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hundred shaivs. Tlu> incorporators arc (.'. F. 

 Droege, E. A. Sanders and E. J. Droege. 



Leland G. Baiming. one of the leading hard- 

 wood lumbermen of this section, was united in 

 matrimony last week to Katherine S. Hamilton. 

 Mr. Banning is too well-known in the lumbef 

 world to need introduction, and he is being 

 most cordially congratulated, 



S. A. Conn, former flianager of The Tensas 

 Eiver Lumber Company, is laome recuperating 

 from his illness. He has severed bis corinection 

 with the company, and for the present will re- 

 main in this city. Fred Conn of the Bayou Land 

 & Lumber Company is here for a short stay, 

 liut will return tn Natchez in a few days. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



\\. \\. Ivni^ht uf llie l.oug-Kniglit Lumlier 

 Company has returned from E'vansrille. 



S. r. Matthews, resident manager of the South 

 Arkansas Lumber Company, Ltd., with head- 

 quarters at St. Louis, JIo.. is in the South for a 

 few weeks. 



R. F. Colglazier, E. E. Loudon. H. C. Loudon 

 and H. H. Phillips have organized the Salem 

 Hardwood Company at Salem to conduct a manu- 

 facturing hardwood business. The company has 

 been incorporated with an authorized capitaliza- 

 tion of $6,000. 



After a shut down of two weeks for invoice 

 and repairs, the Udell Works of this city resumed 

 operations on ,Ian. 15. The company manufac- 

 tures ladders and furniture. 



J. V. Stimson. well-known hardwood manufac- 

 turer of Huntingburg, has been elected vice- 

 president, and a member of the executive board 

 of the Mais Motor Truck Company of this city. 



A hardwood business will be conducted 

 by the newly organized McMuilen-I'oweil Lumber 

 Company of South Bend, which has been incor- 

 porated with an authorized capitalization of 

 .fo.OOO. Those interested in the company are 

 C. G. Powell, F. B.' McMuIlen and F. J. Roys. 



The factory of the Peru Basket Company at 

 Peru was burned recently, the loss being about 

 .$25,000. on which there was $10,000 insurance. 

 It is probable that the plant will be rebuilt. 



BVANSVILLB 



B. II. Bertrand is on a nionlli's ti-ip in the 

 interest of his tirm. Riemeier Bros. & Cummings. 



Among former Indiana lumbermen who at- 

 tended the thirteenth annual convention of the 

 Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Association were 

 John M. Prichard of the .1. M. Prichard Lum- 

 ber Company, Memphis, and G. O. Worland. 

 manager of the Jackson Lumber Company. Jack- 

 son, Tenn. The local club has been compli- 

 mented on the entertainment it provided for the 

 visitors at this convention. Owing to the in- 

 clement weather, it was impossible to take the 

 visitors about the city. 



Joseph Bertrand of the Henry JIaley Lumber 

 Company. Inc., Yazoo City, Miss., was in Evans- 

 ville Jan. 18. Mr. Bertrand says that on ac- 

 count of the excessive rainfall in his section it 

 has been almost impossible to log. Therefore 

 prospects are good for a shortage in logs. 



A big delegation from the local lumbermen's 

 club is preparing to go to Cincinnati on Jan. 

 30 and .31 to attend the convention of the Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' ,\ssociation of the United 

 States. 



MEMPHIS 



There has been very little change for the 

 better In weather conditions in this .section. 

 Sleet and snow have prevailed over this sec- 

 tion during the greater portion of the period 

 since the first of the new year, and practically 

 no progress has been made in getting out tim- 

 ber. Some of the oldest members of the hard- 

 W'Ood trade do not recall any worse weather 

 than has been experienced recently, and they 



also point to the fact that there have been few 

 times during their connection with the hard- 

 wood industry when it was so difficult to get 

 out timber or run the mills. 



In view of these, conditions it may be noted 

 that the supply of timber 1ms been materially 

 reduced, and that the outlook is for a decided 

 shortage in the late winter and early spring 

 cut unless there is a very marked change for 

 the better in weather conditions immediately. 

 The amount of lumber actually sawn during the 

 past fortnight in this territory has been very 

 small and, as sales have been pretty free dur- 

 ing the past few weeks, the available supply 

 has been measurably cut down. 



The feeling among members of the trade is 

 tliat there is going to be a very good business 

 during the next six months, and the best opinion 

 is that, as a result of a probable expansion in 

 Ihe demand and a known shortage in supply, 

 prices should do better. There has been in- 

 creasing firmness in progress for some time and 

 after a period of comparative low prices for 

 more than three years, lumbermen are looking 

 forward to vahies somewhat in keeping with 

 these which prevailed before the depression in 

 the hardwood industry made itself felt. 



A. Maas of Memphis, and the New England 

 capitalists who purchased .'iO.OOO acres of tim- 

 b. r land in Phillips and De Sha counties. 

 Arkansas, have formed two companies to look 

 alter their interests. The first is the Delta 

 Land Company, which is chartered under the 

 laws of Maine and the second is the Arkansas 

 Logging Company, chartered under the laws of 

 Arkansas. Mr. Maas will have charge of the 

 interests of the firm, with headquarters at 

 Memphis. He will be assisted in the manage- 

 ment of the affairs of the Arkansas Logging 

 Company by T. W. Sofge. The purchase price 

 of this timber land was practically $400,000 

 and it is the intention of the new owners to 

 put the land In cultivation as soon as the tim- 

 ber has been moved therefrom. A tram road 

 is to be built as soon as the weather will 

 permit. The timber will he sold to mills in 

 Mississippi, Louisiana. Arkansas, Tennessee and 

 Missouri. 



Lumbermen of Memphis are jubilant over the 

 decision handed down in the Federal Court 

 here in the case of the Darnell-Taenzer Lum- 

 ber Company et al. vs. the Southern Pacific 

 railroad, the Santa Fe and other transconti 

 nental lines, to the effect that the complain- 

 ants are entitled to recover the alleged excess 

 of 10 cents per hundred pounds on hardwood 

 freight rates from Memphis and Mississippi 

 river points to Pacific Coast terminals for the 

 years 1907 and 1908. The decision is regarded 

 as a sweeping victory for the lumbermen as 

 well as a decided endorsement by the Federal 

 Court of the ruling of the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission. The railroads will carry the case 

 to the Supreme Court of the United States. 

 Their contention is that the increased rate was 

 paid by the purchasers of the lumber, and not 

 by the shippers, with the result that the latter 

 are not entitled to recover 10 cents per hundred 

 pounds. Although the suit was brought in the 

 name of the Darnell-Taenzer Lumber Company, 

 there are a number of other firms here as well 

 as in Wisconsin who were Joint complainants. 

 Another suit of some importance to the hard- 

 wood lumber industry of Memphis is st.vled May 

 Brothers et al. vs. the Yazoo & Mississippi Val- 

 ley Railroad Company and the Illinois Central 

 Railroad Company. This is based on an alleged 

 excessive log rate over the line of the Illinois 

 I'entral system into Memphis, which has for 

 its purpose, it is claimed, the control of the 

 out-bound movement of lumber from this city 

 by that road. The suit has been filed before the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission at Washing- 

 ton by W. A. Percy, of this city, who has been 

 the principal counsel for the lumber shippers of 

 Memphis in their contests before that body. 

 It is set forth that, as a result of this ex- 

 cessive log rate, the Illinois Central system has 



irom $75,000 to *10U.000 of the funds of the 

 lumbermen of Memphis in its hands which is not 

 returnable to them until the logs have been 

 cut into lumber and the latter has been shipped 

 over the line of the Illinois Central. There has 

 been much dissatisfaction over this situation 

 lor a long while, but it has been brought to a 

 definite head recently by the strike on the 

 Illinois Central system, which has made It 

 extremely difficult to move lumber shipments 

 promptly. Lumbermen have therefore been 

 placed in the embarrassing position of either 

 having their shipments of lumber tied up for 

 a long while or sending them over other lines 

 and losing the refund of the excess rate charged 

 on log shipments. There are about thirty indi- 

 vidual lumbermen and lumber firms who have 

 .joined in the petition filed before the-Inter- 

 .state Commerce Commission. 



Building operations in Memphis during 1011 

 /nvolved a total of $5,859,140. This is one of 

 Ihe best showings ever made In the building 

 line here during a twelve-month period. 



James S. Warren, industrial commissioner of 

 the Business Men's Club and by virtue of that 

 position the principal agent of the Bureau of 

 Publicity & Development, has tendered his 

 resignation to become effective not later than 

 ;May 1. His successor has not yet been chosen 

 "nd probably will not be for several months. 



Charles Neimeyer, president of the Chas. Xei- 

 meyer Hardwood Lumber Company, Little Rock, 

 has purchased the mill of Keapple & Mcintosh, 

 at Okolona, Ark., together with a large tract 

 of timber near the latter. It is proposed to 

 materially Increase the capacity of the plant, 

 bringing it up to 40,000 or 50.000 feet per day. 

 \ tram road will be built to facilitate the de- 

 velopment of the timber. Work on the latter 

 will begin at once. The mill has already been 

 closed down in order that the necessary repairs 

 may be made. 



The standing timber on the land of W. W. 

 Jordan, Sr.. near Dickson, Tenn., has been sold 

 to the Interstate Cooperage Company for a 

 consideration of $10,500. The sale was made 

 by virtue of a decree rendered for the purpose 

 of settling up the estate of the original owner. 

 Five years' time is given for the removal, with 

 all necessary rights of way and with the right 

 to locate mills on the property. The land is 

 all In one body and lies close to the main line 

 of the Nashville. Chattanooga & St. Louis Rail- 

 way Company, thus making it easy of develop- 

 ment. 



The Forest Products Chemical Company has 

 secured $35,000 of its capital stock of $50,000 

 and Is now placing the remaining $15,000 on the 

 market. It has elected B. L. Mallory as presi- 

 dent, and J. C. Lawrence as general manager. 

 It is planned to begin at once the erection of a 

 factory here for the manufacture of acetate of 

 lime, wood alcohol, creosote and other similar 

 products from the refuse of sawmills in this 

 city and section. 



KNOXVILLB 



E. -M. V.slal (if ihe Vestal Lumber & .Manu- 

 facturing Company has just returned from an 

 Eastern trip and is well satisfied with his stock 

 of orders. 



Mr. Jackson of the Blue <_;rass Lumber Com- 

 pany of Buffalo, N. Y.. was a visitor in this city 

 for the past week looking after stock for his fu- 

 ture requirements. 



C. E. Brooks, the well-known lumberman of 

 this city, has accepted a jjosition with the Doug- 

 lass & Walkley Company. Elk Valley. Tenn. 



Joe Murphy of the Little River Lumber Com- 

 pany, Townsend, Tenn., was a vi.sitor. in town 

 last week and reports business good with his con- 

 cern. 



J. F. Nickersou of the Nickerson Manuf.icturlng 

 Company has just received a large order for porch 

 columns for export, and is running his plant over- 

 time to fill same. 



