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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Harris Manufacturing Company 

 Johnson City, Tennessee 



'^Harris" Hardwood Flooring 



and Lumber 



Bluestone Land & Lumber Company 



MANlII'ACTrRKUS 



WEST VIRGINIA HARDWOODS 

 Soft White Pine, Oak, Poplar, Chestnut, Hemlock 



Band Sawed Stock RIDGWAY 



PENNSYLVANIA 



MEMPHIS 



Wholesale Manufacturers and Exporters 



RED GUM 



SAP GUM 



COTTONWOOD 



CYPRESS 



ASH 



PLAIN OAK 



A,i r- J jTAt QUARTERED OAK 



All Grades and 1 hicknesses ^ HICKORY 



We make a specialty of mixed cars SOFT ELM 



of Sap and Ked Gum, One-half to cv/" xiii/->or- 



Two inches thick. SYCAMORE 



YANDEN BOOM^STIMSON LUNBEH COMPANY 



ManafactureFS Sootliern Hard woods 



>^sH 



Memphis 



Tennessee 



TIMBER ESTIMATES 



REPORTS INCLUDED 

 TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP, DETAIL ESTIMATES & WRITTEN REPORT 



GARDNER & HOWE 



ENGINEERS 



Clarence W. Griffith ""^,'^4?" BuiiSnIf"' Memphis, Tenn. 



has purchased the interest of H. M. Wheeler in the firm of J. W. Wheeler 

 & Company, Madison. Ark. Mr. Prltchard and C. L. Wheeler will be in 

 icintrol of this firm In future. Headquarters will be maintained at 

 .Memphis but the mill will remain at Madison, Ark. There will be no 

 cliani^e in the personnel except as outlined above. J. W. Wheeler & 

 I'oinpany is a jiartnership, with the result that there will be no change 

 in olflcers. The mill of this firm found it necessary sometime ago to 

 close down on account of the low stage of the St. Francis river which 

 made it impossible to move out logs. The mill, however, has recently 

 rrsumed operations and has a good timber supply ahead. 



The .lohnson-Tuslin Company has been formed here with ofBces in the 

 liandolph building. For the present it will engage in the wholesale 

 handling of hardwood lumber only but is arranging to take the cut of a 

 niimbfc'r of mills in this section. C. R. Tustin, formerly with the T. B. 

 .•^tone Lumber Company, the Gayoso Lumber Company and the Lamb-Fish 

 Lumber Company, Is vice-president and secretary. W. T. Johnson, of 

 Cincinnati, is president and treasurer. The company has a capital stock 

 of $l.'i,000. Mr. .Tohnson has been making his home at Cincinnati for a 

 number of years but shortly after January 1 will move his family to 

 Memphis. 



John M. Smith, who has been in charge of the business of the W. P. 

 Rrown & Sons Lumber Company, Louisville, Ky., at Dickson, Tenn., 

 announces that he will go into the wholesale handling of hardwood lumber 

 under his own name, with headquarters at that point. Mr. Smith has 

 been in charge of the business of this firm at Dickson for several years 

 and has been quite successful in the management of its affairs. He says 

 that the relations between himself and the firm have been extremely 

 pleasant and has made it quite clear that, while he will engage in the 

 hardwood lumber business, he will not be a direct competitor of the 

 W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company. 



A. L. Foster, who was for a number of years assistant treasurer of the 

 J. W. Thompson Lumber Company at Memphis, has accepted the position 

 of traffic and sales manager for the Boeuf River Land and Lumber 

 Company, at Logtown, La. Since the dissolution of the J. W. Thompson 

 Lumber Company, Mr. Foster has been engaged in the life iijsurance 

 business. He brings to his position a wide experience in the handling of 

 hardwood lumber and also in the solution of traffic problems. 



The Bentonville Cooperage Company has purchased the property on 

 which the Keller wagon factory at Joplin, AIo., was located for a con- 

 sideration of $10,000 and next spring will remove all of its tight 

 cooperage manufacturing equipment to that point. The machinery for 

 the manufacture of slack cooperage stock will be left at Bentonville. 

 More satisfactoty rates for handling both raw material and finished 

 product are responsible for the decision of the company to make this 

 change in its business. 



The Mengel Box Company has purchased 3,300 acres of timberland near 

 Tiptonville, Tenn., from the Harris estate for a consideration of $112,500. 

 The sale was made in order to wind up the estate in question. The 

 purchasing firm will use the timber on the land in its box and veneer 

 plants at Louisville and elsewhere. This is the largest timberland transac- 

 tion in this section for sometime. The land was bought fifteen years ago 

 by J. C. Harris for $16,000. This represents an increase of about six 

 hundred per cent. 



The Anderson-TuUy Company has purchased the Patton interests in the 

 Pafton-Tully Transportation Company. Following this transfer, C. E. 

 Patton has resigned and has been succeeded by W. C. Wilcox who will 

 have charge of the operations of this company. It will operate four tow 

 l)oats, which are engaged in the towing business, with particular reference 

 to the handling of logs and lumber. The boats are : Dolphin No. 3, Kit 

 Carson, Joy Patton and Satellite. In addition there are five derrick 

 boats, sixteen barges and a machinery boat. The company also owns a 

 dry dock on Wolf river for the repairing of boats operated by it as well 

 as by other firms in this section. C. J. Tully, vice-president of the 

 .\nderson-Tully Compan.v, has been one of the principal stockholders in 

 this transportation company for several years and the absorption of the 

 I'atton interests hy the .\nderson-Tully Company has created no particular 

 surprise. 



The new mill of the Crenshaw-Gary Lumber Company at Richey, Miss., 

 has been completed and placed in operation. There was one band mill on 

 this property when the interests of the Norton Lumber Company were 

 iilisorbed by the Crenshaw-Gary Lumber Company. The new mill will 

 I. ring the total output to approximately 70.000 feet per day. 



The Memphis Shingle Company has applied for a charter. The capital 

 stock is $2,500. The incorporators are R. E. Montgomery, R. E. Mont- 

 gomery Jr., W. H. Burris, W. H. Lewis and W. T. McLain. 



The Jorgenson-Bennctt Manufacturing Company has recently installed 

 a heavy band re-saw driven by a forty horse power electric motor. This 

 lii-m has been doing a great deal of work for the Memphis Siding and 

 Lumber Company and the increase in its equipment has been made in 

 order to take care thereof. 



=■< NASHVILLE >-= 



Major Harry Burgess of this city. United States engineer in charge of 

 improvements on the Cumberland river, is responsible for the discovery 

 'if an important omission in a recent published statement of the timber 

 resources of the upper Cumberland river. The published statement 

 purported to give a statement of all timberlands In the upper Cumberland 



