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terprise. This company will be on the market 

 for a good many years, with oak, ash, gum, 

 cypress and other woods. The principal office 

 of both companies is at Memphis, and they 

 liave a branch office in the Railway Exchange, 

 Chicago. 



Tlie Elanton-Thunnan Company of Mem- 

 phis identify themselves chiefly as "the yel- 

 low cypress people ' ' and conduct their busi- 



SPECIMEN TK.\INLOAD OF LOGS, RUSSE & 

 BURGESS. MEMPHIS, TENN. 



ness from offices in the Randolph building. 



Thompson & McClure and James Thompson 

 & Co. also have their headquarters in the 

 Randolph building, and make a specialty of 

 both red and white plain and quartered oak, 

 ash and gum. 



George C. Ehemann, the popular secretary 

 of the Lumbermen 's Club, associated with the 

 big Bennett & Witte concern, is favorably 

 known by everybody in the trade and has be- 

 come statistician of Memphis hardwoods. 



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One of the men most thoroughly worth 

 knowing in the Memphis trade is F. E. Stone- 

 braker, vice president of the L. H. Gage Lum- 

 ber Company of Providence, R. I., and of the 

 Crittenden Lumber Company of Karle, Ark. 

 Mr. Stonebraker has been on the ground a 

 good while and knows the timber of the Mid- 

 dle South as well as any man in the country. 

 He manages an exceptionally fine operation 

 at Earle, and has a reputation of being the 

 highest priced man in the Memphis market. 

 They do say that Stonebraker does purchase 

 the highest type of timber growing in the 

 country, and finds no fault with spending one 



to three dollars a thousand more in making 

 and seasoning lumber than any of his neigh- 

 bors, but when he gets through he has lumber 

 that is of such superior physics, manufacture 

 and seasoning that he can pretty nearly com- 

 mand his own price for it. His specialty is 

 oak, although he manufactures almost the 

 entire range of timber that grows in that 

 section. 



They tell a story at Memphis about F. E. 

 ."^tonebi'akpr 's abilities as a salesman. He is 

 a decidedly forceful talker when he gets to 

 descanting on the qualities of the lumber he 

 produces. Some time ago he was called upon 

 l<i visit a German box manufacturer at St. 

 Louis who was in the market for a quantity 

 of lumber. Upon being quoted prices the St. 

 Louis box man threw up his hands in holy 

 horror, and said he was buying lumber at 

 three dollars a thousand less than Mr. Stone- 

 braker 's estimate of values. The Memphis 

 man said to him: "I have been out through 

 your yard, and while you may be an intelli- 

 gent box man, you 're a mighty poor lumber- 

 man. The price I am quoting you is good 

 value for the quality of stock I will ship you, 

 and to prove this I will send you a specimen 

 carload or two. When you receive it, if you 

 don't find it is worth the money, haul it out 

 on your back lot and burn it up; send me 

 the expense bills and I will send you check 

 for the freight." Stonebraker effected his 

 sale, and it is alleged that he also made a 

 life long customer. 



***** 



About the Gayoso hotel in Memphis one 

 will always find a crowd of lumbermen from 

 abroad. The outer lobby is a general meeting 

 place for the home and foreign fraternity. 

 The bunch reminds one very forcibly of the 

 old days' crowd that used to hang around 

 the lobby of the Bancroft house in Saginaw, 

 Mich., equally dividing their time between 

 doing business and swapping stories. 



Over at the Gayoso the other day, among 

 the distinguished visitors was R. H. Vansant 

 of t^ansant. Kitchen & Co. of Ashland, Ky., 

 president of the Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association of the United States. Mr. Van- 

 sant was on his way home from a visit to 



Hot Springs where he had been taking a vaca- 

 tion of some weeks for rest and recreation. 

 Ainong other sojourners at the hotel was 

 Theodore Schneider, lumber purchasing agent 

 for The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company 

 of Chicago. Theodore was just in from a 

 trip to Greenville, -uiss., where he had been 

 visiting the Planters' Lumber Company. It 

 seems that the mill of this concern is situated 



SECTION OF LOG STORAGE YARD, RUSSE & 

 BURGESS. MEMPHIS, TENN. 



at a considerable distance from the station. 

 On the arrival of Mr. Schneider at Green- 

 ville, he telephoned Manager J. L. Strickland 

 of his presence, and Mr. Strickland kindly 

 volunteered to send a carriage for him. To 

 ride in a carriage appealed to Theodore as 

 being much preferable to hoofing it out to 

 the mill, and so he waited at the hotel for 

 the carriage. The private carriage which 

 Mr. Stricldand sent for the Chicago buyer, 

 including the liveried driver, is herewith pic- 

 tured. 



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Down at New Orleans J. D. Laeey & Co. 

 report an immense sale of southern hardwood 

 timber, the largest in the history of the house, 

 and numerous inquiries are reaching them 

 every day from would-be purchasers of south- 

 ern hardwoods. 



R. H. Downman, head of the numerous 

 great cypress manufacturing enterprises in 

 the vicinity of Jvlew Orleans, is well pleased 

 over the year's business, as is also Manager 

 McDowell of the Southern Cypress Lumber 

 Selling Agency. 



Other concerns largely interested in cypress 



It. It. VANSANT OK ASIII.ANI). KV,. SENATOR II A NSPKOUGII 



fiE NORTH DAKOTA., AND MR. CRANDI.E OF NASHVILLE 



TAKINc; AN AlllINf; AT HOT SPRINfJS, ARK 



PIIIV.XTE CAItlUAGK OF PLANTERS' LUMBER COMPANY, GREEN- 

 SIM I . MISS. I\ Willi II IT CONVEYS ITS GUESTS 

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