HARDWOOD RECORD 



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in stock, which includes an excellent assortment 

 of cherry, birch, walnut and some beautiful ma- 

 hogany, and shipments from (be local yard 

 well as from two in the South, me fully up to 

 their expectations. 



The Garetson-Greason Lumber Company is 

 shipping considerable gum tu eastern markets. 

 This company has been quite busy throughout 

 the year and the volume of its business has been 

 of satisfactory proportions. 



Chester K. Strifler has returned from an ex- 

 tended eastern trip, including the resorts along 

 the Atlantic coast and the St. Lawrence Kiwi 

 country, and is feeling fresh and vigorous after 

 his two months' rest from the cares of business. 



Among the latest visitors to the St. Louis mar- 

 ket was A. F. Cook, general manager and secre- 

 tary of the Bliss-Cook Oak Company at Blissville, 

 Ark. 



Nashville. 



Citizens in general in this sections, and lum 

 bermen in particular, are stirred up over the 

 prospects of Cumberland river improvement 

 being stopped in the upper river on account of 

 lack of funds. Governor Cox of Tennessee 

 has appointed a Cumberland River Commission 

 to look after the interests of Cumberland river. 

 This committee recently received a communi- 

 cation from Maj. H. C. Newcomer. United 

 States engineer in charge of the work on the 

 Cumberland, to the effect that the rivers and 

 harbors committee of congress wanted data 

 to ascertain if further improvement should 

 be prosecuted on the river. Prompt action has 

 been take and the Cumberland River Com- 

 mission and similar committees from the Re- 

 tail Merchants' Association and the Cham- 

 ber of Commerce held a meeting at 

 which the entire situation was discussed at 

 length. As a result a joint and special commit- 

 tee has been appointed to secure data regarding 

 the traffic in the Cumberland : why the stream 

 should be further improved, the great benefits 

 that would thereby result aid other information. 

 John I!. Ransom of the John I!. Ransom Lum 

 ber Company has returned from a trip to Europe. 

 With him on the trip were Mrs. Ransom and 

 their two youngest children. Mr. Ransom in 

 speaking of his trip said : "I wore an overcoat 

 all the while I was gone and in the past few 

 days I have worn lighter clothes than I have all 

 summer. I found American travel in Europe 

 very heavy this summer. My trip was for re- 

 creation, but 1 saw some of my European cus- 

 tomers and found business good on the other 

 side." 



During the past week James Benton Love. Hie 

 aged father of John and Hamilton Love of the 

 firm of Love, Boyd & Co., died at his home In 

 East Nashville. He was 80 years of age, and 

 had he lived a few months longer he and Ml 

 Love would have celebrated their golden wedding. 

 Mr. Love was one of the pioneer business men 

 of Nashville, having come here before the war. 

 He stood high in the community. 



Nashville stands a good chance to secure a 

 $100,000 furniture factory in the near future. 

 For several days O. M. Pryor. a prominent mer- 

 chant from Pensacola, Fin., has been In the city 

 looking for a suitable site for the establishment 

 of a plant. A retail store is contemplated in 

 connection with the factory. 



A new industry just secured for Nashville, and 

 one that will use a considerable amount of hard- 

 wood timber for handles, is a lawn-mower 

 It Is being erected in West Nashville by M 

 Drake and Bryant, who came here from McMinn 

 ville Warren county. The plant will 

 an acre of ground, and the building will be two 

 stories high. The company is capitalized at 

 *2..,000. 



The Freeman Mill Company at Galen, 

 is putting in a saw and planing mill. The com- 

 pany is composed of M. B. Freeman. M E 

 man, J. F. Freeman, H. S. Cook and J. I>. I* 

 Blankenshlp. . . 



Secretary of State John W. Morton has granted 

 the Alabama Lumber & Shingle Company > 



amendment to its charter Increasing the capital 

 Block from $10.1 to {35,000. 



The semiannual meeting of the spoke mam 

 Hirers of the South will be held in Nashville 

 i ' let. 15 and SO. Secretary D, 

 O. Buchannan has addressed notices to all the 

 members urging a full attendance. 



A large contrail Involving the purchase of an 

 extensive tract of timber land in Perry county, 



Tennessee, has about 1 d closed. J. Lee '■ 



"f Lyunvllle Is the purchaser and the trad he 

 acquires Is said to be rich in fine timber, Mr. 

 rVlggs has mills ut Centervllle, Decherd and 

 Lynnvllle, Tenn. 



Decatur, Ala., has a new furniture factor] 

 which will be ready for operation by Oct. 10. 

 The plant will manufacture kitchen Bales, cen 

 ter tables and bedsteads. The Incorpoi 

 Cohen Dyas, president, formerly of Nashville; 

 John M. Lain, vice president, and E. II. i '■■■ 

 superintendent. 



Hamilton Love has opened up temporary head- 

 tjuarters In New Jfork city for Love, Boyd .^ I a 

 and will work the trade in the East for the 

 present. He has taken his family with him to 

 the metropolis. 



Memphis. 



James E. Stark of James K. Stark A Co. has 

 returned from an eastern trip, including I'hlla- 

 delphia. New York. Boston and Chicago. He Is 

 very much pleased with the outlook and says 

 there is a decided shortage in the amount 

 of lumber in the hands of wholesalers and con- 

 sumers in the East, and believes that there will 

 be a large demand for the liimbei now so 

 strongly held in the South 



J. W. Thompson of the J. Thompson Lumber 

 Company returned a few days ago from St. 

 Louis, only to leave again for Kansas City. 



F. E. Stonebraker of the L. H. Gage Lumber 

 Company and the Crittenden Lumber Company 

 returned a few days ago from the East. He Is 

 again out of the city on business. 



The rush of lumbermen from the North and 

 East has not yet begun but the trade here Is 

 ut opinion that things will be pretty lively when 

 the quarantine has been raised and travel is 

 unrestricted. There have been practically no 

 buyers in this city from those sections so far 

 and none have gone into Mississippi and Arkan- 

 sas. Almost every lumberman is of opinion 

 thai there will be a decided Increase In the 

 volume of business as soon as the regulations 

 have been done away with. 



"Gum occupies a rather peculiar position 

 says a prominent manufacturer of this cltj 

 "When it is band sawed it sells readily to the 

 foreign trade, which does not care for circular 

 sawed stock, but the amount of band Bawed 

 gum is comparatively limited, while there are 

 large quantities of circular sawed stock In the 

 bands of the smaller manufacturers who pro- 

 duce the bulk uf this .lass of lumber. The do- 

 mestic trade .ares little whether It Is circular 

 .and sawed, especially the furniture manu- 

 facturers." 



The Jamestown, Diaz & Cherry Valley Call 

 road Company has been organize, 1 al Batesvllle, 

 Ark., W lth capital stock of {1,000,000, ol 



$1 to hi- I o subscribed, for the purpose 



Bng a line from Jamestown, Art 



v Valley In Cross county, a dlstan 



miles This road will open n 

 tion of hardwood timber lands 

 lo a portion of the state her. I ' ossl 



ble. 



Quarantine regulations are still being strictly 



,.„t'.i i here and there is no prospeel of any 



it, this respect until after a Host. The 

 thine is true of the qnarantlt.es throu 



i The local restrictions ore not caus- 

 ., | men much inconvenience. I.ut lh 



, are of the most stringent 



,able character, with the result 

 that the movement of hardwood lumber In that 

 state Is very much restricted. As one lumberman 

 put It. "We don't eare to go down Into U 



slppl 



not until the ■■ ire removed." There 



are hire.- quantities of lumber tied up which will 



• ..s.-.i until the quarantine ha* beer 



j. w. n.oino-oi. ,.t the i W. Thompson tan.. 

 i.e. Company, although nol it t.. r polli 



leal h ! i I, Dominated by the city ad 



ministration fact! andldats for the b.«rd ••! 



public works IP Is BO much more of a hu- 

 man than however, that he has mo.i 

 ■ I the offer. 

 A. N. Thompson ol I M I \i.. 

 president ••! the Lum lb of Meropblt 

 has be,., t.. st Louis, Chicago and other point* 

 In the middle west on 



Minneapolis. 

 I. Payson Smith is looking ... ,i ,, 



soul hern M lasonxt, Arl 



s good Mocks which he will sell od con 



th ulng year. Mr. Smith return 



few .lays ago from a trip of two weeks' dura 

 and left almost Immediately for ai.oih. 

 pari Of the southern ten ItOTJ A B I 



who is associated with Mr, smith ;.n.i looki 

 particularly after northern bn- 



I n touring Wisconsin point.s for several day - 



past, both buying and i Ag 



new. secretary of the E. Payaon Smith I.umbci 

 Company, reports a fair demand for their of 

 ferlngs, but not as heavy as during Septembe. 



i» P. nark of Uaborne & dart, reports thai 

 business as a whole Is fair with them. Th. 

 demand Is not heavy, but Is In proportion to 

 the amount .,t stock, with the exception of bass 



w I, That material Is dull again, with tie 



exception of etills, which are selling rathe, 

 freely to i ..Hirers. Many consUBMn 



that hlu-h prices Injure them In 

 competition with other sections, but the ad 

 ranced prices ol logs and labor make It lm 

 possible to sell on any different basts. C I 

 Osborne Of the same tlrm Is In Erie. III., look 

 Ing after tlieii retail yard Interests at tlrn 

 point 



W. C. Bailey, the veteran hardwood dealer .. 



Minneapolis, has I n obliged to take a vacs 



tion at home to recuperate after a strenuous 

 summer of .lose attention to business. Mi 

 Bailey attends to business Just as close ■ 

 any oil! I his work hs- 



overtaxed his strength lately. 



K. I Mi.. I. :n. ot w.iis. Mich., general man 

 of the 1 Stephenson Company, was In 

 Minneapolis a f.-w .lays ago lie reports lie 

 demand for the company's flooring as growlm. 

 in add to the rapacity of th. 

 plant, and the large nea factory soon to br 

 finished and pnl In operation will be welcomed 



W. II Sill of the Minneapolis Lumber I 

 pany says thai the demand for all klnd« ■•■ 

 hardwoods has fallen off slightly the past few 

 ,i : ns The sash and door factories ere 

 taking considerable hardwood material and ap 

 pear DOl to carry much stock ahead, nrderinc 

 j,,„l as U 'bey will be In th. 



market as long as they have special work te 

 gg| ,,,n lithe. . .tis.iia. is are not In the mar 

 ...| .s th.y wl 



I H formerly 



known In the northwest, being engaged In th. 



re In the Twit. 



<tti. trip north 



mill ,,f ti. I ompany »t 



Lam '""•' charm 

 rmlng full 



any has begun 



k In Minneapolis havtnr 



ue new three story brick factory 



„„ . ay has s plant 



at has hail 

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