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HARDWOOD RECORD 



All Wood Finishers 



should use our NATURAL RUBBING 

 OIL, "ZERO" BRAND, "Direct from Well 

 to Consumer." 



Zero Brand Rifj. U. S. Pal. O/ftcc. 



STILES BROS. 



Parkersburg, West Va. 



Producers of Pure Natural West Virginia Lubricating Oil 



SAMPLE ON APPLICATION 



"ANDREWS" 



Canvas Doors 



(PATENTED) 



Are Used on Largest Dry Kilns in This 

 and Foreign Countries 



Double Curtains are Effi- 

 cient Heat Savers, easily 

 and quickly attached and 

 operated and are long lived 



MADE IN ALL SIZES BY 



The A. H. Andrews Co. 



CHICAGO 



Lumber Company on the liuance company ; H. B. Burnet of the Burnet- 

 I^ewis Lumber Company, and S. P. Matthews of the South Arkansas Lum- 

 ber Company on the committee on relief and charities. 



After a three months' tour of Europe, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Brown and 

 Mrs. Brown's sister, Miss Irene Talge, have returned Iiome. Mr. Brown 

 wi'tit to Africa last spring to buy mahogany logs for the Talge Mahogany 

 ('(impaiiy of this city and upon arriving in England last December, was 

 jniin-fi iiy Mrs. Brown and Miss Talge. 



=-< MEMPHIS y 



The band mill of the Gayuso Luinbur Coiiiiiauy, located in South Mem- 

 phis, has begun operations. This plant was purchased from the Fair 

 Lumber Company in Mississippi but was used very little and is practi- 

 liilly as good as new. It has a daily capacity of from 45,000 to 50,000 

 ft'et of lumber. The firm owns a large amount of timber in north Missis- 

 sippi and the mill will be used to convert this into lumber. The sawing 

 has heretofore been done by custom mills. C. R. and W. A. Ransom are 

 the principal owners of the Gayoso Lumber Company. 



C. B. Dudley of the Dudley Lumber Company has returned from New 

 Orleans where he has been looking after the establishment of yards. The 

 Dudley Lumber Company has a large contract for ash abroad and the 

 lumber will be concentrated at New Orleans, from which port it will 

 be sent abroad. The yards are to be used to facilitate this business. 



Frank B. Robertson of the Anderson-Tully Company and W. H. Russe 

 of Russe & Burgess. Inc., have returned from New Orleans also. They 

 went there, together with Ben Johnson of the Mansfield Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company, Shreveport,. La., as a committee of the National Lumber 

 E-xporters' Association for the purpose of protesting against the practice 

 on the part of the steamship companies of taking rubber stamps and 

 endorsing bills of lading with the words "stained," "weather stained," 

 etc. The committee pointed out that these endorsements not only reduced 

 the value of bills of lading on lumber cargoes as negotiable documents 

 but likewise hurt the shipper through the creation of a wrong impression 

 in the mind of the recipient of the ladings. No formal report has yet 

 been made to the association and nothing will be given out about the 

 conference until this has been done. 



Commissioner Dies, who, as a member of the government of this city, 

 is in charge of public utilities, has refused to accept an ordinance ten- 

 dered by the insurance men here providing for the elimination of wooden 

 shingles as a house covering within the city limits. The insurance men 

 contend that the continued use of wooden shingles will some day result 

 in a vast conflagration, but Mr. Dies insists that it would be an unneces- 

 sary and undesirable handicap to impose upon builders of homes the 

 use of slate, metal or other covering than wood. There are a number 

 of men here who are engaged either in the manufacture or sale of 

 cypress shingles and they are very much pleased with the efforts of Cam- 

 missioner Dies to prevent the adoption of an ordinance providing for 

 complete substitution in this matter. 



Owners of sawmill establishments and hardwood yards in North 

 Memphis are congratulating themselves upon the closing of a contract 

 between the Illinois Central system and the city of Memphis whereby 

 a levee is to be built in the northern part of Memphis. Heavy loss has 

 been experienced during the floods of the past two years through the stop- 

 page of plants, the overflow of lumber and the cutting off of transporta- 

 tion facilities in the North Memphis lumber district and much pleasure is 

 expressed o%'er the fact that such recurrences are to be made impossible /■ 

 even during high water in Mississippi and Wolf rivers. 



G. W. Wade of the Trenton Land Company, Trenton, Tenn., and R. S. 

 Harlan of Corinth, Miss., have purchased 2,88.3 acres of hardwood 

 timberlands in West Carroll parish, north Louisiana, near Oak Grove. 

 R. H. Fitzgerald was also interested in the transaction. It is under- 

 stood that plans will be formulated at an early date for the establish- 

 ment of a mill for the development of the timber on this property. 



The hardwood lumber industry at Memphis, as well as the various 

 woodworking enterprises of this city, will be well represented at the 

 forthcoming annual of the Tennessee Manufacturers' Association. TUs 

 will be held at Nashville. April 8 and 9. Memphis boasts three of the 

 principal officers of this body, J. T. Willingham, president of the Mem- 

 phis Coffin Company, is president, S. B. Anderson, head of the .\nderson- 

 Tully Company, Memphis, is vice-president, and T. R. Winfleld, president 

 of the Cole Manufacturing Company, is treasurer. All of these gentle- 

 men will attend in their official capacity while a number of other prom- 

 inent manufacturers will attend as delegates. There is a branch of the 

 Tennessee Manufacturers' Association here, known as the Memphis Manu- 

 facturers' Association, and a number of lumbermen are identified there- 

 with. 



Dispatches from Paducah, Ky., indicate that the Illinois Central will, 

 about July 1, begin work on the enlargement of its shops at Memphis 

 and that these will be of such dimensions that employment will be given 

 to about 3,000 men. It is pointed out that practically all of the car 

 repairing of the southern lines of the system will be done at Memphis 

 and that all repair work of every kind for the southern lines will be 

 done at Memphis and Paducah. 



Building operations in Memphis for February showed an increase of 

 thirty-three per cent over the corresponding month last year. There was 

 a substantial gain in January, with the result that the total increase 

 since the first of the year has been quite full. The weather is quite 



