HARDWOOD RECORD 



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& Co., Philadelphia, spent a few days in Bristol 

 and contingent tciTitory last week. Mr. Dun- 

 woody made numerous heavy purchases in this 

 section. 



Work on the new plant of the American Cigar 

 Box Company at Johnson City is progressing. 

 and will he pushed to completion. This plant is 

 being erected to supplant the company's big 

 operation at Johnson City which was destroyed 

 by fire a few weeks ago. 



E. L. Warren of the U. E. Wood Lumber 

 Company is spending several days in Bristol 

 on business. Jlr. Wjirren reports that the com- 

 pany's mills at Bularteen. Carter county. Ten- 

 nessee, are running regularly and turning out a 

 large amount of stock. 



The Kingsport Lumber Company of this city 

 is putting on the market as rapidly as possible 

 about l.">.000.000 feet of hardwoods, consisting 

 chiefiy of oak and poplar, which lias accumu- 

 lated on their yards at Carreta. McDowell 

 county. West Virginia, since their band mill 

 was put in operation at that place some time 

 ago. The company also has circular mills in 

 operation in the same county. 



Baumgardner Brothers, formerly of Akron. O.. 

 have located at Oconee. (Ja.. where they liave 

 installed a band mill. The firm has purchased 

 considerable timber property near Oconee. 



W. J. Cude of Kimmins, Tenn., has located at 

 Cude, Miss., where he has installed a large band 

 mill and is preparing to do an extensive manu- 

 facturing business. 



The Came-Wymau Lumber Company, Ilie new 

 lumber concern of Bristol, has just consum- 

 mated a deal wiiereby they come into possession 

 of a tract of timber land of about S,000 acres 

 located at Elkanah. about eight miles from 

 Bristol, on the Virginia & Southwestern rail- 

 road. The company expects to put in a mill 

 at this place in the near future. In the mean- 

 time, however, the company will ship the logs 

 to Bristol and ctit them at its mill here. A 

 logging railroad five or six miles in length, ex- 

 tending from the Virginia & South Western 

 railroad line at Elkanah through the company's 

 timber land, will be built at once. 



M. N. Offett of the Tug Kiver Lumber Com- 

 pany has gone on a business trip to West Vir- 

 ginia. 



The Richland Lumber Company, recently or- 

 ganized in Bristol, which is headed by .T. A. 

 Cannon and J. II. Bryan, will begin manufac- 

 turing its timber on the Wateree river, near 

 Sumpter. S. C, very soon. Mr. Bryan, who 

 has just returned from South Carolina, states 

 that he expects to begin cutting by Oct. 1. The 

 <'ompany will have headquarters in Bristol, while 

 J. A. Cannon will go to South Carolina and 

 oversee operations and look after the interests 

 of the company at that place. 



William R. and James A. Stone of the Stone- 

 Iluling Lumber Company have as tlieir guest 

 just now Sam S. Stone, who is one of the most 

 prominent architects of New Orleans. 



Nashville. 



John B. Ransom of John B. Ransom & Co. 

 has returned from a trip to Chicago. Chatta- 

 nooga and Memphis. Mr. Ransom leaves shortly 

 with his family for a pleasure trip through 

 Colorado and -Utah. 



The Nashville lumbermen held a meeting Aug. 

 18 and appointed a special committee to take 

 action in regard to a recent advance in railroad 

 rates of three cents a hundred to Pittsburg and 

 Buflfaio territory. The members of the commit- 

 tee are : M. F. Greene of the Davidson-Benedict 

 Company, Samuel Lieberman of Lieberman, Love- 

 man & O'Brien and John B. Ransom of John B. 

 Ransom & Co. 



Arthur Ransom, accompanied by his family, 

 has just returned from a trip to Denver. 



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

 turned from a trip to Michigan and is now sum- 

 mering at a resort near Nashville. John W. 

 Love of this firm is still at Markland, Nova 

 Scotia. 



The Blue Mountain Stave Company, which was 

 organized recently in Nashville, will operate ex- 

 tensively in Mississippi. S. G. Holland of Nash- 

 ville has been elected president of the concern 

 and J. McWright secretary. The sales offices 

 are on (lie tenth floor of the First .N'aticmal Bank 

 tmilding. 



.s. Garth Gray, former assistant secretary of 

 the Nashville Board of Trade, has resigned to 

 accei)f a jiositiun with the '1'. J. .\slier iV Son's 

 Lumber Company at Wasiota, Ky. 



Considerable loss was sustained by the Hill 

 Trunk Company recently by a fire which totally 

 destroyed the trunk factory. The projierty was 

 heavily insured. 



Iteports from McEwen. Tenn.. state that over 

 a million feet of lumber have been shipped from 

 that point in the past thirty days. L. D. Baker 

 in the past monlh has shipped TOS.IIOO feet of 

 lumber. The i''. W. Black Lumber Company of 

 CliicaKo has shipped more than a (piarter oft a 

 million feet from that point in the past month, 

 and the Heath-Witbeck Company, also of Chi- 

 i-ago. shipped a like quantity. 



A charter has been granteti to the Holston 

 River Lumber Company with a capital stock of 

 $M0.000. The incorporators are : W. B. Coon, 

 ■|'. A. Cox, E. J. Vaught, J. R. Gardner and L. 

 .\rmhurst. 



The Hankins-Spreck Lumber Company has been 

 organized at Livingston, Tenn., with a capital of 

 .fl.oOO. Tlie company will run a saw mill near 

 town and a planing mill in Livingston. 



The Livingston Manufacturing Company is pre- 

 paring to install additional machinery. 



The Griffin Cooperage Company of Shelby 

 county has been granted a charter. 'I'he capital 

 is ^2.000. Incorporators: John (Iriffin. M. J. 

 Griffin. B. J. Griflin, T. II. Griffin and 1.. T. Fitz- 

 hugh. 



A new pin factory just opened up at Nolens- 

 villi'. Tenn., is doing a thriving business. Its 

 proprietor. Mr. Cooper of Alabama is jiroving a 

 hustling manager. 



Several big local contracts have been captured 

 by the Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company 

 recently. This concern has supplied the firm of 

 O'Bryan Bros., which recently burned out, with 

 40.0(10 feet of oak flooring and is furni.shing the 

 liaudsome new structure of the Methodist Pub- 

 lishing House with 50.001.1 feet. The best of all. 

 however, is the contract for 200,000 feet of oak 

 flooring for the new Stahlman building, a mil- 

 lion dollar sky scraper being erected by the 

 Mecklenberg Real Estate Company. The company 

 also boasts of the sale of four cars of oak floor- 

 ing in London. 



Work on the locks and dams tlie goveriiment 

 is building in the Cumberland river continues un- 

 abated, and lumbermen are viewing with satis- 

 faction the completion of work that will give 

 navigation all the year around to Cartilage, and 

 idtimafely to a point above Burnside on the 

 upper river. 



Nashville parties have closed a deal whereby 

 they purchase tlje Daniel tract of timber lands 

 on White Oak Creek, near JIcEwen, Tenn.. for 

 .$32,000. There are 2,225 acres in the piece and 

 if is covered with valuable hardwoods. 



A special from Harriman states that John Hat- 

 field of that city is now in Coldwater, Mich., in • 

 consultation with moneyed interests of that place 

 wifii a view of securing investments in timber 

 around Harriman. 



A special from Bridgeport, Ala., to Nashville 

 says that negotiations are under way to dispose 

 of the old Bridgeport Pipe Works plant to At- 

 laufa and Bridgeport capitalists for the estah- 

 lishment of an up-to-date sawmill. The concern 

 is to be capitalized at $300,000. Another special 

 announces that the Tuthill & I'iifferson Manufac- 

 turing Company of Tuscumbia, Ala., has been 

 incorporated with a capital stock of .$1:00,000. 

 The company will deal in and manufacture lum- 

 ber of all kinds. Sheffield will be the site of the 

 Ijrincipa! office. 



Memphis. 



The Frisco system has issued a circular to 

 the lumber trade of Memphis, effective August 

 20, as follows ; 



"A charge of .$5 will be made on lumber the 

 destination of which is ordered changed while 

 the car is in transit, or after arrival at first 

 destination, or at point where ordered held. 

 When change of destination involves a back- 

 haul, or movement (Uit nt the regular route, as 

 provided for in tlie faritl. an additional charge 

 of one-half cent jier ton per mile with a mini- 

 unim of $5 per car will be assessed for the 

 extra or additional service performed ; regular 

 car service r.iles to lie applied and charges 

 therefrom to be in addition to the charge tor 

 changing destination." 



This action lias raised a storm of protest, 

 especially among wholesalers. They have very 

 little to say in regard to the back-haul charge, 

 recognizing this as somewliat Justifiable. James 

 !•;. Stark of James E. Stark & Co. has written 

 a very strong letter to General Freight Agent 

 \'orhees of the Frisco system at St. Louis. He 

 points out that it does not cost the railroad 

 anything for the shipper to change the con- 

 signee while in transit and declares that this 

 will impose a decided handicap on the shipper 

 who is often, as a matter of self-protection, 

 both shipper and consignee. If he is not al- 

 lowed the privilege of changing consignee Mr. 

 Stark declares that the manufacturer through 

 whom the shipment is made will get the name 

 of the consignee and thus take from the whole- 

 saler who placed the order the business which 

 he has been doing. (Jther wholesalers are up 

 in arms against the new ruling, and it is prob- 

 able that action will be taken by the Lumber- 

 men's Club of Memphis. Meantime, unless the 

 other roads follow with a similar circular, the 

 Frisco will have more difficulty than usi)al in 

 securing business from wholesalers of this city 

 and section. 



The committee of the Lumbermen's Club of 

 Memphis, appointed to act with similar commit- 

 tees from other organizations with a view to 

 having the new minimum weight ruling of the 

 .\lissouri Pacific system rescinded, intended 

 Iiolding a conference with officials of the Mis- 

 souri Pacific in St. Louis August 20, but re- 

 ceived a wire from lieadquarters of the system 

 stating that the officials with whom the con- 

 ference was desired could not be seen on this 

 date, and the conference has therefore been 

 postponed. (ieorge C. Ehemanu, chairman of 

 this committee, received a letter from the secre- 

 tary of the Lumber Exchange of St. Louis to 

 the effect that he would arrange for a confer- 

 ence witli the oHicials in question and notify the 

 committee here. Mr. Ehemann has also received 

 from the secretary of the Lumber E.\change of 

 St. Louis a copy of a strong petition presented 

 to officials of the Missouri Pacific system by 

 that organization asking that this action be 

 rescinded, lliis petition is directly in line with 

 that of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis and 

 the Buffalo Lumber l-:xchange. Cither organiza- 

 tions to whicli appeals have been made are 

 expected to take similar action. 



It is rather striking that, while the lumber- 

 men are making this fight on the railroads in 

 ijuestion, mutterings are beginning to be heard 

 regarding a car shortage. A prominent whole- 

 sale and manufacturing firm liere states that it 

 should have loaded ten cars on the Iron Moun- 

 tain the past week, but received only two cars. 

 A well-known cooperage firm here reports a sim- 

 ilar condition, declaring that it put in requisi- 

 tion the past week for nine cars and received 

 only one. The cotton crop of the south this 

 yeav promises to be of record proportions and 

 bu.vers in this territory must expect delay in 

 receiving what they want, as the railroads 

 simply will not lie able to handle lumber ship- 

 ments promptly when there is so mucli general 

 traffic ahead. 



The Morgan-West Br^x Company has apjilied 

 for a charter with capital stock of $30,000. 

 'I'he following are the incorporators, most of 

 wliom are interested in the Anderson-Tullv 



