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poplar, wliiit* ;ii.d liliuk a^a. birch, and white 

 and r»'(l oak in both plain and quarter-sawed. 



Extension Of An Eastern House. 



lint' ni" the best known and highest regarded 



THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



Spiingfleld. Mass. This corporation covers pretty 

 well the entire area of the United States in the 

 ramification of their buying and selling of lum- 

 ber, which not only includes hardwoods, but 

 practically a full line of American building 

 woods. 



A recent extension of this concern is an ar- 

 rangement which has been made with E. B. 

 Nettleton to take over its business and establish 

 a branch olfice at Philadelphia, with which to 

 cover eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Dela- 

 ware and Maryland business. 



Mr. Nettleton is so well known to the lum- 

 ber trade of the East that he needs no introduc- 

 tion there, he having been for many years sales 

 manager for the great Du Bois sawmill interests 

 .if Du Bois, Pa., and more lately having been 

 ingaged in the wholesale lumber trade at Phila- 

 delphia on his own account. He is an enterpris- 

 ing, clean-cut, experienced and upright business 

 man. and the Kice & Lockwood Lumber Com- 

 pany as well as the manufacturing and consum- 

 ing lumbermen of the East are to be congratu- 

 lated on Mr. Xettleton's new alliance. His otflce 

 headtpiarters are located in the Crozer building, 

 on Chestnut street, just above Broad, Phlladel- 

 piiia- 



E. B. NETTLETON. 



jobbing institutions in the eastern country Is 

 the liii'C & Lockwood Lumber Company of 



F. L Williams, of Clarksdale, and E. C. Sione- 

 nian. of Memphis, and others incorporated In 

 the style of Stoneman Lumber Company, with a 

 capital stock of ?10,000, have launched forth 

 into the trade, and hope to do a large business. 



It is announced that E. L. Folk & Co. will 

 erect a hardwood sawmill at Woodstock, Va. 



Hardwood NeWs. 



Chicago. 



The<jdMre Schneider, lumber purchasing agent 

 for the Brunswick-Halke-iollender Company, left 

 Jan. 18 for a six weeks' trip ilirough the south. 



L. E. Bryan*, mining engineer of the Stearns 

 Lumber Company of Stearns, Ky., was a Chicago 

 visitor a few days ago. 



\V. V. Morris, manager ot sales of the E. 

 Soudhelmer Company, says that Inquiries are 

 coming iu faster than he ever saw them before 

 at tills season of the year, and tluit trade is ex- 

 cillent. 



W. S. Hall of the Oval Wood Dish Company of 

 Traverse City, Mich., was a welcome visitor a 

 Uw days ago. 



John C. King, manager ot Kins iSc Bartels Lum- 

 ber Company ot Cleveland, was a Chicago visitor 

 Uxs: week. 



J. .M. Pritchar'd. secretary of the Indiana 

 Hardwood Lumbernwn's .-issociatlon, was in 

 Chicago last week. 



Grand Harrison, the lumber inspector of 

 Charlevoix, Mich., was renewing acquaintances 

 in Chicago last week. 



Hen Doiweber of John D.)lwel)er & Sons paid 

 Chicago a visit recently. He visited this 

 market to attend the furniture exposition, 

 coming up with twenty-five furniture and lum- 

 ber men from Cincinnati In a .special car. When 

 Cincinnati does a thing it is well done. 



Mr. McParland. of Ryan & Mel'arland, this 

 city, has returned from a trip (o Indiana. 



J. E. Tuttle of the Cypress Lumber Com- 

 pany of Cincinuati was In Chicago last week in 

 company with F. W. Mowbray, ot Mowbray, 

 Thompson & Emswiler. The boys report a pleas- 

 ant time and that they enjo.ved their visit. 



George Thamer of the Empire Lumber Com- 

 pany of Chicago Is moving his yard to a new 

 location at the corner of Southport avenue and 

 C street, where he will have very fine quarters. 

 He Is erecting a lumber shed which, when com- 

 pleteil. will be about the finest thing in the way 

 of lumber sheds that Chicago can show. It Is 

 belns iHiIlt of brick exclusively and Is 200 by 



SO feet. There are Chicago yards possessing 

 larger sheds, but none having a more finely 

 equipped or substantial building. 



There Is no lumber office which is more pleas- 

 ant to visit than that of the Johnson & Knox 

 Lumber Company. There is an atmosphere of 

 whole-souled congeniality about the place. Mr. 

 Knox Is an old-time lumberman and tells the re- 

 sult of his experience and observation In very 

 entertaining fashion. Messrs. Johnson and Phil- 

 lips keep up their end all right, and they know 

 how to treat a newspaper man and will strain 

 u point to dig up news even though they don't 

 know of anything In particular. 



Max Sondheimer of the E. Sondheimer Com- 

 pany is oft for a six weeks' visit to its allied 

 cperatlons, the Hanger Export Company ot Big 

 Creek, Liberty county, Tex. 



J. C. Blackford of the National Lumber Com- 

 pany, this city, has returned from Nashville, 

 where he disposed of a large lot of poplar to 

 the Davidson & Benedict Company of that city. 

 He still lias sufficient on hand, however, to fill 

 all orders. 



F. F. Fish, formerly with the International 

 Mercantile Agency, has made connection with 

 the Lumbermen's Collection Agency, Ashland 

 Block. 



George W. Stoneman has been out of the city 

 during the past week on a business trip, but has 

 returned. He reports but little lumber In the 

 country south of Chicago. 



Clarence Boyle of the Clarence Boyle Lumber 

 Company returned from an extended trip through 

 the South on 'I'uesday. 



E. E. Gnodlander of Goodiander & Robertson, 

 Memphis, Tenn.. was a caller in this market last 

 week. This is the first time Goodlander has 

 been here for nearly a year, except to a com- 

 mittee meeting of the National Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Association. 



William C. Bailey ot Minneapolis was In the 

 city last week, after a trip to the South, looking 

 at timber land. Mr, Bailey Is a very pleasant 

 and well-informed gentleman and he was a wel- 

 come visitor to the Hardwood Rkcord oCace. 



This was his first trip to Chicago in over fnui- 

 years. 



R. A. Wells & Co. have disposed of their mill 

 at Helm, Ark., but they continue their operations 

 at that point, having made arrangements for a 

 number of mill cuts. 



\\. E. Trainor has returned from a triy 

 tliroughout the South. He reports business very 

 good, but lumtier advancing more rapidly In the 

 country than in Chicago. 



A. B. Klise of the A. B. Klise Lumber Com- 

 pany, Sturgeon Bay, Mich., was in the city 

 this week, looking after his business interests. 



I. Witkowski of Chicago paid his annual 

 visit to the office of the Hardwood Rkcord 

 this week. He always comes iu about this time 

 of the year and renews his subscription and 

 then goes away for another year. Come oftener, 

 Mr. Witkowski. 



L. G. Pomeroy of this city was a caller at 

 the office of the Hakdwood Record on Wednes- 

 day last. He reports business as very satisfac- 

 tory. 



C. G. Powell of the Fullerion-l'owell Bard- 

 wood Lumber Company, South Bend, Ind , was Ib 

 Chicago a few days ago and left here tor a busi- 

 ness trip to St. Louis. 



Indianapolis, 



W. W. Knight ot the Long-Knight Lumber 

 Company left Thursday for a ten days' trip 

 through the southern states to look • after the 

 interests of his company there. 



Harry K. Christiau, formerly of the Christian 

 Hough Fuel Company, has disposed of his in- 

 terest in that company and has associated him- 

 self with J. E. Christian in the Christian Lumber 

 Company. 



The Lumbermen's Club of Indianapolis, formed 

 about two years ago by about 20 lumber dealers 

 of the city, has proven a highly successful club. 

 The object of the club is to promote a spirit 

 of good fellowship among the city's lumbermen. 

 On the evening of the .second Wednesday of 

 every month the club banquets at the Commer- 

 cial Club and then spends a social evening in the 

 club's parlors. The officers are H. P. Burnett, 

 president ; Mr. Synes, vice president : L. G. Mil- 

 ler, secretary, and A. C. Beldanaire. treasurer. 



Memphis, 



R. M. Mc.MuIlen, president of the Chicago and 

 Mississippi Land and Lumber Company ; L. A. 

 Trowbridge of the Trowbridge & Nlver Com- 

 pany, Chicago; J. II. Sultzler of the Sultzler & 

 liolbe Advertising Company, Chicago, and thirty 

 other lumbermen, bankers and merchants from 

 St. Paul, Minneapolis, Chicago and other cities 

 were guests at the Hotel Gayosa a few days 

 ago. They spent some time in Mempliis and 

 took In the city. The party are Interested In 

 the Chicago and Mississippi Land and Lumber 

 Company. The company has invested in the 

 neighborhood ot Greenville, Miss., over Jl.OOO,- 

 000. The party expressed themselves as well 

 pleased with the South, and especially with the 

 city of Memphis. 



The Banning Lumber Company of this city 

 has been Incorporated with a capital stock ot 

 ,$10,000 by C. E. Banning, C. J. Tully. S. B. 

 Anderson, H. B. .\nderson and A. M. Patterson. 

 Most of these gentlemen are already well known 

 and prominently connected With the lumber 

 trade. 



It is stated that the Bacon & Noland Lumber 

 Company of Chancy, Miss., will shortly establish 

 a sales office in Memphis. 



President R. J. Darnell of the club further ap- 

 pointed E. B. Taenzer and George D. Burgess as 

 a committee to go to Nashville and he present 

 at the presentation of the bills that have been 

 promulgated at the instance of J. S. Davant, 

 commissioner ot the Memphis Freight Bureau. 



A large match factory is said to be in prospect 

 for Memphis. Russell Woldrldge. connected for 

 a number ot years with the Indiana Match Com- 

 pany of Crawfordsvllle, Ind. and C D Vorls. 



