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HAKUWOOD RECORD 



ing was held simply lor tlie discussion of tlie 

 coaditious of trade. It was aunounced by one 

 of the members that the meeting had nothing to 

 do with the fixing of prices. The officers are as 

 follows; I'resident. O. M. Pruitt. Indianapolis: 

 vice president, C. H. Barnaby, Greencastle, Ind. ; 

 secretary. U. B. Millikan. Indianapolis, and 

 treasurer. C. C. Boyd, Cincinnati. 



The Montgomery Hardwood Lumber Company 

 of Crawfordsville has tiled articles of incorpo- 

 ration with a capital stock of $15,000. The di 

 rectors arc Thomas Hill, Edward A. Sterzick, 

 Harry M. Schqiler, Waller L. Neible, Charles 

 Hammond and Itobert (J. Porter. The incorpo- 

 rators arc all from Flat Rock. Ind., and recently 

 purchased the Evorson sawmill at Crawfordsville. 



Milwaukee. 



A. C. McComb of Oshkosh has secured a tract 

 of about JS.OOO acres of pine and oak lauds in 

 Texas c(juuty, Jlissouri., which lie purchased 

 from A. J. Johnson, the Champion Land & Tim- 

 ber Company and others. It is estimated that 

 it will cut 50,(100.000 feet of yellow pine and 

 20.000.1100 feet of white and black oak. A branch 

 of the Frisco iinc is now building past thi.s 

 tract from Winona, Mo., northward. 



Dealers are looking forward to a stiffening of 

 prices as the demand for hardwoods is con 

 stantly increasing. Hardwood is being put to 

 more uses than in former years, but the supply 

 is not increasing in the same ratio. Manufac- 

 turers of hardwood flooring are Hndlng ready 

 sales for their waste material at $4 a load, 

 many people preferring this wood to coal, claim- 

 ing that if gives the same amount of heat for 

 less money. 



Nashville. 



A disastrous tire occurred Sept. 23 in the 

 yards of Liebermau, Loveman & O'Brien, which 

 destroyed 5.000,000 feet of quartered oak and 

 poplar, a dry kiln and three drying sheds, en- 

 tailing a loss estimated to be between $125,000 

 and $150,000, covered by insurance. 



Two Nashville lumbermen who have been tak- 

 ing extensive vacations and have returned home 

 ready for the fall business are John B. Ransom 

 and John W. Love. 



Henry E. Sanford of the firm of Sanford & 

 Treadway of New Haven, Conn., was in the 

 city during the past week looking over stocks. 

 His company has a yard at Elizabethton, Tenn. 



W. M. Hopkins of the Theo. Fathauer Com- 

 pany of Chicago was in Xashville last week visit- 

 ing local dealers. 



A. T. Haas of the Williams ii, Haas Lumber 

 Company of Fayetteville, Tenn., was in the city 

 Friday. His company has recently inaugurated 

 a big interior finishing plant and is equipped to 

 handle large contracts. 



Itown on Cumberland River things look like 

 old times for the lumbermen and the boatmen. 

 There is a rise of several feet and the low boats 

 are hustling to get down every stick of timber 

 they can reach. The Chauncy Lamb, one of the 

 tow boats of the Xashvijle Transportation Com- 

 pany, of which John B. Ransom is president, 

 came down last week with a million and a half 

 feet of lumber and staves. The boating season 

 will hardly be on in full blast, however, until 

 about November, as the present rise is tem- 

 porary and does not extend all the way up, the 

 water being reported as falling at Burnside. 



The furniture establishment of G. M. Dame 

 at Jasper, Tenn., has been destroyed by fire, 

 entailing a loss of about $2,500, with $1,000 in- 

 surance. 



A syndicate of gentlemen of Galnesboro, Tenn,, 

 in Jackson county, have purchased a timber 

 reservation in Van Buren county. Arkansas, pay- 

 ing about $10,000 for their holdings. The syn- 

 dicate is headed by J. E. Stafford, a well-known 

 Gainesboro merchant. 



John B. Ransom & Co. report the biggest 

 month in their history during August. It is 

 understood that the business done by this influ- 

 ential firm for the one month was considerably 

 over $100,000. 



Hamilton Love is building a pretty home on 

 West End avenue, not many blocks from the 

 handsome residence of his older brother, John 

 W. Love, both of the firm of Love, Boyd & Co. 



Capitalists from Chicago, comprising what is 

 known as the Alabama Coal, Iron & Railroad 



Company, ha\'e closed a deal purchasing 30,000 

 acres of timber lands in Jackson county, Ala- 

 bama, says a special from Scottsboro, Ala. 

 George E. ilcXeil and Jesse L. Austin, both of 

 Chicago, are respectively president and secretary 

 and treasurer of the company. The land is 

 timbered with oak, gum, hickory, poplar, walnut 

 and chestnut. A nine-mile branch railroad is 

 to be built to the tract from the Southern Rail- 

 way at Gurley. 



The Kentucky Stave Company of Louisville is 

 putting in a stave mill at Clarksville, Tenn. 

 Several timber tracts have been acquired near 

 that place. For the present the timber will be 

 worked in the rough and a .finishing plant will 

 be built later. 



A factory to manufacture scrubbing brushes is 

 being establishi'd at Oliver Springs, Tenn. Vanu 

 & Gai'dner are the proprietors. 



Charles S. ilmman, formerly a traveling sales 

 man for Love, Boyd & Co., but now in the lura 

 ber business for himself at Homer, N. Y., was a 

 recent visitor -to the Xashville market. 



Memphis. 



The ruling of the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission in connection with export shipments of 

 cotton, which was looked forward to by lumber 

 exporters as throwing some light on their ex- 

 ports of lumber, has not served to materially 

 clarify the atmosphere. However, the statemeut 

 of the commission, that it concerns itself only 

 with the inland rate and that through bills of 

 lading can be issued on the joint rate, including 

 the inland and ocean rates, has been received 

 with much interest, because, under this ruling, 

 those roads which run via Xew Orleans can issue 

 through bills of lading and are doing so riglit 

 along on both lumber and cotton exports. The 

 roads running to the eastern ports, however, 

 are, with one probable exception, refusing to 

 handle either lumber or cotton for export ship- 

 ment, pending further devehipiuents. The official 

 order of the <-ommission, setting forth the posi 

 tion of this body, has not been received here and 

 this is the cause of much uncertainty and is 

 the occasion of the unwillingness of some roads 

 to handle export shipments of any kind. 



James S. Ilavant, commissioner of the Mem- 

 phis F'reight Bureau, who went to Washington 

 with tlie Memphis cotton committee, was au- 

 thorized by the Lumbermen's (^'lub of Memphis 

 to enter its protest against the enforcement of 

 the thirt.v-da.v notice required under the Hepburn 

 rate bill on export lumber shipments. E. M. 

 Terry, secretary of the National Lumber Export 

 ers* Association, appeared before the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission also, and this is probably 

 responsible for the statemeut contained in press 

 dispatches from Washington to the effect that 

 "the petition of lumber and cotton seed prod- 

 ucts' interests is denied." In speaking of this 

 matter this afternoon, a prominent exporter 

 made the statement that the Washington meet- 

 ing was peculiarly one for the corton people and 

 that the lumber Interests of the country did not 

 voice their sentiments. He holds therefore that 

 the commission, before handing down such a 

 sweeping denial of the so-called petition of the 

 lumber interests, should call a meeting at which 

 the lumbermen of the country could enter their 

 protests. He further expresses the belief that 

 the National Hardwood Lumber Association, the 

 National Lumber Exporters' Association and the 

 other large organizations would take part In 

 such a conference, and he is of the opinion that 

 I he lumbermen will make such a protest against 

 the stand the commission is alleged to have 

 taken without giving the lumbermen a proper 

 hearing. 



Feeling here regarding the reconsigning charge 

 of $5 per car which has been made effective on 

 the Frisco system, St. Louis. Iron ilountain & 

 Southern. St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) 

 Railway and the Rock Island system has become 

 more friendly, largely because of a better under- 

 standing of the meaning of the ruling. The fol- 

 lowing explanation, which lias been made by 

 officials of the interested roads, is largely re- 

 sponsible for the changed sentiment : "When a 

 car is shipped to a junction point or other point 

 and ordered delivered to any railroad for pur- 

 poses of reconsigning and forwarding instruc- 

 tions are given to the agent of the road in whose 

 care the car is billed, the charge does not apply ; 

 nor does it apply when cars are billed to any 

 point and ordered delivered to a consignee other 

 than the one to whom originally billed. The 



only place it applies is in cases where the ship- 

 per, after having originally shipped a car to 

 one point, decides for some reason to change the 

 destination and requests the railroad company 

 to divert the shipment and protect the through 

 rate from original shipping point to final desti- 

 nation." 



The Lumber Exchange of St. Louis has writ- 

 ten a letter to the Lumbermen's Club of Mem- 

 phis protesting against this reconsigning charge 

 of $5 and asking tliat the local organization 

 join with il in fighting the proposition. If it 

 should be discovered that the new ruling is 

 w^orking a hardship on lumber interests in St. 

 Louis, the local organization wiil undoubtedly 

 fall in line and render whatever aid it may be 

 able to give. The additional charge, as out- 

 lined above, is regarded here as justifiable be- 

 cause the railroads are performing an additional 

 service and are entitled to compensation there- 

 for. And further, it is pointed oiU liy a mem- 

 ber, there are ver.v few cases in which the addi- 

 tional charge will apply because there are very 

 few times when the destination of lumber has to 

 be ordered changed. 



There will be a meeting of the Lumbermen's 

 Club of Memphis next Saturday evening at the 

 Hotel <.;ayoso. the first regular meeting of the 

 fall season. The communication from the Lum- 

 Ijer ICxchange of- St. Louis will be laid before the 

 body, and it will then decide what action shall 

 be taken in connection therewith. The Lumber- 

 men's Club enters the new business year with 

 the largest membership in its history. 



Secretary E. M. Terry of the National Lumber 

 ICxporters' Association, who left Memphis sev- 

 eral weeks ago, has returned after an extended 

 trip including Cin<inuati, Buffalo, New York, 

 I'hiladelphia. Baltimore, Norfolk. Washington, 

 Knoxville and Chattanooga. He met many mem- 

 bers of the association and reports that he found 

 everything in splendid shape and learned that 

 members of the organization are much pleased 

 with the manner in which the association is 

 handling the various iiroblems which have arisen 

 from time to time. 



Rapid progress is lieing made on the enlarge- 

 ment of the plant of the Memphis Saw Mill 

 Company, successor to Hugart & Kendal, New 

 South Jlemphis. The company hopes to be in 

 operation by Oct. 1. The plant has been closed 

 down for improvement work for about five or 

 six weeks. 



Russe & Burgess resumed operations this week 

 after a shut-down of about ten days resulling 

 from the installation of new machinery. During 

 the shut-down the firm received heavy shipments 

 of logs and now has enough timber on its yards 

 to insure steady operation for some time. 



The Alabama Coal. Iron & Lumber Company 

 of Scottsboro, Ala., has purchased 30,000 acres 

 of timber, coal and mineral lands in Paint Rock 

 A'alley, near the Alabama-Tennessee state line. 

 A railroad, nine miles long, is being built 

 through the valley. It is estimated that the 

 tract contains three-quarters of a billion feet 

 of hardwood lumber. The company is organized 

 under the laws of South Dakota and has strong 

 financial backing. 



The Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Rail- 

 road Company has employed P. J. Denison and 

 Thomas A. Enochs of Lexington, Tenn.. to get 

 out a large quantity of ties to be used on the 

 western portion of its l>ne. The contract calls 

 for an annual output of 125,000 ties, which are 

 to be delivered at various stations in West Ten- 

 uessee. The employes are empowered to pur- 

 chase the necessary timber lands and employ 

 persons to get out the ties in the woods. 



The Tennessee Stave cSc Box Company, which 

 is capitalized at $200,000, has purcliased a large 

 tract of land in South Memphis on which it pro- 

 poses to erect one of the largest stave and box 

 factories in the city. There will be two prin- 

 cipal buildings, one SOx-00 feet and the other 

 .'JOxSO feet, and the cost will be approximately 

 $75,000. The company is backed largely by 

 Chicago capital. A. H. Kersting. E. J. Hastings 

 and others are the incorporators. 



S. B. Anderson. C. J. Tully and W. B. Morgan 

 of the Anderson-Tully Company have purchased 

 the Memphis Stave Company, including its plant 

 in North Memphis, from George M. Brasfield. 

 and have taken over the operation of the fac- 

 tory. George P. Markham. who was with Mr. 

 Brasfield for some years, will be one of the 

 managers of the company under the new regime. 



