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a few days ago. He was sixty-flve years old and retired from busluess 

 recently after having been In the lumber trade at Iluntlngton. 



Judge Albert B. Anderson of the United Stales court In this city has 

 appointed Edward C. Dissell receiver for the Ilanna-BinckenrldKe Com 

 pany of Fort Wayne on a petition tiled by several creditors asking that 

 the company be adjudged bankrupt. 



Members of eighteen building trades' organizations have walked out on 

 all building projects where any brick work Is under way. The troul>ie is 

 a Jurisdictional strike caused by a determination to prevent brick layers 

 from doing Inside marble work. The brick ia.yers arc not members of llie 

 .\merican Federation of Labor with which the marble setters and othii- 

 building trades are Identltied. 



Since December 1 a large number of teamsters and chauffeurs In tin' 

 city have been on strike dt'niandlng a uniform wage scale and shorter and 

 uniform hours. .VII hauling was suspended two days because of acts of 

 violence that met efforts to operate trucks. The excellent protection being 

 afforded by the police, however, has encouraged many concerns to resume 

 deliveries. The police are proceeding on the theory that law and order 

 must be maintained and have very promptly responded to all complaints. 

 dispersing mobs as fast as they have formed. Normal conditions are 

 rapidly returning and It is thought that within a few days there will be 

 little danger of trucks and drivers being molested. Threats are being 

 made that a general strike of all labor organizations will be called. 



=-< MEMPHIS y- 



The Chickasaw Cooperagu iJoiupaiiy lias ircently purchased a mill which 

 will be installed at McGehee. Ark. This firm is engaged in the manufac- 

 ture of heading and staves and tight barrels. It has extensive holdings 

 in the territory tributary to McQchee and the new mill will be installed 

 for the development of these. On the strength of this launcliing into the 

 sawmill end of the business Walker L. Wellford, secretary and treasurer 

 of the company, has made application for membership in the Lumbermen s 

 Club of Memphis. 



A large delegation is in Washington urging federal control of the levees 

 through the adoption of the Ransdeli-Humphreys bill which is now pending 

 before congress. There is no section of the country more directly inter- 

 ested in this proposed legislation than the Memphis territory. The floods 

 of the past several years have brought disaster throughout the upper 

 Mississippi valley and owners of lumber and wood working enterprises 

 throughout the territory tributary to Memphis have suffered heavy loss 

 as a result of the breaks in the levee system. Every business organization 

 in this city and section, including the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, sent 

 delegates to the Washington conference. The belief is very strong here 

 that it Is Impossible to control the floods through the state and private 

 levee boards and that the United States government is the only power 

 having sutBclent capital at Its disposal to cope with a situation of such 

 vast import. 



The Moro Land & Timber Company has made application to do business 

 under the laws of Arkansas. Its headquarters are at Moro. .\rk. The 

 certitieatc sets forth that the company proposes to invest $20,000 in 

 Arkansas and that one of its chief expenditures will be involved in thc 

 erection of a sawmill at Bono, Craighead County. 



R. J. Darnell. Inc.. has failed to secure an injunction from the supieme 

 court of Mississippi restraining the railroad commission from putting into 

 effect a new log rate on the Balesvillo-Southwestern which tiiis firm has 

 leased from the Illinois Central railroad for the development of it| timber 

 resources in that section. The lumber firm set forth that the new rate 

 was practically confiscatory and. theref<;re, in violation of the constitution 

 of the United States. The supreme court, however, has suggested the 

 wisdom of testing the now rates by actual experience and. from tlie 

 decision, It is apparent that the complainant will have to submit to this 

 verdict at least for the time being. 



=-< NASHVILLE >= 



The Nashville Veneer Company has been Incorporated with an author- 

 ized capital stock of $1.">,000. A. B. Ransom of John B. Ransom & Co. 

 has been elected president, and Wm. R. Drlnkard of Indianapolis is 

 general manager of the new company. The company has taken steps to 

 start up a plant in West Nashville immediately, and is now operating 

 two saws. It Is expected that the business will be enlarged greatly at a 

 later date. 



The Hudson Lumber Company at South Pittsburg, Tenn., has bein 

 carrying on heavy operations In red cedar lumber and timber. The com- 

 pany has recently closed contracts for about 1,000 carloads of red cedar 

 In Rutherford, Bedford, Coffee and other counties, to be delivered at onci'. 

 The receipt of these shipments will give the company about .■!,000 carloads 

 of red cedar on Its yards, valued at more than $100,000. This lumber is 

 being convi'rted Into material for the Eagle Pencil Company, and Is said 

 to be as tine quality as can be secured at this time. The company 

 employs about l.iO men In its plant. It Is now making arrangements to 

 secure electric power from Hales Bar on the Tennessee river. The 

 development of the water power of Tennessee at the cost of many mil- 

 lions of dollars and Introduction of hydro-electric power promises to do 

 much in the matter of power for manufacturing plants. 



Tlie Moore Lumber Company of Creencvllle, Tenn., has filed a volunlary 

 petition In bankruptcy. 



J. G. Collier has added a sawmill to his stave factory plant at Erin. 



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Eleven Miles West of Memphis, Tenn. 



