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HARDWOOD RECORD 



others who now use boxes for a great many 

 purposes for which barrels could be used. 



The election of officers resulted as follows: 

 President. J. T. Wylie, Saginaw. Mich. : vice 

 nt. E. Daniel Smith. Mt. Pleasant. Tenn. : 

 secretary, .1. S. Palmer. Sebewaing. Mich. 



Tin- coopers were entertained socially by the 

 local branch of the association. 



Building permits issued in Louisville from 

 lay 1 of this year aggregated 

 100,000 for the same period 

 last ] ■ 



liar. In I flooring men are experiencing their 



usual rush of business foi -on of the 



year. The Wood Mosai. Company reports busi- 



inusually g I. The barrel and box people 



and the chair ami Curnitui also 



very i 



Nashville. 

 The labor troubles which have pervaded all 

 pans of the Cnited S aid "..Id of Nash- 



ville along with the rest and the lumber industry 

 here may suffer seriously as a result. Several 

 ago the district organization of union car- 

 penters served notice on the contractors' organi- 

 zation that new terms would have to be met on 

 May 1. Carpenters had been getting $2.50 

 and less, according to the ability of the men. 

 and bad been Working i'n hours. The union- 

 ists now ask for 30 cents an hour flat, for a 

 nine-hour day. The contractors would not hear 

 to such plans. « i are wlllli - good 



workmen what they are worth to us. but some 

 of them who ask 30 cents an hour would dj 

 worth 30 cents a day to us." said a prominent 

 contractor to the representative of the IIauo 

 WOOD RECOBD, and that expression is about the 

 sentiment of the rest of the contractors. A,] 



ready i e than 200 carpenters have walked out 



and iaj follow. It is possible that a 



compromise may be effected, but if such a plan 

 is nol carried out, the contractors will import 

 nonunion men to take the places of the striking 

 unionists Nashville is at present enjoying a 

 building boom that has never before been equaled, 

 and lumbermen here have been doing an im- 

 mense business. Jusl bow much the strike will 

 interfere with i remains to be seen. 



A lumber deal has Jusl ba ed in Lauder- 

 dale county, Tenn >•. near Hale's Point, on the 



Mississippi river, whereby B.760 acres ol fine 

 timber land wen - m Company. 



Incorporated, ol Ripley, Tenn. The property 

 was formerly owned by Oscar T. Tamm of St. 

 Louis. The purchase price was $181,500. The 

 usi u Company has just made application [or 

 a charter with a capital stoi I 000, all 



of which is fully iiairl in. The members 

 company are: J. B. Ferguson, who is vice presi- 

 dent of the Lauderdale Bank • •! Ripley, and a 

 big timber broker and dealer ; W. E. Miller, 

 president ol the Ripley Savings L!ank .v. Trust 

 Companj I r M.Kinney and .1. E. Pit 

 lawyi ; pley, and Blair I'ierson. a promi- 



nent lawyer of Blemphl Ch. land Includ 

 the transaction is one of the finest tracts in the 

 principal w ag oak, poplar, ash, 



gum, maple and Cottonwood It is estimated 

 are 100,000,000 feet of Cottonwood 

 alone in the tract. 



John M. Smith, who operates a lumber yard 

 In Dickson, Tenn, has purchased a tract of land 

 in Nashville, Including the planing mill formerly 

 run by tt. N. Chestnutt & Co. The consideration 

 was nit " Mi smith will continue the opera- 

 tion of bis plant in Dickson and will also operate 

 the new purchase. Mr. Chestnutt did not sell 

 • his lumber in stock, but reserved several acres 

 on i i Idi i i i be Nashi !,i i oga & 



St. J. ""is Railway and will continue in the lum- 

 ber ore. 



Lumbermen and furniture men of this section 

 will have new facilities for loading and unload- 

 ing ' at the local wharf in the 

 near future, for the flyman Line of steamers 

 has purchased a large whan boat Thil will be 



used for the offices of the Ryman Line and the 

 deck will be used as a wareroom. 



Devastation was wrought by a boiler explo- 

 sion at the plant of Jasper Hardy, five miles 

 from Lynchburg, Tenn.. a few days ago. The big 

 tore through the building and blew well 

 nigh the entire plant into the creek some fifty 

 yards away, wrecking everything around. Jasper 

 Hardy was dangerously injured, and others pres- 

 ent received minor injuries. 



C. E. Townley of W. E. Townley & Co., Cin- 

 cinnati, O., and E. D. Carey of the Carey-Halli- 

 day Lumber Company. Cairo, 111., were guests of 

 D. S. Hutchinson, sales manager of the Nash- 

 ville Hardwood Flooring Company, last week. 



Forest tires have wrought considerable damage 



iy m the neighborhood of Lafayette, Tenn. 



Hundreds of acres of timber laud, fences and 



crops were destroyed and much young timber 



killed. 



Furniture manufacturers from towns in Ark- 

 Mississippi. Kentucky. In. liana. Missouri 

 and Tennessee representing many of the factories 

 in those states met recently at Evansville, Ind., 

 and organized the Southwestern Manufacturers' 

 Association. -\. F. Karges of Evansville was 

 elected president: k. G. Marrow of Memphis. 

 vice president; H. S. Tuttle of St. Louis, secre- 

 and Leo Farenkopf of Evansville, treas- 

 urer. The object of the association is to main- 

 tain a schedule of prices. Meetings will be held 



annually. 



The Fowler's Stave S I ay of 



cently ot ganized with a 



I stock of SI". ■ Sawed staves and 



rood lumber will be manufactured. The 

 my has timber enough to last tor years. 

 The shipping points will be Crockett and Rives, 

 Tenn. 



ef the largest stave and heading plants 

 in the South Is soon to be erected at Uarrlman, 

 Tenn. The firm of Frank B. Russell & Co. of 

 Louisville, Ky., is at present operating three 

 and heading plants at various points on the 

 Tennesset ■ ad, all of which will 



shortly be moved to Ilarriman and consolidated. 

 .man now has about : Ishlng lum- 



ber industries. 



\ tract of 2,000 acres ol timber land has been 

 on, Dawson : 

 ville, Ky., to the Pral t-W on ( lompany. 



The price paid was $24, Twelve years ago 



this same land was sold for just $1,000. The 



purchasing company will erect four sawmills on 



,y. It is d by timber ex- 



i i , imb.T land 



in western Kentucky. 



The tirm of John 15. Ransom & Co. will prob- 

 ably i plant in the near future. The 

 firm recently purchased a tract of twenty-two 

 adjoining Itf present yards in West Nash 

 ville and this will give more ro.uu for its grow- 

 aess. 

 Lawrenceburg, Tenn., is experiencing a build- 

 oom, and all kinds of lumber are in great 

 ind. Many substantial buildings are being^ 

 1 e local lumber business there is 

 lively. 



Wiggs Brothers' saw and planing mill at Xoke- 

 Tenn., was totally destroyed by Bre a few 



days since. There was no Ihsuri n the 



plant. 



James Sullivan has been admitted to the tirm 

 .,1 W. li. Cathey Stave Company at Burns, Tenn. 

 The company recently purchased 0,000 acres ot 

 land on Beaver Dam creek. A sawmill and ax- 

 handle factory will be operated on this property. 

 T. J. Dodd and YV. F. Harrison of Camden, 

 Tenn.. have just purchased a large tract of tim- 

 i.er land in Louisiana. They will put in stave 

 and sawmills and work out the holdings. 



A largi 1"" oi lumbei barges is waiting a rise 

 in the Tennessee river at Sheffield. The Ayer- 

 I.ard Tic Company owns the timber. It takes a 

 twelve foot rise to get over Colbert Shoals at 

 that point and the river now measures only six 

 feet there. 



John Bedgewood ol Montgomery county, Ten- 



nessee, has been a heavy loser on account of a 

 forest fire that destroyed a quantity of logs he 

 had cut. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company of Buf- 

 falo, N. T., has bought 600 acres of rich timber 

 land from J. N. Page at Cane Valley, near Glas- 

 gow, Ky. The purchase price was $37,500. The 

 tract contains poplar, oak. chestnut and walnut. 

 The Gadsden Handle Factory at Gadsden, Ala., 

 belonging to E. B. Rainey, burned a short time 



ago, entailing a loss of $5, ), with insurance of 



$3,500. 



Hill Brothers' sawmill at Springfield, Ky.. has 

 been wrecked by a boiler explosion. One maD 

 was killed and one severely injured. 



An amendment lias been tiled at the office of 

 the secretary of state here increasing the capital 

 stock of the Southern Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany oi Shelby county from So.MUO to $10, 1 



Two new enterprises that will use quantities 

 of hardwood timber are soon to be established in 

 Nashville. The well-known firm of Deeds & Hir- 

 S lg u jn ere, i a ad wagon factory, and 



the Beardon-Chenoweth Carriage Company will 

 ip a plant, 

 i Acme Box Company "f Hamilton county, 

 Tennessee, has been chartered with a capital 



stock ol $1 1, 'lb.' incorporators are O. B. 



B F. lone. S. k. Miller. C. P. Watt, 

 A. II. C. Ilan.hnan and II. P. Fry. 



A tragedj was enacted recently at a sawmill 

 i 1 ge log rolled over Black 



DePriest, whi raised ip and said: "That log 

 me or broke a bone," and in less than 

 :, iinnt.es hi •■'. ... dead. 

 Judge - ' i i Montgomery, Ala., has derided 

 in favor ol the lumber company in the famous 

 -. iithein states Lumber Company vs. 

 cy. D. Jelks. This decision makes the Ala- 

 bama governor sign patents to a large amount 

 of swamp timber lauds hi the extreme southern 



Hugh C. Card of the Southern Hardwood Com- 

 pjjjj i. Ll!l 5 council in the first 



John li Baskette is a candidate tor re- 

 the city .onn.il from the seventeenth 

 \i i:.. i mi mbei of the well- 



known lumber firm of I'rewitt spun- Manufai 

 , , , panj ■ b tries Cohn, another Nash- 

 ville lumberman, is runnit - ion to 

 from the sixth ward. 



Bristol, Va.-Tenn. 



The large double band mill ol the tinted 



s, Company, at Marion, Va., has 



been complete. I and was Cormallj put Into oper- 

 The mill is one of the largest 

 he South. The United suites Spruce ( otn- 

 pany now own the Marion & Rye Valley Rail- 

 way, a line twenty-two miles in length and 

 Intersecting their large timber boundaries in 

 on and Suiythe counties, Virginia. The 

 nning biisine-s at Marion under 

 Battering circumstances. 



A : , .i i„ the operations ol Sanford 



& Tread - " Cr< ek, Tenn., the latter 



pan ol April, destroying 700, teel ol fine 



with logging and sawmill equip- 

 ment. 



On April 30, at Washington. N. C, the saw- 

 mill and dry kilns ol the E. M. Short Lumber 

 Company of that place were destroyed by fire, 

 entailing a loss '-..""". par- 



tially insured. 

 The Morton. Wllley & Lewis Lumber Company 

 i losed a deal with William Delaney of Hol- 

 ston Valley, Tenn.. for a large boundary ol tim- 

 ber on the Ilolston mountains near that place. 

 The work ol rutting the logs and transporting 

 them to the company's railroad has already 

 begun. 



,, \|, i in- and G. A. Griften, prominent hard- 

 wood lumbermen of London. England, were In 

 i, ,,i consultation with J. A. Wil- 

 kenson, \\i ing them large quantities ol 



export stock. 



