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acres of land near Kankakee. III., from which he 

 estimates he will be able to cut 1,000,000 feet of 

 oak, walnut and cherry. 



C. C. Foster, president of the Foster Lumber 

 Company, is home after a two weeks' trip througli 

 the East. Mr. Foster's company has recently 

 obtained several big contracts for interior finish 

 for postoftice buildings. 



After a visit to the home office at Cincinnati. 

 ('. (;. rieinhart, representative in this territory 

 tor the yi. B. Farrin Lumber Company, has re- 

 turned, lie reports that business is excellent. 



Following a vacation spent at Niagara Falls. 

 New York City and Buffalo, N. Y., .1. P. Huffman 

 of the ,T. P. Huffman Lumber Company has re- 

 turned home. 



W. F. .Tohnson, for ten years secretary and 

 general manager of the Capitol Lumber Company, 

 has resigned liis position and has organized the 

 \V. F. Johnson Lumber Company, whicli has 

 taKcn over the planing mill, yard and other busi- 

 ness of the Eaclesfleld Company, at Nineteenth 

 street and the L. E. & W. railroad. 



The Standard Dry Kiln Company has let the 

 contract for a new two-story brick factory build- 

 ing to be erected at Meridian street and the 

 Belt railroad. The building will cost $20,000. 



'i"he Monon Railroad' Company has filed with 

 the Indiana State Railroad Commission notice 

 of the cancellation of thirty commodity rates on 

 lumber, and in these instances class rates will 

 appl,\' in the future. 



Arrangements have been completed for a picnic 

 of Indiana lumbermen in this city August 27. 

 The picnic proper will be held in Germania park, 

 but there will be a baseball game during the 

 afternoon between lumbermen's teams of this city 

 and Memphis. Tenn. At 10 o'clock in the morn- 

 ing there will he a Hoo-Hoo concatenation, fol- 

 lowed by a number of athletic events. In the 

 evening there will be a big chicken dinner. Lum- 

 bermen from all parts of the state and from Chi- 

 cago. Cincinnati, Memphis. Nashville and St. 

 Louis are expected to attend. 



NASHVILLE 



An announcement of interest in Nashville, 

 both in lumber and social circles, is the engage- 

 ment of Miss Estelle Shook and H. A. Batchelor. 

 ,Ir. Miss Shook, the youngest daughter of 

 Colonel and Mrs. A. M. Shook, is a beautiful 

 young woman. She was chief sponsor for the 

 big military tournament held here last June at 

 Camp Dickinson, named in honor of the Secre- 

 tary of War. and honored by his presence here. 

 Miss Shock's father is a man of great wealth 

 and wide influence. Mr. Batchelor, the young 

 man who draws this rich prize in the realm of 

 matrimony, came to Nashville a few months ago 

 from Saginaw, Mich., and organized here the 

 Tennessee Oak Flooring Company, which has 

 recently opened one of the most modern flooring 

 plants in" the country. The plant is located 

 in East Nashville in the lumber section along 

 the river, and it has room for eight flooring 

 machines, five of which have already been in- 

 stalled, and a dry kiln of large capacity has 

 been built. The officers of the company are : 

 H. A. Batchelor, G, T. Wylie and George 

 Strable, all of Saginaw, Mich,, and H. A, Batche- 

 lor. Jr.. now of this city. Young Batchelor has 

 won many friends since coming to Nashville. 

 He is a leading club man and has been promi- 

 nent in Nashville's social as well as business 

 circles. 



Fire recently destroyed the plant of the Gulf. 

 Red Cedar Company's plant at Lebanon, Tenn. 

 It was one of the largest of the kind in the 

 South. It emplo.ved 300 men, and was valued 

 at between .?30,000 and $40,000, with about 

 $15,000 insurance on the machinery. The com- 

 pany is engaged in the manufacture of pencil 

 slats of red cedar. It came to Lebanon from 

 Mobile, Ala., has flourished, and has been a big 

 factor in the upbuilding of Lebanon. J. C. 



Scale, assistant manager of the plant, states 

 that while they have suffered heavy losses, the 

 work of rebuilding would begin at once. 



A special bound for the big annual Hoo-IIoo 

 convention in California will pull out of Nash- 

 ville on the night of August 31, with the fol- 

 lowing Nashvillians aboard : E. W. Foster, W. 

 J. Cude. J. W, Farris, J. Kenneth Baird, J. H. 

 Baird, Foster Baird and Misses Annie Shorill 

 B^ird and Mamie Holman. The convention will 

 be hold September S-12 in San Francisco, and 

 this will give the party time for a brief stop- 

 over or so on the way out, and opportunity to 

 enjoy the Western scener.v. 



Charles L. McConnell. of the Nashville Hard- 

 wood Flooring Company, is back from a trip 

 of two weeks in the Northwest, in Michigan anrl 

 Wisconsin. 



Sam Ransom, of John B. Ransom & Co., ran 

 in to the city Saturday to spend Sunday "with 

 the folks." "Rabbitt." as he is familiarly 

 known to his many friends, came in as usual 

 "from the sticks." He is one of the "outside 

 men" for the company, and spends most of his 

 time in the woods buying timber. 



Fire recently destroyed the plant of Tillman, 

 Shannon & Co. at Trimble. Tenn. The loss was 

 $50,000 partially covered by insurance. 



One of the news features of late is to the 

 effect that the Southern Lumberman of this city 

 is soliciting financial support to move to Mem- 

 phis. It is learned that an offer has been made 

 the paper through the Business Men's Club 

 of Memphis. If the paper should be moved to 

 Memphis the headquarters of Hoo-Hoo will also 

 go there, as J. H. Baird is Scrivenoter. 



The A. L. Hayes Company of this city, stave 

 manufacturers, has recently closed a deal 

 whereby a tract of 3,06G acres of timber lands 

 in Hickman count.v has been acquired from the 

 Charleston Mining & Manufacturing Company. 

 The consideration was $12,000. and onl.v 14-inch 

 and over timber was bought. 



The Conasauga Lumber Company of Polk 

 county, has moved its sales and accounting de- 

 partments to the Fourth National Bank building 

 in Cincinnati. At the recent meeting of the 

 stockholders the following officers were chosen : 

 C. B. Benedict, president ; M. F. Greene, vice 

 president, and John Byrns, secretary and treas- 

 urer. These, together with John W. Love, A. 

 B. Ransom, Walter Keith and C. H. Benedict, 

 constitute the directors of the company. C. H. 

 Benedict succeeds the late and beloved .John B. 

 Ransom as a director. The concern has hold- 

 ings of 30.000 acres in Polk county, and in addi- 

 tion to handling its mills in Polk county, will do 

 a general w-holesale business. 



The Palmer-Ferguson Lumber Company of 

 Louisville, Ky., has purchased a large tract of 

 finely wooded timber near Jackson, Tenn., for 

 $65,000, and a mill located five miles from 

 Mercer, Tenn., will saw the output. 



John W. Love, of Love, Boyd & Co., is still 

 enjoying his annual outing to Markland, Nova 

 Scotia. He writes that he is catching plenty of 

 fish and doing a lot of fine resting. Hamilton 

 Love and his family, after successive stays at 

 Virginia Beach, Monteagle and Ridgetop. are 

 at home again on West Broad street. 



Jack M. Wells, of the Tallahatchie Lumber 

 Company, of Phillips. Miss., is in the city. He 

 was formerly with Love, Boyd & Co., and with 

 the Crescent Lumber Company. 



Tlie big damage suit of Lieberman, Loveman 

 & O'Brien vs. the Nashville. Chattanooga & St. 

 Louis railway has been compromised upon the 

 basis of $45,000. This was a suit for $200,000 

 damages claimed by the lumber company on ac- 

 count of fire at its big plant in south Nashville, 

 the fire, it was alleged, being occasioned by 

 sparks from a 'passing engine. 



McEwen Ransom, who is in Colorado, is re- 

 ported in good health. He is expected to re- 

 turn to Nashville as soon as cold weather sets 



MEMPHIS 



Weather conditions have been satisfactory 

 throughout the Memphis territory during the 

 past fortnight for the production of hardwood 

 lumber and quite satisfactory progress has been 

 made on the part of those having plenty of 

 timber on the yards or depending on the rail- 

 roads to bring in their logs. The Mississippi 

 and its tributaries have shown a low water 

 stage for some time and for this reason the 

 amount of timber handled on the water has 

 been lighter than usual. In fact, more than one 

 mill in this city and some of those at outside 

 Iiolnis have found it necessary to suspend opera- 

 tions for some time, at least, on account of lack 

 of logs. One of the mills here has shut down 

 for this reason and will remain closed down 

 for at least thirty or sixty days. 



There has been no large movement of hard- 

 wood lumber from the Memphis territory recent- 

 ly, but there is a considerable volume of busi- 

 ness doing. Inquiries are beginning to come 

 more freely and. what is even more gratifying 

 to the trade, is the fact that some of the offers 

 made are accepted with the proviso that de- 

 liveries be made just as soon as possible. This 

 is taken to mean that the supply of lumber in 

 the hands of certain manufacturing and dis- 

 tributing interests is so small as to make im- 

 mediate replenishment necessary. There has been 

 no change in the feeling of Memphis lumbermen 

 regarding the business outlook. It Is thonght 

 to be very good, indeed. It is intimated that 

 there may not be much advance in prices, but 

 it is felt that there will be little if any decline 

 from the prevailing level. In fact, it is gen- 

 erally admitted that (fry stock is a little scarce 

 and this is looked upon as a sustaining in- 

 fluence. 



The volume of general business in this city 

 and throughout the Central South is very satis- 

 factory. The railroads are handling a large 

 traffic and are evidently looking forward to a 

 heavy business this fall because they are grad- 

 ually increasing their equipment and doing 

 everything they can to put their present rolling 

 stock in first-class condition. The statements of 

 a number of railroads operating through the 

 Central South show earnings considerably in 

 excess of the corresponding period last year. 

 Building operations are on a large scale for 

 practically all the cities of the Central South. 

 Permit will be taken out here this month for 

 the new police station and fire engine house, 

 which will co.st approximately $250,000. There 

 are other important building projects under way 

 and it is quite apparent that the activity in 

 building circles, which has been so pronounced 

 since the first of the year, will bo in evidence as 

 long as weather conditions will permit. Handlers 

 of building material are finding a very satis- 

 factory volume of business, though there is 

 some complaint that orders from out of town 

 sources are not as large as usual. 



Lumbermen are watching with great interest 

 developments in connection with the crop situa- 

 tion in this territory. Fortunately, there has 

 been a decided improvement in the condition of 

 the cotton crop, and as this bears directly on 

 the prosperity of this city and section, the lum- 

 bermen are naturally pleased with this prospect. 

 At one time this season it looked almost as if 

 there would be a crop failure, but corn is the 

 best ever produced in this section, while cotton 

 gives promise of a considerably larger yield than 

 last year. 



The baseball team of the Lumbermen's Club 

 will start on its invasion of the enemy's coun- 

 try Thursday. August 25. Under the chaperonage 

 of Manager John W. McClure and Captain John 

 M. Pritchard. it will leave in a special car over 

 the Illinois Central at 6 :35 a. m. on the date 

 indicated and will play Concinnati the follow- 

 ing afternoon. From Cincinnati the team will 

 go direct to Indianapolis, where a game will be 



