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HARDWOOD RECORD 



M. W. Mix, of the Dodge Mamifaeturins: Comiiany, Jlisliawaka, has 

 been re-elected president ot the Manufacturers' Bureau of Indiana. 



H. C. Wiese has been appointed receiver for the Roach-Brown Manu- 

 facturing Company, manufacturer of tables and liitcUen cabinets, on 

 application ot the W. M. Rittcr Lumber Company, a creditor. Assets 

 are $11,000 and liabilities about $12. .500. 



With an increase in capitalization, the Hoosier Veneer Company has 

 been reorganized and incorporated with an authorized capital stock of 

 $100,000. The principal stockholders in the reorganized company are 

 William T. Connor, Harry E. Dougherty, Frank Manners, Joseph Gross 

 and Robert L. Connor. 



The Hagerstown Lumber & Manufacturing Company has been granted a 

 charter by the state and will conduct a manufacturing and retail lumber 

 and planing mill business at Hagerstown. The authorized capitalization 

 is $l.j,000. Those interested in the company are Daniel B. Clark, Henry 

 M. Keagy. Oscar Werking, Daniel O, Dilling, Horace Hoover, John M, 

 Werking, William Stout, Eli Wiseheart, John C. Clark, Charles L. Stotel- 

 me.ver and A. R. Jones. 



=-< MEMPHIS y- 



All danger from flood at Memphis has passed and even the plants 

 which were closed down on account of high water have been able to 

 resume operations. There were only a few of these and they were located 

 on Wolf river. The interruption to manufacturing operations was ex- 

 tremely limited this season and lumbermen are congratulating them- 

 selves upon the fact that the third highest stage in the history of the 

 Mississippi river at Memphis has come and gone with so little injury 

 and inconvenience. 



South ot Memphis conditions are not quite so favorable. There is still 

 a large area overflowed near Beulah, Jliss., and a number of manufac- 

 turers of hardwood lumber are finding themselves in a rather unenvia- 

 ble position. The.v have both timber and lumber under water, and in 

 some cases the plants are out of commission and probably damaged to 

 some extent. No breaks have occurred except at Beulah and advices 

 from both sides of the river indicate that the levees will probably hold 

 intact. 



There has been a decided change for the better in weather conditions 

 during the past week. Very little rain has fallen and the ground is 

 drying out. So much rain has fallen since the first of the year that log- 

 ging work has been very much interfered with. Operators of sawmills 

 and owners of timberlands are glad of the change for the better in 

 weather conditions because it will be possible to get out timber on a 

 more liberal scale. WoiTt in the woods since the first of the year has 

 been quite limited and the timber outlook is not very encouraging at 

 the moment. 



The Valley Log Loading Company loaded for Memphis during Januarj 

 slightly less than 1,200 cars of logs on the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley 

 line. This company says that it is having considerable difliculty in 

 securing all the equipment necessary for the handling of log shipments. 

 It says that it ought to be loading about 1.600 to 1,700 cars of logs per 

 month, with the result that it is operating at less than seventy-five per 

 cent of its capacity. An unusually large supply of timber was gotten out 

 on the right of way of the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley line last fall and 

 winter and this is now being loaded as fast as equipment can be se- 

 cured for that purpose. 



Russe <^ Burgess, Inc., have recently bought a considi'rahle (juantity of 

 additional timberlands in Tunica county. Jliss. This firm has owned a 

 great deal of timber in the Mississippi valley for a number of years, and 

 bas found purchases there quite profitable. The exact amount purchased 

 in the last instance is not known, but it is understood to have been 

 considerable. 



Arrangements have been completed for the trip to Panania and points 

 in Central .\merica to be made by prominent Memphians under the 

 auspices of the Business Jlen's Club. A special train will be run from 

 Memphis to New Orleans. Among the prominent lumbermen who will go 

 on this trip are the following, all of whom are to be accompanied by 

 their wives : Mark H. Brown, S. B. And.^rson, Frank May and W. A. 

 Ransom. There have been so many applications for additional accom- 

 modations that efforts have been made during the past few daj-s to 

 secure a second boat from New Orl.^ans. Negotiations to this end, how- 

 ever, have been unsuccessful and those late in making their reserva- 

 tions will find it impossible to go. 



Gatlett & Foley, Olney. 111., have announced plans for the erection of 

 a large sawmill and slack barrel stave plant at Harrisburg, Ark., for 

 the development of timber on a large tract of land purchased in I'oin- 

 sett county a short time ago. The company will not only locate its 

 plant at Harrisburg, but will also build a standard gauge railroad from 

 that point to its timberland holdings some miles distant. It is said that 

 work on the plant will begin within the next sixty days. 



The Areola Hardwood Compan.v has received its charter. The com- 

 pany is capitalized at $10,000 and will engage in the hardwood lumber 

 business at this point. The principal incorporators are ; C. D. Hend- 

 rickson, Sam George, George Keith, W. R. Seat and W. H. Harrelson. 

 Mr. Hendrickson has been prominently identified with the bardwood 

 lumber industry of Jlemphis for a number of .vears. 



J. W. Dickson, president of the Valley Log Loading Company, is con- 

 fined to his home with a broken ankle, the result of his foot turning with 



him in getting out of a laxicab the night of the masked ball at the 

 Chickasaw Club. 



The ordinance covering the arrangement between the city of Memphis 

 and the Rock Island System has passed final reading and it is announced 

 that work will shortly begin on the immense terminals to be erected by 

 that system. It is provided in the ordinance that work on these ter- 

 minal facilities must begin within thirty days after the passage thereof. 

 It is provided by the congressional enactment that work on the bridge 

 itself must begin by the latter part of July. The bridge and terminals 

 are to be constructed by the Memphis & Arkansas Railway, Bridge & 

 Terminal Company. 



Advices received here from .Tackson, Miss., indicate that practically all 

 the lumber manufacturing plants in that state are operating on full time 

 and that they have been interfered with to only a limited extent by the 

 high water iu the Mississippi. These dispatches also indicate that the 

 car shortage is only a matter of memory, though it is pointed out that 

 BOme localities are having difficulty in securing all the equipment neces- 

 sary. 



The Dagger & Goshom Company has filed application for an amend- 

 ment to its charter through which it seeks to increase the capital stock 

 from $30,000 to $100,000. The document is signed by the principal in- 

 corporators. The company has recentl.y established 'a band mill at 

 Varncr, Ark., and has purchased additional timberlands in that section. 

 It has likewise increased the capacity of its plant at Memphis and 

 otherwise enlarged the scope of its operations. 



The Tennessee Hoop Company will have its plant for the manufac- 

 ture of hoops, heading and staves in readiness for operation within the 

 next few weeks. This firm recently increased its capital stock to $100.- 

 000 in order that it might establish a plant for the manufacture of 

 heading and staves, as well as elm coil hoops. Members of the Anderson- 

 Tully Company are among the principal stockholders in the Tennessee 

 Hoop Compan.v. 



=•< BRISTOL y. 



The Peter-McCain Lumber Company reports business in good condition. 

 The company's mills here are now running full time. 



There were numerous eastern buyers on the Bristol market this week. 

 The.v report a scarcity of stocks in this section, although shipments for 

 the past few weeks have been heavy. 



W. S. Whiting, a well-known lumberman of Asheville, N. C, was a 

 visitor this week on the Bristol market, 



John T. Dixon of the John T. Dixon Lumber Company of Elizabethton, 

 Tenn., was in Bristol this week on business. 



The Carolina Spruce Company is installing a large mill on the Black 

 Mountain Railway, in western North Carolina, which will soon be ready 

 for operation. 



The Paxton Lumber Company reports business in good condition. The 

 company's mills are busy and it is doing a large volume of business. 



Bristol lumbermen are now enjoying the fruits of their recent victory 

 over the railroads, before the Interstate Commerce Commission. The 

 milling-in-transit charge at Bristol has been reduced from one and one- 

 half cents to two cents per hundred pounds. 



D. D. Hartlove of Price & Heald, Baltimore, was among the eastern 

 hardwood buyers on the Bristol market this week. He has bought 

 heavily in this territory and is now shipping out a large amount of stock. 



Numerous country mills about Bristol, which have been idle during the 

 winter, are preparing to resume operation as early in the spring as 

 possible. 



=-< LOUISVILLE y 



Tlu' visit of the members of the Louisville Hardwood Club to Nash- 

 ville as the guests of the Nashville Lumbermen's Club on Feb. IS was 

 one of the most enjoyable visits of the kind ever planned. It went 

 through without a hitch, and the Louisville men left for home at mid- 

 night after one of the most strenuous days in the way of enjoying hos- 

 I)itality that they had ever experienced. The visit will probably prove 

 to be the first of several of this kind, not only between the Louisville 

 and Nashville clubs, but for all of the hardwood associations of this 

 district. This was the key struck at the smoker which was the final fea- 

 ture of entertainment devised by the Nashville lumbermen, and it was 

 declared that the visit of the Louisville men marks a new era in club 

 work in the hardwood producing district. Tlie Louisville crowd was 

 about sixteen strong, and made the trip in a special Pullman sleeper at- 

 tached to the regular Louisville & Xa.shville trains. The Inmliermen 

 were met at the depot by the Nashville men, who took the visitors auto- 

 mobiling lietore breakfast. This was served at the Hermitage hotel 

 Following the meal a trip was made in autos to the lumber mills and 

 flooring factories of the western end of the city. Lunch was enjoyed 

 at the Commercial Club. The afternoon was given over to the business 

 in other parts of Nashville, the lumbermen returning to the central part 

 of the city in time for an elaborate dinner at the Commercial Club. Fol- 

 lowing this the visitors were given a box party at the Princess theater, 

 and upon its conclusion were further entertained at a smoker at the 

 Commercial Club, when oratory and story-telling were given an oppor- 

 tunity to become evident for the first time. The Louisville lumbermen 

 were then taken to the depot In autos, and rolled into their berths at 



