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HARDWOOD RECORD 



wiTi' S. B. Anderson, president of the Anderson- 

 Tully Company, and W. II. Kusse of Russe & 

 Ilurgess. 



nispntohes received here from Malvern, Arlt., 

 state that the sawmill, planer and about 200.000 

 J'lM't of lumber belonging to .T. T. Chamberlain 

 were burned several nights ago. The loss is 

 estimated at §4.000 ; no insurance. 



The Cannon-Wheat Lumber Company has filed 

 .Trticles of incorporation at Fort Smith. Ark. 

 The capital stock is $1.50.000. The company 

 will engage in the lumber business and also in 

 buying and selling timber and timber lands. 

 I.. S. Cannon and \V. J. Wheat are among the 

 incorporators. Sixty thousand dollars of com- 

 mon stock has already been subscribed. 



The North Mississippi Lumber Company, of 

 wliich E. B. Causey of Memphis is president, is 

 installing a large sawmill, eijuiijped with resaw, 

 n( Corinth, Miss., and this will be ready for 

 operation about the middle of September. The 

 daily capacity is to be lOO.OOd feet. The coui- 

 liany controls about 200.000,0(10 feet of yellow 

 pine, poplar and hardwood about thirty miles 

 fiom Corinth on the new line being constructed 

 by the Illinois Central between Corinth and Bir- 

 mingham. It has options on about 400.000.000 

 feet more and these may be e-xercised in the near 

 future. The company has headc]uarters in the 

 Tennessee Trust building here. K. B. Causey 

 is looking after the installation of the new 

 plant. The other officers are .1. W. Draughon, 

 \'ce president, and J. H. Draughon. secretary 

 and treasurer. 



The new hardwood firm of Gibson & Whitaker, 

 in Xew South Memphis, will receive its resaw 

 cijuipment by the end of the current week and 

 will have-^his ready for operation by Aug. 15, 

 .\ veneer plant is to be installed also but ma- 

 rliinery for this lias not yet been selected. 



W. R. Barksdale. president of the Barksdale- 

 Kellogg Lumber C(^mi)any. is visiting New^ York, 

 Chicago, Boston, I'hiladelphia. Baltimore and 

 other Xorthern and Eastern pt)ints. He is com- 

 bining business and pleasure and will be gone for 

 a couple of weeks. 



.Thomas W. Fry. secretary of the Charles F. 

 Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber Company of St. 

 Louis, was in Memphis a few days ago circulat- 

 ing among the lumber interests of this city. 



Charles B. Stetson of the Standard Lumber 

 Compan.v has been visiting the Northern and 

 Western markets recently. 



The committee in charge of the entertainment 

 of the national convention of the Deep Water- 

 ways Association, which holds its annual con- 

 vention her* October 4-5, gave an informal ban- 

 fiuet at the Business Men's Club last evening, 

 ('overs were laid for about 100 and W. H. Russe, 

 chairman of the general committee, presided. 

 I'rominent among the speakers was .lohn A. Fox. 

 special representative of the National Rivers and 

 llardwtiod Congress, who reviewed the deep 

 waterways movement and who pleased his hear- 

 ers with his enthusiastic declaration regarding 

 the rapidity with which the plan of improving 

 internal waterways is being accepted by the 

 people in every part of the coitntry. Other 

 very interesting speeches were given and marked 

 enthusiasm prevailed. 



The impression at the close of the meeting 

 was that while much work remained to be done, 

 there would be no diffic-ulty in securing the 

 necessary money for the entertainment of 2.000 

 distinguished guests of the city at the comin;.;- 

 convention. 



Ross & Atley of Cincinnati, who have been 

 operating a circular hardwood mill at Heth, 

 Ark., are preparing to erect a large band mill 

 at that point. w-Iiich is one of the termini of the 

 <'rittenden railroad, running from Earl to Iletb, 

 of which F. E. Stonebraker is president and gen- 

 eral manager. 



The Heth Improvement Company has been 

 formed, with headquarters at Heth, for the ex- 

 ploitation of property at that point. James R. 

 Blair. Western manager for the L. H. Gage 

 Lumber i'ompnny. is one of the incorporators. 



The Oilchrist-Fordney Company, which some 

 time ago acquired the plant of the Kingston 

 Lumber Company at Laurel. Miss., and which 

 bought large quantities of timber lands in that 

 section, will handle some of the output of the 

 mill through its ofBces at Memphis which are 

 maintained in connection with those of the W. E. 

 Smith Lumber Company and the Three States 

 Lumber Company. W. II. Greble is in charge of 

 the yellow pine end of the business. 



New Orleans. 



Theodore Kuntz. manufafturer of sewing ma- 

 chine tables, is looking for a desirable hardwood 

 tract in Louisiana near which to establish u 

 big branch of his already extensive operations. 

 Mr. Kuntz's representatives have been in this 

 territory for some time and have been negotiat- 

 ing for certain pieces of timber land. T'p to now 

 the prices have proven too fancy for them, how- 

 ever, and no sale has been announced. There 

 is a great deal of land such as Mr. Kuntz desires 

 in Louisiana and there is said to be a strong 

 probability that he will not be long in coming 

 down this way. 



Agitation over the matter of equalizing the 

 conditions under which the lumber exp(U*ters of 

 the Gulf coast shall make foreign shipments of 

 lumber has finally resulted in the organization 

 of the Gulf Coast Lumber Exporters' Associa- 

 tion, which was created at a meeting of ex- 

 porters held at Mobile late in July. Robert 

 Hunter of Hunter. Benn & Co. of Mobile was 

 made the first president of the association and 

 the other officers selected are : J. IL Hinton 

 of Camp & Hinton, New Orleans, vice presi- 

 dent, and J. T. McKean. treasurer. The rolls at 

 the meeting of July 30 showed a total of thirty- 

 six members. Of these twenty-one were added 

 at the last meeting. They were distributed as 

 follows: (iulfport. 10; Mobile, 3; New Orleans. 

 4, and I'ensacola 4. Officers and directors for 

 the various ports were named as follows : Ten- 

 sacola, W. L. Wittich, vice president ; Gus Eit- 

 zen, director. Mobile, E. C. Ganahl, vice presi- 

 dent ; K. Carter Jr., director. Gulfport. L. 

 Thayer, vice president : W. W. Syfan. director. 

 New Orleans. Hugo Forchheimer, vice president : 

 E. R. Dumont. director. The object of this 

 new association is to better protect the inter- 

 ests of the Gulf coast lumbermen. The matter 

 of reclamation from abroad and a system of in- 

 spection for this side will be about the most 

 important proposition to be considered by the 

 new organization and there is said to he a 

 strong probability that an inspection bureau will 

 be created with a view to establishing the grad- 

 ing and condition of the lumber before it is 

 shipped frcuu this side. The object of this will 

 be to stop the reclamation made by the Euro- 

 pean buyers. This inspection bureau, it is an- 

 ticipated, ■n'ill not be long in materializing. The 

 general Gulf coast classification will govern all 

 shipments made by members of the association. 

 An effort will be made to get the Texas lumber 

 exporters into the association, and with that 

 in view the next meeting of the new association 

 will be held in New t)rleans August 1.") at 

 2 p. m. 



W. r. Stewart Jr.. E. C. Rowan, W. B. Terry. 

 Robert Arnold. J. W. Rowan and H. P. Ficken 

 have incorporated the Bogalusa Lumber Com- 

 pany at Bogalusa. this state, and will manufac- 

 ture flooiing, ceiling, staves, etc. 



The American Manufacturing Company, which 

 operates a large woodworking plant here, is pre- 

 paring to expend several thousand dollars in 

 making additions to its plant and in installing 

 new machiner.v. 



The Caldwell-Logan Company. Ltd., has been 

 organized at Robeline, La., with an authorized 

 capital of .f.'iO.OOO. J. L. Logan is president, 

 J. E. Caldwell vice president, and T. J. Cald- 

 well secretary-treasurer. 



A new lumber company has been organized at 

 Shreveport. in the hardwood district of this 

 state. It is the N. A. Ayers Lumber Company, 



capitalized at ,|73,000, and its charter has just 

 been filed. N. A. Ayers is president of the con- 

 cern. ^__^^^ 



Minneapolis. 



The proposed advance in easthound lumber 

 rates from the Pacific coast has stirred the 

 hardwood men here again, and they are once 

 more talking about the prohibitive westbound 

 rate. While the roads are charging 40 cents 

 a hundred for fir and 50 cents for cedar, east- 

 bound, and proposing a ten-cent advance, they 

 maintain a westbound rate from the Twin 

 Cities of S5 cents, which practically shuts hard- 

 wood lumber from the Mississippi valley out of 

 Coast territory. Tlie special committee named 

 to represent the dilTerent hardwood associations 

 has labored with the transportation officials to 

 no purpose, the matter being brought up at in- 

 tervals for a number of years. The chairman 

 of this committee is E. P. Arpln of Grand 

 Rapids, Wis. The other members include O. O. 

 Agler, Chicago ; John Pritchard, Indianapolis ; 

 D. F. Clark, Minneapolis, and G. J. Landeck, 

 Milwaukee. Mr. Clark says that with a 50-cent 

 rate west, hardwood dealers could build up a 

 trade on the west coast, where most of the 

 hardwood now has to be imported from Japan 

 and other countries. James J. Hill defends 

 the advance in eastbound rates on the score 

 that lumber business has developed beyond 

 everything else, and that cars have to be hauled 

 empty west in order to supply the demand. He 

 figures that it costs $280 on an average to 

 haul a car for the round trip, and that 50,000 

 pounds of lumber at 40 cents only brings in 

 ,11200, a loss of $80 on each car. The hard- 

 wood men point out that by granting a 50-cent 

 rate westward the roads could load some of 

 those empty cars and get a revenue of .$250 on 

 each westward haul, which added to the $200 

 coming east would mean $450. a profit of $170 

 for the trip, on Mr. Hill's figures. The com- 

 mittee will probably renew its efforts, urging 

 that a reduction in rates would develop a 

 liroHtable line of westbound freight. 



E. Payson Smith of the Payson Smith Lum- 

 ber Company is just back from Milwaukee, 

 where he went to meet his new White Steamer, 

 and made the run back to Minneapolis in the 

 machine, as a trial trip. He was laid up at 

 Elroy for a while with a puncture. A. S. Bliss 

 of the same company returned a few days ago 

 from a vacation trip. He went down on one 

 of the .\nchor Line boats from Duluth to Buf- 

 falo and Cleveland, stopping two days in the 

 latter city, where he was formerly located with 

 the Advance Lumber Company. He also stopped 

 at Detroit on his return. George S. Agnew, 

 traveling representative of the company, is now 

 on a fishing trip, which is his idea of a good 

 vacation. 



F. H. Lewis, the welt-known hardwood whole- 

 saler, is enjoying a vacation trip down in 

 Maine. Mr. Lewis was considerably upset by 

 the untimely death of his efficient salesman, 

 Max Liftman. 



P. R. Hamilton of the Minneapolis Lumber 

 Company is back from an extended business 

 trip among the Wisconsin mills. 



G. W. Everts of the G. W. Everts Lumber 

 Company, a well known hardwood wholesale 

 concern of this city, is one of the incorporators 

 of the Works-Everts Lumber Company, just or- 

 ganized here with $50,000 capital. It will en- 

 gage first in the wholesale business in northern 

 Minnesota lumber, and later in manufacturing. 

 Mr. Everts' associates are S. D. Works, a well- 

 known lumberman and land dealer of Mankato, 

 Minn., and F. E. Tallant. a prominent merchant 

 of Minneapolis. 



The R. L. Frome Veneer & Cheesebox Com- 

 pany, of Howard's Grove, Wis., has established 

 a branch plant at Rice Lake, Wis., where it will 

 turn out hardwood lumber and veneer as well 

 as cheese boxes. The branch is in operation 



