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Id fact, every Indication points to leas favor- 



iihle rondlllons In this respect. All reports from 

 Mississippi and .Vrlxnnsiis suggest thnt there Is a 

 most pronounced shortage of cars and that con- 

 illtlons are quite as bad as they were Inst sea- 

 son. 



It. J. Darnell. Inc.. will tear down Its old 

 hand mill In this city ahont November 1 and 

 will use the boilers connected with this plant In 

 the operation of the new double band mill now 

 being Installed In New South Memphis. Tlie 

 old band mill Itself will be removed to Lelnnd. 

 .Miss., where the company Is operating a large 

 plant. The structure to receive this mill has 

 already been erected at I.eland and the neces- 

 sary motive power has been secured, with the 

 result that It will take very little time to get 

 It In operation after it has been removed. The 

 company has practically completed Its railroad 

 running out from Leiand to its timberlands. 

 This Is about thirteen miles In length. It Is 

 equipped with fifty flat lars and one engine. 



The Lee Wilson Lumber Company, with head- 

 quarters in this city, has already be^un the op- 

 eration of Its big band mill at Wilson. Ark. 

 The company recently lost by fire its mill at 

 Amorel. Ark., and It Is announced by the man- 

 agement that a small circular plant will be 

 established at that place to cut up the logs 

 which have accumulated in the lake. There 

 will be no effort to rebuild the burned plant 

 further than already suggested. The company 

 is preparing to install a waterworks plant at 

 Wilson in order that It may meet the require- 

 ments of the insurance companies. .lohnson & 

 rieming. deep well makers, of Memphis, have 

 secured the contract to put in a well at the 

 mill and have made plans for the waterworks 

 system. 



The Buena Vista Veneer Company has been 

 formed at Pes Arc. Ark. The stock is .$10,000. 

 Herman Kcmnnder is president: Henry P. Daly. 

 Kdward Williams and others are directors. 



Kchoes of the Deep Waterways -Association are 

 lieard in Memphis .qlmnst daily. Citizens living 

 along White river in Arkansas propose to make 

 extensive improvements In that waterway, while 

 reports are received here that plans are under 

 way for extensive improvements in the Tennes- 

 see river. 



The Larkin Company of America is making 

 preparations to operate the plant of the old 

 Wolverine Manufacturing Company in New 

 South Memphis. The company will cut dimen- 

 sion stock for furniture manufacturing con- 

 cerns. This company gives a large number of 

 premiums every year on the sale of Its soap 

 and other products and the dimension stock to 

 be cut here will be shipped to those companies 

 which are engaged in the making of this fur- 

 niture. 



The Anderson-Tnlly Company, which has head- 

 quarters in this city, recently lost its box fac- 

 tory located at Vicksburg. Miss. The estimated 

 loss ranges from $i,j,0(l(l to $,30,0|)0, partially 

 covered by Insurance. The management is mak- 

 ing preparations now for rebuilding the plant and 

 the new structure will be equipped with more 

 modern machinery than the burned one. The 

 daily capacity of the old plant was about two 

 • ars a day. The company Is exceptionally for- 

 lunate in having completed some weeks ago its 

 second box factory in this city. This will en- 

 able It to take care of the orders It now has on 

 hand. 



The mill of A. U. Jones, located north of 

 Trezevant. Tenn., was destroyed by Are several 

 nights ago. No definite estimate of the loss Is 

 ascertainable. 



The Edgefield and Nashville Manufacturing 

 Company of .Nashville, Tenn., has purchased 

 two tracts of tiraberland In northwest Alabama, 

 paying for the first S2II.7G0 and for the latter 

 Jlli.OOO, a total of $41,700. There are several 

 thousand acres In the two tracts and the price 

 paid therefor la several times as high as that which 

 prevailed a few years ago and nearly double 

 that of twelve months ago. 



The American Veneer Company has been or- 

 ganized at Fort Smith, Ark, The capital stock 

 la $2,1.000. Joseph Ingalis Is president of the 

 company. 



Col. S. B. Anderson, president of the Ander- 

 son-TuIiy Company, aud one of the best known 

 lumbermen of this city, is being groomed tor 

 the licpublican nomination for governor of Ten- 

 nessee. The Kepublicans liave not selected a can- 

 didate from the western division of this state 

 In a number of years and some of the promoters 

 of the destinies of the G. O. P. are of the 

 opinion that this will be a very wise move. Mr. 

 Anderson has figured in politics to a consider- 

 able extent since coming to Memphis. He has 

 been a delegate to both state and national con- 

 ventions, and his son, II. B. .\nderson, is now 

 a member of the Kepnblican state committee. 

 .\ number of leading questions have been asked 

 Mr. Anderson In regard to his probable action 

 in connection with the propcsed nominalion. 

 but he modestly waives matters by saying that 

 he will not commit biiiiself until the nomination 

 has been actually tendered him. 



W. H. Kusse of Itusse & Burgess sailed for 

 Europe on October III and will be gone for a 

 number of weeks. The business of the company 

 Is being looked after by George D. Burgess, 

 who recently returned from an extended trip 

 abroad. 



C. J. Tully, president of the Banning Lumber 

 Company and vice-president of the Anderson- 

 Tully Company, has recently returned from a 

 trip to Lurope. Mr. Tully went primarily for 

 his health. He took the baths at Carlsbad and 

 afterwards traveled over the greater part of 

 the continent. Ills health is much better than 

 when he left America and he reports his tour 

 was an exceptionally delightful one. 



The Wiborg & Ilanna Company, which has 

 an office' in this city, has recently begun opera- 

 tions of a band mill at Kimball Lake, Miss., 

 with a daily capacity of 30,000 feet. J. II. Wolf 

 is in charge of the plant. 



New Orleans. 



With a deadlock existing between the ship 

 agents and the river front laborers at this 

 point, and with the entire front tied up by the 

 strike, the lumber export business out of New 

 Orleans has temporarily become a non-existent 

 phase of trade and practically all the lum- 

 ber exports which usually come this way are 

 being diverted by the exporters to Mobile, Gulf- 

 port and other ports on the Gulf. The situation 

 Is serious and has been so for some time. Today 

 there are no indications of an earl.v settlement 

 of the strike and until there is an absolute cer- 

 tainty that the trouble will be ended the lum- 

 ber exporters will not bring their business back 

 this way. .\s it is some of them have been tied 

 up on shipments which had arrived here before 

 the strike was declared, and these shipments are 

 being seriously delayed by the river front 

 troubles. The stave export business Is suffering 

 in particular and In place of the hundreds of 

 thousands of staves which leave here monthly 

 during this season, few or none are now going 

 out, 



lion, I'earl Wight, Cnited States Commission- 

 er of Agi'iculture, and president of the Panan)a 

 Lumber and Trading Company, which holds a 

 number i»f contracts with the Isthmian Canal 

 Commission, has returned to New Orleans from 

 his annual vacation and Is now arranging his 

 business affairs to leave for Washington about 

 December 1 to take charge of the office which 

 President Itoosevelt has given him, Mr. Wight 

 is interested extensively In tlml)er and Is also 

 one of the best known liankers and business men 

 of New Orleans, He will leave all his business 

 alTairs in competent hands upon his departure 

 for the capital, 



Morris, Kent & Chancy of Baton Rouge, La,, 

 are considering plans for a small mill to develop 

 forty acres of hardwood timber land. 



Advices from Yazoo City, Miss., state that 



the Maley Hardwood Lumber «'ompBny. J. S. 

 Grant, secretary, of Kdlnburg, Ind., will (Estab- 

 lish a band sawmill with cii.iiuu fpet dally ca- 

 pacity to develop timber lands near Carter, .Miss. 

 The nilllslte covers eight acres. 



More than the usual Interest attaches to the 

 announcement of the appointment of a friendly 

 receiver for the J. E. North Lumber Company, 

 a big manufacturing and exporting concern of 

 Bond, Sllss. The receiver Is S. D. Thayer of 

 the Thayer Export Lumber Company of Gulf- 

 port, and he has been in charge of the com- 

 pany's affairs for the last fortnight or »o. For 

 some time it has been know that the North 

 company has been hard pressed for ready 

 money. Because of the car shortage and other 

 unsatisfactory conditions the company finally 

 found it necessary to ask for a receiver. .Mr. 

 Tiiayer, a brother-in-law of Mr. North, being 

 named. The company controls extensive hold- 

 ings and it Is stated that all its affairs will Ik? 

 logically and legitimately administered through 

 the courts. The officers are J. E. North, presi- 

 dent : C. R. North, vice-president ; L, L. North, 

 secretary. 



A new company, capitalized at J.'i.oon. has 

 been organized to build a woodworking plant at 

 Eilisviile, Miss. B. F. Fridge, George B, I'ack. 

 George Gaugh and others are the incorporators. 

 The plant will manufacture doors, windows and 

 interior woodwork, all of hardwoods. 



J. G. Joyner, recently appointed chief Inspect- 

 or for the Gulf Coast Lumber Exporters' Asso- 

 ciation, has formally taken charge of his office. 

 He has charge of the lumber inspection at all 

 ports represented In the Exporters' association. 



The Lewis Lumber and Manufacturing Com- 

 |)any of Hattiesburg, Miss,, has applied for a 

 charter. The organization is capitalized at *a5,- 

 000 and it will manufacture cross-arms for tele- 

 graph poles and other specialties, devoting part 

 of its time to novelties in woodenware. R. R. 

 Akers and E. L. Russell of Hattiesburg are the 

 Incorporators. 



Recent advices from Guifport, Miss., state 

 that the lumber exporters and shippers there 

 are having a good deal of trouble with a new- 

 stevedores' union that has been organized there. 

 Immediately after the organization of the union 

 eleven of those exporters engaged most exten- 

 sively in the business Issued a statement declar- 

 ing that they would not employ any stevedore 

 In any way aOiliated with the new union. .\s 

 yet the shipping at Guifport has not been serious- 

 ly affected. 



C?harlotte, N, C. 



The Iliwassee Lumber and Manufacturing 

 Company, of Murphy, N. C, has been chartered 

 to mannfactuie and deal in lumber, etc. The 

 authorized capital Is $10,000, with $2,000 sub- 

 scribed. The incorporators are A. G, Deweese, 

 J. W. Ford, O. B. Ward, A. A. Fain and S. W, 

 Lovlngood. 



The Blue Ridge Lumber Company of .\pa- 

 lacbla, Cherokee county, North Carolina, has re- 

 ceived a charier. The authorized capital stock 

 Is $40,000, but the company may begin busi- 

 ness with $10,000. The Incorporators are J. l'. 

 Brown of .\palacbia and George and John E. 

 Oherue of Knoxvllle, Tenn. The company will 

 deal in timber and mineral lands and manufac- 

 ture and sell all kinds of iuniber. 



The ParUersburg Lumber Company has been 

 Incorporated under the laws of West Virginia, 

 with principal offices at Fairmont, but Its chief 

 works win be In Sampson county, N. C. The 

 company will conduct a general lumber busi- 

 ness, build railroads, etc. The authorized capi- 

 tal is $25,000. G, F. Barnes, Murray Dicker 

 son and others of Fairmont, W. Va., are the In- 

 corporators. 



^lachlncry for the Oaks Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of New Bern, N- C, has arrived aiul I.-, 

 being placed. The company will mnini ';., ,u,-. 

 farm Implemcnig. 



The Laitimore Lumber Company of I, .iil:ii.»i'. 



