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mills, a fui-niture fnotiii-.v, a liox factory, 

 own Hotel Cumberland at Monterey, up in 

 the mountains of East Tennessee. During 

 the present week, with reference to their 

 furniture line, the Davidson-BeuecMct Fur- 

 niture Company and the Montgomery Fur- 

 nitiu'e Company were consolidated and a 

 charter obtained for a .$100,000 furniture 

 plant. The new corporation will use the 

 factories of the Pavidson-Kencdict Com- 

 pany, and the storehouses and salesrooms 

 of the Montgomery Furniture Company, 

 the largest factory and the largest furni- 

 ture store of the city thus becoming asso- 

 ciated. R. J. Montgomery will be presi- 

 dent and general manager and T. F. Bon- 

 ner will lie secretary. 



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Mr. .John ^^■. Love, of Love. Boyd i*i Co.. 

 will le.-ive in a few days for Xovia Scotia, 

 where he has been summering and making 

 fame as a fisherman the past season or 



two. 



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Mr. J. M. Card, of the .T. M. Card Lum- 

 ber Company, was a visitor in Nashville 

 lumber circles last ■neek. 



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Mr. T. M. Fay. representing the Chas. 

 F. Luehrman Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany of St. Louis, was here recently. 

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Mr. S. 1>. Albright, of Albright \- Co., 

 has returned from l\>llico Plains, where 

 he has been shipping some of the stock 

 owned by the late American Hardwood 

 Company. 



IN MEMPHIS CIRCLES. 



The Hell-TlKinipsdU Lumlier Company, 

 recently organized, is the latest firm to en- 

 ter the rield of Memphis lumber interests. 

 L. H. Bell is the president and N. N. 

 Thompson secretary and treasurer, both of 

 whom are young men with energy and pro- 

 gressive business methods. They will have 

 headijuarters in the Randolph building and 

 purpose extensive i.peratious in both the 

 manufacturing and wholesaling of hard- 

 wood lumber. 



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T. B. Allen, of T. B Allen & Co., stave 

 e,\porters. ^vhose headquarters across the 

 waters are at Dublin, report a good trade 

 in their line. Canadian fishing trips aban- 

 doned out of the pressure of business, and 

 the mills running overtime in Jlissis.-ippi. 



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The J. W. Darling Lumber Company of 

 Cincinnati has opened an oflice also in the 

 Randolph liuilding. Mr. 1. X. Woodbury, a 

 genth man of wide e.xperienee as a sales- 

 man of lumber in the North and North- 

 west, will look after the Memphis district 

 and southern territory. 



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Alcee Stewart, of Alcee Stewart & Co., 

 St. Louis, was a visitor to the trade this 

 week. 



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Mr. A. A. Thompson, of Thompson & 

 McClure. has returned from a several 

 weeks' trip down in Mississippi. He re- 



iwrts the mills there getting on a season of 

 activity aiKl agricultural conditions at this 



time flattering. 



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The I. JI. Darnell iV: Son Company report 

 business good all the year to date. They 

 have just finished installing a large new 

 boiler in their planing mill, which has 

 neces.sarily been closed down for some 



time, 



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The Sawyer & Austin I>umber Company 

 of Pine Bluff, Ark., will commence work 

 in a few days on a .$100,000 box manufac- 

 turing plant. 



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The Thompson Lumber Company, Lim- 

 ited, of Grand Rapids, Mich., has exten- 

 sive operations in Central Mississippi 

 planned. They have purchased a mill or 

 two at Bo.vle. Miss. This company has 

 lately absorbed and succeeded the old B. 

 R. Thompson Lumber Company of Grand 

 Rapids. It has a plant at Clarksville. 

 Tenn., and several other point.s. The 

 company \\ill market al>out 15.000,000 feet 

 of lumber per annum. It is possible an 

 otUce will be opened later in this cit.y by 

 the company to direct their Mississippi 

 operations, which promise to be extensive. 



BUFFALO BITS. 



Mr. Chestnut, wlio has been connected 

 with the H. JI. Loud & Sons Company's 

 Buffalo otflce ever since the firm has been 

 doing business here, severed his connec- 

 tion with that firm the first of July, and is 

 now in the lumber business on his own ac- 

 count. Although Mr. Chestnut has been 

 at it barely a week, he has already made 

 sales which will net him a good profit. 

 He has hosts of friends and they all wish 



his success. 



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Mr. H. S. .Janes sticks close to the south- 

 ern end of his business. He realizes that 

 the mill end is where there is a big chance 

 to save money, if watched closely. Mr. 

 .Janes is building dry kilns and claims that 

 between his mill business and the farming 

 hi.s time is pretty well taken up. Jlr. 

 .Janes is fortunate in having such an able 

 lieutenant in Mr. Homer Kerr, who eon- 

 duetji the Buffalo end of the business in his 

 absence.. 



GEO. E. OHAKA CYPRESS COMPANY. 



The affairs of the firm of De .Montcourt 

 & Ohara of Cairo, III., have been settled 

 up and the firm has cea.sed to exist. The 

 surviving member. Mr. (Jeorge Pi Oliara, 

 however, will continue in the lumber busi- 

 ness under the style of the Geo. K. Ohara 

 Cypress Company (not incorporated), with 

 ofl3ces and headquarters at Cairo. .Mr. 

 Ohara informs us that he has recently pur- 

 chased 50,000,000 feet of cypress and 10,- 

 000,000 feet of oak, ash and cottonwood 

 stumpage In E^st Carroll and Madison 

 parishes, Louisiana, and is now locating 

 two mills in the timber, whose combineil 

 daily capacity is 50,00() feet. The product 

 of these mills will reach tlie markets via 



the new line of railwa.v which tlie .Missouri 

 Pacific is now building througli I>ouisiana 

 and by the way of the Mississippi River, 

 which is within three miles of the timber. 

 Mr. Ohara says the.y expect to begin saw- 

 ing early in September and that they have 

 contracted 10,000,000 feet of the cypress 

 to the F. H. Smith I.,umber Company of 

 St. Louis, which stock is to be cut and de- 

 livered as rapidly as possible. 



ANOTHER BIG INSTITUTION. 



An immense new lumber comjiany was 

 formed at Grand Rapids. Mich., last week 

 with a capital stock of .$4O(5,CM)0, already 

 subscribed. Wm. H. White & Co. of 

 Boyne City are the largest stockholders, 

 having sul>sci-ibed .'?l'25.00O. H. B. Lewis 

 (f Elk Rapids will also be an investor, his 

 subscription being .$.35,000. Among the 

 other stockholders are L. H. Willey, Amos 

 S. iXusselman. John Murray. B<Tward Fitz- 

 gerald. Henry Idema ai'd other (Jrand Rap- 

 ids capitalists. The company have pur- 

 chased tlic old Ward tract of 20,000 acres 

 of hardwood timber near Boyne City. It 

 ^^•ill be cut and hauled to Boyne City over 

 the Boyne City & Southeastern Railroad 

 and 'turned into lumber at a mill which 

 will be erected there by the new company. 



GONE TO EUROPE. 



Mr. G. P. Altenburg. foreign manager of 

 the J. A. Fay & Egan Company, of No. 414 

 to 434 AVest Front street. Cincinnati. O., 

 the large makers of woodworking machin- 

 ery, has just left on his annual trip to Eu- 

 rope, where he will visit the principal coun- 

 tries in the interest of his firm. He will 

 also go to South Africa, where he will or- 

 ganize agencies and representatives. The 

 termination of hostilities there has opened 

 up a fine market for the products of the 

 company, and with their usual activity 

 they are losing no time in taking advantage 

 of this opportunity to introduce their wood- 

 working machinery. The address of Mr. 

 Altenberg while in Europe will be at 51 

 Wharton Road, Kensington, London. W., 

 England. 



The Long-Knight Lumber Company of 

 Indianapolis report business as unusually 

 good for this season of the year. It is 

 without any special features, but demand 

 is keeping up in fairly good shape on all 

 items, and they regard the outlook as ex- 

 tremely favorable. 



H. E. Christian of Iudianai>ulis. Ind.. 

 speaks very encouragingly of business. He 

 is doing largely a wholesale carload busi- 

 ness, although he has ample yard room for 

 a retail business. He states that he is 

 having no troulile in selling all he can Iiuy 

 as fast as it arrives. 



Governor A. T. Bliss, recentlj- renonwn- 

 ated on the Republican ticket for governor 

 of Michigan, has given $20,000 to AUuon 

 College at Albion. Mich. 



