HARDWOOD RECORD 



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wood men will take particular exception to tbe 

 statements in insurance Field thai 'insurance 

 has been written to cover the market price, but 

 (insurance) companies have discovered tbal the 

 market prii <• is one where ashes are more valu- 

 able than lumber.' If the writer of the article 

 will refer to ins insurance statistics be will 

 unearth the fad that there is no class ut' risks 

 the insurance companies accept thai lias cost 

 them less moncj tor losses than the hardwood 

 lumber industry. Therefore, instead of being 

 extra hazardous, as he intimates, it is really a 

 preferred risk, as his records will show. We 

 reel that it is due t" ns that i be attention of 



the Hiiter of the article be railed t.> this I 



ami that he i..- requested to make the proper 

 amends for his unfounded statements." 



Two lumbermen of this city are rivals in the 

 election to be held by the business Men's Club 

 within the next few days. R. .1 . Darnell being 

 eandidate for president of that organization on 

 the "blue" ticket and \V. K. llarksdalo bring 

 his opponent on the "red'" ticket. Both have 



I n president of the Lumbermen's Club of 



Memphis. It is assured that a lumberman will 

 be at the lead of that great organization of 

 over 1,000 business nee: during the coming year. 



II. E. Bacon, who was for some years con- 

 nected with the Bacon Nolan Hardwood Com- 

 pany and the Lamb llanlw 1 Lumber Company 



and wliii. until a short time ago. was the general 

 manager of the consolidation of these compa- 

 nies and the (iuirl-.SIover Lumber Company, 

 known as the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company, 

 has left Memphis for Britisb Columbia, where hi- 

 ts to locate. He was one of the most 

 prominent lumbermen of this city and carried 

 with him the well wishes of the entire lumber 

 fraternity. 



II. W. Flatau. representing II. Lebus, whole- 

 sale export furniture manufacturer of London, 

 England, who has been here for some time look- 

 ing for hardwoi d lumber, leaves this evening 

 for Nashville. He will sail for home the latter 

 part of this mouth. 



\V. M. Hopkins of Theodore l-'athauer Com- 

 pany of Chicago was here this week. 



lb- Lumbermen of .Memphis are now using a 

 pruned form in keeping track o£ the character 

 of service rendered by the railroads. It has been 

 officially adopted by the Lumbermen's Club and 

 is made out in duplicate, one copy being for- 

 warded to the railroad officials when requisition 

 for cars is made and the other being retained in 

 t ! nice of the shipper. 



In addition to building a double band saw- 

 mill in Memphis, work on which is progressing 

 rapidly, interests connected with E. J. Darnell, 

 Inc.. are erecting a double baud mill at Leland, 

 Miss., where the style of the company is the 

 Darnell-Love Lumber Company. This company 

 has been operating one large baud mill at that 

 point and is simply adding another and will 

 put both under the same runt The Darnell- 

 Love 1. her Company is also building a rail- 

 road some distance out from Leland for the pur- 

 pose of facilitating the development of its tim- 

 ber lands. .Machinery for the new mill, which 

 will be of large capacity, is being delivered, and 

 work will be rushed to completion. 



Tin- Dent Lumber Company, capitalized at 



$50; has made application for a charter tor 



the purpose of operating a circular sawmill near 

 Monroe, La., for the development of timber 

 on land owned by il. tilli.es and licadquu iters 

 will he maintained in Memphis. The officers 

 are: II. T. l-'ant. president of the Bankers' 

 I rust Company. Memphis, president; Jett Dent, 

 general manager, and W. II. Withers, of \V. II. 

 Withers & Co., cotton factors, secretary and 

 treasurer. The company, in addition to owning 

 considerable timber land, has options on more 

 in the same section, thus insuring continuous 

 operation for some years. The daily output will 

 be about 30,000 feet. 



The Dexter Handle Company, of Dexter. Mo., 



has pin. based a site al Pine Bluff, Ark . for the 



lidatlon of its two ban. lie factories in 



Missouri. The daily output of the consolidated 

 plain will lie 2,400 ax ban. lie- an.l a large num- 

 ber "f neck yokes and single and double trees. 

 The company will consume considerable hard- 

 wood timber in the course of a year. 



I he Memphis Furniture Company, which lost 



the greater pari of its two warel ses by tire. 



together with the stock contained therein, some 

 time ago, entailing a loss of $105,000, fully in- 

 sured, is making active preparations for rebuild- 

 ing these en a larger ami better scale. The 

 main pari of I In' plant was not damaged and 

 the company is running steadily both its main 

 uptown plant and the one in South Memphis. 



There is s ■ delay, owing to the loss of so 



mm li . 1 1 y stock, in tilling orders, but the com- 

 pany expects soon to be in position to take care 

 of all the business offered. 



The plan! ..I the American tar & Foundry 

 Company, located at Einghamton, a suburb of 

 Memphis, has received au order for l.sou cars, 

 .".on lor the Illinois Central, .".'in for the Gulf 

 .v. Ship Island and Sun for the National Railway 

 of Mexico. The company is just completing an 

 order ..I ss.'i cars, ('.till of which go to the N'ew 

 Orleans .V Northeastern. The management 

 stales that the company has enough business on 

 its books just uow to keep the plant in opera- 

 tion until the end of the year. 



The statistics committee of the Lumbermen's 

 (Tub. of which W. A. stark is chairman, has 

 submitted its report to that organization, cover- 

 ing the growth and volume of the lumber 

 business of litis city for the year 1906. Com 

 parisons are made with 1904, the last year in 

 which such a report was compiled. The essen- 

 tial details are incorporated in the following 

 tabulated statement : 



Feet. 

 Lumber manufactured in Memphis. .103,463,000 



increase over 1904 31,463, 



Lumber manufactured by Memphis 



firms outside ol Memphis 229,397,000 



Increase over 1904 54,897, ' 



Lumber yarded in Memphis but 



manufactured outside of .Memphis. 80,270,000 



Increase over 1904 43,328,000 



Lumber handled direct from mills 

 and yards outside of Memphis by 

 Memphis firms but not manufac 



tured by them 135,648,000 



Increase over 1904 34,946,00U 



Total handled by Memphis Arms ... 548,77 



Increase over 1904 165,084, 



I ber exported by Memphis firms. 39,462,000 



Logs received by rail at Memphis 



and manufactured into lumber... 78,933,000 

 Logs received by river at .Memphis 



and manufactured into lumber... 33,257,000 

 Logs and bots received by rail and 

 river at Memphis and manufac- 

 tured into cooperage slock L'o. 2i 11 1, nun 



Logs received by river and rail at 

 Memphis and manufactured into 

 vehicle stock, turned work and 



pump mils 12,600, 



Lumber consumed bj retail yards. .100,000,000 

 Lumber consumed by factory trade. 60,624,000 



II may be further pointed out that several 

 thousand persons ai mployed by local [umber 



interests and that the annual sum paid out tor 



labor by lumbermen of this city is approxi- 

 mately $3,000,000. 



Weather conditions have shown considerable 



improvement in this sect inn .luring the past 

 fortnight. The statement is mail.- on the au- 

 thority of some ol' the most prominent, mem- 

 bers of the trade lore thai the output in this 

 territory is now larger than it has been for 

 the pasl live months. This, however, has not 

 tended to bear the market because of the 

 knowledge that there is a very large demand 

 for lumber to be filled before tin- stock now- be- 

 ing produced will be available no use. 



The car situation is very unsatisfactory. 

 There was temporary improvement noted a short 

 time ago and lumber Interests hoped this would 

 prove permanent. Lumbermen now. however, 

 are having considerable difficulty in securing 

 cars and their shipments are being delayed on 

 this account. 



'I he river and rail committee of the Lumber- 



men's club, which has 1 n wrestling for some 



time with various phases of the traffic prob- 

 lem, has not yet made it- final report to the 

 • lull The committee is holding weekly meet- 

 1 ml is doing its best to reach a satisfactory 

 adjustment of the various matters submitted 



In its rare. 



The annual meeting of the International Slack 



perage Stock Manufacturers' Association 



was held ai the Hotel Gayoso this week, with 

 about 75 to 100 delegates in attendance from 

 all parts of the country. The scarcity of cars 

 and the general congestion of trallie was con- 

 sidered by the association, which expressed the 

 view that this is the most serious matter now 

 le lore the members of the industry represented 

 by the organization. Secretary C. J. DeLaney 

 reported a considerable increase, about 25 per 

 cent, in membership during the past six months, 

 bringing the iota! to 125, the largest ever ex- 

 pel irneed. Officers were to have been elected, 

 but this was postponed to an adjourned meet- 

 ing which will he held for this purpose in sixty 

 days. Emil Pott, of cape Girardeau, Mo.. Is 

 president of the association. 



The entrance of Stuyvesant Fish, formerly 

 president of the Illinois Central, into the di- 

 rectorate of the Missouri Pacific system is ac- 

 cepted as indicating the early construction of 

 the line between Memphis and Marianna, Ark.. 



which has alrea.h 1 11 surveyed and cleared 



and which has been graded for some distance. 

 The Missouri Pacific system is handling a rap- 

 idly increasing volume of business between Mem- 

 phis ami New iirleans. In addition to greatly 

 shortening the distance between .Memphis and 

 Marianna the new line will prove an important 

 factor in the development of the timber re- 

 sources of the section between Memphis and 

 Marianna. Predictions are heard that the line 

 will be completed before the end of the current 

 year. 



Lee Wilson & Co., inc. who operate a large 

 mill at Wilson, Ark., have established local 

 offices in the Tennessee Trust building. Mr. 

 Wilson reports considerable activity at his plant 

 and says the lumber business is in very satis- 

 factory condition. 



The l'aepcke I.eicht Lumber Company, of 

 Chicago, has established a distributing yard 

 at New South Memphis. The tract embraces 

 about 10 acres and has a capacity of storing 



about 7.1 1 feet of lumber. There are two 



tracks running into the yards, one for loading 

 an.l tl le 1 for unloading, thus greatly facili- 

 tating the handling of lumber. 



The Southern Oak Lumber Company, of which 

 s. s. Ford is manager, has disposed of its yards 

 10 George C. Brown .V: Co., of Nashville. Tenn. 

 The latter firm is a new one for Memphis and 

 one which promises to make the newly acquired 

 yards among the best in the city. 



tun- of the handsomest private offices occu- 

 pied by lumbermen of this city is that just com- 

 pleted by Russe & Burgess in North Memphis. 

 The office is a spacious one ami is finished in 

 hardwood. 



.lames Cooper, of the Briggs .' Cooper 1 om 

 pany, Ltd., of Saginaw. Mich., spent some time 

 recently at the local office of his firm. 



New Orleans. 



Considerable interest is being manifested in 

 i.iik of a barge lumber line between New 

 Orleans ami points on tin- upper Mississippi 

 liver. Several prominent Louisiana lumbermen 

 are taking active interest in the suggestion, and 

 ii is regarded as probable that definite results 

 in the shape of a lumber barge line win accrue 

 Practically all of the big hardwood plants in 

 Louisiana are advantageously located when it 

 iiiines i,, water transportation, nearly ail of 

 litem being situate on the tributaries of thi 



ipl. For this reason the hardwood men 

 just as much interested in the project as are 

 He cypress men and manufacturers of 



