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HARDWOOD RECORD 



J. F. Cleland of the Miltimoie Lurabei- Company 

 lias just returned from a trip to Baltimore. Md., 

 and is well pleased with liis trip. 



Lumbermen in this vicinit.v are arranging to 

 have their busines.s in such shape as to enable 

 them to attend the meeting of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association of the United States 

 to be held in Cincinnati .J.-muar.v 30 and 31. 



J. C. Kimbali of Kimball & Kopcke was in 

 Atlanta last week on a business trip for his con- 

 ■corn. 



E. S. Stevens of Wm. K. Galle & Co., Cincin- 

 nati, O., has just closed a large contract for 

 poplar and is looking forward to brisk business 

 for the next two months. 



NASHVILLE 



Nashville bank clearings for 1:11 1 showed an 

 increase of thirty-one per cent over the pre- 

 vious year. The total for the past year was 

 $231,872,568.82. Local securities made a good 

 record, too, and the prospects for business this 

 year are bright. 



The Davidson, Hicks & Greene Company of 

 this city has purchased three acres of land 

 in East XashvUle, which will be used as a 

 i-etail lumber yard. Side tracks will be con- 

 structed through the property connecting with 

 existing railroad facilities. Other improvements 

 will also be made. 



The Woodcliff Lumber Company has been 

 formed here with $.'50,000 capital. .T. Gibson, 

 Hugh and W. B. Jlcllvaln of Philadelphia and 

 C. T. Dews of Nashville are the Incorporators. 

 They recently purchased i.OOO acres of fine tim- 

 ber near Monterey and will operate several mills 

 developing the property. Mr. Dews will be in 

 charge. The tract contains chiefly oak, chest- 

 nut and poplar. 



One of the features of the local lumber busi- 

 ness has been the arrival during the past ten 

 days of several rafts of logs from the upper 

 Cumberland river section. It is estimated that 

 the present tide in the river will bring about 

 three million feet of hardwoods to this market 

 from the section indicated. The operations ot 

 the log men have been extensive and local stocks 

 will be considerably replenished by the raft 

 shipments. 



The Nashville trade will be well represented at 

 the coming meeting ot (he Uardwoou .Manufac- 

 turers' Association of the United States to be 

 held In Cincinnati .Jan. .30-31. Local members 

 feel much interisl in tbi*^ iiifrtin'-' and nil wlici 

 can will attend 



BRISTOL 



shut down on account of the rough weather, 

 as logs were frozen up and lumber had ice on 

 it so that it could not be worked through the 

 machines. 



Just as soo!i as there is a break in the cold 

 weather work will be begun upon the new band 

 mill of the Black Mountain Timber Company of 

 Cumberland, Md., to be erected south of Bristol. 

 The company has a large tract of timber in the 

 Holston mountains, near Bristol. .\ narrow 

 gauge railroad will be built at once, six miles 

 in length. 



.T. M. Lacy, superintendent ot tbi' Whiting 

 Manufacturing Company's band mills in west- 

 ern North Carolina, was a visitor here this 

 week, lie reports (hat the company's mills are 

 running and that it plans extensive manufac- 

 turing (his year. It owns an area of nearly 

 12.5,000 acres of virgin forest. 



T. G. Caldwell of the Ferd Brenner Lumber 

 Company of Cincinnati Is buying hardwood 

 lumber in Bristol this week. 



The band mill of (ho Tennessee Lumljer & 

 Manufacturing Company at Sutherland, Tenn., 

 is In operation again. The company will finish 

 cutting Its timber near Sutherland this spring. 

 but It is reported that another large tract may 

 be acquired by It. 



F. K. Paxton of the Paxton Lumber Com- 

 pany is in the East this week looking after In^ 

 tcrests ot his company in that territory. The 

 company's new planing mill in Bristol is now 

 running regularly. 



New dry-kilns are now being built by (he 

 Bristol Door & Lumber Company In this city, 

 which Is the largest hardwood mill-work manu- 

 facturer In Virginia, and by (he Sells Lumber 

 & Manufacturing Company of Johnson Cll.v, 

 Tenn. The Bristol Door & Lumber Company's 

 plant was closed down a few days for repairs. 

 but Is now running again and the company has 

 plenty of orders on Its books for shipment this 

 winter and spring. 



H. A, MacGruder of the Fatten Company was 

 among Philadelphia buyers on the local yards 

 this week, and left some nice orders. 



The roughest weather In fifteen years has pre- 

 vailed In this section for the past fortnight, 

 and II has seriously handicapped the lumber In- 

 dustry. Some of the large mills were forced (o 



LOUISVILLE 



Louisville hard\Yood men were represented in 

 force at the Evausvlllc convention of the Indi- 

 ana Hardwood Manufacturers' Association. This 

 is a meeting which they make a point of not 

 missing, as It invariably proves to be one of 

 the most enjoyable of the year. 



It Is expected that officers of the National 

 •Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association will be 

 in Louisville in the near future for (he pur- 

 pose of conferring with the members of the 

 Louisville Hardwood Club about the annual 

 convention of the association, which will be 

 held here on March 6 and 7. I'reliminary 

 arrangements as to convention rooms, hotel 

 accommodations, etc.. will be made, and plans 

 for securing a large attendance will also be 

 gone into. Local lumbermen believe that hun- 

 dreds of southern and n-estorn members of the 

 trade, who are not now affiliated with the whole- 

 salers' organization, will be in attendance. 



T. M. Brown of the W. P. Brown & Sons 

 Lumber Company, has returned from C^ilcago. 

 where he attended a meeting of the board nf 

 directors of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association. 



D. E. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills, 

 held a meeting of the transportation committee 

 of the Louisville Commercial Club of which lie 

 Is chairman, for (he purpose of eonsidering the 

 new railroad regulation bill, which has been 

 ii-troduced in the state legislature. The bill 

 increases the powers of the State Uailroad Com- 

 mission, especially as to making charges and 

 lixing penalties for failure to furnish cars in 

 reasonable amount and at reasonable intervals. 

 Mr. Kline has not announced what action his 

 committee will take on (he matter. 



W. T. Schnaufer of the Crescent Lumber 

 Company, Marietta, O.. was in Louisville re- 

 cently and dined with the Louisville Hard- 

 wood Club. He said that conditions in his 

 section are favorable ; stoAs on yards and 

 In the hands of consumers are light, .and buyers 

 have been calling for low grades briskly enough 

 to clean up the supplies of this stock. With 

 normal conditions In business In effect, he said 

 (hat he believes the lumber trade should have 

 one of lis Iwst years during 1012. 



C. L. nitler of the C. L. Killer Lumber Com- 

 Iiany. Ilunllnglon, W. Vn., recently .ailed on 

 members ot the local trade. 



Charles E. Lee, New York representative of 

 (he W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company, 

 wns at the Louisville offices of (he concern last 

 week. He s(a(ed that conditions In the East 

 are Improving somewhat, and l)et(er sales are 

 expected during the next few nmndis. 



1( Is repor(ed (hat the Louisville I'limlng Mill 

 & Hardwood Flooring Company, wlilcb Is now 

 ii-buildlng lis plnn(. which was recenlly burned, 

 will no( condnue (o manufacture flooring. The 

 company has not made, known Ms exact plans 

 In tills regard. 



The Mason Lumber Company of Maysville, ' 

 Ivy., has purchased the plant of the Maysville 

 Foundry & Engineering Company, which has 

 not been in operation for a long time, and will 

 convert it into a flooring and dimension stock 

 mill. 



Although an early report on tlie decision of 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission regarding 

 the cases presented by Louisville hardwood men 

 indicated that the decision had been unfavorable, 

 (he publication of the decision Indicates a big 

 victory for Louisville lufhbermen. The chief 

 request made was for a readjuslment of rates so 

 that Cairo would not enjoy lower rates, on a 

 mileage basis, than Louisville, with reference to 

 shipments from the South. The commission 

 orders the Louisville & Nashville to revise Its 

 rates so as to bring about this equality. The 

 Illinois Central Is held not to have shown dis- 

 crimination, but the Louisville & Nashville is 

 compelled to revise its rates and bring them in 

 line so as to relieve Louisville shippers. The 

 matter of reparation was also gone into, and the 

 commission holds that it must have further proof 

 as to whether reparation is justified. Louisville 

 lumbermen are preparing to present additional 

 evidence to the commissi(ui on this score. 



ST. LOUIS 



The old board of directors of the Lumber- 

 men's Exchange of St. Louis, held a meeting 

 in the rooms of the exchange on Jan. S and 

 finished up the business of last jear. When 

 that was completed, the new board met. Presi- 

 dent Thos. E. Towe outlined the pl.ins he had 

 in view for the present year, as well as for a re- 

 inspection committee of three. He then ap- 

 pointed the standing committees for the year as 

 follows : 



Public Affairs — Julius Seidel. chairman, 

 Julius Seidel Lumber Company ; E. H. Luehr- 

 mann, C. F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany : William Lotbman, Jr., Wm. Lothman 

 Cypress Company ; Henry Ilafner, Hafner Manu- 

 facturing Company ; W. W. Dings, Garetson- 

 Greason Lumber Company. 



Traffic — Charles E. Thomas. chairman, 

 Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company ; Koland F. 

 Krebs, Krebs-Scheve Lumber Company ; Henry 

 .\. Bocckeler, Boeckeler Lumber Company. 



MEMBF.RS111P — Alf. W. Jobanning, chairman, 

 Johanning Lumber Company ; II. G. Rolfes, St. 

 Louis Lumber Company ; A. J. Lang. 



George McBlaIr was re-elected secretar.v and 

 W. W. Milne of the ililne Lumber Company, was 

 elected treasurer, A. J. Lang, who bad been 

 treasurer for some years, refusing to serve any 

 longer on account of press ot business. 



Secretary McBlair stated that the fight against 

 the Increase of one cent a hundred freight rate 

 from the Southwest, now being carried on before 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission, would be 

 renewed on Jan. 23. The railroads have given 

 their testimony and at the eonilng liearing the 

 lumber interests will be heard. He also stated 

 that the exchange was in a most prosperous 

 condition. 



The Massengale Lumber Company recently 

 held Its stockholders' annual meeting and elected 

 J. E. Massengale, president : J. 11. Massengale, 

 secretary ; .John E. Massengale. J. R. Massengale 

 and W. II. Richardson, directors. 



W. W. Dings of the Garetson-Greason Lum- 

 ber Company, left a few days ago for a week's 

 stay In Chicago. 



R. A. Ferry, who was fornieily with ilie Steele 

 & Hlbbard Lumber Company, and more recently 

 with the Massengale Lumber Company, on Jan. 

 1 returned to his old company. 



Chas. A. Tllden, formerly engaged In the 

 hardwood and yellow pine eoiiimlsslon business 

 in SI. Louis, has ilisconliuiu'd business In St. 

 Louis and has gone (o Bii(Talo, .V. Y., f<u- an In- 

 deflnUe s(ay. Ill health laused his discontinu- 

 ing business. W. J. Corringfon took over Mr. 

 Tilden's olllce outfll, and it is said, several of 

 his connections. 



II. C. Campbell, formerly St. Louis sales agent 

 ot the Great Southern Lumber Company, has 

 been I'leeled tile seereduy of I be ll.'liry (I'Nell 



