HARDWOOD RECORD 



ing work on its plant in North Memphis and 

 proposes to have it in operation within a few 

 weeks. The machinery has been ordered and 

 is expected shortly. The company will en- 

 gage exclusively in the manufacture of hard- 

 wood flooring. L. P. Arthur, of the Arthur 

 Lumber Company, is the . principal stock- 

 holder. 



The American Hoe & Fork Company of 

 Cleveland, O., has received fifteen carloads of 

 machinery for installation in the plant to be 

 erected here for the manufacture of pro- 

 ducts for the southern and export trade. This 

 machinery was prepared especially for the 

 company in the East. The American Hoe & 

 Fork Company will use considerable quanti- 

 ties of hardwood lumber in the manufacture 

 of handles for its products as well as consid- 

 erable other lumber for the manufacture of 

 crates in which these products are shipped. 



The Columbia Package Company which is 

 backed by capitalists of Erie, Pa., is pushing 

 work on its pant here for the manufacture 

 of wooden candy pails. It will be ready in a 

 short time to begin operations and will give 

 employment to between forty and fifty hands. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company of 

 Buffalo, has purchased ten acres of land in 

 New South Memphis for the erection of a 

 large band saw mill to cost about $100,000. 



An amendment to the charter of the Jones- 

 boro. Lake City & Eastern Railroad Company 

 has been filed with the secretary of State of 

 Arkansas, whereby the capital stock is to be 

 increased from $225,000 to $525,000. The in- 

 crease is made for the purpose of extending 

 the line from Dell, in Mississippi county. Ark , 

 to Osceola, Ark. The new stretch of road 

 will run through an important hardwood sec- 

 tion and will provide additional facilities for 

 the development of its resources. 



The Illinois Central has awarded the con- 

 tract for the construction of its belt line from 

 Woodstock to Leewood. on the Louisville & 

 Nashville. The remainder of the line from 

 Leewood to Nonconnah yards, in South Mem- 

 phis, will be constructed by the Union Rail- 

 way Company. This line will provide addi- 

 tional facilities for handling lumber ship- 

 ments at this point. Plans for the construc- 

 tion of a dock on the river front are also be- 

 ing considered by the Illinois Central and the 

 Union Railway Company, which will be of 

 great value to lumbermen, as it will facili- 

 tate the receipt and shipment of lumber and 

 logs handled on the river. 



The G. B. Lesh Manufacturing Company, 

 which recently decided to remove its plant for 

 the manufacture of handles and wagon wood 

 stock from Warsaw, Ind., to this city, is now 

 installing machinery, and will soon be ready 

 to begin operations here. 



Bennett & Witte, the L. E. Campbell Lum- 

 ber Company, the Paepcke-Leicht Lumber 

 Company, the National Lumber Exporters' 

 Association and the Stover Lumber Company 

 have all moved into the Tennessee Trust 

 Company building. The E. Sondheimer Com- 

 pany, the W E Smith Lumber Company and 

 the Three States Lumber Company, have also 

 engaged quarters therein 'and will move some 

 time during the current month. 



R. J. Darnell of R. J. Darnell & Company, 

 Inc., and president of the Lumbermen's Club 

 of Memphis, reached New York last week 

 after a busines trip to Europe and is due to 

 reach Memphis tomorrow. He is accompanied 

 on his return by his daughter. Miss Beatrice, 

 who has been studying in Germany. 



Efforts on the part of Dr. J. H. Whyte of 

 New Orleans to create the impression that 

 Memphis has had a case of yellow fever have 

 proven unavailing. Texas, Arkansas and 

 Mississippi have sent authorities here and 

 they have given this city a clean bill of health. 

 Moreover, Dr. Goldberger of the Marine Hos- 

 pital service was detailed here and he has 

 been unable to find any trace of fever. II. 



has so i and the cltii which quaran- 



tined against Memphis have raised tli'' ban. 

 Health conditions here are excellent. The 

 quarantine is still strict, but, better 



undvi tofore, the traveling pub- 



lic, in. ludlng lumber interests, is having lit- 

 tle difficulty in successfully complying with 

 the i. % . i '.,t ions. 



J. J. Bruner, of Bennett & Witt. , lias re- 

 turned from a trip to Chicago, his old home. 



C. S. Gladden has returned from Cincinnati 

 where he went last week. 



W. E. Smith, of the W. E. Smith Lumber 

 Company, is authority for the statement that 

 there is an improved demand for Cottonwood 

 lumber and he is of the opinion that this is 

 but the beginning. In view of the shortage in 

 the lumber supply generally, he is somewhat 

 bullish on the hardwood lumber outlook for 

 the early fall and winter. 



Weather conditions recently have shown 

 slight improvement and the mills are securing 

 more logs than heretofore, with the result 

 that production, while still far short of the 

 normal for this time of the year, is a little 

 larger than it was a month or six weeks ago. 



Kansas City. 



.1. P. Penrod of the American Walnut Com- 

 pany of this city says that the demand for 

 walnut is normal for this time of year and 

 the outlook for fall business good. 



The new hardwood mill of the Gulf Land 

 & Lumber Company at Leesville, La., is 

 about ready for operation and the company 

 will begin cutting in about a month. 



D. G. Saunders, who does an extensive 

 business in cypress with offices at Kansas 

 lily and Chicago, states that the outlook for 

 the cypress trade for the balance of the year 

 is exceptionally good, that the demand for 

 factory stock is increasing nicely, and some 

 heavy inquiries are coming in. 



B. O. Blake of Blake & Sanders, hardwood 

 manufacturers at Bagnell. Mo., was in the 

 city a few days ago. He says that the tim- 

 ber around their mill is cut out and that 

 after disposing of stock now on hand they 

 will go out of business at that point. 



The Beekman Lumber Company of this city 

 has completed a new mill at Randolph, I. T., 

 which will be in operation about September 

 15 and will cut cottonwood exclusively. 



A. H. Connelly of the Connelly Hardwood 

 Lumber Company and wife with a party of 

 friends are in Colorado on a pleasure trip. 

 They left the latter part of August, and are 

 expected home about Sept. 15. 



A. L. Houghton of A. L. Houghton & Co., 

 Kansas City, left here a few days ago for a 

 trip among the Arkansas hardwood mills. 



The Hoo-Hoo party that was to go from 

 here to the Annual at Portland on the 9th 

 ilid not materialize. A number of Hoo-Hoo 

 from Kansas City and vicinity will be on 

 hand at the meeting but they preferred to 

 start at different times. It is understood that 

 there will be a delegation of Oklahoma i 

 on hand to secure the 1U0C Annual for Okla- 

 homa I'ii;.. 



New Orleans. 



"Yellow fever" and "quarantine" are the 

 words most used by New Orleans lumbermen. 

 However, from all accounts received, neither 

 the dis ase nor the resulting quarantine regu- 

 lations have materially affected the hardwood 

 press business in this city and vicinity. 

 S.ni. interference with inspection has 

 caused by the restrictions placed on travel, 

 hul fur the most part this has not caused 

 anj difficulty in getting stock. Cypress manu- 

 factun iol hold of tie a i igor- 



ously at the outbreak of the epidemic and 

 conducted such an effective campaign of 



i tcation among the interior trade that 

 ..tilers have not been Interfered with to any 

 extent SI iters report that thei 



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ith of news regarding conditions in the 

 interior, due to their not being able to get 

 way fr.. m New Orleans, but 

 otherwise the quarantine is n,.t 

 them. Stock is coming in from n, 

 and is going forward with the volume 

 intnary at this season of the year. Machinery 

 concerns report some difficulty in getting 

 their men through the quarantine lines, and. 

 result, many of them hat ■ their 



Others are keeping the men 

 irantine lines. Difficulty is also 

 being experienced by the machinery houses 

 in getting gangs out on contracts, and j n 

 many cases contracts are pending. 



The building situation in New Orleans has 

 been affected by thi ,.„ or 



mat' rial have been raise. ..sequence. 



However, there i s considerable work going 

 on on contracts which were let before the 

 outbreak of the fever. Reports from the 

 Interior show a different condition, and build- 

 ing has not been affected to any extent. 



The \ I. Cranor Company, Ltd., hardwood 

 and pine exporters of New < i, :. , Dout 



to enter the stave manufacturing business, 

 having erected a plant :lt Ravenwood, La. The 

 new company will be known as McNeal & 

 Ltd., and the stockholders are the A. J. 

 Cranor Company. Harry McNeal and J. O. 

 Reed. The plant has been completed and is 

 ready for operation. On account of inability 

 to bring labor from Michigan, as intended, 

 beginning of operations has been post- 

 poned until the quarantine is raised. The 

 company owns seven thousand acres of tim- 

 ber land in the vicinity of the mill, which 

 will have a capacity of 35,000 staves and 10.- 

 000 barrel heads. The officers are: A. j. 

 Cranor, president; J. O. Reed, vice president; 

 Harry McNeal, treasurer and manager; ,i 

 Bateman, Jr., secretary. 



The Voulonde Lumber & Exporting Com- 

 pany is a hardwood concern now in process 

 of formation in New Orleans. The promoters 

 are H. D. Engelmann and H. L. Hetherwick. 

 who have opened offices at 309 Boai 

 Trade building. The charter will he published 

 within the next week. 



D. T. Rees, president of the Rees-Scott 

 Company. Ltd.. will return on Sept. 15 from 

 a six weeks' vacation in Canada. The Rees- 

 Scott Company has been in operation only 

 a f.w months. D. T. Rees, president, was iii 

 charge of Lucas B. ' stave de- 



partment, and W. A. Scott, the vice presi- 

 "• "' '•■■'> manager, was formerly manager 

 for the Sutherlainl-Inncs Company. 



•I. R. Bateman, Jr., secretary of the A. J. 

 Cranor Company, is spending two weeks in 

 \ heville, X. C. R. H. Wolfe, vice president 

 ..I the same company, has ben in Asheville 

 for a month. 



R. II. Downmann, the cypress manufac- 

 turer of this city, is away on his annual vaca- 

 tii.n. 



Secretary George B. Watson of the South- 

 ern ' lation has 



returned after a brief alls. 



Secretary-Manager Charles McDowell of 

 the Southern Cypress Lumber Selling Com- 

 pany is to be found at his desk despite yel- 

 I..U f.y.r and quarantines. Mr. McDowell 



market in exc. 

 dition. 



J. E. Burgulres, Dulac Cypress ,>.• Shingle 

 Company, is maintaining headquarters on 

 his plantation in order to be able to visit his 

 mill and attend to his other interests in the 

 interior. 



The charter of the Baton Rouge Spoke 

 facturing Company. Ltd., has been filed 

 at Baton Rouge. La. The . ompany has a 

 capital stock of $20,000 and will manufacture 

 buggies and other vehicles; 

 also implement handles, furniture, sash, 

 doors and blinds and do a general plan- 

 ing business. The officers of the company 



