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ready for quick shipment, it is well prepared to 

 give excellent service to customers. 



Mr. Lloyd has had a long, untarnished record 

 In the lumber business and success in his new 

 departure is assured. 



Cincinnati Concatenation. 

 A lloo Hon concatenation will be held in Cin- 

 cinnati on January 22. Vicegerent Snark It. F. 

 Dulweber is making elaborate preparations and 

 the meeting bids fair to be a lively one. The 

 Union Association of Lumbermen' will be in 

 convention in Cincinnati at the same time. 



New Branch Office. 

 The Fullerton-Powel] Hardwood Lumber I'lun- 

 pany, manufacturer and dealer in hardwoods at 

 South Bend, Ind., has opened a new branch of- 

 fice In Minneapolis. Minn., at 305 Lumber Ex 

 change building, which is in charge of Messrs, 

 llnlsted and Booream. This step was necessi 

 tated by the steadily increasing business of the 

 company in the Northwest. 



St. Louis Lumbermen's Exchange. 

 The Lumbermen's Exchange of Sr. Louis had 

 a dinner and caucus at the Missouri Athletic 

 Club on Friday evening, Dec. 21, 1906. Presi- 

 dent E. If. Warner gave his annual address, in 

 which he comprehensively reviewed matters of 

 Importance that have arisen in Exchange cir- 

 cles during the year just ended. He took up 

 the adoption of National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association rules in place of St. Louis rules; 

 the work of a committee consisting of L. G. 

 Harris, C. 1'. Liehke and himself in appealing 

 to the government for the protection of lands 

 along the Mississippi from floods; the subscrip- 

 tion relief fund for San Francisco, consisting 

 of $1,350, which was raised in the Exchange 

 within three days, and forwarded. 



The president further brought up the fact 

 that the Missouri Pacific railroad had issued an 

 order making the minimum weight on lumber 

 40. into pounds and upward, collecting freight on 

 tilts basis, regardless of actual weight. Action 

 was taken, and W. W. Milne. Alcee Stewart 

 and E. II. Warner appointed as a committee to 

 look into the matter and attempt to get the 

 order recalled. 



The Exchange responded to a call from the 

 Business Men's League for a delegation to al 

 tend a meeting of those interested in procuring 

 a deep waterway from Chicago to the Gulf, by 

 appointing as representatives the full board of 

 directors and L. G. Harris and C. F. Liebke. 

 This meeting of business men from all the states 

 bordering on the Mississippi resulted in an or- 

 ganization ami it was decided that a committee 

 should go to Washington in the interest of this 

 great navigation project. L. G. Harris was ap- 

 pointed on this committee, as representative of 

 the Exchange. 



President Warner spoke further of the work 



of ,i c mittee of which Geo. E. Hibbard was 



chairman, in taking up with the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission the car shortage problem. 

 .liter which I. G. Harris, a delegate to the 

 National Rivers & Harbors Congress held in 

 Washington I lee, i; and 7. made a report. 



A Domination committee was appointed at 

 this in. ting, ami I lie election ot officers held 

 at the regular- annua] meeting on Jan. 2 re 

 suited as follows : 



President — F. Waldstein. 



Vice president W. W. Dings. 



Directors C. E. Thomas, E. II. Warner. W. 

 A. Bonsack. R. E. Krehs. A. J. Lang, Lloyd G 

 Harris. F. ('. Moore. 



Arbitrators — George H. Cottrill, W. R. Chiv- 

 vis, II. W. Teckemeyer, J. D. Harnett. Thomas 

 Powe. 



Mr. Waldstein is president of the Waldstein 

 Lumber Company and a prominent factor in 

 St. Louis lumber affairs: and W. \Y. Dings is 

 the popular secretary of the Garetson-Greason 

 I. niuKr Company. 



Publicity Manager for Lidgerwood Mfg. Co. 

 Francis E. Coleman, formerly with the West 

 Inghouse and Allis Chalmers Companies and 

 recently with the Traylor Engineering Company, 

 has joined the Lidgerwood Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, of New York, as publicity manager. Mr. 



Coleman takes to the service of the Lidgerw I 



Manufacturing Company not only a wide expe 

 rience gained in the service of the companies 

 mentioned, but an interesting literary style 

 acquired during years of experience on various 

 New York newspapers. Mr. Coleman was for 

 a time editor of the Electrical Age before the 

 late Louis Gassier bought that publication. 

 While with the Westinghouse Coinpany he wrote 



the catalogue of the Westingl se steam tur 



bine. During his engagement with the Allis 

 Chalmers Company lie designed and edited the 

 new series of catalogues which that company 

 issues and wrote the two admirable special pub- 

 lications issued by the company in 1904-5, "Tin' 

 Book of the Four Powers" and "The Power ot 

 the Subway." Al the Louisiana Purchase Ex- 

 position at St. Louis Mr. Coleman was in 

 charge of the three large exhibits of the Allis 

 Chalmers Company, making his headquarters 

 at the "Big Engine" in Machinery Hall. He 

 was the organizer and first vice president of 

 the Machinery Club and was active in bringing 

 about the organization of the United Exhibitors' 

 Association at the Fair. He is a member of the 

 Technical Publicity Association. Mr. Coleman's 

 headquarters are at the main office of the Lid 

 gerwood Manufacturing Company, tit; Liberty 

 street, New York, where he will be pleased to 

 receive visits from both business office and edi- 

 torial representatives of the trade and technical 

 periodicals. 



Big Handle Merger. 



An important merger in handle circles was 

 recently effected, involving the consolidation of 

 the Southern Handle Company of Memphis, 

 Tenn. : the Southern Handle Company of llunts- 

 ville, Ala.: the Royal Handle Company of Har- 

 risburg. Ark., and the Beamer Handle Company 

 of Manor. Pa., under the title of the Consoli- 

 dated Handle Company. The capital stock is 

 placed at $1,000,000. Headquarters will be 

 maintained in Memphis. M I: Grace, president 

 of the Southern Handle Company of Memphis 

 and Huntsville, has been elected president. The 

 company is incorporated under the laws of New 

 Jersey, and the proper papers are being pre 

 oared for tiling in the several stales in which 

 it will operate. Mr. Grace has been working 

 on this consolidation for aoout two years and 

 has been unable to perfect his plans because the 

 Turner. Day & Woolworth Handle Company of 

 Louisville, Ky.. refused to enter the combine. 

 The new company controls ten factories in 

 Arkansas. Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia and 

 l'< nnsylvania. Eastern offices will he established 

 al Pittsburg, hut these will be subordinate to 

 i hose in Memphis. 



New Memphis Company. 



Two well known Memphis concerns, Thompson 

 & McCIure and Crenshaw & Cathey, have com- 

 bined and organized tic Bellgrade Lumber Com 

 i hi ii \ . with $100,000 capital stock, to engage in 

 the manufacture and wholesaling of southern 

 hardwoods While the company will begin 

 operations immediately, the two individual firms 

 will continue business separately for some time. 



Tic company has seemed timber rights on 

 p. nun ncres of timber hind near Belzoni, Miss. 

 on which will he erected an up-to-date band 

 mill of large capacity. Offices have been secured 

 in tic Randolph Building, Memphis, and yards 

 will also be maintained at that place. 



Ill' officers of the new company are: W. L. 

 • renshaw, president : A. X. Thompson, vice- 

 president : j w. McCIure, secretary-treasurer; 

 '! M. Cathey, general manager, and F. p. 

 Gearhart, assistant manager. Mr. Gcarhart has 

 ho- some years looked after the milling Interests 

 of Thompson & McCIure in Mississippi, and 



Hie other officers are members of the combining 

 firms. 



These two hardwood firms are too well known 

 to the trade of the country to need any intro- 

 duction. Thompson & McCIure have for some 

 years been engaged at Memphis in the manu- 

 facture and wholesale handling of hardwoods, 

 and Crenshaw t V Cathey tire numbered among 

 the prominent sawmilling interests of the Mem- 

 phis district. They are composed of men of 

 long experience in the Lumber business who 

 have met with pronounced success In the held 

 Needless to say that a combination of two such 

 strong concerns will soon make a reputation in 

 hardwood circles. 



The Brasneld-Thompson Lumber Coinpany. 



A new company which, from its pers lei, 



will undoubtedly et with great success is the 



Brasneld-Thompson Lumber Company, in. or 

 porated with $50,000 capital slock to engage in 

 Hie manufacture and wholesaling of southern 

 hardwoods on an extensive scale. Headquarters 

 of the concern will he maintained at Memphis, 

 where offices have been leased in the Rogers 

 Building. The company has purchased a large 

 tract of limber hind and a modern hand saw 

 mill on the Cache river near Biscoe, Ark., on 

 tlio Rock Island railr 1. 



The incorporators of the Brasneld-Thompson 

 Lumber Coinpany are: George ■ M. Brasfield, 

 formerly president and owner of the Memphis 

 Slave Manufacturing C puny ami an ex- 

 tensive owner of timber lands in Mississippi: 

 .1 w Thompson, president, and A. L. Foster, 

 assistant treasurer, respectively, of the .1. W 

 Thompson Lumber Company, and E. C. Turner. 

 While the details of organization have nol yet 

 been completed, it is generally understood Unit 

 Mr. Itraslield will he chosen president and gen- 

 eral manager and Mr. Thompson vice-president 

 ,,: i he new company. 



An Echo from the Preacher-Lumberman Deal. 



A •dispatch from Lake Charles. La., dated 



January I. says thai Dr. G ge E. Hall, presi 



dent of the Chicago Land & Lumber Company. 

 Uas arrived there to investigate a deal by which 

 bis company lost the town site of Hall City, 



■i hardwood null, and 17,000 acres of hardw 1 



limber land located in the western portion of 

 Calcasieu Parish, which bad an alleged value 

 of more than $500,000. The Doctor says that 

 all his company's immense holdings were pur 

 chased by W. Scott Mathews from M. W. 

 Greeson and others for the pittance of $170 

 >ii mi Dr. Hall alleges that Greeson acquired 

 the properties from Harold Robertson, his at- 

 torney, who held them in trust, lie thinks that 

 he and his stockholders have been swindled. 



This lamentable wiping out of the Chicago 

 preacher-lumberman's crazy financial enterprises 

 is but a natural sequence of tic transaction. 



I ..r several years be has divided bis time be 

 iw.en preaching at Bush Temple and mixing up 



, uateiir lumber deals, and has flooded the 



country with alluring literature in an attempt 

 to demonstrate the vast profits that would ac 



, t in- to peis. .us investing in his schemes. The 

 public has been repeatedly warned against Dr. 

 Hall ami his methods, and advised that while 

 be might be perfectly honest in his convictions. 



ibere was no possible opportunity for n j 



making in any such .system as that inaugurated 

 In him. The wind-up of the affair shows the 

 wisdom of tic advice proffered, as the stock 

 |. ..biers will realize but very little from their 

 In vi stments. 



The Laguna Coinpany. 

 Tic Laguna Company, with headquarters at 

 Davenport, la.. which is the owner of 



C00, teres of mahogany and oiler timber 



lands in Mexico, operated with a capital of $3.- 



lino, bus opened an eastern office at No. 1 



Madison menu,. New York, and yards ;\l tic 

 foot of Steinway avenue. Long Island Citj ,i 



II Hill, Jr., who is well known in tb m 



any trade in the hast and who has spent tin 



i . r port i. ii of t\\r past year on H 



pany's estates in Mexico, has charge et this 

 eastern venture. IE will have mahogany logs 

 brought to \ew York, manufactured into lumber 



