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HARDWOOD RECORD 



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delphia Veneer & Lumber Company, producer of genuine Spanish 

 cedar cigar box lumber, as well as an immense quantity of imita- 

 tion cedar cigar box stock made by gluing thin veneers of Spanish 

 cedar on a poplar base. The principal office of this institution is 

 at Philadelphia and is a Vandegrift house. The local manager is 

 E. M. Henoefer. 



Among other hardwood jobbing houses at Knoxville may be 

 mentioned Kimball & Kopcke, with offices and yard at 511 Jackson 

 street. The firm is composed of J. C. Kimball and H. C. Kopcke. 

 This concern maintains a local grouping and distributing yard, in 

 which it has recently placed a trimmer and edger, by means of 

 which it manufactures coimtry stock, of which it is a large buyer. 



Among other Knoxville hardwood houses are C. P. McMahan & 

 Co., who are large manufacturers of white oak, and operate mills 

 at present at Chaska and Duff, Tenn., where they have extensive 

 holdings of high-grade hardwoods. The office headquarters of this 

 concern are in the Sedgwick building. 



Another Knoxville institution is that of the Maples Lumber 

 Company, of which C. T. Maples is president and owner. Mr. 

 Maples handles a large amount of high-grade poplar, which he 

 brings down the Tennessee river. This house does the largest river 

 business of anj' of the Knoxville institutions, and is now operating 

 on a tract of 1,000 acres of hardwoods in Blount county, Tennessee. 

 which runs mostly to oak, poplar and white pine. This stock 

 reaches the railroad at Walland, Tonn., and is similar in character 

 to the timber of the Little River Lumber Comjiany. 



The Miltimore Lumber Company of Tennessee, of which J. F. 

 Cleland is the presiding genius has offices in the Empire building. 

 and does an active business, chiefly in high-grade poplar. 



Knoxville has more than a score of remanufacturing industries 

 that employ hardwoods to a large extent. Among these are the 

 Masters Patent Floor Company, producer of patent oak flooring, 

 which is owned by Masters & Agee; the Nickerson Manufacturing 

 Company, of which C. A. Nickerson is president, maker of porch 

 columns, at North Knoxville. 



The largest wood-working institutions of Knoxville are those 

 of the 0. B. Atkin Company, manufacturer of furniture and 

 mantels, and its allied concerns, the Oakwood Manufacturing Com- 

 pany and the Tennessee Mantel Company. 



Among other institutions are the Knoxville Table & Chair Com- 

 pany, maker of high-class tables and chairs; the Proctor Furniture 

 Company, maker of medium and low-grado furniture, chairs and 

 bedroom furniture; the American >rantel Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, the Knoxville Furniture Company, makers of mantels, and 



the Knoxville Coffin Company. Illustrations of many of these 

 plants accompany this article. 



Pfesent and Future 



Every hardwood section in the United States is noted for par- 

 ticular varieties in which it excels. The Knoxville region is 

 justly noted for the superior character of its poplar, red and white 

 oak, chestnut and white ash, which constitute a growth as good 

 and in many cases better than exists anywhere else. In addition it 

 contains a growth of very superior types of soft maple, basswood, 

 red birch, silverbell-tree, white walnut, cherry, black walnut, 

 buckeye, hickory and other varieties. On the whole, this region 

 possesses a larger variety of excellent types of hardwood than 

 any other in the United States. 



The initial picture of this story shows admirably the particularly 

 alluring scenery of the Knoxville region, which has picturesque 

 features in all the surrounding country. Knoxville may aptly be 

 described as a replica, in the Tennessee country, of (5rand Rapids, 

 Mich. Its lumber manufacturers and remanufacturers have all 

 the general characteristics of the manufacturers of this most nota- 

 ble Michigan furniture and lumber manufacturing city, and while 

 the growth of Knoxville has been slow up to this time, right now 

 it is "finding itself," and promises to become a most important 

 hiniber manufacturing and remanufacturing center. 



The general public has perhaps lost sight of the fact that the 

 S<uith is just "coming into its own." For many years past anything 

 in the way of lumber was good enough to build a southern house, 

 farm structure or factory, but with oncoming prosperity the South 

 is asking for the best lumber materials that can be had for specific 

 purposes. This is resulting in the building ii]i of a splendid hard- 

 wood trade all through the southern country, and today Knoxville 

 lumber manufacturers and jobbers h.-ivc trade extending to New 

 Orleans and beyond to the Southwest, and all through Louisiana, 

 Alabama, Georgia, Florida, the Carolinas, Tennessee and Kentucky. 

 This trade is not only for building purposes but for lumber 

 employed in numerous manufacturing institutions that use lumber 

 in one form or another for their product. In .'ihort, the Knoxville 

 producing section has now ceaseil to be dependent entirely on the 

 North and i'^ast for its lundier niarUot. Today a large [lortion of 

 the lumber produced in the Knoxville section is finding a market 

 south of the Ohio river which is shipped on shorter freight rates 

 and at better prices than can bo secured in the more remote coijji. 

 suming sections of the North and East. 



As before noted, the South is coming into its own and Knoxville 

 already is getting its share of business as a result of new condi- 

 tions, which, fnrthernioro, will 1 c iinproveil as tirnc goes on. 



