THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



19 



NASHVILLE NEWS. 

 The charter of the Northern Tennessee 

 Coal & Lumber Company, with a catpitnl 

 stock of $1,000,000, has been filed here in 

 Dayidson county. 



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.1. E. Bates, formerly a member of the 

 lumber firm of J. E. Bates & Co., in this 

 city, died a few days ago in California. 



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The Davidson-Benedict Company report 

 a good business, both in the domestic field 

 and in export ways, so far as they hare 

 been concerned for tlie latter. 



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Love. BOyd & Co. note diminishing 

 stocks and stiff prices that they think will 

 last for the winter. 



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The Prewett-Spurr Manufacturing Com- 

 pany say that the woodenware orders al- 

 ready piled upon them would keep the 

 faetoiy busy the remainder of the year. 



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John B. Ransom «& Co. report their ex- 

 port lumber business hol<ling its own, with 

 some dissenting opinions, of course, on 

 prices. Lumber moving with a healthy 

 tone in the domestic market and fall ti-ade 

 on wooden packing boxes good. 



ST. LOUIS NOTES. 



August J. Lang returned this week from 

 a trip in the southern mill county and 

 states that tlie amount of lumber still in 

 first liands is too inconsiderable to mention. 

 His main oliject in going South was to 

 hurry tln'ough some shipments which have 

 been delayed b.v the scarcity of cars in the 

 southern country. 



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W. A. Bonsaek. of tlie Bousack Lumber 

 Company, states that trade continues to be 

 all that could be asked, and that both the 

 demand and prices are stiffening. He 

 says this will be the banner year with 

 his company and he sees nothing to pre- 

 vent a continuance for many months of 

 the present bright conditions. 



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Notice was given two weeks ago of the 

 purchase by .T. G. Brill & Co. of the Ameri- 

 can Car Comiiany plant in this city. Since 

 then the American Car & Truck Company 

 has been incorporated, with a capital stock 

 of $1,000,000, to operate the plant, and it 

 is stated that it will be in operation as 

 soon as the enlarging process has suf- 

 ficiently progressed. The capacity will be 



about doubled. 



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The Willard Case Lumber Company of 

 St. Joseph, Mo., has removed its headquar- 

 ters to this city, having recently opened 

 an office in the FuUerton building. This 

 is a wholesale hardwood concern having 

 mills in Arkansas. The bulk of its product 

 is turned into bridge plank and special bill 

 stock in oak. 



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D. O. Strifler. for many years a promi- 

 nent hardwood wholesaler of this city, died 

 in Milwaukee on September 2.5. His body 

 was brouglit to this city for interment. 



.Mr. Strifler had been in the lumber busi- 

 ness in St. Louis for almost twenty years 

 and had long been known as the largest 

 handler of cottonwood and gum in the city. 

 He leaves a widow, a daughter and a son, 

 the latter being C. E. Strifler, a whole- 

 sale hardwood dealer in the northern part 

 of the city. 



MEMPHIS MATTER. 

 E. E. Taenzer & Co., one of the old and 

 solid lumber firms here, have recently pur- 

 chased 12,000 acres of timber in Arkansas, 

 for a consideration of about $85,000. Two 

 saw mills and a timber railroad of twelve 

 miles are included in the deal. The tim- 

 lier is located in Cross County, Arkansas. 



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 Hummickhaus Bros, are erecting a saw- 

 mill at Stuttgart, Ark., that will employ 

 50 men and be completed in about 30 



days. 



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It is authoritatively stated that there is 

 to be an early change in the presidency of 

 the Ananias Club among the lumbermen of 

 North Memphis. It is said that a meeting 

 has been called at which the present in- 

 cumbent will acknowledge his qualifica- 

 tions outdone by a promising layman. 



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Mr. J. C. Stark, of the J. E. Stark Lum- 

 ber Company, has returned from a trip in 

 the Middle West. He reports lumber 

 prices firm and thoroughly dry stocks in 



yards scarce. 



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The interests of Bennett & Witte of 

 Cincinnati are being loolved after in Mem- 

 phis by George Eheman for some time 

 past a faithful attache of the Memphis 

 lumber firms. 



THE CLARENCE BOYLE LUMBER 

 COMPANY. 



We present herewith a photograph of 

 Clarence Boyle, not because it is neces- 

 sary, for nearly everybody knows Jlr. 

 Boyle, but rather as an evidence of good 

 faith and to call attention to his new 

 departure in the lumber trade, he having 

 recently organized the Clarence Boyle 

 Lumber Company, with a cash capital of 

 $10,000, to engage in the wholesaling of 

 hardwood, yellow pine and cypress lumber. 



Mr. Boyle is a lumberman by birth and 

 inheritance, his father, grandfather and 

 great gi-andfather having been in the lum- 

 ber business before him. For over a 

 hundred years the Boyles have engaged 

 in tlie manufacture and sale of hardwood 

 lumber, and have blazed a trail through 

 Virginia. Kentucky. Indiana. Tennessee 

 and Mississippi: pioneers always, and al- 

 ways upright, consistent and thorough go- 

 ing. And Mr. Boyle is not only a lum- 

 berman by birth and inheritance, but by 

 education and training as well, for all of 

 his forty j'ears of life which have been 

 spent in business have been spent in the 

 lumber business, and in all denartments. 



from estimating timber to marketing the 

 finished product. 



He has for sometime past reinesented 

 the J. W, Thompson Lumber Company of 

 Memphis in the Chicago district. He will 

 retain that connection and the Clarence 

 Boyle Lumber Company will be sales agent 

 for that company in Chicago and adjacent 

 territory, thus starting off with one of the 

 largest and best selected stocks of southern 

 hardwoods and cypress in the country to 

 sell from. 



In addition to southern hardwoods Mr. 

 Boyle expects to deal in northern hard- 

 woods (he having operated for six years in 

 Wisconsin, and having a thorough knowl- 

 edge of the business), cypress and yellow 

 pine. 



With his thorough, general and special 



CLARENCE BOYLE. CHICAGO. 



business training, with his wide acquaint- 

 ance in all departments of the lumber 

 trade, and with that ripe judgment and 

 strong determination which comes to a 

 man at 40, Mr. Boyle is certain to achieve 

 that success which his bust of friends so 

 warmly wish him. 



His office ^\ill be "at Twenty-second and 

 Fisk streets, where he will be glad to 

 see his friends or hear from them. 



A HANDSOME MENU CARD. 



The menu card gotten up by the Mobile 

 & Ohio Railroad for their dining car ser- 

 vice is a ver.y liandsome card. The frontis- 

 Iiiece is a prett.v maiden walking along a 

 country lane with dress full of spring 

 blossoms, and in the upper left hand corner 

 ii^ embossed in black and white the well- 

 known insignia of the Mobile & Ohio 

 Railroad. The liack of tlie c.-ird is ciii- 

 bellished with a view of the Union Sta- 

 tion at St. Louis, with a map of the route 

 from St. Louis to New Orleans, Mobile and 

 Montgomery. Within is given a list of the 

 good things to eat that can be found on 

 these cars. 



