HARDWOOD RECORD 



should not therefore be made to suffer. The 

 advance on hardwood lumber from Montrose is 

 2 cents per hundred, while that on cypress and 

 pine is 5 cents per hundred to St. Louis, making 

 the rate now 15 cents on hardwoods and is 

 cents on cypress, against 13 cents on both hard- 

 woods and cypress and pine under the old re- 

 gime. It is striking to note in this connection 

 that there is practically nothing but cypress 

 being shipped from this mill at present, which 

 may be an explanation of the widening of the 

 • differential 3 cents per hundred in favor of the 

 railroads. 



The car situation in this territory does not 

 improve. Some lumbermen say conditions are 

 growing steadily worse and that there is no 

 • hope of early improvement. The situation is 

 bad enough in Memphis proper, but it is much 

 worse at inland points, where there is less com- 

 petition. 



C. D. Hendriekson, chairman of the rivers 

 and rail committee of the Lumbermen's Club, 

 recently read a very interesting paper on "Car 

 Troubles in- Congestion of Traffic." He said 

 there was no such thing as a shortage of cars 

 and laid the whole trouble at the feet of operat 

 ing officials who are either incompetent or who 

 are not given the proper resources and facilities 

 at terminal points by their superior officers. He 

 openly charged that many of the higher officials 

 of the railroads are so anxious to take advan- 

 tage of stock market opportunities that they do 

 not give proper attention to their business and 

 that they tie up for speculative purposes large 

 sums of money which should go either to the 

 stockholders in the form of dividends or be 

 put back into the road in the form of improve- 

 ments and betterments. The paper has at- 

 tracted much favorable comment and has been 

 given wide circulation through one of the lead- 

 ing dailies here. 



Weather conditions throughout the Memphis 

 hardwood producing area .show much improve 

 ment, with the prospect that logging may be 

 resumed in the more favorably located tracts in 

 a comparatively short time. However, with the 

 ground so thoroughly rain soaked, manufacturers 

 say it will be some time before much logging 

 will be possible. The supply of timber on hand 

 is very light and the prospect for large opera- 

 tions between now and May 1 is not regarded as 

 particularly promising. 



The l'aepcke-Leicbt Lumber Company of Chi- 

 cago, which has offices in this city, has pur- 

 chased a site at Pine Bluff, Ark., and closed 

 negotiations for the erection there of a mam 

 moth veneer plant, box factory amd sawmill, 

 which will give employment to between 300 and 

 400 persons. The combined plants will i 

 about two acres and will represent one of the 

 largest .industries of the kind in this section. 



The Anderson-Tully Company, which is erect- 

 ing a bux factory duplicating the present one, 

 with a daily capacity of three cars of shooks. 

 is being delayed'somewhat and will not get it in 

 operation before March 13. It was expected 

 it would be ready by February 1 at the latest. 



The box plant and sawmill of Moore & Meter 

 ren. the stave plant of the Chickasaw Cooperage 

 Company and the hoop plant of the Tennessee 

 1 loop Company have resumed operations after a 

 shutdown of some duration occasioned by the 

 high water in Wolf river. There are several 

 woodworking plants further up this stream 

 ■which are still closed down and which may re- 

 main so for some days yet. 



The Memphis Rim & Bow Company, of which 



J. F. Mclntyre is manager, has purchased :_'. 



acres of hardwood and pine timber lands near 

 Grenada^ "Miss., and will put in a 13, 000-foot 

 mill for the development of the timber thereon. 

 The most abundant growth is forked leaf white 

 oak, which is used in manufacturing bent wagon 

 stock, and the company purchased the tract 

 with a view to securing the necessary raw ma- 

 terial for the manufacture of this class of 

 material. The remaining timber will be cut 



and sold in the open market. The purchase, 

 - ther with the mill, will represent an outlay 

 of about $30,000. 



R. J. Darnell has taken out a permit for the 

 construction of a building which is to contain 

 the new double band mill to be erected here by 

 that firm. There will also be a large veneer 

 mill operated in connection with the plant, in 

 which oak, gum and other veneers will be man 

 ufactured. 



The Kimball-Lacy Lumber Company of Arkan- 

 sas City, Ark., has purchased 750 acres of Cot- 

 tonwood timber lands from, the Valley bank at 

 Rosedale, Miss., and will soon take steps for the 

 development of this property. The company 

 controls three mills, two of which are now in 

 operation. C. A. Lacy of this city is secretary- 

 treasurer of the company. 



George C. Ehemann, formerly secretary-treas- 

 urer of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, has 

 been presented by the retiring board of directors 

 with a handsome signet ring, scarf pin and cuff 

 buttons. This was the method the old board 

 took of expressing its appreciation of the splen- 

 did services rendered by Mr. Ehemann. The 

 presentation was made by W. R. Barksdale, who 

 was recently succeeded as president by George 

 D. Burgess. 



J. L. Boone, Jr., of Shreveport, La., represent- 

 ing the Friedlander & Oliver Lumber Company 

 ■ >f Berlin. Germany, has located at Mena, Ark.. 

 and is making preparations for cutting white 

 oak timber on a large scale for shipment to 

 Germany. 



Blake Barton, who is interested in the Cove 

 Lumber Company, is building a large plant at 

 Black Springs, Ark., which i- to he operated by 

 the Black Springs Lumber Company. 



The Felsenthal Hardwood Lumber Company. 

 Felsenthal, Ark., lias been incorporated under 

 the laws of that state with a capital stork of 

 $10,000. 



The executive commitl .i the local branch of 



the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Iieep Waterwaj - Association, 

 of which W. H. Russe is chairman, is taking 

 active steps for the raising of $5,000 for the 

 furtherance of the cause of river improvement. 

 An appeal for subscriptions has been sent out in 

 which it is stated Jhat Memphis would grow- 

 much more rapidly than in the past if made a 

 seaport town by the deepening of the channel of 

 the Mississippi. 



C. B. Kelly, former president of the ( '. ];. 

 Kelly Lumber Company at Homan. Ark., has 

 filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the 

 Federal Court at Texarkana, Ark., in which be 

 places his liabilities at $331,500 and asserts that 

 his assets are only nominal. 



The Memphis Log Loading Company has moved 

 into the offices in the Tennessee Trust Building 

 formerly occupied by the National Lumber Ex- 

 porters' Association. Rates for log loading in 

 Jhis territory have been uniformly increased by 

 the company. 



The W. E. Hyde Lumber Company, one of the 

 more recent acquisitions in Memphis, has made 

 arrangements for the opening of yards in North 

 .Memphis on which a considerable stock of hard- 

 re I lumber will l,c- carried. 



New Orleans. 



J. V. Hill, chief inspector for the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers Association, was one of the 

 principal speakers :ii the meeting of lumbermen 

 held at the Progressive Union Hall last Sunday 

 morning. This was one of the most unique 

 meetings ever held in this city. Probably sev- 

 enty or eighty lumbermen were present and 

 these Included the graders In nearly all the mills 

 in this territory. The meeting was a sort of 

 uional gathering and the fact that the 

 yard men took part in the proceedings made it 

 very unusual. They were called upon for ex- 

 pressions and gave much valuable information 

 as to i!i. best system of interpreting the grad- 

 ing rules. 



S. C. Majors of the S. C. Majors Lumber 



Company of Memphis was a recent visitor to 

 New' Orleans. 



Carl Wedderin, expert accountant, and a man 

 well known to lumbermen throughout the south, 

 died suddenly at his home in this city last 

 Friday night. 



The new $100,000 plant of S. T. Alms & 

 Co., box manufacturers, has begun operations. 



The transfer of the Hill-Drummond properties 

 in Louisiana to the Advance Lumber Company 

 of Cleveland, O., has been completed. The 

 holdings of the company in the vicinity of 

 Baskin. La., include something like 60,000.000 

 feet of pine and oak on 10,000 acres, and a 

 sawmill plant at Baskin. The price paid was 

 $150,1 



The Mississippi Seating Company, organized 

 at Jackson, Miss., to manufacture opera chairs, 

 school furniture and other hardwood products, 

 has begun operations. The plant cost $50,000 

 and employs fifty-five workmen. 



Destructive forest fires have been raging in 

 the vicinity of Hattiesburg, Miss., for the last 

 week or so. Large quantities of timber are be- 

 ing consumed, the principal food for the fire be- 

 ing the large amount of timber which was 

 felled by the storms last September. Much of 

 this has dried and is burning like tinder. The 

 loss from these fires will be very heavy. 



J. II. Jones, a prominent lumberman of Hous- 

 ton, is negotiating for 7,000 acres of hardwood 

 timber land in the Calcasieu district on the 

 Colorado Southern road. He expects to build a 

 mill to cut his timber. 



The Interstate Lumber Company has filed its 

 charter in Mississippi and is making prepara- 

 tions to build a $100,000 woodworking plant at 

 Columbus. 



A new factory, the Southern Box Manufac- 

 turing Company, has begun operations at New 

 Albany, Miss. 



Tin Fairley Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany has been organized at Hattiesburg. Miss., 



with an authorized capitalization of $20 



The incorporators are H. S. Magerty. B. D. 

 Moore and Daniel Fairley. 



Morehead, Ky. 

 S. M. Bradley, Morehead, Ky., has purchased 

 -..".nil acres of the finest oak timber in Kentucky 

 and will commence operations on it at once. He 

 predicts 1007 will be a banner year in oak and 

 has benight several small tracts. 



The S. B. Reese Lumber Company of Farmers 



lnii'' -tinted a circular mill, as their large band 



mill was not sufficient to saw all the logs they 



have at the mill this year. This will be the 



i cut of lumber in the history of this 



.uiy. 



The Lie king River Lumber Company, Farmers, 



claim they cannot furnish lumber fast ei gb 



for their trade. They will have a large cut this 

 year. 



The Salt Lick Lumber Company is doing a 

 ni.e- business in finished lumber, which plant 

 they run in connection with their large band 

 mill. 



W. J. Fell, Salt Lick, has bought a large tract 

 of timber in West Virginia which he will have 

 worked into staves. He is one of the few who 

 realize the worth of oak stumpage, and is buying 

 all he can find. 



S. M. Bradley, the Morehead lumberman, has 

 just closed a deal with a large trunk line for 

 all their switch ties this year. This is the 

 largest contract ever given to a single firm in 

 eastern Kentucky and will amount to about 

 $1,000,000. 



The Clearfield Lumber Company has just com- 

 pleted a large tunnel near Morehead, and are 

 now ready to lay ten miles of track on their 

 railroad. They have received one engine and 

 four cars which will be used for construction 

 work. They expect to be able to commence 

 operation by the first of April. 



Charlotte, N. C. 

 The Asheville Lumber Exchange is making a 



