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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Smoke consumers are being installed by the 

 National Veneer & Lumber Company at Its plant 

 at West Michigan street and the belt railroad 

 tracks. 



H. H. Nelson, W. B. Timberlake and 0. A. 

 Timberlake have organized the Standard Cart 

 Company at Aurora to manufacture carts and 

 other vehicles. The company has been incor- 

 porated with an authorized capitalization of 

 $10,000. 



A long lease has been taken by the Hender- 

 son Motor Car Company on the plant of the 

 National Casket Company. The latter company 

 will erect at once a plant nearer the central 

 part of the city. 



F. M. Bachmann of the F. M. Bachmann Com- 

 pany, veneer and hardwood manufacturer, has 

 been named on the board of managers of the 

 Commercial Club which will look after the ar- 

 rangements tor the National Conservation Con- 

 gress to be held here in October. 



Tight cooperage will be manufactured by the 

 newly organized Petersburg Cooperage Company 

 at Petersburg, the principal stockholders and 

 directors o£ which are E. B. Morgan, P. M. 

 Cummings and I. H. Kerns. 



EVANSVILLE 



The members of the Evansville Lumbermen's 

 Club held their annual outing at Keubler's 

 Garden, Newburg. Ind., on Tuesday, June 11. 

 Members and their wives and sweethearts met 

 at the traction station at 6 :00 o'clock where a 

 special car was awaiting them. After the run 

 to Newburg, they were met by Host Keubler and 

 conducted to the garden made famous by the 

 quality of eats and wine served there. The ban- 

 quet was enjoyed by all. President MacLaren 

 acted as toastmaster and introduced Senator 

 W. B. Carleton, Elmer Luhring. Bena Young. 

 Daniel Wcrtz. W. W. Halloran, Claude Maley and 

 J. H. Moeller, all of whom responded at a lively 

 rate. After the speech making music and danc- 

 ing was indulged in until a late hour. 



Maley & Wertz have started their South 

 Evansville mill with a large stock of logs on 

 hand. This mill is one of the largest in this 

 section, and was formerly owned and operated 

 by the Henry Maley Lumber Company. 



F. L. Donnell, who travels in the Central 

 states in the interest of Young & Cutsinger, 

 was in the city last week, and says the out- 

 look is encouraging for business. 



The plant of the Evansville Store & Fixture 

 Company has been put in operation by the In- 

 ternational Steel & Iron Construction Company, 

 who will manufacture store fixtures, office and 

 bank fixtures, as well as general mill-work. 



Most of the local mills are about through 

 taking inventory, and report their stock de- 

 crea.sed considerably. Their productions for the 

 past six months have been about sixty per cent 

 of normal, while shipments have been a little 

 above normal. 



MEMPHIS 



There has been some rain in the Memphis 

 territory during the past fortnight but the pre- 

 cipitation has not been excessive and has in- 

 terfered in a limited way only with work in 

 the woods. There is more timber in sight right 

 now than at any time since the recent flood 

 made its appearance. For sometime it was 

 necessary for the owners of timber lands to 

 confine their logging operations to uplands and 

 ridges but the water has now receded from the 

 lowlands and some work is in progress In the 

 bottoms. It can not be said that conditions 

 have yet returned to normal, so far as the 

 St. Francis basis is concerned, but it is antici- 

 pated that satisfactory progress can be made 

 In getting out timber at a very early date. 



Owning to the fact that the timber supply has 

 been larger and more regular, the amount of 



hardwood lumber produced in Memphis and the 

 Memphis territory during the past fortnight 

 is larger than for any period since the latter 

 part of March. All of the mills in Memphis 

 which were interfered with by the high water, 

 either directly or indirectly, have resumed opera- 

 tions and the same is true of practically all of 

 those throughout the Memphis territory. 



Exporters are confronted with a rather serious 

 situation in respect to the threatened advance 

 in ocean freight rates. This advance is to be- 

 come effective at an early date. Some of the 

 exporters here are doing everything they can 

 to get their contracts filled before the advance 

 becomes effective because it is of such propor- 

 tions as to practically eliminate all profits in 

 such engagements. This advance will take place 

 from all of the southern ports. Exporters have 

 had very rough sailing during the past few 

 months. Last winter it was almost impossible 

 for them to secure ocean freight room and now 

 they are confronted with an advance in rates 

 which is calculated to make it more difficult 

 for them to do business. 



The Chickasaw Cooperage Company is prepar- 

 ing to materially expand. It has a large plant 

 at Front and S.vcamore streets for the manufac- 

 ture of tight cooperage stock and finished bar- 

 rels. It has more recently bought a tract of 

 fourteen acres at Binghampton and will put 

 up a plant there which will have a capacity of 

 2.500 barrels per day of ten hours. In addition 

 to operating two plants at Memphis, the Chick- 

 asaw Cooperage Company will also continue 

 the operation of the plant at Gretna, La. The 

 decision of the Chickasaw Cooperage Company 

 to establish a new plant at Memphis in the 

 face of the damage done to its holdings by the 

 recent flood is accepted as positive proof of the 

 very great faith of this firm in the future of 

 Memphis. 



Surveys are being made for another belt line. 

 It is planned to run this further east of the 

 city. However, it is to come back through the 

 milling district of both north and south Mem- 

 phis and is to serve the lumber and wood-work- 

 iug firms in this city and immediate section. 

 It is backed b.v the Frisco and Kock Island 

 systems and the South Memphis Terminal & 

 Warehouse Company. 



The Memphis delegates to the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association have all returned to 

 this city. They went to Chicago intent on secur- 

 ing certain changes in the inspection rules of 

 the association but since the return they have 

 declared themselves as entirely satisfied with 

 what was done. They said that they regarded 

 this meeting as one of the most successful in 

 the history of the association and certainly as 

 one of the most enjoyable they had ever at- 

 tended. 



Lumbermen here arc very much interested 

 in the announcement from Washington that the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission, on its own 

 initiative, has decided to make an investigation 

 of yellow pine and hardwood rates on the Rock 

 Island and Illinois Central, as well as about 

 twenty-five other trunk lines operating in the 

 West and Southwest. The commission says 

 that, owing to the discontinuance by trunk lines 

 of the allowances to tap lines, the former are 

 enjoying materially larger revenues from the 

 lumber trafDc than heretofore. The commis- 

 sion apparently regards some readjustment, fol- 

 lowing the withdrawal of tap line privileges, as 

 in order and the investigation is intended to 

 reach a basis for such adjustment. Lumber in- 

 terests here are not being called upon for in- 

 formation In connection with this subject but 

 several prominent firms here were unfavorably 

 aCfected by the decision in the tap line cases 

 and Memphis lumbermen will doubtless be 

 pleased to make any contribution they can in 

 the direction of solving the problem which the 

 commission is about to take up. 



George C. Love, commissioner of streets and 

 bridges, is making an effort to have plans form- 



ulated for a more comprehensive system of 

 levees in North Memphis. He is in touch with 

 several engineers who are working on the sub- 

 ject. The inadequate levee system in North 

 Memphis resulted during the recent high water 

 in yery serious damage to lumber and wood- 

 working enterprises, and lumbermen are very 

 much interested in the proposition looking to 

 a better system for the protection of their hold- 

 ings. Mr. Love hopes to have everything in 

 satisfactory shape before high water is again 

 experienced. 



Thomas J. White has succeeded A. G. Fritchey 

 as manager of the affairs of Bennett & Witte, 

 at this point. He came to Memphis from Cin- 

 cinuati where he has been traveling recently 

 tor Bennett & Witte, with headquarters at that 

 point. He has already moved his family to 

 Memphis and will reside in this city. He has a 

 wide experience in both the buying and selling 

 of hardwood lumber. He says the situation and 

 outlook are quite satisfactory. 



NASHVILLE 



The East Tennessee Lumber & Development 

 Company has been incorporated at Morrlstown 

 with a capital stock of $300,000. Charles L. 

 Morris is president of the new company. Two 

 hundred fifty thousand dollars will be spent in 

 developing 7,000 acres of timber land in Greene 

 and Hawkins counties. Mills will be erected and 

 a branch railroad built. 



The river mill of John B. Ransom & Co. has 

 been overhauled and work will be begun at once 

 on 3,000,000 feet of hardwood logs recently 

 received from the upper Cumberland river sec- 

 lion. 



The Bonner Manufacturing Company has been 

 organized here with a capital stock of $100,000. 

 T. F. Bonner, former manager of the Standard 

 Furniture Company of this city, is president and 

 general manager of the new concern. The 

 company has secured a good site in the western 

 section of the city with buildings for its plant. 

 Joseph Frank, F. C. Guthrie. F. G. Fife, Harvey 

 Neal. T. G. Garrett, Dan McGugin, F. H. Yost 

 and F. K. Houston, all prominent in business 

 here, are associated with Mr. Bonner in the en- 

 terprise. 



The plant in East Nashville of the F. & O. 

 Cedar Works was destroyed by fire of unknown 

 (rrigin recently entailing a loss of about $15,000 

 partially covered by insurance.. The company 

 had a smaller stock than usual on hand which 

 fact reduced the loss considerabl.v. 



The pencil slab factory at Decatur, Ala., on 

 the Tennessee river, one of the largest plants 

 of the kind in that section, was destroyed by 

 lire recently entailing a loss of several thousand 

 dollars, partially insured. At this plant were 

 cut large quantities of red cedar slabs for ship- 

 ment to Germany. 



T. A. Washington of the firm of Hunt, Wash- 

 ington & Smith, will be the official representative 

 of the Nashville Lumbermen's Club in Louisville 

 July 17 when Interstate Commerce Commissioner 

 McChord will hear the mlllingin-transit case in 

 which local members of the trade are deeply 

 concerned. The matter will, it is expected, be 

 thoroughly threshed out. Hamilton Love of 

 Love, Boyd & Co., president of the Nashville 

 Lumbermen's Club, A. B. Ransom of John B. 

 Hansom & Co., and possibly others, are also ex- 

 pected to represent local interests at this hear- 

 ing. 



LOUISVILLE 



Barry Norman of the Norman Lumber Com- 

 pany, and R. F. Smith of the Ohio River Saw 

 Mill Compan.v, were recent speakers before the 

 Louisville Hardwood Club. Both discused forest 

 (opics principally, Mr. Norman basing his re- 

 marks on government statistics as to the de- 

 crease in the timber supply, and Mr. Smith de- 



