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HARDWOOD RECORD 



ket several days last week. Mr. Wood's com- 

 pany has finished cutting its timber in Carter 

 county, Tennessee, and has closed down its band 

 mill at Buladeen, but the company intends mak- 

 ing heavy investments in other timber lands in 

 this section. At present there is a large stock 

 on the yards at Buladeen. 



Steps are being taken looking to the early 

 development of the tract of timber acquired a 

 few weeks ago by Campbell & Dickey of Marion. 

 Va., in the Black mountains of western North 

 Carolina. The development of this extensive 

 boundary of h.irdwood timber will necessitate 

 the building of a sixteen-mile line of railroad. 



District -Mtorney J. B. Cox returned from 

 Washington. D. C, this week and announced 

 that he had secured an order from the Treasury 

 Department for the establishing of offices in the 

 new federal building at Johnson City for the 

 use of the forestry experts now^ in this section 

 looking after timber lands which will likely be 

 bought and included in the Appalachian forest 

 reserve. The government is negotiating for the 

 purchase of three very large boundaries and has 

 cruisers and investigators looking into other im- 

 portant offerings in east Tennessee. 



James Faulkner, jr. of the Abingdon Column 

 wK: I^uinber Company was a visitor in the city 

 this week. He reports some activity in the lum- 

 ber business in his section. The Faulkner Lum- 

 ber Company is no longer operating in the Damas- 

 cus region. The Tennessee Lumber & Manufac- 

 turing Company, which has a band mill at Suther- 

 land, will finish cutting out about Mar. 1 and 

 will close down its band mill, but will leave a 

 large amount of stock on the yards. 



John T. Di.xon of the John T. Dixon Lumber 

 Company. Elizabethton, Tenn., one of the best 

 known hardwood men in this part of the coun- 

 try, who formerly had extensive eastern inter- 

 ests, is critically ill in a Baltimore hospital. 



LOUISVILLE 



Within a very short time the Louisville Hard- 

 wood Club will celebrale the third anniversary 

 "f its formation. The club is now a healthy 

 three-year-old, and commercially is approaching 

 the prime of life. Since that memorable evening 

 in 190S when the hardwood manufacturers and 

 wholesalers gathered together for the first time, 

 the body has waxed strong and is now one of 

 the leading organizations of its kind in the 

 South. The enviable record of three years o? 

 practi<'ally unbroken weekly meetings has been 

 r'-tablishe<l, and there is sufficient organization 

 .•■pirit in the club to keep it going at this steady 

 puce three limes three years longer. 



By the time this issue of Hakdwood Record 

 reaches Its readers a new president will he 

 vested with authority In the Gateway City body. 

 Club sentiment indicates Edward L. Davis of the 

 i;dward L. Davis Lumber Company as the new 

 (xecutlve. Mr. Davis is ably qualified for leader- 

 ship In the elub and has been closely associated 

 with every organization movement in the life of 

 I be assoclallon. T. M. Brown, retiring president, 

 lias refused to accept another term of office, 

 although pressed by the members to do so. Mr. 

 Brown has worked wonders for the club during 

 his administration and has met every exigency 

 in the best pnSKlbl ■ manner. 



The Louisville Hardwood Club is deeply inter- 

 ested In recent advlci^s which state that the 

 de( IsioDs of the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 In certain cases laid before It by the club will 

 Hoon be forthcoming. The complaints, hacked 

 by the club, although .filed by Individual Louis- 

 ville firms, related to alleged rate discrimination 

 itgnlnst Louisville upon shlpiii<-nts to this city 

 Irom the South and outbound from Loulsvllli' to 

 central territory. The complaints were filed 

 I efore the eommlsslon about a year and a half 

 iigii and evidence was heard six months later, so 

 that the eomplalnanta have A\'itli*'d practically a 

 year for settlement. 



T. M. and J. G. Brown of the W. B. Brown 

 & Sons Lumber Company, this city, recently 

 bought a one-half interest in the Robe-Lake Lum- 

 ber Company, Memphis, Tenn. The Kobe-Lake 

 ccncern owns a valuable tract of 12,000 acres of 

 oak and gum timber in Arkansas, on the Uock 

 Island railroad seventy-five miles west of Mem- 

 phis, rians for the development of this prop- 

 erty have not been completed. It is probable 

 that it will be held for a time as an investment. 

 New officers were elected after the recent transac- 

 tion. Tliey are as follows: M. A. St. John, 

 president ; J. G. Brown, Louisville, vice-presi- 

 dent : T. M. Brown, Louisville, treasurer, and 

 Leroy Olcott, si'cretary. 



The dining-room furniture manufacturing plant 

 of the Milton-Peter Company, at Fifth and Davies 

 streets, was destroyed by fire last week. The loss 

 is estimated at $30,000 and is fully covered by 

 insurance. The one-story factory, a large dry- 

 kiln, a warehouse containing a considerable (juan- 

 tity of finished material, and a yard of lumber 

 were consumed. 



C. C. Mengel of C. C. Mengel & Bro. Compiiuy 

 lias been appointed chairman of the transporta- 

 tion committee which will take charge of l*rcsi- 

 dent Taft and a party of Louisville business men 

 fi'om this city to lIodgcnTille, Ky., on Lincoln 

 Memorial Day, Nov. 14, when the President will 

 lead the dedicatory ceremonies at the Lincoln 

 birthplace. 



The Consumers' Lumber Company has started 

 business, with offices at L'lO Keller building. 

 This company was recently capitalized at $10,000, 

 with A. W. Ilill of St. Louis, Mo., as president, 

 and is selling oak, poplar and ash from mills 

 in Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi. J. A. 

 Morgan is manager. 



J. George Sleinaker, sixty-seven years of age, 

 l)iominent lumberman and a well-known citizen 

 of Loui.sville, died at his home on Baxter avenue 

 last week after a long illness. Mr. Steinaktr 

 was a native of Louisville and was engaged in 

 the lumber business from bis youth. For tliirty- 

 one years he has been president of the J. George 

 Stiinaker Lumber Company at Preston and Wal- 

 nut streets, which has occupied its present quar- 

 ters throughout that time. Mr. Steinaker is 

 survived by his wife, a daughter and two sisters. 

 Former stockholders of the Kentucky River 

 Poplar Company, at Frankfort, Ky., which failed 

 some time ago, but whose affairs liave been 

 satisfactorily straightened out by the receiver, 

 G. A. Roy, president of the Roy Lumber Com- 

 pany of that city, Jire rejiorted to be planning 

 the formation of a $,'i,000.000 corporation to 

 take over a number of important lumber plants 

 now operating along the Kentucky river in tlie 

 eastern Bluegrass timber field. The properties 

 to be taken over extend from Frankfort to 

 Irvine; one at Irvine, two at Valley View, one 

 at Tyrone, one at High Bridge, two at Ford and 

 one at Frankfort. They represent an original 

 investment of $2,000,(100. The mills are working 

 mostly upon poplar, with a good percentage of 

 oak, rafting their product down the Kentucky 

 and Ohio rivers to the market. W. J. Roberts 

 was president of lie' defunct Kentucky River 

 Poplar Comiiany. luiil at the time of Its failure 

 it was rumored that Cincinnati (O.) capitalists 

 would combine with lilm to gain the big con- 

 trolling corporation. 



The Cambria Coal & Lumber Company was 

 Incorporaled at Lexington, Ky., recently and 

 will maintiiin bcadiiiiarters In that city. This 

 company will engage In buying, selling and de- 

 veloping coal and limber lands. It Is capitalized 

 at $.",011,1100. The Incorporators are Charles S. 

 Long, B. F. Price .■mil A P. Stephens. 



W, A. Scott, with the Rees-Scott Lumber & 

 Stave Export Company, this city, has returned 

 from a vacation spent in Canada. 



A. E. Johnson, secretary of the Maustield 

 Hardwood Lumlier Company, Mansfield, La., has 

 returned from a three months' visit to European 

 countries. Mr. Johnson made the trip to bet- 

 ter acquaint himself with the actual methods 

 of marketing hardwoods in use there. 



Anton Soeller, local hardwood lumber exporter 

 with offices in the Metropolitan Bank building, 

 has returned from an extended European trip, 

 during which he visited practically all the prin- 

 cipal lumber markets in England and on the 

 continent. Mr. Soeller says he expects a marked 

 improvement in foreign liardwood conditions and 

 intends to enlarge his field in that line. 



William Kerch of Indianapolis, Ind.. general 

 manager of the White Oak Lumber Company, 

 Oak Grove, La., is in that city arranging for 

 the closing up of the business affairs of his eom- 

 Iiany prior to its closing its hardwood mill in 

 that section. 



ST. LOUIS 



• MIVV ORLHAXS 



S. C. Major, iiromlnent wholesale hardwood 

 dealer of .Memphis, Tenn.. was a recent New 

 Orleans visitor. 



Itiidolph Lang, local exporter of Imrdwiiods, 

 has left for Central America on a business trip. 



(;)n Monday, Nov. G, a hearing on the St. Louis 

 rale matter will be held in the court house, this 

 city, by an Interstate Commerce Commissioner. 

 The various organizations of the St. Louis lum- 

 ber trade will each be represented at this hear- 

 ing by witnesses. Each will testify to the in- 

 jurious effects of the freight rate advance on 

 their respective branches. This will be the 

 climax of the work done by the traffic commit- 

 tees of the Lumbermen's Exchange and the Lum- 

 bermen's Club under the guidance of Thos. E. 

 Powe. 



George McBlair, vice-president of the Lumber- 

 men's Bureau and secretary of the Lumbermen's 

 Exchange of St. Louis, has returned from a short 

 visit to Chicago, principally on business for the 

 bureau, 



Messrs. Drayton and Walker, respectively law- 

 yer and rate expert for the Lumbermen's Bureau, 

 arrived in St. Louis last Saturday, and two con- 

 ferences were held with the leading witnesses 

 for the prosecution of the freight rate. 



The home of Thos. E. Powe of the Thos. E. 

 Powe Lumber Company, one of the most popu- 

 lar hardwood lumbermen in this city, was vis- 

 ited by the stork last week. A little Miss Powe 

 was left. Mr. Powe was the recipient of the 

 best wishes of his many friends on the occasion 

 of the event. 



Tlie following is the report of the inspection 

 :iud niensurement of huuber by the Lumbermen's 

 i;xchange, for October, as furnished by George 

 -McBlair, secretary of the exchange: 



l-'eel. 



Plain red oak I12,lo(> 



I'lain white oak 04,021 



Quartered red oak .'!,bSl 



Ash 18,4T7 



Pojilar 0.404 



Cypress .S7,417 



Maple :i7,lil4 



Gum 137,s;W 



Birch ;!,:i72 



lllrkorv 20,000 



I'ecan 5,:f«» 



llackberry 1,711 



Fir 11,342 



Yellow pine 23,284 



Total 508,004 



On Oct. 24, Louis WerniM', who retired from 

 tile lumber business some months ago and went 

 III I'.urope, returned home from an extended trip 

 iliirliig which he spent much lime in France, 

 liiukliig after his slave business, from which he 

 has not retired, and then went to Budapest, 

 where his father sllll lives at a ripe old age. 



Mrs. Sophia Ilageinan Smith, wife of Charles 

 II. Smith of the C. II. Smith Tie & Tlinlier Com- 

 pany, died last week from the elTects of n 

 stroke of paral.vsls that occurred Oct. 10, while 

 she was apparently hi perfect health. She was 



