HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Memphis. 



The first concatenation of Hoo-Hoo held here 

 in over two years was celebrated June S. There 

 was a large number of the local order in attend- 

 ance and twenty four new members were in- 

 itiated. A practically complete list of the in- 

 itiates follows : C. B. Stetson, C. B. Stetson 

 Lumber Company: Lyman Weisel, Moore & Mc- 

 Ferren ; D. W. Raird. southern representative 

 Dudley Lumber Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. ; 

 A. II. Stotts and Mr. Scott. Scott & McFerren : 

 Lon Moore and N. M. Taylor. Tennessee Hoop 

 Company : Frank Turner and Shelby Saunders. 

 Russe & Burgess : N. A. Gordon, G. T. Baker 

 and J. T. Barry. Williams & Co. : William Dueck- 

 er, Howard Dyer and John Heckles, Reed & 

 Duecker : M. II. Portis, M. H. Portis Lumber 

 Company, Covington, Tenn. ; Sidney Nummery, 

 Robert I.ockwood. Mr. McCallum, Cochran Lum- 

 ber Company; Mr. Inglewright, Union Iron 

 Works, and George W. Fooshe. 



Secretary George C. Ehemann of the Lumber- 

 men's Club of Memphis has sent out circular let- 

 ters to all the lumbermen in this city, regardless 

 of what branch they are engaged in, asking for 

 information regarding the number of persons 

 employed, the amount of wages paid, the receipts 

 of logs by river and rail, the amount of the out- 

 put of the mills here and in the Memphis terri- 

 tory and the amount of lumber received on the 

 local yards, as well as the amount shipped direct 

 from yards outside of the city. Mr. Ehemann 

 lias taken this step because there have been no 

 accurate compilations made along this line for 

 several years, with the result that nothing defi- 

 nite is known regarding the extent of the lumber 

 interests of this city. As secretary of the Lum- 

 bermen's Ciub he is frequently called on for 

 statistics along this line and he desires to put 

 himself in position where he can give this with- 

 out difficulty. 



The Arthur Hardwood Flooring Company has 

 made application for a charter under the laws 

 of this state. Its domicile will be in Memphis 

 and it will be capitalized at $50,000. The com- 

 pany will erect an extensive plant for the ex- 

 c'usive manufacture of hardwood flooring. The 

 incorporators are L. P. Arthur of the Arthur 

 Lumber Company, E. E. Goodlander of the Good- 

 lander-Robertson Lumber Company, Levi Joy. 

 commercial broker ; H. B. Anderson, an attorney, 

 and T. B. Allen of T. B. Allen & Co. Owing 

 to the fact that Memphis is the center of the 

 largest hardwood producing section in the world, 

 it is expected the company will meet with suc- 

 cess from the start. 



A meeting of the executive board of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association was to 

 have been held here a short time ago, but owing 

 to the fact that no members were present outside 

 of President Earl Palmer, W. A. Bennett of Ben- 

 nett & Witte and W. H. Russe of Russe & Bur- 

 gess, Memphis, the meeting had to be postponed. 

 It will be he'd in Indianapolis, Ind., at a date 

 yet to be selected. 



The American Hoe & Fork Company of Cleve- 

 land, O., which proposes to establish a branch 

 plant here for the manufacture of products for 

 the southern and export trade, has closed a deal 

 for the purchase of the old Pioneer Cotton Mill 

 in South Memphis, including five acres of 

 ground, for $35,000. This makes fifteen acres 

 this company has purchased, which is about ail 

 needed for its plant. The last purchase is con- 

 ditional on the supplying of necessary switching 

 facilities by the former owners of the property, 

 to which they have agreed. 



The latest railroad project affecting this ter- 

 ritory is the proposed building of a line from 

 Memphis to Jackson, Miss., partially parallelling 

 the Illinois Central. The Mississippi authori- 

 ties, who have granted a charter, satisfied them- 

 selves in advance that the company had plenty 

 of money and that it really intended to build 

 the line as projected. Conferences have been 

 held with officials of the Illinois Central regard- 



ing the attitude of that road toward the new 

 enterprise- It is expected that something more 

 tangible in connection with the new road will 

 develop within the next few days. 



W. B. Gibson has been selected as inspector for 



this district t" siir<- 1 George I.. Smith, mow 



surveyor general of the National Hardwood Lum 

 ber Association. Mr. Gibson, who lias 1 u em- 

 ploy. :d during the past four or five year 

 R. J. Darnell & Co., Inc.. and who has had about 

 fifteen years' experience in grading an, I classing 

 lumber, is regarded by the trade generally as 

 an excellent choice. He is a native of Iron 

 ton, O. 



It is reported that the Hugh McLean Lumber 

 Company, of Buffalo. N. Y.. will, if a suitable 

 site can he found, erect a hardwood plain here. 

 The firm has under discussion the building of a 

 new plant or the removal to Memphis of the one 

 now located at Bedford. Ind. Nothing deliuite, 

 however, has been decided. Angus and W. A. 

 McLean, both members of this company, were in 

 Memphis a short time ago investigating this 

 field. 



Frank Braughton of this city has been selected 

 as manager of the mill established by Harris. 

 Braughton & Co. at Trezevaut, Tenn. This firm 

 is composed of members of Braughton & Co., 

 Memphis, and Harris & Co., Trezevaut. 



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

 recently made a business trip to St. Louis, and 

 W. II. Russe of Russe & Burgess, who went on 

 a like mission to New Orleans, have both re- 

 turned. 



Mr. McCIure of Thompson & McClure reports a 

 fair volume of business with a good undertone 

 to prices. He says stocks are light and that, 

 with anything like an average demand during 

 the late summer and fall, there will be no 

 trouble in securing full values for lumber. He 

 looks for some improvement in the demand with- 

 in the next few weeks. 



W. II. Greble of the Three States Lumber 

 Company says that firm did a good volume of 

 business during June, but admits that the out- 

 look for July is not quite so flattering. He re- 

 ports a scarcity of dry lumber and believes that 

 there is going to be a howl for lumber later 

 when buyers realize that there is as great a 

 scarcity of dry stocks as really exists. 



C. B. Stetson of the C. B. Stetson Lumber 

 Company says the demand for lumber is satis- 

 factory and that if he knew where he could get 

 the stock he would not have any difficulty in 

 booking orders of considerable volume. 



Max Sondheimer of the E. Sondheimer Com- 

 pany says business is not what it should be and 

 that lumbc is not as scarce as some of the 

 trade would have one believe. He even reports 

 having purchased some plain sawed oak here a 

 short time ago at a slight concession from what 

 he had been paying. He is not at all favorably 

 impressed with conditions prevailing in the hard- 

 wood industry. 



W. H. Russe and George D. Burgess of Russe 

 & Burgess say that they believe there will be 

 a good demand for lumber later, and that there 

 will be more trouble in securing the necessary 

 stock than in selling what is on hand. These 

 gentlemen look for decided improvement within 

 the next thirty to sixty days. 



The L. E. Patton arrived here Saturday after- 

 noon from Woodstock, Miss., with 500.000 feet 

 of lumber on board, and has now gone to the 

 St. Francis river for a large tow of logs to be 

 brought to this place. 



J. V. Stimson of Huntingsburg, Ind., was a re- 

 cent visitor here. 



L number ol are heavy 

 ietors, ami their holdings will be pooled 

 wi!h the company or purchased from them. The 

 heaviest subscribers to the preferred stock are 

 '••d in the I 11-,,, 1 'olorado Southern rail- 

 road Unit is I,, open np < new hardv. 1 tract 



in western and central 1 islana. Tin- aevi 



poral ion 1 1 In outgrow th of the Lucas 1: 1 

 Company, long exporters of hardwoods from New 



' III, -alls, 



a remarkable reversal in the quantity of oak 

 ■ oni cypi ■-■ stave used during the building sea- 

 son ,,i the pasi two years is shown by the follow- 

 ing figures: During the seas if 1903-04, 3,194,. 



■' lypress staves were received for domestic 



e md only 1,508,894 oal staves; during the 

 season of 1904-05, 6,024,564 oak staves were re- 

 ceived, ami only Tii'J.oiio cypress slaves. The in- 

 crease in ill- 11- iak slaves and the reduction 



i,y seventy-five per cenl in the use ,,f cypress 

 staves, coupled with the total increase of over 

 one million slaves fairly pictures the industry 

 during the season. 11 shows the present exten- 

 sive movement to develop oak lauds to meet the 

 in, leasing demand for 1 ak staves, and has re- 

 sulted in a number of big enterprises set afloat 

 i" exploit the Louisiana hardwood lands. 



' me of the biggest timberlaud deals, largely 

 hardwoods, yet carried through in Mississippi 

 was recorded at Meridian, June 30, for lands in 

 Lauderdale county. The money involved footed 

 up $312,000, although the land itself was bought 

 for $54,11110. The Cotton States Lumber Com- 

 pany, recently incorporated, was the purchaser. 

 This corporation recently bought out the Meehan- 

 Rouuds Lumber Company at Meehan Junction, 

 Miss., including 25.000 acres of land, fifteen miles 

 of logging road, several mills, manufacturing 

 plants, etc. It is said that extensive improve- 

 ments will be inaugurated, and several additional 

 plants established, among which will be, in addi- 

 tion to a number of stave mills, a plant to fur- 

 nish material to a new furniture company in 

 Meridian and also to one in Columbus. 



The first concatenation of Hoo-Hoo held in New 

 Orleans in two years was the chief timber inter- 

 est event of last week. Many members were 

 present from Mississippi and Louisiana. 



A feature of the hardwood situation is the in- 

 creased interest in the imports of mahogany from 

 Honduras, and the other timber producing coun- 

 tries of Central America. C. C. Meugel & Bro. 

 Company of Louisville through its New Orleans 

 agency are doing a very large business in this 

 line. Albertos E. Barrios recently passed through 

 New Orleans for Honduras in the interests of 

 eastern capitalists and announced that their pur- 

 chases would be routed this way. 



Oscar Gartner, exporter, has moved his office 

 to room 1015 HIbernia Bank Building. 



D. Thos. Rees and W. A. Scott have organized 

 the Rees-Scott Company, with a capital of $50,- 

 000, 10 export hardwoods and slaves, with offices 

 ai 203 Denegre Building. Mr. Rees was for eight 

 years a member of the Lucas E. Moore Company 

 and sold out his interest in that company only 

 recently. 



C. II. Rice has taken up his duties as manager 

 of the Southwestern Lumber & Box Company, 

 as the Sutherland-Innes Company will hereafter 

 be known. 



S. E. Redfern, already well known to the hard- 



» 1 and package Interests, has been appointed 



purchasing agent for the Panama Canal Com- 

 mission at this point. 



New Orleans. 

 The Lucas E. Moore Stave Company published 

 the charter of the corporation June 29 and will 

 soon begin operations on a very extensive scale. 

 The capital stock is $110,000. The company, 

 which will establish headquarters In New Or- 

 leans, will also enter extensively into the ex- 

 ploitation of the lands it holds throughout Louis- 



Kansas City. 

 As the time for the 1 Hoo Annual at Port- 

 land, Ore., draws nearer the indications grow 

 better for a good delegation from Kansas City 

 and vicinity, and there should be at least one 

 carload from Kansas City. Oklahoma expects to 

 a strong delegation, as Oklahoma City Is 

 the annual of 1906. It Is likely that the 

 Oklahoma, Dallas and Fort Worth delegations 

 will come via Kansas City, joining the Kansas 

 City crowd here, and all proceeding together to 



