HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Chattanooga. 



The Ramhurst Lumbor Company, with a 

 planins mill and two sawmill plants at Ram- 

 hurst. Ga., has been in operation about ten 

 days. The concern is operated by S. H. 

 Loomis and F. W. Blair, who was formerly 

 in the lumber business in this city. 



W. M. Fowler of the Case-Fowler Lumber 

 Company of Birmingham. Ala., whose plant 

 has been sold to the McLean Lumber Com- 

 pany, has gone to his home in Indiana and 

 is spending his vacation automobiling. It is 

 reported that he will return to this city and 

 engage in the lumber business again in the 

 tall. 



The Mcljean Lumber Company, which has 

 a plant in this city, has purchased several 

 thousand acres of timber lands in Alabama, 

 south of Birmingham, at a cost of about 

 $50,000. The Williams & Voris Lumber Com- 

 pany of this city sold the McLean people 2.- 

 500 acres of oak timber land in that section 

 recently. 



The Southern Car Manufacturing and Sup- 

 ply Company of Beaumont, Tex., is to remove 

 its plant for the manufacture of engine pumps 

 and other supplies to this city. James A. 

 Wiggs, proprietor of the company, has al- 

 ready purchased a site in South Chattanooga 

 at a cost of $20,000 and will begin the erec- 

 tion of a new plant there at once. A machine 

 shop 100x170 feet will be built and the whole 

 plant will cost about $100,000. 



It is announced that a railroad bridge is to 

 be erected across the Tennessee river, north 

 of Chattanooga, and that a railroad will be 

 built through the coal and timber belt of the 

 Chattanooga Company, Ltd.. and along the 

 base of Walden's ridge to Daisy, Soddy, Retro 

 and probably as far north as Rockwood in 

 order to develop these timber and mineral 

 centers. If the deal goes through — and Col. 

 W. I. Young, the promoter, has announced 

 that it is a certainty — the Grand View Coal 

 and Timber Company, recently chartered with 

 $100,000 capital stock, will develop about 7,500 

 acres of land which that concern has pur- 

 chased on Walden's ridge. 



Capt. A. J. Gahagan, treasurer of the 

 Loomis & Hart Manufacturing Company, is 

 planning a very enjoyable vacation this year — 

 he is to be married in September. The bride. 

 Miss E. C. Telford was, until recently super- 

 intendent of Erlanger hospital, a public in- 

 stitution of this city. They will spend their 

 honeymoon in the East. There is not a busier 

 man in Cliattanooga than Capt. Gahagan nor 

 a more loyal citizen. He is chaiVman of the 

 finance committee of the county court and 

 tiikes a leading part in the deliberations of 

 that body, representing the interests of the 

 I^eople of Chattanooga: he is an enthusiastic 

 member of the Chamber of Commerce, the 

 Chattanooga Manufacturers' Association and 

 an officer in the Chattanooga Furniture Manu- 

 facturers' Association. He is also a director 

 of the armory. 



St. Louis. 



George \V. Stoneman of the Stoneman-Zearing 

 I.imiber Company, Devall Bluff, Ark., was a 

 St. Louis visitor last week. Mr. Stoneman was 

 en route home from a business trip and reported 

 that hardwood trade conditions with him were 

 very satisfactory. 



tleiirge F.. Watson of New OrleaDS, secretary 

 of the Southern Cypress Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion, was recently in the city on business, which 

 he cut as short as possible, telling his many 

 friends that he found the climate of New Or- 

 leans far preferable at this time of year. 



Lloyd G. Harris has gone to Pine Lake, Wis., 

 to stay until September. Mr. Harris was accom- 

 panied by his wife and daughters. 



N. W. McLeod of the Grayson-McLeod Lumber 

 Company Is in Minnesota for a vacation. Fish- 



ing is the occupation to which he expects to 

 devote his time until he fully recovers from the 

 strain of a strenuous season. 



Lewis Doster. secretary of the Hardwood 

 .Manufacturers' Association. ('hica(!o, was calling 

 upon the St, Louis trade the first of the month. 

 The now Lloyd O. Harris Hardwood Lumber 

 I'ompany has bought land in the block between 

 Kosciusko. De Kalb. I>afnyette and Lesperance 

 streets, where it will establish a hardwood yard 

 and office quarters, after sufficiently improving 

 the proijerty. 



Thomas W. Fry of the Charles F. Luehrmann 

 Hardwood Lumber Company recently made a trip 

 to the leiKling hardwood markets of the South. 



Tom .Moore of the Moor? Company has been 

 taking a much-needed vacation in Michigan. 



11. H. Lamping, who has been associated with 

 various lumber companies in this city, has been 

 made manager of the North St. Louis yard of 

 the Moore Company. 



The riummer Lumber Company recently got in 

 l.'JO.OOO feet of ash — that much sought-after com- 

 modity — from southwestern Georgia. 



The Charles E. Thomas Land & Timber Com- 

 pany has been incorporated in Missouri, with a 

 capital stock of $23,000. The stockholders are 

 the same as those of the Belzoni Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company of Mississippi. Since incorporating 

 the company has acquired 9.000 acres of timber 

 land opposite the Belzoni mill, which it is 

 thought will cut about 6,000 feet of oak, gum, 

 cypress and ash to the acre. The Belzoni com- 

 pany will manufacture the timber. Charles E. 

 Thomas is president and treasurer and Edward 

 W. Wiese is vice president and secretary. 



Five or six hundred cabinet makers, millmen 

 and woodworkers employed in St. Louis shops 

 have struck because of employers' refusal to 

 grant them an eight-hour day at 35 cents an 

 hour in place of a nine-hour day at 30 cents. 

 There is a chance that several thousand strikers 

 and sympathizers may go out before the trouble 

 is over. 



The board of directors of the Lumbermen's 

 Exchange held its monthly meeting at the rooms 

 .July 12. with the following in attendance: 

 Franz Waldstein. president ; W. W. Dings, vice 

 president : E. H. Warner, R. F. Krebs. A. J. 

 Lang, W. A. Bonsack. Paul J. Davidson, secre- 

 tary. 



The total appropriations for building for the 

 six months ending with .Tune were ?14, 946,793 

 for 1906, and $12,823,792 for the current year, 

 a decrease of $2,123,001. 



The Little Lumber Company recently bought 

 a tract of hardwood timber containing 3,000,000 

 feet in .Mississippi county. Arkansas, near the 

 company's Blythevllle plant. Cutting will be 

 commenced at once. 



Theodore M. Piummer of the Plummer Lum- 

 ber Company has gone to southern Texas to com- 

 plete arrangements for taking up his residence 

 on his new plantation there the first of the year. 

 Mr. Plummer is very enthusiastic over changing 

 his vocation from that of lumberman to ranch- 

 man. T. W. Powe. vice president of the Plum- 

 mer Lumber Company is absent from St. Louis 

 on a two weeks' vacation trip to the mountains 

 of Virginia and the Jamestown Exposition. 



E. A. Stilks. manager of the American Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company's Meridian, Miss., plant, 

 was in the city last week. The company has 

 filed a claim with the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission for a rebate on shipments east of the 

 Mississippi covering a period of four years. 



E. W. Blumer, sales manager for the Lothman 

 Cypress Company, is away on a selling trip. 



E. W. Wiese of the Thomas & I'roetz Lumber 

 Company is taking a vacation in the East, visit- 

 ing Buffalo. Washington and the exposition. 



K. F. Krebs Lumber Company will soon re- 

 move its headquarters from 1318 Chemical buil(V 

 ing to North St. Louis, where it has leased a 

 piece of land and will put in a new switch and 

 office building, thus establishing another St. 

 Louis grouping and distributing yard. 



Nashville. 

 Secretary Lewis Doster of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association of the United 

 States, formally opened up his headquarters 

 in Nashville on last Saturday. He has located 

 on the tenth floor of the Stahlman building, 

 one of the handsomest sky scrapers In the 

 country, having rooms 1019, 1020 and 1021, and 

 is rapidly getting his affairs in shape to begin 

 business. Secretary Doster has assisting him 

 N. L. Heaton, chief clerk; C. B. Watts, ac- 

 countant : W. L. Jones, in charge of the Bu- 

 reau of Grades, and other clerical help. From 

 this office he will superintend the work of grad- 

 ing and routing his traveling inspectors. Secre- 

 tary Doster has been cordially received in Nash- 

 ville and is delighted with the hospitable wel- 

 come accorded him by the Nashville members 

 of the association as well as lumbermen In gen- 

 eral. 



A serious Are was narrowly averted the other 

 afternoon at the big plant of John B. Ransom 

 & Co. on the tracks of the N. C. & St. L. rail- 

 way in northwest Nashville. Some English 

 sparrows had built a nest in the rafters sup- 

 porting the big water-tank above the planing 

 mill and a spark from a passing engine ignited 

 the straw of the nest, setting fire to the tank. 

 A general alarm was turned in and a great con- 

 flagration was anticipated at first, but the water 

 from the big tank of several thousand gallons 

 capacity, aided by the city hose, put out the 

 flames. The loss was not serious. 



The hardwood flooring business in Nashville 

 Is in a most satisfactory condition at present. 

 The Prewitt Spurr Manufacturing Company has 

 just put in one of the most complete plants of 

 the kind in the country and has been very busy 

 supplying the local market. The Nashville 

 Hardwood Flooring Company Is running full 

 blast, supplying both the local and outside mar- 

 ket. Inquiries are reported as plentiful and 

 prices as very satisfactory. 



T. M. Robinson of Shelbyville, president of 

 the Robinson-McGill Manufacturing Company, 

 manufacturers of carriages, buggies, etc., has 

 sold out the bulk of his holdings and will move 

 to Nashville in the near future to engage in 

 business. 



A bad fire was narrowly averted last week 

 at the plant of the Standard Lumber & Box 

 Company by the timely arrival of the Wood- 

 land street engine company. A lighted cigar 

 ignited a pile of shavings. The blaze was easily 

 extinguished, however, and slight damage re- 

 sulted. 



The Rialto Lumber Company of Tipton 

 county has been granted a charter by Secre- 

 tary of State John W. Morton. The capital 

 stock is $10,000 and the incorporators are W. S. 

 Mayes, W. E. Hall, W. H. Lindsey, J. S. Malone 

 and W. M. Simonton. 



H. C. Horn, a guest at Hartman's hotel in 

 this city, tells a good one on a crowd of saw- 

 mill hands near Rockport, Ky. "When they 

 quit work to go to dinner," says Mr. Horn, 

 "they were a badly surprised lot. A big brown 

 bear was found busily engaged in ripping open 

 the baskets and getting out what he liked. 

 After a hard fight bruin was driven off and the 

 hungry men devoured what few crumbs he had 

 left." 



The loss occasioned by the recent fire at the 

 plant of the White Trunk Company has been 

 adjusted. The full amount of the policies 

 carried was paid~-$40,000. 



A special from Decatur, Ala., states that the 

 Nebraska Cedar Company has located a mill in 

 that city and is putting in tracks and an ele- 

 vator on the river front for handling timber 

 brought in rafts. Most of the timber will be 

 cut into blocks and piling and exported. A large 

 timber contract has been secured for the Pan- 

 ama Canal. Cedar is selling now at $2 per 

 hundred pounds and some of it is being hauled 

 from the mountain distances from seventy-five 

 to 100 miles. 



