HARDWOOD RECORD 



25 



('. J. Harkrader has returned from a trip to 

 Knoxville. Tenn., on lumber- business. 



Ttte J. BE Ruck Lumber Company of Johnson 

 city. Tenn.. has just made an important sale of 

 a large amount of stock to George I., carter. 

 owner of the South & Western Railway of tiii- 

 clty. The stock will be used in railway bridge 

 construction. 



J. W. Aldersou & Son of Wallace, Va., haye 

 purchased a fine tract of timber land from 

 Crockett Le Seur of this city, aud will at once 

 begin cutting on the newly acquired property. 

 The tract is located at Wyndale, Va.. and con- 

 sists of oak, poplar, white pine and chestnut. 



J. T. Newman of Bristol has just closed a 

 deal with John Brogan of Wyndale, Va.. for a 

 fine tract of timber land in Washington county, 

 Virginia. The tract consists wholly of hard- 

 woods and will be cut as soon as possible. 



St. Louis. 



J. r. & W. M. Richardson haye had a good 

 trade this year and are now receiving some 

 nice shipments of hardwoods. J. P. Richardson, 

 Jr., is being initiated in the lumber business, 

 :md under the guidance of his father is making 

 a canvass of the trade in Missouri and Arkan- 

 sas. 



Franz Waldstein of the Waldstein Lumber 

 Company takes a philosophical view of the hard- 

 wood situation and believes that the fall trade 

 will be very satisfactory both as to volume and 

 prices. 



The Milne Lumber Company has moved from 

 the Security Building to Room 303 Fullerton 

 Building, where they feel quite at home among 

 the many lumber concerns in that big sky- 

 scraper. The company reports business as fair 

 for the summer season. 



Nashville. 



The Southern Lumber & Box Company recently 

 acquired the interests of the Jacobs-Dews Lum- 

 ber Company of North Nashville, including the 

 standing limber owned by the latter concern. 

 Both Charles Dews and Arthur Jacobs have 

 taken stock in the new company and will have 

 positions with it. Mr. Dews is regarded as one 

 of the most expert log buyers in the South. He 

 will have charge of the buying. Mr. Jacobs will 

 be the yard man. The Southern Lumber & Box 

 Company w-ill increase its capital stock on ac- 

 count of the enlarged business. The company's 

 offices will remain at Bridge avenue and Cum- 

 berland River. 



Edward Barber of Cincinnati has been in 

 Nashville during the past few days buying thin 

 quartered oak for export. He represents the 

 Illingsworth, Ingham Company. Ltd.. of Leeds, 

 England. 



The Nashville Tie & Cedar Company has just 

 shipped out a big order of cedar and chestnut 

 poles to New Orleans. There were nearly 500 

 poles In the lot and they will be used for trolley 

 and electric light wires. The shipping of such 

 an order South to the cypress country in the 

 Delta is regarded as significant here, for it is 

 taken to .mean that southerners think Tennessee 

 cedar better than anything else for poles. 



Nashville just now is still enjoying a big build- 

 ing boom and work on many residences is being 

 pushed by owners and contractors. This state 

 of affairs redounds to the benefit of the local 

 lumber dealers, who have sold lots of timber to 

 contractors this season. 



Ely Garrison, a well-known lumberman, died 

 Hy at his home on North High street. Nash- 

 ville, of typhoid fever. The deceased was south- 

 ern buyer for the R. A. & J. J. Williams Lum- 

 ber Company of Philadelphia. He began his 

 career in the lumber business with Love. Boyd & 

 Later he was connected with the Union 

 Lumber Company of Huntsville, Ala., after 

 which he became associated with the Philadel- 

 phia firm. Hi- - has not yet been ap- 

 pointed. 



The Nashville Transportation Company, which 



handles mast •<( the lumber brought down the 

 Cumberland river, ele, ted officers for the com 

 ing year at a recent meeting. John P.. Ransom 



iii B. Kaiisoiii St Co. was elected president 

 John W. Love of Love, Boyd S Co., vn.. 

 ■ lent : Walter Keith, treasurer, and Capt T. M. 

 Gallagher, one of the best known rlvermen in 

 1 lie South, traffic manager. S. S. Wharton was 

 admitted to the company and elected 

 tary. The company's affairs were found to be 

 in excellent shape and well prepared for 1 

 business next fall. 



John B. Ransom, accompanied by Mrs. Ran 

 som and their two youngest children, will sail 

 July 29 for a six weeks" trip through Europe. 



It. s. Hutchinson, the genial sales manager 

 of the Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company. 

 has returned from a business trip to Louisville. 



Dunlap's mill in North Nashville, which was 

 recently destroy,. ,1 i, v tire, is being rapidly re- 

 built and in the course of a few weeks will be 

 in shape to run again. 



John W. Love, accompanied by his family. 

 left Nashville on the night of July 21 for six 

 weeks' stay at his summer home, Markland. in 

 Nova Scotia. Mr. Love goes to Markland every 

 summer and puts in his vacation in fishing, sail 

 ing, bathing, hunting and having a general good 

 time. 



John M. Buchanan, chief inspector for I 

 Boyd & Co., has tendered his resignation and has 

 been succeeded by William Harris, who has been 

 transferred here from the yards of the company 

 at Scottsville, Ky. 



Simon Lieberman, Nashville's veteran lumber- 

 man, a member of the firm of Lieberman, Love- 

 man & O'Brien, is confined to his home by sick- 

 It is hoped his illnes f a serious 

 nature. 



w. B. Davidson of the Davidson-Benedict 

 Company, has gone to Colorado and other parts 

 of the West. He will rest about a month be- 

 fore returning to take up the work of the busy 

 fall season. 



John M. Smith of the new John M. Smith 

 Lumber Company, formed by the consolidation 

 of several local concerns and one Louisville 

 firm, has just returned from a week's trip to 

 St. Louis and Chicago, where he has been 

 ing lumber. 



S. W. Pettibone of Louisville, a member of 

 the John M. Smith Lumber Company, is in the 

 city. He will soon take up his permanent resi- 

 here. 



Hugh C. Card of the Southern Hardwood 

 Company says there is a poplar tree within 

 live miles of Nashville that is eight feet in 

 diameter and sixty feet to the first limb. He 

 has offered to get a photograph of the monster 

 w any "doubting Thomases.'' The tree 

 in question is on the Miller property, down the 



river, and is said to contain over s. , feet of 



No. 1 poplar. 



- reral million feet of hrst class hardwoods 

 can now be found in lumber yards at Hartsville. 

 Trousdale county, Tenn. From six to ten 

 are being shipped daily to points all over the 

 country. Several cars have been snipped to 

 Liverpool recently 



A. H. Leathers, manufacturer of hickory 

 handles at Diekson. Tenn.. will erect a factory 

 on Turkey creek at an early date, which will 

 be run in addition to the plant at Dickson 



f fine hickory timber surround 

 -:te of the proposed new plant. 



J. L. Brenkman. a well known timber dealer, 

 died on July 2 at his home. Woodlawn, near 

 Clarksville, Tenn. He leaves a wit. 

 children. The deceased came to U 

 eountv from Indiana and was most highly 

 ght of. He was an odd Fellow and a 

 n. The body was shipped to Carrii . 

 Ind., for interment. 



The TurnbuII Stave Manufacturing Company 

 at White Bluff. Tenn.. is putting in a large 

 planing mill at that place, adjoining its lumber 

 vards there. The eompan> do a large 



business planing the lumbar of the 



saw mills in and around White I'.luff. 



Fire ha- moat! of tie- lumbet in the 



oi Craig & Williams at Franklin, Tenn. 

 There was no Insurance The loss i- onlj 

 (2,000, however, as the plant was ni 

 • me. 



The semiannual meeting of the Retail Lumber 

 Dealers' Association of Tennee and 



will be held in l ban un on Aug. 21, 



over 100 dealers in these two states will be in 

 Delation was organized in 

 Birmingham in 1903. lis officers are; Richard 

 Randolph of Birmingham, president: Cliaj 

 Ileidt of Birmingham, vie*, president : w. K 

 Wailes of Birmingham, secretary ami treasurer: 

 J. I'. Jordan of Memphis, w. j. Wallace of 

 Nashville and w L. Murphy of Knoxville 

 members of tie .i^. 

 w. i Rogers ol tfattieaburg, mi--, ha- i n 



awarded the contract to furnish half a million 

 feet of timber to be used by the government in 



the construction of Lock No, 2, al thirteen 



miles above Nashville. The lock will be finished 

 some time this year and when completed there 

 will be slack water the year round for sixty 

 miles above and below Nashville. 



Memphis, 

 an Brothers Company of Leavenworth, 

 Kan., has purchased six acres of land in New 

 s. nith Memphis and will erect thereon ., 300 

 horsepower plant with a daily capai 

 000 feet for the manufacture of hardwood floor- 

 ing. The plant will be so arranged that the 

 output may be doubled at the pleasure of the 

 company. Oiiarter-sawn red oak and white 

 oak. maple, pine and gum will be used. Large 

 dry kilns will be erected and a heated ware- 

 house will be constructed to keep the flooring 

 thoroughly dry. I:. II I'enn is president. W. C. 

 I'enn. secretary, and William Goodjohn, super- 

 intendent of the company. 



The Arthur Ilaidw I Company. 



which was recently organized here, has i 

 a deal for twelve aires of land. Work 

 begin at once on the erection of the necessary 

 buildings and the plant will be in operation 

 within the next sixty days. The machinery 

 and buildings, it is estimated, will cost j=4' 



The capacity will !»• about l"'".' feet. 



These two companies, in connection with the 

 announcement that a part of the output of the 

 plant of the Hugh McLean Lumber Company 

 .f Buffalo to be established here will be hard- 

 wood flooring, give Memphis three companies 

 manufacturing flooring, all established here 

 within a month. Previous to that time nothing 

 had been done in the flooring line in Memphis. 

 The T. J. Orr Land 4 Lumber Company, 

 which was recently organized here with a capi- 

 talization of $100,000 as to the Orr 

 Sweeney Lumber Company, has just begun the 

 operation of two mills In St. Francis county. 

 Arkansas, about twenty-live miles west of Mem- 

 phis, and Is installing two other mills in the 

 same section. The ' each wll 

 20,000 feet daily. This company own- 8,000 

 of hardwood ti in that section 

 rich in oak. ash and gum. The entire output of 

 the four mills has already been sold In advance 

 to the Anil A: Jackson Lumber Company of Cin- 

 cinnati, and the latter firm will establish yal 

 Heaths, a srna: ' ■' taw near 

 the mills. The -lumber will be delivered to the 

 by tram roads being built by 



mated that there are 50,00 

 if timber u 



orr Land & Lumber Company, which 

 dolpb Build 

 nipbell I.un my will in 



ly for a charter here for 

 a manufacturing hardwood lumber 

 mpbelL the prim 

 r, has been ntatlve for 



■ pham .* Agter of Cn 



