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improvt'mont hi tho mahogany lumber trade. 

 The company owns and operates a mahogany mill 

 near Havana, Cuba, besides the mill plant in 

 this city. 



The Cincinnati Veneer Company will erect a 

 new and improved plant of modern construction 

 to replace the old plant destroyed by fire. Work 

 has already been begun. 



l''erd Bosken of the Ohio Veneer Company and 

 the Cincinnati Hardwood Liitnber Company, says 

 that business at the venopr plant is good, with 

 an active demand for mahogany and Circassian 

 walnut veneers and lumber. 



The M. B. Farrin Lumber Company is erect- 

 ing a large fireproof warehouse to replace the 

 one destroyed by fire, with several million feet 

 of century oak flooring. 



The Freiberg Lumber Company has received 

 another cargo of Mexican mahogany logs at its 

 mill on McLean avenue, and the mill is now 

 busy converting the logs into lumber and veneer 

 flitches. 



The Queen City Furniture Club held its annual 

 election and banquet last week at tho Business 

 Men's Club. The following were elected : Presi- 

 dent. Albert Ficks ; vice-president, John A. Her- 

 bert ; treasurer, Fred Busse ; secretary, M. 

 Schwein ; directors : John Dornette, Jr., h. 

 Schneider, John Wolf, Chas. Feuss, Jos. H. 

 Sprengard. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



T. U. Parry, superintendent of the Parry Man- 

 ufacturing Company has gone to Florida for the 

 winter. 



D. M. Isgrigg of the Isgrigg Lumber Company 

 Is home from a hunting trip in southern Indiana. 



H. C. Atkins of E. C. Atkins & Co. recently 

 appeared before the city council in the interest 

 of an ordinance re-organizing the city smoke in- 

 spection department. 



R. H. Pauley, a dealer of Dana, was in the 

 city visiting the trade recently. 



A new process for fuming oak lumber has been 

 invented by Harry W. De Prez of the Shelby- 

 vllle Filler & Color Company, Shelbyville. The 

 lumber is placed in an air-tight kiln and is 

 treated with ammonia gas. 



E. H. Greer, president of the Greer-Houghton 

 Lumber Company has returned from an extensive 

 trip through the South where he visited lumber 

 mills. 



O. D. Haskett of the Burnet-Lewis Lumber 

 Company, and M. S. Huey and O. L. Huey of the 

 Capitol Lumber Company are members of teams 

 that are seeking to increase the membership of 

 the Commercial Club to 2,500 by Jan. 1. 



The Indiana Manufacturers' and Shippers' As- 

 sociation, with which are identified a number of 

 hardwood manufacturers, will hold a meeting at 

 the Claypool hotel in this city on Dec. 28. 

 Addison C. Harris will speak on "Workmen's 

 Compensation and Employers' Liability." 



TOLEDO 



A case which has been watched with intense 

 interest by lumber dealers and railroad men all 

 over the state ended at Van Wert, O., Dec. 14. 

 when the biggest verdict in a damage suit ever 

 returned against the Cincinnati Northern Rail- 

 road Company, a branch of the Big Four System, 

 was awarded the Van Wert Lumber Company. 

 Last March the plant of the Van Wert Lumber 

 Company was destroyed by Are. alleged to have 

 been caused by sparks from a passing freight 

 locomotive on the defendant's railroad. The 

 lumber company sued for .$20,000 damages, and 

 after a three days' trial the jury returned a 

 verdict for $3,175. On motion of the plaintiff, 

 alleging the verdict was inadequate, it was set 

 aside by Judge Mathias and a new trial granted. 

 The second trial resulted in a disagreement. The 

 third trial just closed gave a verdict which 

 with interest amounts to $18,619.99. 



W. S. Booth of the Booth Column Company, 

 has just returned from a trip about the state. 

 Although he secured a number of nice orders, he 

 ii'ports business generally , as dull, although 

 .judging from reports in the various sections, 

 prospects are splendid for a good spring business. 

 The factory of this company is still running at 

 lull time and full capacity but it is expected 

 to close for a couple of weeks after the fir§t of 

 the year for inventory purposes and also to make 

 improvements and repairs. 



The Gotshall Manufacturing Company reports 

 an improved condition in the hardw'ood market. 

 This concern is cutting considerable quartered 

 oak in its Ohio and Michigan mills, but is find- 

 ing great difficulty in moving stock owing to the 

 open weather which has made bad roads. The 

 portion of the plant of this company recently 

 destroyed by fire has been rebuilt and is now in 

 use. It is expected to further improve the plant 

 later in the spring, and plans are now under way 

 looking towards this move. 



Manager Roberts of the Big Four Hardwood 

 Company reports a better business with hard- 

 woods looking up. Oak and poplar have been in 

 good demand and prices are strong. There are 

 little dry stocks at the mills and these are hard 

 to get, although enough is moved to keep up 

 with requirements. Prospects for spring busi- 

 ness are good. 



MEMPHIS 



The Hugh McLean Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany, in New South Memphis finds that it will 

 be necessary to build a standard gauge railroad 

 several miles in length to facilitate getting out 

 the timber on its tract of land near Cotton 

 Plant, Ark. The road will be built during the 

 early part of the coming year and will connect 

 with the Missouri & North Arkansas. The logs 

 will be carried over the latter to Helena and 

 brought thence to Memphis. 



E. M. Schulte, general manager of the plant 

 of the Penrod & Abbott Lumber Company, Biscoe, 

 Ark., states that the new band mill being in- 

 stalled at that point will be in readiness for 

 operation about the middle of January. The 

 Penrod & Abbott company took over the mill 

 of the J. W. Thompson Lumber Company at 

 Biscoe last spring, and early in October began 

 the installation of a new mill to take the place 

 of the old one. The new mill will have an eight- 

 foot band saw and will have a capacity of about 

 40.000 feet per da.v. 



A meeting of the representatives of the vari- 

 ous manufacturing firms in this city was held at 

 the Business Men's Club the past week and a 

 committee of three was apoplnted to draw up 

 a constitution and by-laws. As soon as this 

 committee reports to a general meeting to be 

 called for that purpose, the Memphis Manufac- 

 turers' Association, modeled after that at Chat- 

 tanooga, will be formally launched. 



F. E. Stonebraker, representative of Amedee C. 

 Franck & Co., Antwerp, Belgium, has recently 

 returned from an extended business trip covering 

 the eastern portion of the United States. Mr. 

 Stonebrakei- is not very enthusiastic over the 

 volume of business offering at the moment. He 

 was accompanied on practically all of his trip 

 by Amedee C. Franck, who has spent consider- 

 able time recently in this country. 



Announcement is made that the Paepcke-Leicht 

 Lumber Company has purchased the sawmill, box 

 factory, logging equipment and stock of lumber 

 and timber on hand, of the Holley-Matthews 

 Manufacturing Company of Greeneville, Mis.s., 

 and has also secured the output of the Kimball- 

 Lacey Lumber Company at Arkansas City, 

 amounting to approximately 1,000.000 feet of Cot- 

 tonwood per month. The Paepcke-Leicht Lumber 

 Company,, which has offices in Memphis and Chi- 

 cago, has operated a sawmill and box factory at 

 Greeneville for some time, and the increased 

 facilities, resulting from the purchase of the 



holdings of tho Hollcy-Matthews Manufacturing 

 Co'mpany, will greatly increase its capacity at 

 that point. 



James S. Warren, one of the vice-presidents 

 for Tennessee of the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep 

 Waterways Association, has recently returned 

 from the annual meeting of the National Rivers 

 & Harbors Congress at Washington, as has also 

 W. H. Russe of Russe & Burgess. Inc. Both of 

 these gentlemen are very enthusiastic over tho 

 W'Ork done by the Congress and particularly over 

 the favorable reception of the resolutions in 

 favor of the deepening of the channel of the 

 Mississippi presented to the heads of the depart- 

 ments of the United States government by a 

 committee of which these gentlemen were 

 members. 



The band mill of May Brothers in New South 

 Memphis, which has been in process of construc- 

 tion for some time, will be ready for operation 

 about January 1. It will be equipped with an 

 eight-foot band saw and will have a capacity of 

 approximately 30,000 feet per day. This mill 

 is built on the site of the plant of J. E. Munal & 

 Son, which was burned earlier in the year. 



James R. Blair, manager of the Crittenden 

 Lumber Company of Crittenden, .\rk., who re- 

 cently removed his headquarters from Memphis 

 to that point, is authority for the statement that 

 there has been considerable difllculty experienced 

 with shortage of labor at the mill of that firm. 

 He also sa.vs that other lumber firms operating 

 in that territory have experienced a similar diifi- 

 culty. Reports to the same effect are heard from 

 the Three States Lumber Company at Burdette, 

 and other prominent manufacturers of lumber in 

 Arkansas. This trouble is believed to be a direct 

 result of the largeness of the cotton crop and the 

 profitable occupation which the gathering of the 

 latter has afforded labor. 



William Wright of the Wright-Bachman Lum- 

 ber Company, Fulton, Ark., has been a recent 

 visitor to Memphis. He was here Dec. 16 to 

 attend the election of the Lumbermen's Club of 

 Memphis. 



NASHVILLE 



The Southern Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany is completing its new plant in East Nasli- 

 ville and expects to be ready for work soon after 

 the first of the new year. Several months ago 

 this company suffered heavy losses by fire, and 

 during the past few months has been working 

 on its new planing mill, box factory, carpenter 

 shop and other departments of its plant. 



John Febus died at Dickson following an at- 

 tack of typhoid fever which resulted in compli- 

 cations. He was connected with the W. P. 

 Brown & Sons Lumber Company. Mr. Febus 

 was fifty-two years old and left a wife and 

 several children. 



Special Examiners Henry Thurtell and E. L. 

 Gaddens were here recently representing the In- 

 terstate Commerce Commission and heard evi- 

 dence in what is known as the Tennessee Cen- 

 tral and Illinois Central crosstie case. This suit 

 involves the rate on crossties from points on the 

 Tennessee Central railroad between Nashville 

 and Clarksville, Tenn., to points on the Ohio 

 river, and from points between Nashville and 

 Carthage, Tenn., to Ohio river points. In 1910 

 the two defendant railroads filed with the Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission a joint tariff on 

 railroad crossties between the points indicated, 

 as a result of which shippers are said to have 

 abandoned the barging practice, shipping their 

 ties instead by rail. Last May the railroads 

 asked of the commission permission to with- 

 draw these rates and charge the same rates on 

 ties as on lumber. The claim is being made that 

 were this permitted it would mean about a 

 seventy-five per cent increase and would make 

 the shipment of ties practically prohibitive. It 

 is also claimed the cfl'ort to withdraw this tariff 

 was not made until after shippers had with- 



