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HARDWOOD RECORD 



the Rockwell Manufacturing Company, with a 

 loss of about $35,000, partially insured. There 

 is no fire department and the adjoining build- 

 ings and lumber were saved only by the quick 

 and persistent efforts of the "bucket brigade." 

 The plant was one of the largest in that sec- 

 tion. The fire is supposed to have originated 

 from the engine in the building. 



The federal grand jury has returned a true 

 bill against Hugh Murdock. president of the 

 Murdock Lumber Company, charging him with 

 having raised United States bank notes, and 

 the case will be tried here during the next few 

 days. It is alleged that Murdock passed a 

 $2 bank note which had been raised to $20 

 by the addition of a cipher. He was arrested 

 last May by the police authorities here and 

 bound over to the federal grand jury. His 

 friends did all they could to break down the 

 charges against him by pointing out that a 

 man of his business and social standing would 

 not resort to such crude practices, but the fed- 

 eral authorities declare their intention of prose- 

 cuting him, and the ease has already been 

 set. 



The Fordyce Manufacturing Company has 

 been incorporated under the laws of Arkansas 

 with a capital stock of $20,000 and with head- 

 quarters at Fordyce. J. L. Williams is presi- 

 dent, T. M. Rowland vice-president and Wiley 

 Downs secretary-treasurer. The company will 

 manufacture hardwood products. 



The Tolley Lumber & Feed Company has been 



incorporated with domicile at Batesville, Ark., 



and with capital stock of $25,000. W. S. Tol- 



-ley is president; J. G. Wolfe, vice-president, 



and Charles Podgett, secretary-treasurer. 



The Automatic Yoke Company of Indianapolis, 

 Ind., has secured by lease, with privilege of 

 purchase, the plant of the Braughton Mantel 

 Company in North Memphis, and will install 

 therein $10,000 worth of additional machinery 

 for the manufacture of automatic yokes, single- 

 trees, doubletrees and similar products. The 

 deal was closed through President Samuel L. 

 Pattison of Indianapolis. Memphis, it is under- 

 stood, is to be made the manufacturing head- 

 quarters of the company, though distributing 

 headquarters will be continued at Indianapolis. 

 O. .M. Krebs, one of the managers of the 

 Hugh McLean Lumber Company here, was at- 

 tacked by footpads some nights ago and, with 

 two revolvers held at his head, forced to band 

 over his money, $45, and a handsome gold 

 watch. He reported the matter to the police 

 authorities, but no arrests have been made. The 

 holdup occurred at the end of the 'New South 

 Memphis car line. 



Articles of incorporation were recently filed 

 by the Kittrell Lumber Company, which is to 

 engage in the manufacture of hardwood lumber 

 at Hamburg, Ark. The" company is really the 

 successor of the private business formerly con- 

 ducted by W. E. Kittrell, who, under the pres- 

 ent organization, becomes president. The capi- 

 tal stock is $20,000. 



The Cleveland & Palmer Handle Company of 

 Frankfort, Ky., which is said to be affiliated 

 with the American Fork & Hoe Company, which 

 is operating a large plant here, has recently 

 taken out a permit for the construction of a 

 large warehouse in New South Memphis. 



Box manufacturers in this city are doing the 

 largest business in their history. They are not 

 answering inquiries, because they already have 

 so much business on their books and tbey are 

 not in position to accept orders for shipments 

 in any quantity from outsiders under thirty 

 to sixty days. Cottonwood is very scarce and 

 they are confronted with more business than 

 they can promptly take care of. 



Frank C. Cannon, secretary-treasurer of the 

 Cannon Box Company of" Cairo, 111., is in Mem- 

 phis. He reports an excellent demand for boxes 

 and box shooks in Cairo. 



George D. Burgess of R"usse & Burgess, who 

 has been in Europe for some months on busi- 



ness for his firm, has returned to this city. 

 He is looking remarkably well and expresses 

 pleasure at being home again. 



I{. L. Withnell, London representative of 

 Duncan. Ewing & Co. of Liverpool, England, 

 has been in Memphis for some days, having 

 come here last week from St. Louis. 



The management of the American Car & 

 Foundry Company, which has the largest wood- 

 working establishment in this section at Bins- 

 bamton, a suburb of Memphis, has enough or- 

 ders on its books to keep running on full time 

 for six months. It furthermore denies the re- 

 port that the company has any intention of 

 removing from Memphis, asserting that, on the 

 contrary, nothing is being left undone in the 

 way of adding equipment and increasing the 

 facilities here. 



The Dixie Lumber & Manufacturing Company 

 of this city has been incorporated with $15,000 

 capital stock. C. G. Wagner, E. J. Thomas, 

 F. J. Ozanno, James Hutchinson and Charles 

 Heekle are the incorporators. 



The Standard Lumber Company was recently 

 incorporated by P. M. Ravesies, W. J. Richard- 

 son, C. B. Stetson, T. C. Richardson and E. W. 

 Ravesies. The capital stock is $30,000 and 

 headquarters will be maintained in Memphis. 



New Orleans. 



Judge Parlange in the United States Circuit 

 Court here has handed down an opinion sus- 

 taining the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 in its fight to force a number of railroads to 

 remove a two-cent advance on Southern ship- 

 ments to Ohio river crossing, which advance 

 was put on by the railroads some time ago. 

 Since this decision, however, the case has 

 been appealed by the railroads to the United 

 States Circuit Court of Appeals. The suit has 

 been pending for many months in the local 

 court. It was filed by the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission with a view to securing a 

 decision that would force the railroad compa- 

 nies to comply with its orders demanding that 

 the two-cent advance in freight rates be re- 

 moved. Judge Parlange's decision brings first 

 blood for the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 and the Lumber Shippers. If his decision is 

 upheld in the higher court it will mean that 

 suits aggregating nearly $3,000,000 will be fiied 

 by the lumber shippers, who all of this time 

 have been paying the two-cent advance. 



The Gillican & Vizard Company was recently 

 incorporated with an authorized capital of 

 $1,000,000 to speculate in timber lands. Its 

 charter was filed for record several days ago in 

 the office of the Recorder of Mortgages. The 

 officers are Walter B. Gillican, president; 

 Edwin A. McKoy, vice-president, and Anthony 

 Vizard Jr., secretary-treasurer. Mr. Gillican 

 is vice-president of the New Orleans Naval 

 Stores Company, while Mr. Vizard until re- 

 cently was the secretary-treasurer of that firm. 

 The Lane Lumber Company has been organ- 

 ized in this city with an authorized capital of 

 $200,000. It will manufacture all kinds of lum- 

 ber, and will construct and operate sawmills. 

 The officers are: Edward E. Moberly, presi- 

 dent; Walter T. Kent, vice-president and 

 treasurer; Harry H. Hall, secretary. 



The charter of the Flasdick-Black Land and 

 Lumber Company has been filed for record in 

 the office of the Recorder of Mortgages. This 

 company will buy, sell and speculate generally 

 in timber lands and is also empowered to build 

 and operate saw and planing mills. It is capi- 

 talized at $100,000 and has the following offi- 

 cers: Rudolph Flasdiek, president; Bryan 

 Black, vice-president; Edwin W. Rodd, secre- 

 tary. ' 



Announcement is made that unless an early 

 settlement of the trouble among the stave han- 

 dlers in New Orleans is effected, Bobet Bros., 

 who handle a large amount of the staves ex- 

 ported annually out of New Orleans, will re- 

 move their headquarters to Gulfport, Miss. 

 Several ships which have come here recently 



for staves have been turned away because the 

 members of the longshoremen's union refused 

 to load them. The labor troubles in this par- 

 ticular have become very serious and threaten 

 to cripple temporarily the stave shipments out 

 of New Orleans. 



The large box factory and veneering plant in 

 the northern suburbs of Baton Rouge, La., for- 

 merly owned by W. T. Burks and William 

 White, have been transferred to the Standard 

 Box Factory and are now being operated by 

 this company. Messrs. White and Burks re- 

 cently transferred their holdings to Col. J. C. 

 Dozier for $38,000, and he in turn sold out to 

 the Standard Company for $44,000. 



Advices here state that the steamship Cor- 

 inth, having on board the largest consignment 

 of mahogany logs ever shipped to New Or- 

 leans, and the first to be loaded in West Africa 

 for shipment to the United States, is aground 

 on Grand Cayman group, off the coast of Ja- 

 maica. 



The Mississippi Seating Company, a new 

 $50,000 corporation of- Jackson, Miss., has 

 awarded to Fairbanks, Morse & Co. the con- 

 tract for supplying the machinery for its new 

 plant. It will manufacture chairs for theaters 

 and auditoriums. 



Another charter recently filed in New Or- 

 leans is that of the Victor Lumber and Export 

 Company. It will buy and sell all kinds of 

 lumber, rough and dressed, and will do consid- 

 erable exporting. The company is capitalized 

 at $5,000 and its officers are: P. M. Roby, pres- 

 ident and secretary-treasurer; R. U. Schmide. 

 vice-president. 



The Dutch steamer Beta has arrived at Pas- 

 cagoula to load a cargo of 2,000,000 feet of 

 lumber from the plant of Hunter, Been & Co. 



At a recent meeting of the stockholders of 

 the Padget Wagon Company of Laurel, Miss., 

 it was decided to increase the capital stock so 

 as to make certain needed improvements and 

 add to the capacity of the plant. George 

 Bacon, cashier of the First National Bank, 

 was elected president and Hon. Henry Hilbun 

 was named as secretary-treasurer. E. D. Tra- 

 vis and Dr. Brent were added to the board of 

 directors. 



Wausau. 



The Blodgett-Booth Lumber Company Is one 

 of the new hardwood concerns to file articles 

 of incorporation. Its headquarters will be 

 Marshfield. The incorporators are C. E. and 

 X. E. Blodgett and George D. Booth. Capital 

 stock, $50,000. 



The Foster-Latimer Lumber Company of Mel- 

 len has purchased 149 forties of hardwood lands 

 in lion county, which was the property of 

 W. D. Connor and E. E. Winch of Marshfield. 



A company is being organized in Grand Rap 

 ids with $50,000 capital for the manufacture 

 of furniture. George W. Brown of that city 

 will be president and manager, and W. R. 

 Wright of Pittsburg, Pa., will be secretary. 

 E. P. Arpin of Grand Kapids, Wis., is inter- 

 ested. 



The United States Leather Company, which 

 last summer purchased the mill and timber 

 holdings -of the Upham Manufacturing Company, 

 has decided to keep the mill in operation in 

 Marshfield, instead of moving it. The company 

 has large holdings around Athens and in Tay- 

 lor county, and is assured of ten years' run. 



The Glidden Veneer Company was recently 

 reorganized and the capital stock increased to 

 $100,000. About 50,000,000 feet of timber 

 tributary to the plant was recently acquired, 

 which, added to previous holdings, will give the 

 company a great many years' run. A sawmill 

 has also been purchased and about 10,000,000 

 feet of lumber will be manufactured yearly. 

 The president, J. W. Bishop, will spend the 

 winter in Sand Toint, Idaho, looking after his 

 mining interests. 



The Fay L. Cusick Company of Milwaukee is 

 this winter logging what is perhaps the largest 



