HARDWOOD RECORD 



39 



I'll. King-Baxter Lumber Company has 

 located a salts office at 999 Market street, 

 which is in charge of Douglas Baxter, vice 

 president of the King-Baxter Lumber Com- 

 pany 



It is underst 1 that the city is trying to 



gel control of the property occupied by the 

 ards of Snodgrass .v- Fields, which will be 

 opened up with si roots. 



W. I. Young of Greensboro, X. C, has 

 arrived here to take charge of the work of 

 English capitalists in developing mineral and 

 Umber lands north of the city in the Wal- 

 den's Ridge coal fields. \V. .1. Willlngham will 

 spend the winter in Florida. 



St. Louis. 



Lewis Doster is spending a few days in this 

 citj looking over the work being done by the 

 association's inspector here. Paul H. West- 

 brook. the loeal inspector, has been kept very 

 busy, inspecting principally stock coming in 

 from southern manufacturers to yards here. 



ll.trley H. Miller, secretary of I hi' Jno. F. 

 Scobee Lumber Company, returned last week 

 from a trip to his company's mills at Auter, 



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Wm. Dings, secretary of the It. M. l'iy 

 Lumber Company, is at Egremont, Miss., 

 looking after the interests of his company at 

 that point. He reports great scarcity of labor 

 and cars, also says that the weather has been 

 t ' i . unfavorable for several weeks. 



The Walilstein Lumber Company reports 

 business as ipiili- good fur this time of the 

 year. It is not pushing sales at this time, 

 believing there will he a material increase in 

 i/alues within the next few months. 



Nashville. 



According to Edmund II. Bowser, in charge 

 of the department of lumber transportation 

 lor the Illinois Central railroad. lumbermen of 

 tie south are in a bail predicament caused by 

 Un shortage in cars. Mr. Bowser has just 

 returned from a trip as far south as New 

 Orleans and says that many lumber concerns 

 in the territory covered by his road have shut 

 down owing to the inability to secure cars. 

 Th. smaller mills seem to have suffered most, 

 as they are crowded up with small orders. 

 Mr. Bowser says it is impossible even to get 

 enough ears to transport sufficient material to 

 build new ones. 



Tli. legality of the sale of important timber 

 rights will he brought into question by a suit 

 instituted recently at Centreville, in Hickman 

 county, by Eisman & Roberts against the Bon 

 Air Coal & Iron Company and the New York 

 Trust Company. The famous Aetna and 

 Warner Company lands are involved and a 

 considerable portion of the same was recently 

 purchased by th.' Hays Stave & Lumber Com- 

 pany of Nashville. The lands in question are 



worth between $125,000 and $150 and the 



result of the suit will tie watched with inter- 

 est. The property has much valuable timber 

 on it. 



Laird & Freeman have just closed a deal 

 whereby thej have bought from Ardery & 

 Edwards "I Paris, Ky., a large tract of, hard 



w 1 lands in Grundy county, Tennessee. The 



property comprises several thousand acres and 

 is covered with virgin oak. poplar and hjck- 

 .1'. Arrangements have been perfected for 

 III.- .ii'.li I a mill. Messrs. Laird & Free- 

 man and their associates are also owners 

 ..I a 25,000 i. re i ract further . th. Cum- 

 ber! I plateau. Eastern capitalists are said 



i.. be negotiating for the property. 



Timber rights to about 10,000 acres of land 

 lying along Beech creek near tie- Tenni 

 river at Clifton have been purchased by F. M. 

 li.ii.i, president of the Canada Wheel Works 

 of Merretton, Canada, and A. G. Fitzgerald, 

 a prominent mill man of west Tennessee 

 They have also bought what is known as th 

 Chauncey mill and will operate it at onci 



cutting Hi. hickory off the adjoining lands. 

 The output will be shipped to Canada to l« 

 used in the manufacture of carriages. There 

 is enough timber in these holdings to furnish 

 cutting for ah. .ui ii\ e yea] 



A special from Union Cits to Nashville 

 states that the West Tennessee and Kentucky 

 l;. 'tail Lumber Dealers' Association has just 

 held its second annual session at that place 

 There are some thirty-five concerns who are 

 members of this association. Jackson, Tenn 

 was selected as the next place of meeting. A 

 number of interesting subjects were discussed 

 at the session an. I ji proved one of mutual 

 inn. nt t.. all liie members. An able address 

 by President W. K. Hall proved quite a feat- 

 ure. Five nivv firms were admitted to mem- 

 bership. 



The Hankins-Speck Lumber Company of 

 Livingston, in Overton county, has bought of 

 H. R. Vaughn ami Joe Hatcher a tract con- 

 taining ah. .ui 20, lin.- trees. The consid- 

 eration was $r>o.iiiiii. The principal varieties ..f 

 timber on the tract are beech, white oak, 

 poplar and walnut. On one small patch of the 

 property twenty feet square were trees con- 

 taining 100.000 feet of lumber. 



Three of Nashville's lumbermen were legis- 

 lative candidates for Davidson county in the 

 election of last Tuesday. They were W. H. 

 McCullough. president of the Capitol planing 

 mill; J. H. Jones, a lumber manufacturer, and 

 J. A. Bowling, a building contractor. 



The National Lumber Company, chartered 

 under the law's of the state of Kentucky, with 

 a capital stock of $50,000, has been granted a 

 charter by Secretary of State John W. Morton 

 and allowed to engage in business in Tennes- 

 see. 



The Hays-Henderson Saw & Supply Company 

 has been granted an amendment changing iis 

 Dame to the Eagle Saw Works. 



Work has begun on the buggy factory build- 

 ing in West Nashville by the DeFord Buggy 

 Company at the corner of Seventeenth street 

 and Boulevard. The building will be metallic 

 sheathed, three stories high and will cover 

 an acre. It is proposed if possible to have it 

 ready for operation by the first of the yeai 

 The plant will work about 100 men. 



A strong effort will be made by prominent 

 Nashville lumbermen and business men to 

 secure larger appropriations from Congress 

 with which to pursue the work of improving 

 the Cumberland river. It is of vital impor- 

 tance to th. lumbermen of the Cumberland 

 river valley that the stream be made more 

 navigable, as better water means better sup- 

 plies of lumber. The dealers are Looking espe- 

 cially to the river now in view of the terrible 

 shortage existing in cars at this time. A 

 locked and dammed river up to or beyond the 

 Kentucky line, furnishing water for boats to 

 inn the year around, would enable dealers to 

 get much more lumber t.. Nashville and make 

 them in a measure less dependent on the rail- 

 roads. 



Th.' Te ssee State Board of Equalization 



has under consideration the ease of the Smoky 

 Mountain Lumber Company. This concern 



wa ■ sed .i $106, , which amount was 



increased bj th trustees ..t Monroe county. 

 Tli.' companj is claiming the assessment is 

 too high. 



The Graham Bowers Stave Company of 

 Whit.' Bluff, Tenn., is operating (he ..1.1 

 Whited facto] s .hi hat place. The plant 

 opi ii. .1 up ..1. i he first .if tic month after hav- 

 ing h en shut down fur some time. 



1: and .1. S. young, well known lumbei 

 men of Burksville, Ky., have contracted with 

 Hi.- John B. Ransom Lumber Company to fur- 

 nish the latter with one and a half million 

 I. . t of poplar, oak and hickory lumber. The 

 lumber will be placed In Cumberland river 

 betw en Burksville and Neeley's Ferry and 

 in ken i... Nashville by river. 



Wolf .v Wats.. ns saw mill near Charlotte, 



Tenn., w.i- destroyed by lire recently, but 

 some of the machinery was saved. The loss 

 was covered by insurance and the plant will 

 resume operations in the near future. 



Sixty-five thousand hickory clubs and spoke 

 wi i" shipped from Lynnville, Tenn., last week 

 to the Wheel ,v Jobbing Company of Muncie, 

 in.i by the v.ikel.y Spolv. & Handle Com- 

 pany. Several othei big orders are on the 

 hooks of the latter firm to be filled in the 



near future 



The Holland Blow Stave Company, which 

 operates extensively in middle Tennessee, has 

 recently purchased large holdings in north, to 

 Mississippi, where a branch stave factory 

 will be built. The principal headquarters for 

 this company In this section is at Decatur. 

 Ala. 



The Budde i .in, is. : y Maiiiii.n i urlng C pan 



has been incorporated at Jackson, Tenn., with 



capital stock of $30,000. Bank, store, church 

 and school fixtures will be manufactured. The 

 incorporators are: Ralph Budde. T. E. Lind- 

 s.y. J. L. Wisdom, W. T. Harris, J. E. En- 

 denton and G. H. Robertson. A factory 70x100 

 feet and two stories high is to I"' ere. ted at 

 once About seventy-five hand- will be em- 

 ployed. 



The Gallatin Spoke Works, owing to the 

 scarcity of timber in that section, will close 

 down in the near future and the concern will 

 be removed to Lebanon, in an adjoining 

 county, where it will be run on a more exten- 

 sive scale. 



The old handle factory at Bridgeport, Ala 

 has been purchased by A. R. Ticknor of the 

 Bridgeport Stave Factory. The building will 

 be remodeled and made into a furniture fac- 

 tory. All classes of furniture will be made 

 from the natural woods and dimension lumber 

 from other plants will lie sawed there 



Memphis. 



The Lumbermen's Club of Memphis at a 



i ting h.l.l at the Hotel Gayoso Nov. '■'■ 



adopted resolutions of condolence with refer- 

 ence to the recent death of C. D. Strode of 

 Chicago, editor and publisher of Strode'S 

 Lumbei World 



One new member, James R. Blair of the 

 Crittenden Lumber Company, was admitted. 

 A letter was nail from Secretary E. M. Terry 

 of the National Lumber Exporters' Associa- 

 tion, to the effect that that organization had 

 decided to hold its annual meeting next Janu- 

 :o\ .ii Norfolk, Va., the dire, 'tors having 

 .h. .sen this point in preference to Memphis. 

 Secretary Terry, however, speaking for He 

 directors, warmly thanked the Lumbermen 

 Club for the invitation to hold the annual 

 meeting here as its guest. 



The Standard Lumber Company, with head- 

 quarters in the Randolph building, is one of 

 the lat.i additions to the lumber fraternity 

 of Memphis. It is a partnership, and is com- 

 posed of the toll. .wing: W. .1. Riehardsi 1 



west Tennessee, P. H. Ravisies, formerly of 

 the Sullivan Lumber Company, and C. B. Stet- 

 son, who has been in the lumber busim 

 here in several capacities for the past: five 

 or six years. Messrs. Ravisies and Stetsoi 

 are in activi charge of the business. The 

 firm is handling lumber from several mills In 

 \ikin-,i and is making dii eei mill shipmi 

 ..i band sa wed ha rdwoi 6 



The Lu.l.le- Lindsey Manufacturing Com 

 pany is a new organiaztion at Jackson, Tenn.. 



capitalized at $30,000. The incorpon 



Ralph Budde, T. E. Lindsey, W. T. B n 

 ami others. The company will ma: 

 furniture, making a specialty Of bank and 



store fixture: and school and church furni- 



t ui e. 

 A. Stinson, I bin y Recht in and I n .1. D. 



M.i 'ulloiigh of i '..himl.n , Mi ' Old to 



the Interstate Land Companj ol Pennsylvania 



6,1 acres of timber land in Lamai county, 



Uaba ma and Lowndes count ■ \i 



