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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The lumbermen of this section are enthusias- 

 tic over their exhibit at the Jamestown Ter- 

 centennial Exposition. This exhibit, which Is 

 under the control ot M. N. Offut of the Tug 

 River l>umber Company and H. M. Hosklns of 

 the H. M. Hoskins Lumber Company, is in ad- 

 dition to the regular Virginia lumber exhibit 

 prepared by the Virginia Mineral and Timber 

 Exhibit Association. The lumbermen have re- 

 sponded liberally toward the expenses of the 

 exhibit. 



J. B. Smith of Knoxville has purchased a tract 

 of G,000 acres of timber in Grainger county and 

 will shortly begin the development ot the same 

 on a large scale. 



The Laurel Branch Lumber Company, recently 

 organized at Honaker, Russell county, Va., has 

 purchased a tract ot timber. The company is 

 now installing a mill with a capacity ot 3."i.000 

 feet per day and will build circular mills at 

 Other places on its property in addition to the 

 band mill. The olBcers of the new company are : 

 L. F. ,Iackson, president : C. A. Wallace, secre- 

 tary-treasurer : L. F. Fletcher, general manager. 

 .T. Gutman last week purchased the plant of 

 the Bristol Manufacturing Company, located 

 on the Virginia & Southwestern Hallway, in 

 Soutli Bristol, and will operate same. 



The liabcock Lumber Company, which recently 

 purchased a tract of 4.'!.000 acres ot timber in 

 Monroe county, Tennessee, is making prepara- 

 tions to begin the development of the property. 

 The company will Install at least a dozen mills, 

 it is said. 



W. U. Yates, representing the Rumbarger 

 Lumber Company of Philadelphia, came to the 

 city last week and will spend some time buying 

 in this section. 



W. L. Jeffries of Norfolk last week institut- 

 ed in the Tnited States District Court at Abing- 

 don a suit involving the title to about lUO.OiK) 

 acres of timber land lying in Buchanan and 

 Tazwell counties,' Virginia. There are 0-J3 de- 

 fendants to the suit. The tracts embrace some 

 of the linest timber in the Old Dominion. Jef- 

 fries claims under the late General Pearson ot 

 Boston, and he under General Benjamin But- 

 ler of Revolutionary fame, who, it is contended, 

 held title to the property. 



Cincinnati. 



About 50,000 runaway saw logs, worth more 

 than a quarter million dollars, swept past Cin- 

 cinnati on the flood crest last week. They were 

 carried out of the mountains of West Virginia 

 by the cloudbursts and consequent freshets that 

 swept everything before them in the Kanawha, 

 Big Sandy and Guyandotte rivers. With the 

 logs of walnut, oak, poplar and sycamore floated 

 thousands of railroad ties, and the mass of 

 timber made upstream travel impossible for 

 about six hours. The current in the Ohio is 

 faster than in years, and thousands ot the logs 

 will go on to the gulf. For the first hours ot 

 the run the river swarmed with rowboats and 

 launches, towing the runaways to shore, but 

 work in the swift current was so arduous that 

 river men soon gave it up. C. Crane & Co. 

 were the principal losers. 



B. F. Dulweber, who has been ill at the Good 

 Samaritan liospital for several weeks, has im- 

 proved enough to be removed to his residence 

 in Cumminsviile. He expects to be back at his 

 office in a couple of weeks. 



J. iL I'orter, of Middletown, O., formerly 

 manager of the yellow pine department of 

 Bennett & Witte, but now in business for him- 

 self, was in town recently and called on this 

 concern. During his stay in the Queen City 

 several business transactions were indulged in. 

 His lirra is known as J. H. Porter & Co. and 

 deals in hardwood lumber. He reported that 

 business with him at Middletown is highly satis- 

 factory. 



John J. Metz, who has been at the Memphis 

 branch of Bennett & Witte, has been transferred 



to Cincinnati to assist Manager E. F. Thoman, 

 who has had more business on his hands than 

 he could attend to. Bennett & Witte have been 

 doing an unusually large business and William 

 A. Bennett's being president of the Chamber ot 

 Commerce, which position needs a great deal of 

 his time, has caused thetu to take these steps. 

 William E. Delaney, general manager ot the 

 Kentucky Lumber Company, has gone to Mex- 

 ico, where he will look over the company's large 

 timber field there. The tract contains 1G5,000 

 acres, and the company sent Mr. Delaney there 

 to see what is best to be done with it. It it 

 is ready to be cut it is highly probable that 

 several sawmills will be erected on the site and 

 the timber fitted for market. 



The large boom of logs of the Kentucky Lum- 

 ber Company at its mill at Burnside, Ky., was 

 swept by a freshet a few days ago, and fully 

 5,000 logs set afloat. Most of them were stopped 

 at Nashville, Tenn., and will be recovered by 

 paying the small fee that is due to the one 

 wlio captures them. 



The Maley, Thompson & Moffiett Company has 

 floated several rafts of logs up the mill creek 

 to within twenty yards ot its mill at Eighth 

 and Evans streets. The sudden rise of the Ohio 

 swelled the creek, and the company has bene- 

 fited materially through it. The logs were 

 stacked around the mill and will be sawed as 

 soon as the new sawmill is erected. 



A conference was held at the Business Men's 

 Club last week between Thomas .T. Moffett and 

 E. C. ^A'illiamson. representing the citizens' belt 

 line movement, and Charles Hensel, a New York 

 engineer, and Gioynne Dennis, capitalist, in ref- 

 erence to financing the project. John E. Bieek- 

 man of New York, who really represents the 

 propo.sed financial interests and who was to 

 have been here, could not attend. Engineer 

 Hensel, who has made a cursory examination of 

 the project, is enthusiastic over the plans. Mr. 

 Bliekman will be here later and the matter 

 will again be taken up. 



Chattanooga. 



So many big enterprises are being perfected 

 in this city that lumbermen are kept busy all 

 the time. The fLOOO.OOO Patten Hotel is go- 

 ing up, much of the steel work being already in 

 place, and Chattanooga's first skyscraper, the 

 James office building, which is twelve stories in 

 height, is nearing completion. Ground has been 

 broken for the .^1,000.000 Southern passenger 

 station, the contract having been awarded to 

 Wells Bros, ot New Y'ork City. The Southern 

 railway is spending about $5,000,000 on the 

 Stevenson extension and on the double track 

 s.vstem between this city and Ooltewah, Tenn. 

 The contract for the new building ot the Sa- 

 vannah, .\ugusta & Northern railroad from this 

 city to tidewater has been awarded to W. J. 

 (Hiver & Co. 



An excellent example of the business done by 

 the lumbermen of this city is offered by the 

 J. M. Card Lumber Compan,v, probably the 

 greatest exporters of lumber in this section, 

 who liandled 13,000,000 feet of hardwoods, 

 amounting to three-quarters of a million dollars, 

 in one year. This concern has five sawmills, 

 one located in this city, one at Paint Rock, 

 Ala., two at Tuscaloosa, Ala., and one near 

 that point. 



A deal has been closed whereby the city is 

 to open several streets through the yards of 

 Snodgrass & Fields and thus develop real estate 

 purchased from F. W. Blair. Mr. Blair has sold 

 his sawmill interests here and Is now installing 

 a new mill at Ramhurst, Ga. The Snodgrass & 

 Fields concern was paid ?10,000 for the conces- 

 sions made to the city. This concern recently 

 rebuilt its mill, which was badly damaged by 

 fire. 



The Ramhurst Lumber Company, composed of 

 V. W. Blair, J. F. and S. P. Loomls, H. D. Iluff- 

 aker and Francis Martin, has almost completed 



the installation of a band sawmill and planing 

 mill at Ramhurst, Ga., and also of a circular 

 sawmill near that place. 



Captain A. J. Gahagan, treasurer of the 

 I.oomis & Ilart Manufacturing Company, is tak- 

 ing a great deal of interest in county affairs 

 these days. He is chairman of the County Fi- 

 nance Committee and was one of the men who 

 awarded the contract for building a tunnel for 

 highway purposes through MiJsion Ridge. The 

 contract was awarded to T. J. Shea, a large 

 lumber contractor of New Orleans, who has just 

 completed a contract for the installation ot a 

 big sawmill plant and log pond at Bogalusa, 

 La., to have a capacity of 600,000 feet of lum- 

 ber per day. Mr. Shea's bid for digging the 

 tunnel here was over $122,000. He will use his 

 own long leaf yellow pine in the construction 

 of the tunnel. 



W. J. Willingham ot the Wiilingham & Co. 

 Lumlier Company has returned with his family 

 from i''lorida, where they spent several months. 



Fred Arn of the J. M. Card Lumber Company 

 is out of the city. 



W. M. Fowler of the Fowler Lumber Company 

 of Birmingham was a recent visitor here. 



The King-Baxter Lumber Company was the 

 first In this city to conduct what' it termed a 

 mill-end sale. Several thousand feet ot scraps 

 and odd ends were sold at auction. 



St. Louis. 



The marriage of G. E. W. Luehrmann, presi- 

 dent of the Charles F. Luehrmann Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, and Miss Anna Verburg, both ■ 

 of this city, took place at the residence of the 

 bride's mother on the evening ot June 24. The 

 wedding was very quiet and only the immediate 

 families of the bride and groom were present. 

 Miss Edith Verburg, sister of the bride, was her 

 only attendant, and E. II. Luehrmann acted as 

 his brolher's best man. After the ceremony a 

 supper was served and the couple departed for 

 a honeymoon trip through the North and East. 

 After an absence ot several weeks they will be at 

 home at the Bucklngiiam until Mr. Luehrmann 

 has completed a new house in the West End. 



The International Hardwood Lumber Company 

 has sent out its June calendar cards, which are 

 as attractive as those they have formerly Issued. 

 The company believes in keeping its line before 

 the eyes of its patrons. 



It. F. Krebs of the R. F. Krebs Lumber Com- 

 pany has recently returned from a business trip 

 to .Milwaukee and Chicago. He finds it ea<y to 

 sell every bit ot mill stock upon which he caji 

 la.v hands. 



L. M. Tully, who has recently come to St. 

 Louis, will soon open an office in the Interests 

 of tlie Louisiana Red Cypress Company. He is 

 at present located at the Monmouth Inn. 



Robert H. Jenks of Cleveland has made several 

 trips to this city ot late. He is an officer of 

 the Tremont Lumber Company. 



Harry A. Gorsuch of Kansas City was calling 

 upon the trade here last week. 



The hardwood market shows great stability of 

 values, and there is no indication of weakness 

 along any line at present, nor does there bid fair 

 to be during the rest of the year. I'roduction 

 has been so hampered by bad weather conditions 

 in the South that there Is no possibility of a 

 greatly Increased output before fall. Large buy- 

 ers are becoming pretty well convinced that 

 prices will not diminish materially, and .some 

 have grasped the idea that the fall market may 

 show an even higher range ot values. They are 

 consequently placing orders for delivery ot stock 

 before the anticipated fall car shortage, as far 

 as possible. Red and white oak are selling well, 

 particularly quartered stock, and the poplar mar- 

 ket is particularly strong. 



Nashville. 



It is more than likely that the local lumber- 

 men's association will combine with lumbermen 

 from Memphis In a fight against the recent ad- 



