HARDWOOD RECORD 



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aid of 11 skiff. The railroads are crippled and 

 some of them are not accepting any freight. 



The flood, while it at present cripples trade and 

 causes much damage, will in due time benefit 

 the lumber industry. Many large business 

 houses that are now in the flood district have 

 signified the intention of moving to a higher 

 elevation, which will of course necessitate the 

 construction of new buildings, or at least will 

 require many alterations. 



William E. Delaney, general superintendent, 

 and J. II. Keyes, vice president, of the Ken- 

 tucky Lumber Company, have- gone on a business 

 trip through southern territory. 



J. E. Tuthlll of the Cypress Lumber Com- 

 pany is on a business trip to Harrisburg, I'm., 

 where he will spend several days. 



Word has been received by Thomas J. Mof- 

 fett of the Maley, Thompson & Moffett Lumber 

 Company that K. W. Hobbins will return from 

 his trip to Cuba the latter part of this month. 

 Mr. Bobbins left during the latter part of 

 February. 



S. Tutbill, manager of the Cypress Lumber 

 Company, has returned from a business trip 

 through the South, where he visited Tennessee, 

 Louisiana and Alabama. 



The Wiborg & Hanna Company is filling the 

 bottoms in the rear of its plant, which when 

 completed will add considerable space to the 

 present large lumber yard and will also protect 

 it from the backwaters. 



B, F. Dulweber, who has been confined to his 

 home with a severe attack of grip, is reported 

 much improved. 



St. Louis. 



The Massengale Lumber Company has a good 

 deal of lumber in its yards and is in good 

 condition to take care of spring business. The 

 company's Mississippi mill is able to supply 

 further stock should it be required. 



The Mosberger-OTteilly Lumber Company says 

 that it cannot get stock fast enough to take care 

 of orders — particularly ash, poplar and cypress. 



A. J. Lang, treasurer of the St. Louis Lum- 

 bermen's Exchange, with his wife and two 

 children, has left for a mouth's pleasure trip 

 to San Antonio, Tex., via Galveston. 



T. Moore of the Moore Company recently 

 made an extended southern trip to look over 

 the lumber situation and prospects. The com- 

 pany says the car shortage prevents it from 

 shipping out orders as rapidly as it would 

 like to. 



The Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company re- 

 ports that the call for oak and ash is remark- 

 ably strong and that the demand from consum- 

 ers has increased markedly the past month. 



H. M. Marshall, inspector for the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association of the United States, 

 now has his office and home at 4944 Page boule- 

 vard, and expects to be joined by his family 

 very soon. They are now in Virginia. 



Owen M. Bruner of Philadelphia, a well- 

 known wholesale hardwood man, was in the 

 city recently, calling upon the trade. 



The American Hardwood Lumber Company 

 is augmenting its stock right along in order to 

 take care of its usual large spring business. 



The Plummer Lumber Company states thai 

 the car trouble is lessening somewhat, and that 

 it considers the spring outlook excellent. 



The Lothman Cypress Company expects the 

 arrival of several hundred more cars of cypress, 

 although 400 cars were unloaded at its yard 

 here during January and February. It reports 

 cypress lath in excellent request. 



J. S. Garetson has recently been in Mexico 

 with his brother Frank, of San Diego' Cal, 

 They went to examine the property of the Es- 

 candldo Copper Company in the state of Sonora, 

 in which they are largely interested, and which 

 promises to be a profitable proposition. 



The mill of the Chas. F. I.uehrmann Hard 

 wood Lumber Company at Marianna, Ark., has 

 started up again; it was closed for sonic line 

 on account of high water. The company's hick- 



ory plant at Schrenk, Ark., on the Black River 

 1- also in operation again. The company ex- 

 pects to do an extra good business during the 

 coming year. 



The lumbermen of St. Louis have long 

 wished to get together in the matter of office 

 l.icatic.ns. and at a recent meeting in the Mer- 

 cantile club, a committee was appointed to con- 

 fer with the manager of 1 he new Wright build- 

 in", at the corner of Eighth and Pine streets, 

 relative t" "colonizing" at that location. Their 

 work resulted in a further meeting March 11. 

 .11 which the proposition was carefully gone 

 over and it was practically decided to lease sev- 

 eral tloors, the following named concerns agree- 

 ing to take space: Grayson-McLeod Lumber 

 Company, W. T. Ferguson Lumber Company, 

 Berthold & Jennings Lumber Company. A. P. 

 Brewer Lumber Company, Hogg-Harris Lumber 

 Company, Arkansas Lumber Company, Long-Bell 

 Lumber Company, II. Wachsmuth Lumber Com- 

 pany, Ball-Goss Lumber Company, Van Cleve 

 Lumber Company, Geo. W. Miles Lumber Com- 

 pany, Alt'. Bennett Lumber Company, Monarch 

 Lumber Company, Antrim Lumber Company, W. 

 E. Grady, Dixie Lumber Company, Graham Lum- 

 ber t'oinpauy, Summitt Lumber Company, J. 

 G. Knebel Lumber Company, St. Louis Lumber- 

 man. The Lumbermen's building, as it may 

 hereafter be called, is a handsome, new office 

 st nut ure eighteen stories high, fireproof and in 

 an excellent location. It has an abundance of 

 light, heat, water, good elevator service and is 

 up to date in every respect. 



George E. Hibbard of the Steele & Hibbard 

 Lumber Company, the well-known hardwood 

 house of this city, is just recovering from a 

 severe attack of the "grippe." which necessi- 

 tated his absence from his office for some days, 

 lie is now able to be down again, though the 

 disease left him in a weak condition. 



Memphis. 



There is some improvement reported in the 

 car situation at this point and throughout the 

 Memphis territory. Shippers are securing a 

 larger proportion of their requisitions than for 

 some weeks and cars are being moved out with 

 greater promptness when they are loaded. There 

 is. however, room for a great deal more im- 

 provement and the River and Hail Committee of 

 I he Lumbermen's Club, having the matter of 

 local conditions in hand, is hot losing any time 

 in bringing about even better conditions than 

 now obtain. The inability to secure timber at 

 the mills has been. a very serious factor for some 

 time and lumber manufacturers express much 

 satisfaction that there is some betterment in 

 this direction, even if it proves only temporary. 

 A number of the big plants here which have 

 been running only intermittently for the past 

 few weeks are beginning to run more regularly 

 and some of them are quite well supplied with 

 timber for the present. 



The Lumbermen's Club at its last meeting 

 adopted resolutions on the question of free time 

 for unloading ships at New Orleans, protesting 

 that such action is having the effect of throwing 

 serious hardships on shippers and making them 

 assume responsibility for the shortcomings of 

 ocean carriers, and in many cases for those of 

 the rail lines themselves, and that this action 

 of the rail lin.s would have an adverse effect 

 on export traffic of the section. The question 

 will he referred, i" the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission for such action as it may deem 

 proper. It should he pointed out in this connection 

 that lie club is of the opinion that the cutting 

 down "f free time is the direct result of the 

 in, 1 that the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 has given a few lines a monopoly of the export 

 lumber and cotton business and therefore put 

 them in a position to behave arbitrarily through 

 a strict enforcement of the rate- law, making 

 equalizal ion impc ible, 1 1 is for tin-- reason 

 thai the matter is 10 be called to the attention 

 of the Interstate Commerce Commission. 



At the suggestion oi the River and Kail Com 

 mittee the club lias adopted a form to he used 

 in making requisition for cars. This will be 

 printed in duplicate, one copy being held by the 



shipper and tl tlnr forwarded to the railroads 



in question. 11 will have a place for the number 

 of cars, for the car numbers, time applied for. 

 time furnished, time loaded, time moved out and 



time landed at destination, thus making a 



plete record. Lumbermen believe this will bring 

 about quicker action on the part of traffic 

 officials and they arc certain that it will supply 

 them with all the necessary data for intelligent 



procedure in the evenl of any proc dings before 



railroad officials or the Interstate C merce 



Commission. 



Messrs. Brown and Anderson have been cm- 

 ployed as attorneys by the Lumbermen's Club 

 and will advise the River and Bail Committee 

 as to the best method of procedure in opposing 

 the effectiveness of the recent advance on freight 

 rates from points in the southwest to Ohio and 

 Mississippi river crossings, amounting to 2 to ."• 

 cents per huudred. The committee has held a 

 number of meetings in connection with this 

 subject, but nothing definite has yet been doue. 

 The idea in the beginning was to cooperate with 

 the Lumber Exchange of St. Louis, but It is not 

 now certain that this will be done, as the im- 

 pression seems to be now that the St. Louis 

 organization does not object to the advance of ". 

 cents in hardwood rates but rather to the change 

 of classification on cypress, which puts the rates 

 on that lumber three cents higher than other 

 hardwoods from the southwest. That the mat- 

 ter will finally be carried to the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission, however, is generally con- 

 ceded by lumber interests here. 



The club has formally endorsed J. II. Mallory, 

 Commercial agent of the Illinois Central here, 

 for the position of general agent, with head 

 quarters in Memphis, as successor to the late; 

 Major W. L. Smith. It has communicated this 

 action to President J. T. Harahan of the Illinois 

 Central, but no definite reply has been given by 

 that official. Mr. Mallory is very popular 

 among lumber interests both here and through- 

 out the Mississippi valley and the club regards 

 him as an excellent man for the place. 



The following new members have been re- 

 ceived into the club, making the total the largest 

 on record — 111 : Benjamin Emerson, Brinklcy 

 Car Manufacturing Company, Brinkley, Ark. ; 

 Chas. E. Hyde, Hyde Lumber Company, Mem- 

 phis, Tenn. ; B. E. Kile, Kile & Morgan Company. 

 Providence, K. I.; T. J. Stevens, Forrest City 

 Land & Lumber Company, Woodruff, Miss. 

 Harry Stimson, Stimsou Lumber Company, 

 Askew, Miss. ; W. P. Mcintosh, Stonemau Lum- 

 ber Company, Clarksdale, Miss. The club is 

 taking strong hold of the various problems con 

 fronting lumber interests not only in this city 

 but throughout the country and this is one of 

 the reasons for its rapid growth. 



J. T. Harahan of the Illinois Central system, 

 who was in Memphis today, announces the pur- 

 chase of HIS acres of land in New South Mem- 

 phis with a river frontage of nearly 3,000 feet 



for the site of terminal facilities to 1 :ected 



for the purpose of taking care of the river 

 traffic. This plan has been in mind for some 

 months and the company has been quietly pick- 

 ing up the property for some time. The com- 

 pany will expend thereon, including the purchase 

 price, approximately si. 0110,01111. u will ji\ 

 every possible encouragement to factories lee 

 locate on this tract by providing the e facilities 

 and it will make particular effort to bring aboul 



tin' establishment of more lumber and c 



plants, especially those that manufacture the 

 finished product. It contends that tin-re i 

 much raw material shipped away Crom Memphis 

 which cciulci be profitablj manufactured here 

 instead of being sent away ami then manufac 

 tureil and shipped back to this citj and other 

 points in the South. The Illinois Central, too, 

 has acquired more bind in East Memphis for its 

 belt line, the completion of which should mate- 



