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HARDWOOD RECORD 



firms. Tlio law providos that timber shall be cleared from only such land 

 as is to be cultivated unless the timber is used for construction of houses 

 thereon. 



W. J. Sowers of the Xlajor-Sowers t-'aiv .Mill Compau.v. Epley. Jliss.. was 

 a visitor to Nashville, having been on nn extensivi' tour for his compan.v. 

 Mr. Sowers predicts good business the coming fall, and Ijelieves that the 

 bottom has been reached in prices. 



Vicegerent Charles W. Morford of the middle district of Tennessee has 

 i.ssued a lall for a concatenation of the order of Hoo-Hoo to be held in 

 Nashville. Aug. 8. One of the largest gatherings of lumbermen in middle 

 Tennessee for several years is expected. Vicegerent Morford is president 

 of the Nashville Lumbermen's Club, and is a live wire in the local trade. 



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Former Supreme Serivenoter James H. Baird will co-operate witli the vice- 

 gerent in making the arrangements. 



A meeting was held in Nashville of citizens interested in a new trunk 

 line railroad from the Ohio river by way of Nashville and Knoxville to 

 Savannah. W. J. Oliver, who owns a small line out of Knoxville. is 

 active in promoting the new line. The plan is to connect several small 

 lines, including the Tennessee Central, and build the necessary links. It 

 is claimed that the proposed route will be the shortest line from Chicago 

 and St. Louis to the Panama Canal, and w'ill be a great tonnage getter 

 from the west. 



=•< BRISTOL >=== 



The R. E. Wood Lumber Company of Baltimore will shortly begin the 

 operation of a band mill at Earhart's, seven miles south of Bristol, where 

 the company has purchased a large area of hardwood timber and is now 

 putting in a mill. 



The Pittsburgh Lumber Company is now operating on a large scale at 

 Hampton. Tenn., and is cutting 75.000 feet of stock daily. The company 

 has a ten-year cut of virgin hardwood. 



W. G. McCain of the Peter McCain Lumber Company has returned from 

 a business trip in North Carolina. The company has a $50,000 tract of 

 haidwood timber in Carter county. Tennessee, which it will begin cutting 

 on as soon as it has exhausted its present supply in the llolston mountains 

 east of Bristol, which will be within the next year. 



The Rockcastle Lumber Company of Huntington, W. Va., formerly of 

 Bristol, has purchased a large area of timberland in Mai'ion county, Ken- 

 tucky, and will cut it at the present band mill at Meek, Ky. The company 

 will soon finish cutting a large area of hardwood timtier adjacent to 

 .Meek, which it purchased about five years ago. 



The Dione Lumber Company of this city has installed mills in west- 

 ern Kentucky and is now o]»er:iting. Irving Whaley and II. M. Hoskins of 

 the Whaley-Warren Lumber Company and the H. M. Hoskins Lumber Com- 

 pany, respectively, are interested in the new company. 



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rt-pil M<('rack(ii of the Ki-niiKky \'c!ii'iT Works has yieklod to the 

 attractions of foiling and is now one of the regulars at the Audubon 

 Tountrj' Club. IIo recently took part in the "Duffers' Tournament," ar- 

 ranged for those who are yet unable to converse fluently in golf, and made 

 an rxcellent showing. 



The Kentark Land & Timbor Company, the local concern of which Uohort 

 Carnahan is president, has enlarged its scope considerably, purchasing 

 1^4.000 acrt s < f oak. gnm and ash timber in Arkansas from the I'niou 

 Land & Lumber Company. Tin' land is located in .Tofferson, Lonoke and 

 Arkansas counties, in the first of which the Kentark company already 

 had large holdings. Active operations of the property will be carried on 

 through the Varncr Land & Lumber Company, which is building a sawmill 

 at Geridge and which Is already operating another near Stuttgart. Mr. 

 Cainahan and the Kentark company aro both interested in the Varner 

 company, which has a contract to manufacture lumber for the latter cor- 

 poration. 



Walter Ilogan of Milford, O., has purchased the Lewis tract of timber 

 on Licking river, near Caney creek, and has contracted with Dick Russell 

 of Hazel Green. Ky., to saw it into lumber. There is about LOGO, 000 fei't 

 in the tract. 



The Arlington. Ky., Lumber Company has moved its mill from Arlington 

 to Tark IMace. Ark., and built a new mill at Arlington. It will also make 

 other improvements, such as tho installation of electric lights and water 

 service throughout its plant. 



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W. W. Dings, secretary of the Garetson-Greason Lumber Company, who 

 went to Colorado with Mrs. Dings and the children several weeks ago. 

 has returned. He left Mrs. Dings in Colorado and will return there later 

 in the summer, to remain a while and bring her home. 



The Lumbermen's Club of St. Louis will give another buffet luncheon 

 to its membeis and visiting lumbermen on Aug. 12. The last one given, 

 a few weeks ago, was so much enjoyed by the members and their friends 

 that President Whitmarsh. Secretary Pier and the entertainment com- 

 mittee of the club decided on another before the regular season commenced. 

 The club is one of the most active organizations in the city and most 

 of the leading lumbermen, both wholesale and retail, are members. Visit- 

 ing lumbermeu are always welcome to the club rooms and few visiting 

 lumbermen neglect to take advantage of the courtesy. 



Frank Liebke of the C. F. Llebke Hardwood Mill & Lumber Company 

 says the lompany is seasonably busy. It is hard at work sawing the 

 several big shipments of ash logs that have come in recently and filling 

 orders. It has orders on hand to keep the plant busy for the next six 

 months, even if another order is not received. It is expecting another 

 shipment of ash logs of about 700,000 feet to arrive within the next ten 

 days. 



C. G. Labbe is now traveling for tlic Thomas K. I'owe Lumber Company, 

 covering the territory east of Chicago. Although slarting in at a very 

 dull time of the year, Mr. I,al)bc is sending In some very good orders and 

 feels greatly encouraged. 



The Lothman Cypress Company is having n nice business In spite of 

 Ihe quietness of the season. E. W. Blumer, sales manager of the company, 



