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HARDWOOD re:;okd 



ers could not get the consignments if it were 

 not that American manufacturers without knowl- 

 edge of foreign business conditions are so easily 

 led into the making of consignments. 



"There is not enough known, either, regarding 

 the amount of stock needed to supply the foreign 

 market, and missionary work along this line 

 would undoubtedly curb the consignment evil to 

 some extent. From the way lumber has come in 

 to Liverpool on a consignment basis recently one 

 would think that there was no end to the con- 

 sumptive capacity of the country dependent upon 

 Liverpool for supplies of American and other 

 hardwoods. If manufacturers, big and little, 

 knew what was on the other side and what was 

 needed. 1 think such knowledge would prove a 

 restraining factor in the making of shipments to 

 Liverpool and other foreign centers of distribu- 

 tion. 



•■There is a very large supply of lumber on the 

 other side now, much of which represents con- 

 si.gned stock, and there is no prospect of early 

 improvement. Conditions obtaining there are in 

 striking contrast with those pi-evailing in the 

 United States and the depression is all the more 

 regretable in view of the fact that the market 

 was shaping for better conditions generally when 

 the recent heavy consignments arrived in Liver- 

 poo! by the Irak." 



Walter J. Sharp, representing Churchill & Sim 

 of Liverpool and London has been here within 

 the past fortnight, though spending compara- 

 tively little time in this center. He asserts that 

 Churchill & Sim are not interested in soliciting 

 consignments of lumber and that his trip has 

 nothing to do with anything of this kind, but is 

 for the purpose of visiting patrons of the firm 

 and looking after its interests generally with a 

 view to increasing the business done in the 

 States. 



A decided change is noted In the location of a 

 number of prominent Arms in this city. The E. 

 Sondheimer Company, the W. E. Smith Lumber 

 Company and the Three States Lumber Company 

 have removed from their previous quarters and 

 are now comfortably ensconced in the handsome 

 Tennessee Trust Building on Madison street. 

 This makes about eight lumber firms in this 

 L'uilding. The Bacon-Nolan Hardwood Company, 

 which was located in the Randolph Building, has 

 removed to the Memphis Trust Company Building 

 on Main street. The Arthur Lumber Company 

 has removed from the Randolph Building to the 

 offices of the Arthur Hardwood Flooring Com- 

 pany in North Memhpis, of which L. P. Arthur 

 of the Arthur Lumber Company is general man- 

 ager. Thompson & McClure have fallen heir to 

 the office vacated by the Arthur Lumber Com- 

 pany, thus giving this concern two rooms instead 

 of one. Changes recently made in the office force 

 of the company necessitated this increase in 

 office room. 



The Standard Box Company has received its 

 charter and has perfected organization by the 

 election of the following officers : R. Donoho, 

 president and general manager ; Henry Loeb, vice 

 president ; J. E. Scott, secretary, and J. C. 

 .lames, treasurer. The company was recentl.y 

 Incorporated with a capital stock of S.jO.OOO and 

 will manufacture shipping cases for bottles and 

 bottled goods, together with other standard pack- 

 ages. It will select a site on the belt line rail- 

 road Id North Memphis and will begin business 

 aH goon as the plant Is ready for operation, giv- 

 ing employment to about 100 persons. Among 

 • he stockholders are such well-known box men 

 an C. J. Tully and S. B. Anderson of the Ander- 

 son Tnlly Company, box manufacturers of Mem- 

 phis. Tenn., and VIcksburg, Miss. 



Application has been filed here for a charter 

 for the Shoemaker Land & Log Company, capltal- 

 Iwd at $2.">.0lio. It will carry on a general real 

 palate and lumber business. The Incorporators 

 are : W. II. Itusse of Ituase & Burgess. George 

 l». Burgess of the same firm, W. M. Shoemaker, 

 Hans .lohannsen and E. K. Sweet. 



The American Hoe & Fork Company, which 

 recently decided to erect a plant in this city for 

 the manufacture of Its products for the southern, 

 Kouthwestern and export trade, has secured title 

 to about eleven acres of land In South .Memphis 

 at a cost of approximately $83,000. The plant 

 of the compnn.v has been about completed and Is 

 now In partial operation. It will use large 

 qnantitles of hardwood lumber In the manufac- 



ture of handles for its output, and in making 

 cases for shipment. It is, with the exception of 

 the American Car & Foundry plant, the largest 

 woodworking industry In the city. Employment 

 is given to about 250 persons. 



Export interests here are giving publicity to a 

 letter recently received from a Rotterdam (Hol- 

 land) firm soliciting consignments of lumber on 

 u very large scale. The letter, which is a circu- 

 lar one, written under date of Sept. 22, states 

 that the company Is in position to handle busi- 

 ness for American lumbermen on either a con- 

 signment basis or as selling agents, owing to Its 

 familiarity with conditions obtaining in Holland, 

 Belgium and the Rhine districts of Germany. 

 The wholesale character of Its proposed opera- 

 tions may be gathered from a perusal of the fol- 

 lowing items which it desires to handle : Long 

 and short leaf yellow pine. North Carolina pine. 

 Cottonwood, poplar, walnut, satin walnut, oak. 

 ash. hickor.y, mahogany, cypress, birch, oak 

 staves, hickory, hammer and other handles, tur- 

 pentine, rosin, dyewoods and wood extracts. The 

 letter has attracted considerable unfavorable 

 comment in export circles here. 



The sawmill of J. C. Burchard & Son at Only. 

 Tenn.. burned recently. The fire is thought to 

 have been caused from sparks from the engine 

 room. The loss was complete, there being no 

 insurance. PlaBs regarding rebuilding have not 

 yet been announced. 



The raising of the quarantines Is receiving 

 considerable attention at the hands of all busi- 

 ness men of this city. There has not yet been 

 a killing frost and the indications now are that, 

 while there may be some relaxation in the regu- 

 lations affecting this city, there will be no lift- 

 ing of the quarantine until the appearance of a 

 good heavy frost. There has been some modifica- 

 tion of regulations in the northern part of Mis- 

 sissippi, a number of guards having been re- 

 lieved, but there is nothing to suggest that quar- 

 antines In that state will be sufficiently modified 

 to permit of free movement of lumber and lum- 

 bermen therein until the weather is cold enough 

 to make that state wholly safe from yellow fever. 

 I^umbermen expect a decided increase in the 

 movement of lumber as soon as the quarantine 

 Is lifted. 



Max Sondheimer, as chairman of the committee 

 appointed some time ago to raise funds to de- 

 fray the expense of the program for the trades 

 jubilee to be given In celebration of the removal 

 of the quarantine here, has given a great deal 

 of time to this work. The committee, however, 

 decided yesterday to postpone the celebration In- 

 definitely since the quarantine will probably not 

 be raised until the weather is too cold to carry 

 out the program contemplated. 



A. N. Thompson of Thompson & McClure and 

 vice president of the Lumbermen's Club of Mem- 

 phis returned several days ago frcm an extensive 

 western trip. 



The National Lumber Exporters' Association, 

 It Is learned here from an official source, has 

 declared Itself strongly against the Ksch-Town- 

 send bill which the grain Interests of the North- 

 west are strongly l)acking and which will be the 

 subject of action at Chicago within the next few 

 days with a view to securing as much endorse- 

 ment as possible. On the other hand. It has 

 placed Itself strongly on record as favoring the 

 plan of .Tudge I'eter S. Grosscup of the United 

 Slates Circuit Court of Appeals. The associa- 

 tion will likely have a representative at the Chi- 

 cago convention, though this Is not altogether 

 certain. The action of the association with ref- 

 erence to this problem was taken upon recom- 

 mendation of Elliott Lang of Memphis, secretary 

 and Irr.lllc manager of the association, who Is an 

 old, cxin'rlenccil railroad man. and who studied 

 the qiH'Btlon Ihoronghly (previous to making this 

 recommendation. 



strlctions. Recent cold weather, bringing frost 

 to some towns in Louisiana and Mississippi, has 

 resulted in bettering quarantine conditions some- 

 what, but travel Is still Impossible except In a 

 limited way. Some of the towns have raised 

 their restrictions entirely and, as a result, 

 there are more visiting lumbermen in the city 

 this week than there have been here during any 

 month since July. This applies especially to 

 cypress manufacturers who have been bottled 

 up at their mills, or who have been spending 

 their vacations elsewhere and are now return- 

 ing home. 



Those better conditions are especially wel- 

 comed by the Southern Cypress Manufacturers' 

 Association, which has not yet completed all 

 details of Its organization. It was expected 

 that the committees which had been appointed 

 at the last meeting would be ready to report at 

 the meeting which had been called for October, 

 but when October came it was found that none 

 of the committees had been able to get together. 

 It was therefore necessary to postpone the meet- 

 ing of the association until November 22. It Is 

 expected that within a few days the commit- 

 tees on Inspection and grades and the forming 

 of a price list will meet and formulate a report, 

 and that the other less Important committees 

 will also get together. 



Frederick Wiibert, president of A. Wlibert's 

 Sons Lumber & Shingle Company, Plaquemine, 

 La., and of the Southern Cypress Manufactur- 

 ers' Association, is in the city. 



Captain John Dibert, of Dibert, Stark & 

 Brown ; Lutcher & Moore Cypress Lumber Com- 

 pany and president of the Southern Cypress 

 Lumber Selling Company, has returned to New 

 Orleans after a three months' sojourn in the 

 West. 



A. T. Gerrans, St. Louis Cypress Company, 

 Houma, La., is In New Orleans for the first time 

 In three months. 



John A. Bruce, Owl Bayou Cypress Company, 

 Strader, La., has returned to New Orleans after 

 spending the summer in Cincinnati. 



A. H. Winchester, Buckhannon. W. Va., passed 

 through the city during the week on his way 

 home, after spending the summer with his son, 

 Charles A. Winchester, at the latter's mill at 

 Rosa. La. 



George W. Dodge. Napoleon Cypress Compa- 

 ny, Napoleonville, La., has gone to WIseonsia 

 on a short business trip. 



Pearl Wight, Woodward, Wight & Co., has 

 recently written to friends here telling of having 

 been ill during his stay In the East. How- 

 ever, Mr. Wight hopes to reach New Orleans In 

 time to take part in the reception to President 

 Roosevelt on Oct. 26. Mr. Wight Is on the 

 executive committee which has had general su- 

 pervision of all arrangements. 



C. B. Slcinbrugge and P. J. Adam of Adam & 

 Stclnbrugge of this city are reported to be In 

 Jacksonville. Fla., completing their business cir- 

 cle of the lower Atlantic ports In the Interest 

 of their export department. H. B. Turner, In 

 charge of the office during their absence, ex- 

 pects to resume his position as hardwood buyer 

 In the Interior within the next few weeks. 



J. M. Saunders. Russe & Burgess, Is again at 

 tlie office of the llrm in the Uennen Building 

 after a trip to Mississippi. 



W. A. Scott, vice president and general man- 

 ager of the Hees-Scott Company, Is In Canada 

 on a vacation. 



Charles McDowell, manager of the Southern 

 Cypress Lumber Selling Company, has not missed 

 a day at his desk during the three months of 

 yellow fever epidemic In this city. To Mr. Mc- 

 Dowell and Secretary Watson of the Soutliern 

 Cypress .Manufacturers' Association belongs the 

 credit of having kept cypress markets open to 

 Louisiana lumber during the epidemic. 



New Orleans. 

 Everybody JuhI now Is watching the quaran- 

 tine situation and wishing for frost In order 

 that there may be a general abolishment of re- 



MinneapoUs. 

 v.. Payson Snillli, who returned n few iliiys 

 ago from a southern trip, reports that he has 

 contracted for the entire cut of the new mill 



