THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



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also lately identified with match manufacturing 

 concerns in the same state, have been here look- 

 ing with reference to a site. The company of 

 theirs has a capitalization of $100,000. 



The S. C. Major Lumber Company is about 

 to begin business here. The capital stock of the 

 company is $25,000. The incorporators are : S. 

 C. Major, Roland F. Krebs, L. T. Major, Geo. 

 E. Hibbard and Wm. Hi. Steel. 



S. B. Anderson, of the firm of Anderson-Tully 

 Company has returned from a recent trip to 

 Washington City, D. C. 



J. Lyon, a well-known Liverpool importer, 

 was visiting the Memphis firms who export a 

 few days ago. 



The snow and sleet in the South the last 

 week has retarded manufacturing of lumber a 

 good deal, this is especially time of the country 

 mills. Navigation was to some extent interfered 

 with but the snow, melting rapidly, has allowed 

 the ordinary facilities for the boats on the Mis- 

 sissippi the last few days. 



W. O. Hughart, Jr.. of Hughart and Kendall. 

 Grand Rapids. Mich., was a visitor at their Mem- 

 phis office a few days ago. 



Rudolph Sondheimer. of the E. Sondheimer 

 Company. Chicago, was here recently. 



Bristol, Va.-Tean. 

 ITie U. K. \A'u(id Lumber C'ompany of Balti- 

 more, Md.. has just negotiated a deal with the 

 Boston Timber and Mineral Land Company for 

 6,800 acres of valuable timber land in Carter 

 County, Tennessee, and the deal has been thor- 

 oughly consummated. The R. E. Wood Lumber 

 Company will probably cut the timber by the 

 use of portable mills. The tract contains about 

 62,000,000 feet of lumber, and consists chiefly of 

 oak, chestnut, poplar, white pine, and hemlock. 

 R. E. Wood, president of the purchasing com- 

 pany, was in Bristol to close the deal last week 

 and returned to Baltimore Thursday. 



E. S. Wentzworth. a lumber buyer of Balti- 

 more, Md., called on the Bristol dealers and 

 manufacturei-s last week. 



Valentine Luppert. president of the Luppert 

 Lumber Company of Butler. Tenn.. and Mr. J. 

 W. Tarman of the Adventure Lumber Company. 

 Butler, were visitors in Bristol last week. They 

 state that the lumber business is especially good 

 with them, and they are optim-.stic as to the 

 future of the business in that locality. 



X. B. Bradley and son. E. E. ITradley. were in 

 Bristol last week, en route from Elizabethton, 

 Tenn.. to their homes at Bay City. Mich. The 

 Bradleys own the controlling interest in the 

 Whiting Lumber Company of Elizabethton, and 

 attended a meeting of the stockholders at Eliza- 

 bethton Tuesday. They report that they are 

 very much flattered over the outlook, and that 

 material changes will be made in the company's 

 business. E. E. Bradley is president of the 

 concern. 



IL C. Raine of the Whiting Lumber Company 

 has resigned his position to accept a like posi- 

 tion with a wood-working firm at New York 

 City. 



.T. H. Bryan, president of the Bryan Lumber 

 Company of this city, has returned from points 

 in North Carolina, where he has been inspecting 

 his company's mills in that section. He reports 

 that they are all in active operation, and that 

 he was very well pleased with the outlook. He 

 has just made several large acquisitions of tim 

 her land for his company in Mitchell and other 

 counties in the Tar Heel state. 



George H. Drudoff. representing the Stirling- 

 West Lumber Company of Baltimore, is buying 

 lumber in this section. He reports that the ex- 

 porting feature of his company's business is as- 

 ^uming an unusually large volume. 



The Unaska Lumber Company of .Johnson City. 

 Tenn., has just closed a deal for a large and 

 valuable tract of timber land near Holston In- 

 stitute, in Sullivan County. Tennessee. The 

 purchase was made from the firm of Fain Bros. 

 of that place. 



Samuel Garrett of State Line, near Bristol, 

 has purchased a botmdry of timber, and is pre- 

 paring to begin cutting shingles soon. The mill 

 is on M. L. King's place, and will have a large 

 capacity. 



Bruce Hodges has resigned his position as 

 private secretary in the offices of Stone-Huling 

 Lumber Company to accept a lucrative position 

 with the Norfolk and Western Railway Company, 

 at their offices in Bristol. Mr. Hodges was for- 

 merly connected with the Bristol Door and Lum- 

 ber Company and is an experienced lumberman. 



Joe P. Davis of Bristol went down to Mid- 

 nay, Green County. Tenn., last week where he 

 will be present at ifhe starting of the new mill 

 of himself and O. F. Hughes, at that place. 

 They have purchased a boundry of timber there 

 and have already cut considerable logs. The 

 output of the mill has been contracted to Price 

 & Heald of Baltimore, and will be exported by 

 that company. The timber consists chiefly of 

 high grade oak. 



Thousands of logs which have been on the 

 rivers near Bristol for months, awaiting suffi- 

 cient tide to raft them down to the market at 

 Chattanooga have now been turned loose, and be- 

 gan their long journey of three hundred miles. 



Frank R. Whiting of the Janney- Whiting Lum- 

 ber Company of Philadelphia, and the Whiting 

 Manufacturing Company of Elizabethton, Tenn., 

 has been in this section on business for some 

 da.TS. and returned to Philadelphia last week. 



The Clinch Valley Lumber Company has been 

 organized in this section, and is composed of a 

 number of prominent lumbermen of this section. 

 The chief offices of the company will be at Blue- 

 tield, W. Va. AI. B. Eutsler of Bristol will be 

 general manager of the newly organized com- 

 pany. The company owns several large tracts 

 of valuable timber near New Castle. Va. Active 

 operations of the new concern will begin next 

 week. 



The newly established wood working plant of 

 Smith & Wilson, in South Bristol, on the South- 

 ern railway, is now in active operation, and the 

 promoters are well pleased with the prospects. 

 They have purchased considerable lumber for 

 use in the new mills in Johnson County, Ten- 

 nessee, and same is being freighted to Bristol 

 as rapidly as possible. M. M. Cloyd is in charge 

 of the business. He w'as formerly a member of 

 the firm of Wagner & Cloyd Lumber Company of 

 Bristol, aud following the dissolution of that 

 lirm is identified with Smith & Wilson. 



Stone-Huling Lumber Company of Bristol is 

 erecting a large additional building for its use 

 on Third street. The new building will be used 

 for storing sash, blinds, doors and mantels. The 

 company is making extensive improvements in 

 its business. 



Evansville. 



Claude Maley of Maley & Wertz Lumber 

 Co. left M< nday to take in the Lumbermen's 

 Convention at Indianapolis, and from there will 

 call ou the hardwood dealers of Chicago, Grand 

 Iliipids and Racine. 



Frank Cutsinger of the Young & Cutsinger 

 Lumber Co. attended the Lumbermen's Con- 

 vention at Indianapolis. 



John A. Thompson of Edinburg. Ind.. has 

 been here ^he past week looking over his busi- 

 ness interests with May. Thompson & Thayer. 



Ualph May of May. Thompson & Thayer at- 

 ttnd?d the Indianapolis Convention. 



(Uving to the heavy Ik w of ice in the river. 

 I" ;its have been tied up and logging operations 

 hove been shut off the past few weeks. 



Maley & Wertz have been running both of 

 Iheir band mills full time since January 1. 

 nrd are cutting some fine stock in quartei'ed 

 oak. 



New York. 



The Emporium T.umber Company, extensive 

 hardwood manufacturer with mills at Keating 

 Summit and Austin. Pa., main oHice Buffalo, 



X. Y.. and local office at 1 Madison avenue, 

 has just added to its heavy holdings of hard- 

 wood timber through the purchase of 18.000 

 acres in the town of Claire in the Adirondacks, 

 -\. Y.. and will immediately organize a com- 

 pany for its development. 



J. C. Turner, president of the J. C. Turner 

 Cypress Lumber Company, has gone south again, 

 on a business trip. 



Gardiner I. Jones, head of the Jones Hard- 

 wood Company, a newly organized Boston 

 concern, was in town Jan. 6, at which time 

 be was the presiding officer at the Hoo-Hoo 

 coucatenation. 



F. E. Creelman of F. E. Creelman Lumber 

 Company. Chicago. HI., hardwoods, aud D. W. 

 Briggs. of the Briggs & Cooper Company, Sag- 

 inaw, Mich., were in town on business during 

 the fortnight. 



F. W. Lawrence of Lawrence & Wiggin. Bos- 

 ton, familiarly known as "the man from Bos- 

 ton," was at the Wolcott for several days re- 

 cently looking after their trade in this section. 

 The flim of Dixon & Dewey has been or- 

 ganized with offices in the Flatiron building, 

 Broadway and Twenty-third street, to conduct 

 a general wholesale hardwood lumber and floor- 

 ing business, and will begin active operations 

 on Feb. 1. The firm is composed of John T. 

 Dixon, head of the large hardwood operations 

 of the John T. Dixon Lumber Company in Vir- 

 ginia. West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina 

 and Georgia (headquarters Roncaverte, W. Va.i, 

 and Harry S. Dewey, who for the past year or 

 so has been managing the plant of the Whiting 

 Lumber Company at Elizabethton. Tenn., and 

 who was previously associated with the local 

 trade through the operations of Bliss & Van 

 Auken of Saginaw. Mich. The firm will handle 

 the entire output of the John T. Dixon in- 

 terests, which includes a full line of hardwood 

 lumber, and in addition will make a specialty 

 of oak, maple and yellow pine flooring, with 

 excellent sources of supply. 



The Grantwood Molding & Timber Company 

 has been incorporated at Hcb<;ken. .\. J., with 

 a capital of $10,000. to conduct a general hard- 

 wood, molding and trim business acd sash and 

 door plant. The incorporators are B. Brochnow. 

 W. H. Meyers and H. Jorgensen. 



L. Methudy. distinguished hardwood exporter 

 <:f St. Louis. Mo., spent a day or two in town 

 on business en route home from the American 

 I'crest Congress, in Washington, at which he 

 was an interested attendant. 



W. H. Mabie. Mabie Lumber Company, hard- 

 wood manufacturer of Mabie. W. Va.. spent a 

 few days in town during the fortnight in the 

 interest of business. 



E. S. Foster, manager of the hardwood de- 

 partment of R. B. Currier, Springfield, Mass., 

 was in town for several days last week, where 

 he was joined by Mr. Currier on the 14th for 

 a visit among the trade. 



E. A. Swain, well known hardwood man of 

 Shelbyville. Ind., was another visitor in the 

 Interest of business. 



F. II. Doyle & Co., 10 Beaver street, com- 

 posed of K. H. Doyle and W. C. Thompson, are 

 fast forging to the front as one of New York's 

 progressive hardwood houses. They enjoy so'aie 

 very excellent mill connections, but are also 

 general buyers at manufacturing points. They 

 report business active and are shipping quite 

 a lai'ge amount of stock, and are experiencing 

 hut little difficulty in pleasing their customers 

 owing to the wide experience Mr. Doyle has 

 had at mill points during the past twenty years 

 as buyer for a Iar;:e local house and among 

 whom he enjoys as wide an acquaintance as 

 nnj- hardwood lumberman in the eastern states. 



R. W. Higbio. hardwood wholesaler and manu- 

 facturer. 4.'i Broadway, who has been taking 

 an active interest in transportation affairs as 

 rhairman of the Railroad and Transportation 

 Committee of the N. W. L. D. A., was a 

 distinguished delegate at the Boston conference 



