HARDWOOD RECORD 



4.S 



HARDWOOD NEWS. 



Vontijinftl (I'ljub pufjv ^S. 



The Imperial Kurnilurt' Company of this city, 

 manufacturing tal)Ies. is oporatlni; its plant 

 thirteen hours a day. Some of thi- other fac- 

 lorifs are also runnius overtime. 



Bristol, Va.-Tenu. 



K. L. Edwards of Imylon. < >., Is spending: 

 some days in this .si-iiion. Mr. Kdwards han- 

 dles the output of a nviinber of mills throughout 

 i^ast Tennessee and Western North Carolina. 



The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company is work 

 ing hard in an effort to have their new l)and 

 mill at Hampton. Carter County, Tennessee, 

 completed and ready for operation hy .Tanuary 

 1st. A railroad (standard gauge) is being buill 

 from Klizabethton lo Hampton, a distance of 

 about eight miles, and a narrow gauge railroad 

 is under course of construction from the com- 

 pany's mill site at ITampton. up Tiger's Creek to 

 its timber lands, a distance of some twelve 

 miles. 



A charter has been granted lo the White Top 

 llailway Company, which is being built through 

 Washington, Smyth and Grayson counties, Vir- 

 ginia, by the Hassingi-r Lumber Company, of La- 

 mona, I'a. This company has purchased one of 

 the biggest tracts of timber in southwest Vir- 

 ginia and is preparing to develop same. The in- 

 corporators of the new concern held a meeting 

 at Abingdon, Va., on September 2r>. and elected 

 the following ortieers : I'resident. W. A. Hass'n- 

 ger. Abingdon. Va. ; vice president. .1. H. Has- 

 singer, Lamona. l*a. : secretary. .1. Iby Hurt. 

 Abingdon, Va. ; t rea.su rer. L. C. Hassinger. 

 Azen. Va. The principal offices of the company 

 will be at Hazen. Vn. The company will con- 

 struct a large band mill and will begin cutting 

 timber as quickly as possible. 



W. S. Feagin. of Ilristol. lias closed a deal for 

 1.000,000 feet of lumber in the lower end of 

 Sullivan county, about seventeen miles from 

 Ilristol. This stock will be manufactured at 

 ISristol, and shipped from there. 



U. F. Clapp. of Tauther. West Virginia: < >- C. 

 Hathaway, of Hampton, Tenn. ; H. H. Andrews, 

 of I'anther, and K. tl. Page, of Hampton, ofh- 

 <-ials of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, 

 nf Columbus. Ohio, spent part of last week in 

 Lristol on important business. 



W. O. Price, of the W. O. Price Lumber Com- 

 liany, of Baltimore, Md.. was a visitor in the 

 _ rity last week. Mr. Price is buying hardwood 

 sioek in large quantities in this section. 



L. R. Bylor. purchasing agent of the Pennsyl- 

 vania railroad, was a recent visitor to the local 

 market. Mr. P.yloi- has bought 1^00,000 feet of 

 line oak at Gate City, and is making numerous 

 other purchases in this district. The lumber is 

 being shipped to Altoona. I'eunsylvania, for use 

 in the construction of Pennsylvania railroad 

 '■i|uipment. 



The Douglas Lumber Comijany has coustruett-d 

 a twelve-mile line of railroad extending from 

 the company's mill near Laureldale. Va.. into 

 a richly timbered section of southwest Virginia. 



The Came-Wyman Lumber Company is con- 

 structing seven miles of standard gauge rail- 

 road from Swastika, near Bluff City, ten miles 

 south of Bristol, into its timber properties. 

 The company lias piu-ehased a 3,000 acre tract 

 of timber near Elkanah and the logs will he 

 brought out over the new road to the V. & 

 S. W., and thence direct to Bristol, where they 

 will be cut at the hand mill of the Bristol Door 

 iS; Lumber Company. The company has already 

 purchased the larger part of its railniad equip- 

 mi'ut. and is contemplating the eretion of a 

 hand mill on their timber tract. 



The Collins Lumber Company has i>urchased 

 ibe property of the Klkhurst I'lauing Mill Com- 

 pany, at Elkhurst. W. Va. The company now 

 has one of the best equipped wood working 

 phinis in West Virginia. 



Franklin I'. Pishion. of the Tug River Lum- 

 ber (.'ompany. leaves this week for an important 

 business trlj) to I'hiladelphla and New Vt)rk. 



Paul W. I'^leck of Philadelphia wns a recent 

 visitor to the city. 



Cincinnati. 



'I'he proposed belt railroad and thi? trans 

 liortation question in general were discussed at 

 the meeting c(f the Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club 

 held Monday nigiit, Oct. L nt the P.usiness Men's 

 Club. .lames T. McHugh. who Is rhairmnn of 

 the TeriUinal Committee of thi- Businr-ss Men's 

 Club, spoke on the belt road, and E. E. Wll 

 liamson. c()mmlssloner of the Receivers' and 

 Shippers' Association, spoke on general trans 

 portatiou. 



Thi' following new members were jidinii leil : 

 The Sterritt Lumber Company, lb.- Uii-mciei- 

 Lumber Company, the X'. S. 'riiiilicr Coini»iiiiy 

 ami Wildberg Lumber Company. 



Presidi'nt Moffett appointed B. F. Dulweber. 

 <'bester F. Korn and W. W. Stone delegates to 

 the ultio State Railroad Commission meeting ai 

 Columbus on Oct. 18. At this meeting the re 

 consignment charge case against the B. tS: O- 

 S. W. Railroad will be heard. Other questions 

 in which lumbermen are vitally interested will 

 also be discussed. 



The lumber movement for Septc-mber was as 

 follows: Receipts, (>.I'J4 cars; shtpmenis, 4. 7^11 

 cars. For tiie same months Inst year receipts 

 aggregated 0,292 cars and shii>mi'nts 4,lH)ri cars. 



The exhibit of the Lumbermen's Club at the 

 fall festival which ended Sept. 2s was donated 

 to the <'incinnati University of <'incinnati f(»r 

 the instruction of students. The exhibit at 

 traded more than 200 lumbermen from other 

 cities during the month's run of the festival and 

 club members secured much business. George 

 Ltttleford was chairman of the committee in 

 charge of the exhibit. 



C. Crane & Co. have 200.000 logs along thr 

 Kanawha River and part of them will be tloate 1 

 down as soon as the tide reaches a suital)b' 

 stag!'. "Fortunately we do not need the logs 

 right now," said C. Crane. "General luml)ei- 

 business is in excellent shape with us.'" 



Tln' Wildberg Lumber Company, a new cori)o 

 lation at Arlington Heights, a suburb, is enjoy 

 ing a fine business at present. Horace Wildberg 

 and brothers are at the head of the firm. 



The Freiberg Lumber Company, with mills ;ii 

 poplar, Findlay and McLean avenue, has re 

 sumed operations after a shut-down because (if 

 no logs. They have a fine assortment now and 

 will he kept busy for some lime Tlu' lirtn is 

 specializing in mahoganj'. 



The Baldwin Piano Company has acquired 

 considerable additional property and will estab 

 lish yards where lumber can be kept for yenrs. 

 Tliey will also build new woodworking shops. 



(>. V. Uurd of O. P. Hurd. Jr.. & Co.. Cairo. 

 HI., spent Ills vacation here last mouth. The 

 Hurd conipany was located in this city until a 

 yeaj- ago. 



Nashville. 



The skating rink fad has n-sulled in a heavy 

 demand for beech and other hardwood lloor 

 ing. Orders for new rinks are reported to In- 

 coming in all the time and the demand for 

 beech, which is used for the flooring, has result- 

 ed in advanced prices. Beech makes excellent 

 flooring, takes a high polish and is hard and 

 durahh'. 



.John B. Ransom of .lohn B. Ransom tfe Co.. 

 returned Saturday night from a stay of several 

 days in Xew York, where he attended a meeting 

 of the special oonimittee of the .Methodist 

 Episcopal Cliurch, South. 



Arthur B. Ransom is attending the annual 

 session of the Tennessee Conference at Lebanon. 

 Tenn.. thirty miles from Nashville. 



Richard Wilson of the Nashvilh; lIardwo()d 

 Flooring *"ompany. accompanied by Mrs. Wil- 

 .son. is making an extended stay in New York. 



.liihii W. Love of Love. Boyd & Co. reports 



business very good, with an exceptional di'niand 

 for plain oak. 



W. J. Cude of Kimmins. Tenn.. is in Louis- 

 villr atti'udiiig a meeting of the creditors of^ 

 I be Stokes Lumber Company. 



W. A. Ransom, head of the Gayoso Lumber 

 Company of Memphis, was a recent visitor to 

 ibi' city, accompanied l>y John Laskey. one of 

 the salesmen for that concern. 



J. R. Russell of Bowling Green. Ky.. was 

 a recent visitor to the local market. He is 

 looking around for beech flooring for a skating 

 link to be built there. 



One of the most attractive booths and ex- 

 hibits at the big Tennessee State Fair, which 

 took place on Monday and continued for a 

 week, is that of tlic Nashville Hardwood Floor- 

 ing Company. In a space 10 by 12 feet square 

 the company lias laid a lot of fancy flooring in 

 squares and strips, with plain and fancy bor- 

 ders, all highly polished. Wax and felt brooms. 

 floor wax and other items incident to floor 

 keeping, are included in the exhibit. 



A special from (.'loyd's Landing. Ky.. stales 

 that K. E. Turner & Co. have bought a tract 

 of timber lands near there containing several 

 million feet. They have erected a saw mill 

 on it ;iiid will market tin- rimbt-r at an early 

 dair. 



l-'rank Kyle, son of Hugh Kyle, a prominent 

 lumberman of Celina, Tenn., at the mouth of 

 lb'- famous nhed river, was in the city Satur- 

 day. 



Ill till- recL'UI heavy rains around Middle 

 Tennessee a hirge quantity of staves were lost 

 near White Bluff, Tenn., Joseph Brown at that 

 l)lace losing a quantity valued at $14,000. 

 Not only were the staves washed away, but 

 the factory was badly damaged by water and 

 mud. 



I.ii'berman. Loveman & O'Brien, who recently 

 sustained a severe loss by fire, are handling 

 their usual big business as though nothing had 

 happened, drawing from their five other yards 

 ii! this section. 



The Abbott Luml>er Company of St. Louis 

 has bought the planing mill of the O. G. Gard- 

 ner Lumber Company of Jackson, Tenn., and 

 will enlarge the capacity of the same. The 

 firm has contracted for 100,000,000 feet of 

 hardwood lumber for delivery at Jackson. 



Josepli Whited has sold his stave mill at 

 White Bluff to George (Jiltiland of Nashville. 



The Lamb-Fish Lumber Company of New 

 Jersey, capitalized at $l.oOO,000. has registered 

 Its charter at the state capital for the purpose 

 uf engaging in business in Tennessee. 



Mwing to the excessive rains of the past two 

 or three weeks there is a good tide on in the 

 Ciunberland river and (piite a quantity of logs 

 lijivr come down. 



Memphis. 

 Secretary E. M. Terry, of the National Lum- 

 ber Exporters' association, is back from an 

 lOastern trip on which he combined business 

 and pleasure. He visited Cincinnati. Buffalo, 

 .Niagara Falls. New York. Philadelphia. Balti- 

 more. Niu'folk, Washington, Knoxvilb' and Chat- 

 tanooga. He nwX nearly all the members ()f 

 tlu' association and got much closer in toueli 

 with tliem and their work than he had been 

 previously. While at Norfolk he took up with 

 Ibe I'nited Sliipping C(!mpany the (piestion of 

 lestoring gum to fho liardwood list and today 

 he received ofliclal advices from that concern 

 to tlu' effect tliat it had taken this action. 

 .\!l the .southern sleamship Hues with the ex 

 (■ejition of those operated by the United States 

 Shipiuug Company out of Norfolk have been 

 <-lassifylng gum as a hardwood and giving it 

 ihr' hardwood rate and this fact was used with 

 t filing effect on the management of the com- 

 ))aii\. Mr. Terry also during his trip appeared 

 lief on- the interstate commerce commission at 

 Washington Sei>t. 12, when the question of 

 export rates was under advisement. He repre- 

 sented tlie association liefore that body, al- 



