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McCUiin & Cook ol Lebanon, Tenn., who for 

 many years have been mannfacturers of tele- 

 phone poles, have just closed a deal whereby 

 thpy get for ^iri.OOO a tract of 1,274 acres of 

 land in Lonisiana. There is said to be enough 

 locust on the tract to meet the demands of the 

 firm for the next ten years. 



.John T. Crain. representing the P. U. Dodge 

 Lumber Company of Chicago, has purchased the 

 Stokeley-Blaclc sawmill and logging outfit in 

 Dickson county near Charlotte. The timber on 

 the tract is mastly oak and chestnut. 



The Lesh Land & Ivumber Company has re- 

 cently been organized at Jackson, says a special 

 from that point. The company is capitalized 

 at ifl'o.OOO. Incorporators : H. H. Lesh, W. A. 

 Caldwell. Lawrence Taylor. IL P. Tomlinson, 

 J. C. Edenton. II. Russell and B. C. Edenton. 



The stave and heading factory of V. R. Harris 

 at Arlington has been burned. The main fac- 

 tory, dry kilns and stock sheds all went. Loss 

 $4,000, no insurance. 



The new veneering plant wliich is being estab- 

 lished here by the Frederick W. Rlack Lumber 

 Company of Chicago will be ready for operation 

 b.v August 1. 



.Joseph Scheflfer & Bro. report a rather un- 

 usual experience. Seven months ago a car of 

 red cedar shingles was ordered from a firm in 

 the state of Washington. The bill of lading 

 came long ago but the shingles only arrived a 

 few days ago. When they reached here they 

 were worth .$700 more than when bought. The 

 firm is building a large dry kiln at its north 

 Nashville plant. 



C. B. Benedict, general manager of the Sylco 

 J^umber Company in Polk county, reports great 

 progress in operations on its new holdings. 

 The circular saw is now running full time and 

 the big sawmill will be ready in a few days. 

 A line of railroad to the plant will be finished 

 in a few months also. In addition to valuable 

 timber on the tract Mr. Benedict says he has 

 found enough iron ore to rebuild all the rail- 

 roads in the Soutli. Another company will be 

 organized later to handle the iron. 



Recently the Baker-Jacobs Company sold to 

 the American Hardwood Lumber Company a 

 half million feet of common and better pop- 

 lar for $17,000. The Baker-Jacobs Company 

 has recently decided to increase the capacity 

 of its sawmill in Lewis county from 13,000 to 

 20,000 feet a day by adding another saw and 

 rearranging the plant. 



The A. II. Card Lumber Company has re^ 

 cently bought a tract of fine white* oak timber 

 near Winchester. Tcnu. 



The Beattie Lumber & Building Company of 

 Shelby county, with a capital stock of .$50,000, 

 has been chartered. Incorporators ; E. B. Le 

 Master, T. B. Beattie, S. E. Learnard. J. F. 

 Hunter, Clayde Rlchert and G. Tidwell. 



Memphis. 



Lumber manufacturers throughout this sec- 

 tion are very much interested in three suits 

 which have been filed with the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission throtigh W. A. Percy, an at- 

 torney of this city, in the matter of unjust rates 

 The suits are: (1) George D. Burgess et al. 

 vs. Transcontinental Bureau et al. : |2) J. W. 

 Thompson Lumber Company et al. vs. Illinois 

 Central Railroad Company and Yazoo & Missis- 

 sippi Valley Railroad Company et al., and tK) 

 James E. Stark & Co. vs. Missouri Paeitic Rail- 

 way Company et al. The amount involved is 

 said to be about $100,000 and it is expected 

 that other lumbermen will join in these suits 

 and that the amount may be brought tip to a 

 million dollars. 



Weather conditions throughout this section 

 liave been favorable of late and the mills are 

 making good headway in putting lumber on 

 sticks. There is a good supply of timber on 

 hand and in most cases mills are o^jeratlng 

 steadily. 



The Paepcke-Lelcht Lumber Company, which 



has offices and yards in this city, has purchased 

 the sawmill of the Helena Box Company. The 

 box plant of the latter concern was burned at 

 Helena some time ago and the mill has not been 

 operated since that time. The Paepcke-Lelcht 

 Lumber Cmiipany has installed a large box plant 

 at Helena .ind this is now being operated. The 

 mill will be used in connection therewith. 



The Ford-Johnson Company of Helena has 

 changed its name to the Helena Manufacturing 

 Company, It is installing a large plant for the 

 manufacture of chairs and chair stock, and this 

 will be ready for operation in a short time. 



The Home Lumber Company of Binghampton. 

 a suburb of Memphis, has been incorporated 

 with a capital stock of $10,000. Among the 

 incorporators are U. B. Sullivan, A. Y. Aydelot 

 and J. P. Carter. 



The Beattie Lumber and Building Company 

 has filed application for a charter with a capi- 

 tal stock of .$.")(!, 000. The company will buy and 

 sell land and build house.^. It is incorporated 

 as a lumber company so that it may buy build- 

 ing material to better advantage. Among the 

 incorporators are T. B. Beattie, Clyde Richert, 

 James F. Hunter and George M. Tidwell. 



The E. Sondbeimer Company has purchased 

 16,000 acres of timber lands in Avoyelles parish, 

 Louisiana. It is estimated that this tract con- 

 tains 100,000,000 feet of cypress timber. I'resi- 

 dent Max Sondbeimer states that no mill will 

 be put in at present.. The company has two 

 mills located in that territory, but neither one 

 is close enough for the development of this prop- 

 erty and a new mill will have to be installed 

 when the timber Is to be prepared for the 

 market. - 



W. 11. Greble of the Three States Lumber Com- 

 pany and the W. E. Smith Lumber Company 

 has returned from Laurel, Miss. The Gilchrist- 

 Fordney Lumber Company, which recently pur- 

 chased the plant of the Kingston Lumber Com- 

 pany at Laurel, has taken over the mill already 

 and is now operating it. Mr. Greble states that 

 additional macliinery will be installed. The 

 Kingston Lumber Company manufactured floor- 

 ing almost exclusively, but the new management 

 proposes to manufacture also finishing material 

 and has installed machines for this work. The 

 company is bringing in timber from the farthest 

 point from Laurel. It has four trains operating 

 on regular schedule over the Mobile. Jackson iv 

 Kansas City. It has a number of spur tracks 

 running put into its timber lands. With these 

 facilities the development of the timber will go 

 forward rapidly. The mill has a daily capacity 

 of 1.10.000 feet. 



S. B. Anderson, president of the Anderson- 

 Tully (^ompany. has returned from attending the 

 convention of the National A'eneer & Panel Manu- 

 facturers' Association, recently held at Chicago, 

 where he delivered a strong address on securing 

 a price for veneers commensurate with that ob- 

 tainable for lumber. 



Sawmill interests of Mississippi are getting 

 behind the railroads. They have filed suits in 

 the Federal court charging the railroads witli 

 discrimination, the claim being made that the 

 rate is higher than in the North. The aggregate 

 of the suits already filed is something like 

 $10,000. They are styled : C. E. Myers vs. the 

 Mobile & Ohio Railroad, Carter Lumber Com- 

 pany vs. the Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City, 

 Carter Lumber Company vs. the Mississippi Cen- 

 tral, P. M. Ikler vs. the New Orleans & North- 

 eastern. Lake Lumber Company vs. the Alabama 

 & Vicksburg. Williamsburg Lumber Company vs. 

 the (iulf & Ship Island. 



The Jllssissippi and Alabama Lumber Ex- 

 change has been organized at Meridian. Miss., 

 for the express purpose of protecting the interest 

 of mills having a capacity of 10,000 to 20.000 

 feet. The exchange will appoint a manager to 

 assist in marketing the output of these mills. 

 This has been done heretofore through the lum- 

 ber brokers and wholesale dealers. This oQicial 



will keep posted on market conditions and assist 

 in securing good returns on all lumber sold. An- 

 other meeting will be held at Meridian, July 13, 

 for the purpose of giving other sawmills inter- 

 ested an opportunity to join the organization. 

 W. H. Seymour has been elected chairman and 

 a committee has been appointed to draw up a 

 constitution and by-laws which will be sub- 

 mitted at the next meeting. 



Lumber companies throughout this city and 

 West Tennessee are vigorously opposed to the 

 payment of the corporation tax ranging from 

 $5 to $100, according to capitalization. The 

 corporation law was passed at the last session 

 of the legislature and requires the payment of 

 tlie foregoing amount by each corporation at the 

 lime of filing its statement showing officers, 

 place of business, capital stock and other fea- 

 tures. A strong effort is now being made among 

 the lumber companies and other interests to test 

 the constitutionality of this law. Those com- 

 panies making payment before July 1 have done 

 so under protest. The date for payment of the 

 tax has been extended to September 1. 



Lumbermen here are interested in the an- 

 nouncement that construction work, which was 

 recently stopped on the Delta Southern, is to 

 be resumed. The stofipage of work was ordered 

 on the ground that .the railroad company could 

 not. in view of the hostile attitude of the rail- 

 road commission, secure money for construction 

 and improvement work. This road, which will 

 extend southward to Jackson and northward to 

 Memphis, will open up a splendid section of 

 iiardwood territory. 



Chicago capitalists, according to advices re- 

 ceived here, are backing a movement for a rail- 

 road connecting Aberdeen and Columbus, Miss. 

 This is a splendid hardwood territory and the 

 building of such a road would facilitate its de- 

 velopment. 



E. E. Taenzer, first vice president of the Dar- 

 nell-Taenzer Lumber Company, is one of the 

 incorporators of the Curry-McCraw Company, 

 which is capitalized at $150,000 and which pro- 

 poses to engage in the wholesale grocery busi- 

 ness. 



Leland P. Arthur, president of the Arthur 

 Hardwood Flooring Company, has returned from 

 Pacific coast points and the northwestern mar- 

 kets, where he has spent some time recently in 

 the interest of his firm. 



Contractors for building the road-bed of the 

 ilissouri & North Arkansas Railroad from Helena 

 to Brinkley have started about fifty teams to 

 work. This is the first dirt broken on this Iin& 

 between Helena and Searcy, but the contract 

 stipulates that the work must be completed by 

 Ltecember 1. This road, when completed, will 

 ruti through the greater part of eastern Arkan- 

 sas and will prove an important factor in the 

 development of the hardwood lumber resources 

 of that state. 



R. J. Darnell of R. J. Darnell. Inc., has 

 written a letter to the leading lumber interests 

 of this city, detailing his experience witli one of 

 the deputy inspectors of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association. He sold some lumber, sub- 

 ject to national inspection, and when the in- 

 spector went to his yards in South Jlemphis the 

 latter refused to allow one of Mr. Darnell's in- 

 spectors to work with him in inspecting the 

 lumber. He was immediately ordered to leave 

 the yards. Mr. Darnell states in his letter that 

 the seller has as much right to representation 

 in the inspection of lumber as the buyer and 

 that, if this is not correct, there is no place in 

 the association for him. President Russe of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association has up- 

 held the inspector. Different views are ex- 

 pressed by lumbermen here in regard to the 

 matter, some claiming that Mr. Darnell is in 

 the right and others supporting Mr. Russe in his 

 position. There is no doubt that Mr. Darnell 

 will take the matter up with the association 

 at an early date and some interesting develop- 

 ments are anticipated. 



