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mills ow-ned by tbe partnership, one at Helena and the other at Brasfield, 

 Ark. All the hardwotxi business of these interests will be handled from 

 Memphis while, as previously stated, the walnut business will be conducted 

 from Kansas City, under the direction of J. N. Penrod. Readers of tbe 

 Hakdwood Record will recall that the firm of I'enrod-Jurden & McCowen 

 recently took out a charter here with a capital stock of $350,000 

 and that all arrangements were perfected for opening here about the first 

 of March. 



The H. II. Hitt Lumber Company, which has headquarters at Decatur 

 and which owns sevei-al mills in north Alabama, is arranginj; to resume 

 operations and expects to have its saws going by the first of April. It will 

 give employment to several hundred men. The Huntsville Lumber Com- 

 pany, which is allied with tbe H. H. Hitt Lumber Company, is operating 

 its planing mill at Decattu- and is shipping considerable quantities of 

 dressed stock to the I'aciflc coast. 



Tbe Rex I'laning Mill, which was recently destroyed by fire at Meridian. 

 Miss., will be rebuilt at once, according to the management. The esti- 

 mated loss was .?3j,000, covered by insurance. New machinery will be 

 installed on the old site and construction is actually already begun. Four 

 new machines will be put in and the plant will have large capacity. R. C. 

 Malone. general manager, says that the plant will be ready to run within 

 sixty days. 



Benjamin K. Xusbaum. secretary of the National Association of Builders' 

 Exchanges, with headquarters at rbiladelphia, is authority for the state- 

 ment that there is decided improvement in building conditions all over 

 the country. When in Memphis he had just complete<l a trip covering 

 more than 5,000 miles and this statement was made as a result of what 

 had been his personal observation. He said there was nothing suggestive 

 of a boom in building lines but that verj- material improvement has 

 taken place within the past two or three months, that this was very 

 gratifying and that it formed the basis for optimistic views regarding the 

 future. He thought that a considerable part of this building was due to 

 the low price at which material of every kind could be bought, but he 

 also expressed the view that, even though there was an advancing tendency 

 in lumber and other materials, there was no sign of let up in activity. Mr. 

 Nusbaum also said that the uniform plan of contracts which was being 

 very generally adopted was proving quite a factor in increased building 

 operations lor the reason that the contractor, the architect, and the 

 owner could figure under this system just what a building would cost. 



S. F. Gilmore is neariug the completion of his sawmill at Swifton, Ark., 

 which will be used for the manufacture of wagon and automobile dimension 

 stock. 



The Bedna Young Lumber Company has taken over the Jackson end of 

 the business formerly operated by Young & Cutsinger, while F. M. Cut- 

 singer has taken over (he Evansville, Ind., end of the same firm. The 

 Bedna Young Lumber Company will have its sales offices at Greensburg, 

 Ind., in charge of Frank M. Dounell. However, its manufacturing opera- 

 tions will be at Jackson, where it owns a big band mill which will be used 

 for cutting quartered oak and other hardwoods. The incorporators are 

 F. M. Cutsinger, M. L. Y'oung, Harry J. Schaefer, Thomas C. Hanley and 

 Frank L. Donnell. Thomas C. Hanley will serve this firm in the capacity 

 of office man and traffic manager. 



The Southern I"urniture Corpor,ition, which is capitalized at $100,000, 

 has been granted a charter under the laws of this state. It proposes to 

 own and operate furniture stores at Memphis, Chattanooga and several 

 other important southern cities. The incorporators are M. M. Martin, 

 Duncan Martin, S. W. Portlock, E. H. Catchings, W. B. Lipscomb, J. D. 

 Bassett and F. B. Whitaker. 



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The most important business transacted at the meeting of the Nashville 

 Lumbermen's Club, February 27, was the nomination of officers for the 

 ensuing year, which are practically equivalent to election. The following 

 were nominated : President, Charles E. Hunt, Hunt, Washington & Smith ; 

 first vice-president, W. M. Farris, Jr., Farris Hardwood Lumber Company ; 

 second vice-president, Harold M. Greene, Davidson, Hicks & Greene Com- 

 pany ; secretary, Cecil Ewing, Soutbern Lumberman ; directors, Charles M. 

 Morford, Morford Lumber Company ; P. J. Loevenhart, Loevenhart & Co. ; 

 A. B. Ransom, John B. Ransom & Co. ; S. Lieberman, Lieberman, Loveman 

 & O'Brien, and Henderson Baker, Baker, Jacobs & Co. Mr. Baker has been 

 president tbe past year. The election will take place March 13. 



Hugh Kyle of Kyle Bros., Celina, Tenn., was in Nashville recently to 

 negotiate the sale of 500,000 feet of poplar, oak and ash logs. He reported 

 general conditions in the upper Cumberland river section as satisfactory. 



The Nashville Tie Company has filed a complaint with the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission, seeking to recover reparation of $478 on freight 

 paid on crossties, and also seeking a readjustment of the rate. 



Keports are received from Wayne county, one of the largest undeveloped 

 timber counties in the state, that some half dozen sawmills have started 

 operation. 



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It Is believed that a large majority of mills in this section will be In 

 operation by April 15. Many have already resumed and others are prepar- 

 ing to do so as soon as possible. 



ITie BClngsport Lumber Company last week put a large force of men to 

 work to complete its logging road on Chestnut Ridge, and will put Its new 



SPECIAL PRICE 



FOR QUICK SALE: 



No. 1 Com. Hickory : No. 2 Plain Oak : 



8 cars li/^" to 4 



No. 1 Com. Poplar 

 15 cars ^" to 4" 



No. 1 Plain Oak: 

 20 cars l"to4" 



5 cars 1" 



No. 1 Common Ash: 

 3 cars 2" 

 1 car 2^" 



Goodlander-Robertson 

 Lumber Company 



MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALERS 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



Yards and Oiiice: 



Kansas Avenue Memphis, Tenn. 



This Mill 



is devoted very largely to the manufacture of 



Oak Bill Material 



In fact, we have studied this line of manufacture 

 so thoroughly that we feel confident we can tell 

 you anything you want to know about it. 



^VB KNOW WE CAN FILL ANT 

 ORDER YOU WILL SEND US 



THE LEWIS DOSTER LUMBER CO. 



BLUEFIELD, W. VA. 

 Manufacturer* and Wholesaler! Weit Virsinia Hardwood* 



Bud and Circular mill* at WalteviUt, W. T*. DiUj oapaclty 60,000'. 



