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of locating a wagon and buggy factory there. 



The Hartzell Handle Company of Shelby 

 county has been granted a charter with a capital 

 stock of $10,000. The incorporators are Irvin 

 Hartzell, B. W. Marr, .T. \V. Canada, L. B. Me 

 I-'arland and A. L. Foster. 



Memphis. 

 Secretary E. M. Terry of the National Lumber 

 Exporters' Association, which had headquarters 

 in Memphis during the past year, has removed to 

 Baltimore, where they -will be maintained in 

 future. He had been here only a year but made 

 many warm friends during that period. Former 

 President W. H. Russe, in speaking of what was 

 accomplished at the annual meeting at Norfolk, 

 said that the association placed itself strongly 

 on record in favor of equalization of rates 

 through the various southern and eastern ports 

 on export lumber traffic, a thing which has been 

 impossible since the new rate law went into 

 effect late last August. Mr. Russe says that 

 the forcing of all lumber exports through New 

 Orleans is Injurious to the trade because result- 

 ing in delay and congestion. 



The American Car &. Foundry Company at 

 Binghamton, a suburb of Memphis, is making 

 excellent headway in the production of cars, its 

 output during January having broken all rec- 

 ords, averaging, including Sundays, sixteen and 

 one-half cars per day. This is one of the lar- 

 gest woodworking plants in this section and its 

 activity has no small bearing on the hardwood 

 situation. 



The American Hardwood Lumber Company of 

 St. Louis has opened a buying agency here in 

 the Randolph building, in charge of It. B. 

 O'Leary. 



The E. Sondheimer Company has brought suit 

 against the Rock Island system for the purpose 

 of restraining the latter from removing a quan- 

 tity of rails loaded at Heth, Ark., by Isaac Wil- 

 liams, on the ground that the rails are the 

 property of the complainant and have been re- 

 moved from their place on a narrow gauge rail- 

 road, used for logging purposes, without right or 

 authority. 



The Howard County Lumber Company is put- 

 ting in a large hardwood plant at Dial, Ark. 

 The machinery is on the ground and the plant 

 will soon be ready for operation. 



Dispatches from Perryville, Ark., are to the 

 effect that Reynolds & Quenliven have sold their 

 sawmill west of that place to Leo Patterson and 

 that Thomas Reynolds has been engaged as 

 manager of the business. 



The owners of the Fremont Lumber Company 

 at Farmerville, Ark., have decided to build a 

 road from their mill that will connect with the 

 road running through that place with a view of 

 facilitating the handling of their output. 



The Ayer & Lord Tie Company of Chicago, 

 which is under contract for supplying large 

 quantities of ties and bridge timbers for the 

 Rock Island system in Arkansas and other 

 states, has purchased a site of 120 acres for the 

 purpose of erecting thereon a large plant to be 

 used in treating by chemical process the mate- 

 rial used in the manufacture of these products. 

 The site is located near the central portion of 

 Arkansas and when completed will be the sec- 

 ond largest in the country. 



The Sowell Lumber Company at Marked Tree, 

 Ark., of which E. E. Lee Wilson of Memphis is 

 president, has authorized the construction of a 

 line of railway about twenty miles south to 

 Earle, Ark., for the purpose of facilitating the 

 handling of its output. The new road will be 

 an extension of the Marked Tree & Southern 

 railway and connection will be established di- 

 rect with the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & South- 

 ern into Memphis. 



C. C. Cameron, who has been prominent in 

 the southern freight department of the Illinois 

 Central for some time, has been promoted to 

 the head of the freight traffic department of 

 that road, with headquarters in Chicago. 



The first main mill building of the Ford- 

 Johnson chair manufacturing plant at Helena, 

 Ark., is now being rushed to completion. The 

 company has already purchased about 1,000,000 

 feet of lumber. 



The following have been received into mem- 

 bership in the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, 

 thus bringing the total to 102, the largest in 

 the history of the organization : D. P. Mann, 

 C. R. Ransom, E. E. Sweet and V. I. Williams 

 of Clarksdale, Miss. 



The fact that the Lumbermen's club of Mem- 

 phis is composed of members of the 'National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association to the extent of 

 00 per cent brought forth frequent expressions 

 to the effect that the officials of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association builded better than 

 they knew when they acepted the invitation of 

 Memphis to hold a convention here. Develop- 

 ments making for peace between the two associ- 

 ations and for universal inspection were very 

 striking, the addresses of President Wilms and 

 President Kttsse, leaders of the two organiza- 

 tions, sounding the keynote that may be fol- 

 lowed with resultant harmonious amalgamation 

 and universal inspection. 



The flood situation is one of the absorbing 

 topics of conversation among lumber interests 

 and especially among those lumber and wood- 

 working companies in North Memphis whose 

 plants have been forced to suspend operations 

 and whose stock is being damaged by the enor- 

 mous volume of backwater in that stream re- 

 sulting from the record breaking stage reached 

 here this week by the Mississippi. The gauge 

 here Sunday showed a level of 40.3 feet. The 

 levees are holding well and there is less danger 

 of these breaking than for some days. The river 

 has begun to fall here and the pressure is rap- 

 idly being relieved to some extent. There is a 

 very serious handicap to many mills in eastern 

 Arkansas in the fact that there is so much back- 

 water from the various rivers and smaller 

 streams in that section. Some of them are 

 closed down now and will not be able to resume 

 operations until there has been a decided de- 

 crease in the volume of water. 



The rise will have the effect of further delaj 

 ing logging, interfering with the supply of tim- 

 ber and preventing operations on anything like 

 a normal scale. The woods of this entire dis- 

 trict and especially those in the lowlands are 

 either covered with water or too soft to admit 

 of the cutting or hauling of timber. There is 

 very little timber in hand now and prospective 

 supply is much reduced. 



Minneapolis. 



Minneapolis lumbermen interested in Wiscon 

 sin hardwood mills report that because of the 

 recent heavy snows logging operations will be 

 hindered for some weeks. Up to a. week or so 

 ago they had enjoyed fairly good weather for 

 logging, but the snows have made considerable 

 trouble. P. R. Hamilton and W. H. Sill of the 

 Minneapolis Lumber Company and the Ruby 

 Lumber Company have returned from Ruby, 

 Wis., and they say they have little dry stock 

 left, and that is going fast. The output of the 

 Ruby mill in most lines has been sold for the 

 coming year. 



C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark, Minneapo- 

 lis, has gone south for an extended trip, expect- 

 ing to be gone two weeks. He will first visit 

 two brothers whom he has not seen in several 

 years, living near Chandler. Okla., and will go 

 from there to Arkansas and Tennessee, looking 

 over the hardwood situation in that part of the 

 ,,,ui,try, and returning up the Mississippi val- 

 ley, stopping at Erie, 111., where the firm owns 

 a retail lumber yard. Mr. Osborne says thai 

 they have been having a surprisingly heavj de 

 mand for lumber in the past week or two, and 

 that dry stocks are going fast. 



The F. W. Buswell Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company has secured the services of N. K. Hen- 

 derson as superintendent of the mill at Buswell, 



Wis. Mr. Henderson is an experienced mill 

 superintendent. He recently returned from a 

 timber estimating expedition to the Bahamas, 

 where several Minnesota lumbermen have se- 

 cured timber limits. 



E. Payson Smith of the Payson Smith Lum- 

 ber Company has returned from a trip into 

 southern territory, where he was negotiating for, 

 some oak lumber. George S. Agnew is still in 

 that section of country looking up stocks. 



F. J. Lang, representative of the Wisconsin 

 Land & Lumber Company of Hermansville. 

 Mich., who is maintaining headquarters here for 

 a while, reports that the company has recently 

 made three large purchases of hardwood logs. 

 One lot of several million feet was secured from 

 the William Mueller company at Blany, Mich., 

 one of a million and a half feet from the White 

 Marble Lime Company of Manistique, Mich., and 

 a million and a quarter from the Bay de Noquet 

 company. Nehma, Mich. These will help out the 



npany's supply of logs, which has been made 



:essary by the demand for their flooring and 



other specialties. 



R. H. Orinsted, manager of the hardwood de- 

 partment of the Pacific Fir Company, is back 

 from a short business trip to Milwaukee and 

 other Wisconsin points. 



E. H. Trump, with the Thomas & Proetz Lum- 

 ber company of St. Louis, was a visitor here a 

 few days ago. He offers an exceptionally wide 

 line of southern stock, including oak, ash. maple, 

 birch, cherry, hickory, gum, poplar and cotton- 

 wood. 



Wausau. 

 Messrs. W. C. Zachow. Joseph Black, Aug. 

 Anderson, A. Kuckuk, J. F. Gallagher and others 

 of Shawans have gone to Louisiana to look over 

 timber lands they have secured an option on. 

 These lands comprise some 5,000 acres covered 

 mostly with oak. 



The Lloyd Manufacturing Company of Mari- 

 nette has been incorporated with $400,000 cap- 

 ital. The incorporators are Franklin A. Dlm- 

 stead, John Henes, C. I. Cook, Warren S. Car- 

 penter and Marshall B. Lloyd. Furniture, 

 wheeled vehicles and hardwood novelties will 

 be manufactured. 



The Spalding Lumber Company recently sold 

 25,000 acres of timber lands in northern Wis- 

 consin and Michigan to the Cedar River Land 

 Company. The consideration was $129,000. 



The Nash Lumber Company of Shanagoiden 

 will in the future saw nothing but hardwood 

 lumber. It has disposed of its other stocks to 

 the Foster-Latimer Lumber Company of Mellen. 

 C. F. Stewart of Vassar, Mich., will start a 

 dowel pin factory in operation in Tomahawk, 

 Wis. For the past year he has been perfecting 

 machinery for the manufacture of that stock. 



A satisfactory settlement to till parties was 

 made in the circuit court in Wood county last 

 week of a civil suit entitled 1'. II. Johnson vs. 

 the Marshfield Land & Lumber Company and 

 the tlpham Manufacturing Company. In the 

 summer of 1906 the defendant companies gave 

 an option on hardwood lands in Lincoln and 

 Taylor counties to J. S. Crosby of Greenville, 

 Mich., at a price of $500,000. Crosby trans- 

 ferred the option to F. II. Johnson of Rhine- 

 lander and while the latter was engaged in 

 looking over the lands, he claimed, they were 

 sold to the Copper River Land Company for 

 $600,000. He claimed the lands were worth at 

 least Sl.000,000 and he brought suit to recover 

 the difference between the option price and that 

 amount or to compel the transfer of the lands 

 to him in consideration of the payment of the 

 option price. It was the largest civil suit ever 

 brought in Wisconsin. The purchasing company 

 has .acquired veneer mills, and much of the 

 ,- on the lands involved will be cut into 

 veneer. 



The newly incorporated Stange-Ellis Lumber 

 Company of Grand Rapids has purchased the 

 saw mill, office, etc., of the Grand Rapids Luiu- 



