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HARDWOOD RECORD 



P. F. Fitzgibbous. manager of tbe McLean 

 Lumber Company, is very much worried over the 

 news ot the illness of Angus McLean, an officer 

 of the company. Mr. McLean is seriously ill 

 with kidney trouble at his home in Buffalo, 

 N. V. 



St. Louis. 



R, F. Krebs. under the title of the R. F. 

 Krebs Lumber Company, has entered the whole- 

 sale hardwood business on his own account, with 

 offices at 1313 Chemical building. Mr. Krebs for 

 the last year has been manager of the Ozark 

 Cooperage & Lumber Company, and for many 

 years before that was associated with Steele & 

 Hibbard. He is one of the best-posted and best- 

 liked men in the St. Louis trade, and his long 

 experience and wide acquaintance will undoubt 

 edly gain for him immediate success in his new 

 enterprise. 



The Garetson-Greason Lumber Company is mm 

 nicely established in its new quarters on the 

 twelfth floor of the Times building. J. S. Gar- 

 etson of this company is absent on a three weeks 

 trip in Old Mexico. 



Recent visitors to the St. Louis market were 

 W. A. Gilchrist of the Three States Lumber Com 

 pany of Memphis; Edmund F. Dodge of the 

 P. G. Dodge Lumber Company, Chicago ; T. S. 

 Estabrook ot the Estabrook-Skeele Lumber Com 

 pany, Chicago, and W. P. Strangway of the P. & 

 S. Lumber Company of St. Francis, Ark. 



Dr. Herman von Schrenk of the Missouri Bo- 

 tanical Gardens is home from a three weeks' trip 

 in the East. 



Steele & Hibbard, the hardwood house which 

 has been prominently identified with the St. 

 Louis trade for the past twenty-one years, has 

 been incorporated as the Steele & Hibbard I. urn 

 ber Company, with a capital of .$210,000, fuuy 

 paid in. The incorporation was dated March 1 : 

 it will make no change in the personnel of the 

 institution. William II. Steele is president, Geo. 

 E. Hibbard, vice president and general manager, 

 and S. M. Borgess, secretary. The Steele & 

 Hibbard Lumber Company carries one of the 

 largest and most complete stocks of hardwood 

 in the St. Louis district and is also interested 

 in various sawmill enterprises in Tennessee and 

 Arkansas 



Hardwood stocks piled in St. Louis, which 

 ordinarily aggregate about 80,000,000 feet, are 

 now reduced to approximately 50,000,000 feet 

 owing to the excess of demand over .the ability 

 of dealers to secure stock and get it moved into 

 local yards. With a resumption of production 

 in Missouri and Arkansas hardwood sections and 

 increased facilities for moving, it is anticipated 

 that local stocks will soon reassume normal pro- 

 portions. As it is, the combined area of hard- 

 wood "lumber presented by St. Louis dealers is 

 much in excess of that held in any other dis- 

 tributing center, and the assortment is still very 

 comprehensive. 



A. .1 Lang «as elected treasurer of the Lum- 

 bermen's Exchange at a recent meeting to suc- 

 ceed J. It. Massengale. resigned. 



Tom Moore of the Moore Company is absent 

 on a trip among the leading lumber producing 

 points of the South. He hopes to secure all the 

 ■necessary stock with which to meet the antici- 

 pated spring demand. 



The Ozark Cooperage & Lumber Company is 

 now located on the fourteenth floor of the new 

 Liggett building, at the corner of Chestnut and 

 Eighth streets. The company has a very hand- 

 some suite, consisting of eight private offices and 

 a large general office. 



Joseph A.- Hafner, manager of the lumber de- 

 partment "of the Hafner Manufacturing Company. 

 recently made a trip to Louisiana mill points, 

 where he placed contracts for 5,000,000 feet of 

 cypress. *- 



Nashville. 



In E. A. Roser of Chicago and Hamilton Love 

 of Nashville the lumber business can boast two 



mighty fishermen and fish tale swappers.. Tie 

 two gentlemen are now at Miami. Fla., winter- 

 ing and fishing and having a good time. They 

 -" out fishing every day, and one day when the 

 catch was especially good they even had the 

 temerity to have their picture "took" with the 

 aforesaid catch. The principal fish was a man- 

 eating shark weighing 509 pounds, and in addi 

 tion there were five king fish, six margots and 

 three groupers. It took eight hours to pull all 

 of this assortment out of the briny deep and 

 tie shark alone fought for two hours before be 

 was finally landed. 



The Rock City Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, is Nashville's newest industry. The com- 

 pany is capitalized at .$50,000 and the incorpo- 

 rators are: J. B. McDonald, I. L. Pendleton, 

 J. T. Christman, J. G. Dean and G. W. Dodson. 

 The company has taken over the former plant of 

 I. N. He Hart & Son. and after improving it ex- 

 tensively will manufacture house furnishing sup 

 plies and cedar chests. 



The Conasauga Lumber Company, organized re- 

 cently by prominent Nashville lumbermen and 

 business men, has applied for an amendment to 

 its charter changing the corporate name to the 

 Sylce Lumber Company. Tbe members of the 

 company are C. II. Benedict, M. F. Greene and 

 C. B. Benedict of the Davidson-Benedict Lumber 

 Company anil Walter Keith and John Byrns, 

 also prominent business men. The company is 

 capitalized at $100,000 and owns 30,000 acres ot 

 fine timber land in Polk county on the Cona- 

 sauga river; poplar and white pine are the pre- 

 vailing varieties and there is also a quantity of 

 oak to be-cut. A large sawmill will be erected. 



II. Orman is engaged in erecting a spoke and 

 hoop 'plant at Gallatin. Tenn. The machinerj 

 formerly used by the Gallatin Spoke Works has 

 I n purchased by Mr. Orman. 



Just now a modest lumberman at Centrevillo, 

 Tenn.. is very much in the public eye. This gen- 

 tleman is Levi Malugen, who has patented tin 

 appliance or engine that It is claimed will develop 

 ten per cent more horse power than the average 

 engine on half the fuel. A model of the inven- 

 tion has been completed for Mr. Malugen by 

 M. S. Jonte of Nashville and he now has the 

 same running at his handle fa'ctory at Centre- 

 ville. Mr. Malugeu's friends claim his engine 

 will revolutionize steam power and at the same 

 time make him a fortune. 



R. Campbell's huh aud spoke factory at Tul- 

 lahoiiKt, Tenn., which was destroyed by fire a 

 few days since, has taken a new lease on life 

 ami will soon be again in operation. New ma- 

 chinery has been ordered and the work of re- 

 ( building the big plant will be pushed. 



W. O. and J. L. Averett s tie and lumber plant 

 wits damaged by fire a few nights since. It is 

 located at the Dowdy river farm near Hnden. 



A new manufacturing plant for Nashville is 

 the Dust-Avoid Manufacturing Company. It will 

 be located in the old John B. Ransom & Co. 

 building in West Nashville. The company will 

 make a sweeping compound of cedar sawdust, 

 oil, etc. This is the only plant of the kind in 

 the South. The capacity at first will be a car 

 a day, but this will be increased later. Joseph 

 Glick will be general manager of the company. 

 He was engaged in such business for several 

 years in the East. The officers of the company 

 a re ; Arthur B. Ransom, president ; John B. Ran- 

 som, vice president; A. E. Baird, secretary and 

 treasurer. "Dust-avoid" is described more par- 

 ticularly as a mixture of cedar pulp and foreign 

 oil. which makes a sawdust-like preparation to 

 he' sprinkled on the floor to be swept. It is of 

 an absorbent nature and has a most pleasing 

 odor. 



A rule has just been adopted by the railroads 

 running into Nashville whereby all shippers are 

 required to pay storage charges of 1 cent per 

 hundred pounds on all freight remaining after 

 forty eight hours. This rule, it is believed, will 

 help the car shortage situation in Nashville to 

 some extent. 



Granville Merritt's sawmill at Huntingdon, 

 Tenn.. has been destroyed by fire. 



Alter a preliminary trial lasting two days, the 

 latter of which was Sunday. W. S. Bryant has 

 been b.utnd over to the circuit court by a justice 

 at CookeviUe, Tenn., in Putnam county, to an- 

 swer the charge of murdering Chalmers Vestal 

 of the Caney Fork Lumber & Tie Company. 

 Bryant claimed that he loaned Vestal his pistol 

 with which to shoot some rats. He said Vestal 

 took the bullets out, then turned the weapon 

 toward his head and fired. Mrs. Vestal rather 

 corroborated him in his evidence. At the trial, 

 however, considerable evidence was introduced to 

 the effect that Bryant aud Mrs. Vestal were on 

 very familiar terms and that neither appeared 

 to show much concern over the death of Vestal. 

 Bryant's bond was fixed at $10,000. 



The slat factory of Journey ..V. McCombs at 

 Nashville has been destroyed by lire. The loss 

 is about $4,000, covered by insurance. 



Sbelton & Co. of Covington, Tenn., last week 

 shipped a big load of oak. gum and cypress to 

 Cairo, III. There was about a quarter of a mil- 

 lion feet in the lot and it netted several thou- 

 sand dollars. 



A special from Johnson City announces that 

 the big hardwood finishing plant belonging to 

 William E. Uptegrove, Frank Ketchnm and 

 C. It. Allen has begun operations. A monster 

 ;;iin horsepower Corliss engine will furnish the 

 power. The plant has a floor space of 23.000 

 feet, une hundred men will be employed. Kin- 

 dred concerns to the above one. in which the 

 same parties are interested, are the Standard 

 Oak Veneer and the Allen Panel Works. 



A special from Jackson announces that C. H. 

 I'eiiell's hoop tat tory at Humboldt has been 

 bought by Charles B. McKee for $8,000. Several 

 thousand dollars will be spent in enlarging and 

 improving the plant. 



A special from Elizabethton announces that 

 a new shuttle plant is to start there at once. 

 It is to be run by N. G. T. Simerly and Dodge 

 Malls. 



Memphis. 



The River and Kail Committee of thc-Lumber- 

 ui ns Club is considering the best plan of pro- 

 cedure in opposing the advance of 2 to 5 cents 

 on hardwood and other lumber from points in 

 tic Southwest to Ohio and Mississippi river 

 crossings ordered by the Si. Louis. Iron Moun- 

 tain & Southern, the Frisco System and the St. 

 Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt), which be- 

 eanie effective .March 1. The committee will 

 co-operate with the St. Louis Lumber Exchange 

 in the opposition, and it is generally understood 

 that tbe matter will be carried before the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission. 



Railroads announcing an advance in grain 

 rates effective April 1 have granted an extension 

 until June 1 in order that grain shippers may be 

 given a fair show, and lumbermen contend that 

 the railroads, even if they can establish the 

 in-tness of the advance, should not put it into 



effect right away. I ause, through inability to 



properly take care of the lumber traffic offered, 

 the- railroads are themselves responsible for the 

 fact that there is so much lumber sold but un- 

 delivered. 



There is much objection to the classification 

 of rough cypress as dressed yellow pine, lumber- 

 men believing that this will work considerable 

 hardship. It is noted that in some instances 

 cypress is advanced 5 cents per hundred pounds. 

 Another feature to which the lumbermen object 

 is the statement of the railroad officials, whose 

 fines have already ordered the advance effective, 

 that the roads east of the river will in a short 

 time follow suit. They say they are justified in 

 advancing rates because of the increased cost of 

 operation and other factors entering into the 

 transportation problem. This attitude on their 

 part has aroused lumber interests to the necessity 

 of both prompt and vigorous action and both the 

 St. Louis Lumber Exchange and the Lumbermen's 

 Club of Memphis have employed able counsel so 



