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HARDWOOD RECORD 



rially relieve the congestion which has recurred 

 here so often during the past few months. 



The lumber mill of C. L. Willey in North 

 Memphis has begun operations and will have a 

 very large daily output as the management has 

 gut ten together a very big quantity of timber. 

 The veneer mill will be completed in a short 

 time and operation of this will begin as soon 

 as the machinery has been installed. 



\V. C. Calhoun of Sheboygan. Mich., and C. W. 

 Talge of F.vansville. Ind.. two lumbermen who 

 have been traveling recently over Mis- 

 souri.* Tennessee and Arkansas inspecting 

 timber lands and mill sites, have announced their 

 intention of erecting two mills in northeast 

 Memphis and the purchase of 12 acres of land 

 for this purpose. The two mills will give em- 

 ployment to about 200 persons and will be 

 placed in operation as soon as they can be 



completed. 



The Ford- Johnson Chair Company at Helena. 

 Ark., is making preparations to considerably 

 enlarge its chair plant at that point. It is to 

 be one of the largest in the country and when 

 completed will give employment to about 800 to 

 I I persons. 



The James A. McKim Company of Chicago 

 has been awarded the contract for constructing 

 the thirteen-story annex of the Peabody hotel 

 and remodeling the main structure, involving an 

 expenditure of $500,000. The hostelry, which is 

 to be operated under the same management as 

 the Gayoso, is to be completed in January. L908 

 On the completion of this work lumbermen will 

 find a decided increase in hotel facilities in this 

 city both for ordinary use and for the holding 

 of conventions. 



The 50,000-foot band sawmill of the Chapman- 

 Dewey Lumber Company, which is being con- 

 structed at Marked 'Tree, Ark., is neariug coin 

 pletion and will soon he ready for operation. 

 This company has offices in tie' Randolph 

 Building, this city. 



Rapid progress is reported on the double band 

 sawmill anil veneer plant of R. J. Darnell, Inc.. 

 in South Memphis, and these should be in 

 operation in a short time. 



Four of the six dry kilns of the Fordyce 

 Lumber Company at Fordyce, Ark., were de- 

 stroyed by Are a few nights ago, entailing a loss 

 of between $40,00" and $60,000. The insurance 

 is not stated. It required heroic efforts to save 

 the two remaining kilns and the lumber and 

 planing mills of the company. 



I.. II. Lebus, H. A. Lebus and II. W. Flatau, 

 representing II. Lebus. wholesale export furniture 

 manufacturer, with headquarters in London, 

 England, have been in Memphis during the past 

 i . w days. 



C. D. Ilendrickson, chairman of the River and 

 Hail Committee of the Lumbermen's Club, who 

 has been looking after interests of the F. S. 

 lb ndrickson Lumber Company in Indian Terri- 

 tory for some time, has returned to his offices 

 in the Randolph Building and is now at the helm 

 in the effort to solve the various traffic prob- 

 lems entrusted to his committee. 



New Orleans. 

 ' A good deal of interest was manifested in 

 the first annual meeting of the New Orleans 

 Lumber Exporters' Association which was 

 held here last week. This association has just 

 about perfected organization and the an- 

 nouncement that it would launch a campaign 

 to correct certain abuses which the lumber 

 exporters are forced to put up with attracted 

 considerable attention. These abuses, for 

 which the railroads are as a rule held re-, 

 sponsible, were 'generally discussed at the 

 meeting and arrangements were made to have 

 the railroad committee of the association take 

 up the several matters wit.it a view to having 

 certain very undesirable conditions remedied. 

 J. H. Hinton of Camp & Hinton was re-elected 

 president of the association. The other offi- 

 cers named were W. A. Powell, vice presi- 



dent; L. Haymann. treasurer; T. O. Elmer, 

 secretary and traffic manager. Plans for in- 

 creasing the membership of the association 

 and for making the fight to improve the con- 

 ditions were discussed at length. 



The first cargo of African mahogany ever 

 brought into the port of New Orleans arrived 

 here last week on the British steamship Os- 

 ceola. The logs are consigned to the C. C. 

 Mengel & Bro. Company of Louisville. Ky.. 

 and the logs are said to be worth $250,000. 

 The arrival of the Osceola marks the begin- 

 ning of a regular service between Axim. a 

 port on the west coast of Africa, and New 

 Orleans. Mahogany shipments, valued at ap- 

 proximately $1,000,000 per annum, will now be 

 brought this way. 



The Miles Lumber Company has been or- 

 ganized at Burnside, near Donaldsonville, La.. 

 with an authorized capital of $650,000. It will 

 l.uy and sell timber land and will manufacture 

 and export lumber. The company will con- 

 duct extensive operations in this state. 



The Red River Hardwood Lumber Company 

 of Monroe. La., has purchased from Leonard 

 Mathew of St. Louis 4.200 acres of hardwood 

 timber land in Avoyelles parish, this state, 

 and will build a mill to cut the timber. The 

 price paid was $9 per acre. 



Andrew Currie has purchased a controlling 

 interest in the Queen City Furniture Com- 

 pany of Shreveport and will begin to develop 

 that company's property on an extensive plan. 

 The capital has already been increased from 

 $75,000 to $200,000. Mr. Currie owns 100.000 

 acres of timber land in Louisiana and Texas 

 and will use this for the manufacture of all 

 sorts of furniture. 



J. C. Stokes is considering plans for a big 

 spoke and handle factory at Mansfield, La. 



The Saline River Lumber Company, cap- 

 italized at $250,000, has been organized at 

 Shreveport, La., to deal in timber lands and 

 to manufacture, buy, sell and export lumber. 

 It is said to be backed by Shreveport busi- 

 ness men. 



The North American Realty Company has 

 been organized at Winnfield, La., to buy and 

 sell timber lands and to manufacture from 

 lumber all kinds of" merchantable products. 

 Its authorized capitalization is $100,000 arid its 

 officers are M. M. Fisher, president; C. P. 

 Mathis and F. L. .Shaw, vice presidents; P. 

 C. Mosely, secretary; P. K. Abel, treasurer; 

 L. Siess, general manager. 



F. S. Grey, a lumber manufacturer of To- 

 ronto, Canada, was in Jackson, Miss., several 

 days ago looking for a site for a large furni- 

 ture factory. It is understood that the plant 

 will be built in the suburbs on the line of 

 the Pearl River Valley Road and that Mr. 

 Grey will get his hardwoods from the timber 

 tracts along that road. 



Negotiations have been practically closed by 

 the Smith interests of Brookhaven for the site 

 and property of the National Lumber Com- 

 pany at Jackson, Miss. This company's plant 

 was recently destroyed by fire, entailing a 

 loss of $125,000. The plant will be rebuilt at 

 an" early date. 



The Hurricane Lumber Company of Perkins- 

 ton. Miss., has bought equipment for a 50,000- 

 foot-capacity sawmill and a logging road. 

 Fifty thousand dollars will be spent on the 

 improvements. 



The Whitfield Planing Mill Company of Co- 

 lumbia. Miss., is one of the new enterprises 

 of that state. It will build, equip, and operate 

 planing mills and will buy and sell timber 

 and timber lands. Its capital is fixed at 

 $10,000. T. D. Whitfield, Ruford Larkin, B. 

 A. Williamson and others are the incorpora- 

 tors. 



Louisville. 



The river has been causing trouble again and 

 local lumberman have other things on hand 



besides an active demand. Up on the I'oint 

 the mills are standing waiting for the flood to 

 subside, but the owners are feeling so good over 

 the fact that the river didn't quite go over 

 its banks this time that they are not finding 

 much fault with having to stop awhile. The 

 water is up in the mills and will of course do 

 some damage and cause expense in the way of 

 delays and cleaning up. but it is not serious and 

 mil linen expect to get in operation again very 

 soon. 



At the exposition at the Armory lumber is 

 not a very prominent feature, but there are a 

 few nice displays. The C. C. Mengel & Bro. 

 Company has a splendid display of its mahog- 

 any products in which is a sample of that fine 

 curly mahogany log illustrated in the Record 

 not long ago, together with some African and 

 other Honduras mahogany. 



The Mengel Box Company has on display a 

 big assortment of packages, both boxes and 

 pails, which gives some idea of the diversity 

 ui its product but not of the capacity of its 

 mammoth plant, which will turn out 30,000 

 boxes a day and a very large number of pails. 



J. N. Struck & Bro. make a good showing in 

 a comparatively limited space with veneered 

 millwork and doors, and have included in their 

 display, of course, that red gum door of which 

 they make a feature. 



i tccupying space with the Louisville Varnish 

 Company, the B. L. Hughes Company has a 

 nice display of doors, featuring the birch 

 veneered Korelock door. 



Several of the local lumbermen are giving 

 quite a lot of time to helping 'carry out the 

 work of the exposition, and they express them- 

 selves as pleased with the result. 



The \V. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company 

 says that the hardwood market could hardly be 

 better in the matter of demand. The company 

 is worried considerably by the car shortage, 

 for while it is now getting stuff to the railroads 

 at country points pretty lively, shipping is still 

 seriously delayed for want of cars. 



Charlotte, N. C. 



Fire I. dally destroyed the plant of the Salka- 

 batchle Lumber Company situated on the Hamp- 

 ton & Branchville Railroad near Hampton, S. 

 C, a few days ago. It was one of the largest 

 sawmills and lumber plants in the state and 

 was operated by Messrs. Woodward and Lee of 

 Augusta. Ga. The loss is estimated at $150,000 

 i,i $200,000. 



A deed of trust has been given by the Craggy 

 Lumber Company and the Bee Tree Railway 

 Company to secure the loan of $87,000 which is 

 adjudged necessary to carry out the projects of 

 the first-named corporation that is now operat- 

 ing in western North Carolina. The railway 

 company is included in the transaction on the 

 ground that the success of the lumber company 

 means the success of the railway company. 



The Kentenich Corporation of Big Stone Gap, 

 Va., capitalized at $10,000,000 a few weeks ago, 

 has begun work. The object of the corporation 

 is to deal in, develop and handle the products 

 of timber lands in Virginia and other states. 

 Charles Henry Davis of Massachusetts is presi- 

 dent ; J. F. Bullitt of Big Stone Gap, vice 

 president ; George L. Taylor, also of Big Stone 

 Gap, secretary, and Will W. Duffield of Pine- 

 ville. Ky., treasurer. 



By mutual agreement the Standard Chair 

 Company, the Gates Chair Company and the 

 Thompson Chair Company, all of Thomasville. 

 N. C., have been merged into one corporation 

 wiib an authorized capital stock of $175,000. 

 Chas. F. Lambeth has been elected president 

 and Jas. F. Lambeth, vice president. The out- 

 put of the factory as it now stands is 1,500 

 chairs per day. The consolidation makes one 

 of the most complete establishments in the 

 entire south. It will produce chairs of all 

 grades. 



