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G. C. Porter, Frank P. Bond, R. D. Goodlett. 

 and C. A. Russell. The company will manufac- 

 ture wooden pins of locust to be used on the 

 arms of telephone and telegraph poles, and will 

 be located at Nulensville, Tenn., a short dis- 

 tance from Nashville. 



The Cincinnati Cooperage Company, which 

 has a number of plants in the state, will begin 

 the operation of a new one at Waynesboro, 

 Tenn., this week. A large tract of timber adja- 

 cent to the mill has recently been purchased, 

 and there is enough of the wood to run the 

 plant for some time. 



An institution in West Nashville that was 

 using considerable hardwood in making han- 

 dles, the Dixie Lawn Mower Manufactory, has 

 been destroyed by fire. The entire plant was 

 burned, entailing a loss of several thousand dol- 

 lars, with but little insurance. The origin of 

 the fire is unknown. 



The DeFord Buggy Company has recently 

 been reorganized, and will greatly increase its 

 present capital stock of $30,000. The incorpora- 

 tors are : R. A. Coleman, Eugene Shannon, J. M. 

 DeFord. J. A. Neihaus, and M. P. Martin. New 

 ofiicers are to be announced in the near future, 

 and well-known Cincinnati capitalists are said 

 to have taken some stock in the concern. The 

 plant will be moved to a site near the railroad 

 and a big factory will be built to be ready for 

 occupancy by January 1, 1907. 



T. P. Ayres. a well-known Nashville lumber 

 dealer, has returned from a several months' trip 

 In Alabama. During his absence he negotiated 

 several big timber deals in that state. Mr. 

 Ayres reports great activity in southern timber 

 lands. He says practically all the good timbered 

 tracts, however, have passed Into the hands of 

 men who either contemplate immediate opera- 

 tion or who are strong enough financially to 

 hold them indefinitely for a further advance. 



A special from Harriman announces that the 

 Little Lumber Company, composed of Kentucky 

 capitalists, has bought about 4,000 acres of 

 timber lands on the Southern Railway near 

 Goline. and will at once begin to develop it. If 

 the railroads grant satisfactory rates on rough 

 logs, sawmills and finishing plants will be 

 erected. 



The Sullivan-Blanks Lumber Company of 

 Shelby county has been granted a charter. The 

 capital stock is ?23,000 and the incorporators 

 are : J. P. Sullivan, H. B. Blanks, A. H. Mur- 

 ray, C. M. Collier, and J. H. Phillips. The 

 Trenton Lumber Company of Gibson county is 

 another concern to which a charter has recently 

 been granted. The capital stock is $10,000 and 

 the incorporators are : W. T. Ingram, T. Har- 

 lan, Mack Morris, D. Weiss, and Paul Harlan. 



R. P. Tucker and R. L. Montague of Charles- 

 ton, S. C, have secured options on about 15,000 

 acres of timber land near Spencer, Tenn. The 

 property will be developed in the near future. 



The Tellico River Lumber Company near 

 Madisonvllle, Tenn., is running a new line of 

 railroad through a 30,000 acre timber tract 

 extending from Tellico Plains to the North Caro- 

 lina line. The company is building a big saw- 

 mill on the Plains. 



Memphis. 

 The ninth annual convention of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association has passed into 

 history. It was a magnificent occasion, and 

 thoroughly enjoyed by every delegate in attend- 

 ance, as well as by the local contingent, which, 

 under the name of the Lumbermen's Club of 

 Memphis, gracefully performed the role of host. 

 Memphis lumbermen made a strong fight for 

 the convention, pledging their utmost to make 

 the occasion both a pleasant and profitable one, 

 and the universal comment is that the Lumber- 

 men's Club of Memphis has done far more 

 than it promised. Everything went off splen- 

 didly and Memphis has, in the opinion of many 

 of the delegates, set a new standard for the 



entertainment of the delegates who will gather 

 at Atlantic City next year. Aside from the 

 pleasures of the occasion, Memphis made only 

 one fight and that was for the presidency and 

 this bore fruit. 



Gustave A. Farber, who has been for some 

 years connected with Price & Heald, Baltimore, 

 and who has been hei-e for that firm for the 

 past year, has withdrawn and gone into busi- 

 ness on his own account. His headquarters are 

 for the present at the office of the J. W. Dick- 

 son Lumber Company in East End. It is under- 

 stood that he will devote his time largely to 

 the export trade, making a specialty of southern 

 hardwoods most wanted. 



The Southern Oak Lumber Company, a branch 

 of a Chicago firm with S. S. Ford in charge, is 

 establishing yards in extreme North Memphis on 

 a tract of about five and one-half acres. It 

 has secured option on other land in the same 

 section and can enlarge its facilities on short 

 notice. 



The Southern Seating & Cabinet Company of 

 Jackson, Tenn.. has changed hands, and the 

 new owners have secured an amended charter 

 providing for an increase from $35,000 to $100,- 

 0(J0 in capital stock. It Is their Intention to 

 enlarge their facilities. The company is engaged 

 in the manufacture of school desks and other 

 hardwood specialties. A new directory has been 

 formed and the following officers chosen : 

 Thomas Polk, president : J. H. Dtike, vice-presi- 

 dent ; F. L. Ingersoll, general manager, and N. 

 S. White, secretary-treasurer. 



Application has been filed for a charter for 

 the .SullIvan-BIanks Lumber Company, capital- 

 ized at $25,000, and formed for the purpose of 

 establishing a hardwood sawmill, planing mill 

 and general lumber plant In Memphis, and prob- 

 ably another in Mississippi. J. P. Sullivan, for- 

 merly connected with J. P. Sullivan & Co., Is 

 the principal spirit in the enterprise and will 

 give his entire time thereto. A. H. Murray Is 

 attorney for the company and one of the incor- 

 porators. Offices are in the Tennessee Trust 

 Building. 



The Illinois Central is actively engaged in con- 

 structing its new road from Corinth, Miss., in 

 the direction of Birmingham, Ala., and officials 

 of the system say that trains will be running 

 between the two points within eight months. 

 The road, traversing northeastern Mississippi 

 and northwestern Alabama, will offer splendid 

 facilities for the development of the timber 

 resources of that section where there are large 

 quantities of hardwoods to be found. 



The Meridian & Tombigbee River Railway 

 Company has made application for a charter for 

 the purpose of building a line from Meridian, 

 Miss., to the Tombigbee River in Choctaw 

 county, Ala., thus making connection through 

 this stream with Mobile, Ala. This road will 

 form an Important link in the railroad facilities 

 of eastern Mississippi and western Alabama. 



Weather conditions have been more favorable 

 In the Memphis district during the past month 

 and good progress has been made in getting out 

 both timber and lumber. There have been 

 heavy rains within the past few days and these 

 may cause a temporary setback, but production 

 has been on a relatively larger scale than for 

 some time. Several of the large Memphis mills 

 have had trouble getting logs, and have had to 

 run on partial time on this account, but most 

 local plants are pretty fully engaged. 



The Interstate Cooperage Company has bought 

 from the Hurricane Iron & Mining Company 13,- 

 500 acres of timber lands near Dickson, Tenn., 

 for $85,000, and will enlarge its plant at that 

 point to facilitate development. 



Local lumbermen have made a liberal re- 

 sponse to the appeals for help for the sufferers 

 from the San Francisco disaster. The total 

 amount contributed by local lumbermen will ex- 

 ceed $1,200. 



George C. Ehemann of Bennett & Wltte re- 

 ports a good demand for hardwood lumber and 

 states that business conditions are in the main 

 satisfactory. 



Russe & Burgess have had some trouble in the 

 operation of their big hardwood mill in North 

 Memphis owing to Inability to bring out an ade- 

 quate supply of timber, but they are now putting 

 a switch into their timber lands, and hope to 

 be able to run without further interruption on 

 this score. 



Louisville. 



The Stotz Lumber Company has done a large 

 volume of business In maple flooring this spring. 

 The revival in the demand for No. 1 common 

 poplar has cleaned up all the company's stock 

 that is dry and ready to ship, and there are still 

 many orders ahead. Business with this concern 

 is very satisfactory in all lines. 



Kirwan Brothers have received a bunch of 

 exceptionally fine logs from Floyd county on 

 Johns creek, a tributary of the Big Sandy. There 

 are 300 in the lot. averaging 32 inches in diam- 

 eter, none under 20 inches and many 40 inches 

 and over. Martin Kirwan says that poplar logs 

 this year cost mlllmen about 40 per cent more 

 on even grades than last year. Oak logs are 

 also higher, so much so. In fact, that Kirwan 

 Brothers have not bought much oak this spring, 

 the first drive consisting mostly of poplar. 



Mark Monday is preparing to move a veneer 

 mill which he owns down on Green river to 

 Loulsyille. He secured the site some time ago, 

 and as soon as he can get materials and erect 

 buildings will set up the mill here. It is his 

 Intention at first to cut quarter-sawed oak veneer 

 exclusively. He will put in a band saw for 

 flitching logs and operate veneer saws for work- 

 ing them up. Later he may add a rotary ma- 

 chine. 



The Berry-Davis Saw Mill Company of this 

 city bought quite a tract of stumpage on the 

 L. & N. recently, and Is now well fixed for a 

 summer log supply. Mr. Davis says business Is 

 good, and while country roads are still muddy 

 they are improving right along and hauling can 

 be done with more satisfaction than a month 

 ago. 



Ed Shippen of the Louisville Point Lumber 

 Company is bringing a lot of walnut logs down 

 the Kentucky river. Just exactly how many 

 there are and how large is not known, but It Is 

 said that it Is the finest bunch of walnut ever 

 brought to this market. The drive at this writ- 

 ing is somewhere near Frankfort. 



Ashland, Ky. 



R. H. Vansant of Vansant, Kitchen & Co. is in 

 Bristol, Tenn., attending a big lumbermen's meet- 

 ing. He will also look in upon the Interstate 

 convention of the Good Roads Association. 



George Clark and J. A. Salmon have gone to 

 Peebles, O., to inspect the timber on the old 

 Peebles estate, a tract of 7,500 acres, more than 

 half of which is virgin growth. 



The sawmill department of the Yellow Poplar 

 Lumber Company at Coal Grove, C, Is closed for 

 repairs, after a run of several months. 



O. D. Garred, of Huntington, W. 'Va., has 

 about completed the work at his camp on the 

 Clear Fork of Coal river, where he has con- 

 tracted to cut timber on a 9,000-acre tract. The 

 timber Is the finest virgin oak and poplar, and 

 there is probably four years' cutting. 



The Chesapeake & Ohio railroad will probably 

 build a new planing mill at Huntington, W. Va., 

 this summer, Its present one not being large 

 enough. The proposed mill will he 300x81 feet 

 in dimensions. It will be fitted with the latest 

 Improved electrical machinery. 



Proceedings were held here last week In the 

 case of the Cranor-Smlth Lumber Company 

 against the Winton Lumber Company of More- 



