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foremost producers of high-class quarter- 

 sawed oak. which will be a specialtj of thi 

 new concern Mi Crayton has 1 11 promi- 

 nent in real estate ana hanking circli s In 1 thio 

 for years, and his abilities will add greatly to 

 the strength "f the new company. 



The office and first mill will be erected al 

 Newport, Ark. A sidetrack is now being laid 

 and operations will be commenced early in the 

 coming yeai Valuable Ian. is and stumpage 

 have been purchased, which will be the basis 

 ,,t a river and rail transportation of consider- 



short of stock and mans yards are entirelj de 

 pleted. Where the woods have dried auffi 

 cientlj to make it possible to haul a few logs, 

 the lumber is very wet, and dealers cannot hope 

 to move ii under ninety days. Those who tor 

 tunately have dry stock on band find themselves 

 unable to make shipments because of one of the 

 most stringent car famines ever experienced In 



the Southwest. The cotton crop has I n enor 



mens this season and this is congesting the rail 

 roads. It is impossible for lumbermen to gel 

 cars . Owing i" these adverse conditions there 



FIFTY TIlorSAND WAGON POLES IN THE GAYOSO LUMBER COMPANY'S YARD. 



able extent, and enable the plant to run for a 

 good many years. A steamboat and barge 

 line will be operated to bring the oak. hickory 

 and el her heavy woods to the mills. 



Eainbow Wood. 



Although it had been known to dwellers along 

 the sea coast of Maine for years that 

 driftwood picked up from the salt water 

 would give out beautiful iridescent tints 

 when burned in an open grate, they at- 

 tached no value to the knowledge, and it 

 remained for the wealthy summer tourists to 

 show them that the collecting of driftwood was 

 •a profitable calling. The gathering of rainbow 

 wood soon became quite an industry in Maine 

 For a number of years the whole coast line of 

 Penobscot Bay was scoured for the wood, and 

 as the supply gradually grew scarce prices ad- 

 vanced from $10 to $25 a cord. It is said that 

 a Boston chemist made a fortune by inventing 

 a powder which when burned with dry wood 

 produced colors almost as beautiful as wood 

 from the sea. 



Recently a farmer in the locality who had sold 

 considerable rainbow wood in former years, while 

 digging on the salt meadows on his farm, dis- 

 covered a number of great pine trees which had 

 been buried for years. The limbs had rotted 

 away and the bark and sapwood were gone, hut 

 the dry lieartwood was found to be still very- 

 sound. Kindling a fire around , a log of this 

 wood it was discovered that it gave out bril- 

 liant hues of indigo and green. A cargo of this 

 wood shipped to Boston brought $22 a cord. 

 The deposit of trees lies between the clay subsoil 

 and an overgrowth of peat, and is fullj si\ 

 feet in depth. 



Hardwood Notes of the Southwest. 

 A four weeks' trip by a HabdwOOD Ukcoiid 

 representative through the southwest hardwood 

 country reveals the faet that throughout the 

 whole district the hardwood trade is facing two 

 unpleasant conditions which seriously hinder 

 lumber operations — wot weather and a car fam- 

 ine. Heavy rains have almost universally sus- 

 pended logging and although the weather has 

 recently cleared somewhat it will be long before 

 the woods arc sufficiently dry to permit hauling 

 logs. As a result dealers are without except ion 



is a universal feeling of gloom throughout the 

 district. 



One of the largest stocks of hardwoods in the 

 south is owued by the Gayoso Lumber Company 

 of Memphis. This concern, of which W. A. 

 Ransom is head, was organized early this year, 

 and during its short career has enjoyed a flour 

 ishing business. The position of the company 

 is unique in that its yards have been well 

 stocked all spring and summer with dry stock. 

 Mr. Itansom very shrewdly laid his plans early 

 in the year and kept a steady stream of cars 

 coining into Memphis. Five weeks ago he had 

 50,000 wagon poles piled in his yards. As this 

 was desirable stock he held it and received a 

 good price. The Gayoso Lumber Company makes 

 a specialty of wagon stock, although it handles 

 a full line of hardwood lumber. 



As soon as they are running full capacity, 

 which will be within sixty days at least, the 

 Buckeye Lumber Company of Hope, Ark., will 

 rank as one of the largest hardwood operators 

 not only iu the state of Arkansas but in the 

 Southwest. This company was formed immedi 

 ately after the death of J. W. Willis, some three 

 months ago, and it is to carry on the operations 

 of the .7. W. Lumber Company and to fulfill the 

 personal wishes of its leading spirit, .1. W. Wil- 

 lis. This work will be entrusted to Carl J. Baer. 

 secretary and manager of the company. Mr. 

 Willis was a man who landed in the little ham- 

 let of Washington Court House, a few miles 

 out of Columbus, O., some years ago, without 

 a dollar in his pocket, and by his thrift and 



industry built up a 1 lei manufacturing town, 



with his own mill and factories as the life and 

 center of the community. It was Mr. Willis' 

 ambition to found a second model city in the 

 Southwest. With this in view he purchased a 

 large timber tract in Arkansas and built an 

 up-to-date mill at Hope, some thirty miles above 

 Texarkana, on the Iron Mountain railroad. The 

 sudden death of Mr. Willis put a temporary 

 check on operations, but the reorganized Buckeye 

 Lumber Company is now taking up Hie broken 

 threads and pushing his plans to completion 



1; >ge W. Fouke of Texarkana is president of 



the company and of the Merchants' bank of 

 Texarkana. The vice president is W. J. Foster, 

 ]. resident of the Hempsted bank of Hope. Mr. 

 Baer. secretary and manager, is an experie d 



lumberman of Cincinnati ami was long associ- 

 ated with Mr. Willis in upbuilding the t"«" Oi 

 Washington Court House. Mr. Fouke is the obi 

 esi lumberman in Arkansa The companj owns 

 several thousand acres of hardwood timber and 

 operates mills at Hope and al Orton, twenty 

 miles above Hope. 'the mills are up-to-date in 



iX TV I'espeet. It also o ivi 1 s 'J lloioo building 



lots in Hope, which are to be used bj employees 

 of the concern. The plain will cut ami utilize 

 all wasle products 



The Allis-Chalmers Companj is building whal 

 is claimed to be the most thoroughly modern 

 and up-to-date mill in the South for the Sander 

 son Sullivan Company al Naples, Tex. The 

 Allis-Chalmers hardwood expert prepared plans 

 for this mill after he had made a personal in- 

 vestigation of the Sanderson Sullivan Company's 

 holdings. The foundations of the buildings arc 

 about completed now and work is being pushed 

 as rapidly as possible. Mr. Sanderson, who will 

 act as general manager, says the plant will be 

 ready to cut early in the spring. The company 

 owns a tract of 36,000 acres of hardwood in 

 eastern Texas, containing a tine made of white 

 oak. which will !»• the principal output of the 

 mill 



.1. W. Thompson of Memphis has been confined 

 to his home by illness. The .1. W. Thompson 

 Lumber Company is reported by A. S. Foster. 

 secretary, to be all sold up for several months. 



The personnel of the Hiett Wagon Company, 

 Tonesboro, Ark., will undergo a change the first 

 of the year. 



The mill of 1'. C. Barton, Jonesboro, Ark., has 

 been closed down for some time. 



The Greenfield Lumber Company, recentlj 

 burned out at Greenfield, Ark., has purchased a 

 tract of timber in Mississippi and will ereel ■> 

 mill at Sunflower, thai slate. 



The Shultz Belting Company of St. Louis has 

 just shipped a large order of leather bolting to 

 Russia. 



\V. A. RANSOM. PRES. GAYOSO LUMBER 

 i !l IMPANY, MEMPHIS. 



Al present the l'aepke Leieht Lumber Com 



pan.v has 5,000,000 feet of No. 1 . nw I on 



Sticks al Arkansas City, forming what is .Maimed 

 h. lie the largest stock of the kind in the South 



Last Tract of Wisconsin Oak. 



Fay L. Cusick & Co. of West Alii-. Wis.. 

 an ii.1 to own the last considerable tract of 

 red oak remaining in the Northwest. It is 

 situated in Bayfield county, township 48 — 8 

 and 40 — 7 west. The tract contain: about 



I. .000 feet of oak, which the ovt 



putting on cars on the Northern Pacific and 

 delivering to the Webster Manufacturing 

 Company of Superior. Wis. 



