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Jamestown this year. The exhibit of the lum- 

 bermen of this section will be separate from the 

 exhibits of the counties and nearly 1,000 square 

 feet in one of the buildings erected bj the Vir 

 ginia Mineral & Timber Exhibit Association has 

 been allotted for the ixhiliit. 



J. A. Wilkinson will have his new band mill. 

 which is being erected at his big lumber plain 

 in Si. nib Bristol, ready in put in operation in a 

 few weeks. It will have a daily capacity "I 

 .-,11.111111 feet. 



The Came-Wyman Lumber Company of this 

 city contemplates the construction of a hand 

 mill on iis timber lauds near Bluff City, on the 

 Virginia ..v Southwestern, twelve utiles from 

 Bristol, this spring or summer. 



[rving Whaley id the Tug UiviT Lumber Cum 

 pany and Dr. Lindsay Bunting have returned 

 from a trip to Bermuda, Porto Rico, Cuba and 

 other islands in the West Indies, and report a 

 delightful trip. 



John T. Dixon .,1 1 he John '1'. Dixon Lumber 

 Company of Klizahethton, ami Dixon & Dewey, 

 Flatiron building, New York, was in the city 

 last week en route home from a trip to the 

 Bast. The linn of Dixon & Dewey is being >lis- 

 solved by mutual consent and a receiver has 

 been appointed lor the dissolution proceedings. 

 Mr. Dewey, ii is understood, will be associated 



with a his fir 1 :ern, having had considerable 



experience in this business. 



Through their traveling representatives, R, 

 M. Smith & Co. of Parkersburg, W. \"a .. are 

 buying considerable hardwood stock in this sec- 

 tion; 



The Swannanoa Corporation has been organ- 

 ized with headquarters in Bristol by George 1.. 

 Carter, president of the South & Western rail- 

 way, and others to deal in Virginia and Ken- 

 tucky timber lauds. 



George II. Mell of Kane. Pa., was a recent 

 visitor in Bristol and spent several days looking 



after his mill interests in eastern Tei ssec 



and western .North Carolina. 



Cincinnati. 



Fire, originating in dimension mill No. I al 

 the Maley, Thompson & Moffett Lumber Com- 

 pany's operation at Eighth and Evans streets, 

 on April :'., destroyed thai plain and entailed a 

 loss estimated at from $75,000 to Moo. 000. 

 which is partly covered bj insurance. A consid- 

 erable hiss in logs and lumber is reported by the 

 company; also of machinery. The rough timber 



was chiefly mahogany, cedar and rosew I 



Thomas .1. Moffett, president "f the qoncern, was 

 mi the scene shortly after the alarm was sound- 

 ed, lie directed the removal of the office furni- 

 ture to a room at 1934 West Eighth street, 

 where the company will conduct business for a 

 time. .Mr. Moffett says: "We shall depend ou 

 our mill at Delhi to (ill orders for the present, 

 and much of the lumber which has nut beeu 

 touched by the tire will also he used. Should 

 we experience an unusual demand we shall call 

 ou our mill at Rockport, Ky.. to assisi. We 

 also operate a Large lumber yard at New fork 

 and carloads of dressed lumber will he shipped 

 here for local use. About 125 men will be 

 thrown out of work because of the lire, but we 

 shall rebuild as soon as we can adjust things 

 wilh the insurance companies. Our new plant 

 will occupy about twice the area of the old one 

 and will he built on modern lines. We expect 

 to have it in operation about June 1." 



The Mueller Lumber Company of Maria Stein. 

 Ohio, was granted incorporation papers with a 

 capital stock of $6,000. The incorporators are 

 Peter Kuntz, Joseph J. Moeller, G. II. Moeller, 

 Louis Moeller and Anthony Schuerman. 



The Receivers' & Shippers' Association of Cin- 

 cinnati, according to President Robert II. West, 

 will go before the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission at Washington in a short time to win 

 better freight rates to the South, for which it 

 has been lighting for years. "We will get to 

 work at once preparing papers and will apply 



in the commission for a hearing within thirty 



days." says President West "The facts of 



long campaign in brief are these Over a quar- 

 ter of a century ago the railroads fixed tin- rates 

 in tin- South, and they are practically tin- same 

 now. These rates give eastern manufacturers 

 a tremendous advantage over those of Cincin- 

 nati, Chicago, si. Louis and this territory, in 

 1894 1 he Cincinnati shippers appealed in the 

 Interstate 1 ommerce Commission to remedy iliis 

 condition, 'the commission decided in our favor 

 and ordered that Cincinnati lie given certain 

 lowered rates. The railroads refused i,> obey 

 the order hi' the c niissi.,11 and took the ques- 

 tion in 1 he Supreme Court. That court held the 

 eiimniissii.il had no legal authority to lix or cor 

 rect rales. Then for years we campaigned 1" 



secure legal authority for the i imission. Last 



year we succeeded in this when the Hepburn 

 law was passed. 11 gave ihe commission power 

 in change unreasonable rates i" reasonable ones. 

 A few in. ,nihs ago we asked i he Southern rail 

 road al a conference lo grant us belter rales. 



practically the same as the commission had 

 ordered years ago. We Informed them we did 



not insist i,n lower rales We merely asked for 

 rates that would he fair in comparison with 

 llu.se in Ihe East. If they desired lii advance 

 ihe eastern rales. Instead of Lowering ours, the 

 effect would he the same Cincinnati shippers 

 would he then on a fair basis in competing with 

 ihe East for business in the Smith." 



The Pierce Brothers' Furniture Company of 

 Lorain. Ohio, lias been incorporated wilh a 

 capital stock of $30,000 by A. .1. Pierce, E. I'.. 

 Pierce and John W. Pierce 



The Cincinnati Lumbermen's club held its 

 monthly meeting at ihe Business Men's Club 

 recently and received the report of Ihe Inspec- 

 tion Committee, which lias worked out a plan for 

 the revision of the iiispecti.ui rules for hard- 

 woods. 11 is planned in submit a revised set of 

 rules at the convention of the .National Hard 

 wood Lumber Association at Atlantic City. X. .1.. 

 .May •-'." and ".4. 



The Brooks Lumber Company of Pataskala, 

 Ohio, with a capital 1,1' $25,000, was incorpo- 

 rated by Henry Brooks, .1. 11. Brooks, Allien E. 

 Frankenberg, Emit A. Frankenberg and II. II. 

 Laird. 



A. I'eiiiun. representing the Cincinnati Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company and the Ohio Veneer 

 Company, has returned from a successful trip 

 East and reports a brisk demand for lumber in 

 I hat territory. 



The Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Company 

 will dose a deal involving the purchase of a 

 targe trad of fand in the northern part of Ten- 

 nessee wit bin a few days. Ihe tract contains 

 about I. son acres and ihe company will estab- 

 lish three large mills mi the property to cut 

 the timber tor the market. The land contains 

 targe quantities of high-class oak and poplar. 

 Lied Bosken, a member of ihe firm, will visit 

 Hie land to make arrangements for the erection 

 of the sawmills. 



William E. Delaney, general manager of the 

 Kentucky Lumber Company, has gone south on 

 a business trip. He will be away from the local 



offices for some daj s. 



The receipts of lumber at this market have 

 improved over those of ihe month of February, 

 ii.siit cars being received and 5,133 ears shipped. 

 as compared with the same month last year of 



0,545 receive. I ;inil 5,183 shipped. The car 



shortage siill has a serious effect on the market. 

 Without any relief promised until, perhaps, the 

 belt line is built around Cincinnati. 



Chattanooga. 



Tlie ear shortage is a little easier in Chatta- 

 nooga and it is the opinion of most lumbermen 

 that the railroads arc using every effort to re- 

 lieve the situation, The greatest trouble seems 

 i., be to get oils and iioi in ihe congestion of 

 empty cars. As a general rule cars are moved 

 promptly after they are unloaded. It is be- 



lieved ibai the rale law is largely responsible 

 for ibis situation. The Situation is worse mi 

 ihe Southern system than any other. The sit 

 nation lias been relieved a great deal on the 

 Alabama Great Southern road by the purchase 

 of a large number of cars. 



Business is - I and Lumbermen have no com 



plaint to make in this resped. Mills are .ill 

 busy. 



Ihe llambui'si I. umber Company, recently in 



corporated with $25,000 capital slock, i.. locate 

 a lumber plain at Ramhurst, Ga., will organize 

 in a lew days. '1 lie company lias purchased 

 machinery from ihe J. a. Fay & Egan Company 

 of Cincinnati, which will be shipped at once. 

 A she of several acres has been purchased and 

 a siding will be located in a few days. 



The Mci.ean Lumber Company is building ;i 

 large dry kiln to its plain on Ihe Tennessee 

 river, which will have a capacity of 75,000 feel 



The Acme Box Company has recently pur 

 chased a tract of land near ils plant for Ihe 

 sum of $3,500. This gives Ihe company a solid 

 block and it will make extensive improvements 

 al once, line of ihe largesl lumber yards in Hie 

 South will ue established. Trams and ways will 

 I reeled all over the yards. 



There was never a belter demand for high 

 made poplar than now. Within Hie last two 

 months lumber has advanced at least $1, but 

 ihe demand increases in proportion, High grade 

 oak lumber comes wilh a close second in demand 

 and chestnut a third. The export business is 



good, i.ui lumber n here are preparing to ship 



in Pensacola, Savannah. Mobile and others ports 

 because of ihe fail thai Ihe New llrleans roads 

 have reduced the "free time" one-half. It is 

 the opinion of the shippers here that this scheme 

 will injure ihe New Orleans port very materially. 



Great Britain is waking up to ihe fact thai 

 ihe advance is coming and consumers in thai 

 country are placing large orders, for poplar espe 



dally. 



M. .1. Voris. treasurer of Hie Williams-Voris 

 Lumber Company, was a recent visitor in the 

 city. His home is in Franklin, Ind. 



Information has been received by I'. F. Fit k- 

 gibbons of the McLean Lumber Company that 

 Angus McLean, president of the concern, is Im- 

 proving in health. He has recently been very 

 ill al his home in Huffalo. 



St. Louis. 



The Teckemeyer & Wehlnger Lumber Com- 

 pany lost $1,500 Worth of slock by lire in ils 

 yards on March 1!4. 



Edward II. Luehrmann, vice president of the 

 Charles F. I.iiebrmann Hardwood Lumber Com 

 pany. reports business excellent and orders com- 

 ing in al a lively rale. 'Ihe demand is- almost 

 equally active lor all kinds of hardwoods and 

 pries are generally firm. -Mr. Luehrmann 

 stales that some of the company's mills in the 

 southern producing districts are tied up on ac- 

 count of recent n is. ami should bad weather 



tinne there will be little logging done. The 



company has already been set back Ibr • 



lour months on account ..f unfavorable weather. 



Henry I'.oardman. George T. Meyer and John 

 i'. Vaughan are Interested in the National Ve- 

 neer Package Company, whicl nth filed 



articles of incorporation with a capital stock 

 of $250,000. The company win manufacture 



and handle veneer, boxes, barrels ami other 

 packages. 



Wiih a well assorted stock of all lines of 

 hardwoods ihe Steele .v. Hlbbard Lumber Com 

 pany is in position in tin orders with greater 

 promptness than is usual at the present time. 

 L. M. I'.urgess. secretary of ihe company, re- 

 ports business active and prices stiff. 



Theodore Plum r of the l'l ner Lumber 



Company reports the hardwood situation gen- 

 erally satisfactory. Orders are booked with a 



lair degr f frequency and at good prices. 



A rather dark picture of logging conditions 

 in .he South is drawn by F c. Moore, presi 



