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HARDWOOD RECORD 



H. G. Hoover Appointed Assistant Secretary 



H. G. Hoover, formerly connected with the 

 Griffin H. Deeves Lumber Company of Chicago, 

 has been appointed assistant to Secretary Doster 

 of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 

 of the United States. Mr. Hoover is a thor- 

 ough lumberman, having had much experience 

 in the consuming territory with both manufac- 

 turers and consumers. He is also said to be a 

 very competent office man and auditor. 



Jlr. Hoover's worii will be in connection witli 

 the management of the Cincinnati general office, 

 under the supervision of Secretary Doster, and 

 in co-operation with President W. E. DeLaney. 

 His appointment should he a great help to the 

 .nsscciation in its work of gathering statistics 

 and fiirnishin^- information to its memborship. 



New Arkansas Hardwood Lumber Company 



It has been announced that the Camden Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company. Camden. Ark., has filed 

 papers applying for incorporation. It is under- 

 stood that the capital stock of the new organ- 

 ization is to be $100,000, $S0,000 of which is 

 already paid in. The company will bu.v and 

 sell lumber and timber lands, own and operate 

 sawmills and railroads, including all necessary 

 stores, and own stock in other corporations. 



The incorporators are T. J. Gaughan, an 

 attorney of Camden, and Frank Carter and 

 Frank Pierce of that city. Mr. Carter has been 

 elected president ; Mr. Pierce, vice-president, 

 and Mr. Gaughan, secretary-treasurer. 



New Plant in Merrill 



The Heineman Lumber Company, which lost 

 its sawmill by fire last year, has concluded to 

 rebuild the plant at Merrill, and in addition to 

 a big sawmill, will build a planing mill and a 

 general wood-working and industrial institution. 

 The company has already purchased a sawmill, 

 and is negotiating for its planing mill machinery, 

 locomotives and rails. The company expects to 

 produce aljout twenty-five million feet of lumber 

 annually, comprising hemlock and hardwoods, and 

 the entire industry will employ well towards four 

 hundred men. 



Sigmund Heineman, president of the National 

 Bank of Merrill, is president of the Heineman 

 Lumber Company, but the active management 

 will fall on Harry and Edward Heineman, the 

 two sons. 



Eansom Hardwood Lumber Company 



The Ransom Hardwood Lumber Company has 

 been incorporated under Tennessee laws with a 

 capital stock of $30,000. It is a subsidiary 

 company of John B. Ransom & Co. of Nashville, 

 and Its Incorporators are A. B. Ransom, J. E. 

 Davis, M. M. Ransom, R. T. Wilson and J. E. 

 Davis, Jr. The company has large timber hold- 



ings and a mill at Hope, Ark., where its oper- 

 ations will be chiefly conducted. 



The officers of the new company arc A. B. 

 Ransom, president ; J. E. Davis, vice-president ; 

 E. N. Ralston, secretary and R. T. Wilson, 

 treasurer. 



Flood Situation in Memphis 



The Mississippi river here is about three feet 

 higher than at any previous time in its history. 

 Furthermore, it is predicted that it will rise to 

 about forty-five feet if the levee holds. The levee 

 officials had been confident of the ability of the 

 levees to remain intact, but their faith is being 

 somewhat shaken by the continued rise, and by 

 the indications for a stage probably five feet in 

 excess of the previous record of 40.3 feet, estab- 

 lished during the high water of 1004. The safety of 

 the levees on the Tennessee and Mississippi sides, 

 as well as on the Arkansas side of the Mississippi 

 river, depends much on the levees. If they 

 should break it would greatly relieve the strain 

 on the levees because it would mean a loss acute 

 stage th.Tn is now promised. Every effort has 

 been made during the past few days to strengthen 

 the levees. Sacks of sand have been rushed to 

 every weak point, and nothing has been left un- 

 done that will serve to strengthen these bul- 

 warks. They were not built, however, for a 

 stage of forty-five feet, and it seems now as if 

 the water would either go over them or so close 

 to the top of them as to cause breaks. 



The actual loss resulting from the record stage 

 of the Mississippi is indeterminate so far. Much 

 property and also great loss of life arc threatened 

 in the event of any bad breaks in the levee sys- 

 tem. However, warnings have been given to the 

 people living behind the levees, telling them to 

 move their live stock and other holdings and go 

 to places of safety. Considerable loss has al- 

 ready been experienced in the hardwood lumber 

 industry of Memphis. The plants of the Chicka- 

 saw Cooperage Company. Moore & McFerren, the 

 Tennessee Hoop Company, the Mempliis Stave 

 Company, the Bennett Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany and the Anderson-Tuiiy Company in North 

 Memphis have been forced to suspend operations. 

 In South Memphis the Memphis Saw Mill Com- 

 pany and May Brothers have found it necessary 

 to close down. The McLean Hardwood Lumber 

 Company is also closed down, not because it is 

 suffering from any overfiow of its plants but be- 

 cause its logging track is under water several 

 feet, thus cutting off the company from its supply 

 of timber. Several other plants have also closed 

 or will do so very soon. A large section of north- 

 east Memphis is covered with water to a depth 

 of from one to fifteen feet. The river is still 

 rising and back water is covering an fccrcasingly 

 large area every day. Some wood-working enter- 

 prises arc interfered with as a result of this con- 

 dition. So far more than 1,200 men have been 



thrown out of employment at hardwood mills and 

 wood-working plants here. 



The question of an adequate log supply is one 

 that is troubling mills which are not directly in- 

 terfered with by high wafer. The river is so 

 big that there is no question of trying to bring 

 out logs. In fact those who have logs on the 

 river are a great deal more interested in saving 

 them than in getting them to their mills. All 

 streams tributary to the Mississippi used for the 

 purpose of bringing out timber, are past the stage 

 where they can serve this end. Furthermore, 

 the lowlands are flooded all over this territory, 

 and much timber which was thought to be avail- 

 able has been rendered impossible of handling. In 

 addition to the unsatisfactory conditions with 

 respect to wafer transportation, a number of rail- 

 roads are being seriously interfered with. The 

 river front tracks of the Illinois Central are 

 under water and have been abandoned. The 

 Yazoo & Mississippi Valley road is having much 

 difficulty in maintaining service, as much of its 

 track in the territory around Lake View is cov- 

 ered to a depth of more than three feet. The 

 Louisville & Nashville has its yards pretty well 

 covered with water and every railroad operating 

 into Memphis from the North and South' is suffer- 

 ing more or less inconvenience. 



Aside from the fact that transportation condi- 

 tions are unfavorable. It may be noted that there 

 has been so much rain in this territory during 

 the past fortnight that no headway has been 

 made in getting out timber and no hauling has 

 been possible. This means tliat there has been 

 no large amount of timber available for the mills 

 in this immediate vicinity, and that an acute 

 shortage is threatened in the near future. The 

 weather now is bright and clear, and looks more 

 settled than for some time, but even If there is no 

 more rain for the next two weeks it will be well 

 nigh impossible to make any headway. Mean- 

 while the mills which are now closed down as a 

 result of the high water will be compelled to re- 

 main out of commission for another week or ten 

 days. 



The plants outside of Memphis have been in- 

 terfered with to a considerable extent by the high 

 water in tributaries of the Mississippi and by 

 the excessive rains. The one which perhaps has 

 suffered the greatest inconvenience, however, is 

 the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company, at Charleston, 

 Miss. This mill was closed some time ago as a 

 result of the high wafer in the Mississippi, and 

 now the water is so high that the plant is closed 

 in every department. Indications are that it will 

 be some time before it will be possible to resume 

 operations. 



On this page is a picture made ten days ago at 

 the mouth of Wolf river, a tributary of the Mis- 

 sissippi, at Memphis, which is used as a log 

 barge storage grovind for several mills. Owing 

 to the height of the water at the time the 



MILLION FEET OF OAK AND GUM LOGS ON IIAHGICS AT THE MOUTH OF TI 



SO.VTULLY CO.MPANY 



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