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pally in Central America and states that rail- 

 road rates there are almost prohibitory. Old- 

 fashioned ox carts are used for handling the 

 timber. 



The Tennessee-Louisiana Lumber Company 

 has Just been incorporated here with a capital 

 stock of $50,000. The company has purchased 

 about 4,500 acres of virgin timber about 150 

 miles from New Orleans. It will establish a 

 large saw mill on the property. The timber is 

 practically all hardwood. The incorporators are 

 Charles T. Cates. Jr., who is attorney general 

 of the state of Tennessee: Dr. J. c. Franklin, 

 former president of the City Savings bank of 

 this place ; W. S. Morgan, ex-secretary of state : 

 W. G. Simmons, a lumberman and contractor. 

 and D. Cllffe Stone, a local insurance agent.' 



The Ciirtis-Coleman Lumber Company of 

 Hohenwald. Tenn.. has been incorporated with 

 a capital stock of «35.000. The company owns 

 several hundred acres of valuable timber lands 

 and will run saw mills and conduct a manufac- 

 turing business, Hohenwald will be headquar- 

 ters. The incorporators are : E. B. Curtis, E. 

 H. Curtis, J. D. Coleman, H. Van West and 

 W. L. Pinkerton. 



The Standard Lumber & Box Company of this 

 city is erecting a saw and planing mill which 

 will be in operation inside of sixty days. The 

 plant will cost about .?7.500 and will have a 

 daily capacity of 25,000 feet. 



M. F. Green of the Davidson-Benedict Lumber 

 Company is in Knoxville. where he went as 

 the representative of Nashville lumbermen to 

 attend a meeting of the creditors of Saxton & 

 Company, Ltd. 



A scarcity of lumber is reported in Bedford 

 county. This was formerly one of the richest 

 timber sections in Tennessee, but its forests 

 have well nigh been denuded. 



Cumberland river at this time is lower thai, 

 it has been tor years. There are still about 

 four or five million feet of timber up the river 

 and lumbermen are worried as to when and 

 how they will get it down. The boating sea- 

 son, which should be at its height now, is at a 

 standstill and it is reported as one of the most 

 unprofitable in the history .of tlie river. The 

 rises have been frequent, but tliey have been 

 of no duration. 



The Nashville Hardwood Flooi-iug Comptny 

 is enlarging its dry kilns. 



The ^'ational Casket Company has just com 

 pleted a $10,000 dry kiln. 



Lew Wentworth of Omaha, Xjb.. has been 

 In the city for the past few days buying cedar 

 piling and poplar lumber. 



R. J. Munhall of Pittsburg. I'a., is also oue 

 of the visiting lumbermen and pui--'jasers. 



W. V. Whitson. Jr., of McMinnville, Tenn.. 

 has been appointed southern representative of 

 Wilborg. Hanna & Co. of Cincinnati. He will 

 do their purchasing and will have headquarters 

 at McMinnville, Tenn. 



Hugh Kyle of Celina, Tenn., has just brought 

 down from Obed river the finest raft of poplar 

 lumber seen on the river in years. The timber 

 was consigned to John B. Ransom & Co. The 

 raft was worth between $7,000 and ?8,000. 



Mr. Este of Philadelphia, a representative of 

 the firm of Charles Este & Son. has been in 

 Nashville this week buying lumber. 



S. H. Flippen's hoop factory at Liberty, Tenn., 

 was destroyed by fire on March 30. 



Adams & Allen have built a sawmill at Sha- 

 ron, Tenn. They will make a specialty of table 

 top material. 



The steamer \yash Honsell has just carried 

 down the Tennessee river from Shefiieid, Ala., 

 a tow of six barges loaded with 60,000 cross 

 ties consigned to the Lloys Tie Company of 

 Cairo. 111., and St. Louis. 



W. E. Cathey & Co. of Burns, Tenn., have 

 bought a large tract of timber land near that 

 place and will erect a sawmill and ax-handle 

 factory. 



The plant of the Harrinian Hoe & Tool Com- 



pany of Harriman. Tenn.. Is making extensive 

 improvements. 



A permanent boat line has been established 

 on the Cumberland river, connecting exclusively 

 with the Tennessee Central railway at Carthage. 

 Heretofore transportation on the river has been 

 very uncertain and investors have been chary 

 about going into that market on account of the 

 difficulty of getting out their product. It is 

 the purpose of the boat line referred to to pro- 

 vide a first class service for handling lumber 

 and other traffic when the stage of the river Is 

 high enough to afford navigation. Carthage will 

 naturally become quite an important lumber 

 market. In addition to the sawmill and hoop 

 factory recently referred to in the HiRDWooD 

 Record, the Chess-Wymond Company is now 

 building extensive works at that point, and the 

 Hume Cooperage Company of Richmond, Ky., 

 will also build a plant there. The supply of 

 hardwoods of all kinds to be had alongv the 

 upper Cumberland river is very large and the 

 field is an attractive one to persons seeking in- 

 vestment. 



St. Iiouis. 



A. W. Thompson of Thompson & McClure was 

 recently at the company's mill at Itta Bena, 

 Miss. J. W. McClure chatted quite pleasantly 

 regarding conditions generally as found by the 

 firm. He reported a good demand for oak, 

 which they handle almost exclusively, and espe- 

 cially for plain and quarter sawed. The com- 

 pany has recently increased both its office and 

 outside force by the addition of Mr. Heuer as 

 stenographer and Mr. Louis Cline as road man. 



W. H. Martz, manager Hoyt & Woodin Manu- 

 facturing Company, Hoyt & Woodin Cypress 

 Company and Goodland Cypress Company, three 

 corporations with the same backing, reports an 

 excellent demand for cypress. He says he has 

 sold all his shipping dry stock for the next three 

 months. The lower grades, which were slow a 

 short time ago, have begun to move more freely 

 and he expects a better business in this class 

 of stock. 



F. P. Abbott of Lesh, Prouty & Abbott, East 

 Chicago, Ind.. and J. F. Penrod of the American 

 Walnut Company were in the city this week. 

 They are both interested in the J. W. Thompson 

 Lumber Company. 



George Hibbard of Steele & Hibbard, St. 

 Louis, was here yesterday. He is interested in 

 the S. C. Major Lumber Company, recently in- 

 corporated here with a capital stock of $25,000, 

 with offices in the Randolph building and yards 

 in North Memhpis. 



Mr. Blanton of the Blanton-Thurman Lumber 

 Company says the mills of the firm in Missis- 

 sippi are now running steadily and that from 

 his standpoint healthy conditions prevail. The 

 company is engaged largely in the handling of 

 cypress. 



The Fred Hartweg left Cairo on March 28 

 with three barges of lumber for the C. E. 

 Strifler Lumber Company of St. Louis, and the 

 steamer Birmingham left on March 29 with 

 two barges of lumber for the same company. 

 The combined tow of both boats consisted of 

 2,225,000 feet, and is regarded as the largest 

 shipment of hardwood lumber ever made to one 

 firm at one time during many years. 



Memphis. 



The rapid development of the lumber busi- 

 ness of this city and the exceptional facilities 

 offered for manufacturing and for handling the 

 output of the mills have attracted one of the 

 large Chicago firms here, and the E. Sondheimer 

 Company will remove its general offices to Mem- 

 phis very shortly. 



James Applewhite, vice president and general 

 manager of the Chickasaw Cooperage Company, 

 which consumes large quantities of hardwood 

 lumber in the manufacture of heading and 

 staves, mostly of white oak, announces that the 

 big heading plant being put in at McGehee, In 



southeastern Arkansas, will be in readiness for 

 operation within the next thirty to sixty days. 

 The company recently bought a fine tract of 

 timber land near that point and the timber is 

 now being cut. Only the rough material will be 

 manufactured there, the finished product being 

 turned out at Memphis and New Orleans. 



The Tennessee legislature dealt rather harshly 

 with the demurrage and delayage bill drawn by 

 the Memphis Freight Bureau and endorsed by 

 the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis and the 

 other lumber bodies here. The senate committee 

 refused to take the matter up and recommend 

 it either for passage or rejection, declaring it 

 to be against the rules of that body to consider 

 two similar measures during the same session. 

 The first two bills, of which the latter was a 

 modification, it will be recalled by readers of 

 the Hardwood Record, were recommended for 

 rejection by the senate committee. The loss of 

 the measure is a serious disappointment to the 

 lumber interests here. They have more trouble 

 about demurrage and delayage than almost any 

 other class of shippers and the bill would have 

 afforded a considerable measure of relief to 

 them. 



There is considerable disappointment ex- 

 pressed among lumbermen in Memphis and vi- 

 cinity over the very small amount of timber 

 that came out on the recent rise. The culmina- 

 tion of high water and the recession came about 

 so quickly that there was very little done. 

 There was less cottonwood brought out than for 

 a number of years at this season, while the 

 amount of other wood was somewhat limited. 

 It is regarded now as doubtful if there will be 

 a spring rise sufficient to bring out the timber 

 ready to come, and, should this prove true, the 

 supply of logs for the mills which depend 

 largely on the river will be more limited than 

 usual. 



John Semones and Joe Prieto, according to 

 dispatches received by the Memphis News- 

 Scimitar, have purchased the spoke mills and 

 timber lands controlled by the Semones at Union 

 City and Dyersburg, Tenn., paying therefoi< 

 .?3 5,600. 



J. R. Newport, a traveling lumber salesman, 

 has instituted proceedings in the First Circuit 

 Court for damages in the sum of $5,000 against 

 the Luehrmann Hotel Company and Henry 

 Luehrmann individually, on the ground of al- 

 leged false arrest. It appears that Mr. Newport, 

 on failing to receive a meal he had ordered in 

 reasonable time, left the table and refused the 

 following day to pay the bill, whereupon he 

 was ordered arrested by the defendants. 



John Huston, a young man in the employ of 

 Hoytin & Woodin Cypress Company, manufac- 

 turers and handlers of cypress lumber here, 

 with headquarters in the Randolph Building, 

 was drowned on Buford Lake, Miss., while rid- 

 ing on a raft of logs. It is stated by his em- 

 ployers that he had been repeatedly warned 

 against riding on the rafts, but paid no atten- 

 tion to them. He was 22 years old and his 

 remains have been shipped to Three Springs, Pa. 

 Russe & Burgess, of North Memphis, have just 

 completed the erection of one of the largest 

 derricks in the South. The mast is about 80 

 feet high, while the boom is slightly more than 

 70 feet high. The company has likewise in- 

 stalled a Ledgerwood hoisting engine, and when 

 the derrick is ready for operation it is estimated 

 that it will be possible to unload in a single 

 day at least fifty cars of logs into the yards of 

 the company. This has heretofore been one of 

 the most difficult and tedious pieces of work 

 connected with the business and has caused a 

 considerable amount of money to be paid out 

 for labor and demurrage. It is anticipated, 

 howevei-. that this derrick will do the work 

 effectually and rapidly. 



"It was like pulling eye-teeth last year to get 

 either orders or inquiries for moi-e than three 

 or four cars of lumber at a time," said James 

 E. Starke of James E. Starke & Company. "Now, 



