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tured and Keith Webb will manage the plant. 

 The Lion Spoke Works, recently organized 

 here by Pennsylvania capitalists has purchased 

 the spoke plant of Bagg & Young at Park 

 Place. The capacity will be doubled, about 

 four carloads of spokes per month being 

 shipped to Oil City, Pa., Zanesville, O., and 

 other points. 



The Rock Creek Mining and Lumber Com- 

 pany of Retro, which suspended operations on 

 Walden's Ridge west of that place, will resume 

 operations again in the near future. Frank 

 and William Berry, of Pennsylvania, will 

 operate the sawmill and spoke plant. Besides 

 the manufacture of vehicle spokes the com- 

 pany will manufacture hardwood lumber and 

 furnish the Big Four railroad with about 400,- 

 000 ties. 



The Chattanooga Cooperage Company, which 

 has increased its capital stock to $50,000, will 

 manufacture building material as well as coop- 

 erage products. Extensive improvements have 

 recently been made on the plant at Ridgedale; 

 a band sawmill installed, about a thousand 

 feet of tracks laid and new machinery put in. 

 The Card Lumber Company has increased its 

 stock of pop:ar and plain and quartered oak to 

 about 4,000.000 feet. 



The Southern railway has purchased real 

 estate in this city recently valued at over $100,- 

 000 and a passenger station will be erected 

 upon it. About $50,000 has also been invested 

 by the Southern railway in right of way for 

 the Stevenson extension. 



The Hays-Henderson Saw & Supply Com- 

 pany, recently organized here with $25,000 

 capital stock to manufacture sawmill supplies, 

 has almost completed a plant to cost $10,000. 

 The plant will be ready for operation by Octo- 

 ber 1. 



Capt. A. J. Gahagan, secretary-treasurer of 

 the Loomis & Hart Manufacturing Company 

 of this city, is on a trip to Denver and the 

 west. 



W. O. Harter, the European representative 

 of the Card Lumber Company will leave in a 

 short time for Europe. 



Ferd Brenner of The Ferd Brenner Lumber 

 Company will take a business trip to his large 

 yards at Norfolk. Va., soon. 



Harry Parker of the Parker Lumber Com- 

 pany of Tullahoma, Tcnn., was in this city 

 recently. 



W. F. Best, secretary of the Ferd Brenner 

 Lumber Company is in Europe on a business 

 trip. 



M. N. Wills, of the Maley. Thompson & Mof- 

 fett Company. Cincinnati, O., bought consider- 

 able stock here recently. 



St. Louis. 



Steele & nibbard are getting In a considerable 

 stock of cypress, ash and other hardwoods from 

 southern milling centers, notwithstanding the yel- 

 low fever quarantines. This firm reports a 

 good inquiry and expects a brisk business dur- 

 ing the rest of the season. 



Edward II. Luchrmann, vice president of the 

 Charles K. Luchrmann Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany, is feeLng fine after his return from the 

 West, and has settled down to business with 

 his customary earnestness. His western trip 

 included a visit to the Lewis & Clark Exposi- 

 tion at Portland and a trip among the great 

 logging camps and sawmill plants in that sec- 

 tion of the country. Mr. Luehrmann reports 

 business picking up with his company. The 

 demand Is improving for hardwoods and their 

 yards are well stocked with lumber, and their 

 mills running steadily. 



Nashville. 

 On September 1 a special car pulled out of 

 Nashville for Chicago and Portland, Oregon, 

 bearing a jolly crowd of Nashville and Ten- 

 nessee lumbermen, their friends, and relatives. 

 Included in the party were: I. F. McLean, 



the well-known stave manufacturer, and Mrs. 

 McLean; Al Baird of the Southern Lumber- 

 men, and Mrs. Baird; W. M. Farris and H. J. 

 Schafer of the Central Lumber Company; W. 

 J. Cude and two daughters of Kimmins, 

 Tenn.; George E. Scott, the well-known Dy- 

 ersburg lumberman, accompanied by Mrs. 

 Scott; Edward B. Martin, New York represen- 

 tative of the Southern Lumberman, and oth- 

 ers. The party was augmented at Chicago by 

 several additional tourists. They will be gone 

 several weeks, and will spend a week at the 

 exposition. After that they go to 'Frisco, Los 

 Angeles, Santa Barbara and other points of 

 interest in the West. 



George F. McCabe of the Holcomb-Lobb 

 Company of Chicago, is in Nashville to take 

 charge of the company's new interest in this 

 section. His company bought out the Cum- 

 berland Tie & Lumber Company, and recent- 

 ly purchased a large number of ties on the 

 line of the Tennessee Central. 



A. Watkins, of the Stotz Lumber Company 

 of Louisville, was in the city this week buying 

 lumber. 



A. J. McCausland of W. E. Kellej i: Co., of 

 Chicago, is here looking after a large pur- 

 chase of chestnut made at Algood, Tenn. 

 There are about 600,000 feet in the lot. 



Henderson Baker of the firm of Henderson 

 Baker & Co., has returned from a business 

 trip to Indianapolis. 



John M. Smith of the John M. Smith Lum- 

 ber Company, spent a day in Louisville this 

 week. 



M. F. Green of the David on Benedict Com- 

 i ii has returned from a nip through the 

 West. Mis family accompanied him and they 

 took in the Lewis ,«. Clark exposition. 



W. B. liavidson of the W. B. Davidson Lum- 

 ber Company, has gone to Colorado with his 

 son Oscar. The latter is in poor health, and 

 Mr. Davidson will locate him in the West. 



The mill of the R. E. Wood Lumber Com- 

 "ii Stony Creel Carter county, Tennes- 

 see, is ready for business. The plant has a 

 ity of 40,000 feet of hardwood a day. 



J. P. Little of the Little Lumber Company 

 of St. Louis, was a recent visitor to Nashville. 

 He was here looking for a good sawmill man 

 to tab I Li- new band mill at Blythe- 



ville, Ark. lie owns sixty million feet of hard- 

 wood stnmpage In that section. 



The Jackson Cooperage Company at Jack- 

 son, Tenn., began operations on September 1. 

 The company is manufacturing tight staves 

 ami headings. 



The Kentucky Lumber Company, with Ten- 

 nessee headquarters at Jacksboro, has sub- 

 mitted to the State Board of Equalizers at 

 Nashville, a brief setting forth the grounds 

 upon which the company makes application 

 for a reduction of its taxes in this state. In 

 1904 the Tennessee properties of this company 

 were assesed at $14,100, but it is claimed that 

 the assessment should be only $10,575 this 

 year on account of the removal of timber. 

 The county Board of Equalizers in Campbell 

 county re I the reduction, but the 



state board is yet to announce its decision. 



Richard and Fuller Bibb are putting in a 

 large shingle factory at White Bluff, Tenn. 



The Bridgeport Woodenware Manufacturing 



Company, Bridgeport, Ala., has been sold to a 



new company. Tin- capita] stock was in- 



'■d from $44,500 to $72,000 and new ma- 



ordered. T. II. Crebbin will continue 



as superintendent of the business. 



The Jones Lumber Company of Fackler, 

 Ala., has purchased a one thousand acre tract 

 of limber land near Scottsboro for $30,000. 

 The land contains a largo amount of hard- 

 woods. 



A rather unusual accident caused the death 

 of James King, the 14 -year-old son of W. H. 

 King at Bassett's sawmill near Madisonville, Ky., 

 Tin' boy had a piece of scantling and was 



punching the rip saw with it. The piece of 

 timber was hurled against his chest and he 

 died twenty minutes afterward, never speak- 

 ing after he was struck. 



The Retail Lumber Dealers' Association 

 convened at Chattanooga not long since and 

 discussed ways and means of bettering the 

 business interests of members. Wade Kirk- 

 patrick represented J. O. Kirkpatrick & Sons, 

 and Joe Wallace, Norvell & Wallace. Chat- 

 tanooga dealers entertained the delegates in 

 handsome style on Lookout Mountain. The 

 next session will be held in Birmingham, Ala., 

 in January, 1906. 



H. A. McGregor of the Bridgeport Stave 

 Works has leased a property from Bagg & 

 Young of Chattanooga and has established a 

 stave factory there. He is shipping three cars 

 of staves a day. 



Thirty-eight years ago Mark Wrightman 

 was born near Pleasant Hill in Cumberland 

 county. Tenn. His father, on that occasion, 

 planted a black walnut sprout. A few days 

 since there was a son born to Mark Wright- 

 man and the grandfather had the tree cut 

 down and sawed up. It made 500 feet of No. 

 1 walnut and the balance sawed out 600 feet 

 of No. 2 and culls. A set of furniture is be- 

 ing made for the child's mother from the best 

 timber in the tree which will be presented by 

 the grandfather. At the mother's death the 

 set will go to the child. Forty dollars' worth 

 of the timber was also sold and the money 

 put out at interest until the babe shall reach 

 his majority 



The hoo] of George J. Harris at 



Kenton. Tenn., has been totally destroyed by 

 fire. There was no insurance. Many thou- 

 sand hoops were burned. 



Memphis. 



The American Art Wood Company, recently 

 incorporated here, is rapidly completing its 

 plant in South Memphis, The company ex- 

 pects to begin operation within the next few 

 weeks. Dr. E. A. Neely is president of the 

 i t< ture frames and for 

 other ornamental purposes will be manufac- 

 tured. A patented process for coloring wood 

 while in the log and creosoting will be fea- 

 tures of the plant. Gum will be used to a 

 considerable extent. 



Application for a charter has been filed by 

 the L. )■'. Campbell Lumber Company, of this 

 city. The capital stock is $75,000. all paid 

 in The incorporators are: L. E. Campbell, 

 Albert Mahannah, of the Mahannah Lumber 

 Company; N. N. Thompson; George B. Os- 

 good, of the Cotton Belt Lumber Company, 

 and H. W. Campbell. The company will man- 

 ufacture hardwood lumber and cypress. Its 

 offices are in the Tennessee Trust Company 

 building and mills will be operated in Ar- 

 kansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. 



Application for an amendment to the char- 

 ter of the Bennett Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany has been filed here, seeking to increase 

 the capital stock from $55,000 to $100,000. 

 The company has operated a hardwood lum- 

 ber mill here for some years and does a large 

 export business, gum being one of its special- 

 ties. 



The Green River Lumber Company of Hunt- 

 ingburg, Ind., is removing its plant to North 

 Memphis, where a site has been purchased. 

 The machinery has been received and is be- 

 ing installed. The mill, which will have a 

 daily capacity of 20,000 feet, will cost about 

 $20,000. 



C. S. Gladden, whose hardwood lumber mill 

 was burned here a few weeks ago, has com- 

 ph t'd .Mi.l is now running the new plant. The 

 output was increased to about 30,000 feet a 

 day. It is a band sawmill and is uptodate in 

 every respect. 



The Arthur Hardwood Flooring Company, 

 incorporated here a short time ago, is push- 



