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OKFU'K, HEXDEKSON BAKEI! & CO. 



tbe Mi-T-i'au Lumber Company, manut'acturiT 

 aud dealer in hardwood lumber. 



The heading factory is the ouly one of 

 the kind in that section of Tennessee. This 

 part of the business is conducted by I. P. 

 McLean and W. B. Leach. Mr. McLean is 

 probably the oldest and most widely known 

 stave niannfacturer in Tennessee. 



The lumber end of the business is under 

 the supervision of J. H. MeFall, assisted 

 by J. H. and L. D. Johnson, in charge of 

 the milling operations. The company owns 

 large boundaries of timber lands, also con- 

 tracts for lumber. Besides the Nashville 

 plant the company maintains branches at 

 Welch Station, Sparta, White Bluff, Sylvia 

 and Slayden, Tenn. 



Henderson Baker & Co. 



Henderson Baker, although young in 

 years, is old in lumber experience. This 

 firm, organized only five years ago, now 

 occupies a ten-acre piece of ground at Mon- 

 roe and First avenue, constantly supplied 

 with a well assorted stock of about 2,000,000 

 feet of hardwoods. Bed cedar, yellow pop- 

 lar, walnut, oak and ash are its specialties. 

 One band mill with a daily capacity of 30,- 

 000 feet is operated by this concern. This 

 mill was recently damaged by fire and has 

 been rebuilt, a modern and perfectly 

 equipped structure. The company owns tim- 



ber lands in Tennessee and operates one 

 circular mill in the woods. 



Mr. Baker has just formed a new plan- 

 ing mill concern, which is erecting a mod- 

 ern planing mill to turn out dressed stock. 

 This organization is known as the Schef- 

 tuv Lumber Company. 



Central Lumber Company. 



C. W. Cilliland, M. C. Ewiug aud M. F. 

 Fcrriss, composing the Central T, umber Com- 



SCEXE IN YARD, TREWITT-SPUUK JIANU- 

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pany, are manufacturers, wholesalers and 

 retailers of rough and dressed hardwood 

 lumber of all kinds. The present company 

 was organized two years ago, succeeding 

 the G. W. Gilliland Lumber Company. The 

 concern operates a band mill and planing 

 mills, and maintains a large yard on the 

 banks of the Cumberland river at Nash- 

 ville. The company also has large cuttings 



WITHIN YARD, HEN'HERSOX r.AKER & CO. 



under contract in middle Tennessee and 

 Kentucky. 



Standard Lumber & Box Company. 

 W. 11. Cleaves and his brother, J. A. 

 (51eaves, enjoy the distinction of being the 

 pioneer box men of Nashville. These two 

 gentlemen built the first box factory in 

 this city in 1878. Prior to that time they 

 liad been engaged in the lumber business, 

 leaving oi'ganized a company for this pur- 

 pose immediately after the close of the Civil 

 War. The present company was organized 

 I wo j'ears ago with W. H. Gleaves, general 

 manager, J. H. Wiles, Jr., president; K. H. 

 Dudley, secretary, and J. A. Gleaves, vice 

 president. The company has a fine plant 

 (.n the river bank and operates a first-class 

 saw mill, planing mill and carpenter shop. 

 Prior to the organization of this company 

 Messrs. Gleaves owned and operated the 

 Southern Lumber Company. 



Prewitt-Spurr Manufacturing Company. 



This is one of the oldest lumber concerns 

 in Nashville. The original company was 

 organized by Col. William Prewitt and 

 Major M. A. Spurr in 1866 to manufacture 

 red cedar buckets. This wood was then 

 very abundant and red cedar buckets very 

 commonly used. The company was incor- 

 porated in 1872 and reincorporated in 1899. 

 Its present officers are: George P. Thruston, 



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