HARDWOOD RECORD 



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WILLIAMS & BELL, 



MANUFACTURERS OP 



Hardwood Lumber. 



Quartered Oak Our Specialty. 



Prompt Shipments. 



MURFREESBORO, TENN. 



CYPRESS 



We make a specialty of rough or 

 dressed Cypress Lumber and Cypress 

 Shingles in straight or mixed cars. 

 Your inquiries solicited for single car 

 orders or good round lots. Can also fur- 

 nish Sound Cypress Dimension Stock. 



The Borcherding Lumber Co. 



'Northern Office, 



CINClNNATt, OtltO. 



TheF.J.BIackwellCo. 



INCORPORATED 



BROWNSVILLE, 



TENNESSEE 



Write us for Prica* on 



HARDWOODS 



OAK, POPLAR AND GUM LUM- 

 BER AND DIMENSION STOCK 



JNO. M. SMITH 



WHOLESALE HARDWOOD 



LUMBER 



DIXON. TENN. 



If you want straight grades, good 

 lengths and widths, first class stock in 

 every particular, write me for prices. 



Yards at NASHVILLE. TENN. 



been spent on the tract, and he feels that he 

 has earned a vacation. 



The J. II. Cranwell Lumber Company, for- 

 merly in the National Marine Bank building, 

 but now temporarily located on St. Paul street, 

 near Mulberry, has started up operations at its 

 mill in Tennessee, which was erected at the 

 time the tract was purchased, over one year 

 ago. Mr. Cranwell considers the outlooli very 

 encouraging. 



Bristol, Va.-Tenn. 



The Laurel River Lumber Company has 

 started its large band mills at Damascus, Va., 

 which have been closed down for the past few 

 month.'? on account of the bad weather and an 

 insufficient supply of logs. The mills will be 

 operated in the future to their fullest capacity. 

 The Victor Lumber & Manufacturing Company 

 of Pulaski. Va., has sold its mills and yai-ds at 

 that place to a new lumber company which will 

 be styled the Trollinger-Jordan Lumber Com- 

 pany. J. H. Ratliff will be manager of the new 

 concern. 



The Virginia-Carolina Railway Company is 

 extending its tracks into the White Top moun- 

 tains, about twenty miles from Bristol, and will 

 intersect the large tract of land which the 

 Hassinger Lumber Company sold to parties at 

 Glen Campbell, Pa. The tract contains about 

 300.000.000 feet of timber and the consideration 

 was slightly over $250,000. The boundary con- 

 sists chiefly of oak. poplar, hemlock and white 

 pine and will be manufactured by the purchas- 

 ers. This has been regarded as one of the best 

 tracts of timber land in this section and con- 

 tains about 20.000 acres. 



A large double band mill will be erected at 

 Taylor's Gap. near Abingdon, on the Virginia- 

 Carolina railway, for the manufacture of the 

 stock. 



E. L. Edwards of Dayton, O.. ts in this sec- 

 tion inspecting his lumber operations. He re- 

 ports that he is well pleased with the outlook 

 and that business has been good with him. 



J. H. O'Neil, president of the O'Neil Manufac- 

 turing Company of Rome. Ga., was a visitor at 

 Bristol and left Saturday for the company's 

 West Virginia headquarters at Bluefleld and 

 Charleston. He stated that his company had 

 Just opened a branch yard at Jellico. Tenn., and 

 that the prospects at that place were flattering. 



The Norfolk & Western Railway Company 

 has been sumnjonded to appear before the Vir- 

 ginia State Corporation Commission at Rich- 

 mond on March 10, to show cause why a newly 

 revised lumber rate schedule formulated by the 

 commission should not be put into effect. The 

 Norfolk & Western raised its rates on oak and 

 hemlock on Nov. 1, 1904. 2 cents a 100 pounds, 

 making the stock cost $1 per 1.000 feet addi- 

 tional. The new rate of freight compiled by 

 the commission makes the rates considerably 

 lower, and it is very probable that it will be 

 adopted. 



H. L. Bonham of the H. L. Bonham Lumber 

 Company, Chilhowie, Va., has just closed a deal 

 with Thompson Atkins, at Marion, Va., for a 

 large tract of rich timber land. The stock will 

 be manufactured by Mr. Bonham's company. 



W. W. Bourne, newly elected secretary and 

 treasurer of the Southern Mineral & Timber 

 Company of Bristol, Va., has returned from 

 points in South Carolina, where he closed an 

 Important timber land deal for the Bryan Lum- 

 ber Company of this city. The company will 

 manufacture the stock. 



James A. Stone, president of the Stone-Huling 

 Lumber Company, has returned from a business 

 trip to Greenville, Tenn. 



Louisville. 



At the instance of Mayor Darnell of Frank- 

 fort, Ky.. a meeting of lumber and coal men of 

 Frankfort and the river towns as far up the 

 Kentucky river as Three Forks, was held in 

 Frankfort Feb. 23, and a memorial to Congress 

 adopted asking that an appropriation of $750,- 



000 be made to complete the locking and dam- 

 ming of the stream as far as Three Fprks, so as 

 to bring within easy reach the vast coal and 

 timber lands of that section. Statistics read at 

 the meeting, which was presided over by Gov- 

 ernor Beckham, showed that there are 3,500 

 square miles of timber and coal lands in the 

 valley that would be affected by the Improve- 

 ments desired. At the conclusion of the meet- 

 ing the following committee was appointed to 

 carry the memorial to Washington : J. Andrew 

 Scott. E. L. Samuels. R. K. McClure. J. Morgan 

 Chinn, W. S. Dehoney, William Cromwell, 

 Thomas Rogers, George B. Hai-per, L. F. John- 

 son. L. F. Hazelrig and Oscar Kenny. 



The old saw that "it is an ill wind that blows 

 nobody good" has been demonstrated recently in 

 the escape of logs from booms in the Kentucky 

 and other rivers feeding the Ohio. There 

 is a law on the, statute books of Kentucky 

 which provides that anyone catching and moor- 

 ing truant logs is entitled to a salvage of 

 twenty-live cents a log from the owner, whose 

 number or stamp is usually placed on the end 

 of each log he owns. Thousands of logs which 

 escaped during the breaking up of the gorges are 

 now being caught and moored along the banks 

 of the various rivers in this section and afford 

 profitable industry to shantyboat men and others 

 living along the river. The disposition of these 

 stray logs is always a source of trouble to the 

 owners, owing to the fact that generally they 

 scatter badly. The owners generally try to 

 dispose of them to mills in the neighborhood 

 in which they are found and occasions have been 

 known where the owners were compelled to set 

 up temporarily mills to saw the logs and ship 

 the lumber to prevent total loss. This, how- 

 ever, is only done where a large batch of logs 

 is caught. E. B. Norman, general manager of 

 the Ohio River Saw Mill Company, said thai 

 lumbermen are perfecting a system of handling 

 logs that is annually reducing the loss by "leak- 

 age." However, man.v logs escape from creeks 

 and small rivers before they get into the bel- 

 ter guarded territory of the regularly organized 

 companies. 



Contracts for two school buildings were let at 

 a recent meeting of the local school board. The 

 buildings will cost about $30,000 each. A $10,- 

 000 addition to another school building was 

 authorized. 



Hardin county, Kentucky. last year expended 

 $lti,430 in the construction of bridges and roads. 



William M. Dickinson. 332 Fifth street. Louis- 

 ville, a retired lumberman, is suffering from 

 injuries received by a fall on the ice several 

 days ago, 



A prominent Louisville lumberman has esti- 

 mated that timber to the value of $2,000,000 is 

 sent down the Kentucky river ever,v spring. He 

 also estimated that logs to the value of half 

 that amount are now in booms along the Ken- 

 tucky river. 



The total amount of buildings erected in 

 Louisville during the month of February was 

 $100,751. During the corresponding month last 

 year the aggregate was $74,751. 



A report is current in Madisonville. Ivy., to 

 the effect that the Tennessee Central will 

 shortly be extended to that town from Hopkins- 

 ville, tapping vast timber and coal fields. 



At a recent meeting in Oweusboro in the case 

 of the Shippers' League against the railroads 

 entering that town, tlie ICenitucky Railroad 

 Commission took upward of 700 pages of testi- 

 mony. The matter is of great interest to lum- 

 ber shippers and was prompted by the success 

 of the Louisville Lumbermen's Club's case 

 against the Louisville Car Service Association. 



The extension of the Chesapeake & Ohio Rail- 

 road Company from Barbourville to the West 

 Virginia line bordering Pike county, Kentucky, 

 which has been under construction for the past 

 three .years, will be completed April 1. This road 

 runs up the Big Sandy valley and will open one 

 of the largest undeveloped timber and coal 

 tracts in the state. 



