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HARDWOOD RECORD 



dent of the F. C. Moore Lumber Company, who 

 recently returned from an extended southern 

 trip. Operations in eastern Arkansas, he says, 

 have been much retarded of late because of the 

 floods, and the water is very slow in disappear- 

 ing. It is impossible to get logging wagons into 

 the lowlands because of the mud. and there is 

 not enough water to allow the logs to I"' 

 dragged out by cattle. The lumber offereii is 

 frequently of poor quality, especially that put 

 out by the smaller mills, as mill owners have 

 been compelled to use up the timber on high 

 land near the mills because they could not gel 

 at the better timber in the swamps. It will 

 probably be sixty days before any quantity of 

 lumber is in condition to be marketed. 



Receipts of lumber by rail during the first 

 twenty-live days of March were L1.093 cars, as 

 against 11,067 cars during the first twenty-five 

 ■ lays of March last year. Receipts by river dur- 

 ing I lie first twenty-five days of March this year 

 were 84,000 feet, as against 272,000 feci dur- 

 ing the same period last year. Shipments by 

 rail during the first twenty live days of this 

 March were 7,360 cars, as against 6,724 cars 

 during the same period last year. There were 

 39,000 feet shipped by rivet- during the first 

 twenty-five days of March this year, as against 



l>7, I feet during that period last year. This 



shows an increase in rail receipts < >r 26 cars 

 during the first twenty-five days of March this 

 year anil a decrease in river receipts of 188,000 

 feet in comparison with last year; tin increase 

 .,i 636 cars in shipments by rail during the 

 first twenty-five days of this March in compar- 

 ison with the same period last year, but a de 

 crease of _'s,niiu feet in shipments by river. 



Nashville. 



General Manager M. F. Green of the Davld- 

 si.n-Itenedict Company, has just returned from 

 his southern home in Florida, where he and bis 

 family spent the winter months. Mr. Green is 



also 01 f the principal stockholders of the 



Kylco Lumber Company, which has large hold- 

 ings in Polk county, and he will leave soon to 

 superintend the erection of a big mill on that 

 property. 



The W. J. Cude Land & Lumber Company is 

 operating extensively around Dickson, Tenn., 

 where it has purchased large timber holdings 

 and also a ten-acre tract in the city for a lum- 

 ber plant site. On the latter a sawmill, planing 

 mill and dry kiln are being built. A St. Louis 

 concern is also erecting a mill there and two of 

 the local mills have consolidated and are putting 

 up a plant. Dickson will soon have half a 

 dozen lumber plants. 



The spring building boom has started and the 

 local planing mills are exceedingly busy trying 

 to keep pace with the heavy demand for interior 

 finishing stuff. 



A special from Hopkinsville, Ky., announces 

 that the Kentucky Stave Company has opened a 

 branch factory in that city. The plant will lie 

 running in a few days and will have a capacity 

 of 10,000 staves_a day. 



Reports from Hickman county in the New 

 Ilope and Beaverdam sections tell of considerable 

 damage in those parts from forest fires. Timber 

 and fencing alike have been destroyed. 



Harris & Cole Brothers' planing mill at Co- 

 lumbia, Tenn., some time since announced the 

 intention of quitting business at that point, but 

 the plant has recently enjoyed such prosperity 

 that a large force of men is still being w'orked 

 and lug orders are being filled. 



Keith, Thomas & Co. have recently established 

 a sawmill at the head of Spring Creek in Put- 

 nam county and the mammoth plant of this 

 company has already sawed a million feet of 

 oak, poplar and walnut. Brotherton, on the 

 Southern, is the shipping "point for this big out- 

 put . 



John T. Mitchell and Dr. I!. J. McGavock of 

 ■ olumbia, Tenn., have bought from the Warren 

 heirs about 30,000 aires of timber and phos- 



phate lands in Perry, Lewis and Humphreys 



lies. The price is undisclosed, but is said 



to be a good round one. 



Wilson & Sharp are erecting a stave factory 

 on the Siler property in Tipton county, and the 

 firm is said to have acquired enough red and 

 white oak timber to cut for a number of years. 



Liebermau, Loveman & O'Brien have added a 

 cross tie department to their already large in- 

 terests. For this purpose they are operating a 

 small saw mill near their main plant. Simon 

 Lieberman, senior member of this firm, has just 

 returned from a fishing trip of several weeks in 

 Florida waters. lie made St. Petersburg head- 

 quarters and enjoyed the trip keenly. lie re- 

 ports some good catches and narrates one ad- 

 venture with a shark that seized a mackerel he 

 had hooked and was reeling in. nearly capsized 

 the boat and finally broke his line. 



The Joseph Scheffer Lumber Company lias re- 

 centlj completed additions to its planing mill 



on the corner of Mill and Mom streets that 



will enable the company to double its capaeitj 

 Henderson Baker, president of the company, 

 s s that they are expecting a big spline trade 



it 'ge Eleazer, a lumberman of Dickson .nun 



ty, has 1. 1, ugbt a large tract of timber land near 

 Lurns, Tenn., from I!. L. Hall. The purchase! 

 will immediately begin the work of cutting off 

 the timber. 



John It. Ransom has just returned from a 

 fishing trip at Rock Ledge. Flu. He .nine back 

 with bis hand tied up in a sling and when aske I 

 what was the matter said a blue fish bit him 

 on the thumb. He swore the fish was a monster 

 and that while he was trying to get the hook out 

 nf the big fellow's mouth tin fish just chewed 

 and chewed and chewed. The party also caught 

 a large number of the gamey Spanish mackerel. 



Hamilton Love of the firm of Love, Boyd & 

 Co. is still fishing in Florida, having moved up 

 the coast from Miami to Rock Ledge. He is 

 improving right along in health and hopes ere 

 long to bid rheumatism farewell. 



Lynville, Tenn., is soon to have a large spoke 

 ;iinl handle factory. Parties from Muncie, Ind . 

 have been looking over a site in the Tenn, 

 town and seem to mean business. 



The Nashville Spoke & Handle Factory is re- 

 ported as being after a site for a branch fac- 

 tory at Lebanon, Tenn. 



A special from Trenton, Tenn.. announces ex- 

 tensive improvements being made at the plant of 

 the Harlan Stave Mill Company there. New 

 fireproof brick boilers are being installed, shav- 

 ing rooms and other features. It is claimed the 

 output will be very considerably increased. A 

 large amount of timber is being collected, ready 

 for working up. 



The Nashville Spoke & Handle Factory has 

 bought the handle factory of Levi Malugen at 

 Centreville, Tenn., and will take charge at once 

 with II." S. Bachelder as superintendent. The 

 new owners will run the factory at its fullest 

 capacity. A large quantity of hickory timber 

 is already cut and in easy reach of the factory. 

 Levi Malugen is the man who recently invented 

 a machine which he claims will revolutionize the 

 process of steam manufacturing, and it is said 

 he has been offered large sums for the patent 

 rights. 



A special from Dothan, Ala., announces that 

 Frank Fowler, a prominent sawmill owner there. 

 has been arrested on the charge of murdering 

 bis' wife. 



A special from Johnson City announces that 

 the veteran lumberman, James A. Martin, has 

 closed a deal whereby he becomes the owner of 

 5,000 acres of virgin hardwood timber in Hay- 

 wood and Swain counties, North Carolina. The 

 timber is mostly oak, poplar and chestnut, and it 

 is said some of the trees are twenty-one feet in 

 circumference. 



The Illinois Central railroad is buying great 

 quantities of oak crossties in Tennessee and Ala- 

 bama. Recently thirteen steamers loaded with 

 crossties went down the Tennessee to Rockport, 



III., with lumber consigned to the above rail- 

 road. In fact, these boats are making two round 

 trips a month, taking about 20,000 ties at each 

 load or a total of more than half a million ties. 

 The road is buying this timber all up and down 

 the river and there is a small army of men at 

 work cutting ties. 



Henry Dickens of Hartsville. Tenn., who has 

 amassed a fine lot of walnut lumber, recently 

 refused l?102 per thousand for it. 



A. E. Baird of Nashville and his associates 

 have post sold a big tract of timber in Mexico to 

 parties supposed to represent the Mexican rail- 

 road running from Durango to Mazatlan, a dis- 

 tance of 150 miles. The tract sold includes half 

 a million acres of hardwoods and pine. 



Memphis. 



The Bellgrade Lumber Company, which is 

 owned by members of the firm of Thompson 4i 

 Mm lure and Crenshaw & Cathey and which was 

 incorporated some time ago with a capital stock 

 of $100,000, has purchased a site of twenty 

 acres for the erection of its big band sawmill 

 and resaw live miles south of Belzoni, Miss., 

 ilius giving room for large yards for the hand 

 ling of the output of the plant. The machinery 

 has already been purchased and is now being 

 shipped and work is to begin at once on the 

 construction of the plant. The yards and site 

 are so situated that they face the Yazoo & 

 Mississippi Valley road on one side and the 

 i'azoo river on the other, thus enjoying exeep- 

 tional transportation facilities for both the raw 

 material and the finished product. The com- 

 pany lias purchased 6,000 acres of timber lands 

 already and is negotiating for more. A railroad 

 nf standard gauge, nine miles long, will be con- 

 structed for handling the timber to the mill. 

 In addition to its own timber, however, the 

 company will buy logs from the rafts on the 

 river. Gum, oak and ash will be the principal 

 lumber handled. The mill will have a daily 



capacity of 40.1 to 50,000 feet. Thompson 



& Met 'lure will continue their yards in Mem- 

 phis and make a specialty of ash, as they have 

 done heretofore. 



The semi-monthly meeting of the Lumbermen's 

 1 luh of Memphis was held April at the 

 Hotel Gayoso with a fairly large attendance. 

 Live new applications for membership were re- 

 ported. The river and rail committee of the 

 club is holding regular weekly meetings and 

 Chairman Hendrickson is authority for the 

 statement that it will have something to an- 

 nounce soon •that will make mighty interesting 

 tending." 



Max Sondheimer, president of the E. Sond- 

 heimer Company, with headquarters in Memphis, 

 has taken issue rather strongly with the Insur- 

 ance Field of Louisville, Ky.. on an editorial 

 article it published recently referring to the 

 moral hazard of hardwood lumber risks. Mr. 

 Sondheimer has written a letter to an insurance 

 agency in Memphis on the subject and this ap- 

 peared in the Insurance Field, with comments. 

 Mr. Sondheimer points out that cypress is not 

 classed by lumbermen as a hardwood and that 

 the writer in Insurance Field does the hardwood 

 trade serious injustice in making his specific 

 reference to cypress embrace the entire hard- 

 wood industry. In the second place he asserts 

 that the price of cypress or any other lumber 

 is not arbitrarily fixed by any association. He 

 declares that the laws of supply and demand 

 govern the price of lumber as well as that of 

 every other commodity, and that an arbitrary 

 price that did not take into consideration the 

 relations between supply and demand would not 

 last a day. He admits that manufacturers, 

 wholesalers, retailers and others who have asso- 

 ciations get together and exchange views as to 

 values and in some instances list prices, based 

 on these exchanges of opinion which are given 

 out by the associations, but he insists strongly 

 that the prices so named are not arbitrary. In 

 conclusion Mr. Sondheimer says : "The hard- 



