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HARDWOOD RECORD 



rninal station wlnich is to cost $1,800,000, and the Rock Island system 

 is progressing with the building of the foundation for the piers of the 

 new bridge to bo constructed across the Mississippi at this point. This 

 will involve an expenditure of several million dollars. The Rock Island 

 is also engaged in building extensive terminals here which will involve 

 a large outlay. The Illinois Central, too, is largely increasing its terminal 



Bluestone Land & Lumber Company 



.MANIFACTI KKK8 



WEST VIRGINIA HARDWOODS 

 Soft White Pine, Oak, Poplar. Chestnut, Hemlock 



Band Sawed Slock RIDGWAY 



PENNSYLVANIA 



Mil, I. FACILITIES 

 COMPLETE HUANING 



PHIS 



Wholesale Maoofacturers and Exporters 



RED GUM 



SAP GUM 



COTTONWOOD 



CYPRESS 



ASH 



PLAIN OAK 



Aiir- J JTI.U QUARTERED OAK 



All Grades and I ntchnesses ^ HICKORY 



We make a specialty of mixed cars SOFT ELM 



of Sap and Red (jum, One-balf to ^YPAMORF 



Two inches thick. 



VANDEN BOOH==STmSON LUMBER COMPANY 



Mannfactnrers Sontbern Hardwoods 



Red Qum a Specialty 

 Memphis Tennessee 



TIMBER ESTIMATES 



itEPORTS iNn.T'nEn 



TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP, DETAIL ESTIMATES & WRITTEN REPORT 



GARDNER & HOWE 



ENGINEERS 



Clarence W. Griffith "'5.'^^ buiw"!^"' Memphis, Tenn. 



facilities at Nonconnah, Just south of this city, and there are a number 

 of other important building projects under way, with the result that 

 the showing is regarded as exceptionally encouraging. With large crops 

 indicated and with the advance of about $12.50 per bale in the price of 

 cotton during the past three weeks, there is a disposition among those 

 engaged with the building trades to look forward to large activity in the 

 immediate future. The so-called "dog days" have not had much eSEect 

 on the stoppage of building projects and the summer is regarded as one 

 of unusual accomplishments along this line despite the fact that the 

 official reports of work done within the city limits have not borne out this 

 idea. 



Bank clearings for the twelve months ending Aug. 31 vpere the largest 

 for any similar period in the history of the city by more than $16,000,000. 

 Official reports show that sales of cotton during the twelve months in 

 question showed a loss of more than $250,000, with the result that the 

 gain in clearings is attributable to increased activity in other directions. 

 Lumber interests made a ver.v substantial contribution to the magnificent 

 display, as their business was larger for the period in question than for 

 several seasons preceding. 



The Southern Lumber Company is making extensive repairs and^ im- 

 provements at its big plant at Warren, Ark. The latter Is now closed 

 down and will remain so until about the middle of this month. It has 

 a daily capacity of about 100,000 feet. 



The Enterprise Lumber Company, Corinth, Miss., has just completed 

 the installation of a roughing machine recently received direct from the 

 factory. 



Among the prominent buyers in Memphis recently has been J. N. 

 Woollett. president of the Aberdeen Lumber Company of Pittsburgh, Pa. 

 Mr. Woollett believes that there is an .-utiVM jierbxl ahead and predicts 

 that the lumber business in the territory tributary to Memphis will be 

 quite active during the next few months. 



The Bradley Lumber Company, Warren, Ark., has let the contract for a 

 new band mill and a band resaw to replace the double band mill recently 

 destroyed by Are at that point. The decision of the company to establish 

 a smaller plant than the one burned is due to the fact that the supply 

 of timber owned by it is not large enough to last for more than two 

 years. The company is identified with the Chicago Lumber & Coal Com- 

 pany. 



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The Artman, Nichols & Cox Lumber Lompauy of Metropolis, 111., has 

 purchased the D. M. Jones tract of tlmberland situated near Indian 

 .Mound, the consideration being $6,000. The land consists of a tract of 

 unusually fine oak, which will be developed at once and shipped to a 

 furniture factory at Grand Kaplds. 



The Clear Creek Coal & Lumber Company has filed a voluntary peti- 

 tion in bankruptcy in the United States district court at Nashville. 

 The liabilities amount to $70,000, including bonds to the amount of 

 $50,000, and assets arc valued at $200,000. The company owns 6,500 

 acres of timber and mineral land In Cumberland county. Its offices 

 are at IsoUne, Cumberland county. 



The B. G. Hale Lumber Company of Hickman, Ky., In order to avoid 

 an exorbitant rate of fire Insurance, has removed Its yards from its old 

 site to a lot formerly used by the Hickman Wagon Company. At the 

 old site the firm had to pay $7.50 per $100 for insurance, which was 

 almost prohibitive. 



Fire destroyed the plant of the Telllco River Lumber Company, near 

 Telliro Plains, causing a loss estimated at $150,000, which was par- 

 tially covered by insurance. The plant employed 450 men, and was one 

 of the important industries of that section. 



The West Kentucky Coal Company will have thirty barges built at Its 

 plant at Paducah, and has recently let an Important contract for mate- 

 rial. An order has been placed for (",00,000 feet of fir tlmlx-r, 300,000 feet 

 of yellow pine and 150,000 of white oak of heavy grade for steamboat 

 construction. The barges are to be completed within ninety days. 



The sawmill of Smith & Hogan, near Green Illll, Warren county, Ken- 

 tucky, was completely destroyed by fire. The mill was one of the largest 

 in that section, and the loss was total, as the firm bad no insurance. 



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The R. B. Wood Lumber Company of Baltimore will soon be operating 

 a new band mill at Earharts, six miles south of Bristol, near where the 

 company has purchased a large area of hardwood tlmberland. It has 

 other operations in West Virginia and North Carolina and formerly 

 operated on a large scale in Carter county, Tennessee. 



The Bristol mills, with one or two exceptions, are all unusually busy. 

 Shipments from here have been good all during the summer. Managers 

 of the local offices of eastern concerns report that they are doing a 

 splendid business in this territory. 



- R. L. Bonham of Chilhowle, Va., is cutting a large amount of stock 

 in the Ilolstou mountains east of Bristol. The stock Is being hauled to 

 Bristol on huge motor trucks and Is being shipped out over the Norfolk 

 and Western road. 



The Pittsburgh Lumber Company Is operating on a large scale at 

 Hampton, Tenn., where it Is turning out 75,000 feet of stock dally. 

 The company has about ten years' cut of splendid timber, consisting 

 mainly of hardwoods and hemlock. 



