further that the firm of I'er- 

 kins & Pettibone put $25,000 of tlie F. M. Creel- 

 uutn Company i>aper in the ,Tohn M. Smitli com 

 pany. This pajjer had come into tlu' possession 

 of PiM-kins & Pettibone through an ash transae- 

 tion. and bad l)een renewed. Mr. Smith said he 

 was informed this paper had been reduced from 

 lime to time and finally wiped out. He said he 

 was ignorant of the financial affairs of the 

 r-ompany prior or subsequent to the connection 

 of the Creelmans with the same. He acted 

 merely as lumber buyer and had his ortice at 

 Dickson. Tenn. lie knew of no other transac- 

 lions involving Creelman accomm<idation paper 

 outside of that put by I'erkins & I'ettibone. Mr. 

 Smitli said be had signed several notes, but he 

 believed lliem lo be legitimate liabilities of the 

 conipan y. 



L. C. Wliilii'aiJ aiipeared al Ibis creditors' 

 meeting representing F. K. Creelman. lie 

 offered a copy of tlie agreement between F. W. 

 I'ettibone and Mr. Creelman by which the lal 

 ler acquired an interest in the .Tohn M. Smilb 

 Lumber Ciunpany. This was also signed by Mr 

 Smith. Mr. Perkins and by II. C. Card. Mr. 

 <!reelman. in response to an inquiry from .T. .1, 

 Knickerbocker of Chicago, receiver of F. M 

 Creelman. the Illinois Hardwood Company ami 

 II. A. Aronsmi, saiil the legitimate liabilities of 

 Ibe .lobn M. Smith Lumber Company were .fTS.- 

 iHiMii, The as'sets. he said, were more than .$200.- 

 iioii. and would bring mucli more at a sale, and 

 the accommodation paper of the concern would 

 probably amount to between .fi:!.5,000 and $H(l(i.- 

 000. Mr. Knickerbocker was represented by bis 

 attorney, W. T. Madoc, but preferred lo ask Ills 

 own (pieslions. He crealed quite a laugh when 

 he asked "What are you going to do for us'/' 

 F. C. Pal ton of Chicago, representing a liqiiidal 

 ing syndicate, said $80,000 would be a low 

 esllmate on the paper he represented. 



Clarence S. Harrow, attorney for Ibe P.ank of 

 .\inerlea. is said lo have stated Hint the notes 

 and other ••dubious' commercial paper upon 

 which F. E. Creelman Is alleged lo have secured 

 about $19:),000 will net about 2o or .•!0 cents on 

 the dollar. I). 1). Ilealey. receiver of the bank, 

 concurs in the correctness of I Ills esllmate. 



The Aiinesdale Lumber & .Maniilacliirlng Cmn 

 pany of Shelby county has been granted a char 

 ter. The capital stock is ,$r)0,0oo and Hie iucor- 

 poralors are: E. M. Itlchards<in, It. F. Creson. 

 .1. \V. Williamson. D. Finmons and W. T. Ilud 

 son. 



.lohn D. lIuHon of Shelbyville, Tenn.. has Just 

 bought an SOO-acre tract of heavily lindiered 

 bind for $24,000, llie properly Is localerl 

 near the ColTee. Bed ford county Hues. Mr. IIul 



ton will take steps to market ills product at 

 once. 



The members of the party wlio accompanied 

 John 1!. Ransom on a trip to Florida are loud 

 in I heir praises of the good time they had. 

 Wliib- in that state they visited Rock Ledge. 

 Miami. Nassau and Palm Beach. In Nassau 

 they were delightfully entertained by tlie gover 

 nor of the island and bis wife. Lady Wilson. 



Charles K. Fberbach of Algood. Tenn.. arrested 

 on the charge of embezzling the proceeds of sev 

 eral carloads of lumber, states that he will ri' 

 turn to Tennessee from Cincinnati without reqiii 

 sition papers. When arrested In Cincinnati be 

 had just secured a position with a lumber firm. 

 Prior to tliat time be bad been traveling aboiii 

 the country. 



Postmaster .\. W. Wills of Na.shville has se 

 cured the federal authorities to purchase forty 

 trees to plant in Federal Park. Tliey are of 

 the European linden and Norwegian maple. 



The Davidson-Benedict Company has filed an 

 answer in the chancery court to the bill of I. F. 

 McLean, the ca.se involving valuable timber lands 

 in Putnam county. The respondent company 

 asserts that one J. D. Goff bought the properi.\ 

 from McLean and then sold it to respondent for 

 $25,000. The Davidson-Benedict Company as 

 serts that it bought the property upon the 

 representation that it was not encumbered. 1 1 

 it claimed that all the terms of the sale iunt- 

 been complied with fully. 



K. u. Buchannan, a prominent Nashville luui 

 berman, died a few days ago. The deceased wa?. 

 secretary of tlie American Wheel-Stock Associ 

 ation, one of the leading organizations of the 

 spoke and handle trade. For many years In' 

 was at the head of the Gallatin Spoke & Ilaudb' 

 t'ompany. At the time of his death he was 

 launching a big spoke and handle factory in 

 .Nashville. He was a Confederate veteran. 



Considerable local interest is being manifested 

 in Nashville regarding the provisions of a Idll 

 pending in the city council and introduced l>.v 

 J. H. Baskette of the ' I'rewitt-Spurr Manufac 

 turing Company. The bill provides that the city 

 shall not furnish water to factories outside of 

 the city limits, ami it is meeting willi mucli 

 opposition. 



Several himlier companies liave been granted 

 charters by tlie secretary of state as follows : 

 I'Igeon River I.,umber Company. C'ocke county : 

 .apital stork $1,0011,000; incorporators, W. P. 

 Uobiusou, P. T. Bauman. K. G. K. Anderson. C 

 W. I'erry and A. J. McMahon ; Darnell Wil.soii 

 Lumber Comjiany, Shelby county: capital slock. 

 $r,o,ooo : incorporators, R. J. Darnell, A. M. 

 Love, R. J. Wlggs. II. D. Elder. II. A. McKenzte. 

 .\. II. Murray and I. Milton Wilson. 



Dayton. Te.in., is to have a chair factory 

 The company has a capital stock of $10,000, 

 Interested parties are D. P.. Carlln of Chatta 

 nooga and J. W. Hudson and W. 11. Rogers oi 

 Dayton. 



t^tite a boom in the lumber business Is re 

 ported at Hartsville, Tcnu. The lillle city lni> 

 four large lumber yards and iu addition the oui 

 put of aboiil twelve Trousdale counly sawiiilll> 

 is shipped from Ilartsville. 



The sawinlll and lumber yard of Thoiuus 

 Edwards in South Ciarksvlile liave been sobl 

 lo the t^larksvllle Hardwood Company lor $4,000 

 The purchasers will enlarge ami Improve the 

 properly. 



The Harlan Stave Mill of Trenlon. Tenn . 

 has located a large mill in Chester county wlili 

 Walter .Mexandcr as manager and Paul Harlan 

 as buyer. 



The lumber llriii of Jennings & Hale has been 

 Incorporated In .Nashville with a capital stock 

 (d $1,000, J. L. Jennings. B. C. Hale, H. A. 

 Dodil, .\lden Hale and .1. 11- Il.i.ipi'r are tli.' 

 Incorporators. 



Kyle & Ross of Ccllna. Tenn.. aie gelling out 

 a large number of rafts to Nashville. They 

 have boiiglil exienslvely all Ilic way fnuu Cellna 

 In r.iirnsble. 



