HARDWOOD RECORD 



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A sale o£ 2,000,000 feet of lumber was made 

 last week by tbe Standard Lumber & Box Com- 

 pany to W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company 

 of Louisville. Tbe deal was handled through 

 J. G. Brown and John M. Smith, local manager 

 for the Standard company at Dickson, Tenn. 



Secretary of State Goodloe has granted a 

 charter to the Unaka Springs Lumber Company 

 of Sullivan county, capitalized at $10,000. The 

 incorporators are J. J. Hager, J. \V. and U. D. 

 Broce, S. L. King and John C. Anderson. 



Cohn & Goldberg report a heavy lumber busi- 

 ness and state that they are looking for it to 

 continue all fall and winter. 



A new mill supply company in Nashville is 

 that of the Fickling Supply &. Machinery Com- 

 pany of the Stahlman building, recently organ- 

 ized by W. H. Fickling, formerly of the Nashville 

 Mill, Mine & Railway Supply Company. Mr. 

 Fickling has secured several valuable agencies, 

 among them being Atlas engines, Disston saws. 

 Crescent band sawing machinery, and. others. 



Quite a delegation of business men from Mt. 

 Pleasant have recently visited Nashville and at- 

 tended puljiic meetings at the Board of Trade 

 rooms, putting before the citizens of the city a 

 proposition to get a new railroad into Mt. Pleas- 

 ant, one opening up new territory- John W. 

 Love of Love, Boyd & Co., who is a live member 

 ot the Nashville Board of Trade, attended the 

 meeting and signified a willingness to subscribe 

 to the stock of the line. 



The Davidson, Hicks & Greene Company has 

 now almost finished the construction of its rail- 

 load in Fentress county connecting its big tim- 

 ber tracts with the Tennessee Central railroad. 

 Mr. Davidson recently went to Colorado on a 

 visit to his son. The concern reports business 

 satisfactory. 



Fire recently destroyed the large handle works 

 at Sequatchie, Tenn., near Jasper, entailing a 

 loss of about ^15,000, partially covered by in- 

 surance. About $40,000 worth of timber and 

 handles on hand was saved. 



A recent visitor to the city was I. H. Scates, 

 secretary of the Baltimore Builders' Exchange. 

 Mr. Scates was the guest of Secretary T. H. 

 Evans and other members of the Nashville Build- 

 ers' Exchange and was loud in his praise of the 

 evident growth of Nashville and the surround- 

 ing territory. Secretary Evans is working out 

 a plan for an informal bureau at the exchange 

 for the benefit ot the building public. The new 

 quarters of the exchange will be located in 

 the Noel building after the first of the year. 



John H. Watkins, a New York capitalist, and 

 S. Granger Latta and State Senator Ernest Kice 

 have bought from R. M. Hall, president and 

 builder, the Dyersburg Northern railroad. The 

 line Is thirty-one miles long and runs from 

 Dyersburg to Tiptonvllle, and the purchase price 

 was $1110,000. The road runs through one of 

 the richest timber sections In the state. 



Charles Cohn, the Nashville lumberman, was 

 recently honored with the election of presidency 

 to the city council. 



Death recently removed a prominent lumber- 

 man and manufacturer In this section in the 

 person of William Davis Wade of ScottsvlUe. 

 Ky. Mr. Wade was the father of Mrs. John 

 W. Love, wife of the well-known Nashville lum- 

 berman, and of Mrs. Thurman Dixon, also of 

 Nashville. Mr. Wade was a representative of 

 one of Kentucky's oldest and most prominent 

 families, lie Is sxirvlved by a widow and four 

 children. 



CtlATTANOOQA 



A. II. Woerhide of W. E. Kelley & Co., Chi- 

 cago, 111., was here a few days ago looking for 

 wide poplar. 



W. E. Berry, formerly of the Berry Lumber 

 & Stave Company but now located at Crossville, 

 Tenn., was here recently en route home from 

 a business trip through Alabama. 



The Alton Park Lumber Company of Alton 

 I'ark, a suburb of this city, is a new concern to 

 carry on a wholesale and retail lumber busi- 

 ness. J. C. Lamar is general manager. 



W. O. Harter, of the W. O. Harter Hardwood 

 Company of Memphis, Tenn., was In town sev- 

 eral days last week accompanied by Mrs. Harter, 

 who has just returned from Europe. Mr. Harter 

 has been quite ill for some time and is still 

 hardly able to attend to business. 



The railroad shops here are rushing their re- 

 pair work to their fullest capacity and are using 

 a large quantity of oak car timbers. It seems 

 tiiat they hardly get a car done until they have 

 It eugagcd for a load. About 400 carloads of 

 freight .are handled locally in and out of Chat- 

 tanooga per day. At this rate the repair shops 

 can hardly more than furnish the demand here. 



J. W. Stanflel, agent of the Belt railway, 

 says their business is nearly as good as in 

 1007, and that the shipments of lumber are fully 

 as good as any other manufactured article. 



The Mountain City Cabinet Company Is a 

 new firm here, organized to manufacture hard- 

 wood mantles and office fixtures. It is doing a 

 nice piece of work in quartered oak for the new 

 city hall. W. B. Bender, formerly with the 

 Lookout Planing Mill Company, is general man- 

 ager. 



The Odorless Refrigerator Company is run- 

 ning its plant to its full capacity. It uses a 

 large amount of plain oak. 



BRISTOL 



Mr. White, southern representative of Wlstar, 

 Underhill & Co. of Philadelphia, was here the 

 past week. He was especially Interested In 

 first and second plain white oak and chestnut. 



Mr. Duncan, southern representative of the 

 Willlamsport Hardwood Lumber Company of 

 Wllliamsport, Pa., has been mixing with the mill- 

 men in this section for the 'ast few days. 



The new mill of the Croft Lumber Company 

 at Alexander, Upshur county, W. Va., has been 

 started and will turn out 70,000 feet of stock 

 daily. J. Gibson McIIvain of Philadelphia, a 

 prominent eastern hardwood lumberman, is in- 

 terested in the new company, which has a largo 

 boundary of timber in that section. 



The Paxton Lumber Company, of Bristol, has 

 just started its new circular mill at Booneford, 

 N. C, where It has purchased a good sized area 

 ot timber. 



Chancellor Hal H. Hayncs of Bristol, on No- 

 vember 4, entered an order dismissing the re- 

 ceiver in the case of the Allen Panel Corpora- 

 tion, on motion of J. N. Powell and others. 

 C- L. Marshall was appointed receiver of the 

 company two weeks ago, on application of C. B. 

 Allen, former president of the company, and 

 the action of Mr. Allen caused considerable sur- 

 prise, as the financial difficulties of the company 

 had been settled and it was reorganized. In 

 his order the Bristol jurist decreed that Receiver 

 Marshall should forthwith turn over to the offi- 

 cers of the company the entire assets and give 

 an accounting. The assets Include a big wood- 

 working plant at Johnson City. The court de- 

 cided that the relief sought by Mr. Allen could 

 have been secured by a mandatory injunction 

 from his court and that tbe order appointing 

 the receiver would be vacated. 



D. S. Darrow, representing the Gardner Wood 

 Company of New York, was calling on the Bris- 

 tol lumbermen this week and left some orders. 

 He reports business moving along well. 



The Rockcastle Lumber Company of Bristol 

 this week started its new band mill at Jleek, 

 Ky., and will soon begin shipping from the new 

 operation. B. B. Burns of the company has 

 gone to Mississippi to spend a few days shooting 

 quail. . 



H. M. Hosklns of the H. M. Hoskins Lumber 

 Company Is recovering nicely from typhoid fever 

 and may soon be able to return to bis duties. 



J. A. Wilkinson has purchased a new boun- 

 dary of timber In Mercer county. West Virginia, 

 and will develop It. He has the utmost faith 

 In the future of the lumber business In this sec- 

 tion and is gradually increasing his holdings of 

 stumpage. 



George W. Peter of the Peter-McCain Lumber 

 Company returned this week from a ten days' 

 trip to Philadelphia. He says the business out- 

 look In the East is good. 



"The lumber business is showing great im- 

 provement in the South," said M. V. Richards, 

 general Industrial agent of the Southern Sys- 

 tem, who spent a day or two at his branch office 

 in Bristol last week. 



Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Hughes announce the 

 .birth of a son. Mr. Hughes is manager of the 

 Bristol office of Price & Heald of Baltimore, and 

 Is one of the best known hardwood men in this 

 section. 



News was received from New York last week 

 announcing the arrest of Harry I. Soble, who 

 formerly did business as a lumberman in Russell 

 county, Virginia, not far from Bristol, where 

 four indictments have been returned against 

 him, charging fraud and the getting of lumber 

 and money under false pretenses. Mr. Soble's 

 friends allege that the charges against him are 

 absolutely without foundation, and that when 

 tbe matter is brought up for trial he will be 

 exonerated. It is sincerely to be hoped that 

 Mr. Soble has made no Infraction of the law. 



G. B. Kittle, representing the Lima Locomo- 

 tive & Car Works of Lima, Ohio, and Mr. Mac- 

 Lean, manager of the southern department of 

 the Berlin Machine Works of Beloit, Wis., with 

 headquarters at Columbia, S. C, were recent 

 visitors here. 



Every car of the Norfolk & Western railroad, 

 a local line of importance to the lumbermen, is 

 now in service and the road faces a car shortage 

 if the steady demand for transportation equip- 

 ment that has characterized the past few weeks 

 continues. Other roads in this section are up 

 to their limit on cars and despite the fact that 

 much new equipment has been received it is 

 feared that a car shortage is imminent. 



"The lumber business Is getting in fine shape," 

 said Mr. McCain of W. G. McCain & Sons, oper- 

 ating a large band mill in Johnson county, 

 Tennessee. "At first we were inclined to believe 

 that the increase was a spurt that would recede, 

 but this theory seems already effectually dis- 

 proved." 



W. H. Bailing, a well-known lumber manufac- 

 turer of Galax, Va., has returned to his home 

 after a visit to Bristol lumbermen. 



The majority of the big mills In this section 

 are running and will get in as much time as 

 possible during the coming winter. It is pre- 

 dicted that the weather will be mild, at least 

 until the first of the year. There is still much 

 stock at the country mills to be hauled to the 

 railroad. One Bristol lumberman says that he 

 needs two hundred or more teams to get stock 

 to the railroads In time for shipment before the 

 approach of the bad weather that is bound to 

 make the roads almost impassable. 



An important deal was made last week when 

 the Doss Manufacturing Company of Pocahon- 

 tas, Va., bought a tract of 10,.">00 acres of tim- 

 ber In Scott county, Virginia, not far from 

 Bristol, which it may develop before a great 

 while. The timber is near the Carolina, Clinch- 

 field & Ohio railroad and the Virginia & South- 

 western. 



The Bristol Door & Lumber Company reports 

 business moving along well and a good demand 

 for miilwork. The company's band mill and big 

 planing mill here are both running. 



The Unaka Lumber Compan.v, recently organ- 

 ized In Bristol, has pust purchased a tract of 

 timber and expects to begin operations soon. 



E. P. Lewis of Morton-Lewls-Wllley Lumber 

 Company of Grand Rapids is here on a visit to 



