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HARDWOOD RECORD 



half of which is covered with pine and the 

 other half with hardwoods. The purchasing 

 company has southern headquarters at Attala, 

 Ala., and it is understood that mills will be 

 put in for the development of the timber on 

 this newly acquired tract. 



F. M. Hara. president of the Canada Wheel 

 Works of Merritton, Canada, and O. G. Fitz- 

 patrick, a prominent lumberman of west 

 Tennessee, have purchased 10,000 acres of 

 hickory timber lands in Wayne county, Ten- 

 nessee. Mr. Fitzpatrick will remove his fam- 

 ily from Stanton to Clifton. Tenn., where he 

 will be engaged for the next few years in cut- 

 ting this timber and preparing it for ship- 

 ment to Merritton. where it will be used in 

 the manufacture of carriages and other vehi- 

 cles. The timber will be rough-sawed at 

 Clifton, where a mill is to be established at an 

 early date. 



The Southern Lumber Operators' Associa- 

 tion, which has a large membership in Arkan- 

 sas, Mississippi. Alabama, Louisiana and 

 Texas, held a meeting here last week to de- 

 vise plans for securing relief from the car 

 shortage. After much discussion resolutions 

 were passed demanding that the Illinois Cen- 

 tral. Louisville & Nashville, St. Louis South- 

 western (Cotton Belt), the St. Louis. Iron 

 Mountain & Southern and two or three other 

 smaller roads build 150,000 additional cars as 

 soon as possible in order to handle the busi- 

 ness offered by the lumber manufacturers in 

 these states. At present lumber manufactur- 

 ers who are members of the association are not 

 receiving more than 50 per cent of the cars 

 which should be afforded them. The resolu- 

 tions call for the application of the principle of 

 reciprocal demurrage which places a premium 

 on the prompt loading and unloading of cars 

 by the shipper or receiver and therefore in- 

 creases the supply of cars available for the 

 handling of lumber shipments. The railroads, 

 in response to the demands for cars, reply 

 that they haven't them and are therefore un- 

 able to supply them. 



The car situation in the southern hardwood 

 producing territory, of which Memphis is tin 

 logical head, is very serious. Heretofore most 

 of the trouble has been in the interior, where 

 there is less competition than in the larger 

 towns, but there is now a scarcity of cars for 

 handling lumber in and out of Memphis which 

 is proving a serious handicap to both manu- 

 facturers and wholesalers. The movement of 

 cotton is phenomenal all over the south, break- 

 ing all records during the past two weeks, 

 and this is largely responsible for the conges- 

 tion which is proving so serious to lumber 

 interests. Mills are being closed down in the 

 interior and one or two failures are reported, 

 with the assigned cause the inability of the 

 roads to give enough care for making delivery 

 of their output promptly. The cotton move 

 ment will continue for at least five or six 

 weeks more in this territory, and in the mean- 

 time lumbermen will have to do the best they 

 can because the railroads seem to be power- 

 less to cope with the situation. 



The Memphis Builders' Exchange and the 

 Pennsylvania Builders' Exchange have taken 

 steps for the organization of a national build- 

 ers' association for the purpose of organizing 

 local and state exchanges; encouraging and 

 assisting weak and declining exchanges; de- 

 veloping measures of benefit to the different 

 exchanges; looking after legislation affecting 

 the building industry; (haling with labor trou- 

 - bles and disseminating educational literature 

 relating to the building industry. It is planned 

 to hold a meeting of the various state organi- 

 zations, probably in Memphis, next January 

 for the launching of the- national association. 

 There was a very enthusiastic concatena- 

 tion of Hoo-Hoo here last Saturday evening. 

 Nov. 2. at W'hich a class of twenty-six re- 

 ceived the degree of the "playful kitten," and 

 following which there was a delightful ban- 



quet at the Hotel Gayoso. The occasion was 

 rendered all the more pleasant because of the 

 presence of two members of the Supreme Nine, 

 A. C. Ramsey of St. Louis. Snark of the "Uni- 

 verse, and James H. Baird of Nashville, Su- 

 preme Scrivenoter. 



James H. Baird. Supreme Scrivenoter, ap- 

 peared in the hall without the black and gold 

 button of the order, and on motion was fined 

 heavily for appearing without this insignia. 

 W. R. Anderson, who was in his shirt sleeves 

 at the time, then moved that every man in 

 the hall without his button on be fined 50 

 cents. This carried, and although Mr. Ander- 

 son's coat had his button in it, he, like the 

 rest without buttons, had to put up his 50 

 cents. W. H. Russe acted as toastmaster at 

 the banquet. 



New Orleans. 



Announcement is made here that the Plant- 

 ers' Steamship Company, one of the independ- 

 ent firms of fruit importers operating at New 

 Orleans, will shortly embark in the business 

 of exploiting the forests of mahogany and un- 

 known hardwoods which are located on its 

 properties in Spanish Honduras. This state- 

 ment was made by W. J. Rands, a superin- 

 tendent of the company. He says it is the 

 purpose of his company to cut large quantities 

 of the timber and ship it here. Samples of 

 every kind of hardwood found on the com- 

 pany's tracts will be cut and shipped to New 

 Orleans with a view to determining their com- 

 mercial value. He says there are large quan- 

 tities of various hardwoods in the country 

 which he has not yet been able to classify, 

 but which take a high polish and would be 

 excellent for the manufacture of furniture. 

 Saw mills are being erected on the properties 

 by the Planters' Company and considerable 

 wood is being cut. It is definitely understood 

 that the company will operate extensively in 

 the importing of lumber. 



The strike of the stave classers, pilers and 

 stave carl drivers, whirl] affected the opera- 

 tions of a number of lumber exporting firms 

 in New Orleans, has been practically settled. 

 The employers have agreed to treat with the 

 nun and to hear their complaints, while th< 

 men have agreed to go peaceably back to 

 work pending a final settlement of the diffi- 

 culty. 



The stave mill of the National Manufactur- 

 ing Package Company at Gross Tete, a small 

 town on the Texas & Pacific road about one 

 hundred miles from New Orleans, was re- 

 cently sold under an order of the court. The 

 company's plant in New Orleans and a large 

 quantity of barrel staves, oak headings and 

 similar materials were also sold. The total 

 amount realized was something like $18,000. 

 The Memphis Stave Company made the larg- 

 est individual purchase, buying about $10,000 

 worth of the sta\ es. 



The mill of the Lock-Moore Lumber Com- 

 pany, the Calcasieu Long Leaf Lumber Com- 

 pany and the J. A. Bel Lumber Company have 

 resumed operations after the recent strike. 

 Every mill in the south and southwest has 

 agreed to the ten-hour day and weekly pay- 

 day proposition, with no reduction in wages. 



Advices from Alexandria. La., state, that 

 tin- big mill of the Lee Lumber Company was 

 recently destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of 

 $75,000. The mill is located at Tioga, six miles 

 north of Alexandria, on the Iron Mountain 

 railroad. The dry kiln, shed and planer were 

 saved. The loss is covered by $30,000 insur- 

 ance. 



Announcement is made that the Atlanta 

 Woodenware Company of Atlanta, Ga., will 

 establish two big factories in the Hattiesburg 

 district of Mississippi. A representative for 

 the company has already secured options on 

 two desirable sites. 



The charter for the Lake Charles & North- 

 ern Railroad Company, an affiliated interest of 



the Southern Pacific, and a lumber-carrying 

 road that will operate through a large part of 

 Louisiana, has been filed in this city. The 

 road will be built from Lake Charles to De 

 Ridder, both in the parish of Calcasieu, and 

 the privilege of extending it through a num- 

 ber of other parishes is made a part of the 

 charter. It is capitalized at $700,000. with G. 

 W. Nott, president; J. A. Bel, vice president, 

 and G. G. Moore, secretary and treasurer. 

 Mr. Nott is a well known financier of New 

 Orleans, Mr. Bel is a lumberman of Lake 

 Charles, and Mr. Moore is the chief clerk of 

 E. B. Cushing, superintendent of the Louisi- 

 ana lines of the Southern Pacific. 



J. W. Strong of Clinton, La., is making 

 arrangements to resume operations at the 

 plant of the Baton Rouge Spoke Manufactur- 

 ing Company at Baton Rouge, this state. The 

 plant will be rebuilt, enlarged, and the latest 

 and most improved machinery will be in- 

 stalled. 



It is definitely understood that the Indian- 

 apolis Veneering & Manufacturing Company 

 of Indianapolis, Ind., will erect a $150,000 

 veneering plant at Greenwood, Miss. 



Wausau. 



The Wisconsin Bark & Lumber Company 

 has purchased the Borth holdings near Pelican 

 Lake, including mill and seventy-five forties 

 of land. On the latter it is estimated there is 

 26.000,000 feet of timber, mostly hardwood. 

 Some of the timber will be logged this win- 

 ter, but the mill will not be operated. The 

 logs will be hauled by rail to the company's 

 other mill in Antigo. 



The Pelican River Lumber Company of 

 Rhinelander has rebuilt its mill destroyed in 

 July. This mill was built to cut the hard- 

 wood leavings of the pine lumbermen on the 

 Pelican river, and there is assurance of at 

 least 15.000.000 feet. The company has been 

 reorganized with $50,000 capital stock. The 

 officers are F. J. Cook, president; O. H. Cook, 

 secretary; C. H. Miller, treasurer; Wm. Har- 

 den, general managei 



The Clifford Lumber Company succeeds the 

 Clifford & Fox Lumber Company of Stevens 

 Point, and the capital stock has been in- 

 creased from $50,000 to $100,000. The old com- 

 pany was organized .six years ago. A. M. Fox 

 leaving the company two years ago and going 

 to Seattle. Wash. Wm. J. Clifford and son, 

 John W., are the principal stockholders in the 

 new organization. The former has been in 

 the lumber business for forty years, the latter 

 since leaving school. 



The J. W. Wells Company of Menominee has 

 purchased timber lands in Ontonagon county, 

 Michigan, which will be logged and the logs 

 cut at the company's mills in Menominee. The 

 lands were bought of Capt. James Dickie and 

 the price was $7,000. 



The Bissell-Zirlsdorf Lumber Company has 

 been organized in Wausau with a capital stock 

 of $20,000. The stockholders are W. H. and 

 Frank Bissell. W. W. Gamble and Ernst 

 Zirlsdorf. Frank Bissell will be general man- 

 ager. The concern will lease or buy mills in 

 Marathon county and handle hardwood almost 

 exclusively. 



C. F. Dunbar of Wausau has purchased 1.0SO 

 acres of choice hardwood lands in Oneida 

 county of A. S. Pierce of Rhinelander. The 

 lands, it is said, will cut 5.000,000 feet and the 

 purchase price is understood to be approxi- 

 mately $20,000. 



The Badger State Stave & Lumber Com- 

 pany recently held a directors' meeting and 

 decided to work the company's large timber 

 holdings in Mississippi and Louisiana. Jos. 

 Thomas will have charge of the manufacture 

 of barrel and wine cask staves, and will go 

 south soon. The company owns 7,000 acres, 

 recently purchased of R. W. Dunfee of Vicks- 

 burg. Miss., and E. F. Mertz of Milwaukee. 

 Wis., for $90,000. 



