THE HARDWOOD RECORD, 



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Farrin Company, is making a business trip 



ttirough the South. 



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A. V. Jackson, of Stewart & Jackson, is 



home from Buffalo. Geo. Stewart, of the 



same firm, is at his deslv again, after a 



pleasant vacation spent at eastern summer 



resorts. 



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The International Mahogany Company 

 lias removed its Cincinnati office to Nev/ 

 York. The reason for the move was not 

 made public. 



EASTERN TENNESSEE. 



(Special Correspondence.) 

 Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 22, 1904. 

 Carleton M. Lyman and E. C. Phafer 

 of Buffalo, N. Y., who are financially in- 

 terested in large furniture manufactories 

 in that city, have been in Nashville re- 

 cently to purchase large quantities of oak. 

 They will buy something like l.SOO.OOT 

 feet of lumber in the South, and it is ex- 

 pected that the greater part of this will 

 be secured from Nashville firms. After 

 being in the Nashville district for some 

 ■days they will make Memphis, going from 

 thence to Old Point Comfort and from 

 there by boat to New York. 



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It is reported that Leander C. May of 

 Chicago has closed a deal for the pur- 

 chase of the large saw mill and lumber 

 property at Yale, Bath County, Kentucky. 

 together with the line of railway running 

 from Yale to Salt Lick. The deal in- 

 volves thousands of acres of timberlands. 

 logs, staves, etc., and the purchase price 



is stated to be $175,000. 



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The Middlesboro (Ky.) Mineral Rail- 

 road project along the headwaters of the 

 Cumberland River in Harlan County, Ken- 

 tucky, is again receiving attention from 

 eastern capitalists, and the extension 

 promises to open new timber and mineral 



districts. 



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The Prewitt-Spurr Company of Nash- 

 ville will fight the test case as to lumber- 

 men paying merchants taxes as desired 

 by the state's revenue agents; at least 

 this has been agreed on by the lumber 

 folk, who will be all nominally repre- 

 sented in the test case referred to. 



MEMPHIS MATTER. 



(Special Correspondence.) 

 Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 22, 1901. 

 H. Petri, an exporter, who has had an 

 office here for some time, has returned to 

 Antwerp. 



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Memphis will early with 1905 have two 

 new skyscrapers, each fifteen stories 

 high, and higher than any buildings in 

 the South, outside of Atlanta. One is 

 being located on Main and the other on 

 Madison. 



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The J. W. Thompson Lumber Company 

 have about restored the lumber office they 

 lost by fire in their North Memphis yard. 



They had a new and good building and 

 were considerably inconvenienced. Very 

 little stacked lumber was damaged, ow- 

 ing to the prompt and good action of the 

 fire department, together with volunteer 

 assistance of their friends, who also of- 

 fered private fire hose. 



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Mr. Green, proprietor of the Anchor 

 Mill, on Wolf Island, that manufactures 

 persimmon stock shuttles and dimension 

 stock, has been spending a few weeks at 



Chicago. 



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James E. Stark, of James E. Stark & 

 Co., has returned from Chicago anil other 



northern points. 



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There is to be a meeting at Hotel Gay- 

 osa some time this month of the officials 

 of the different railroads entering Mem- 

 phis, with a view to reaching some con- 

 clusion about the building of a union 

 depot. The outlook is much better now 

 for the depot. W. H. Russe, E. E. Good- 

 lander, and other prominent lumbermen 

 are on the business men's committee that 

 is pushing the consultation features along. 

 George Gould, director in the Iron Moun- 

 tain, who was here a few days ago to see 

 about the receiving of the newly com- 

 pleted Belt line, gave much encourage- 

 ment to the proposed union station 



project. 



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T. B. Marr, formerly of I>ouisville, Ky., 

 and other woodworking capitalists, are 

 preparing to erect at once a $50,000 han- 

 dle factory in South Memphis, that will 

 have a capacity of 12,000 spokes per day 

 and that will employ 100 men. 



THE CLAUSES IN AMERICAN BILLS 

 OF LADING. 



We regret that the elforts which were 

 made a year or so back to obtain better 

 conditions in the terms of bills of lading 

 issued for shipments of lumber from the 

 United States to this country appear to 

 have lapsed. Under the various bills of 

 lading at present in use, it is practically 

 impossible to obtain any redress from the 

 steamship agents in respect of damaged 

 goods, and trading upon this knowledge 

 there is a general carelessness in handling 

 the goods, with the result that cases of 

 damage are numerous. The parlies best 

 able to bring pressure to bear upon the 

 railroad companies and the allied steam- 

 ship lines, in our opinion, are the shippers, 

 and we are rather surprised that the vari- 

 ous trade organizations interested in these 

 export transactions have not followed the 

 matter up more closely. Bills of lading, 

 with the usual string of clauses exempt- 

 ing the ship from all kinds of liability, can 

 certainly not be considered "clean," and 

 we are not surprised to find there are im- 

 porters on this side who, on this ground, 

 make the shipper responsible for the dam- 

 ages which have occurred in transit. — 

 Timber Trades Journal. London, Eng. 





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