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and tlie liuUiSJick Luniboi- t'ompany. His assort- 

 ment of lumber is coming very fast and lie ex- 

 pects to 1)P in shape to take care of the fall trade 

 satisfaetorily. 



F. W. Hhimer. sah's manager for the Lothman 

 ('ypress Company, is south on a tour of the com- 

 pany's operations tliere. \Vm. I.othrnan hopes to 

 spend his vacation in Yellowstone Tark. 



George Cottrill of the American Hardwood 

 Lumber Company is making a selling trip 

 through Ohio. 



George Hibbard of Steele & Hibbard Lumber 

 Company will spend some time in fishing at Lake 

 IMinnetonka. Minn., in the near future. 



Tlie Ilimmelberger-IIarrison Lumber Company, 

 the foremost red gum manufacturing concern in 

 the country, has just completed a fine office 

 structure at Cape Girardeau, Mo. It is five 

 stories high and of reinforced concrete and has 

 accommodations for a bank and a large number 

 of offices. These lumbermen say that this type 

 of construction calls for the use of more lumber 

 than other forms of modern building and there- 

 fore feel that it is no enemy to their business. 



Nashville. 



Several of Nashville's young lumbermen have 

 landed a piece of propert.v which they claim will 

 make a million dollars tor them in time. One 

 of the largest owners in the Nasliville Hardwood 

 l-'looring Company is Richard Wilson, who mar- 

 ried a daughter of .John B. Ransom, the hard- 

 wood king of this section. Young Wilson has 

 just closed a deal whereby he and his brother 

 Morris, and their father. Captain B. F. Wilson, 

 acquire a tract of timber and mineral lands 

 near Fetros, Tenn., aggregating some 5,000 

 acres. Although near a railroad leading to the 

 state mines, the tract is covered with a virgin 

 srowth of giant hardwood timber. The purchase 

 price was .flOCUOO. Two big sawmills will be 

 erected at once. After the timber has been cut 

 it is the intention of the owners to develop the 

 rich coal and mineral veins on the land. Sam 

 Kansom and Charlie Kyle will superintend the 

 cutting, sawing and getting out the timber. A 

 stock company has been formed to develop the 

 land, with a capital stock of $250,000. 



Secretary Lewis Doster of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association has returned from 

 a business trip to Chicago and other points 

 North and East. Here's tlie way he says he 

 found conditions : "The larger shippers are not 

 in the market just now. but the man that is 

 there is the small dealer who needs the pro- 

 ceeds of his stocks. I notice confidence every- 

 where In the outlook for fail trade. The action 

 of the southern mills in shutting down and 

 ceasing to cut more pine at ijresent has met 

 with favor in the pine sections of the North. 

 I found the heads of all the leading houses off 

 on their vacations." 



"Shall we trade with wholesalers w'ho sell 

 to consumers?" This will cause a lively dis- 

 cussion before the Retail Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation of Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia at 

 the meeting to be held ne.xt week at Atlanta. 

 Delegations from Nashville. Birmingham, Chat- 

 tanooga. ICnoxville, Decatur, LaGrange and 

 other important lumber points will be present. 



Nashville and Memphis lumbermen are to 

 meet on tlie diamond in the near future. The 

 Nashville boys issued the challenge to the Bluff 

 City fellows and the latter straightway accepted. 

 Saturday, Sept. 21, at Memphis, has been de- 

 cided upon as the time and place for the first 

 game : the second will be played in Nashville. 

 .John B. Ransom will umpire for Nashville and 

 W. H. Ruse of Memphis for that bunch. J. W. 

 Thompson has been elected captain of the 

 Memphis team. 



John W. Love of Love, Royd & Co. is spend- 

 ing his annual vacation at his summer hotel 

 at Markland, Nova Scotia. He will return about 

 Sept. 1. 



W. B. Davidson of the Davidson-Benedict 

 Company is back from a three weeks' ti-ip to 



Denver, where he visited his oldest son. His 

 wife and a younger son accompanied him and 

 a most pleasant time was had. Mr. Davidson is 

 sanguine over the outlook tor fall business. 



W. J. Cude of the Cude Land and Lumber 

 Company is back from a visit to his Tennessee 

 mills. He reports gathering up considerable 

 stock for fall business and says he will be in 

 shape to handle all that comes his way. 



J. W. Bishop, manager of the Columbia mill 

 and yards for Harris Cole Brothers of Cedar 

 Rapids, la., has been a recent visitor to Nash- 

 ville. He reports that his company expects to 

 erect a large mill in the near future at SuUi- 

 gent, Ala., with a capacity of 40,000 feet a 

 day. 



A special from Kentucky announces that the 

 Clearfield Lumber Company of Clearfield, Pa., 

 has bought some 30,000 acres of valuable coal 

 and timber lands in Morgan county. The price 

 paid was $300,000. 



The Lucas Land and Lumber Company has 

 succeeded the firm of I^ucas & Co. at Waverly. 

 Tenn. The company has acquired valuable tim- 

 ber lands and will erect several sawmills in the 

 near future. 



John E. Isbell, the expert yard man of the 

 firm of Love, Boyd & Co., has announced him- 

 self as a candidate for the city council from 

 the 17th ward. He is running to fill the 

 vacancy caused by the recent resignation of 

 John H. Baskette of the Prewitt. Spurr Manu- 

 facturing Company. Mr. Baskette has since 

 removed to Helena, Ark., where he is conduct- 

 ing a large woodenware factory. Mr. Baskette 

 was a recent visitor to the city and reports a 

 fine business in his new home. He says Helena 

 is rapidly becoming one of the distinctive lum- 

 ber centers of the Mississippi valley. 



Fred Dullng, an old Nashville boy, now with 

 the Graham I.umber Company of Cincinnati, was 

 a visitor in the city the past week, visiting rela- 

 tives. Fred has learned the lumber business 

 from the woods to the factory and is highly 

 esteemed by his firm. 



Harry Roy of the Louisiana Red Cypress Com- 

 pany of New Orleans, with headquarters at 

 Louisville, was in Nashville during the past 

 week. He made a round of the lumber con- 

 cerns here and reports that more cypress is 

 being handled in this market than he had 

 thought. Mr. Roy bought liberally while here. 



The members of the firm of Ijove, Boyd & 

 Co. have gone "crazy" about automobiles. John 

 W. Boyd got one first, then he got a bigger one, 

 a flying roadster. Hamilton Love got one, then 

 another, and now John Love has followed suit. 

 Five of the horseless carriages now belong to 

 the three members of the firm. 



J. H. Mcb'all. who is connected with the Hick- 

 man county operations of the Mcl^ean Lumber 

 Company of tliis city, was in Nashville last week 

 on business. 



Charles Cohn of the firm of Cohn & Goldberg 

 is making an active fight to win out as coun- 

 cilman for Nashville for the Seventh ward. 

 He has lively opposition and a hot fight is 

 being waged in his ward. Mr. Cohn is the able 

 president of the council. 



The P. D. Dodge I^umbcr Company of Chi- 

 cago will establish a yard in West Nashville in 

 the near future. William V. liodge, president of 

 the company, has been in the city for a few^ 

 days concluding arrangements for the yard. 

 The yard has formerly been located at Dickson. 

 Tenn.. but owing to the difficulty experienced in 

 getting cars it was decided to move it to Nash- 

 ville. 



The White Trunk and Bag Company, whicli 

 was recently destioyed by fire, w-111 be rebuilt 

 at once. In fact, ground has already been 

 broken for a new factory that will be bigger, 

 better and more commodious than its predeces- 

 sor. It will cost $50,000. The company intends 

 to get back in business by Novemlier 1. While 

 the factory is being built John B. Ransom & Co. 

 have generously allowed the company the use 

 of two of their buildings, even mi)\ing out stock 



to make room for the trunk people. It is pro- 

 posed to have the new factory thoroughly pro- 

 tected from fire by a water plant of its own. 



The Robertson-McGill Carriage Company, 

 which recently moved from Shelbyville to Nash- 

 ville, will build a factory here at the corner of 

 Wedgewood avenue and South Cherry. The 

 plant at Shelbyville was recently destroyed by 

 tire. 



Memphis. 



One of the liveliest topics of discussion among 

 the lumber interests of this city is the pro- 

 posed series of three ball games between the 

 lumbermen of Memphis and Nashville, the first 

 cf which is to be played Sept. 21 at Memphis. 

 There was a special meeting of the Lumber- 

 men's Club on Aug. 13 to consider the challenge 

 made by the lumbermen of Nashville. The chal- 

 lenge was accepted and J. W. Thompson, presi- 

 dent of the J. W. Thompson Lumber Company, 

 was elected captain of the Memphis team. Ef- 

 forts have been made for a number of years 

 to decide which is the greatest hardwood cen- 

 ter, Memphis or Nashville, and it has been 

 finally decided to leave the settlement of this 

 question of the superiority of the one city 

 over the other to the matter of baseball ability. 

 H is expected that Memphis will draw her 

 material from the lumbermen of this city, with 

 possibly some help from out-of-town players 

 chosen from the ranks of lumbermen operating 

 in the Memphis territory. It is intimated that 

 Nashville may pick up everything possible be- 

 tween that point and the Bluff City. Captain 

 Thompson, who will probably do the twirling 

 for the Memphis team, is expected to do ex- 

 ceptionally good work, as his arms arc so long 

 that he will have to throw the ball only a few 

 steps. He declares he will have for a catcher 

 some one whom he can kill if lie feels like 

 doing so. The general lineup has not been de- 

 cided upon, but preliminary practice wMll begin 

 immediately. Some of the fat ones, including 

 J. W. Dickson and W. R. Barksdale, will prob- 

 abl.v be put on a special diet in order to get 

 their size down to proper batting and fielding 

 proportions. 



Weather conditions in this section continue 

 favorable for the production of hardwood lum- 

 ber and large quantities are being placed on 

 sticks. There is no surplus of dry stock in 

 any direction, but the excellent work being done 

 by the mills is assuring a good prospective sup- 

 ply for the fall trade. There is scarcely a mill 

 in tliis territory that is not operating and some 

 of them are working double shifts. 



George James, president of the James & 

 Graham Wagon Company of Memphis, has suc- 

 ceeded in launching the National Wagon Stock 

 Company, with headquarters at Little Rock. 

 With him a number of other Tennesseeans. as 

 well as several Chicago capitalists, are inter- 

 ested. The company has begun operation of it? 

 saw mill and will manufacture much of the 

 stock used by the local wagon factory and by 

 other factories in which the directors and stock- 

 holders of the National Wagon Stock Company 

 are interested. Mr. James has been working 

 on this proposition for a number of months. 



The Dardanelle Hardwood Manufacturing Com- 

 pany is erecting a $25,000 plant at Dardanelle. 

 Ark. It will have a daily capacity of .30,000 

 feet and will devote itself entirely to the manu- 

 facture of hardwood lumber. It has 1,000.000 feet 

 of logs on the right-of-way that will be deliv- 

 ered as soon as the railroad reaches Darda- 

 nelle, which will be alioiit the first of Septem- 

 ber. 



The citizens of Searcy, Ark., are considering 

 the establishment of a plow factory at that 

 point for the manufacture of a special style 

 of plow- recently patented by a prominent citizen 

 of White county. It is regarded as probable 

 that this will be done, thus calling for consid- 

 erable hardwood stock in that section. 



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