HARDWOOD RECORD 



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NASHVILLE 



During the past two weeks large shipments 

 Iff hardwood logs have been received by local 

 manufacturers from the upper Cumberland river 

 section, the receipts being between 2.500,000 

 and 3.000.000 feet. The supply consisted chiefly 

 of poplar, hickory, chestnut and other hardwoods. 



A. L. Haynes, a prominent manufacturer of 

 Nashville, has been elected president of the 

 National Tight Barrel Stave Manufacturers who 

 met in annual session at Hot Springs. Ark. 



Reports for the year were presented and the 

 new directors were installed at the annual meet- 

 ing of the Builders' Exchange held recently. 

 The report ' of Secretary T. H. EVans showed 

 gt'od results during the year. The various com- 

 mittees performed their duties well, and the 

 records show that much work was done during 

 the year. A committee was named to report 

 resolutions on the death of J. N. Means, a promi- 

 nent exchange member and a director. Several 

 limely talks were made and the members, with 

 invited guests, enjoyed a tempting banquet at 

 the close of the business session. 



The .T. K. Williams Lumber Company's dry- 

 kiln at Fayettcville and 8.000 feet of lumber 

 were burned .7an. 26. The loss is estimated at 

 between .^L.IOO and $2,000 with $1,350 insurance. 



The Gooch Lumber Company's plant at Frank- 

 lin. Ky.. burned .Ian. 23, the estimated loss being 

 S4.50O. with S3. 750 insurance. 



Four thousand acres of timber land near White 

 llluff. the property of W. E. .Jordan, were sold 

 by order of the chancery court to Shelton 

 .Jordan, the price paid being $13,000. 



A buying office has been located at Memphis 

 by John B. Ransom & Co. of this city. E. N. 

 Ralston, an experienced member of the trade, is 

 In charge of same. 



The big band sawmill of the Davidson. Hicks 

 & Oreene Company of this city has been started 

 sawing a choice lot of hardwoods. A scarcity of 

 logs caused this plant to be shut down last 

 summei*. 



An additional large factory is to be built at 

 once by the Greenville Chair Company which will 

 Kive employment to some one hundred and fift.v 

 men In addition to those now employed by the 

 concern. 



R. II. Lytic and Dr. J. H. Nelson have pur- 

 chased the business of the Barker Lumber & 

 Manufacturing Company of Murfreesboro. This 

 I'stablishment was founded by Dell Barker nine 

 years ago. and the plant is said to be worth 

 .1>10.000. The new owners also operate a plant 

 at Guntersville. Ala., where Mr. I.,ytle will be in 

 charge. Dr. Nelson directing the Murfreesboro 

 business. 



Six car loads of Maury county walnut logs 

 have beeu shipped to Hamburg by C. P. May- 

 berry of Columbia. The logs were especially flue, 

 some measuring twenty-five inches in diameter. 



President Hamilton Love of the Nashville 

 Lumbermen's Club has named a steering com- 

 mittee for fne purpose of arousing more interest 

 among the members, and trying to secure a 

 larger attendance at the weekly business meet- 

 ings and luncheons of the executive committee. 

 ('. M. Morford has been appointed publicity 

 man for tlie club. 



KNOXVILLB 



H. N. Saxton of the Kuoxville Saw Mill Com- 

 pany has just returned from a trip to Wash- 

 ii:gton and other eastern points. He reports 

 Inisiness satisfactory. His concern is w'orking 

 to full capacity and is very busy at present 

 filling orders for its export trade. 



Lumbermen of Knoxville and Cincinnati will 

 be much interested to learn that Ed. Maphet. 

 formerly general manager of the Logan-Maphet 

 Lumber Company, has severed his connection 

 with that concern and is contemplating starting 

 in business for himself. He is looking for a 



licsirahle location for a yard in this city. J. .M. 

 Logan has succeeded Mr. Maphet as general 

 manager of the Logan-Maphet Company and 

 C. R. Swan is secretary and treasurer. 



L. H. Schaffer of the Douglass & Walkley 

 Company, Elk Valley, Tenn.. was a recent visitor 

 iu the city. He reports the company's large 

 band mills running full time and inquiries plen- 

 tiful. 



C. F. Maples of the Maples Lumber Company 

 has recently shipped a fine block of 3" poplar 

 and reports business good with his concern. 



J. C. Kimball and H. C. Kopcke of Kimball & 

 Kopcke left this week for a trip in North 

 Carolina and points East. 



H. G. Tarvin of the !Maryville Lumber Com- 

 I>any was a visitor in the city this week and 

 reports trade good with his concern. The com- 

 pany at present is shipping large quantities of 

 white pine and resawed trunk stock. 



Lumbermen generally are experiencing consid- 

 erable trouble in getting their lumber to the 

 railway for shipment, owing to the impassable 

 I onditlon of the wagon roads. Orders have been 

 delayed on this account, and dealers report a 

 scarcity of dry stocks. 



P. B. Raymond of the Knoxville Veneer Com- 

 pany- reports that his concern is running full 

 time and that inquiries are plentiful. He is 

 very optimistic over the outlook for 1912. 



The Philadelphia Veneer & Lumber Company 

 of this city has its entire plant, together with 

 large boundaries of timber lands and manufac- 

 tured lumber, for sale. Mr. Henofer. vice-presi- 

 dent and general manager, reports that his con- 

 cern will establish veneer mills in the South. 



D. M. Rose & Co. of this city are running their 

 mills to full capacity and report orders plentiful. 



The Vestal Lumber & Manufacturing Company 

 I't Knoxville. Tenn.. announces that it will begin 

 ;ibout Feb. 15 the installation of an entirely 

 new sawmill to take the place of the one now 

 running. The new mill will be a Sinker-Davis 

 build and will cut about C.OOO.OOO feet of hard- 

 woods a year. 



BRISTOL 



A meeting of the lumbermen of Bristol wa> 

 tn have been held last week at Hotel Bristol for 

 the purpose of organizing a lumbermen's club, 

 liut it was postponed on account of the absence 

 of several of the moving spirits. It will be held 

 in a few days and Bristol will soon have a live 

 and flourishing lumbermen's club. The hard- 

 \\ood men are very enthusiastic over the pro- 

 posed club and believe it will be beneficial to the 

 trade. 



The Stone-IIuling Lumber Company is pre 

 paring to erect a three story brick building, lOOx 

 200 feet for use as a planing mill. The company's 

 present mill in Bristol is inadequate and work 

 will shortly be begun upon the new structtire. 

 which will be equipped with modern machinery 

 .nnd which will he one of the best planing mills 

 hereabouts. 



C. W. Manning, a well-known lumberman of 

 New York, who buys much stock in this territory, 

 was a visitor on the local market this week. 



The Paxton Lumber Company is running its 

 new planing mill regularly, and reports business 

 satisfactory. Fred K. Paxton has gone on a trip 

 through West Virginia to look after the inter 

 ests of the company. 



Work will begin in a few days on the new 

 band mill to be erected at Bluff City. Tenn., by 

 the Black Mountain Timber Land Company of 

 Cumberland. Md. Work has been started on the 

 company's narrow gauge logging road from Bluff 

 City, where it connects witli the Southern, into 

 the Hnlston mountains, east of this city. 



LOUISVILLE 



The Booker-Ceoll Lumber Company, Louis- 

 ville's newest hardwood concern, was enrolled 

 last week as a member of the Louisville Hard- 



wouil Ciuii. Tlie new company was formed fol- 

 lowing the recent merger of E. B. Norman & Co. 

 with the Norman Lumber Company. 



The consolidation of the Norman Lumber Com- 

 pany with E. B. Norman & Co., under the name 

 of the Norman Lumber & Box Company, has been 

 completely effected. The new company has filed 

 articles of incorporation, showing a capitaliza- 

 tion of $175,000. and is rushing work ahead on 

 its big sawmill at Holly Ridge. La., so that op- 

 erations at that point will probably commence 

 before March 1. 



Louisville lumbermen are much interested in 

 the prospect of a big new sawmill l>eing erected 

 in the near future in thLs city or its vicinity. 

 The Turkey Foot Lumber & Land Company, re- 

 cently organized in Huntington. W. Va., is the 

 promoter of the enterprise, having recently been 

 incorporated under the laws of West Virginia 

 with a capitalization of $300,000 by the follow- 

 ing well-known lumbermen : C. L. Ritter, H. T. 

 Lovett, G. A. Koontz. M. A. Simms and E. E. 

 Williams. The Turkiy Foot company has i>ur- 

 chased an extensive tract of valuable timber land 

 in Jackson county. Kentucky, on the Kentucky 

 river. It proposes to develop the lumber re- 

 sources of the tract, floating the logs down the 

 Kentucky river to the Ohio and thence to a saw- 

 mill that is to be located either at Louisville, 

 Ky., Cincinnati. O.. or some point between those 

 cities. The trade is hopeful that Mr. Ritter and 

 his associates will locate in the Bluegrass me- 

 tropolis. 



Tliat the convention of the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association, to be held In Louis- 

 ville March 6 and 7, will be a notable success 

 is assured, as plans for the auspicious event 

 were made a short time ago at a conference be- 

 tween a committee of representatives of the as- 

 sociation and members of the Louisville Hard- 

 wood Club. F. R. Babcock of Pittsburgh, Pa., 

 president of the national organization of whole- 

 salers : Trustee Lewis Dill of Baltimore. Md.. and 

 Secretary E. F. Perry of New York City visited 

 Louisville, meeting T. M. Brown, president of 

 the Hardwood Club : A. E. Norman, E. B. Nor- 

 man and other local lumbermen. It was decided 

 that the Seelbach hotel is to be headquarters for 

 the delegates, the sessions to be held in the big 

 assembly rooms on the tenth floor of the hos- 

 telr.v. Following the regular business meetings 

 an elaborate banquet will be given on the evening 

 of March 6 in the main dining room of the Seel- 

 bach. which will be attended by the ladies of the 

 convention as well as the gentlemen. The fol- 

 lowing evening the Louisville Hardwood Club 

 will be host at an entertainment and smoker for 

 the masculine contingent in the assembly hall 

 and the ladies will be tendered a musicale. The 

 program will be rounded out with automobile 

 trips through the beautiful park and suburban 

 sections of Louisville for the ladies, while some 

 interesting excursions of exploration to Mam- 

 moth Cave. French Lick Springs and other fa- 

 mous resorts near Louisville have been arranged 

 for the benefit of the lumbermen who have never 

 visited Kentucky before. Attention proportionate 

 to that devoted to the entertainment features of 

 the program has been paid to the business ses- 

 sions. Invitations that were issued to notable 

 speakers have been accepted and a list of author- 

 ities in the lumber trade has been arranged. 



The lumber trade of Louisville will probably 

 be materially benefited in the future by fire in- 

 surance legislation which, in all probability, will 

 be passed by the General Assembly, now in ses- 

 sion at Frankfort. The Louisville Board of 

 Trade instituted the campaign for the enactment 

 of laws which will govern the fire insurance busi- 

 ness in Kentucky, providing complete investiga- 

 tion of all transactions by a State Commission, 

 which will be empowered to regulate rates .of all 

 companies doing business in the commonwealth. 

 A bill to establish such a commission has passed 

 the Senate and is now under consideration in the 

 House, by which it will probably be approved. 

 The Hegan Mantel Company of Louisville, one 



