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look from this viewpoint is very unsatisfactory. 

 Production has heen materially reduced for the 

 past five or six weeks by the handicap of high 

 water and the scarcity of logs. As a conse- 

 quence the stock of lumber at Memphis Is ex- 

 pected to decrease somewhat rapidly before any 

 material replenishment can be made. 



Transportation conditions bare improved 

 vastly. All western roads ha%-e placed their 

 tracks in condition again and trains are now 

 running on approximately regular schedules. The 

 Illinois Central system is still handicapped by 

 high water in the Mississippi valley and is com- 

 pelled to run its trains on a somewhat different 

 schedule. Those mills which depend largely 

 upon the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley roads for 

 logs are having some difficulty in getting these 

 loaded and brought to Memphis, owing to the 

 injury done by the break in the levee at Beulab, 

 which has flooded a vast territory between Rose- 

 dale and Greenville, Miss. 



The affairs of the Dooley-Kellogg Lumber 

 Company have been liquidated and C. M. Kel- 

 logg and F. T. Dooley, formerly secretary and 

 treasurer and vice-president, respectively, have 

 gone into business on their own account. Mr. 

 Kellogg will handle hardwood lumber at whole- 

 sale with ofHces in the Randolph building, while 

 Mr. Dooley will engage in a similar line with of- 

 fices in the Exchange building. \V. E. Barks- 

 dale, president of the company, will continue to 

 operate his mills in Mississippi. It is under- 

 stood that he has no connection with either of 

 his former associates in the new business in 

 which they have launched. 



The Prairie Lumber Company. Okalona, Miss., 

 has been incorporated with a capital stock of 

 $10,000 and will make a specialty of handling 

 hardwood lumber. The incorporators are Walter 

 Smith, A. L. Jagoe and D. F. Morgan of Okalona, 

 and M. E. Lake and R. E. Goodlet of Tupelo, 

 Miss. 



James S. Warren, formerly general manager 

 of the bureau of publicity and development of 

 the Business Men's Club, has become associated 

 with the Forest I'roducts Chemical Company. 

 His resignation from his former position became 

 effective May 1. J. N. Cornatzer, assistant gen- 

 eral passenger agent of the Frisco system, has 

 become head of the bureau of publicity and de- 

 velopment and an active campaign will be pushed 

 this year, with a view to attracting new enter- 

 prises to this city. It is probable that John W. 

 Bailey, secretary of the Business Men's Club, 

 will act as general manager of the bureau of 

 publicity and development. 



Louis Carr of Pioneer, O., has begun the erec- 

 tion of the necessary buildings for a large handle 

 factory at Hope, Ark. It is proposed to have 

 it in readiness for operation as soon as possible. 



NASHVILLE 



Building records for April show that the total 

 operations in the city were more than double 

 those for the same month a year ago, not includ- 

 ing the building in the suburbs of which no ofli- 

 cial record is kept and which bas been very 

 active. Indications are that this will be one of 

 the best building years ever experienced in Nash- 

 ville if the present activity continues. 



Although recent additional rains caused fur- 

 ther floods in the Cumberland river and its tribu- 

 taries, the situation was not nearly as serious as 

 during the big floods of three weeks ago. In 

 some instances, however, operations of cleaning 

 away the debris of the first flood were sus- 

 pended for the time being, and this added to the 

 inconvenience of the operators of lumber plants 

 located on lowlands along the river banks. The 

 ground was also rendered unfit for hauling logs 

 to the rural mills, and this was another handi- 

 cap to the operators. 



The continued high waters have enabled log 

 men to continue their rafting operations along 

 the Cumberland river, and there have been addi- 



tional heavy receipts of hardwoods from the 

 upper river territory. The high tides this year 

 have afforded the log men unusually good oppor- 

 tunities to make their deliveries to this market 

 and it is believed practically all logs secured 

 from the forests will be brought In before the 

 waters fall materially. The lack of tides has 

 hitherto greatly retarded rafting operations. 



The Welch Stave cSc Heading Company of Mon- 

 terey is putting in a large plant near Grapevine, 

 where all kinds of beer staves will be made. 

 There is much white oak and post timber suit- 

 able for staves in the vicinity of the plant. 



Chancellor Allison here has decided that the 

 Nashville, Chattanooga tjc St. Louis railway must 

 sidetrack cars for the Dunlap Lumber Company 

 of this city. This decision is of especial inter- 

 est as it sets a precedent on the point not pre- 

 viously covered in Tennessee courts. The rail- 

 road has been directed to give two switchings 

 daily. The case grew out of a refusal on the 

 part of the railroad to place cars of logs on a 

 siding for the lumber company until demurrage 

 charges on two cars had been paid. The lumber 

 company declared that a delay in unloading the 

 cars, which caused the demurrage, was caused by 

 a failure on the part of the railroad to give the 

 proper numlter of switchings. The railroad re- 

 fused to switch cars, and the company filed suit 

 in chancery to compel this to be done. The chan- 

 cellor held that it was not satisfactorily shown 

 that the .?4 charge was properly due and that 

 the non-payment of such a charge was not suffi- 

 cient reason to refuse to switch tars for the 

 compan.v if the non-payment was due to an hon- 

 est difference about the demurrage. 



KNOXVILLB 



The Maphet & Shea Lumber Company has 

 opened offices in the Uenson building and has 

 already secured several large blocks of stock. 

 While this Arm is new, its members are ex- 

 perienced lumbermen and their qualifications and 

 personalities ensure their success, which is confi- 

 dently predicted by all who know them. 



E. M. Vestal of the Vestal Lumber & Manu- 

 facturing Company, has just returned from 

 points in North Carolina, and reports a greater 

 scarcity of stock than ever before at this time 

 of the year. This condition is largely caused 

 by the impassible roads, which make the hauling 

 of lumber out of the question. 



C. F. Maples of the Maples Lumber Company 

 reports business good with ills concern, some 

 large sales of stock having been made during 

 the last two weeks. 



H. G. Tarvin of the Maryville Lumber Com- 

 pany has just returned from a trip to Buffalo, 

 and points East, and reports that he found trade 

 good and orders plentiful. His concern is having 

 considerable trouble in getting stock to the rail- 

 road from its mountain mills, owing to the bad 

 condition of the roads. 



BRISTOL 



Frank E. Highly and associates have purchased 

 a tract of 14.000 acres of timber in Wythe county, 

 Virginia, and will at once begin the construction 

 of a logging road, for the development of the 

 property. A band sawmill will be installed. 



Work has been begun upon the construction of 

 a logging road in the Holston mountains by the 

 Peter-McCain Lumber Company, of this city, 

 which has purchased an area of timber land from 

 A. T. Smalling. The company is about ready to 

 resume operations at its band mill, and will 

 scon be receiving logs from the new timber 

 supply. 



G. E. Goodell, manager of the export depart- 

 ment of the J. A. Wilkinson Lumber Company, 

 has just returned from a trip in North Carolina, 

 where he purchased 700,000 feet of oak export 

 stock. He says that since the first of the year 

 his department has shipped out more than 3,000,- 



000 feet of export stock, and that the outlook 

 for this trade is now very bright. 



A Hoo-Hoo concatenation will be held in Bris- 

 tol on the night of May 17. It is expected that 

 the meeting will be largely attended by the Hoo- 

 Hoo of this section. Johnson City, Abingdon,. 

 Elizabethton and other towns tributary to Bris- 

 tol will also send large delegations. 



E. L. Warren of the Whaley-Warren Lumber 

 Company has severed his connection with that 

 company, and has entered the employ of the J. A. 

 Wilkinson Lumber Company, of which he will act 

 as manager. 



The Columbian Paper Company has already 

 increased the capacity of its big wood pulp plant 

 in Bristol, by installing additional machinery to 

 the value of more than $100,000. 



LOUISVILLE 



The Norman Lumber & Box Company has 

 changed its name to the Norman Lumber Com- 

 pany. It has disposed of its box business. In- 

 cluding the factory at Shelby and Fulton streets, 

 to S. E. Booker, who has been in charge of that 

 department for some time. Mr. Booker has- 

 organized the Booker Box Company of which he 

 is president and treasurer. Bodley Booker, his 

 brother, is secretary of the concern. 



The new regulations pertaining to milling-ln- 

 transit have been suspended by order of the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission until August 

 and a hearing will be held in Louisville July IT 

 to give lumber manufacturers and others inter- 

 ested a chance to state why they believe the pro- 

 posed regulations are unfair. The hearing will 

 be conducted by C. C. McChord of Louisville, 

 who is a member of the commission, and who is 

 extremely well informed on lumber traflic mat- 

 ters. 



Log prices are remaining firm, largely as the 

 result of the small number which have been 

 offered. This is particularly true of logs handled 

 by the railroads, as bad weather and soft roads 

 have made log hauling very difficult. The 

 chances for sawmill men to reduce expenses 

 through cheaper material do not seem to be very 

 good, but the feeling of lumbermen is such that 

 it is unlikely that higher prices will be paid. 



A. E. Norman of the Norman Lumber Com- 

 pany has been appointed a member of the aroi- 

 tration committee of the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association. 



ST. LOUIS 



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A gain of forty per cent in the value of build- 

 ing operations in St. Louis for the month of 

 April, over the same month in 1911, was shown 

 in the statement of permits issued by the build- 

 ing commissioner on May 1. 



On petition of the St. Louis- Lumber Company,* 

 the E. C. Robinson Lumber Compan.v, the Hogg- 

 Harris Lumber Company, C. J. Harris Lumber 

 Company, E. R. Darlington Lumber Company, 

 B. Graham Lumber Company, and the Julius. 

 Seidel Lumber Company, members of the Lum- 

 bermen's Club and the Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation, the judge of the Circuit court in St. 

 Louis recently granted a temporary injunction 

 against eleven railroads, members of the South- 

 west Traffic Commission, restraining them from 

 putting into effect new rate schedules with the 

 tap line railroads, following the ruling of the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission declaring the 

 present joint rates null. The writ is returnable 

 May 11. 



A similar restraining order also was issued 

 on the same day by the judge of another St. 

 Louis Circuit court, against the Bock Island 

 Railroad Company at the instance of tne War- 

 ren, Johnsonville & Saline River Railroad Com- 

 pany of Arkansas, in which the Bradley Lumber 

 Company is interested. This writ will be re- 

 turnable May 13. 



