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Ihe Deep Waterways Association in making 

 preliminary arrangements for the big conven- 

 tion to be lield in Mempiiis, October 4 and 5. 

 It is expected tliat the convention will be the 

 most important waterways meeting ever held. 

 Much interest will be lent by the presence 

 of President Roosevelt, who is a strong ad- 

 N'ocate of internal waterways improvements, 

 because it will further his scheme of regu- 

 lating the railroads. Committees have been 

 appointed already by the Cotton Exchange, 

 Merchants' Excljange and Business Men's 

 Club to provide ways and means for holding 

 the convention here, and committees will also 

 be appointed by the Lumbermen's Club of 

 Memphis and the Builders' Exchange. 



The Lucas Land and Timber Company of 

 Humphries county, has ^een iacorporated 

 under the laws of Tennessee. The capital 

 stock is $125,000. A. N. Lucas, W. B. Hill- 

 man and others are incorporators. 



The Lone Mountain Coal and Timber Com- 

 pany has been' incorporated in Roane county. 

 Tennessee, with a capital stock of $50,000. 

 The incorporators are T. A. Wright, A. T. 

 Daniels and others. 



The Rialto Lumber Company has been in- 

 corporated in Tipton county, with a capital 

 stock of $10,000. W. S. Mayes, W. E. Hale, 

 J. S. Malone and others are incorporators. 



W. H. Greble of the Three States Lumber 

 Company has gone to Chicago, where he will 

 attend the convention of the yellow pine 

 people. 



W. B. Morgan, secretary and treasurer of 

 the Anderson-Tully Company, has returned 

 from a trip to Virginia and other eastern 

 points. 



There will be a concatenation of Hoo-Hoo 

 at Brinkley, Ark., Saturday night. July 27. 

 This call has been issued by James M. Gib- 

 son, vicegerent. W. R. Anderson, vicegerent 

 for the district of west Tennessee, is making 

 arrangements to get up a good crowd of 

 Memphis Hoo-Hoo to participate in the fes- 

 tivities of the Brinkley concatenation. 



New Orleans. 



Sawmill men and timber holders in the state 

 are beginning to sit up and take notice of mat- 

 ters pertaining to taxation of their lands, and 

 a large number of representatives of all kinds 

 of lumber and timber companies are flocking 

 into Baton Rouge to get a line on the work now 

 being undertaken by the State Board of Equali- 

 zation of Texas. The board on examining the 

 abstracts sent in by the various assessors has 

 found the difference existing in the assessment 

 of timber lands to be the most marked of any 

 items coming under its consideration and it Is 

 going into the timber land question. There are 

 few parishes in Louisiana where there is not 

 some timber, and the result is that the taxes 

 on these are in a measure a considerable part 

 of the state's revenues. The increased value of 

 the timber land nearly everywhere has started 

 the Board of Equalization on a campaign that 

 is causing the lumbermen a good deal of con- 

 cern. 



Advices from different parts of Louisiana 

 show that there has been a noticeable increase 

 in sales of hardwood timber land during the 

 last few months. Several representatives of 

 hardwood firms have been in this state recently 

 looking at tracts, and a number of important 

 deals are said to be under consideration. A 

 telegram from Opelousas, La., states that a num- 

 ber of deals Involving lar^e sums of money have 

 been consummated there in the last week or so, 

 but no details are given. It is understood, how- 

 ever, that within a short time two or more im- 

 portant deals will be announced. 



A new firm has .just been organized here to 

 deal in lumber and building supplies. It will 

 make a specialty of hardwood interior finish. 

 The firm is the Home Lumber and Supply Com- 



pany, and the incorporators are W. H. Reed, 

 W. B. Harbeson and Hugh T. O'Connor. 



The Bates-Bussy Box Manufacturing Company 

 has been Incorporated here with an authorized 

 capital of $5,000. The company will manufac- 

 ture boxes of all kinds and buy and sell timber 

 land. Nicholas J. Bates, James J. Bussy and 

 Kreil Wahllg arc the incorporators. 



(.Kto Starcke of Hamburg, Germany, repre- 

 senting the lumber firm of (iossler Bros., lumber 

 importers of Hamburg, was in New Orleans re- 

 cently and In a short interview gave a com- 

 prehensive review of the export situation which 

 shows that there has not been and will probably 

 not be any break in the demand for lumber from 

 that sour<'e. Though the high prices demanded 

 by the .'\mci-lciin exporters ari' di-iving suaic of 

 the European buyers to the Hungarian and Rus- 

 sian forests, Mr. Starcke said, there is little 

 evidence that the American markets are being 

 affected thereby. Mr. Starcke expressed the be- 

 lief that it would be a blessing to America if 

 forests should become available which would les- 

 sen the terrible drain on the American timber 

 lands. He said he didn't believe this country 

 could stand ten years more of such timber cut- 

 ting as has been going on in the last five years. 

 Mr. Starcke also commented on what he said 

 was the sensational advance in the price of tim- 

 ber land in the South. 



That the claims made by European lumber im- 

 porters on shipments of American lumber may 

 result in the formation of a Bureau of Inspec- 

 tion which will pass upon the lumber before it 

 leaves American ports is said to be evident from 

 the stand taken in this- matter by the New 

 Orleans Lumber Exporters' Association and the 

 lumber exporters of the entire Gulf coast. It 

 is said that hardly a shipment is made to a 

 European buyer without being followed in due 

 course of time by a reclamation based upon al- 

 leged failure of the goods to come up to the 

 description. This claim is said to have de- 

 veloped into a confirmed habit and the Gulf 

 coast exporters are now looking about for a 

 remedy. The Bureau of Inspection is believed 

 to be the only panacea. 



Little Rock. 



Little Rock shippers and mill men generally 

 are elated over the recent action of the rail- 

 roads in restoring the "rough lumber" rates. 

 The practice of allowing a liberal shipping-m 

 rate to the mill, upon the tacit condition that 

 the same road should re-haul the finished 

 product, had been in effect throughout the 

 state as long as the lumber industry had been 

 established. Accordingly, when the roads gave 

 notice that the shipping-in rate would be put 

 on a commercial rate basis a howl went up 

 that finally resulted in an order from the rail- 

 road commission, sustaining the shippers. 



Ozark is jubilant over the prospect of the 

 location of a stave factory in that city. C. 

 H. Kieger and D. W. Kieger, of Indianapolis, 

 are backing the enterprise. They are to start 

 with a pay roll of $1,000 a week. 



The ITnion Furniture Company has been in- 

 corporated at LTnion. Ark., with a capital of 

 $25,000. George W. Ritchie. R. A. Whitelaw 

 and W. S. Beard are the incorporators. 



The Williams Cooperage Company of Leslie 

 has begun operating their plant, although 

 some fifty carloads of machinery are yet to 

 follow from Poplar Bluffs, Mo. This concern 

 was attracted to Leslie by the extension of 

 the Missouri & North Arkansas railroad, 

 which is opening up a splendid timber belt. 



The Hartzell Handle Company at Paragould 

 is running a double shift of men in order to 

 catch up with an overstock of timber. 



William LeMay will put in a veneering 

 plant at Alicia. Ark., where he has several 

 million feet of gum to work up. 



A. K. Goodnight will establish an excelsior 

 plant at Batesville. The plant is to have a 

 capacity of seven tons per day and will be 



erected at a cost ot $6,000. A box factory 

 will be added later. 



The Ozark Mining Company will establish a 

 sawmill on White river, near the mouth of 

 Buffalo. The plant will have a capacity of 

 25.000 feet per day. 



Jonesboro is experiencing a dearth ot mill 

 hands. At least a hundred men are needed 

 at the hardwood mills there, and the operators 

 have appealed to the business men's league 

 for assistance in securing labor. 



Additional lands, amounting to over 35,000 

 acres, have been withdrawn from entry, in 

 Polk and Yell counties. The purpose is to 

 devote the lands to forestry, as the tract ad- 

 joins the Arkansas national forest. 



One thousand eight hundred feet of addi- 

 tional track has been laid at Van Buren by 

 the Iron Mountain railway to accommodate 

 the United Walnut Log Company, and will 

 be held for the exclusive use of this concern. 

 The company have several million feet of 

 walnut logs anchored in the river at the foot 

 of the spur, which are to be used in their 

 mills at Fort Smith. 



The business men of Ola have secured a 

 stave factory for that place. The plant is to 

 be installed by an Indiana company and will 

 include an electric lighting plant for the city. 



Wausau. 



The J. W. ^^'ells Company of Menominee, 

 ilich.. has pur( based from the executors of the 

 estate of the late William Chase of Oconto. Wis., 

 4..'ieO acres of land in Marine" te county for 

 $122..560. Much of the land is heavily timbered 

 with hardwood, which will be cut and hauled to 

 the company's mills at Menominee and I)unbar. 



The Noblo-Corwln Lumber Company of Mil- 

 waukee is one of the late incorporations of Wis- 

 consin. It is capitalized at $81,000 and the in- 

 corporators are George P. Noble, Grace M, 

 Corwin and Edward T, Corwin. 



The T. B. Scott Lumber Company of Merrill 

 has donated to that city a park. 



J. Sumner Lombard has purchased 4,206 acres 

 of hardwood lands in Vilas county. The pur- 

 chase was made through A. M. Riley & Son of 

 Ithinelander. 



Work upon the new addition to the Upham 

 Manufacturing Company's furniture factory in 

 Marshfleld has begun. A two-story structure 

 will be erected. 



Guy Nash makes the statement in behalf of 

 the Nash Lumber Company of Shanagolden that 

 the company's mill, destro.ved by fire some time 

 ago. will be rebuilt at once. 



(t. W. Price of Crandon has gone Into the 

 wheel rim manufacturing linsiness. He has for 

 some time been manufacturing wooden pins for 

 the Bell Telephone Company. 



During an electrical storm recently the planing 

 mill and carpenter shop of the Shearer & Jar- 

 dine LumVier Company of Waupaca was destroyed 

 by fire. The loss on machinery, etc., to the 

 company was $6,000 and on doors and other 

 stock belonging to the Central Lumber Company 

 about $1,000. The plant will be rebuilt at once. 



The sawmill built and owned by the Schroeder 

 & Fondry Company, located on Post lake, was 

 recently sold at shcrift"s sale, the proceeds going 

 10 the creditors. The J. I. Case Company of 

 Racine took part of tite machinery and the rest 

 of the mill went to the Janson Lumber Company 

 of New London, which has handled the output 

 for the past two years. The mill's capacity was 

 from 12,000 to 15.000 feet per day. 



A company has been organized to operate the 

 Harrington Package Company's plant at Cran- 

 don. which manufactures elm can jackets, butter 

 dishes, etc. The incorporators of the new con- 

 cern are J. R. Harrington. Prances Harrington 

 and E. O. Woodbury. 



The Modern Manufacturing and Lumber Com- 

 pany is one of the late (irand Rapids companies 

 to organize. It is capitalized at $.50,000 and 

 the incorporators are James Hlckey. Peter Mitch- 



