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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The export rate situation is in ttie same 

 position as wben tlie new rate bill went into 

 effect and wliere export shipments of lumber 

 are beins made they are on local bills of lad- 

 ing to the ports and tlience on ocean bill of 

 lading. 'I'he cotton men are protesting vigor- 

 ,Misly against the withdrawal of the through 

 hill of lading and a committee has been ap- 

 pointed by the Memphis Cotton Exchange to 

 appear before the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission at Washington September 12. when a 

 ruling will be made by that body in regard 

 to export shipments of this commodity. Lum- 

 bermen here are awaiting with interest the out- 

 come of this meeting, because they feel that 

 the ruling of the commission with respect to 

 export rates on cotton will be broad enough 

 to cover shipments of lumber to foreign coun- 

 tries. The plan of shipping on local bill ot 

 lading entails considerable delay in drawing 

 against foreign shipments of lumber, because 

 it takes from three to five weelis to get thi' 

 ei-ean bill of lading back to Jlemphis, whicli 

 will prevent drawing against these shipments 

 for that or a greatei- length of time. 



The ratton-Tully Transportation Company, 

 capitalized at .flOO.dOO. has been granted a 

 charter under the laws of this state. The in- 

 corporators are; L. E. Patton. C. .1. Tully. S. H. 

 Anderson, C. E. I'attop and II. H. Anderson. 

 Mr Tnlly is vice-president of the Anderson- 

 Tullv Company : S. I!. Anderson is president 

 ,,f the same company, and I.. E. I'atton is a 

 prominent steamboat man of wide experience. 

 The c<impany is already doing business, but will 

 purchase more boats and enlarge its scope of 

 operations. It will handle both freight and 

 liassenger business and will make a specialty 

 of purchasing timber and hauling it to various 

 points along the Mississippi. Messrs. Ander- 

 sim and Tullv are the principal stockholders 

 in tlie Memphis Barge & Towing Company, 

 which has played an important part in the 

 bandling of river business of tlie Anderson- 

 Tully Company. 



The Ilrown-Uenderson Improvement & limbei 

 Companv of Nashville, Ark., has closed a deal 

 with the lUerks Lumber & Coal Company for 

 all the holdings of that lirm east ot the Saline 

 river and south of the Center Point & Lockes- 

 burg road, consisting of the timber on 0,000 

 acres of land, also 800 acres of land and the 

 timber thereon, Tlie I'onsideration was ap- 

 proximatelv $37,000. The purchasers announce 

 that they will establish a large plant at Nash- 

 ville. Ark. 



(leorge C. Ehemann of Heunott & \^ itte re- 

 turned a tew days ago from Cincinnati, where 

 he visited his mother, and the home office of bis 

 tirm. He has since left for a business trip to 



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S C Major of the S. C. Ma.ior Lumber Com- 

 pany returned a few days ago from an extended 

 trip to northern and northwestern lumber con- 

 suming centers, and is now looking after the. 

 interests of his firm in Arkansas. 



.T. W. McCIure of Thompson & McClure is 

 spending the week in Arkansas. 



L. B. Lesh of Lesh & Matthews of Chicago is 

 in the city. 



C W Stover, who went East some time ago 

 to look after the flotation of the bond issue 

 of the Corner Stone Lumber Company, capi- 

 talized at $:500.000, has returned to Memphis. 



W W. Knight of the Long-Knight Lumber 

 Companv. Indianapolis, and chairman of the 

 inspection bureau of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association, is here looking for lum- 

 ber for bis firm. 



New Orleans. 



Tlie first cargo of African mahogany that has 

 ever come through the port of New Orleans will 

 arrive here next week and will be shipped from 

 here to the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company ot 

 I ouisville. This announcement was made two 

 or three days ago by II. W. Mengel of this com- 

 pany, who, "was in the city. The company has 

 beeii shipping mahogany from Central American 

 points through New Orleans for several years, 

 but has never before brought its African timber 

 through tliis port. In a short interview regard- 

 ing the shipment of this mahogany Mr. Mengd 

 said • "We have secured extensive concessions 

 along the gold coast in Africa and as an experi- 

 ment have chartered a ship carrying over l.LoO.- 

 (Kin feet of maliogany to come to this port. If 



the experiment is a success we will establish a 

 regular line from Africa to New Orleans. It is 

 also the intention of my company to bring ma- 

 hogany from the Congo Free State through this 

 port if it is possible to arrange it. In the past 

 the only way in which we have been able to get 

 this Uiinber has been through the brokers in 

 I'.elgium. and the Belgian government has taken 

 almost all the profits. We want to branch out 

 and secure all the mahogany lands we can and 

 we expect to ship most of our timber through 

 New Orleans." Besides its African concessions 

 the Mengel company holds titles to extensive 

 mahogany lauds in British Honduras, Yucatan 

 and other Central American countries. 



One thousand mill employees are out of work 

 and seven big Lake Charles plants are idle as 

 the result of a strike which occurred in that 

 district Sept. 1. The strike immediately fol- 

 lowed the refusal of the mill 'owners and oper- 

 at(U-s to grant to tlie men a ten-hour day and a 

 weekly pay day. They are now working eleven 

 hours" per day." Perfect organization is said to 

 exist among them and it is stated that they will 

 hold to the last for their demands. So -far only 

 one of the mill owners has made any concession 

 to the men. C. U. Winterhalder. manager of the 

 L. B. Menefee mill has offered to give the men 

 a weekly pay day if they will withdraw their 

 demand for a ten-hour day. As yet the men 

 have not accepted this proposition. 



The rnion Manufacturing & Supply Company, 

 which will manufacture sawmill machinery, has 

 tiled articles of incorporation In Mississippi and 

 will 111' domiciled at Hattiesburg. It has a 

 capital stock of .f.'OO.OOii. The company will 

 have large shops at Hattiesburg. where sawmill 

 machinery of all descriptions will he manufac- 

 tured. A site has been secured and construc- 

 tion of the buildings will begin at once. The 

 incorporators are W. F. Post, O. R. S. Pool and 

 U. 1'. Anderson, representative citizens of Hat- 

 tiesburg, of long experience in the mill supply 

 business. Henry T. Tracey, .7. H. Whitehead. 

 Edgar .1. Clayton and others are also largely in- 

 terested. 



Advices from Satartia, Miss., state that be- 

 tween L'lO.OOo and 200,000 staves are now at 

 that place awaiting transportation to New Or- 

 leans. This town is in the heart of the stave 

 district of the Yazoo Basin and hundreds ot 

 thousands of staves are brought annually from 

 there to New Orleans. The presence of the 

 staves now awaiting transportation has dispelled 

 the belief that Satartia was about to take its 

 place on the retired list of stave centers. Tim- 

 ber lands which have already been worked over 

 several times are again being worked over for 

 staves.- It is admitted, however, that stave tim- 

 ber is becoming very scarce and the time is not 

 far distant when the wine cask manufacturer 

 will have to find some substitute for the stave 

 cask. 



A. L. Staples, receiver of the defunct Scran- 

 Ion State Bank, and a number of others have 

 petitioned the I'niled States courts in Missis- 

 sippi to declare J. T. White & Co.. a well known 

 lumber firm of Moss Point, Miss., bankrupt. 

 The petitioners allege that their claims against 

 the companv amount to .11.57.000 and that the 

 nrm is unable to meet its debts. I'nited States 

 Marshal Buckley has taken charge ot the assets 

 iif the tirm. 



The Home Lumber Company of Montrose. 

 Miss., has filed an amendment to its charter, in- 

 creasing its capital stock to .$10,000. 



At Marks. (Quitman county. Miss., the Uiver- 

 side Lumber Company lias been organized with 

 a capital of $10,000. 



Ashland, Ky. 



Mrs. I!. H. Vansant and children are sojourn- 

 ing at Pence Springs, W. Va. 



W. K. Vansant ot the W. U. Vansant Lumber 

 Company is very ill with typhoid fever. He 

 lias just returned from North Carolina, where 

 he had been on a big timber deal. 



A number of damage suits have been insti- 

 tuted by Chapman Fry of Huntington, W. ^ a., 

 a well known timberman. against <!. W. Sutter 

 and I.. Merrill, doing business as the L. Mer- 

 rill Lumber Company. The damages aggregate 

 $2."i.iioo. Three suits are in assumpsit and one 

 ciia'rging trespass on the case. The suits are 

 for alleged breaches ot contract and for im- 

 pairmi-nt of credit in lumber deals. 



Tbi' W. M. Uitter Lumber Ciunpany of Co- 

 lumbus. O.. has a big force of men at work ar 

 the mouth ot March Fork of Slab Creek, in 

 Wyoming county, West Virginia, clearing off 

 twenty acres of land upon whicli a town of sixty 

 commodious dwelling houses will be built. 



Hayes & Vansant have cut out all their hold- 

 ings on East Fork, some f.Oii.iioii feet of oak 

 timber and a little poplar. 



A large number nf ties have been purchased 

 in northeast Kentucky and in West Virginia by 

 the Panhandle and Pennsylvania railroads, and 

 they are lieing shipped at the rate of three to 

 live cars per day. 



Cliapman i'ry's log and lumber yard and saw- 

 mill located on" White's Creek, in Wayne county. 

 West Virginia, were washed away in a recent 

 storm and scarcely a stick of timber was left. 



\V. E. Berger of the W. H. Hawkins Lumber 

 Company of this city is at Atlantic City. N. J. 



Louisville. 



\lbert R. Kampf took a week off recently 

 and made a trip to his home in New York. 

 He says the demand for hardwood is active 

 ■\nd it is well for millmen not to be too anx- 

 ious to load up on orders for future delivery. 

 He says he has turned down lots of orders 

 that might have looked good a year ago, but 

 which are not up to his idea of market values 



Charles Gates of the Turner. Day & Wool- 

 worth Company, says the hickory handle 

 business is in good shape and prices on hick- 

 ory products are advancing. In tact, the only 

 so'urce of worry in the hickory business is to 

 get the raw material, but as this concern has 

 more of this already than any other institu- 

 tion in the country it is not doing much wor- 



W P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company has 

 been unusually busy getting stock in its yard 

 here as well as shipping out on orders the 

 past two months, and as a result it is" now 

 well fixed. The company has in its yard here 

 a heavier stock of lumber titan ever before 

 at this time of the year, especially in oak. 

 with a good string of orders ahead to work on. 

 The Kentucky Hardwood Flooring Company 

 is making good progress with its new plant 

 here and has already gotten in ciuite a bunch 

 of oak so as to be ready for business as soon 

 as the machinery is installed. 



James B. Hall. Clay City. Ky., prominent 

 as a beer stave manufacturer, aijd vice- 

 gerent for eastern Kentucky, held an un- 

 usually successful concatenation at Winches- 

 ter Friday night. August 31. There were 

 twenty-five kittens to be initiated from Jack- 

 .son a"nd Winchester. The twenty-five initi- 

 ates were hauled to the gardens of Hoo-Hoo 

 in four mammoth cages mounted on four 

 lumber wagons and were then given all that 

 was coming to them in the most approved 

 of bluegrass methods. 



The Brodhead-Garrett Lumber Company 

 has been more fortunate than most of the 

 river mills this year and has been able to 

 bring down logs on the summer tides right 

 along, so that it has not only kept running 

 steadily while other mills have had to close 

 for lack of logs, but has in booms now a 

 supply sufficient to last during the fall. 



The Capital Lumber Company, Frankfort. 

 Ky.. h.as rebuilt its planing mill recently de- 

 stroyed by fire on an enlarged scale and is 

 having a 'prosperous business. This company 

 operates a sawmill, planing mill and lumber 

 vard, the moving spirit being Ed Elliott, a 

 lumberman full of enterprise. 



J. W. Clarkson. Boxer. Ky., reports pretty 

 busy times up in the woods these days and 

 says he is expending all his thoughts ami 

 energies toward getting out hardwood lumber. 

 Most ot the product of his concern is handled 

 by the Linelian Lumber Company. Pitts- 

 burg, Pa. 



Wausau. 

 Ilollis and Krueger ot Wausau are erecting a 

 mill near Parish. Some years ago the Brooks 

 & Hoss Lumber Company cut all the pine timber 

 in that section, but left enough hardwood to 

 supply several mills for years to come. 



The largest timber deal consummated in the 

 North in years has been closed. Holland & 

 Graves ot Byng Inlet have purchased of the 

 Sarnia Bay "Lumber, Timber & Salt Company 

 live townships ot land of thirty-six square miles 



