HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Hotel St. Laivience of this city for some yeai-s, 

 will again embaik in the lumber business. He 

 goes to .Tiihnson City. Tenn.. this week, and 

 becomes identified with the Snodgrass Lumber 

 <.ompany of that place. Mr. IMppeu will repre- 

 sent the cumpary as buyer. 



C. Boice. of the firm of Boice. Burns & Offett. 

 and the Tug Uiver Lumber Company, of Bristol. 

 was looking after his Interests in Bristol during 

 last week. Mr. Boice has lately returned from 

 the east, and reports that the market is very 

 satisfactory. 



Following the bankruptcy proceedings insti- 

 tuted against the large lumber concern of Saxon 

 *: Co.. Ltd.. at Kuoxville. Tenn.. last week, it 

 is announced that among the heavy creditors 

 of the firm in this section are the Tug River 

 Lumber Company, of this city, and P. W. Bevins 

 of Hilsons. Scott county, Va. Mr. Bevins' claim 

 is about .$13,000 while the Tug River Lumber 

 Company's will aggregate about ¥3,000. 



The Empire Chair Company has begun operat- 

 ing on an extensive scale at Elizabethton, Tenn. 

 Some six thousand finished chairs of a high 

 grade were shipped out by the company within 

 the past four weeks. 



The plant of the Ordway Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, situated on the Virginia and Southwestern 

 Railway, four miles south of Bristol, has been 

 leased by parties from Chicago, and will forth- 

 with be put into active operation. The.Ordways 

 have invested about $200,000 in the plant, and 

 recently closed it up. The plant will employ 

 about one hundred men. 



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

 pany has returned from a business trip to 

 Cincinnati. He reports the Cincinnati market 

 as very satisfactory, adding that he was en- 

 abled to make several advantageous sales. 



James D. Tate, a Chilhowie. Va., lumberman, 

 was a visitor in Bristol during last week. 



George E. Davis Lumber Company reports 

 that business is very brisk with it, and that it 

 is rushed with orders, numbers of which they 

 are under the necessity of rejecting on account 

 of scarcity of stock. 



J. R. Fields, a wholesale lumberman of Balti- 

 more. Md.. was among the local dealers last 

 week. Mr. Fields is buying considerable export 

 stock in this section. 



G. A. Farber of Price & Heald. Baltimore, was 

 a visitor last week. Price & Heald are buying 

 the output of several mills in Greene county, 

 Tennessee, and are using the stock chiefiy for 

 export. 



P. W. Bevins of Hiltons. Va.. lumber dealer 

 and manufacturer, was in Bristol last week. ' 



The newly erected lumber plant of Smith & 

 Wilson, on the Southern Railway, in South Bris- 

 tol, is now in active operation. They have re- 

 cently made heavy purchases of stock in Johnson 

 county, Tennessee, for use in the new mill. 



Paul W. Fleck, president of the Paul W. Fleck 

 Lumber Company of this city, left last week for 

 Philadelphia, where he will spend some weeks 

 with his family, who are now residing there. 

 Mr. Fleck has not been in good health for some 

 weeks, and he anticipates a speedy recovery. 



J. A. Wilkenson of Bristol has recently made 

 several large purchases of timber land, near 

 Gl&de Springs, Damascus, and Max Meadows, 

 Va. Mr. Wilkenson now has several mills cut- 

 ting at these places. He has large export busi- 

 ness, and hopes to increase the volume mate- 

 rially when all the new mills get into active 

 <iperation. 



B. B. Burns, president of the Tug River Lum- 

 ber Company of this city, has returned from a 

 trip to Bluefield, and other points in West Vir- 

 ginia. He reports the company's operations in 

 that state as prosperous. 



The Clinch Valley Lumber Company, recently 

 organized in Bristol, with J. E. Duff, and M. 

 B. Eusler. as principal ofHcers, have begun oper- 

 ations at New Castle, Va. It has opened head- 

 quarters at Bluefield, and reports that the out- 



look is gratifying. Mr. Eusler was formerly 

 in the lumber business in Bristol. 



David T. Carter of Carter, Hughes & Co., 

 taltimore, spent several days of last week in 

 this section in the interest of his company. Mr. 

 Carter made several contracts with local dealers 

 and manufacturers for stock. 



E. R. Vincent of Philadelphia was a visitor 

 among the local dealers in hardwood last week. 



It was announced that the R. E. Wood Lumber 

 Company of Baltimore. Md., would establish 

 southern headquarters in Bristol within the next 

 few days, and it has made a contract for the 

 lease of desirable offices in the Spurgeon build- 

 ing on State street. E. L. Warren will have 

 charge of the office. The company made a pur- 

 chase of about T.OOO acres of timber land in 

 Carter county, formerly owned by the Boston 

 Iron & Timber Company, a few weeks ago, and 

 is about ready to begin cutting. R. E. \5"ood, 

 president of the company, was in Bristol several 

 days during the past week. 



Harry S. Fields, representing Justice P. Taylor 

 Lumber Company of Philadelphia, Pa., spent 

 several days in Bristol this week in the interest 

 of his company. 



E. L. Warren of the R. E. Wood Lumber Com- 

 pany is in Bristol in the interest of the com- 

 pany. 



Wesley Pitzer of the firm of Pitzer & Lindsay, 

 wholesale lumber dealers of Roanoke. Va., was 

 a visitor among the local dealers this week. 



George M. Speigle of George M. Speigle Lum- 

 ber Company of Philadelphia was in Bristol this 

 week. 



James P. Dinwitte of James P. Dinwitte Lum- 

 ber Company of Philadelphia was the guest of 

 Paul W. Fleck during the past week. 



Paul W. Fleck has returned from Philadelphia, 

 where he went to visit his family and also in 

 the interest of his business. He reports a good 

 market in the east for all kinds of stock. 



Memphis. 



Weather conditions in this territory during 

 the past fortnight have been somewhat varied, 

 there having been a general mixture of sunshine 

 and rain. The mills which were well supplied 

 with timber made excellent progress in the pro- 

 duction of hardwood lumber. But owing to the 

 lains and the wetness in the bottoms, logging 

 operations have been out of the question and 

 those plants which were short have accomplished 

 practically nothing. It is estimated that not 

 one half of the mills in the bottoms are running, 

 owing to the unfavorable weather conditions. 

 Because of the melting of snow, ice and sleet 

 in the upper portion of the Mississippi valley 

 and the tributaries of this stream, the Missis- 

 sippi is new at a rather high stage, being prac- 

 tically at the danger line. This is an excellent 

 time for bringing out logs, and the mill men 

 are counting upon considerable reinforcement of 

 their timber supply. 'Sot only will the mill men 

 in Memphis be benefited. There are large quanti- 

 ties of timber below here which will be brought 

 out and the production of lumber will be thus 

 stimulated because of the increase in material. 



A hardwood man from Present t. Ark., said 

 today that in the high lands of that state good 

 progress was being made by the mills. He had 

 nist returned from a trip through Louisiana, 

 however, and he reported that there were com- 

 paratively tev plants in operation because of 

 rhc prevalence of water and unfavorable con- 

 ditions for logging. As a rule toe mills in the 

 hill country of Mississippi and Tennessee are 

 running. 



The Memphis Art Wood Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, which was being organized here some time 

 aso for the purpose of treating gum by a min- 

 eral process which forced the sap out of the 

 logs and left a coloring substance, has been 

 liisbanded. Dr. E. A. Xeely is reorganizing the 

 ninpany with a capitalization of $250,000. 



One of the tow boats operating out of Mem- 

 phis on the Mississippi river passed here late 

 last week en route to Cairo with three bai'ges 

 of hardwood lumber, estimated at about 2.000,- 

 000 feet. 



J. J. Bruner, formerly with the traffic de- 

 partment of the Illinois Central in Chicago, and 

 a railroad man of recognized ability, has been 

 selected as assistant manager of the southern 

 business of Bennett & Witte, which has hereto- 

 fore been exclusively in charge of George C. 

 Ehemann. secretary of the Lumbermen's Club. 



No committee from the Lumbermen's Club of 

 Memphis will appear before either the house or 

 senate committee in connection with the com- 

 promise delayage and demurrage bill pending 

 before the general assembly. However the Lum- 

 bermen's Club is active in behalf of the measure. 

 Secretary Ehemann has drafted a letter urging 

 favorable action on the bill and a copy of this 

 has been sent to every member of both houses. 

 Among the lumbermen who went on the Busi- 

 ness Men's Club excursion leaving here March 

 19 for a weeks trip in a special car through 

 portions of Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Indian 

 Territory and Missouri were: S. B. Anderson, 

 president of the Anderson-Tully Company ; R. 

 J. Darnell of R. J. Darnell (Inc.) : C. A. Ben- 

 der of the J. W. Dickson Lumber Company: 

 R. R. Hasting of the Hasting Lumber Company ; 

 L. A. Dinwiddle of the Memphis Coffin Company, 

 and R. H. Woolfolk of the .Memphis Furniture 

 Company. The excursionists will return next 

 Sunday night. 



The .Muskegon Lumber Company, of .Michigan, 

 has recently disposed of eighty acres of land in 

 Arkansas, representing the last of its holdings 

 there. The company at one time was the larg- 

 est timber land owner in Arkansas, its holdings 

 amounting to 215,000 acres. The timbered 

 lands of the Sawyer & Austin Lumber Company 

 and the Arkansas & Wisconsin Lumber Com- 

 pany have been secured largely from the lands 

 owned by the Arm in question. 



The business men here who represent the 

 Pensacola & Western Alabama Railroad Com- 

 pany have applied to the Lumbermen's Club of 

 Memphis for indorsement of petitions to the 

 legislative council asking right of way over 

 certain streets in this city. The lumbermen, 

 owing to the fact that the new line will give 

 another direct outlet to the gulf coast at 

 Pensacola, have been approached because they 

 will be among the direct beneficiaries of the 

 new road. 



There is more building in progress in Mem- 

 phis now than at any time in the history of 

 this city and it bids fair to continue. A number 

 f-f the new buildings will require a large amount 

 of interior finishing and the hardwood trade 

 will therefore share the benefits accruing from 

 tnis condition. 



Nashville, 

 March 16 the Spoke and Hub Manufacturers' 

 .Association of the South met in this city. The 

 meeting was called for the purpose of combining 

 all spoke manufacturers of finished and club- 

 head spokes in the South and Southwest, estab- 

 lish a system of uniform grade and price and to 

 form a union with the northern manufacturers. 

 It was claimed by the members of the associa- 

 tion that the timber now used in the manufac- 

 ture of spokes is bringing a better price in the 

 form of lumber and for wagon stock than in the 

 manufacture of spokes and hubs. It was stated 

 that the timber needed by these manufacturers 

 is becoming scarce in the North and that they 

 were turning their attention to the South. Plans 

 for a new charter and the adoption of a trade- 

 mark were discussed, as was also the appoint- 

 ment of a secretary and inspector to visit the 

 various concerns in the association to see that 

 I he plants are run up to the standard. A. B. 

 .McCarthy of McMinnville. Tenn., and J. Wal- 

 lace Ferguson of Fayetteville, Ark., were ap- 

 pointed a committee on trade-mark: and M. H. 



