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a loss of about |10,000. Mr. Dickson states 

 that the company will rebuild the mill as soon 

 as Dossible. 



Dispatches received here from Water Valley, 

 Miss., state that the shops of the Illinois Central 

 at that point have incre.ised their force within 

 the past few days, and that the management 

 plans to reinstate between 300 and 400 work- 

 men within the next thirty days. The Illinois 

 Central is getting all its engines and cars in 

 repair, regardless of the fact that all this equip- 

 ment is not necessary for handling the present 

 volume of business. The officials believe there 

 will be a sufficient increase in traffic this fall to 

 make this necessary. 



Captain Ralph Bennett, of the lumbermens' 

 baseball team of Memphis, is having his men 

 out every few days for practice, and they are 

 rounding into excellent form. He says that he 

 will not rub it in on Nashville by challenging 

 the lumbermen of that city for another con- 

 test, but states that he is awaiting with anxiety 

 some sign that the boys on the Cumberland 

 are willing to try their fortunes on the dia- 

 mond with the lumber laddies in the Bluff 

 city. It will be recalled that each team has won 

 one game for the cup offered by the American 

 Lumberman, with the result that there is yet 

 one game to be played before the ownership ot 

 the trophy is decided. There is little doubt in 

 the minds of the Memphis lumbermen as to who 

 will own the cup eventually. 



The Standard Lumber Company, with head- 

 quarters in this city, has recently secured a 

 new mill at Sidon, Miss., to be operated in con- 

 nection with its plant at Earle, Ark., and it is 

 now making arrangements to build a mill on 

 its tract of hardwood timber land in Louisiana. 

 Messrs. W. J. Richardson and P. H. Ravisies are 

 the principal owners of this company and it is 

 their announced intention to branch out along 

 manufacturing lines as rapidly as possible. 



The Norton Lumber Company of Richey, 

 Miss., has completed its plant at that point 

 and this is now in readiness for operation. The 

 company has upwards of 75,000,000 feet of 

 hardwood timber on land it controls and is 

 making arrangements to begin operations on a 

 liberal scale. 



Jno. B. Grant has joined forces with the J. 

 W. Darling Lumber Company of Cincinnati and 

 will look after the interests of that company 

 in this territory. Mr. Grant was until last 

 December manager of the southern interests of 

 the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company and, 

 after resigning that position, he became one of 

 the incorporators and officers of the English- 

 Grant Lumber Company, with headquarters at 

 Little Rock. 



Jno. W. McClure of the Bellgrade Lumber 

 Company, J. F. Mclntyre of the Memphis Rim 

 & Bow Company, S. B. Anderson of the Ander- 

 sonTully Company and other prominent lum- 

 bermen of this city visited the plant of the 

 Lamb-Fish Lumber Company at Charleston, 

 Miss., in a body this week as guests of that 

 corporation. The party was in charge of Jno. 

 Dwyer, who recently resigned his position as 

 assistant general freight agent of the Illinois 

 Central to become identified with the Lamb- 

 Fish interests. The gentlemen returned yes- 

 terday afternoon and are quite enthusiastic 

 over the big plant and its perfect equipment. 

 It has been constructed at a cost of approxi- 

 mately .$400,000 and is conceded to be the 

 largest exclusive hardwood plant in the South. 

 In addition to the mill and other necessary 

 structures in connection with the plant, a club- 

 house is maintained at which the visitors were 

 entertained. The plant is now being operated 

 and is turning out about 125,000 feet of lum- 

 ber a day, mostly oak. 



Weather conditions in this territory during 

 the past fortnight have been only fairly favor- 

 able, heavy rain having fallen during the latter 

 portion of this period. This has interfered to 

 some extent with the operation of mills and 

 also with getting timber in the woods. How- 



ever, bad weather is not as serious a factor now 

 as it would be under more normal conditions, 

 as manufacturers are disposed to keep produc- 

 tion down to the lowest possible limit and cut 

 only in cases where it is necessary to save 

 stock already on hand. It is difficult to esti- 

 mate the percentage of production as compared 

 with an average for this time of year, but there 

 are conservative authorities here who declare 

 it will not reach even 50 per cent. 



The Three States Lumber Company states 

 that it will close down its big hardwood mill 

 at Burdette, Ark., within the next few days, 

 as it has almost completed cutting out its sup- 

 ply of logs at that point. The company is also 

 making arrangements to close down one of its 

 mills in Mississippi where it has been cutting 

 Cottonwood almost exclusively. W. A. Gilchrist, 

 who is in charge of the interests of the com- 

 pany in this territory, is of the opinion that 

 the only solution of the situation will come 

 from a curtailment of production, and he is 

 therefore an ardent advocate of this course. He 

 is not only urging it for others, but he is will- 

 ing to go the pace himself. 



Max Sondheimer. president of the E. Ijond- 

 Ueimer Company, left this week for New Xork 

 and other eastern points. Mr. Sondheimer be- 

 fore leaving stated that not more than one- 

 thiid of the milling capacity of the company 

 was engaged and he says there is no disposition 

 to run except at points where such action is 

 necessary to save the supply ot timber in hand. 



The rate situation here has not been settled. 

 The special committee, of which A. L. Foster 

 is chairman and which has conducted all the 

 uegotiations looking to readjustment of rates, 

 reported at the meeting of the Lumbermen's 

 Club Saturday that there was probability of 

 some further concession on the part of the Illi- 

 nois Central. It will be recalled that the rail- 

 roads made a proposition to reduce rates one 

 cent per hundred pounds on lumber shipments 

 north and ease out of Memphis and that the 

 committee on behalf of the lumbermen refused 

 to accept this offer. Mr. Foster expressed the 

 hope that if it were possible to secure conces- 

 sion from the Illinois Central the other roads 

 would be as liberal. The committee has its 

 mind made up positively that a one-cent re- 

 duction is not anything like adequate, and this 

 feeling was all the more strongly entertained 

 after the address of the Hon. W. A. Percy be- 

 fore the club Saturday afternoon. 



J. W. Thompson, of the J. W. Thompson 

 Lumber Company, has returned from a trip, in- 

 cluding Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and 

 other points. 



Frank B. Robertson, president of the Robert- 

 son-Fooshe Lumber Company, and E. E. Good- 

 lander of the Goodlander-Robertson Lumber 

 Company, left Memphis this week for a western 

 trip. They expect to arrange their itinerary 

 so as to be in Milwaukee during the annual of 

 the National Hardwood Lumber Association. 



yEW ORLEANS 



n. II. Downman's suggestion in favor of a big 

 cypress holding company to control all the 

 cypress stumpage of the country with conserva- 

 tism as its object, broached at the last annual 

 meeting of the Southern Cypress Manufactur- 

 ers' Association, has as yet, to all outward ap- 

 pearances, borne no Eruit. The idea has been 

 something of a hobby with Mr. Downman for 

 some time and his speech at the banquet of the 

 lumbermen was expected. Mr. Downman con- 

 trols extensive cypress holdings in Louisiana, 

 being one of the largest individual holders In 

 the state, and he believes the central holding 

 company is the only method of conservation pos- 

 sible. Many agree with him, but there are 

 others who do not. Frank B. Williams of Pat- 

 terson, generally conceded to be the largest in- 

 dividual holder of cypress In the state, Is de- 

 clared to be arjong the latter. When this sub- 



ject was discussed at the banquet last month 

 and Mr. Williams was looked for to give an 

 expressions of his views he had disappeared. 

 The well-known lumberman quietly withdrew 

 while Mr. Downman was talking, and no one 

 has been able to get much from him on the sub- 

 ject. 



L. S. Gardner of Otts Mill, Livingston parish, 

 this state, who has done considerable work in 

 experimenting with woods, announces that he has 

 discovered a remarkable process for coloring the 

 wood of a growing tree in such a manner as to 

 produce somewhat astounding results. Mr. Gard- 

 ner went to the state capital the other day with 

 his invention and displayed the result of his 

 experiments. He had a log which had been sawn 

 into strips and which showed the thoroughness 

 of the coloring. Mr. Gardner says that by inocu- 

 lating the growing tree with certain acids he can 

 produce in a short time a saw log that will be 

 dyed through and through any color desired. He 

 believes with his invention that it is possible to 

 make a forest of trees that will rival some of 

 the finest imported colored woods. 



W. Osgood Orton and associates have organ- 

 ized in this city a new company that will en- 

 gage in dredging for sunken logs in the countless 

 sawmill streams in Louisiana and Mississippi. 

 The company purposes to get these logs and then 

 manufacture them into lumber, marketing all 

 that prove to be marketable. It is the first com- 

 pany of its kind organized here and has a big 

 territory in which to work. In East and West 

 Pearl river alone the value of the sunken logs 

 is placed even by the most conservative estimat- 

 ors at more than $500,000. In all of the sawmill 

 streams that are tributaries to Amite river there 

 are also thousands of dollars' worth of sunken 

 logs. The Industry is believed to be a big one 

 and the work of the new company will be 

 watched with interest. Frank G. Conklin, Henry 

 V. Mielly, Dudley M. Shively and S. M. Robinson 

 are the incorporators. ■ 



The Foxley Stave & Lumber Company, Ltd., 

 has been incorporated in New Orleans with an 

 authorized capital of $10,000, to manufacture 

 and deal generally in staves, cooperage materials 

 and forest products. The company will do a 

 general lumber manufacturing and stave and 

 lumber export business. F. J. Foxley, John C. 

 Liversedge, W. H. Scott and D. Thomas Rees are 

 the incorporators. 



Advices from Gulfport, Miss., state that the 

 Central Naval Stores & Supply Company has 

 been incorporated there with an authorized capi- 

 tal of $100,000. G. F. Mason, J. W. Wade and 

 others are the incorporators. 



According to a statement of Edgar R. Dumont, 

 resident manager of the Standard Export Lum- 

 ber Company of New Orleans and Gulfport, that 

 firm expects to do a good export business out 

 of Pascagoula in the next few weeks. The 

 company has chartered several steamers to han- 

 dle export shipments this month. One of these, 

 the Crusader, 2,744 tons, will take 3,200,000 

 superficial feet of square timber, the largest cargo 

 over loaded at a Mississippi sound port. 



ASHLAND 



E. L. Salisbury ot the Wright-Salisbury Lum- 

 ber Company is on a business trip through 

 Ohio in the interests of the firm. The com- 

 pany is operating its mill full time and has 

 on hand a fine lot of timber ; in fact, about 

 the best lot It has ever had. 



J. J. Meade of the Meade & Speer Company of 

 Pittsburg was a business visitor in the city last 



The Kenova Poplar Manufacturing Company 

 of Kenova, W. Va., is operating its plant full 

 time on its old specialty, poplar. 



The American Boom & Timber Company, re- 

 cently incorporated at Farmers, Ky., at a meet- 

 ing held May 20. elected the following direc- 

 tors : S. B. Reese. B. F. Searc.v, E. Slaughter 

 and N. Goodman, who elected officers as follows : 



