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With the Trade 



Organize New Company 



Tlio Auto I'liiy (iiHKls Coinimny hiis I n orKiinlzril lit I'nrkersbarg, 



\V. Vii., with II nipllal »to<k of JHO.Oiiii. The concern will ninnufarturc 

 porrh swings, liiwn swliiKs, klildli- cars anil a number of other Kuch articles 

 for lhc> aniuseinini iif children. A buMilInu has been Bccurnl for operation 

 Id rarkcrHliuri:. 



C. C. Collins Recovers 



(.'. C. Collins of the C. C. Collins Lumber Company. Madison and 



ithlnelander. Wis., has been recuperathiK at his home at Madison from 



iDjurles received at the company's Io^kIhk operations atiout four weeks 



Mr. Cidllns" Injuries were rather srv.rc, l.nt his recovery came along 



! lie is now back on the Job. 



Breece's Son in Spruce Service 



'JiMirge II. Breeee, son of (ieorge K. itri'ccc. Charleston. W. Va.. who is 

 DOW serving as a major In charge of siiriKc production In Washington, has 

 enlisted In the same service and left on .Inly liSt for Vancouver Barracks, 

 Wash. There he has been Inducted into the .service as a general logging 

 superintendent. 



New Airplane Propeller Company Organized 

 O. Adklns of Springfield. Mo., is the organizer of a new walnut pro- 

 peller concern at that place. lie has establlsheil a sawmill outfit for cut- 

 ting up walnut timber and Is now working on government orders for gun- 

 stocks and propellers. 



Will Develop West Virginia Timber 



It is announced at Ituikhannon. W. Va.. that W. T. McWhorter of that 

 place has purchased the Crelgh timber mar Cralgsvllie. and has arranged 

 to develop It at once under the name of the Crelgh Lumber Company. The 

 tract covers large quantities of white oak. chestnut and poplar. 



(ieorge FI. Huff will be gcncrol superintendent and Mr. McWhorter gen- 

 eral manager. 



Will RebuUd Handle Factory 



W. S. Thomas, president of the Northern Wood Products Company, 

 Glidden, Wis., announces that he is already going ahead with the recon- 

 struction of that part of his handle factory which was destroyed by Are 

 on July 19. The new building will be made fireproof. 



Mr. Thomas says that he is already arranging matters to begin pro- 

 ducing handles In the near future 



Change in Atlas Lumber and Manufacturing Company 



The .\tlHs Lumber & Manufacturing Company. Cincinnati, O., announces 

 that J. C. West, formerly president, has accepted a position with the gov- 

 ernment at Washington and has already taken up his duties there. Mr. 

 West has sold out his Interests in the company to E. M. Bonner, secretary 

 and treasurer. In order to fill the vacancy made by the withdrawal of 

 Mr. West. C. W. Sprinkle has been given nominal Interest in the company 

 and fills Mr. West's position for the time being. 



Mr. Sprinkle Is In the lumber business at Cincinnati under his own name, 

 however, and expects to continue his personal business as heretofore. 



Plant for Wire-Bound Packages 



The Andcrson-Tully Company is rapidly completing a plant at Memphis, 

 Tcnn., for the manufacture of wire-bound packages made of Cottonwood, 

 gum and other southern hardwoods. The building will shortly be ready 

 for use. It Is 80x83 feet and one story in height. The machines have 

 already been ordered and three of these will be in operation between now 

 and the middle of September. The management will later Increase the 

 number to five. The output of the three will be 1% cars per day. When 

 all five are In operation the daily output will be 2Vj cars. 



The Anderson-Tully Company operates plants at Memphis, Vlcksburg, 

 Miss., and Madison, Ark., for the manufacture of sawn and veneered 

 shooks for use in the manufacture of standard nailed boxes. This, how- 

 ever, is the first wire-hound factory to be established In this part of the 

 country. 



Will Help Co-Ordinate Box Manufacture 



T. J. Morris of the .VndersonTully Company. Memphis, has been 

 named regional district reiirescntatlve in this territory by the executive 

 committee of the National Emergeiwy Bureau of Wooden Box Manufac- 

 turers, acting on the suggestion of the War Industries Board. 



The association is co-opcratlng with the authorities in every possible 

 way In taking care of the enormous retiuirements of the government in 

 the way of wooden containers for the handling of foodstuffs and other 

 supplies for the fighting forces of the United States and its allies. It has 

 now divided the country into twenty regional districts, with a representa- 

 tive in charge of each, to co-orrlinatc the work of the manufacturers of 

 standard wooden boxes and to Insure as large increase as possible In the 

 output, riants with machinery capable of producing these boxes but not 

 now manufacturing them will be diverted to that use. 



Mr. Morris, in performing bis duties, will act with officials of the 

 Chamber of Commerce of this city. 



Report Was Behind the Times 



The last Ismh^ of IIaiii>wo<i[> Kecoiiu contained a notation regarding the 

 Southern Star Lumber Company, McKenzle, Tenn. This was sent in by a 

 correspondent and rather suggesled that the company had made recent 

 progress. I'nmnientlug on this Item the company, which manufactures 

 southern hardwood lumber, stalen that the correspondent must have been 

 slow In getting the Information, as with reference to the purchase of the 

 J. W. Beacon business, be was a year late, this deal having been made a 

 year ago. 



The Southern Star Lumber Company now operates three mills at McKen- 

 zle and has added lugging equipment, etc., to the extent that it Is now 

 four or five times as large lu buslnesH as It was when it began three years 

 ago last Aiiril. 



Memphis Hardwood Manufacturers Affected by Government's 

 Labor Program 



Edward C. Allen, industrial examiner of the Memphis office of the U. S. 

 Employment Service, which Is charged with furnishing labor for all in- 

 dustrial plants engaged In war work, requiring 100 or more men, effective 

 August 1. Is authority for the statement that from eighty-five to ninety 

 per cent of hardwood firms In Memphis and the Immediate Memphis ter- 

 ritory arc directly affected by the government's labor program. 



All hardwood manufacturers and other large employers of labor here 

 are compljlng with the requirements of those In charge by filling out, on 

 proper forms, their orders for labor. In this connection It Is pointed out 

 that those who fall to take this course may suffer severely for labor by 

 being left out of the plans the government Is now putting into effect. 



"Honor Cards" are not compulsory but the office of the United States 

 Employment Service at Memphis suggests that each employer provide his 

 employes with cards at the end of each week, certifying that the man had 

 been employed for that period. It Is suggested that, In this way, and 

 through insertion of the age of each employe on the card, no man need 

 be arrested as a slacker. 



Unique Plan for Clearing Cutover Lands 



The Lamb-Fish Lumber Company, Charleston, Miss., has adopted a very 

 unique plan for clearing cutover lands. It announced some time ago that 

 it would clear and prepare for cultivation approximately 1,000 acres each 

 year on its holdings In the vicinity of Charleston. Now it has gone a step 

 further and created a new department to have charge of these clearing 

 operations and has placed George Land, traffic manager, in charge. 



All cutover lands will be divided into tracts of 40 or 80 acres. Ten 

 acres in each 40-acre tract and twenty acres in each 80-acre tract will be 

 cleared and made ready for cultivation so that those who are working 

 these smaller tracts may be self-sustaining while they are clearing and 

 preparing the remainder for cultivation. 



Each of these tracts will have a residence, a barn and a well, and will 

 be enclosed with fencing, so that cattle raising may go hand In hand with 

 farming operations. 



Tile plan Is somewhat in line with that discussed at the recent semi- 

 annual of the Southern Alluvial Land Association following the address 

 of William S. Mitchell, former treasurer of the Federal Land Bank, St. 

 Louis. Mr. Mitchell emphasized that community development was highly 

 essential to the successful colonization of these lands and that part of 

 every tract offered to settlers should be cleared so that those cultivating 

 the cleared lands might be self-sustaining while preparing the remainder 

 for cultivation. 



The plan is expected to prove highly successful and to greatly stimulate 

 similar activities on the part of other owners of such properties. 



To Organize Mexican Hardwood Company 



llAKDwoon Recoud Is in receipt of a letter from the Mexican Inter- 

 national Trust Company, S. A., whose postal address is Apartado 123, Bis, 

 Mexico. D. F., telling of the organization of a hardwood project for devel- 

 oping Mexican timberlands. The letter Is accompanied by a circular in 

 prospectus form. The letter says that the Industry has had little develop- 

 ment In Mexico, but that its future must be very important, especially In 

 hardwoods from the tropics, of which there are valuable kinds not known 

 to the American market. ■ 



The company will start a mill at Puerto. Mexico, at which there will be 

 handled hardwoods, which will be followed in time by others along that 

 coast. 



The letter says : 



This is a matter which ought to interest Chicago especially, as the most 

 Importiuir market of the United States within reach of Mexican ports by 

 water transportation. 



The writer was born on the Illinois river and his uncle built the first 

 steamboat that ever ran on that river. I have confidence in the feasibility 

 of barf;c transportation here. 



We will appreciate any information or advice from you In this connec- 

 may know of lumbermen In and around Chicago who would 



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The b Iter Is signed by the president of the company, Samuel W. Rider. 

 The othi r officers are : Nelson O. Rhoades, vice-president ; Carl Holt 

 Smith, masurer : David C. Chapa, secretary; Delbert J. Haff, consul, and 

 J. K. Fr.iith. eomisario. 



