HARDWOOD RECORD 



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orations about the first of October and propose 

 to continue running steadily for an indefinite 

 period. 



The Three States Lumber Company has closed 

 down its cypress mill in Louisiana and has also 

 ceased operations at Hollywood. Miss., where 

 it has a hardwood mill. It is not doing any- 

 thing at its big mill at Burdette, Ark., with 

 exception of getting out timber on a tract of 

 land which contains about one million feet. The 

 present intention of the company is to resume 

 at Burdette only for the purpose of cutting up 

 this timber. The management does not believe 

 that the improvement in hardwood lumber con- 

 ditions has been extensive enough yet to justify 

 operations on an extended scale. 



The Neal-Dolph Lumber Company has not yet 

 resumed at Greenville, Miss., but Mr. Dolph. 

 secretary and general manager, is authority for 

 the statement that such action will be taken in 

 the near future. 



It is understood that C. L. Willey will begin 

 operations in North Memphis in a short time, 

 but so far no definite step in this direction has 

 been taken. The McLean Hardwood Lumber 

 Company is also scheduled to begin soon and 

 there are other companies in this city which 

 expect to put their plants to running again in a 

 very short time. 



The movement of cotton is on a very liberal 

 scale and is taxing the capacity of the railroads. 

 Lumber traffic is lighter than usual for this time 

 of the year and, because of less business, there 

 are practically no complaints from lumber in- 

 terests regarding shortage of cars. The rail- 

 roads are taxing their utmost capacity at their 

 machine shops in the hope of keeping their cars 

 and locomotives in sufficient repair to enable 

 them to take care of the large volume of general 

 traffic now offering. 



George D. burgess of Russe ic Burgess, who 

 spent a greater portion of September at Atlantic 

 City, New York and other eastern points, has 

 returned to Memphis and is now cooperating 

 with Mr. Russe in the management of the busi- 

 ness of the firm. 



The various committees which looked after 

 different features of the ball game between lum- 

 bermen of Memphis and Nashville, played here 

 August 22, have not yet completed their reports 

 and It is still Impossible to determine the net 

 proceeds of the game. These, it will be recalled, 

 are to be applied to the Memphis Foundlings' 

 Home. 



The Three States Lumber Company is au- 

 thority for the statement that there is a con- 

 siderable increase in the demand for hardwood 

 lumber and for the additional statement that in 

 some- lines there is a very pronounced scarcity. 

 It points out the active call for high-grade plain 

 and quarter-sawn oak and lays particular stress 

 upon the box grades of Cottonwood. The com- 

 pany believes the production of cottonwood has 

 been curtailed more than any other item on the 

 hardwood list and it further points out that 

 most of the producers of cottonwood lumber are 

 also consumers of their lower grades, making 

 use of them in their box factories. It believes 

 that there »ill be a marked shortage In the sup- 

 ply throughout the fall and winter and it also 

 declares its conviction that there will be a de- 

 cided improvement In the general hardwood lum- 

 ber business as soon as the national election is 

 a thing of the past. 



A special train consisting of seven Pullman 

 coaches left over the Illinois Central Monday 

 evening for Chicago, bearing about seventy-five 

 delegates from Memphis and a number from 

 Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee to the an- 

 nual convention of the Deep Waterways Asso- 

 ciation. It was one of the finest trains that 

 ever left this city to carry delegates to a gath- 

 ering of this character. The Memphis delegation 

 was headed by S. M. Neely, third vice-president 

 of the association, and James S. Warren, mem- 

 ber of the board of governors. Among the dele- 

 gates were the following lumbermen : E. E. 



Goodlander of the Goodlander-Robertson Lumber 

 Company : W. R. Barksdale of the Barksdale- 

 Kellogg Lumber Company ; .1. W. Thompson of 

 the J. W. Thompson Lumber Company ; C. J. 

 Wagner, member of a prominent contracting 

 firm, and P. R. Friedel. one of the prominent 

 retail lumber yard dealers here. It is safe to 

 state that no delegation attending the conven- 

 tion in Chicago will be more enthusiastic in its 

 support of the measures advocated than the 

 Memphis one. 



J. P. Price, forty-five years old, and a promi- 

 nent sawmill operator of Beehe, Ark., was found 

 dead in the Fransioli hotel here a few mornings 

 ago, in company with a friend of his from Ark- 

 ansas. The gentlemen took rooms at that hotel 

 and it is supposed they blew out the gas instead 

 of turning it out and that they were asphyx- 

 iated. It has been shown that neither of the 

 gentlemen had been drinking. They came to 

 Memphis to attend the Tri-State Fair. J. A. 

 Phelps, the companion, was a , well-to-do mer- 

 chant of El Paso, Ark. The bodies were shipped 

 several days ago to the home of the deceased. 



The stockholders of the Mississippi Western 

 railroad have Just held a meeting at Meridian, 

 Miss., at- which directors and officers were elected 

 and at which plans for the immediate building 

 of the road were effected. It will run from 

 Meridian to Natchez. Miss., and will serve a 

 couutry rich in timber and agricultural re- 

 sources. The capital stock is .$2,000,000 and 

 the treasurer and secretary have been authorized 

 to issue $500,000 in bonds immediately. Sub- 

 scriptions have been liberal and there Is suffi- 

 cient money in the treasury to begin building at 

 once. K. Threefoot of Meridian is president, and 

 the other officers are prominent men of that city 

 and section. It is the Intention of these gen- 

 tlemen to push this line through to as rapid com- 

 pletion as possible. 



F. E. Stonebraker, one of the best known lum- 

 bermen of this section, has recently returned 

 from abroad and announces that he has accepted 

 the American agency of Brants, Franck & Co. 

 Mr. Stonebraker will not let his new work in- 

 terfere with the other enterprises In which he 

 Is Interested. He Is president and general man- 

 ager of the Crittenden Railway Company, which 

 operates a line of railway from Earle to Ileth. 

 Ark., connecting the Iron Mountain and Rock 

 Island. He is also interested in several other 

 enterprises In the Memphis territory. He will 

 maintain his headouarters iu the Scimitar build- 

 ing, this city. Mr. Stonebraker only recently 

 sold out his Interest in the Lansing Wheelbarrow 

 Company, for whom he was general southern 

 manager. Prior to his investment in that com- 

 pany he was vice-president and general manager 

 of the western offices of the L. H. Gage Lumber 

 Company. Until he sold out his interest recently 

 he had been engaged steadily In the sawmill 

 business for twenty years. He Is receiving the 

 congratulations of his friends upon the splendid 

 foreign connection he has made. 



A. G. Fritchey. who was some time ago con- 

 nected with the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, 

 Columbus, O., has been appointed sales man- 

 ager of the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company of this 

 city. Mr. Fritchey succeeds Earle Sweet, who 

 resigned a short time ago and who. It Is under- 

 stood, will engage In business for himself. The 

 Lumb-Flsh Lumber Company has made several 

 additions to its staff lately, including J. V. Hill, 

 formerly chief Inspector of the Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association of the United States, and 

 John Dwyer, for many years assistant general 

 freight agent of the Illinois Central at Memphis. 



Building operations in this city were on an 

 active scale and the repoit of the building com- 

 mission shows that the total value of permits 

 issued for the month was $23,400 in excess of 

 the corresponding period last year. The total 

 was $303,685. This Is the third month this 

 year which has shown an Increase over the cor- 

 responding one last season, and It may be noted 

 that the gain is cumulative. The increase for 



September was larger than that for August, 

 while that for August exceeded that for July. 

 Plans and specifications have been drawn for a 

 number of large buildings for October and the 

 outlook is for a new record for the current 

 month. Building is not only active In Memphis 

 proper but throughout the entire Memphis terri- 

 tory, with the result that there Is a decided 

 increase In the volume of business in building 

 material of every kind. 



A conference was recently held here between 

 the Memphis Freight Bureau, prominent shippers 

 of lumber, cotton and other commodities, and 

 officials of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & South- 

 ern Railway. Shippers protested against the al- 

 leged discrimination in favor of Little Rock, 

 Pine Bluff, Helena and other Arkansas points, 

 as against Memphis, and asked that the officials 

 so adjust rates that there would be no further 

 cause for complaint on this score. There was 

 some talk of threatening the company with for- 

 feiture of Its franchise here on the grotind of 

 alleged discrimination, but the officials assure the 

 shippers that rates will be equitably adjusted 

 and that there will be no further cause for criti- 

 cism of the action of the road with respect to 

 Memphis. The rates complained of were an- 

 nounced by the Iron Mountain September 1 and 

 covered the tariff on shipments of lumber and 

 other commodities into this city. 



The Gulf & Magnolia Railroad Company has 

 recently been granted a charter under the laws 

 of Arkansas. The capital stock is $1,000,000. 

 Of this amount $100,000 has been subscribed. 

 The company is formed for the purpose of build- 

 ing an extension thirty-five miles in length from 

 Magnolia to Hope. Ark. It Is practically a sub- 

 sidiary corporation of the Louisiana & Arkansas 

 Railroad Company, which operates a line of rail- 

 way from Nachltoches, La., to Magnolia, Ark. 

 The road will run through a splendid timber sec- 

 tion and will afford excellent facilities for its 

 development. 



The Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Company, 

 according to advices received here, has pur- 

 chased 2,280 acres of hardwood and pine timber 

 land near Green Forest, Ark. It is further 

 stated that it Is the intention of the purchasers 

 to establish mills for the development of this 

 property. 



The Frisco System has recently resumed the 

 enlargement of Its yard and terminal facilities 

 here. This work was begun last year and was 

 suspended during the financial depression. It Is 

 the intention of the road to complete it as 

 quickly as possible. When all improvements are 

 finished the road will have practically double 

 the facilities formerly enjoyed at this point. 

 The Frisco System has been badly handicapped 

 here for some years because of inadequate ter- 

 minal facilities and shippers of lumber are par- 

 ticularly pleased that the management Is correct- 

 ing this trouble. 



The Springfield Cooperage & Lumber Company, 

 which has its headquarters at Springfield, Mo., 

 but which operates two mills, one at Truman 

 and the other at Corning, Ark., has opened sales 

 offices in Memphis. These are in charge of I. B. 

 Brawley and are located in the Randolph build- 

 ing. The company Is controlled by B. P. Hobart 

 and son. 



It is seml-officlally announced that the Warsau 

 Southern Lumber Company will immediately pro- 

 ceed with the erection of a large double band 

 mill at Laurel, Miss. The company owns about 

 100,000 acres of yellow pine timber land near 

 Laurel and proposes to begin the development of 

 Its resources there as soon as possible. The 

 company asked for a site for its plant and a 

 committee of citizens raised $21,000, purchased 

 the property and turned over the deeds to the 

 company. The latter has now authorized the 

 committee to draw on It for this amount, stating 

 that when it asked for the bonus it was simply 

 testing the spirit of the citizens of that place. 



A heading factory and two shingle mills will 

 be started at an early date by the Freeman 



