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men's Club of Memphis, and C. M. Kellogg, 

 formerly connected with the local office of the 

 Dudley Lumber Company of Grand Rapids, 

 Mich., have formed the iiarksdale-Kellogg Lum- 

 ber Company, which will engage In the whole- 

 sale handling of hardwoods. Tlie company Is 

 formed primarily for the purpose of handling 

 the output of the four mills which have been 

 operated for some time in Mississippi by Mr. 

 Barksdale. 



Taylor & Hunter, a partnership firm. Is erect- 

 ing a 40.000-foot band sawmill near StonevUIe, 

 Miss., and proposes to have this in operation 

 within the next sixty days. The firm is com- 

 posed of A. P. Taylor, who was a visitor In 

 Memphis this week, and Walter Hunter. The 

 mill will be four and one-half miles from the 

 Yazoo & Mississippi Valley R. R. and a branch 

 line is being built to connect therewith. 



James Applewhite, vice president and general 

 manager of the Chickasaw Cooperage Company, 

 and George M. Krastield, president of the Mem 

 phis Stave Manufacturing Company and other 

 local capitalists, have purchased 10,000 acres 

 of hardwood timber lands In Quitman County, 

 Mississippi, near Belen. It is within six miles 

 of the Lake Cormorant Brancli of the Yazoo & 

 Mississippi Valley R. R., and a branch line 

 running from Crenshaw, Miss., is now being 

 surveyed through the tract, with the result 

 that the purchasers believe they will be able to 

 make a handsome profit out of the investment. 

 They have already had some tempting offers 

 for the land. 



One of the largest deals In Cottonwood ever 

 recorded here is the reported sale of 7.000.000 

 feet of this lumber for delivery during the next 

 twelve months by the Paepcke-Lelcht Lumber 

 Company, Tennessee Trust building. The name 

 of the purchaser and the price at which the deal 

 was consummated are both unknown. 



The Crane Company, Memphis, St. Louis and 

 Chicago, dealers in mill supplies and machinery, 

 has purchased a site in North Memphis for 

 the erection of a large warehouse and other 

 buildings. The price paid for the property was 

 $14,000, while the buildings will, it is esti- 

 mated, cost about ?125,000. The company pro- 

 poses to make Memphis its distributing center 

 for the southeast, south and southwest. The 

 deal for the local site and the buildings was 

 concluded by Albert Webb, manager of the St. 

 Louis office of the company. 



The Max Koppel Catering Company, in which 

 a number of local lumbermen are interested, and 

 which has established a well appointed and thor- 

 oughly up-to-date cafe and restaurant in the 

 basement of the Planter's building, had its 

 formal opening a few nights ago, when a banquet 

 was tendered the stockholders, more than 150 

 in number. Max Sondheimer, secretary and 

 treasurer, acted as toastmaster and quite cap- 

 tivated the Memphis contingent by his easy 

 and graceful manner. Mr. Sondheimer is of 

 the opinion that lumbermen who live in Memphis 

 as well as those who come here from other 

 cities are entitled to a "square meal'' every day 

 in the year. 



Another new company In which a number of 

 lumbermen are directly and Indirectly interested, 

 is the City Bank, which has been organized 

 with a capital stock of $250,000 and which 

 opened its doors for business last week. The 

 deposits the first day were very large and they 

 have been coming in steadily ever since. 



The American Car & Foundry Company, 

 through its branch plant at Binghamton. a sub- 

 urb of Memphis, has just completed shipment 

 of 275 box cars to the Panama Railroad. The 

 order, received some time ago. was for 500 cars 

 and the remainder will be shipped just as soon 

 as they have been completed. The company has 

 a number of orders on hand and is doing an 

 excellent business. It is one of the largest 

 woodworking companies in this city and draws 

 largely on the hardwood lumber supply of this 

 section. 



Dispatches received here state that the St. 

 Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) Railroad, 

 which runs out of Memphis to the south- 

 west, has let a contract for the erection of a 

 car factory at Pine Bluff, Ark., for the manu- 

 facture of cars for both freight and passenger 

 service. It is estimated that the structure will 

 cost $250,000 and that it will be ready for 

 operation within the next four or five months. 

 The establishment of this plant will necessitate 

 the doubling of the force of the company at 

 that point. 



John II. Cronan, a hardwood dealer of Cairo, 

 III., was here a few days ago. 



The Illinois Central is making surveys and 

 securing right of way for its new line from 

 Corinth, Miss., to Jasper, Ala., where connec- 

 tion will be made with the Frisco system, over 

 the rails of which the Illinois Central will enter 

 Birmingham. This new line will open up a 

 rich section of timber country and will prove 

 an important factor in the development thereof. 

 The line, it is said on official authority, will 

 be in readiness for operation within a year. 



John X. Penrod, "the walnut king," was in 

 Memphis a few days ago. He has returned to 

 his headquarters at Kansas City. 



C. R. Palmer of the L. H. Gage Lumber Com- 

 pany of Providence, R. I., is in Memphis and 

 will remain at the local offices here for some 

 time. It is not yet decided whether he will 

 remain here permanently or not. 



Warder C. Victor, who has been with Bennett 

 & Witte of Cincinnati for some time, has been 

 transferred to the Memphis office of the com- 

 pany, where he will be assistant to George C. 

 Ehemann. 



S. C. Major of the S. C. Major Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from Arkansas where he has 

 been looking after the interests of that company. 



Knoxville. 



T. H. Rose of the D. M. Rose Lumber Com- 

 pany, has just returned from a trip up the 

 French Broad river, where he purchased several 

 thousand feet of logs. The Rose company has 

 begun an enterprise which will undoubtedly be 

 a success. A large area of land Just east of 

 this city has been leased on which cottages 

 will be erected for logmen. At this season of 

 the year, and in fact until June, hundreds of 

 logmen come to this city from the Holston and 

 French Broad every week with large rafts of 

 logs, and all who bring down logs for this 

 company will be given free quarters in the cot- 

 tages that are being erected. 



The demand for hardwood of all kinds is very 

 active in Knoxville and vicinity. The amount 

 of building that is being done is heavier than 

 for many years at this season of the year. 

 Prices are still high for lumber of all kinds, 

 but the building craze is such that the buyer 

 is glad to pay the prices. Knoxville has seen 

 a wonderful growth in population since the in- 

 coming of the Louisville & Nashville railroad 

 and the extensive building is the result. 



Robert Vestal of the Vestal Lumber & Manu- 

 facturing Company recently returned from an 

 eastern business trip. He is vice president of 

 the Knoxviile-Maryviile Electric Railway Com- 

 pany, which is projecting a line between this 

 city and Maryville, and as the line will pass 

 his lumber mills at Vestal, a great convenience, 

 he Is giving much of his time to this enterprise. 

 The finishing department of the Vestal Lum- 

 ber & Manufacturing Company will be run day 

 and night during February and March, to handle 

 its steadily increasing business. 



J. M. Logan of the Logan & Maphet Lumber 

 Company is back from London and Roane coun- 

 ties, Tennessee, where he has been buying large 

 quantities of lumber of all kinds to supply local 

 trade. 



IiOuisTille. 

 Edward L. Davis & Co. have purchased an 

 Interest in the J. L. Berry Saw Mill Company 

 of this city, which will hereafter be known as 



the Berry-Davis Saw Mill Company. Edward 

 L. Davis will look after the selling end of the 

 business for both E. L. Davis & Co. and for 

 the Berry-Davis Sawmill Company. J. E. Davis 

 will give practically all his attention as here- 

 tofore to looking after timber buying and other 

 affairs at the mill end of the operations of E. L. 

 Davis & Co. The yard and offices of the two 

 concerns will be combined, so to speak, but their 

 business affairs will be conducted separately. 

 Speaking of hardwood conditions Mr. Davis says 

 that business Is very good and reports that 

 four days recently brought in mall orders 

 amounting to approximately §20.000, and a very 

 pleasing feature about this Is that about $15,- 

 000 of It was for quartered oak. 



The W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company 

 reports the hardwood trade in fine shape. One 

 of the boys has just returned from quite an ex- 

 tensive trip north, during which he accumulated 

 orders enough to keep the company busy for 

 two months at least. The largest sales were in 

 oak and ash, red oak being quite prominent 

 and quartered stock a feature. Plain red and 

 white sell readily at pretty good prices, and 

 with ash it is only a question of getting enough 

 to supply the market. Poplar is improving and 

 the concern is now able to get better prices for 

 it, not only for low grades, but for uppers. 



The Stotz Lumber Company is setting a pretty 

 strenuous gait in its hardwood department these 

 days and finds trade very satisfactory. It 

 opened a yard here some time ago and has one 

 at Hohenwald, Tenn., and other places, where 

 stock is assembled for convenience in filling 

 mixed orders and making rush shipments. 

 Among recent contracts for stock to be handled 

 throngh the Hohenwald. Tenn., yard is the out- 

 put of the Theodore (Tenn.) Lumber & Imple- 

 ment Company, which it is estimated will run 

 3,000,000 feet during the year of poplar, oak 

 and chestnut. 



J. F. Gerlicher of the Theodore (Tenn.) 

 Lumber & Implement Company, who was in 

 Louisville a few days ago, says the roads there 

 are in better shape than they have been any 

 time this winter. It goes without saying that 

 this helps materially to make things lively in 

 the woods, as mill men as a rule are taking 

 advantage of these conditions. 



Clarence R. Mengel of the C. C. Mengel & 

 Bro. Company is in Central America where he 

 is completing arrangements to Increase receipts 

 from British Honduras. This will bring the 

 company's output up to an average of a cargo a 

 month which will arrive at New Orleans. 



Minneapolis. 



W. H. Sill of the Minneapolis Lumber Com- 

 pany, who Is also interested in the Ruby Lum- 

 ber Company of Ruby, Wis., says that the thaws 

 this winter have improved the roads, settling 

 the deep snow and making the ice roads firmer 

 after they freeze. They are putting in a good 

 stock of logs, and are running both mills at 

 full capacity. They find the market rather bet- 

 ter than usual at this dull season of year. 



F. J. Lang, representing the Wisconsin Land 

 & Lumber Company of Hermansville. Mich., who 

 is making temporary headquarters in this city, 

 has Issued a booklet descriptive of the com- 

 pany's I. X. L. flooring. In this it is stated 

 that Michigan's supply of hard maple timber 

 will be practically gone in a few years and 

 that advancing prices are inevitable in this 

 product. Mr. Lang says the company will get 

 out something over 20.000,000 feet of hard- 

 wood logs this winter, chiefly maple and birch, 

 but with some basswood, pine and hemlock. It 

 will also put In a big stock of cedar posts 

 and poles, shingle bolts, cedar and hemlock 

 ties, and spruce for pulpwood. 



C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark, local 

 wholesalers, says business Is much better with 

 them than usual at this time of year. The 

 retail yards are still buying In fair quantities, 

 and the factories are enjoying a much heavier 

 season than usual. The furniture people had 



