March 10, 1916 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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laws of that stiite. The capital stock is $25,000. L. II. Arke.v ami 

 Julius Arkey arc among the principal stockholders. The gentlemen who 

 are Interested in this new enterprise recently purchased a sawmill near 

 .Meridian and arc negotiating for other properties in that section. 



The Mansfield Lumber Company, Ft. Smith, Ark., has increased its 

 capital stock from $75,000 to $200,000. This action has been taken by 

 the stockholders with a view to enlarging the scope of operations. This 

 firm has about eighteen retail lumber yards in Arkansas and Oklahoma 

 and it also has a sawmill near DeQueen, Sevier county, in the former 

 state. It is proposed to greatly increase the number of these .yards and 

 to otherwise enlarge operations. W. L. Seaman was re-elected president, 

 G. C. Packard, general manager, and J. L. Swofford secretary. These 

 gentlemen all have their offices at Fort Smith. 



Ashley C. Snow has organized the Snow liUmber Company at Meridian, 

 Miss., for the purpose of doing a wholesale, business, principally in joists, 

 timbers and dimension stock. The material will be concentrated at 

 Meridian where It will be dressed at the Anchor Tlaning Mill. Mr. Snow 

 was for a number of years sales manager for the Elliott Cobb Lumber 

 Company. 



The Manning-F.Iei Lumber Company has been incorporated at Benton, 

 Ark., with Silas W. Rogers as president. 



It is reported that the Missouri-North Arkansas Railroad Is seeking to 

 secure entrance into Memphis over the tracks of the Rock Island. Tt is 

 further stated In dispatches received here that the Atchison, Topeka & 

 Santa Fe is back of this movement as it is negotiating for the taking 

 over of the Missouri & North Arkansas with a view to reaching this city. 

 There are a number of lumbermen in this part of the country who have 

 holdings along the Missouri & North Arl;ansas road and they are very 

 much pleased with the movement which is under way on the part of 

 this line to secure direct entrance into Memphis. The plans now contem- 

 plated will afford superior facilities not only for handling logs but also 

 for liandllng both inbound and outbound shipments of lumber. 



=•< BRISTOL >-= 



William S. Whiting will this month begin the operation of his new band 

 mill at Foseoe, N. C, which will cut 75,000 feet of stock daily. The mill 

 is now about complete and the railroad has already been finished. Mr. 

 Whiting owns one of the largest tr.icts of hardwood timber in that sec- 



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A large number of new sawmills will be established in eastern Kentucky 

 and southwest Virginia, as a result of the completion of the extension 

 of the Carolina, Clinchflcld & Ohio railroad from Dante, Va., to Eikhorn 

 City, Ky., at that point connecting with the Chesapeake & Ohio. It is 

 said that several large areas of timber land in that territory have already 

 changed hands, but as yet no definite announcement has been made. 



A majority of the plants in this section are running. The small mills 

 that closed down during the winter are making active preparations to 

 begin operation as soon as weather conditions are a little more favorable. 

 Most of the large mills are running. 



G. S. Boucher and .1. O. Midlam of the Damascus Lumber Company 

 of Damascus, Va., were here this week. Tills company has been cutting 

 logs for the T. W. Thayer Company for the past two years, but it is re- 

 ported that it will begin cutting its own timber again within the next few 

 months, as a result of the improvement in the lumber trade. The com- 

 pany owns about 5,000 acres of virgin hardwood timber in the White Top 

 mountain section. 



The band mill of the Peter-McCain Lumber Company, in this city, which 

 has for a year been engaged in cutting walnut gunstocks but which was 

 closed down a few weeks ago, has resumed operation. 11. ,\. ilcCowan & 

 Co. of Salem, Ind., still has the mill leased and is understood to have re- 

 ceived another large order for walnut gunstoclc. material for the allies. 

 The company had 50,000 gunstocks on the Bristol yards for shipment a 

 few weeks .a go. 



The Black Mountain Lumber Company has resumed operation of its 

 mill at Bluff City, Tenn. The company has built a new line of railroad 

 to its timber in the Holston mountains. 



=■< ST. LOUIS >■- 



February receipts of lumber in St. Louis, as reported by the Merchants' 

 Exchange, were 13,838 cars of lumber as against 15,020 cars received in 

 February, 1915, a decrease of 1.1S2 cars. Shipments were 9,878 cars, 

 compared with 8.911 cars last February, a gain of 967 cars. 



Last month's estimated value of new buildings and alterations was 

 $1,180,334, while a year ago the estimated value of new buildings and 

 alterations was $701,362, a gain of $478,972 in February, 1916, over the 

 corresponding month of 1915. The number of permits issued during 

 February, 1916, was 540, compared with 561 a year ago, a loss of 21. 



The Lasswell Lumber Company is increasing its timber acreage down in 

 Dunklin county, Missouri. J. A. Hemphill, vice-president and sales man- 

 ager of the company, who has his headquarters in the Railway Exchange 

 building, this city, is back from a trip to the mills at Kennett, Mo., and 

 announces this fact. He stated that the company has purchased a mill 

 at Ipley, near Kennett, surrounded by a small tract of timber, and will 

 start up at once. The new mill will cut mostly cypress, maple and gum 

 and the daily output will be from 15,000 to 20,000 feet. The company has 

 been operating on a dally eight hour basis until a few days ago, when it 

 began to run ten hours daily. Mr. Hemphill says he hopes this will be 



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