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HARDWOOD RECORD 



August 10. lil 



more recent years it has engaged in the general handling of freight 

 on the Mississippi. Ohio and tributaries of these streams. The Bart 

 Tully, all steel towboat of the company, is now on the ways for 

 repairs. Superheaters are being added and when the boat is again 

 ready for service within the next few days it will be one of the most 

 powerful on the Mississippi. 



George C. Brown & Company, with offlces in Memphis and band mill at 

 Proctor, Ark., have transferred to the Miller Lumber Company, Marianna. 

 Ark., all of their remaining timber lands in Arkansas, amounting to about 

 4,500 acres and estimated to contain between 45,000,000 and .50.000,000 

 feet of hardwoods. The purchasing flrra has two band mills at Marianna 

 and it enjoys both rail and river facilities for transporting the newly ac- 

 quired timber to its plants. This is really largely responsible for the trans- 

 fer. George C. Brown & Company have extensive timber holdings in 

 Grenada and Calhoun counties in Mississippi and they are preparing to 

 move their machinery and equipment to that state in the near future. 

 Work has already begun on the construction of a railroad for handling 

 the timber from these properties, and H. B. Weiss, secretary of the firm, is 

 now In Mississippi looking after details of the new operation, including 

 selection of a mill site. It is probable that this firm, which recently cut 

 out its holdings near Lake Village. Ark., will also remove part of the ma- 

 chinery at that point to Mississippi. The Arkansas tract sold by the com- 

 pany lies on the Memphis-Marianna cut-off on the Missouri Pacific system 

 and is 22 miles from Memphis in the heart of the St. Francis valley. 

 George C. Brown & Company, although disposing of all their timlwr hold- 

 ings in Arkansas, still retain considerable cut-over and farming lands in 

 that state. 



The Gayoso Lumber Company is rapidly completing installation of 

 its band mill at Grenada, Miss. This equipment was removed from 

 Blaine, Miss., where this firm some time ago completed cutting its 

 standing timber. The Grenada plant will be used for developing its 

 timber in Grenada county. The plant will have a daily capacity of 

 about 50,000 feet and will be in operation by August 1,'), according to 

 Charley Ransom, one of the stockholders. 



The Lee Lumber Company announces that it will expend approx- 

 imately $75,000 in the construction of a new planing mill and mill-work 

 plant in East Memphis in order to take care of its rapidly increasing 

 business. It owns between eleven and twelve acres of property near 

 Wlllett street and Railroad avenue and this will be the location. 



LOUISVILLE 



The Louisville Hardwood Club is now holding its weekly meetings 

 at the Louisville Country Club, getting some fine food, and several of 

 the members get out early enough to shoot a few holes of golf before 

 dinner. The club is enthusiastic over the new arrangements, and 

 better attendance is being shown. 



The Louisville & Nashville R. R. has denied any knowledge of a 

 proposed deal as given to the press by Henry Ford, Detroit, relative 

 to the D. T. & I., taking over the Cincinnati to Harlan division of 

 the Louisville & Nashville R. R., under an operating agreement. 



R. R. May, of the R. R. May Hardwood Co., has lost both his mother 

 and father within a period of six weeks. Mrs. May died at the family 

 home at D'Lo, Miss., on June 25, following a lingering illness, and 

 W. R. May died on July 29, he having been in poor health for some 

 time. 



John Rufus West, forger, wanted for passing forged checks printed 

 with the name of Steele & Hibbard Lumber Co., St. Louis, last winter, 

 has been arrested and is held in Louisville. He caught some Louis- 

 ville iiotels, and is said to have caught several lumber companies 

 out in the state. 



Without prejudice to its rights to institute new proceedings, the 

 Federal Trade Commission has dismissed its formal complaint against 

 Hillerich & Bradsby Co., Louisville, the case involving resale price 

 maintenance. The case is really suspended to await the determina- 

 tion in a test case. The local company operates a large wooil turning 

 plant, producing bats and golf clubs. 



Sparks recently set fire to sawdust at the plant of the Floyd County 

 Veneer Co., New Albany, resulting in an alarm being tvirned in, but 

 practically no damage was done. 



With a capital stock of $15,000, the Calhoun Lumber & Milling Co., 

 McLean County, Calhoun, Ky., has been chartered by Walter G. 

 Houghland, of Evansville, Ind., Ashton Bryant and G. H. Cary, 

 Calhoun. 



With a capital of $5,000, the Wayne Stave & Lumber Co., Somer- 

 set, Ky., has been chartered by I. D. Thompson, Sr., I. D. Thompson, 

 Jr., and L. H. Humble. 



Notice has been filed by the Kline Timber & Land Co.. Louisville, 

 chartered to handle timberlands some months ago, that the corpora- 

 tion Is winding up its affairs. The notice was signed by H. E. 

 Snyder, of the Louisville Veneer Mills, this company having been 

 a subsidiary of tlie veneer company. 



A permit has recently been secured by the Hillerich & Bradsby Co., 



for erection of a fireproof storage plant at its local plant, to cost ak>out 

 $15,000, to be used for storage of finished bats, golf clubs, etc. 



J. H. Barclay, formerly operating the J. H. Barclay Lumber Co., 

 Bedford, Ind., recently sold that business, and joined R. R. May, 

 Louisville, as a partner in the R. R. May Hardwood Co. 



J. R. May, formerly with the Louisville division of the Southern 

 Hardwood Traffic Association, and brother of R. R. May, of the R. R. 

 May Hardwood Co., Louisville, on August 1, left the Gayoso Lumber 

 Co., Memphis, to join the Tustin Hardwood Lumber Co. 



A. E. Norman, Jr., of the Norman Lumber Co., Louisville, reports 

 that he is having some difficulty in securing poplar lumber in the 

 South, on account of car troubles resulting from the strike, but that 

 demand for siding, box shooks and lumber is better. 



NEW ORLEANS 



C. H. Sherrill, president of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute, 

 has returned to his oflBee in the Whitney-Central Bank Building at 

 New Orleans aftei' an absence of nearly four weeks in the Northwest 

 and North attending hardwood manufacturers' meetings in the inter- 

 • .St of the new Institute. Mr. Sherrill attended meetings at Milwaukee, 

 Chicago and other places, preaching the gospel of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Institute with the abiding zeal of a medieval cru- 

 sader. He reports that the leaders of the ne%v organization are re- 

 ceiving more and more encouragement in tlieir great venture every 

 day. 



The Moline Timber Company is putting its sawmill at Camden, 

 Ark., in condition for operation in the near future, according to news 

 reaching New Orleans. The Smithton, Ark., plant of the company 

 has already been started to running again. 



From Pine Bluff, Ark., comes word that the Saline River Hardwood 

 Company has just placed its plant on a night and day running basis. 

 The night run, it is estimated, will increase the output of the plant 

 3,500,000 feet per month, for whicli the management report an encour- 

 aging demand. 



A new double band hardwood sawmill is being constructed at Dewey- 

 ville, Texas, near Beaumont, by the Peavy-Moore Lumber Company. 

 It will have a planing mill in connection. The company has upward 

 of 300 million feet of the choicest of hardwoods on its holdings and 

 work on the new hardwood plant is to be rushed to the limit. The 

 mill is to be situated near the pine operation of that company there 

 and the same logging facilities will be used for running both the pine 

 and the hardwood plant. The new project is to be but one of the 

 various and sundry lumbering enterprises of which J. A. Peavy of 

 Shreveport, La., is the head. 



WISCONSIN 



Fire destroyed the plant of the Charles A. Strasburg Broom Co., 

 732 Fifth street, Milwaukee. Origin is unknown but the fire was well 

 under way when discovered and the stock was soon destroyed. Loss 

 is covered by insurance. 



Sparks igniting wood shavings in the box factory of the Hilty Lum- 

 ber Co., foot of Twelfth street, Milwaukee, caused an $8,000 loss and 

 for a time threatened sheds and lumber valued at more than $300,000. 

 The factory building was destroyed as were two piles of lumber. 



Notice has been given by R. J. Van Nostrand, secretary, that the cor- 

 poration organized at the Modern Builders, Inc., town of Wauwatosa, 

 Wis., near Milwaukee, has amended its articles changing the name 

 to the Interior Millwork & Fixture Co. 



Milwaukee bond houses are offering a $200,000 Issue of Flambeau 

 River Lumber Co., I-adysmith, Wis., 7 percent cumulative and par- 

 ticipating first preferred stock at $100 a share. The company manu- 

 factured hard and softwood lumber, ha\'ing holdings in Ruck, Sawyer 

 and Price counties. The company conducts its own logging operations 

 and has a modern plant at Ladysmith with 20,000,000 feet annual 

 <-apacity. The purpose of tlie issue is to purchase additional timber 

 to liquidate indebtedness and provide ample working capital. 



William C. Schultz has returned to Watei-town, Wis., from a trip 

 south and is now arranging minor details preceding the organization 

 of the new Table Slide Manufacturing Co. 



The Chair City Broom Co., Sheboygan, has purchased a two-story 

 frame building at 2516 North 15th street which it has occupied for 

 some time. The concern is reported to be enjoying splendid business 

 in the manufacture and sale of brooms. 



Construction is under way on a new spacious office building for 

 Uie Buckstaff Co., manufacturers of caskets and chairs at Oshkosh. 

 Ihe building is being erected at South Main and Twelfth streets, 

 ifljolning the factory, and will be ready for occupancy this fall. The 

 I'iesent office building will be rebuilt for factory purposes. 



^he Hardwood Products Co has been reorganized and succeeded 

 1'. he Hardwood Products Corporation, Neenah, Wis. The new con- 

 ceii] is an amalgamation of the old Hardwood Products Co. and the 

 Mi.ssissippi Veneer & Lumber Co., merger of which was effected 

 several months ago. 



Incorporation is noted of the Superior Wood Products Co., at 



