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HARDWOOD RECORD 



neiit exhibits of their worlimansliip. Floor space 

 has l^een allotted at headqrfarters for this pur- 

 pose and the outlook for a most creditable show- 

 ing is quite promising. 



Col. F. M. Hamilton of the Indiana Lumber 

 Company, after being with that concern for the 

 past quarter of a century, has sold out his inter- 

 ests in the same, together with his son, J. A. 

 Hamilton, and the two have organized the Ham- 

 ilton Lumber Company. The ofHce of the new- 

 company is the one for so long occupied by the 

 Indiana Lumber Company. Col. Hamilton is a 

 uatiye of Indiana but came to Tennessee in 1877. 

 He has continued to forge to the front in the 

 local race for industrial supremacy. The new 

 president of the Indiana Lumber Company is I. 

 P. Mattingly. He is from Indiana and is the son 

 of C. T. Mattingly, one of the principal stock- 

 holders in the Indiana Lumber Company. The 

 younger Mattingly has been identified with the 

 local business for some years. The Indiana Lum- 

 ber Company will continue its business as a whole- 

 saler of hardwood lumber and as a manufacturer 

 of hardwood dimension stock. The company has 

 a largo and well equipped planing mill and will 

 do a large retail business as well as wholesale. 



With the name of John W. Love on the lips 

 of many members of the Board of Trade, the 

 directors of that organization will this week go 

 into the election of a new president to serve dur- 

 ing 1910. Mr. Love is in no sense of the word a 

 candidate for the honor, not even is he regarded 

 as being a receptive candidate, but the fact that 

 many of the members have urged him to allow 

 the use of his name shows the high regard in 

 which this sterling young Nashville lumberman 

 is held in his native city. 



The Old Woman's Home of which the late 

 •lohn B. Ransom was a director, has through its 

 board of directors adopted resolutions of tender- 

 est sentiment, honoring his memory and deplor- 

 ing his untimely taking away. Arthur Ransom, 

 younger brother of John B. Ransom, has, as pre- 

 viously stated, been elected to most of the of- 

 fices held by his brother and in an able way he 

 is taking up the reins of responsibility and ren- 

 dering excellent account of his stewardship. 



CHATTANOOOA 



Fred Arn of the J. M. Card Lumber Company 

 has returned from a trip to the East. While 

 away he attended the meeting of the National 

 Lumber Exporters' Association at Baltimore. 



C -A Johnson, manager of the Forest City 

 Manufacturing Company, Forest City, Ark., was 

 in the city recently purchasing machinery for his 

 mill. Mr. Johnson has great hopes for the lum- 

 ber business for the year iniO. 



B. F. Williams of Welch, W. Va., passed 

 through the city a few days ago returning from 

 inspecting a lumber tract in Lawrence county, 

 Alabama. 



Ralph Grey was a visitor here recently looking 

 after the interests of the Ferd. Brenner Lumber 

 Company of Cincinnati. 



The Williams & Voris Lumber Company has 

 amended its charter and increased its capital 

 stock from $25,000 to $110,000. The directors are 

 S. A. Williams, Thos. 'Wiillams, M. J. Voris, A. 

 r. Voris and A. W. Watring. 



F. W. Blair was called home from his mill iu 

 North Georgia last week on account of the death 

 of his mother. Mr. Blair reports business good 

 along his line. 



LOUISVILLE 



The regular meeting of the Hardwood Club 

 held January 25 was devoid of interest, except 

 for a discussion of the rules, suggested by the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission, to be put into 

 etfect in the state of Kentucky, These rules 

 were read and Mr, Norman, president of the 

 club, was appointed a committee of one, to ap- 

 pear before the commission at its meeting Feb 



ruary :i and not only indicate the Hardwood 

 Club's support of the new ruling, but also sug- 

 gest to the Railroad Commission of Kentucky 

 that the same rules be put in effect throughout 

 the state. 



Owing to the convention of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers at Cincinnati, it was moved and 

 seconded that the regular meeting of the club, 

 to he held February 1, be postponed to the even- 

 ing of the next regular meeting. 



Barry Norman, president of E. B. Norman 

 & Co., and Graham Brown of W. P. Brown & 

 Sons Lumber Company were the first to leave 

 for the convention, and the writer was very 

 much surprised to find Mr. Norman at his ofBce 

 Wednesday afternoon — be had expected to have 

 to go to Memphis that evening and had time 

 to take in but one feature of the opening exer- 

 cises, that was the moving picture display by 

 Mr. -Gibson of the Hardwood Recokd. He was 

 especially pleased that he had the opportunity 

 to see the pictures, as he enjoyed them im- 

 mensely. Mr. Norman said that the view he 

 considered best was that of the Yellow Poplar 

 Lumber Company's operations in West Virginia. 

 Mr. Gibson also showed some very interesting 

 view's, taken along our part of the Ohio river. 



Mr. Norman stated that the big business of 

 January had broken their stock pretty badly, 

 and that everything, high and low grades, are 

 moving well. It is evident that the firm is very 

 busy. The box business is booming, especially 

 as the whiskey people are going after business. 



W. r. Brown & Sons Lumber Company Is 

 working hard and Mark Brown could not get 

 away until Tuesday evening. He said that he 

 would have to run the business over the long 

 distance while in Cincy. 



A. E. Norman of the Norman Lumber Com- 

 pany and E. L. Davis of the Edw. L. Davis 

 Lumber Company expected to take Mrs. Norman 

 and Mrs. Davis to the convention, but one of 

 the ladies was not feeling well, so the other 

 would not take the trip without her. Mr. Nor- 

 man was very busy, getting things in shape for 

 this little vacation and only had time to say 

 that he is well satisfied with business. Mr. 

 Davis reports that all grades are moving as fast 

 as the company can turn them out, and that he 

 looks for a big trade as soon as the weather 

 opens up for good and at advancing prices in 

 the lower grades. 



H. J. Gates and Ed Shippen of the Louisville 

 Point Lumber Company left Wednesday night to 

 attend the convention. They have just received 

 a half million feet of hardwood and are keeping 

 their men hustling. The water has not bothered 

 them to any great extent, except that it has 

 the ground soggy and the men find handling 

 hard. Business is good and the firm is well sat- 

 isfied with the January trade. 



Harry Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills 

 was the firm's representative at the convention. 

 The Colonel, D. E., could not get away, as he 

 had been on several trips lately and had impor- 

 tant affairs to attend to at home. He reports 

 all grades are moving. 



The following is a copy of an announcement 

 recently made to the trade by the Wood Mosaic 

 Flooring & Lumber Company of New Albany, 

 Ind. : "Effective .January 15, 1910. At the 

 last meeting of the director.s of the Wood-Mosaic 

 Flooring & Lumber Company it was decided to 

 shorten the official name of the company. We 

 are resuming the original title as used when the 

 business was established in Rochester, N. Y., in 

 1883. In future the official style of the com- 

 pany will be the Wood-Mosaic Company. — W. A. 

 McLean, President." 



Because of business at home Mr. McLean was 

 unable to attend the convention. The Wood- 

 Mosaic Company is running full speed and is 

 well satisfied with conditions in general. Mr. 

 McLean calls attention to the very small amount 

 of plain oak to be had and expects higher prices 

 soon. The firm has added an automobile to its 

 assets, and the Record's correspondent was 



lieneflted by it recently ; the machine was placed 

 at his disposal in making the balance of his 

 calls in New Albany. 



Mr. Knight of the Indiana Veneering Com- 

 pany has just recovered from a severe ca.se of 

 la grippe. Although not very strong, yet he is 

 back at his desk, feeling that business demands 

 his attention. The last three months have been 

 the best in the history of the business. The 

 firm has just finished putting in a new boiler. 

 It is increasing its capacity in anticipation of 

 a continuation of the big business it is now en- 

 joying. Prices have Tjeen increased since the 

 first of the year. 



The Roberts & Connor A'eneering Company. 

 New Albany, Ind., is going along in a steady 

 fashion, keeping up with the game. Mr. Rob- 

 erts is in the West at present, and Mr. Connor 

 stated that the reports from the North are that 

 the furniture people are looking for a poor year. 



Following a discussion which lasted man.r 

 hours at the Gait house February 3, the pro- 

 posed new code of demurrage rules, drawn by 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission, was taken 

 under advisement, and action was postponed 

 until February 17. The only opposition was 

 directed by the coal people, who object to being 

 compelled to unload a car in less than three 

 days. The rules are now in use in Indiana and 

 all reports are to the effect that they are meet- 

 ing with success. 



An act has been introduced in the Kentucky 

 Assembly, providing that compensation shall be 

 paid by owners of timber on streams to per- 

 sons who secure such timber adrift, and return 

 it to the rightful owner and take up. to have a 

 lien upon same until sold. 



Although there were only 88 building permits 

 taken out in January, 1910, as compared with 

 121 in January, 1909, the total outlay was much 

 heavier. The estimated value of buildings placed 

 under course of construction was $271,956, 

 against $132,830 for January of 1909. 



The Mountain Central Railroad will be ex- 

 tended a distance of ten miles from Campton to 

 Hazel Green, opening up to the market a fine 

 boundary of timber and coal lands. The right 

 of way w-as secured last week. 



A twenty-five-mile extension of the Wasioto 

 and Black Mountain Road will be built from 

 Pineville, through Bell and Harlan counties, to 

 Harlan, Ky. The contract represents over a 

 half million dollars. A tunnel 600 feet long will 

 be one of the features. Two thousand men will 

 go to work on the contract which will be rushed 

 through in seven months. This is the most im- 

 portant move taken by any railroad in years so 

 far as the lumber business is concerned, for it 

 will penetrate rich coal and timber lands. 



The Rivers and Harbors appropriation bill, 

 which it was expected would be ready to be re- 

 ported to the house February S. may not be 

 completed for some days. In all probability it 

 will carry an appropriation of about $63,000,000 

 for the Ohio river, to be divided into annual 

 appropriations of about $5,000,000. Louisville 

 and Kentucky interests in general will be well 

 pleased to see something definite in sight after 

 the years of hard work that they have gone 

 through to secure their property and shipping 

 interests from annual damage. 



It is estimated that not less than $25,000 loss 

 resulted from present Ohio river conditions. 

 This does not include the cost of protecting the 

 big coal fleet above the city, which was in the 

 neighborhood of $10,000. 



The other rivers, in some cases just as im- 

 portant to lumbermen as the Ohio, to be bene- 

 fited in the appropriations, are : The Kentucky, 

 $165,000 ; Tennessee, $25,000 ; Cumberland, 

 $400.000 : Big Sandy, $125,000 ; Green River, 

 $7.50.000. 



Work has already been begun on Paducah's 

 famous winter harbor, which is very important 

 to shipping interests below us. 



The Inman-Pierson Company has been incor- 

 porated with a capital stock of $100,000, giving 



