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and at Madison, Ark., fully engaged. Prices are pretty well main- 

 tained thougli in some instances, notably egg cases, they are somewhat 

 lower. Cottonwood and gum are still somewhat scarce in the lower 

 grades but the demand is not so active as recently, with the result that 

 quotations are being shaded somewhat. It is not often that the manu- 

 facturers of boxes find business as good at this season of the year as it 

 is at present. One tirm said recently that its shipments during the first 

 half of July were about .?10.000 ahead of the same time last year. 



C. J. Xully. vice-president of the Anderson-Tully Company and promi- 

 nently identified with .a number of lumber and wood-working enterprises 

 here, is spending his vacation on the Great Zakes. He is getting to be 

 something of a sailor and it is reported that, in his strenuous efforts 

 to keep cool, he has made the trip from one end of Lake Erie to the 

 other five different times. The latest advices indicate that he is now 

 trying the virtue of the waters of Lake Michigan. Mr. Tully is accom- 

 panied by his wife and, considering the amount of energy he is spending 

 in the direction already suggested, he is having a remarkably good 

 time. 



W. A. Ransom of the Gayoso Lumber Company, who has been spend- 

 ing some time In Europe lately, has returned to this city. Mr. Ransom 

 went abroad on a combined pleasure and business trip and those who 

 know hitu well have not stopped to ask whether he spent the greater 

 portion of the time in quest of business or of pleasure. 



J. W. Thompson, who recently accepted a position with Howard Cole 

 & Co., Inc., of St. Louis, has been spending some time here during the 

 past few days, circulating among his many friends. 



The Memphis Manufacturers' Association, with which a number of 

 prominent owners of lumber and woodworking enterprises are identified, 

 has started a campaign for doubling its membership between now and 

 Sept. 1. The headquarters of the state organization, the Tennessee Man- 

 ufacturers' Association, were recently removed to this city, and are in 

 charge of C. C. Gilbert. J. T. Willingham, president of the Memphis 

 Coffin Company, is also president oi the Tennessee Manufacturers Asso- 

 ciation. 



Theodore Cissel is erecting a new sawmill near Harrlsburg. Ark. The 

 machinery has already been delivered and the plant will be in operation 

 some time within the nest month. 



The Valley Lumber Company, Camden, Ark., has acquired the sawmill, 

 timberland holdings and the tram road of the W. L. Robinson Lumber 

 Compauy near Gloster, Miss., and it has likewise acquired the timber 

 belonging to the Batln Timber Company, Superior, Wis., in the territory 

 tributary to Gloster. It is the announced intention of the purchasing 

 firm, which has secured enough timber to last several years, to build 

 another sawmill at a point convenient to its newly acquired holdings. 



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The Tennessee Manufacturers' Association is planning an active cam- 

 paign to unite the manufacturers of Tennessee to work together for 

 the promotion of the industrial interests. Copies of the factory laws of 

 the stale have been printed, and are being distributed among the manu- 

 facturers. Efforts will be made to greatly increase the membership. 



The Blanchard Company is makiug preparations to erect a large spoke 

 factory at Harriraan, Tenn., which will employ about fifty men. 



A. M. Stewart, a former Xashvllle man who operated a sawmill at 

 ranola. near Richmond, Ky., met with fatal injuries by becoming en- 

 tangled with a saw at his plant, dying a short time after the accident. 



The Highland Coal & Lumber Company, with its principal office in 

 Nashville, has been incorporated.' The company has an authorized capi- 

 tal stock of $2.5,000, and plans the development of timber and mineral 

 lands. The company is compo.sed of W. V. Davidson, M. F. Greene., 

 Lucien Clark, N. N. Davidson and II. M. Greene, prominent local lum- 

 bermen. 



John M. Smith, who has been confined to his home about three months 

 by illness, is again able to be on his job, looking after the Dickson in- 

 terests of t'ue W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company of Louisville. 



The sawmill of McCaslin Brothers at Pinewood, near Centreville, 

 Tenn.. was damaged by fire, causing a loss of about $1,000. The firm 

 was involved in litigation with Iluut, Washington & Smith, a Nashville 

 firm at the time of the fire, and had suspended operation. A large 

 amount of lumber, worth several thousand dollars was saved. 



Mr. Nixon, of Wister, Underbill & Nixon, Philadelphia, was in Nash- 

 ville, looking after local interests of his company. 



W. V. Davidson, president of the Davidson, Hicks & Greene Company, 

 has gone to Denver, where he will remain about two weeks. 



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The Louisville Hardwood Club has been having its meetings 'out-of- 

 doors of late, varying between Eight-Mile ' House and Devil's Kitchen. 

 Chicken has been regularly the piece dc resistance, and nobody has 

 seemed to tire of it. It is not likely that a return will be made to the 

 regular quarters at the Seelbaeh hotel until cooler weather makes its 

 appearance. 



'I'hi' inten.se heat of the past few weeks has had its effect on lumber 

 operations, work in the yards being carried on under extremely unsatis- 

 factory conditions. Temperatures ran well over 100 degrees for several 

 days in succession and a large number of people were prostrated. Lum- 

 bermen reported that their forces were depleted in some cases by men 



Mahogany 

 Lumber and 

 Veneers 



In buying Mahogany Lumber and Veneers 

 of C. L. Willey, the purchaser is assured of a' 

 product cut from the finest figured wood that 

 money and a search of the •world's markets can 

 secure. 



Beyond this he is assured of prompt and pains- 

 taking service, and a quaHty of product not usu- 

 ally obtainable. 



Right now stored in the log yard of the Willey 

 plant at Chicago is more than a quarter million 

 dollars' worth of the highest class figured mahog- 

 any ever imported to this country. 



The accompanying illustration shows a cor- 

 ner of the assemblage of these mahogany logs. 



The Willey warehouses are well stocked with 

 a superb collection of Mahogany, Vermillion, 

 Walnut and other fancy veneers. 



An inspection is cordially invited. Take Blue 

 Island x'Vve. car at the postoffice to Robey Street. 



C. L. WILLEY, Chicago 



Largest Mahogany Veneer and Lumber Producing Plant in 

 the World 



