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(.(.Continued from page 54.) 

 ncssce. Mr. Gnontlici' is lur^ely iuterested in 

 1 his section. 



K. II. Mortimer, «li<i Ims chai-ge of the West 

 \iiginia and Xoi-tli Carcjlina operations of the 

 W. M. Ritter I^uniljof Cimiiiau.v, Columbus, Ohio, 

 was quietly married to Miss Winnie Hickey, an 

 unusually attractive and accomplished young 

 lady, in the parlors of I'ineola Inn, Pineola, N. 

 C in the presence of a number of friends, last 

 week. They have k""c on a two weeks' honey- 

 moon. 



V. Boice of Aljiu;^'(.lipu and others have organ- 

 ized and will shortly incorporate the Westmore- 

 land Lumber Corporation, with a capital, it is 

 .said, of $1,000,000 and with general offices in 

 Uichmond, Va. Mr. Boice is also at the head 

 iif the Boice Lumber Company, Philadelphia, 

 and besides being a i)rtiminent factor in the 

 liardwood industry is well known as a banker 

 and capitalist. 



There is no impro\'i'iucul in tile car supply. 

 The amount of available transportation equip- 

 jiient is still far below the demand and the 

 manufacturers are sutfering already from what 

 promises to be the most .serious car famine in 

 the history of this section of the country. 



G. L. Wood of Baltimore, general manager 

 of the K. E. Wood Lumber Company, which 

 operates extensively in this section and North 

 <'aroIina, youth Carolina and West Virginia, 

 was here last week in conference with J. H, 

 -McCue, superintendent of the Virginia and 

 Southwestern, on the subject of car shortage, 

 hut did not get any as.surance of early relief. 



M. X. OflEutt of the Tug River Lumber Com- 

 pany is back from a visit to the East, during 

 which he attended the I-Ioo-Hoo annual at At- 

 lantic City. He reports a delightful trip and 

 I'ucouraging prospects in the East. 



Ciucinnati. 



In the United States court of Covington in- 

 voluntary bankruptcy proceedings were insti- 

 tuted against the Cypress Lumber and Veneer 

 Company, which has its principal place of busi- 

 ness in that city. The action is similar to the 

 one filed in Cincinnati a week ago against the 

 Cypress Lumber Company, with headquarters in 

 ihe Queen Cit.v. The charges are almost similar. 

 The material difference is in the names of the 

 ]tetitioners. Those in the Covington court are 

 Ihe Boice & Grogau Company, William Wood- 

 ward and Ernest Forsythc. It is averred that 

 Ihe Cypress Lumber & Veneer Company has 

 laken over several smaller concerns, one of 

 which is the Cypress Lumber Company of Cin- 

 cinnati. A number of the creditors accepted 

 a certain percentage of their debts in full pay- 

 ment of their claims against the smaller con- 

 4-erns, while other creditors agreed to accept 

 notes on the Covington company ; a number of 

 the others charge that the transfers of the 

 jissets of the smaller companies to the Coving- 

 ton corporation was done for the purpose of 

 defrauding them. 



Charles Barr, a prominent lumber dealer, 

 with offices in the Atlas National Bank build- 

 ing, was drowned in the Ohio river at the 

 Laughery Club. In company with many other 

 business men ^Ir. Barr attended the Bowlers' 

 Hay celebration at the well-known club, and 

 after luncheon was finished he suggested a 

 plunge in the river. He was warned against 

 it. because the river between Laughery Island 

 and the club grounds proper, on the Indiana side, 

 sweeps through the channel in a very swift cur- 

 rent. Mr. Barr answered tGat he would lake 

 care of himself and rowed out to the middle of 

 the channel. He was seen to jump from the 

 skiff into the water, and to those who were 

 witnesses it seemed that he became helpless 

 .-ilmost at the start. He was swept a short 

 distance down the river, then disappeared. An 

 immediate search was made for his body, but 

 it was not discovered until three days after, 

 when it was found near Madison, lud. He was 



brought to rromley, Ky., where he and his wife 

 and three children resided, and was buried from 

 that ])lacc. Mr. Barr's business will be looked 

 after by his two brothers, James II. and Clar- 

 ence W. Barr, who are also in the lumber busi- 

 ness, in the Traction building. 



.Tohn Hawkes, president of the Burton Lum- 

 ber Company, is preparing to embark on the 

 big new steamship Lusitania, of the Cunard 

 Line, as the guest of Cunard officials. Hawkes 

 makes four trips each year and has been doing 

 this for a number -of years : all told he has 

 crossed the briny deep 150 times. His wife 

 and daughter will accompany him. 



F. T. Egan, vice president of the J. A. Fay 

 & Egan Company, manufacturers of wood- 

 working machinery, gave a dinner last week 

 to the officials of the company at the Stag 

 Cafe. The dinner was promised the employees 

 if they exceeded shipments of a certain 

 amount. The amount was exceeded by ,$18,000. 

 The event also commemorated the birthdays of 

 S. P. and F. T. Egan, as well as the return 

 of A. W, Feuss, the South American represen- 

 tative of the company. Clifford Egan, who has 

 been representing the company in Paris, was to 

 have returned to participate in the festivities, 

 but was delayed en route from New York. 



C. W. Sowles, doing business as the C. W. 

 Sowles Lumber Company, has filed suit in the 

 common pleas court against the Blue Jay Lum- 

 ber Company of West Virginia on a claim of 

 $5,545 for alleged breach of contract. 



J. Watt Graham of the Graham Lumber Com- 

 pany has gone out of town to look after the 

 interests of his concern. He will travel South 

 and West and will not return for several weeks. 



The Ruby Lumber and Mining Company of 

 Springfield, Ohio, has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $25,000 by H. W. Ruby, E. G. 

 Byrne, W. J. Grim, L. O. Singer and W. H. 

 Rayner. The company expects to devote most 

 of its interest to the lumber business. 



The United States Timber Company of Cin- 

 cinnati has increased its capital in the state 

 of Ohio from $150,000 to $200,000. This was 

 done to allow the company to extend their 

 already large business and to allow them to 

 equip themselves with more machinery to meet 

 the increase. The concern has picked up won- 

 derfully in the last year. The offices, which 

 were formerly located in the West End, have 

 been removed to the Mercantile Library build- 

 ing, and they are employing more men now 

 than ever before. They are ' dealers in all 

 grades of hardwoods, and are expecting a big 

 fall trade. 



St. Louis. 



The Henry Quellmalz Lumber Company has 

 finished constructing three miles of standard 

 gauge railroad to transport its logs to the Brook- 

 ings, Ark., mill. 



Thomas W. Powe, of the Plummer Lumber 

 Company is making a northern trip in the Inter- 

 ests of business. Theodore Plummer says that 

 he looks for increased trade within a very few- 

 days, or as soon as crop reports are satisfacto- 

 rily adjusted. 



George Hibbard, who has been in the North for 

 some weeks, quite agrees with Jlr. Plummer, and 

 says that he noted the excellent condition of corn 

 and other crops, which can not fail to influence 

 the lumber business favorably. 



F. A. Garetson has returned to the West. J. S. 

 Garetson is making a trip among the company's 

 mills. W. W. Dings is expected every day from 

 his European trip, and his friends hope to find 

 him greatly benefited by the delightful voyage. 

 J. G. Griffith, southern representative for the 

 Ciaretson-Greason Lumber Company, has been oc- 

 cupying Jlr. Dings' desk during his absence. 



S. B. O'Leary of the American Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company is soon to marry Miss Mary Cal- 

 houn of Covington, Tenn. They will reside in 

 New Orleans, where Mr. O'Leary manages^ a 



branch office. O. D. Borrowman of the same con- 

 cern is making a northern trip. 



E. W. Blumer of the Lothman Cypress Com- 

 pany is making a tour of the company's mills lu 

 the South. 



Among the visitors to this market last week 

 was D. S. Hutchinson of the Arthur Hardwood 

 Flooring Company, Memphis. 



Nash-Tille. 



One of the visitors in the city during the past 

 week was D. S. Hutchinson, formerly sales man- 

 ager of the Nashville Hardwood Flooring Com- 

 pany, but now holding a similar position with the 

 Arthur Hardwood Flooring Company, of Memphis. 

 Mr. Hutchinson is just back from a trip to the 

 Pacific coast, and he talks interestingly of it. In 

 this connection he makes an observation that will 

 no doubt be of interest to all lumbermen who have 

 been doing business in the West, or who hope to 

 do so. He says the Japanese are gaining quite 

 a foothold on the Pacific coast trade with their 

 white oak, which is of good quality, but not so 

 good as the Tennessee woods. Mr. Hutchinson 

 believes that if the lumbermen of the Southeast 

 and other hardwood sections of the country do 

 not bestir themselves they will lose a great deal 

 of business in the West that could be theirs for 

 the asking. 



A special from Dyersburg, Tenn.. announces a 

 big lumber transaction just closed there, in which 

 the A. SI. Stevens Lumber Company sold to a 

 number of Wisconsin capitalists a tract of timber 

 containing some 12,110 acres. The price realized 

 was $13.50 per acre, or a total of $163,485 for the 

 entire tract. Just four and a half years ago the 

 A. M. Stevens Lumber Company paid only $3.50 

 per acre for the same tract. 



A famous grove of giant trees at Sawdust Val- 

 ley, in Maury county, will soon be only a mem- 

 ory, as it has been sold and consigned to the ax 

 and saw of the lumberman. One hundred and 

 eleven poplar trees in the grove of Mrs. A. F. 

 Brown have brought the sum of $4,000. They 

 were bought by G. P. Mayberry, and so fine is the 

 timber that he intends exporting most of it. The 

 grove also contains many giant oaks which Mrs, 

 Brown will sell in the near future. 



A number of fine logs loaded on a big four- 

 horse wagon belonging to the L. E. Rooks Lum- 

 ber Company, were the only things about the 

 outfit that were not damaged by a north-bound 

 Mobile and Ohio passenger train at Humboldt, 

 Tenn. The wagon was torn to pieces, the horses 

 killed and the lumber thrown in every direction. 

 The driver miraculously escaped by jumping. 



G. C. Baker, of McEwen, Tenn., has gone to 

 Shaw, Miss., where he takes charge of the lum- 

 ber plant of his father. The Bakers have several 

 hundred feet of timber in logs that are ready to 

 be converted into marketable lumber, and it is 

 estimated that they also have 10,000,000 feet of 

 standing timber. L. D. Baker has fifteen saw 

 mills in operation in and around McEwen, Tenn., 

 in addition to the big ones he will run in Miss- 

 issippi. 



The Rock City Lumber Company has effected a 

 consolidation with the contracting firm of Pat- 

 rick & Holt. The new firm will be known as the 

 Central Construction Company and will do a gen- 

 eral contracting and building business. The fol- 

 lowing officers have been elected : A. W. McDon- 

 ald, president ; I. L. Pendleton, vice-president ; 

 J. B. McDonald, secretary and treasurer, and J. 

 W. Patrick, general manager. The firm already 

 has two big contracts, one being tlie construction 

 of a new jail for Davidson county and the other 

 being the rebuilding of McKendree Church. 



James D. Chronister, a lumberman of McEwen, 

 Tenn., died recently from the effects of disease 

 contracted in the swamps of Arkansas. He was 

 thirty-five years old and leaves a wife and two 

 children. 



A special announces that F. E. Moore, of Cin- 

 cinnati, representing eastern capitalists, has 

 closed a deal whereby 85,000 acres of timber land 



