HARDWOOD RECORD 



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James A. Martin, the veteran lumber manu- 

 facturer of Johnson City, last week closed a deal 

 for a 5,000-acre tract of fine virgin hardwood 

 forest in Swain and Haywood counties. North 

 Carolina. Mr. Martin announces that he will 

 develop the property, beginning operations at an 

 early date. 



The Sells Lumber & Manufacturing Company, 

 which was recently incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $50,000, is building planing and saw 

 mills at Carnagie, near Johnson City. The 

 company is headed by Sam R. Sells of this 

 city. 



G. W. 

 Company 



Lumbi 

 trip 



Peter of the Paul W. Fleck 

 returned this week from a 

 Johnson and Carter counties, Tennessee. 



W. C. Davecmon, a well known attorney <>i° 

 Cumberland, Md., who has extensive lumber in- 

 terests in southwest Virginia, was a visitor in 

 Bristol last week. Mr. Davecmon is prominently 



connected with the United States Spruce C 



pany, which operates a big mill and railroad at 

 Marlon, Smyth county, Virginia. 



C. H. Hett of the Kingsport Lumber Company 

 came up from Johnson City last week on busi- 

 ness. 



C. K. Mount, president of the Iron Mountain 

 Lumber Company of Maymead, Tenn., was in 

 Bristol last week on business. 



The mills of the Little River Lumber Com- 

 pany, at Townsend, Tenn., are now in operation 

 and turning out 120,000 feet of stock per day. 

 The completion of the Little River railroad, 

 which was recently washed away for a consider- 

 able distance by high tides, was accomplished 

 last week. 



Aldrich & Coon of Johnson City, Tenn.. last 

 week purchased from ('apt. W. H. Nelson a 

 1, mm acre tract of timber land lying in Carter 

 county, Tennessee, which the purchasers will de 

 velop at once. 



James A. ami W. I!. St. .in- of the Stone-Huling 

 Lumber Company of this city, and Hugh Allen 

 of Middlesboro. Ky., are organizing the Allen 

 Lumber Company. The new concern will be or- 

 ganized under the laws of Kentucky and will 

 have headquarters at Middlesboro. W. R. Stone 

 has gone for a trip through the South. He will 

 visit several big mills in Alabama, Georgia and 

 Mississippi. 



Among recent visitors to the local market 

 were : W. O. Gillespie, representing James 

 Gillespie, a wholesale lumberman of North 

 Tonawanda. N. V. : \V. I.. Reynolds of 

 White & Reynolds, Coebnrn. Va. : F. J. Alliger 

 of North Tonawanda, N. Y. : W. S. Whiting of 

 the Whiting Manufacturing Company, Abingdon, 

 Va. ; L. H. Snodgrass of the Buck-Snodgrass 

 Lumber Company. Johnson City, Tenn. 



Cincinnati. 



"Although not much has been said lately 

 about the progress of the Belt Line, we are get- 

 ting along splendidly," says Thomas J. Moffett. 

 chairman of the committee of business men hav- 

 ing charge of -the project. "I had previously 

 gone over the territory to be traversed by the 

 belt line in ar. automobile, but in order to be- 

 come familiar with details of the route I am 

 walking over it, and have tramped over one- 

 1 li til of the line — about seven miles. Every- 

 where I found the property owners and manu- 

 facturers favorably inclined toward the road." 



President Roosevelt's recommendation that the 

 government reserve western coal and timber lands 

 for future generations and prevent their monopo 

 lization is generally looked upon with favor by 

 Cincinnati coal and lumbermen. William A. 

 Bennett of Bennett & Witte. president of the 

 Chamber of Commerce, recently said : "Roosevelt 

 I- tli" best president we have had in many a 

 day and, though he seems very strenuous at 

 times, he is always looking out for the general 

 good of the people, and I have no doubt he 

 studied this coal ami timber reserve proposition 

 carefully before making his recommendation. His 



attitude, 1 believe, is a praiseworthy one. In 

 his desire to protect future generations he Is 

 doing a wise and clever thing. The forests are 

 one of the world's greatest sources of wealth, 

 though they are being rapidly denuded. No 

 other industry ships as many carloads of mate- 

 rial into Cincinnati daily as does the lumber in- 

 terest, and this is true everywhere. While I 

 think the president is right on this subject, no 

 blame can be attached to lumbermen who bought 

 timber lands very cheaply in the West, which 

 have increased in value from 300 to 1,000 per- 



I olll." 



Thomas J. Moffett of the Maley, Thompson & 

 Molfett Company has returned from a trip to 

 New York on behalf of the Business Men's Club, 

 w here he went in an effort to secure the next 

 general conference of the Methodist Episcopal 

 1 hurch for the Queen City. 



"Inspection" will be the theme of the next 

 monthly meeting of the Lumbermen's Club, Mon- 

 day, March 4. The subject is an interesting one 

 and lively discussion will undoubtedly result. 



The Cincinnati Furniture Exchange held its 

 monthly meeting February 12 and discussed the 

 new measure to be presented to congress to 

 remove the restrictions from the manufacture of 

 denatured alcohol. The measure was indorsed. 

 It will be presented to congress by the manu- 

 facturers' committee. 



The American Cabinet Company has been 

 formed with a nominal capital of $5,000. The 

 incorporators are W. A. Bennett, D. W. Miller, 

 Charles Moeser, R. E. Becker and W. B. Mente. 

 The ottiies are located in the Pickering build- 

 ing. 



!•:. M. Schauta of the E. M. Schantz Lumber 

 Company is engaged upon his new device foi- 

 st ill further simplifying the progress of cutting 

 dimension stock. The machine now in operation 

 is a marvel and, when understood, is as simple 

 as it is possible to be, but his latest work will 

 reduce to a minimum the skill aud amount of 

 labor required in operation, while increasing the 



oUtpilt. 



The new Liberty hank established in the west 

 end of this city is practically a lumber and 

 furniture institution. These men compose the 

 directors: B. F. Duhveber, W. F. Duhlmeier, J. 

 E. Dulweber, George Morgan, lumbermen ; J. F. 

 Dietz, F. II. Ballman, A. G. Steinman, furniture 

 men. F. H. Ballman was elected president. 



Chester F. Korn of the Farrin-Korn Lumber 

 Company has been admitted to membership in 

 the Queen City Furniture Club. Mr. Korn is an 

 industrious young lumberman and will add much 

 spirit to the organization. 



W. E. Delaney of the Kentucky I. umber Com- 

 pany has returned from a business sojourn at 

 their mill in Williamsburg, Ky. 



The Spalding sporting "...oils house on Fifth 

 street has been temporarily converted into a 

 lumber concern. They have received enough 

 hardwood lumber in the form of baseball bats 

 to build a large log cabin. 



St. Louis. 



W. A. Bonsack has 1. ntly returned from a 



southern buying trip; he spent several days at 

 Memphis while away. 



F. p. Southgate of Chicago, now inspector for 

 the National Hardwood Lumber Association, was 

 a recent visitor to this market, where he has 

 many friends among the lumber fraternity. 



II. G. Buckner of the International Hardwood 

 Lumber Company is now located at Iuka, MlSS., 

 where he has established headquarters, ami will 

 act as the company's buyer through that terri- 

 tory. 



E. II. Luebrmann of the Chas. F. Luehrmann 



Hardw 1 Lumber Company says that owing to 



high water the company recently had to shut 

 down nearly all its mills and suspend operations 

 on its logging roads, bul that several of the 

 larger plants were started up again this week, 

 lie reports business excellent. 



George II Cottrill, secretary of the American 



Hardwood Lumber Company, >a.\s the company 

 is behind on Its orders because of bad weather 

 conditions. 11. A. Singer. New York manager, 

 visited the main office last week. A branch office 

 has recently been opened in Memphis by the 

 . ompany. 



Nashville. 



Secretary Lewis Doster of the Hardw 1 



Manufacturers' Association has returned to Chi- 

 cago after a stay of several days in Nashville 

 in conference with President John P.. Ransom 

 and other local lumbermen. 



Extensive Cumberland county properties are 

 soon to be developed by the Clear Creek Coal 

 & Coke Company, a concern capitalized at 

 $1,000,000. It is proposed to issue .f230,O00 in 

 bonds. Tlie eompany owns 7, mid acres of land 

 in Marion and Cumberland counties on which 

 is much fine timber. 



A special from Athens. Tenn., announces 

 that Walker Brothers of that place have com- 

 pleted arrangements for the establishment of 

 a saw. p laning and lath mill. The machinery 

 is at hand and the buildings to house it are 

 uearing completion. 



Messrs. Puryear and Bason of Mebane, N. C, 

 are contemplating the establishment of a sin. mm 

 chair factory at Newport, Tenn. 



O. G. Fitzgerald, operating a big hickory mill 

 near Clifton, Tenn., has closed a contract for 

 1,000,000 feet of hickory timber. He will begin 

 sawing about March 1. 



Chalmers Vestal, president of the Caney Fork 

 Lumber & Tie Company and one of the best 

 known lumbermen of middle Tennessee, was shot 

 and killed a few days since. It was at 

 first thought that the deceased had killed 

 himself while cleaning out his revolver, but later 

 his bookkeeper, W. S. Bryant, was arrested on 

 suspicion. Bryant was with Mr. Vestal when 

 the latter met his death, hut stated that the 

 latter either killed himself voluntarily or invol- 

 untarily. 



By mutual agreement the Nashville lumber 

 firm of Hews, Card & Co. has been dissolved. 

 C. E. Dews has formed the wholesale hardwood 

 company of C. E. Hews & P.i-o. A. H. Card has 

 organized the lumber firm of A. H. Card & Co. 



John A. Ray & Co. of Bedford county are 

 putting in a plant at Bluff Point lor the manu- 

 facture of buggy rims. It will be in operation 

 by April I. 



Memphis. 

 Lumbermen of this city are preparing to enter 

 vigorous protest against the proposed advance of 

 2 to 5 cents per hundred on lumber shipments 

 from points on the Frisco system, St. Louis. Iron 

 Mountain & Southern and St. Louis Southwest- 

 ern (Cotton Belt) in Arkansas, Missouri, Louis- 

 iana and Oklahoma Territory to all Ohio and 

 Mississippi river crossings. The advance is to 

 become effective March 1, but every effort will 

 be made to prevent it, especially on lumber that 

 has been sold during the past two or three 

 months for Immediate shipment hut which has 

 not yet been delivered because the railroads 

 have been unable to supplj the necessary trans- 

 portation facilities. If direel appeals to the 

 railroads for slaying the advance are not effec 

 the. the matter will he taken to the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission for the purpose of secur 

 ing an Injunction preventing the advance front 

 becoming effective within a certain specified 

 lime. Lumbermen feel that the advanced rate 

 should not he applicable on lumber that bat 



1 a sold for later delivery, the price of which 



was based mi 1 lie existing schedules. 



line large firm here, with mills at Montrose, 

 Ark., is authority for the statement that it has 

 void enormous quantities of cypress lumber to 

 be Belivered as soon as possible, the sales having 

 been spread over the past few months, and that 

 ir has heel, unable to deliver but a fraction 1 f 

 , I,, amount because the railroads refused to fur 

 oisli ih. necessary cars, This firm contends that 

 1 , fault lies w Ith the railroads and that it 



