HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Tbe hardwood sawmill of the Lucerne Lumber Company. Lucerne, was 

 hurned August 28. tlie loss being $6,000 on which there was ?1,500 in- 

 surance. The company supplies several table and chair factories. 



Miss Ethel Carver, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Carver, and Dr. 

 William S. Richardson of Carthage, Ark., were married at the home of 

 the bride's parents in Noblesville, Sept. 3. Mr. Carver has extensive 

 lumber interests in the South. 



Cedar chests will be manufactured by the Acme Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, which has just been organized and incorporated at South Bend with 

 an authorized capitalization of $25,000. Those interested in the company 

 are O. E. Julien, E. E. Burner and O. A. Burner. 



The marriage of Miss Gertrude Martha Truitt, daughter of Mr. and 

 Mrs. O. M. Pruitt, to David Keller Hutchtraft of Lexington. Ky.. took 

 place at the home of the bride's parents in this city Sept. 3. Mr. Pruitt 

 is president of the American Timber Products Company. 



H. A. McCowan & Co. of Salem have bought thirteen walnut trees for a 

 Berlin, Germany, customer from the McShane farm south of Carmel. The 

 price paid was $500 and the price was the highest ever paid in this part 

 of the state. 



Elbert W. Shirk, general manager of the company, has been appointed 

 receiver for the Indiana Manufacturing Company, Peru. The company 

 manufactures refrigerators and suffered a loss of $100,000 during the 

 March flood. The plaintill's to the suit, which is a friendly one. are 

 stockholders in the company and hold claims amounting to $10-2.000. 



William E. Longle.v. state fire marshal, has asked Governor Samuel L. 

 Ralston to issue a proclamation fixing Oct. 9 as fire prevention day in 

 Indiana. The date is the forty-third anniversary of the Chicago fire. 



Building operations suffered a slump of $188,000 in the city last month 

 as compared with August, 1912. There has been a gradual decline in 

 building operations during the last three months, although the first five 

 months of the year showed large gains over the correspondin.? months of 

 last year. 



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Further details regarding the plant to be established by R. J. Darnell, 

 Inc.. at Batpsville, Miss., are to the effect that this will consist of a 

 double band mill, a resaw and eight veneer machines. It was reported 

 when the fire occurred at Memphis that this firm would re-establish the 

 band mill at Batesville but that the veneer machines would be replaced 

 at Memphis. The firm, however, has recently changed its mind in regard 

 to using Memphis as an operating point and all the machinery will be 

 installed at Batesville. which is close to the timberland holdings of the 

 company. The order for the entire machinery and equipment iias already 

 been placed and this will be installed and placed in operation as soon as 

 possible. 



The car shortage is beginning to give lumber interests in this territory 

 some trouble and indications are that there will be a decided scarcity of 

 cars and general equipment in the near future. However, railroad men 

 are inclined to take a little more optimistic view of the outlook. They 

 say that they are meeting with unexpected success in securing return of 

 cars which have been away from their own lines and these are being as- 

 sembled on sidings and at the larger terminals in order that the roads 

 may be in position to give good service when the crop starts moving, 

 which will be within the next fortnight. There has been rather marked 

 deterioration in the condition of the crop in the Mississippi valley terri- 

 tory during the past few days and prospects are not anything like so 

 bright as they were a short time ago. This will have an ultimate bear- 

 ing on the problem of securing enough cars but the shortage in the crop 

 will not affect the maximum movement which must be expected within 

 the next six or eight weeks. Lumbermen are therefore inclined to believe 

 that they will have some dilficulty in securing prompt and efficient service 

 before the first of November despite, the fact that traffic oflScials are dis- 

 posed to believe that they have the situation well in hand. 



There is no doubt that the railroad men are doing the best they can. 

 In addition to the cars which have been brought in from other roads 

 there have been many deliveries of new cars for lines in this territory. 

 Furthermore, all of the roads have been busy getting their damaged cars 

 repaired. Most of them have increased the forces at their car repair 

 plants and the American Car & Foundry Company, which has been running 

 short handed for a number of months, is now advertising for help to take 

 care of the work that is to be done for the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & 

 Southern and other roads operating in this territory. It is expected 

 that the plant of this company will be operating on something like full 

 time in the near future. 



The shortage of cars always affects milling points outside of Memphis 

 much sooner than Memphis proper. There are plenty of cars here now 

 for all requirements but complaints are beginning to come in of lack of 

 cars and insufficient motive power at some of the non-competitive points. 

 Conditions in this respect are expected to become rather worse until the 

 maximum crop movement has been passed and lumber interests are doing 

 their best to govern themselves accordingly. 



It is reported that there has been rather a decided increase in the 

 movement of logs to Memphis recently by water and this is accepted as 

 an excellent omen, especially in view of the prospective shorthandedness 

 of the railroads. The river here has recently risen somewhat and advan- 

 tage is being taken of the better water stage to bring out as much timber 



as is accessible for water transportation. Receipts have been coming 

 from a number of directions but the best movement is from White river 

 in Arkansas. The movement of timber by rail is not particularly large 

 at the moment but the mills here are reasonably well supplied and opera- 

 tions are being cairiod on at a pretty full rate not only at Memphis 

 proper but at milling points outside of this city. 



W. H. Kennedy, president of the Kennedy Heading Company, New South 

 Memphis, is suffering from rather severe injuries received while he was 

 in his automobile on his way to his plant. The machine was struck by 

 a southbound street car and thrown some distance. Mr. Kennedy suf- 

 fered a number of cuts and bruises, and although it was at first thought 

 that his skull was fractured, it is now said his injuries are serious but not 

 as bad as feared when the accident occurred. His many friends are con- 

 gratulating him upon the fact that he escaped much more serious conse- 

 quences. 



The Southern Hardwood Traffic Bureau, as the first fruits of its new 

 campaign for members, has taken in the two following Memphis firms : 

 Anchor Sawmill Company and J. H. Bonner & Son. This brings the 

 total number of firms identified with the bureau to 67. George D. Bur- 

 gess, chairman of the bureau, is absent from the city at present but on 

 his return a vigorous campaign for new members will be launched in 

 order that the total may be brought up to the one hundred mark. The 

 bureau has accomplished much in behalf of lumber interests of the South 

 and, because of the splendid showing it bas been able to make, the gov- 

 erning board believes that new members can be secured with comparative 

 ease, with the result that there is much confidence and optimism enter- 

 tained by tbe campaign committee. 



T. R. Pope, the manager of the newly formed Memphis Traffic Associa- 

 tion, reports that the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern has agreed to 

 a substantial reduction in the rates on wooden handles shipped from New- 

 port, Ark., and vicinity to Memphis. Tbe new rates are thirteen cents 

 cheaper on carload lots at sixteen cents against twenty-nine cents, while 

 in less than carload lots the reduction amounts to three cents at thirty- 

 two against thirt.v-five. Memphis is a big handle market and a large 

 portion of the receipts comes from Newport and vicinity, with the result 

 that a number of Memphis firms will profit handsomely by the reduced 

 tariffs which are to become effective at once. 



Bids will be opened within a week for the sixteen-story bank building 

 to be erected by the Commercial Savings Bank & Trust Company, the 

 estimated cost of which is $400,000. Work is to begin thereon shortly. 

 The new annex to the Bank of Commerce & Trust Company building Is 

 actively under way and will be ready for occupancy by 1914. The Illi- 

 nois Central is going steadily ahead with the new union passenger ter- 



^ Fitzgibbons & Krebs Patent Ele- 

 vated Traveling Derrick propels itself 

 on 28-ft. gauge track. 



^ No guy ■wires. 



^ Write to O. M. Krebs, Mallory 

 Ei^nch, Memphis, Tenn., or to P. F. 

 Fitzgibbons, Chattanooga, Tenn., for 

 pamphlet fully illustrating and explain- 

 ing the de"Tick. 



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