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has also secured the handling of the output 

 of a plant which was recently installed at Matt- 

 son, Miss. 



J. L. Strickland, vice president and general 

 manager of the Planters' Lumber Company. 

 Inc., of Greenville, Miss., was here this week, 

 and he reports numerous improvements at the 

 plant of his company, which began operations 

 about the first of the year. The mill has a 

 capacity of 50,000 feet of plain sawn stock 

 daily. Mr. Strickland reports conditions in that 

 territory as decidedly healthy, and intimates 

 that, if anybody is weak over the outlook for 

 a good business at satisfactory prices, he is 

 prepared to inject a strength-giving tonic. 



The American Hoe and Fork Company, with 

 headquarters at Cleveland, O., announces that 

 it will establish a branch plant here for the 

 manufacture of forks, hoes, cradles and rakes 

 exclusively for the southern and export trade. 

 The company has about fifteen other plants, 

 but none of these is situated properly for the 

 handling of this particular business. A site 

 has been purchased and operations will begin 

 about August 1, according to the statement of 

 George B. Durell, secretary and treasurer. The 

 company will use large quantities of hardwood 

 lumber for the manufacture of handles for the 

 various products, and the saving in freight on 

 this material, which has been shipped heretofore 

 to the northern plants, will be a tremendous 

 item. 



The Hollen-Blow Stave Company has decided 

 to install a $20,000 stave finishing mill at 

 Athens, Ala., a site having been purchased on 

 the Louisville & Nashville road at that point. 

 The company will employ about forty persons. 

 The plant will be erected at once. The ma- 

 terial consumed will be largely oak. 



The Southern Box and Lumber Company has 

 been granted a charter with domicile at New 

 Albany, Union county, Miss. The capital stock 

 is $25,000 and the incorporators are W. S. 

 Parks, J. T. Swain and others. The Noxpater 

 Lumber Company, capitalized at $10,000, and 

 domiciled at Noxpater, Winston county, Miss., 

 has secured a charter, with C. H. Wright and 

 others as incorporators. 



Lee Wilson & Co., domiciled at Wilson, Ark., 

 and capitalized at $1,000,000, all paid in, has 

 secured a charter under the laws of Arkansas 

 and will engage in the lumber manufacturing 

 business. The company owns 40,000 acres of 

 land in Mississippi county, Arkansas, a short 

 distance from Memphis, much of which is In 

 cultivation. The remainder will be cleared and 

 the timber placed on the market. Lee Wilson 

 of Memphis Is president of the concern. 



The heading mill and barrel material factory 

 of Chess, Wymand & Co., Louisville, Ky., which 

 has heretofore been operated at Tutwiler, Miss., 

 is now being removed ten miles further north 

 to Longstreet, Miss., on the Yazoo and Missis- 

 sippi Valley road. 



The Interstate Cooperage Company, this city, 

 has purchased thirty-seven acres on the Union 

 Belt Railway in North Memphis, paying there- 

 for $37 000. Plant and yards for the manu- 

 facture of tight cooperage stock and barrels 

 will be operated on the site. It is intimated 

 that the company has Standard Oil backing, 

 but the company refuses to give out any state- 

 ment to that effect. The plant will be one of 

 the largest in the South. 



The White Sulphur Springs Railroad Com- 

 pany has been chartered at Van Buren, Ark., 

 for the purpose of building a line from that 

 point to Uniontown, Ark., a distance of fifteen 

 miles The line will be constructed as soon 

 as possible and will open a magnificent section 

 of hardwood timber lands. R. P. Allen of Van 

 Buren Is president. 



The International Manufacturers' Slack Coop- 

 erage Association was recently organized here 

 by more than 100 prominent members of this 

 industry In the United States and Canada. 

 Putts of Cape Girardeau, Mo., is president; 

 George M. Brasfield, Memphis Stave Manufac- 



turing Company, vice president, and C. J- 

 Delaney, Hough, Mo., secretary and treasurer. 

 The association is composed entirely of manu- 

 facturers, all brokers, dealers and middlemen 

 of every kind being eliminated. This is the 

 principal difference between this organization 

 and the National Cooperage Association. The 

 association proposes to correct some of the 

 abuses in this line alleged to have grown out 

 of undue control exercised by the dealers to 

 the detriment of the manufacturers. 



Max Sondheimer, president of the E. Sond- 

 heimer Company, was here this week looking 

 after matters pxeliminary to the removal of the 

 general offices of the company from Chicago 

 to Memphis. Headquarters will be established 

 in the Randolph building, which boasts more 

 lumber men than any other building in the 

 South. 



Among other visitors here recently were A. S. 

 Dennis of the Dennis & Smith Lumber Company, 

 Detroit ; J. N. Penrod, president of the Amer- 

 ican Walnut Company, of Kansas City ; F. P. 

 Abbott of the Lesh, Prouty & Abbott Company, 

 East Chicago, Ind. ; J. L. Strickland of the 

 Planters' Lumber Company, Greenville, Miss. ; 

 J. H. Baird of the Southern Lumberman, Nash- 

 ville ; Edward B. Martin of the Southern Lum- 

 berman, Nashville; George Worland of the K. & 

 P. Lumber Company, Cincinnati. 



Lumbermen here report little or no difliculty 

 In regard to securing cars for the prompt ship- 

 ment of their output, although there are com- 

 plaints received from the yellow pine interests 

 in Mississippi on this score, the activity in this 

 line being so pronounced that the roads are 

 unable to cope with the situation. Orders 

 are being canceled in some cases, while in others 

 bookings are being refused. 



The towboat Eagle, with several barges, passed 

 up the river last evening loaded with logs 

 from the Lower Bends on the Mississippi river 

 for St. Louis. The quantity is estimated at 

 2,000,000 feet, all hardwood. 



The Russell Lord, loaded with railroad ties 

 from the White river territory, also passed up 

 yesterday, bound for St. Louis. The Harvester, 

 from the St. Francis river, is now en route to 

 Ohio river points with a barge of hardwood 

 lumber estimated at 1,500,000 feet. 



Mr. Greble of the W. E. Smith Lumber Com- 

 pany and the Three States Lumber Company, 

 reports a fairly healthy condition in the hard- 

 wood trade. He says there Is an excellent de- 

 mand for plain oak, red and white, quarter 

 sawed red oak, cypress, ash and the higher 

 grades of cottonwood. Regarding the lower 

 grades of the latter, he says business is only 

 fair because of the competition offered by the 

 pine men from the northwest. Mr. Greble 

 states that the float of cottonwood this year 

 was very disappointing, owing to the fact that 

 the Mississippi did not rise high enough, and 

 that it will be necessary for the river mills to 

 wheel their logs to the river banks and raft 

 them. He thinks the shortage in the cotton- 

 wood supply thus caused should have the effect 

 of stimulating prices to some extent. 



A N. Thompson of Thompson & McClure. whose 

 mill is located in the Mississippi delta, reports 

 some difficulty in operating on account of the 

 heavy rains which have prevailed recently, 

 though he anticipates that with the return of 

 good weather, conditions with regard to pro- 

 duction will assume normal proportions. He 

 says business is quite as good as the firm ex- 

 pected. J. W. McClure was out of the city on 

 private business. 



W H. Martz of the Hoyt & Woodin Cypress 

 Company, the Hoyt & Woodin Manufacturing 

 Company and the Goodland Cypress Company, 

 with headquarters in the Randolph building, 

 reports an exceptionally good demand for 

 cypress with bookings for April of unusually 

 large proportions. The firm controls three large 

 mills and devotes practically all of its time to 

 this wood. 



W. II. Russe of Russe & Burgess, presi- 



dent of the National Lumber Exporters* Asso- 

 ciation, reached the city yesterday from Ne,w 

 fork after an extended trip abroad of more 

 than five months' duration. In an interview 

 published in one of the principal foreign lum- 

 ber trade papers Mr. Russe is quoted as saying 

 that an advance of $1 to $2 per thousand In 

 the price of American lumber will not have the 

 effect of keeping it out of the foreign markets. 



James E. Stark of James E. Stark & Co., 

 wholesale dealers, has been away on a business 

 trip to the North for several days. 



The J. W. Thompson Lumber Company re- 

 ports practically no change in the business situ- 

 ation during the past fortnight. The company 

 reports a good steady run of orders, with no 

 weakness in the general situation, although 

 acknowledging, with other firms here, that low- 

 grade cottonwood is somewhat difficult to move. 

 The export demand is of about the same pro- 

 portions as recently. 



T. S. Estabrook of the Estabrook-Fisher Lum- 

 ber Company, Chicago, was in the city this week. 



Cincinnati. 

 J. B. Tendleton, a hardwood lumberman of 

 North Pleasureville, Ky., was here about the 

 middle of the month on business. He recently 

 returned from Honduras, where he is inter- 

 ested in mahogany lands. 



A new hardwood found in Cuba and bearing 

 the Spanish name of majagua is being intro- 

 duced in this country for general use In picture 

 frames by the Maley, Thompson & Moffett Com- 

 pany of 'this city. T. J. Moffett made arrange- 

 ments to market the wood in the United States 

 while in Cuba a few weeks ago. The new wood 

 is in a class between ebony and mahogany, ac- 

 cording to experts. 



Burglars entered the office of F. F. Noble & 

 Co. at 2162 Western avenue on April 11 and 

 secured $8.75 in cash, $21 in checks and $2,000 

 in notes. No clue has been discovered by the 

 authorities. 



The Union Trust & Savings Bank of this city 

 has a $50,000 mortgage on a lot of mahogany 

 lumber belonging to the International Mahogany 

 Company of New York, in financial difficulties. 

 An office was formerly conducted in Cincinnati 

 when Robert Laidlaw was president. 



Various local business organizations have 

 formed a joint committee of commercial bodies 

 of Cincinnati, to increase the power of the city 

 in matters pertaining to bringing conventions 

 here. The Lumbermen's Club is represented by 

 L. G. Banning, C. F. Korn and F. W. Mowbray. 

 M. B. Farrin of the Farrin Company represents 

 the Manufacturers' Club. 



The rivers and harbors committee of congress 

 will visit this city the early part of May and 

 inspect river conditions. Business organizations 

 have raised a fund for entertainment purposes 

 amounting to several thousand dollars. The 

 Lumbermen's Club contributed $75. A number 

 of hardwood men have given personal checks In 

 addition. 



T. B. Scott & Co., a comparatively new con- 

 cern, has been admitted to membership In the 

 Furniture Exchange, to which a number of hard- 

 wood firms belong. The exchange will hold its 

 annual outing some time in June. 



The Wiborg-Hanna Company has started ex- 

 tensive improvements in its plant in North Fair- 

 mount, a suburb. 



William Stewart, appointed Inspector for this 

 market by the National Association of Lumber- 

 men at the request of the Cincinnati Lumber- 

 men's Club, has assumed his duties. He has been 

 allowed five fee deputies. 



A rather lively tilt between A. D. McLeod of 

 the C, H. & D. Railroad and E. E. Williamson, 

 commissioner of the Receivers and Shippers' As- 

 sociation, was the feature of the April monthly 

 meeting of the Lumbermen's Club at the Busi- 

 ness Men's Club. As the speaker of the even- 

 ing Mr. Williamson went into an exhaustive 

 address on "The Uniform Bill of Lading." Fol- 



