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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



( nirot I.mnlii'r I'lmipMiiy, in spealdns of 

 llic tniiisactinn. sMid it was an important 

 niuvc ill line with tlic recent tendency of 

 udtiim at llie l)ase of siipiilies and the eon- 

 seciucnt development of the Sonth. It is 

 iiuite a \vel<-ome addititm to the town of 

 I'-lissville. Tliere is another oppurtunity of 

 similar cliaraeter at the same lH)int on 

 lands owned l)y tlie Cliieot Lumber Com- 

 pany tliat miglit lie of interest to some 

 of onr readers who contemplate opening up 

 ( r chanfjins location of a han<lle and spoke 

 lactory. 



Tliomas McFarland. the Cairo and Chi- 

 cago hardwood lumberman, is taking a two 

 week>'' v.ncation during the tishing periwl. 

 He and his family are at Tewankee Lake, 

 Wis. 



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The W. it B. Hardwood Lundier Com- 

 pany have increased their capital stock 

 from .fio.imd to $2.5.000. 



NASHVILLE NEWS. 



The Nashville Ijumbermen's Association 

 organized recently, with .John B. Ransom 

 president, has already shown itself a 

 power in the affairs of Nashville and that 

 the organization is one of permanence and 

 eminent importance to the business and 

 social interest.s of the lumbermen. They 

 Imvc looms in the AVilcox building, which 

 have l)een nicely furnished with desks, 

 chairs, etc, and are constantly open to the 

 visiting lumbermen as well as members of 

 the association. It is intended to prepare 

 a large bulletin in the room on which mem- 

 bers may post any sh(n-tage or oversupply 

 of stock, or anything desired to be brought 

 to the attention of the membership. At a 

 recent well attended and important meet- 

 ing, the adoption of a standard system of 

 measurements came up, for which the 

 I>oyle-Scriliner scale was selected. Also 

 the ta.\ cases were brought up for final set- 

 tlement, which, it will be remembered, 

 arose from an attempt by the legislature 

 of the state of Tennessee to tax logs and 

 lumber in the yards and terminated a 

 short time ago by the declaring of such 

 tax nncoustitutioual by the Supreme Court. 

 'I'his tax was fought by the coiubined lum- 

 ber interests and the result is very gratify- 

 ing — that no lumber or logs such as may 

 be the product of Tennessee can be taxed 

 in tlie hands of dealers. 



j\[r. J. H. Baskette. who was one of the 

 promoters of the Nashville Association and 

 who was temporary secretary until the 

 election of Mr. J. II. Baird a few weeks 

 ago, says that this organization fills a long- 

 felt want among the lumbermen and means 

 a great deal to the lumber interests. He 

 says that they have in a way suffered from 

 ,1 lack of co-operation and of close rela- 

 tions, both business and social, and the as- 

 sociation, he thinks, will remedy all this. 

 The movement is receiving the unanimous 



supi)ort of all the interests here. 

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Nashville parties have secured the timber 



on a G,500 acre tract of land near South 



nttsburg. Tenn. J. R. McElwane. of this 

 city, and T. 1). Johns of Sherwood en- 

 gineered the deal. The purchasers as soon 

 as they organize will put in a band saw 

 mill. They will also build several log 

 tramways and emi)loy about 100 men. 



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There will be a full atteii<tance of the 

 Nashville hardwood people upon the Louis- 

 ville convention June ;!. 



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Mr. J. T. Burford, of the Burford Lum- 

 ber Company of Chattanooga, was here 



tliis week. 



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Mr. Clias. Troutman, a saw mill man of 

 Vale, Tenn., was here a few days ago with 



local lumbermen. 



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Mr. J. M. Ransom, of John B. Ransom & 

 Co., is in West Tennessee this week. 



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M. P. Mallon"s cooperage works on Di- 

 vision street burned a few nights since, en- 

 tailing a loss of a couple of thousand dol- 

 lars. 



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Former Gov. J. G. Jackson of Maryland, 

 one of the leading stockholders in the 

 Jackson Lumber Company of Alabama, 

 passed through these parts a few days ago 

 in company with President Milton Smith, 

 of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. 

 They were going to Opp, Covington County, 

 Ala. They also intended to visit the Alger 

 plant at Century, Ala. It was announced 

 recently that a two-thirds interest in the 

 Jackson Land Company had been pur- 

 chased by Iowa capitalists who would man- 

 ufacture off 147.000 acres. The stockhold- 

 ers are the same in the companies gener- 

 ally. Opp will be the site of the new mill, 

 which it is said may be the largest in the 

 South. It will employ iW men. It is an- 

 nounced that a timber railroad will be built 

 from Opp in a southern direction. 

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 The Illinois Central Railroad is consid- 

 ering putting in repair shops here at a cost 

 of .f.'iOO.OOO. 



tract near Parkin, Ark., which they re- 

 cently purchased of Fee Bros. 



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Jlr. E. M. Schulte. a prominent saw 

 mill man from Glendora. .Miss., was in 



Memphis this week, 



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The Griflith Lumlier Comp.-uiy at Pea- 

 vine, near Cros.sville. Tenn.. will complete 

 this week a sixteen-mile tram road to 

 Dorton. on the Tennessee Central Railroad. 

 The company has four mills in operation 

 and will ship .several million feet of lum- 

 ber from the Peavine set. 



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The Boyd-Hudson Luml>er Company of 

 South Bend, Ind., has filed its charter in 

 Akransas. They will put up a mill at 



Oklahoma and manufacture in hardwoods. 



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The Diamond Lumber Company at Car- 

 gile. Union County, Ark., has just been in- 

 corporated with a capital stock of $10,000. 

 J. W. Tafft is president and J. C. Place. 



secretary and treasurer. 



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The Janes-Keeney Lumber Company at 

 Isola, Miss., is putting in a planning and 

 flooring mill department. 



MEMPHIS MATTER, 

 W. K. Baskerville of Taylor & Basker- 

 ville, saw mill people at Stanton, Tenn., 

 was here this week. 



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C. W. Hanna, a member of the lumber 

 trade from New Orleans, was here this 

 week. 



Theo. Courcier. a 1 

 lUicali. Ky., was here 



imberman from Pa- 

 a dav or two since. 



The Lansing Wheelbarrow Company, a 

 .$500,000 corporation of Lansing, Mich,, 

 that is known extensively in the export 

 and American trade, will put in a factory 

 in South Memphis before fall. E. W. 

 Sparrow is president, and A. C. Stebliins, 

 secretary and treasurer. The material will 

 include gum, with which the firm has re- 

 cently been experimenting. These raw 

 supplies will come from a 12,000-acre 



GOTHAM GLEANINGS. 

 William H. Wetmore, whose father, the 

 late A. B. Wetmore, was a prominent 

 wholesale hardwood dealer here, and who 

 represents locally the hardwood firm of 

 R. P. Baer & Co., Baltiiuore, was married 

 in this city on the 1.5th inst. to Mrs. Re- 

 becca Cornelia Schott, prominent socially 

 lioth here and in the South. Mr. Wetmore 

 is a graduate of Columbia University. 



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The latest step in tlie Cliequasset Lum- 

 ber Company failure was taken in this city 

 last Thursday, when the claims of 110 

 creditors were filed, aggi-egating about 

 )}!."i(X),0OO. Total liabilities are estimated at 

 !i!2.50,0OO more. James R. Burnet, of 135 

 Broadway, was elected trustee, with a bond 

 of $30,0(X>, which represents cash assets 

 on hand. Forty banks filed claims, the 70 

 others being principally those of lumber 

 concerns. Among them were the Ameri- 

 can Lumber Company, .$.">,012: Thoiuas T. 

 Adams, $3,496, and the Rittenhouse & Em- 

 bree Company, $3,01.1. 



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A number of hardwood lumber export- 

 ers are members of the recently organized 

 Export Club of New York, with oflices in 

 the Coffee Exchange building. The ob.1ect 

 of the club is to bring the manufacturer 

 and foreign buyer together. 

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Recent visitors to the trade were: C. T. 

 Cooke, manager of the Maple, Birch & 

 Beech Flooring Company, Gaines, Pa,; W. 

 M. McCormick, Philadelphia; C. H. Cald- 

 ^•ell, president of the Flint River Lumber 

 Company, Bainbridge, Ga,; F, L. Peck, of 

 the Leekmann Lumber Company, Scran- 

 ton, Pa.: J. E, T. Bowden, Jacksonville, 

 Fla.; Robert Patterson, Philadelphia; 

 Frank Folsom, of the Whiting Lumber 

 Company, Elizabethtown, Tenn.; J. H. 



