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HARDWOOD RECORD 



With the announcement of the leasing of the 

 plant of the Art Wood Manufacturing Company 

 comes a definite statement tliat this concern 

 will retire from business. The company was 

 launched more than two years ago, hut experi- 

 enced considerable trouble in getting its plant 

 equipped and has never been anything like as 

 successful as its promoters had expected. It was 

 capitalized at $250,000 and Dr. E. A. Neely was 

 president. 



W. S. Darnell, E. E. Taenzer and others have 

 taken out a charter for the St. Francis railroad, 

 which will be twenty miles in length and which 

 will run from Round Tend, on the Rock Island, 

 to Parkin, on the Iron Mountain. The com- 

 pany is capitalized at .f250,000. of which .$100,- 

 800 has been paid in. Messrs. Darnell and Taen- 

 zer, who are among the principal stockholders 

 of the recently incorporated Darnell-Taenzer 

 Lumber Company, hold practically all the stock, 

 the other incorporators named having only a 

 nominal interest. The Darnell-Taenzer Lumber 

 Company has extensive timber and milling in- 

 terests in the section through which the road is 

 to run and the line is to be constructed for the 

 purpose of facilitating their development. A 

 large force has already been put to work clear- 

 ing the right of way and the line is to be 

 pushed to comijietion as soon as possible. 



The Noal-Dolph Lumber Compan.y, which was 

 recently formed here, has taken out an amend- 

 ed charter under the laws of Mississippi. The 

 amendment in effect changes the name of the 

 Planters' Lumber Company to that of the Neal- 

 Dolph Lumber Company. The capital stock is 

 IfT.i.OOO and the domicile is to be at Greenville, 

 Miss. This company has offices and yards in 

 Memphis, while its mill will be at Greenville. 

 It will take possession of the Greenville plant 

 .Tuly 15 and will operate it steadily after that 

 time. Mr. Dolph, the secretary and general 

 manager, is authority for the statement that 

 the company is receiving numerous inquiries 

 for hardwood lumber and is starting out very 

 satisfactorily. 



The new planing mill of the W. E. Smith 

 Lumber Company and the Three States Lumber 

 Company at Burdette, Ark., is now practically 

 completed and is in partial operation. These 

 interests state that a box plant will be added 

 later. 



W. H. Martz, manager of the Hoyt & Woodin 

 Cypress Company, the Hoyt & Woodin Manu- 

 facturing Company and the Goodland Cypress 

 Company, with headquarters in New Orleans, 

 was in Jlemphis a few days ago. He announced 

 while here that the interests with which he is 

 identified had purchased a large tract of cy- 

 press timber land forty-five miles from New 

 rirloans and that they would form a company 

 aud install a plant for the development thereof. 

 Ho estimates that the tract contains approxi- 

 mately 200,000,000 feet of cypress. The same 

 interests are making arrangements to dispose of 

 one of the mills in Mississippi which has been 

 operated by them for some years. 



What will probably be one of the largest lum- 

 ber contracts ever awarded in Memphis will be 

 let in a few days by the Merchants' Cotton 

 Compress and Storage Company. This concern 

 proposes to erect numerous sheds for the storing 

 of cotton and it is estimated that 3,000,000 feet 

 of yellow pine will be necessary. A number of 

 the more prominent lumber companies in this 

 city and the Mississippi valley have submitted 

 bids. The contract will go to the lowest bidder. 

 Among the Memphis firms are the E. Sondheim- 

 er Company aud C. D. Bridges & Co. 



C. A. Ryan of Ryan & McParland, Chicago, 

 lias spent some time in Memphis recently look- 

 ing after the improvements made in the mill 

 bought by his firm from the Murdoch Lumber 

 Company. When this work is completed it is 

 estimated that the daily capacity of this plant 

 will be 20.000 feet of lumber. 



The Eaton Lumber Company has joined the 



Memphis colony. E. R. Eaton is general man- 

 ager of the company, which has had some experi- 

 ence in the handling of southern hardwood lum- 

 ber. His headquarters for some time were at 

 Clifton, Tenn. 



The mill of the Rust Land and Lumber Com- 

 pany which is being constructed at Merrouge, 

 La., is now nearing completion. Both the Three 

 States Lumber Company and the W. E. Smith 

 Lumber Company are interested in this corpora- 

 tion. The mill itself is comparatively a small 

 one and will be used for cutting cypress. 



Max Sondheimer, president and general man- 

 ager of the E. Sondheimer Company, takes 

 rather an optimistic position regarding general 

 business couditions. In connection with hard- 

 wood lumber he states that, while the demand is 

 less active than it has been heretofore, there is 

 such a sliortage of stock that prices will prob- 

 ably be well maintained. He states that it there 

 should be any recession during the dull summer 

 period this will be quickly recovered when the 

 heavy fall buying sets in again. He estimates 

 the shortage in hardwood lumber supply at some- 

 thing like forty per cent. He cites the fact that 

 shipments are being made on a large scale aiid 

 that considerable money that had been tied up 

 by the banks on account of congestion in lumber 

 traffic is now being released, thus making funds 

 rather plentiful. He notes the exceptionally 

 heavy buying of timber lands throughout the 

 South and Southwest during the past few 

 months and says that he does not believe there 

 is a more profitable field of investment than 

 timber lands, which are rapidly enhancing in 

 value. As to the general financial situation, 

 he states that the banks have plenty of funds — 

 above the average for this time of the year — and 

 are therefore in position to take care of all 

 needs. 



The Edgar Lumber Company of Wesson, Ark.. 

 and the El Dorado Lumber and Sash Company of 

 El Dorado, Ark., have purchased the timber 

 holdings of the Adams-Duson Lumber Company 

 in Arcadia parish. La., paying therefor approxi- 

 mately $55,000. It is the intention of the pur- 

 chasers to erect a large mill and develop the 

 timber on this property as rapidly as possible. 

 In addition to erecting a mill a tramway will 

 be built to facilitate the handling of both timber 

 and lumber. 



, One of the most notable W'eddings which has 

 occurred in Memphis lumber circles for some 

 time was the marriage of Miss Stephanie Bens- 

 dorf and Rudolph Sondheimer, secretary of the 

 E. Sondheimer Company. The ceremony was 

 performed at tlie Hotel Gayoso in the presence 

 of about seventy-five friends and relatives. Fol- 

 lowing this an elaborate repast was served in 

 the banquet hall. Mr. and Mrs. Sondheimer left 

 the same evening and sailed .Tune 15 on the Fin- 

 land. They will spend their honeymoon in a 

 motoring tour of the British Isles. There were 

 a number of out-of-town guests, prominent among 

 whom were the following : Mr. and Mrs. Sam 

 Franklin of Chicago. Miss Marie Kabn, Bolivar, 

 Tenn. ; Mr. and Mrs. Montague Lessler, New 

 York : Mr. and Mrs. Lee V. Marks, Cincinnati ; 

 Mrs. Sail Sondheimer, Chicago : Mr. and Mrs. 

 Henry Sondheimer, Chicago ; Moze Katz, Nassau, 

 Wis. ; Mr. and Mrs. Ed Sondheimer, Chicago ; 

 Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Dodds, Hickman, Ky. ; Ed- 

 ward Werner, St. Louis ; Dr. and Mrs. S. Bloom- 

 stein. Nashville. Tenn. Mr. Sondheimer is well 

 known to the hardwood lumber trade of the 

 country, while his bride is quite a favorite in 

 exclusive Hebrew circles. 



R. J. Wiggs, secretary and treasurer of 

 K. J. Darnell, Inc., and the Darnell-Love Lum- 

 ber Company, was married June 11 to Miss 

 Ethel Reynolds, at Pulaski, Tenn. 



George C. Ehemann, of Bennett & Witte, has 

 returned from Jonestown, where he and Mrs. 

 Ehemann spent their honeymoon. They were 

 married here June 6. 



There will be a meeting of the Lumbermen's 



Club at the Hotel Gayoso Saturday at n-oon,. 

 at which luncheon will be served. This will 

 be the last semi-monthly meeting until fall, it 

 being customary to discontinue these during the- 

 summer. 



At the last meeting Elliot Lang read an in- 

 teresting paper on reciprocal demurrage, in 

 which he took the position that state legisla- 

 tures have no power to enforce the statutes 

 they pass for penalizing railroads for failure 

 to furnish equipment within a given period. He 

 stated that he was endorsed in this position 

 by the Supreme Court of the United States, 

 which decided in the case of the Houston & 

 Texas Central Railroad Company versus Mayes 

 that the act of the legislature of Texas penaliz- 

 ing the road for failure to supply certain equip- 

 ment was unconstitutional. Jlr. Lang stated 

 that the difficulties in the way of reciprocal 

 demurrage might be overcome, in some measure, 

 by amending tlie law relating to interstate com- 

 merce, but he pointed out in this connection 

 opposition to SHch procedure on ttie part of 

 some members of the interstate commerce com- 

 mission. Mr. Lang further took the view that 

 the railroads all over the country would re- 

 sist any efforts by the state commissions in 

 matters affecting interstate commerce, since 

 ninety per cent of the traffic in each state is 

 of this character. He says that the railroad 

 business is conducted, in most cases, by men 

 of exceptional ability and that much of the 

 agitation against railroads is the direct result 

 of the work of the sensational yellow press, 

 and in conclusion declares : 



"If the present policy of restrictive legisla- 

 tion is continued the result will be disastrous 

 not to the railroads alone but to the entire 

 business community, and we will find that we 

 have accomplished 'the Samson-like feat of 

 bringing the entire commercial structure tum- 

 bling in ruins about our own heads." 



The following resolutions were adopted by 

 the club regarding the late W. E. Smith : 



"Whereas, It is with sincere regret that we 

 have heard of the death of our friend and 

 fellow-lumberman, W. E. Smith, affectionately 

 known to all his friends as 'Billy Smith,' wha 

 was an honorary member of this club at the 

 time of his death aud who was respected and 

 loved by all who knew him : therefore be it 



"Retiolved, By the Lumbermen's Club of 

 Memphis, that in his death we have lost a 

 genial friend and brother, whose loyalty, kind- 

 ness and good fellowshix> endeared him to all 

 his associates and whose whole-souled, charit- 

 able character will be long remembered ; and 

 be it further 



'^Resolved. That this club extend to his be- 

 reaved family our sincere and heartfelt sym- 

 pathy in their distress : and be it further 



"HenoJvcd, That these resolutions be spread 

 upon the minutes of the club and that a copy- 

 be sent to his family and business associates. 

 "Lumbermen's Club of Me.mphis, Tens. 

 "C. D. Hendeickson, 

 "A. N. Thompson, 

 "J. W. McClA'RE, 



"Committee." 



^^■. 11. Russe of Uusse & Burgess has just re- 

 turned from a trip to southern Mississippi. 

 He states that the mills are making fairly 

 good headway, but that there is so much water 

 in the lowlands that the work of getting out 

 timber is not progressing as rapidly as the 

 recent favorable weather would suggest. 



L. E. Campbell, president and general man- 

 ager of the L. E. Campbell Lumber Company, 

 sailed from New York a few days ago for Europe, 

 where he will spend five or six months looking 

 after the interests of his firm. 



New Orleans. 



Louisiana hardwood mills are just now get- 

 ting out of the rut of depression into which 

 they were temporarily cast by the heavy rains 

 that prevailed throughout the state a fortnight 

 or so ago. All of the large Louisiana mills 

 suffered from the effects of the rain during the 

 latter part of May and early in June. Logging 

 operations were seriously Interfered with and 



