HARDWOOD RECORD 



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card & Strickland, tin- local wholesalers, re 

 tarned Saturday from a trip through Wisconsin, 

 where they were looking over stocks. They re- 

 port that available hardwood is already pretty 



well concentrated in strong hands, insuring 

 steady market pri< <■-. 



b\ J. Lang, who has I a in Minneapolis for 



a time looking after the interests of the Wis- 

 consin Land & Lumber Company of Hermans 

 ville, Mich., reports a shipment of their white 

 maple flooring made from Ilcrmansville to Arizo- 

 na. The report created considerable interest 

 .iiiiung hardwood men. 



Indianapolis. 



On July 13 the Indiana Lumber ,<- Veneer 

 Company changed hands, tin- new company 

 taking over the stock and plant to be known 

 as the Indiana Veneer & Lumber Company, 

 O, M. Pruitt. tin onlj one of the original 

 stockholders remaining", is president and treas- 

 urer; C, L. G twin, \ ii i president, and M. 



L. Hoover, secretary. The new company has 

 made extensive alterations in the plant and in 

 the future will cut in the neighborhood of 

 fourteen million feel a year. It has also 

 purchased timber lauds which will yield it 

 a cut for the next three or four years. 



The Indianapolis Sawed Veneer Company 

 will in a short time remove its plant to a 

 new location on the Belt Railroad, where it 

 has purchased a trait of four acres, an ideal 

 site for such an industry. This change is due 

 to the increasing business of that firm, and 

 the new building, with a floor space 100 feet 

 by 164 feet, will afford ample accommodations. 

 Xew machinery will be installed and the out- 

 put of the mill will he greatly increased. No 

 change of officers will he made. J. D. Maris 

 will have charge of the new plant. 



Bristol, Va.-Temi. 



The Whiting Manufacturing Company, com- 

 posed of Frank R. Whiting of the Janney- 

 Whiting Lumber Company, Philadelphia, and 

 William S. Whiting of Elizabethton, Tenn.. 

 is preparing to erect a large double band mill 

 at Abingdon. Va., and has made extensive 

 purchases of timber lands in the vicinity of 

 White Top Mountains on the Virginia Caro- 

 lina Railway, a few miles from Abingdon. 

 Machinery for the new mill has already been 

 shipped to Abingdon. 



W. J. Wolford hi Sullivan county, about 

 eight miles from Bristol, sold a yellow poplar 

 log in Bristol a few days ago which con- 

 tained 12,000 feet of merchantable lumber. 

 The log brought Sin::, ami is one of the larg- 

 est ,-ver brought to Bristol and a monstrosity 

 for this section. The log is supposed to have 

 been two hundred years old. 



Geo. E. Davis, of the Geo. E. Davis Dum- 

 ber Company, has returned from an important 

 business trip to points in Virginia. Mr. Davis 

 reports that his company is doing a good busi- 

 ness and has just made a number of large 

 contracts. 



A Hoo-Hoo concatenation was held at John- 

 son City, Tenn.. Aug. IS. A large number 

 of the members of the lumbermen's order 

 from Bristol attended and reported a pleasant 

 trip. Horace Hoskins of the J. A. Wilkinson 

 < 'ompany carried a large box of candy with 

 him to Johnson City, and his friends who ac- 

 i ompanied are trying to ascertain what dispo- 

 sition he made of it. 



James Hart of the Bradley Lumber Com- 

 pany was injured at Elizabethton last week 

 by a log which passed entirely over his body, 

 seriously injuring hips and thigh. 



E. P. Lewis of Grand Rapids, Mich., a mem- 

 ber of the Morton-Lewis & Willey Lumber 

 Company, is in Bristol on business of the 

 company. He will remain here until the re- 

 turn of C. Morton, who is spending his vaca- 

 tion in the East. Mr. Lewis states that the 



ill . mount 



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pan> e ai wen 



millio 



'nil. This concern now 

 i of raih 



:''"- ' in ill 



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the important timber land casi ol r. A. 



"• Nelson el al. VS. G I I Sutherland , I al., 



involving the right to about eight thousand 

 acres of timber lands in the eastern part ol 

 Tenm . ■ . i i . i , n , of Bristol has 

 rendi i Ion in favor of the defendi 

 The suit involved about $40, 



l> T. Thomas, who has been with the Tug 

 River Lumber Company for some time, i 

 Important capacity, has n signed his position 



to ai cept ii more lucrativ le \\ Ith the Im- 



bodi ii Coal .v Coke Company. 



Royal B. rani. ree. president of tic - 

 Lumber Company, ami treasurer of the Colom- 

 bian Paper Company of Bristol, was married 

 to .Miss Ellen M. Chapman at .Manchester, vt.. 

 Aug. 16. The couple l"fi after the oeri m 

 for a tour of two weeks through the ea ten 

 pan ,,f Canada, and on their return will make 

 Bristol their home. 



Cincinnati. 



T. J. .Mi, lleii. president .it the Bu 

 Men's Club, in his annual report just issue, l 

 speaking of the hardwood trade, said: "There 

 has hen a fine business all year and then 

 arc brighter prospects ahead. All firms have 

 shared in the increased activity." Mr. Mof- 

 fett is a member ol the Maley, Thompson & 

 Moffett Company and is an authority on trade- 

 matters. 



Charles Feuss of the Ohio Lumber Company 

 has returned from a two weeks' vacation spenl 

 in Michigan. 



c. w. Burt, the millionaire hardwood lum- 

 berman of Winchester. Ky., stopped here on 

 Aim. 13 and 14. He was bound for home limn 

 Toledo, 'i. the trip being made in an automo 

 Idle with his chauffeur. The distance from 

 Toledo tn Winchester is 330 miles and several 

 accidents were encountered by the travelers. 



The J. A. Fay & Egan Company has ,1. 

 eland a dividend of ia^ per cent on the pie 

 [erred stock of the company from the net 

 earnings for the quarter ending July 31. A 

 dividend ol l'i per cent on the common stock 

 was declared also. 



!•'. X lih'lmld ct He forest Lumber Com 

 pany of Pittsburg, Pa., accompanied by his 

 wife, passed through here the middle of the 

 month, en rout, home from Louisville. Ky. 

 Thej mad, the trip by river. 



Walter Quick oi Richey, Halsted .^ Quick 

 has returned from a business trip to Chicago. 



Walter Mailer, representing I. v. Midler ,\ 

 Si.ii:. of Hamburg, Germany, was a rei 

 , , n, , oi tht ' llnclnnati 1 1 adi He will \ isit 

 the principal markets in ibis country bi 

 returning home. 



.-, s. Pii tie! i" esi.liiit of th, 



Licking River Lumbei ' lompanj at Fai i 

 Ky., will SOOn begin building a railroad line 



from Highland Cll Bath county, Kentucky, 

 igh Bath ami Fleming counties to Ullls- 

 boro, on thi C !•'. R. Railroad. Tin- new 

 will be thirty miles i id will connect val- 



s belonging to the i 

 ing River Conn 

 Th, era Railroad has 



ty-five-mlle 

 from Jackson, Breathitt County, Kentucky, 

 ,,, the headwater ol the Kentucky river 

 rill penei 



and timber fields. 



ii j. Eckmann of the M. B. Fan-In Lumber 

 Comp iflc coast on a 



on. He will be gone nearly a 

 month. 



ii Ing 



load 



tun a n 



Memphis. 



E. E. Ta, 

 Scimil 



ill begun r ntly in 



circuit curt hei e by C i . . 



Iff, The 

 upon the following publication, which ap- 

 peared In a recent Issue ..f the Newt E 

 'W K. • Mississippi 



through h B. C. CI 



Little Lumber Companj ,.i si. Louis foi Si".- 



l court this mug. Tic 



tion i an alleged breach ol 



of the sail and purchase ,,f timber and tlm- 

 b i lands. E, B, Taenzer ft Co at- 



tached, pending final seti 



Ing the Little Lumbi - Companj ol 



Louis coram l an attachment suit against 



W. K Canady, a Mississippi lumberman, for 

 the purpo: ctlng an alleged Indeb 



ncss of ?l". claimed to be due on a breach 



oi contract for the salt ol timber and timbei 

 lands. It appears that E. E. Taenzer ft Co.. 

 Inc.. had business dealings With Mr. Canady. 

 and it was supposed thai he was Indi 

 to the firm by reasoi ,,i timber 



and lumbi i i. Little Lumber t lomp 



lure, in its effort 

 funds might be In the hands of E, E. Taenzer 

 ft Co., Inc., can irnishmenl to bi 



lied ,,.u.i inst i he ,i , | ,|„. p UD . 



Ii ii ion in the afternoon papei thai an al I 

 ment had been made against )•;. i: 



5 'ii the banks with which the llrm did busi- 

 ness informed ii thai II would be ne 



make report to Bradstreel and R. Q. Dun 



6 Co., explaining that no attachment had 

 been secured against the company. Ti 

 upon the company fell that it bad been dam- 



and brought suit through Mr. (Swing, who 

 Is one ct the stockholders therein. 



luatlon in the south ba- 

 llot been I at tlrst, but 

 hill, delay in shipments 

 ii account of the quarantlm I in 

 Mississippi ami Arkansas. It w.is believed a 

 few days ago that there was prospect of n - 

 moving the strict quarantine, but with th- 



t Ml If 

 Miss . the tend opposite dl 



tion, and traffic is being Interfered with new 

 more seriously than al any tlmi since the 



inic lirsl appealed. It is imp,' 



,, insiders to come into Memphis without 



mi 

 iii the infecti •'. 

 tricis and alth certificate, there 



is no difficulty in getting Into Memphis. 

 \ i,i, d 

 with a permit from the Memphis 



th, which I through 



Hi mi 



luml ii 



north from 

 Mob 



Hid freight 



xl lumber 

 (port outlet 



