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mill. His clothes were caught in the machinery 

 in some way and before aid could reach him he 

 had been whipped to death. His father and 

 mother are prostrated with grief over the death 

 of their sou. The plant has been in operation 

 only a short time. 



John W. McClure. of the Bellgrade Lumber 

 Company, states that business is very good at 

 the moment. He calls particular attention to 

 the fact that the firm has recently sold a great 

 deal of low-grade sap gum from its mill at 

 Belzoni, Miss. He furthermore states that these 

 transactions have been put through at a slight 

 advance in prices. 



Some members of the trade state that busi- 

 ness is somewhat slow as compared with March 

 and the early portion of April but the prevailing 

 view is that the lull is only temporary and that 

 there will be a continued good demand for hard- 

 wood lumber, especially in high-grade stock. 



NASHVILLE 



One of the means of transporting lumber from 

 tlic valley of the upper Cumberland to Nash- 

 ville now lies at the bottom of the river. The 

 steamer Bob Dudley, which plied the upper river 

 for the Ryman Line, sank a few nights since 

 at the Ryman elevator just below the city 

 bridge. The boat had dropped down to the ele- 

 vator from the upper wharf with a barge that 

 day. No one seems to know the cause of the 

 trouble. Captain George Doubleday and other 

 officials of the company had narrow escapes. The 

 boat will be raised as soon as the stage of the 

 river permits. A bulkhead will be built about 

 the craft and then the water will be gotten out 

 with a large pump. 



A recent visitor to the city was Nat Gennett, 

 an old Nashville boy, who with his brother An- 

 drew, has been successful in the lumber busi- 

 ness in the past few years. Nat reports the 

 sale of practically all of the holdings of the 

 Gennett Lumber Company in Rabun and Haber- 

 sham counties, Ga., to the Himmelberger-Har- 

 rison Lumber Company of Morehouse, Mo. Some 

 40,000 acres lying on both sides of the Talulah 

 river changed hands by the deal. The timber 

 was mostly yellow poplar, white oak, yellow 

 pine and chestnut. Mr. Gennett announced that 

 he and his brother had just closed a deal for 

 some 30,000 acres of hardwood timber land In 

 Fannin county, Ga., consisting of oak, poplar 

 and chestnut. These two boys, both of whom 

 are youngsters still, have developed into expe- 

 rienced timber men. They know a tract of good 

 stuff when they see it ; they know how to buy 

 one and how to sell one at a fair profit after 

 clearing up the title to the same. 



The Lebanon Manufacturing Co. has been 

 placed into bankruptcy by a petition filed against 

 it by a number of creditors. The largest cred- 

 itor is the Laurel Creek Stave and Lumber Com- 

 pany, with a claim of S732. The petition al- 

 leges that the bankrupt firm committed an act 

 of bankruptcy in executing to the American Na- 

 tional Bank of Lebanon a deed of assignment 

 to secure the sum of $10,500. 



A special from Jackson, Tenn., states that the 

 lumber firm of J. A. Britton recently suffered 

 a loss of about $20,000 by fire of unknown ori- 

 gin. About $15,000 insurance was carried. 



A special from Savannah. Tenn., states that 

 the Lacefield tract in the eastern part of Hardin 

 county has been auctioned to H. L. and J. L. 

 Porter for the sum of $8,600. The tract is 

 said to contain much valuable timber. 



Congressman Cordell Hull of the Fourth dis- 

 trict of up-river counties is busying himself in 

 assisting the government in making a geograph- 

 ical and topographic survey of the coal and tim- 

 ber region of Cumberland Mountains. This work 

 was started about a year ago, but not com- 

 pleted. Mr. Hull has assurances that the force 

 will return to the region in a few weeks and 



complete the work. The Tennessee Geological 

 Commission will co-oprate with the government 

 in the work. 



A special from Selmer, Tenn., announces a 

 boiler explosion at the mill of Tidwell Bros, near 

 that place in which one man was killed and sev- 

 eral others injured. The loss was about $1,200. 



McEwen Ransom of John B. Ransom & Co. 

 has returned to Nashville after a protracted stay 

 in Colorado for his health. He is looking fat 

 and well again. 



LOUISVILLE 



Secretary Perkins, of the Jamestown Table 

 Company, Jamestown, N. Y., attended a recent 

 meeting of the Hardwood Club. Mr. Perkins is 

 a buyer who always comes to Louisville. He is 

 only one of the many who have learned that 

 Louisville is the place to go for hardwoods. 



The Louisville Herald's automobile depart- 

 ment, "In Motordom," devoted attention last 

 week to the automobilists among the members 

 of the Hardwood Club. Among those who sport 

 machines are A. E. Norman, Barry Norman. 

 Harry Gates, the Browns and Clarence R. Men- 

 gel. 



The Louisville Point Lumber Company re- 

 ports business good, with the high grades of 

 quartered oak and poplar having the call, al- 

 though low grades are moving in volume also. 

 Harry J. Gates is in the South visiting some 

 Diill points, and Ed L. Shippen of that company, 

 is up the river in connection with logging opera- 

 tions. Mr. Gates is getting ready to take up his 

 domicile at the bungalow of the Louisville Boat 

 Club, which has opened for the summer. 



The W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company 

 has appointed a new salesman, Charles Lee. Mr. 

 Lee will travel the eastern states exclusively, 

 where he is well known. The new Packard of 

 the Brown boys has arrived and they have 

 learned all the new wrinkles. Business with 

 the company is mighty good, it was reported. 



The Edw. L. Davis Lumber Company has both 

 its mills going, and reports a good volume of 

 business, although the situation is perhaps not 

 quite as strong as it has been heretofore. 

 Claude Sears of that company, is in the East, 

 and is finding the demand .pretty good. The 

 company has a big run of logs tied up on Green 

 river, which it will begin to move in a short 

 time. 



E. O. Robinson, of Mowbray & Robinson, Cin- 

 cinnati, was in the city recently. He said that 

 hardwood circles in the Queen City are finding 

 the situation very satisfactory. 



Joseph Walton, inspector of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, who is stationed 

 here permanently now, is keeping busy. He is 

 inspecting at most of the local yards, and is 

 doing good work. He is also being used in con- 

 nection with lumber taken up at mill points in 

 this general section. 



H. A. McCowan of the Ohio River Sawmill 

 Company was in the city last week and called 

 on the local representative of the Hardwood 

 Record. Mr. McCowan's home is in Salem, Ind., 

 but he keeps in close touch with the business of 

 the company here, which is looked after directly 

 by R. F. Smith. The demand for lumber Is 

 good, said Mr. McCowan, and shipments are 

 being made to some big consumers and handlers 

 of hardwoods. 



J. C. Wickliffe, secretary of C. C. Mengel & 

 Bro. Company, is in Rotterdam. Holland. He 

 has been covering a lot of ground on the other 

 side, and reports favorable progress. The big 

 mill of the company in South Louisville is cut- 

 ting a lot of handsomely figured logs just now, 

 the shipment of African mahogany recently re- 

 ceived having been unusually fine. .\nother 

 shipment is expected shortly, this time from 

 Honduras. Sales Manager Splcker of the ''om- 

 pany, is in the East. D. C. Harris, traffic man- 

 ager of the company, has been appointed on a 



committee of the Louisville Traffic & Transporta- 

 tion Association to take up with the railroads 

 the matter of waiving the requirement that 

 bond must be given by shippers who use the 

 average demurrage system put into effect April 

 1. The system is well liked by the lumbermen, 

 but they object to paying an unnecessary prem- 

 ium to be allowed to use it. 



A. E. Norman of the Norman Lumber Com- 

 pany, is getting things in shape for a move to 

 his new yard at Ninth and Magnolia streets, the 

 work of preparation being in charge of Stuart 

 Cecil. Brick walls are being built on either side 

 of the switch, which has been put in. and these 

 will be banked so as to make it possible to load 

 and unload cars without difficulty. It is ex- 

 pected that lumber will be pUed there in a short 

 while. 



Members of the Louisville Hardwood Club 

 favor- the election of F. A. Diggins, of Cadillac, 

 Mich., as president of the National Association. 

 The club took an informal vote on the question 

 not long ago, and endorsed Mr. Diggins for the 

 place. He is now first vice-president, and is re- 

 garded as one of the biggest lumbermen In the 

 country. President Agler is understood to have 

 expressed a desire to be succeeded by Mr. Dig- 

 gins. 



R. Carnahan of E. B. Norman & Co., is presi- 

 dent of the Greasy Fork Coal & Timber Com- 

 pany, which has been incorporated here, with a 

 capital stock of $250,000. The company is a 

 holding corporation for several thousand acres 

 of coal and timberlands in the eastern part of 

 the state, including Harlan, Letcher and Leslie 

 counties, but does not expect to begin operations 

 immediately. Besides Mr. Carnahan others in- 

 terested in the company are John G. White of 

 Winchester, and A. V. Thompson, Thomas R. 

 Gordon and A S. Rice of Louisville. 



S. E. Booker of E. B. Norman & Co., reported 

 business holding up well, although the market is 

 hardly as active as it has been. The box factory 

 is running, but the demand is quieter now. 



The Jones Lumber Company of Frankfort, 

 Ky., has changed its name to the Taylor & 

 Crate Company of Kentucky. Its capital stock 

 is $50,000. 



The Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, one of the largest consumers of hardwoods 

 in the country, will hold a meeting of stock- 

 holders May 11 for the purpose of increasing the 

 capital stock from $1,250,000 to $1,500,000. The 

 purpose of the increase is to give the company 

 more working capital, the necessity for this be- 

 ing attributed by officers to the increasing price 

 of lumber and Woodstock. 



The Louisville & Nashville is reporiea to be 

 considering an extension from Butler, Ky., into 

 the timber fields of Eastern Kentucky by way of 

 Mt. Olivet. Carlisle, Sharpsburg and Owings- 

 ville. It will double track from Covington to 

 Butler. 



Russell Palmer, son of Earl Palmer, the Pa- 

 ducah lumberman, attained considerable note at 

 the intercollegiate athletic carnival in Philadel- 

 phia recently, winning the running high jump 

 with a mark of six feet one inch. Mr. Palmer's 

 youngster is evidently a chip off the old block, 

 as the lumberman himself is known to be able to 

 go some. 



The steam boiler of the Pischel Lumber Com- 

 pany, on Buck creek, near Salyersville, exploded 

 April 28. Nobody was killed, but several work- 

 men were badly scalded. 



The state has taken befoi-e the Supreme Court 

 a case against the Kentucky Union Company and 

 others, who hold 40.000 acres of timberlands in 

 the eastern part of Kentucky, in an effort to 

 cause the title to revert to the Commonwealth 

 on the grounds that the lands have not been 

 listed for taxation during the past five years as 

 required by law. The contention of the com- 

 pany is that the law is constitutional. The case 

 is to be argued shortly. 



Building showed a falling off locally during 

 April, the amount represented by the 278 per- 



