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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Harris Manufacturing Company 



Johnson City, Tennessee 



^'Harris" Hardwood Flooring 

 and Lumber 



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Bluestone Land & Lumber Company 



MANtTACTlREKS 



WEST VIRGINIA HARDWOODS 

 Soft White Pine, Oak, Poplar, Chestnut, Hemlock 



Band Sanrcd Stock RIDGWAY 



PENNSYLVANIA 



MEMPHIS 



^\ holesale Manafacturers and Exporters 

 RED GUM 



SAP GUM 



COTTONWOOD 

 CYPRESS 

 ASH 



PLAIN OAK 

 Anr- J J Tf t QUARTERED OAK 



All Grades ana J hicknesses ^ HICKORY 



Me make a »pe<iaItT of mixed cars 

 of Sap and Ked Cum. One-haJf to 

 Two inche-. thick. 



SOFT ELM 



SYCAMORE 



VANDEN BOOI=STmSON LUMBER COMPANY 



Manofactarers Sontheni Bard woods 



Red Qum a Specialty 

 Memphis Tennessee 



TIMBER ESTIMATES 



GARDNER & HOWE 



ENGINEEBS 



Clarence W. Griffith ^'V^n^^T^' Memphis, Tenn. 



^1 and::i^m0^sreifi red 

 poplar. i: ti :: 



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Till' .*^tar lilook Mills, manufactur.rs of shuttle blocks, linvc started 

 operiillon. The mills have a daily output of about 3,500 pieces and employ 

 about twenty operatives. The plant is located at Charlotte avenue and 

 the Tennessee Central railroad. Jasper Hooper is in charge of the mills 

 and Is srcatly pleased with the manner in which business has started. 

 The mills tise dogwood and persimmon cxclusirely. 



The National Oouservatiou Congress has appointed Dr. A. H. Purdue of 

 this city vice-president for Tennessee. Dr. Purdue announces that he will 

 at once organize a branch association for conservation of forests and other 

 resources. 



The Leatherwood Lumber Company has been incorporated, with an 

 authorized capital stock of $1,000. W. W. Berry, N. 1'. I.eSueur, K. A. 

 Hail. E. A. Burr and R. W. Clawson are the Incorporators. The purpose 

 of the company is to manufacture lumber, buy and sell logs, cut logs and 

 do a general lumber business. 



The Greeneviile Chair Company has been financially involved and a 

 general creditors' bill has been filed against th* company at Greeneviile, 

 Tenn. The company does a lar^e business, employing several hundred men, 

 and it i-? hoped will be able to adjust matters with creditors. 



A new branch of the Lonisville & Xashville railroad, from Iron City to 

 Collinswood, is nearing completion. The new line will louch valuable 

 timberlands iu Wayne county yet undeveloped, and will result in some 

 important operations in hardwoods in that section soon. The road is 

 twenty miles in length. 



Fred .1. Ro.vs. assistant manager of the Fullerton-Powell Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, South Bend. Ind.. and W. P. Sehmuhl, Evansvllle mana- 

 ger for the same company, were' in Xashville, having been to Wayne county 

 to inspect large timoer interests of the company. 



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Owing to the e.\trcmi ly dry weather which has prevailed during the 

 fall, as well as in the summer, forest fires have broken nut in some sec- 

 tions of eastern Kentucky and are doing great damage. The state forester 

 is organizing a patrol system which will limit the losses through pre- 

 venting fires. 



Col. C. L. Walker, superintendent of the sawmill and veneer mill of 

 the Mengel Box Company at Hickman, Ky., is seriously ill with typhoid 

 fever. 



S. M. Mapel & Co., Irvine. K.v.. have purchased a large tract of white 

 oak and poplar timber from Frank Park. It is located near Irvine. The 

 buyers will put a mill on the property at once and begin the manufacture 

 'if the lumber. 



James B. McCreary, governor of Kentucky, has designated Nov. C as 

 arbor day and has issued a proclamation calling upon the people of the 

 state to observe the occasion. In his proclamation he said : "In the last 

 decade there has been great development along forestry lines in the United 

 States. The inauguration of forest management in the various national 

 forests, the activity of various states in public forestry, and the interest> 

 of private owners in tree-growing have resulfed in marked improvement 

 in everything connected with forestry. Every proper effort should be 

 made for the renewal of our forests, and the attention of all the people, 

 and especially the teachers and pupils of all the colleges and schools, is 

 called to the importance of planting trees." 



The sawmill of the Ford. Ky., Lumber Company was burned recently 

 in a fire which destrojed many of the other buildings in the town also. 

 Very little manufacturing has been done at Ford, which is on the Ken- 

 tucky river, for some time, and it is not likely that the mill will be 

 replaced. 



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Ark., recently purchased 

 irgin hardwood timber in 

 $2.5.000 cash. 

 ,\rk.. has received three 



Fr.ink I'. Fee of the Fee-Crayton Hardwood Lumlx>r Compan.v, with 

 principal offices at Dermott. Ark., has returned to Arkansas after a tour 

 over the African timber belt, where he inspected the supply of timber in 

 that section. 



The Grabt Lumber and Timber Company has recently purchased a 

 million feet of oak timber in the vicinity of Leola. Ark., which will be 

 worked up by the plaut at that place. 



A. J. Tiplet and Tom Green of Forrest City 

 from E. V. Mills of Heth. Ark.. 1,500 acres of 

 the St. Francis river bottoms. The consideration 



Francis Kiefer. forest supervisor at Harrison, 

 applications for the purchase of 6,000.000 feet of white oak timber in the 

 Ozark National forest reserve in Clebourne. Ba.\ter and Stone counties. 

 Arkansas. The lowest hid was $3.75 per thousand and the highest bid 

 was $4 per thousand. The minimum value placed upon this timber is 

 .<10.000. hut it is expected that the timber will bring probably double that 

 amount. 



The classification work in the Ozark National forests has recently been 

 abandoned and the camps have been broken up and the men disbanded. 

 The classification plan was found to be impracticable after the work had 

 l»een attempted for several months. The expense was too great to be 

 justified by the results. For the past six years the service has been trying 

 to devise some way by which the land in the forests could be classifled. so 

 that that which was found better for agricultural purposes might he turned 

 over to the homesteaders. The classification plan was adopted. It was 

 very expensive and practicall.v the same procedure was necessary after the 



