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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Meeting Memphis Lumbermen's Club 



The first regulai- meeting of 1911 "as held by 

 the Lumhermcn's Club of Memphis, at the Hotel 

 Gayoso, Oct. 14. The attendance was not as 

 large as at a majority of the sprhig meetings, 

 but thirty-seven members were in their places and 

 it is expected that the number present will be 

 much larger at the coming meeting two weeks 

 later. Many of the Memphis lumbermen have 

 not returned from their vacations or business 

 trips. .Tames E. Starli presided. .Tobu W. Me- 

 Clure of the Bellgrade Lumber Company acted 

 as secretary in the absence of James K. Blair. 



Resolutions were adopted tendering the sym- 

 pathy of the members to K. J. Darnell on the 

 recent death of his wife and older daiighter in 

 an automobile wreck at I'reeport. L. I., Sunday. 

 Oct. 1 The club took an active part in making 

 arrangements for the reception of the bodies of 

 Mrs, Darnell and Miss Beatrioe when they ar- 

 rived in this city for interment. 



A letter written liy James E. Stark, president 

 of the club, to the Interstate Commerce Com 

 mission, asking that body to grant the petition of 

 the St. Louis. Iron Mountain & Southern railway 

 to be allowed lo put in a rate of ten cents per 

 hundred pounds on shipments of lumber, heading 

 and staves from Memphis to New Orleans, Gretna 



C. B. BKNEDICT. I'ltESlDKNT CONASAXJGA 

 I.IMBint rilMI'.WV. CINCINNATI. O. 



and Wihlwago, I, a., was read. The Iron Moun- 

 tain asked permission of the commission some 

 lime ago to take this cour.se and the letter of 

 President Stark was written to impress upon the 

 commission the desirability of allowing this rate 

 because of the advantages that woufd accrue to 

 lumber shippers as well as other handlers of 

 freight In this territory. It was pointed out that 

 the Frisco System, the Southern Hallway, and the 

 Illinois Central already have a rate of ten cents 

 per hundred pounds In elTect over this route and 

 that the granting of the ten cent rate to the 

 St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern would pro- 

 vide a still further outlet for export shipments 

 from Memphis. The Iron Mountain desires to put 

 in this rate as a terminal one only and does not 

 intend that it .shall Interfere In any way with 

 prevailing rates at points between Memphis and 

 the termlnnlH In question. 



Communlcntions were also read reviewing the 

 fact thai the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis had 

 written to the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 at Washington, D. C, expressing Its aiiproval or 

 the petition filed by the Lumbermen's Club of 

 Grand Rapids, Mich., In connection with esti- 

 mated weights on carload shipments of lumber 

 as made by the railroads. A letter was at hand 

 from the secretary of the Interstate Commerce 



Commission indicating that the subject would re 

 ceive attention. 



A letter was received from the National Rivers 

 & Harbors Congress announcing that the next 

 annual meeting will be held in Washington De- 

 cember 6, 7 and S, and asking that the Lumber- 

 men's Club of Memphis, a member, should send 

 as large a delegation as possible. It was pointed 

 out that there has been a decided change in the 

 complexion of the Sixty-second Congress and that, 

 because of this fact, it is desirable to show that 

 there is a very strong sentiment In favor of the 

 improvement of the rivers and harbors of this 

 country to the end that the new members may 

 be duly impressed. It is purpo.sed to make this 

 the most successful meeting in the history of 

 I hat organization. The club took no action, 

 leaving the subject over for another meeting. 



An interesting communication from the Na 

 tional Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association 

 was read, presenting a report from the traffic 

 department of the Pennsylvania Railroad show- 

 ing Ih.il manufacturers of goods were losing very 

 Iieavily in transportation through the use of In- 

 ferior packing. This is a subject which appeals 

 with unusual force to the Lumbermen's Club 

 of Memphis, because of the work it has done in 

 connection with the substitution of paper and 

 fiber packages for those made of wood. Charles 

 E. Brower. secretary of the National Classiliea- 

 lion Committee of Lumber and Wooden Box In- 

 terests, headquarters in this city, has been work- 

 ing on this matter the last two years or more 

 and has had the active support of the Lumber- 

 men's Club of Memphis as well as the individual 

 support of the lumbermen of this city. Memphis 

 is a large manufacturing center and it is also 

 the head of a territory where a very large Smount 

 of low grade cottonwood and gum is made. 

 Therefore no other section is more directly af- 

 fected by the substitution of paper and fiber 

 packages for those made of wood than this. 



Difficulties Promptly Settled 



Humors have for some days been rife concern 

 ing tlie alleged financial embarrassment of tlu' 

 Wisarkana Lumber Company of Nettlelon, .\rk. 

 K(ir some time there has been dissatisfaction on 

 I lie part of a discharged employe who is a minor 

 stockholdei'. and on the basis of a suit brought 

 by him on October 12, the court, under mis- 

 apprehension of the situation, appointed Fred 

 Shauver of Nettleton receiver. Seventy-five per 

 cent: of the stock of the institution is owned by 

 that sterling hardwood house, the G. W. Jones 

 Lumber Company, of Appleton, Wis., and Mr. 

 Jones took prompt action in the matter, and 

 presented evidence to the court that the Wisar- 

 kana Liimb"r Company was not In.solvent, but 

 bad ass.'ts of more than $100,'l)00 above its lla 

 lillities. The receiver was promptly dismissed, 

 and the affairs of the company are going on as 

 usual. 



The many friends of the principals of the G. 

 W. Jones Lumber Company sincerely regret that 

 this unfortunate canard was put forth about it. 

 but it is one of the penalties that non-resldeiils 

 have to pay for doing business in a stale tlial 

 Is very ze,iilous in lis nitacks on non-residents. 



It is a well known fact that very few Arkan- 

 sas lumber manufacturing houses have been able 

 to make very much money for several years, bul 

 what losses the Institution in question have 

 made. It Is said, were entirely Incident to bad 

 management of several years ago, made by the 

 parly that inspired this aelion against it. Nol- 

 wilhslanding (he bad business conditions that 

 have pri'vailed during the last two years, the 

 company has been making a fair earning on Its 

 capital. 



The G. W. Jones Lumber Company Is reputed 

 by all commetclal authorities to have ample 

 eaplial, and it has a very high credit, and there 

 Is no reason lo iK-llcve that either this concern 

 or lis allied house arc not only perfectly solvent, 

 bul have assets away above their llablllll.s. 



Enlargement of Big Lumber Enterprise ■ 



The Conasauga Lumber Company, with prin- 

 cipal office and sales headquarters in the Fourth 

 National Bank building, Cincinnati. O.. and with 

 timber and sawmill operations at Conasauga, 

 I'enn.. on the line of the LouLsvillc & Nashville 

 railroad between Knoxville, Tenn., and Atlanta, 

 Ga., has just acquired a large timber property 

 adjoining its holdings in Polk county, south- 

 eastern Tennessee, with a large block of timber 

 in Fannin and Murray counties, Ga. 



The original tract owned by this company con- 

 sisted of 34.000 acres, and the one purchased 

 consists of 32.720 acres, making a total of 06,720 

 acres, all of which is owned in fee. This is all 

 virgin timber, the stumpage of which aggregates 

 nearly 400,000.000 feet, and consists largely of 

 white pine and poplar, although in some portions 

 there is a good percentage of yellow pine, oak, 

 chestnut and other hardwoods. The tract re- 

 cently acquired contains a good percentage of 

 high-grade yellow poplar. This purchase makes 

 the company one of the largest hardwood timber 

 owners in the country. 



The officers of the Conasauga Lumber Company 

 are : President. C. B. Benedict, now located in 

 Cincinnati ; vice-president. M. F. Greene, of 

 Nashville, better known in his associations with 



.liiIlN IlYIiNS. SKCHKTAKV .\ND THEASIRICH 



CONASAlfiA LF.MBER (O.Ml'ANY, 



CINCINNATI, O. 



the house of Davidson, Hicks & Greene Company, 

 and secretary and treasurer, John Byrns of Cin- 

 cinnati, O.. who has charge of the Cincinnati 

 office and acts as general sales manager. 



The directors consist of the above officers and 

 John W. Love, New York City, of Love, Boyd 

 & Co., Nashville ; A. B, Ransom, Nashville, John 

 li. Ransom & Co. ; Walter Keith. Nashville, of 

 Keith. Simmons & Co.. and C. H. Benedict, of 

 Nashville, a retired lumberman. 



The ])lant of tile Conasauga Lumber Company 

 Is localid at Conasauga, Tenn., and consists of 

 modern band mills, dry-kilns and planing mills. 

 The comiiany will produce about 3.'i.000.000 feet 

 of lumber annually, and as before noted the out- 

 put will be marketed through the Cincinnati 

 olllce. 



The company has a slaiidard gauge railroad 

 and at present has upward of twenty miles In 

 operation. The railroad ei|ulpnient consists of 

 geared locomodves. steam log loaders and Io(t 

 cars In sufficient numbers to stock the mill. 



In acquiring this new timber holding the 

 Conasauga Lumber Company secured the whole 

 of the oulBtandlng capital stock of the Alaculsy 

 Lumber Company, a Georgia corporation, with 

 headquailers at BInghamton, N. Y., with a cap- 

 ital stock of .ftOO.OOn. Tills purchase carried 



