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HARDWOOD RECORD 



the land. The timber is within easy reach of 

 the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, and it 

 will not cost a great deal to get it out. 



A distinguished visitor last week was R. 

 E. Gardner, the millionaire buggy manufac- 

 turer of St. Louis. He came up the river 

 with his family iu his yacht Anne Russell. 

 Mr. Gardner was formerly of Union City, Obion 

 county. Tenn.. and he embarked in the spoke 

 business years ago. He soon branched out 

 and is now at the head of the Banner Buggy 

 Company, a concern which uses much hard- 



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The E. Q. Smith Chair Factory at Evansville. 



luii.. lias been destroyed by fire, entailing a 



loss estimated at between $5,000 and $10, 



The fire originated from a lighted match or 

 cigar thrown into some shavings. The plant 

 was the oldest iu the city and dated back to 

 1858. It will be rebuilt. 



K. H. Ashton of the London firm of Dun 

 Ewing ,v- Co., foreign agents of the Saxon ' 

 pany, Limited, was a visitor recently. Mr. 

 Ashton came over to look into the affairs of 

 the Saxnii company, which failed several wi 

 ago While in Nashville he purchased ten 

 carloads of lumber from Love, Boyd & Co. 

 and also a carload of cedar for a foreign bad 

 pencil factory. 



The building boom in Nashville, which has 

 been in progress for several months and which 

 has recently been seriously threatened bj a 

 striki- mi Hi,- part of the carpenters, goes on 

 merrily. The contractors have abou! won their 



tight and have forced the union men t me 



to terms. They are refusing to recognize the 

 union but are employing many union men as 

 individuals merely. The local demand for 

 building material is still heavy and many of 

 the dealers are getting orders faster than they 

 can be filled. 



The large saw mill of Thomas Gunn Iocs 

 at Tullahoma, Tenn.. has been destroyed by Are. 

 There was no insurance on building or ma- 

 chinery. The loss Is figured al about $6,000. 



N. B. Bradley & Sons of Bay City, Mich., 

 have filed a general creditors' bill against the 

 Whiting Lumber Company of Elizabethton, 

 Tenn., asking for the appointment of a re- 

 ceiver to wind up its affairs. The defendant 

 company owns a plant at Elizabethton and it 

 is alleged that being unable to sell the prop- 

 erty as a whole, as agreed upon, the bill 

 results. 



The Chattanooga Packet Company, which Is 

 expected to haul a large amount of lumber 

 on the Tennessee river, has applied for a char- 

 ter. The capital stock of the company will be 

 Sinn. nun. The incorporators are C. D. Mit- 

 chell, John A. Patten, J. N. Trigg, C. W. Olson 

 anil T. II. Payne. 



A boiler at the saw mill of T. ]•;. Johnson 

 at Ilixon, Tenn., exploded recently, fatally in- 

 juring the owner of the plant and an employe. 

 A large furniture factory has been estab- 

 lished at Warsaw, Ivy.. Dear Glasgow. The 

 plant will give employment to many hands. 



News has been received of the destrucl 

 of the C. S. Gladden Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany plant at Memphis, Tenn. The loss will 

 be about $15,000. The flames originated in 

 the engine room and were soon communicated 

 to a lot of seasoned timber In the adjoining 

 yard. Plans for the future have not been an- 



iced. 



The lliilland-Iilow Stave Company at De- 

 i. Ala., is building a big steamboat for 

 the use of the company on the Tennessee river. 

 She will carry staves for the company. 



The Krebs Manufacturing Company of Besse- 

 mer, Ala., has made a general assignment for 

 the benefit of creditors. M. J. Boots is prac- 

 tically the 0W1 he assigning company. 

 and liabilities are said to be aoout 



man of Franklin county. Ky.. 

 sold to O i parties a I,." 



ing for the 



most nart of hickory. The purchasers and 

 the consideration are withheld. A wagon stock 

 factory will be built by the purchasers, it is 

 announced. 



There has been a fourteen foot rise in the 

 Cumberland river In the last few days. The 

 steamer S. B. Fritz came down with 500,000 

 staves and 500,000 feet of lumber. The Cowling 

 came down with 500,000 feet of lumber and 

 went back after a similar amount. 



Wiggs Bros, of Xokeley, Tenn.. are replacing 

 their saw mill which burned recently. Work 

 will be resumed in a few 'lays. 



Memphis. 

 Application for a charter has been filed by 

 the T. J. Orr Land and Lumber Company, of 

 this < it y. with a capitalization of $100,000. H 

 is organized for carrying on a general lumber 

 and real estate business. The incorporators are 

 T. J. Orr, L. It. Orr, II. O. Sweeney and A. W. 

 and M. C. Ketchum. Messrs. Orr and Sweeney 

 came here a short time ago from Cincihnati. 

 Ohio, and formed the Orr-Sweeney Lumber Com- 

 pany. 



The saw mill of the C. S. Gladden Hardwood 



Lumber Company »as destroyed by fire a tev 



days ago, entailing 8 lose of $15,000, partially 



ed by Insurance. The fire originated in 



the engine r n, though its origin is unknown. 



Prompt work of the fire department prevented a 

 spread "f the flames to the large stock of lumber 

 m i in yard, riaus of the company regarding 

 the tut me have Dot been announced. 



The Griffith Casket Company is having plans 

 drawn for a large factory to be erected this fall 

 in New South Memphis. The company will re 

 tain its present factory, located at 304 Madison 

 [or torage use. 

 There Is much rejoicing among Memphis hard- 

 wood lumbermen over the fact that the city- 

 delegation !•■ the National Hardwood Lumber As- 

 sociation's convention secured the appointment 



ol George L. Smith, deputy ins| tor of the 



Memphis district, as surveyor-general, to have 

 charge of all the deputy Inspectors under the 

 control of the national organization. More 

 than 25 representative lumber and traffic men 

 went from Memphis ami they had their minds 

 pretty well made up to secure this selection, 

 and the result was nevei much in doubt. 



The Cochran Lumber Company, which has 

 been engaged for years in the manufacture of 

 boxes and box shooks as well as cottonwood 

 and gum lumber, has purchased a site at Earl. 

 Ark., and will remove its mill from this point. 

 The mill's capacity is 50,000 feet daily. The 

 company owns 6,000 acres of hardwood timbi 

 lands near Earl, heavily covered with oak and 

 ash, and will develop this on a large scale. 



James Applewhite, vice president and general 

 manager of the Chickasaw Cooperage Company 

 of Memphis and New i it-bans, says the heading 

 and stave mill at McGehee, Ark., is now in 

 operation. There are two heading and two stave 

 saws, with an aggregate output of 40,000 pieces 

 per day. The company owns between 16,000 

 and 17.000 acres of hardwood timber lands in 

 Desha and Drew counties, Ark., the timber on 

 which will be developed as rapidly as possible. 

 The Southern Railway has opened negotia- 

 tbitis with Bennett & Wltte of .Memphis and Cin- 

 cinnati, for right of way through the firm's 

 timber land holdings of 3,200 acres, near Bel- 

 zoni, Washington county, Miss. The firm is 

 favorable to the plan. 



Price vV Heald of Baltimore have purchased 

 an interest in the J. W. Dickson Company, which 

 has a lumber plant in the eastern portion of 

 this city. The capital stock is $15,000. Im- 

 provements are to be made which will increase 

 the output of the plant to 25.000 feet daily. 

 Mr. Dickson will be general manager. 



G. A. Fail. ei ni Prlci & Heald has become 

 resi,i,>nt agent of the firm In this field. He will 



move his family here and will look after the 

 buying and selling of lumber. He has already 

 identified himself with the Lumbermen's Club of 

 Memphis. 



H. E. Bacon of the Bacon-Nolan Hardwood 

 Company and C. D. Hendricksou of the F. S. 

 Hendrickso-n Lumhel- Company have "become 

 members of the Lumbermen's Club. This brings 

 the active membership up to 5S, an increase of 

 about 33 per cent in the last year. 



Mr. McEachron of the McEachron-Haven 

 Lumber Company of Waterloo, Iowa, was re- 

 cently in the city looking after local connec- 

 tions. His plans are not sufficiently formulated 

 to be given out yet. 



W. E. Smith, of the Three States Lumber 

 Company has gone to French Lick Springs for 

 his health. 



George C. Russe senting L. Methudy of 



St. Louis, with headquarters at Yicksburg. Miss., 

 has been in the city. 



G. D. Fellows of the Fellows Lumber Com- 

 pany ni Racine, Wis., has -been circulating 

 among the lumbermen. 



Mr. Ashton of the Duncan-Ewing Company 

 ni Liverpool, Eng., was a recent visitor. 



C. C. it I, the recently appointed Vicegerent 



Snark for the western Tennessee district, an- 

 nounces ;i Hoc-Hoo concatenation at Memphis 

 between June 1 and 10, at which a number of 

 kittens will have their eyes opened. Many 

 members of the order will be on hand to asslsl 

 in the affair, including C. C. Ramsey of St. 



1 is. Supreme Junior Hoo-Hoo ; James II, 



Baird, Nashville, Supreme Scrivenoter ; Vicege 

 rent Snark J. I.. Strickland of Greenville, Miss. 

 J. W. Thompson of the J. W. Thompson Lum 

 ber Company was recently iu Chicago, prior to 

 going to the national convention at Buffalo. 



George C. Ehemaun, secretary of the Lum 

 in run us Club of Memphis, spent a day at Cin- 



cinnati, ins old hi -. while on his way to the 



Buffalo convention. 



F. E. Stonebraker of the L. H. Gage Lumber 

 Company anil tin- Crittenden Lumber Company. 

 took advantage of the convention to visit some 

 of the lumbermen in the east. 



A. I.. Poster ni the J- w. Thompson Lumber 

 Company reports a fair volume of business in 

 most items, with particularly good inquiry for 

 plain oak, ash ami cypress. 



James E. Stark of James E. Stark & Co. re- 

 lents biisiiu s- us fair. He says the situation 

 is somewhat puzzling, not being as active as 

 justified by prevailing conditions from the stantl- 

 1" lint of production anil supply. 



W. II. Greble of the Three States Lumber 

 Company gives about the same report of con- 

 ditions. He expresses the view that the situa- 

 tion is thoroughly sound, and that there Is 

 nothing in the outlook, especially as to the sup- 

 ply, to cause any nervousness or uneasiness 

 among holders of lumber. 



Kansas City. 



R. A. Long, one of Kansas City's most promi- 

 nent lumbermen, will at once begin the erection 

 of a 14-story office building, at the corner of 

 Tenth street and Grand avenue. The work 

 of excavation will begin this week and Mr. 

 Long contemplates making his building the 

 finest of its kind in Kansas City. Together 

 with the architect, Frank M. Howe, Mr. Long 

 left here on May 21 to visit St. Louis. Chi- 

 cago, Cincinnati, Pittsburg and New York for 

 the purpose of inspecting modern office build- 

 ings to gather ideas for his building here. It 

 Is likely that when completed this building 

 will be the headquarters of the Kansas City 

 wholesalers and manufacturers, as they are 

 now scattered, and it will add greatly to the 

 convenience of the business if they can all be 

 housed in the sun- building. 



The absence of visiting hardwood peopli 

 from other leading markets is very noticeable. 

 Inquiry shows that no hardwood men havi 



