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HARDWOOD RECORD 



cials and the Southern, and freight traffic man- 

 agers of these concerns held a conlerence and 

 promulgated a new schedule of rates which are 

 equitable to all concerned and remedy the de- 

 fects in the old tariff. 



The John T. Dixon Lumber Company Is doing 

 an extensive manufacturing business at Elizabeth- 

 ton, and the record of the company's business 

 shows marlied increases in the volume of stock 

 manufactured and handled. The business of 

 this company is very gratifying. 



The Bristol Door & Lumber Company, lately 

 reorganized at Boston with W. O. Came of Bris- 

 tol as president, is making improvements on the 

 big woodworking plant and band mills in Bristol, 

 with a view of materially augmenting the out- 

 put. This company manufactures a large amount 

 of doors, mill work, etc., from the log for the 

 New England trade. 



The construction of the Laurel River Railroad, 

 connecting Abingdon, Va., and' Mountain City, 

 Tenn., has opened up an almost inexhaustible 

 boundary of some of the finest forests in east 

 Tennessee and southwest Virginia, and the work 

 of felling the timber and freighting it to the 

 various big mills at Damascus, Sutherland, Ab- 

 ingdon and elsewhere has begun on a large scale. 



Cincinnati. 



Thos. J. JlofCett of the Maley-Thompson & 

 MofEett Company will be a candidate for the 

 presidency of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association at the convention in Memphis, May 

 3 and 4. Mr. Moffett was at lirst unwilling to 

 make the race, but friends prevailed upon him. 

 The Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club has appointed 

 the following committee to take charge of Mr. 

 MofEett's interests : W. A. Bennett, chairman ; 

 T. B. Stone, C. F. Korn, C. H. Tease and Watt 

 Graham. Two special cars with Cincinnati mem- 

 bers of the National Association will leave this 

 city a day or two in advance of the convention 

 to boom Mr. MoEfett's candidacy. If Mr. MofEett 

 is elected it is a foregone conclusion that he 

 will administer the duties of the office in a 

 highly capable manner. He was president of the 

 Cincinnati Business Men's Club in 1905 and the 

 affairs of the club were never looked after better 

 than during his term. He has also taken a 

 prominent part in all hardwood gatherings. 



L. G. Banning will leave for a three months' 

 European trip shortly. A party of friends will 

 accompany him. 



James Cant of the Cant-Kemp Company, Glas- 

 gow, Scotland, and R. Sondheimer of Memphis 

 were visitors here the middle part of the month. 



The Wiborg & Hanna Company has established 

 a branch office in Memphis in the Tennessee 

 Trust building. It will be in charge of F. B. 

 Palmer. 



Wallace D. Wolf is in the South buying hard- 

 woods for the W. H. Perry Company, which re- 

 cently entered the hardwood business. Their 

 plant is located on Gilbert avenue. 



The Smenner-Muchmore Company has been in- 

 coporated with $10,00Q capital to engage in the 

 hardwood business in this city. The incorpo- 

 rators are ; A. W. Smenner, W. J. Muchmore, 

 C. 'C. Bishop, S. M. Loomis and E. D. Woodward. 



H. P. Wiborg of the Wiborg & Hanna Com- 

 pany has recovered from the eft'ects of an opera- 

 tion on his head. He will be at his desk in about 

 a month, it is expected. 



Nashville. 



The Palmetto Manufacturing Company is a 

 concern recently organized In Nashville to manu- 

 facture ax, hoe and hatchet handles. It is 

 expected that the plant will be completed in the 

 next sixty to ninety days. A site has been se- 

 cured on the Southern Railway on First avenue 

 North. The members of the corporation, which 

 is capitalized at $25,000, are : W. H. Cooper, 

 John S. Woodall, Dr. H. P. Campbell, William 

 Lowdnes, W. H. Hlcklen and J. H. Samuel. The 

 plant will be managed by I. D. Matthews, an 

 expert in the wood working business. 



News has been received in Nashville of the 



death of Edwin E. Smith, southeastern repre- 

 sentative of the Southern Lumberman. Mr. 

 Smith had been connected with the paper for 

 several years and had a wide acquaintance among 

 the lumbermen of Tennessee. 



Serious hindrances to the building boom that 

 has been on in this city for quite a while may 

 be experienced, as the local carpenters' union, a 

 body affiliated with the Structural Building 

 Trades Alliance, has given notice that after May 

 1 its members will not work with men who do 

 not hold union cards. Many of the nonunion 

 carpenters are said to be joining the union and 

 the trouble may be averted. 



The Robertson-McGill Manufacturing Company 

 at Shelbyville, Tenn., will at once begin work on 

 a big carriage factory, where carriages and bug- 

 gies, also harness, will be made. The firm has 

 been in business in Shelbyville for several years, 

 but recently was reorganized and enlarged. The 

 new plant will employ a large number of skilled 

 workmen. 



The Gallatin Spoke Works at Gallatin, Tenn.. 

 which has not been running for the past three 

 years, has started up again with H. Orman as 

 manager. The capacity of the factory is about 

 25,000 spokes a day and both wagon and buggy 

 spokes are being made. Messrs. Powell and Ellis 

 have also broken ground for their new box fac- 

 tory there. The plant will be located convenient 

 to the L. & N. Railroad. 



The Nashville Carriage & Wagon Makers' As- 

 sociation gave a delightful but informal banquet 

 as part of the program at the last meeting. The 

 organization of an association among the em- 

 ployes' of the carri.age and wagon manufacturers 

 was brought up, and it was the sense of the 

 meeting that such association would be entirely 

 agreeable, and that the two bodies, if run along 

 correct lines, would be of mutual benefit. 



A story comes from Union City, Tenn., that 

 will make some of the lumbermen and nursery- 

 men In the country look Incredulous. E. H. 

 Badger of that city pruned some fruit trees. He 

 was also growing a vineyard, so he stuck the 

 limbs he had cut off in the ground for the grapes 

 to entwine about and climb upon. To his aston- 

 ishment the limbs themselves put out fresh leaves 

 and give promise of being healthy trees. 



The Interstate Cooperage Company has just 

 purchased from the Hurricane Iron & Mining 

 Company, represented by George Campbell Brown 

 and Johnson Bransford, two of its officers, the 

 timber rights to about 15,000 acres of land in 

 Hickman county, Tennessee, in the Duck River 

 valley. The consideration was $85,000 cash. 

 This tract is said to be one of the finest pieces 

 of virgin timber land in the state. Trees with 

 a diameter of more than 14 inches passed in the 

 sale, and the purchasers were given ten years in 

 which to get it out. They will at once erect 

 several large sawmills on the property and will 

 get out large quantities of it as fast as possible. 



The Nashville Carriage Makers' Union is being 

 organized in this city. Its membership includes 

 blacksmiths, painters, trimmers and wood work- 

 ers employed in the local wagon and carriage 

 shops. Thomas Wbitely is chairman of the or- 

 ganization and S. H. Eason is secretary. 



An amendment to the charter of the H. Scott 

 Lumber Company of Shelby county, increasing 

 the capital stock $10,000, has been filed in the 

 office of the secretary of state at Nashville. 



The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company of Colum- 

 bus, O., capitalized at $8,000,000 under the laws 

 of West Virginia, has filed an abstract of its 

 charter at Nashville for the purpose of doing 

 business in Tennessee. 



Theodore Hutton, a banker and capitalist at 

 Waynesboro, Tenn., has just bought an 800-acre 

 tract of timber land in Wayne and Bedford 

 counties, paying $24,000 for it. Mr. Hutton will 

 at once begin the work of preparing the timber 

 for market. 



The Faust Brothers Lumber Company has been 

 organized at Clifton, Tenn., with capital stock 

 of $25,000. The incorporators are : Carl and 



J. Faust, W. H. Newcomb, S. M. Wakefield and 

 S. K. Hale. The members of the firm are all 

 practical lumbermen and have been in the busi- 

 ness in this section for a number of years. 



One of the large dry kilns of the American 

 Lead Pencil Company at Shelbyville, Tenn., was 

 destroyed by fire recently, entailing a loss of 

 about $2,500. The kiln contained about two car- 

 loads of cedar slats which were being cured for 

 shipment to pencil factories at the time. The 

 loss was covered by insurance. 



The Dickson Stave & Lumber Company is erect- 

 ing an up-to-date factory on its property in South 

 Dickson, adjoining the plant of the Interstate 

 Cooperage Company. New machinery is being 

 installed for the manufacture of spokes and hubs. 



In spite of the fact that red cedar is precious 

 and scarce, much of it is being shipped out of 

 Tennessee to foreign countries. Eleven cars were 

 shipped over the Nashville & Decatur Division of 

 the L. & N. last week for Rotterdam, Holland. 



One of the recent visitors to Nashville was 

 Leon F. Miller, who formerly lived in this city, 

 and is now superintendent of the Three-States 

 Lumber Company at Madison, S. C. 



A. M. Tippit of Dover. Tenn., has just added 

 an up-to-date planing mill to his wagon manu- 

 facturing plant. 



The Southern Seating & Cabinet Company of 

 Jackson, Tenn.. has been sold for $100,000. The 

 stock is said to have brought $250 a share. 



Mempliis. 



The candidacy of W. H. Russe for the presi- 

 dency of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation is being actively pushed. J. W. Thomp- 

 son of the J. W. Thompson Lumber Company is 

 chairman of a committee appointed for this pur- 

 pose, and this of itself is guarantee enough that 

 U anyone wins over Mr. Ru'sse it will be only 

 after a hard fight. 



There is an interesting report current here 

 that the New England delegation to the national 

 convention will be very strong and that it will 

 combine all of its resources to secure the next 

 annual meeting for Atlantic City. It now seems 

 certain that the struggle for the next meeting 

 will precipitate a contest. The delegation will 

 have some strong arguments to bring to bear, in- 

 cluding the fact that there will be no business 

 interests in Atlantic City to detract from the 

 convention itself. 



F. E. Stonebraker, who April 15 became gen- 

 eral southern manager for the Lansing Wheel- 

 barrow Company of Lansing, Mich., in which he 

 recently acquired an interest, has secured offices 

 at 43G-438 Scimitar building. Mr. Stonebraker. 

 who is also president and general manager of 

 the Crittenden Railway Company, which is build- 

 ing a line connecting the Rock Island and St. 

 Louis. Iron Mountain & Southern with termini 

 at Earle and Heath, Ark., reports rapid progress 

 in the construction of this road, which will be 

 completed, with favorable weather conditions, 

 within the next eight or ten weeks. A stretch 

 of track one and one-half miles long will be built, 

 thus connecting the plant of the Lansing Wheel- 

 barrow Company with the main line of the Crit- 

 tenden Railway. A handsome volume of traffic 

 is already assured the new road. 



Another addition to the lumber yards of Mem- 

 phis will be those of the Briggs & Cooper Lumber 

 Company, Ltd., of Saginaw, Mich., which will be 

 established adjacent to those of the Dudley Lum- 

 ber Company of Grand Rapids, Mich. 



The S. C. Major Lumber Company has pur- 

 chased the yards of Lesh & Matthews in North 

 Memphis and will soon remove its offices from 

 the Randolph building to the yards. 



Dispatches received here from Jackson, Miss., 

 are to the effect that the conference committee 

 of the legislature has agreed upon a compromise 

 whereby manufacturing companies of that state, 

 including the big lumber corporations, may hold 

 $10,000,000 worth of personalty and realty in- 

 stead of $2,000,000 worth, the limit heretofore 

 maintained, as advised by the lower house. 



