HARDWOOD RECORD 



49 



Forest lives have wrought much damage to 

 various sections of 'J'ennessee and Kentucky. 

 The present fall season lias i)een an unusually 

 dry one. In various coninmuities the farmers 

 have had to go out and fight fire all night to 

 keep the flames from their houses. One of those 

 who is interesting himself in the prevention of 

 forest fires in Tennessee is State (Jame. Fish 

 and Forestry Wai-den Col. J. H. Acklen. Col. 

 Ackleu states that investigations by his depart- 

 ment confirm the statement that fully seventy- 

 five per cent of the forest fires in Teimessee 

 occur along the railroad rights of way. He 

 estimates that his wardens have saved the state 

 over $20U.O(Mi annually In forest fires handled 

 by them. Col. Acklen states that the raili-oads 

 ail over the state have obeyed his orders in 

 regard to clearing away the trash and under- 

 ^'rowth near their rights of way and he believes 

 this step will prove most beneficial and a great 

 saving. 



An interesting and profitable meeting of the 

 Cumberland River Improvement Association was 

 held last week at the Nashville Board of Trade 

 and it was attended by a number of well-known 

 lumbermen of the Cumberland river valley and 

 other noted men. The keynote of the meeting 

 was that the people of the valley should keep 

 <in agitating and urging the necessity of liberal 

 government appropriations for river improve- 

 ment. The work on the Cumberland w'as re- 

 ported to be progressing satisfactorily, but it 

 was the consensus of opinion that the appropria- 

 tions m.ust be continued if possible. The Cum- 

 berland rivei* furnishes a large part of the 

 annual lumber supply of the Nashville market, 

 millions of feet of fine timber being floated down 

 to Nashville each winter and spring in rafts. 

 The rafts are tied up for miles and miles above 

 the city to season and then are brought down 

 to be. sawed as needed. Many of the lumber 

 concerns have yards right on the river. 



John B. Ransom & Co. report brisk business 

 and an increased demand for high-grade stock. 

 This firm's business of October was the biggest 

 iif the year as yet and a good start has been 

 made ou November business and another record 

 for the year may be broken yet. 



The Baker-Jacobs Company reports unusual 

 activity at its plant at Sparta. Tenn. It had a 

 good business in October. 



Love. Boyd & Co. did a rushing business in 

 < October and report that so far November is 

 coming up all right. 



W. R. Patterson. J. \V. Overall and W. W. 

 Vaught have purchased the famous old cedar 

 bucket factory of the Brewitt-Spurr Manufac- 

 turing Company at Murfreesboro. The latter 

 company owned the factory for twenty years 

 and it is said to be the only red cedar bucket 

 factory in the world. The consideration was 

 .^a.i.ODi). 



The Davidson, Hicks & (ireene Company is 

 enjoying a good run of orders. The members of 

 the firm pay frequent visits lo the big interests 

 in Fentress county. 



The Standard Furniture Company reports that 

 the business of the past month done by it 

 was a big improvement over that done in the 

 same month a year ago. 



The W. J. Cude Land & Lumber Company has 

 nothing to complain of in a business way ex- 

 cept that the crop movement is affecting its 

 business in Mississippi, where it has large tim- 

 ber holdings and interests. 



Building continues on a boom in Nashville. 

 As a result of the meetings of the Masons of 

 Tennessee in Nashville lAst week, announcement 

 was made that two handsome club buildings or 

 lodges are to be erected in Nashville at once. 

 One is to cost about .fl'oO.OOO and the other 

 §1.50.000. Many of Nashville's most prominent 

 lumbermen belong to the Masonic orders. 



H. B. Bond, formerly a merchant of Lebanon. 

 Tenn.. has come to Nashville to associate him- 

 self in the lumber business with A. E. Baird, 



Ihe latter being bis uncle. Mr. Bond was promi- 

 nent in the politics of Wilson county and was 

 formerly chairman of the county Democratic 

 executive committee. 



LOUISVILLE 



The meeting of the Louisville Hardwood Club 

 last week was enlivened by the presence of S. 

 B. Lynd. cashier of the Citizens' National Bank 

 and one of the best known financiers in the 

 city. .Mr. Lynd addressed the hardwood men 

 on the subject of banking as related to- lumber, 

 and br<jugbt out several interesting [joints oi 

 value to lumbermen. It is the intention of the 

 Hardwood Club to have other experts in various 

 lines make addresses to them ou subjects related 

 with their business. 



The annual meeting of the ilariiwood Club 

 has be(-n set for November '2S. The election of 

 officers is the principal item of interest, but 

 annual reports which will be made by all the 

 officers are expected to epitomize the work done 

 by the ciuh during its first twelve months. Fol- 

 l(>wiug the election, committees will be ap- 

 pointed b.v the new administration to take up 

 the w^ork of arranging for the national conven- 

 tion to be held here in May or June of next year. 



R. F. Smith of the Ohio River Saw Mill Com- 

 pany said (hat business is good, and that lumber 

 is selling freely. The company has all it can 

 do to keep up with the demand. Trices are 

 steady and stronger. Mr. Smith has Just re- 

 turned from a hunting trip to Seymour, Ind., 

 b^it had Indifferent luck because of bad weather. 



T. JI. Brown of W. I'. Brown & Sons said 

 that business is fine and prices rising. F. H. 

 Wade. .1 hardwood broker of Indianapolis, called 

 on the Browns recently, as did Owen Moffett of 

 file .MofCett-Bo^^■man Lumber Company of Madi- 

 son. Ind. Mr. Mofl^ett said that his company is 

 preparing to move to ilemphis and open a hard- 

 wood yard there, lie didn't know whether or 

 not they would have a mill. 



The revision of the tax laws is interesting 

 the hardwood trade, along with the other 

 liranches of business in the state, and it is ex- 

 pected that the new legislature will propose a 

 constitutional amendment along that line. C. 

 R. Mengel. a member of the tax commission, was 

 in Frankfort the other day attending a meeting. 

 He and W. F. Sfhuerman. a furniture manufac- 

 turer of CarroUton, are on the manufactures sub- 

 committee, and J. C. C. Mayo of I'aintsville 

 and J. B. Atkinson of Earllngton are the sub- 

 committee on lumber. Both own a large 

 amoiint of timber. 



Charles H. Slot/, who was for several weeks 

 with the Robinson Hardwood Company, has an- 

 nounced that a new company has been formed 

 to take over the Robinson interests. It is the 

 A. Z. Haas Lumber Company, and it will handle 

 hardwoods mainly, with offices in the Keller 

 building. The officers of the company are ; A. 

 '/.. Haas of Fayetteville. Tenn.. president : 

 t.'harles H. Stotz of Louisville, general manager, 

 jind E. S. Haas of Vincennes, Ind., secretary 

 and treasurer. E. S. Haas and Mr. Stotz will 

 be in active charge, as President llaas, who re- 

 cently retired from the William-Haas Lumber 

 Company of Fayetteville, desires to remain in- 

 active. Both of the Uaases have had experi- 

 ence in the lumber business. The new com- 

 pany has been incorporated with a capital stock 

 of SL'.'j.OOO. C. W. Robinson, a yellow pine 

 manufacturer of New Orleans, who was inter- 

 ested in the Robinson Hardwood Company, has 

 sent Warren Birnbaum to Louisville to repre- 

 sent his interests here. His company is the 

 Robinson Lumber, Veneer & Box Company. 



Business is good in all lines, according to E. 

 L. Davis of the Edward L. Davis Lumber Com- 

 pany, and there is no complaint at all to be 

 made. Claude Sears, who has been having a 

 successful trip, has returned. 



Louis C. Mathey of Spot. Tenn.. was in Louis- 

 ville lately. He represent the Kaufman Stave 

 & Lumber Company, which owns -'G.OOU acres 

 of timberland in Tennessee. He said that while 

 Ihe company has done nothing in the stave line 

 for several years, things are now improving so 

 much that It may soon l)egin to manufacture 

 again. 



George P. DeWiii ,,f Horace G. Hazard & Co. 

 of Philadelphia was here recently. Some of the 

 hardwood men asked that it be stated that Mr. 

 lieWitt behaved perfectly while he was here. 

 • 11. M. McCracken of the Kentucky Veneer 

 Works has been ill for some time, but his con- 

 dition is not believed to be serious. Treasurer 

 Geiger of that company said that the veneer 

 trade Is much better, and that prices are going 

 up. ■ The furniture factories are buying again, 

 while the piano and automobile manufacturers, 

 which have been taking veneers all through the 

 so-called hard times, are still in the market. 



Barry Norman of E. B. Norman & Co. says 

 that business is good, with the demand pretty 

 well distributed. Lower grades are moving in 

 larger volume. The box factory Is running at 

 night in order to take care of the demand. 

 Whisky cases are its main output. The Nor- 

 mans, who are the Nimrods of the Hardwood 

 Club, have not yet got into action. 



"Business in flooring is rather dull at present." 

 said W. A. McLean of the Wood-Mosaic Flom-ing 

 & Lumber {'ompany. "but the demand for ijuar- 

 teied oak ,is pretty good." Mr. McLean, by the 

 way. is sporting a fine new Stearns just now, 

 and proved its quality by taking the Hahdwood 

 Record correspondent for a ride. 



H. P. Roberts, who looks after the lumber 

 business of the Mengel Box Company, said that 

 the demand for oak is so much better that the 

 price has advanced. "It looks as if prosperity 

 were here again." .Mr. Roberts said. 



C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company has two boats 

 chartered for the purpose of importing mahogany 

 log.s. One is the Rose Lea. which is on its way 

 from Belize with a 900.000-foot cargo, and which 

 is due the latter part of this month. Then there 

 is the Cbiswick, which is loading at Axim on 

 the west coast of Africa. It is expected to 

 bring over about 1.000,000 feet of logs and to 

 dock them at Pensacola in December. The 

 company recently received a shipment of 40.000 

 pounds of chicle from Central America. It has 

 a ready sale to the chewing gum manufacturers. 

 J. C. WicklilTe. se'retary of the company, has 

 been in the Bahama Islands and is thought to 

 be en route home. (iwMng to the storms in thi> 

 West Indies and the impossibility of communi 

 eating with hiin, the members of the company 

 are awaiting news of his condition with some 

 eagerness. 



The Southern Veneer Company has nearly fin- 

 ished work on its addition, and reports business 

 to be excellent. The furniture and piano manu- 

 facturers are buying freely, it was stated. 



Walter R. Day. who was convicted for al- 

 leged frauds committed in connection with the 

 lumber business of his uncle. Floyd Day. in 

 eastern Kentucky, has been pardoned. He was 

 treasurer of the state under the brief Taylor 

 regime ten years ago. 



Fire destl'oyed the plant of the H. H. Collins 

 Lumber Company at Maysville November 8. Be- 

 sides lumber, a large quantify of millwork was 

 burned. The loss was .5,'),000, and the fire Is 

 said to have been of incendiary origin. 



Forest fires, which have caused considerable 

 loss in the western part of the state, Butler 

 county. Hopkins county and Christian county, 

 were the main localities where fires of any ex- 

 tent were reported. In most instances they 

 were started by hunters or nutting parties, and 

 the inhabitants of the nearby towns turned out 

 to fight Ihe flames. Rain in most cases inter- 

 vened and saved further loss after a large 

 amount of timber, fencing, outbuildings, etc., had 

 been destroyed. 



