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HARDWOOD RECORD 



although ho is frank to confess that there are 

 movo players drafted from outside towns in 

 i_»hio and Indiana than he expected. In fact 

 lie points out that Cincinnati went to Kentucky 

 to get one of its star performers. The Mem- 

 phis men, including both the managers and the 

 players, are loud in their praise of the splendid 

 hospitality accorded them by the lumbermen 

 of both Indianapolis and Cincinnati and report 

 that, despite their defeat, they were given a 

 royal time. They stand ready to "do the 

 honors'" when the lumbermen of these cities come 

 south and they beliere that, when they are on 

 their home grounds, the results will be altOr 

 get her different from what they were on foreign 

 diamonds. 



It is announced that the Southern Lumber- 

 man, of Nashville, will remove its publication 

 ofBcos from that city to Memphis November 1. 



The big plant of the Ferguson & Wheeler 

 Handle Company, at Marked Tree, Ark,, was 

 destroyed by lire the night of August 31, to- 

 gether with a stock worth about ,$7,000, owned 

 by the lessees, Messrs. Turner & Hirschmanu. 

 The total loss is estimated at $50,000. The 

 company bought this plant some months ago 

 and it has since January been operated under 

 lease b.v the gentlemen already named. The 

 amount of insurance carried by the owners and 

 the cause of the fire is not known. 



The Standard Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, of Birmingham, Ala., has been succeeded 

 by the Standard Lumber Company. The officers 

 of the new. firm are: H. B. Wood, president: 

 .T. R. Jones, vice-president, and A. H. Wood, 

 secretary and treasurer. The only change in the 

 personnel of the officers lies in the fact that A. H. 

 Wood succeeds E. B. Teague. A. J. Wyatt has 

 been added to the directorate of the new com- 

 pany. Headquarters will be maintained (at 

 Birmingham by the new firm. 



J. W. Bishop, secretary of the Memphis, Dallas 

 & Gulf Railroad Company, has written a letter 

 to the Board of Trade of Pine Bluff advising 

 this organization that it is its present Inten- 

 tion to begin at once the extension of the road 

 to that city and to complete the work as soon 

 - as possible. The board interested itself in pre- 

 venting the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & South- 

 ern from withdrawing joint rates on lumber 

 shipments, and the officials of the road are very 

 appreciative of this effort. Had the joint .rates 

 been withdrawn as was threatened at one time, 

 the Memphis, Dallas & Gulf, it is declared, would 

 have abandoned all efforts to complete the ex- 

 tensions recently begun. 



Two persons were fatally hurt and several 

 others seriously injured a few days ago at the 

 big plant of the Arkansas Lumber Company at 

 Warren, Ark., when the fly wheel burst, totally 

 wrecking the plant. The loss is estimated at 

 .$90,000. About 400 persons have been thrown 

 out of employment. It is announced that the 

 work of rebuilding the wrecked plant will begin 

 at once. 



Secretary James .M. Thompson, of the Lum- 

 bermen's Club of Memphis, has returned from 

 Chicago, where he spent some days after the 

 northern tour of the team representing that or- 

 ganization at Cincinnati and Indianapolis re- 

 cently. 



C. R. Ransom, better known as "Brother 

 Charley," has returned from Charlevoix, Mich., 

 where he spent his summer vacation. 



NASHVILLE 



W. V. I)avidson of the Davidson, Hicks & 

 Greene Company has gone to New Yorlv to meet 

 his daughter, who is returning from a delightful 

 trip abroad. 



Arthur B. Ransom, ^Irs. Ransom and Miss 

 Margaret Ransom, their daughter, have returned 

 from a six-week trip to points in Colorado. 



John W. Love returns Saturday. September 10, 

 from his annual trip to Markland, Nova Scotia, 



where he is interested in the big summer hotel 

 run at that place. Mrs. Love and the three 

 children were with him. Much of Mr. Love's 

 Time this winter will be spent in New york, 

 where his family will be located for the school 

 season, 



Henderson Baker of Baker, Jacobs & Co., to- 

 gether with Mrs. Baker, has returned from a 

 pleasant trip of several weeks to points in West 

 Virginia. 



I'rank Fetz, secretary to the Prewitt-Spurr 

 Manufacturing Company, has resigned that po- 

 sition to accept a position with the Memphis 

 Hardwood Flooring Company, 



At a recent meeting of the Nashville Lumber- 

 bermen's Club resolutions of regret upon the 

 Southern Lumbermen's proposed removal to 

 Memphis were adopted, and the Lumberman was 

 urged to reconsider, if possible. It is said, how- 

 ever, that the paper will almost surely be moved 

 to the Bluff City in the near future. Attractive 

 inducements from the commercial bodies and 

 the lumbermen of the city are said to have 

 been offered in order to secure its location there. 



A special from Ashland City, Tenn., announces 

 that the firm of Everly & Bryant of Owensboro, 

 Ky., has recently bought the hickory timber 

 from the 1,200-acre tract of timber lands in 

 (luatham county owned by the Althauser- 

 Weaver-WeJjstor syndicate. The property is bet- 

 ter known as the old Sycamore Powder Mills 

 tract and embraces some fine timber. The pur- 

 chasers of the hickory will install a mill and 

 in,achinery right away to manufacture hickory 

 products. The syndicate, Althauser, Webster & 

 Weaver, now have a fine mill on the tract, 

 manufacturing the poplar and the oak into lum- 

 ber. The hickory mill will be located at Ash- 

 land City. The Rock City Spoke Company is 

 already operating there w'ith success. 



Nashville people received information this 

 week of a narrow escape from death encountered 

 in the West by the party that left here last 

 week on the Hoo-Hoo special to take in the 

 big Frisco convention. The wreck occurred near 

 Glenwood Springs, Colo., in Glenwood Canyon 

 in the Rockies. An immense boulder had rolled 

 down the mountain on a curve and demolished 

 a large section of the track. This occurred on 

 a precipice overlooking the river a hundred feet 

 and more straight down. The engineer slapped 

 on the emergency brakes. Three cars and the 

 engine were derailed and a mail clerk was 

 slightly injured, but none of the train went 

 over the precipice. A delay of fourteen hours 

 occurred. 



Prominent builders and architects in Nash- 

 ville state that they expect an unusually busy 

 fall. In fact, all of them are busy as can be 

 just now, putting up cottages, business houses 

 and remodeling. Much residence and suburban 

 building is also in progress. 



While the Nashville Board of Trade would not 

 fry to take from the neighboring town of Leba- 

 non any of its needed industries, still the board 

 has given the recently burned Gulf Red Cedar 

 Company to understand that if a move to an- 

 other town is contemplated, Nashville would 

 like to have the plant. Lebanon is a good 

 patron of Nashville in all branches of business 

 and Nashville will not compete with so close 

 and friendly a neighbor to get the company, 

 hut would like to have it if it is going to leave 

 Lebanon. The plant will be rebuilt somewhere 

 in the near future. 



A Transportation Bureau, to be maintained 

 by jobbers and manufacturers of Nashville, was 

 recently organized at the Board of Trade. An 

 expert railroad man will be in charge of the 

 bureau, one who will he capable of going before 

 the rate-making authorities and present in a 

 convincing way the need for readjustment of 

 rates and any other transportation matters that 

 may affect the wholesale trade of the city. L. 

 Jonas was elected president and E. S. Shannon 

 secretary. The rate man has not yet been in- 

 stalled. 



The Stearns Coal & Lumber Company of 

 Stearns, Ky., has taken out a charter to do 

 business in Tennessee. 



BRISTOL 



W. G. McCain & Sons, operating a large band 

 mill at Neva, Johnson county, Tenn., will finish 

 cutting out their timber in that county this 

 week. The concern now has more than 5,000,000 

 feet of high-grade stock on the yards at Neva, 

 which will be disposed of by the Peter-McCain 

 Lumber Company of Bristol at an early date. 

 The mill was started some years ago and has cut 

 a large amount of lumber. 



D. D. Hartlove of Price & Heald, the Bal- 

 timore hardwood merchants and exporters, was 

 a business visitor in Bristol this week. His 

 company will shortly put a new man in charge 

 of its office here. Fred W. Hughes, who had 

 been the manager for the past fifteen years, hav- 

 ing resigned to go to the West for his health. 

 He will locate in Montana or Idaho. 



A number of new mills have been recently 

 started in this section and there is great activ- 

 ity in manufacturing. Timber land is being sold 

 right along, several large areas having recently 

 changed handy, falling into possession of operat- 

 ing lumber concerns. There is not a great amount 

 of timber in this region now but that is held by 

 companies that intend to develop it. 



,T. L. Godsey this week started a new mill 

 three miles east of Bristol to cut the timber on 

 the large King-Anderson tract, which he pur- 

 chased from John C. Anderson. He is now giv- 

 ing employment to 100 men at the mill. 



W. S. Whiting of the Whiting Manufacturing 

 Company of Asheville, N. C, spent a few days 

 in Bristol this week, after which he visited his 

 company's band mill at Abingdon. The Whiting 

 company is rapidly extending its operations in 

 this section and now owns more than 100.000 

 acres of high-grade hardwood timber land in the 

 southern Appalachian region, including a large 

 boundary in Johnson county. Tenn., which it is 

 now developing. It has several mills in western 

 North Carolina, including band and planing 

 mills. 



The Honaker Lumber Company, a million-dol- 

 lar Pennsylvania concern, headed by A. P. Perley 

 of Pittsburg, is now operating on an extensive 

 scale in Russell county, not far from Bristol, 

 where it has installed two very large band 

 mills, dry kilns, a railroad, etc. It has acquired 

 a large area of timber in that section and is 

 going steadily forward with its operations. It 

 is reported that the company is preparing to 

 erect another doul>le-band mill. 



Beveridge & Taylor, manufacturers of hubs and 

 spokes, Bristol, have purchased a tract of timber 

 in Hawkins county, Tennessee, on the line of 

 the New Holston River railroad, which is now 

 completed, and will begin the development of the 

 property as soon as the road is put into opera- 

 tion, which will be within the next few months. 



The Tug River Lumber Company will cut out 

 in Wise county, Virginia, within the next few 

 months, and unless a deal is made for more tim- 

 herland the band mill and circular mills in that 

 county will be closed. The same interests have 

 already purchased a large tract of timber in 

 Kentucky and are now operating it. 



E. L. Warren of the Whaley-Warren Lumber 

 Company and C. H. Smith, Jr., local manager of 

 R. A. & J. J. Williams, Philadelphia, have re- 

 turned from a buying trip in Virginia and report 

 the lumber business active. 



R. E. Wood of the R. E. Wood Lumber Com- 

 pany, Baltimore, is visiting in Bristoi this week. 



LOUISVILLE 



The matter of an increase in railroad rates, 

 such as is proposed by the carriers for the 

 central and eastern territories, is attracting the 



