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the lumber company and partly on that of the 

 city. The old darky explained that the lumber 

 people had told him he could dig, but that he 

 was informed that the city would also have to be 

 consulted. He said that about twenty years ago 

 a former member of the board of public works 

 had given him permission to dig. He and a 

 partner dug down several feet, when a dispute 

 arose. The other negro got out some "conjure" 

 papers and "conjured" him from digging further. 



"I tries ter forget "bout dat money." said the 

 old man, furtively, "but I dreams about it in ma 

 sleep and wakes up o' night thinkin' erbout it, 

 and somehow I'se paid a lot of 'tenshun to it 

 lately." 



The board could not see It the old negro's way. 

 however, and the- refused to let him tear up 

 the pavement and street looking for the coin. 



The Standard Furniture Company in the near 

 future will begin the erection of a large chair 

 factory. This company is closely allied to the 

 Davidson-Benedict Company, which Is one of the 

 South's largest sawmill owners and lumber deal- 

 ers. W. V. Davidson is president of both com- 

 panies. 



The M. Ohmer's Sons Company of Dayton. 

 Ohio, has been awarded the contract for the 

 woodwork and supplying the furniture in the 

 new court house building at Columbia, Maury 

 county, Tenu. The furniture will be very elabo- 

 rate an.i will cost about $13, 



II. E. Overstreet, a well-known Chicago rail- 

 road contractor, has just finished making a sur- 

 vey from Aigood, Tenn., to Livingston, Tenn., 

 and a railroad Is to be built between these two 

 points. The new road will traverse fine timber 

 stands and will open up new sections to com- 



The charter of the Fulton Manufacturing Com- 

 pany hns been tiled at Nashville. The capital 

 stock is $15,000 and the Incorporators are: II. 

 T. Smith, w. D. Swlggart, L. M. Smith, J. II. 

 McClure, J. J. Oliver, w. K. Hall, W. J. Cox and 

 John T. Stubbleiield. The concern will manufac- 

 ture rough wood mallets, gun rods, golf sticks, 

 spokes, Blngletrees, stirrups, baseball bats and 

 similar articles. 



Of much interest to lumbermen In this section 

 is the annual report ol it C. Newcomer, t'nlted 

 States engineer stationed at this port.. It shows 

 that Improvements "ii the Cumberland river be- 

 low Nashville Include seven locks, extending 

 from Harpeth Shoals to Big Sandy Shoal. It Is 

 also proposed to Improve the Kentucky Chute at 

 the mouth of the river. These improvements are 



estimated to cost $1,964,E The sum of - 



000 has already been appropriated to this end. 

 In the tipper Cumberland it is proposed to con- 

 struct twenty two locks and dams below Burn- 

 side. Ky.. and six locks and dams above, most of 

 them at Smith's shoals, affording a complete sys- 

 tem of lockage from Nashville to Rockcastle, with 

 a channel depth of 6 feet or more the year round. 

 Appropriations amounting to $2,019,000 have 

 been made on the npper Cumberland, ami $1,802, 

 271.57 lias been expended. The early completion 

 of Locks Nos. 3, 4, 5 and C will afford a perma- 

 nent channel from Nashville to Carthage and 

 Cancy Fork the year round and will be a great 

 aid to lumbermen. The commerce on Cumberland 

 river for 1904 aggregated 242,112 tons, with an 

 estimated value of $5,862,365. The tonnage con- 

 mostly of timber products. The engineer 

 concludes his rep. ing: 



"The continued low water during 1904 cur- 

 tailed the boating season so much that some si\ 

 or seven million feet of lumber was left on the 

 bank of the river above Nashville. The boating 

 season from January, 1904, i" January, 1905, 

 was the most trying one on record for steamboat 

 Interests on account of the low water." 



A company Is being organized In Jackson, 

 Tenn., with a capital stock of $25,000, to manu- 

 facture bank fixtures and other high-grade fur- 

 niture. The site for the factory has already 

 been purchased and it Is expected that further 

 announcement will be made in the near future. 



Waitehouse & Dyer, owners of a barrel factory 

 at Gallatin, Tenn., will open a hoop factory In 

 connection with their plant about September 1. 

 Elm will be used exclusively and is said to be 

 plentiful in that section. 



The old Gallatin Spoke Factory is soon to be 

 reorganized. The concern will undoubtedly be in 

 operation again in the near future. This firm 

 was formerly one of the best in the Sumner 

 county seat. 



The Mount Pleasant Lumber Company has 

 been organized to operate at Mt. Pleasant, Maury 

 county, Tenn. The incorporators are George 

 YV. Ktllebrow, president; C. W. Oilman, secre- 

 tary, and A. W. Ligon, treasurer. The concern 

 will deal In rough and dressed lumber, sash, 

 doors and blinds, and other building materials. 



The H. D. Jamison Furniture Company has 

 been granted a permit to erect a factory on 

 Eighteenth avenue. 



Fire destroyed the lumber sheds and a large 

 amount of lumber owned by the Halls Brick & 

 Lumber Company at Halls. Tenn. 



The Toe Dee River Lumber Company was in- 

 corporated recently at Nashville by T. P. Trigg, 

 W. It. White. .1. M. Bryan, A. S. Gump and J. B. 

 Baumgardner. The capital stock Is $100,000. 

 The company has purchased a boundary of tim- 

 ber near Pee Dee River. South Carolina, which 

 it is estimated will yield 25,000,000 feet of gum, 

 spruce, hemlock, pine, poplar and ash 



The Chattanooga Cooperage Company, which 

 recently Increased Its capital stock to $50,000, 

 is installing a planing mill. The company has 

 just contracted for 7,500,000 feet of lumber. 



The Suwanee Lumber Company, which will 

 have offices in Atlanta and Birmingham, has 

 been Incorporated with a capital stock of $50,- 

 000. The incorporators are Harrison T. Chand- 

 ler and w. Fraekleton of Cleveland, Ohio; C. L. 

 .i and YV. C. Dodson of Atlanta, Ga. : N. A. 

 ami Annie M. Gilbert of Cleveland, Ohio, and 

 John M. Caldwell of Birmingham, Ala. 



Memphis. 



The yellow fever situation in the south will 

 undoubtedly interfere with the handling of 

 lumber shipments, because of the quarantine 

 regulations established. The towns and cities 

 throughout Mississippi are not content that 

 the state has quarantined New Orleans and 

 all neighboring Infected points, but they have 

 established local quarantines. Thus, lumber- 

 men In Memphis who handle the output of 

 mills in Mississippi are unable to get their 

 inspectors from place to place, and are. there- 

 unable to load cars and get their lum- 

 ber moved with proper dispatch. 



The same statement applies in some degree 

 t,. Arkansas. Even Memphis is quarantined, 

 although this has not affected lumber inter- 

 ests here, since Inspectors can leave the city 

 or return to it, if compliance with health 

 regulations is made. No outsiders are ad- 

 mitted Into the city, and visiting lumbermen 

 have been few. The fact that the situation 

 is- Improving In Louisiana, and that Missis- 

 sippi has not a single case, leads to the be- 

 lief that there will in a short time be a re- 

 laxation In the rigid quarantine measures now 

 being enforced in the towns and cities 

 throughout the Mississippi valley. 



Th> men's Club of Memphis recently 



held a meeting at its office in the Southern 

 Express building, at which time W. H. Russe 

 and S. B. Anderson were chosen delegates to 

 represent the club at the forthcoming meeting 

 of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 in at Ottawa, Canada. Two new 

 members were received into the club — James 

 Thompson of James Thompson & Co., and 

 E. J. Bodman of the Memphis Furniture Com- 

 pany. 



M. R. Grace, president of the Southern Han- 

 dle Company, of this city, and Charles Gates, 

 president of the Turner, Day & Woolworth 



Company, of Louisville, are in New Tork, 

 making efforts to effect a consolidation of the 

 hickory handle interests of the United States, 

 controlling more than ninety per cent of the 

 handle output of the country. 



The skyscraper of the Tennessee Trust 

 Company will be the home of a number of 

 prominent lumbermen of this city. The build- 

 ing, which is sixteen stories high and mag- 

 nificently finished, will be completed about 

 Sept. 1, and the following firms will be found 

 therein: The E. Sondheimer Company, the 

 W. E. Smith Lumber Company, the Three 

 States Lumber Company, Bennett & Witte, 

 and the L. E. Campbell Lumber Company. 

 The National Lumber Exporters' Association 

 will have headquarters in the same building. 

 It is beginning to look as if the new building 

 will from the start take the shine off the 

 old Randolph building, which is thickly pop- 

 ulated with lumber and woodworking con- 

 cerns. 



Max Sondheimer, president of the E. Sond- 

 heimer Company, is one of the incorporators 

 of the Koppel Catering Company. This con- 

 cern has made application for a charter with 

 a capitalization of $100,000. Dining rooms 

 will be located in the Planters' building and 

 $15,000 will be spent in putting this in first- 

 class condition. White waiters will be em- 

 ployed exclusively, which is a decided inno- 

 vation. 



The export demand for hardwood lumber is 

 reported rather slight. The situation in this 

 respect is not showing as much improvement 

 as had been anticipated, and there is some 

 disappointment on this account. Lumbermen 

 here, however, are closely watching develop- 

 ments In the peace negotiations now in prog- 

 ress at Portsmouth, believing as they do that 

 the results of this conference will have a far- 

 reaching effect, either for good or ill, in the 

 foreign lumber situation, where much depres- 

 sion is readily traced to the prevalence of this 

 Russo-Japanese war. 



L. J. Parker, president of the L. J. Parker 

 Stave Company, of Wildersville, Tenn., has 

 bought 1.S70 acres of timber and farming 

 lands near Senatobia, Miss., paying $36,000 

 therefor. The tract has. it is estimated, 

 about 5,000,000 feet of poplar thereon, in ad- 

 dition to large quantities of gum. cypress and 

 other woods. A sawmill and stave plant will 

 be Installed at once and there will be special 

 attention paid to getting out cross ties. 



W. H. Russe, who recently returned from 

 the meeting of the executive committee of the 

 National Exporters' Association at Indian- 

 apolis, is quite enthusiastic over the outlook 

 for that organization. He was particularly 

 pleased over the large number of applica- 

 tions for membership approved, which came 

 in voluntarily. 



R. J. Darnell of R. J. Darnell, Inc.. who 

 went to Europe on a business trip some time 

 ago, will sail for the United States August 

 19. He will be accompanied by his daugh- 

 ter, Miss Beatrice, who has been in Germany 

 studying for some time. 



E. E. Goodlander of the Goodlander-Robert- 

 son Company, who has been with his family 

 in Colorado for some weeks, has returned. 



W. H. Russe of Russe & Burgess has gone 

 to Ottawa, Can., on a business and pleasure 

 trip combined, being delegate from the Lum- 

 bermen's Club to the National Wholesale Lum- 

 ber Dealers' Association. He is accompanied by 

 his family. 



George C. Ehemann, secretary of the Lumber- 

 men's Club of Memphis, Is on a business trip to 

 Chicago. 



Kansas City. 

 J. N. Penrod of the Ameriean Walnut Com- 

 pany arrived In Kansas City from Europe July 



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