HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Grayling, was in tlie city Monday. June 18. 

 Tile summer sales -of furniture opened June 

 IS. witli nearly forty buyei-s on hand, coming 

 mostly from New York and the larger cities 

 of the East. Outside manufacturers were 

 slow in getting their lines ready for inspec- 

 tion. The rush will be on about July 10 and 

 I stood business is anticipated. 



Asheville. 



The lumbermen of western North Carolina 

 will have a good time in Asheville on Tues- 

 day afternoon and evening, July 3. Tuesday 

 afternoon the Asheville Lumber Exchange will 

 hold its regular semi-annual meeting, wliile 

 Tuesday night Hoo-Hoo will gather for a 

 lianquet and the "putting through" of a num- 

 ber of kittens. In view of the fact that the 

 followin.g day is the Fourtli and a general 

 holiday, a large attendance is expected. The 

 most important matter that will come before 

 the Lumber Exchange will be the report of 

 (he committees appointed at the last meet- 

 ing to confer with the freight officials of tlie 

 Southern Railway relative to rates on lumber. 

 These committees will meet the freight offi- 

 cials at Lake Toxaway this montli and their 

 I ''ports will be of much interest to the trade 

 I. this section. The committees will ask for 

 .1 reduction of rates on hemlock, oak and 

 chestnut. 



The timber interests of the AVhittier Lum- 

 ber Company, located in Swain County. North 

 Carolina, will be sold at public auction August 

 «. to satisfy a judgment of $443,000. The 

 bonds issued by the Whittier Lumber Com- 

 pany were originally held by the Morton 

 Trust Company of New York, and it was this 

 company that asked for a judgment of sale. 

 Although the lands will be sold at auction, a 

 deal has already been consummated whereby 

 the "Uliittier holdings have been transferred 

 to a North Carolina company and the sale of 

 the lands under the deci'ee of the- court is a 

 mere matter of form. The lands have been 

 purchased by Chas. J. Harris and Mr. "Wood- 

 bury and the company now owning the prop- 

 erty is known as the Han'is-Woodbury Com- 

 pany. The lands embrace 70.000 acres. ?^d 

 are valued at half a million dollars. 



Bristol, Va.-Teim. 



A deal is being negotiated between New 

 York capitalists and the Virginia Iron. Coal 

 & Coke Company of this city, for the pur- 

 chase by the latter of about .$100,000 worth 

 of rich timber and mineral lands in Carter 

 and Johnson counties. 



The Tug River Lumber Company is replac- 

 ing the band mill recently destroyed by fire 

 at Mabe. Scott County, Va., with a large cir- 

 cular mill. 



The Kingsport Lumber Company is a new 

 corporation organized by the George L. Carter 

 syndicate. This company has its general of- 

 fices in Bristol and will manufacture lumber 

 on the line of the new South & Western Rail- 

 way being constructed by Mr, Carter. Thomas 

 F. Ryan. Alfred Walter, the latter president 

 of the Seaboard Air Line, and others. The 

 company will dispose of about 15.000,000 feet 

 of lumber on the yards of the Caretta Lum- 

 ber Company, another Carter concern, at 

 I'Mretta. McDowell County, W. Va. 



Paul \V. Fleck of the Paul W. Fleck Lum- 

 ber Company of Philadelphia is in Bristol and 

 will spend several days looking after his 

 company's business in this section. 



George B. Peter spent last week in Shady. 

 Johnson County, Tenn.. where he went to 

 hurr.y up orders at the mills and ship out 

 considerable stuff. 



John T. Dixon of the John T. Dixon Lum- 

 ber Company of Elizabethton, Tenn., and 

 Dixon & Dewey of New York was in Bristol 

 last week en route from Ronceverte, W. Va.. 

 to Elizabethton. Mr. Dixon says that busi- 

 ness with liis concerns is good and he is 

 pleased with the outlook. 



G. L. Wood. Asheville, N. C., and K. E. Wood, 



Baltimore. Md.. of the R. E. Wood Lumber Com- 

 pany were recent visitors to Bristol. 



J. A. Wilkinson has lately made a tour of 

 inspection of his country mills in Virginia and 

 West Virginia, and reports good business and 

 heavy shipments. 



Frank Price of Price & Heald. the Balti- 

 more exporters, has been in this section for 

 several days in company with the local rep- 

 resentative of the concern. Fred W. Hughes. 

 Mr. Price and Mr. Hughes are closing up sev- 

 eral big log contracts in this section. 



M. Dreyfus and N. Dreyfus, representing 

 big lumber importing interests in Paris, 

 France, have been spending several days in 

 Bristol studying the lumber conditions of the 

 South. They will make heavy contracts be- 

 fore returning to their native land, and will 

 visit other parts of the South. 



H. W. Nelly, who represents the Rumbarger 

 Lumber Company of Philadelphia in this sec- 

 tion, reports lieavy shipments and business 

 good. This company, besides controlling the 

 entire output of the mills of the Unaka Lum- 

 ber Corporation of Johnson City, Tenn., oper- 

 ates extensively in eastern Tennessee and 

 western Nortli Carolina and has big contracts 

 at Mountain City, Tenn.. and Madison. S. C. 

 which Mr. Ncily looks after. 



John A. Sproles, manager of the yards and 

 office of J. A. Wilkinson at Butler. Tenn . was 

 married in Bristol last week to Miss Eliza- 

 beth Butler, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Roy B. 

 Butler of Johnson County. Mr. Sproles is a 

 promising young lumberman, while his bride 

 is a young woman of strong character and 

 high ideals and comes of a prominent family. 



H. C. Travis, who has for several years 

 been connected with the Bristol Door & Lum- 

 ber Company as superintendent of its big saw 

 and planing mills in Bristol and was later 

 associated with the Stone-Huling Lumber 

 Company, has gone to Brunswick. Ga., to en- 

 gage in the lumber business. 



The Southern Milling & Construction Com- 

 pany was incorporated at Princeton, W. Va.. 

 last week, with a capital stock of $25,000 by 

 R. B. -Bird, W. C. Broyles. J. E. T. Sentz. 

 J. R. Henry and W. J. Lyon. The company 

 will engage in buying, manufacturing and 

 shipping lumber and building material. Under 

 its cliarter the company can own as much 

 as 10,000 acres of timber land or real estate. 



Cincinnati. 



The annual outing of the Lumbernn'u's Club 

 was held at the Zoo Saturday. June 16. and 

 was pronounced b.v the members to be the 

 most enjoyable of any of the yearly affairs 

 given by the club. An informal reception early 

 in the evening was followed by an elaborate 

 banquet on the veranda of the clubhouse. The 

 menu cards were unique, the covers being of 

 veneer wood from Japan, no thicker than an 

 ordinary calling card. President T. J. Moffett 

 was toastmaster. 



Arrangements have been made for a con- 

 catenation of Hoo-Hoo in this city on Satur- 

 day, June 30. The program includes daylight 

 and moonlight excursions on the Ohio, with 

 music and dancing, besides a banquet. It is 

 expected that many members with their ladies 

 will attend. J. E. Tuthill of this city is Vice- 

 gerent Snark for southern Ohio. This will be 

 the first Hoo-Hoo convention held at Cincin- 

 nati for a long time, and all resident members 

 are especially invited to be on hand. 



In speaking of the hardwood situation Ches- 

 ter F. Korn of the Farrin-Korn Dumber Com- 

 pany says: "Conditions at present are pecul- 

 iar. Hardwood buyers, who were holding off 

 expecting a decline in sympathy with that in 

 yellow pine, have come into the market again. 

 With a scarcity of dry stocks prices are well 

 maintained. It is likely that prices will 

 remain as at present until the new crop of 

 logs arrives in normal tiuantities. Adverse 

 weather conditions have materially interfered 

 with production and I believe it will be as late 



as September 1 before receipts assume satis- 

 factory proportions." 



Fl-ed W. Pierce of the Piei-ce Lumber Com- 

 pany, London, O.. and Mrs. Barara Bailey of 

 the same town were wedded in this city on 

 June 10. The ceremony was quiet, after which 

 the couple left for a brief tour. 



M. B. Farrin. accompanied by his family, 

 will leave for their summer home in Michigan 

 the fore part of next month. Mr. Farrin will 

 return two weeks later, but the family will 

 remain. 



Joseph B. Cochran, president of the Coch- 

 ran Lumber Company, filed a petition in Ijank- 

 ruptcy in the Federal court recently. He 

 was located at 1213 Gest street, but some time 

 ago the business was placed in the hands of a 

 receiver. Mr. Cochran's liabilities were placed 

 at $20,531.65. The assets amount to less than 

 $800. 



John C. Bowling of the Bowling-Short Com- 

 pany. Dewey, Ky.. has visited local dealers 

 several times within the month on business 

 connected with his firm. 



The Queen City Furniture Club has admit- 

 ted W, T. Duhlmeier of Duhlmeier Bros, and 

 R. S. Wiggers. another hardwood lumberman, 

 to membership. The club has indorsed the 

 action of the Manufacturers' Club in its cam- 

 paign to secure a belt line around Cincinnati. 

 T. J. Moffett is chairman of tlie committee of 

 the Manufacturers' Club having the belt line 

 proposition in charge. 



Harry Freiberg, president of tlie Freiberg 

 Lumber Company, is in Canada on business. 

 He will shortly return. 



R. J. Darnell of Memphis and Charles W. 

 Hinckley of Chicago were recent callers on 

 the local trade. 



August H. Strubbe has been appointed ad- 

 ministrator of the estate of William J. 

 Strubbe. his brother, who owned 25,000 acres 

 of timber and coal lands in Pulaski and Wayne 

 counties. Kentucky, and Scott county. Ten- 

 nessee. 



Nashville. 



Local planing mills and interior woodwork- 

 ing plants report an increase in business of 

 from 25 to 40 per cent over the first six months 

 of last year. As may be imagined from this, 

 the mills are all busy turning out material 

 for the hundreds of houses in course of erec- 

 tion here. A revision of the local building 

 laws is being considered by the Nashville city 

 council and it is probable that in tlie future 

 heavier material will be put in all houses. 



The fire loss on the furniture stock of the 

 Greenfield - Talbot - Finney - Battle Furniture 

 Company has been adjusted by the insurance 

 companies. The salvage invoiced at $40,000 

 and was taken charge of by the insurance 

 companies, and in turn placed by them in 

 the hands of the Samuel Gans Company of 

 Chicago, handlers of salvage merchandise. 

 The latter company will sell out the stuff in 

 the near future in Nashville. 



Gallatin. Tenn.. boasts of a brave mtln. A 

 few days ago a big swarm of bees lighted in 

 the branches of a big oak ti-ee in that town 

 and a large crowd was attracted. Various 

 methods of enticing the honey makers to 

 leave their lofty position and come down 

 where they could be used were unavailing. 

 Finally a man. more resourceful and likewise 

 gamer than the rest, climbed the tree. Tak- 

 ing a handsaw he sawed off the limb. He 

 then returned the fallen swarm to a hive, 

 amid the shouts of the crowd. 



A noise that was really the blowing of a 

 safe by dynamite was mistaken at Springfield, 

 Tenn., for blasting on railroad work. By rea- 

 son of the mistake burglars got a small sum 

 from the safe of the Springfield Planing Mill 

 and had time to make their escape before any 

 one learned the true cause of the explosion. 



Col. A. G. Goodlett of Nashville has gone 

 to Smitli county to look after the survey of 



