HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Hon by either water or fail is far below the 



average, perhaps the smallest ever 1 wn at 



ihis- season. Stocks of lumber drj enough Cor 



shi] 1 are painfully small and the amount 



being placed on sticks, owing to tin- [nterrup 

 tions i" production recently experienced, is also 

 \i' small. Some 01' tin- big mills are in 

 operation and are getting out timber regardless 

 of iii'' unfavorableness of the weather, but the 

 smaller mills are almost all out "i c mis tot 



.1. (I. Iiliss of Clifton, Ti'lili., has jus! closed 

 a deal in which he has sold i" Caruthersville 



1 Mo. 1 .111.1 Cli n i Iowa 1 ' apitalists sin. mm 



worth ni' hickory timber Lands near thai plan', 

 ih.' purchasers will put in plants al Clifton 

 and Bob, Trim.. I'm' the development of the 



timber, which will give employ ni 10 about 



200 persons 'Tin' timber will be worked into 

 buggj and carriage stock. This is the second 

 large deal in hickory in thai section recently. 



.1. B. Galloway, manufacturer of plow- beams 

 ai Clarendon, Ark., has purchased 3,100 acres 



of hardw I timber land near Des Arc, Ark., 



and will remove his plant from the former 

 10 iiic tatter place 



The Fourche River Lumber Company, which 

 owns extensive timber lands in Arkansas, h.i , 



Bled a certificate with the secretary of state, 

 increasing iis capital slock from $500,000 to 

 $800,000. The company has been engaged for 

 sonc tunc in the construction of a railroad 

 which is to be an importanl factor in the de 

 elopmenl of its timber holdings. 

 Tin' Bank of Wilmar, Wilmar, Ark., has 

 brought suit in the Chancerj Court here against 

 the Bankers' Trust Company, Lena Hastings. 

 Jamie Hastings and the American Building & 

 1.0. in Association, in which it makes the allega- 

 tion that B. B. Hastings, late president of the 

 Hastings Lumber Company, whose Midden death 



caused considerable surprise in lumber and 



mi icial circles, was insolvent al the time of 

 Ids death. The suit is brought primarily for 



the purpose of collecting an alleged indel Iness 



ni $4,743.54 Incurred bj Hastings last October. 

 The bill further alleges that, in order to raise 

 money. Hastings had given several trust deeds 

 on the same property. His sudden death was 

 attributed to heart disease. 



The following new members have been taken 

 in by the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, bring 

 ing the total to 100 : R. E. Lee Wilson of Lee 

 Wilson & Co., Wilson. Ark.: 10. Payson Smith 

 of the Payson Smith Lumber Company, Mime 

 apolis, Minn.; II. .1. Dudley of the Dudley Lum- 

 ber Company, Grand Rapids, Mich.; .1. 10 

 Meadows of the Advance Lumber Company, 



■Memphis; 10. M. Ford of I he lit' f the same 



name; C. A. Lacj of Lacy Brothers & Kimball; 

 G. M. Brasfield of the newly-incorporated Bras- 

 field Thompson Lumber < lompany. 



'Idle annual election of officers will he held 

 by the Lumbermen's Club Saturdaj evening, 

 January 12. A supper will be given al 7 p. m. 

 at the Hotel Gayoso, after which the fate oi 



the various candidates will he decided. The 



two tickets, which have been published in full 



in the Hakdwood Record, are headed in G ge 



D. Burgess ami w. s. Darnell, respectively. 

 No steps have yet been taken regarding the 

 annual banquet, but this will probably lie done 

 at Hie meeting to lie held next Saturday. 



New Orleans. 

 Nlcaraguan advices at this point ate to the 

 effect that the George D. Emery Company, the 

 mahoganj exporting firm of Boston, has up 

 pealed to the United States government 

 through United Slates Minister Merry for help 

 in iis light to regain control nf its big plant in 

 Nicaragua, which has been seized bj the goi 

 ernment of that republic, because it was 

 charged that the Emery companj had been 

 guilty of violating its concession. The big plant 



of the mahogany exporting firm was seized some 

 time ago, hut after considerable wrangling it 



was decided 10 allow the differences nf the lum 



bermen and the governmet tie arbitrated. 



\o« . however, it is understood i 'en the 1 

 people are afraid of being unfairly deall with 



I have asked that a United stales warship 



lie sent lo Bluefields to protect their interests. 

 i he pla f t he company was seized o ten 



Weeks ago. tile eXCUSe of the \ i e;| I'.'l g 1 1 a II goV 



ernment being that the company had violated 

 its contract in that it had -old supplies and pro- 

 visions to persons other than those employed bj 

 ii. The plant consists of a number of ware 

 houses, a fleet of laun, -lies, docks at Bluefields 



and a coasting steamship. Vulii. all valued at 

 $^50,000. Tie' matter was goni over i>,\ the 

 lOmen representatives and arbitration of the 

 claims was decided upon, it is feared, though, 

 thai the arbitration will he unfavorable to the 



• oiiip.'iiiv and that il will not get a lair deal. 



it is for this reason that the United states 

 govern nt has I n appealed to. 



Tim A .1. (Tailor Lumber Company, with 

 $100,000 capital, has been organized in New 

 Orleans to carrj mi a general export business 



in lumber and staves. II (fleers of the com 



pany are: A. .1 Cri r, president ; .1. 1'.. Bate- 

 man, .ft-., vice-president; It. II. Wolfe, secretary 

 t reasurer. 



Advices from Lake Charles, La., tire to the 

 effect thai the Chicago Land ,\_ Lumber Com- 

 pany will contest the recent sale of its holdings 

 in Calcasieu parish lo a syndicate headed by W. 



Scot. Matthews. Approximately 17. t acres of 



hardwood timber is involved. The Matthews 

 syndicate acquired tin- title lo the land from 

 M. W. Greeson of I rescott, Ark., and associates, 

 who had purchased il from an attorney in 

 Washington named Robertson. Dr. George 

 Hall, president of the Chicago Land & Lumber 

 Company, who is ai Lake Charles, says Robert- 

 son had no right lo sell, and il is believed the 

 case will he taken into the courts. .Matthews 

 el al. paid SITU. n 'or the land. 



It is staled from Gulfport, Miss, that the 

 total lumber shipments from there in 1906 ex- 

 ceeded the shipments nf 1905 by neatly 100, 



000.000 feet. Tl xpotis in the first named 



year amounted to 293,125,000 feet, as against 

 L'07.c.l4. eel exported in 1905. 



The interesting trial of W. 10. Brewer and 

 F. r. Brewer, millionaire lumbermen of Wis- 

 consin, who were charged in the United states 

 court here with having conspired lo defraud the 



ei cut in certain land deals in Catahoula 



parish, this slate, has been brought lo a .lose. 

 I' iv Brewer was declared not guilty, while 

 the jury could not agree in the case of the 

 elder Brewer and Josiah Ininlap. who was 

 charged with the same offense in conjunction 



with I he nt her I w n 



Telegraphic advices from r.'lisacola. Lla . 

 state that the big plant of the German-Ameri 

 • an Lumber Company at Milville, Fla'., was 



totally destroyed by iii arly on the morning 



m |i iiiiicr 21. The loss was estimated ai 



$100,000. It is underst t that the plant will 



be immediately rebuilt. The principal owners 

 of the company are F. It. Julius Schryer of 

 Bremen, Germany, and IL II. Boyer of Pensa- 

 cola. The insurance on the plant, it is said. 

 amounts lo $52,000. 



The Railroad Commission of Louisiana has 

 in, a in session here for the last three days 



listening to Hi mplaints of the lumbermen 



against the railroad companies. Considerable 



mi has i a taken, but no decision has 



been announced by the commission. 



The new Louisiana Export, Box & Lumber 

 Company, which lias grown out of a merger of 

 tlie Murphy Lumber and Bates-McAvoy Box com- 

 panies, is now readj to proceed with the build- 

 ing of it new plant across the river from New 



Orleans. A box factory 1 j 2 i ami a 



private wharf 384 feet in length will he con 

 Structed. The lew company is capitalized al 

 s 'i.n.iimi and the following are the officers: N. 



N\ Murphy, president; Charles 10. McAvoy, vice- 

 president, and 10. 10. Johns. in. secretary I fas 

 iiei- 'lie company will spend about $100,000 

 mi iis new plant and expects to manufacture 

 about live carloads of stuff per day. while it 

 will handle for export an average of from live 

 i" fifteen carloads daily. 



The Standard Box Factory of Baton Rouge is 

 looking I'm- a large site on which lo rebuild. 

 The company is now negotiating for a tract 

 adjoining i he site of its burned plant. An 

 adjustment of the losses of the company show 

 that Urn hie cost il $50,000, which was cov- 

 et.', 1 by si::.'. mm insurance. 



The recent announcement of the death of L. 

 N. Dantzlor, president of the Dantzler Lumber 

 Companj of Moss Point, Miss., has been re- 

 ceived with regret in lumber circles throughout 

 this territory. Mr. Dantzler was a native of 

 Mississippi and was ;:: years of age lie organ- 

 ize! the lumber company which heats his name 

 in Lss7. The aged lumberman is survived by 

 four sons Col. .1. Lewis Dantzler, L. Noll 

 Dantzler, Air. I' Dantzler and Dr. G. I! Dantz- 

 ler. 



Toledo. 



During mm; Toledo hardwood lumber dealers 

 enjoyed the most prosperous year in the his- 

 tory of the trade. The demand lot hardwood 

 finish .lining the year was unprecedented, as the 

 city enjoyed an eta of ..nice and shop building 

 of no small proportions, while there have never 

 before been so many modern dwellings and flat 

 buildings erected as during 190G. The city 

 building inspector's office issued 1,303 permits 

 of a total valuation of $4,698,958 during the 

 year, which is more than r>2 per cent greater 

 than the total valuation of building done during 

 1905. 



George I;. Stine of the Belcher-Stine Lumber 

 Company has returned to Arkansas to look after 

 the interests of the concern at Belcher, having 

 spent a couple weeks here with his family. 



Robert Hixon of the Robert Hixon Lumber 

 Company left before the holidays for California 

 to spend the remainder of the winter. lie will 

 he located ai Pasadena. 



Barney ('revision, formerly interested in the 

 Paulding Lumber Company al Paulding, has 

 again become interested in the concern, fie sold 

 1 is Ml. Victory yard to the Robert Hixon Lum- 

 ber i lompany last February. 



C. Ralph Bowersox of Bryan, O., secretary of 

 the I'.iiins Lowcrsox Lumber Company and stock- 

 holder ni th" Eureka Hoop Company, surprised 

 Ins many friends in announcing a few days ago 



his marriage to Miss Lenore Grant of l'i.u r, 



Ohio, the marriage having been kept a secret 

 sin.e i iscember 15. 



Wausau. 



J. I.. Wells on January 1 again assumed 

 charge of the Girard Lumber Company's busi- 

 ness at Dunbar, after an absence of two years, 

 during which time be was in Canada. 



G. W. Hanley, secretary of the Stevens Lum- 

 ber Company at Marinette, is confined in a sani- 

 tarium as a result of a fall. His condition does 

 n. ii improve very fast. 



A huh factory will he in operation in Alliens 

 ah. mi February 1. The principal stockholders 

 ate Geo. Sutter. Ceo. Ivreu I zcr and IL B. Essel- 

 nian. Carriage hubs will he manufactured ex 

 tvely at the start and there is sufficient hub 

 timber in that locality to supply one factory I'm' 

 twenty years. 



The MacKir n Manufacturing Company of 



G eel Rapids reports .a very sui ssful year. 



with Sod. (mil worth of orders already "ti the 

 i k, i"t 1907 



Perhaps lor the first time in the history of 

 logging operations in Hie N'orthwest a number 

 ni companies this year supplied their camp 

 I a hies wilh turkey and accessories on Christmas 

 day. The crews enjoyed all the (aide luxuries 



