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again for the resumption of business on some- 

 tliing lilie a normal scale. 



John Dwyer, representative of the Lamb-Fish 

 interests at Memphis, is authority for the state- 

 ment that the mill and wood-working enterprises 

 o£ the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company, at Charles- 

 ton, Miss., were placed in operation a few days 

 ago and that they would be kept running on full 

 time if possible. Mr. Dwyer said that the opera- 

 tions of the firm during the past five months had 

 not exceeded one month. The direct cause of the 

 smaller activity on the part of the Lamb-Fish 

 Lumber Company was due very largely to the 

 unfavorable weather first and to the high water 

 from the Mississippi and its tributaries later. 



There is little sign of presidential year in 

 liusitess conditions here. The hardwood lumber- 

 men are enjoying a better demand than they have 

 experienced for several years, and the yellow pine 

 people say that there is more activity in their 

 line than has been witnessed for some time. The 

 railroads and other large consuming interests 

 are in the market for both hardwood and yellow 

 pine timber, and the situation is such that it is 

 very difficult to secure the stock with which to 

 fill orders already booked or offering. Activity is 

 not confined to lumber alone, but extends also to 

 other lines, and this finds very clear reflection 

 in the bank clearings at Memphis during May. 

 which exceeded the same month last year by 

 more than $2,000,000. 



While no concerted action has so far been 

 taken by the Lumbermen's Club on the subject, 

 it is known that there will be decided opposition 

 to the plank in the Democratic platform calling 

 for free lumber. The Lumbermen's Club of 

 Memphis made a most active fight against the 

 elimination of duties on lumber four years ago 

 when the Payne-Aldrich tariff measure was 

 framed. It is recognized here that there would 

 be much more intense competition from Canada 

 and other border counties if the duties on lum- 

 ber were removed, and it is expected that the 

 Lumbermen's Club of Memphis will take this 

 fsubject up at an early date. A number of other 

 organizations in the South have already ex- 

 pressed themselves very strongly against the re- 

 moval of the duties in question. 



Yates, Brown & Yates is the style of the new 

 partnership which has recently been formed at 

 Paris. Tenn., and which has already purchased- 

 timber to the extent of about 3,000,000 feet. A 

 mill is now being erected near Paris and this 

 will be used to prepare this timber for the 

 market. It is proposed to have the plant in 

 operation between ,Tune 1 and 15. Rough lum- 

 ber will be manufactured, but special attention 

 will be paid to dimension stock, particularly 

 wagon and buggy material and plow beams. 

 Otway Yates will have the business end in 

 charge. 



NASHVILLE 



The Standard Box Company has been formed 

 here with a capital stock of $5,000. The in- 

 corporators are H. Schwartz. Sam Rosenstein and 

 others. , 



A stave mill will be established at White 

 Bluff. Tenn.. by Brown & Jordan, and will work 

 up the oak on a tract of 4.000 acres. 



B. F. Myatt has put a drum saw in his mill 

 at White Bluff and will make tight as well as 

 slack barrel staves from timber recently pur- 

 chased on an 800-acre tract. 



There is much trading each week at the regu- 

 lar meetings of the local Lumbermen's Club. 

 This organization had a good delegation at the 

 meeting in Chicago of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association June 6 and 7. 



The "Acorn Brand" baseball team has been 

 organized by the employes of the Nashville Hard- 

 wood Flooring Company and the team will be 

 formidable contenders for the rag in the Rock 

 City League, an organization of local clubs in 

 this city. 



At Louisville, July 25, Commissioner McChord 

 of the Interstate Commerce Commission will hear 

 the log rate case in which much local interest Is 

 felt. It involves the new rate recently pro- 

 mulgated by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad 

 providing, briefly, for an advance by carriers 

 on logs and bolts into Nashville and other mill- 

 ing points on the lines of that railroad. The 

 proposed new rate provides a change whereby 

 freight on only two pounds of inbound logs 

 might be applied to through rates on one pound 

 of outbound lumber. The matter, it will be re- 

 membered, was taken up by the transportation 

 committee of the Nashville Lumbermen's Club 

 with the result that the order was suspended 

 until a hearing could be had. 



The third annual outing and picnic of the 

 Nashville Builders' Exchange, which will be held 

 at a convenient spring near the city June 20. 

 promises to he the largest entertainment of the 

 kind ever held by this organization. It is prob- 

 able some 500 members, their families and friends 

 will be on hand. There will be a big barbecue 

 and other special attractions. The committee 

 in charge, headed by J. S. Minton, assures ail 

 that there will be something doing well worth 

 while. 



Housinn & Liggclt, formerly operating at Lewis- 

 burg, Tenn., have secured the plant of the for- 

 mer pump factory at Columbia, installing ma- 

 chinery for a pencil slat factory. 



The E'ast St. Louis Walnut Company has lo- 

 cated a branch yard here with W. R. Mott in 

 charge. 



Love. Boyd & Co., one of the largest local 

 concerns, is developing a large hardwood tract 

 with a mill having 15,000 feet daily capacity at 

 Veto, Ala. The tract includes 5.000.000 feet 

 of poplar, oak and chestnut. 



J. P. Gartner has started a new mill near 

 Blountviile and is hauling the lumber from it 

 to the Bristol market. 



BRISTOL 



The J. A. Wilkinson Lumber Company reports 

 business as good. The company's mill here is 

 very busy and its country mills are all running. 

 Its export department is particularly busy at 

 this time. 



Several new mills are being built in this sec- 

 tion and a number of important timber deals have 

 been made, the result of which will be that more 

 mills will be erected this year. Timber prices 

 are extremely high and there is little disposition 

 on the part of the owners of stumpage to put it 

 on the market. Several small mills have been 

 started in Sullivan county during the past spring. 



Among the visitors in Bristol this week were : 

 E. E. Bradley of Bay City. Mich. ; W. S. Whiting 

 of Ashville, N. C. and B. E. Wood of Baltimore, 

 Md. Several buyers for eastern concerns were 

 here and left some nice orders with local con- 

 cerns. 



The Black Mountain Lumber Company will 

 soon have its new mill at Bluff City, south of 

 Bristol, ready for operation. The company is 

 building a logging road from BlufC City into the 

 Holstou mountains, where it has about 7,000 

 acres of timber. 



The band mill of the Peter-McCain Lumber 

 Company, in this city, which has been idle for 

 some time, will resume operation about August 

 1. the company having secured about a two 

 years' cut of timber. The planing mill has been 

 running steadily for several years. 



Godsey Brothers of this city have started a 

 new mill south of Blountviile. 



The roads in this section are in better con- 

 dition than at any time since last year and as a 

 result much lumber and logs are being hauled. 

 Some fine logs are being hauled to Bristol and 

 cut at local band mills, while others are being 

 shipped to Abingdon, Va. 



The mill work plants in Bristol and this sec- 

 tion are all very busy and some are working 

 overtime. Increased activity in building opera- 

 tions has resulted in the increasing of their trade 

 materially within the past few weeks. 



LOVISVILLB 



The Kentucky-Indiana Hardwood Company is 

 about ready to begin operations at Twenty-sixth 

 and High streets, having leased a site and an- 

 nounced that the business will be in charge of 

 Herbert Bauman, 



Thomas F. Wells, formerly of the TJnited 

 States Forest Service and for the past year 

 located at the Belize, British Honduras, logging 

 camp of C. C. Mengel & Brother Company, died 

 there suddenly. He was twenty-nine years old 

 and a member of a well-known Louisville family. 



The W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company 

 has added seven acres to its yards and is put- 

 ting into service a yard at Brook and Shipp 

 streets which it acquired some time ago, but 

 which has not been made use of until now. 



Fire on June 1 destroyed the handle factory 

 of Tinsley & Quiggins of Kuttawa, Ky., entail- 

 ing a loss of $4,000. 



ST. LOUIS 



Building operations for May, as Indicated by the 

 permits issued, were almost equal to that of the 

 same month last year, being a decline of only 

 about one-half per cent. During the month 751 

 permits were issued for buildings and altera- 

 tions, the aggregate cost of which was $1,983,- 

 853. In May last year 781 permits were issued, 

 for which the aggregate cost was $1,994,914. 



The inspection and measurement of lumber by 

 the Lumbermen's Exchange of St. Louis, during 

 the month of May, as reported by Secretary 



McBlair, was as follows : 



Feet. 



Oak— plain white '^",755 



Oak — plain red ■'■*Z'i?i 



oak — quartered white '§ n 



Oak — Quartered red „ 830 



Ash 3,219 



Yellow pine 21,'720 



Hickory ^l'*!^ 



Beech f^ 



Cypress ^S'Sro 



Plni o,7uo 



Poplar'::::.: 25.949 



Cottonwood i-,s_i 



Total -411,125 



permits issued, were almost equal to that of the 

 Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company recently 

 threatened the large acreage of surrounding lum- 

 ber, containing millions of feet of valuable prop- 

 erty. The fire was confined, however, to 'four 

 piles of lumber valued at $600. 



A delegation of some twenty St. Louis lumber- 

 men attended the convention of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, held in Chicago 

 June 6 and 7. The party included : C. M. Jen- 

 nings, L. E. Cornelius, W. W. Dings. Mr. and 

 Mrs. J. L. Scheve, J. R. Massengale. C. F. 

 Liebke, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Powe. F. H. 

 Smith, George E. Hibbard. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. 

 E. Thomas. Franz Waldstein, Thomas E. Young- 

 blood. W. E. Barns and George McBlair. 



There is quite an active call for poplar, gum 

 and cypress reported by Thos. E. Powe of the 

 Thos. E. Powe Lumber Company and prices show 

 a decided improvement. 



C. M. Jennings of the Berthold & Jennings 

 Lumber Company, reports that car stock is being 

 called tor freely. Railroads are buying largely, 

 and this class of stock is very scarce. 



MILWAUKEE 



The I. Stephenson Company of Wells, Mich., 

 has pas.sed into the hands of a board of trustees, 

 who will carry on the business. Senator Isaac 

 Stephenson, Marinette. Wis., and H. A. J. 

 lUpham, Milwaukee, Wis., are among those named 

 as trustees. W. E. Black, Fanny Wells Norris 



