HARDWOOD RECORD 



2Q 



October 15. Nothing was made public, however 



The A. B. Ciosson, jr., Company has I n 



incorporated with $20,000 capital by A. B. Clos 

 s<m. Jr., If. It. fioss. in. M, a. Chapman, it M 

 Smith and Thus. II. Darby. The company will 

 manufacture picture frames in mis city. 



A. E. stone, of the Nicola Stone .V Meyers 

 Company, lias returned to Cleveland after a 

 staj in this city. He expressed great satisfac 

 tlon al the business being transacted by the 

 local office. 



The sawmill belonging to .1. A. McCoy, located 

 at Alvordton, <>.. was destroyed by fire October 

 ^ 12.' The loss was $3,500. The mill will be re 

 built. 



The John T. Towsle3 Company, of tins city. 



has I n organized with $75, capital to maim 



lac tun' woodworking machinery. The Incor- 

 porators are John T. Towsley, Win. 1-". I'fan. 

 Fred E. Niederhelmen, Joseph II. Gardner ami 

 Thos. M. Gregory. 



M. B. Farrin, of the M. B. Farrin Lumber 

 Company, spent several days recently in Nev. 

 York looking after the company's office there. 



The Stone & Heyser Lumber Company lias i n 



incorporated by T. B. stone. \V. E. Heyser, W. 

 W. Stone, E. B. Kirn and John L. Lincoln. The 

 capital is $25,000 and headquarters will be 

 maintained in the Union Trust building in this 

 city. A branch office has been opened in Mem 

 phis in tin- Randolph building, witli Mr. Heyser 

 as manager. 



'riie <ar shortage here lias reached an acute 

 stage and hardwood interests are experiencing 

 great trouble. The yards of the different rail- 

 roads are blocked with loaded cars, exemplifying 

 the need of a belt railroad here as advocated by 

 He Lumbermen's Club and other commercial or- 

 ganizations. The present car shortage is being 

 used as a strong argument for the belt road. 



The C. E. Francis Woodworking Machinery 

 Company is erecting a plant at Bushville I ml.. 

 which will have five times the capacity of the 

 local plant, officials of the company declare, 

 however, that the Cincinnati plant will he main 

 tained. 



Nashville. 



The I'.runsw iekl. alio- Coll. -nd'-i Company of 

 Chicago, on.- of tie- largest concerns of the sort 

 in tin- United states, has established a southern 

 office in Nashville, with IT. L. Tait in charge. 

 Sufficient business lias been secured in this sec- 

 tion to warrant the establishment of the office. 

 The firm lias a wan house in Memphis and ai Its 

 main factory in Chicago manufactures bar lix 

 tiin-s. refrigerators, billiard tables and bowling 

 alleys. 



E. A. Freeman of Nashville has bought timber 

 rights from Capt. John A. Geary of Lexington, 

 Is \ , to about 25,000 acres of timber lands on 

 both sides of the Cincinnati Southern railway 

 in Pulaski county, Kentucky. The purchase 

 price is not disclosed at this time. 



The Kimmins Lumber Company of Davidson 

 county lias he. -n incorporated with a capital 

 sto,-k of $50,000. The incorporators an- W. .1 

 Cude, A. M. Ransom, J. B. Ransom, McEwen 

 Ransom and C. H. Cude. 



Marshall T. Rowland of Lebanon. Tenn.. and a 

 prominent lumberman of that place, was found 

 dead a few nights since lying beside the tracks 

 of tie- Southern Railway near Nashville. It is 

 presumed In- fell from a train. II.- was fifty 

 years old and leaves a wife and several children. 



The sawmill of the Ware & Goodwin Excelsior 

 Coop factory was burned recently at Trezevant, 

 Tenn. The fire started in the sawdust room 

 and the entire plant was in danger of destruc- 

 tion. The loss was about $1,500, with some 

 insurance. 



A. I.. Hayes & Co., one of the biggest manu- 

 tacturers of staves in Nashville, has bought 

 t'l-.im the First National Bank of Nashville the 

 timber rights to about 10,850 acres of land 

 forming a part of the old Aetna Furnace prop- 

 erty Tie- consideration was $16,275. 



A special from Cloyd's Landing, Kj en the 

 upper Cumberland, states that .1. I-:. Lewis of 

 Peytonsburg has bought the Hurt farm on 



lllen's Creek tor $12, I The place, which is 



nearly a thousand acres in extent, has much 

 valuable i Imber on it. 



A special from Morehead, Ky.. on tie- North 

 Fork -.1 He- Cumberland, states that He- Clear- 

 field Lumber Company of Pennsylvania has 

 bought ill.- ..Id Bradford place and will ereci 

 iw-> big sawmills on it in lie- near future. 

 Tie- company's line of railroad on the North 

 Fork will he extended to He- new inn-chase. 

 Th.- mills will give employment to several hun- 

 dred people. 



An Interesting communication has been re- 

 ceived by Mayor T. c i. Morris regarding an al- 

 leged lumber trust in Nashville and tin- letter is 



siu I l<\ ;in anonymous and mysterious ■•Coin 



mitt. r six." in it the writers complain Men 



Lumber is not taxed in Nashville, that some re 

 lot-in should he made in this connection, and that 

 i in- "Committee of six" proposes about January 

 1 next to "start something" in the taxation line 

 by man. Iannis proc lings. There will be noth- 

 ing done, however, as it has been held in Ten- 

 nessee that lumber is a product of the soil and 

 is in. I subject to taxation until its form has 

 been changed by manufacturing it. 



The Nashville Transportation Company re- 

 ports that quit.- a lot of lumber is being brought 

 down from Carthage and intermediate points ou 

 their two towboats, the Chauncey Lamb and the 

 John YV. Love. 



The past season lias been a had one for the 

 government in working on the Cumberland River 

 locks. .Much high water has prevailed at times 

 and little has been accomplished. The lumber- 

 men of the Cumberland River valley, however, 

 are rejoiced that the government has decided to 

 continue the work of improving the great water- 

 way, as it means much td them in getting more 

 lumber as well as better prices in transporting 

 it here. Active steps will be undertaken at once 

 io secure a liberal appropriation from tin- next 

 Congress for river improvement. 



Memphis. 



A largely attended meeting of the Lumber- 

 men's Cliil. >.f Memphis was held at the Hotel 

 Gayoso, Oct. 20. A committee, consisting of 

 .1. YV. Thompson, chairman; J. W. Dickson 

 and K. ,T. Darnell, was appointed to look after 

 arrangements for tin- members going t.. Cin- 

 cinnati to attend the semiannual meeting of 

 lie- National Hardwood Lumber Association. 

 Oct -'•". and 26. There will in- somewhere be 

 tween _'" and 30 delegates from Memphis. 



George C. Ehemann. secretary, read a letter 

 from Secretarj E. M. Terry of th.- National 

 Lumber Exporters' Association, stating that 

 In- had communicated to the board of direct 

 ors "i' his association the action of th.- Lum- 

 bermen's Club in inviting that organization to 

 hold its annual meeting here next January 

 in. I that lie- board of directors had notified 

 linn Hint they Would act on it as soon as po 



sible. 



Tin- Lumbermen's Club lias grown to I ne 



of Ho- strongest local hardwood lumber organi- 

 zations in the country, and finds it necessary 

 t.. revise tin- constitution and by-laws. The 

 following committee will do this work: George 

 C. Ehemann, chairman; James !•:. Stark. w n 

 Russe, .1. W. McClure and F. B. Robertson. 

 There were a number of railroad matters 

 taken under advisement by the club about 

 win. h no publicity is desired at this time. 



'in- . were freely discussed i were referred 



to ;i committee composed of .1. B. Grant, 



hairman; s B. Anderson and A. L. Foster. 

 Five new members were received a follow; - 

 E. II. and I.. C. Nolan of Nolan Broth.-.- 

 I leading -\' 1 1 1 1 dwood Lumbi t I lompanj ; R. S. 

 Cooper of the Briggs & Cooper Company; 

 \v. a. Ransom of the Gayoso Lumber Com- 

 pany, and W. E. Heyser of the St. me & Hey- 



ser Lumber Company, a recent Memphis ac 



nuisii ion 



Tin- National Slack Cooperage Manufactur- 

 ers' Association, which recently opened a sales 

 agency in this city in charge of C J Del 

 of Hough, Mo., secretary of the organization, 

 and others, has written a letter to Secretary 

 Georgi C Ehemann, advising him thai that 



organization will be glad to i perate with 



the Lumberman's club of Memphis in 

 matter affecting the lumber interests of this 

 territory and thanking the Lumbermen's Club 

 for all the courtesies extended in the past. 



The Lamb-Fish Lumber Company, the con 

 solidation of the Bacon-Nolan Hardwood Corn 

 pany, the Guirl-Stover Lumber Company and 

 tin- Lamb Hardwood Lumber Company, has 

 perfected organization by the election of the 

 following officers: LaFayette Lamb pre I 

 ■ I. ni; F. S. Fish, first vice president; C. K. 

 Lamb, second vice president; Garrett Lamb, 

 secretary and treasurer, and ll E. Bacon, gen- 

 era) manager. The company has filed a trust 

 deed with the register of this (Shelby) county 

 providing for the sale of $1,500,000 in bonds 

 and the payment of interest on the - in - 

 The trust deed is in favor of the First Trust 

 & Savings Bank of Chicago and sets forth 

 that the bonds are to be known as first pur- 

 chase money mortgage bonds and that tin > 

 will constitute a mortgage on all propertj of 

 the company, consisting of timber lands in 

 Panola. Quitman and Tallahatchie counties, 

 Miss., cut timber and sawmills, horses, mules. 

 etc.. and that the mortgage- is to be held by 

 the trustee. This is one of the largest trust 

 deeds ever filed in this county. 



Secretary E. M. Terry of the National Lum- 

 ber Exporters' Association, who appeared be- 

 fore the Interstate Commerce Commission in 

 Washington, Oct. 10, for the purpose of try- 

 ing- to secure equalization of lumber export 

 rates through Atlantic ports, has returned to 

 Memphis. He says the commission advised 

 him that lumber exporters should give the 

 n. -w rate law a fair test and that, if after doing 

 this they found that it entailed any handicap 

 on them, they would be given relief bj thai 

 body. Secretary Terry learned while before 

 the commission that this body did not intend 

 anj discrimination in favor of cotton as 

 against lumber and that, after March 1 next 

 year, cotton and lumber exporters, so far as 

 rates are concerned, will be placed on exactlj 

 the same basis. The only reason any conces 



si. .us were made in favor of cotton t -i 



was the f.-ar that any radical change in the 

 method of handling cotton at the beginning 

 of the period of largest business might mate 

 rially affect the cotton export trade and 

 thereby cause considerable loss of monej 

 This information has been received with plea 

 ui-e by lumber exporters. All export lumber 

 business is still being done through New en 

 leans ami there is no hope for a change in 

 this condition until the commission has been 

 advised officiallj that this is entailing any 

 handicap on the lumbermen who engage in the 

 export trade. 



The Stone & Heyser Lumber Company has 

 been established here with headquarters In 

 Hi Randolph building, to conduct a general 



wholesale hardw l lumber business T. B. 



si. -n. of the T. B Stone Lumbet Com 

 of ( 'iii.-iniiati is in. ident ; W. W Stoi 

 the T B. Stone Lumber Company. Cincinnati, 

 secretary and treasurer, and w. E. Heyser, 

 vice president and general manager. Th. 

 is separate and distinct In its operation 

 i he T. B. Stone Lumber I lompan i of CIn 

 cinnnli. 

 Arrangements are being made here for a 



record-breaking conca I em w. R. 



Anderson, Vicegerent Snark for the wi 



district of Tennessei . has - i-i b 



committees and laid pla 



affair, of which a ba nquel is to be a sp 



