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HARDWOOD RECORD 



to 19, will make a trade extension trip through 

 central Illinois, visiting about thirty cities and 

 towns. About twenty lumber concerns, including 

 several hardwood companies, are members of 

 the association. 



MEMPHIS 



The weather in this territory has been hot 

 and dry during the past fortnight, and most of 

 (he mills have made very satisfactory progress 

 in the production of hardwood lumber. There 

 has not been enough rain to interfere with 

 work in the woods and as a general proposi- 

 tion the statement may be ventured that the 

 manufacturers of lumber are fairly well supplied 

 with timber. Cutting of timber in the woods is 

 becoming quite active and will be rapidly pushed 

 between now and winter in order that a large 

 enough stock of logs may be prepared to meet 

 the requirements of the trade. There is a dis- 

 position on the part of lumber interests here 

 to believe that there will be a good business 

 this fall and winter, and preparations are being 

 made accordingly. 



The railroads are confronted with enormous 

 volume of traffic and it is anticipated by lum- 

 ber interests that the former will be in the 

 market on a somewhat liberal scale for new 

 equipment. The railroads have not been very 

 heavy bu.vers of cars or other rolling stock 

 since 1907. They would therefore be under the 

 necessity of buying pretty freely even if a large 

 volume of traffic were not promised. With crops 

 so large and the general movement of traffic 

 so heavy, it is regarded as practically certain 

 that more orders will be placed for cars and 

 other equipment during the next three or four 

 months than during any similar period since 

 the panic year. 



A. W. Barrack, president of the East Arkan- 

 sas Lumber Company, with headquarters at 

 raragould. has sold his interest in that Arm to 

 A. Treischman and has retired therefrom. Mr. 

 Trieschman has been elected president. J. W. 

 Treischman of Lake Frovidence, La., is vice- 

 president and general manager. L. M. Hawkins, 

 who has been general manager, will give his at 

 tentiou in future to the yard business. 



Lumbermen here who own timber lands in 

 Mississippi are very much pleased with the 

 decision handed down by Chancellor Lyell, hold- 

 ing unconstitutional the law passed by the last 

 Legislature, taxing all timber land holdings m 

 excess of 1,000 acres, belonging to any indi- 

 vidual, firm or corporation, twenty cents per 

 acre. His decision was based largely upon the 

 theory that the law is in the nature of class 

 legislation. Tractically every firm here owning 

 timber lands in Mississippi has more than one 

 thousand acres and the taxes thereon would 

 have been quite a heavy burden. It is antici- 

 pated that this case will be appealed to the 

 Supreme Court, but the decision is so clear cut 

 and so forceful that it is believed it will not 

 be changed by the higher body. 



While the shortage of ears which is threat- 

 ened has not yet become very acute, as far as 

 Memphis proper is concerned, it may be noted 

 that lumber shippers and shippers of every other 

 commodity are anticipating that there will be 

 serious congestion in the near future. There 

 are already numerous complaints from points in 

 Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. This is 

 particularly true with respect to non-competi- 

 tive points. The railroads are slow in furnish- 

 ing equipment and they are not moving loaded 

 cars promptly. At Memphis where there are so 

 many lines and where the competition is so keen 

 the congestion has not affected shippers very 

 much. However, it may be observed that the 

 ccnpestion may be expected to extend to points 

 as big as Memphis. The railroads have in- 

 creased their equipment to some extent during 

 the past year, but they have followed their re- 

 trenchment policy so long that they are not in 

 shape for handling anything In excess of norma! 



traffic. The railroad commissions of the sev- 

 eral states have taken up the matter with the 

 railroads and have likewise urged shippers to 

 load and unload cars as promptly as possible in 

 order that congestion may be prevented. 



The Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, which is 

 composed of practically all of the leading lum- 

 bermen of this city and section, is preparing a 

 complaint to be tiled with the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission in connection with inbound 

 aud outbound rates which have been found, upon 

 checking, to be out of line and to put Memphis at 

 a disadvantage with other competitive points. 

 The bureau has only recently been organized 

 but it was stipulated at the time that the move- 

 ment was launched, looking to the establish- 

 ment of such a bureau, that its principal func- 

 tion would be to check rates and to take steps 

 to see that they were equalized in such man- 

 ner as to insure shippers at Memphis that they 

 would be on a competitive basis with Cairo, St. 

 Louis and other points. 



The Sterling Lumber Company, Pine Bluff, 

 Ark., has been incorporated under the laws of 

 that state. The capital stock Is .$10,000. J. H. 

 Allen, W. J. Lockwood, and M. V. Rutherford 

 are the incorporators. 



Dispatches received here from Washington 

 are to the effect that the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission has suspended the proposed advance 

 of from one to six cents per hundred pounds 

 from points in the South to Canada. The ad- 

 vance was to have become effective Sept. 1, but 

 has been held up until Dec. 30. An advance of 

 one and one-third to two and one-half cents 

 from transfer points on the Ohio river to Cana- 

 dian destinations has also been held up. It is 

 stated in the dispatches received here that this 

 suspension affects practically every railroad of 

 any importance in the South. 



The branch plant of the Imperial Wheel Com- 

 pany, Pine Bluff, Ark., will begin operations 

 within the next few days. A considerable supply 

 of rough timber has already been delivered at 

 the plant and will be fashioned into automobile 

 and carriage spokes. The plant has been idle 

 for some time. 



Some of the members of the Business Men's 

 Club have launched a movement looking to the 

 consolidation of several business organizations 

 here, including the Lumbermen's Club of Mem- 

 phis. Those mentioned are the Memphis Lum- 

 bermen's Club, the Memphis Manufacturers' As- 

 sociation, and the Memphis Freight Bureau. AH 

 of the organizations which are interested in the 

 consolidation have membership in the Business 

 Men's Club. So far the subject has been dis- 

 cussed only in an indirect manner and no 

 definite statement can be made as to the prob- 

 able outcome. There is likelihood that the Mem- 

 phis Lumbermen's Club, the Memphis Freight 

 Bureau, and the Memphis Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation may join hands in the formation of a 

 traffic bureau, but it is regarded as extremely 

 doubtful if the Lumbermen's Club will consent 

 to the loss of its identity. It has been one of 

 the most active business bodies in this part of 

 the country and has succeeded in accomplish 

 ing wonderful results for the lumber fraternity 

 at this point. It has even figured in matters of 

 icationai scope and is recognized as one of the 

 most successful organizations of its kind in ex- 

 istence. As President Frank B. Robertson is 

 out of the city at present, it is therefore im- 

 possible to secure any statement from him as 

 to the probable attitude in connection with the 

 proposed consolidation. 



Owing to the fact that all of the assistant 

 secretaries of the Memphis Builders' Exchange 

 have yielded to the wiles of Dan Cupid and 

 have therefore made it necessary for the man- 

 agement of this organization to furnish new 

 assistant secretaries, the following resolutions 

 have been adopted by that body : 



"Know ye by these presents that the afore- 

 said cuss by the name of Daniel Cupid Is here- 

 with and forever ruled off, black-listed, barred. 



posted and forbidden to again have access to 

 the floor or office of the Memphis Builders' 

 Exchange. 



"And whereas two perfectly satisfactory and 

 very pretty assistant secretaries have suc- 

 cumbed to the wiles of the above mentioned 

 rascal, D. Cupid, be it known that 



"Any member who in the future shall give 

 chocolates or any candy or any confection or 

 taffy whatsoever to the assistant secretary of 

 this Memphis Builders' Exchange on any two 

 consecutive days shall be summarily ducked in 

 Wolf river; 



"And further be it understood that this Mem- 

 phis Builders' Exchange is a strictly business 

 organization sometimes, and not a matrimonial 

 bureau." 



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NASHVILLE 



Lumbermen in this territory are wondering 

 just what proportions the threatened car short- 

 age will assume, as already more or less com- 

 plaint is being heard. The Tennessee State 

 Railroad Commission has recently sent out a 

 circular letter to shippers, urging their co- 

 operation with the railroads to the end that 

 equipment may be loaded and unloaded as soon 

 as possible in order to prevent if possible the 

 threatened shortage. 



Members of the Nashville Lumbermen's Club 

 have accepted another invitation to Camp Lively 

 near McMinnville, which invitation was extended 

 at a recent club meeting by Charles Morford. 

 The time for this second trip is the last of 

 September. 



A former Nashville lumberman, A. H. Card, 

 who is now with the Cumberland Valley Lumber 

 Company of Cincinnati, 0., was a visitor to 

 Nashville last week. 



A rather large timl)er deal has just been 

 closed through Nashville agents by which 12,000 

 acres of timber and coal land in Franklin County 

 have been sold to J. W. Gascho of Indiana. H. 

 M. Templeton, who formerly owned the land, 

 received in payment four big farms and notes 

 aggregating ,$6,000. It is understood that Mr. 

 Gascho will install several big mills on the 

 tract to work up the timber. Considerable oak, 

 hickory and poplar are on the property. 



Ewing & Gilliland, who for years have been 

 doing an extensive hardwood manufacturing busi- 

 ness in this territory with mills at Nashville, 

 will establish a plant at Clarksville, Tenn., where 

 they have considerable hardwood stumpage. The 

 main offices of the company will remain at Nash- 

 ville although the company will operate yards at 

 Clarksville in connection with its mill. The 

 company has recently installed a new band mill 

 with a daily capacity of 20,000 feet. 



Fire of unknown origin destroyed the plant of 

 The Lucas Land & Lumber Company near Pa- 

 ducah, Ky., on the night of Aug. 28, entailing a 

 loss of between $40,000 and $50,000. It Is 

 understood the company will rebuild at once. 



BRISTOL 



O. II. Vial and associates are going forward 

 with the development of a large tract of timber 

 which they recently purchased near Waynesville. 

 N. C. Mr. Vial was a visitor here last week 

 and reports that things are moving along nicely. 

 Work is going forward on the twenty-mile line 

 of railroad and a large mill is to be built at 

 Waynesville, where a twenty-acre site has been 

 secured. 



Buyers on the local market were more numer- 

 ous last week than for some time. They left 

 some large orders with local wholesalers and 

 manufacturers and report that prospects are good 

 for better business at an early date. 



The Tyro River Development Company, re- 

 cently organized at Lynchburg, Va., with a capi- 

 tal stock of $.100,000, Is going forward with 

 plans for the construction of a large and modern 



