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HARDWOOD RECORD 



the guest of his nophews. W. A. and C. R. 

 Rausora (if tho Gayoso Lumber Company. 



NASHVILLE 



The next session of the Nashville Lumber- 

 men's Club, to be held at the Board of Trade 

 rooms on the night of December 27, promises to 

 be a most important one. Among other features 

 eoming up for consideration will be the state 

 highway from Memphis to Bristol and the Pan- 

 American exposition site. Arthur B. Ransom is 

 president of the club. 



(Jeorge II. Checley, a well-known Nashville 

 lumberman, has embarked in the wholesale lum- 

 ber business on his own account. He has se- 

 cured the former site of Lytle & Ralston along 

 the river front, they having moved their yards 

 to GuntersvlUe, Ala., where their mill is located. 

 Mr. Cbeelcy was formerly with the Prewitt- 

 Spurr Manufacturing Company, and later with 

 the Cincinnati offlcc of the Conosauga Lumber 

 Company. 



J. E. Isbell, now of Russellville. Ala., and 

 formerly of Nashville, and William Bruer of 

 Springfield, Mo., are looking about in Nashville 

 ■with a view of opening up a cedar yard on tho 

 Kast Side. 



The steamer Robert Rhea on her last trip 

 down the Cumberland brought in a big cargo, a 

 feature of which was 30,000 feet of lumber 

 and 200 bales of staves. 



Among the charters recently issued by the Sec- 

 retary of State was one to the Baxter Lumber 

 Company of Putnam county, with a capital stock 

 of ,?10,000. The Incorporators are : ,T. B. Fer- 

 guson. D. C. Gossage, Horace Jared and O. R. 

 Ferguson. 



The Pittsburg Lumber Company of Pittsburg, 

 Pa., is making plans for the erection of a 

 large band mill at Pittsburg, Tenn., with a 

 daily capacity of 70,000 feet. The plant will 

 cost about ,f50,000. Machinery will be in- 

 stalled in February. 



The Davidson, Hicks & Greene Company is 

 getting out about 70,000 feet of lumber daily 

 on its holdings in Fentress county. A fltteen- 

 mile railroad has been built through the tract, 

 ^.-onnecting with the Tennessee Central Railroad. 



BRISTOL 



Paul W. Fleck of Fleck & Dunwoody, Phila- 

 <ielphia, formerly head of the Paul W. Fleck 

 Lumber Company, of this city, was a visitor 

 in Bristol several days last week and reports 

 the business outlook in Philadelphia as good. 



Announcement was made last week that the 

 controlling interest in the Pigeon River Lum- 

 ber Company and the Tennessee & North Caro- 

 lina Itailroad. has passed from a syndicate head- 

 ed by C. I. James of Baltimore, and J. D. 

 Lacey of Chicago, to William Whitmer of Will- 

 iam Whitmer & Sons of Philadelphia and as- 

 sociates. The deal involves a large mill at 

 Cremont, Tenn., and a tract of more than 

 55,000 acres of hardwood timber in east Ten- 

 nessee and western North Carolina. 



The Nelson lAimber Company of Johnson 

 City, headed by Dr. L. H. Aldrich. ha.s closed 

 a deal for a large tract of timber in North 

 Carolina, which it will develop. The company 

 has been operating in western North Carolina 

 for several years. 



The American Wagon Oak IMank Association, 

 of which J. A. Wilkinson of Bristol is vice- 

 president, will shortly hold a meeting to accept 

 the work of the recent commission that went 

 ifbroad to arrange for the standardization of 

 inspection rules for wagon oak plank exported 

 from this country to the principal importing 

 points of Europe. 



R. G. Rogers of the Tennessee Lumber Manu- 

 facturing Company of Pottsville, Pa., with mills 

 at Sutherland, Tenn., was in the city last week 

 buying supplies. 



W. S. Whiting of the Whiting Lumber Com- 



pany, was a visitor in the city last week. Mr. 

 Whiting's company has greatly increased its 

 timber holdings in the past year and is now 

 iloing business on a much larger scale. A double 

 liand mill, just completed, is being started on 

 the big tract of timber owned by the company 

 in western North Carolina. The company will 

 devote much attention to the manufacture of 

 hardwood flooring. 



John T. Dixon of the John T. Dixon Lum- 

 ber Company, of Elizabethton, Tenn., whose 

 company has made a splendid year's record, 

 was here this week on business. 



LOUISVILLE 



-Vtlendance has been excellent at recent meet- 

 ings of the Louisville Hardwood Club, and the 

 members of the organization are entering into 

 the winter's work with a vim. Among the com- 

 mittees which have important projects in hand 

 are the Transportation Committee of which E. B. 

 Norman is chairman, and the Membership Com- 

 mittee, headed by Edward L. Davis. 



There has been some complaint in local lum- 

 ber circles of late on account of a car shortage 

 which has developed at some mill points. While 

 cars have been more or less ditficult to get here, 

 at the mills the trouble is emphasized, and 

 shipments have Ijeen delayed on this account. 



The Louisville Commercial Club has abandoned 

 its plan of establishing a trafiic bureau, in which 

 lumbermen were considerably interested. The 

 Hardwood Club has in view what may prove 

 to be a better idea, the establishment of a 

 traffic bureau to handle problems presented by 

 the lumber and consuming trades in this city. 

 Several of the latter class have already signified 

 their willingness to lend financial support to 

 the movement. 



In the same direction is the move of the 

 Louisville Transportation Club, which has sug- 

 gested that a central bureau, composed of rep- 

 resentatives of all the business organizations of 

 the city, including the lumbermen, be formed, 

 and that this handle general matters of inter- 

 est to business men, including such matters as 

 traffic, taxation, etc. It is likely that the details 

 of the plan will be worked out shortly. 



The Y. M. C. A. has closed a most successful 

 campaign for a new building. It had been in- 

 tended to raise .^350,000, but nearly .f400,000 

 was subscribed. Besides being among the large 

 givers, local lumbermen got out and hustled for 

 subscriptions. Among the most active were S. E. 

 Booker of E. B. Norman & Co.. and Edward 

 L. Davis and Claude M. Sears of the Edward 

 L. Davis Lumber Company. C. C. Mengel, Jr., 

 was captain of a members' team which did gocHl 

 work. C. C. Mengel subscribed .?3,000 to the 

 fund. 



The selection of New Orleans as the place for 

 holding the Panama Exposition, which has been 

 proposed for 101.1, was discussed at a recent 

 meeting of the Hardwood Club, and resolutions 

 were passed stating that the club regards New 

 Orleans as the logical point for the exposition 

 and endorses that city as the proper location 

 lor the exhibition. 



Claude JI. Sears of tho Edward L. Davis Lum- 

 ber Company has returned from a successful 

 trip through the Middle West. Mr. Sears re- 

 ported things picking up considerably. 



D. ('. Harris, traffic manager of the C. C. 

 Meng<'l & Brother Company, will leave after 

 January 1 for Belize, British Honduras, where 

 he will remain for a month, looking inio (be 

 company's logging operations in that section. 



The engagement of Miss Mary Anderson Kelly 

 and Charles C. Mengel, Jr., has been announced. 

 The wedding will lake place early in the spring. 

 Mr. Mengel is a lumberman, like his father, 

 and is popular with the members of the trade. 



T. M. and J. G. Brown of the W. P. Brown 

 & Sons Company have gone to Indianapolis, 

 where they will eat their Christmas turkey at 

 the liomo of their parents. 



R. F. Smith of tho Ohio River Saw -Mill Com- 

 pany has been having great luck with his gun 

 and dog and has bagged many quails in southern 

 Indiana fields. He was ill for several days, but 

 recovered sufficiently to get busy hunting before 

 tho season was over. 



An unusually good local trade has been ex- 

 Ijerlenced lately by the Louisville Point Lumber 

 Company, President Edward Shippen reported, 

 and the outlook for next year he regards as 

 decidedly above the average, 



W. A. McLean of the Wood-Mosaic Company 

 of Now Albany has returned from a trip to Can- 

 ada, where his aim proved to be good enough 

 I.I bring down several deer. A recent dinner 

 at the I'endennis Club gave aji opportunity for 

 some of his Louisville friends to fill up on 

 venison steaks. 



Tlie i<"almoutb Planing Mill & Lumber Com- 

 pany has changed hands, Bolender Brothers of 

 Cloves, O.. becoming the owners. They intend 

 to erpiip a sawmill and to manutactm-e hard- 

 wood lumber on a large scale. 



Ohio river improvement got a big boost from 

 I he War Department, which has recommended 

 appropriations of magnitude to the Congress. 

 The Ohio comes in for ,');l',000,000, and as the 

 project has the support of the president, it is 

 assumed that the appropriation will be acted 

 ou favorably. An interesting evidence of the 

 lact that river transportation is coming into its 

 iiwu is given by the effort being made by the 

 Louisville & Nashville to secure municipal per- 

 mission to enlarge its yards on the river front 

 at a cost of $100,000. It has made formal 

 application to the board of public works of 

 Louisville. 



The Green Rock Lumber Company has in- 

 corporated at Catlettsburg with $4,300 capital 

 stock and will do a sawmill business iu John- 

 son county. Those interested are J. R. Clark, 

 John Gilb<'rt, Walter Blankenship and J. C. 

 Burns. 



F. E. Perkins' of the Jamestown (N. Y.) 

 Table Company was in Louisville recently and 

 attended a meeting of the Hardwood Club. He 

 reported business witli the furniture manufac- 

 turers improving. 



A new levee is being built at Hickman, 

 Ky. It will protect tho lumber plants of that 

 city, which are large, from the overflow' of 

 the Mississippi, which is almost an annual 

 occurrence. The cost of the levee is $10,000. 



The Ford Lumber Company has incorporated 

 at Ford, Ky., with a capital stock of $."10,000. 

 Officers of the company are R. L. Thomas, 

 president ; T. E. Moore, Jr.. vice-president ; E. 

 S. Jouett, secretary, and B. R. Jouett, treasurer. 



The Turner. Day & Woolworth Handle Com- 

 pany, local handle manufacturers, has established 

 another plant at Princeton, Ky. It has installed 

 machinery costing $5,000. 



ST. LOUIS 



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The J. S. Vaughn Lumber Company is com- 

 fortably located in its new office on Angelica 

 street, and reports a most satisfactory business. 



After quite an extended business trip, R. F. 

 Krebs, of the Krebs-Scbeve Lumber Company, 

 has returned to the city. He was very success- 

 ful on his trip and some good sized orders at 

 satisfactory prices were booked. 



A seasonable volume of business is reported by 

 I he Chas. F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany. The trade was particularly good on gum. 

 Thomas W. Fry says the company is making a 

 specialty of this class of hardwood lumber and 

 is meeting with good success. The call for other 

 items of lumber on the hardwood list has also 

 been quite good. 



C. F. Querl has bought out the interest of the 

 late A. H. Schnelle in the Schnclle & Querl Lum- 

 ber Company. A. H. Schnelle. Jr., is no longer 

 connected with this company, but is now located 

 at the office of the Beekers-Schnelle Lumber Com- 

 jiany. of wliieb be is the secrelary. 



