next fall. He is in sympathy with the move- 

 ment, and it is believed he will incorporate 

 important recommendations in regard there- 

 to in a future message to Congress. 



Lumbermen here generally concede that, if 

 there is to be complete relief from the traffic 

 conditions which recur ever>' year during the 

 period of heaviest freiglit movement, it will 

 oome through the impro\-ement of the water- 

 ways and tlie liundling of tlie heavier and 

 more bulky traffic thereon. For this reason 

 they are taking deep interest in the move- 

 ment. 



C. C. Lataner of Montpelier. O.. has be- 

 come interested in the General I.umljcr Com- 

 pany, which has offices in llie Randolph 

 building, this city. It is understood that he 

 has become equally interested with Messrs. 

 Bailey and Bookmiller. the other two stock- 

 holders therein. 



The Ostermann Miinufacturing Company is 

 about ready to begin the operation of the 

 branch plant in this city which is to manu- 

 facture car stock to be used in the plant of 

 the company at West Pullman, 111. E. H. 

 Ward is to be manager of the local interests 

 of the company. 



H. Katz, of the American Land. Stave and 

 Timber Company, with offices in the Tennes- 

 see Trust building, lias sailed for Europe, 

 where he will spend some time looking after 

 the interests of his firm. Fred B. Zupke. 

 one of the vice presidents of the Darnell- 

 Taenzer Lumber Company, Is also another 

 of tile local lumber contingent who recently 

 left for Europe. 



The consolidation of the offices and office 

 forces of the two concerns which recently 

 combined in the Darnell-Taenzer I-umben" 

 Company has not yet been completed and it 

 will require some time before it will be ef- 

 fected. Enlargement of the offices of the 

 old I. M. Darnell & Son Company was neces- 

 sary and this work is not yet finished. Tlie 

 company, however, liopes to have everything 

 in readiness soon for operation from a single 

 office. 



J. W. Thompson, president of the J. W. 

 Thompson Lumber Company, left here some 

 days ago for St. Louis, Chicago and New 

 York. From the latter point he will go to 

 Atlantic City to attend the annual meeting 

 of the National Hardwood Lumber Associa- 

 tion. The company is in receipt of advices 

 from the manager of its Berclair (Miss.) 

 mill to the effect that the recent rains will 

 enable the floating out of 500,000 feet of 

 cypress. As a consequence the company is 

 now making preparations for resuming op- 

 erations there. 



The Kimball- Lacy Lumber Company of Ar- 

 kansas City is authority for the statement 

 that it is getting out a large quantity of 

 Cottonwood timber on this rise in the Ar- 

 kansas river, its float being estimated at 

 about 1,000.000 feet. 



George H. Foote, local manager for the 

 Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany, with headquarters in the Tennessee 

 Trust building, has recently returned from 

 St. Louis and other points north. 



W. H. Greble of the Three States Lumber 

 Company is another local lumberman who 

 has recently made an extended trip to north- 

 ern and western markets. 



The Robertson-Fooshe Lumber Company 

 has filed appUcation for a charter with a 

 capital stock of $50,000. It will be ready for 

 business June 1. Yards and offices will be 

 at North Second street and the Illinois Cen- 

 tral road. F. B. Robertson is president; S. 

 B. Anderson, vice president; George W. 

 Fooshe. secretary, and C. J. Tully. treasurer. 

 Privilege of manufacturing and of handling 

 hardwood lumber at wholesale is conferred 

 by the charter. 



The Marked Tree Lumber Company, with 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



a capital stock of $750,000, the Chicago Mill 

 and Lumber Company, witli capital stock of 

 $25,000, and the Paepcke-Leicht Lumber 

 Company, with capital stock of $25,000, have 

 complied with the new corporation laws of 

 Arkansas by Hling their articles of incorpora- 

 tion. A. C. Liinge is named as state agent 

 for all three companies and the principal 

 places of business as jiesignated are Marked 

 Tree and Blytheville. Two of these com- 

 panies have local offices in Memphis, 



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New Orleans. 



The New Orleans Lumber Exporters' Asso- 

 ciation has joined hands with the Public Belt 

 Railroad Commission in an effort to have the 

 Board of Port Commissioners of New Or- 

 leans construct at some place along the river 

 front of this city, a big wharf which will be 

 used exclusively for handling of export lum- 

 ber. This matter was broached by J. H. Hin- 

 ton, president of the Exporters' Association 

 at a recent meeting of the Belt Commission 

 and has attracted considerable attention 

 here. At present the lumber exporting indus- 

 tory gets comparatively little consideration 

 along the New Orleans wharves with the re- 

 sult that this port does not export anywhere 

 near the. amount of lumber it should handle. 

 The agitation over this question, however, 

 will in all probability result in a change that 

 will divert to and through New Orleans sixty 

 per cent of the southern lumber manufactured 

 for foreign shipment. The matter will at 

 once be taken up witli the dock board and 

 an effort will be made to have that board 

 build a $200,000 wharf to be devoted entirely 

 to lumber shipments. It is understood that 

 the members of the board are in favor of 

 building such a structure and will do so just 

 as soon as they can get the necessary funds. 



W. A. Powell, former head of the W. A. 

 Powell Lumber Company, a. big exporting 

 firm which is now in the hands of a receiver, 

 was in one of the inferior criminal courts 

 here last week on the charge of embezzling 

 cargoes of lumber and staves valued at some- 

 thing over $12,000. The flrst charge was 

 preferred by the German^American National 

 Bank and the second by the Hibernia Bank 

 and Trust Company, both of which institu- 

 tions alleged that they had advanced money 

 on shipments and had never received the bills 

 of lading. In the case of the German-Ameri- 

 can National it was alleged that a shipment 

 of French claret staves had been embezzled, 

 while the Hibernia Bank charged that Pow- 

 ell had embezzled a cargo of lumber valued 

 at something over $10,000. The accused was 

 committed to the Criminal District Court 

 under bond of $10,000. He will be tried there 

 on the two charges of embezzlement. In its 

 recent report to the United States Circuit 

 Court. the Commercial-Germania Savings 

 Bank and Trust Company, receiver for Pow- 

 ell's Company, estimated that the firm's lia- 

 bilities would exceed the assets by $200,000 

 or more. 



The Wright -Blodgett Company, Ltd., of 

 Saginaw. Mich., has just transferred to the 

 Gulf Lumber Company of Louisiana an 80,000 

 acre tract of land in 'Vernon, Rapides and 

 Calcasieu parishes, this state, the considera- 

 tion being $4,197,454, of which amount some- 

 thing over $1,000,000 was paid in cash. 



The Lecompte Lumber Company has been 

 succeeded by the Oberlin Lumber Company, 

 whicli has an authorized capitalization of 

 $50,000. The officers are: G. W. Gainnie. 

 president; N. C. Waggoner, vice-president 

 and general manager; K. M. Gainnie. secre- 

 tary and treasurer. 



Advices from Mississippi state that the 

 lumber exporters of Gulfport have been having 

 all kinds of trouble with their shipments of 

 late as a result of the heavy rains which have 



caused washouts all along the lines of the 

 railroads leading into the Mississippi lumber 

 exporting center. The Gulf & Ship Island 

 one of the principal lumber hauling roads 

 was tied up practically all of last week by 

 the several washouts. From last Tuesday 

 to last Sunday it was unable to move a train 

 and It was not known when the service 

 would be straightened out. The Mobile 

 Jackson & Kansas City also suffered from 

 washouts, but the freshets along its lin,. were 

 not quite as serious as those which tiod-up 

 the G. & S. I. ^ 



Though the interior demand on hardwoods 

 continues good, the foreign market is not as 

 steady as it has been and exports from this 

 section have fallen off. The end of the crop 

 season is enabling lumbermen to handle their 

 interior business in better shape, however 

 and they are keeping that trade in good con- 

 dition. Not a great deal of difficulty is being 

 experienced in getting cars at present and a 

 large amount of the output of the Louisiana 

 hardwood mills is going into the interior and 

 is being handled very well. 



Minneapolis. 



The Minnesota metropolis will contend 

 for the honor of entertaining the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association in 1908. The 

 proposition was put forward May 20 at the 

 monthly meeting of the Northwestern Hard- 

 wood Lumbermen's Association, and was re- 

 ceived with unanimous favor. A. E. Peter- 

 son of St. Paul was the propounder of the 

 idea, and that is enough to show that the 

 Twin Cities are better friends than they used 

 to be. D. F. Clark and A. H. Barnard, who 

 are the only Twin City men to attend the 

 Atlantic City gathering, will present the in- 

 vitation. 



The meeting of May 20 was of special in- 

 terest in the discussion of grades. D. F. 

 Clark, who is a member of the Grading Rules 

 Committee of the National Association, ex- 

 plained the changes in rules which the com- 

 mittee decided to submit to the Atlantic City 

 gathering, and they were freely discussed. 

 Frank H. Long, one of the official inspectors 

 of the National Hardwood Lumber Associa- 

 tion, was present and took part in the dis- 

 cussion. Mr. Long is looking over the ground 

 here, and if there is work enough to keep 

 him busy, expects to locate permanently in 

 Minneapolis. 



Complaints against the overcharges of the 

 Minnesota Transfer officials were taken up by 

 the state railroad and warehouse commission 

 at a public hearing May 21. It frequently 

 happens that lumbermen send word as to the 

 disposition of a car, that the transfer com- 

 pany employees disregard the order and set 

 the car out on the team track, and then hold 

 the shipper for switching charges for their 

 own mistake. Complaints of this kind have 

 been so numerous that the state commission 

 set a time to take them up and notified the 

 complainants. Several hardwood men ap- 

 peared in the hearing. 



C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark, the 

 Minneapolis wholesalers, has been on a trip 

 in lUinois looking over their retail yards at 

 Erie and other points. 



Loren H. Pope of St. Louis, representing 

 the Charles F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company, was here a few days ago call- 

 ing on line yard buyers and factory managers 

 with an attractive line of hardwoods to offer. 



W. H. Sill of the Minneapolis Lumber Com- 

 pany says they are having no trouble to dis- 

 pose of the new cut on long contracts to be 

 filled during the fall and winter. They have 

 a good supply of logs and will have a fine line 

 at the mill of the Ruby Lumber Company, 

 Ruby. Wis. 



F. M. Bartelme of the F. M. Bartelme Lum- 



