HARDWOOD RECORD 



47 



CHARLESTON 



Owing to the numbei' of rush oi'ders ahead, 

 the mills of this section will close down but 

 a few days for the holiday season. There 

 has been an incroa.sed demand for lumber of 

 various kinds and the Incul dealers expect an 

 advance in prices immediately after the first 

 of the year, especially in oali and maple. Ac- 

 cording to Manager George K. Kreece of the 

 West Virginia Timber Company, the demand 

 for hard maple is greater than ever before. 

 Oalc is also strong and the demand for ties 

 and railroad lumber is better. 



J. W. Jayne, auditor for tlie West Virginia 

 Timber Company, has gone to Haslcin, La., to 

 audit the books of his company at their plant 

 there. 



Walter Quick of Uitchey, Ilalsted & Quick 

 made a tour of the mills near here last week. 



Fred J. Stone of Detroit called on the local 

 trade last week. 



William C. Bond of Thomas, W. Va., was 

 here this week on his way to Pocahontas county, 

 where he has large timber holdings. 



Reports from the mills of the Tygart Valley 

 Lumber Company at JenningtOD, W. Va.. the Bab- 

 cock Lumber & Boom Company at Davis. W. Va., 

 and the Otter Creek Boom & Lumber Company 

 at Hambleton, W. Va., state that all are run- 

 ning full time, with an ample supply of orders 

 ahead. 



C. Crane & Co. will soon have their equip- 

 ment completed on Coal river for the shipment 

 of logs to their Cincinnati plant, a distance of 

 200 miles. 



A. W. Cook of Cooksburg, I'a., has about 

 completed his double band mill at Bond, Md., 

 and will soon be ready to manufacture lumber, 

 according to N. U. Bond of Oakland, Md., for- 

 merly of Dubois & Bond Brothers, who were 

 the founders of the town of Bond. Mr. Cook 

 owns a tract of 8,000 acres there, principally 

 oak, and some months ago purchased the town 

 of Bond and the Savage River Railroad from 

 Dubois & Bond Brothers. N. U. Bond has 

 purchased the stock and lumber of his old firm 

 at Bond and will continue to operate a portable 

 mill there. At Thomas, W. Va., where William C. 

 Bond and N. U. Bond have been operating to- 

 gether, the former has purchased the holdings 

 of the latter and is operating under his own 

 name. 



At Rainelle, Greenbrier county. West Virginia, 

 the Meadow River Lumber Company, under the 

 management of Thomas W. Raine, has completed 

 a triple band mill and two of the saws are 

 now working. The mill has a capacity of 150,- 

 000 feet every ten hours. 



Announcement has been made that the Hall 

 Lumber & Tie Company has purchased 5,000 

 acres of timber lying on Bell creek in Clay 

 and Nicholas counties. West Virginia, from 

 John W. Long of Toledo, O. The timber is 

 principally oak and poplar and the purchaser 

 has three years to remove it. Several small 

 mills will be set up to cut the lumber. 



H. H. Roberts, representing the K. & P. 

 Lumber Company of Cincinnati, was here on 

 business last week. 



Charles Abbott, representing the Atlantic 

 Lumber Company of Boston, Mass.. and Buffalo. 

 N. Y.. called on the local trade the past week. 



C. W. Seamon of the Domestic Lumber Com- 

 pany of Columbus, 0., was here Saturday. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



T. F. Vaughn, manager of the Wabash Cabinet 

 Company, Wabash, has been elected president of 

 the newly , organized Wabash Exchange. 



W. F. Johnson of the W. F. Johnson Lum- 

 ber Company will be a delegate to the special 

 meeting of the American Lumber Trades Con- 

 gress at St. Louis. 



J. E. Brantley of the Great Southern Lumber 



I'ompany accompanied by Julius W. Plnnell and 

 daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Tompkins of 

 Kushvllle, have gone to Bogalusa, La., for ten 

 days. 



'Hie Union Trust Company has been appointed 

 receiver for tlie Parry Automobile Company. 

 Creditors may organize a holding company i<> 

 operate the plant until it is out of debt. 



A new company at Gary is the United States 

 Lumber Company, for which articles of incorpo- 

 ration showing an authorized capitalization of 

 $50,000 have been filed with the secretary of 

 state In this city. Those Interested are M. W. 

 I.oeb, George Mayer and S. E. Loob. 



The Marion Trust Company has been appointed 

 lecelver for the Bacon Lumber Company in this 

 city, on a petition filed by William G. Watson, 

 lormerly bookkeeper and salesman for the com- 

 pany. 



The Interstate Car Company suffered a loss 

 of about ,$5,000 by fire on December 10. The 

 loss was fully covered by insurance and the 

 plant will be rebuilt immetliatcly. 



BVANSVILLB 



An especially ^ood meeliug of the EvansvUle 

 Lumbermen's Club was held in the private din- 

 ing room of the St. George Hotel on the night 

 of December 15. The meeting was the most 

 enthusiastic ever held, about fifty taking seats 

 at the tables. An invitation had been extended 

 the bankers of the city to be with the club 

 on that evening and every bank was repre- 

 sented. The president of the club. O. W. Mc- 

 Coweu of Thompson. Thayer & McCowen. in- 

 troduced the toastmaster of the evening. W. W. 

 llalloran. president of the Federal Stave <V; 

 Lumber Company. Talks were made by Henry 

 lieis, president of the Did State National bank ; 

 J. C. Johnson, vice-president of the Citizens 

 National bank, and Benjamin Bosse, president 

 of the West Side bank and at the head of the 

 "Big Six" furniture factories of this city. John 

 It. Walker of the Lumbermen's Bureau of Wash- 

 ington, D. C. was present and made a talk. 

 Other speakers were George A. Cunningham, 

 attorney and banker, and State Senator-Elect 

 W. B. Carleton. One of the matters brought up 

 for discussion was the proposal to build a 

 large office and club building in the central 

 part of the city where the club coidd have a 

 permanent home and which could be u.scd as 

 a meeting place for various commercial organ- 

 izations of the city. Regret was expressed 

 at the illness of Secretary George O. Wor- 

 land, who has been ill for several days. The 

 next meeting of the club will be held January 10. 



The O. Grimwood Company, who formerly 

 operated at Owensvllle, has taken over the plant 

 of the Henry Maley Lumber Company of this 

 city, located at Green River road and the Illi- 

 nois Central railroad tracks. The latter com- 

 pany owns and operates a large band mill at 

 Yazoo City, Miss. 



Frank L. Donnell, sales manager for Young 

 & Cutslnger, with headquarters in Indianapolis, 

 was in the city recently. Mr. Donnell is very 

 optimistic about business for the coming year. 



Herbert F. Sumner of Hamilton H. Salmon 

 & Co., the well known New Y'ork house, was 

 in the city Last week. 



liieliard Broadwell. local manager for the 

 I'ullerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber Company, 

 says business is good. 



MEMPHIS 



The production of hardwood lumber in this 

 territory has continued on as liberal a scale 

 as possible during the past fortnight. There 

 have been some Instances where it was impos- 

 sible to run because of a lack of timber sup- 

 ply or because of the necessary repairs and im- 

 provements, but every mill that could run has 

 operated on full time. It is the consensus of 

 opinion that there is no excess of hardwood lum- 



ber of any kind iu the Memphis territory and 

 it Is because of this knowledge as well as 

 liccause of the expectation of a better demand, 

 that wholesale and manufacturing interests face 

 the future with so much confidence. 



John T. Walsh of Pittsburg, Pa., has written 

 to the .Merchants" Exchange here for Information 

 regarding .Memphis as a site for a branch of 

 the big automobile truck manufacturing busi- 

 ness conducted by him. If the industry Is se- 

 cured for Memphis it will mean the Investment of 

 about $500,000 and the employment of about 

 175 skilled workmen. 



J. H. Fry of Atkins, Ark., has perfected ar- 

 rangements with J. II. MeClcndon of England, 

 Ark., by which the latter is to take charge 

 of the sawmills of the former and cut all the 

 hardwood tlmljcr on the Fry lands In Pope 

 county. It is estimated that there are fully 

 .■;,000,000 feet Involved in this transaction. 



Lumbermen of this city have been following 

 with a great deal of interest the hearing before 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission at New 

 Orleans in the so-called tap line case. It is felt 

 l>y them that, if the trunk lines are successful 

 in defeating the tap lines on the division of 

 rates heretofore maintained, it will Impose a 

 serious handicap upon lumber shippers here as 

 well as elsewhere throughout the South. Some 

 of the lumber manufacturers here have their 

 own roads and these will come under the ruling 

 of the Commission in this matter. There are 

 also a large number of small roads which have 

 been developed throughout the .Memphis terri- 

 tory jirimarily for the purposi' of affording fa- 

 cilities for reaching timber lands and these 

 will be very hard hit if the Commission should 

 uphold the contention of the trunk lines. F. E. 

 Stonebraker, president of the Crittenden Railway 

 Company, and James R. Blair, of the Crittenden 

 Lumber Company, were among the Memphis 

 liunliermen who testified before the Commission. 



The N. Butler Ilaynes Company of .Memphis, 

 which owns about 200 acres of timber land in 

 Yazoo and Sunflower counties in Mississippi, 

 has ordered a band mill put in, which will 

 be used to cut the timber on these lands. The 

 company has its headquarters at Memphis but is 

 operating plants outside of this city. 



The White Oak Land & Timber Company, New- 

 port, Ark., has been incorporated. The capital 

 stock is ?9.600, while the incorporators are 

 Tliomas J. Gregg, Charles Henry and George 

 R. Hayes. 



E. D. Walker of John M. Wood & Co., Bos- 

 Ion, .Mass.. has been spending some time in Mem- 

 phis recently looking after the establishment of 

 the yards of the firm at this point. He says 

 that everything is beginning to move along 

 smoothly and that within the past few days 

 the comjmny has finished the office building to 

 1m> used here. Mr. Ncllls is looking after the 

 interests of the company at this point. 



James F. Mclntyre of Pine Bluff. Ark., at- 

 tended the last meeting of the Ltimbcrmens 

 Club. Mr. Mclntyre is an old Memphian who 

 Is now established at Pine Bluff, Ark., where he 

 is operating a large mill. 



O. M. Krcbs of the .McLean Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company is authority for the statement 

 that the big mill In New South Memphis has 

 been kept in steady operation and that, while 

 there has been a slight lull during the past 

 two weeks, the shipments of the firm for the 

 past six months, taken as a whole, have been 

 showing a handsome Increase over the same 

 period last year and the year before. This 

 firm makes a specialty of the manufacture of 

 quartered oak. 



A. (J. Fritchey of the Lamb-Fish I^umber Com- 

 pany. Charleston, Miss., was a recent visitor 

 in .Memphis. He is another gentleman who gives 

 a very satisfactory account of lumber condi- 

 tions in his territory, asserting that sales have 

 l)een large and that tlie amount of dry stock is 

 by no means burdensome. 



W. A. Ransom of Nashville. Tcnn., has been 

 In Memphis during the past few days. He Is 



