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HARDWOOD RECORD 



W. I.ove, wpvp mombpra of the special reception 

 commlllcc which Kicelcil i'l-eslilcnt Hoosevelt 

 wben his tiiiln rollod inli> the city on the inoin- 

 Ing of (Ictohei- lii;, and <len. (inles 1". Thiiiston. 

 another Nashville lumberman, was a member of 

 a general reception committee thai escorted Mr. 

 Iloo.sevell to the IlermltaRe. the historic home 

 of Andrew .lackson. 



A1 a reLCiit meeting of the directors of the 

 Sylco Lumber Company. In which a number of 

 Nashville men are Intercsled, I be name of the 

 company was i-han^'cd back to its original name 

 of the <"onas:ui!;a Lumber CoQipany. This com- 

 pany has larcc holiliugs in I'olk county. Tennes- 

 see. ('. H. lienedlct of Nashville is general man- 

 nger. lie reiiorts that tiie big sawmill is about 

 completed and that It Is ready to besln cutting 

 logs. Work is being pushed on a nine-milo exten- 

 sion in the strip of a railroad line. 



Smart & < o. is liie naaic of a liinibi'r company 

 recently organized In Nashville with A. IL Card 

 of Nashville and K. \V. Smartt of Manchester 

 as its nioviug spirits. The couipany has pur- 

 chased timber in west Teunessec and -Mr. Smartt 

 will direct llie operations of the company from 

 Covington. Tenn. 



The American llardwooil Lumber Company 

 recently acquired for the sum of $18.2511 the 

 lumber interests of Hugh C. Card in this sec- 

 tion. -Mr. Card will go with the purchasing com- 

 pany, however, and will manage its affairs. .John 

 M. Smith, local manager, will retain his head- 

 quarters at Dickson. Tenn. 



The veneering plant of the Fred W. Black 

 Lumber Company of Chicago, recently begun in 

 West Nashville, has been completed and will be 

 In operation in a few days. Must of the ma- 

 chinery has already been put in place aud timber 

 will be cut shortly. The company will do saw- 

 ing on a large scale in addition tii re„'ular veneer- 

 ing work. The plant is a big one and will work 

 a considerable force of men. Horace Black, 

 brother of l-'i-ed \V. Black, will be in charge here. 



It has been decided to play the third game 

 fixing the "hardwood championship" of the 

 South as between Nashville and Memphis some 

 time next spring. Both Nashville and Memphis 

 want the game to be played on their own 

 grounds, naturall" as each won the game played 

 at home. Neither place has thus tar agreed. 

 however, that the game should be played away 

 from home, so it has been decided to flip a coin 

 to see at which city the game will be played. 



J . NV. Overly and Col. Tip Gable of Nashville . 

 have invented a device for raising sunken logs 

 out of rivers. It is so arranged that it can be 

 worked without the aid of a diver, and from a 

 boat, clamps iitting under the log. The device 

 is now being worked from the launch of Col. 

 Gamble, the "Little Tip." A patent will be ap- 

 plied for. 



The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis 

 railway through Its agents. P. J. Dennison and 

 Thomas A. Enochs of Lenington, Tenn., bought 

 some 2.J.0U0 cross-ties for the railroad at that 

 point during the month of September. 



Great scarcity of labor is reported by the lum- 

 bermen doing business in and arotind McEwen. 

 Tenn. It is reported that thousands of cords 

 of stave bolts, together with many logs, are ly- 

 ing in the various lumber yards there on account 

 of the inability of dealers to secure men to move 

 them. 



The Farrin-Korn Lumber Company of Cincin- 

 nati, an Ohio corporation, has filed a copy of its 

 charter with Secretary of State John W. Mor- 

 ton, thereby gaining permission to engage in busi- 

 ness in Tennessee. 



The entire red cedar interests of the Nash- 

 ville Tie and Cedar Company, organized a few 

 years ago as an adjunct to the firm of Love, 

 Boyd & Co., has recently been purchased by J. 

 P. Meredith & Co. The sale was brought about 

 by the desire of the firm of Love, Boyd & Co. 

 to devote more time to the tie business. The 

 Nashville Tie and Cedar Company was organ- 

 ized primarily to handle both red cedar and 

 <-ross-tles. It soon developed, however, that the 



oi'oss-tle business was overshadowing thJ cedar 

 business. The company has therefore sold out 

 Its red cedar business to the firm of Meredith 

 & Co., consisting of telepiione and telegraph 

 poles, piling, sawed cedar, cedar pencil stock, 

 and all cuntrads and lh;> good will of the com- 

 pany as far aa the cedar business Is concerned. 

 Mr. Love states that the entire force of the 

 Nashville Tie and Cedar Company will remain 

 intact and that n(me of the men will go with 

 the new deal. The entire energies of the com- 

 I)any are to be devoted to the cross-tie business, 

 which will be pushed with redoubled energy. 

 Even the name of the comiiany will not be 

 changed .just at present, although it Is likely 

 the "cedar" part will be dropped in the no dis- 

 tant future. The consideration for liie deal 

 has not been disclosed. 



The P. G. Dodge Lumber Company of Chicago, 

 which recently located In Nashville, is rapidly 

 * n.ai-ging its business liere. The local braucli 

 Is in charge of John Crane. 



The E. & N. ilanufacturing Company re- 

 cently purchased several thousand acres of tim- 

 berlands In Colbert county, Alabama, for a con- 

 sideration of $42,701). This company, which dot's 

 an enormous woodworking manufacturing busi- 

 i:ess, also owns other large timlter tracts in the 

 South, anotlier one in east Tennessee comprising 

 several thousand acres. 



John M. Smith lias been to St. Louis on a 

 business trip. 



S. Lownuin of the firm of Lieberman. Love- 



ni'ii: rien was in Chicago last week on busi- 

 ness. 



It is likely that a new baud sawmill will be 

 located in Nashville by E. A. Swain and E. F. 

 Karmire of Shelbyvilie, Ind. .Both were visitors 

 in Nashville during tlie past few days. They 

 Ijropose to erect a moderate-sized plant that will 

 cut quartered oak flitches for veneers. 



The Cumberland Land and Timber Company 

 is the name of a new lumber concern incorpo- 

 laicd in '1 euuessee in tlie last few days. It is 

 capitalized at $100,000. The Incorporators are 

 Henry Sperry, G. A. Washington. E. A. Lindsey, 

 J. H. Baird. T. E. Allen, W. E. Orndorff. James 

 Trimble, E. W. Foster, John Branham and W. 

 D. Hamilton. 



The Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company 

 will close its plant in West Nashville temporarily 

 next week for the purpose of installing new en- 

 gines, boilers and machinery. Although the 

 plant is a large one, the business has outgrown 

 its capacity and it is necessary to make improve- 

 ments that will increase the capacity about 

 twenty-five per cent. 



Memphis. 



The first regular bi-monthly meeting of the 

 Lumbermen's Club of Memphis for the new sea- 

 son was held at the Gayoso Hotel October in. 

 There were about forty members present and 

 George D. Burgess, president, was in the chair 

 and the other officers were on band to perform 

 their duties. After a delightful luncheon Presi- 

 dent Burgess addressed the meeting, expressing 

 much pleasure at seeing so many members of the 

 club present at the first gathering. He referred 

 to the many problems that would probably come 

 before the organization during the year and 

 urged that the attendance always be as full as 

 possible. He reviewed some of the more Im- 

 portant accomplishments of the club and re- 

 ferred to the wonderful prosperity enjoyed by 

 members of the organization during the past 

 four or five years. He commented also upon 

 the sten which J. W. McClure. secretary, bad 

 taken a few days ago when he was married, 

 and gave to him the best wishes not only of 

 himself but of all other members of the ciub. 

 Mr. Burgess expressed the fear that it might be 

 necessary for the lumber trade of this city, in 

 view of. certain conditions, to transact business 

 on a slightly closer margin than heretofore, but 

 as a whole his address was one of good cheer. 

 He especially made mention of the fact that the 

 lumbermen of Memphis had reflected great credit 



upon themselves b.^ iln- gi-nerous contributions 

 to the fund for the entertainment of the Water- 

 ways Association. 



It was voted to contribute J.IO to the Deep 

 Waterways Association to aid In defraying ex- 

 penses for the coming year. The club had pre- 

 viously voted for the resolution calling for a 

 contribution of $1 from each member, but It was 

 decided to give $riO beiause there are so many 

 members of the Lumbermen's Club who are 

 connected with other organizations In the city 

 and who would therefore be called upon to make 

 two contributions instead of one. There were 

 several talks en this subject and It was pointed 

 out that the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis had 

 done more toward raising money for the enter- 

 tainment of the Deep Waterways Association 

 here than any other organization, and that 

 therefore it should not be called upon at this 

 lime for very much of a sum. It was ascer- 

 tained that the contribution by the lumbermen 

 alone amounted to approximately $2,000. 



The committee appointed to attend the Deep 

 Waterways Association as delegates from the 

 Lumbermen's Club asked for further time to 

 make its report. 



S. B. Anderson, chairman of tlie committee 

 on invitation to hold meetings at the Business 

 Men's CIul), stated lliat it had been unable to 

 give proper time to this matter recently and 

 that he would like to have It go over until the 

 next meeting. The Business .Men's Club now has 

 a very handsome home and has extended to the 

 Lumbermen's Club of .Memphis an invitation to 

 hold its meetings there instead of at the Hotel 

 Gayoso. 



George C. Ehemann. chairman of the com- 

 mittee on baseball tickets, sale of programs, etc., 

 stated that his returns were not all compiled 

 and that he would not make full report until 

 the next meeting. Captain J. W. Thompson was 

 called upon for some information regarding the 

 last game of the season between Memphis and 

 Nashville, and he stated that it had been quite 

 fully decided that there would be no game until 

 next year. He stated that he bad made a prop- 

 osition to the lumbermen of Nashville to come 

 here and play, but that they had been clever 

 enough to return the invitation. He stated that 

 he did not see any particular use about hurry- 

 ing in playing for the cup. as it was in the pos- 

 session of the lumbermen of this city and could 

 not be more so if it were actually owned by 

 the lumbermen of Memphis. 



A letter was read from Secretary Terry stat- 

 ing that it would be impossible for the National 

 Lumber Exporters' Association to hold its next 

 meeting in Memphis. In accordance with the in- 

 vitation extended by the Lumbermen's Club. 

 He stated the meeting would be held at New- 

 Orleans, this action being made necessary by cer- 

 tain important association conditions. He warm- 

 l.v thanked the lumbermen of Memphis for the 

 invitation. 



The chairman of tlie river and rail commit- 

 tee did not have any particular report to make, 

 stating that there had not been much of Inter- 

 est to consider during the summer holidays, 

 tin motion of Col. S. B. Anderson the river and 

 rail committee was instructed to draw up reso- 

 lutions protesting in the name of the Lumber- 

 men's Club of Memphis against the action of 

 the railroads in refusing to allow shippers to 

 use signs on cars. 



Weather conditions throughout this territory 

 during the past fortnight have been rather fa- 

 vorable for production and the mills have been 

 making rapid progress except where interfered 

 with by inability to secure necessary raw ma- 

 terial. This latter event has been caused in 

 some Instances by scarcity of labor, but more 

 generally by inability to secure cars for the 

 handling of logs. Even some of the larger mills 

 in this city have had to close down at times be- 

 cause of their inability to get cars to transport 

 their logs here. 



Tile car situa,.lon does not show any Improve- 

 ment aud none is expected in the near future. 



