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commercial value and to plant white ash. yellow 

 poplar, black walnut, white, burr and red oak 

 and hickor.T trees. The hoard estimates there 

 are four million acres of land in the state de- 

 voted partially to wood lots, but that this 

 acreage is only about half planted. 



EVANSVILLB 



The regular monthly meeting of the lOvans- 

 ville Lumbermen's Club was held at the New 

 Vendome hotel Tuesday. Feb. 13. After an en- 

 joyable dinner, the regular business session was 

 held. The following offlcors were installed for 

 the coming year : President, D. B. McLaren ; 

 first vice-president, Fred Reltz ; second vice- 

 president, F. M. Cutsinger; secretary and treas- 

 urer. Elmer D. Luhring. 



President McLaren announced the following 

 committees to serve for one year : Finance. 

 Daniel Wertz. Bedna Young and W. W. Hal- 

 loran : entertainment. W. W. Halloran. Claude 

 Haley and Elmer D. Luhring : membership. 

 Fred Reitz, Daniel Wertz and Richard Broad- 

 well ; publicity, Charles Wolflin, O. • Grimwood 

 and Joseph Waltman ; statistics. Bedna Young, 

 F. M. Cutsinger and Elmer D. Luhring; law 

 and insurance, Daniel Wertz, Bedna Young and 

 O. Grimwood ; river and rail. Chas. W. Talge, 

 C. P. White and Charles Von Behren. 



Secretary Luhring read his annual report 

 which showed the club to be in a most flourish- 

 ing condition. The various committees that 

 had charge of the Indiana Hardwood Lumber 

 Association made their final reports, and were 

 discharged. A formal vote of thanks was ex- 

 tended to former Vice-President Fairbanks. Col. 

 P. B. Posey and others for making addresses 

 before the convention. 



It was decided to give a banquet in the near 

 future to the furniture and woodwork manufac- 

 turers of the city. Committees were appointed 

 to arrange for the banquet, and these will meet 

 within two weeks to make the final arrange- 

 ments. 



L. A. Borthwick, formerly with Hamilton H. 

 Salmon & Co., of New York City, has been 

 appointed eastern sales representative for Young 

 & Cutsinger. Mr. Borthwick will make his head- 

 quarters in Buffalo. 



Oscar Grimwood of Alaley, Wertz & Grimwood 

 has sold his interest to Maley & Wertz. and 

 the business will be continued by the latter 

 firm. The mill operated by Maley. Wertz & 

 Grimwood was built a few years ago by the 

 Henry Maley Lumber Company, and is located 

 in South Evansville. It is one of the largest 

 and finest in the city. 



NASHVILLE 



Mrs. J. Kelley of Jackson recently sold 100 

 acres of fine timber land near Lexington to 

 A. R. Appleby for .f7.500. 



Local members of IIoo-Hoo held an interesting 

 and enjoyable meeting on the evening of Feb. 

 17 at the Maxwell House. X dozen kittens were 

 initiated and this was followed by a session-on- 

 the-roof, the chief feature of this being a splen- 

 did five course dinner. There were nearly fifty 

 members and special guests present and the oc- 

 casion was greatly enjoyed by all. 



The Nashville Lumbermen's Club recently ap- 

 pointed a committee, composed of T. B. John- 

 son, Willis Faris, Henderson Baker and B. J. 

 Loevenhart to nominate new club officers for the 

 ensuing year, and it is understood this com- 

 mittee will insist that the old officers be re- 

 elected. Increasing interest is being taken in 

 the meetings of this club. 



Joe Scheflfer of the local lumber concern bear- 

 ing his name, has reported to the Nashville 

 Lumbermen's Club a refusal by the railroads 

 to construct branch tracks into his company's 

 yard without a written agreement not to hold 

 the railroads liable for fires caused by sparks 



from engines. This agreement, some contend, 

 would increase insurance rates, and would cause 

 a hardship upon those engaged in the business. 

 The McIIvain interests of Philadelphia which 

 through the Woodcliff Lumlier Company recently 

 formed plans to develop timber property near 

 Monterey, is said to have options on two other 

 valuable tracts near Monterey, owned by John- 

 son Brothers. These tracts contain some es- 

 pecially fine oak and poplar timber. Johnson 

 Brothers will retain large tracts in the same 

 vicinity which they expect to develop. 



MEMPHIS 



Weather conditions in this ti-rritory during 

 the past fortnight have been more favorable for 

 logging work as well as manufacturing opera- 

 tions, with better progress in both directions, 

 than noted for some time. At the .same time 

 there has been a broadening of demand, and 

 comparatively large shipments of lumber, with 

 the result that there has been no gain in the 

 amount of available stock in this territory. As 

 a matter of fact the supply of dry lumber is 

 scarce in a number of important items, and 

 the undertone of the market is decidedly more 

 wholesome on this account. 



The continued activity in box manufacturing 

 circles is resulting in a large demand for the 

 upper grades of cottonwood and gum. There is a 

 pronounced scarcity of cottonwood in the lower 

 grades used in the manufacture of boxes, and 

 as a consequence, manufacturers are compelled 

 to use more gum than heretofore. This has 

 thrown a larger demand to the holders of lo,w- 

 grade gum, who have enjoyed a better trade 

 than for a long while. Prices are higher on 

 all kinds of low-grade gum, and the cottonwood 

 market is in a stronger position than it has 

 been for years at this time. 



The situation on the Illinois Central railroad 

 is one that is causing much disturbance to lum- 

 ber interests. There is a decided shortage of 

 cars and an unusual delay in the forwarding 

 of cars after they have been loaded. The Illi- 

 nois Central officials declare that the present 

 trouble is largely the result of the recent severe 

 weather in the North wliich has made it im- 

 possible to unload cars promptly. The.v say that 

 an unusual i)roportion of the rolling stock is 

 tied up on the northern lines and that they are 

 unable to give all the cars needed. However it 

 is believed that the present condition is only 

 temporary, and that there will soon be a suffi- 

 cient number of cars for all needs. 



The State Board of Railway Incorporators of 

 Arkansas has granted a charter to the Cairo. 

 Truman & Southern Railroad Company, which 

 proposes to build a line from Truman. Poinsett 

 county, to Earl, Crittenden county, a distance of 

 twenty-nine miles. The Truman Cooperage Com- 

 pany is back of this road. It already has a 

 line nine miles in length which is being used 

 for logging purposes. This will he incorporated 

 in the new road, and the line will be used, not 

 cnl.v for logging purposes and for the handling 

 of lumber, but also for general traffic. The new 

 road will connect with the Frisco at Poinsett 

 and with the Memphis branch of the St. Louis, 

 Iron Mountain & Southern at Earl. 



The J. C. Pennoyer Company, manufacturer of 

 tight barrel cooperage, has opened offices in 

 Memphis, in charge of Edward Hamilton, form- 

 erly of Wynne, Ark. This firm does a large 

 business with turpentine growers and manu- 

 facturers of cotton seed oil in the South and 

 Memphis has been selected as distributing center 

 for the patrons in the southern states. The firm 

 also does a large export business. 



The Virgin Timber Company has been formed 

 at Pine Bluff, Ark., with a capital stock of 

 $600,000. J. G. Bell, W. J. Lockwood and 

 George II. Adams are the incorporators. The 

 Triangle Lumber Company has also been formed 

 with a capital stock of $125,000. A. B. New- 

 man, James H. Allen and others are the in- 



corporators. These companies are owned by 

 practically the same interests, and have been 

 formed following the recent purchase by A. B. 

 Newman and associates of the property of the 

 Bluff City Lumber Company and the Clio Lum- 

 ber Company. 



A bit of interesting history is being made at 

 Washington, in connection with the suits of the 

 J. W. Thompson Lumber Company et al versus 

 the Illinois Central and the Yazoo & Mississippi 

 Valley Railroad companies, and Russe & Bur- 

 gess, Inc., et al versus the Transcontinental 

 Freight Bureau. The former involves an ad- 

 vance in rates from Memphis to New Orleans, 

 which was declared unreasonable in 1908, and 

 was ordered restored to the old level with 

 reparation from the time the bill was filed. The 

 other involves the advance of ten cents per 

 hundred pounds on rates to the Pacific coast. 

 This was also declared unreasonable and the old 

 rate was ordered restored, with reparation from 

 the time of the filing of the suit up to the time 

 of the decision. The attorneys for the complain- 

 ants in both cases sought to secure reparation 

 from the time the advance was made in each 

 case, but the commission refused to entertain 

 this. Thereupon the matter was carried to the 

 United States court in an effort to secure proper 

 authorit.v to compel the commission to entertain 

 such a motion. Upon the formation of the Com- 

 merce court the suit was transferred to the 

 latter and the Interstate- Commerce Commission 

 has just been ordered to consider a motion look- 

 ing to reparation for the entire period covered 

 by the advance in rates. In the event Memphis 

 lumbermen are successful, the refund will 

 amount to between $40,000 and $50,000. 



BRISTOL 



The band mills of the Whiting .Manufacturing 

 Company at Judson. N. C, which have been idle 

 for several weeks, will -soon resume operations. 

 The company is now running its planing mill 

 and its yards are still well stocked. 



The work of establishing a planing mill and 

 yard at Chase City, Va., is shortly to be under- 

 taken by the Burke Lumber Company, which 

 was organized some weeks ago at Morgantown, 

 N. C, with a capital stock of $100,000. 



The Stone-Huling Lumber Company of this 

 city will soon begin work on the erection of a 

 planing mill, which will be 150x200 feet, 

 three stories in height and of brick construction. 

 The mill will adjoin the company's present plan- 

 ing mill and yard site. 



The Columbian Paper Company of this city is 

 increasing largely the capacity of its large pulp 

 plant, which cost $500,000. The company has 

 about 20.000 cords of pulp wood on the yards 

 here, and has contracts that will supply the 

 plant for years to come. 



LOUISVILLE 



Among the speakers who have accepted invi- 

 tations to address the National Wholesale Lum- 

 bei' Dealers' Association at the banquet which 

 will be held Wednesday evening. Mar. 6, are 

 Swagar Sherley, the brilliant young Louisville 

 Congressman, and Augustus E. Willson, former 

 Governor of Kentucky. Several other noted 

 men will be present, while the remainder of 

 the entertainment features will be worth travel- 

 ing far to enjoy. Preparations for the event 

 have been practically completed by the Louis- 

 ville Hardwood Club, which has charge of the 

 arrangements in the Kentucky metropolis, and 

 rrcspects are for one of the most successful 

 lumber conventions of the year. 



A car shortage of considerable proportions 

 has developed in this part of the country. 

 Louisville lumbermen report that it is difficult 

 to secure enough cars to take care of orders, 

 and as business is improving rapidly this has 

 been very discouraging. However, the railroads 



