THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



31 



JNO. M. SMITH 



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MEMPHIS, TENN. 



his business during the past year has been al- 

 most up to the best year he has ever had. Had 

 Cottonwood and gum been up to the normal it 

 would have been his banner year. 



With the recent addition to their yard capac- 

 ity Steele & Hibbard feel themselves to be in a 

 position to take full advantage of the expected 

 heavy spring trade. 



W. A. Bonsack. of the Bonsack Lumber Com- 

 pany, reports that he has been able to keep the 

 stock of his company in fair shape and expects 

 to reap the benefit of it during the next few 

 months, he is a confirmed optimist so far as 

 the outlook is concerned and expects the coming 

 year to show wonderful results. 



The Chas. F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber 

 Company has been having an excellent business, 

 both locally and in the northern country, despite 

 the holiday season, and with the added capacity 

 o£ the new mill at Marianna, Ark., it will have 

 excellent stocks of oak and gum throughout the 

 whole of the next year. 



Nashville. 



The market shows good advancement in trade 

 since the first of the year, so much talked 

 about, has come and passed. Inventories of 

 last year have been made and the books bal- 

 anced by many firms with fairly gratifying re- 

 sults when the volume of trade transacted and 

 the percentage of loss and gain for a rather 

 dull year are considered. Just now the trade 

 expresses a most hopeful feeling and the Indi- 

 vidual firms are looking about sharply to get 

 stock by the Cumberland river or rail. There 

 is a first-class demand for plain white and red 

 oak, and the stocks are very light in these 

 woods. Chestnut is in good demand. Quartered 

 white oak is firm and in good demand. Walnut 

 is handled in a small way by some of the Nash- 

 ville firms, and every available portion of it 

 finds a ready market at stiff prices. Some red 

 cedar stock is sold here, both in the domestic 

 and export trade. 



The Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of 

 the United States meets here on Jan. 25. This 

 i:; one of the strongholds of this association, 

 and a large crowd of luml)er folk, machinery 

 men and others high in the trade will doubtless 

 be present. The local firms will do their part 

 as hosts. A crowd of between 200 and 300 

 are expected. 



The Prewett-Spurr Manufacturing Company is 

 very busy in Its wo^denware department and Is 

 having a fine trade in pails, cedar churns and 

 similar goods. The oyster people of Maryland 

 and the other coast places patronize It well, and 

 the company, which happens to be one of the 

 pioneer red cedar concerns of the United States, 

 ships into every State of the Union. Secretary 

 J. H. Baskette is a very busy man, for in addi- 

 tion to the management of office detail he very 

 frequently goes out among the trade. The lum- 

 ber department of the firm reports a satisfac- 

 tory business for last year and thinks the pros- 

 pect for 1905 very good. 



The Southern Lumber and Box Company, up 

 the Cumberland river on the east side, is run- 

 ning its mill these days and getting In some 

 logs by river and rail. Like the other Nash- 

 ville firms it is making considerable efforts at 

 capturing a good supply of logs this winter, for 

 there is a feeling that logs will not be plentiful 

 after that dull summer time and fall with the 

 country mill man. The Southern Lumber and 

 Box Company was caught for a trifling sum In 

 the assignments up at Buffalo, but this is about 

 the first time they have lost out on any ship- 

 ments, and they send stock over quite a radius. 

 C. E. Hunt. gen£ral manager of the company, 

 will look after the mill and rafting arrange- 

 ments for the coming months. 



Love. Boyd & Co. had a good deal to do 

 with bringing the Manufacturers' Association to 

 Nashville. Cincinnati was a strong competitor, 

 but so many of the heavy weight Nashville firms 

 have been friends of the association that the 



united concerns of the city were able to put up 

 a winning fight for the convention. Nashville 

 is right good on lumber matters anyway. Aside 

 from being among the largest hardwood markets 

 in Tennessee and the United States, the town is 

 a fine place commercially and socially. It is 

 growing at a good, healthy rate. It is one of 

 the finest places in the country for a Hoo-Hoo 

 concatenation, for conventions and for schools, 

 and being the capital of the State has a great 

 reputation for law making and log rolling. The 

 legislature is in session now and is being 

 closely watched by the lumbermen to see' what 

 will be done to them. Love, Boyd & Co. have 

 extensive mill interests both in the state of 

 Kentucky and in Williamson county, Tenn. They 

 have fully a half dozen mills In operation most 

 of the time. They think the trade for 1905 will 

 be heavy for the first half of the year and 

 strong in price, with stocks below the maximum. 

 The Davidson-Benedict Company, of which 

 M. F. Greene is manager and in which Messrs. 

 Davidson, Benedict and other gentlemen, for a 

 long time identified with Tennessee lumber Inter- 

 ests, are large stock holders, have on the same 

 side of the Cumberland a large plant, saw mill 

 and box factory. They are interested in the 

 Union Lumber Company, a planing mill and in 

 the Standard Furniture Company. Aside from 

 these interests in the city of Nashville, they are 

 now operating several mills over in Putnam and 

 other counties on the Cumberland plateau and 

 own perhaps as much standing timber as any 

 firm in Tennessee. 



The Indiana Lumber Company, in the north- 

 east part of the lumber district has been op- 

 erating in Nashville a good many years under 

 the management of Col. F. M. Hamilton and 

 associates. It Is well identified with the hard- 

 woodj trade, has mills and ships extensively. 



Down south toward the bridge that spans the 

 Cumberland is the Edgefield and Nashville Man- 

 ufacturing Company that has built up a reputa- 

 tion for supplying banks, handsome stores and 

 bars with interior finish and getting out cabinet 

 work and furniture. It has a large brick plant, 

 commodious yards and. best of all, a strong 

 clientage. Complimenting the state legislative 

 bodies at their openings this week the company 

 presented to the speakers some fine hardwood 

 gavels. 



The Standard Lumber and Box Company on 

 both ends of the Cumberland bridge entered the 

 field here last year. Messrs. Gleaves, for a 

 long time identified with the local trade, are 

 the managers. T'he company makes both boxes 

 and lumber. It has some of the most up-to-date 

 machinery, and occupies a staunch place in the 

 Nashville trade. 



Out in the southern portion of town near 

 the reservoir, on the Spruce street car line, 

 Lieberman, Loveman & O'Brien have a big lum- 

 ber mill and box factory. They manufacture the 

 various hardwoods common to this section. They 

 also have some country mill connections. 



In the western part of the city proper, on the 

 Joe Johnson car line. John B. Ransom & Co., 

 prominent manufacturers of lumber and boxes, 

 find extensive exporters have a plant : W. B. 

 F.arthman & Co. of Nashville and Murfreesboro 

 .'ire also located there with building stock, pine, 

 etc. 



In West Nashville, Geo. C. Brown of McMInn- 

 ville, has a Nashville connection with the Nash- 

 ville Hardwood Flooring Company, one of the 

 few concerns in the United States which manu- 

 factures parquetry, and flooring in a large fac- 

 tory. 



The Southern Hardwood Company In the down 

 town district, and the Frank & Jones Lumber 

 Company hardwood people In the Jackson build- 

 ing on Church street, are among the other firms 

 In the city. 



Memphis. 



A good many Memphis exporters will take in 

 the annual meeting of the National Exporters' 



