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a new company in that line recently or- 

 ganized with a capital of $900,000. They 

 have a modern plant at that point, which 

 is about ready for operation, which will 

 give them an output of 50.000,000 feet 

 per year. The Barr & Mills Company 

 have also secured the sales agency for the 

 hardwood flooring output of the Beaver 

 Creek Lumber Company at Davis. W. Va. 

 Mr. Barr has many friends in the western 

 trade, who will wish him his full measure 

 of success in the local market. 

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 R. W. Higbie. hardwood manufacturer 

 and wholesaler of 45 Broadway, and chair- 

 man of the Railroad and Transportation 

 Committee of the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association, in company 

 with Governor Van Sant of Minnesota and 

 Governor Cummins of Iowa, waited upon 

 President Roosevelt on the 21st ult., reprc 

 senting the Interstate Commerce Law Con- 

 vention in the efforts of that organization 

 to secure additional powers to the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission in dealing 

 with traffic problems. Mr. Higbie has 

 devoted much thought and attention to 

 Interstate Commerce matters in recent 

 years, and the possibilities of ultimate 

 success for the movement of the Inter- 

 state Commerce Law Convention are ex- 

 ceedingly bright. 



LOUISVILLE NOTES. 



(Special Correspondence.) 



Louisville, Ky., Dec. G, 1904. 

 The forest fires in South Park, while 

 under control, are still burning. The flre 

 is confined to low brush and it is con- 

 sidered probable will be easily distin- 

 guished in a heavy rain. There has been 

 no rain in this section for more than two 

 months. It is the driest period within the 

 past thirty years. More than four square 

 miles of valuable hardwood timber was 

 destroyed by the fire. A constant watch 

 is being kept by the residents of that sec- 

 tion to prevent the spread of fire. 



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The town board of Clarksville, Ind., a 

 village across the river from Louisville, 

 has voted to buy a plot of ground and 

 construct a factory for the Union Carriage 

 & Rattan Company, which now conducts 



a factory at the Jeffersonville reformatory. 

 The company employs 200 convicts, and its 

 contract expires in a few months. It 

 has agreed to give 150 men steady em- 

 ployment if a site and factory are secured 

 for it. The company will install its own 

 machinery. 



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Mr. Clarence R. Mengel, of C. C. Mengel 

 Sr Bro. Company, has gone to South 

 America, to look after the business of the 

 company in that country. He will be gone 

 several months. 



.John Roberts, representing a syndicate 

 of Indianapolis capitalists, has closfed deals 

 for seven acres of land on the river front 

 in Nev/ Albany for the proposed light 

 veneering plant referred to last month. 

 The company will erect a factory at a cost 



of S50,000. 



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Building activity in Louisville during 

 the month of November was far greater 

 than for the corresponding month last 

 year. The total cost of buildings in No- 

 vember this year was $287,2:'0, an in- 

 crease of $208,8G5. 



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Owing to the refusal of the Louisville 

 & Nashville Railroad Company to enter 

 an agreement for interchangeable switch- 

 ing in the city, the Commercial Club has 

 abandoned the project to secure a belt-line 

 railroad to be maintained jointly by the 

 railroads and will endeavor to raise the 

 funds necessary for the construction and 

 maintenance of such a line. 



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The meeting of the Lumbermen's Club, 

 which was called for last Friday night, 

 has been postponed until Friday night, 

 December 9. There has been no meeting 

 for more than a month and several mat- 

 ters of importance are on the docket. 



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Secretary Callahan,, who attended the 

 St. Louis meeting of the Interstate Com- 

 merce Law Convention, will make his re- 

 port on the recommendations of that con- 

 vention. He will also submit for the 

 consideration of the club a communication 

 received from the Anti-trust League of 

 New York, which also has a proposition 



to enlarge the scope of action of the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission. This latter 

 organization proposes a bill to provide the 

 commission with the powers of a court 

 of last resort. The bill proposed by the 

 Interstate Commerce Law Convention de- 

 fers that power to the Supreme Court of 

 the United States. It is probable the 

 Lumbermen's Club will send delegates to 

 Washington in the interest of one of the 

 bills. 



EASTERN TENNESSEE DISTBICT. 



(Special Correspondence.) 



Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 7, 1904. 

 Hamilton Love, of Love, Boyd & Co., 

 has been spending a few weeks in New 

 York. 



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The Germania Cedar Company has been 

 incorporated here with a capital stock of 

 $5,1100 by W. W. Archibald. F. M. McBryde, 

 C L. Davidson, Austin McNeil and Avery 



Handley. 



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The Nixon Stave & Lumber Mill 

 Company has been organized at Mont- 

 gomery, Ala., with a capital stock of 

 $50,000. The incorporators are Robert and 

 J. L. Nixon of Montgomery, Ala., and J. R. 

 Nixon of New Orleans. The officers of 

 the company are: President, Robert 

 Nixon; secretary and treasurer, J. R. 

 Nixon; manager of Liverpool office, Henry 

 Porter of Liverpool, England. 



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The J. M. Buck Lumber Company of 

 Johnson City, Tenn., have purchased a 

 two-acre site and will have a distributing 

 yard also at Carnegie. East Tennessee. 



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The Frank & Jones Lumber Company, 

 the new Nashville firm that has opened 

 offices in the Jackson building, will have 

 a large yard here in Nashville with the 

 new year. The office will probably be re- 

 moved at that time to the yard. 



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A charter has been filed for the Nash- 

 ville Transportation Company with a capi- 

 tal stock of $:35,000. The incorporators 

 are: John B. Ransom, John W. Love, 

 Walter Keith, A. L. Hayes, T. G. 

 Ryman, Jr., T. M. Gallagher and Shepp 



