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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Campbell of Tullahoma. E. O. Buebanan of Gal- 

 latin, and J. R. Tubb ot Sparta, a committee on 

 (■barter. Tbe association after a day's delibera- 

 tion. ad.iourned until May 1, when it will as- 

 semble again in this city, receive the reports 

 of committees and effect a permanent organiza- 

 tion. In the meanwhile a circular letter out- 

 lining the proposed plans of the organization 

 will be sent to all the spoke manufacturers in 

 the United States. Those present at the meet- 

 ing of the association were as follows : J. S. 

 Burroughs of the Burroughs-Ross-Colville Com- 

 pany, McMinnvllle, Tenn. ; W. E. Small of the 

 Small Manufacturing Company, Corinth, Miss. ; 

 M. R. Campbell of the Campbell & Dann Manu- 

 facturing Company. Tullahoma. Tenn. ; D. J. 

 Beem of the Beem Manufacturing Company, 

 Spencer, Ind. ; J. W. Ferguson of the Red Star 

 Spoke & Hub Company. Fayettevilie, Ark. ; Peter 

 Lesh of the Weis & Lesh Manufacturing Com- 

 pany. Memphis, Tenn. ; A. B. McClarty of Elkins, 

 McCIarty & Co., McMlnnTille, Tenn. ; J. R. Tubb 

 of the Sparta Spoke Works, Sparta, Tenn. ; F. W. 

 Van Ness of the Renter Spoke Company, Clarks- 

 dale. Miss. Other concerns represented were 

 the Bamel-Ashcraft Company, Poplar Bluff, Mo. ; 

 Scober, Williams & Co., Winchester. Ky. ; Ports- 

 mouth Spoke & Rim Company, Portsmouth, O. ; 

 and Muropree, Henderson & Co., Huntsville, Ala. 



Nashville lumbermen were caught for about 

 $30,000 by the recent failure of Saxton & Co., 

 Ltd.. lumber exporters of Knoxville. The heavi- 

 est losers here were Love, Boyd & Co., David- 

 son-Benedict Company, John B. Ransom Lumber 

 Company. Southern Lumber & Box Company, 

 Lieberman, Loveman & O'Brien, Henderson, 

 Baker & Co., and the Southern Hardwood Com- 

 pany. 



The Greenfield-Talbot-Finney-Battle Company 

 has incorporated here with a capital stock of 

 $150,000. This company has a big sawmill and 

 lumber plant near Sewanee, Tenn., in addition to 

 a furniture factory at Tullahoma. Tenn.. and a 

 large furniture store in Nashville. Its business 

 will be trebled. The officers of the new company 

 are V. B. Talbot, president : R. W. Gi-eenfleld, 

 first vice president ; Harry Parker, second vice 

 president ; G. C. Finney, treasurer and general 

 manager ; W. M. Woolwine, assistant treasurer ; 

 A. B. Battle, secretary ; and F. P. McDowell, 

 superintendent of factories. 



The Cumberland river is booming now and the 

 faces of Nashville lumbermen wear broad smiles. 

 During the past ten days the Nashville Trans- 

 portation Company has been working 160 men 

 in unloading timber from the barges brought 

 down the river. The Linehan came down with 

 2,000,000 feet, and 2.000,000 or 3,000,000 feet 

 of timber are expected in the next few days. 

 Until recently the lumbermen here had small 

 hopes of getting to Nashville the supply of 

 timber cut up the river, but now it is believed 

 this will be done, and it will be the first time 

 in about three years. About 10,000,000 feet of 

 lumber has been brought down so far and there 

 is half that much m,ore waiting transportation. 



During the past week 2,500.000 staves were 

 shipped from Carthage, Tenn.. over the Tennessee 

 Central. Last Monday and Tuesday 500.000 

 staves were unloaded from boats there and other 

 boats are expected to unload large quantities, 

 about 250 car loads in all. Carthage is rapidly 

 becoming a lumber center. 



Much interest has been aroused in local lum- 

 ber circles on account of a giant cedar log re- 

 cently rafted down the river to the Nashville 

 Tie & Cedar Company of this city. The log 

 was fifty-five feet in length and measured ten feet 

 4 inches in circumference at the large end. Old 

 rivermen here fail to recall any cedar timber 

 to compare with this tree. The log will be sawed 

 into blocks for consignment to Germany, where a 

 pencil factory is waiting for it. The Nashvills 

 Tie & Cedar Company has received more cedar 

 timber this year than ever before. 



R. S. McFate, buyer for the Vinton Company 

 of Detroit, is in Nashville buying five car loads 

 of red oak. This lumber will be shipped to New 

 York to be treated with the fireproofing process. 

 It will then be reshipped to Detroit, where it 



will be worked into an interior finish, and it 

 will then be shipped back to New York to go in 

 a skyscraper. > 



Representatives of the Buffalo Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company and the Ross Lumber Company, 

 the latter of Jamestown, N. Y., visited Nashville 

 this week. 



John B. Ransom, president of the John B. 

 Ransom Lumber Company, is in Chicago on busi- 

 ness. 



The famous combined steamer and sawmill the 

 "Old Hickory" sunk in the Tennessee river on 

 March 17. This unique craft and plant had plied 

 the waters of the Tennessee. Mississippi and Ohio 

 for a number of years. Efforts to raise the boat 

 will be made when the river goes down. 



Thomas C. Colley, the veteran lumberman of 

 Franklin, Ky., is dead. He was nearly eighty 

 years of age and was senior member of the well- 

 known firm of T. S. Colley & Sons, doing busi- 

 ness in Tennessee and Kentucky. 



A. W. Simmons of Nashville, after having been 

 in the lumber and contracting business for the 

 past forty-five years, has retired from business. 



W. E. Cathey of Burns. Tenn., has purchased 

 several thousand acres of timber land near that 

 place and in the near future will establish a 

 sawmill. 



Thompson Johnson and John Ashworth have 

 erected a large sawmill on Trace Creek, near 

 White Bluff, Tenn. 



Three carloads of machinery have arrived for 

 the Chess-Waymand Company of Louisville, 

 which will erect a big plant at Carthage, Tenn.. 

 for the manufacture of staves. The plant will 

 employ thirty or forty hands and will have a 

 finisher in connection with the factory so that 

 the staves will be ready to go into barrels when 

 they leave the factory. 



Preparations are being made at White Bluff. 

 Tenn.. by Richard Bibb and Gus Anderson to put 

 in a large ax handle factory. The concern will 

 be a stock company. 



Cross ties valued at $75,000 have been shipped 

 from Sheffield, Ala., during the past week. The 

 trade is brisk on the Tennessee. During the high 

 water on this river lumbermen are rafting down 

 a large quantity of timber. More than 1.000.- 

 000 feet has passed Clifton, Tenn., during the 

 last few days. 



John HIghers, a sawmill man of Carthage, 

 Tenn., was rescued from drowning last week by 

 William Ellis of that place. HIghers was in a 

 boat looking after some logs. Ellis swam some 

 distance in the icy water and pulled the sinking 

 man out. 



It is stated here that the failure ot H. N. 

 Saxton & Co. of Knoxville, Tenn.. caught 

 Memphis lumbermen to the extent of about $75,- 

 000. 



Steamboat men on the Cumberland are still 

 having their troubles with roustabouts. Sixty of 

 them struck last week at Carthage while work- 

 ing for the Cumberland & Tennessee Transpor- 

 tation Company. Traffic in, lumber was lied up 

 about a day. 



The G. V. Gress Lumber Company ot Milltown, 

 Ga., has been sold to the Barney & Smith Car 

 Company of Dayton, O., for $300,000. The 

 Gress company owned a fine body of timber and 

 a large saw mill. 



The Robinson Lumber Company ot Mobile, Ala., 

 has been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $10,000. 



The Hamm Tie & Construction Company ot 

 Bay Minnette, Ala., has been incorporated with 

 a capital stock of $25,000. 



Hamilton Love gives encouraging news to the 

 Nashville lumbermen. He tells them there will 

 be more high water, for he has seen four sea- 

 gulls in Cumberland river. 



A. H. Connelly of the Connelly Hardwood 

 Lumber Company of Kansas City, was a visitor 

 last week, and spent considerable time at the 

 plants of the Nashville Hardwood Flooring 

 Company, John B, Ransom & Co.. Davidson & 

 Benedict Company and Love, Boyd & Co, Mr. 

 Connelly was accompanied by his wife, and they 

 expect to spend some time In Kentucky before 

 returning home. 



Cleveland. 



W. W. Reilley of W. W. Reillny & Bro., Buf- 

 falo, N. Y.. was here last week. 



S. T. Brunson, representing Logan & Mophet 

 Lumber Company. Knoxville. Tenn., and B. F. 

 Vansant, representing W. H. Dawkins Lumber 

 Company. Ashland, Ky., made recent calls upon 

 the trade in this section. 



The Taylor Chair Company of Bedford. O., 

 have just completed a new fire proof dry kiln, 

 being built entirely of cement and tile. 



C. M. Clark, sales manager of the Swann- 

 Day Lumber Company. Clay City. Ky.. was here 

 a few days ago. The recent tides brought down 

 a large quantity of logs and his company ex- 

 pect to cut about 35,000,000 feet this year. 

 Its product will be handled in this section by 

 the Robert H. Jenks Lumber Company. 



W. E. Hamner. who sells lumber for N. B. 

 McCarty, Clarksburg, W. Va., was in town this 

 week, and reports trade satisfactory. 



The Advance Lumber Company will start its 

 new band mill at Vaughn, W. Va., this week. 

 It has seventeen thousand acres of fine 

 timber located on the Gauley branch of the 

 Chesapeake & Ohio railroad and are operating 

 two band and tw.o circular mills on this tract. 

 It reports stock moving out about as fast as 

 it becomes dry. 



Putnam & Savidge, wholesale dealers, whose 

 iifflces are located in The Arcade, report their 

 spring trade satisfactory. 



The Robert II. Jenks Lumber Company re- 

 ports that one of its West Virginia mills secured 

 a large amount of oak and poplar logs during 

 the recent tide. 



The Forest City Box Company is rebuilding 

 its factory recently destroyed by fire. 



The Peters Mill Work and Lumber Company 

 has been recently incorporated with capital 

 stock of $25,000. The incorporators are F. U. 

 Peters, F. S. McGowan. E, S. Cook, S. Chestnut 

 and G. W. Meyers. It will do general planing 

 mill work, hut make a specialty of hardwoods 

 for interior tinish. 



Kansas City. 

 Noting that the lumbermen of Memphis are 

 trying to secure the passage of an equitable 

 reciprocal demurrage bill in the Tennessee leg- 

 islature, it may be of interest to the readers 

 of the Hardwood Record to state that the 

 lumbermen in this territory secured everything 

 they went after along this line this year. Tlie 

 legislatures of Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma 

 all passed what is termed a reciprocal demur- 

 rage bill, the essential features ot which are 

 alike in the three states. These hills which 

 have now become laws provide that the railroad 

 companies may collect demurrage under proper 

 restrict ions, among which are the provision 

 that when cars are bunched the consignee shall 

 have additional free time in which to unload 



H.C. HOSSAFOUS 



Maruifaclur'-r and dealer in 



Quartered Oal<, Dimension Stock Ash, 



Plain and Quartered Oak, Walnut, Cherry 



DAYTON, OHIO 



