HARDWOOD RECORD 



The ■ music will cost about $2,000 and the 

 ICntortainment ("(-mmittee will need $3,O0i) to 

 $-1.11110 and the Uad^i' Cnmmiitee $1,500. Vaii 

 ous othei' small committei's. incidentals, clei-li 

 hire and the like will talie .'i;.-|.0(iO to SG.OOo 

 mure. This gives stjmo idea of wliere the large 

 amount of money will go. President Roosevelt 

 li.is ;ipijroved the plans arranged I'or his enter- 

 lainment here. Enthusiasm in the convention 

 iiintinues to grow and the idea is current that 

 it is to he the most imp(u-lant of its Icind ever 

 lield in this city and perhaps in the world. 



The car situation does not show any improve- 

 ment and there is very little prospect of devel- 

 opments of this character in the near future. 

 The congestion which has now made its appear- 

 ance is earlier than usual and is in advance of 

 the movement of cotton. • This staple will be- 

 gin to move freely throughout this territor.v 

 witliin the next two or three weeks and when 

 this Iiappens it is certain tliat the shortage of 

 cars, so pronounced now, will become even more 

 decided. Tlie railroads give tlie preference to 

 cidton over lumber and this is another feature 

 which tends to complicate tratHc matters. Some 

 advices from Mississippi and .\rkausas regard- 

 ing the scarcity of cars are discouraging and it 

 is beginning to appear as if the tratBc conges- 

 tion which was such a serious feature last 

 year will he strictly in evidence before fall 

 busineis.s gets well under way. The railroads 

 are doing what they can to relieve the situa- 

 tion. Tliey have placed orders for large num- 

 bers of cars and other equipment to be deliv- 

 ered and which will be received as early as 

 the car manufacturing plants can turn them 

 out. In the meantime manufacturers and whole- 

 salers are urging luiyers of lumber to place 

 their orders without delay so that the lumber 

 may be shipped before the situation becomes 

 more serious. 



On account of the large number of "bad 

 order" ears on the valley division of the St. 

 Louis. Iron Mountain and Southern, which is 

 resulting in much delay in the shipment of 

 freight, that road has let a contract to the St. 

 Louis Southwestern for the repair of 4,000 cars 

 at the fine Bluff shops of the latter. Twenty- 

 tive ca;"S will be furnished daily until the 

 order has been completed. The St. Louis South- 

 western maintains large shops at Pine Blnif 

 and a big car factory has recently been con- 

 structed at that point. The car repair shops 

 have found it necessary to increase their force 

 to about 1,000 persons. 



Negotiations are under wa.v between Memphis 

 and t'hicago capitalists for tlie establishment 

 of another large woodworking plant here. The 

 Chicago gentlemen are undecided whether to 

 build in Memphis or Caruthersville, Mo., where 

 many inducements have, been offered. The plant 

 will manufacture butchers' blocks, woodworking 

 rollers for various purposes, heavy log wagons 

 and similar lines. The company to be organ- 

 ized will be capitalized at from $40,000 to $50,- 

 000. Herbert Moore is in correspondence witli 

 the Chicago interests and he and several of 

 Iris associates will take stock in the company if 

 the plant is established in Memphis. 



A veneering plant will shortly be established 

 at Des Arc, Ark., by Indiana capitalists. It 

 will give employment to twenty-live or thirty 

 persons at the start and the capacity will grad- 

 uall.v be increased. The plant was located 

 through the efforts of Emmet Vaughan. cashier 

 of tile Des Arc Bank and Trust Company, w-ho 

 donated fifteen acres of land to the enterprise. 

 Application for a charter has been made by 

 the Halls Box and Lumber Company, which is 

 to have headquarters at Halls, Tenn., and which 

 is to be capitalized at $10,000. The incorpora- 

 tors are Charles II. Itieth, \V. 11. Tucker. Jr., 

 and others. 



The American Car and Foundry Compan.v, 

 which operates a car manufacturing plant at 

 Binghampton, a suburb of Memphis, is turning 

 out an avera?:e of 500 freight cars a month. 



Among the orders on hand now Is one for SOfO 

 liox tars for the Xashville, Chattanooga and St. 

 I.cjuis railroad and 1.000 for the Missouri Pa- 

 eilic system. The company is employing an 

 average of 1,200 men. 



The Co-operative Mill and Lumber Company 

 has established a yard in new South Memphis 

 near the liig plant of the McLean Lumber Com- 

 pany. \X. C. King will be in charge. C. J. 

 Lundberg, secretary and treasurer of the com- 

 pany, is identified with the Co-oi)erative Furni- 

 tui'e Company of Kockford, III. 



The Chi<'k;isaw Cooperage Company has pur- 

 chaseil 2,:;oii acres of hardwood timberland near 



Killiurn. La. 



New Orleans.. 

 Something of a mild sensation was sprung here 

 at the opening session of the semi-annual conven- 

 tion of the Retail Lumber Dealers' Association of 

 Louisiana and .Mississippi last Tuesday when a 

 motion inviting the Attorney General of Missis- 

 sippi to file suit to dissolve the organization was 

 made and unanimously adopted. This step was 

 taken in anticipation of the Attorney General's 

 avowed purpose to dissolve the association on the 

 ground that it is operating in violation of the 

 anti-trust laws of the state. The meeting in- 

 slructed the board of directors to secure counsel 

 to investigate the legality of the association, and 

 $1,500 was raised among the fifty delegates pres- 

 ent to defray the expenses of the legal action. 

 This is the result of the repeated charges against 

 the association that it is a trust and operating in 

 violation of anti-trust laws. 



Some business was done before final ad.)Ouru- 

 ment, notably the adoption of a resolution ex- 

 pressing confidence in the legality of the associa- 

 tion and the ability of its by-laws and constitution 

 to stand an anti-trust critsade. 



Lumbermen generally are manifesting a great 

 deal of interest in the enforcement of the new 

 scale of weights on lumber which has just been 

 provided for by the Louisiana Railroad Commis- 

 sion in an effort to establish some uniformity in 

 the matter of weighing lumber. The decision of 

 the commission was handed down in the case of 

 the Industrial Lumber Company et al. vs. a num- 

 ber of lumber-carrying roads in Louisiana. After 

 providing the scale of weights for the lumber the 

 commission's decision says: "It is further or- 

 dered that whenever a carload shipment of lum- 

 ber transported between points in Louisiana 

 moves over two or more track scales, whether the 

 shipment be a shipment over one railroad only 

 or over two or more railroads, the car shall be 

 weighed by the carrier at the first track scale 

 over whicli it passes en route to its destination 

 and the weight thus found shall be the weight 

 upon which freight charges are assessed ; provid- 

 ed, that in case of a dispute on the part of the 

 consignee as to the correctness of the weight the 

 carrier shall, whenever there are track scales 

 at the point of destination, upon the demand of 

 the consignee, reweigh the car, and if a differ- 

 ence is found in the two weights so ascertained 

 the freight bill shall be corrected to conform 

 with the last weight. For the service of reweigh- 

 ing a car the consignee shall pay the carrier per- 

 forming the service $2.50, and the shipper shall, 

 if an additional day is required by the delivering 

 carrier to reweigh the car, be allowed one day's 

 free time in addition to the free time allowed 

 under the car service rules as established by this 

 commission for the purpose of unloading." It is 

 provided that this order shall become effective 

 Oct. 1, 1907. 



The car service situation through this state 

 has grown steadily worse in the last fortnight 

 and the situation is reaching a very acute stage. 

 The interior demand for hardwoods is empha- 

 sizing the need for more cars and the manufac- 

 turers are doing everything they can to get the 

 rolling stock, but are meeting with very little 

 success. Hundreds of cars have been appropri- 

 ated to help move the cotton crop, while many 

 of the flats have been gathered in and crated 

 to handle sugar cane. The result is that the 



lumbermen stand very little chance of securing 

 any service that is worth anything for some time 

 to come. 



Advices from Alexandria. La., state that a Nor- 

 folk, Va., firm has purchased a good tract of hard- 

 wood timber near that place and will build a liig 

 hardwood mill near Alexandria that will employ 

 between 150 and 200 men. 



The Scott Land Association at Monroe, La., has 

 bought a quarter of a square of ground on Sev- 

 enth street, at Jlonroe, and will very soon erect 

 thereon a large wagon factory. The consider- 

 ation was $.3,500. 



The large finishing plant of the Dalton-Clark 

 Stave Company, at Winnfleld, La., and a large 

 quantity of finished staves were destroyed by 

 fire last week. The estimated loss is $20,000, 

 which is partly covered by insurance. The fire 

 started in the shaving room, and the watchman 

 of the plant, who was asleep, was nearly burni'd 

 to death. 



Cadillac, 



Up to within a few weeks before tile death 

 of D. F. Diggins, the Cnmmcr-Dlgglns Company 

 carried on its affairs as a partnership. In view 

 of the possible calamity which threatened Mr. 

 Diggins, a stock organization of the institution 

 was made, D. F. Diggins was elected president : 

 W. . L. Saunders, vice president and general 

 manager : \V. \V. Cummer, treasurer ; F. A. Dig- 

 gins, secretary and assistant treasurer. This 

 departure makes no difference in the conduct of 

 tlie affairs of tlie concern. 



The new general otRce building of Cobbs t.V 

 Mitchell, Inc., Mitchell Brothers Company, Cadil- 

 lac Chemical Company and Mitcheil-Diggins 

 Iron Company is nearing completion. It is one 

 of the handsomest office structures in the coun- 

 try and bears a close resemblance to a fine 

 library building. It is built of Bedford stone 

 and sand brick. The floors are consiructed of 

 tiling, hard maple and white (:ak. The various 

 rooms are all finished differentl.v. in the several 

 varieties of northern hardwoods and liemlock. 

 The building is equipped wilh a private tele- 

 phone system, lavatories, club rooms, dining 

 room and a complete liitchen. 



The new Mercy Hospital, the gift of the late 

 D. F. Diggins, which will be conducted by the 

 Little Sisters of the I'oor, is under roof, and 

 will be in readiness for occupancy within ninety 

 days. 



Tlie work on the new Y. M. C. A. building is 

 progressing rapidly and the walls are nearly 

 np. It will add one more to the already 

 large number of handsome buildings which or- 

 nament the city of Cadillac. 



The general trade in hardwood and hemlock 

 in this city is fair. There seems to be a slight 

 falling off in large orders for maple flooring, 

 but the aggregate of small orders is sufllcient 

 to keep three big plants here and at Jennings 

 running for many montlrs. 



The Cummer Manufacturing Company, special- 

 ists in the manufacture of patent fruit, veget- 

 able and egg crates, has had an immense busi- 

 r-i.ys during the j'ear, and their factory is still 

 \. orking to its utmost capacity. 



'The Cadillac Veneer Company reports excel- 

 lent business in both veneers and panels, taxing 

 il!' capacity of the plant. 



'the Cadillac Manufacturing Company, which 

 suffered severely by fire some months ago, has 

 its new concrete kilns nearl.v ready for use, and 

 li-' entire plant rehabilitated. This company 

 Hid not lose any time by reason of the fire, 

 and has filled its orders for heading with 

 promptness. The new plant will produce ten 

 larloads of heading weekly. 



Williams Brothers Company has been fully 

 occupied during the season in the , manufac- 

 ture of lumber and last-blocks at both its 

 Cadillac and Manton plants. The last-block 

 trade enjoyed by this concern Is a steady de- 

 mird on time orders. It is gradually increas- 

 !..,■ its lumber output. 



