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wliicli are rapidly being pxliausted, will be ap- 

 preciated. The hardwood industry throughout 

 Cuba is flourishing and prices on all kinds of 

 woods have never been as higli as at present. 

 Cigar box cedar is in especially active demand 

 at fancy prices. 



St. Loiils. 



The St. Louis Car Company has increased its 

 i:i|>ital from If 3,000. 000 to $6,000,000. 



'I'lie Interior Lumber Company of this city 

 luis moved its offices to Ilattiesburg, Miss. 



A special meeting of the board of directors 

 of the Lumbermen's Exchange was held re- 

 cently, at which the chief business transacted 

 w:is the selection of T. I. Robinson for the posi- 

 liuu of deputy inspector, owing to the need of 

 increasing the force. Mr. Robinson has been 

 in the employ of the J. D. Ilartnett Lumber 

 Ciiiapany of Pine Bluff, Ark., of late and was 

 ;il one time with the F. C. Moore Lumber Com- 

 |i:uiy. Those present at the meeting were F. 

 Wnldstein, W. W. Dings, W. A. Bonsack. P. J. 

 Diividson, F. C. Moore, E. H. Warner and R. F. 

 Ki-ebs. 



K. W. Blumer of the Lothman Cypress Com- 

 pany has returned from a southern trip among 

 the company's mills. Mr. Blumer says that 

 while mills are runnin,g day and night and 

 ■getting stocks in tine shape, they are already 

 beginning to feel the car shortage, which he pre- 

 dicts will be perhaps the most severe they have 

 ever had to contend with. 



George E. Hibbard of Steele & Hibbard has 

 gone to Lake Minnetonka for his much needed 

 vacation. Mr. Steele has returned from Fortress 

 Monroe, whither he went a few weeks ago in 

 pursuit of rest and recreation. 



F. A. Garetson of San Diego. Cal.. vice presi- 

 dent of the Garetson-Greason Lumlier Company, 

 has been spending several days in town. W. W. 

 Dings left September 4 for his Atlantic sea voy- 

 age. 



C. E. Thomas has returned from his vacation 

 spent on the Atlantic coast. 



A Memphis hardwood bouse has just closed a 

 deal to furnish all the interior finish for two 

 big buildings now in process of construction in 

 St. Louis, all to be of red gum. Even counters 

 and other stationary fixtures are to be of red 

 gum. Something more than 1,000,000 feet will 

 be required. 



The R. F. Krebs Lumber Company lias re- 

 moved its office to Yard Hall street and St. 

 Louis avenue. 



Paul .T. Davidson, secretary of the Lumber- 

 men's Exchange, has resigned, to assume duties 

 witli file iizark Cooperage and T. umber Com- 

 jiany. 



Nashville. 



The Buckeye Spoke & Handle Company 

 is to locate a new factory at Centreville. 

 Tenn. The company has let contracts for 

 the necessary buildings and its representa- 

 tives have been busily engaged in getting 

 hold of timber rights. They claim to have 

 enough timber in siglit to last twenty years. 



The Roberts-McGill Carriage Company was 

 this w'eek granted a permit for the ei'ection 

 of its new factory to l^e built at tlie corner 

 of Wedgewood and Benton avenues. The firm 

 has just been chartered witli a capital stock 

 of $50.noo. The incorporators are T. M. Robin- 

 son, W. J. McGill, Ernest Coldwell, J. H. Fall 

 and H. G. Lipscomb. 



The Dust Avoid M.anufacturing Company, a . 

 new concern in Nashville whicli is making 

 a preparation for cedar shavings, etc., to be 

 used in sweeping, has moved into larger 

 quarters on North Adams street. James and 

 'William Cassetty are the principal owners of 

 the company, which has done such a big 

 business that the former quarters became in- 

 adequate for its demands. 



Reports from Hartsville, Tenn., indicate con- 

 siderable activity there in tlie lumber indus- 

 try. The little city now boasts five large 



lumber yards, and over 100 wagons are .said 

 to come daily to the town from the hills of 

 Macon county. Notwithstanding all this, tim- 

 ber is said to be plentiful, and it is claimed 

 there is enough white oak and poplar to last 

 for years. 



Deputy Marshal James Duggan has just re- 

 turned from a trip to Wayne county, where 

 he has been serving injunctions in what prom- 

 ises to be a most important and interesting 

 law suit. The Bon Air & Iron Company 

 owns several thousand acres of land in that 

 section and a number of families have been 

 living on the property. The company, it 

 seems, did not mind the squatters living on 

 ihe land and clearing some of it up. When 

 they began cutting the timber and selling it. 

 however, the injunction suit followed. Some 

 of the alleged squatters claim they have been 

 living on the land for forty years. Should 

 Judge Clark decree that the defendants will 

 have to vacate, the ofHcer will no doubt have 

 a rough time in getting them out. 



A "Tie-Haulers' LInion" at Dover, Tenn., is 

 the latest thing in the lumber and industrial 

 line. About seventy-five haulers who were 

 working for Ayer & Lord, crosstie dealers, 

 organized and have made a demand tor a flat 

 raise of 5 per cent. It is also rumored that 

 the tie-haulers from Cumberland City will 

 ask for a 5 per cent raise and that even the 

 tiemakei's thereabouts are going to ask for a 

 raise of from 10 to 15 cents a stick. 



Secretary of State Morton has chartered the 

 Roane Mountain Coal & Lumber Company 

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

 are: T. A. Wright, president; John Moly- 

 neux. vice-president; J. E. Fox, secretary, and 

 A. T. Daniels, general manager. 



A special from Tuscurabia, Ala., announces 

 that a big mortgage on several thousand 

 acres of land in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, 

 and lumber and timber stocks in other states, 

 including the Tuthill & Pattison plant at Shef- 

 field, Ala., has been placed on record at Tus- 

 cumbia to secure an $875,000 bond issue. The 

 Savings Bank & Trust Company of Coving- 

 ton, Ky., has been named as trustee under 

 the instrument. 



Simon Lieberman of Lieberman, Loveman & 

 O'Brien is in New York enjoying a short 

 vacation. .Mr. Loveman of the same firm is 

 back from a pleasant trip to Canada. He 

 went up the Saginaw River, and reports some 

 fine fisliing. 



John B. Ransom is in Nova Scotia, the 

 guest of John W. Love at the hitter's fine 

 hotel at Markland. 



Nathan Bradley, a. large lumber producer 

 of east Tennessee, was a visitor to the city 

 last week. 



Henderson Baker, president of the Dunlap 

 Lumber Company, has gone to northern Mis- 

 sissippi in search of poplar logs. 



Nashville lumbermen continue to get more 

 wrought up every day over the approaching 

 ball game to be played in Memphis in the 

 near future in which the contestants will be 

 nines chosen from the lumbermen of these two 

 rival cities. The result of the game will 

 decide which is the "largest hardwood center 

 in the South." The Nashville lumbermen 

 feel confident of winning, but declare that 

 winning such a game would be like winning 

 your own money or taking it out of one pocket 

 and putting it in another. 



Memphis. 



Interest in the forthcoming series of baseball 

 games between the lumbermen of Memphis and 

 Nashville continues to grow, as demonstrated 

 by the attendance at the meeting of the Lum- 

 bermen's Club last Saturday to perfect arrange- 

 ments for the game. At this meeting "W. H. 

 Russe introduced a motion to the effect that 

 the cup offered by the American Lumberman for 

 the victiirinus club should not become the pos- 

 session of tlie winner until it had won two 



successive series of games. This was unani- 

 mously carried. Mr. Russe said that he had 

 taken up this matter with the lumbermen of 

 Nashville and that they had agreed thereto. 

 This is assurance that there will be match 

 ;;ames for several seasons between the lumber- 

 men of Nashville and Memphis, of which one 

 series is arranged for this year. A committee 

 has been appointed to look after the enter- 

 tainment of the Nashville lumbermen while 

 here. On the committee are J. Vi'. McClure. 

 chairman : G. A. Farber, C. \V. Holmes, L. C. 

 Nulan and J. E. Meadows. 



J. W. Thompson, who is captain of the team, 

 has appointed W. R. Anderson to look after the 

 team work. ili\ .\nderson has had some ex- 

 perience in ball playing and is devoting con- 

 sitlerable time to gel ring his prospective play- 

 ers into proper form. Practice work is being 

 carried on every day in the week except Sun- 

 day, and all reports indicate that the men will 

 round to in great shape. 



The following committees have been appointed 

 to look after v.arions features : 



Publicity — W. I{. Anderson, chairman ; C. W. 

 Holmes, .L. C. Nolan, W. H. Russe. J. W. Mc- 

 Clure. E. B. Sweet and Wright Smith. 



Advertising and Finance — W. H. Greble, chair- 

 man : F. E. Stonebraker, W. A. Ransom, S. C. 

 Majors and W. R. Barksdale. 



Sale of Tickets, Score Cards and the Like — • 

 George E. Ehemaun, chairman : J. E. Meadows, 

 P. II. Ravisies and W. R. Barksdale. 



The committee having charge of the sale of 

 tickets has held a meeting and has decided to 

 have the tickets on sale within the next few 

 days. It is expected that every lumberman 

 will take active part in this work and dispose 

 of as many tickets as possible. 



Three nines, it is reported, have been organ- 

 ized at Nashville, but Memphis is not very far 

 behind, having two good teams which are play- 

 ing against each other. If Nashville wins she 

 will know she has been in a fight. 



There was a meeting on September 4 of the 

 Finance Committee, which is raising funds for 

 the entertainment of the forthcoming annual con- 

 vention of the Deep Waterways Association to 

 be held here October 4 and ."i. This meeting 

 was attended by the chairmen of a number of 

 subcommittees and those present pledged about 

 .fl2,000 of the necessary amount. There were 

 less than half of the sub-chairmen present, and, 

 if all had been there, it is more than probable 

 that the greater part of the necessary funds 

 would have been pledged at that time. S. M. 

 Neely. chairman of the Finance Committee, has 

 announced that, while he expected $20,000 would 

 be sufficient at the start, lie now believes that 

 S.30,000 to ,$35,000 will be necessary to enter- 

 tain on the elaborate scale commensurate with 

 the importance of the convention. The sub- 

 chairmen appointed to look after subscriptions 

 from the lumbermen of North and South Mem- 

 phis, respectively, were not at the meeting last 

 night, and it is therefore impossible to sa.v what 

 these chairmen will pledge. However, in view 

 of the active interest that lumbermen are tak- 

 iug in this conventiou, it goes without saying 

 that the.v will be just as generous in their dona- 

 lions for this cause as any other business men 

 of this city. 



The program for tlie convention has not lx>en 

 • fully arranged, but the following addresses liave 

 been provided for : 



Theo. E. Burton, Ohio. October 4 — "Our Rivers 

 and Harbors I'olicy." 



Gov. Joseph W. Folk — "Commercial Value of 

 Waterways to Missouri." 



Gov. John Burke, North Dakota — "The Com- 

 mercial Advantages to the Northwest of the 

 Deep Waterways from the Lakes to the Gulf : 

 or. The Commercial Advantages to the Northwest 

 of the River Improvement." 



Gov. Albert B. Cummins. Iowa — "Importance 

 to the Commerce of the TTuited States of Im- 

 provement of the Upper Mississippi River." 



Senator-elect Jolui Sharp Williams, Mississippi 



