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HARD-WOOD RECORD 



ber Company of this city. He recently purchased 

 a big interest in the East Uiver Lumber Com- 

 pany, which owns a large tract of timber in 

 Giles county. Mr. Whaley has charge of the 

 company's mills at Tamrosb. He reports busi- 

 ness in that vicinity active. 



C. li. Smith, .Tr., local representative of R. A. 

 & J. J. William.s o£ rbiladelphia. has just re- 

 turned from Nashville, where he spent a ten days' 

 vacation. He reports the hardwood trade in 

 Tennessee's capital city good, despite the dull- 

 ness of the business over the country generally. 



The Montezuma Lumber Company, which was 

 recently organized in Bristol by George H. Mell 

 of Kane. I'a.. and others, has begun operations 

 in Montezuma, N. ('. For the present the com- 

 pany's cutting will be let to contract. Mr. Meli 

 will handle the entire output. 



Emil Guenther of Philadelphia has become 

 largely interested in lumber operations in John- 

 son and Carter counties, Tennessee, and has rep- 

 resentatives at IJutler. 



"The prospects are very bright," said Paul W. 

 Fleck, head of tlie Paul W. Fleck Lumber Com- 

 pany of Philadelphia, who w'as in the city this 

 week. "The present dullness of the market is, 

 in my opinion, temporary, and I think the next 

 few days will see business pick up and start off 

 with fresh impetus. The prospects in the East 

 in domestic and export hardwood circles ,are 

 very bright." 



.T. R. Williams, a well known wholesale lum- 

 ber dealer of Philadelphia. l*a., liaving otfices in 

 the Land Title building, was a visitor in the lo- 

 cal market th)« week. Mr. Williams is buying 

 considerable hardwood stock in this section. He 

 left for points south and will return via Bristol 

 and spend several days in the city. 



The lialston-Wilson Lumber Company of Par- 

 kersburg. W. Ya., opened offices in the new 

 Phipps building on Fifth street last week. The 

 company has received the t-ontract for supplying 

 all the cross ties used in the cfinstruction of the 

 South & Western railroad from Kingsport, Tenn.. 

 to Dante, Va., a distance of fifty-seven miles. E. 

 E. Wilson, vice president of the company, is in 

 charge of the offices here. "We have three mills 

 running on tlie Clincli river and the present 

 daily output of our own mills is about 700 ties," 

 said Mr. Wilson. "We expect to install other 

 mills and will probably complete our contract 

 with the South & Western in a year. The con- 

 tract will call for about L!00,onii ties. These ties 

 are being made from sound white or chestnut 

 oak, walnut and locust. We will manufacture 

 them ourselves on a large scale and let special 

 contracts." The company expects to remove its 

 general offices to Bristol later and do an ex- 

 tensive lumber manufacturing business in this 

 immediate territory." 



E. L. Edwards of Dayton, O.. and C. II. Vogle 

 of Cincinnati, the latter representing the Wiborg- 

 Hanna Company, were visitors in the' city this 

 week. 



The lumbermen of western North Carolina 

 report a lively time at the Battery Park Hotel. 

 Asheville, N. C, on July 3. at a Hoo-Hoo con 

 catenation and banquet. There was a large class 

 of "kittens" initiated and the banquet, of 

 course, was the feature of the occasion. The 

 menu was attractively printed on poplar veneer 

 with a Hoo-Hoo cat on either side. 



Cincinnati. 



The Cypress Lumber & "Veneer Lumber Com- 

 pany, formed by the consolidation of the Cypress 

 Lumber Company of Cincinnati and TuthiU & 

 Pattison of Sheffield, Ala., began business un- 

 der the new name last week, and judging from 

 the way things are coming, the new corporation 

 will be a good business proposition. Orders are 

 coming in as fast as the company can supply 

 them, and J. E. Tuthill, manager of the com- 

 pany, is highly pleased. 



The United States Lumber Company has se- 

 cured new offices on the Walnut street side of 

 the .Mercantile Liln-ary building, located between 



Fourth and Fifth streets. The removal of the 

 offices gives the company better facilities in 

 every way, and increased business is looked for. 



W. W. Magoon, formerly connected with C. 

 Crane & Co., has left the lumber business and 

 returned to railroading. He is now general 

 manager of the Camden lines in West Virginia, 

 with headquarters at Huntington. 



J. F. Dietz & Co., manufacturers of desks, 

 were visited by a fire recently which caused the 

 death of one employee. The damage sustained 

 by the company was trifling. 



Henry Flesh of Cron, Kills & Co., manufactur- 

 ers of furniture and desks, at Piqua, Ohio, and 

 president of the Piqua bank, was in town dur- 

 ing the bankers' convention, held here during 

 the last three days of June. Mr. Flesh report- 

 ed business in good condition at Piqua. 



Thomas J. Moffett. president of the Maley. 

 Thompson & Moffett Lumber Company, is one of 

 the busiest lumbermen in Cincinnati. On com- 

 mittees his name always leads. His last ap- 

 pointment was as president of the Park 

 League, wliich proposes to beautify Cincinnati 

 at a cost of about .$1.-), 000.000. Mr. Moffett and 

 William .\. Bennett constitute a class by them- 

 selves, and are two of the hardest workers in 

 the lumber organization, always willing to give 

 of their valuable time to help others. 



.Toseph Wehry of the Littleford Lumber Com- 

 pany left recently on a business trip through 

 Indiana. Kentuck.v and Illinois. He will be 

 gctne several weeks, as he has a great deal of 

 business to look after. 



The records of the Chamber of Commerce 

 for receipts and shipments of lumber during 

 the month of June show a big increase over the 

 year previous. The receipts of lumber this year 

 amounted to 8,685 cars, as compared with 7,52'J 

 for the same month last year. Shipments this 

 .\ear were 6,149 cars, while last year they num- 

 bered 6,086. 



William E. Delaney, general manager of the 

 Kentucky Lumber Company, has returned from 

 a three weeks' trip through Mexico, where he 

 was looking after a tract of land owned by the 

 company. Mr. Delaney will submit his conclu- 

 sions to the president of the concern and action 

 will be taken later. 



F. B. Tolson of Soble Brothers of Philadelphia 

 was in town recently in quest of lumber. 



Richard McCracken of the Kentucky Lumber 

 Company has returned from a week's business 

 trip to Nashville, Tenn. Mr. McCracken went 

 to Nashville to attend to several business trans- 

 actions and also to see that the logs which 

 floated awaj' some weeks ago were sent to the 

 mill at Burnside, Ky. 



The chief speaker at the summer dinner of 

 the Lumbermen's Club, which will be held at 

 the Altamont hotel, will be Prof. L. M. Schiel 

 of the Cincinnati public schools. The wives 

 of the members will be among the guests. The 

 club will leave Fountain Square at 4 p. m. in 

 special cars, will witness dress parade at Fort 

 Thomas and will then go to the Altamont 

 hotel. 



William II. Perry, president of the William H. 

 Perry Lumber Company, and assistant super- 

 intendent of the Baldwin Piano Company, died 

 at the residence of his son, Dr. Fi'ank Perry, 

 of Norwood. He had been ill for 'only a few 

 days and the end came as a surprise to all his 

 family. 



Nash'vllle. 

 W. E. Norvell, of the local firm of Norvell & 

 Wallace, has been elected by the county court 

 of this (Davidson) county as trustee, to fill out 

 the unexpired term of the late Major John J. 

 McCann. Mr. Norvell won over the hottest kind 

 of opposition. He will still retain his interest 

 in the lumber firm. The office is worth between 

 .•?! 2,000 and $15,000 a year. Mr. Norvell was 

 for several years a member of the city council 

 and for the past five years has been a member 

 <jf the connt.v court. 



Lewis Doster. the popular secretary of the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, was in 

 Nashville a few days since conferring with Pres- 

 ident John B. Hansom relative to moving his 

 headipiarters to Nashville. Otfices have been 

 secured in the Stahlman building and Secretary 

 Iioster and his force of men will remove 

 here in the next few days. 



"General lumber conditions the country over 

 liave undergone a decided change for the bet- 

 ter. " says Secretary Doster. "There was some 

 apprehension among lumbermen several days ago 

 as to the outlook. The Wall street flurry was 

 followed by a very late spring which retarded 

 building everywhere and decreased the demand 

 for building material. .\t the same time there 

 was a let-up in the car shortage and stocks 

 crowded the market beyond demand. Wall 

 street, as far as it relates to the lumber inter- 

 ests, is now in good shape. Weather conditions 

 have become normal and the renewed activity 

 in building promises to soon recoup the lumber- 

 men for the previous losses they may have sus- 

 tained. Climatic conditions in the South have 

 caused a shortage in the output. There will be 

 a reappearance of the car shortage later in the 

 season. There has been an advance in poplar 

 and hardwoods and all item.s will keep up nor- 

 mal values. I look for a material increase in 

 the price of certain kinds of lumber on account 

 of decreasing supply." 



The Cohn & Goldberg Lumber Company of 

 this city is cotnpleting a . new mill at Elmore, 

 Ala., where the company has acquired large tim- 

 lier interests. A sawmill of large capacity and 

 a big planing mill are about ready for opera- 

 tions. Mr. Goldberg will go to Elmore to take 

 charge there while the main offices at Nashville 

 will still be in charge of Mr. Cohn. 



A reciprocal switching arrangement has been 

 secured by President John B. Ransom of the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, by ap- 

 ])ealing directly to the State Railroad Commis- 

 sioners. The Nashville Terminal Company had 

 delayed matters but the commission straight- 

 ened everything out satisfactorily. The recip- 

 rocal arrangement took effect June 25 and rates 

 have been fixed at .$3 a car. 



.\rthur B. Ransom of the firm of John B. 

 Ransom & Co. has sold his big brick residence on 

 Hayes street and purchased a large lot on West 

 End. On the latter he has erected an elegant 

 stone residence, into which he will move in the 

 near future. 



John B. Ransom a few days ago purchased 

 the famous old Cheatham homestead on the 

 Harding road for ipSo.OOO and will make it his 

 summer home. It has a fine lawn and grove of 

 forest trees, is on a fashionable pike, and Will 

 make an ideal , country residence. 



Judge W. M. Hart of the criminal court has 

 overruled the motions of J. D. Miller and John 

 Dodd asking for new trials and each has been 

 sentenced to three months on the county road 

 and given a fine of $25 in each of three cases 

 charging them with malicious mischief, consist- 

 ing in cutting loose rafts belonging to local 

 lumbermen. 



A special from Cenfreville, Tenn.. announces 

 the sale of the Aetna I<"urnace property of Hick- 

 man county to J. J. Gray. The, prici; was $10,- 

 {K)0 and tlie transfer includes timber rights to 

 some 11,000 acres of land on which is much 

 valuable hardwood. 



A jieculiar strike is recorded from Jackson, 

 Tenn. The pinners went out at the Coleman 

 heading factory because the matchers demanded 

 an increase of 5 cents a day from them. The 

 jtinners. it seems, employ the matchers and pay 

 them at a fixed rate. The management of the 

 plant declined to take any action in the mat- 

 ter. 



Report has reached here of a big sawmill ex- 

 plosion at the mill of II. Vandolah. near 

 Palmersville. Charles Brooks was instantly 

 killed and two other men badly injured. Brooks 

 left five children. 



