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HARDWOOD RECORD 



year ago, the National Surety Company fui'- 

 nished bond for Harrison Walter, who was 

 then ereetinjr a building for the Indiana State 

 Normal at Terre Haute. Ind. Walter iinrchased 

 his material of the I'oster Lumber Company. 

 The company alleges that he refused lo pay 

 and that his bondsmen also refused to pay: 

 hence the suit. Mr. Walter and also the board 

 of directors of the Indiana State Normal aie 

 made parties to the suit. 



Bristol, Va.-Temi. 



Lumlier market couditions in this section are 

 very gtjod and thei-e is a heavy demand for all 

 grades ot stock. Dealers and manufacturers 

 are from thirty to sixty days behind with or- 

 ders, and man.v are compelled to turil down 

 business for immediate shipment. The greatest 

 (rouble encountered is the car shortage. For 

 the past several weeks it has been almost 

 impossible to get cars, and the extremely serious 

 situation is financially disastrous to lumber- 

 men. The officials of the railroads have been 

 appealed to in a futile effort to get relief from 

 the situation, but they cannot make any prom- 

 ises as to early allev ation. Many dealers and 

 nianufaeturers who depend upon shipping stock 

 from a certain section have had their business 

 entirely blocked and will not be able to do any- 

 thing until cars for shipment can be secured. 



The 15. E. Wood Lumber Company of Balti- 

 more, Md., has purchased a large double band 

 mill at Ivnoxville, Tenn., and are having the 

 same transported to the scene of their newly 

 acquired operations in Carter CJunty, Tennessee, 

 where it will be put into operation within the 

 next few weeks. The company has begun the 

 construction of about five miles of road from 

 the main line of the Virginia & Southwestern 

 Hallway. Attorney W. E. Taylor representing 

 the company has returned to Baltimore, after 

 spending several days in this section on legal 

 business of the company. E. L. Warren, who 

 has been with the company for several years, 

 is in charge of the local offices of the company, 

 which are being moved to Bristol from Johnson 

 City. Tenn. The company recently purchased 

 1,960 acres of timber lands in Carter county 

 from the Boston Iron & Timber Company, and 

 contemplates purchasing adjacent land. 



J. H. Bryan, president of the Bryan Lumber 

 Company, has returned from Cincinnati, where 

 his company recently opened a branch office 

 and a lumber yard. Mr. Bryan reports that 

 business in the Queen City is very encouraging. 

 Sam G. Owen, who has been connected with 

 the Norfolk & Western Railway Company in im- 

 portant capacities for the past few years, has 

 resigned his position with that company and 

 entered Ihe lumbur business with the Stone-IIul- 

 ing Lumber Company. 



It is rumored In this section that negotiations 

 are being made with a view to leasing the large 

 double band mill ot the James Strong Lumber 

 Company in this city for a period ot several 

 years. The mill has a capacity of loO.dUO feet 

 daily and is one of the best equipped mills in 

 this section. It has been idle for some time. 



John T. Dixon of the John T. Dixon Lumber 

 Company of Klizahethton, Tenn., was a visitor 

 in Bristol last week. 



I'anl W. Fleck, president of the I'aul W. 

 rieck Lumber Company, has returned from 

 I'.utler, Teim., where he made arrangements to 

 handle practically the entire output of the mill 

 of the Luppert Lumber Company at that place. 

 Modern imarovenients have been made on the 

 :!iill, and it is iai-ge and capacious. 



J. E. Broce and J. W. Broce are preparing 

 " enter the lumber manufacturing business 

 I Shady, Tenn. They will begin operation at 

 ■: ce. 



I'aiil W. Hayter of Abingdon, Va., has Just 



'•■sod a deal for a good-sized tract of timber 



•nrt OD Walker's Mountain about six miles 



■" ".:istr.l. The property consists chiefly of 



poplar, oak and while pine. The purchase was 

 made from Daniel Rust. Mr. Hayter will man- 

 ufacture the timber, and side tracks will be put 

 in and mills erected at once. 



Benjamin Jenks. prominently connected with 

 the Eobert H. Jenks Lumber Company of Cleve- 

 land. Ohio, was in Bristol as the guest of PanI 

 W. Fleck during the past week. Mr. Jenks 

 stated that his company was buying considerable 

 stoclv in this section and that business was good. 

 C. Boice. president of the Ttig River Lumber 

 Company and of the Boice. Burns & Oflfett Lum- 

 ber Compan.v. was a visitor in Bristol last week. 

 John Hurt of Mendota, Va., was in Bristol 

 this week on business in connection with liis 

 lumber interest at that place. 



Calvin Decker of J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co. 

 of Philadelphia was in Bristol last week in the 

 interests of his company. 



William S. Whiting of the Whiting Manufac- 

 turing Company of Vaughtsviile, Tenn., was in 

 Bristol last week. 



E. E. Bradle.v. president of the Whiting Lum- 

 ber Company of Elizabethton, Tenn.. was a vis- 

 itor in Bristol last week. 



James D. Tate, a wholesale lumberman of 

 Chilhowie, Va., was a visitor in Bristol last 

 week. 



Litigation has resulted from the recent as- 

 signment made by the Boyd & Alderson LuL'ber 

 Company ot Mitchell county. N. C, at Mountain 

 City, Tenn., in which J. Walter Wri.i;ht. presi- 

 dent ot the Merchants' and Traders' Bank of 

 that city was named assignee. T. K. Carland 

 ot Shady, Tenn., and O. II. Vial of Mountain 

 City have filed a bill in chancery seeking to 

 set aside the assignment as fraudulent, inas- 

 much as it failed to provide tor thoir sharing 

 the assets. The bill prayed for an in junction, 

 attaching a large amount ot lumber nt th.; in- 

 solvent company at Shady, Tenn., which was 

 being sold to the Janncy-Whiting Lumljer Com- 

 pan.v of rhiladelphla, and the same vas granted. 

 The firm owed the Merchants' and fradors' Bank 

 at Mountain City several thousand dollais, and 

 it is said that their liabilities will be consid- 

 erably in excess of the assets. 



Chattanooga. 



The Consignees Favorite Box Company, whose 

 head office is in Cincinnati, has recently made 

 very extensive improvements on its veneering 

 and I)ox manufacturing plant here. A large 

 brick office and storeroom has been erected and 

 a tract of about six acres has recently been 

 added to the site. Some new machinery has 

 been installed and the output has been doubled 

 within the past two months. 



'The Arnold Lumber Company, one of the taew 

 lumber concerns of this city, whose plant Is 

 located at East Lake, has recently erected sev- 

 eral new sheds for the reception ot new planers 

 and the capacity ot the new planing mill is 

 now about 10,000 feet ot lumber per day. The 

 concern has recently shipped several cars of 

 poplar siding to London. 



The S. A. M'llllams Lumber Company has a 

 stock of about 1.500.ihhi feet of quartered oak 

 and poplar in lis yards at East Lake. 



The Fowler- Personett Lumber Company, re- 

 cently incorporated in Birmingham with J. W. 

 Fowler of the Case Lumber Company of this 

 city as one of its officers, will begin operations 

 about April 15. 



Ihe Ilawklnsville Lumber Company has re- 

 cently been* incorporated at Uawkinsvllle, Ga., 

 with $2o,000 capital stock. The company is 

 arranging to Install a band sawmill plant at 

 Ilawkin.sville which was purchased from the 

 Sinker-Davis company of Indianapfolis. The 

 new mill will be almost a duplicate of the 

 S. A. Williams Lumber Company's plant In 

 this city. 



The Baxter-King Lumber Company is one ot 

 the local concerns which is rajjidly forging to 

 the front. The capacity of the mill has been 

 doubled within the past few monlhs. 



J. II. Keyser. formerly secretary and treas- 

 urer of the Keyser ^lanufacturing Company, has 

 sold his interest to Savannah parties and will 

 travel in Europe for some time. 



Capt. A. J. Gahagan, treasurer of the Loomis^ 

 & Hart Manufacturing Company, has returned 

 from the first creditors' meeting ot Saxton & 

 Company, which recently went into bankruptcy 

 in Knoxville with about $250,000 liabilities. 

 Referee Caldwell appointed Alex McMillin of 

 Knixviile as trustee. The company has a val- 

 uable planing mill plant in Knoxville, which the 

 trustee is authorized to sell for the benefit of 

 the creditors, 'i'he liankrupt firm also has some 

 valuable assets in Europe, but it will be some 

 time before their value can be learned. 



E. J. Mason, a prominent lumberman ot Por- 

 tia, Ark., accompanied by his wife, is visiting in 

 this city. 



F. W. Blair of the F. W. Blair sawmill is on 

 a business trip in Cincinnati. 



It has been learned here that Indiana capi- 

 talists have purchased a site in Knoxville top 

 a veneering plant and that they will organize 

 a new company and erect the proposed plant in 

 the near future. 



J. C. Cowan, manager of the hardwood de- 

 partment ot Schultz Bros. & Benedict of Chi- 

 cago, was in the city last week. 



J. H. Owensby of J. M. English & Co., Ashe- 

 ville. N. C, purchased ab-ntt fifteen cars of 

 bigli grade poplar and oak for the export trade 

 here this week. 



Nashville. 



During the latter part ot March a number ot 

 disastrous forest fires occurred, causing great 

 loss. Most of the conflagrations have taken 

 place in numi)lireys. Dickson and Stewart coun- 

 ties, west of Nashville, although Jlontgomery 

 county has suffered some. In Dickson county 

 the fire, on March 27, extended a distance of 

 thirty miles, covering Ihe territory from Tid- 

 well. a small town near Dickson, Tenn,, to the 

 Cumberland river. The fires first broke out 

 about March 27. and the.v burned more or less 

 until April 3. There has been a frightful dc- 

 stniction of valuable forest timber and much 

 damage .has also been done to fences, crops, 

 etc. Much ot the young timber was killed, a 

 lot of cross ties were burned, and even dwelling 

 houses In some Instances were destroyed. Dick- 

 son, Waverly, Tennessee City. Dover and their 

 contiguous territory suffered most. The farm- 

 ers ot these sections liave been kept busy fight- 

 ing the flames. Investigations as to the origin 

 ot the conflagrations showed that in most In- 

 stances some heedless individuals, with a few 

 head ot cattle, burned away the dead grass and 

 leaves in .order that the cattle miyht have 

 earlier spring grazing. The high winds did the 

 rest. 



The Nashville Transportation Company, which 

 brings most of the lumber down the river to 

 Na^iville. suffered a severe loss on the after- 

 noon of March 30. Sparks from a passing en- 

 gine ignited a lot of hay at the Uyman elevator. 

 The Linehan, one of the company's best tow- 

 boats, was tied up at the elevator at the time. 

 The elevator and the I>inclutn as well were 

 burned. The vessel was valued at about .^21,000 

 and had recently undergone extensive improve- 

 ments. She was equipped with engines of im- 

 mense horse power and could bring down the 

 river seven and eight barges of lumber and 

 cross lies, enough to fill two hundred cars. 

 The Linehan will be replaced by another boat. 



An Interesting visitor to Nashville this week 

 was Garrett Gordon, a lumberman of New York. 

 He has extensive hardwood Interests in Central 

 America and is at the liead ot veneering plants 

 in New York, He has just made extensive pur- 

 chases in the West. A few years ago he look 

 several teams of Tennessee mules with him to 

 the Guatemalan line and some Tennessee negroes 

 to manage the mules. He buys mahogany prIncU 



