HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Netos Miscellany 



K. C. Atkins & Co. ; C. Vonnegut, Jr., Indianapo- 

 lis Casket Company ; and T. D. Laytock, T. B. 

 Laycock Manufacturing Company. 



Prominent New Tennessee Concern 



On this page is a bird 's-eye view of the 

 )lant of the Williams Lumber Company, Fay- 

 itteville, Teun., which is made up of J. K. 

 md A. T. Williams, with Hutton Brown in 

 harge of the office. This company is the 

 luccessor to the Williams-Haas Lumber Com- 

 )any, which had been in business in Fay- 

 itteville for a good many years. The pic- 

 ures of the yard illustrate the fine stock of 

 lardwoods which is carried by this house, 

 rhe company specializes in oak, poplar, and 

 ish and has a iine stock in the upper grades. 

 .n addition to its band mill, this institution 

 las a first-class planing mill, whicii consumes 

 ts low-grade output, and a dry kiln. It em- 

 jloys an equipment of the best and most moa- 

 ■rn machinery and is constantly adding to its 

 .utfit. At the present time the company has 

 in hand a very fine lot of dry firsts and sec- 

 )nds in quartered and plain white oak, pop- 

 ar and ash. 



The company is about to improve its saw- 

 nill with a new ten-inch saw, edger and 

 ;riinmer and a new power plant. The present 

 nill will be enlarged and the machinery will 

 ill be new and the best type obtainable. 



Merging of J. S. Stearns Southern Prop- 

 erties 



The Stearns Coal & Lumber Company, eapi- 

 alized at .fl, 000, 000, has just been organized 

 )y the merging of the southern timber and hind 

 iroperties controlled by Justus S. Stearns of 

 Jrand Rapids, Mich. The olBcers of the com- 

 jany are Justus S. Stearns, president ; R. L. 

 Stearns, vice-president ; Dudley E. Waters, treas- 

 irer, and Cliarles II. Beud'-r. siTretjii-v, Tlies.' 



gentlemen with W. T. Culver constitute the 

 board of directors. 



The companies and properties which were 

 merged in the forming of this great corporation 

 are the Stearns Lumber Company, the Rock 

 Creek Troperty Company and the Kentucky & 

 Tennessee Railway. This million-dollar concern 

 controls 07,981 acres of land. 1,800 acres of 

 timber, with an estimated stumpage of 400,- 

 000,000 feet of pine, hemlock and hardwood, 

 and an estimated coal deposit of 300,000,000 

 tons high-grade bituminous, 22,000 acres of coal 

 rights, five modern coal mines, a modern saw 

 and jilaning mill, the town of Stearns, with a 

 site of 500 acres, and 143 houses, as well as the 

 railroad mentioned, which extends seventeen 

 miles from Stearns to the main line of the 

 Queen & Crescent Railroad. The lands are said 

 to constitute the largest block under one control 

 in the entire South. 



Boosting Indianapolis 



Tlic tliird trade extension trip made by the 

 Indianapolis Trade Association left that city on 

 September 27 and continued its journeys until 

 September 30, Former trips made by represent- 

 atives of this association have been confined to 

 Indiana, but this time the boosters wont over 

 into southern Illinois. There were fifty business 

 men in the party and they traveled in a special 

 train, accompanied by the Newsboys Band of 

 the Indianapolis News and a ton or more of 

 literature describing the advantages of the city 

 as a trade center. The first stop was at Sulli- 

 van, the only Indiana point visited. About 

 thirty automobiles conducted the party over the 

 i-ity, and numerous merchants and dealers were 

 visited, but as there was a mutual agreement 

 among those in the party, no orders were taken 

 during the trip. Other places visited were 

 Robinson, Oblong and Newton, all Illinois towns. 



Practically all the important lumber concerns 

 of Indianapolis are identified with the associa- 

 tion. Among those making the trip were D. A. 

 Hadley, Greer-Wilkinson Lumber Company ; C. O. 

 I!"i;i IS. Ailams-Carr Company : 11. T. Benham, 



Warren Koss Lumber Company Appoints 

 New York Representative 



The Warren Ross Lumber Company, well- 

 k!u>wn cherry and mahogany specialist, with 

 headcpiarlers and yards at Jamestown, N. Y., 

 has on hand a full stock of African mahogany 

 of all grades and thicknesses, as well as a large 

 amount of cherry in well-sorted grades. At the 

 Jamestown yards the company has considerably 

 ever a million feet of stock in pile, including all 

 ,^rades and thicknesses. 



The company recently appointed as its New 

 York representative U. S. Lax of \'i2 141st 

 street. New Y'ork City. Mr. Lax will look after 

 the manufacture and shipping of mahogany lum- 

 ber and veneers and will attend to the trade of 

 the Metropolitan district generally. 



H. M. A. Ofiacial Inspector for Tennessee 



Lewis Doster, .secretary of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association of the United States, 

 has announced the appointment of J. Lee Bran- 

 nnn as olBcial inspector of the association for 

 the state of Tennessee. Mr. Brannon will have 

 headquarters at Nashville, but will cover the 

 entire state. His duties will be undertaken at 

 once. He will issue certificates direct, not being 

 required to await a report from the headquarters 

 of the association at Cincinnati, and this will be 

 a great convenience to the manufacturers in the 

 state. 



Mr. Brannon was formerly connected with 

 .Tohn B. Ransom & Co. of Nashville, In whose 

 employ he remained about ten years. He had 

 charge of the Ransom's big yard at Nashville 

 and is regarded as one of the best judges of 

 lumber in the state. 



Biltmore Students Leave for Germany 



Dr. C. A. Schenck, Biltmore Forest School, 

 wrote from Cadillac, Mich., just previous to 

 leaving for New York en route to the winter 

 quarters of the school at Darmstadt, Germany, 

 stating that the school would be located at that 

 point until there was sutRclent water in the 



THE WILLIAMS LUMBER CO.S SAWMILL CREW 



\\ELL EQUIPPED PLANING MILL OF WILLIAMS LUMBER CO. 



(Ji;nei!al viiow or yards of williams lumber co., fayetteville, tenn. 



