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HARDWOOD RECORD 



R. C. Smith, a prominent lumber manufac- 

 turer ot SbawBvlllc, Vtt., was In Bristol selUns 

 stock nod looking over tbe local Bltuatlon, last 

 week. 



A large party of consressmen, Includlnp Rep 

 resontntlvcs T. W. Sims and Walter I'. Brown- 

 low of Tennessee : Senator James B. Frazler. 

 also of Tennessee, and Senator Culbertson of 

 North Carolina, accompanied by experts from 

 the bureau of forestry, are spending the week 

 going over tbo pronoscd Appalachian range In 

 western North Carolina and east Tennessee. 

 For years Congressman Brownlow has been 

 seeking to have tbe government purchase a 

 vast area of virgin timber land In that section 

 to be used as a national park or forest reserve, 

 at a cost of about $2.1,000,000. The party was 

 Joined by Mr. Brownlow at .loUnson City, last 

 week, and left on a special train for Ashevllle. 

 after spending a day In Bristol. 



W. C. McCain of Neva, Tenn.. a Johnson 

 county lumber baron, was a visitor on the local 

 market last week. 



B. B. Burns of the Tug River Lumber Com- 

 pany took two days off last week and went to 

 Scott county, Va., to bunt quail. He was 

 joined there by M. N. Offutt, also of the Tug 

 River Lumber Company. 



Brown & Kngllsh Is the name of a new con- 

 cern organized here by .MaJ. H. M. Brown and 

 C. C. Kngllsh, to deal In timber lands. The 

 Hrm has ofhces In the Citizens' Bank Building 

 and is said to be interesting eastern capital 

 Ists In lumber Investments in this section. 



Col. J. M. Barker, one of the wealthiest men 

 in Brlstcil. Is Interested in a 30,000-acre timber 

 deal In North Georgia and Is now in that sec- 

 tion In this connection. Details of the matter 

 have not beeu announced. 



ConHrmation ot the .f.")00,000 timber deal be- 

 tween Henry C. Stuart, J. C. Campbell and 

 others reached Bristol this week. The tract 

 was purchased by D. E. Notterly of Philadel- 

 phia and associates, and consists of about 50,- 

 000 acres of the richest virgin forest in south- 

 west Virginia. It lies In the Clinch moun- 

 tains, north of Brumley's Gap. The purchasers 

 announce that they will begin the development 

 of the property in the early spring and will 

 build railroads, install circular and band mills. 

 etc. The timber consists chiefly of oak, pop- 

 lar, white pine and hemlock. 



Fred K. Paston of the Paxton-Lewis Lumber 

 Company returned this week from a business 

 trip in Virginia in the interests of his com- 

 pany. While away he visited the mills at 

 Meadow View and reports business excellent. 



Adams Bros. & Co. of this city have moved 

 their offices from Sixth Street to the yards on 

 Commonwealth Avenue. 



W. Frank Kinsey of the Westmorland Lum 

 ber Corporation, Richmond, is spending some 

 time here with his family. lie will move to 

 Richmond very shortly. 



The Virginia & Southwestern has put into 

 effect the new order advancing the minimum 

 weight for lumber shipments in carload lots to 

 ."Si.OOO pounds. This was done over the pro- 

 test ot the lumbermen and Is believed by them 

 to be a subterfuge to advance freight rates. 



Cincinnati, 



The Cosmopolitan Bank & Trust Company of 

 New Orleans, La., filed In the district court an 

 Intervening petition In the involuntary bank- 

 ruptcy proceedings Instituted against the Cypress 

 LumbiT Company et al. The intercessor holds 

 a number of promissory notes made by the de- 

 fendant. It Is charged that the Cypress Lumber 

 Company, subsequent to last May, In fraud of 

 Its creditors, abandoned Its business, disposed 

 of all its assets and resources, and now pro- 

 poses to be possessed of neither resources nor 

 credit : that for the purpose of putting the assets 

 beyond the reach ot the creditors It transferred 

 them to the Cypress Lumber & Veneer Company 

 nt Kentucky, and the defendant companies, the 

 Tnthlll & Pattlson Coiipany and the Fincastle 



Saw Mill Company, have for some time past beeu 

 engaged In floating what Is known as kiting 

 paper, by which they have obtained from various 

 banks over $1,000,000, all of which Is past due 

 and unpaid. It Is stated that the books of the 

 Cypress Lumber Company are in possession of the 

 Fourth National Bank of Ciucinnali and are in 

 danger of being lost or carried beyond tbo juris- 

 diction of the court. Anotlier charge lias been 

 placed against the Cypress Lumber Company, 

 which comes from the Aurora National Bank al 

 Aurora, Ind. Tbe Ijank had a paid-up capital 

 stock ot $105,000, but was forced to close Its 

 doors owing to the fact that It was unable to 

 secure the money loaned the Cypress Lumber 

 Company some time ago. The amount loaned 

 Is said to have been $50,000, which the lumber 

 concern used to purchase some timber lands In 

 the South. The lumber has all beeu cut and as 

 the land Is the only security the bank has for the 

 loan they have taken charge ot It. 



William E. Delaney, general manager of the 

 Kentucky Lumber Company, is -looking after the 

 interests ot his concern at Williamsburg, Ky. 

 He will stay there a short time and will then 

 jump over to Burnside and attend to business 

 connected with his position as president ot the 

 Burnside National Bank. He will be gone only 

 a week. 



Ralph McCracken, sales manager ot the Ken- 

 tucky Lumber Company, completed a big deal 

 last week which calls for the shipment o£ 

 tweut.v-five cars ot oak timber across the water. 

 The order came during one of the dullest seasons 

 in the lumber trade, hence Mr. McCracken is 

 wearing "the smile that won't come oft." The 

 mills of the company, located at Burnside and 

 Williamsburg, Ky., are still idle and will not 

 resume work until another heavy rain or a pos- 

 sible flood sweeps tbe valley and washes down 

 some of the logs the company has ready. They 

 have run eleveu months straight, fourteen hours 

 a day. The company has a large amount of dry 

 timber on -hand and are in tlie market for all 

 grades of hardwoods. 



The iocal concerns have a good volume of 

 logs on hand, and there is not the remotest feel- 

 ing that they will be compelled to close down 

 their mills owing to their running out. The 

 supply of lumber on hand here Is not any too 

 large, but the serious setback in trade in the 

 present monetary troubles will allow the 

 stocks to augment a great deal. Dur- 

 ing this season of the year trade is usually 

 at its best and would be now but for the mon- 

 etary situation. In fact, money is so scarce 

 that little complaint is heard from dealers con- 

 cerning the car shortage, which is undoubtedly 

 due to the fact that little lumber is being 

 shipped. The month of October was very good, 

 as is evident from tbe following figures : The 

 receipts of lumber during the month aggregated 

 S.430 cars, as compared with 5,635 cars last 

 year. The shipments have been greater also. 

 Shipments last month amounted to 5,643 cars, 

 as compared with 4,001 last year. These figures 

 will also show that the car shortage last year 

 was a great deal worse than it is or has been 

 up to this time this year. 



E. M. Schantz of the E. M. Schantz Lumber 

 Company, located in North Fairmouut, is one 

 of the luisiest lumber dealers in inventions tbe 

 t^ueen City has known. He is as busy on ma- 

 chinery as Thomas J. Moffett and William A. 

 Bennett are on club work and the general better- 

 meut of the city ot Cincinnati. Just last week 

 Mr. Schantz completed a fine piece of mechanism 

 — au Improvement on his electric measuring and 

 labor-saving machine. 'His latest inspiration is 

 the attachment ot an automatic register to the 

 measuring machine, which will register in the 

 office ot the concern, some two hundred feet 

 away from the saws, every piece of lumber cut. 

 The new appliance also Indicates when its op- 

 erator leaves the machine aud just how long he 

 is away from his duties. The invention already 

 has saved Mr. Schantz several thousand dollars 

 l>oth in the cutting of lumber and in the saving 



of labor. He has it in constant operation, and 

 it has created much comment In manufacturing 

 circles. All ot the machinery of his plant Is 

 lun by electricity. His firm deals In hardwoods 

 principally, and Is In the market for all grades 

 i'revious to the sellrack in trade they were doing 

 a lurgc business, but they, too, have felt the 

 falling off in the demand, as have all other local 

 lumber dealers. 



W. W. Rellley of the W. W. Keilley Lumber 

 I'ompanv of Buffalo, N. Y.. was In town last 

 week looking over the hardwood situation. Dur- 

 ing his stay here he engaged in several trades 

 of woods. He stated that the conditions In the 

 i:ast were somewhat disturbed owing to the in- 

 ability of the local manufacturers and lumber 

 dealers to secure tlie cash needed. 



John LKtleford, a brother ot George Little- 

 ford of llie I.itlletord Lumber Company, was 

 here during the last fortnight and spent several 

 riays looking into business inlerests. He visited 

 many of the local lumber concerns in company 

 with his brother George. 



Mrs. Thomas J. Moffett, wife ot Thomas J. 

 Moffett, the well-known and prosperous lumber 

 merchant, is a rival of her husband as regards 

 doing work to benefit the general public ot Cln- 

 clinail. She has given her services to the Dni- 

 versity Settlement luncheons, which are being 

 given for the lienefit of the poor children ot Cin- 

 cinnati. 



The Dayton Saw Mill & Lumber Company 

 of Dayton. Ohio, has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $200,000. The incorporators are 

 .Stanley JI. Krohn, Allen N. Reeder. Darlington 

 G. Poste, John J. Hall, Barry S. Murphy and 

 I'jdward T. Hall. Tbe new concern will do busi- 

 ness in tbe hardwood lines, and have a large 

 tract of timber land in the South, where they 

 will cut. The timber cut will be sent to Dayton 

 to be sawed and placed on tbe market. 



W. E. Sampson, who for years has been con- 

 nected with the Globe-Wernicke Company, manu- 

 facturers ot oflice furniture, has resigned his 

 position to take that ot general manager of the 

 William B. Carpenter Company. His loss will 

 be greatly felt by the Glolie-Wernicke Company, 

 and his addition to the Carpenter Company will 

 be a gain to that concern. 



Tlie Kruse Show Case Company has been or- 

 ganized, with Henry Kruse as president. They 

 will be located in the West End, where a build- 

 ing is being fitted out for their occupancy. 



The J. A. Fay & Egan Company, manufacturers 

 of woodworking machinery and reputed to be one 

 of the largest concerns of its kind in the United 

 States, has closed a contract with representa- 

 tives ot a company which controls the manu- 

 facture of telephones and telephone supplies in 

 Europe tor machinery costing more than $25,- 

 nOO. The company is located in London, with 

 headquarters at Stockholm and St. Petersburg. 

 F. Hammersgol of I^ondon, Alfred Larssan of 

 Stockholm, and E. O. Sandberg ot St. Peters- 

 burg were here to close the deal. The Fay & 

 Egan Company have been doing a good foreign 

 Iradc for some time past, but this is the largest 

 order taken from one individual firm so far. It 

 will help to swell the acount of the salesmen, 

 who are striving very liard to exceed last year's 

 mark in sales, so as to assure themselves of an- 

 other dinner like this year's for their good work 

 done. 



The Maley, Thompson & Moffet Lumber Com- 

 pany, located in the West End, have a yoke ot 

 oxen at work near their plant drawing the logs 

 out of the mill creek, which Is about five hun- 

 dred feet away. They are attracting much at- 

 tention from passersbj'- The yoke has been en- 

 gaged from a neighboring farmer aud is among 

 Ihe few remaining around Cincinnati. The logs 

 that tbe Maley. Thompson & Moffett Company 

 .ire taking out of the creek and bottoms were 

 floated there some time ago, when the creek was 

 high. Through this thoughtfulness the com- 

 pany has saved thousands of dollars, while it is 

 the only manufacturing conceiii to use the mill 

 creek for commercial purposes. 



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