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section, when as a matter of fact It only Included the timber on farms 

 classed as cultivated. Major Burgess shows that 600.000 acres of timber- 

 lands not classed as part of cultivated farms was omitted, which means a 

 vast amount of timber wealth, and a strong argument for the (iovernmont 

 to continue the improvement of the Cumberland, so as to give naviaation 

 at all seasons. The upper Cumberland river has lonff been an Important 

 source of supply for- the Nashville hardwood market, furnishing some 

 20.000.000 or 25.000,000 feet of timber and lumber annually. The timber 

 has been drawn upon heavily, and tliere is difference of opinion among 

 lumbermen as to how long the supply will last. 



The Mengel Box Company of Hickman, Ky.. has made a big purchase 

 of land in Lake County, Tennessee. The company has closed a deal 

 for about 3.700 acres of land fourteen miles south of Hickman, known as 

 the famous .Tudge Harris property, and .said to be richly timbered. The 

 price paid for the land was .■5112,.'i00. The purchaser will develop the 

 land and ship the timber to its plant at Hickman. 



The Coosawattee Lumber Company, recently incorporated at Cookeville, 

 Tenn., with authorized stock of $25,000, announces that it will operate a 

 mill at Talking Rock. Ga., and develop some tlmberland in that section. 



The Johnson-Tustln Lumber Company of Memphis, with authorized 

 capital stock of $15,000, has been granted a charter by the secretary of 

 state. Clyde Johnson. W. Toutsey, Robert E. Kreimer, W. Thomas John- 

 son and C. R. Tustin are incorporators. 



Judgment for defendant was entered in the case of J. H. Vestal and 

 others against the Ducktown Copper Company, tried in the United States 

 Court at Chattanooga. Plaintiff sought to recover $37,500 for alleged 

 damage to timber on lands in Tennessee and Georgia by fumes from 

 defendants' copper plant. 



The Consolidated Chair Corporation of Greeneville. Tenn., with author- 

 ized capital stock of $100,000, has been granted a charter by the secre- 

 tary of state. O. P. Lutz is at the head of the corporation. The com- 

 pany has acquired the big plant of the Greeneville Chair Company, 

 recently sold by court order in receivership proceedings, and will put 

 the plant into operation again. 



John M. Smith, who for five years has managed the branch plant of 

 the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company at Dickson. Tenn,. has resigned 

 his position to engage in the wholesale lumber business at Dickson on his 

 own account. Mr. Smith is one of the most successful lumbermen in this 

 section. His relations with the Louisville company were in every way 

 pleasant, but he deemed it best to enter business for himself. 



The traflac committee of the Nashville Lumbermen's Club, of which A. B. 

 Ransom is chairman, has been authorized to proceed with a complaint 

 before the Interstate Commerce Commission against the Louisville & 

 Nashville railroad and other lines seeking to gain milling in transit 

 privileges granted to other cities. 



Counsel for the Louisville & Nashville Terminal Company, controlled 

 by the Louisville & Nashville and Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis rail- 

 roads, has refused the request of the Nashville city commissioners to 

 grant more advantageous reciprocal switching privileges to the Tennessee 

 Central railroad. Counsel claimed that it would be unjust to require 

 their companies to turn their terminal facilities over to a competing 

 line. The city may carry the matter to the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission. Lumbermen and other shippers will watch the outcome with 

 much interest, as the granting of the privilege would be advantageous 

 to the shippers. 



=-< LOUISVILLE >.= 



The Louisville Hardwood Club has bad several important meetings 

 recently, outside speakers taking up most of the time and discussing 

 subjects of general importance. S. B. Lynd and A. T. Ford, local bankers, 

 spoke on the state ta.x system and prospects for its reformation, while 

 Philip S. Tuley, president of the Kentucky Manufacturers' and Shippers' 

 Association, made a talk on "Workmen's Compensation," with special 

 reference to the bills which will be introduced on that subject in the 

 state legislature next montli. The session begins January G. The 

 passage of legislation of some kind on this subject seems to be assured. 

 L. B. Finn, chairman of the state railroad commission, is to speak shortly 

 on the prospect of increasing the powers of the state railroad commission, 

 while R. A. McDowell, a well-known attorney, will tell the lumbermen 

 about the income tax. 



The father of Stuart R. Cecil, president of the Louisville Hardwood 

 Club, and an officer of the Dooker-Cecil Company, died recently. He was 

 Dr. John G. Cecil, and was one of the leading physicians of the South. 



T. M. Brown of the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company has re- 

 turned from a business trip to New York. The company is considering 

 installing a planing mill In connection with Its sawmill at Fayette, Ala. 



J. C. WickllCfe, secretary of the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company, recently 

 returned from a trip abroad. Speaking of foreign trade conditions ho said 

 that business Is good in England, France and Scandinavia, but quiet in 

 Germany, Holland and Belgium. Tight money is the cause of the busi- 

 ness depression In the latter countries. 



An examiner of the Interstate Commerce Commission recently heard 

 the complaint of the North Vernon. Ind., Lumber Company in Louisville. 

 The company complains that the rate on lumber from Dyersburg, Tenn., 

 to North Vernon is greater than from Dyersburg to Cincinnati, although 

 North Vernon is an intermediate point, Frank Platter, president of the 

 company, conducted the case for the complainant. 



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