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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The riummer Lumber Company recently sold 

 a oar o( thick, -nide poplar to a local manu- 

 facturer, and received $1,837 for the shipment, 

 which they considered excellent value. 



The factory of the Shultz Belting Company 

 is running to full capacity, and business with 

 them is e.xcelleut. the export trade as well as 

 domestic. 



The Frost-Johnson Lumber Company has been 

 Incorporated with a capital stock of $1,500,000. 

 The main office will be in St. Louis, and the 

 principals are E. A. Frost, Shreveport. La. : 

 N. W. McLeod, St. Louis; C. W. Mansur, St. 

 Louis : C. D. Johnson and C. W. Nelson. Mr. 

 Johnson is president, Mr. Frost vice president 

 and Mr. McLeod secretary and treasurer. 



C. D. Boynton left a few days ago for Chi- 

 cago, to meet his mother and wife, who have 

 been taking a winter's trip to Japan. 



Theodore M. Plummer, secretary of the Plum- 

 mer Lumber Company, has gone to southern 

 California to study methods of raising fruit, 

 nuts, etc., and will retire from the lumber busi- 

 ness in the fall. He has purchased a large 

 tract of land in southwestern Texas and will 

 have it irrigated and turned into fertile soil 

 for the raising of farm and fruit products. 

 Mr. Plummer, though a young man, has an im- 

 portant place in the lumber industry ; in addi- 

 tion to his St. Louis interests he is president 

 of the Mississippi Cypress Company of Marks. 

 Miss., and of the Bayou Chicot Lumber Com- 

 pany of Bayou Chicot, La. 



The Garetson-Greason Lumber Company has 

 moved its offices from suite 1212-13-14 Times 

 building to 1001-15 Times building. This 

 change was necessary as the old quarters were 

 too small to comfortably accommodate the office 

 force. 'i I 



Lloyd G. Harris rcprc-sentel the St. Louis Lum- 

 bermen's Exchange of St. Louis at a recent meet- 

 ing of interests controlling local industries, 

 which was held at the rooms of the Civic League 

 to consider a revision of the city's charter. A 

 permanent committee was appointed to create 

 agitation toward securing this end. 



C. E. Thomas of the Thomas & Proetz Lumber 

 Company has returned from a trip through the 

 mill districts of Arkansas and Louisiana. He 

 reports that weather eonditious are slightly im- 

 proved, though still very bad. 



Thomas E. Powe, vice president of the Plum- 

 mer Lumber Company, is making a stouthern 

 tour which will take him as far as New Orleans 

 before his return. 



Capt. C. F. Liebke, who went east to attend 

 the Atlantic City convention, remained several 

 days after the meeting for recreation and pleas- 

 ure. 



Memphis. 



There have lit-cn liu-ther heavy rains in the 

 Memphis hardwood producing territory during 

 the past fortnight and these have interfered with 

 the progress of both milling and logging opera- 

 tions. However, taken as a whole, weather con- 

 ditions show some tendency toward improvement 

 and lumber interests are hopeful that this pros- 

 pect may be fully realized, because production is 

 not up to normal and can hardly reach that point 

 until there is decided improvement over condi- 

 tions which have prevailed for some lime. 



The Anderson-Tully Company, manufacturers 

 of Cottonwood, gum and cypress and other hard- 

 wood lumber and operators of large box and 

 veneer factories in North Memphis, are erecting 

 a machine shop and foimdry for the purpose of 

 taking care of the greater portion of the repair 

 work necessary to keep their plants in operation. 



The Illinois Central Railroad Company is mak- 

 ing preparations to erect extensive terminal fa- 

 cilitie.s in New South Memphis, including an in- 

 cline. A short time ago the company purchased 

 a large tract of land on the river front and an- 



nounced that these terminals would he erected in 

 the hope that they might facilitate the handling 

 of lumber and logs to such an extent as to 

 greatly stimulate the establishment of lumber 

 and woodworking plants in that section of the 

 city. The Belt Line is interested with the Illi- 

 nois Central in this move and the establishment 

 of these terminal facilities will give every road 

 entering Memphis connection with the river and 

 make tlie distribution of receipts a very easy 

 matter, at the same time providing facilities for 

 delivering lumber to the river where shipment 

 by water is desirable. For this reason lumber- 

 men are much encouraged over the announce- 

 ment. 



Henry C. Osterman of Chicago has purchased 

 ten acres of land ad.ioining the new yards of the 

 Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company in New South 

 Memphis from the South Memphis Land Com- 

 pany and he and associates have formed the 

 jlemphis Car Company and are preparing to es- 

 tablish thereon a plant for the repairing of 

 freight cars and for the manufacture of stock 

 to be used in the factory of the Osterman Manu- 

 facturing Company at West Pullman, III. Ap- 

 plication will be made for a charter under the 

 laws of this state. The officers are : Henry C. 

 Osterman, president, and E. H. Ward, secretary- 

 treasurer. The latter will be in charge of the 

 interests of the company here. Other cities made 

 efforts to land this industry, but Memphis won 

 on its splendid railroad facilities and its prox- 

 imity to the base of hardwood lumber supply. 



The Consolidated Handle Company, with head- 

 quarters in Memphis and branches in Arkansas, 

 has refused to make payment of the charter fees 

 required of foreign corporations seeking to do, 

 or actually engaged in, business in that state, 

 declaring that it only recently paid out money 

 for the privilege of doing business in Arkansas. 

 Practically all the other corporations engaged 

 in the lumber industry with headquarters in 

 Memphis have complied with the Arkansas law 

 in cases where they have interests in that state. 

 The .1ury in the federal court has returned a 

 verdict of not guilty in the case of Hugh Mur- 

 doch, a prominent Memphis lumberman, whose 

 retrial occurred here this week. He was charged 

 with having raised two-dollar bank notes to 

 twenty dollars and with having attempted to 

 put these in circulation. Important witnesses 

 for the prosecution failed to agree at vital points 

 in their testimony, and this fact, together with 

 the excellent standing of Mr. Murdoch ,nnd the 

 favorable testimony of character witnesst-s, ex- 

 plains the verdict. Lumbermen express pleasure 

 that the case has ended in this manner. 



Lumber interests here are congratulating Mem- 

 phis on having captured for the second time the 

 presidency of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association through the reelection of W. H. 

 Russe at the recent annual at Atlantic City. 

 The announcement of his reelection was made 

 at the last meeting of the Lumbermen's Club and 

 it occasioned much enthusiasm. This was all 

 the more pronounced because it was known that 

 Mr. Russe had declared, prior to leaving Mem- 

 phis for Atlantic City, that he would not have 

 the office again except upon a platform calling 

 for some modification of the rules governing 

 inspection and grading. Local lumber interests 

 were much in favor of some revision of these 

 rules. 



There is much interest in lumber circles here 

 over the announcement from Saginaw. .Mich., to 

 the effect that F. W. Gilchrist, president of the 

 Three States Lumber Company and the W. E. 

 Smith Lumber Company, together with three of 

 his sons and Congressman J. W. Fordney, has 

 formed the Gilchrist-Fordney Lumber Company 

 with a capital stock of $1,200,000, and that they 

 have purchased 50,000 acres of timber lands near 

 Laurel, Miss., estimated to contain approxi- 

 mately 400,000,000 feet of timber. It is further 

 stated that the plant of the Kingston Lumber 

 Company, with a capacity of 150,000 feet daily, 

 has been purchased by the company and thai 



this will be used In the development of the re- 

 sources on the acquired property. The head- 

 quarters of the two lumber companies of which 

 Mr. Gilchrist is president are in Memphis. 



Charles Rippin. general agent of the Missouri 

 Pacific, with headquarters in Memphis, has been 

 transferred to St. Louis, where he becomes gen- 

 eral agent of the freight department of that com- 

 pan.v. He is succeeded in Memphis by C. McD. 

 Adams, heretofore commercial agent of the same 

 road in Memphis. 



Henry W. Tiernan. connected with the St. 

 Louis branch of the Deep Waterway.s Associa- 

 tion, has been in Memphis during the past few 

 days and is quite enthusiastic over the develop- 

 ments which have taken place lately. He de- 

 clares that public seuliment is bee )ming strong 

 in favor of the fourteen-foot channel and that it 

 only needs to he educated further in the same 

 direction in order to make it demand the build- 

 ing of such a channel. He believes there will be 

 a large appropriation from Congress at the next 

 session for the inauguration of the movement ; 

 he is of the opinion that Chairman Burton, who 

 has recently been south on a tour of inspection, 

 is much more strongly in favor of the movement 

 than at any previous time and that he will lend 

 his support toward securing the appropriation. 



The death of W. E. Smith, affectionately 

 known to most lumbermen as "Billy." which 

 occurred at his home in Eau Claire, Wis., a short 

 time ago. came as a rather sudden shock to local 

 lumber interests, with whom he had been closely 

 associated for a number of years. He left Mem- 

 phis about a year ago in search of health, but 

 never improved materially. Paralysis followed 

 general breakdown and put an end to Mr. 

 Smith's long suffering. 



George W. Fooshe, secretary of the Robertson- 

 Fooshe Lumber Company, has been elected a 

 member of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis. 



George C. Ehemann of Bennett & Witte was 

 married June to Miss Lilian Morris, daughter 

 of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Morris. The ceremony 

 was performed at the Mississippi Avenue Meth- 

 odist church in the presence of a large number of 

 friends and relatives. Mr. Ehemann is one of the 

 most popular lumbermen of this city. His bride 

 is the daughter of a gentleman who has been 

 closely associated with the hardwood lumber 

 interests of both Cincinnati and Memphis and 

 this has lent an additional interest to the cere- 

 mony from the standpoint of lumbermen of this 

 and other cities. Mr. Ehemann and his bride 

 were the recipients of many handsome gifts, 

 among the number being a silver service from 

 members of the Lumbermen's Club of this city. 

 Wedding bells will ring in a very short time 

 for another of the younger lumber set of Mem- 

 phis — R. J. Wiggs, secretary-treasurer of R. J. 

 Darnell, Inc., and the Darnell-Love Lumber Com- 

 pany. Cards are out announcing his approach- 

 ing marriage to Miss Ethel, daughter of Mr. and 

 Mrs. Giles Reynolds of Pulaski, Tenn., which will 

 be solemnized there June 11. Mr. Wiggs is quite 

 prominent in social as well as lumber circles 

 and has a large host of friends who will wish 

 him well. 



A large force has been put to work near 

 Helena, Ark., clearing the right of way for the 

 •Missouri & North Arkansas railroad. Construc- 

 tion work is to begin shortly. The line is to be. 

 extended southward from Seligman, Mo., to 

 Helena, Ark., and it is stated that construction 

 work between Leslie and Searcy. Ark., has been 

 practically completed. The road will prove an 

 important factor in the development of the tim- 

 ber resources of eastern Arkansas through which 

 it will run. 



The Eudora-Calvert branch of the Memphis, 

 Helena & Louisiana line of the Missouri Pacific 

 system has been completed and trains are now 

 beiug operated thereon. This is a 40-mile stretch 

 of road that will be used as a feeder for the 

 water-level line of the Missouri Pacific system 

 between Memphis and New Orleans. 



