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HARDWOOD RECORD 



started in shavings in the boiler house. This wa& the third serious fire 

 at the plant, which was established in 1862. 



Hardwood concerns were not in the path of the flood which swept 

 over the city Mar. 25, although several other lumber companies suffered 

 losses. Boats for the rescue of flood victims were built at the plants 

 of the Balke & Krauss Company and the main plant of the Capitol 

 Lumber Company. Lumbermen have donated liberally to the relief fund, 

 among the number being the Balke & Krauss Company, the Interior Hard- 

 wood Company, and the Long-Kuight Lumboi Company, also E. C. Atkius 

 & Co., manufacturers of saws. 



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The Valley Log Loading Company, which operates a log loading plant 

 on the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley line of the Illinois Central System, 

 has been doing everything in Its power during the past few days to 

 move the timber placed on the right of way of that railroad. During 

 March it loaded about 1,500 cars for Memphis and other points. It 

 would have been able to deliver more but for the Inability of tho. 

 railroads to furnish the necessary equipment and motive power. The 

 company has been besieged with requests for prompt loading of timber 

 during the past few days because a great deal of this will be overflowed 

 if It is not brought out within the next week. The Yazoo & Mississippi 

 Valley is subject to more or less interruption from the high water and 

 the present indicated stage suggests that after next week it will be 

 impossible to make any headway with logging work for some time. It 

 also suggests the possibility that any timber left in the low lands 

 along that line may be subject to overflow as was the case last year. 



Albert N. Thompson & Co. arc preparing to erect a mill near Yazoo 

 City, Miss., for the development of the timber on a cypress brake owned 

 near there. This firm has been engaged in the wholesale handling of 

 hardwood lumber here for a number of years. The mill will not be 

 of very large capacity, but it will be a band one and the output will 

 be of the best character. In addition to its general business the firm 

 will market the output of this mill. 



W. A. Stark of the W. A. Stark Lumber Company is preparing to 

 erect a mill at Bledsoe, Ark. It is to be a band plant and will have a 

 capacity of about 30,000 feet per day. Mr. Stark has acquired a consid- 

 erable amount of timber in that immediate section and tho new mill will 

 be installed for the development thereof. Mr. Stark was for a number of 

 years associated with his brother, James E. Stark, in the wholesale 

 hardwood lumber business. Later he conducted a wholesale business 

 under the firm name of W. A. Stark Lumber Company. He has been 

 anxious for some time to own and operate a mill and has at last found 

 what he desired in that particular field. 



The Grismore-Uyman Company has made application for a charter 

 under the laws of Tennessee. Its headquarters will be at Memphis and 

 its capital stock is placed at .$.50,000. Among the incorporators are ; 

 F. Grismore, II. W. Ilyman and Ray Ulrey, all of whom have been 

 prominently identified with the cooperage trade of this city and section 

 for a number of years. The company will manufacture staves, lumber 

 and other allied products. 



The Blytheville Cooperage Company has been chartered at Blytheville, 

 Ark. It is capitalized at $15,000 and is engaged in the handling of 

 staves, timber and other products. F. P. Carter, T. Slagle and others 

 are the incorporators. 



The John Dulweber Company of Cincinnati has broken ground for the 

 establishment of a hardwood mill at Moorehead, Miss. The new plant 

 is to be in operation within the next sixty or ninety days. 



The Shelby Cooperage Company, Portliind, Ark., has completed arrange- 

 ments whereby its plant is to be removed from that point to Helena, 

 Ark. This company gives employment to about one hundred men and 

 will be a substantial addition to the manufacturing enterprises of Helena. 



E. P. Costcllo, chief clerk of the oflice of K. M. Dozier, commercial 

 agent of the Iron Mountain System, is successor to W. M. Taylor, as 

 chief clerk of the Memphis Freight Bureau. Mr. Taylor has gone to 

 Pine Bluff to accept the management of ilie recently organized freight 

 bureau at that point. The lumbermen of Memphis have been prominently 

 idenlifled with the Memphis Freight Bureau for a number of years and 

 that organization has been of substantial aid to them in the handling of 

 rate problems undertaken by the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, the old 

 Memphis Hardwood Bate Association, the old Memphis Lumbermen's 

 Trafljc Bureau and the present Southern Hardwood Traflic Bureau. 



A. H. E'gan has already entered upon his duties as general superin- 

 tendent of the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad, with oflices In 

 Memphis. He succeeds G. W. Berry, who recently resigned and was 

 appointed superintendent of terminals at Chicago. Mr. Berry was quite 

 popular with the lumbermen and the latter have expressed much regret 

 that his wife found it impossible to live in the South, thus making his 

 transfer necessary. Mr. Egan has been extended a very warm welcome 

 by the lumber fraternity as well as by other business interests here. 



Eusse & Burgess, Inc., have ordered a new mill which is to be 

 delivered within the next sixty days. It is to be equipped with a nine- 

 foot band saw, with shot gun feed, and is also to have a seven-foot 

 Mershon band re-saw. The AUis-Chalmers Company has secured the 

 contract. The firm will begin tearing down its present mill about the 

 first of May and it ought to have the new plant installed and in readiness 

 for operation by Sept. 1. The new mill will have a capacity of 40,000 



to 45,000 feet. The present mill is cutting at the rate of about 25,000 

 to 30,000 feet. The old mill will be completely dismantled and sold. 

 This firm has been engaged in the manufacture of hardwood lumber at 

 Memphis for a number of years and makes a specialty of export business. 

 In fact it maintains an oflice in London for the handling of its foreign 

 trade. This is in charge of G. A. Farber, w-ho is a member of the firm. 



A slight increase is shown in building operations at Memphis for 

 March. The total valuation was $573,321, against $499,366 last year, 

 an increase of approximately $75,000. The outlook is considered goo4 for 

 April. It is not anticipated that the high water will have any effect 

 upon building cpiu-ations here, although it is likely to decrease activity 

 outside of this city, particularly in the Mississippi valley. 



Bank clearings for March broke all previous records in the history 

 of this city for that particular month. There was an increase of 

 approximately .$2,000,000 over the same period last year. The total 

 was $34,553,173.97. The cotton market during March was not particularly 

 active and the excellence of the showing with respect to bank clearings 

 is duo in considerable measure to the good trade enjoyed in some other 

 lines. The lumbermen made a most substantial contribution. They had 

 a better business during March than they have had for several years at 

 this particular time and. but for the flood outlook, the situation would 

 be quite bright from their standpoint. 



The Illinois Central and Yazoo & Mississippi Valley roads have 

 advised the Southern Hardwood Traffic Bureau that they will comply 

 with the decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission in the recent 

 transit case and issue tariffs, to become efl'ective about May 1. These 

 will provide a refund on inbound movements of logs to Memphis upon 

 shipment out of lumber, without reference to the kind of logs received 

 or the sort of lumber shipped. This means that it will not be necessary 

 for the Ixmtber manufacturers here to ship gum lumber out of Memphis 

 in order to secure the refund on gum logs shipped to this point. The 

 requirement heretofore has been that the particular kind of lumber 

 designatea by the logs had to be shipped in order to release the refund 

 on the logs and this resulted in tying up the funds of lumbermen for 

 an indefinite period. The decision of the companies to handle the matter 

 as already indicated will result in facilitating the refunds and will prove 

 of very great assistance to the lumbermen operating at this point. 



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Additional supplies of logs will be brought down the Cumberland as a 

 result of the high tides. Logging operations in the upper river section 

 have been fairly active and many millions of feet have come to this 

 market. . 



Unfavorable weather during the recent storm period held back local 

 building operations considerably, but the past several days have been 

 good and spring-like and, with the advent of warm weather, great 

 activity along building lines is confidently anticipated. Reports indicate 

 that this will be a great year in building here, some predicting that 

 1913 will break all former records. Building statistics for the past 

 month show that Nashville held the lead in the gain for building opera- 

 tions. Reports show that during 1913 there were 1,463 building permits 

 issued here outside of those for minor repairs, the total cost of the 

 work being $1,388,997. August held the record for the greatest number 

 during the year and December had the record for the smallest number. 



Charles E. Huut, one of the prominent local members of the trade, is 

 recovering from a recent attack of appendicitis. 



Several insurance bills of interest to the lumber trade are pending 

 before the Tennessee legislature. One forbids any company doing business 

 in the state except through a resident state agent. 



Comparatively little damage was done hereabouts by the recent general 

 storms and floods. All tho streams are all out of their banks and this 

 fact has necessarily handicapped for the time being those plants which 

 occupy low lands along the rivers and also makes hauling diflJcult on 

 the country roads ; a considerable amount of standing timber was blown 

 down in spots ; but leading local lumbermen say the losses will not be 

 heavy or general. Considering the severity of the storms, the losses 

 are reported remarkably light to the timber and lumber interests of 

 this section. 



The Nashville Pattern Works with J. D. Tipple of Youngstown, O., as 

 proprietor and manager, will establish a plant here for making wood 

 patterns for all kinds of castings. Many skilled workmen will be 

 brought here from Youngstown to be employed in the new factory. 



The Jlemphis Freight Bureau has filed a complaint with the Tennessee 

 Railroad Commission here regarding rates on forest products to Memphis 

 from stations on the line of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis 

 Railway. The claim is that a discrimination is being made against 

 Memphis compared with other Southern cities on the same line for equal 

 distances. The commission here has taken the matter up with the 

 railroad authorities. 



F. G. Ewing's sawmill at Adams was destroyed by fire on Apr. 1, the 

 loss being about $2,000. The fire is supposed to have started from the 

 engine. 



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The Ohio river, not content with the damage caused in January, where 

 the lumber interests of the valley were subject to inconvenience and loss 

 equaling the flood of 1907, came through with another which in the 



