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will do so at an early date. There has been uo 

 change in the personnel of the management and 

 the players will be about the same as last year. 

 Manager McClure and Captain Pritchard, as well 

 as the brilliant players, arc not discouraged over 

 last year's developments and are going into 1911 

 with the determination to win. Advices from 

 Charleston. Miss., indicate that the Lamb-Fish 

 aggregation of ball players are already at work 

 and that they will round into excellent form by 

 the time the weather gets warm. Efforts were 

 made last year to secure a game between the two 

 teams here and at Charleston, but this was im- 

 possible. It is understood that a professional 

 coach will be employed by the Lamb-Fish Ath- 

 letic Club and there is an intimation that this 

 fact may prevent the arrangement of a series of 

 games between the two teams for 1911. The 

 determination of the ball players at Charleston 

 is apparently quite as strong as that of the 

 Memphis players and indications are that the 

 lumber fraternity will make its full contribution 

 to the national pastime during the season of 

 1911. 



NASHVILLE 



John W. Love is expected to return to Nash- 

 ville about the first of the month on business. 

 Together with his entire family, he is making 

 New York his home at this time, the children 

 being in school there, and he having a New 

 York office. 



There has been a good tide in the Cumber- 

 land river for weeks and many logs have been 

 rafted down from up-river points. Many of 

 these have come to Liebcrman, Loveman & 

 O'lirien. John B. Kansoni & Co.. Inc.. and the 

 Standard Lumber & Manufacturing Company. 

 The Davidson. Hicks & Greene Company ha.i 

 3.000.000 feet of lumber due in the near future. 



The Nashville Tie & Cedar Company has fin- 

 ished the installation of its incline at Carthago 

 and is loading with it daily. It has a capacity 

 of about twenty cars a day. 



A recent visitor to the city was John Light- 

 body of Glasgow. Scotland, representing the 

 firm of F. A. Lightbody & Co. of that city. He 

 stopped over here on his way to the west coast, 

 visiting the lumber districts. 



A large quantity of valuable timber will be 

 put on the market when the holdings of the 

 Bon Air Coal & Iron Company are sold. Ex- 

 perts have been employed by the Chancery court 

 to investigate the timber interests on the thou- 

 sands of acres of the company's holdings. Rob- 

 ert Vaughn and E. C. Lewis, receivers, are au- 

 thorized by the Chancery court to accept bids 

 either for part or on the whole of the timber. 



The recent or rather present dry spell, quite 

 unusual as it is for this season of the .year, has 

 already been the cause of a number of de- 

 structive forest fires. Much damage is reported 

 to growing timber in Humphreys county, a short 

 distance west of Nashville, and also in the hills 

 near Huntsville, Ala. 



New management is now in charge of the 

 Edgefield & Nashville Manufacturing Company. 

 Joseph Warren, former general manager, has re- 

 signed to devote his entire time to his paint 

 and glass factories. E. Ragland, who comes 

 here from Richmond. Va.. will have general su- 

 pervision of the big woodworking establishment. 

 The officers elected for the ensuing year at a 

 recent meeting of the directorate are : A. H. 

 Robinson, president ; L. L. Lenox, first vice- 

 president ; E. Ragland, second vice-president and 

 secretary ; W. C. Sanders, treasurer. F. Watts 

 and E. A. Hail are new members of the direc- 

 torate. 



who are interested in the J. S. Kent Company 

 of that city, has put into operation three mills 

 in Virginia and has a fine boundary of hard- 

 wood timber. 



A large new planing mill is to be erected at 

 Huntington. W. Va., by Isaac T. Mann. C. L. 

 Ititter and others. Mr. Mann is well known in 

 Bristol, while Mr. Hitter is connected with the 

 C. L. Ritter Lumber Company, which has a 

 band mill at Whitewood. Va., the Tug River 

 Lumber Company aud other lumber concerns ' 

 doing business in this region. 



Among recent visitors to Bristol were : H. A. 

 MacGruder of Philadelphia, representing the 

 Patton Company ; John W. Coles of Philadel- 

 phia ; R. E. Wood and G. L. Wood of the R. E. 

 Wood Lumber Company, Baltimore, and George 

 McNeiney of Indiana. 



D. a7 Wilkinson is starting up several of his 

 smaller mills, which have been idle for several 

 weeks on account of the rough winter weather. 

 Mr. Wilkinson is back from a visit to his mills 

 and says he is much encouraged by prospects 

 for the year's business. He expects to see 

 prices move upward in a short time. 



F. K. Paxton of the Paxton Lumber Com- 

 pany is back from a trip to the Middle West 

 and says that he believes there are now more 

 signs of substantial improvement in business 

 generally than for a long time. He thinks the 

 lumber business will get its share of the com- 

 ing prosperity. 



W. S. Whiting of the Whiting 'Manutacturtng 

 Company, Philadelphia, Is a visitor in Bristol 

 this week en route to his company's band mill 

 near Bristol. 



LOUISVILLE 



BRISTOL 



The Bristol Hardwood Company, which was 

 organized some time ago by George E. Davis of 

 Bristol and several persons from Philadelphia, 



Louisville hardwood dealers expect to enter- 

 tain officers of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association in the near future, an invitation 

 having been extended by the Louisville Hard- 

 wood Club to President Diggins, Secretary Fish 

 and members of the Executive Committee to be 

 the guests of the club at one of the weekly din- 

 ners at the Seelbach Hotel. They have indi- 

 cated that they will be in the city in the next 

 few weeks. 



Formal acknowledgment of the invitation to 

 hold its 1912 convention in Louisville has been 

 received by the Louisville Hardwood Club from 

 E. F. Perry, secretary of the National Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association. New York. 

 Mr. Perry said that the subject would be taken 

 up later in the year. It is hoped that Louisville 

 will be decided on, as the local hardwood men 

 are anxious to entertain the members of the 

 wholesalers' organization. 



The importance of the Louisville market has 

 been recognized by the National Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Association, which has appointed an assist- 

 ant to Inspector C. C. Ferguson. Since the 

 as-sociation has maintained an inspector in this 

 city so many calls iiave been made for his serv- 

 ices that it was found advisable to give him 

 assistance. Probably more lumber is moving out 

 of the Louisville market, in spite of relatively 

 dull conditions in the trade at this particular 

 time, than in many years. 



Van Norman of the local legal firm of Hines 

 & Norman has returned from Washington, where 

 he went to argne the case of the Norman Lum- 

 ber Company and others against the Louisville 

 & Nashville and other railroads. Mr. Norman 

 showed how the local market is discriminated 

 against by the railroads, and made the point 

 that Louisville has been treated as a consuming 

 market rather than as a distributing market 

 which it essentially is. It is expected that a 

 decision in the cases will be handed down in 

 April. 



Louisville lumbermen are preparing to protest 

 against the practice of railroads in this terri- 

 tory, notably the Louisville & Nashville, in the 

 handling of ties. In many cases it has been 



found that this road charges a prohibitory rate 

 on ties, in order that they may not be shipped 

 off its lines. The Norman Lumber Company has 

 a claim pending against the Louisville & Nash- 

 ville for an overcharge on a shipment of ties 

 into southern Indiana, to which a lumber rate 

 of 11 cents applied. The company assumed that 

 this would be the rate on ties. Following the 

 shipment, however, the road stated that the rate 

 was 35 cents, which was more than the value 

 of the shipment. Mr. Norman has protested and 

 thus far has received little satisfaction. He is 

 now planning, with the aid of other lumbermen 

 who do a tie business, to appeal to the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission and have the Louis- 

 ville & Nashville amend its tariffs so that in no 

 case shall a rate on ties be greater than the 

 rate on lumber. Some of the firms affected by 

 the policy of this road have found it necessary 

 to circumvent it by shipping ties into their 

 Louisville yards and then reshipping them over 

 another road to the point of destination. 



Owing to the fact that bigger logging tides 

 have been In effect In the Kentucky, Big Sandy, 

 Licking and other Kentucky rivers during the 

 past few months than for many years, logs 

 which were cut four or five years ago have been 

 brought down from the timber districts. It is 

 stated that thousands of logs of this character, 

 which after being cut were found to be in- 

 accessible for ordinary purposes, have been 

 floated out. It is suggested that the manufac- 

 ture of this timber will result in a big volume 

 of cull lumber being put on the market. 



O. L. Wade of W. M. West & Co., Boston, 

 who is the Indianapolis representative of the 

 firm, was in Louisville recently calling on mem- 

 bers of the trade. 



Veeder B. Paine, the manager of the Mengel 

 Mahogany Logging Company at Axim, Africa. 

 is in California at present. He has been look- 

 ing at some improved types of logging machinery 

 with reference to adapting them to his work in 

 Africa. 



W. P. Brown, the retired head of W. P. Brown 

 & Sons Lumber Company, was in Louisville a 

 few days ago. He is looking and feeling much 

 better and apparently has recovered from the 

 effects of his recent illness. 



F. T. Chenault of Mt. Sterling, Ky., has pur- 

 chased the sawmill of Hughes & Naive at Ver- 

 sailles. 



ST. LOUIS 



August H. Bush, secretary of the Lumbermen's 

 Exchange of St. Louis, died at Memphis. Tenn., 

 on March 8 from an asthmatic trouble, with 

 which he had been affected for several months. 

 The St. LouLs Exchange sent the following tele- 

 gram to his sister when word was received of 

 Mr. Bush's death : 

 Mrs. Sig. Harpman. 303 Garland Place, Memphis, 



Tenn. : 



The members of the Exchange learn with deep 

 regret of the death of your brother and its 

 friend. August H. Bush, and extend you its sin- 

 cere sympathv in your hour of affliction. 



LujiBERMEx's Exchange of St. Louis. 



The regular monthly meeting of the Lumber- 

 men's Club was held on March 14. Dinner was 

 served at the usual hour. No business was trans- 

 acted, but the meeting was turned over to the 

 Entertainment Committee, which had provided 

 a high-class vaudeville entertainment for the 

 amusement of the members. 



After a couple of weeks spent at Hot Springs, 

 Ark.. George E. nibbard, vice-president of the 

 Steele & Hibbard Lumber Company, has re- 

 turned to the city feeling much improved after 

 his short vacation. 



William Lothman of the Lothmau Cypress 

 Company is in New Orleans on business at the 

 present time and will not return home until the 

 latter part of the month. 



The business done the past few weeks l>y the 

 Charles F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany has been more than satisfactory and the 



