HARDWOOD RECORD 



Plummet of the riummer Lumber Company, 

 was married last week to Firman Desloge of 

 Desloge, Mo. 



The whole local lumber fraternity is tuned up 

 to the proper pitch for the eleventh annual 

 lumbermen's picnic., which will be held June 22 

 at Cottage Grove, a beautiful spot on the Mis 

 sisslppi river about twenty miles above St. 

 The picnic is given under the auspices 

 of the Lumbermen's Exchange. There will be 

 a full line of athletic events as well as the 

 annual baseball game between the "Hardwoods" 

 and the "Pines." All lumber offices in St Louis 

 will be closed on that day. and the whole day 

 will be turned over to enjoyment. 



Nashville. 

 Nashville lumbermen made an excellent show- 

 ing in the big Industrial parade recently given 

 in this city. The affair was most pretentious 

 and served to open the eyes of the people of 

 the city to the advantages, facilities and possi- 

 bilities of this ection. One of the floats which 

 attracted much attention was thai of the 

 Prewitt-Spurr Manufacturing Company, which 

 conducts the only red cedar bucket factory in 

 the world. This Arm exhibited a splendid dis 



01 plain ai icy red cedar buckets and 



their special feature was an immense 

 cedar bucket, eight teet tall and twenty flve feet 



n irence, yet perfect in everj detail. 



ThU bucket was exhibited at the St. Louis i 

 position. .1. ll. Baskette, the p< pular head of 

 this plant, bas Just been re elected to thi 

 Council as ntatlve of the seventeenth 



ward. 



The Southern Hardwood Company, of which 

 H , . president, bad two m* exhibits. 



One of these was a poplar board Cortj inches 

 wide and sixteen feet long, absolutely perfect. 

 Ho other exhibit was declared to be the largest 

 ash log in the world. It was hauled by a team 

 [t meaSUTl inches in 



diameter at the big end and thirty live Inches at 

 the smaller end, and Is tortj Ave feet long. It 

 is said to be an absolutely perfect log without 

 a blemish of any kind. This splendid piece of 

 timber was eut In Maury county, Middle Ten- 

 nessee, about two weeks ago, and was bought 

 chlbltion in the parade. Nash- 

 ville is said to be the largest ash market In the 

 world, as it is claimed that eighty per cent of 

 the ash used in street railway work Is shipped 

 from this point. The largest ash logs on record 

 have through this city, and this log ex- 

 ceeds all pre^ lous ones. 



The John B. Ransom I. umber Company, the 

 Indiana Li t he i aion Lumber 



iany, Davidson-Benedict Lumber Company. 

 and many Kashi ill.- furniture 1 1 ad at- 



tractive exhibits, The hardwood exhibits of 

 the lumber concerns were most Interesting. 

 The furniture displayed «ns for the most 

 part manufactured in Nashville. Among the 

 furniture dealers and manufacturers who 

 had handsome floats were : Montgomery & 

 Company; Morton, Scott, Robertson Company; 

 ll. Cohen & Company; Standard Furniture 

 Company: Bradford Wholesale Furniture Com 

 ■ i Finney Talbot-Battle company, 

 u. ] p jam anj . B. & N. [Manufacturing 



Company; Harlei Furniture Company, and B. 

 M. Bond Furniture i ompany. One float that at- 

 ... vas that of Charlie Rldlej 

 showing a sawmill in actual operation. The 

 I Company bad a most unique 

 i i bein*; 

 ready to strike. About him were inscriptions 

 i ou kick the bucket — we do the rest," 

 We flo not push our business among our 

 friend 

 AI a meeting of the Spoke Manufacturers' As 

 held here a few days since, Peter Lesh 

 lempfals whs elected president; J. Wallace 

 Fergu ! I llle, Ark i presl 



.1 H Pan Kess of Clarksville, Miss., sec- 



ond vice-president, and O. P. Buchannan of Gal- 

 latin, Tenn.. secretary. Twenty-seven manufac- 

 turers of white oak and hickory are interested 

 in the new organization. Nashville will be head- 

 quarters for the association and O. P. Buchannan 

 will have his office in the Homestead building. 

 The object of the association is to control prices 

 and regulate grades of material. One of the 

 members of the new association, which is in the 

 nature of a corporation, in speaking of the 

 company and its purposes, says: "Many small 

 deajati throughout the country have been prac- 

 ticing the habit of making sales and ordering 

 the zopply from manufacturers, instructing the 

 latter to ship goods of a certain grade, but bear- 

 ing the mark of a grade several points higher. 

 We do not want to be parties to such a transac- 

 tion, and it is one of the objects of the organiza- 

 tion to prevent such practice. False grading 

 injures our business." Any firm in the United 

 willing to comply with the by- 

 laws of the association is eligible to membership. 

 Another meeting is to be held in the near future 

 at which time further details In the working 

 plans of tie on will be formulated. Most 



of the manufacturers of spokes over the country 

 formerly belonged to an association known as 

 the spoke Liivision of the American Vehicle 

 Woodstock Association. it was decided, bow 

 thai a separate and distinct organization 

 was lie 



The saw and lumber mill and plant of T. II. 



Dunlap & Co. lias L n destroyed by t re. believed 



01 about Sin. was 



emailed, half covered by Insurance, The com- 

 pany has leased from John B. Bansom Company 

 ■ ■'.mill which the latter company has been 

 operating lu West Nashville. The mill has -. 



capacity of 80, feel dally, it lias been leased 



lot a period of Six months until the burned plain 

 can be replaced. 



The Chess >^ Wymond C pany, which re- 

 cently located a stave factory at Carthago. Tenn , 

 Is now running full blast. The plant finishes 

 the output Of a number of smaller mills up 

 the river, as well as making staves from the 

 bolt The Carthage Hoop Factory Is another 

 recently organized industry that is now In opera- 

 tion. 



The E. M. Bond Furniture Companj lias been 

 capitalized here with E. M. Bond, Frank P. 

 Bond, .biui.s K, love, c. T. Klrkpatrlck and 

 Myles P O'l onnor as Incorporators. The capi- 

 tal stock is placed s $2 The lirru BUi 



ceeds Crutcher Brothers. 



What Is said to be the largest cedar raft ever 

 known In this market, has just been bri 

 down the river to the Nashville Tie & Cedar 

 ares 550 feel In lengl h 

 and is 72 feel wide. There are bun lug poles in 

 to mention those of average siz ■, 

 and half a dozen of them measure 7.1 feet In 

 length. The raft was put together at Cellna, 

 Tenn., on the Cumberland at the mouth of the 

 Obed River. The raft Is worth between $2,500 



and s.;. ). The cedar c which this 



timber w'as cut is being fast thinned out and it 

 will not bi while before all thi 



■ edar is gone. 



John Oleson, representing the Crandall ix 

 Brown lumber firm of Chicago, was in the city 



last week, lie is taking to Chicago 800, feel 



of plain oak, which he purchased from John M. 

 Smith, who runs lumber plants in Dickson and 

 ille, Tenn. 



Ed. F. Dodge, president of the Dodge Lumber 

 i ompany of Chicago, has been a visitor among 

 the local lumber yards recently, buying and 

 selling. His company owns yards in West Ten- 

 nessee. 



M. F. Green of the Davidson-Benedict Lum- 



' ber Company, has just returned from a trip to 



Georgia. He has been Inspecting the plant of 



thi Blui Bidge Lumber Company, which Is 



owned by the I ia vldson-Benedlct Company. 



John W. Love, of Love, Boyd & Co., Is in 

 Buffalo, N- V., ou business. Some time next 



month Mr. Love will go to Nova Scotia to the 

 summer hotel he owns there. 



President Holcomb and Secretary Hayes of 

 the Holcomb-Lobb Tie Company of Chicago, were 

 in Nashville last week. They came down to look 

 over the situation. This firm buys quantities 

 of timber on the lines of the Tennessee Central. 



McEwen Ransom of the firm of John B. Ran- 

 som Lumber Company, is building a fine home 

 in the Murphy addition, a fashionable portion 

 of Greater Nashville. 



George Fossold. a representative of the In- 

 diana Lumberman's Mutual Fire Insurance Com- 

 pany, has been fined by a local magistrate for 

 violating insurance laws. This company has no 

 authority to do business in Tenenssee. Fossold 

 pleaded guilty and paid the fine. 



W. D. Fort of Adams, Tenn., has sold about 

 six hundred acres of timber land to C. H. and 

 Sterling Fort for $10,000. 



W. E. Cat lie & Co. at Burns, Tenn.. have just 

 received machinery for their new sawmill and 

 handle factory on Beaverdam creek. They own 

 i',. acres of timber lands in that section. 



As a result of heavy rains in Williamson 

 county much timber and fencing has gone down 

 Big llarpetli river. 



It. ll. McKinney. buyer for Royce & Iltllse, the 



hardw 1 Jobbing house of Cleveland, O., spent 



several days in town recently. 



A. .1. McCausland, manager of the hardwood 

 department of w. E. Kelley & Co., Chicago, was 

 a recent visitor in this market. 



Memphis. 



The G. IS. I.esh Manufacturing Company of 

 Warsaw, Ind , which some days ago announced 

 its intention of removing its plant for the manu- 

 facture of plow handles and wood wttgon stock 

 from thai point to Memphis, has just closed a 

 deal for a site of flve acres in New South Mem 

 phis, paiing therefor $2,500. According to John 

 II. Runyan, president and general manager of 

 the company, work on the buildings is to be 

 begun at once. The main factory will be 50 by 

 150 feet. The removal Is due to the depletion 

 of raw material In Indiana and a desire to get 

 loser to the basis of hardwood lumber supply. 



Another w lworklng plant secured for Mem- 

 phis within the past fortnight is the Columbia 

 Package Company, which was recently incorpo- 

 rated here with a capitalization of $20,000 for 

 the manufacture of candy pails, etc., and which 

 Is to be managed by Robert Brackstone, who 

 has had extensive experience in this line In the 

 East. The company has secured a site in New 

 South Memphis and will begin Immediately the 

 erection of the necessary buildings. The plant 

 will be in operation in less than ninety days. 



Mr. Dudley of Dudley & Daniels, Grand Rap- 

 ids. Mich., Is in the city, having come here in 

 connection with the damage suit filed by that 

 firm against [nman Brothers of Newbern, Tenn., 

 for $20,000 for alleged breach of contract. The 

 jury Saturday returned a verdict of $7,500. The 

 case, however, will be appealed. It has been in 

 litigation for some time. 



The .Memphis delegates to the Buffalo conven- 

 tion have returned and only the most pleasant 

 things are said regarding the entertainment pro- 

 vided for the national association at Buffalo by 

 the lumber contingent of that city. Hardwood 

 lumbermen of this city declare Memphis will 

 leave the next convention of the National Hard 

 wood Lumber Association no room for complaint 

 on the score of Southern hospitality as exempli- 

 fied in the entertainment provided by the Lum- 

 bermen's Club of this city. Memphis has often 

 played the role of host to big conventions of 

 this kind and she has never been found lacking 

 in the essentials of success. 



The American Art Wood Company, recently 

 incorporated here with capitalization of $250,- 

 000, has purchased a five-acre site In New South 

 Memphis. Dr I A. Vdy Is president and S. 

 Willner, patentee of the process for chemically 

 treating logs in the rough, is vice president and 



