and Jonesboi-o, Ark. : Clai-ksdale, 'Miss., and 

 Brlnkley, Ark. Through the consolidation of 

 these mills the concern becomes one of the 

 largest of the kind in the country. Headquar- 

 ters will be in the Tennessee Trust Buildiuir. 

 I his city. 



George C. Russe, who has for some time been 

 connected with L. Methudy of St. Louis, as 

 soulliern representative, has resigned that posi- 

 lion to become associated with the E. Sond- 

 heimer Company as manager of the operating 

 department. Mr. Kusse will have charge of 

 all the outside mills of the company. He will 

 devote his attention first to the mills in Mis-, 

 sissippi, then in Arkansas, and will later look 

 after these farther north, yiy. Russe is a son 

 t)t W. H. Russe. of Russe & Btu'gess. 



Tlie C. W. Stover Ltimber (\^mi)any is piling 

 considerable stock of hardwood lumber on its 

 yards in Xorth Memphis, making a specialty of 

 ■ luarter-sawed stock. Mr. Stover reijorts that 

 the company is negotiating for important tim- 

 ber rights in Arkansas and that the deal will 

 probably be closed within the next few weeks. 



The City Bank has been organized here with 

 a capital stock of $2o0,00U to take over the 

 assets and liabilities of the failed Merchants' 

 Trust Company. A number of lumbermen are 

 interested in tlie new institution, including Max 

 Sondheimer and W. M. Kennedy, of the Kennedy 

 & Morelock Stave Company. The bank has no 

 connection with the Merchants' Trust Company 

 further than that implied in the statement that 

 it will wind up the affairs of the defunct iusti- 

 tution. Harry E. Coffin will be president, and 

 the new bank will open for business with capi- 

 tal stock fully paid up Jan. 1'7. 



The Anderson-Tully Company of this city has 

 I)Virchased from the Ferguson Lumber Company 

 .•^.TCO acres of land in Lauderdale county. Tennes- 

 see, in what is known as the Mississippi Bot- 

 toms. The consideration was $2,=i0,0i)(i. The 

 timber will be developed largely at the Memphis 

 plant of the company. 



The timber department of the Bank of Com- 

 merce and Trust Company of Memphis has closed 

 a deal transferring 4,000 acres of timber lands 

 in Chickasaw and I*ontotoc counties, Mississippi, 

 to the Parker-.Ioyner Stave Company, which has 

 "thces at Pontotoc and which will open an oflice 

 in Memphis. Tlie company will begin cutting 

 this timber as soon as the ground is dry enough. 



Memphis will send a considerable delegation 

 of exporters to the forthcoming annual meeting 

 of the National Lumber Exporters' Asociation. 

 which will be held in Washington, at the New 

 Willard Hotel, beginning Jan. 24. The call for 

 this meeting was issued some time ago by Acting 

 Secretary Elliott Lang, who urged a full at- 

 tendance because of the large amount of impor- 

 tant business to be tran.sacted. In the Mem- 

 phis delegation W'ill be Mr. Lang and President 

 W. H. Russe. At this meeting a successor to , 

 Mr. Lang wall be elected. 



T. H. Wall of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber 

 Company was in Memphis recently and while 

 here attended the annual banquet of the Lumber- 

 men's Club of Memphis. He said on that occa- 

 sion that since Memphis sent a large delegation 

 to the annual convention of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association at Buffalo that city 

 will send an equally large one to Memjihis next 

 May. 



George C. Ehemann of Bennett & Witte, secre- 

 tary of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, has 

 returned from a southern trip which included 

 New Orleans. He reports business in very satis- 

 factory condition and joins others here in the 

 statement that stocks of dry lumber arc light 

 and hard to get. 



Ben Thompson of Paris, Teun.. has sold to E. 

 P. Heat of Richmond, Ind., about 2.000 acres of 

 timber lands near Mansfield. Tenn. It is the in- 

 tention of the purchaser to cut the timber as 

 rapidly as possible and put tlie land in cultiva- 

 tion. 



George C. Ehemann and E. E. (ioodlander are 

 on the two directors' tickets in the forthcoming 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



election of officers for the Business Men's Club 

 for the ensuing year which comes off at an 

 early date. The last two presidents of that or- 

 ganization have been taken from lumber and 

 woodworking lines, S. B. Anderson of the Ander- 

 son-Tully Ccuupany and J. T. '^'illingham of the 

 .Memphis Coffin Company. 



E. E. Goodlander of the (ioodlauder-Robcrtsou 

 Lumber Company has returned from an extended 

 trip to New Mexico where he went to close a 

 timber proposition wliich he has had under ad- 

 visement for some time. Details of this have 

 not yet been given out for publication. 



J. W. Thompson of the J. W. Thompson Lum- 

 ber Company paid a recent visit to Chicago and 

 returned to Memphis in time to attend the an- 

 nual banquet of the Lumberroen's Club of Mem- 

 phis, though he was called to Birmingham late 

 Saturday afternoon and was unable to be pres- 

 ent, much to the regret of members of the club. 



M. Neely of the Macdonald Lumber c'ompany, 

 of Helena, Ark., was in the city this week. He 

 reports logging conditions very unfavorable and 

 asserts that there is so much water in the low- 

 lands where the bulk of the timber lies that it 

 will be some time before much will be accom- 

 lilished in this direction. He says there is 

 more water than he has seen in seventeen years' 

 I'xperience in the lumber business. 



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.y. G. Gamble, Keller building, has been turn- 

 ing his attention largely to hardwood, espe- 

 cially poplar, since yellow pine became so 

 scarce and high, and is working up a very good 

 hardwood trade. 



New Orleans. 



Franklin Greenwood, who has had charge of 

 the sales and tratfic departments of the ■«■. R. 

 Pickering Lumber Company of Kansas City. Mo., 

 has accepted a position with the Southern 

 Cypress Lumber Selling Company, Ltd., as gen- 

 eral sales agent with headquarters at New 

 Orleans. Mr. Greenwood is a very capable 

 young man and in this appointment both he 

 and the Southern Cypress Lumber Selling Com- 

 pany are to be congratulated, 



Hugh Forchheimer, senior member of the firm 

 linaring his name and a prominent figure in 

 .American export lumber trade, died on Jan. 7, 

 after an illness of only three days' duration 

 at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany. Mr. 



Forchheimer, in addition to his interior trade 

 in Germany, handled Austrian and Australian 

 woods, as well as lumber from the United 

 States, consisting of hardwoods and yellow 

 pine. He maintained offices at New Orleans, 

 Mobile and Gulfport. The main office was 

 at Frankfort on-the-Main. Mr. Forchheimer 

 leaves three daughters and three sons, the lat- 

 ter, .\rthur, Karl and Hans, all interested in 

 the lumber business and familiar with the trade 

 in the L'nited States. 



Lonis'Tille. 



Fisher Brothers, Horse Cave, Ky.. say that 

 the roads are .so bad down in their section that 

 they are not able to make much headway haul 

 ing logs, and as a consequence their mills are 

 idle a gocd part of the time. 



J. E. lUischer of the Louisville Spoke & 

 Bending Company, fays the outlook for vehicle 

 \vo(td stock tills spring is very good. 



-\1 Spottswood of E. R. Spottswood & Son. 

 Lexington. Ky., was in town a few da.vs ago 

 and says he is experiencing all sorts of diffi- 

 culties in getting cars to make shipments. 



One of the consuming factors of the Louis- 

 \ille hardwood business is tlie Hilton-Collins 

 Company, manufacturers of single and double ' 

 trees, neck yokes, etc. A. G. Renau, vice presi- 

 dent of tlie company, says they make about 

 ,'JO.OOO dozen a .vear and are enlarging their 

 facilities with the expectation of increasing 

 their output this year. Tliey use hickory cut 

 to dimension for practically everything except 

 plow single trees. 



F. M. Platter of the North '^'ernon Pump & 

 Lumber Co. .says the,T are fairly well supplied 

 with logs now at their Louisville plant and 

 have hopes of being able to take care of their 

 requirements all the balance of the winter and 

 spring. 



Ashland, Ky. 



The Giles Wright Lumber Company has taken 

 on two new members since Jan, 1 — E. L. Sauls- 

 berry and John Burke, both young men but ex- 

 perienced in all branches of the lumber busi- 

 ness. Mr. Saulsberry will attend to the buying 

 and selling and Mr. Burke will he bookkeeper 

 and general oflice man. 



W. O. Walton, W. B. Wilson. John H. Holt 

 and S. H. Nigh of Huntington. W. Va., with 

 sone capitalists of New York, have gone to Coba 

 to close a large deal in timber land on that 

 island. 



The W. M. Bitter Lumber Company has suf- 

 fered two disastrous fires within the last two 

 weeks in which almost the entire plant at 

 Panther, W. Va.. was destroyed, including the 

 saw and planing mills and several million feet 

 of lumber, both oak and poplar. The fires are 

 supposed to have started from sparks of pass- 

 ing trains. The handsome new Norfolk & West- 

 ern depot and a number of cars loaded with 

 lumber were burned in the last fire. The loss 

 to the Hitter company is over $100,000. covered 

 by insurance. 



It is rumored that a deal is on whereby the 

 W. M. Ritter Lumber Company will purchase 

 the planing mill of the Kenova I>oplar Manu- 

 facturing Company at Kenova to take the p^ace 

 of the one destroyed by fire at Panther, W. Va., 

 last week. 



There is a slight rise in the Big Sandy river 

 and a small run of logs is expected. C. Crane 

 & Company will get about 6,000, wliich will 

 give a few days' work to several of the local 

 mills. 



A. J. Crowell. bite bookkeeper for the W. R. 

 Vansant Lumber Ccuupany, has been put on the 

 road, and Mr. \'aiisant's father, J. M. Vansant, 

 is looking after the books and office work. 



Vansant, Kitchen & Co.'s annual meeting was 

 held last week and the same officers reijlected : 

 E. H. Vansant. president : B. J. Taft, vice-presi- 

 dent ; Charles Kitchen, secretary : J. W. Kitchen, 

 treasurer. This company reports a good busi- 

 ness for the past year and a bright outlook for 

 lOOG. 



Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hawkins intend to leave 

 in a few days for an extended trip through 

 Florida and other southern states. They will 

 make the journey in the hopes of benefiting Mrs. 

 Hawkins' health. 



All of the Ohio Valley mills have taken stock 

 this month and the year has proven to be ex- 

 ceptionally good, both as to volume of business 

 and prices. 



The Yellow Poplar Lumber Company has re- 

 cently purchased .'Mi.OOO acres of valuable tim- 

 bei- land on the Russell Fork of the Big Sandy 

 river. The tract is said to contain some of the 

 most valuable hardwo, d in the United States. 



J. W. McCausey of Union City, Mich., is here 

 for a visit of several days to the mills. 



Owen D. Garred of Huntington, W. Va., was 

 here this week in conference with Hon. C. 

 Breck Hill of \Vin<-he.ster and other capitalists 

 relative to a big dnal for timbeiland up the 

 Big Sand.v. 



Minneapolis, 



A marked revival of retail yard trade was 

 noted as a result of the gathering in this city 

 of dealers attending the session of the North- 

 western Retail Lumbermen's Association. The 

 retailers were all making inquiries about hard- 

 wood yai-d stock, and a number placed orders 

 for March delivery. They generally reported 

 very light stocks. Some good sales of flooring 

 were made, and the buyers were lucky, getting 

 in just ahead of the S2 raise. Basswood also 

 proved in fair demand, and white oak dimen- 



