HARDWOOD RECORD 



47 



Si'Cri'tary K. U. Koftior oi' Ifie liuliftiia l.uinbtTiiifn's Muliial Iusiir:.n<>' 

 Company says tin- report that Uls company contomplatos leaving Tenness. . 

 Is erroneous. The company has a gooil husiness in Tennessee. 



The Traffic Bureau of Nashville hi'.s elected the following officers for 

 this year : Charles S. Martin, president ; W. L. Davis, vice-president : 

 Walter II. Clarke, secretary; John Coode. treasurer: T. M. llendcrsun, 

 commissioner. The liurcau has made a splendid record the past year in 

 safeguarding the Interests of shippers of Nashville. 



W. A. .MacI.ean of the Wood Mosaic Company. New Albany. Ind., was a 

 visitor to the local market and placed several orders for hardwoods for 

 bis company. Mr. MacLean was very optimistic In his views of the 

 future possibilities of hardwoods. 



MEMPHIS 



=■< BRISTOL >-= 



A deal was closed here last wiok wh. r.l>v the Dousilas & Walkley Com- 

 pany of Elk Valley. Tenn.. acquires ail of the timber holdings of the Vir- 

 ginia Iron. Coal and Coke Company, near Tacoma. Wise county. Va. 

 Lee McChesney of Bristol, who has been in charge of the Elk Valley 

 (Tenn.) operations of the company, will have charge of the new opera- 

 tions to be Installed near Tacoma. The new tract consists of approxi- 

 mately 20.000.000 feet of virgin hardwood stumpage. A band mill will 

 be Installed at once. 



The Mowbray v<< Kobinson Company of Cincbinatl has purchased an area 

 of 40.000 acres of timberland In Clay and Leslie counties. Kentucky. The 

 company has leased a water front. at Oneida, Ky.. and will put in booms 

 there, catching the logs that float down the three forks of the south fork 

 of the Kentucky river and rafting them to the big mill at neidelberg. Ky. 



Most of the mills in this section arc busy. Weather conditions during 

 the past few weeks have been almost ideal for this season of the year, 

 and as a result there is unusual activity in manufacturing. 



There are numerous eastern buyers on the local market. They have left 

 some nice orders within the past few days. They report the business out- 

 look as much improced. 



The Peter-JIcCalu Lumber Company's mills here are running full time. 

 The company has a large amount of stock on hand and has a big timber 

 supply from which to draw. 



G. L. Wood, general manascr of the R. E. Wood Lumber Company of 

 Baltimore, was here last week from Asheville. N. C. He visited his com- 

 pany's new plant at Earhart's, a few miles south of Bristol, where a log- 

 ging road has been built and a large band mill installed. 



E. L. Warren is now associated with J. .\. Wilkinson, agent. Mr. Wil- 

 kinson has several men on the road and is moving a large amount of 

 hardwood lumber, chiefly for export. 



The installation of a new mill will bo begun at once by J. E. Wilkinson 

 of Dublin, Va., near Kingsport. Tenn., where he has purchased a good 

 sized area of hardwood timber, located in the Chestnut Ridge section oi 

 Sullivan county. The lumber will be shipped out over the Carolin.i. 

 Clinchfield & Ohio railroad. 



W. R. Howard of Hopkinsville. Ky.. is preparing to install a new mill 

 near Ilarriman. Tenn.. where he has purchased a tract of timber. 



H. G. Guyan has returned to his home at Humbert. Pa., after spendin- 

 some time in this section making arrangements for the installation of .i 

 large operation in southwest Virginia. Mr. Guyan has purchased a lai;;' 

 area of timber and will inslall a band mill and construct a logging rail 

 road. 



=■< LOUISVILLE >- 



The Churchill-Milton Lumber Company is the style of the latest acc^ 

 slon to the hardwood lumber trade in Louisville. John Milton, vice-prt'^i 

 dent of the Booker-Cecil Company, and T. Smith Milton, sal.^ 

 manager of the Louisville Point Lumber Company, are the members of ih- 

 new company, which is capitalized at J.IO.OOO. Offices are in the Lincnin 

 building, and a yard will be established, probably in South Ixiuisville. Th 

 company will deal extensively in native hardwoods, and in view of ili' 

 popularity and ability of the members of the company, success seems to li' 

 assured. 



The Stemmelen Lumber Company, which has been operating in the local 

 hardwood trade for some time, has been incorporated with ?.'iO,000 capital 

 stock. E. E. Stemmelen and his brother. J. A. Stemmelen. being the active 

 members of the company. Offices are in the Keller building. The company 

 plans to establish a large wholesale yard in Louisville or vicinity, and will 

 complete plans along this line In the near future. 



Iteports have been current in the local trade for some time that the 

 C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company is planning the erection of a large reinforced 

 concrete sawmill building, which will house all departments of the ma- 

 bogaoy manufacturing company. Officials of the company state that 

 while the plans are under consideration, no delinlle decision regarding the 

 erection of the mill has yet been made. Tbi' company has found the demand 

 for Its Mexican and Honduras mahogany In Europe to be excellent, two 

 shiploads of logs having left Belize recently. J. C. Wickllffe. secretary 

 of the company, is at present abroad investigating trade conditions. 



K. S. Huddleston, general manager of the Otis Manufacturing Company 

 of New Orleans, was In Louisville recently, and said that he believes 1914 

 will be a corking good year. Mr. Huddleston has Just completed a trip to 

 leading markets, and has found sentiment, cspeeiaiiy in the East, much 

 more optimistic than usual at this time of the year. 



Barry Norman, vice-president of the Norman Lumber Company, and for 

 some time manager of the compaay's big mill at Holly Uldge, La., pleasantly 



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