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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Laurel Hiver Lumber Company of Damascus, 

 about twenty miles from Bristol, was recently 

 in tliis section, inspecting the latter company's 

 plant and mills at Damascus. The Laurel River 

 Lumber Company is installing three large new 

 band mills at its mill at Damascus. 



Jerome H. Shelp of Shelp & Vandegritt of 

 Philadelphia was recently in this section loolsing 

 over numerous operations, ostensibly with a 

 view of investing in lumber and veneering opera- 

 tions. 



The Tidewater Lumber Company, operating at 

 Glamorgan and Dewey, Va.. near Pound's Gap, 

 has just installed six large band mills. The 

 company has just completed a logging road, 

 which has been christened the Indian Creek & 

 Pound River Railway, and shipments are now 

 going over same. The company will locate three 

 other mills at once in the Cumberland Moun- 

 tains, and the railroad will be further extended. 



H. O. Spanger and associates are about to 

 begin cutting timber on their timber lands 

 purchased in Lee county, Virginia, near Jones- 

 ville, some time ago, and have established three 

 portable mills. It is estimated the land will 

 :i.").i 100,000 feet of timber. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company of Buf- 

 falo, X. y., has representatives in this section 

 of Virginia and in western Kentucky with a 

 view to investing in lumber manufacturing en- 

 terprises. 



The railroad struggle in North Carolina is 

 apparently settled and the Southern has either 

 temporarily or permanently abandoned work on 

 the extension which was started with a view of 

 paralleling George L. Carter's railroad, which 

 is being built from Ohio to the South Atlantic 

 seaboard and known as the South & Western. 

 The work on Carter's road is progressing rap- 

 idly and thousands of laborers are at work on it. 

 This road will open up a large area of virgin 

 forests which will produce some of the finest 

 hardwoods in the country. The land has been 

 purchased almost entirely by the George L. 

 Carter syndicate. 



Judge T. H. Harvey of Huntingdon. W. Va.. 

 has purchased a valuable tract of timber land 

 near the Kentucky-Virginia boundary which he 

 will develop. 



Vicegerent D. E. Matthews of Charleston. 

 W. Va., and Vicegerent T. W. Fugate of Rich- 

 lands, Va.. will hold a joint concatenation at 

 Bluefields. W. Va., May 11. They have au ex- 

 cellent class of initiates in sight, and will un- 

 doubtedly have a most successful and enjoyable 



meeting. 



Cincinnati. 



Cincinnati's delegates to the convention of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association at Mem- 

 phis have returned and settled down to business. 

 They have no kick coming at the way they were 

 treated in general, but all were disappointed over 

 T. J. Moffett's defeat for the presidency. Dele- 

 gates from a number of eastern cities returned 

 with the local party. 



R. E. McCraeken of the Kentucky Lumber 

 Company is ill at his home with typhoid fever. 

 His condition is not regarded as serious. 



The Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club gave $100 

 to the fund being collected in this city for 

 the sufferers from the San Francisco earthquake. 

 Nearly every hardwood firm contributed through 

 the Chamber of Commerce or Business Men's 

 Club. 



According to the compilations of the Chamber 

 of Commerce statisticians the movement of lum- 

 ber during April was as follows : Receipts, 6,875 

 cars ; shipments, 5,398 cars. In April, 1905, the 

 receipts amounted to 6,261 cars, while ship- 

 ments were 5,036 cars. 



The Maley, Thompson & Moffett Company is 

 adding new machinery to its mammoth plant at 

 Eighth street and McLean avenue. Several new 

 buildings are also in course of construction. 



The H. Leet Company has been incorporated 

 with $45,000 capital by Horace Leet. E. M. 

 Frank and others. They will conduct a general 

 hardwood business at Portsmouth. 



Tlie Cincinati Cooperage Company, which has 

 a number of stave mills in Tennessee, has begun 

 operating them again, after eight months' idle- 

 ness. 



Building Inspector Tooker reported that 406 

 permits for improvements, estimated at .$1,006,- 

 U'20, were issued last month. For the same 

 period last year there were 372 permits, valued 

 at $1,004,285. 



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

 pany, is home from a flying trip to New York. 



B. F. Dulweber. of John Dulweber & Co., is 

 in Louisiana on business. 



Two Cincinnatians. James and Thos. Gassier, 

 who believe there will be a great opportunity 

 to make money in the lumber business in San 

 Francisco, left for that city the early part of the 

 month to engage in business. Both have had 

 experience with local firm's. 



Leland G. Banning and a number of friends 

 left last week for a trip to Europe. They will 

 be gone about four months and will take a look 

 at Mt. Vesuvius while abroad. 



S. Tuthill, of the Cypress Lumber Company, 

 has recovered from a severe attack of pneu- 

 monia. 



Harry J. Freiberg, of the Freiberg Lumber 

 Company, Poplar street and JIcLean avenue, is 

 in Mexico, buying mahogany logs. He will not 

 return until next month. 



The W. E. Talbert Lumber Company, with 

 main office at Greensburg, Ind., and mills at 

 Morris, Ind., is erecting a band sawmill at Win- 

 ton Place, a Cincinnati suburb. The company 

 hopes to have the mill in operation in about 

 three weeks, and expects to do an extensive busi- 

 ness in hardwood and poplar. 



Chattanooga. 



A number of Chattanooga lumbermen at- 

 tended the annual meeting of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association in Memphis, May 

 3 and 4. In speaking of the meeting M. M. Erb, 

 vice-president of the Case Lumber Company, 

 said : "Memphis lumbermen proved themselves 

 most hospitable hosts, and the manner in which 

 they entertained the visiting lumbermen cannot 

 be too highly complimented. The excursion given 

 on the Mississippi river was a thoroughly en- 

 joyable occasion." 



J. C. Morrison of Menlo, Ga.. who bought an 

 interest in the planingg mill establishment of 

 C. C. Arnold at East End some time ago has 

 sold his interest to Brown Bros, of Sequachee 

 City, Tenn. 



The Zack Taylor Lumber Company, which re- 

 cently purchased the buildings, etc., of the 

 Chattanooga Boat Oar Company, which aban- 

 doned its business here, has installed a new 

 system of blow pipes in its large lumber plant. 

 James Long, a lumberman of wide experience, 

 has become foreman for the Zack Taylor Lumber 

 Company. 



Robert Morrison of the Consumers' Lumber 

 Company and the Acme Kitchen Furniture Com- 

 pany has returned from a two weeks' vacation, 

 which was spent at St. Simon's Island, Ga. Mr. 

 Morrison always takes his vacation early in the 

 spring. 



Hugh McLean of Buffalo, N. 1'., president of 

 the Hugh McLean Lumber Company, recently 

 inspected the branch plant in this city. 



J. D. Case of RMshville, Ind., leading stock- 

 holder in the Case Lumber Company of this 

 city, arrived here Saturday. 



James Buckley of Brookville, Ind., was a 

 visitor here recently. 



Ferd Brenner of the Ferd Brenner Lumber 

 Company is in Norfolk, Va. 



designs of planing mill work, sash, doors and 

 blinds and fancy mantels. It is located at First 

 and Dock streets. 



The Garetson-Greason Lumber Company has 

 erected a new box factory at Fisk, Mo., to manu- 

 facture box shocks. The company reports busi- 

 ness very active, with all the orders It can 

 handle with stocks as low as they are at present. 



The Ozark Cooperage Company reports busi- 

 ness very good, but finds some trouble in getting 

 out orders on account of the bad weather at its 

 southern mills. 



One of the prominent visitors of the past fort- 

 night was W. H. Sill of the Minneapolis Lumber 

 Company, Minneapolis, Minn. He was booking 

 orders for car material. 



The Chas. F. Liebke Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany has plenty of logs on hand and is cutting 

 a great deal of oak, ash and Cottonwood. This 

 concern reports a brisk demand extending to 

 practically all hardwoods. 



The annual convention of the National Lumber 

 Manufacturers' Association will be held in St. 

 Louis, May 8 and 9. at the Jefferson Hotel. 



A meeting of the Lumberman's Exchange of 

 St. Louis was held on Saturday afternoon, April 

 21, for the purpose of raising money tor the re- 

 lief of San Francisco sufferers. A committee 

 composed of E. H. Warner, C. E. Thomas and 

 John F. Scobett was appointed to solicit sub- 

 scriptions. The total subscriptions thus far 

 received amount to $1,350, 



F. C. Moore, president of the F. C. Moore 

 Lumber Company, left Tuesday evening on an 

 extended trip through Arkansas and Louisiana, 

 looking after their interests in that section of 

 the country. 



Tlie R. N. Collins Vehicle Woodwork Company 

 is now occupying the Huttig Sash & Door Com- 

 pany's plant. 



The St. Louis Car Company has increased its 

 capital stock from $2,000,000 to $2,500,000. It 

 is erecting a new plant up in Baden, the extreme 

 northern section of St. Louis, for the specific 

 purpose of manufacturing steel cars and auto- 



St. Louis. 



The plant of the St. Louis Basket & Box 

 Company was badly damaged by fire April 20. 

 The loss, as stated by the company, is $1,000 on 

 building and $2,000 on stock and machinery. 



The Hafner Manufacturing Company has 

 opened up a sample room to display its various 



Nashville. 



Local lumbermen have been visited by quite a 

 number of out of town lumber dealers during 

 the past week. J. W. Smith, of the Smith Sash 

 & Door Company of Rochester, N. T., spent sev- 

 eral days in this section. He bought a large 

 amount of chestnut, probably close to 300,000 

 feet, and he paid from $30 to $40 a thousand. 

 Ralph E. Sumner, manager of Hamilton H. 

 Salmon & Co. of New York, spent several days 

 in Nashville recently, visiting the trade and 

 conferring with his local representative, John 

 .1. Miller. Oscar Gartner, an exporter from New 

 Orleans, was a recent visitor. He was here meet- 

 ing the dealers and looking into trade conditions. 



John B. Ransom of John B. Ransom & Co. 

 has gone to St. Louis to attend the convention 

 of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion. T'he Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion is affiliated with this organization, and Mr. 

 Ransom went as the delegate of that body. 



J. W. Warren, general manager of the Edge- 

 field & isiashville Manufacturing Company, has 

 returned from a visit to a mill owned by his 

 company at Crawford, Tenn. 



Arthur B. Ransom of John B. Ransom & Co. 

 leaves shortly for an extended visit to the East. 



A charter has been granted to the Cumberland 

 Plateau Coal & Timber Land Company, with a 

 capital stock of $350,000. The incorporators 

 are : William Cooper, of Cumberland county ; 

 Josepu Huffaker of Louisville, Ky. ; J. E. Jones 

 of Monterey, Tenn. ; L. D. Smith of Knoxville ; 

 and J. T. Odum of Lebanon, Tenn. The com- 

 pany owns about 75,000 acres of undeveloped 

 timber and ore lands in Cumberland, Fentress 

 and Morgan counties. Several big sawmills are 

 to be installed at an early date to prepare the 

 timber for market. 



The Russell Manufacturing Company has been 

 organized at Nashville with a capital stock of 

 $10,000. The incorporators are : E. S. Russell, 



