HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Brookville, Pa. ; Joo A. Wilson and F. B. Vines 

 of tlie lumbei' firm of Vines & Wilson of Johnson 

 City. Tenn. 



J. A. Willilnson has begun active wofk on his 

 new .f JO.OOO lumber plant in South Bristol and 

 will push the mill to completion. He will also 

 establish assorting j-ards, etc.. on the site. 



The Bryan Lumber Company reports excel- 

 lent business conditions and heavy shipments. 

 Tills company is doing a big export business and 

 is handling a large amount of stock. 



Cincinnati. 



The Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club will have a 

 joint e.xliibit at the coming Fall Festival. This 

 was decided upon at a meeting held at the Busi- 

 ness Men's <'lub last week. The exhibit will 

 cost in the neighborhood of $1,000. A commit- 

 tee, of whidi George Littleford is chairman, was 

 named to arrange for the exhibit. The club has 

 also written to the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association to learn why it was not consulted re- 

 garding the appointment of Fred Ferguson as 

 deputy inspector here to succeed Wm. Stewart. 

 While tliere is no oppostion to Mr. Ferguson, tlie 

 club desires to learn why it was overlooked. 



John r. Hanna of the Wiborg & Hanna Com- 

 pany has returned from a ten days' stay in Ten- 

 nessee on business. The company reports its 

 business in excellent shape. 



A salt well which is issuing 500,000 gallons of 

 water has been discovered at the 51. B. Farrin 

 Lumber Crunpany's yards, Winton place, by work- 

 men who were digging for fresh water to be used 

 at the new pulp plant the company is erecting. 



Everything is in tip-top order at the Talbert 

 Lumber Company's plant in Winton place. The 

 concern recently removed to this city from 

 Greensburg, Ind. 



The directors of tiie Industrial Bureau are 

 negotiating with two large woodworking concerns 

 who have declared a willingness to locate here 

 provided certain arrangements are made. One 

 of the plants is at present in New Jerse.v and 

 the other in Kentucky. Names have not been 

 divulged. 



Leland O. Banning, who has been touring Eu- 

 rope for several months, was in an automobile 

 accident at a town in Denmark a fortnight ago. 

 At first news was received in this city that he 

 was seriously injured, but later accounts sa.v 

 only slightly. Mr Ilanning's cousin. Mrs. Love 

 of this city, and J. C. Brenner, a lumber exporter 

 at Norfolk, Va., were the other occupants of the 

 automobile. They fortunately escaped with a 

 few bruises. 



Hardly any local hardwood lumbermen have 

 made arrangements for a vacation as yet. Busi- 

 ness cares have occupied their attention and it i'^ 

 not likely that vacation will be thought of for 

 anothei- month. 



facturing Company and their families have gone 

 on a trip to Scotland. 



Chattanooga. 



'J'he Hugh McLean Lumber Company is oper- 

 ating day and night in order to dispose of a 

 surplus of logs. The concern recently closed 

 down for general repairs on the plant and a 

 band mill of 20,000 feet daily capacity was in- 

 stalled. 



W. M. P'owler, treasurer of the Case Lumber 

 Company and president of the Fowler-Personett 

 Lumber Company of Birmingham, Ala., is spend- 

 ing his vacation at Lake Tamagami in Michigan. 

 He will return about the first of August. 



John Cathcart of New York, who owns a mill 

 at Decatur, Ala., passed through this city re- 

 cently from Decatur en route home. 



J. W. Thompson of the J. W. Thompson Lum- 

 ber Company, Memphis, Tenn., was a recent vis- 

 itor among local lumbermen. 



J. M. Card of the J. M. Card Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from a business trip through 

 Alabama and Mississippi, where the concern is 

 doing a large business. 



A. A. McGregor, a prominent stave and barrel 

 manufactnrer of this city, is inspecting one of 

 his plants at Paint Rock, Ala. 



D. W. and W. B. Hughes of the Central Manu- 



Nash'ville. 



John W. Love, the popular Nashville lumber- 

 man, of Love, Boyd & Co., has gone for a stay 

 of several weeks to his summer hotel at Mark- 

 land. Nc)va Scotia. Mr. Love is largely inter- 

 ested in what has proved a good investment 

 there, and being a great fisherman always en- 

 joys his Markland trip keenly. He is accom- 

 panied by Mrs. Love and the children. 



Nat Baxter, Jr., and S. K. Sanford ot Nash- 

 ville have recently become interested in a large 

 lumber project in Texas. Together with D. F. 

 Sullivan of Florida they have acquired a tract 

 in Titus and Morris counties containing -10,000 

 acres of hardwood lands. Two mills will be 

 erected, one on the Cotton Belt road and the 

 other on the tramway connecting with that rail 

 road. About .$250,00 will be spent in machinery 

 and equipment for business. All kinds of arti- 

 cles manufactured from hardwoods will be turned 

 out. The company is known as the Sanford- 

 Sullivan Lumber Company and it has a paid up 

 capital of $500,000. Mr. Baxter, who will be 

 general manager of the concern, is one of the 

 wealthiest capitalists in Tennessee. 



Nashv'ille's lumber interests have sufferetl \\yo 

 tires In the past few days. A few* nights since 

 a blaze was discovered at the big plant of the 



E. & N. Manufacturing Company that threatened 

 the entire establishment. The fire lasted several 

 hours, but by good work firemen confined it to 

 a couple of dry kilns. In these, however, was 

 stored a quantity of fine lumber, some 250.00(1 

 feet of various grades. The loss was about 

 .$12,500 and was covered by insurance. More 

 recently the F. & O. Cedar Company, located at 

 North Nashville, burned out. This company 

 manufactured lead pencil material in the rfivigb 

 and was owned by capitalists of New York 

 and Berlin. They have establishments like it 

 in various parts ot Tennessee and the plant here 

 was a small one. The loss was about $7.oiiii. 

 with insurance of about $5,000. 



Lumber business at Tullahoma. Tenn., in Cof- 

 fee county, is reported quite active. A factory 

 that will work 100 men and manufacture all 

 the wooden ijortious of buggies and wagons is 

 to be located there in the near future. A stave 

 and barrel factory is also to move to TuUahonia 

 shortly. The latter will work sixty men at 

 tirst. 



At a recent session of the Nashville Associa- 

 tion of Wagon & Carriage Makers the invitation 

 ot the .\tlanta Vehicle Club to attend the con- 

 vention of National Association of Carriage 

 Builders, convening in that city next October, 

 was accepted. 



A special from McEwen. Tenn., reports that 



F. H. Clark, a prominent stave and lumber 

 dealer of that place, was severely injured re 

 cently by a bad fall. 



Dr. J. T. Bray's sawmill at Camden, Tenn., 

 was destroyed by fire last week. A spark from 

 the smoke stack did the work. 



Hobert Dyas of Nashville is at the head of the 

 Arrow Furniture Company of New I>ecatur, Ala. 

 The plant is being enlarged to twice its former 

 size. Although only a few years old, this is one 

 of the leading establishments in that part of 

 the South. 



John H. Hansom of John B. Ransom & Co. 

 leaves shortly for Nova Scotia, where he will 

 join Mr. and Mrs. John W. Love at Markland. 



Nashville is soon to have new building laws. 

 The city council has been at work for some time 

 on a new draft covering and curing many for- 

 mer deficiencies. Heavy timbers and scantlings 

 will be used in the future and architects and 

 contractors will have to be more careful. The 

 bill comprises about 160 typewritten pages. 



Memphis. 

 The latest purchase of timber lands by a 

 MemiJhis lumber firm is a deal involving 4,000 



acres in Grenada. Tunica and Tate counties, 

 .Mississippi, made by the Memphis Rim & Bow 

 Company. The tract is well timbered with hard- 

 woods, and is touched by the Illinois Central 

 and Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroads, so 

 Ibat development will prove an easy matter, 

 'i'he timber will be brought to the Memphis mill 

 of the company. The amount involved is about 

 ifr<o,iH)0. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company's mill in 

 New South .Memphis will be closed down dtiring 

 the current week. Scarcity of timber on the 

 yards is the reason for the suspension of oper- 

 ations. The company has plenty of logs on the 

 railroad, btit it is unable to get the timber 

 transporteii to the city as rapidly as it is 

 needed. ( ). M. Krebs, one of the managers, 

 says the company will soon be getting logs 

 from other roads than the Y. & M. V. When it 

 tloes it will not have the interruptions which 

 Iiave (K-curred recently on account of log short- 

 age. 



Till' Wolverine Manufacturing Company has 

 licgiiii the operation of its plant here, cutting 

 diuuMision stock to be shipped to the Cadillac 

 C;ibinet Company, Detroit, Mich. It is now op- 

 crating seven or eight machines and has a 

 iiiiimhly capacity of ."iOO.OOO feet. For the pres- 

 ent if will cut only oak, but gum is to be used 

 to a I'lmsiderable extent hereafter. The com- 

 pany. ac<-ording to George A. Blessed, the man- 

 ager, has made plans for the addition of five 

 or six more machines early this fail. While 

 the first requisite is the cutting of dimension 

 stock for the northern plant of the company. 

 stock will also be manufactured to be sold in 

 the open market. 



J. F. McSweyn of Grand Rapids, Mich., ar- 

 rived in Memphis a few days ago to take charge 

 of the plant of Ilugart & Kendal in New South 

 Jleinpbis. Both Messrs. Hugart and Kendal 

 make their headquarters in Grand Rapids. *"'er- 

 laiu improvemeuts are contemplated by the man- 

 agement, but nothing is ready for publication. 



The Fenn Brothers Manufacturing Company, 

 manufacturers of hardwood fiooring, has been in 

 operation about a month, but the building is 

 much crowded and things are not going as 

 smoothly as desired. W. Goodjobn, the manager, 

 however, says that everything will be in splendid 

 shape within another month and that the capac- 

 ity of the plant svill be materially increased. 



I!. J. Darnell of R. J. Darnell. Inc., sailed for 

 Euriqje from New York July 10, accompanied by 

 his scm. Roland, who is about nineteen years old. 

 iJeorge D. Burgess of Russe & Burgess sails 

 early next week and will be gone the entire 

 summer. 



The Cochran Lumber Company, of which R. 

 T. Cooper is president, has sold to the Tyronza 

 Lumber Company of Earle, Ark., a tract of 5. Ion 

 acres of hardwood timber lands near Earle. Jlr. 

 Cooper has also sold a strip of land in North 

 Memphis from the old yards of the Cochran 

 Lumber Company to the LaClede gas interests 

 of St. Louis, who are erecting a gas and elec- 

 tric lighting plant in this city. The box plant 

 of the Cochran Lumber Company is now being 

 operated under lease by Moore & McFcrren. 



The Briggs & Cooper Company, Ltd., of Sagi- 

 naw. .Mich., has removed its yards from North 

 Memphis to a tract of land near the Dudley 

 Lumber Company's yards in South Memphis. 



Two significant deals in gum have been closed 

 liere within the past fortnight. One involves 

 the sale of 1.000.000 feet of low-grade gum lum- 

 ber by a single firm to a large box manufactnrer 

 and the other is the closing of a contract with 

 a box user for 50 carloads of gum box shooks. 

 riH' idea has been gaining ground rapidly during 

 the past few months that gum must be substi- 

 tuted for Cottonwood in box manufacture be- 

 cause of the scarcity of Cottonwood and these 

 two deals suggest that the movement is begin- 

 ning to get .well under way. 



The Green River Lumber Company of this 

 city has purchased, through the Stnddarri Land 



