HARDWOOD RECORD 



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\v. w. Dings, secretary of the Garetson- 

 Greason Lumber Company, is looking over the 

 bard wood situation generally In producing ter 

 rltory and visiting the mills in which the com 

 pany Is Interested. 



The St. Louis branch of E. C. Atkins & 1 

 inc. has moved Into new quarters at 2329 1 Hive 

 street. Here will be .carried a complete line ol 

 their celebrated silver steel circular and band 

 saws and ither mill goods and mill supplies, 

 which will put the concern in position to take 



of thi Ir western and soul hw estern trade 



better than ever before. G. W. Gladding, well 

 kin.un to users of saws the country over, who 

 was [or many years at the Memphis branch 

 and for the pas! eigh! years bas looked after 

 the concern's interests in the South and South- 

 west ir headquarters in St. Louis, will be In 



charge of the sales department. In connection 

 with the St. Louis branch will be a well equipped 

 saw repair shop under the supervision of W. D. 

 Quinn. 



Alter a trip .to 1I1 mpany's mill at De Vails 



Bluffs. Ark. Geo. \V Si man of the Stone 



man-Zearing Lumber Company takes an optimis- 

 tic vie* of the bardw 1 situation and says that 



conditions in the producing districts of Arkan- 

 sas are deplorable, owing to the recent heavy 

 rains, and thai probably only the larger mills 

 with railway logging equipment will be able to 

 continue operations through the winter. Hence 

 he predicts that hardwood prices will be con- 

 siderably higher by next spring. 



C. E. Thomas of the Thomas & Proetz Lum- 

 ber Company returned a few days ago 11 1 a 



trip to Chicago, Bockford and other northern 

 points, where the company disposes of a great 

 . deal of its excellent hardwoods. 



R. F. Krebs of the lumber department of the 

 Ozark Cooperage Company returned recently 

 from a trip to the company's mills in Arkansas. 

 Mr. Krebs also reports manufacturing opera 

 lions in a bad way and looks for higher prices 

 before spring. 



.TohQ Davis of Davis & Reeves of Halley, Ark., 

 who operate two mills, was a recent St. Louis 

 visitor. S. C. Major of the S. C. Major Lum- 

 ber Company, Memphis, Temi. : E. D. Williams. 

 representing W. K. Canady of Bentoni, Miss.. 

 and H. M. Mcintosh, a buyer for Steele & 

 Hlbbard, with headquarters at Dexter, Mo., were 

 also in 1 own recently. 



Memphis. 



The committee of the Lumbermen's Club 11 



sisting of Ave members headed by C. D. lien 

 drickson, chairman, which went to St. Louis 



to attend the hearing o£ the Interstate C 



merce Commission regarding the car shortage, 

 has returned. Mr. llendrickson appeared as a 

 witness before the commission and states that 

 a formal statement was filed with thai bodj 

 registering the protest of the Lumberman's 

 Club of Memphis against the conditions which 

 now obtain with reference to cars. The com- 

 mittee is much Impressed with the earnest In- 

 quiries Instituted by the commission and be- 

 lieves that some good will result from the 

 fixing of the responsibility for the present 

 conditions. Mississippi lumbermen will send 

 a large delegation to Chicago next week to 

 attend a conference which has been called to 

 consider the ear shortage from (he standpoint 

 of lumber interests. Lumbermen of the Mis 

 sissippi valley have been more seriously hit 

 by the ear shortage than any other class of 

 business men, and they therefore regard this 

 conference as of vast importance. Mississippi 

 lumbermen are now demanding that the rail- 

 road commission of that state shall amend the 



• i ii.ije ami delayage rules by granting to 



shippers full demurrage charges tor unrei 



able delay after ears have been ordered. Al 

 present shippers, including lumbermen get 

 no demurrage except in cases of unusual de 

 lay in transit, having no recourse lor delays 



in furnishing cars after requisition lias I n 



made. Lumbermen of that state are responsi- 



ble ior the assertion that the shortage of ears 



is :ai ioned largelj bj the fact that agents 



and officials of the roads at junction points are 

 deui.d the right to in. rease their forces when 

 there Is a large increa le in 1 raffle. 



In addition lo sending a committee to St. 



1, 3, the Lumbermen's Club al its last meet 



ing passed resolutions asking that Congress 

 pass a national reciprocal demurrage law and 

 adequate reciprocity in ear service. Moreover, 



ii b passed resolutions indorsing the move 



meni inaugurated by T. Peyton Giles of Rich 



11 1. Va.. calling for I lie passage of a law 



i,\ Congress empowering the Interstate Com- 

 merce C mission lo issue a rule lo all rail- 

 roads regarding a lime liinil on all interstate 

 shipments, conforming to length of haul, with 

 a certain percentage of discount on freight 



hills payable lo consignee for every twenty- 

 four hours of delay beyond the daily move- 

 ment prescribed by Hie commission. Thus it 

 may he seen readily thai the lumbermen of 

 Memphis are thoroughly aroused over Hie sit- 

 uation. And it may be noted in passing that 

 all action taken on this question was partici 

 pated in by 1 lie largest number of lumbermen 

 thai has attended a monthly meeting here in 

 si me nionl lis. 



The nominating committee appointed by the 

 Lumbermen's club, recommended the following 



officers for 11 nsuing year: Ticket No. 1: 



President, George l> Burgess; first vice presi- 

 dent. F. E. Gary; second vice president, J. B. 

 (Hani: secretary-treasurer, John \V. MeClure; 

 directors, E. E. Goodlander, 1-'. E. Stonebraker 

 and A. L. Foster. Ticket No. '-! : President, W. 

 S. Darnell; first vice president. .lames 10. Stark; 

 so,, mil vice president, w. C. Dewey; secretary 

 treasurer. John W. MeClure ; directors, W. R. 

 Barksdale, .1. \V. Dickson and George ('. Ehe- 

 mann. The race promises to he quite lively 

 1 hough the rivalry will bo of the most friendly 

 sort. The election will be held January 11'. 

 The membership of the club is now the largest 

 in the history of that organization; three new 

 members are: William Wilms, of the Paepcke- 

 Leichl Lumber Company. Chicago and Memphis; 

 .1 II Iline-, of Harm \ ,y Hines, Memphis, and 

 W. Ii. Reeves, of the W. D. Reeves Lumber Com- 

 pany. Helena. Ark. This brings Hie total to 

 nearly 100. 



The Three Stales Lumber Company has begun 

 work on a large planing mill ami box plant at 

 Burdette, Ark., with a consumptive capacity of 

 something like 7.",. nun to 100,000 feet of cotton- 

 wood lumber daily. Work will be pushed as rap- 

 idly as possible hut no idea is given of the time 

 ai which the plant will probably be completed. 

 This company only recently put in another band 

 saw at its mill at Burdette, making it a double 

 hand s U w plain, with capacitj of nearly 100,000 

 lei a day. The headquarters of the company- 

 are in this city. The company owns large hold- 

 ings of cottonw 1 and gum in eastern Arkan- 

 sas. 



Commissioner Matthews of the Federal Court 

 lor Hie Western District of Tennessee, before 

 whom the cases of the United states against the 

 Bennett Hardwood Lumber Company, the Ten 

 nessee Hoop Company and Moore & McFerren 

 were heard tin w.'i. has reserved judgment 

 until later. Warrants were sworn out against 

 officials of these companies charging them with 

 throwing sawdust, slabs and other refuse into 

 Wolf river, a navigable inam. The principal 



witness for the pros an was Capt. Wm. D. 



i onnor, of He- 1 unci States Engineering Corps, 



who declared that be proc led against these 



gentlemen becat be tad that, in dredging 



Wolf river, he found thai about twenty per 



cent of ii..' deposit taken from Hie river c 



sisied of sawdust. All the defendants stoutly 



denied that they bad throw 11 sawdust into I lie 



river, that tiny wen.- anxious to keep the 

 stream navigable and bad done everything in 



Iheir power lo this end. ami that thej bad re 

 clai 1 considerable land by the use of saw 



du-i and oiler refuse placed in casings of slabs 



at the water's edge. The decision will prob 

 al,h iioi he handed down until after t'hrisi 

 mas. 



The Southern Handle Company, of Memphis, 

 has leased Hie plant oi the Royal Handle Man- 

 ufacturing Company al llnrrisburg. Ark., and 

 the plant will be operated lo Ho' same officials 

 as before though under the direction of the 

 lessees. Edward Snyder has been appointed 

 manager. 



The Deemer Manufacturing Company al Phil- 

 adelphia, Miss, announces that it is now cut- 

 ting the timbers lor two large hand sawmills 

 io he erected tor the development of the lim 



her holdings on ils 50, acres of land in 



Leake, Winston and Neshoba counties in Mis- 

 sissippi, and that there will he a full comple- 

 ment of gang saws. The company is now lay- 

 ing out the routes for ils logging mads which 

 are to be of standard guage and work will be 

 pushed without delay. The machinery and 



equipment for the two hand mills have I n 



purchased. The capacity will lie between 175,- 



000 ami 200,000 feet a day. 



A number of Texarkana. Ark . capitalists have 

 purchased Hie mill and timber land holding of 

 the Ed Rand Lumber Company, Alexandria, I. a.. 

 the consideration being nearly $1,000,000. The 

 mill has a capacity of 125,000 feel of lumber a 

 day while the timber lands have on them more 

 than 200,000,000 feet of standing timber. .1. S. 

 Crowell, J. K. Wadley, K. E. Porter and others 

 are the purchasers. Messrs. Crow ell and Wad- 

 ley will probably he managers of the company. 



The Chickasaw Cooperage Company of this 



city has 1 a awarded jmlg nl in the sum of 



$20,000 against the Union Railway Company for 

 a sixteen foot strip which was condemned by the 

 defendant and lor injury done to the buildings 

 of the plaintiff. The soil has been pending for 

 some years. 



Louisville. 



E. M. Overstreet of the Southern Lumber 

 C, mpany says his concern is suffering badly 

 from car shortage. He has an urgent call to 

 move about twenty-five cars of stuff and in 

 reply to his requisition on railroads for cars. 

 accompanied with explanations of his situation, 

 the railroads have, figuratively, thrown up their 

 hands and practically admilled lhal Hm car 

 shortage is worse today than it was ever known 

 before, and while they -would do the best they 

 could, they simply could not promise anything. 

 As far as orders are concerned. Mr. Overstreet 

 ihey have more than thej can take care 

 of and are well satisfied with all conditions in 

 the lumber business except that of transporta 

 Hon. 



Sam Callaway, whose .specialty is railway 

 ties, says I hat he has rounded out a good year 

 and the end of He' year finds him in fairly 

 good shape for stock, considering the many 

 handicaps lhal have appeared ibis season. The 

 active demand for lies and other railway ma 

 tei'ial continues unabated, and it is still simply 

 a question of getting the limber ami moving it 

 out. 



Albert R. Kampf rep, ils Hie demand for car 

 oak in good Shape and the general run of in 

 quiries continue about the same in volume as 



usual, with heller prices turning up every now 



anil then attached lo orders of special urgency. 



II. M. Ml ( la, Ken of Hie KentUCkj \ el r 



Works says the call lor quarter sawed oal 

 veneer has quieted down a little with the end of 

 the year. There is some buy ing goini: 



on right along, but I" 1 1 ex] 1 Hie call 



for this stock i" become verj active again until 

 , the lust of February. For rotary out 

 gum and poplar Hare i i splendid demand, ami 

 ihe veneer business generally is in satlsfa torj 

 shape. 



Minneapolis. 

 1;. l'ayson Smith of the Payson-Smith Lumber 



1 1 ni|. in, I. ret urn, ,1 from : .,,,,, 1, d , iip i" 



ihe southern hardwood country. He says thai 

 conditions down there have not I n 1 



