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most competent hands: J. B. Ransom is 

 president; A. B. Kansom, vice president; 

 K. T. Wilson, treasurer, and D. S. Hutchin- 

 son, general manager. 



The Davidson-Benedict Company. 



Tliis concern was organized in 19ni), the 

 firms of Benedict Brothers and the W. V. 

 Davidson Lumber Company consolidating 

 their interests. Two or three years previous 

 to this time, M. F. Green had severed his 

 connection with the Nashville Lumber Com- 

 pany and joined the W. V. Davidson Lum- 

 ber Company. The organization continued 

 as a firm until two years ago, when it w:is 

 incorporated. 



The Davidson-Benedict Company does a 

 general manufacturing and wholesale busi- 

 ness and its operations are distinct from 

 many of the large concerns in this section 

 in that it manufactures fully ninety per 

 cent of all the lumber it handles, taking the 

 timber from its own lands and cutting it 

 at its own mills, thus insuring a constant 

 supply and making the grades more nearly 

 uniform. The business of this concern has 

 grown steadily since its organization until 

 at present it is one of the largest in the 

 state. 



Besides its most complete plant for the 

 manufacture of hardwoods, the company 

 operates a well equipped factory, turning 

 out interior finish. It carries on a large 

 ictail business under the name of the Union 

 Lumber Company and the Standard Furni- 

 ture Company, with a large and up-to-date 



plant, manufacturing high-class furniture, is 

 another of this concern's enterprises. This 

 branch of the business has grown rapidly 

 and employs constantly about -00 men. The 

 advantage of having an abundant supply 

 of lumber is a great benefit in this particu- 

 lar line. W. V. Davidson is president of 

 the Davidsou-Bene<Uct Company, as well 

 as of the various allied concerns; C. B. 



■JKAIM.OAD IIF LOGS. CENKKAL I.I"MI!i:i; 

 COMPANY. 



Benedict is vice president, M. F. (ireene. 

 secretary, and J. X. Hicks, general man 

 ager. 



Love, Boyd & Co. 

 Tlie |ilaiit of Love, Boyd & Co. occupies 

 a long stretcli of land on the ( 'unibcrlanil 

 river in South Nashville, and this repre- 

 sents only a small part of the conijiany's 

 holdings. Love, Boyd & Co. own vast tracts 

 of valuable timber lands in Tennessee and 



Kentucky, operating in all ten mills in dif- 

 ferent sections of these states. These mills 

 cut 100,000 feet of lumber a day — poplar, 

 red and wliite oak, chestnut, ash, sycamore, 

 hickory and red cedar. Tlie concern makes 

 a specialty of quartered oak. The prin- 

 cipal yards and offices are located at Scotts- 

 ville, Ky., where five million feet of lumber 

 is always carried in stock. Another five 

 million feet is distributed among the other 

 yards, making a total stock of ten million 

 teet always on hand. 



The firm of Love, Boyd & Co. is a sort of 

 family organization. ,T. W. Love, .1. W. 

 Boyd, Hamilton Love and J. D. Bead are all 

 related. .J. \V. Love is genera! manager, J. 

 W . Boyd is the timber man, .1. D. Head the 

 s/ivv mill man, and Hamilton Love sales 

 manager. 



Indiana Lumber Company. 



W'lirn. iliirty years ago, K. il. Hamilton 

 I ast about for a place in which to embark 

 in the lumber business he selected Nashville 

 as an ideal location because of its beiiig 

 available to a rich growth of hardwood and 

 conveniently situated on the Cumberland, 

 lie organized the Indiana Luuilier Company 

 in the summer of 1876, and the iie.xt year 

 built a saw mill on the banlcs of the Cum- 

 berland. This was not modern in every 

 respect, but it did good work and cut a 

 lot of lumber every day, and when orders 

 overstepped its limit ami inaile a larger mill 

 necessary Mr. Hamilton had no dirticulty in 

 selling it. A nioilirn band mill has re- 



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