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HARDWOOD RECORD 



no weakness is apparent. Retail stocks are slightly increasing. 



Secretar.y Benbow of tlio Sowers-Leach Lumber Company says there is 

 a fair trade, especially In northeastern Ohio. Prices are holding up well 

 and his company reports a fifty per cent gain in orders so far this year 

 over last year. 



W. B. Sissons, sales manager for the Sowers-Leach Lumber Company, 

 recently returned from a business trip in the South. 



F. Everson Powell of the Powell Lumber Company says there is' a fair 

 volume of business in the hardwoods. Prices are high and are expected 

 to continue so. 



-•< TOLEDO y 



•■Business continues good with us and we have all the orders we can 

 well take care of," was the report of the Toledo Carriage Woodwork 

 Company. 



"We already have on our books all the orders we will be able to take 

 care of this year," said Manager Roberts of the Big Four Hardwood Com- 

 pany, speaking of the piano case manufacturing end of the business. 



The J. M. Skinner Bending Company is .building an addition to its plant 

 at the intersection of Broadway and the Wabash railroad. The new- 

 building will be fifty-five feet in length and twenty-five feet wide and 

 will cost about $2,500. This concern is one of the oldest manufacturing 

 plants in the city and the new addition will be used as a wheelbarrow 

 manufacturing plant. 



The Yesbcra Manufacturing Company is running full time and capacity 

 turning out store fixtures'. This concern says that, judging from Iri- 

 quirics which are flooding in from all portions of the country, it is enter- 

 ing onto the biggest year of its history. 



Many investment structures and additions to factories are now in 

 the course of construction or in the hands of architects, ranging from 

 twenty-one-story office buildings to two-flat and residence structures. Last 

 year was the banner building yearfor Toledo and the coming season will 

 leave it far in the rear if inquiries and plans are to be trusted. Toledo 

 is to have a civic center the coming summer which will mean the ex- 

 penditure of practically a million dollars. 



=-< INDIANAPOLIS y 



W. W. Knight, president of the Long Knight Lumber Company, and 

 Mrs. Knight are in Atlantic City. 



John J. Madden of Thomas Madden Son & Co. has bought a manu- 

 facturing plant and will engage in the manufacture of a line of furniture. 



Millwork is to be manufactured by the Builders' Mill Work Company, 

 organized and incorporated at Laporte with an authorized capitalization 

 of .$15,000. 'Xliosc interested in the company are Charles O. Larsen, 

 Frank A. Larson, Eniil Daniclson and G. Edward Caul. 



Building operations in the city during T'ebruary embraced 311 permits 

 aggregating .$479,653 as compared with 130 permits aggregating $82,040 

 issued in February, 1912. Last month's operations established a new 

 record for February. 



An offer of $307,000 for the plant and business of the T. B. Laycock 

 Manufacturing Company, bed manufacturer, has been submitted by the 

 general creditors to the receiver of the company. The court has taken the 

 offer under advisement. 



The Crawfordsville Furniture and Lumber Company has been organized 

 at Crawfordsville to conduct a hardwood and furniture manufacturing 

 business. It has been incorporated with an authorized capitalization of 

 $75,000 by Edward A. Sterzik, Frank C. Eviins, Howard Smith, Preston O. 

 Rudy, Henry E. Greene and Lawrence E. Devor. 



The Indiana legislature has passed a public utilities law, said to com- 

 pare favorably with the Wisconsin measure. It also has under considera- 

 tion a workmen's compensation bill and a bill prohibiting women working 

 more than nine hours in any one day or to exceed fifty hours in any one 

 week. 



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The Bellgrade Lumber Company is making arrangements for developing 

 its timber resources at Isola, Miss. It is building a tram road and mill 

 shed. This is being done so that, when the remainder of its timber at 

 Belzoni has been cut it may remove its machinery and logging equipment 

 and install this without loss of time. The company owns 3,500 acres of 

 timberiands near Isola. It has several million feet of timber to cut at 

 Belzoni and this will be worked up as rapidly as possible. The company 

 has its headquarters in Memphis. John M. Cathey is president and J. W. 

 McClure is vice-president and general manager. 



The Green River Lumber Company has purchased the timberland hold- 

 ings of the Anderson-Tully Company, near Democrat, Ark., amounting to 

 about 5.600 acres. The company proposes to take immediate steps for the 

 development of the timber on this property and to put the land in cultiva- 

 tion as rapidly as the timber is removed therefrom. Democrat is located 

 on the Marianna cut-off of the Iron Mountain system and it will be neces- 

 sary for the company to build a road from this line to the land in ques- 

 tion. The timber is to be brought to Memphis, where it will be manu- 

 factured into lumber by the Green River Lumber Company. 



Harry T. Darr, associated for some years with the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission at Washington, has been chosen as assistant secretary of the 

 Southern Hardwood Traffic Bureau, which was recently organized here 



and which is handling all of the contests scheduled before the Interstate- 

 Commerce Commission affecting shippers in the southern territory. Mr. 

 Darr. through his position, becomes the right-hand man of J. H. Town- 

 shend, general manager of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Bureau. 



The D. J. Landers Lumber Company, which has fifteen lumber sheds 

 between Springfield, Mo., and Imboden, Ark., has made preparation for 

 opening yards at Hoxie, Ark. The yard at Imboden was opened only a 

 few days ago. 



Russe & Burgess Inc. have filed application for an amendment to their 

 •charter through which it is sought to increase the capital stock from 

 $150,000 to $175,000. The application is signed by the principal stock 

 holders of the company, including W. H. Russe and George D. Burgess. 

 The company is preparing to make extensive improvements at its plant 

 in North Memphis, full details regarding which will be furnished at an 

 early date. 



The insurance question, as affecting lumber risks in Memphis, is stilt 

 far from definite settlement. The conferences which have been held be- 

 tween the law and insurance committee of the Lumbermen's Club of Mem- 

 phis and T. L. Leatherwood of the Tennessee Inspection Bureau have not 

 resulted in anything tangible. The propositions so far made by the latter 

 have not been acceptable to the lumbermen, who intimate that it will bc^ 

 necessary for him to change the terms materially before the plans out- 

 lined by him will be acceptable to them. In the meantime the lumber- 

 men are placing a considerable portion of their insurance with companies, 

 not identified with the board of underwriters. 



The Attalla Lumber Company, Starkville, Miss., has filed application 

 tor a charter under the laws of that state. D. W. Baird of Chicago anij 

 W. F. Clary and W. T. Pride of Memphis are among the principal in- 

 corporators. 



Among the prominent visitors to Memphis recently has been W. B. 

 Sissons of the Sowers-Leach Lumber Company, Columbus, O. Mr. Sissons: 

 was here in connection with plans for the opening of a distributing 

 agency or the establishment of a mill at this point. He said that he had 

 been attracted to this city by virtue of advertising done by the Business 

 Men's Club. He left Memphis for Turrell, Ark., without giving any defi- 

 nite idea as to what the company would do in regard to the proposition. 



The contract is to be let at once for the building of the shop of the 

 Missouri & North Arkansas railroad, at Harrison, Ark. The estimate* 

 cost is approximately $100,000. The Missouri & North Arkansas is mate- 

 rially increasing its equipment and is likewise preparing, under the re- 

 ceivership, to build a number of tracks to timber and other resources, 

 which will prove valuable feeders to the main line. 



The Mississippi river at Memphis is again rising but lumber interests- 

 are of the opinion that there is nothing to be feared in the way of an- 

 other fiood. It is predicted that the stage will go to some twenty-five- 

 feet, which is ten feet below the danger line and some fifteen feet below 

 the stage reached here a short time ago. 



Preparations are being made for the rushing of work on the repair of 

 the levee at Beulah, Miss. A branch line has already been built by the 

 lazoo & Mississippi Valley railroad for the handling of the necessary 

 material and worlc on the filling of t'ne crevasse is to be undertaken at 

 once. In the opinion of those in close touch with conditions there, it i?- 

 certain that the crevasse can be completely repaired before danger cau 

 occur from any rise in the Mississippi. 



The Stout Lumber Company has resumed operations at Tliornton, Ark. 

 This company closed down its plant Nov. 10. During the suspensloa 

 many improvements and additions were made, the present capacity of 

 the plant being 130,000 feet of lumber per day. 



The Three States Lumber Company and Lee Wilson & Co., both of 

 which own extensive timberland holdings in Jlississippi county. Ark.; are 

 named as defendants in a suit which has been instituted by the lUnited 

 States government, covering unsurvcyed lands in that section. There- 

 have been a number of these suits filed in the past but particular interest 

 attaches to the present one because of the prominence of the defendants 

 named and also because of the value of the lands in litigation. 



Ralph May of May Brothers has returned from a business trip to Chi- 

 cago. Mr. May says that the outlook is quite satisfactory and that, ir< 

 his opinion, there will be plcniy of business to keep all the hardwood! 

 lumbermen quite fully engaged for the next six months. He also com- 

 ments on the very decided scarcity of plain oak. 



=-< NASHVILLE y 



Lumber manufacturers and others are greatly interested in a bill that 

 has been introduced into the Tennessee legislature which will do away 

 with the old common law "fellow servants" doctrine, and greatly broaden- 

 the scope of liability of employei's to damages for personal injuries. The 

 legislature has taken a recess until Mar. 17, and in the meantime manu- 

 facturers all over the state are organizing a campaign to defeat the bill, 

 whicli is backed by the labor unions. Lumbermen are preparing to have 

 a bill introduced into the legislature for the conservation of forests, and 

 will seek to get appropriations for making this department more effective 

 in Tennessee. 



During the month of February building permits issued in Nashville 

 called for improvements amounting to $155,760, against $71,000 for the 

 same month of 1912. 



Receipts of logs from the upper Cumberland river territory, brought 

 down by the recent high tide, have materially increasad the stocks of raw 



