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pany has gone to Mexico to look after the ship- 

 ment o£ sixty car loads of mahogany logs for 

 his company. They will be shipped by water 

 to New Orleans and then via the Queen &■ Cres- 

 cent to the mills of the company here. The 

 consignment is said to lie of the best grade of 

 mahogany. Last spring the company received a 

 shipment of some forty car loads and the qual- 

 ity impressed the members of the firm to such 

 an extent that they decided to reinvest. 



President Thomas .1. MoEfett of the Cincinnati 

 Terminal & Belt Line Company announces that 

 Engineer Hansel of New Yorlt will soon begin 

 the actual survey of the route and the other 

 necessary preliminary engineering work. The 

 company is empowered to do the preliminary 

 work, inchuling the obtaining of the franchises, 

 and later its scope will be enlarged so that it 

 may manage the actual construction and opera- 

 tion. J. H. Bleekman. the New York capitalist 

 who is interested in the financing of the com- 

 pany, is expected to be in Cincinnati next week. 

 The lumber business for the month of July, 

 as shown by the records of the Chamber of Com- 

 merce, while somewhat (|Uiet was still ahead of 

 that of last year. The total amount of cars re- 

 ceived that mouth amounted to 7.746, while last 

 year only G.IGO were received. The shipments 

 also show a gain ; tfiis year 5.547 were shipped, 

 last year 4.634. 



J. W. Darling of the Darling Lumber Company 

 has returned from a business and pleasure trip 

 to the South. 



M. B. Farrin of the M. B. Farrin Lumber 

 Company has gone east on a pleasure trip ac- 

 companied by his wife. Chester F. Korn of the 

 company has also gone away, but he was headed 

 south on a business trip. 



G. W. Goodner of Athens, Tenn., was in town 

 last week in conference with the T. B. Stone 

 Lumber Company, whose interests he looks after 

 at Athens. 



President Thomas .T. Motfett of the Cincinnati 

 Lumbermen's Club has announced the following 

 standing committees ; Law and Insurance — C. 

 F. Korn, chairman : T. B. Stone. F. M. Mow- 

 bray. H. H. Freiberg. B. F. Duiweber. Arbitra- 

 tion — B. A. kipp, chairman ; L. G. Banning. 

 M. Koesse, J. P. Ilanna, E. E. Beck. River and 

 Rail— W. A. Bennett, chairman ; S. W. Richey, 



B. F. Duiweber, L M. Asher, W. E. Delaney. 

 Transportation — A. D. McLeod. chairman ; C. F. 

 Shiels, C. H. Pease. James Buckley. C. Duhl- 

 meier. Credit and Term — S. W. Uichey, chair- 

 man ; I.. W. Radina. E. O. Robinson, R. Mc- 

 Cr.-icken. G. S. Stewart. Advertising — J. W. 

 Darling, chairman : W. J. Erkman, W. S. Stew- 

 art. Membership — J. Watt Graham, chairman ; 



C. F. Korn, J. W. Darling, L. H. Gage. A. V. 

 Jatkson. Entertainment — J. W. Littleford. 

 chairman ; C. F. Korn. J. Watt Craham. E. 

 Bobbins. S. ,W. Richey. 



W. 



Chattanooga. 



A petition in bankruptcy has been filed in 

 tl^e United States court here against James II. 

 Cranwell. a lumber manufacturer of Pikeville, 

 Tenn.. by the Second National Bank of Me- 

 chanicsburg. Pa. ; the First National Bank of 

 Gettysburg. Pa. : the Bauk of Landisburg, Pa., 

 and the People's Bank of Pikeville. The com- 

 plainants claim that Mr. Cranwell owes them 

 the following amounts: The Pikeville bank.. 

 1^2,000 ; the First National Bank of Gettysburg, 

 $1,800: the Mechanicsburg bank. $1,800. The 

 petition was filed through J. A. Strite, of Cham- 

 bersburg. Pa. 



J. M. Card, president of the J. M. Card Lum- 

 ber Company, has returned from a trip to south- 

 ern Alabama. 



W. O. Harter of the J. M. Card Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from a trip to Mississippi. 

 His wife, son and daughter will spend two years 

 in Europe soon, for the purpose of educating 

 the children. 



The Zack Taylor Lumber Company has en- 

 tered suit for damages against the Alabama 



Great Southern railroad on the nuub-talked-of 

 question of demurrage. 



St. Louis. 



N. A. Gladding of E. C. Atkins & Co.. Inc.. 

 Indianapolis, was a visitor at this market week 

 before last. 



Tom Moore of the Moore Company has been 

 spending his vacation in the vicinity of Benton 

 Harbor. Mich., and made several business trips 

 to Chicago and other northern cities while 

 absent. 



Geo. K. Smith, secretary of the National Lum- 

 ber Manufacturers' Association, has gone east 

 to finish out the summer season at his cottage 

 opposite Old Point Comfort. 



The Lothman Cypress Company is much 

 pleased with its present large stock ; with what 

 i^ in their yards and en route to them, they 

 have close to :!0,00n,000 feet. 



E. W. \Vei.se of the Thomas & Proetz Lumber 

 <'ompany is taking a much needed rest at As- 

 bury Park. N. J., and threatens to remain there 

 indefinitely, regardless of business or anything 

 else. Mr. Thomas expects to take a lake trip, 

 provided Mr. Wiese decides to return and take 

 up the burden once more. 



\X. W. Dings, secretary of the Garetson-Grea- 

 son Lumber Company, had a disagreeable expe- 

 rience in being robbed of his pocketbook. money 

 and valuable papers while asleep in his berth 

 on a Pullman train. He has begun suit against 

 the company. Another passenger was equally 

 unfortunate, losing a watch and purse the same 

 night. 



H. A. Singer, New York representative of the 

 American Hardwood Lumber Company, was in 

 the city last week. 



Dr. Herman von Schrenk has been chosen 

 supervisor of timber preservation for the Frisco 

 System. lie will have direct charge of treat- 

 ments given ties and other railroad timbers. 



The R. F. Krebs Lumber Company will build 

 an office on a site at Hall street and St. Louis 

 avenue. It contains about 50.000 square feet 

 along the Burlington track, and will permit the 

 unloading of twenty-five cars or more, and pil- 

 ing of 1,000,000 feet of lumber. This will 

 facilitate handling the company's rapidly in- 

 creasing business. 



The North Arkansas Land & Timber Com- 

 pany, capitalized at $10,000, and the Premium 

 Hardwood Company, capitalized at $25,000, have 

 been incorporated at St. Louis. P. Brown, W. 

 Ball and S. H. Wright are the principals of 

 the latter. 



A conference was held July 30 at the office 

 of the St. Louis East-bound Freight Committee 

 between traffic officials of the eastern and south- 

 ern lines and a committee representing the hard- 

 wood lumber interests. Traffic Commissioner 

 Coyle of the Business Men's League was pres- 

 ent, and the subject for discussion was transit 

 arrangements at St. Louis similar to the transit 

 regulations at Memphis on shipments east bound. 

 The lumbermen presented their side of the case, 

 and the railroad men said that the matter would 

 receive favorable consideration. Another meet- 

 ing will be held in the early future. 



Memphis. 



It would be difficult to imagine more favor- 

 able weather than has recently prevailed, at 

 least from the standpoint of producers of hard- 

 wood lumber. Rapid progress is reported in 

 getting out timber and in putting lumber on 

 sticks. It is doubtful if there has been a fort- 

 night within the past year during which so 

 much lumber was sawn as during the one end- 

 ing today. It is now regarded as practically 

 certain that there will be no scarcity of hard- 

 wood lumber to meet the requirements of fall 

 and winter. 



The Interstate Cooperage Company, which Is 

 a subsidiary corporation of the Standard Oil 

 Company, and which has a large cooperage plant 

 In Memphis, is building a heading mill at Bel- 



zoni. Miss. It recently acquired a large tract of 

 timber land in that section at an approximate 

 cost of $150,000. 



The Broughton Mantel Company is negotiat- 

 ing the sale of its plant and holdings in North 

 Memphis to the newly organized Memphis Can 

 Manufacturing Company. The mantel company 

 did not complete its plant in North Memphis 

 owing to the death of Mr. Broughton. who was 

 president and general manager. This accounts 

 for the sale of its property. There was very 

 little machinery connected with the plant, as 

 little of it had arrived before Mr. Broughton's 

 death. 



The Singer Manufacturing Company has pur- 

 chased 5.000 acres of timber land in St. Francis 

 County, Arkansas, and will take steps for its 

 development. The consideration is understood to 

 have been $100,000. The Singer Manufacturing 

 Company has made substantial additions to its 

 timber land holdings in Arkansas during the 

 past few months. Some of the timber on its 

 last purchase is now being barged to Cairo, 

 where the company is reported to be construct- 

 ing a large mill. 



The Rialto Lumber Company, which was re- 

 cently organized at Covington, Tenn., has elected 

 the following officers : W. S. Mayes, president : 

 W. H. Lindsey. vice president and general man- 

 ager : J. S. Malone. secretary, and W. E. Hall, 

 treasurer. The capital stock is $10,000. 



The Poinsett Lumber Company has been or- 

 ganized at llarrisburg, Ark., with a capital stock 

 of $1,000,000. The officers are : E. L. Real, 

 president : M. A. Satley, vice president : H. S. 

 Cody, secretary, and H. T. Raymond, treasurer. 

 It will be recalled that a short time ago Mr. Real 

 purchased from the Western Tie & Timber Com- 

 pany of St. Louis 28,000 acres of timber land at 

 an approximate cost of $800,000. The new com- 

 pany is formed for the development of this prop- 

 erty and it is understood that a large band mill 

 will he erected without delay. 



E. E. Goodlander. F. E. Gary and W. R. Barks- 

 dale have been named as a committee to make 

 recommendations regarding the entertainment of 

 the national convention of the Deep Waterways 

 Association, which will be held in this city 

 October 4-5. 



President Roosevelt will be present at the 

 convention and will talk on "Internal Water- 

 ways Improvement," of which he is a strong 

 advocate. There is much enthusiasm over the 

 subject of waterways improvement, and it is 

 expected that the convention will further the 

 cause considerably. 



It is announced that J. W. Thompson, presi- 

 dent of the J. W. Thompson Lumber Company, 

 and vice president of the Brasfield-Thompson 

 Lumber Company, will sail for Europe some 

 time this month. He will be accompanied by 

 Mrs. Thompson and by Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Pen- 

 rod of Xvansas City. C. J. Tully of the Ander- 

 son-Tully Company, and Rudolph Sondheimer of 

 the E. Sondheimer Company are already abroad. 

 F. Zupke of the Darnell-Taenzer Lumber Com- 

 pany is also on the continent looking after busi- 

 ness for his firm. He has been gone several 

 months. 



F. S. Hendrickson of the F. S. Hendrickson 

 Lumber Company, with headquarters in Chi- 

 cago, has been visiting the local office of that 

 company the past few days. This is in charge 

 of his brother. C. D. Hendrickson, who has been 

 quite prominently before the iumljer public dur- 

 ing the past few months as chairman of the 

 river and rail committee of the Lumbermen's 

 Club. 



The Business Men's Club is now comfortably 

 ensconced in its new ho^ne on Monroe avenue. 

 Many prominent lumbermen of this city are 

 members of that organization. W. B. Barksdale, 

 president of the Barksdale-Kellogg Lumber Com- 

 pany, being president of it. The building com- 

 mittee which had charge of the plans for the 

 new building has been discharged with thanks 

 by the directors. Prominent on this committee 



