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HARDWOOD RECORD 



pauy, which has its iieadquarters in the Tennes- 

 see Trust building here, has decided to rebuild 

 its plant at Dermott, Arli., which was burned 

 some time ago. The insurance loss has been 

 ndjusted and it is expected that worli will begin 

 at once. The company is engaged in the manu- 

 facture of staves for export. H. Katz is man- 

 ager of the interests of the company in this 

 section. 



Max Sondheimer, president of the E. Sond- 

 lieimer Company, sails from New York early 

 this week for an extended European trip. Ru- 

 dolph Sondheimer, secretary of the same com- 

 pany, has just returned to Memphis from his 

 wedding tour through Europe, much of which 

 was made in an automobile. Mr. Sondheimer 

 is looking remarkably well after bis delightful 

 trip. 



The Brastield-Thompson Lumber Company has 

 completed repairs at its hardwood mill at Bis- 

 coe. Ark., and this is now in operation. Mr. 

 Brasfield, president and general manager, has 

 just returned from Biscoe and reports that 

 good progress is being made in getting out oak, 

 ash. gum and other hardwoods. 



James L. Hale of Hale & Keiser has Just re- 

 turned from an extended trip to New York, 

 Washington, Buffalo. Jamestown exposition and 

 other eastern points. Mr. Hale reports that be 

 has an excellent stock of hardwood lumber on 

 hand and that his mills are making exception- 

 ally good progress. He operates plants in 

 Arkansas and Louisiana. 



Lee Fitzgerald, resident manager of the E. 

 Sondheimer Company at Cairo, 111., is in Mem- 

 phis. 



Warder C. Victor. trafiBc manager for the 

 lumber firm of Bennett & Witte, has returned 

 from his summer vacation, which was spent at 

 liis home in Cincinnati. 



0. P. Hurd of O. P. Ilurd, Jr.. & Co. of 

 Cairo, 111., has been circulating among lumber 

 interests of Memphis here this week. 



R. H. Fenn of the Fenn Brothers Company, 

 manufacturer of hardwood flooring, has just 

 returned from a trip to Chicago and other 

 northern points. His company Is getting out 

 a splendid line of flooring and is gradually ex- 

 tending its northern trade. 



S. B. Anderson, president of the Anderson- 

 Tully Company, bad a very narrow escape from 

 serious injury several days ago. He was driv- 

 ing his big touring car to his oflice in North 

 Memphis. He took his hand off the lever for 

 a moment and the machine swerved and ran 

 down a steep embankment. Mr. Anderson did 

 not leave the machine, but was very badly 

 shaken up. 



C. R. Ransom of the Gayoso Lumber Com- 

 pany has gone to Jamestown, New York and 

 other eastern points. 



The Bellgrade Lumber Company has begun 

 work on its railroad, which is being constructed 

 for the development of its timber interests near 

 Belzoni. The company had some difliculty in 

 securing the right of way and this held up the 

 building of its road for a time. Secretary 

 McClure states that work will be pushed as 

 rapidly as possible and suggests that the road, 

 which is to be three and a half miles long, will 

 be completed within thirty days. All rails 

 have been delivered and the engine has also 

 been turned over to the company at Belzoni. 

 The equipment will consist of one engine and 

 fourteen cars. 



The Interstate Cooperage Company, which 

 bought a large tract of timber land adjoining 

 that of the Bellgrade Lumber Company near 

 Belzoni, as announced in a recent issue of the 

 Hardwood Recced, has decided to build a tram 

 road from its timber holdings to Belzoni. where 

 a plant will be established. This concern is a 

 branch of the Standard Oil Company and will 

 manufacture much of the raw material at the 

 Belzoni plaut used in the finishing plant lo- 

 cated at Memphis. 



The Ford Hardwood Lumber Company, capi- 

 talized at $30,000, has made application for a 



charter under the laws of this state. The 

 domicile will be at Memphis. The company 

 will operate saw mills, planing mills and other 

 plants necessary to the handling of lumber in 

 both the rough and finished state. The incor- 

 porators are E. M. Ford, L. W. Ford, E. M. 

 Ford, Jr., W. C. Fowlkes and C. H. Trimble. 



New Orleans. 



The Gulf Coast Lumber Exporters' Associa- 

 tion, recently organized, held a meeting in this 

 city on Aug. 15. Vice-President J. H. Hinton 

 presided, while Secretary Thurley of the Mobile 

 Chamber of Commerce, acted as secretary. The 

 following applied for membership : 



C. W. Robinson Lumber Company, Flori6 

 .Tanovich & Co.. New Orleans ; Horace Turner 

 & Co., McDonald Land and Lumljer Company, 

 Mobile ; J. C. Pierson Company. Lumberton, 

 Miss. ; J. J. Newman Lumber Company. Hatties- 

 burg. Miss. : Turner & Baxter Lumber Company, 

 Gulfport, Miss. : Hand Lumber Company, Bay 

 Minette, Ala. ; Scotch Lumber Company, Fulton, 

 Ala. ; Wilmer Lumber Company, Wilmer, Ala. ; 

 Vinegar Bend Lumber Company, Vinegar Bend, 

 Ala. ; Joseph A. Kelly, Jasper, Tex. ; R. P. Vin- 

 cent Lumber Company, Mobile. 



The salaries of the permanent secretary and 

 chief of the grading and inspection bureau, both 

 of whom are yet to be selected, were discussed, 

 and it was decided to place the maximum at 

 .^3.000. The question of the association's per- 

 manent headquarters was brought up and J. H. 

 Gomilla proposed a change in the constitution 

 making New Orleans the domicile of the organ- 

 ization. This will be acted upon at the next 

 meeting. 



In the discussion of membership dues some 

 differences of opinion were developed. The 

 grading and inspection bareau which is to he 

 established will have to do with pitch pine lum- 

 ber exclusively, so that the pitch pine exporters 

 will reap the greatest benefits from the asso- 

 ciation work. The hardwood people stated that 

 they were perfectly contented with the present 

 iiardwood classification and inspection methods 

 and would not ask the association to establish 

 a hardwood bureau. They were willing to pay 

 such dues as the association might deem reason- 

 able, on account of the benefits they would reap 

 from other features of the association work, 

 but it was suggested that their dues be scaled 

 down in accordance with the limited advantages 

 to be reaped. The matter was referred to the 

 executive board for settlement. 



At a session of the executive board, held 

 immediately after adjournment, the secretary's 

 salary was fixed at $2,500 per year, of the 

 grading and inspection chief at $2,400 and it, 

 was decided to employ a European representa- 

 tive at from $4,000 to $5,000 annually. Pensa- 

 cola was named as the next meeting place and 

 the date was fixed for Sept. 14. 



The Farrin-Korn Lumber Company of Cin- 

 cinnati has purchased the plant of the Hoyt & 

 Woodin Manufacturing Company at Glendora, 

 Miss., and will convert it from a circular into 

 a band mill, with a capacity of 35,000 feet of 

 hardwood lumber daily. 



The Paradis Truck Farm Land Company of 

 I'aradis, La., w-ill. it is announced, establish a 

 saw mill and box factory. The company con- 

 trols about 15,000,000 feet of gum. cypress and 

 asii timber, which it proposes to manufacture. 



The Miles Planting and Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, which owns extensive plantation interests 

 in Ascension and St. James parishes, has sold 

 to a company headed by James Vernon Hoyt 

 of New York ail the standing timber on its 

 property, amounting to more than 200,000.000 

 feet of cypress and hardwood. The purchasers 

 have organized the Vacherie Lumber Company 

 and will establish a large mill at Vacherie, La., 

 to manufacture the timber. The purchase price 

 has not been made public. 



H. D. Turton of Belize, Central America, was 

 in the city last week. Mr. Turton is a mahog- 

 any dealer and tells a gloomy story of the de- 



pletion of Central American mahogany forests. 

 The industry has flourished in that territory 

 for years, but he states that it is only a ques- 

 tion of a few years now until the mahogany 

 in that immediate field will be entirely ex- 

 hausted and the mahogany industry will be- 

 come a thing of the past. 



S. E. Redfern, New Orleans representative 

 of the Panama Canal Commission, has issued 

 proposals for a large quantity of hardwood 

 lumber for canal work, in addition to about 

 10,000,000 feet of yellow pine. Bids will be 

 opened at Washington Sept. 3. This is, it is 

 said, the largest requisition for lumber issued 

 at any one time by the canal commission. 



According to the Louisiana State Board of 

 Equalization, there are 2,130,076 acres of Louisi- 

 ana lands that escaped the tax assessors this 

 year. The board has been making a careful 

 study of the various assessment rolls and on 

 casting up the aggregate acreage returned by 

 the assessors found that it amounted to 23.- 

 479,524, while the state's acreage, according to 

 the ofRcial map, totals 25,618,000 acres. An 

 attempt is being made to locate the fortunate 

 acres that have escaped taxation. The equal- 

 ization board is still hammering away on the 

 question of equalizing timber land assessments 

 and a definite decision is expected within the 

 next few days. 



Minneapolis. 



The regular monthly dinner of the Northwest- 

 ern Iiardwood Luml>ermen's Association at the 

 Minneapolis Commercial Club last week brought 

 out a good attendance. The situation was dis- 

 cussed in a general way and it was shown by the 

 universal testimony that wholesalers all' have 

 light stocks to go into the fail trade with. A 

 stiff maintenance of present prices, or some 

 further increase was generally predicted. 



E. I'aysou Smith of the Payson-Smith Lumbei' 

 Company returned this week from Annandale. a 

 well-known fishing resort west of Minneapolis, 

 where he spent a "week end" with his family, 

 making the round trip in his new motor car. 

 A. S. Bliss, office manager of the company, is 

 giving a trial to phonographs for the dictation 

 of letters, and is inclined to think that the ma- 

 chines will pay for their keep in the time they 

 save. He says business is a trifle slower this 

 month, but they feel quite certain of a good fall 

 trade. 



F. II. Lewis returned this week from an ex- 

 tended pleasure trip in the East. Mr. Lewis 

 spent most of his time on the Maine coast, and 

 was gone about five weeks. He returned much 

 rested and refreshed by the experience. 



C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark, one of the 

 veterans among twin city hardwood men, and one 

 of the best liked men in the business, has gone 

 through a severe attack of nervous prostration, 

 which confined him in the hospital for over a 

 week. lie has improved auflJciently to leave the 

 hospital and has gone down to Erie, 111., where 

 be has a farm. There he is resting and gaining 

 strength, and the quiet of the farm is just the 

 thing for him. He said that the flowers sent to 

 the hospital by the ot'uer hardwood men were one 

 of the big factors in his rapid improvement. 



The City Sash and Door Company of Minne- 

 apolis has started work on a fine concrete ware- 

 house on Fifth street, to take the place of the 

 old plant on Fourth street and Third avenue S. 

 It win be used to carry its main stock of hard- 

 wood finish, doors and mill work and building 

 paper. It will be a three-story building with 

 basement and will cost $40,000. It is expected 

 to occupy the new structure by Jan. 1. The old 

 warehouse on the eastside will be kept in opera- 

 tion, also the branch bouses at Sioux City, la., 

 and Minot. N. D. 



S. H. Davis of the S. H. Davis Lumber Com- 

 pany is back from an extended business trip to 

 the Pacific coast, where he made arrangements 

 to handle the stocks of several Inland Empire 

 mills. Mr. Davis will not release any of his 

 hardwood connections, however. 



