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HARDWOOD RECORD 



state for Ave years. He will return to Blue- 

 fields next month. 



Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Morley of Columbus, O., 

 were in the city a few days ago en route to 

 Chicago. Mr. Morley Is with the W. M. Ritter 

 Lumber Company. 



The City Carriage Works has been organized 

 and incorporated at Fort Wayne, Ind.. to manu- 

 facture buggies and carriages. John B. Rolape, 

 Charles J. Romary and T. C. Harges are inter- 

 ested in the new concern, which has a capital 

 of $20,000. 



The Southern Lumber Company has bought 

 the property occupied by the Hartwig-Kalley 

 Home for the Aged in East Washington street 

 and will erect forty bungalows immediately, at 

 a cost of $100,000, for investment purposes. 



The purchase of a large hickory tree is re- 

 ported by Samuel Elliott, a hardwood buyer of 

 Greenshurg. The tree measured seventy-flve feet 

 from stump to the first limb and was free of 

 defects. It was seventeen feet and five Inches 

 in circumference. 



Raymond H. Kintz, Raymond B. Kintz and 

 Victor F. Kintz have organized the Raymond 

 Kintz Lumber Company at Terre Haute to deal 

 in all kinds of lumber. The company has been 

 incorporated with an authorized capitalization 

 of $40,000. 



The following lumber companies have pur- 

 chased lots in the new Mars Hill industrial 

 addition west of the cit.v, at a cost of $400 a 

 lot : La Rue Lumber Company, two ; Greer- 

 Wilkiuson Lumber Company, two ; Capitol Lum- 

 ber Company, five ; Adams-Carr Company, two ; 

 Johnson Lumber Company, five ; E. H. Eldridge 

 Lumber Company, three ; Dynes Lumber Com- 

 pany, five ; S. S. Rhodes & Son, three ; Burnet- 

 Lewis Lumber Company, five, and H. R. Burnet 

 of the same compan.y, two. 



BVANSVILLB 



The Evansville Lumbermen's Club held its 

 monthly meeting at the St. George Hotel Tues- 

 day, March 14, with a good attendance. Presi- 

 dent Bedna Young and Secretary Elmer D. Luhr- 

 ing were both present. An eight course dinner 

 was served previous to the business session. An 

 invitation was extended the various freight 

 agents whose lines enter Evansville to attend the 

 next meeting of the club, which will be held on 

 .4pril 11. The members of the club desire to 

 bring about a closer relation between themselves 

 and the various railroads for their mutual bene- 

 fit. Secretary I.uhring reported that the club 

 is in fine condition, practically every hardwood 

 manufacturer or dealer within a radius of fifly 

 miles now being a member of the organization. 



Claude Maley of Maley & Wertz. and T. J. 

 Christian, sales manager for that firm, have .iust 

 returned from a trip to Now York, where thtV 

 spent some time. 



Bedna Young of Young & Cutsinger, and 

 Daniel Wertz of Maley & Wertz went to Edin- 

 burg, Ind., last week on business. 



Mr. Stimson, a son of J. V. Stimson of Ilunt- 

 ingburg, Ind., was in the city last week looking 

 for men to work at their plant at Huntingburg. 

 'J'hey are prejjaring to run a night shift in order 

 to saw up logs they have on hand. Mr. Stimson 

 says they already have enough logs on railroad 

 track to run their mill to September 1. 



Building is on a boom in this city just now. 

 Several large store buildings are being completed 

 and in addition MaJ. A. C. Rosencranz of the 

 Vulcan Plow Works is planning to build several 

 new flats costing from $20,000 to $25,000. Con- 

 gressman John W. Boehueis is going to build one 

 to cost $2.'>.000. Lockyear's Business College is 

 now under construction and a large addition will 

 be added to the high school, beisides two Car- 

 negie libraries to cost $25,000 each, all of which 

 will use hardwood trim and flooring. 



Nathan Thayer of the firm of Thompson, 

 Tliayer & McCowen has just returned from a 



sojourn at Hot Springs. Ark. He will leave soon 

 for the State of Washington to look after his 

 fruit land. 



F. M. Cutsinger of Young & Cutsinger is in 

 the South on business this week. 



John A. Thompson, Edinburg, Ind., of Thomp- 

 son, Thayer & MiCowen, is in the city. 



MEMPHIS 



Weather conditions in this territory during 

 the past fortnight have been more favorable for 

 the production of hardwood lumber and reason- 

 ably satisfactory progress has been made in this 

 work. The rainfall has been considerably lighter 

 and this has made it possible to secure a better 

 supply of timber, especially where logs had 

 already been cut and prepared for shipment. 

 However, the log supply is comparatively short 

 and some of the mills which are anxious to run 

 are not able to do so. A head of one of the big 

 manufacturing companies in eastern Arkansas is 

 authority for the statement that most of the 

 strong mills are operating, but that the smaller 

 ones have been practically put out of business 

 by their inability to secure the necessary amount 

 of timber. The same is true of Mississippi and 

 West Tennessee and all together it appears to 

 be a case of the survival of the fittest. Just 

 what bearing this shortage of timber among the 

 smaller mills will have upon the amount of lum- 

 ber available in the late spring and early sum- 

 mer remains to be seen. So far as local views 

 go, it is the impression that the shortage which 

 is now evident in dry stocks of hardwood lumber 

 must become still more acute. 



General business conditions are not regarded 

 as quite so favorable from the standpoint of 

 lumber manufacturers and wholesalers. The 

 situation at Memphis is good and this finds re- 

 flection in record breaking bank clearings and 

 extensive building operations. It is also notable 

 that the reports from the railroads operating in 

 the central South show a decided gain in both 

 net and gross earnings as compared with the 

 past two or three years at this time. However, 

 it is pointed out that, taking the country as a 

 whole, there is a great deal of uneasiness over 

 the threatened revision of the tariff by the 

 Democratic party, which is curtailing operations 

 in a number of important directions. Lumber- 

 men here admit that they have not been re- 

 ceiving as many inquiries during the past two 

 weeks as they did up to that time and that they 

 are not booking as many orders as they expected 

 to. The sweeping decision of the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission preventing the railroads 

 from advancing rates in every direction has also 

 affected lumber interests to some extent, because 

 it has made the railroads cut down expenses in 

 some ways and has stopped a great deal of im- 

 provement work which would otherwise doubtless 

 have taken place. However, despite the fact 

 that business is rather quiet, there is no pes- 

 simism among lumbermen here. They are dis- 

 posed to look upon the bright side of things, 

 though some of them are free to confess that 

 there will be no extensive business until the last 

 half of the year. So far as prices are concerned, 

 it is stated that some difficulty is experienced in 

 getting full values with the exception of plain 

 oak and red gum. It is further stated I hat those 

 who are holding for firm prices are doing rela- 

 tively much less business than those who are 

 showing some disposition to meet the views of 

 buyers. 



Excellent progress is being made by the com- 

 mittees wbicli have been appointed by the Busi- 

 ness Men's Club to raise the second fund of 

 $50,000 with which to defray the expenses of 

 ihe publicity campaign being carried on by the 

 Bureau of Publicity and Development, under the 

 auspices of the Business Men's Club. About one- 

 third of the fund has been secured and only a 

 small proportion of the business and professional 

 men of Memphis has been canvassed. 



S. B. Anderson, president of the Anderson- 

 Tully Company, and identified with a number of 

 other woodworking enterprises here, has been 

 elected president of the Memphis Automobile 

 Club. This organization has about 400 members 

 and is doing very effective work in the direction 

 of creating favorable conditions for those owning 

 and operating automobiles in this city. 



Certain changes have been made in the law.'j 

 governing the incorporation of foreign com- 

 panies doing business in Arkansas which will be 

 of decided interest to lumber companies desiring 

 to enter the trade in that state. The principal 

 change has been in the reduction of fees for 

 incorporation. Under the old requirements for- 

 eign companies desiring to do business in Arkan- 

 sas were charged on the basis of so much for 

 each thousand dollars of capital used in that 

 state. Under the new law there is a flat fee 

 of $25 for chartering any company with a capital 

 stock of $10,000 or less and one-tenth of one 

 per cent for each additional ten thousand dollars. 

 Under the old plan a foreign corporation was 

 taxed on its entire capital, regardless of whether 

 or not this was wholly within the state. Under 

 the new plan foreign corporations are asked to 

 pay the above outlined reduced rate only upon 

 the amount of capital stock employed within the 

 state. Increases in capital stock are made on 

 the same basis as that provided for the granting 

 of charters, namely, one-tenth of one per cent for 

 each ten thousand dollars involved. 



J. J. Russell has purchased a site at Forrest 

 City, Ark., upon which will be erected a stave 

 factory. The machinery has already been re- 

 ceived and is now being installed. Mr. Russell 

 has been at Forrest City for some time and he 

 is authority for the statement that he has se- 

 cured a large supply of raw material, so that the 

 plant may go forward steadily when the machin- 

 ery has all been put in position. 



George A. Hosmer, agent for the Gund Brew- 

 ing Company, La Crosse, Wis., has purchased 

 from Moore & Martin a site for a large stave 

 factory at Prescott, Ark. The company owns a 

 'arge amount of oak timber near Prescott and 

 the factory is being established at that point 

 with a view to converting this into staves. It 

 is estimated that the company will give employ- 

 ment to about forty people. 



George A. Booser. president of the Corning 

 Stave & Cooperage Company, has begun the con- 

 struction of three miles of railway from the 

 mill of the firm at Corning, Ark., to Black river, 

 in order to facilitate the handling of the neces- 

 sary timber supply thereto. The company has 

 closed a contract with a prominent lumberman 

 at Neelyville, Mo., to furnish it 1,500.000 feet 

 of material every year for five years and the new 

 road will be used for the handling of this. The 

 short line connects with the St. Louis, Iron 

 Mountain & Southern and there is a probability 

 that it may be still further extended in the near 

 future. 



The Atlas Hardwood Lumber Company has 

 been granted a charter under the laws of Arkan- 

 sas. Headquarters are at Edmondson and the 

 company is empowered to manufacture, sell and 

 buy lumber. The capital stock is $100,000. Of 

 this amount $75,000 has been subscribed. 



The England & Clear Lake Railroad Company 

 has recently added five miles more of trackage 

 and thus established a line of railway which 

 connects England, Ark., with traffic on the 

 Arkansas river. The road is ten miles long and 

 has become an important factor in tlie develop- 

 ment of the section through which it runs. It 

 was built originally as a logging road but it is 

 serving as a means of transportation for the 

 varied interests of that section. W. J. Locke 

 and E. N. Bixby, both of whom are well-known 

 lumbermen, are the principal stockholders in this 

 line. It is strongly intimated that still further 

 extensions may he made. 



The baseball team of the Lumbermen's Club 

 of Memphis has not yet begun practicing but it 



