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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



Green. The company will operate tow 

 boats and barges exclusively. It will con- 

 trol and operate the George H. Cowling 

 and the Linehan. and a dozen barges. The 

 purchase of the Cowling, which is now at 

 Paducah, has been consummated. Most of 

 the gentlemen named are prominent lum- 

 ber, stave or steamboat men. 



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Joseph B. O'Brien of Albany, N. Y., has 

 purchased 38.500 acres of valuable timber 

 land in Madison County, North Carolina, 

 near the Tennessee River. The property 

 was sold by order of the court to satisfy 

 an involuntai-y bankruptcy proceeding. A 

 mortgage of $223,000 is assumed and a 

 cash bonus of $2.5.000 is paid. This is re- 

 garded as one of the most valuable tracts 

 in the mountains. Edgar H. Betts of 

 Troy, N. Y., was the largest creditor, his 



claim being $101,901.08. 

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The Southern Timber & Mineral Land 

 Company has been organized here in 

 Nashville and has applied for a char- 

 ter. The company will go into the land 

 development business and is capitalized at 

 $100,000. The incorporators are Maj. A. W. 

 Wills, Col. A. M. Shook, Col. S. A. Cham- 

 pion, former governor, Benton McMillin. 

 Maj. F. P. McWhirter, Chancellor John M. 

 Allison and E. M. Hinton. The company 

 has been in the process of formation 

 for two or three months. The prime 

 movers have been Colonel Shook, Major 

 Wills and Colonel Champion. Those in 

 the company are negotiating with northern 

 and eastern capitalists and expect to 

 financially interest several of them in the 

 project. The company plans to acquire 

 land in Tennessee, North Georgia and 

 North Alabama. Coal and iron-bearing 

 lauds and lumber tracts will be acquired 

 and developed. 



The Young-Greene Lumber Company is 

 the style of a new hardwood lumber firm at 

 Goshen, Ind. 



ICBMFHIS IOlTTEB. 



(Special Correspondence.) 



Memphis, Tenu., Dec. 7, 1904. 

 Chas. D. Rourke, the biggest Hoo-Hoo 

 in the world, was a visitor in Memphis 

 lumber circles this week. 



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W. H. Martz, of the Hoyt-Woodin Manu- 

 facturing Company's Memphis office, has 

 just returned from a business trip to New 

 Orleans. Mr. Martz states that his firm is 

 quite busy in the South now in their 

 cypress and hardwood operations. 



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The Orr-Sweeney Lumber Company are 

 quartered now in front rooms of the Ran- 

 dolph building. Mr. Orr said to the Hard- 

 wood Record's man that he expected his 

 firm would open a j-ard in Memphis next 

 spring. In the meantime they will oper- 

 ate as wholesale dealers in hardwoods. 

 The constituent members of the firm are 



from Cincinnati. 



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The Three States Lumber Company and 

 the W. E. Smith Lumber Company of 

 Cairo, 111., will have oflices here after 

 January 1. They will be located in the 

 Scimitar building. Billy Smith, of the two 

 companies, is here now looking after the 



matter. 



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C. Palmer, one of the head oflicers of the 

 L. H. Gage Lumber Company of Provi- 

 dence, R. I., is a visitor in Memphis now. 

 Mr. F. E. Stonebraker, southwestern man- 

 ager for the company, is out on a trip in 

 the North, to visit his old home in Indiana. 



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James Thompson & Co., at 232 Randolph 

 building, are operating right extensively 

 in hardwoods these days. They have the 

 office here formerly occupied by the J. W. 

 Darling Lumber Company. They have mill 

 interests in Arkansas, Mississippi and 

 Louisiana and are interested in hardwoods, 



Cottonwood, gum, cypress, etc. 



* * * 



The Franklin Lumber Company is a new 



entree in Memphis has offices at room 130 

 in the Randolph building. 

 * * * 

 T. B. Allen, of T. B. Allen & Co., left this 

 week for Texas to look after his cypress 

 and lumber and stave manufacturing in- 

 terests in the Beaumont district. 



CINCINNATI GOSSIP. 



(Special Correspondence.) 



Cincinnati, Dec. 6, 1904. 

 Elbert E. Beck, president of ^ the Beck 

 Hardwood Lumber Company, has returned 

 from an inspection trip through the Ten- 

 nessee hardwood district. While there he 

 consummated several important deals. 



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Clinton Crane, head of the C. Crane 

 Company, was in Huntington, W. Va., the 

 latter part of November. He was prose- 

 cuting witness against a band of log 

 stealers, who have carried on depreda- 

 tions against the Crane Company since 



last spring. 



* * * 



Max Kosse, president of the K. & P. 

 Company, it at his desk again after a bus- 

 iness and pleasure trip to Europe. Mr. 

 Kosse is optimistic regarding the future 

 of the export trade. 



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The movement of lumber for the month 

 of November, as compiled by the superin- 

 tendent of the Chamber of Commerce, was 

 as follows: Receipts 5,126 cars, shipments 

 3.736 cars. For the corresponding month 

 last year the figures were: Receipts 

 4,935 cars, shipments 3,649 cars. 



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J. T. Snepp & Co. of Dayton have in- 

 stalled a hardwood lumber saw mill on 

 West Euclid avenue, Springfield. Opera- 

 tions have been started. 



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At a meeting of the creditors of the 

 Ironton Door & Manufacturing Company, 

 held at Ironton last week, \^■. G. Ward of 

 Ironton was unanimously elected trustee 

 and was directed by the referee in bank- 



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