HARDWOOD RECORD 



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running full time all summer and the company 

 has stackeil up with all the desirable lumber 

 it will need. The mills will resume operations 

 as soon as logs are obtainable. The other mill, 

 however, is running full time and turning ovit 

 great volumes of lumtier. 



A. W. liunn of Glasgow. Scotland, after spend- 

 ing three months in this count r.v and having 

 accumulated enough lumber to last lor several 

 years, has returned to His home. Ralph 

 McCradten of the Kentucky Lumber Company 

 spent several days witli liim showing him the 

 tjueen City and also took him on a trip to their 

 three mills. The "Scotclimau'" learned several 

 new methods of how to do business and claims 

 that he will practice them on his di^alers across 

 the waters. 



The rec(!ipts of lumlter during the mouth of 

 September this year are a little bit lighter than 

 for the same month last year, while the ship- 

 ments this year were a little heavier. The fol- 

 lowing is tlie comjjarison : Keceipts this year. 

 ti.OV.S cars: last year. (J.lit. Sliipmonts this 

 .vear. -{.sriO : last year. 4.7:!1. 



Lumbermen of this city, working through the 

 Lumbermen's Club, are discussing the matter of 

 turning over the weighing of lumber to the 

 Weighing Itureau of the Chamber of Commerce. 

 .\ conference was held last week between the 

 railroad representatives, the lumbermen and the 

 officials of the Weighing Bureau. This weighing 

 applies to lumber on railroad cars only. Since 

 this Weighing' Bureau was established by the 

 Chamber of C<jmmerce for the purpose of taking 

 over the weighing of grain the coal men have 

 adopted it and now the lumbermen are seek- 

 ing if. 



Chattanooga. 



The Case-1'owler Lumlin- Comijauy is to op- 

 erate here again. About a year ago the Case 

 Lumber Company abandoned its .yards at the 

 East End and organized the Fowler-Personette 

 Lumber Company at Birmingham. Considering 

 Chattanooga as a great lumber center, ihe con- 

 cern resolved to come here again and as a re- 

 sult the Case-Fowler Lumber Company has been 

 chartered with $33,000 capital stock. The in- 

 corporators are : William M. Fowler, W*. II. De 

 Witt, G. E. McGhee, W. A. McChtre and J. M. 

 Trimble. The company has already established 

 offices in the First Xational Bank Building. 



Capt. A. .1. Gahagau, treasurer of the Loorais 

 & Hart Manufacturing Company, has just re- 

 turned from his honeymoon trip to New York. 

 Buffalo, Saratoga Springs, Jamestown and other 

 eastern points. Captain Gahagan was recently 

 married to Miss Elizabeth Telford, formerly su- 

 perintendeut of the Erianger IIoapitaL He is 

 spoken of in connection with the Republican 

 nomination lor mayor against Col. Vf. R. Crab- 

 tree, the Democratic nomini>e. Captain Gahagau 

 says he would rather live in Chattanooga than 

 any other city in the world, not excepting the 

 metropolis, which he says is too big. 



W. C. llarter of the ,T. Jl. Card Lumber Com 

 pany left recently on a trip to Europe with his 

 wife and two children. He will be gone ^several 

 months, but his family will remain four or five 

 .years, during which time the children will be 

 educated in the best schools of Europe. 



F. W. Blair of the Ramhurst Lumber Com- 

 pany of Ramhurst. Ga.. was a recent visitor 

 here. 



J. M. Card, president of the J. M. Card Lum- 

 ber Company, made a trip to the pine forests 

 of Mississippi and Louisiana recently. 



■ Snodgrass & Fields closed a deal giving them 

 possession of l.oOO acres of land lying along the 

 Clinch river. The tract has upon it about 

 -.0,000,000 feet of oak. ash. walnut, hickory 

 and poplar timber. The purchase price was 

 .$10,000. This timber will be sufficient to supply 

 the local plant for the next live years. . The 

 trees will be cut as needed and the logs will be 

 floated down the Tennessee river. 



F. W. Wheeler of the M. B. Farrin Lumber 

 Company of Cincinnati was a recent visitor here. 



Nashville. 

 An unlia]i|iy tinlsb. or what may prove to be 

 the nnish. has overtaken the .Tohn W. Love, one 

 of the best known tow boats on Cumberland 

 River. The boat was formerly the property of 

 the Nashville Transportation Company and has 

 probably hauled more staves and lumber than 

 any other on the Cumberland River. The boat 

 had been sold to W. O. Shriver of Cincinnati 

 and was being taken to the upper Ohio to be 

 docked, wlien she sank in the lock in Cumber- 

 land River .lust below Nashville. The craft has 

 completely blocked passage up or down the river 

 by Nashville, and traffic will likely be at a stand- 

 still for a week or ten days. Steps will be 

 taken to raise the boat at once, but unless the 

 work can be done in ten days the government 

 will libel the boat and order it blown up to clear 

 the right of way. Open seams above the water 

 line and overloading were the causes assigned 

 for her sinking. I'reparations are being made 

 to pump the water out of the lock and then 

 calk up the leaks in the boat, tluis letting the 

 lock serve as a regular dry dock. 



A special from Jackson. Tenu., announces the 

 destruction there by Are of the entire plant of 

 the Banner Lumber Company. The property 

 was owned by L. D. Abbott, who estimates his 

 loss at $15,000 with insurance of $12,000. The 

 origin of the fire is a mystery as the engine was 

 not fired up when the plant burned. 



D. F. Wren, a real estate agent at Greenfield, 

 Tenn., has closed a deal whereby a tract of tim- 

 ber land containing 4,100 acres is sold to Coats 

 & Malone of Greenfield, Tenn.. for ,i;t;0.000. 



Houston Moore, a prominent citizen and lum- 

 berman of West I'oint, Tenn., was killed recently 

 in an accident on Knob Creek. Together with 

 three other men Mr. Moore undertook to fell 

 an enormous chestnut tree standing on a steep 

 and rocky hillside. Misjudging the fall of the 

 tree he ran in the wrong direction, got tangled 

 up in some vines and then ran into an old stump. 

 The great trunk hit him and crushed his body 

 on the stump. Mr. Moore was i't years old and 

 leaves a wife and five children. 



Judge Cordell Hull of the Fourth Congres- 

 sional District of Tennessee and recently elected 

 to Congress from the same, has secured the 

 promise of the Forest Service to make a timber 

 map of his district. Mr. Pinchot, chief forester, 

 has given the assurance that an expert would 

 be sent to the department in the near future. 

 The Fourth District of Tennessee is said to be 

 very nearly the hardwood center of the LTnited 

 States. Judge Hull says: "I am satisfied our 

 people have practically given away hundreds of 

 thousands if not millions of dollars worth of 

 valuable timber, mostly walnut and hickory, sim- 

 ply because they did not realize its true value. 

 1 believe a timber expert among the owners of 

 timber for a month or two will be of great bene- 

 rtt to the owners of timber lands. A timber map 

 will prove valuable in advertising the riches 

 of the forests of the Clumberland Plateau. 



Specials from Camden, Tenn., state that never 

 before in the history of the place have timber 

 values been so high as now. In fact, the demand 

 for timber is so great many firms are said to be 

 buying farms just to get the timber, trusting 

 to some opportunity of disposing of the land 

 alter they have cleared it. Not half the demand 

 is noted for cleared land, it is said, as for tim- 

 bered. Several syndicates are reported to have 

 bought farms during the past week merely for 

 the timber on them and having n.> earthly use 

 fir the land itself. 



The hardwood championship of the South is 

 all tied up. owing to the fact that both Memphis 

 and Nashville have won a game of baseball, each 

 one defeating a team of lumbermen from the 

 sister city. Memphis captured the game played 

 in that city a few Saturdays ago by the score 

 of r, to 2. Although defeated at Memphis the 

 local lumbermen, a large delegation of whom 

 w-ent down, were banqueted and treated royally 

 liy tue hospitable Memphians. On the following 



Saturday the Memphis team came up to return 

 the game. They brought one hundred rooteps 

 with them and landed in Xashville during State 

 Fair week. They took in the sights at the 

 I'air during the morning, including the Oriental 

 Show, and then went down to Athletic Park that 

 afternoon and tied up in a ball game with the 

 Nashville lumbermen. On this occasion Nash- 

 ville turned the tables and in a great game by 

 the score of 1) to ".. Following the game the 

 Nashville lumbermen returned the compliments 

 showered upon them at Memphis and entertained 

 the guests at a big banquet at the Wataugua 

 Club, Nashville's most exclusive social organ- 

 ization. A big banner hung over the festal board 

 on which was inscribed the following ; "Mem- 

 phis and Nashville, the dominating factors in 

 the hardwood lumber trade of America." John 

 B. Ransom officiated gracefully as toastmaster 

 and the toasts responded to were gems every one. 

 ■I'he banquet broke up with a vote of thanks to 

 the Wataugua Club and the singing of "Auld 

 Lang Syne." A third game to decide the tie will 

 be played in the near future. 



Furniture dealers in Xashville report big fall 

 business and prices of hardwood stuffs are going 

 up all the while. There are quite a number 

 of furniture factories in Nashville, several of 

 which own their own timber property. The B. 

 & N. Manufacturing Company and the Greenfield 

 l-inney-Battle-Talbot Company in particular own 

 hig mountain tracts. 



The Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company 

 lias completed a substantial addition to its al- 

 ready large plant in West Nashville and will be 

 still better able to care for its rapidly enlarging 

 trade. 



The consolidation ol The Rock City Lumber 

 Company and the contracting firm ol Patrick & 

 Holt means that Nashville will have another big 

 planing mill. The combination ol these inter- 

 ests and the Increased capital put into the busi- 

 ness Ity the union enables the new firm to ac- 

 complish much greater things in the manufac- 

 ture of building material. 



Work on the big plant of the Roberts McGill 

 Carriage Company is being rushed. The factory 

 will work 150 men and it is expected will be in 

 operation in November. 



Memphis. 



Lumbermen of this city and section are much 

 interested in the announcement that the Frisco 

 system has appropriated $350,000 for the im- 

 provement and extension of its terminal facili- 

 ties in this city and for the betterment of its 

 track.agc in territory tributary to Memphis. The 

 facilities of this road at Memphis have long been 

 inadequate, and this fact has been forcibly il- 

 lustrated during the past few weeks when the 

 congestion has been so pronounced that other 

 roads have refused to take freight from the sys- 

 tem. Included in the work at the yards will be 

 the laying of sullicient track.s to take care ol 

 twenty trains in addition to the ones already 

 in use. This will greatly lacilitate the handling 

 of ^both inbound and outgoing freight, including 

 the large lumber receipts and shipments lor 

 which Memphis is famous the world over. 



It is the consensus ol opinion .among, traffic 

 officials here that the movement of freight in 

 the Memphis territory is 25 to 30 per cent larger 

 than last year. This is true even belore the 

 movement ol cotton is well under way, and when 

 this takes place the gain will be perhaps even 

 larger. Inquiry among traffic men elicits the 

 information that the roads are much better pre- 

 liared this seas<m for handling freight than they 

 were last year, but these officials are free to 

 confess that the improvement in facilities has 

 not kept pace with the growth in volume of traf- 

 fic to be handled. The roads are meeting the 

 situation squarely and they are endeavoring 

 to do their best, but the tact remains that lum- 

 ber shippers are seriously handicapped in han- 

 dling their shipments. 



Weather conditions have continued fairly la- 

 viu-able for hardwood prodnction in this te:'ri- 



