HARDWOOD RECORD 



30A 



J. W. Graham of the (iraham Lumber Com- 

 panj is making a trip through Tennessee ami 

 Kentucky. 



George Zorborg of the Cincinnati Hardwood 

 Lumber Company is on a business trip to Chi 

 cago. 



iieorge Littleton] of the Littleford Lumber 

 Company 1ms returned from a business trip 

 through the South and East. He reports great 

 activity in lumber circles in that locality. 



C. M. Clark of. the Swann-Day Lumber Com- 

 pany of Clay City, Ky . returned a few days 

 ago from a trip East, and left immediately for 

 Virginia on a quail hunting trip. 



Walter Quick of RIchey, Halsted & Quick, has 

 returned from a trip through Mississippi, Ten- 

 nessee and Arkansas. He reports a scarcity of 

 gum lumber and a general tendency to higher 

 prices. 



Chattanooga. 



Chattanooga lumbermen have had an extremely 

 prosperous year. They have only one or two 

 complaints to make about their business ; one is 

 that they have not been able to get sufficient 

 cars — in fact they can get hardly any at all ; 

 and the other is that they cannot get the timber 

 that they need. As a result they cannot supply 

 the demands. Dry stocks are scarcer than they 

 have been for years and prices have continued 

 to soar skyward for many months. 



Lumbermen depending on the river for their 

 supply of logs did not get as many as they 

 expected. Logmen have been so handicapped on 

 account of rains during the past summer that 

 they could not get their logs to the river. 



Within the past year four lumber concerns 

 have practically gone out of business in this 

 -city for various reasons. Recently the Case 

 Lumber Company abandoned its yards at East 

 End and the interests of the concern were 

 pooled with those of the Fowler -I'ersonett Lum- 

 ber Company of Birmingham, Ala. Ferd Bren- 

 ner, who operated big yards here, has abandoned 

 them and gone to Norfolk, Va., where he has 

 large mills and yards. F. W. Blair sold the 

 yard property near the Tennessee river and Is 

 preparing to move his mill. He has not decided 

 where he will locate, but it will probably be in 

 this vicinity. He is still having many logs 

 sawed by the Central Manufacturing Company 

 and others in this city and is doing' a jobbing 

 business. 



Snodgrass & Fields, who were refused a per- 

 mit by the city authorities to rebuild their 

 plant, are going ahead with its construction. 

 They are now erecting the sheds, etc., and will 

 purchase new machinery at once. An ordinance 

 has passed the city council, however, authoriz- 

 ing the board of public works to expend $6,000 

 in condemning a portion of the property of the 

 concern for street purposes. The city govern- 

 ment wants to open about four streets through 

 the yards of Snodgrass & Fields and build a 

 magnificent drive along the bluff overlooking the 

 river on this property. The company Intends to 

 oppose the city's action. 



A. A. McGregor, proprietor of two or three 

 stave concerns in this city, is at Paint Rock, 

 Ala., where he has another stave factory. 



M. M. Erb, vice president of the old Case 

 Lumber Company of this city, has removed bis 

 family to Birmingham, where he Is interested 

 in the new Fowler Lumber Company. 



E. II. Warner of Warner & Son of St. Louis 

 was a recent visitor to this city and bought 

 several carloads of lumber. 



[or occupancy about January 1. In the mean- 

 time Mr. Love will take a trip to Florida for 

 his health, as he has 1 n suffering from rheu- 

 matism for some time. 



Among Hie recent visitors to Nashville were: 

 R. F. Scobee of Winchester, Ky., representing 



the Scol Williams Spoke Company; Owen 



Percy of London, England, representing Cob- 

 bett & Co., and Charles Cruikshank of Pitts- 

 burg; Pa., representing the American Lumber 

 & Manufacturing Company. 



Three thousand feet of, lumber at Buford. 

 Term., was destroyed by fire. It was the prop- 

 city of .1. I>. Rhea. Cinders removed that night 

 from the engine at the plant are supposed to 

 be responsible for the loss. 



The state of Tennessee is going into the lum- 

 ber business on a pretty extensive scale, al- 

 though such a step was not contemplated by 

 those at the helm of this commonwealth. Ten- 

 nessee has decided to buy about 15,000 acres 

 of coal lands in Warren, Van Buren, Sequatchie 

 and Bledsoe counties. About $165,000 is to be 

 paid for the property, which is being bought 

 outright, and such a purchase of course in- 

 cludes the timber on the property as well. 

 This the state will also develop and sell while 

 it is getling out the coal. The land to be 

 bought is on the western plateau of Cumberland 

 mountains and is covered with white oak, black 

 oak, red oak, post oak, pine, gum and hickory. 

 A railroad spur will be run to the property 

 in order to market the output. 



Secretary of State John W. Morton has 

 granted the Stone & Heyser Lumber Company 

 of Ohio the right to engage in business in this 

 state. The company is chartered for $25,000. 



The plant of the Tennessee Chair Manufac- 

 turing Company at Covington, Tenn., has been 

 totally destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of 

 $12,000. The insurance amounted to $4,000. 

 Lightning struck a wire and then ran to the 

 building in that way setting fire to it. 



An interesting question in the hardwood line 

 has been brought up before the Chancery Court 

 of Dickson county for adjudication. The defini- 

 tion of the term "white oak'' is involved in 1 In- 

 case of J. C. Oakley vs. the Holcomb-Lobh Com- 

 pany et al. The question presented, to be exact, 

 was whether or not "overcup oak or burr oak*' 

 is white oak in the ordinary meaning of the 

 word. The jury found that such was not the 

 case and their answer was simply "No." Many 

 prominent lumbermen were witnesses in the 

 case, which has been appealed to the Supreme 

 Court of Tennessee. 



A special to Nashville from West Liberty, 

 Ky., stales that the Morehead & West Liberty 

 railroad is making great progress on its new 

 road in that section. When completed this 

 line will open up one of the largest tracts of 

 timberland in eastern Kentucky. 



The Schoenlau -Kukkuk Trunk Top & Veneer 

 Company of St. Louis, Mo., has filed an ab- 

 stract of its charter for the purpose of extend- 

 ing its operations into Tennessee. The company 

 Is one of the most prominent in St. Louis and 

 is capitalized at $60,000. 



The Blrchett Lumber Company of Shelby 

 ?ounty, Tennessee, has been incorporated with 

 $24,000 capital stock by J. G. Blrchett. C. M. 

 Collier, J. Thompson, W. M. Green, .1. K. Ditls 

 ind C. L. Marslllot. 



Nashville. 



Millard Filmore Green of the Davidson-Bene 

 diet Lumber Company leaves shortly for Rock 

 Ledge, Fla., with his family, where he will re- 

 main until about March 1. John B. Ransom 

 of the John B. Ransom Lumber Company will 

 probably go to Rock Ledge in the near future. 



The handsome new home of Hamilton Love of 

 Love, Boyd & Co., on West End avenue, is 

 nearing completion and will doubtless be ready 



Memphis. 

 According to a number of manufacturers in 

 this section the outlook for the production of 

 southern hardwoods w r as never more unfavorable 

 than at present. The heavy rainfall of a fort- 

 night ago was very disastrous in that it stopped 

 practically all logging and interfered materially 

 with the operation of the mills In this territory. 

 The weather of the past few days has been 

 more favorable, but the outlook now Is for con- 

 tinued precipitation, as the season which usu- 

 ally brings much rainy weather is close at hand. 

 The larger mills here are running, but they 



say present product inn is at the expense of 

 their future cut. since they will have to close 

 down their plants, at least temporarily, just as 

 soon as they have cut. up the timber which bad 

 aci umulated when the storm came. Production 

 is not even fifty per cent of normal for this 

 section, and the trade Is of the opinion that 

 the amount of logging accomplished within the 

 next three or four weeks will be very small 

 compared with the average accomplishment in 

 this direction at this time, of the year. 



The car shortage is causing serious trouble 

 In this territory. Some lumbermen go so far 

 as to say that they are threatened with the 

 necessity of shutting down, at least temporarily, 

 because they are unable to get all the cars 

 mccssary. They see no prospect of improve- 

 ment in the supply of cars so long as the move- 

 ment of cotton continues on such a large scale 

 as ;it present. Shipments of lumber out of 

 Memphis are very slow, but those from in- 

 ferior milling centers are much worse. Receipts 

 of lumber in Memphis are very light because 

 of this scarcity of cars and stocks are decreas- 

 ing rapidly. 



The ratterson Lumber Company of Philadel 

 phia has purchased 7,000 acres of timberlands in 

 the section tributary to Greeneville, Miss., and 

 the announcement is made that plans are being 

 considered looking to the development of this 

 timber. The tract is reported to be some dis- 

 tance from the railroads of that section, and 

 lor this reason the timber has never been culled, 

 thus making this an exceptionally valuable 

 tract. 



The Builders' Exchange Building Company 

 lois been organized here with I. N. Chambers. 

 chairman, and O. O. Howard, secretary of the 

 Exchange, as secretary. Thirty members have 

 subscribed to stock in the company and plans 

 have been formulated for a building which is 

 to be headquarters for the Exchange and to 

 contain a floor for the exhibition of building 

 material and offices for members of the organi- 

 zation, and which will also have offices to be 

 rented to those connected with the building In- 

 dustry or its allied trades. As soon as possible 

 the remaining members of the organization will 

 be asked to subscribe to stock in the Building 

 Company. No outsider will be allowed to sub- 

 scribe stock and each member so subscribing will 

 be entitled to a certificate showing him to be 

 part owner of the building. 



Secretary E. M. Terry of the National Lum- 

 ber Exporters' Association will go to New York 

 about the 15th Inst, and will remain there until 

 the annual meeting of the association in Nor- 

 folk, which will be held January 23. 



The annual election of officers of the Lum- 

 bermen's Club of Memphis will be held January 

 12, and two committees, composed respectively 

 of C. W. Holmes, chairman, A. N. Thompson 

 anil s. p.. Anderson; and R. I. Darnell, chair- 

 man, W. A. Dolph and G. A. Farber, have been 

 appointed to nominate the candidates on the two 

 tickets which are provided for under the re- 

 vised constitution. The names of the rival can- 

 didates will be given out December 15. It is 

 understood that George C. Ehemann of Bennett 

 & Witte, who has been secretary and treasurer 

 lor I he past two years, will not he a candidate 

 in succeed himself. 



There were a number of visitors present at 

 this meeting, among them George W. Stoneman 

 of the Stoneinan-Zearing Lumber Company, St. 

 Louis; II. II. Ilalliday of the Carey-Halllday 

 Lumber Company, Cairo; R. L. Wl.thnell, Lon- 

 don representative of Duncan, Ewing & Co., 

 Liverpool, England, and A. W. Wylle, the Casey 

 Company, Chicago. Honorary membership in 

 the club has been conferred upon O. K. Palmer, 

 formerly with the Guirl-Stover Lumber Com- 

 pany. Memphis, but now at the head of the 

 Palmer Lumber Company, Seattle, Wash. 



Dispatches received from Malvern, Ark., re- 

 port the burning there of the planing mill of 



