HARDWOOD RECORD 



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J. F. Difenderfer of the Frambes-Dtfenderfer 

 Lumber Company of Philadelphia was in the 



city on business last week. 



The river mills in this vicinity are expecting 

 a busy time because of the splendid logging 

 tide which lias been on here for the past two 

 weeks. In this short time over 10,000,000 feet 

 of oak, pine, poplar and gum logs have been 

 floated down from the Clinch and Powell rivers 

 in the sections of southwestern Virginia find 

 upper eastern Tennessee. A huge number of 

 mills took advantage of the tide and they now 

 have a sufficient supply to run them well toward 

 the fall of the year. 



The Berry Lumber & Stave Company has in- 

 creased its capacity to about 25,000 feet of 

 lumber a day. The concern recently installed 

 apparatus for carrying off waste material. 



The J. M. Card Lumber Company, one of the 

 largest export concerns in the country, is re- 

 moving two of its sawmills to new sites owing 

 to the fact that the timber is being exhausted. 

 The band sawmill located at Hollywood, Ala., 

 is being moved to the Paint Rock valley, where 

 it will saw poplar, basswood and oak timber. 

 Another, which will saw oak, gum, cypress and 

 pine, will be moved from Akron to Tuscaloosa, 

 Ala. 



M. W. Hart, recently employed by a lumber 

 concern in Boston but now engaged in the lum- 

 ber business for himself, has, within the past 

 few weeks, purchased considerable stock here. 



I. N. Stewart of I. N. Stewart & Brother 

 Lumber Company of Buffalo was a visitor here 

 recently. He reports conditions as very favor- 

 able throughout the country. 



J. S. Vernon, lumber inspector of the Wil- 

 liams- Voorbees Lumber Company, will resign 

 his position and run a sawmill near Macon, Ga. 



s. .1. Gray of the Oscar Gardner Company of 

 New Orleans is visiting lumbermen in this city. 



M. M. Erb. traveling representative of the 

 Case Lumber Company, has just returned from 

 a trip through southern Georgia and he reports 

 a very favorable state of affairs in that section. 

 He anticipates a trip to Canada in the interest 

 of his company in the near future. 



A. J. Gasley, who was recently connected 

 with the F. W. Blair sawmill at Chattanooga, 

 has accented a position as lumber inspector for 

 the Ferd Brenner Lumber Company as the 

 Canadian representative at Toronto. 



Pittsburg. 



There are 2,400,000 fid of timber in rafts 

 In the Allegheny river above the Springdale 

 dam which have been tied up. unable to get 

 through the lock since the last Hood, when 

 the channel was tilled with gravel. On April 

 IB the government put men to work cleaning 

 out the lock so the gates could be opened. As 

 soon as the work is finished the timber, which 

 is owned by the McKeesporl Sawmill Company, 

 will be brought to Pittsburg and taken up the 

 Monongahela river to McKeesporl to build coal 

 boats. 



The American Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company, through Manager Woollen of its hard- 

 wood department, recently bought ::. ,000 feet 



of timber at Fishing Hawk. W. Va. 



W. D. Johnston, president of the American 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company, is at Flor- 

 ala. Fla„ superintending operations at the com 

 pane's y.-llow pine mill. G. W. Gates of the 

 same company is in St. Louis. 



Pittsburg brokers who make a specialty of 

 timber lands are having difficulty this year 

 in getting tracts to suit their customers. Prac- 

 tically all the hardwood timber in western Penn- 

 sylvania h:i- been cut off with the exception 

 of a few tracts. Timber properties in West 

 Virginia that are accessible are hard to find. 



The plant of the Parley Lumber Company at 

 Allendale, Pa., burned April 20 entailing a loss 

 ,,f about $40, iMKi. The mill employed 100 men. 

 Several million feet of hardwood lumber was 

 more or less damaged. 



Reports received from the lumber companies 

 and structural ateel manufactories noli, ate a 

 direct reflection of the conditions brought about 

 h.\ "lie of the earliest springs for many years. 

 The line weather has favored outdoor work of 

 all kinds. House building lias I n wonder- 

 fully active for the month of April, and large 

 building projects are well under way whereas 

 with bad weather they would hardly have been 

 started. 



Superintendent Dabney of the Allegheny Val- 

 ley division of the Pennsylvania railroad re- 

 ports that lumber shipments north are very 

 heavy. Much lumber is also being shipped to 

 Buffalo from the low grade division. While 

 then 1 is no excess of cars there have been no 

 serious complaints of a shortage. 



Nashville. 

 It is probable that Nashville may have a lead 

 pencil factory in the near future. The Retail 

 Merchants' Association of this city has received 

 a proposition from the Pencil Exchange of 

 Jersey City, through its president, O. A. Weis- 

 senborn. who desires that his company, if pos- 

 sible, move to this, the cedar belt. Mr. Weis- 

 senborn inquires regarding the extent of the 

 cedar belt in this section. The factory he pro- 

 poses to build would give employment to several 

 hundred persons. 



Machinery has been shipped for the new saw- 

 mill the Standard Lumber & Box Company is 

 erecting, and it is expected the mill will be 

 in operation in less than thirty days. 



Another lumber industry is to be launched 

 soon along the line of the Nashville, Chatta- 

 nooga & St. Louis Railway. John M. Smith, one 

 of the foremost business men of Dickson. Tenn.. 

 has secured a site near the railroad and he will 

 at once begin the erection of a large planing 

 mill and the establishment of a big lumber 

 yard as well. Mr. Smith proposes to invest a 

 liberal amount of capital in the enterprise, and 

 he will soon figure as a strong competitor in 

 the lumber and building material market. 



Local lumbermen are rejoicing over the defeat 

 of the Engineers' Licensing bill at the hands of 

 the recent legislature. This measure would have 

 required that all their stationary engineers stand 

 a technical examination, and many of the best 

 ones working for local lumber companies could 

 not have done so. 



Miss Clementine Dalcour of Philadelphia has 

 been awarded over a million acres of land along 

 the Apalachicola river in Florida, by Judge 

 Locke of the Fnited States District Court. The 

 case involving the title to the lands has been 

 in court since 1830, and involved the validity 

 of a grant made long before to John Forbes by 

 the Spanish government. Theodore Dalcour in- 

 stituted suit lor the recovery of the lands, and 

 Miss Dalcour is the only direct living heir 

 to the property. 



The Cotton Belt Lumber Company, with a 



capital of $1,000,000, has 1 11 incorporated at 



Mobile. Ala, The incorporators are A. S. Ter 

 rill. Willis H. Bennett and Theodore Emery, all 

 of Chicago. 



The Putnam Manufacturing Company of Bas 

 ter, Tenn.. has been purchased by J. C. Gentry, 

 W. It. Bradford and I'at Griffin. They will en- 

 large the business. 



The large handle factory of A. Dellapiere .\ 

 Co.. .11 Baxter, Tenn.. was burned recentlj 

 The origin of the fire is unknown. 



A charter bas been granted to the Flowers 

 Stave & Lumber Company of Obion county, rap 

 italized at $10,000. 



A portion of the pencil factory at Thick. 

 Tenn.. in Marshall county, bas been destroyed 

 by fire. A lot of cedar logs also burned. 



The Alabama Coffin & Casket Company, with 

 a capital stock of $50,000, has been organized. 

 The incorporators are G. II. Germany. J. C. 

 Miller and II. C. Smith of Chattanooga and 

 A. M. Russell of Birmingham. A plant will be 

 erected in North Birmingham. 



It is reported that the owners of timber in 

 the section which will be included in the Appa- 

 lachian Park Reserve will not offer timber for 

 sale at any price. Tiny believe the reserve will 

 be established and that they will gel a big price 

 for their timbered lands. 



The Red River is just in with a consignment 

 of 1st, i feet of lumber from the upper Cum- 

 berland. 



the lumber Industry in Georgia has been 

 greatly hindered recently on account of the 

 pendency of the law suit at Macon, involving 

 freight rates charged by tin- railroads of Geor- 

 gia. The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled 

 that rates were too high, but the railroads 

 ignored the ruling. The lumbermen thereupon 

 took the case to the Federal Court. Judge 

 Spear heard the argument in the case, and i< 

 expected to deliver liis opinion soon. Lumber- 

 men in the vicinity shipped practically no lum- 

 ber, as they have been waiting the termination 

 of the suit. 



J. S. Lassiter of Bellebuckle. Tenn., has gone 

 to Louisiana to look after his lumber interests. 



Hamilton Love of the firm of Love, Boyd & 

 Co. has gone to the Northwest on a business 

 trip. 



Information comes from Dover, Tenn.. to the 

 effect that a gigantic lumber deal bas been 

 made. It is reported that Eastern capitalists 

 have purchased about 45,000 acres of timbered 

 land extending from Tennessee Ridge to Bear 

 Spring, a distance of about sixteen miles. 



J. B. Harris & Co. are putting in a large 

 stave factory at Ilarpeth River, near White 

 Bluff, Tenn. This firm has purchased a fine 

 tract of timber land in this region. 



A stave mill is shortly to be established at 

 Athens. Ala., which will cost about $20,000. 

 The plant will work about forty men, and will 

 be located on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. 



A big lumber plant and sawmill will soon 

 be established at llopkinsville, Ky.. by Indiana 

 parties. The buildings of the concern will be 

 on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. W. B. 

 Lewis of Petersburg, Ind.. is at Hopkinsville, and 

 will supervise the work of putting up the 

 plant. The firm will get its timber over the 

 Louisville & Nashville Railroad, and will make 

 a specialty of quarter sawing. 



Memphis. 



While there has been considerable rain in 

 the Memphis district during the past fortnight, 

 there has been a greater volume of lumber 

 produced than during any similar period in 

 some time. The rail mills are all well sup- 

 plied with timber and are generally running at 

 full capacity, while the river mills are doing 

 moderately well despite the fact that they are 

 handicapped to some extent by tin' proportion- 

 ately small receipts of logs. Many of the mills 

 in the lowlands of western Mississippi and 

 southeastern Arkansas are closed down because 

 of inability t" 1 'u. bur there arc more mills 

 running now than at any time since .Inn 

 ary 1. 



Several new mills are being established In 

 this section. Hugbart ami Kendal, who 

 here about two years ago from Grand 1; 

 Mich., and who were engaged foi some time 

 exclusively in the wholesale business, are com- 

 pleting their band saw mill ill new South Mem- 

 phis. The company bas II iflSce, plant and 

 yards all convenient lj ' firm pur- 



chased a large tract of timber land near Hurl- 

 but. Ark., some time ago, and this tlmb 

 ,,,,„ being can and brought to Memphis to be 

 manufactured. The mill should begin operation 

 within the current week. 



Th.- C. B. Stetson Lumber Companj 

 to the George T. Kendal 1 mpany, has 



mtrol of the ontput ot a new mill with 



: , capa, 1 s of 15, ,000 feel at Pro 



which began operations within the past fort- 

 night. This makes id mill at that 

 oiled by this firm. The company 



