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HARDWOOD RECORD 



New Oak Flooring Concern 



The rearsdn-Iiutchison Lumber Coiniiaiiy of 

 Nashville, Tenn., is the name of a mw oak 

 flooring manufacturing house that has r^'cently 

 KOne into commission. The Pearson-Iliitchison 

 I.umb.T Company is made up of E. W. I'earson, 

 hardwood manufacturer of Manchester. Teun., 

 and iJ. S. Hutchison, who for years has been 

 associated with the oak flooring trade and was 

 formerly allied with the T. Wilce Company of 

 I'hicago, the Nashville Hardwood Flooring Com- 

 pany and the Memphis Hardwood Flooring Com- 

 pany. 



The Pearson-Hutchison Lumber Company has 

 laken over by lease the plant of the National 

 r.ox Company and has sublet the box department 

 to this institution and has re-equipped the plan- 

 ing mill into a first-class flooring factory. 



Mr. Hutchison, who was in Chicago last week, 

 reports that he has already booked business 

 ■ ■nough to keep the plant in full operation for 

 hcveral months. With liis knowledge of hard- 

 wood flooring production and his wide acquaint- 

 ance tlie new concern should be very successful. 



D. S. HITCHISOX 



Death Emergency Find for Hoo-Hoo 



The committee appointed at the joint confer- 

 ence of the Supreme Nine and the House of 

 Ancients held in Chicago, November 18 to 20 

 last, to work out the details of the establish- 

 ment of a death emergency fund for the organi- 

 zation, has completed its work, and its report 

 was considered at the meeting of the Supreme 

 Nine and House of Ancients held at Chicago, 

 July 19. 



The plan on which it is proposed to work out 

 this fund is an especially wise and far-seeing 

 oue. The fund is to be created and death pay- 

 ments will be paid as soon as the sum of .$6,000 

 lias been remitted to the Scrivenoter, made up 

 of the fees of .$2 from iJ.OOO members of the or- 

 ganization in gcjod standing. The death benefit 

 is small, only $250, but inasmuch as it is to be 

 paid promptly and without red tape on reasona- 

 ble proof of the death of the subscriber, and as 

 no medical examination is required and no age 

 limit is placed upon beneficiaries, it will be gen- 

 erally useful. 



The continuance of the fund depends upon 

 whether the members care to havp it in exist- 

 ence or not. When by reason of members failing 

 to pay their assessments this fund is reduced 

 as low as .tl.OOO, that is to be taken as indica- 

 tion that the membership no longer cares to 

 have the fund continued and the money on hand 

 win be turned into the regular distress fund. 



Assessments for the replenishment of the fund 

 are to be levied when the fund has been reduced 



to $2,000, or when in'the judgment of the Snark 

 and the Scrivenoter it is about to be reduced 

 to such sum. 



The Order of Hoo-Hoo is not and never will 

 be an insurance organization, with all the com- 

 plications and details inevitable in such an In- 

 stitution, but this plan seems to be a natural 

 and logical extension of the spirit which has 

 maintained the useful and heneticial distress 

 fimd for so many years, and members will un- 

 doubtedly respond in this matter with their 

 usual generositj'. 



Purchase Timber Tract 

 The Bunt & Brabb Lumber Company of Ford, 

 Clark county. Ivy., has transferred to the Greasy 

 Fork Coal & Timber Company of Louisville 

 14,589 acres of land located in Leslie and Har- 

 lan counties, in the eastern part of the state. 

 'J'he consideration was slightly less than 

 $100,000. 



The Greasy Fork Company was recently or- 

 ganized at Louisville with a capital of $230,000. 

 U. Carnahan of B. B. Norman & Co. is one of 

 the principal stockholders and turned over to it 

 a big section of timber land in the eastern part 

 of Kentuck.v. The company, it is understood, 

 does not intend to work the timber immediately. 



Nashville Concern Moves to Alabama 



The main office and sales department of 

 lytic *: Ralston, who. though they have been 

 in business but a short time, have made rapid 

 strides in the hardwood field in Nashville as 

 wholesalei-s and manufacturers, have been moved 

 to Guntersville, Ala., where their mill is located. 

 This will be a more convenient location, as it is 

 in close touch with that section of Marshall 

 Lounty, Alabama, w'bere the concern has valuable 

 timber tracts, and where are also located a num- 

 ber oi mills, the cuts of which it has contracted 

 lor. 



Ernest N. Ralston, who bandied the market- 

 ing and was in charge of the Nashville office, 

 will direct the selling of the company's output 

 from the Alabima city. R. L. Lytle, who has 

 been in charge of the mill and timber operations 

 at Guntersville, will continue in that capacity. 



The move to Guntersville was made in. order 

 to give more freedom in investments in timber 

 lands. The concern already has a number of 

 valuable tracts of white oak and poplar, which 

 it is now cutting to l)e ready for shipment 

 w'hen the fall trade opens. 



It is probable that the offices will be moved 

 back to Nashville within a year or so, as soon 

 as Mr. Lytle gets the yards at Guntersville 

 established so that all shipments can be made 

 f;om that point. The proximity of the Tennes- 

 see river to the mills and holdings in Alabama 

 will give the firm excellent shipping facilities. 



Progressive New Memphis Concern 



The new Hyan-Weigant Lumber Company, 

 which was recently organized by James J. Ryan. 

 Frank May. Ralph May, John F. Weigant and 

 Walter Ikltzgrafe at Memphis, has already 

 started operations in new South Memphis, where 

 it has a fine yard and convenient office. The 

 capital slock of the new company is $10,000, all 

 paid in. All the members of the company are 

 experieiiced lumbermen, the May brothers being 

 particularly well-known in the hardwood field. 

 Mr. Ryan, although but thirty years of age, has 

 had twelve years' experience, in the business and 

 has an unusually broad grasp of hardwood af- 

 fairs ; ho will have active charge of the busi- 

 ness, giving his personal attention to the buying, 

 selling and shipping. Already the yards of the 

 company in South Jlemphis present the appear- 

 ance of an old established concern. The future 

 certainly looks bright for this new company, 

 and it has already made a place for itself in 

 the Memphis field. 



American Lumber in Switzerland 



i/onsul George Giflord of Basel, Switzerland, 

 lias been informed by an Importer of American 

 lumber that that place might well be made the 

 distributing point for the adjoining territory of 

 Switzerland and the surrounding countries. The 

 river Rhine has been made navigable up to 

 that point, which fact wall present an all water 

 route for American lumber into the heart of 

 Europe. 



The market at Switzerland is already good 

 and great quantities have been Imported from 

 America, though of course the main bulk comes 

 from Switzerland and other European countries. 

 In 1908 the total value of ail imports of lum- 

 ber was $5,212,002, of which lumber to the 

 value of $365,617 came from the United States. 

 These figures do not include any manufactured 

 article. 



The principal market in Basel now seems 

 to be for boards of ash, birch, chestnut, poplar, 

 plain and birdse.ve maple^ hickory, oak and wal- 

 nut. 



C. F. KORN 



0, F. Kom, President of Bank 



The Winton Savings Bank is the name of a 

 new bnukiog institution organized by the busi- 

 ness men of Winton IMace, the well known Cin- 

 cinnati suburb, on June 2,5, 1910. The new 

 bank was formally opened for business on Satur- 

 d.iy, August 6. In tlie make-up of the executives 

 of the bank Chester F. Korn, president of the 

 Farrin-Korn Lumber Company was elected presi- 

 dent and director ; A. L. Metcalfe of the M. B. 

 Farrin Lumber Company and J. S. Walker of the 

 J. S. Walker Lumber Company were made direct- 

 ors. The uew liank will handle commercial ac- 

 counts and also have a savings department. 



T. F. Scanlon Enters Chicago Trade 



T. F. Scanlon. who for fifteen years has been 

 identified with the hardwood business in various 

 parts of the country, both in the selling and 

 manufacturing end, recently joined J. P. McPar- 

 liind, the former senior partner of the McPar- 

 land & Konzen Lumlier Company, Laflin street, 

 <.'hicago. Mr. Mcl'arland has bought out his 

 associates In the business and with the assist- 

 ance of Mr. Scanlon on the road is doing busi- 

 ness along the old lines under the title McPar- 

 land Hardwood Lumber Company. The new 

 associate came from the employ of May Brotli- 

 lus, Memphis, Tenn., where he has been located 

 for some time. Previously he was with FuUer- 

 ton-Powell Hardwood Lumber Company, prin- 

 cipally on the road. 



