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HARDWOOD RECORD 



will be entirely separate from the Michigan 

 plant, the latter using maple, while the one here 

 will saw hardwoods. The investment here will 

 represent about $150,000. 



A new line of railroad, that will pass through 

 a new and undeveloped timber belt, is being pro- 

 moted in Nashville. It is the Nashville & 

 Adairville Railroad and proposes to run from 

 Nashville through Davidson and Robertson coun- 

 ties and on into Logan county, Ky., to Adair- 

 ville. The line will pass through or near Good- 

 lettsville in Da-vidson count.v, Millersville, White- 

 hill. White House, Cross Plains, Olinda, Lamont 

 in Robertson, and on to Adairville. The officers 

 of the road are : S. C. Robb, president and 

 general manager : W. A. Buntin. vice-president ; 

 Dr. B. P. Gilbert, treasurer, and R.'A. Wilson, 

 secretary. 



An interesting decision to all lumbermen or 

 other shippers was recently handed down by 

 the Court of Appeals of Tennessee In the case 

 of N. C. & St. L. Ry. vs. Farris, Wilfort & 

 Kennedy. The suit was brought under an 

 amendment to the interstate commerce law fix- 

 ing the liability for damage on the initial com- 

 mon carrier. The damage claimed happened on 

 the destination end of the shipment, the original 

 carrier turning the shipment over to another 

 road, the latter causing certain losses to the 

 shipper. .Judge Palmer of the Court of Ap- 

 peals held in favor of the shipper, and that the 

 road endorsing the original bill of lading became 

 liable for any loss incurred by the goods, whether 

 such loss happened on the line of the original 

 cai'rier or any subsequent road handling the 

 shipment. This decision upholds the constitu- 

 tionality of the amendment, which has on two 

 previous occasions also been held constitutional 

 by the Supreme Coiu't of Tenn<>ssee. 



A special from Indian Mound. Tenn., states 

 Ihat C. A. Moery has bought from .1. T. Mc 

 Nichols the latter's 300-acre farm, for a con- 

 sideration of $4,500. The purchaser represents 

 a timber concern that intends developing the 

 tract. The property is said to b:" rich in timber 

 resources. 



In the death of Thomas II. Harris the town of 

 Trezevant, Tenn.. loses one of its leading citi- 

 zens and the lumber and sawmill business a 

 progressive and active member. At the time 

 of bis death Mr. Harris ran a big planing mill 

 aud sawmill. He was fifty-eight years old and 

 leaves n wife and two children. 



Secretary of State Hallum W. Goodloe has 

 granted a charter to the Scott-Lambert Lumber 

 Company of Carter county, capitalized at $23,- 

 000. The incorporators are : A. M. Scott, W. 

 W. Lambert. W. E. Hunter, W. C. Bresnahan 

 and Lee F. Miller. 



(Creditors of the Bradley Furniture Company 

 of Ellzabethtown, Tenn.. have filed a petition in 

 bankruptcy against that company. The plant 

 burned not long since and has not been re- 

 built. One of the items set forth as an asset 

 was an uncollected insurance policy for ,$21,000. 



Secretary of State Goodloe has granted a char- 

 ter to the King Lumber Company of Polk 

 county, capitalized at $10,000. The incorpo- 

 rators are : M. C. King. Boon Crawford. .1. H. 

 McCoy, N. E. Edenfleld and C. W. Kiker. 



A railroad charter granted by the secretary 

 of state recently will allow new timber country 

 to be opened up. The Crandall & Shadt Valley 

 Railroad Company of .Johnson county was 

 granted leave to do business in the state. It 

 will run a road from Crandall, in ,Johnson coun- 

 ty, up Beaver Dam creek to a point on top of 

 Cross mountain, in .lohnson county. The capital 

 stock is $10,000 and the incorporators are : R. 

 E. Donnelley. H. A. Donnelley, R. E. Butler, D. 

 H. Donnelley and W. T. Smythe. 



The Chattanooga Chair Manufacturing Com- 

 pany has been granted a charter. The capital 

 stock is $25,000 and the incorporators are : J. 

 H. Parham. Claude Smith. .T. II. Kuhlman, C. 

 M. Preston and J. B. Canfrell. 



The Home Building & Manufacturing Company, 

 which recently bought out the stave plant of A. 

 L. Hayes in East Nashville, is said to be consid- 

 ering the addition of a hardwood flooring plant. 

 However, no definite decision has been reached 

 as yet. This concern for some time has manu- 

 factured sashes, doors and blinds, etc., and the 

 purchase of the Hayes plant doubles its capacity. 

 The A. L. Hayes Stave Company will move its 

 stave machinery to a point near Chattanooga. 



A new lumber firm in Nashville is styled T. 

 R. Crittenden & Co. They have opened up yards 

 on Adams street in North Nashville and will 

 manufacture and wholesale hardwood lumber. 

 Mr. Crittenden came here from Hartsell, .\la. 

 Fred Roth, formerly with A. H. Card & Co.. is 

 also a member of tbe firm. 



BRISTOL 



The development of a large tract of timbi'r in 

 Greene count.v. Tennessee, near Greeneville. has 

 just been undertaken by O. H. Vial of Elizabeth- 

 ton. Tenn.. a well-known lumber manufacturer 

 of this section. Mr. Vial has been busy for 

 some time building a narrow-gauge line of rail- 

 road to the mill site, and will be ready to begin 

 cutting before a great while. The operation 

 will be one of the largest in upper east Ten- 

 nessee. 



There is much activity iu lumber manufactur- 

 ing in Polk county, east Tennessee, where the 

 Pendergrast Lumlwr Company of Marion. O.. the 

 Conasuaga Lumlier Company, and others are at 

 work. The Pendergrast company erected a band 

 mill at Duckton. Tenn.. in Polk county, and 

 put it in operation several months ago. 



A marriage of much interest in hardwood 

 circles occurred this week, when Miss Ora Belle 

 Rogan of Bristol became the bride of .J. Herbert 

 Kester, an official of the Southern Hardwood 

 Lumber Company of Ashland, Ky. The bride is 

 a popular anl charming young Bristol society 

 girl, while the groom is a prominent .young 

 lumberman. They were married at f'barlotte. 

 N. C, and will make their home at Ashland, Ky. 



R. W. Lucius of the William II. Perry Lumber 

 Company of Cincinnati, and .1. A. Watson of tbe 

 F. W. Crane Lumber Company of Pittsburg. Pa., 

 were among the bu.vers on the Bristol market 

 Ibis week. Both were on their way home for 

 the holidays. They left some nice orders with 

 Bristol lumbermen. 



The export business in Bristol is repoi'ted as 

 in fine shape. Numerous foreign buyers who 

 have been in this region recently report excellent 

 prospects for busines abroad, though the im- 

 provement in trade there has not been as marked 

 as in this countr.v. Some of tbe local exporters, 

 however, are getting reports from their foreign 

 customers that are somewhat ominous. 



N. A.. Wright, representing C. Leary & Co.. 

 well-known London wood importers, was among 

 the recent visitors here who brought cheering; 

 news. 



"Chefr up — the worst is yet to come," is what 

 the Bristol lumbermen are hearing in re,gar-d to 

 the freight car supply. While the situation has 

 not yet assumed proportions of a car shortage, 

 it is almost certain that if business improves 

 much more, unless the railroads handle traffic 

 with much greater dispatch, there will be a 

 I'tonounced shortage. 



Tbe Whiting Manufacturing Company has un- 

 dertaken big things for the coming year. Be- 

 sides the two baud mills and planing mills with 

 which the company is now developing its 100.000- 

 acre tract of timber contiguous to Bristol, it 

 will from time to time install other important 

 operations. 



"The outlook for the lumber business is g<wil 

 indeed." said Paul W. Fleck of Fleck & Dun- 

 woody. Philadelphia, who visited Bristol a few 

 days last week. "The feeling in the East is very 

 inucb better." 



The Whaley-Warren Lumber Company has 

 closed contracts for several million feet of hard- 

 wood stock for spring delivery. The company 

 reports business in good shape. 



H. V. Curll of the H. V. Curll Lumber Com- 

 pany of Pittsburg was here last week, after a 

 visit to his company's mills in West Virginia. 

 He reported fine prospects for trade during the 

 coming year. 



Among recent visitors here was Samuel H. 

 Shearer of Samuel H. Shearer & Son of Phila- 

 delphia, who spent several days on the local 

 market. 



Work is going forward on the W. M. Ritter 

 Lumber Company's new operations on Hazel 

 creek. North Carolina. Mr. Ritter was here a 

 few days ago and aftfr visiting his band mills 

 in this section and spending several days hunting 

 and fishing, returned to Columbus. 



P. W. Bevins. a prominent Scott county (Va.) 

 manufacturer, visited the Bristol market a few 

 days ago and reports much activity in manufac- 

 turing in the rural districts, 



C. H. Smith, Jr., manager of the Bristol oflSce 

 of the R. A. & J. ,J. Williams Company of 

 Philadelphia, has gone to Nashville to spend 

 the holidays with his parents. 



J. M. Hiues of the Tennessee Lumber & Manu- 

 facturing Company of Sutherland. Tenn.. and for- 

 merly of North Tonawanda. N. Y.. and Miss Con- 

 nie Nidiffer of Watauga Valley. Tenn., were mar- 

 ried here this week and left immediately for a 

 ten days' honeymoon trip to New York and other 

 points in the East. 



LOUISVILLE 



The Hardwood Club is beginning to talk of 

 the annual convention of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association, which meets here in 1910. 

 President A. E. Norman is chairman of a com- 

 mittee which is to communicate with Secretary 

 F. F. Fish and decide upon a date for the 

 meeting. The Detroit convention was held in 

 June, but it is likely that the Louisville meeting 

 will be in May, which is usually a cool and 

 pleasant month here. The convention will be 

 held at the Seelbach hotel. The convention of 

 the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association at 

 Cincinnati has been discussed informally and it 

 is likely that oue or two local men will attend. 



Railroad men have been holding the fioor at 

 the Hardwood Club of late. Fred H. Behring. 

 assistant ,gencr:il freight agent of the Southern 

 Railwa.v. spoke two weeks ago. referring to the 

 importance which is now attached to tbe Louis- 

 ville hardwood market by the railroads, and as- 

 suring the club that the Southern, as well as the 

 other lines, will do all in their power to give 

 Louisville a fair deal in the matter of rates. 

 Last Tuesday evening J. Taylor Green of the 

 office of the district freight agent of the Big 

 Four, made an informal talk on general railway 

 matters of interest to the lumbermen. 



.\s suggested some time ago. the Mengel Box 

 Company has been elected to membership in 

 the club. Charles E. Davis is the company's 

 representative. There are several other firms 

 which will likely be made memljers before long, 

 and when that happens the Hardwood Club will 

 have enrolled almut all the eligibles and will lie 

 a completely united and representative bod.'-. 



Among recent visitors at Hardwood Club meet- 

 ings have been Hoyt Gamble of Gamble Bros., 

 dimension stock manufacturers : Mr. Perkins of 

 the .Jamestown Table Company : Mr. Pollard of 

 the Mengel Box Company's force at Mengelwood. 

 Tenn., and Mr. Lortz of the Kentucky Wagon 

 Works. Louisville. Buyers continue to seek 

 the Louisville market in large numbers, attest- 

 ing to the increasing reputation of this locality. 



A. E. Norman of the Norman Lumber Com- 

 pany. Barry Nurman of E. B. Norman & Co. and 

 E. L. Davis of the Edward L. Davis Lumbr 

 Company hunted last week in Barren county. 



