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[licture WHS takcu. it was impossible to iiiovt' 

 these logs under the railroad bridge that crosses 

 a half mile above the mouth of the Wolf river, 

 and hence, the barges were held below that 

 structure. 



Here are pictured seven barges of oak and 

 >;um logs belonging to Anderson-Tull.v Company, 

 which aggregates more than a million feet. Of 

 course, this compan.v has every hope of pro- 

 tecting these logs, but It goes without saying 

 they are in a very hazardous position, consider- 

 ing the tremedous tide, which is now on in the 

 Alississijipi. 



Death of Mrs. James E. Stark 

 On March 24, Mrs. Jessie Elnora Stark, wife 

 of James E. Stark of Memphis, Tenn.. died at 

 their home on South Willett street from pneu- 

 monia. On March 15, Mrs. Stark was stricken 

 with a severe attack of la grippe. During the 

 week she grew steadily worse, although it was 

 thought toward the last of the week that she 

 was in;proving. However, on Saturday, just 

 eight days after she had contracted la grippe, 

 pneumonia set in, and she passed quietly away 

 on Sunday morning. 



. Surviving 5Irs. Stark in her immediate fam- 

 ily are her husband, one sou, James E., Jr., and 

 two daughters, Jessica and Sarah Stark. She 

 IS also survived by three brothers of Chicago. 

 George T.. S. B.. and J. S. Flouston. and a sis- 

 ter, Mrs. Hardesty of Des Moines, la. 



The funeral services took place at the res- 

 idence at 2 -.30 o'clock. March 26, being con- 

 ducted by the Rev. A. B. Curry, pastor of the 

 Second Presbyterian church of Sfemphis. of 

 which the deceased was a member. The burial 

 Avas in Forest Ilill cemetery. 



Big Purchase of Timber 



Word comes from Xashville, Tenn., that the 

 .Mthauser-Webster-'U'eaver Lumber Company of 

 that city has just taken over the ownership of 

 a large tract of timberland located in Wayne 

 (Ounty. Kentucky. The quality of the timber 

 is said to be excellent, and the price paid for 

 It to amount well into five figures. 



The purchasing company is one of the newer 

 <*oncerns of Nashville but is already well estab- 

 lished with an excellent hardwood trade. The 

 deal was consummated through the H. W^. Forde 

 Land Company, which concern has been active in 

 this line of work in the last two years, having 

 recently been the medium in the transaction 

 "between .Johnson Brothers of Monterey, Tenn.. 

 and J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co.. of Thiladelpbia. 



Prominent Manufacturer Retires 



The latest report from Sikeston. Mo., is that 

 V. G. Holley. the original founder, and for a 

 long period president and general manager of 

 the Holley-Matthews Lumber Company of that 

 place, has sold out his interest in the company 

 to E. C. and C. D. Matthews. He bas also 

 disposed of his entire holdings in the HoUey- 

 BakPr Lumber Company, and the Yarboro Coop- 

 -erage Company, thus entirely severing himself 

 from all connections with the lumber business. 

 He is now' en route for the W^est, where, it is 

 understood, he contemplates settling. 



Biltmore Doings 



The students of the Biltmore Forest School, 

 under the direction of Dr. C. A. Schenck, are 

 again in this country, having sailed from Ger- 

 many on March 16. The early part of the 

 month was spent in work in the Black forests 

 and adjacent to Darmstadt, the students enjoy- 

 ing many opportunities for instructive obser- 

 vation. 



Dr. Kern, who for almost three years had been 

 Dr. Schenck's active assistant, left the school at 

 the time of its departure from the Fatherland. 

 The two weeks following the arrival of the 

 school were spent in the Adirondacks, where the 

 forestry work conducted by New York state was 

 closely studied. It is planned to spend a week 

 in Washington, D. C, about the middle of 

 April, and while there to get as much infor- 

 mation as possible pertaining to the various 



branches of the Forest Service. From Washing- 

 ton the school expects to go to its summer 

 quarters in North Carolina, and after that to 

 follow out the general itinerary of last year. 



It is announced that Dr. Schenck's new book 

 on logging and lumber is on the general market 

 and has already proven its value. 



Miscellaneous Notes 



The Monarch Lumber I'ompany, Oil City. Ta., 

 lias been incorporated with an authorized slock 

 of $15,000. 



Tl'e Nanonal Yeueir C'o:Vri)anv, Chaileston, 

 W. \ a., has increased its capital stock from 



.■fso.ono to siijo.ooo. 



The Atlantic Lumber Company. Norfolk, Ya., 



has been incorporated with an authorized cap- 

 ital stock of .$.=)0,000. 



The Sheboygan Wood-Working Company, She- 



h'lygan. Wis., has been incorporated with a cap- 

 ital stock ot $12,000. 



The Yalley Furniture & Manufacturing Com 

 pany, Marietta, O., has increased its capital 

 slock from .$40,000 to $150,000. 



W. H. Bower & Co., lumber manufacture rs. 

 Stuttgart, Ark., have been incorporated with 

 an authorized capital stock of $10,000. 



The P. A. Wetzel Company, Rockford, III., 

 has been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 .$25,000. and will manufacture furniture. 



The A. L. Major Company, Scranton, Pa., has 

 been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 S50.000, and will do a wholesale lumber busi- 

 ness. 



The South Branch Tie & Lumber Co;npany. 

 Romney. W., Va., has been incorporated with 

 a capital stock of $80,000 for general manu- 

 facturing purposes. 



The Grand Rapids Yeneer Works. Grand Rap- 

 id.s. Mich., recently established an agency at 344 

 "A" Central building, Seattle, Wash., in the 

 charge of E. F. Tindolph. 



The entire plant of the Standard Millwurk 

 Company at Norwood, O., appraised at more 

 than a quarter of a million dollars will be sold 

 at auction under a receiver's sale on April 

 17. 



The Pineville Lumber &. Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of I'ineville, Ky., has been incorporated 

 with a capital stock of $10,000. The incor- 

 porators are Benj. R. Smith, Charles J. .Johnson 

 and Rice W. Johnson. 



The Homochitto Liimber Company, Brook- 

 haven, Miss., which was recently incorporated 

 with a capital stock of $500,000 will build a 

 plant at Monroe, Miss., with a daily capacity 

 of 150,000 feet of lumber. 



The Holt Lumber Company. Detroit, Mich., 

 has been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $.30,000. $15,000 of which has been subscribed. 

 The stockholders are B^rank A. Spies, Arthtir 

 F. Holt and John F. McLean. 



The Holt Lumber Company, Mobile, Ala., has 

 been incorporated with a capital stock ot $10,- 



000, iind will do a general lumber manufactur- 

 ing and sawmill business. Those interested arc 

 Wm. K. Syson. Harry Gill and L. D. Holt.. 



The Tennessee Hardwood Lumber Company, 

 Nashville, Tenn., recently contracted for the 

 cut of the mill of Felix G. Ewlng of Spring- 

 held. Tenn. The cut amounts to about a 

 million feet of fine oak and chestnut lumber. 



The Appalachian Furniture Company, Blue- 

 Hold, W. Ya., has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $50,000. T!ie incorporators 

 are F. O. Barnes, C. B. Bell, J. F. Phelps, 

 Robert S. Karr and J. M. Hines, all of Blue- 

 tield. 



It is reported that construction of a new 

 veneer plant at Helena, Ark., for the Arkansas 

 Yeneer Company, will soon be under way. It is 

 planned to make the plant up-to-date in every 

 particular, and the largest of its kind in the 

 state. It will employ upwards of 150 men. 



By June 15, the Wheeler-Osgood Company of 

 Tacoma, Wash., expects to have a $50,000 

 veneer plant installed in connection with its 

 plant. A new building 100x200 feet is now be- 

 ing erected, which will be used for cutting, 

 cirying and building of all kinds of veneer 

 panels. 



The Wayne Lumber Company, Ellwood City, 

 Pa., has been incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $50,000. The incorporators are J. F. Haines 

 and E. P. Marsha of Pittsburgh ; W. J. McKim. 

 C. A. Martin, C. W. Harris and H. C. Walker of 

 Ellwood City ; T. L. Haines, Porterfleld, and 

 W. J. Harris, Crafton. 



The American-Brazilian Hardwood Company, 

 Minneola, N. Y., has been incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $200,000 to deal in lumber, hard- 

 woods, etc. The incorporators are Julian M. 

 Wilson and Edward C. Stevens of 37 Liberty 

 street. New York, N. Y., and August E. Blockley, 

 111 Broadway, New York City, 



It has been reported that the plant of the 

 Great Southern Lumber Company of Bogalusa. 

 La., will be increased in capacity. Plans are 

 feet ot mahogany, a large quantity of quarter- 

 to the plant, which will almost double the 

 present capacity of the mill. The present mill 

 cuts about 600,000 feet in ten hours' opera- 

 tion. 



Fire recently destroyed the greater part of 

 the lumber yards of the Missouri River Lum- 

 ber Company, Omaha, Neb., entailing a loss 

 estimated at between $40,000 and $30,000, fully 

 covered by insurance. Mr. Kranz, local man- 

 ager of the company, reported that a large 

 shipment of expensive imported finishing woods 

 iuad just been received, which was the ^rst 

 part of the stock destroyed. Among the most 

 valuable woods burned were several thousand 

 feet of mahogany, a large quantity of quarter 

 sawed oak, various kinds of hardwoods, and 

 many finished floor sections. The shed, which 

 covered that portion of the yard which sus- 

 tained most of the loss, was recently erected 

 at a cost of $7,000. 



Hardwood ^ews ^otes 



CHIC AGO 



The Defiance Machine Works, the well-known 

 wood-working machinery manufacturers at De- 

 fiance, O., announces the removal of its London 

 oflices from 71 Queen street, E. C, to 60 Queen 

 Yictoria street, E. C. The Defiance Machine 

 Works have the reputation of marketing more 

 wood-working tools abroad than any other 

 American machinery manufacturer, and they are 

 constantly improving their facilities to take care 

 of their increasing foreign trade. 



Receipt is acknowledged of a handsome booklet 

 entitled "Michigan's Woods in Use," published 

 jointly by the Mitchell Brothers Company and 

 Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., of Cadillac, Mich. It 

 illustrates the employment of various Michigan 

 woods in the handsome joint office building of 

 the two companies, and while not stated, is 

 doubtless the work of that .solon of sales man- 

 agers of the two institutions, M. E. Thomas. 



L. W. Ford of the Goodlander-Robertson Lum- 

 ber Company, Memphis, Tenn., was a recent 

 visitor in the Chicago market. 



