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Those initiated were : C. E. Scliaefer of Waynes- 

 Tille, C. M. Jennings of Bryson City, A. R. 

 Stlmpson of Tenrose. Lynn Evans Reigbard of 

 Swannanoa. W. C. I'ryor of Aslieville, Judge H. 

 B. Stevens of Asheville, Dr. Carl A. Schenck 

 of the Vanderbilt estate. J. F. Lentz of Ashe- 

 ville, Robert A. Gaitber of Statesville, W. M. 

 Tabor of Swain county, J. B. A. Bennett of 

 Asheville. C. E. Quinland of Waynesville, L. M. 

 Eubank of Andrews, \V. T. McKinney of Bryson 

 City and John E. I'atton of Swannanoa. The 

 banquet was thoroughly enjoyed, as were also 

 a number of short talks. Dr. Sc-henek invited 

 the lliio Hoo to hold their next meeting on the 

 summit of Mount Fisgah, and the invitation 

 was speedily accepted. 



Bristol, Va.-Tenn. 



The Richland Lumber Company has been or- 

 ganized in Bristol with a capital stock of lf2o.- 



000. fully paid in. The oflieers of the new lum- 

 ber corporation are : President, J. H. Bryan of 

 the Bryan Lumber Company ; vice president, 

 Maj. Paul nevine, treasurer of the Soldiers' 

 Home at Johnson City ; secretary-treasurer and 

 general manager, J. Alwyn Cannon of the Citi- 

 zens' bank of Bristol. The new concern owns a 

 large body of valuable hardwood timber along 

 the banks of the W'ateree river, between Sumpter 

 and Colombia, S. C, and will at once install 

 mills and prepare to begin cutting by September 



1. The company will have general offices in 

 Bristol and Mr. Cannon will have charge of all 

 business. It is in the market for all kinds of 

 mill and logging etjuipment, office supplies, etc. 

 The directors are ; J. A. Cannon, J. H. Bryan, 

 Maj. Paul Devine. Dr. T. S. West and E. T. 

 Brown. 



J. A. Wilkinson announces that he will at 

 once begin the erection of a mill, to cost about 

 $50,000, on the Southern Railway yards at 

 South Bristol. Ue has purchased a good-sized 

 mill site and will be much better efpiipped than 

 heretofore. This mill is being built to supplant 

 the one which was burned in this city some 

 three months ago. Mr. Wilkinson will also 

 maintain an assorting yard in Bristol. 



Invitations have been issued to the approach- 

 ing marriage of Ewell Lee Warren, southern 

 manager of the R. E. Wood Lumber Company 

 of this city, to Miss Trula Leigh Keenan of 

 Trenton. Tenn., July 11. Mr. Warren and his 

 bride after a short honeymoon trip will be at 

 home in Bristol. 



Richard N. Jackson of the Kingston Lumber 

 Company, of Laurel. Miss., accompanied by his 

 friends, Messrs. Curry and Davis, of Birming- 

 ham, came to Bristol last week in Mr. Johnson's 

 big touring car and made the trip from Laurel 

 to Baltimore overland. J. Alwyn Cannon joined 

 the i^arty at Bristol and accompanied them to 

 Baltimore. 



C. J. Morrow, a prominent hardwood lumber- 

 man and manager of the properties of the North 

 Carolina Land & Timber Comi)any of Putnam, 

 N. C, came to Bristol last week and spent sev- 

 eral days buying hardwood lumber for shipment 

 to the east. 



Tom H. Mason, a prominent hardwood lumber 

 buyer of Fort Smith. Ark., is the guest of rela- 

 tives and friends at Bristol and .\blngdon. Mr. 

 Mason made the trip from his Arkansas home to 

 Bristol overland in an automobile. He is an 

 old Virginia lumberman and will spend several 

 days in this section. 



Frank Price of Price & Heald has returned to 

 his home at Baltimore after looking after the 

 company's business interests in this section for 

 several days in conjunction with the local man- 

 ager, F. W. Hughes. 



N. B. Bradley, of Bay City. Mich., of N. B. 

 Bradley & Sons and the Bradley Lumber Com- 

 pany, came to Bristol last week and is spend- 

 ing some time in this section as the guest of his 

 son. E. E. Bradley, of Elizabethtown. 



About a dozen of J. A. Wilkinson's inspectors 

 and buyers spent the Fourth in Bristol and 

 were entertained at a banquet given at Hotel 



Tip Top on the evening of the Fourth by Mr 

 Wilkinson. H. M. Hoskins, E. H. Wilkinson 

 and J. A. Wilkinson of Bristol were the only 

 Bristol people present. 



J. E. Brading of Brading & Marshall of John- 

 son City was in Bristol on business last week. 



W. H. Hensley of Scott county. Virginia, was 

 in the city on business last week. 



The Penland Lumber Company has been organ- 

 ized at Marion. Va., with a capital stock of 

 $200,000 and will do a general lumber manufac- 

 turing business. W. S. Burger is president and 

 general manager of the company. C. W. Ansler 

 vice president and E. M. Campbell treasurer. 

 The company is organized to develop extensive 

 timber lands in southwest Virginia and is backed 

 by Pennsylvania capitalists. 



The construction of the Black Mountain rail- 

 way in Lee county. Virginia, which is being 

 backed by Bristol capitalists, is in progress, and 

 it is said the road will be completed within a 

 few months. The road is being built to afford 

 an outlet for timber and coal, and lumber con- 

 cerns will be organized to develop the timber 

 properties on Black mountain. 



Lloyd Hughes, son of O. F. Hughes, a veteran 

 lumberman of Bristol, has returned from West 

 Virginia. whei'C he has been engaged in the 

 lumber business for the past year and a half. 



Valentine Luppert and J. W. Tarman of the 

 Luppert Lumber Company. Inc., of Butler, Tenn.. 

 were in Bristol on business last week. 



John W. Coles of Philadelphia, a hardwood 

 lumberman, is in Bristol buying stock. 



Cincinnati. 



The movement of lumber last month accord- 

 ing to Chamber of Commerce records was as 

 follows : Receipts. 7.522 cars : shipments. 

 6.086 cars. For the same month last year the 

 receipts were 6,311 cars and shipments 5.052 

 cars. 



In June there were issued 361 building per- 

 mits, as against 444 for the corresponding 

 month in 1905. However, the value of im- 

 provements for June this year was $846,000, 

 compared to $635,760 in June. 1905. 



Fred Furgason. for years a well known lum- 

 berman, has been appointed to succeed Wm. 

 Stewart as deputy national inspector at Cin- 

 cinnati. The change was made after a visit 

 by G. L. Smith, surveyor general of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association. 



C. F. Korn, of .the Farriu-Korn Lumber 

 Company, has returned from a short business 

 trip to Cairo. 111. 



T. B. Stone, of the T. B. Stone Lumber Com- 

 pany, is back from a two weeks' vi.sit to various 

 hardwood centers. 



I. M. Asher has resigned as local agent for 

 the Nicola. Stone & Meyers Company of Cleve- 

 land. He has been succeeded by Mr. Morgan. 

 Mr. Asher. together with J. F. Austin. O. L. 

 Layne. P. N. Simon and Fred Frazer, has 

 formed the I. M. Asher Lumber Company. The 

 capital stock, half of which will be 6 per cent 

 preferred, is $20,000. The company will be 

 ready for business in a few weeks. 



A woodworking plant at present located in 

 a large eastern city, has written the Industrial 

 Bureau that it will remove to this city pro- 

 viding a building with at least 75.000 feet of 

 floor space can he obtained. Such a building 

 is now being looked for by officers of the In- 

 dustria' Bureau, who are keeping the name of 

 the company a secret for the present. 



M. B. Farrin. of the M. B. Farrin Lumber 

 Company, has returned from Grand Point, 

 Mich., where his family will spend the sum- 

 mer. Mr. Farrin is arranging his work so that 

 he can make frequent trips during the hot 

 weather to Grand Point. 



The mills of the Kentucky Lumber Company 

 at Burnside and Williamsburg, Ky.. and at 

 Ilaversham. Tenn.. have been forced to sus- 

 pend operations. In the meantime, however, 

 the company is stocking its yards in this city 

 with desirable lots of hardwoods. 



The constitution and by-laws of the Cincinnati 

 Lumbermen's Club will be changed. President 

 Moffett has appointed the following committee 

 to perform that duty : C. F. Korn, chairman ; 

 J. W. Darling and Wm. Stone. 



For more than twenty miles above the city 

 C. Crane & Co. have logs along the shore of the 

 Ohio river. They were fortunate In getting 

 many of their logs out of the mountains of 

 Kentucky and West Virginia before the streams 

 became too low to permit their floating. Ait 

 of the Crane Company's mills are running full 

 time to keep up with the great rush of orders 

 on hand. 



Samuel W. RIcbey of the RIchey. Halsted & 

 Quick Company is in Portland. Ore., where on' 

 June 27 he was wedded to a charming young- 

 lady of that city. Mr. Rlchey's lumbermen: 

 friends here have secured the famous oil paint- 

 ing by John Hauser of this city of "Quick 

 Bull." one of thfe few Indian chiefs left on the 

 government reservation. The painting will be 

 given to Mr. RIchey when he returns next 

 month with his bride. 



Nashville. 



A syndicate of Nashville lumbermen, headed 

 by A. B. Baird. has just closed a deal for a 

 half million acres of timber lands in Mexico 

 near Durango. The property is said to have 

 an abundance of giant white oak and yellow 

 pine. A railroad line has been surveyed from 

 Durango. through the tract, to Mazatland. 



D. S. Hutchinson, of the Nashville Hardwood 

 Flooring Company, is flguring on a handsome 

 home to be built in the Murphy addition, a 

 fashionable residence portion of the city. 



John W. Love, of Love. Boyd & Co.. is now 

 living in his new home on West End avenue, his 

 place adjoining that of John B. Ransom. 



Among the recent visitors to the Nashville 

 market were Martin .T. Mussleman, of the Mehler 

 Lumber Company, of Louisville. Ky.. and A. J, 

 Gall, of the Gall Lumber Company. Ltd., of 

 Toronto. Canada. Mr. Mussleman bought sev- 

 eral cars of hardwood, and Mr. Gall looked ex^ 

 tensively at local stocks. 



Hamilton Love, of Love, Boyd & Co., has re- 

 turned from a stay of several weeks at Mount 

 Clemens. Mich., where he went to take the mud 

 baths for rheumatism. He is somewhat im- 

 proved. 



M; F. Green, of the Davidson-Benedict Com- 

 pany, has returned from a tour of inspection of 

 the properties of the company in South Carolina, 

 and Georgia. 



The E. & N. Manufacturing Company, one- 

 of the largest manufacturers of Interior finish- 

 ing products in the south, has been awarded the 

 contract of furnishing the interior finishings of 

 the new department store that is being erected 

 by the Castner-Knott Dry Goods Company on 

 Church street. Mahoganized birch will be the 

 wood principally employed. 



What is known as the Hill lands, have been 

 sold at Tracy City. Tenn., to C. F. Barnes, Wil- 

 liam Barnes and W. T. Mood.v. of Texas, and 

 Charity Hall, of Chattanooga, for $20,000. The 

 deal includes several thousand acres of virgin 

 timber. 



A copy of the charter of the Wiborg & Hanna 

 Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio, has been regis- 

 tered at the office of Secretary of State John 

 W. Morton. The company will do a lumber and 

 sawmill business in Tennessee. It is iucori)o- 

 rated at half a million dollars. 



Memphis. 



The issuance of a circular by the Missouri 

 Pacific system, announcing that a minimum of 

 40,000 pounds of lumber must he loaded in a 

 00,000-pound capacity car and 35,000 pounds 

 minimum in a car with stated capacity of 40,000 

 pounds, has aroused vigorous protests from lum- 

 bermen, on the ground that such action is un- 

 fair and places them under a handicap which is 

 somewhat serious. One lumberman has already 

 written to the general freight agent of the road 

 declaring that it is impossible to load a mini- 



