HARDWOOD RECORD 



It is said that L. C. Ross, at Cloyds Landing, 

 lip tile Cumberland, owns a l,:200-acre tract of 

 limber land iu which the sound of ax or saw 

 was never heard. He will not allow a tree to 

 lie cut until after his death, desirins that the 

 property go as an inheritance to his cliildren. 



Tlie nickman Lumber & I'laning .Mill Ooni- 

 pan.^■ of Paducah, Ky.. and the .-Vnierican Land 

 \- Timber Company of Little Kocli, Ark., filed 

 .liistracts of their charte:s witli the secretary of 

 - tate. for the purpose nf ongasing iu business in 

 Tennessee. 



Memphis. 



.Vt a meeting of the r.iiuibiMiuen's ciuli of 

 Memphis, held at the Hotel (iayoso this week, 

 ihe two commiltees on general arrangements and 



■ ntertainment, recently appoinled. were merged 

 .■init will be known as the committee on .general 

 Mrrangemenis and entertainment. .7. W. Thomp- 



'U and W H. Kusse were chairmen, respectively. 

 ' I the two committee.^ and this change will ne- 

 I '^ssitale reorganization. 



Jloore & .McFerren. manufacturers of boxes. 

 Iiox shooks and hardwood lumber, whose box 

 plant was burned a short time ago, have awarded 

 the contract for a new plant, including a plan- 

 ing mill, a sash, door and blind factory and a 

 I 'OX manufactory. The machinery, contract for 

 v\hich has been placed, will cost approximately 

 4."i.(J00. The entire ecst of the plant, which 

 will be one of the largest in the South, will 

 lie in the neighborhood of .$:_!fi(i.(100. Orders have 

 been given to rush the work, as the company 

 has only temporary arrangements made for the 

 use of the box factory of the Coeliran Lumber 

 Company. Wiliiani .Moore of Hoopeston. 111.. 

 one of the members of the firm, has been here 

 ever since the plant burned. looking after the 

 interests of the company iu conjunction with 

 li's son, Claude Moore, who is manager of the 

 local plant. 



.1. B. Ferguson has recently transferred -j.OiO 

 :u res of timber la!ids in Lauderdale county. Ten- 

 nes.see, in what is known as the Mississippi bot- 

 I'lm. to the Fergnsou & Palmer Company of 

 I'aducah. Ky., the consideration being approxi- 

 mately •'51.jii,illiO. This same gentleman some 

 lime ago concluded a deal with the Anderson- 

 TuIIy Company of Memphis for the sale of 8.760 

 acres of hardwood timber lands in the same 

 section for .?250.000. This is the second largest 

 limber land deal ever closed in that county, 

 though it is understood that there is yet con- 

 -nierable more land of similar character for 

 ■;ile in that vicinity. 



The Memphis Skewer Company has been 

 formed here to manufacture dowel pins, meat 

 skewers and other hardwood specialties. Among 

 the incorporators are Col. I. P. Peters of the 

 Memphis Industrial League, C. E. Pigford and 

 K. B. Hastings, the two latter of .Tacksou, 

 Tenn. The company proposes to have its plant 

 in operation by the end of summer. It will 

 manufacture its products for both the domestic 

 ;ind export trade. 



E. M. Richardson has been elected president 



■ 'f the newly organized Annesdale Lumber & 

 Manufacturing Company, which is capitalized at 



'•ii.iiiHi. and which proposes to engage in the 

 cianufacture of doors, sash, blinds and building 

 material of ever.v character. It is now erect- 

 ing its plant in this city. 



The Gulrl-Stover Lumber Company of this 

 ly has filed an original bill in chancery here 

 'Uainst Thomas ,1. Taylor, trustee and tax col- 

 lector of this (Shelby) county, for the purpose 

 • r recovering $200. S2. alleged to have been paid 

 as taxes on logs cut in Tennessee and surround- 

 ing states. This is the first suit of this char- 

 acter filed since the recent ruling of Chancellor 

 lleiskell to the effect that logs cut in Mis- 

 sissippi and Arkansas are not subject to taxa- 

 tion for state, county or municipal purposes 

 when brought to Memphis to be manufactured 

 into luml)er. This decision, it will be recalled, 

 «as given on the ground that it was against in- 

 icrstate commerce regulations. 



E. M. Terry, secretary and ti-aflic maua.ger of 



the National Lumber Exporters' Association, lias 

 removed his family to .Memphis, and taken up 

 his work with an enthusiasm which augurs well 

 for success. 



The Rowan Lumber .Mill at Wesson, Miss., has 

 lieen purchased by Felix May of Brookhaven, 

 Miss., and will, after a long period of idleness, 

 he put in active operation in a short time. The 

 mill will cut hardwood lumber and has a large 

 capacity. 



There is stili some trouble here regarding the 

 prompt furnishing of cars, but the general 

 opinion is that conditions in this respect are 

 better than for some months. The movement 

 of freight is not as large as heretofore, with 

 the result that the railroads are giving lumber- 

 identified with hardwood lumber interests here 

 and in West Tennessee for a number of years 

 and was quite well and favorably known. 



.1. W. Dickson of the J. W. Dickson Company 

 has returned from a trip north and east. Tlie 

 men better service. Some of the mill operators, 

 however, say they are not able to secure logs 

 with as much rapidity as desired because of the 

 limited eciuipment furnished by the railroads, 

 with particular reference to the Illinois Central. 



L. Methtidy of St. Louis, a prominent ex 

 porter, and chairman of the arbitration commit- 

 tee of the National Lumber Exporters' Associa- 

 tion, spent some time in Memphis last week. 



Rapid progress Is being made by the Critten- 

 den Railway Company, which is building a line 

 connecting the main lines of the Iron Mountain 

 and Rock Island. The road runs from Heath, 

 Ark,, to Earle, Ark., and all but four or five 

 miles has I)een completed and is now in opera- 

 tion. 



Recent additions to the membership of the 

 Lumbermen's Club of Memphis are : J. P. Sul- 

 livan and P. H. Ravesies, president and vice 

 president, respectively, of the J. P. Sullivan 

 Lumber Company ; C. R. Palmer of the L. H. 

 Gage Lumber t'ompany : L. (i. Williamson of the 

 Hardwood Specialty Company, and J. B. Cirant. 

 representative of the Butl'alo Hardwood Lumber 

 Company in this city and section. 



W. I!. (I'iibert of Los Angeles, Cal.. was in 

 this city tills week, circulating among hiniber 

 interests liere. 



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

 ber Company has returned recently from a trip 

 to Mississippi and Alabama, whither he went to 

 look after the milling Interests of the compan.v. 



Ben Braughlon, formerly connected with the 

 lumber firm of Braughton & Co." and more re- 

 cently identified with the Braughton Mantel Com- 

 pany, died at his residence on Vance street a 

 few days ago from pneumonia. He had tieen 

 company recenti.v brought in quite a good (luan- 

 tity of logs and will resume the operation of its 

 mill immediately. 



Ashland, Ky. 



News from West Liberty is to the effect that 

 the flicking river is high and logs and loose 

 timbers are running thick. This will be of much 

 help to the people in the mountains. 



A. .7. Crowell, who has charge of the Dimen- 

 sion Lumber Company's plant at I.,ogan, W. Va., 

 has been at his home in Catlettsburg for a few 

 days. 



R. L. McElvanc of Menifee county has pur- 

 chased a boundary of land in that county from 

 P. S. Parker, embracing over ,'5,000 acres. Two 

 mills will be erected at once to make lumber and 

 switch ties. Mr. McIOlraue estimates the yield 

 will be 15,000 ties and between five and six 

 million feet of oak lumber. The timber is mo.stIy 

 white and red oak, hickory and chestnut. 



,7. C. Cowan of Schultz Bros. & Benedict, Chi 

 cago. was among recent visitors to the local 

 market. 



W. H. Dawkins has returned from a week's 

 visit to the East. 



Louisville. 



Tlie Stotz Liiinlier t_'ompany reports the de- 

 mand for hardwood excellent, and says it is kept 

 very busy taking care of trade. They have been 



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so busy, in fact, that they have been working 

 their yard force the past week or two until To 

 o'clock. Bad weather and bad roads are inter 

 fering somewhat with operations amon.g the mills 

 at country points. While they are not getting 

 as much stock as they would if the roads weii- 

 better, they manage to get a fair supply. 



The Platter-I>owelI Company, which operates a 

 modern band sawmill out in the Cabbage Patch, 

 will put in a hardwood flooring plant in eon 

 nection with his mill, expending $25,00" on this 

 addition. The head offices and the father or 

 tliis institution is the North Vernon Pump >V 

 Lumber Company, North Vernon, Ind. 



Sam W. Callaway reports the demand for lies 

 and railway material active, but says the conn 

 try roads are very bad. and it is impossible 1c. 

 get out lumber from country points with any 

 degree of satisfaction. 



Minneapolis, 



Osborne & Clark, the well-known Minneapolis 

 wholesalers, are shipping out northern white 

 oak at a great rate to tlie country yards. They \ 

 iiad a stock of 1,500,000 feet of two-inch and 

 thicker the first of the year, and have been 

 adding to it right along, but it is now beginnlnu 

 to run low. Other dealers are depending on 

 southern stock, prices of wliich are steadily ad 

 vancing. The retail yard trade is very active 

 and both wagon stock and flooring are moving 

 iu large quantities, 'i'be factories are not buy 

 ing large quantities, hue are responsible for a 

 constant demand that is reducing stocks to a 

 low point, 



A, H. Barnard says llie large consumers alk- 

 ali keen to fill out their supplies of raw ma.e- 

 rial, and nearly everything in the hardwood line 

 is becoming scarce in visible supply and stmu 

 ger in price. Basswood he finds especially strong. 



The McVoy-Riddell Manufacturing Company is 

 the name of a new concern in Minneapolis which 

 is manufacturing meat skewers, using maple and 

 birch lumber, on an extensive scale.. 



Alexander Bohn, the urbane representative of 

 Ihe Waldstein Lumber Company of St. Louis, 

 called on Minneapolis customers this week, and 

 found things lively in the local market. 



The Works-Everts Lumber Company is tin- 

 name of a new concern which owns a large trad 

 of timber near Bemidji. Jlinn., and will manu 

 facture pine, spruce and white oak lumber. S. 

 D. Works of Mankato, Minn., is president ami 

 G. W. Everts of Minneapolis secretary of th.- 

 company, which has general ofliees here. 



A. If. Hein of the John Hein Lumber Com 

 pany, Tony, Wis., was in the city a few days 

 ago. He reported that in that section they had 

 been able to get out about the normal amount of 

 logs. 



A surprising cold spell which came on about 

 March 10 has been a great help to most of tlf 

 hardwood camps in Minnesota and Wisconsi'i 

 The roads had become so soft that many logs 

 were left unhandled. One of the longest frozen 

 spells the winter has seen is just breaking up. 

 and it has put ice roads in shape again so that 

 about all the logs cut have been taken out. It 

 has been a poor winter for logging and work has 

 been expensive, but the late cold snap has in a 

 measure saved the day. The output will be 

 short, but not such a log famine as lumbermen 

 feared, 



E. Payson Smith of the Payson Smith Lumber 

 Company has gone on a business trip to Alabama 

 and Tennessee, a journey which was interrupteil 

 some weeks ago by an attack of illLess. Mr. 

 Smith is quite well again. A. S. Bliss of the 

 same company reports a lively demand for about 

 everything they carry in stock, at prices some 

 what advanced. 



■Wausaii, 'Wis. 

 The Wausau Lumber (dnipany's new mill ai 

 l!ib Falls is running night and day, another 

 crew having been put on recently. The com- 

 pany's old mill at 7:dgar is running lime and a 

 quarter. 



