HARDWOOD RECORD 



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E.E.Taenzer&Co. 



(Incorporated) 



MANUFACTURERS 

 AND DEALERS 



HIQH = QRADE 



Hardwood Lumber 



Band Sawn Thin Stock 

 a Specialty 



MAIN OFFICE AND MILL: 

 Florida Ave. and Y. & M. V. R. R. 



MEMPHIS, 



TENN. 



ALSO MILL AT SHORT BEND. ARK. 



WANTED. 



We are in the market for the 

 following lumber, must be in 

 good dry condition, and if can 

 furnish any or all, please quote 

 us f. o. b. cars shipping point, 

 describing stock, and how soon 

 same can be reached. 



10 to 20 cars 1 In. 1st and 2nd Plain White 

 Oali. 



2 cars IVi in. 1st and 2nd Plain White Oalt. 



1 car l',4 in. 1st and 2nd Plain White Oals. 



3 cars 1% in. 1st and 2nd Plain White Oaii. 



2 cars 2 In. 1st and 2nd Plain White Oiii:. 

 1 car 254 in. 1st and 2nd Plain White Oaii. 

 5 cars 3 in. 1st and 2nd Plain White Oaii. 

 1 car 4 In. 1st and 2nd Plain White Oak-. 



The above stdcli mnst be well manufac- 

 tured, equalized trimmed lengths. Prefer 

 band sawn stock. Could talse 159c to 25% of 

 good Common with same. 



We are also in the marliet for the following; 



10 cars 1 in. Common Plain White Oak. 

 5 to 10 cars 1 in. 1st and 2nd Plain Red 

 Oak. 

 10 cars 1 In. Common Plain Red Oak. 



FOR SALE. 



2 cars 1 in. 1st and 2nd Quartered Red Oak 

 2 cars 1 in. Common Quartered Red Oak. 

 1 car 1 in. s 10 in. 



Plain Red Oak. 

 1 car 11^4 in. s 10 in. 



Ash. 



10 in, 



and up Ist and 2nd 

 and up 1st and 2nd 



and up 1st and 2nd 



% car V'z In. s 



Ash. 

 1 car l^i in. i 12 in. and up 1st and 2nd 



Red Gum (two years old). 

 1 car 2 In. s 6 in. and up 1st and 2nd Red 



Gum (3 to 4 months old). 

 10 cars 1 in. Gum Crating lumber, can ship 



rough or d. 2 3. 

 3.000.000 ft. 1 In. Poplar. 

 114. IH and 2 in. bang up stock, all grades 



and good lengths. 



E.E.Taenzer&Co. 



(Incorporated) 



MEMPHIS 



The new mill of the Hugh McLean Lumber 

 Company in New Albany. Ind., is now turning 

 out oak and all the company's mills are very 

 active. 



G. Blias & Bro. are extensive carriers of 

 white pine, as well as hardwoods, and the senior 

 member as usual has made a long winter trip 

 to look up the situation, finding stock exceed- 

 ingly scarce. 



The yard assortment of O. E. Yeager continues 

 good and he always manages to find more as 

 fast as sales are made, so that stocks are 

 never slack. 



JI. M. Wall is back from his southern trip 

 and will now look after the business of the 

 Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company at home, not 

 forgetting the National hardwood inspection 

 specialty. 



Bristol, Va.-Tenn. 



Attorney W. L. Taylor of Welch. W. Va.. 

 representing the R. E. Wood Lumber Com- 

 pany of Baltimore. Md., and George K. Ham- 

 bltn. nresident, and William Spalding, secre- 

 tary and treasurer, of the Boston Iron and 

 Timber Company, were in Bristol last week 

 closing up a large timber deal, involving C,.800 

 acres of timber in the tenth and twelfth civil 

 districts of Carter county, Tennessee. being 

 about twenty miles from Bristol. The deed was 

 made out and other arangements necessary to 

 the completion of the transaction were exe- 

 cuted. 



The R. E. Wood Lumber Company will cut 

 the large tract almost entirely by portable 

 mills, and the work will be started as soon as 

 the weather becomes more favorable. 



Irving Whaley, an experienced lumberman of 

 Norfolk. Va., has accepted an Important posi- 

 tion with the Tug River Lumber Company in 

 Bristol. Mr. Whalev was formerly connected 

 with the Lansing Wheelbarrow Company of Lan- 

 sing, Mich., and i^ad headquarters at Memphis, 



George E. Davis, president of the George E. 

 Davis Lumber Company of Bristol has returned 

 from a trip to points in Virginia. Kentucky and 

 North Carolina, where he went several days 

 ago to inspect several tracts of timber with a 

 view of purchase. He reports a profitable trin. 



H. W. Neeley, of the Rumberger Lumber 

 Company of Philadelphia, Pa., was in Bristol 

 last week buying lumber for his company. He 

 Slated that his company was buying a great 

 deal of stock in this section. 



Charles H. Fuller, northern manager of the 

 Massee & Felton Lumber Company of Macon. 

 Ga.. was in Bristol a few days last week. He 

 states that his company is turning out yellow 

 ■ -c (icrs and sash in large quantities and that 

 they are finding a good market for this stock in 

 the north. 



J. A. Wilkenson has purchased a tract of 

 fine timber land at Glade Spring, Va., and also, 

 an additional tract at Damascus, Va. He will 

 start another mill at Damascus within a few 

 days, and also hopes to start one at Glade 

 Snrines and begin cutting on the new tract. 

 He has just started a mill at Max Meadows, 

 Va. The tracts of Mr. Wilkenson in this part 

 of Virginia consist mostly of oak. 



Samuel A. Snyder of the H. L. Bonham Lum- 

 ber Company of Chtlhowle, Va., and Miss Myrtle 

 Trammel 1 of this city were married in Bristol 

 on Jan. 31. 



J. H. Bryan, president of the Bryan Lumber 

 Company, has returned from a trip of several 

 days, snent on, business In connection with his 



Following the organization of the Clinch River 

 Lumber Company, and the election of M. B. 

 Eutsler of this city, as general manager. Mr. 

 Eutsler has resigned his position as head of 

 the sales department of the Tug River Lumber 

 tompany. He has been connected with this 

 company in an important capacity for a num- 

 ber of years, and leaves many friends in Bris- 



tol. The newly organized Company will have 

 headquarters at Bluefleld, W. Va.. which ■- 

 in better proximity to their, operations than 

 Bristol. J. Emette Duff of Castlewood, Va.. 

 will also be prominently connected with the 

 new concern. 



M. N. Offett of the Tug River Lumber Com- 

 pany and Boice, Burns & Offett has returned 

 from a trip to Scott count.v, Vir-i'la, and points 

 in West Virginia, where he went to review the 

 operations, in which he is interested. He re- 

 ports that the mills are all running to their 

 fullest capacity and that everything is very 

 encouraging. 



O. H. Vial, the Mountain City lumberman, 

 was in Bristol last week. He reports that the 

 lumber business in his town is very brisk. 



Joe P. Davis and O. P. Hughes are begin- 

 ning to cut on the large tract of flatland oak 

 timber which they recently purchased at Mid- 

 way, Greene county, Tenn. Prom two trees 

 they sawed somewing over ten thousand feet of 

 lumber, which is a good record for this sec- 

 tion. The output of the mills has almost all 

 been contracted for by Prices & Heald of Bal- 

 timore who will exnort the greater part of it. 



The Southern Mineral & Timber Company has 

 been organized in Bristol, Va., with Mayor J. 

 A. Dickey of Bristol. Tenn., as president. Sen- 

 ator J. Cloyd Byars of Bristol, Va., will be 

 vice president, and W. W. Bourne of Bristol, 

 secretary and treasurer. The company will 

 apply to the corporation commission of Vir- 

 ginia at once for a charter of incorporation. 

 The new concern proposes to do a general 

 lumber business, and will be licensed by its 

 charter to buy, sell, and cut timber, etc.. and 

 other things in conjunction with a general 

 lumber business. It will also do a mineral 

 business to some extent. 



Paul W. Fleck, president of the Paul W, 

 Fleck Lumber Company, has returned from an 

 Important business trip to Philadelphia, and 

 other points- east, in the interest of his com- 

 pany. Mr. Fleck reports that he made nu- 

 merous large sales in the East, at a good ad- 

 vantage. 



James A. Stone, of the Stone-Huling Lumber 

 Company, has returned from a trip to Green- 

 ville. Tenn. 



Considerable sensation has been caused among 

 lumbermen and commercial channels generally in 

 this section by the absconding of Grant Green, 

 who for the past six months has been at the head 

 of the Virginia-Tennessee Hardwood Company, 

 in this city. Green cashed a number of worth- 

 less chocks In Bristol, the local banks report- 

 ing that upward of a hundred of his checks 

 given lo parties for various amounts have been 

 presented for payaient. His son was with him 

 here and post d as assistant manager of the 

 concern. He left bills with local merchants, 

 varying from *i'iO to ,$600 unpaid, but a part 

 of the furniture, etc., has been recovered by 

 the merchants. It is alleged that Green owes 

 large amounts to lumber dealers in Tennessee, 

 Virginia and Kcumcky- 



Cleveland, 



The Central Lumber Company of this city has 

 been organized with the following members : W, 

 H. Teare. of Potter. Teare & "Co. ; C. A. Ki-auss, 

 Jr., of the Lake Shore Sawmill & Lumber Co. ; 

 George S Gynn. of the Wilson Ave. Lumber 

 Company, and P. E. Kimball. The officers of 

 the company are : President, W. H. Teare ; 

 vice president. C. A. Krauss. Jr. ; treasurer. 

 George S. Gynn ; secretary and general mana- 

 ger. P. E. Kimball. The concern Is located at 

 92G and 927 Williamson building and will han- 

 dle hardwoods and other kinds of lumber. 



R. H. Jenks and J. H. Jenks will return the 

 middle of the week from the South. 



W. J. Eckman, sales manager of the M. B. 

 Parrin Lumber Company, was in the city this 

 week. 



