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HARDWOOD RECORD 



TuUy Company, witli which the Patton-TuUy 

 Company is identified. 



John W. McCIure of the Bellgrade Lumber 

 Company, A. N. Thompson of A. N. Thompson & 

 Co. and Frank P. Gearheart have recently organ- 

 ized the Buck Lake Plantation Company, which 

 is to operate a plantation of 1.845 acres of land 

 near Greenwood, Miss. It is the purpose of 

 these gentlemen to develop this land gradually, 

 putting in several hundred acres each year until 

 the entire tract is in cultivation. 



Definite announcement is made that the Chap- 

 man-Dewey Lumber Company will open offices in 

 the Tennessee Trust building here within the 

 next two or three days. Negotiations to this 

 end have been under way for some time. This 

 firm will not remove its general offices to Mem- 

 phis. It has extensive interests in the territory 

 around Marked Tree. Ark., and its general offices 

 arc located at Kansas City, Mo. It is understood 

 that the milling operations and the general busi- 

 ness of the firm in Arkansas will be handled 

 through the offices to be established here. W. C. 

 Dewey and D. P. Mann, members of this firm, 

 reside in Memphis. 



The Twin cities Lumber Company of St. Paul, 

 has purchased the East End Dimension Mill for- 

 merly operated by E. Y. English and owned by 

 the Atlas Hardwood Lumber Co'mpany. It is 

 understood that the plant of the firm in the 

 eastern portion of this city will be operated on 

 full schedule under the new management. 



NASHVILLE 



Even with long continued bad weather, local 

 building operations have continued active. The 

 total value of building permits issued in the city 

 during 1911 showed a decrease when compared 

 with 1910. but this is due to the location of so 

 many buildings just outside the municipality. 

 The real estate transfers for 1911 in Nashville 

 showed a marked increase over those for the 

 year before. 



T. J. Centrell recently paid $30,000 for 800 

 acres of virgin timber land near Treadway. 

 Several mills will be installed for cutting the 

 timber. 



A railroad is being constructed to the property 

 of the Empire Lumber Company in Wayne county 

 for the development of the timber interests. 



Tlie Loudon Chair Manufacturing Company 

 of Loudon county has been formed with $25,000 

 capital. C. n. Bacon, E. E. Blair and others 

 are at the head of the new enterprise. 



Local manufacturers and dealers are in the 

 midst of their annual inventory season and will 

 soon be ready to strike their balances for the 

 business of the past jear. 



Recently filed schedules indicate that the lia- 

 bilities of the bankrupt firm of Hiram, Blow- & 

 Co., stave manufacturers, will be not far from 

 half a million dollars. Proceedings were in- 

 stituted recently against this firm, it will be 

 recalled, in the federal court here. 



The annual banquet of the Nashville Lumber- 

 men's Club which was originally planned for 

 Jan. 2, was postponed until Jan. IG on account 

 of the fact that the home of the Xashvllle Com- 

 mercial Club where the event will take place, 

 was not completed by the first of the year. The 

 members of the club are anticipating this ban- 

 quet with great pleasure and the committees In 

 charge announce that nothing has been left 

 undone to make It a success. 



KNOXVILLB 



C. T. Benidict, formerly of Douglass & Walk- 

 ley has resigned his position with that concern 

 to accept a position with the Conasauga Lumber 

 Company, at Conaaauga, Tenn. 



Walter McCabc, the well-known lumberman 

 of this city, has just returned from points In 

 North Carolina, and has secured several large 

 contracts for Immediate shipment. 



E. M. Vestal of the Vestal Lumber & Manu- 



facturing Company, is at present in New York 

 City on a business trip in the interests of his 

 concern. 



J. F. Cleland of the Miltimore Lumber Com- 

 pany, spent the holidays with his family in 

 Chicago. He reports the business outlook bright 

 with his concern. 



Robert Vestal, manager of the Atlantic Lum- 

 ber Company, Boston, Mass. is a visitor in this 

 city. 



H. G. Tarvin of the Maryville Lumber Com- 

 pany, has just returned from a business trip to 

 Cincinnati. 



J. E. Oberne of the Blue Ridge Tie Company 

 is spending a week in Baltimore, looking after 

 future contracts in the interests of his concern. 

 H. C. Kopcke of Kimball & Kopcke has just 

 returned from a business trip in middle Ten- 

 nessee. 



C. F. Maples of the Maples Lumber Company, 

 recently received a large shipment of fine yellow 

 poplar and feels very optimistic about the near 

 future. 



P. B. Raymond of the Knoxville Veneer Com- 

 pany has returned from points North and reports 

 business good with his concern. 



J. M. Logan of the Logan-Maphct Lumber 

 Company, spent last week in Cincinnati. 



BRISTOL 



-V lumbcruieu's clul> will be organized in Bris- 

 tol January 27. .\ preliminary meeting was re- 

 cently held at Hotel Bristol, followed by a 

 smoker, but as a number of leading lumbermen 

 were out of the city for the holidays, it was de- 

 cided to call a meeting for Jan. 27, at which 

 time practically all of the lumbermen in Bristol 

 will be present and assist in launching the new 

 organization. 



Almost all of the mills in this section are 

 now running. Several were closed for a week or 

 two on account of the holidays but these are 

 again in operation and things are moving along 

 nicely with the manufacturers. Most of the Iniiis 

 arc well supplied with logs and are in good run- 

 ning shape. 



The H. J. Herb Company, which purchased the 

 $100,000 Ordway plant in South Bristol, is about 

 ready to start operation. A dam was recently 

 completed in the Watauga river to supply elec- 

 tric power for manufacturing purposes in Bristol 

 and while everything lias been practically ready, 

 the current will not be turned on for ten days 

 on account of complications. 



R. W. Cox of Gate City. Va., is installing a 

 new mill in western North Carolina along the 

 line of the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio railroad. 

 .T. P. McCain of the Peter-McCain Lumber 

 Company has returned from a trip in the interest 

 of his company. The company reports business 

 good. It has a large amount of stock on its 

 yards in Bristol, at Neva, Tenn.. and Hooneford. 

 N. C, ready for shipment. 



Work will shortly be begun upon the new plant 

 of the T. W. Tha.ver Lumber Company at Damas- 

 cus, Va., which will be built to supplant the mill 

 destro.ved by fire some weeks ago. 



Local shippers are expecting a decision by the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission within a few 

 days on their case against the local railroads, 

 involving the mllling-in-transit charge in Bristol. 

 A favorable decision will be of great Importance 

 to the lumber mills here. Tlio present rate is 

 considered unreasonable, being $10 to $14 per 

 car. It was formerly only .^2 per car. 



LOUISVILLE 



The entrance of the new year finds the Louis- 

 ville Hardwood Club awaiting a visit from th(^ 

 officers of the National Wholesale Lumber Deal- 

 ers' Association, which will hold Its 1012 con- 

 vention here on March 6 and 7. The fact that 

 this .year's conclave of the wholesalers' associa- 

 tion Is to he held in Louisville has aroused wide- 

 spread Interest In that organization among lum- 



bermen of the South and Southwest, in quarters 

 where this interest and co-operative spirit have 

 hitherto been lacking. 



It is expected that several members of the 

 Louisville Hardwood Club will journey to Cincin- 

 nati, Ohio, on January 29 for the purpose of 

 meeting other oak producers in the Queen City. 

 The oak experts propose to talk the 1912 situa- 

 tion over prior to the annual convention of the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the 

 United States in Cincinnati on January 30 and 

 31. An association may be formed. 



The members of the Louisville Hardwood Club 

 may be congratulated upon the recent acquisition 

 of a genuine "Hardwood Room" in which the 

 weekly meetings of the body are held. For some 

 time the club has been meeting in the leather 

 room of the Seelbach hotel, but a recent change 

 and improvement in the interior of the hostelry 

 has produced several new apartments, one of 

 which has been formally dedicated for the club's 

 conclaves. The new meeting-place is finished 

 throughout in mahogany. 



The big plant of the Louisville Planing Mill 

 & Hardwood Flooring Company in Louisville 

 was destro.ved by fire which is believed to have 

 originated from sparks from a passing locomo- 

 tive. The main building on the property, con- 

 taining the mill equipment and a considerable 

 quantity of flooring and dimension stock, was 

 destroyed with a loss of $120,000, hut efficient 

 service of the fire department saved the office 

 building and two neighboring structures. The 

 loss is covered by insurance, according to Olaf 

 Anderson, president of the company, and the 

 plant will be rebuilt in the near future. 



A petition for a review in the ca.se of the 

 Tennessee River Hardwood Lumber Cohipany, 

 bankrupt, was dismissed by Judge Evans in the 

 United States court in Louisville a short time 

 ago. The case was appealed from a ruling of 

 the referee in bankruptcy. 



The report of the earnings of the Louisville & 

 Nashville Railroad Company, which plays an 

 important part in developing the timber re- 

 sources of Kentucky and Tennessee, for Decem- 

 ber and the last half of 1911 shows an increase 

 of about $125,000 in the December aggregate and 

 about $500,000 for the final half of 1911. as 

 compared with the corresponding periods of the 

 previous year. 



Gamble Brothers, well-known manufacturers 

 of dimension stock in Highland Park, a suburb 

 of Louisville, have just put into commission a 

 new dry-kiln with a capacity of 8,000 feet per 

 day, recently erected and equipped for service. 

 Business with the South Louisville dimension 

 stock producers is starting auspiciously in 1912. 

 under improved and extended management. 



A fine river stage Is now in evidence along 

 every stream which transports timber from the 

 Kentucky mountains to the market. Steady rises 

 have been apparent for the past fortnight, the 

 Kentucky river having risen as much as twelve 

 feet in a single night, and lumbermen are on the 

 lookout for booms coming down from the pro- 

 ducing territory. 



It is reported at Whitesburg, Ky.. that the 

 Kentucky River Consolidated Coal Company has 

 clo.sed a deal for 10.000 acres of very valuable 

 timberland lying just below Whitesburg. The 

 property is In direct line with the proposed ex- 

 lenslon of the I/exington & Eastern railroad and 

 will be In line for raiild development of its lum- 

 ber resources In the spring. 



The sawmill engine of L. E. Morris, at Pates- 

 vllle, Ky., was Tnallclously destroyed with dyna- 

 mite by unknown persons last week. Mr. Morris 

 has solicited Governor McCreary to offer a re- 

 ward for apprehension of the criminals impli- 

 cated In the act. 



ST. LOUIS 



The building opi'nillons of Ihi' past year 

 showed a slight falling olT from the record of 

 the year previous. During 1911 a total of 



