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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Mr. nannlng's injury is very painful, it is uoi 

 oi" u dangerous nature, and lie has since returned 

 lo his borne in Cincinnati. 



The Uawesville Art Furniture Company. 

 llawesville, Ky., has started a factory on a saiall 

 scale in that city for the manufacture and sale 

 or furniture, such as writing desks, hookcases, 

 tenter tables, etc. Kdward N. Lamar is secretary 

 and treasurer of the concern. 



Koscoe Cutsinger of the Diamond Veneer Com- 

 pany, Edlnburg, Ind., was in the city on busi 

 tiess recently. 



SOUTH BEND 



The Red River Lumber Company was incor- 

 porated this week tor .?1."),000 for the purpose of 

 developing a large tract of timber located in 

 Louisiana. The incorporators are W. L. Kizer, 

 S. .M. Robinson and Dr. G. P. Morey, all of this 

 city. 



Harry E. Schadt, sales manager of the Hyde 

 Lumber Company, has Just returned from a ten 

 days' trip to the company's baud mills and yards 

 at Arkansas City. Ark., and other lumber point.s 

 in the South. He reports steady operation of 

 the mill and prospects for 1911 encouraging. 

 The company has recently put in a new band 

 mill to take tlie place of the circular mill for- 

 merly operated. 



The South Hend Mill & Timber Company was 

 incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000. 

 .Tacob E. Kuntz, S. W. Cordray and M. Cordray 

 are the incoporators. Mr. Kuntz is also pro- 

 prietor of the South Bend Dowell Works. The 

 company will erect a now sawmill and planing 

 mill. 



J. W. Martin of the Martin & Eckman Lumber 

 vV: Timber Company just returned from a busi- 

 ness trip in interest of his firm. He reports 

 business very satisfactory for tliis time of the 

 year. The company is buying considerable tim- 

 ber for its mills at Cassopolis, Mich., and expects 

 steady operation the entire winter and spring of 

 mil. 



MEMPHIS 



There has been practically no change in the 

 conditions surrounding the hardwood lumber 

 Industry in this territory. Weather conditions 

 have been very favorable for the operation of 

 the mills, and in most cases plants have been 

 l;ept running full time. Lumber interests here 

 have done everything they could toward secur- 

 ing an adequate timber supply before the un- 

 favorable weather sets in. It is known that 

 there is no excessive supply of hardwood lum- 

 ber in this section and because of this fact 

 manufacturers will doubtless be influenced large- 

 ly in determining prices by the conditions which 

 .surround production in the next few weeks. It 

 is accepted as a foregone conclusion that there 

 v.iU be an active demand after the holidays, and 

 it may be said In the same connection that 

 there is a decided feeling of optimism in re- 

 gard to the outlook. 



Bank dealings here tor the month of Novem- 

 ber were in round figures $48,000,000, or virtual- 

 ly $2,000,000 per day. This total represented 

 an Increase of about .$10,000,000 over the pre- 

 vious highest record in this city, which was 

 $:t8, 000.000. Large movement of cotton and 

 the high prices obtainable therefore have doubt- 

 less contributed heavily to this showing, but at 

 the same time there has been a heallhy Increase 

 in business in every direction. Lumliermen have 

 made their contributions in no uneerlain way, as 

 Is shown by the fact that some of the large 

 firms here have recently declared that they 

 were doing more business than for several years 

 at this date. 



Conditions In the car situation have shown 

 no change. Cars can not be furnished always 

 as requested and after they have been loaded 

 It Is not always possible to have them promptly 



moved. However, the maximum movement of 

 the cotton crop has passed within the week and 

 :i rapid decrease 1? to be expected. As soon as 

 this is the case there will be more cars for the 

 use of the lumbermen and other shippers, and 

 it will be possible for all other lines to do a 

 more satisfactory business. 



The election of Floyd F. Roberts of Roberts \ 

 Son to membership in the Lumbermen's Club "t 

 .Memphis Saturday afternoon, brought to light 

 the information that he is connected with his 

 father in the operation of a mill five miles soutli 

 of Memphis and that the firm has recently 

 opened yards in New South Memphis. 



Much interest has been felt here during the 

 past few days in the report that the Frisco 

 System had gained control of the New Orleans 

 & Great Northern. There has been no definite 

 confirmation of the report, but it is understood 

 thst if this should prove to be true it would bj 

 the means of opening a direct line on the part 

 of the Frisco System from Memphis to New 

 Orleans, thus providing another important ex- 

 port outlet. 



The Brown Lumber Company, Paragould, Ark . 

 has purchased the yard and other holdings o( 

 the Dickinson-Pearce Lumber Company at Mar- 

 maduke. Ark., for a consideration of $2,500. The 

 Brown company will also take over and operali 

 the mills which were formerly under the DicU- 

 iDson-Pearce company's control. The latter con- 

 cern was forced into bankruptcy some time ago 

 because of its alleged inability to promptly meel 

 its bills. 



The Varner Land & Lumber Company, Lin- 

 coln Co., Ark., recently purchased between 4,50o 

 .Tnd 5,000 acres of timber land from T. H. Col- 

 lier, through its Pine Bluff agency, paying there- 

 fore between $120,000 and $125.ii00. Following 

 the closing of this deal it is announced that it 

 has leased fifteen acres of land adjoining this 

 tract, on which it will erect an up-to-date saw- 

 mill plant at once. The point of location is 

 practically at Altheimer. Ark. In addition to 

 the erection of the sawmill plant about one hun- 

 dred houses will be built for the use of the 

 employes. The tract of land is said to be one of 

 the finest in the entire South. 



The glueing-up plant, which was recently 

 projected at Helena for the manufacture of 

 glued-up parts to be used in furniture making, 

 is nearly completed and will be ready for opera- 

 lion by the first of the new year. This plant 

 is being erected by the Scott Manufacturing 

 Company. 



W. II. Russe of Russe & Burgess, Inc.. has re- 

 cently returned from an extended European 

 trip. He left here early in October and went 

 abroad as one of a committee of three to look 

 after certain features of the work of the Na- 

 tional Lumber Exporters' Association. 



S. ('. Major and bride have returned from 

 their wedding trip and are now at home lo 

 their friends at the Hotel Gayoso. 



W. B. Morgan and F. T. Dooley, both of 

 whom are candidates for vice-president in the 

 loming election of the Lumbermen's Club of 

 .Memphis, are leaving the city tonight and will 

 lie gone until practically the time for the elec- 

 tion to be held. They have a number of friends, 

 however, who will see that their interests do 

 rot suffer. Mr. Morgan is a candidate for second 

 vice-president on the blue ticket and Mr. Dooley 

 is a candidate tor first vice-president on the red. 



Walter Sharp, representing the Liverpool sell- 

 ing agency of Churchill & Sim. London, has 

 been here during the past few days in confer- 

 ence with firms who use this agency in making 

 their foreign sales. He was a guest at the last 

 meeting of the Lumbermen's Club. 



W. A. Ransom, president of the fJayoso Lum- 

 ber Company, has recently returned from a busi- 

 ress I rip to Chicago. lie has been accused of 

 picking up a few stray orders In Chicago but 

 It Is understood that he picked not only a few 

 orders hut a considerable buncli of these while 

 on his latest trip. 



Wm. Wright of the Wright-Bachman Lumber 

 Company, Portland, Ark., spent Saturday and 

 Sunday in Memphis. He reports a good foreign 

 demand for plain oak and gum, and says that 

 ronditions abroad are improving. 



BRISTOL 



The band mill of the Peter-McCain Lumber 

 Company was put in operation this week and 

 will run steadily, turning out about 40,000 feet 

 of stock daily. The mill is well stocked with 

 logs from the company's new timber tract in Sul- 

 livan county. 



O. II. Vial, who is operating a band mill in 

 Greene county, Tenn., at Patterson Mill, was in 

 the city this week. He reports that as yet his 

 operations have been unaffected by the bad 

 weather and that he expects to run pretty stead- 

 ily through the remainder of the winter season. 



The liaraascus Lumber Company, operating a 

 band mill at Damascus. Va., not far from Bris- 

 tol, has already cut 19,000.000 feet of stock 

 this year and will round out its twentieth mil- 

 lion before the end of the present month. The 

 company is well supplied with timber. 



An r.mendment to the charter of the Watauga 

 Manufacturing Company, with mills and offices 

 at Damascus, Va., granted last week by the cor- 

 poration commission of Virginia, increases its 

 capital stock from $25,000 to $50,000. This Is 

 in keeping with the plan of the company to ex- 

 tend the scope of its business. 



The railroads in this section report that the 

 volume of traffic is holding up well, and that 

 lumber shipments are somewhat heavier than 

 for some time past. The coal traffic is active 

 and the tonnage the heaviest for many weeks. 



J. A. Wilkinson has put in operation two 

 mills at EUett, Va., on the line of the new Vir- 

 ginian Railroad, where he recently purchased a 

 large tract of timber. 



Among the visitors here last week were Rob- 

 ert Vestal. Knoxville, Tenn. ; W. S. Whiting, 

 Whiting Manufacturing Company, Asheville, N. 

 C, and R. E. Wood of the R. E. Wood Lumber 

 Company, Baltimore. 



The Whiting Manufacturing Company Is ex- 

 tending its operations and is preparing to do 

 business on a much larger scale than ever. It 

 has purchased almost the entire county of Gra- 

 ham, in North Carolina, including Robbinsville, 

 the county seat, and is now interested in the 

 erection of a new line of railroad from the tim- 

 ber property. 



CHARLESTON 



.1. E. Hall is installing a new mill at Mink 

 Shoals, along the Coal & Coke Railroad, on Elk 

 river, near this city, where he will cut oak ties. 



To establish a central bureau or lodge and 

 subordinate bureaus or lodges throughout the 

 country for the purpose of soliciting and securing 

 employment for lumbermen, is the purpose of 

 the Lumbermen's Employment Association, with 

 headquarters at Buckhannon, W. V., which has 

 been incorporated under the laws of this state. 

 The concern has an authorized capital stock of 

 $23,000 and the incorporators are J. F. Keegan, 

 .1. F. Giffln. William S. O'Brien, C. E. Hiner, 

 Eugene Brown and .Tames Dailey of Buckhan-. 

 non ; Monroe Hill of Buffalo, N. Y. ; A. L. Don- 

 achey of Kane, Pa. 



A charter was recently granted to the Hope 

 Lumber Company of Weston, W. Va., with chief 

 works at Heaters, W. Va. It will deal In timber 

 and timber lands and manufacture lumber. The 

 capital stock is $25,000. and the incorporators 

 are .1. W. Farnsworth, Linn Brannon, J. A. Hen- 

 derson of Weston ; P. W. Smith of Heaters, and 

 A. O. Harper of Horner, W. Va. 



The Hardman Lumber Company was recently 

 incorporated at Elkins, W. Va., with chief 

 works in Randolph county, W. Va. Its capital 

 stock Is $50,000 and J. F. Henderson of Pitts- 



