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rate on lumber from Nashville and vicinity will 

 be adviinied :f cents per bundred pounds to 

 Canadian points and also Eastern cities." This 

 was tlie order issued by the Illinois Central. The 

 Louis-vilie & Nashville advanced rates in this 

 section to Canadian points :! cents per hundred, 

 effective January !.">. althousrh it did not advance 

 the rates to Kastern points. Local lumbermen 

 state that Ihese advances In the tariff mean ad- 

 ditional freight charges that will amount to 

 about $1.(100 a day to the nineteen Nashville 

 concerns that ship from here. On the other 

 hand, it is stated that no advance in prices can 

 be made on account of competitive points having 

 the old rate. The change will make a carload 

 of lumber going to New York. say. cost $102 

 rather (ban $Sr>.."iO, as heretofore. The railroads 

 recently advanced Ihe carload minimum from 

 30.000 to :U.0OO. The lumbermen are also up 

 In arms against this, as they claim the minimum 

 of 30.000 can hardly be loaded now in the 

 smaller cars when dry poplar- is to be shipped. 

 Officials of the I. C. and the L. & N.. in explain- 

 ing the advance In rates, state that for some 

 time the rates have been too low : that they 

 were lower than the rates to certain Central 

 Freight .\ssociation points and lower than those 

 to certain points on trunk line territory, and 

 therefore the adv.nnce had been ordered. 



Simon I.ieherman, the veteran lumberman, in 

 speaking of the advance, gives the following lit- 

 tle history : "About a year ago the rates on 

 lumber from Chattanooga and Nashville to Ohio 

 river points and the West were advanced 1 cent 

 on the hundred pounds, and wc were required to 

 pay 9 cents from Nashville to Louisville, i:^ 

 cents to St. Louis. 13 cents to Cincinnati and 10 

 cents to Kvansville. while prior to that time the 

 rates had been 8, 12. 12 and 9 cents, respective- 

 ly. Some time ago the rates to Buffalo and 

 other Eastern points from Knoxvllle were ad- 

 vanced 2V. cents — that is. from 20 to 22 V. cents 

 — a hundred, and the lumbermen of that city 

 raised a howl because the rates were lower from 

 Chattanooga and Nashville to the same points, 

 remaining at 20 cents, although the distance 

 was practically the same. A delegation of Knox- 

 vllle lumbermen waited on President Milton II. 

 Smith of the L. & N. railroad at Louisville iu 

 an effort to have the lower rates restored. They 

 were met with the statement that nothing could 

 be done for them in the way of a reduction, but 

 rresident Smith assured them that he would see 

 that the rates from Nashville and Chattanooga 

 were advanced to those of Knoxville. This was 

 done. The rate on lumber from Memphis to Buf- 

 falo, however, which is 300 miles farther, is the 

 same a.s from Nashville, Knoxville and Chat- 

 tanooga." 



A special from Florence, Ala., states that the 

 cross-tie traffic here is unusually heavy, consid- 

 ering the disposition to curtail, as was evidenced 

 most everywhere recently. The woods are again 

 filled with cutters. The prices were not reduced 

 during the suspension of business. 



The Tennessee Stave & Lumber Company of 

 Sparta, Tenn., has purchased an eight-acre tract 

 just south of the town on the Bon Air Line of 

 the N. & C. and will establish a yard there. 

 The company kept all of its mills running 

 throughout the recent flurry. 



Quite a number of the local mills will start 

 their sawmills in the country in the next few 

 days. This step is taken to indicate that in 

 the near future conditions will be normal again. 



The rrewitt-Spurr Manufacturing Company 

 has increased its capital stock from $50,000 to 

 $100,000. The company operates a large plant 

 in East Nashville and also a factory at Murtrees- 

 boro. Tenn. The increased capital was neces- 

 sitated by a rapidly growing business. This con- 

 cern has the only red cedar bucket factory In 

 the world. 



The B. & M. Lumber Rule Company, with J. 

 B. McDonald president and J. N. Bryan gen- 

 eral manager, has just got under way here. This 

 is the first factory for the manufacture of rulers 

 established south of the Ohio river and there 



are Bald to be only four or five In the United 

 States. The company at present has a lapaclty 

 of three dozen rules a day and Ibis will be in- 

 creased as tile demand necessitates. Tlicse rules 

 are being made of secmid growth lilckory with 

 inlaid walnul iiandlcs and the best steel and 

 hra.ss handles. They are pliable and highly pol- 

 Islurd and liave been j)ronf)Uuccd by local lumber- 

 nu»n as good as the relclu-iiicd l.ukfus rule of 

 .Saginaw, .Mich. 



A special from Livingston. 'I'eun., announces 

 that the Litchfield .Shuttle Company of South- 

 brudge. Mass.. is putting" in there a large plant 

 for the purpose of manufacturing dogwood sliut- 

 tles. shuttle blocks, elc. .\ big liroom handle 

 and hoop factory will also be iuslalled Ijy (he 

 same people. 



Buford Dickerson has bouglit tiie stock of bug- 

 gies of the DeFord Buggy ('(unpany of West 

 Nashville, sold under a decree of the chancery 

 court. His bid was $2,815. 



The sensational murder trial of State vs. W. 

 S. Bryant, who is charged with having killed 

 Chalmers Vestal, president of the Caney Fork 

 Lumber Compan.v. comes up sliortly at Cooke- 

 viile. Tenn. Brotliers of the dead man are prose- 

 cuting the case vigorously. K. T. Mct'onnico of 

 Nashville represents the defendant Bryant, who 

 kept books for the man he is alleged to have 

 killed. The state insists that the trouble came 

 about on account of relations between Bryant 

 and Mrs. Vestal. 



T. F. Bonner, the well-known Nashville lum- 

 berman, was recently elected president of what 

 is known as the Tennessee Industrial League, an 

 organization formed to foster the industries 

 within the state and to encourage others to come 

 within its borders. President Bonner is just 

 out with a ringing address to the public in 

 which he deplores the relentless fight he claims 

 is being made against the railroads by dema- 

 gogues and political agitators. Among other 

 things he says : "The ceaseless and relentless 

 warfare that has been so mercilessly waged 

 against the railroads in some of the southern 

 states for the past two or three j-ears has 

 wrought much ruin and wreck." He declares 

 that the farmer and laboring man seem to be 

 the two classes to whom the demagogue has 

 appealed principally in his warfare, and he 

 ascribes as the reason for this not that either 

 class is less intelligent than any other, hut sim- 

 ply because they are generally so busy they 

 haven't the time to devote to the subjects that 

 the average business man has and consequently 

 not the thought. 



Love, Boyd & Co. got in Co.OOO feet of mixed 

 lumber from the upper Cumberland during the 

 past week. They are looking fur a goodly quan- 

 tity of oak from their mountain mills in the 

 near future. 



The Nashville Tie & Cedar Company bandied 

 some 50,000 cedar ties from the upper river dur- 

 ing the past week. 



The Prewitt-Spurr Manufacturing Company 

 reports receiving a good supply of buckeye logs 

 during the past few days. They will be used in 

 the manufacture of buckets. 



Cohn & Goldberg are running their mill at 

 capacity now — 50,000 feet a day. The company 

 is manufacturing its own lumber exclusively. 



The Davidson-Benedict Company is preparing 

 to reopen its mills in Tennessee and Georgia in 

 the near future. The company believes the in- 

 creasing demand and stronger tone of the mar- 

 ket will justify such a step. 



John B. Ransom & Co. are getting a nice sup- 

 ply of hardwood from the upriver country 

 through the purchases of their representative, 

 Ed Ilinckle. He is also picking up a lot of box 

 material. 



The following new charters have been granted 

 by Secretary of State John W. Morton : 



J. G. Lowe Lumber Company, Knox county. 

 Capital stock, $10,000. Incorporators, J. G. 

 Lowe. C. H. Hicks. C. W. Lester, Alexander 

 Kennedy and W. C. Woods. 



The amended charter of the North Mississippi 



Lumber Company increasing the capital stock 

 from $50,000 to $100,000. 



Welch Stave and Heading Company. Putnam 

 county. CapKal stock. $240,000. Incorporators, 

 J. W. Welch. G. N. Welch, J. M. Welch, J, P. 

 Welch and J. T. Price. 



Amendment allowed Increasing the capital 

 stock of the Hamilton Buggy and Implement 

 Company of Hamilton county, from $0,000 to 

 $12,000. 



The Lumber Employes' corporation, with of- 

 fices In the First National Bank building, re- 

 cently underwent a thorough reorganization. K. 

 K. WinkliM- continues as president, i)ut .1. .Mil- 

 ton Wells lias been elected to succeed A. H. 

 Mason, resigned, as secretary. The company is 

 capitalized at $10,000. It proposes now to es- 

 tablish offices in Houston, Tex. : Charleston, S. 

 C. : Montreal. Denver and other cities. 



.\ special from Birmingham states that C. II. 

 -Vlexander and associates have disposed of a 

 body of about 2ti.0()0 acres of virgin timber laud 

 to a syndicate of Maryland. The tract lies iu 

 Bibb, Perr.v and Hale counties and is six miles 

 wide by about twenty-three miles long. The 

 price is said to be about $200,000. 



The convention of the Appalachian Forest 

 Association which was held in Atlanta last week 

 brought together representatives from cKles in 

 Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and North and 

 South Carolina, and Kentucky. Resolutions 

 were adopted asking every southern state (o- 

 send delegations to Washington with a view of 

 securing the approval of the Appalachian White 

 mountain forest bill by the agricultural commit- 

 tee of the National house of representatives. 

 Governor Hoke Smith of Georgia presided at 

 both sessions of the convention. Letters antl 

 telegrams of indorsement were received from 

 the governors of many Southern states. Among 

 the speakers were: Enos Mills of the National 

 Forest Bureau ; Professor Alfred Akerman of 

 the University of Georgia ; Charles A. WaddelU 

 engineer of the Biltmore estate, and C. P. Good- 

 year of Brunswick, Ga, 



Memphis, 



The principal railroads operating in and out 

 of Memphis have been given notice that, effective 

 February 29, all reconslgning privileges enjoyed 

 b,v the lumber interests in this city for a number 

 of years will be withdrawn. This decision is be- 

 lieved to be tlie direct outgrowth of the com- 

 plaint filed with the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission by the E. Sondheimer Company against 

 the Illinois (.Vntral and Yazoo & Mississippi Val- 

 ley roads, alleging discrimination iu favor of 

 Memphis in the matter of reconsignment and 

 against Cairo. The Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission has given no intimation, although it has 

 had more than one hearing, as to what its de- 

 cision in the matter will be, but the railroads 

 give out the statement that they prefer to with- 

 draw these reconslgning privileges voluntaril.y 

 before the commission declares them irregular or 

 illegal rather than be forced to witlidraw them 

 iu the event such a decision is made. 



Lumber interests are up in arms against this 

 order and are mapping out a plan of procedure. 

 It has been practically decided that no step will 

 l)e taken until the Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion has handed down its decision. If this should 

 be against the continuance of reconsignment 

 privileges the lumbermen will strive to make 

 some other arrangement that will answer, at 

 least to a partial extent, the purpose of the re- 

 consignment rate. If the commission should hold 

 that there is nothing wrong in a continuance of 

 the reconsignment privileges, the lumbermen will 

 go after the railroads with the same determina- 

 tion that has brought victory on previous 

 occasions. 



The plan most discussed as an offset to a 

 withdrawal of reconsignment privileges is that 

 of securing from the carriers a flat rate on lum- 

 ber shipments into Jlemphls lower than that 

 heretofore in force, or a reduction in the flat rate 

 out of Memphis to consuming centers. Wholesale 



