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HARDWOOD RECORD 



It is ixpected that it will take at least four 

 montlis to secure a final decision on the ques- 

 tion. Briefs will be submitted by both sides 

 following the transcript of the evidence, and 

 later snpplenieutiiry briefs are to be tiled. In 

 this way the commission can hardly be expected 

 to baud down a decision before February 15, 

 1911. 



A. E. Norman of the Xorman Lumber Com- 

 pany, the case of which is typical, s^'-! that he 

 was convinced that the commission w. "'1 order 

 a readjustment of some kind in favor <,»' Louis- 

 ville, The railroads have already made over- 

 tures in the direction of instituting certain re- 

 consignment privileges here, and if the rate 

 situation is worked out satisfactorily Louisville 

 hardwood men will have no cause for complaint. 



Mahogany Importers Sued 



Suit was recently commcnci-d in the federal 

 court in Krooklyn against the Maley, Thompson 

 & Moffett Company, the well-known Cincinnati 

 mahogany and hardwood operator, for the recov- 

 ery of duty on importations of Cuban mahog- 

 any. 



Last December some three thousand pieces of 

 lumber imported by this company to New York 

 were seized by the L'nited States marshal on 

 the ground that the lumber was undervalued. 

 An attempt is being made to secure from the 

 court an order calling for the forfeiture and 

 sale of the cargo on this ground. 



By those on the Inside of the deal it is be- 

 lieved that the suit was induced entirely by 

 spite work on the part of jealous rivals in the 

 trade, and it is also believed that the Maley, 

 Thompson & Moffett Company will be fully 

 exonerated from the charge of undervaluations 

 when the case comes for a hearing. 



Lumber Company Buys Mill and Timber 

 Tract 



A deal has been made whereby the band mill 

 of the Morton-Lewls-Willey Lumber Company, 

 Bristol. Tenn., will be started again about No- 

 vember 1.^ and run regularly thereafter. The 

 mill has been sold to the I'eter-McCain Lumber 

 Company, which now owns the thoroughly 

 equipped nine-foot band mill, with a daily ca- 

 pacity of 40.000 feet, the planing mill, office 

 building and eighteen acres of ground. 



The I'eter-McCain Company has closed a deal 

 for the Cowan timber tract five miles east of 

 Bristol and near Ruthton. and is now busy put- 

 ting in a line of railroad, which will be about 

 four miles in length. The logs will be loaded on 

 the company's own equipment and conveyed to a 

 sidetrack four-fifths of a mile east of Ruthton, 

 on the Holston Valley railroad, and over that 

 road to the band mill in Bristol. It will carry 

 about twenty cars of logs daily from the new 

 operations. 



The new deal will give employment to about 

 eighty people at the mill in Bristol, on the yards, 

 on the company's branch line of railroad and in 

 the woods. The railroad is now nearing com- 

 pletion and preparations are being made to start 

 the mill about the middle of November. One 

 locomotive has just been received by the company 

 and a second will be brought over from Neva. 

 .Johnson county, Tennessee, where the band mill 

 of McCain & Sons, who are heavily interested 

 in the Peter-McCain Company, was recentl.v 

 clo.sed down, following the cutting out of its 

 timber tract. 



The Bristol mill of the Morton-Lewis Com- 

 pany has a remarkable record, it having cut 

 about 200.000,000 feet of stock, which has been 

 manufactured by that companj- in a little over 

 ten .years. The company exhausted its timber 

 in the Holston mountains and decided to abandon 

 its operations in Tennessee. 



Splendid 'Walnut Burl 



That foremost purveyor in plain and figured 

 walnut and walnut burls, Frank Purcell of 

 Kansas City, Mo., sends the Record a photo- 

 graph, from which the accompanying half-tone 

 is made, showing a very unusual and handsome 

 walnut burl which he recently secured in Okla- 

 homa. Choice burls are very scarce and Mr. 

 I'urcell says this one is the finest that he has 

 ever seen in his thirty years of handling walnut. 



Lumberman Meets 'ViDlent Death 



A. M. Love, a prominent lumberman of Leiand, 

 Miss., met a violent death on October HO while 

 riding in an automobile driven by .T. R. Smith, 

 also of Leiand. The two men had driven from 

 Leiand to Greenville in the evening and were 

 returning several hours later. At a point about 

 half way between the two towns the auto with- 

 out warning gave a quick swerve to the side 



WALNUT BURL, PROPERTY OF FRANK PUltCELL, KANSAS CITY. 



' It is kept in his yard al Kan.sas City and 

 will soon be cut into veneers for the piano 

 trade. This burl weighs forty-two hundred 

 pounds. 



Mr. Purcell specializes in plain and fancy 

 walnut logs and burls and ships most of his 

 prime walnut logs to Germany, but also does 

 considerable domestic business in hardwood lum- 

 ber and fancy wood. 



and while .Mr. Smith was directing his attention 

 toward gelling the machine back into the road- 

 way, bis companion was thrown bodily from 

 the car to the side of the road. The machines 

 could not be stopped for some distance and wlicn 

 the driver returned he found the victim lying 

 by the roadside, his head having struck a boulder. 

 Mr. Smith put his companion in the back seat 

 and hurried to Leiand. but upon arrival at that 



place physicians stated that death had occurred 

 an hour or so before. 



Mr. Love was born in Seymour. Ind., in ISOO, 

 being forty-four years old at the time of his 

 death. He entered the lumber business twenty- 

 six years ago, serving the entire time in con- 

 nection with R. J. Darnell. He was with the 

 Darnell interests here and in the North until 

 six years ago. when he removed to Leiand on 

 the organization of the Darnell-Love Lumber 

 Company, of w'hlch he became vice-president and 

 general manager. He held this position at the 

 time of his death. He was an experienced lum- 

 berman and understood the manufacturing end 

 of the business unusually well, with the result 

 that his plant at Leiand became recognized as 

 one of the model hardwood mills in the South. 

 In addition to being interested in the Darnell- 

 Love Lumber Company, Mr. Love was a stock- 

 bolder and director in R. .1. Darnell. Inc.. of 

 Memphis. 



Mr. Love left a wife and four children, two 

 boys and two girls. His oldest son. Harry, is 

 twenty years old and had just gone into his 

 father's office to learn the lumber business. He 

 leaves three brothers and one sister. 



Mr. Love was a member of the Luml>ermen's 

 Club of Memphis and always attended the more 

 important meetings of that organization. His 

 dutiis and connections also brought him to 

 Mempliis frequently and he was a well-known 

 figure in local hardwood circles. He was a man 

 of very genial disposition and had a host of 

 friends who mourn his untimelv death. 



■Will Erect Large Mill 

 l-'urthcr details of the i)lans of the Whiting 

 Manufacturing Company. Asheville, Graham 

 county, North Carolina, have been secured. The 

 company will erect a large three-band sawmill, 

 planing mills, dry kilns and a hardwood flooring 

 plant at Robbinsville, the center of its ojjera- 

 tions. A pulp mill and tannic acid plant will 

 also bo built somewhere on its holdings, prob- 

 ably at or near Robbinsville. The company now 

 controls one-third of the territory of Graham 

 county as well as large tracts in Blount county. 

 Tennessee. Its holdings are in different tracts 

 in various parts of the county. Robbinsville be- 

 ing the logical center of its activities. A twenty- 

 flve-mile railroad will be built. The railroad 

 will connect with the Bushnell, Maryville & 

 Knoxville line of the Southern Railway at Fon- 

 tana. 



Monthly Statement of Imports and Exports 



The monthly statement of imports and exports 

 compiled by the Department of Commerce and 

 Labor. Washington, indicates a general advance 

 in all lines of manufacture and particularly so 

 in the lumber business, both in lumber shipped 

 to this country and also shipped from here to 

 foreign ports. The only summary under the head 

 of wood and manufactures of wood which shows 

 a recession is that of the total imports of wood 

 for the month of September. 1910, as compared 

 to the same item for September, 1909. This de- 

 crease is, however, comparatively small and is 

 more than offset by the increase for the nine 

 months ending September. 1910, over the same 

 period ending September, 1909, there being an 

 increase of approximately $,"),000,000. There was 

 an increase all around in the sumuuiry of export 

 trade, the month of September showing a de- 

 cided increase over the same month of last year, 

 and the volume transacted during the nine 

 months ending September, being also materially 

 greater than for the nine months ending Sep- 

 tember, 1909. Summed up, the month of Sep- 

 tember shows a balance of trade in favor of this 

 country of .$] .669..'i"7. while the balance for the 

 nine month period ending September was $23, 

 GG8,091. 



The total of wood and manufactures of wood 

 brought into this country from foreign quarters 

 was valued at ,f5, 398,901, which compares un- 

 favorably with the import for September of 



