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meeting of the Indiana Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation. Among otlier business attended to was 

 tlie fixing of a date lor tlie holding of the 

 annual meeting. It was decided to hold it on 

 Jan. 17 or 18; the exact date was left for the 

 local club to decide upon. 



Mr. Dixon, with Wistar. Underbill & Co.. Real 

 Estate Trust building. Philadelphia. Pa., was 

 vlsting the local mills last week. 



The sawmill, stave and heading factory of J. 

 H. Moeller & Co., Mt. Vernon, were completely 

 destroyed by fire on Nov. 17. The cooper shops 

 and lumber yards were saved. The drykiln con- 

 tained about 5,000 headings and 30,000 staves. 

 The total loss is estimated at 70.000 partially 

 covered by insurance. It is not known definitely 

 whether the mill will be rebuilt or not. The firm 

 had a good stock of logs on hand. J. H. Moeller 

 is a member of the Lumbermen's Club. 



B. R. Bertrand. with Riemeier Brothers & 

 Cummins, left last week on a two weeks' selling 

 trip. 



F. G. Roys, sales manager for the Fullerton- 

 Powell Hardwood Lumber Company, was in the 

 city last week visiting the local plant of his 

 firm. Mr. Roys came from the company's Mt. 

 Vernon yard, which it has just finished cleaning 

 up, and will discontinue at that point. Mr. 

 Roys says his concern is doing well. 



W. T. Thompson of The Diamond Veneer Com- 

 pany, Edinburg, Ind., was in this city last 

 week. 



Frank A. Larkin of the American Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, is on a visit to his old home 

 in Kansas. 



The partnership heretofore existing between 

 D. B. MacLaren and Geo. H. Conant under the 

 firm name of D. B. MacLaren & Co., has been 

 dissolved by mutual agreement. Mr. Conant 

 will go into business under his own name with 

 offices in the Furniture Exchange. 



MBMPHia 



It is reported that Miss Pauline Darnell, 

 accompanied by her father, R. J. Darnell, is 

 returning to her home in Memphis. She has 

 been dangerously ill at Freeport, L. I., since 

 Oct. 1, as a result of her serious injuries in 

 the automobile accident which caused the death 

 of her mother and sister. Her condition is so 

 much improved that her father decided she 

 could be brought home with comparative safety. 



C. W. Gould and J. T. Harris, representa- 

 tives of the United States Forest Service, have 

 been in Memphis recently securing information 

 at first hand regarding the amount of timber 

 cut in this territory and the uses to which 

 the lumber is put. These gentlemen are col- 

 lecting data on this subject in Tennessee, Miss- 

 issippi and Alabama. It is suggested that as 

 soon as the reports have been made, any of the 

 business organizations may have the data 

 printed and prepared for distribution. 



The delegates who went to Chattanooga to 

 attend the meeting of the Chattanooga Manu- 

 facturers' Association have returned and are 

 very enthusiastic over the formation of a sim- 

 ilar organization in this city. 



The principal idea behind this movement is 

 I bat local manufacturers, working in harmony, 

 can accomplish a great deal more for the pro- 

 tection of themselves and the industries they 

 represent than the manufacturers can operating 

 individually. The Chattanooga Manufacturers' 

 Association maintains quarters for the exhibit 

 of the products manufactured by it and this 

 feature appealed with very striking force to 

 the manufacturers who attended. There has 

 been a great deal of complaint regarding the 

 lack of support accorded manufacturers by 

 people of this city and section, but it is believed 

 by the gentlemen who went to Chattanooga that 

 if quarters are maintained for the exhibit of 

 locally manufactured products, there will be a 

 ^■ery large increase in the amount of these pur- 

 chased in Memphis as well as in the territory 



tributary to this city. If the association Is 

 formed, and indications are that it will be, a 

 permanent exhibit is practically certain to be a 

 leading feature of the organization. 



D. M. Kneeland, president of the Grayling 

 Lumber Company, Detroit, Mich., A. E. Michel- 

 son, vice-president. Grayling, Mich., O. S. 

 Hawes, secretary and treasurer, Detroit, Jlich.. 

 together with other stockholders prominently 

 identified with that corporation, have recently 

 been on a tour of inspection of their timber 

 land holdings in the South, principally in Lou- 

 isiana and Arkansas. This company maintains 

 southern headquarters at Monroe. During the 

 tour a trip was made to Arkansas City to secure 

 a site for a large mill for the development 

 of timber resources on the lands of the com- 

 pany in Arkansas, the most valuable of its 

 southern holdings. No statement has been given 

 out as to whether or not a plant will be estab- 

 lished at Arkansas City, but it is understood 

 that the officials were very much pleased with 

 the inducements which were offered l>y tlie 

 business men of that place. 



R. M. Hall, Dyersburg, Tenn., has sold 4. .500 

 acres of cut-ever timber land near that point 

 to the English Plantation Company for a con- 

 sideration of $117,000. Reports from Dyersburg 

 state also that J. A. Norton has bought a large 

 tract of timber land from John Parker for 

 .$55,000. This also is located near Dyersburg. 



The Carruth Lumber Company, whose plant 

 is at Coral, on the Mississippi Central rail- 

 road, has bought the Blodgett tract of 2.800 

 acres of yellow pine timber. The price was from 

 .'S40 to $50 an acre. Practically a new mill 

 has been built at Coral and a considerable 

 amount of trackage has been prepared In the 

 way of additional facilities for getting out the 

 timber. 



NASHVILLE 



The lumber being moved from this market 

 continues chiefly for immediate consumption and 

 no general restocking movement is expected 

 before the first of the new year. 



Recent heavy rains have given hope of early 

 logging activity in the upper Cumberland river 

 territory, from which section Nashville secures 

 a large per cent of hardwoods during the year. 

 The loggers have been active and as soon as 

 the state of the water permits there will be 

 heavy receipts of rafts from the up-river section. 

 The early opening of the boating season is ex- 

 pected when shipments of all kinds will become 

 more active and will be of much value to the 

 general business of this section, including the 

 lumber interests. 



N. W. Calicut has made a contract w-ith the 

 Birmingham & Northwestern railroad for 

 400,000 ties, said to be the largest single order 

 for ties given in Tennessee. The ties will be 

 placed along the right of way for the new rail- 

 road without delay. 



Frank F. Fi.sh, secretary of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, was a recent 

 visitor to the Nashville market. He was a guest 

 of honor at a regular weekly luncheon of the 

 Nashville Lumbermen's Club's executive commit- 

 tee, and did good work for his association, secur- 

 ing nine new members, which brings the local list 

 up to fifteen of the most prominent firms. 



A. B. Ransom, chairman of the transporta- 

 tion committee of the Lumbermen's Club, has 

 given the local traffic bureau information about 

 the mllling-in-transit privilege on logs. Now a 

 reduced rate is allowed on outgoing lumber ship- 

 ments manufactured from logs shipped to Nash- 

 ville over the same line within six months. 

 Mr. Ransom thinks this is insufficient time, 

 that it should be at least a year and there 

 should he no limit. 



Fire in the boiler room of the mill of John 

 B. Ransom & Co.. did $1,000 damage Nov. 18. 



The members of the Nashville Builders' E'x- 

 change held their annual banquet at the Tulane 



hotel, this city. There was a good attendance, 

 and an eight-course spread was enjoyed. The 

 feast was followed by a theater party. 



The Pittsburg Lumber Company of Carter 

 county will start a large band mill January 1. 

 It will take ten years to cut the timber owned 

 by the company. The company has constructed 

 a new line of railroad with a connecting branch 

 to the timber lands for the development of 

 the property. 



R. T. Wilson, treasurer of the Nashville Hard- 

 wood Flooring Company, has returned from a 

 long trip to England and France. He says English 

 capital has its eyes on the South in connection 

 with the opening of the Panama canal, and 

 is prepared to invest freely in this section, 

 following the opening of the canal. 



Mrs. Elizabeth Benedict, wife of C. H. Ben- 

 edict of the well-known lumber firm, died a 

 few days ago at her home in this city. She 

 was active in chuKh and charitable work and 

 had a large circle of friends. Mrs. Benedict,' 

 one son and two daughters survive her. 



Officers of the Hermitage National Bank of 

 Xashville have issued a statement with reference 

 to the suit recently filed here by the bank 

 against T. R. LeSueuer, the W. J. Cude Land & 

 Lumber Company and W. J. Cude on a note of 

 Mr. LeSueuer for $4,500 as security for which 

 Mr. LeSueuer pledged stock in the lumber com- 

 pany. The note was paid the day after the ■ 

 suit was instituted and the bill dismissed. In 

 the statement mentioned, tribute is paid to 

 the integrity and high standing of Mr. Cude 

 and his business ability. The stock given as 

 security on the loan was considered good and 

 the signers of the statement express the belief 

 that an injustice was done Mr. Cude and the 

 company he represented by the publication of a 

 statement that a bill had been filed against them 

 for the collection of a note on which neither 

 were iudorsers and with which neither was 

 connected in any way except that the company's 

 stock was pledged as security. 



Much interest is being taken in the series 

 of special papers on the general cost of con- 

 ducting the lumber business which are being 

 presented by prominent members of the trade 

 at the weekly meetings of the executive com- 

 mittee of the Nashville Lumbermen's Club. 

 E. Bartholomew of John B. Ransom & Co., read 

 the first paper on the "Cost of Selling, from 

 the Manufacturers' Point of View." He went 

 into the several features which must be con- 

 .sldered in estimating the cost including the 

 expenses of maintaining the office, advertising, 

 postage, stationary, commissions and traveling 

 expenses. He emphasized the value of judicious 

 advertising in trade journals. The second paper 

 in the series will be by Mr. P. J. Lovenhart 

 of Lovenhart & Co.. on "The Cost of Yarding." 



CHATTANOOQA 



M. J. Voris of Indiana, has been in this city 

 recently. He is the junior member of the Will- 

 iams & Voris Lumber Company. 



John J. Lutz of Loudon, this state, was a 

 recent visitor. Mr. Lutz is president of the J. 

 J. Lutz Manufacturing Company at Loudon. Its 

 specialties are a full line of hardwood mantels. 



John C. Lyon of Bedford. I'a.. wholesale 

 hardwood dealer, was calling on the trade here 

 a few days ago. Mr. Lyon has business inter- 

 ests at Spring City, Tenn. 



Frank B. Lundy of WlUiamsport. Pa., has re- 

 cently been looking over hardwood stocks in the 

 interests of the Williamsport Hardwood Lumber 

 Company. 



A Mr. Samuels of New Orleans has removed 

 his office to Chattanooga where he will do a gen- 

 eral brokerage business. « 



The new mill of the McLean Lumber Company, 

 this city, is running full time and their log 

 supply indicates a continuation of these condi- 

 tions. 



The G. IT. Evans Lumber Company, this city, 



