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holder and manager, who alleged that the com- 

 pany owed him $560 salary. The company is 

 incorporated with a capital stoclt of $60,000. 



A meeting of the Board of Directors of the 

 Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Association will 

 be held within the next ten days to set a date 

 for the next annual meeting in this city and 

 attend to other business that may come up. 



At a meeting of the creditors of the Evansville 

 Store Fixtures Company held before Phelps F. 

 Darby, referee in bankruptcy, it was decided to 

 offer the property for sale Nov. 11. 



The will of the late Adam Helfrich was fiied 

 here a few days ago and the estate, which was 

 valued at about $200,000, was left to the widow 

 and children with many conditions to be carried 

 out. Mr. Helfrich was a pioneer Iuml>er manu- 

 facturer of this city and was for years at the 

 head of the Helfrich Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company. 



R. S. Robertson, treasurer of the Ferguson & 

 Palmer Lumber Company, Paducah, Ky., was 

 visiting E\'ansviiie mills this weeli. 



MEMPHIS 



Hardwood lumber people in this city are going 

 ahead with their plans as though they expect 

 something like normal business. Weather con- 

 ditions the last few weeks have been ideal for 

 getting out timber and a great deal of timber 

 has been prepared for the market, and the pros- 

 pects for a good supply of logs for the coming 

 winter is unusually promising. A number of 

 the mills are now running full time, for one 

 reason or anotlier, but lumber is being produced 

 steadily by a majority of the plants. There has 

 been no big demand recently and none is ex- 

 pected, but there has not been much accumula- 

 tion of stock and the output is being taken care 

 of in a satisfactory manner. 



Traffic conditions on the Illinois Central and 

 the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley roads have been 

 greatly improved and these lines are now 

 handling timber and lumber with a fair degree 

 of promptness, whereas it was impossible for 

 them to accept either a short time ago. As a 

 result timber has been coming to Memphis more 

 steadily during the last two or three weeks than 

 for a long time. 



The cotton movement is very heavy and proba- 

 bl.y will continue so for the next few weeks, but 

 the decrease in traffic of other kinds has released 

 sufficient equipment to enable the railroads to 

 give lumber interests a more satisfactory service 

 than is usual in October and November. There . 

 is no scarcity of cars, but in some cases it is 

 reported that there is delay in moving them 

 after they have been loaded. 



Russe & Burgess, Inc., have opened their own 

 offices in London and will in future transact ail 

 of their foreign business direct with merchants 

 and importers. G. A. Farlier, a member of the 

 firm, will have charge of the new offices, which 

 liave been opened at Benet Chamber, Fenchurch, 

 E. C. For the last two years Mr. Farber has had 

 charge of the continental business of Russe & 

 Burgess, Inc., but under the new arrangement 

 he will also control the business of the firm in 

 the United Kingdom. This has heretofore been 

 handled through C. Leary & Co., but the present 

 arrangement contemplates the elimination of 

 brokers in the foreign business of Russe & 

 Burgess, Inc. 



George C. Brown & Co. have removed their 

 offices from their yards in North Memphis to the 

 Falls building down town. This firm is closing 

 out its yards, which accounts for the change. 

 It is operating a mill at Watson, Ark., and is 

 preparing for a large daily cut at Proctor, Ark., 

 where it is erecting a big band mill. It acquired 

 6,400 acres of timber lands in that section a 

 few months ago and the new mill will be used to 

 develop the timber thereon. 



F. E. Stonebraker, representing Amedee C. 

 Franek & Co., Antwerp. Belgium, has returned 



"■from Chicago, where he represented the Lum- 

 bermen's Club of Memphis at the annual meet- 

 ing of the Deep Waterways Association. Mr. 

 Stonebraker was pleased with the harmonious 

 feeling shown by the various delegations and 

 over the fact that there was no open advocacy 

 of the nlne-fixit channel for the Mississippi. Mr. 

 Stonebraker expects somewhat quiet business con- 

 ditions for the next few months. 



Among recent visitors to Memphis have been 

 William K. Mossman, president of the Mossman 

 Lumber Company, and A. C. Wilkerson, of 

 Huntingdon, Ind.. a director in the same com- 

 pany. These gentlemen were here to attend the 

 semi-annual meeting, at which time a very satis- 

 factory statement of the affairs of the firm was 

 made by Frank G. Smith, local manager. 



Announcement is made that Houston Brothers 

 will resume operations at their big plant at 

 Walters, Miss., at an early date. The mill has 

 been closed for some time for extensive repairs 

 and improvements. A liberal supply of timber 

 has already been secured. 



KNOXVILLB 



NASHVILLE 



With a view to ascertaining exactly what it 

 costs to conduct the lumber business, arrange- 

 ments were started at a recent meeting of the 

 Executive Committee of the Nashville Lumber- 

 men's Club to hear a series of papers prepared 

 by prominent members. These papers are to 

 give the result of careful investigations of the 

 general phases of the lumber business and will 

 be followed by general discussion of the special 

 topics presented. After the reading of the entire 

 series, one paper each week, Vice-President C. M. 

 Morford will deliver an address at a general 

 meeting December 5 on "Loss and Gain." The 

 series of papers follows : 



November 7, "The Cost of Selling," E. E. 

 Bartholelew ; November 14, "The Cost of Yard- 

 ing," T. A. Washington ; November 21, "The Cost 

 of Manufacture," Henderson Baker : November 

 28, "The Cost of Collecting," T. R. LeSueur, 

 treasurer of the club. 



J. E. Sboffner and J. D. Hutton of Sbelbyville. 

 Tenn., have bought 5,500 acres of timber land 

 in northern Mississippi, paying $110,000 for the 

 lot, and a contract has been made with G. W. 

 Stegall & Son of Tullahoma. Tenn., to cut and 

 saw the timber. It is estimated that the land 

 contains over 30,000,000 feet, and a Cincinnati 

 firm has made a contract for 10,000,000 feet of 

 oak from the tract. 



Miss Grace B. Hicks, daughter of Joseph N. 

 Hicks of the Davidson, Hicks & Greene Company, 

 was married a few days ago to Max B. Gate- 

 wood, a well-known Nashville business man. The 

 ceremony took place at the Tenth Street Christian 

 Church. The bride and groom left on an ex- 

 tended tour. 



Starting, it is claimed, from sparks from a 

 passing locomotive, fire recently did $2,000 dam- 

 age to the plant of John B. Ransom & Co. of 

 this city. The loss, which was chiefly in the 

 stored lumber and the dry-kiln, was covered by 

 insurance. 



The Southern Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, whose local plant was recently destroyed 

 by fire, now occupies its new office on its former 

 location. The box factory and. planing mill will 

 soon be completed. 



A special from Huntsville, Ala., reports the 

 biggest timber deal made in that section for 

 some time. W. R. Hutton, a banker, and asso- 

 ciates bought from Henderson Brothers of Gun- 

 thersviile and Tuscumbia the timber rights on 

 large tracts in three counties for $80,000. 



There was the best attendance of the season 

 at the last regular meeting of the Nashville 

 Lumbermen's Club, and the unusually large 

 amount of timber that changed hands was a 

 good indication of the condition of the local 

 market. Only routine business matters claimed 

 the attention of the membership present. 



Ed. Maphet of the I.ogan-Maphet Lumber Com- 

 pany, has been ill with la grappe the last ten 

 days, which his many friends will regret to 

 learn. 



E. M. Vestal of the Vestal Lumber & Manu- 

 facturing Company, has just returned from North 

 Carolina. He reports business good with the 

 concern. 



C. T. Benedict, with Douglass & Walkley Com- 

 pany, Elk Valley, was a visitor this week. 



W. B. Townsend, head of the Little River Lum- 

 ber Company, has just returned from Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., where he has been on business. 

 Joe Murphy of this company was a recent visitor. 



I. M. Asher. manager of the Logan-Mapliet 

 Lumber Company, Cincinnati, O., has been a 

 visitor recently, looking over some timber tracts 

 which his concern thinks of buying. 



C. P. McMahon of C. P. McMahon & Co., has 

 returned from the East, and reports business 

 good with his concern. 



J. E. Oberne of the Blue Ridge Tie Company, 

 has gone on a business trip to Cincinnati, In- 

 dianapolis and points north. 



A. L. Spottswood of the A. L. Spottswood 

 Company, Lexington, Ky., was a visitor last 

 week. 



Kimball & Kopcke have just installed at their 

 yard a new edger and trimmer, and are now 

 turning out well manufactured lumber at their 

 new yard. They have erected an office and have 

 moved their headquarters from the Empire build- 

 ing to their new yard at 511 Jacksboro street. 



J. Park Vestal of the Vestal Lumber & Manu- 

 facturing Company, has Just purchased a fine lot 

 of high-grade white oak logs, which will be 

 manufactured into quartered stock, of which this 

 firm make? a specialty. 



The Maples Lumber Company is running its 

 mill in Blount county full time and is turning 

 out a large quantity of poplar and oak. This 

 concern reports business active, and it is well 

 supplied with orders. 



L. Shaffer of Douglass & Walkley Company, 

 Elk Valley, called on the Knoxville trade last 

 week. 



J. M. Logan of the Logan-Maphet Lumber 

 Company, has returned from a successful busi- 

 ness trip to Canada and points east. He found 

 trade as good as he expected. 



BRISTOL 



Bristol lumbermen are anxiously awaiting the 

 decision of the Bristol milling-in-translt case 

 now pending before the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission, in which a score of the leading 

 hardwood shippers are complainants. The case 

 will be decided soon after the first of the new 

 year. The lumbermen feel that the present 

 charge of two cents a hundred pounds for the 

 milling-in-transit service is excessive and so 

 unreasonable that the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission will grant them relief. A favorable de- 

 cision will operate In favor of the lumber ship- 

 pers at eighty-five points on the Southern and 

 fourteen on the Norfolk & Western, besides at 

 the milling points on the Virginia & Southwest- 

 ern railway. 



Messrs. Bartlett and Strong, representing 

 James Strong & Co., Inc., of Philadelphia, Pa., 

 are visitors in Bristol this week. They will put 

 in several days looking over the hardwood situa- 

 tion in this territory. 



The Hassinger Lumber Company of Konna- 

 rock, Va., is extending its line of railroad. This 

 company owns a large area of timber land in the 

 White Top Mountain district and has been 

 operating its band mill at Konnarock continu- 

 ously the last four years. 



R. B. Wood of the R. B. Wood Lumber Com- 

 pany, Baltimore, Md., was a visitor to this mar- 



