April 10, 1916 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Wheelbarrow Company of Lansing, Mich., wliich company will make use 

 of the timber removed from the land in the manufacture of Its products 

 at Lansing. The company also plans to construct a line of railway through 

 the tract, from Hughes on the Marianna Cutoff of the Iron Mountain 

 railroad to Kruin's Landing, a distance of about seven miles. 



Will Rebuild Burned Mill 



The sawmill on ^^';^lluuh hike, nt-ar Tetrusl y. Mich., belongim; to and 

 operated by Coveyou Urotliors, has been burned. It will be rebuilt as 

 there was a large stock of logs, ties, lumber, etc., on hand from the winter 

 logging jobs and these will be made ready for market. 



W. p. Brown & Sons Lumber Company Expanding Rapidly 



A romance of the lumber business is indicated in an announcement 

 which has just been made by the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company 

 of Louisville, that Brown Rros. & Carnahan, for which it is selling agent, 

 tias taken over the sawmill, railroad MU] timber of the Kentark Land & 

 Lumber Company at AUport, Ark ; the mill, railroad and timber of E. P. 

 l.add & Co., at Furth, Ark., and the lumber of the Carnahan-.MIport com- 

 pany at Geridge, Ark. The deals, which are among the most important 

 reported recently, serve to call attention to the remarkable development 

 of the Brown enterprises, and the strides which have been taken by T. M. 

 and .T. G. Brown, members of the firm, in reaching their present place 

 among the leading hardwood manufacturers and timber operators of the 

 South. 



A little over ten years ago the Brown boys came to Louisville with their 

 father, the late W. P. Brown, and started a wholesale lumber yard. The 

 business was relatively sm.all, and the Louisville yard was the whole 

 proposition. Today they not only have two immense yards here, carry- 

 ing every thickness and grade of every kind of hardwood manufactured, 

 and enabling tlum to offer special services to consumers in connection 

 with mixed cars of unusual items, but direct and through their connec- 

 tions they control seven bandmills and timber to the extent of 200,000,- 

 000 feet. The fact that the concern has succeeded in this big and unusual 

 way during a period which has been considered unfavorable to business by 

 most lumbermen makes the achievement all the more notable. 



The W. I'. Brown & Sons Lumber Company has a doxible bandmill and 

 a single bandmill at Fayette, Ala., with planing-mill and dry-kilns. Over 

 70,000,000 feet of timber are available for this operation, including red 

 and white oak. which is sawed plain and quartered ; gum, poplar and 

 yellow pine. The company has a bandmHI at Dickson, Tenn., as well, and 

 is also selling agent for the B. E. Kenney Lumber Company of Frank- 

 fort. Ky., which secures its logs from eastern Kentucky and features the 

 production of soft Kentticky river oak, poplar and basswood. 



The firm of Brown Bros. & Carnahan was formed a few months ago 

 for the purpose of operating a mill at Furth. Ark. The members of thi.s 

 concern are Uobcrt Carnahan and the two Browns, who have added an 

 important unit to their rapidly growing organization in the person of 

 Mr. Carnahan, who is well known for his operations in eastern Ken- 

 tucky and Arkansas. Mr. Carualian, who now nmkes his home in Pine 

 Bluff. Ark., has had wide experience in the logging and sawmill end of 

 the business, and is the active manager of the operations at Furth and 

 AUport. He organized the Kentark Land & Lumber Company, and his 

 accession liy the Brown interests is regarded as a fine stroke on their 

 part. 



The extent of the Furth interests is indicated by the fact that there 

 are 40,000,000 feet of timber connected with this operation, consisting 

 principally of white oak. the remainder being gum and cypress. There 

 are 50,000,000 feet of timber at AUport, where 27,000 acres of timber 

 was taken over. White oak is the principal wood, 90 per cent of the 

 stuinpage being of this variety. Cypress and gum- make up most of the 

 remainder. 



Although well supplied with timber sufficient to take care of their 

 operations for a number of years, the Browns have had the foresight 

 to anticipate their requirements, and several years ago acquired one 

 of the finest tracts of timber in Arkansas. It is located in Monroe 

 county, and consists of 13,000 acres with a 'stumpage of 100,000,000 feet 

 of oak and gum. This big property is being held for development later 

 by the Brown Bros. Land & Lumber Company. 



A close friend of the Browns, iu describing their unusual success in 

 the hardwood field, said that first of all they know the business from 

 top to bottom — "up one side and down the other," as they say in Ken- - 

 tucky. They are born lumbermen, their father having been one of the 

 veteran operators of the West, and the boys having gotten their first 

 knowledge of the business by playing in the sawdust of his mill at Madi- 

 son, Ind., twenty-five years ago. , 



In addition, they have shown ability to keep up with the demands 

 of the trade, and have put themselves in a position to supply every need 

 of the customer, no matter how difficult. By catering to the requirements 

 of the consumer, rather than insisting on the consumer takiug the lum- 

 ber "as she lay," the Browns have won a reputation which has enabled 

 them to increase their volume of sales to a tremendous extent. 



They have a large selling organization, covering the South and Canada. 

 as well as all the states east of the Mississippi, and J. G. Brown him- 

 self is responsible personally for much of the business which goes on 

 the books. T. M. Brown is given credit for unusual executive ability, 

 and is also strong for association work, having been one of the organizers 

 and one of the first presidents of the Louisville Hardwood Club, and 

 holding at present a place on the executive committee of the National 



Hardwood Lumber Association, and as trustee of the National Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association. 



Summing it up, the Brown company, by reason of its timber holdings, 

 its manufacturing facilities, and its sales organization, is in a unique 

 position to render eflScient service in the production and distribution of 

 hardwood lun\ber. 



Finishing the Lumber Study 



Franklin II. Smith, now located with the Forest Service. Washington, 

 D. C, spent a few days last week with friends in Chicago. Mr. Smith 

 has completed his reports on lumber trade conditions in the Orient and 

 the bulletins have been well received by the public. Since returning from 

 the Far East last fall he has been at work on bringing together data 

 relating to the world's timlier supply in general and its probable effect 

 upon markets in such countries as the United States lumber will probably 

 reach in course of trade. Routes which lumber will take by sea and land 

 constituted part of the study which Mr. Smith has been engaged In 

 since his return to the United States. He expects to locate in Washington 

 and give all his time to the work of the Forest Service. 



Lamb-Fish Company Lands Big Tie Order 



The Lamb-Fisb Lumber I'cMnpiUiy, of Charleston, Miss., is working on 

 an order for several hundred thousand crossties to be shipped to the 

 French government. Deliveries are to begin May 1 and will be made 

 every two months thereafter until the completion of the order, which is 

 the largest so far booked by any firm engaged in the hardwood trade. 

 Barges have already been secured for handling these ties from Green- 

 wood, Miss., down the Yazoo river to Vicksburg, and thence down the 

 Mississippi to New Orleans. The barge method has been decided upon 

 because the rates are lower and because barges can be run alongside the 

 receiving ship and unloaded, thus saving an entire handling charge 

 in that port. It is suggested, that, if merchants and other Interests 

 in Mississippi give the company proper support, the operation of this 

 barge line may be made permanent. The ties will be handled from 

 Charleston, Miss., the site of the big mill of this firm, to Greenwood 

 by rail. The company intends to start running night and day at its 

 plant in the near future and a large portion of its capacity will be 

 devoted to the order in question. 



Big Timberland Deal 



During the past several weeks West Virginia has been the scene of 

 some large timber deals. The latest is the sale of 1,000 acres of virgin 

 timberland to Samuel P. Arnold of Morgantown, and Noah Nazum of 

 Frenchton. the tract representing the C. E. Mollohan holding on Holly 

 river, in Braxton county, W. Va. A new concern, the Arnold-Nazum Lum- 

 ber Company, announces that it will begin to develop the tract at once. 



Theodore J. Reitz 



.\ftcr a long illness. Theodore .1. Reitz. aged fifty-four years, died 

 Monday morning, April 3, at his home, CIS OakJey street, Evansville. Mr. 

 Reitz was a son of the late Clemens Reitz of Evansville. He was a 

 member of the Clemens Reitz Sons Comiiany with hardwood mills at 

 200 Seventh avenue. He grew up in the lumber business and had been 

 connected with the company since boyhood. He was a man of many good 

 qualities and his death is deplored by a large number of friends. Mr. 

 Reitz was a prominent member of the Elks lodge. He is survived by 

 his widow and six chililri'ii. 



New Company to Operate Stool Plant 

 The plant of the Racine Stool Manufacturing Company. Racine. Wis., 

 recently purchased by new interests, will probably be operated in the 

 near future by the new organization, which it is stated, will be incorporated 

 for $100,000. It is reported that Fred Blandin. who for many years was 

 interested in the Racine Manufacturing Company, will be general manager 

 for the new concern. 



S. W. Jurden 



S. W. Jurden, president of the First National Bank of Wellston, in 

 St. Louis. Mo., and for years actively engaged in the lumber business, 

 died in St. Louis March 18 at the age of sixty-seven. Mr. Jurden, who 

 was the father of Ralph L. Jurden, vice-president and secretary of 

 Penrod, Jurden & McCowen, Memphis, Tenn., was a native of North 

 Adams, Mass. He moved to Missouri in 1S68, and engaged in the retail 

 lumber business at Holden. A few years later he became actively 

 connected with the bank of Holden. of which he was later elected 

 president. He remained in this office until 1904. when he moved to 

 St. Louis and founded the institution of which he was the head at the 

 time of his death. He organized the Do Ilodiamont Lumber Company of 

 St. Louis, and was a stockholder and director of Penrod. Jurden & Mc- 

 Cowen. Mr. Jurden was w-idely known in the lumber and veneer trade, 

 and took a keen interest in the development of the business. He Is 

 survived l>y his wife, one daughter, >lrs. R. O. Kennard, Jr., of St. Louis, 

 and two sons, Guy E. Jurden, vice-president of the First National bank 

 of Wellston. and R. L. Jurden of Penrod. Jurden & McCowen. The 

 funeral was held in St. Louis March 20. the interment being in Bell- 

 fountaine cemetery, St. Louis. 



Railroad Company Engaged in Important Reforestation 



The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Company is engaged in a close study of 

 reforestation, and has already done considerable along this line. The com- 

 pany now has 200,000 catalpa trees growing along its rights of way, and 



