HARDWOOD RECORD 



Ind.. 



general freight asent of the Illinois Cen- 

 He will continue to look after the terri- 



jetwoen Hopkinsville, Ky.. and Evansville, 

 and will probably have other territory 



assigned liim. 



It is unofficially announced that the Atlanta, 

 Birmingham and Atlantic railroad contemplates 

 the establishment of commercial offices in Mem- 

 phis this fall, and color is given to the report by 

 a visit to Memphis recently of J. J. Compton, 

 general freight agent of the company. The road 

 discussed the advisability of opening offices in 

 Memphis May t. but decided to hold off for a 

 time until traffic conditions improved. It is now 

 .suggested that the plan will be carried out Sep- 

 tember 1. 



The regular semi-annual meeting of the Tight 

 liarrt'l Stave Manufacturers' Association will be 

 held in the assembly room of the r.ayosn Hotel 

 July 1-i. This announcement is iii.id.' di ilic ;iii 

 thority of E. H. Defebaugh. sr,i,t:,n ,,i ii,,. 

 organization. For a long whil' iln- i^ -i. i.i> i.m 

 has held practically all of its m.Tiiii:;s iu .Mnn 

 phis. Thomas ISobinson, of Junction City. Ark., 

 is president. The general condition of trade will 

 be one of the chief topics of discussion at the 

 coming sessions. 



Dispatches received here from Caddo Gap. 

 Ark., indicate that rapid progress is being made 

 in saving the timber blown down in that section 

 in April. It is estimated that about T.i.dOn.iidO 

 feet of timber was leveled by the storm. Sev 

 eral sawmills have been placed along the path 

 of the cyclone and much of the timber will be 

 converted into unmerchantable lumber. The 

 white oak is being worked into staves. 



Announcement is made that work will begin 

 on the interurban line between Memphis and 

 Lake View between now and August 1. It is 

 reported that financial arrangements have al- 

 ready been completed and that the contracts will 

 be let in a short time. The estimated cost is 

 $620,000, including equipment. This is the first 

 step in the building of the interurban line con- 

 necting Memphis with Clarksdale, Miss. The 



electric line, as surveyed, will ili\ ii|i> il univ 



between the Illinois Central an. I i II 



sissippi Valley and will furnish n i i 



ties for the development of the K^.iii.r. ,ii iimt 

 section, as it will operate cars for Ijulb passcn 

 ger and freight traffic. 



The falling off in the price of building mate- 

 rial and the cheaper cost of labor have proven 

 a stimulus to building, with the result that the 

 showing for June is exceptionally favorable so 

 far as Memphis is concerned. Total i-xpcudi- 

 tures were .f354,85,5. and tlu- nnnil..-i- .n p.,-- 



mits called for -'48 l.viil.liiiL:- Kiiildin:; c 



missioner Newton stales ih.ii lir Ims iin.sii- 

 gated the matter and thai he .-in Il[■.^nlis.■ ihc 

 people of Memphis that there will be a very 

 large increase in July over June. He states 

 that a numbei' of buildings have been projected 

 and that the outlay will be very extensive. The 

 newspapers in Memphis and at other points 

 have taken up the slogan "build now'." and it 

 appears to be bringing results. 



The George II. Temple Lunil.ir Conip.iny Iims 

 been launched in Memphis. Mi l'.iii[.l. iv.is 

 connected for some time with .1. hn l; Kim-. mi 

 & Co. of Nashville, and later Wiis will. i;i.li.inl 

 F. Baer & Co. of Baltimore, with offi.-.s in 

 Mobile. He has also been connected with a 

 number of other lumber concerns in the south, 

 including the Tettibone-Taylor Company. Mr. 

 Temple engaged in business in Memphis with 

 W. T. Powers under the firm name of the 

 Powers-Temple Lumber Company. This recently 

 liquidated and Mr. Temple has taken entire 

 charge thereof. The company will manufac- 

 ture, deal in and export hardwood lumber. 



The Helena. Ark., Woodenware Company has 

 made a notable extension of its business plans. 

 It has put in a band mill and will add a hard- 

 wood department, manufacturing and carrying 

 in stock a full line of hardwood lumber. Spe- 

 cial attention will be given to Cottonwood. The 

 blading spirit In this enterprise is J. II. Bas- 



kette. who was for some years at the head of 

 the Prewitt-Spurr Manufacturing Company. 



Frank Conkling, who has been in charge of 

 the southern operations of the . Farrin-Korn 

 Lumber Company of Cincinnati, with headquar- 

 ters at Memphis, has removed to Glendora, Miss. 

 Mr. Conkling does not know whether this change 

 will be permanent, but for a while at least he 

 will operate from Glendora, where the band 

 mill of the company is located. It was neces- 

 sary to make so many trips down to the mill 

 that the management decided it would be well 

 to stay at that point. Mr. Conkling has been 

 prominently identified with the lumber interests 

 of Memphis and is very popular with the frater- 

 nity, wlio regret to see him leave even for a 

 short time. 



John L. Kaul, president of the Kaul Lumber 

 Company, whose plant at Collins, Ala., was 

 burned some time ago with a loss of $173,000, 

 announces that the mill will be rebuilt and that 

 the plant will be in operation again by October 

 J. Early estimate placed the loss at $300,000, 

 but Mr. Kaul states that this was entirely too 

 high. The company was fully protected by in- 



Lumbermen of this city are congratulating 

 themselves upon the fact that the announcement 

 made from Washington regarding the forth- 

 coming conference of executive officers of south- 

 ern railroads to consider advancing rates on 

 commodities in the territory south of the Ohio 

 and east of the Mississippi will leave out two 

 very important commodities, cotton and lumber. 

 The roads in their attempted advances on hard- 

 wood lumbtr and yellow pine from points in 

 this territory were not eminently successful, be- 

 ing recalled by the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission, and this probably accounts for the fact 

 that the roads will not attempt to interfere 

 with the rates on lumber shipments, 



Abraham J. I'erry, one of the owners of the 

 Oasis Lumber Company, which recently began 

 business in Memphis, has been arrested upon 

 capiases charging larcny. He gave bond, which 

 «:i-. siu„..d l.> .1 T s.,i;iv:,i. ii.id G. W. Whiatt. 

 Ml 1 .iM i~ . :^,.d in the bills of 



im!i. 1 1... 1,1 « I iiiough fraudulent 



~' '"■'""- "'■ ' I' '11 >■■ C. L. Schoff- 



n.'i' ..I \.\v|i.i.i All, . I- II,.. pr,.s,.,„t„i. in one 

 "f th,. I. Ills ..1 iii.ii.iin.iii, Mlii.li .harijes a theft 



••' ^■■■'<'"' i""i ■'( ini r. Mill .11 ,fl,700. W. 



< ). -Mitch. '11 ..1 .i..n.'-l.<.r... Aik,. is the prosecutor 

 in the second I. ill, wlii. h . Imrges the theft of 



"■"'•""" f>"i't- viihi..! Ill .SI,.- The prosecutors 



both alU-,ge tbi- lunil..! wiis shipped by them un- 

 der conditions which subsequently proved to be 

 the reverse from what they had been led to be- 

 lieve by the defendant at the time shipments 

 nere made. 



NEW ORLEANS 



in spir.' oi a \igiir.tns protest li-um the timber 

 holders of the state and an urgent petition from 

 the financial interests of New Orleans, calling 

 np,ia the legislature to vote against the measure, 

 the state senate has passed the Wilson land 

 hills No. ;«;S and 300, with the result that thou- 

 sands of acres of timber lands in the state are 

 now threatened with confiscation. In many in- 

 stances these lands are held by eastern and 

 northern investors who have put thousands of 

 dollars into them and who will lose heavily un- 

 less they can prevent the successful operation 

 of the measure. Besides .siiiLli-hin:; new min- 

 imum prices that nmsi ii.r.mi.i i„> ^i^ici for 

 state lands, house bill -N.- :;..s pi.Ni.i.s for the 

 annulment of all applicati.jiis now oii tile in the 

 office of the register of state land office for entry 

 or purchase of public lands from the state to 

 which patent or certificate has not issued. It 

 further stipulates: "Tlim wli.ii.v.r the gov- 

 ernor shall be satisHi.l ii.ni ini.i ination re- 

 ceived, that swamp Ian. Is ,,i th., siai... not sub- 

 ject to tidal overflow. Iiav.. I n ilh^ally and 



I'airdulently entered by private persons or cor- 

 porations and sold by the state for a price less 



than $1.25 per acre, or lor a price authorized by 

 law, but in a quantity in excess of 640 acres en- 

 tered by any one person and sold by the state, 

 he shall have the authority to order the institu- 

 tion of proceedings for the recovery of all such 

 lands in excess of 640 acres, or the value of the 

 timber taken therefrom, of damage thereto and 

 waste therefrom." Thousands of acres of all 

 kinds of lands are inv.il\..I in this matter. The 



under the present circumstances will have to 

 pay the bill. 



B. S. Sacksionie of Paris, France, a promi- 

 nent European lumberman, was here recently 

 looking over the lumber situation with a view 

 to arranging for some 1908 exports to his native 

 land. In discussing the lumber situation gen- 

 erally Mr. Sacksionie took exception to the 

 manner in which Ihe American timber operators 

 cut their lumber. "I notice great waste in the 

 manner in which your forests are cut," he said. 

 "Tne trees are sawed down and what is left of 

 them is burned. In Europe the trees are pulled 

 down instead of sawed and every bit of the trunk 

 is used. There is a great deal of splendid tim- 

 ber in Louisiana and many different kinds which 

 we do not have in Europe, and in fact know 

 nothing about. I am looking into these different 

 varieties in order to see what we can ship from 

 here back to France." From New Orleans Mr, 

 Sacksionie will go to Mexico and will return to 

 France in the tail. 



The Louisiana Furniture Company has been 

 incorporated in this city to manufacture, buy and 

 sell furniture and hardwood products. Its au- 

 thorized capital is $23,000. These are the incor- 

 porators : W. Salaun, president; A. Phillips, 

 vice-president ; L. A, Le Blanc, seeretary-treas- 



Announcement is made from Monroe, La., that 

 the Hardwood Manufacturing Company of Ken- 

 tucky has bought for $104,000 the hardwood 

 boilings of Henry Lipp, located along the D'Ar- 

 bonne in Ouachita parish. The tract contains 

 19,121 acres of land covered with fine hardwood 

 timber. A big hardwood mill will be built 

 shortly to develop the land. 



The Old Kiver Lumber Company has been or- 

 .ganized at Saulters Bluff, near Lake Charles, 

 La., to do a general business in manufacturing 

 and exporting lumber. It is capitalized at $10,- 

 000. J. E. Loxley is president, C. E. Loxley is 

 vice-president and Frank Mace is secretary-treas- 



Thc Kimberly-\\ in- Cmpany has been incor- 

 porated at .]a. k-.ii. .\li - , with an authorized 



capital of $l(iii, , i.. maiiniacture woodenware 



utensils and imi 1. iii.nis ir..m native woods. 

 John F. Conant. William i ■. Win- and Daniel L, 

 Kimberly of Xeriiab. Wis,, ami T, It. Foster of 

 Vicksburg, Miss., aic tli.. in. -..ri... rat,, is. 



The Wilson-Flowcfs riiinii .■,:,, ,,;,!, , has 



been incorijorated at < i ^ , .| |,, 



manufacture furnitui.' , i : 



W. W. Wilson, J. B. Fl.,«,r- ,,ml ,.11,,;. ,,,■ ,1,,. 



incorporators. 



The Mendcnhall Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated at Mendenhall, Simpson county, 

 Miss., with an authorized capital of $.30,000, 

 C. R. McLaughlin, H. E. Welsh and J. S. Harri- 

 son are the incorporators. 



Local furniture men and manufacturers of 

 hardwood products will in all probability be 

 well represented at the big exhibition of home 

 manufacturers that the New Orleans Progressive 

 Union will hold here in September, Several 

 hardwood lumber companies have already gone 

 into the project and it is believed that an at- 

 tractive display of hardwood products, all na- 

 tive manufacturers, will be made a part of the 

 fair. Great Interest is being manifested in the 

 development of the plan. 



