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large advance orders. Astute buyers, anticipat- 

 ing ail advance in prices within the next few 

 months, are preparing to book their orders at 

 current rates, all of which augurs well for a 

 brisk business HiN spring. 



Asheville. 



The Craggy Lumber Company and the Bee 

 Tree Railroad Company, owning all the timber 

 lands in the big Craggy -Mountain boundary and 

 operating a railroad into the timber belt, have 

 just borrowed from a local bank $87,000, giving 

 a mortgage on all its property to secure the loan. 

 The deed of trust recites that the money is 

 needed to carry on the business of the lumber 

 company aud to develop the great boundary 

 owned by the company. The Craggy Mountain 

 boundary was sold to the Craggy Mountain 

 Lumber Company several years ago for a con- 

 siderable sum. Shortly after the war this same 

 boundary was sold for a good mule. 



The lumbermen of North Carolina, hacked by 

 the Asheville Lumber Exchange of this city, are 

 making a desperate effort to secure favorable 

 legislation at the present session of the North 

 Carolina General Assembly. A bill providing 

 demurrage of $5 per day instead of $1 per day 

 has been introduced and reported upon favorably. 

 The bill also provides that the railway companies 

 shall pay demurrage at the various stations 

 instead of having to he sued for the money. 

 It is likely that this hill will pass. In . the 

 event that it does the car shortage problem will 

 have been successfully solved. 



The tone of the local market remains firm. 

 There is a marked shortage of stock and hard, 

 wood men are compelled to hustle for the goods 

 with which to fill their orders. Nos. 1 and 2 

 poplar now bring $35 to $40 at the mills and 

 are hard to get. Owing to the scarcity of poplar 

 this section of North Carolina lias become quite 

 an -'ak market, and great quantities of this wood 

 are now being shipped. The prices for oak 

 remain firm and the month of February closed 

 well with the hardwood dealers. The sawed 

 lumber in the mountains is bard to get to the 

 railway stations on account of bad roads and 

 for this reason there is less hardwood along the 

 route of the railroad at present than for months 

 past 



Bristol, Va.-Tenn. 



F. C. Knight, superintendent of the Wise 

 county, Virginia, operations of the Tug River 

 Lumber Company, has been transferred to the 

 company's general offices in the First National 

 Bank building, this city, in the capacity of 

 purchasing agent. 



A meeting of the lumber and timber com- 

 mittee of the Jamestown Mineral and Timber 

 Exhibit Association was held in Bristol in the 

 parlors of the Ilolston Club March 4 and plans 

 formulated for the lumber and timber exhibit 

 at the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition. It 

 was decided that the lumber interests of this 

 section unite and occupy 600 square feet of 

 tloor space in one of the buildings now in course 

 of construction at Jamestown by the association, 

 of which Governor Claude A. Swanson of Vir- 

 ginia is at the head. M. N. Offutt, chairman 

 of the lumber and timber committee, presided. 

 The association has already raised nearly $100,- 

 000 for the exhibit through its soliciting com- 

 mittee, of which General It. A. Ayers of Big 

 Stone Gap is chairman. One of the finest 

 exhibits of Its kind, in keeping with the im- 

 portance and magnitude of the lumber and min- 

 eral business in the Old Dominion, will be 

 afforded. 



J. H. Bryan of the Bryan Lumber Company 

 has returned from a visit to the company's mills 

 at Cranberry, N. C, and reports satisfactory 

 conditions at the mills. 



The James Strong Lumber Company, Inc., of 

 which Elias Deemer of Williamsport, Pa., is 

 president, has just sold to W. M. and C. W. 

 Dickey of Brookville, Pa., a tract of 5,580 acres 



..f rich timber land in the ilolston mountains, 

 about fifteen miles from this city. It is said 

 thai tin' purchasers propose to develop the prop- 

 erty at an early dale and that they are inter- 

 ested in other timber land in this section. 



.lames A. Martin of Johnson city. Tenn., has 

 just put' based a 5,000-acre tract of timber land 

 in Swain and Haywood counties, North Carolina, 

 which he proposes to develop at an early date. 



II. M. IlosUins, who recently resigned as sales 

 manager tor .1. A. Wilkinson i" go into business 

 for himself, will he temporarily connected with 

 the lumber and timber exhibit at the Jamestown 

 T'T i 'entennial Exposition. 



Irving Whaley will leave next week for Sew 

 York, whence lie will sail tor the West indies. 

 He will be accompanied by Dr. Lindsay Bunting 

 of this city. 



C. N. Biles, representing .1. s II. Clark & Co., 



Iiardw ! dealers of Newark. N. .1., was a recent 



visitor to the local market. 



E. L. Edwards of Dayton, Ohio, is buying 

 hardwood lumber in this section and looking 

 after his mills. 



G. E. Goodell has been promoted to the posi- 

 tion of general sales agent lor .1. A. Wilkinson, 

 succeeding II. M. Hoskins, resigned to enter 

 business lor himself. 



The large hardwood plant of Win. E. I'ple- 

 grove & Bro. at Johnson City. Tenn., has been 

 put in operation and employs several hundred 

 men. 



B. 1',. Burns of the Tug River Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from a business trip to New 

 York. 



Congressman Walter 1'. Brownlow is much 

 interested in the appropriation of $25,000 which 

 was included in the bill of sundry civil ap- 

 propriations, for the survey of the proposed 

 White Mountain and Appalachian Forest Re- 

 serve. Congressman I'.rowniow some years ago 

 introduced a hill in Congress providing for an 

 Appalachian forest reserve. 



Western North Carolina furniture manufac- 

 turing concerns are shipping furniture to the 

 Republic of Panama on the order of the Isthmian 

 Canal Commission, The White Furniture Com 

 pany of Mebaue, N. C. lias just shipped a num- 

 ber of cars of high-class goods. 



The Beck Timber «t Sawmill Company has 

 been organized at Cid, N. C, with a capital 

 stock of $15,000 to do a general manufacturing 

 business. 



Black Bros, of Blackburg, Va., will imme- 

 diately begin the construction of a sash and 

 door factory to cost about $15,000. 



The organization of the Dill-Tramer-Cruitt 

 Corporation at Suffolk, Ya., is reported from 

 the office of the Virginia Corporation Commis- 

 sion. The new company will do a general 

 lumber business and will erect a big plant at 

 Suffolk. 



Cincinnati, 



A deal which the Globe Wernicke Company 

 has been negotiating for six months has about 

 been completed. The deal Involves $2,000,000 

 and includes timber rights to 00,000 acres of 

 timber land in northern Tennessee, and the pur- 

 chase in fee simple of 3,000 acres of timber, coal 

 and mineral lands in the same section. The 

 land is about twenty miles from the main line of 

 the Cincinnati Southern road, and a railroad 

 is being built to connect with the Southern. 

 The capital stock of the Globe Wernicke Com- 

 pany will probably be increased at its next an- 

 nual meeting. 



The Freiberg Lumber Company has received 

 the largest consignment of mahogany logs ever 

 known in this city — forty cars from Mexico. 

 The shipment contains a very fine collection of 

 logs, some of them being forty feet in diameter 

 and of choice grain. The company makes a spe- 

 cialty of mahogany and supplies much lumber to 

 furniture and kindred manufacturers. 



At a recent meeting of the board of directors 

 of the Kentucky Lumber Company it was de- 



.i.l.il 1" appoint William E. Delaney, who is at 

 present located in Cincinnati, general manager. 

 Richard McCracken was appointed secretary In 

 addition to his being city sales manager, with 

 headquarters in Cincinnati. 



J. II. Keyes. vice president of the Kentucky 

 Lumber Company, who is in business at Terre 

 Haute. Ind., and able to visit the plant and 

 offices only occasionally, is making a short stay 

 .ii i he local offices in the First National Bank 

 building. 



The Receivers' & Shippers' Association will 

 hold its monthly meeting at the Business Men's 

 Club March 14. Hoke Smith, governor of Geor- 

 gia and regarded as one of the best posted men 

 on railroads and their methods, will deliver an 

 address on the railroads and rates in the South. 

 Many business organizations will attend the 

 meeting. The Lumbermen's Club will be repre- 

 sented in a body. 



The Cincinnati Hardwood Lumbermen's Club 

 held its monthly meeting at the Business Men's 

 Club March 4 and discussed general trade ques- 

 tions. The meeting was executive, as the matter 

 under discussion only concerned the internal 

 affairs of the club. 



The "New Idea" dimension mill of the Schantz 

 Lumber Company at North Fairmount is doing 

 :i big business with its patented dimension saws. 

 E. M. Schantz is the inventor of the device and 

 the practice of furnishing consumers witli the 

 stock skillfully cut to requirement and without 

 defects is rapidly adding to the business. The 

 company is also adding dry kilns to its plant. 



Receipts of lumber during the month of Feb- 

 ruary reached 5,702 cars, as compared with 

 5,346 for the same period last year. The ship- 

 ments again were light, showing that lumbermen 

 are having much trouble in getting cars. The 

 car shortage is still troublesome, but some relief 

 is expected when Thomas J. Moffett gets his 

 Belt Line in operation. 



F. II. Gamble of Gamble Brothers, Louisville, 

 Ky.. was in the city recently and called on the 

 Kentucky Lumber Company in quest for lum- 

 ber. 



No official confirmation of rumors of contem- 

 plated advances in freight rates has been made 

 and speculation is rife. With increase already 

 announced from the Pittsburg district on certain 

 commodities, chiefly coal, there is a disposition 

 on the part of shippers generally to take fearful 

 view of the prospects. Several freight officials, 

 however, declare that no definite action has been 

 decided upon and that the matter thus far has 

 practically been considered in a casual way 

 only. 



Chattanooga. 



All the local saw mills are running now except 

 Snodgrass & Fields', which will be ready for 

 operation in about thirty days. The concern is 

 rebuilding its mill which was burned some time 

 ago. A band mill with 40,000 feet daily capacity 

 is being installed. This concern has been ham- 

 pered considerably by litigation, in which the 

 city is seeking to condemn the yards of the 

 concern for street purposes. The courts will 



soon appoint : ndemnatlon jury to decide first 



upon the feasibility of condemning this property 

 and second, upon the value of the property to be 

 condemned 



One of the best logging tides for two years or 

 more is now on in the Tennessee river. Prob 

 ably 1,500,1100 feet of logs will he floated down 

 the river for the river mills, including Snodgrass 

 & Fields, the Loomis & Hart Manufacturing 

 Company and the Central .Manufacturing Com- 

 pany. 



J. W. Vernon, representing Wistar. Underbill 

 & Co. of Philadelphia, was a recent visitor 

 among the lumbermen of this city. 



P. W. Decker of J. Gibson McIIvain & Co. of 

 Philadelphia purchased a good supply of lumber 

 from Chattanooga lumbermen recently. 



J. W. Willingham, president of the Wlllingham 

 Lumber Company, will return soon from Florida 

 where be has been spending the winter. 



