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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Herbert domain of coal and timber lands. There 

 are 11,000 acres in the tract, for which the 

 state pays about .$140,000. There is enough 

 timber on the tract to cover the purchase price 

 and more. The must abundant varieties are 

 white and red oak, there being several million 

 feet of each. The N. C. & St. L. Ry. will prob- 

 ably run a spur track through the property. 



Secretary of State John W. Morton has 

 granted charters to new companies during the 

 past few days as follows : 



Nashville Furniture Company. Davidson 

 county, capital stock, $20,000 ; incorporators : 

 George A. Karsh, E. G. Cullum, T. W. Cunning- 

 ham. J. W. Bracy and T. J. Christ man, 



Roach Creek Coal, Coke & Timber Company, 

 Scott county, capital stock, $15,000'; incor- 

 porators : U. S. Carden, C. W. Willis, A. F. 

 Agee, A. L. Carden and W. L. Carden. 



Sells Lumber & Mfg. Co.. Washington county, 

 capital stock, $50,000 ; incorporators : S. A. 

 Sells. C. T. Hayward, J. P. lib. -a. S. T. Mil- 

 lard and E. A. Cox. 



A rather unusual find for a lumber yard was 

 contained in a tiny bundle spied by the watch- 

 man at the yards of Lieherman, l.oveman & 

 O'Brien of Nashville a few nights since. The 

 package contained a baby, a little girl only a 

 few hours old. When found the little one was 

 blue from cold and exposure, but was taken in 

 -charge by Ollie Williams, who lived nearby. 

 A mother will be found for the little one in the 

 near fill lire, 



-I G, Kuss. of Clifton. 'JVnn., has secured 

 from G- L. Mucsse & Co., of Caruthersville, 

 Mo., the timber rights on about 8,000 acres 

 of hickory timber land on. the Tennessee river. 

 The consideration was $10,000. The new pur- 

 chasers will put in a mill at Clifton and another 

 one at Bob, six miles down the river. About 

 one hundred workmen will be given employment. 



Arbitrators have agreed upon the loss sus- 

 tained in the recent tire at the plant of Lieher- 

 man, Loveman & O'Brien. The total damage 

 was figured to be $132,344. It was ascertained 

 that there were about 20.0o0.000 feet of lum- 

 ber in the yard and that about 3,500,000 feet 

 were burned. The insurance companies, in ar 

 riving at the loss, named Capt. A. W. Watrous 

 to represent them. lie is a well-known lumber- 

 man of Charleston. \V. Va. Lieberman, Love- 

 man &. O'Brien named John H. Baskette, of the 

 Prewitt-Spurr Manufacturing Company to repre- 

 sent them, and the two men thus selected agreed 

 upon Col. F. M. Hamilton, of the Indiana Lum- 

 ber Company. 



The Estes Machine Company, Qf Davidson 

 county, has been chartered with a capital stock 

 of $5,000. Saws and saw mill machinery will 

 be made. The incorporators are: F. L. Estes, 

 W. II. Fickliug, Frank Rives, E. S. Wright and 

 Will Cason. 



The John B. Ransom Lumber Company has 

 bought twelve acres of land from the J. L. 

 Smith Company in West Nashville, known as 

 the Dodge lumber yards. The company has 

 leased the property for some time, operating a 

 mill and yard on the site. The consideration 

 was $10,000. 



A new enterprise at Huntingdon, Tenn., is a 

 lumber yard operated by F. S. Patrick, of Iowa. 

 Huntingdon is a good lumber market with a 

 large quantity of hardwood timber about it. 



Large sales of chestnut poles to be used for 

 telephone and telegraph poles are reported from 

 Cookeville, Tenn. The men interested in the 

 enterprise at that point, however, are howling 

 about the shortage of cars and claim that 300 

 cars could not get away with the supply that 

 has been accumulated at that point. The poles 

 are of every length and size and are bringing 

 all the way from 50 cent? to $8 apiece. 



Considerable activity In the timber line is re- 

 ported from Overton county, around Livingston, 

 Tenn. The Hankins-Spreck Lumber Company 

 has sold to the Welch Stave Company, of Mon- 



terey, the white oak timber on its holdings for 

 $3 t.r.uo. This is about one-third of the value 

 of the standing timber owned by the Haukins- 

 Spreck Company. The report that a railroad is 

 to be run from Livingston to a point in Ken- 

 tucky, joining with the Queen & Crescent, has 

 caused no little excitement. Such a line would 

 open up a rich timber and mineral section. 



The Lamous Wagon Company, of Greenville. 

 Tenn., has just completed a large plant which 

 greatly increases its capacity. Farm wagons 

 will be manufactured as a specialty. Spring 

 wagons, shacks, buggies and other spring vehi- 

 cles will also be manufactured, however. Im- 

 proved woodworking machinery will be installed 

 at once. 



Two railroads, one steam and the other elec- 

 tric, are being promoted at Nashville just now 

 that will open up large timber sections in Ten- 

 nessee. They are the Nashville & Huntsville 

 railroad, a line to be run through Nolensville, 

 Triune. Eagleville, Lewisburg and other points 

 southwest, to Huntsville, Ala. The other is an 

 electric railway, the Nashville & Lewisburg. 

 which will tap pretty much the same territory. 

 The electric line will have a freight service, 

 like the steam line, however, and each system 

 expects In do a large business in hauling lumber 

 and other products from this new section. 



Several of the local lumber firms are much in- 

 terested in a complaint to the state railroad 

 commission asking that body to take up the 

 matter of regulating terminal charges made by 

 the L. & N. Terminal Company and the Nash- 

 ville terminals. It is claimed that in some in- 

 stances as much as 12% per cent a hundred 

 is being charged for switching in the city. 



A special to Nashville for Brownsville, Tenn , 

 announces the sale of the planing mill run by 

 the Hurt Smith Company of that town, to sat 

 isfy a general creditors' bill. 



William Martin, at White Bluff, has put in a 

 large saw mill near that place on the Gum 

 Spring branch. Hardwood is said to be rather 

 plentiful in that particular section in spite of 

 the largely increased number of saw mills. 



Memphis. 



The Bellgrade Lumber Company, which has 

 bei n formed by members of Crenshaw & Cathey 

 and Thompson & McCIure of this city, and 

 which is capitalized at $100,000, has been 

 granted a charter and will be ready for opera- 

 tion in a short time. The two firms which 

 have united iu the formation of this company 

 will, at least for the present, continue their 

 business separately. The offices of the Bell- 

 grade Lumber Company are in the Randolph 

 building, this city, being between the rooms 

 occupied by Thompson & McCIure and Cren- 

 shaw & Cathey. The officers are : W. L. Cren- 

 shaw, president : A. N. Thompson, vice-presi- 

 dent : J. W. McCIure, secretary-treasurer ; T. 

 M. Cathey, general manager, and F. P. Gear- 

 hart, assistant manager. The company has 

 secured timber rights on approximately 9,000 

 aens of hardwood timber lands near Belzoni. 

 Miss., and will erect a band mill at that point 

 for the development thereof. 



The Brasfield-Thompson Lumber Company, 

 with a capital stock of $50,000, is another con- 

 cern recently chartered in this city. The In- 

 corporators are : George M. Brasfield, formerly 

 president and owner of the Memphis Stave 

 Manufacturing Company and an extensive owner 

 of timber lands in Mississippi ; J. W. Thompson, 

 president, and A. L. F'oster, assistant treasurer, 

 respectively, of the J. W. Thompson Lumber 

 Company, and E. C. Turner. Organization has 

 not yet been perfected, but It is generally un- 

 derstood that Mr. Brasfield will be elected presi- 

 dent and general manager and Mr. Thompson 

 vice-president. The company has purchased tim- 

 ber lands and a large band sawmill on the 

 Cache river near Biseoe, Ark., on the Rock 

 Island. The timber will be handled almost 



exclusively by water. The offices of the com- 

 pany will be In the Rogers building. 



The Southern Handle Company, Memphis; the 

 Southern ilaudle Company, Huntsville, Ala.; 

 the Royal Handle Company, Harrisburg, Ark., 

 and the Beamer Handle Company, Manor, Pa., 

 have combined to operate under the name of 

 the Consolidated Handle Company, with a capi- 

 tal stock of $1,000,000. The offices are to be in 

 Memphis. M. R. Grace, president of the South- 

 ern Handle Company of Memphis and Hunts 

 ville. has been elected president. The company 

 has taken out a charter under the laws of New 

 Jersey and the proper papers are being filed 

 with the states in which it will operate. Mr. 

 Grace has been working on this consolidation 

 for about two years and has been kept back 

 by the refusal of the Turner. Day & Woolworth 

 Handle Company of Louisville to enter it. The 

 new company controls ten handle factories in 

 Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia and 

 Pennsylvania. Eastern offices will be main- 

 tained at I'ii tsliurg, Pa., but these will be 

 subordinate to those in Memphis. 



The committee which recently went to St. 

 Louis from the Lumbermen's Club to appear be- 

 fore the Interstate Commerce Commission at 

 its hearing regarding the car shortage has made 

 its report to the club and has received its dis- 

 charge. The committee, in its testimony before 

 the commission, made a number of valuable 

 suggestions, including a decided increase in the 

 terminal facilities of the roads operating in 

 Memphis and the surrounding territory ; a large 

 increase in the amount of equipment in use 

 thereon, and the placing of carload shipments 

 of otton on a basis different from that in 

 force at present, so that cotton shippers in 

 this section will be on a footing where they 

 will have to pay demurrage just as other 

 shippers do. The committee likewise strongly 

 maintained in its testimony that cotton is no 

 more perishable than lumber, as evidenced by 

 the fact that cotton is stored on the streets 

 "i Memphis and other cities for weeks and 

 otherwise handled in a manner more careless 

 than any experienced lumberman would allow 

 in the handling of his lumber. In its report 

 to the Lumbermen's Club the committee recom- 

 mended the appointment of a permanent car 

 shortage committee to co-operate with the rail- 

 roads with a view to preventing a recurrence 

 of unfavorable traffic conditions. 



Following close upon the St. Louis meeting 

 the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis sent a 

 much larger delegation to Chicago to partici- 

 pate in the National Reciprocal Demurrage Con- 

 vention which has been in session in that city 

 during the past few days and of which S. B. 

 Anderson, one of the most prominent lumbermen 

 of this section, has been made permanent chair- 

 man. The car situation has been more serious 

 this year than ever before, and lumbermen have 

 given more time and money to the correction of 

 the evil than they have ever previously devoted 

 to any phase of lumber transportation. Some 

 lumbermen say there is slight improvement in 

 the situation, but others maintain that there Is 

 no betterment whatever. There is less lumber 

 to move because of the cessation in produc- 

 tion and the small amount of timber cut dur- 

 ing the past few weeks, and the situation there- 

 fore should be slightly better for this if for no 

 ether reason. But lumbermen here who have 

 mills in the interior or who handle the output 

 of Memphis territory mills say they are having 

 very great difficulty in securing cars. 



Weather conditions during the past fortnight 

 have been about as unfavorable for hardwood 

 lumber manufacture and logging operations as 

 could be well imagined. There have been fre- 

 quent rains and the woods are now so wet 

 that it will be some weeks, even with a cessa- 

 tion of rainfall, which is by no means certain, 

 before logging operations can be resumed on 

 anything like a normal scale. The amount of 

 timber already cut and awaiting transporta- 



