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keen interest in the work of the new year when 

 he referred to the fact that the standing com- 

 mittees are called upon to do the most effective 

 work and that the olDcers of the club are unable 

 to make much headway unless actively supported 

 by these committees. 



Philip A. Kyan made the humorous speech 

 of the evening. His first sentence was typical. 

 "I am just chuck full of happiness tonight." 

 These words carried the members of the club 

 back a year to the time Mr. Ryan was making 

 his maiden speech as a defeated candidate. He 

 evidently was thinking of the same subject as 

 he said that he had come to the conclusion that 

 Ills failure to secure election a year before was 

 not a defeat but a delay. He thaaked the 

 nominating committee which made his candi- 

 dacy possible and the voters who made his 

 election a reality and assured the members of 

 the club that he would do everything in his 

 power for the advancement of the interests of 

 that organization. 



R. T. Cooper, secretary and treasurer. .T. D. 

 Allen, Jr., C. W. Holmes and S. M. Nickey, 

 directors, were called upon and responded briefly, 

 thanking the club for their election and pledg- 

 ing their best endeavors in behalf of the welfare 

 of that organization. The defeated candidates 

 for first and second vice-presidents as well as 

 for directors were also called upon and they 

 responded in very happy vein. 



A New Nashville Incorporation 

 The Althauser-W'ebster-Weaver Lumber Com- 

 pany is the style of a recently incorporated 

 concern which has been doing business for sev- 

 eral years in Tennessee on a partnership basis. 

 The company formerly operated a hardwood 

 mill near Sycamore. Tenn., and about six 

 months ago moved its offices to Nashville. The 

 company has an authorized capital stock of 

 .foO.OOO and will do an operating and whole- 

 sale business, strictly in hardwoods. 



The incorporators are \Vm, Althauser. W. E. 

 Althauser, J. A. Althauser, Chas. Webster and 



D. Weaver. The officers are D. Weaver, presi- 

 dent and treasurer : Chas. Webster, vice-presi- 

 dent : W. E. Althauser, secretary. 



The Nashville yard of this concern is already 

 well stocked with a general line of hardwood 

 lumber and when it is entirely filled the company 

 will have facilities lor taking care of a large 

 volume of business. 



E. C. Atkins & Co. Open Vancouver Branch 

 That foremost and progressive saw manu- 

 facturing house, E. C. Atkins & Co. of Indian- 

 apolis, Ind., has added another branch to the 

 numerous ones already operated by this institU' 

 tlOD. This latest one is located at Vancouver. 

 B. C., and will handle the western Canadian 

 trade. 



The source of supply for this Institution will 

 be the factory at Hamilton, Ont. The new- 

 branch is in charge of W. C. BIrdsall, who is 

 veiy popular throughout the entire district. I''. 

 R. Arnett, also well known in that section, will 

 assist Sales Manager liirdsall. 



The new branch is located In a new six-story 

 store building at 100 Powell street. In the heart 

 of the business district of Vancouver. A very 

 complele repair shop will be one of the features 

 of the new branch. 



Annual Meeting of the Sawdust Club 

 The Sawdust Club, the members of which arc 

 also members of the Union League, held its an- 

 nual banquet on Tliursday evening, Dec. 7, at 

 the Union League club house. The attendance 

 was large, and the entertainment throughout 

 was notably an orlslnnl and unJquc conception. 

 The room was decorated to represent Ireland, 

 one end of the ball recalling a scene In the 

 North, the other n contrasting scene In the 

 South of this beautiful Isle. Irish colors met 

 the eye at every point, and ludicrous character- 

 istics of the IrLsh nallvi' were assumed by the 



guests. 'I'lio lable was decoi-ated with yellow 

 chrysanthemums in the greenest of foliage, and 

 the diners wore the green Irish hat to complete 

 the picture. An Irish piper and an Irish jig 

 dancer were delightful adjuncts which were 

 highly enjoyed by the dmers. A vocal quartette 

 and an orchestra also added much to the enjoy- 

 ment (if the evening. The souvenirs, which were 

 all in keeping, consisted of a miniature hod and 

 bricks, a very suggestive small jug, with the in- 

 scription "Ireland Cruiskeen Bawn." and a clay 

 pipe, Pat's inseparable companion. John T. 

 Riley of Charles S. Riley & Co., secretary and 

 trea.surer of the organization, was chosen toast- 

 master, in the performance of which office he 

 amply repaid the selection. Speeches were made 

 by James F. Hope, former president of the 

 Union League : William T. Tilden, recently 

 elected president, and a number of others. The 

 guests sang a number of the famous Irish ballads 

 during the evening; also many Irish bulls were 

 perpetrated and flashes of Irish wit were not 

 badly duplicated. The whole affair was an emi- 

 nent success and worthy the teeming brains of 

 the committee that had it In charge. Frank C. 

 Gillingham is president of the association, and 

 John T. Riley is secretary and treasurer. 



J. M. MILLER, KNOXVILLE. TENN. 

 The Miller Lumber Company 



One of the hardwood concerns of Knoxville, 

 Tenn., is the Miller Lumber Company, at whose 

 head is J. Marion Miller, whose picture is re- 

 produced herew-ith. Mr. Miller is a thoroughly 

 experienced lumberman, who after spending his 

 boyhood on a Pennsylvania farm has filled every 

 position in the manufacture and marketing of 

 lumber. At the age of twenty-three he took up 

 woods work with a cross-cut saw as a contracting 

 logger. From this beginning ho has steadily ad- 

 vanced, buying tracts of timber from time to 

 time and operating small mills. For years he 

 ran these mills himself, acting as his own fore- 

 man, logger and sawyer. In these capacities he 

 Is recognized as an expert. His early policy of 

 Investing In favorably located and high quality 

 of stumpagc, he has pursued ever since. Lat- 

 terly ho has contracted for the manufacture of 

 his tlmlx-r, and has devoted more personal atten- 

 tion to the wbiik'sale end of the business. Mr. 

 .Miller started In the wholesali' business In Knox- 

 vlllc In 1905 as J. M. Miller & Co. The style of 

 his house was changed in 1007 to the Jtlllcr 

 Lumber Company. 



Tlie JllUer Lumber Cumpauy has established 

 a reputation for absolutely fair dealing, and has 

 built up an enviable reputation on this line with 

 a select clientage of wluilesnle injinufacturlng 



buyers thruujihout the cvuintry. The concern 

 specializes In poplar, oak, chestnut, ash and 

 white and yellow pine ; and has offices in the 

 Scruggs building, Kuoxville. 



New Hardwood Manufacturing Enterprise 



Harris & Cole Bros, of Cedar Falls. Iowa, well- 

 known manufacturers of oak and red gum trim, 

 mouldings and general house finish, some time 

 ago acquired a large tract of high-class oak and 

 gum timber in Lamar county, Alabama, and are 

 now engaged in the erection of a model single 

 band sawmill plant at Sulllgent, Ala., and the 

 liuilding of ten miles of logging railroad to trans- 

 port the timber. Sulllgent is on the Frisco, mid- 

 wa,y between Memphis and Birmiu£.'ham. 



L. L. Harris will be manager of the new plant, 

 which will be in operation within three months. 

 It is anticipated that the low-grade stock from 

 this mill will be manufactured into dimension 

 material, the oak going to the furniture trade, 

 and the gum to the company's plant at Cedar 

 Falls, where it will be remanufactured into trim 

 and mouldings. 



St. Louis Lumbermen's Club as Host 



A banquet was given by the Lumbermen's 

 Club of St. Louis, Wednesday evening, Dec. 6, 

 at the Planters hotel, at which Cifford Pinchot, 

 former chief forester^ of the United States was 

 the guest of honor and principal speaker. He 

 made a strong plea for conservation of trees 

 and declared forestry flourished everywhere In 

 the United States except "in the woods." He 

 urged the members of the club to transfer the 

 preservation of timber lands from their meetings 

 to the woods and protect their business and show 

 the people that they were trying to prevent the 

 destruction of timber. 



Among the prominent guests present were ex- 

 governor and ex-secretary of the Department of 

 the Interior under President Cleveland. David 

 U. Francis ; J. Fred Baker, professor of forestry 

 at the Michigan Agricultural College, Lansing, 

 Mich. ; Capt. J. B. White of Kansas City and 

 J. A. Ferguson of the State University, Colum- 

 bia. Mo. 



A resolution was passed, postponing the elec- 

 tion of officers for the year 1912, which should 

 have taken place at the December meeting, until 

 the January meeting. 



Mr. Kolfes, chairman of the entertainment 

 committee named William Eddy Barns, editor 

 of the St. Louis Lumberman, as toastmaster for 

 the evening. 



In Mr. Barns' preliminary address, he said that 

 it was just five years since the government began 

 the investigation of the alleged lumber trust and 

 in spite of the many sleuths bunting for it. It 

 had not been found and the lumbermen all over 

 the country would bo glad to hear olHcially what 

 the govornmont had found out afti'r its investi- 

 gation. Ho said the lumbermen were more 

 anxious than the public to have the facts re- 

 vealed. 



Mr. Pinchot began bis talk by telling what he 

 saw on his recent visit to Alaska. It convinced 

 him more strongly than ever In the great future 

 for that country. "Alaska may yet" he said 

 "be saved from the Morgan-Cuggonbolm monop- 

 oly, which controls Alaska almost completely 

 ;ind the resources of the country, which are 

 greatly underestimated by the public, although 

 In danger of being altogether absorbed by this 

 interest, may yet be saved. The big fight to 

 save the great resources of this rich country has 

 Just begun. The combine however has not been 

 broken yet. It has merely been exposed. The 

 big fight is coming. 



"Alaska Is rich. It has coal mines and great 

 agricultural prospects. It has goiKl timber. In 

 the Interior, which has not been much exploited, 

 there is an abundance of good farming lands and 

 I predict that Alaska shortly will be filled with 

 a permanent agricultural population. 



".Nothing ri'gardlng the monopoly of Alaskan 

 resources, I have said, has been exaggerated. 



