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<iuite dl?appointiiip because of conditions which have been unfavorable 

 for activity along this line. He says, however, that there are a number 

 of costly structure.^ which will be erected in the central part of the city 

 in the near future and that plans have already been drawn for a number 

 of nianufacturirg: plants to be located In the industrial centers in or 

 adjacent to Memphis. Architects here say that there is promise of greater 

 activity than has been seen for some time and that they have been called 

 upon to do a great deal more work recently. Contractors are also getting 

 busier. Manufacturers of building materials of all kinds report that there 

 is more demand for tlieir output, particularly for delivery after the lirst 

 of the new year. It is not anticipated that there will be very much 

 increase in building activity during December, but practically all authori- 

 ties in touch with conditions here believe that there will be a decided 

 <?hange for the better after the new year begins. 



The Cr.vstal Springs Manufacturing Company, Crystal Springs, Miss., 

 has been incorporated and articles of incorporation have been tiled with 

 the county clerk of Berrien county, Michigan. The principal ofBces of the 

 company will be at Crystal Springs, while the Michigan office will be at 

 St. .Toseph. The company, in its present form, is owned by Michigan in- 

 terests. It will have its plant at Crystal Springs and will buy. sell, manu- 

 facture and trade in all kinds of lumber, veneer, fruit and produce pack- 

 ages, box shooUs and crates. The capital stock is ."f.50,000. 



The !?udden-Christensen Steamship Company is putting live steamers 

 in the Mississippi valley trade to run from New Orleans and Mobile via 

 the Panama canal to San Pedro and San Francisco. Sailing dates will be 

 the tenth of each month from Mobile and the fifteenth from New Orleans. 

 Capt. I. N. Hibliord, general manager, has been spending some time in 

 Memphis recently with a view to securing large enough tonnage to justify 

 the lieginning of operations. He says that he expects no trouble in ac- 

 complishing this purpose. He points out that the greater portion of the 

 tonnage will be hardwood lumber and lumber products. The transcon- 

 tinental roads are making an effort to secure a rate of eighty cents from 

 Memphis to Pacific coast points on these products, while the rate via the 

 Panama canal is fifty-three cents, a difference in favor of the steamship 

 lines of twenty-seven cents. Capt. Hiblierd believes that this is sufllciently 

 large to get the business and be is very much encouraged over the out- 

 look. 



The Henry Maley Lumber Company, which recently decided to remove 

 its plant from Yazoo City to Jackson. Miss., has already begun the neces- 

 sary grading and has received some of the machinery. The latter has 

 already been ordered and will be delivered at an early date. It is planned 

 to have the plant In operation at the new location in about sixty days. 



A. B. Newman of Chicago, and associates, have been spending some time 

 in Arkansas recently, going over the properties which they acquired a 

 short time ago from the Triangle Lumber Company at Clio. Included in 

 the transfer were the big sawmill and hardwood plant, 42,000 acres of tim- 

 ber, and the Anderson & Saline River Kaihvay, a line twenty-one mile:- in 

 length. It is the intention of these gentlemen to undertake the early de- 

 velopment of the properties in question. They want to get the timber 

 removed from the land and cut the latter up into small tracts to be 

 rented or leased for trucking and other agricultural interests. Soniething 

 definite in connection with the plans of these gentlemen ma.v be expected 

 at an early date. 



=-< NASHVILLE >- 



The Nashville Lumbermen's Club at the last weekly meeting decided to 

 change the hour of holding meetings to 6 o'clock in the evening and to 

 hold two meetings monthly instead of weekly meetings. President Hender- 

 son Baker presided, and was instructed to appoint a committee to ar- 

 range programs for the meetings. Hamilton Love, T. R. LeSueur and Chas. 

 M. Morford were named. The committee will select speakers and get up 

 live programs ftir the meetings. Some of the lumbermen at the meeting 

 reported more Inquiries and signs of improvement, while many reported 

 trade quiet and unchanged. 



A new heading factory has started at Centreville, Tenu., turning out 

 2.5,000 pieces the first day. and the Buckeye Spoke Company at the same 

 place, which has been closed down for several weeks, has resumed opera- 

 tion. Houston & Liggett of Columbia. Tenn., are having a new slat mill 

 erected at Chapel Hill, Tenn.. and will build about twenty-five houses for 

 homes for employes. 



The Chestnutt Lumber Company, which has business here, has registered 

 its charter in this county. The coniiiany was organized in .\Iabama, with 

 ."5.5,000 capital stock, and is composed of K. N. Chestnutt. Sr.. 1!. N. Chest- 

 nutt, Jr., Omar Chestnutt, I). T. Campbell and John C. Jared. 



George W. Steagall, who was for many years a prominent lumber dealer 

 and manufacturer at Tullahoma. Tenn.. died at the home of his daughter, 

 Mrs. B. K. Kingree, in Shelhyville. Mr. Steagall operated large plants at 

 Tullahoma for many years. The remains were taken to Tullahoma for 

 interment. 



=-< BRISTOL >■ 



Beveridge & Taylor, Inc., of this city, who last week purchased an addi- 

 tional boundary of timber near Glade Spring, Washington county, Va., is 

 preparing to at once install mills. The firm is confident that business will 

 be better in the spring and, acting upon this belief, is going ahead with Its 

 plans. 



The Pittsburgh Lumber Company, which has a large mill at Hampton. 



Tenn., is one of the few large manufacturers in this section still operating. 

 The company is working part of the time at night. 



'i'lie Atkins Lumber Company will soon have its new mill at Atkins, 

 Va.. ready tor operation. The company will cut about 40,000 feet of hard- 

 wood stock daily. The railroad is now about completed. H. G. Guyau of 

 Humbert. Pa., is largely interested in the development, having purchased 

 an area of 21,000 acres of timljer for the contpiiny, estimated to be a 

 fifteen-year cut. 



A distinct shock to the hardwood men of this section was the death at 

 Rochester, Minn., a few days ago of John T. Id.xon of the John T. Dixon 

 Lumber Company of Elizabethton. Tenn.. who had gone there for an opera- 

 tion. His body was returned to Elizabethton for burial. He had for a 



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