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HARDWOOD RECORD 



di'clnred. It was decided to luci'ease the capital 

 stocl; of the company from $25,000 to $35,000. 



The Lee Lumber Company of Westervllle, 

 Franlvlin county, Ohio, has been incorporated 

 with a capital sock of $] 0,000 by T. E. Gantz, 

 Kllen Gantz, Anna M. Hard, D. W. Lee and 

 Mary E. Lee. 



The annual meeting of the stockholders of 

 the Price Lumber & Manufacturing Company of 

 Fremont. O., resulted in the election of the fol- 

 lowing directors : Lester Wilson, J. M. Sher- 

 man. L. S. McGormley, Andrew Miller, A, H. 

 .Tackson, George Wehrung and J. G. Hunt. 

 George Wehrung was elected president, A. II. 

 Jackson vice-president, J. Toungman secretary, 

 and J. M. Sherman treasurer. 



W. M. Kitter, head of the W. M. Ritter Lum- 

 ber Company, is spending a month on a hunt- 

 ing trip through Georgia and Florida. 



A party of Columbus lumbermen attended the 

 hardwood manufacturers' meeting at Cincinnati 

 January 31 and February 1, among whom were 

 M. A. Hayward of M. A. Hayward & Sons, 

 J. W. Mayhew of the W. M. Ritter Lumlx>r Com- 

 pany, John E. Gobey of John H. Gobey & Co., 

 W. L. Whitacre of the W. L. Whitacre Lumber 

 Company, and H. W. Putnam of the General 

 Lumber Company. 



H. W. Putnam of the General Lumber Com- 

 pany left early in February for a business trip 

 through Mississippi and Louisiana. 



Almost one hundred per cent more buildings 

 were projected in the city of Columbus in Janu- 

 ary, 1911, than in January of the previous 

 year. The records of the city building inspector 

 show that during the month 98 permits were 

 issued for structures to cost $123,189, which is 

 an increase of 60 in number ,ind $55,924 in 

 value over January of 1910. 



BVANSVILLB 



An accident occurred at the plant of the 

 Jackson Lumber Company of Jackson, Tenn., 

 when a flywheel in the power plant bursted, 

 tearing through the building, causing consider- 

 able damage, and seriously injuring a negro 

 working in the sawmill. C. W. Talge of the 

 Evansville Veneer Works of this city, who is 

 also at the head of the Jackson Lumber Com- 

 pany, left for Jackson as soon as word of the 

 accident reached him. 



Geo. O. Worland, with Thompson, Thayer & 

 McCowen and formerly secretary of the Evans- 

 ville Lumbermen's Club, will go to Jackson. 

 Tenn., to take charge of the sales department 

 of the Jackson Lumber Company of that city. 

 It is with regret that the local trade sees Mr 

 Worland leave this marliet and they wish him 

 every success in his new undertaking. 



Nathan Thayer of Thompson, Thayer & Mc- 

 Cowon has just returned from Washington 

 where he purchased another tract of fruit laud 

 he already having had some investments there. 



W. R. Moke, with the Norman Lumber Com- 

 pany of Louisville, Ky., was in the city last 

 week calling on the trade. 



T. J. Christian, sales manager for Malev & 

 A\ert2, Indianapolis, Ind., was in town last week 

 paying the home office a visit. 



Bedna Young and F. M. Cutsinger of Young 

 A: tutsinger and Claude Maley and Daniel Wertz 

 of Maley & Wertz attended the stockholders' 

 meeting of the Tessellated Flooring Company 

 of Edinburg, Ind., on January 30. 



MEMPHIS 



Business conditions in this territory continue 

 very satisfactory as evidenced by the fact that 

 bank clearings for January were $38,000,000. 

 thus breaking all previous records for that 

 month in the history of this city. Last year the 

 clearings for January were about $31,000,000. 



Building operations during .lanuary fell con- 

 siderably short of last year, but make very ex- 



cellent comparison with other similar months. 

 The total was in excess of $800,000, whereas 

 last year the amount of building was in excess 

 of $1,250,000. However, one single permit last 

 year covered an unusually large proportion of 

 the total. This was for the Exchange building 

 and involved something over $800,000. The 

 most important building for which a permit 

 was taken out during January this year was 

 the new structure which is to serve as the Cen- 

 tral Police .Station. The amount involved was 

 $250,000. 



The car situation in Memphis proper as well 

 as throughout the Memphis territory is begin- 

 ning to improve materially and it is expected 

 that in a short time there will be plenty of cars 

 to take care of all requirements. The move- 

 ment of cotton has dropped to very small pro- 

 portions as compared with October, November 

 and December and this has released a great 

 many cars. The latter are now available for 

 lumber, logs and other freight, and the lumber- 

 men express pleasure over the fact that they 

 are able to get more satisfactory service. 



A permit has just been taken out by S. M. 

 Nickey of Nickey & Sons Company, for a resi- 

 dence to be located at Monroe avenue and Mc- 

 Neal street. It is to cost $11,200. exclusive of 

 heating, wiring and plumbing. It will be of 

 brick veneer, with concrete foundation and tile 

 roof, will be two stories in height and will con- 

 tain eight rooms. This will be quite an addi- 

 tion to the large number of handsome homes 

 owned by lumbermen in this city. 



1'he Memphis Shingle Company has filed an 

 amendment to Its charter whereby its capital 

 stock is to be increased from $10,000 to $60,000, 

 and its name is to be clianged to the Memphis 

 Shingle & Lumber Company. The incorporators 

 are E. A. Neely, B. C. Alsup, C. D. Hendrickson. 

 Bruce Neely and J. P. Hill. C. D. Hendrickson 

 is president of the C. D. Hendrickson Lumber 

 Company, while E. A. Neely was at one tira'- 

 very much interested in the company here which 

 sought to manufacture lumber which was highly 

 colored by means of injection of fluids into the 

 logs before these were cut into lumber. 



A. B. Lacy of the Kimball-Lacy Lumber Com- 

 pany, whose band mill at Arkansas City was 

 destroyed by fire a short time ago, is authority 

 for the statement that plans will be undertaken 

 lor the erection of a new plant as soon as the 

 insurance on the burned mill has been paid. It 

 is expected that an adjustment in this case will 

 be made within the next few days. The com- 

 pany has taken the cut of a band mill in 

 Louisiana and of a circular mill in Mississippi, 

 while it is operating a small circular plant of 

 its own at Arkansas City. The combined output 

 of the three mills is about 1.250,000 feet of 

 lumber per month and this is enough to enable 

 the firm to keep up with its shipments. 



C. B. Dudley of the Dudley Lumber Company 

 is leaving Memphis tomorrow evening for an ex- 

 tended business trip. He will be absent for two 

 weeks. 



J. W. Thompson of the J. W. Thompson Lum- 

 ber Company has been in Chicago during the 

 past few days, but is expected to return to Mem- 

 phis early the coming week. 



John M. Pritchard of the John M. Pritchard 

 Lumber Company has returned to Memphis after 

 an absence of some days. Mr. Pritchard is 

 chairman of the River & Rail Committee of thi; 

 Lumbermen's Club and found on his return a 

 large amount of work awaiting his committee 

 in connection witli the proposed fight against 

 the advance in trans-continental freight rates 

 from Mississippi valley points to Pacific coast 

 terminals. He and his associates have plunged 

 vigorously into this. 



Memiihis was exceedingly well represented at 

 the annual of the Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association at Cincinnati, January 31-February 



I . .\monB (hose present were : Ralph and 

 Frank M.iy of May Brothers : John L. Sine. W. 



II. Greble and W. A. Gilchrist of the Three 



States Lumber Company ; T. J. Christian of 

 Maley, Wertz & Burgess ; F. B. Robertson and 

 W. B. Morgan of the Anderson-Tully Company ; 

 W. E. Nickey of Nickey & Sons Company ; W. L. 

 Crenshaw of the Bellgrade Lumber Company ; 

 W. R. Barksdale of the Dooley-Stern Lumber 

 Company ; O. M. Krebs of the Hugh McLean 

 Lumber Company ; Owen Moffett of Moffett, 

 Bowman & Rush, and Charles E'. Brower, secre- 

 tary and treasurer of the National Classifica- 

 tions Committee. Mr. Greble and others who 

 attended the meeting pronounced it one of the 

 most enjoyable and successful in the history 

 of the organization. 



The Three States Lumber Company has just 

 resumed operations on full time at its big band 

 mill at Burdette, Ark. This is a double band 

 pUint and only one side has been operated dur- 

 ing the past year. The other side has been 

 shut down since the financial depression of 1907. 

 Both sides are now going on full schedule and 

 the company is producing a very fine line of 

 hardwood lumber. 



The timber supply, so far as the mills in this 

 city and section are concerned, has been below 

 normal during the past few months. As a rule 

 it is possible to make splendid progress in log- 

 ging work throughout the fall and early winter, 

 liut the large amount of rainfall made the woods 

 so wet that it was impossible to go ahead suc- 

 cessfully with this work. It is generally con- 

 ceded that the amount of timber available now 

 for the mills is considerably below the average. 



Dispatches received here from Yellville, Ark., 

 state that more than $50,000 worth of cedar 

 posts have been shipped from Marion county 

 since the White River branch of the Iron Moun- 

 tain entered that point. J. W. Wolfe has earned 

 the sobriquet of the "cedar post man." Ship- 

 ments have been made to points in Nebraska, 

 Illinois. Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. 



H. J. Dudley, president of the Grand Rapids 

 Lumber Association, has conceded that Memphis 

 is the largest hardwood market in the world. 

 He writes in part : "We extend to you our 

 hearty greetings in your laudable ambition to 

 continue to represent the largest hardwood mar- 

 ket in the world. We join with you in pride 

 and accept the statement. May you continue 

 to grow the larger oak and many more of them 

 adjacent to the rippling and beautiful waters 

 of the Mississippi, and may you maintain the 

 position you have taken for many years to 

 come." 



BRISTOL 



Tlie Peter-McCain Lumber Company is ship- 

 ;)ing out a large amount of stock from its new 

 band mill in Bristol, which has been in opera- 

 tion only a few weeks. 



G. E. Goodell, who was for several years with 

 J. A. Wilkinson but who about two years ago 

 entered the wholesale business here on his own 

 account, has accepted a position in an important 

 capacity in the oflices of Mr. Wilkinson. 



Carlyle Patterson, a well-known lumber buyer 

 of Boston. Mass., was buying hardwoods on the 

 Bristol market last week. 



(iodsey Brothers, who started a circular mill 

 iii'ar Bristol some months ago, now have in the 

 yards of the new mill 700,000 feet of stock. The 

 company will begin shipping next month. 



Will McCain of W. G. McCain & Sons, Neva, 

 Johnson county, Tenn.. recently called on the 

 local trade. His company has closed down its 

 hand mill at Neva. However, it has a large 

 .1 mount of stock in the Neva yards, which will 

 ri'rpiire about a year to ship out. 



W. S. Whiting of the Whiting Manufacturing 

 Company, Asheville, N. C, was a recent visitor 

 in Bristol. Mr. Whiting's company has just pur- 

 chased another tract of timber in Carter county, 

 Tennessee, near Bristol, to augment its holdings 

 in that county. The mill near here is running 

 full time, while a new double band mill has 

 been started at Judson, N. C. 



