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of coramisslon all this month. This company 

 has considerable timber on hand and this will be 

 cut up when the mill resumes. Nothing is being 

 done in the woods. In fact, the company has 

 sold practically all of its logging teams and Is 

 making no effort whatever to get out additional 

 timber. 



The oar situation does not show any serious 

 development so far. There are apparently plenty 

 of cars to meet all requirements of the trade, 

 but it is feared that there v,'!!! be much di£Bculty 

 on thir score later this season. Aside from the 

 enormous volume of cotton traffic, which will 

 begin to move liberally during the next thirty 

 days, it is a well established fact that the rail- 

 road companies operating through the Memphis 

 gateway have, with one or two exceptions, al- 

 lowed their equipment to run down to very un- 

 satisfactory condition. There are very large 

 numbers of condemned cars, and while the rail- 

 road shops have generally resumed and are now 

 running on full time, it will be impossible for 

 them to get all their equipment repaired in time 

 for the demands to be made upon them. Some 

 members of the trade believe they see ahead of 

 them one of the most serious car shortages in 

 this territory, and they are urging buyers to 

 make purchases of lumber for immediate deliv- 

 ery while such delivery can be effected. 



E. E. Taenzer, vice-president of the Darnell- 

 Taenzer Lumber Company, has just returned from 

 Europe. He has been suffering with rheumatism, 

 but is considerably better and is able to be at 

 his office. Mr. Taenzer was somewhat unfavor- 

 ably impressed with the trade situation in 

 Europe, not only as affecting lumber but other 

 lines of business. lie lays particular emphasis 

 upon the unusually large number of unemployed. 



The Anchor Block Mills Company at DeValls 

 Bluff, Ark., has closed down for the season. 

 It has cut up its supply of timber on band. As 

 soon as the sap goes down in the trees it will 

 resume operations. 



Arrangements have virtually been completed 

 for the merger of the Mobile, Jackson & Kansas 

 City Kailroad and plans are now under way for 

 building an extension from the northern termi- 

 nus at Middleton, Tenn., to a junction with the 

 Chicago & Eastern Illinois. 



Memphis has bright prospects for locating a 

 plant for the manufacture of bridge and con- 

 struction steel, to cost approximately $2.")0.r.00. 

 J. K. Graham, general manager of the Virginia 

 Bridge & Iron Company, Roanoke, Va., is look 

 Ing over the Seld and has expressed himself as 

 highly pleased with Memphis. 



Norval Osburn of Seaman, O., is at Hunting- 

 don, Tenn.. for the purpose of erecting a veneer 

 plant. Work has already begun on the build- 

 ings. Machinery will also be Installed for the 

 manufacture of egg cases and other similar 

 products. 



Work has begun on the new coffin factory at 

 Huntingdon, Tenn., which will be operated in 

 connection with the plant of the Huntingdon 

 Wood Manufacturing Company. The two con- 

 cerns will give employment to more than fifty 

 persons. 



The stockholders of the Ware & Goodwin Poul- 

 try Coop Company have decided to increase the 

 capital stock from $10,000 to $2.1.000 and to 

 greatly increase the machinery used in its plant. 

 The company Is located at Trezevant, Tenn. 

 Arrangements are also being made to install a 

 veneer plant for the manufacture of egg cases. 

 The machinery therefor has already been se- 

 cured. The company will add a box factory by 

 the end of the year for the manufacture of fruit 

 and vegetable crates. 



The E. Sondheimer Company, through its 

 attorney, has filed suit against J. D. Strother, 

 a prominent sawmill man of this city, who 

 operates a plant at I'roctor, Ark. The complain- 

 ant alleges that the defendant's mill is depreci- 

 ating rapidly In value because of lack of neces- 

 sary money to make repairs. The total indebt- 

 edness of Mr. Strother, It Is alleged. Is about 

 $3.5,000. The B. Sondheimer Company and Bar- 



ney & Hines are the largest creditors. In the 

 suit the E. Sondheimer Company asks that the 

 document be regarded as a general creditors' 

 bill and that the other creditors be enjoined 

 from securing attachments against the mill. 

 Chancellor Heiskell has issued an injunction to 

 that effect. The complainant also asks that a 

 receiver be appointed to take charge of the mill 

 and other properties of the defendant. 



George D. Burgess of Russe & Burgess has 

 returned from a trip to New York, Atlantic City, 

 Chicago and other points. 



O. M. Krebs, manager of the McLean Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company's plant at New South 

 Memphis, has gone to the Pacific coast and will 

 be absent from the city the remainder of this 

 month. 



. George W. Fooshe, secretary of the Robertson- 

 Fooshe Lumber Company, is back from his vaca- 

 tion spent at New York, Atlantic City and other 



John W. Farley, attorney for Russe & Burgess, 

 has filed suit in the circuit court against J. H. 

 Lay by which a collection of $1,650 is sought. 

 The amount Is alleged to be due on an account 

 for lumber, and an attachment has been issued 

 against the property of the defendant. 



The prediction is made that within six weeks 

 normal conditions will prevail at the shops of 

 the Missouri Pacific system, which means that 

 all ot these plants will be in operation with a 

 full force of employes. 



■" ■- 1 NASHVILLE -^—^ 



Three coaches of yelling, cheering, confident 

 Nashville lumbermen left Nashville Friday night 

 bound for Memphis. The occasion was none 

 other than the invasion of the Bluff City by the 

 Rock City people for the purpose of annexing a 

 great ball game to be played at Red Elm Park 

 fn Memphis for the cause of sweet charity. The 

 most Important feature of this human cargo, 

 therefore, was the ball team aboard, and each 

 and every member of the squad seemed duly 

 impressed with the gravity of the situation and 

 entirely aware of the great responsibility each 

 pair of player-shoulders carried. The Nashville 

 and Memphis lumbermen played a couple of 

 games last season and broke even on the deal. 

 This being the deciding contest, naturally aroused 

 unusual interest. The ball team was in charge 

 of Edward B. Martin of the Southern Lumber- 

 man. It included the following personnel : Mays, 

 catcher, of Lieberman, Loveman & O'Brien : 

 Britton, pitcher, of Davidson-Benedict Com- 

 pany : Ralston, first base, John B. Rausom & 

 Co. ; Litchfield, second base. Standard Furni- 

 ture Company : Marshall, short-stop, Nashville 

 Hardwood Flooring Company : Wolfe, third base. 

 John B. Ransom & Co. ; Beckner, left field, 

 A. II. Card & Co. ; Taylor, center field, E. & 

 N. Manufacturing Company ; Sherrod, right field. 

 Standard Furniture Company ; substitutes, Os- 

 born of John B. Ransom & Co. and Dews of 

 A. U. Card & Co. 



Announcement is made that Huntingdon, 

 Tenn., is to have a veneer plant In the very 

 near future. It is being erected there by Norval 

 Osburn of Seaman, O. Work has also begun on 

 the new coffin factory, which will be run in con- 

 nection with the Huntingdon Wood Manufactur- 

 ing Company. The citizens of this hustling lit- 

 tle town are also after the establishment of a 

 chair factory. 



Columbia. Tenn., just south of Nashville on 

 the Louisville & Nashville, experienced a disas- 

 trous lumber fire this week In the loss of the 

 Riverside Planing Mills on Duck river. The 

 entire plant, together with a large amount of 

 valuable timber, burned to the ground. The 

 total loss foots up about $20,000 to $25,000, 

 with something like $5,500 insurance. This was 

 one of the most Important enterprises In the 

 county seat of old Maury and Its loss will be 

 keenly felt there, as it worked a large force 

 ot men aud turned out much finished product. 



The institution will be rebuilt at once. The 

 origin of the fire was not discovered. 



Millard Fillmore Green of the Davidson-Ben- 

 edict Company is back from a vacation of sev- 

 eral weeks at Chautauqua Lake, where he took 

 bis family. 



.\. L. Hayes, the well-known Nashville stave 

 man, has gone to Cincinnati, Cleveland and other 

 points on a business trip. 



A. Loveman of the firm of Lieberman, Love- 

 man & O'Brien, is spending his vacation in 

 Canada on a fishing trip. 



T. H. Dunlap of the Dunlap Lumber Company, 

 Nashville, recently suft'ered the misfortune of 

 losing his mother at Peru, Ind. Ue and Mrs. 

 Dunlap left immediately to attend the funeral. 



W. V. Davidson and J. N. Hicks of the David- 

 son-Benedict Company, made a trip this week 

 to the Monterey territory to look after busi- 

 ness. 



Work has been resumed at Murfreesboro, 

 Tenn., on the erection of the new red cedar 

 pencil factory at that place. It was started 

 last fall but abandoned on account of the panic. 

 The foundation is finished and the lumber is in 

 place. A large force of carpenters is at work 

 on the new building. Over 100 people will be 

 employed in the factory. 



A champion poplar tree is reported to have 

 been brought to Humboldt, in Gibson county, 

 Tennessee. The small end of the butt cut meas- 

 ured five feet in diameter and the tree con- 

 tained eleven 10-foot cuts without a limb in 

 any one of them, 9,000 feet of lumber in all. 

 two big carloads of logs. There was scarcely a 

 blemish on the tree. 



W. H. Dawklns, president of the W. H. Daw- 

 kins Lumber Company, has returned from a 

 business trip through the East, calling on the 

 lumber trade in Cleveland, Buffalo, Philadelphia, 

 Washington and several other cities. Mr. Daw- 

 kins is very optimistic in regard to future 

 lumber business. The company has its 

 band mill at Ironton closed down and will very 

 likely not begin work until about the first of 

 September. Edward Berger of the company, who 

 has been away on bis vacation for the last two 

 weeks, has returned, having visited Virginia 

 Beach and several other points In the East. 



Mr. Martin of Hildreth & Martin Lumber 

 Company, Columbus, O., was a business visitor 

 in the city this week. Mr. Martin will make a 

 trip through West Virginia looking after sev- 

 eral mills that are sawing under contract before 

 his return to Columbus. Mr. Martin advises 

 conditions in Columbus somewhat improved. 



R. G. Page, secretary of the Licking River 

 Lumber Company, has returned from a business 

 trip through Indiana, Michigan and Illinois. 

 He reports having found conditions similar to 

 all other lumber manufacturers, the stocks being 

 very low. He secured some very desirable or- 

 ders for bill oak and sound and square-edge 

 planking. 



The Ashland Lumber Company were compelled 

 to close their mill again the past week on ac- 

 count of the river being so low that they were 

 unable to get logs. They will not resume opera- 

 tions until there is sufficient water to bring in 

 another supply of logs. 



Frederick Pischel, vice-president and general 

 manager of the Pischel Lumber Company of 

 Salt Lick, Ky., was in the city this week, en 

 route from its extensive operations near Salyers- 

 ville, Magoffin county, Kentucky, to Cleveland, 

 O., where he expects to purchase a complete 

 stave mill equipment which his company will at 

 once install in its large timber tract. This 

 company has had years of experience In lumber 

 and timber operations, and as its present hold- 

 ings of white oak stumpage are of the best 

 quality and unusually well adapted for this 

 particular line in the lumber business, the 

 undertaking is an assured success. They expect 



