HARDWOOD RECORD 



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On tho morning ot October 30 fire destroyed 

 the local plant of Thompson, Thayer & McCowen, 

 located at Columbia street and the E. & T. H. 

 Railroad. The loss is estimated at $2r>.000, cov- 

 ered by insurance. Tho fire started in the en- 

 gine room and had gained considerable headway 

 when the hose companies arrived. The mill is 

 a total loss. The firm announces that the mill 

 will be rebuilt at once. 



E. W. Hartley ot the Racine Lumber & Manu- 

 facturing Company of Racine, Wis., was a recent 

 visitor in the city. 



William Threlkeld, of the Indiana Quartered 

 Oak Company. 5 East rorty-socond street. New 

 York, was in the city last week visiting the 

 trade and his old friends. 



George E'aton, who is with the Nickcy Brothers 

 Hardwood Lumber Company of Memphis, Tenn., 

 was here recently visiting friends and relatives. 



The plant of the .Tackson Lumber Company, 

 Jackson, Tenn., which Is an extension of the 

 business of the Evansville Veneer Works, is 

 operating full time. A shipment of sixteen 

 mahogany logs wei-o received at the hu^ai itlnited 

 States customs ofhce for the Evansville Veneer 

 Company. The logs wore cut in Siberia and 

 shipped by way of London, Eng. Tills is the 

 third shipment of mahogany to be received by 

 the company from Silieria this year. 



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MBMPHIS 



The weather has continued very favorable 

 In this territory during the past fortnight and 

 lumber manufacturers have gone ahead as stead- 

 ily as possible in the operation nf their plants. 

 There has been an exceptionally low water 

 stage in the Arkansas and Red rivers as well 

 as in some of the other streams in this section 

 and the upshot has been that it has been very 

 difficult to bring out any timbe;- on these bodies 

 of water. As a consequence some of the mills 

 depending on these rivers for logs have been 

 able to run only part time. Some timber, how- 

 ever, has been brouglit out on the -Mississippi 

 recently. Difficulty with some of the railroads 

 in getting cars to bring in timber promptly has 

 also handicapped mills in securing their sup- 

 plies. 



Hardwood lumber interests have complained 

 that business was not as good as expected but 

 it is generall.v conceded that, except in cases 

 where there have been insufficient supplies, ship- 

 ments have been from 15 to 2o per cent ahead 

 of the corresponding season last year. 



There is no cause for complaint in general 

 business conditions as reflected in bank clear- 

 ings and other l»arometers of activity. The 

 railroads are handling an enormous volume of 

 business and are under the necessity of placing 

 additional orders for equipment to take care of 

 traffic offered them. The Southern Railway has 

 recently ordered 3,000 new cars and the Frisco 

 System is awaiting the fllling of an order of 

 the same size. In tho meantime this and other 

 roads are rushing repair work as fast as pos- 

 sible. The car shortage is already liegiuning 

 to assume proportions that are uncomfortable 

 for the lumbermen and particularly for those 

 at Interior points. The climax of the cotton 

 movement is still to be seen and until this has 

 passed there is little prospect of any change 

 for the better. Reports from Birmingham, Lit- 

 tle Rock and other points in the Central South 

 indicate a very decided gain in bank clearings, 

 the total in Birmingham for the first ten months 

 of 1910 having liroken all previous records at 

 $105,850,004.02. as compared fn-ith .$80,095,- 

 175.74. In October there was a gain of consid- 

 erably more than $1,000,000 for that city. 

 Building reports too have been very large, the 

 gain at Little Rock having been alKiut 2G per 

 cent and the total at Birmingham having been 

 $230,001 compared with $170,103 last year. 



Lumber interests hero are pleased with the 

 fact that John M. Woods & Co. of Boston have 



opened yards at Memphis, where their southern 

 purchases of lumber will he concentrated. They 

 have secured a site adjoining the yards of the 

 Dudley Lumber Company In South Memphis and 

 are making arrangements to open at ctnce. D. 

 Nellls, who has been with the iirm for sonn? time 

 at Decatur, Ala., Is temporarily in charge. Jolin 

 AI. Woods, head of the firm, is well known lo 

 file trade of this section and Is popular willi 

 all the members. 



Rnsso & Burgess, Inc., have begun the con- 

 struction of a railroad six miles in length from 

 a point on the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Rail- 

 road. It will bo standard gnage, used to reacli 

 the timber lands of the firm in that section. 

 It is proposed to bring the timber to Memphis, 

 where it will be manufactured at the big band 

 mill of the firm. 



The Scott Manufactuing Company expects to 

 have its plant at Helena. Ark., ready for oper- 

 ation by November 10. The company will en- 

 gage In the manufacture of material for furni- 

 ture. 



T. J. Turner has purdiased a large tract of 

 timber land near Marked Tree, Ark., .Inst west of 

 ^Memphis, upon which ho proposes to e.stabllsh 

 a sawmill, which will be placed in operation 

 as soon as possible. 



Further details regarding the plant of tho 

 I'oinsett Lumber & Manufacturing Company are 

 to the effect that a contract has been let to 

 H. G. Chester of South Bend, Ind., for the con- 

 struction of a sawmill and veneer plant to cost 

 $100,000, at Trumann, Ark., and work thereon 

 has already begun. The plant, which will bo 

 fully equipped, will employ about 200 men. Tho 

 company owns large tracts of timber land aroiintl 

 Trumann and in Poinsett county. 



The Anchor Furniture Company of Pino Bluff. 

 Ark., has boon granted a charter. It has a cap- 

 ital stock of $15,000 and will engage in a 

 general furniture business. T. L. Davis and 

 others are the Incorporators. 



S. A. Conn, manager of the organization re- 

 sulting from the merging of the interests of 

 Charles V. Taft and George R. Balch in Con- 

 cordia Parish. La., states that the company will 

 build a $25,000 sawmill on the hank of the 

 Tensas river. Tlie Tensas River & Lumber Com- 

 pany, which is capitalized at $100,000. has al- 

 ready been formed and will look after the oper- 

 ations of this plant. 



The Frank Spangler Company, with head- 

 quarters at Toledo, O., has opened yards and a 

 branch office here and will conduct a general 

 wholesale business. 



II. M. Wheeler of J. W. Wheeler & Co.. Madi- 

 son. Ark., and Memphis, is authority for the 

 statement that his firm has ,iust sold -5.300 acres 

 of timber land in East Carroll Parish, La., to 

 the Elgin Butter Tub Company of Elgin, 111. 

 There are about 5,000,000 feet of ash on this 

 property and it was because of the preponder- 

 ance of ash that the sale was made. The new 

 owners intend establishing a stave mill on the 

 property with a view to manufacturing the 

 material for shipment to Elgin. This is the 

 largest timl)er land transaction put through in 

 this territory for some time. The price was 

 $15 per acre. 



The National Lumber & Creosotlng Company, 

 with headquarters at Texarkana, Ark., has se- 

 cured a contract from one of the big trunk lines 

 operating in Arkansas and Texas for $2,000,000 

 worth of cross ties to be made exclusively of 

 oak. In order to take care of the requirements 

 of this contract the company will establish tie 

 plants at several points in .\rkansas, Texas and 

 Louisiana. It is understood that it now has an 

 option on 25,000 acres of timber lands. Tho 

 purchase will be made with the specific inten- 

 tion of using the white oak thereon for filling 

 this contract. 



W. W. Freeze Is preparing to erect a hard- 

 wood mill with a dally capacity ot 25,000 feet 

 near Hutohins Landing, Adams county. Miss. 

 The managoinoMi [irc^poses to have the plant In 



operation by .Lanuiiry 1. It owns about 5,000,- 

 000 feet of standing timber. 



Kdward Wlose and Charles E. Thomas of St. 

 Louis, the principal stockholders of the Belzonl 

 Hardwood Lumber Company, Belzonl, Miss., 

 have begun the erection ot a new hardwood mill 

 at that point. it will be of large capacity, 

 up to-date In every respect and of the hand 

 variety. It will be engaged largely In cutting 

 oak and gum. Tho old mill will be discarded 

 during the coming month and the machinery 

 in that will be Installed In the new plant. 



Geo. D. Burgess, vice-president of Uusse & 

 Burgess, Inc., and P. R. Friedel of the Frledel 

 Lumber k Manufaoturlng Company, are among 

 the lumbermen constituting the delegation which 

 will go from Memphis to the annual conven- 

 tion of the Deep Waterways Association to be 

 hold in St. Louis November 25-20, as the rep- 

 resentatives of the Merchants' Exchange. 



S. B. Anderson of the Andoraon-Tully Com- 

 pany has returned from Vicksburg, Miss., where 

 lie went to look after the sawmills and box fac- 

 tory of the firm at that point. W. B. Morgan, 

 another member of the company, has just re- 

 turned from Little Rock and other points In 

 Arkansas. 



NASHVILLE 



Tlie big plant of the Standard Lumber & Box 

 Company has been sold to J. T. Black by R. and 

 J. S. Young, its former operators. The purchase 

 price was $37.0t)0. The purchaser is a large 

 lumber dealer having hardwood interests in 

 various sections of the South. He was formerly 

 located at Hickory Flat, Miss., hut It Is said he 

 will remove to I^ashville as soon as he makes 

 arrangements to take over the plant. 



The Batcherlor Shook wedding, one of the 

 most brilliant affaii'S in the social history of the 

 city, occurred at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon, 

 October 2!). at the First Presbyterian Church, 

 the Ror. .Lames I. Vance of Newark. N. J., 

 officiating. About forty out-of-town guests at- 

 tended the wedding, among whom were many 

 from Saginaw, Mich., the former home of the 

 bridegroom. Following the wedding a re- 

 receptlon was given at the home of the bride. 

 Tho couple immediately following the reception 

 left for New York, from where they took a 

 steamer for an Eurojioan trip. Mr. Batchelor 

 has iieen in Nashville only a little more than a 

 year, and has established the big Tennessee 

 Hardwood Flooring Company. He is popular ta 

 Nashville, both socially and with the business 

 men. His bride is a fair representative of one 

 of the oldest Soutliorn familios and her father 

 is a millionaire. 



.\ special from Tracy City, Tenn.. announces 

 that the W. F. Bradley Lumber Company of 

 Zanesville. O., has bought immense holdings In 

 the Cumberland mountains adjacent to Tracy. 

 The company's plant is l>eing moved to the tract 

 from Ohio and besides the manufacture of lum- 

 lier. wagon spokes, rims, etc., will be manufac- 

 tured, and later on, tool handles. 



A special from McMinnville, Warren county, 

 announces the destruction by fire of the Walling 

 Lumber Company's plant. Tlie origin of the fire 

 is unknown. 



Building permits In Nashville for October, 

 1910, show an Increase over those of 1909 as 

 follows: $120,371 for 1910; $102,935.50 for 

 1909. September, however, showed a slight fall- 

 ing off from the 1909 record. 



Douglass & Howell, a hustling new lumber 

 firm, has been added to the membership of the 

 Nashville Lumbermen's Club. Messrs. Douglass 

 and Howell arc young Nashvilllans, progressive 

 and reliable. 



A number of the Nashville lumber firms are 

 subscribing to the Traffic Bureau that is being 

 established by the Nashville Board ot Trade. 

 The Bureau proposes to keep a rale expert in 

 charge of the headquarters who will be in touch 



