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veneor machinery. II is also working its allied 

 plant at Leland. Misfs.. on full time. This is 

 operatod liy the Darnell-Love Lumber Company. 



NASHVILLE 



Nashville in the near future, it is learned 

 from local lumbermen, will likely secure a hand- 

 some addition to her list of flooring plants and 

 lumber establishments. The Strasburg Manu- 

 facturing Coihpany of Saginaw, Mich., is said 

 to have secured options on a site on the river 

 fi'ont in East Nashville upon which will be 

 erected a large flooring plant. The investment 

 will represent something like .$150,000. 



The plant of the A. L. Hayes Stave tJom- 

 pany in Kast Nashville has heen sold to the 

 Homo Building Company of Nashville for a 

 consideration of .$10,000. The plant covers 

 some eight acres and has heen successfully 

 operated for the past ten years. 



Following a meeting of citizens and shippers 

 living in the valley of the Cumberland a local 

 association has been organized with the object 

 of securing further improvements from the 

 government for the Cumberland river. The as- 

 sociation proposes to work through congress, 

 .ind it has constituted an executive committee 

 with power to send out representatives to se- 

 cure data for the congressional committees. 

 It is to be called the Nashville Cumberland 

 River Association and will cooperate with the 

 I'umberland River Commission. Nashville lum- 

 bermen are greatl.v interested in an.v move to 

 improve transportation facilities on the Cum- 

 lierland through the lock and dam system, and 

 among the members of the executive commit- 

 tee of the local association is John li. Ransom. 

 It is expected that the local association will 

 soon have a membership of at least 200. 



Although this is not the season of the year 

 l^or any particular activity in the matter of 

 building permits, yet the totals in Nashville for 

 November, 1009, are well ahove those for the 

 same month in 1908. The figures are $86,.540 

 for J909 in November as against .$.38,73-4 for 

 the same month in 1908. 



.Tohn E. Ransom and -Tohn W. Love of the 

 executive committee of the local Y. M. C. A. 

 met this week with the other members of the 

 committee and following the session it was an- 

 nounced that the committee had agreed upon 

 a site for the new Nashville Y. M. C. A. build- 

 ing, which will cost ?200,000. This site will not be 

 made public, however, until the next meeting of 

 the committee on December 15. 



The Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company 

 is making extensive improvements to its big 

 plant in West Nashville. In a new building. 

 TiOxOO feet, twelve new machines will be in- 

 Ktalled. including band, rip and re-saws, and 

 two big matchers. In addition the company is 

 also installing a blower pipe system which, 

 when finished, it is said, will he the largest 

 i'lower in operation in the country. It is esti- 

 mated that these improvements will enable the 

 plant to turn out about 75.000 feet of its 

 Acorn brand of flooring a day. 



Lewis Doster, the popular secretary o/ the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, and who 

 once, not so long ago, claimed this city as 

 home, was back in town the other day "on busi- 

 ness," and greeting old friends who gripped his 

 hand in welcome. Mr. Doster was most en- 

 thusiastic concerning the prospects for the ap- 

 proaching annual meeting of the association in 

 Cincinnati, next February. He believes that 

 the meeting will be one of the most interesting 

 as well as one of the most Important yet held. 

 The uses of hardwoods, both from the stand- 

 point of the sawmill man and the consumer, 

 will be among the interesting sub,iects to be dis- 

 cussed. 



A special from Lexington, Tenn.. announces 

 that a new wholesale and retail liimln'r cun- 



cern has been organized there and known as 

 the Morgan-Fuller Lumber Company. The of- 

 ficers of the company are : G. A. Morgan, presi- 

 dent : G. B. Morgan, vice-president : .\. H. Fuller, 

 secretary-treasurer, and T. A. Morgan, assist- 

 ant secretary. The Messrs. Morgan live near 

 Wildersville, Tenn.. where they have a large 

 sawmill. Mr. Fuller will install an office at 

 Lexington. 



A. M. Petway of Dickson, Tenn., lias recentl.v 

 purchased a body of fine timber from .7. M. 

 Pardue and will install a mill on it in the near 

 future. 



Specials from Sparta, Tenn., announce unusual 

 activity in that section in the past few weeks. 

 Hundreds of wagons of lumber, it is said, have 

 been brought to town and then shipped away 

 on the N. & C. 



There is now no further danger from forest 

 fires In Tennessee. Tlie winter rains and rough 

 weather seem to have set in for keeps and in 

 many sections flres that have burned stub- 

 bornly were quickly extinguished in the drench- 

 ing December downpours. 



A recent visitor to Nashville was Gardner 

 I. .Tones of Boston of the .Tones Hardwood Com- 

 pany of that city. Hi came South not only to 

 buy lumber but also to ascertain conditions 

 in the producing center. 



The Prewltt-Spurr Manufacturing Company 

 reports active business, especially the wooden- 

 ware portion of its operations. 



The Davidson, Hicks & Greene Company re- 

 ported excellent business. It has been busily 

 engaged for weeks in putting in a good supply 

 of lumber at its mils. 



Interesting and. it may be said, startling 

 views are entertained by Maj. W. M. Harts, 

 government engineer at this point, upon the 

 kindred subjects of reforestation, rainfall and 

 floods. Mr. Harts combats the views of the 

 government forestry bureau regarding the ef- 

 fect of deforestation on rainfall and the flow of 

 rivers. He favors the restoration and replenish- 

 ing of the forests in order to protect the lum- 

 ber supply of the future, but he states that on 

 the other hand many noted meterologists have 

 long since abandoned the idea that trees In 

 any way affect the rainfall. He challenges to 

 production of any record showing any change 

 in the climate of a section on account of de- 

 forestation or reforestation. He grants that 

 trees hold back water, but does not agree that 

 this is always advantageous. He figures the 

 deforestation of the Cumberland valley during 

 (he past thirty-five years to have been upward 

 of twenty per cent : he declares that records 

 show the floods have diminished in height and 

 their duration has shortened. lie says that If 

 this same logic were pursued to its end It would 

 result in a proposition of deforestation in order 

 to benefit the streams below. 



A new railroad line, which will open up a 

 timlxn- section on the Tennessee and'MIssissippi 

 lines, has applied for a charter. The incorpo- 

 rators are T. D. Webb, Charles Carter, George 

 R. Knox, Samuel Caldwell and T. TI. Crotzer 

 .Ir. The capital stock is $250,000. The line 

 will run from a point in Tennessee near Brown- 

 field to ,Tackson, Miss., and will be fifty miles 

 long. When built the line will be turned over 

 to the M. K. & T. 



Claiming that he represented a branch of 

 the Barrett Lumber Company of Chicago, at 

 the town of South Bend, Ind., a smooth 

 stranger is said to have "taken In" a number 

 of people in the neighborhood of Dresden. Tenn., 

 recently. His game was to buy lumber and 

 consign the same to the branch termed "Barrett- 

 Williams Lumber Company," of South Bend. 

 He would pay cash for the first shipments and 

 then, on the strength of his first orders, would 

 order more : this time a check was to follow 

 upon the arrival of the lumber. The stranger, 

 who jjrcsented himself as a "Mr. Williams." 

 is said to have bought some fifteen carloads of 



lumber In this manner, operating around Dres- 

 den, Jackson and Camden. He was arrested 

 and put in jail at Camden, Tenn. 



CHATTANOOGA 



A. M. Thompson, manager of the Consumers' 

 I,umber Compan.v. has returned from Hazelton, 

 Pa., where he was called by the sudden death 

 of his brother, George W. Thompson. 



Among the recent callers among local lum- 

 bermen was W. H. Braddon of London, On- 

 tario. Mr. Braddon is president of the Scott 

 Lumber & Machine Company and vice-presi- 

 dent of the Columbia Handle Company, both of 

 London, Ont. The latter company owns and 

 operates mills in Alabama and Tennessee and 

 Mr. Braddon is here for the purpose of in- 

 specting a 3,000-acre tract of lumber near Paint 

 Rock. Ala. He will look over some ash forests 

 in Missouri before his return. 



W. E. Campc & Son Company is the style 

 of a new firm just incorporated here to deal In 

 all kinds of lumber and timber, as well as to 

 manufacture the same. The new concern is 

 capitalized at $35,000. 



The Case Lumber Company is closing out its 

 yard near RossvIUe, Ga., owing to the expiration 

 of its lease there. In the future its yard will 

 be at the Case-Fowler mill, at Anderson, Tenn. 

 The company's main oQice will lie at the Chat- 

 tanooga Wheelbarrow Company's office, Mr. Fow- 

 b'r b;'ing the head of both firms. 



The Lamb-Fish Lumber Company of Charles- 

 ton. Miss., started Its mill on November S after 

 a shut-down of about 60 days for repairs. The 

 company will move its mill at Chancy to the 

 former place. 



The mills in this section that depend upon 

 getting logs by rail are meeting with more suc- 

 cess this fall than they wish for. Their 

 yards are full and overflowing and side tracks 

 are full of cars waiting to be unloaded. The 

 logs are of a better quality than has been seen 

 here for some time. 



The Cincinnati edition of the Record was 

 quite interesting to Chattanooga lumbermen and 

 among the familiar faces shown, Ferd Brenner 

 and W. F. Best were once in business here, and 

 W. E. Heyser was partially raised in this city. 



BRISTOL 



An important deal was consummated last 

 week, when the Morton, Lewis, Willey Lumber 

 Compan.v. which has for flfteen years operated 

 a band mill in Bristol, sold its planing mill and 

 mill and yard site in Fairmount to the Peter Mc- 

 Cain Lumber Company of Bristol, formerly the 

 Paul W. Fleck Lumber Company. The purchas- 

 ers get everything east of the line of the Bris- 

 tol Belt Line railway, and will take possession 

 January 1. They will operate the planing mill 

 and use the yards. The yards of the company 

 at the old James Strong Lumber Company site, 

 In south Bristol, will be abandoned at once. 



The Conasuaga Lumber Company, of which 

 John B. Ransom, of Nashville, Is president, is 

 extending its holdings. The company has a 

 band mill in Polk County, east Tennessee, and 

 is operating extensively in this section. 



The Y'ellow Poplar Lumber Company of Coal 

 Grove. Ohio, has about finished cutting out the 

 yellow poplar timber on its Buchanan County, 

 Virginia, tract, and will shortly turn the band 

 mill at Whitewood and the remaining timber 

 over to the C. L. RItter Lumber Company of 

 Bristol, which purchased the property some 

 months ago and which will operate the mill. 



J. A. Wilkinson has purchased additional tim- 

 ber holdings In West Virginia and will extend 

 his operations in that state. His Bristol mill 

 is running regularly and inquiry at the general 

 offices of the company reveals the fact that the 

 company is enjoying a good trade. 



