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secretary-treasurer, E. H. Ellsberry. A short time ago Mr. Carnahan pur- 

 chased the sawmill and other holdings of J. W. Sanders at a foreclosure 

 sale which was made to satisfy a claim held by the Bank of Pine BlutE 

 and the new company has been formed for the purpose of operating this 

 mill and developing the timberlands in question. Mr. Carnahan is a promi- 

 nent capitalist and lumberman of Pine Bluff, while Mr. Ellsberry, who will 

 have charge of operations as general manager, was manager of the mill and 

 other properties of Mr. Sanders. 



C. T. Whitman, president of the Whitman Lumber Company, Earle, 

 Ark., has recently doubled the capacity of his plant by the completion of 

 a new mill with a capacity of 75,000 feet per day. Mr. Whitman is presi- 

 dent of the National City bank at Memphis and is quite prominent in 

 business and lumber circles here as well as at Earle. 



The Crittenden Railway Company at Earle, Ark., which Is closely allied 

 with the Crittenden Lumber Company at that point, is preparing to extend 

 Its lines. This is the direct result of the acquisition by it several months 

 ago of about 6,000 acres of virgin timberlands near Black Fish Lake. 

 The Crittenden Railway Company operates a line from Earle on the St. 

 Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern to Heth on the Rock Island and is play- 

 ing an Important part in the development of the timber resources of the 

 section through which it runs. 



The property of the H. D. Williams Cooperage Company, Leslie, Ark., 

 has been sold to the Mississippi Valley Trust Company of St. Louis, under 

 foreclosure proceedings. The trust company secured a judgment against 

 the cooperage company last October on a note for $62,500. The H. D. Wil- 

 liams Cooperage Company was one of the largest firms engaged in this 

 particular line but it lost its plant at Leslie and at other locations several 

 times. These fires are given as one of the principal causes of the financial 

 difficulties in which the company has recently found Itself. 



Machinery is being installed at the plant of the Geo. O. Friedel Lumber 

 & Manufacturing Company which will be used by the DeSoto Hardwood 

 Flooring Company for the manufacture of flooring at the rate of 15,000 

 feet per day. Plans to this end were made some time ago and just as 

 soon as the machinery has been Installed it will be placed in operation, 

 probably within the next few days. J. W. McClure of the Beiigrade Lumber 

 Company is president of this firm ; R. A. Taylor is vice-president and 

 Geo. O. Friedel is secretary-treasurer. 



James E. Stark & Co. have purchased the sawmill of the Price-Huhl Lum- 

 ber Company at Dyersburg, Tenn., the sale having been made to wind up 

 a partnership. The price is understood to have been between $5,000 and 

 $10,000. The new owners are already overhauling the plant and it will be 

 placed in operation in the next few weeks. It will be used exclusively for 

 the manufacture of hardwood lumber. C. E. Somers of Memphis will be 

 in charge of operations. James E. Stark & Co. have operated a wholesale 

 business in hardwood lumber for a number of years while James E. Stark, 

 head of this firm, is also president of the Memphis Veneer & Lumber Com- 

 pany which is manufacturing hardwood lumber as well as mahogany 

 veneers at Memphis and elsewhere in this territory. 



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The lumber industry in Kentucky should profit by some of the legisla- 

 tion enacted by the General Assembly that has recently adjourned. The 

 workmen's compensation law should save employers of mill labor many 

 damage suits. It is practically compulsory for all lumbermen and others 

 who employ more than five men, as employers who refuse to come under 

 its provisions are deprived of the common law defenses in case of damage 

 suits. The new Huffaker fire insurance law appears to be satisfactory 

 both to insurer and insured. It succeeds the Greene-Glenn law, which 

 drove 106 fire insurance companies out of the state until it was suspended 

 two years ago. This action might have proven serious for lumber in- 

 terests, but the suspension of the Greene-Glenn law saved the situation 

 temporarily. Lumbermen probably would have profited by the enact- 

 ment of the Finn bill to extend the powers of the State Railroad Com- 

 mission to permit it to make joint rates. The common carriers made a 

 fight on this bill, though, and It was defeat-ed. 



The Paducah, Ky., Board of Trade has been represented at the Southern 

 Hardwood Traffic Association's hearing in Memphis by President Wells, 

 Secretary Craig and Paducah lumbermen. J. V. Norman, a Louisville 

 commerce attorney, appeared for the hardwood association. 



The capacity of the plant of the Jefferson Woodworking Company, 

 which manufactures table slides, table rims and table legs in Louisville, 

 is to be doubled. It has purchased the plant of the Pioneer Pole & Shaft 

 Company and will enlarge this plant as an addition to its plant. It is 

 expending $100,000 in the improvement. The Jefferson Woodworking 

 Company uses $3,000,000 feet of lumber annually in manufacturing table 

 slides alone. 



A movement is on toot in Louisville to create a $1,000,000 factory 

 fund. Several local corporations have already agreed to make annual 

 appropriations for five years for that purpose, some of them as much as 

 $5,000 a year. The Louisville Board of Trade and the Louisville Real 

 Estate Board are taking steps to get behind the movement. 



There is something like a boom on in the coal and timber regions of 

 eastern Kentucky, where five railroads are making extensions opening up 

 that region. Among these are the Louisville & Nashville, Baltimore & 

 Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio, and Norfolk & 

 Western. Flood conditions in the South have helped much to boost the 

 activities of the lumber and stave industry in eastern Kentucky. 



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