HARDWOOD RECORD 



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boundaries of timber land will be opened and 

 transportation of lumber and logs to railroad 

 points made possible. 



Bristol, Va.-Tenn. 

 The Smoky Mountain Land and Lumber 

 Company of Monroe cou!ity. Tennessee, last 

 week sold to the Babcook Limiber Company 

 of the same county a tract of approximately 

 43.000 acres of timber land, lying in the east- 

 ern part of Monroe county. The considera- 

 tion is said to liave exceeded $300,000. The 

 land is said to be well wooded and easily 

 accessible. It is understood that the pur- 

 -chasers will develop the property as soon as 

 ]iossible. 



Irving Whaley. vicegerent of the Concate- 

 nated Order of Hoo-Hop for east Tennessee 

 snd well known in local lumber circles, has 

 resigned his position with the Tug River 

 Lumber Company in this city, and gone to 

 CJiles county. Virginia, where he has pur- 

 chased an interest in the East River Lumber 

 Company and will have charge of the com- 

 pany's mills at Tamiosh. 



F. G. GrifBn. European representative of 

 J. A. Wilkinson of this city, was a visitor in 

 Bristol last week as the guest of Mr. Wil- 

 liinson. Mr. Griffin has been with Mr. Wil- 

 kinson, with headquarters at London, for the 

 past three j'ears. He has gone to Mobile, 

 -\la., and other southern points to look after 

 lumber interests. 



H. M. Hoskins of the H. M. Hoskins Lum- 

 "Ijer Company, has become interested with C. 

 M. Ryburn. also of this city, in the Little 

 Creek Lumber Company, in Pulaski county, 

 Virginia. This compan.v, of which Mr. Hos- 

 ]\ins i.-i vice president, has leased eight miles 

 ■of railroad in Pulaski county, leading to a 

 ;0.000-acre tract of timber land which it owns 

 and is preparing for extensive development. 

 The company will install a big band mill at 

 i^nce. 



The H. M. Hoskins Lumber Company is en- 

 gaged in initting in circular mills on its tim- 

 ber property eight miles north of Bristol. 



Among the visitors on the local market last 

 week were James Faulkner. Faulkner Lumber 

 Company, Damascus, Va.; R. G. Rogers. Ten- 

 nessee Lumber and Manufacturing Company, 

 Sutherland, Tenn.; T. H. Carrier, Adventure 

 lyumber Company. Butler, Tenn.; Paul W. 

 Fleck. Paul W. Fleck Lumber Company. 

 Philadelphia: J. H. Smith. J. J. and A. H. 

 Jones. Philadelphia, and C, T. Aust. New 

 Vork. 



The Tug River Lumber Company of this 

 <ity is erecting a big hand mill at Horton's 

 Summitt. Scott county. Virginia, and has 

 purchased an additiOTial 3.00U-acre tract of 

 larul in that county. 



O. C. Armitage and others of Greeneville, 

 Tenn.. are preparing to erect a big furniture 

 manufacturing plant at that place. 



J. W. Stiles of the Kingsport Lumber Com- 

 pany was here from Johnson City last week. 

 Mr. Stiles' company is operating a band mill 

 and a circular mill at Caretta. McDowell 

 county. West Virginia, and is receiving about 

 a million and a half feet of lumber per motnh 

 from this operation. 



J. H. Bryan of the Bryan Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from a business trip to 

 North and South Carolina. He visited his 

 company's mills in these states while away. 

 L. C. Capps. formerly with the J. Walter 

 Wright Lumber Company of Mountain City, 

 Tenn,, has come to Bristol to enter the busi- 

 ness with a local concern. 



George E. Davis & Co. of this city has 

 purchased a tract of timber land in Virginia 

 and is getting ready for extensive operation. 

 The plant of the Empire Chair Company 

 at Elizabethton. Tenn.. was destro.ved by fire 

 May I'll, entailing a loss of $75,000 and throw- 

 ing lL'5 men out of employment. The plant 



was insured for $i'5,000. It is understood that 

 it will be reouilt, though General Manager 

 E. M. Carrier is absent from Elizabethton. 

 It was erected two years ago. 



Cincinnati. 



The Wiborg & Hanna Company of North 

 Fairmouth has donated to the Improvement 

 Association of that suburb a considerable 

 amount of lumber to be used in protecting 

 the ti-ees just planted. There were 550 of 

 them and a large quantity of lumber will be 

 needed to make the necessary protection. 

 The Improvement Association is working un- 

 tiringly to push the viaduct at Hopple street. 

 When this is completed it will be a great 

 convenience for the suburb and will also serve 

 well the big lumber industry located there. 



"It seems that prosperity was never so 

 universal as at the present time," said 

 Thomas J. Moftett, the re-elected president 

 Of the Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club, "The 

 demand for lumber throughout the United 

 States is unusually heavy, and England, 

 France, Germany, Australia, South America 

 and other countries are also enjoying an ex- 

 traordinary business, which may be taken to 

 indicate that general trade conditions are 

 splendid. And the prospect is for a con- 

 tinuance of the prosperous situation. The 

 demand has been so heavy that stocks are 

 very low and, although a vast amount of lum- 

 ber is being produced, it is taken up so rap- 

 idly that there is no opportunity to accumu- 

 late stocks. Prices have an upward tendency. 

 Conditions in the East are fine, and the South 

 and West likewise are busy, absorbing rapid- 

 ly the lumber that is produced. Cincinnati is 

 the biggest hardwood lumber center in the 

 world and naturally gets her share of the 

 large business that is now being transacted." 

 James Albert Green recently spoke before 

 the Carriage Makers' Club on Panama, and 

 was complimented by the various local pa- 

 pers for his efforts, both in a literary way 

 and in his illustrations. The annual outing 

 of the club will be held June 15, and will 

 consist of a steamboat ride to New Richmond, 

 luncheon to be served on board. 



The Bell Belting and Supply Company of 

 Cincinnati, was incorporated lately with a 

 capital stock of $25,000 by Oliver G. Bailey, 

 James G, Fenwick. Michael Roehrer, Thomas 

 J. Bell and Abner Thorp, Jr. 



John McGrath of the Eberhard CaiTiage 

 and Buggy Supply Company, who has been 

 located in this territory for many years, has 

 been transferred to Cleveland, where he and 

 his family will make their future home. 



At the meeting of the Furniture Exchange, 

 held last week. Colonel Henry LTcthman pre- 

 sided, owing to the indisposition of President 

 William J. Sextro, who is mourning the loss 

 of his father, the late Joseph G. Sextro. 

 pioneer fui-niture manufacturer and promoter 

 of the first furniture exposition ever held in 

 America. Eulogies on the life of the late 

 member. Joseph G. Sextro, were pronounced 

 by many of his associates. The committee 

 on outing reported that Highland Grove had 

 been secured for Saturday. June S. The regu- 

 lar baseball game between manufacturers and 

 supply men will be held in the morning, and 

 in the afternoon the dealers and manufac- 

 turers will meet. Bowling prizes will also be 

 off€ red. 



The Jacoby Lumber Company of Dayton, 

 O.. is the name of a new company incorpo- 

 rated with a capital stock of $50,000. The 

 incorporators are Peter Kuntz. Peter Kuntz, 

 Jr., John A. Payne, Dennis Dwyer, Hugh E. 

 Wall and John Kuntz. 



B. F. Dulweber of John Dulweber & Co. is 

 much improved after having undergone a sur- 

 gical opei-ation. Mr. Dulweber has suffered 

 from stomach trouble for some time and it is 



hoped he will now be entirely tree from this 



annoyance. 



George Littleford of the Littleford Lumber 

 Company is rapidly recuperating from an at- 

 tack of typhoid fever. He is still confined to 

 his home, but expects to be out again within 

 a few days. 



William E. Delaney, general manager of 

 the Kentucky Lumber Company, has re- 

 turned from a successful business trip in the 

 South. He stayed in Cincinnati only a few 

 days and then left for Burnside, Ky., where 

 the company runs a large sawmill. He ex- 

 pects to return to the Queen City in a week. 



George Ehemann of Bennett & Witte will 

 be married next month to Miss Lillie E. Mor- 

 ris of Memphis, Tenn. Mr. Ehemann has 

 charge of the Memphis office of the company, 

 and is very popular in the trade. 



St. Louis. 



The Moore Company has moved its offices 

 to suite 1717 in the new Lumbermen's Build- 

 ing. 



The regular monthly meeting of the Board 

 of Directors of the St. Louis Lumber Ex- 

 change was held on May 10. Only routine 

 business was transacted. 



Among recent visitors to this market were 

 the Hon. Gifford Pinchot, United States For- 

 ester, and R. S. Kellogg, also of the Forest 

 Ser\-ice. 



Clarence Boyle of the Heath-Witbeck Com- 

 pany, Chicago, is making a trip to the com- 

 pany's mills in Arkansas, and stopped off in 

 this city for a short time. 



J. C. Magness, of J. L. Phillips & Co., 

 Thomasville, Ga., was a recent St, Louis vis- 

 itor. Mr. Magness' concern is a great factor 

 in the car and railroad equipment business, 

 and handles the cut of a number of saw mills 

 in all parts of the country, representing an 

 output of about 10.000,000 feet per month. 



A number of prominent lumber and ma- 

 chinery men have been in St. Louis within 

 the past two weeks; among them R. M. Mer- 

 rill and H. G. Buckner, in charge of Missis- 

 sippi and Alabama interests of the Interna- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Company of this 

 city; Samuel Disston of Henry Disston's Sons, 

 Philadelphia; J. W. Thompson of the J. W. 

 Thompson Lumber Company, Memphis; A. R. 

 Vinnedge of the A. R. Vinnedge Lumber Com- 

 pany, Chicago. 



Building operations for April compare un- 

 favorably with those of the same month last 

 year, possibly owing to the fact that the lat- 

 ter was the banner month in number of per- 

 mits issued in the history of this city. The 

 totals for the two were $4,459,715 and $2,- 

 560,447. 



The Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company 

 has secured the services of G. M. Bailey, who 

 resigned his position as inspector with the 

 St. Louis Lumber Exchange. 



The Chas. F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company is making more or less of a spe- 

 cialty of red gum, which they are pushing to 

 the front as much as possible; their yards are 

 well stocked, and they report that they are in 

 a position to take care of a good trade. 



Nashville. 



The Board of Trade and the lumber inter- 

 ests of Nashville are much pleased with the 

 success of the special committee which went 

 to Cincinnati and secured for this city the 

 headquarters of the Hardwood Manufacturers* 

 Association of the United States. It was 

 jiointed out that Nashville is the natural and 

 actual center of hardwood activity. While 

 other hardwood sections has been cut out, the 

 territory tributary to Nashville is Just being 

 developed, especially North Alabama, North 

 Georgia, etc. 



Lewis Doster. the genial secretary of the 

 association, will come to Nash\ille the early 



