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This purchase vhlually gives stockholders in 

 the Anderson-Tully Company control of the 

 slack cooperage industry of tliis city. 



The Chapraan-Uewey Lumber Company has 

 purchased a circular sawmill at Marked Tree. 

 Ark., and will convert this into a band saw-mill 

 with a daily capacity of about tJO.OOO feet. The 

 machinery has not yet been purchased but the 

 company is now securing estimates thereon and 

 bids will soon be asked for. 



Angus McNeil of the Corning Handle Company. 

 Corning, Ark., has purchased tlie old bos fac- 

 tory of the Marked Tree Lumber Company at 

 Marked Tree and is now making preparations for 

 operating this at an early date. Considerable 

 ash stumpage was secured at the time the plant 

 was purchased. 



The Chicago Mill & Lumber Company, which 

 is putting in a planing mill, sawmill, veneer 

 plant and bo.\ factory at or near lilytheville. 

 Ark., is maklntr rapid progress thereon and some 

 parts of the phiLt will be in readiness for opera- 

 tion within the ntxl few weeks. 



Harold Petri of Quintel & Petri, Antwerp. 

 Belgium, has arrived in Memphis, and it is un- 

 derstooti that he will remain here for some time. 

 Mr. Peti-i is well known to the local trade, hav- 

 ing had headquarters here for some years prior 

 to his return to Europe, two or more years ago. 



Max Sondheimer. president and general man- 

 ager of the K. Sondheimer Company, has been 

 east for some time. Rudolf Sondheimer. who 

 recently returned from a trip to Murope. is look- 

 ing after the busines's of the firm during his 

 brother's absence. , 



New Orleans. 



That New (iileans will receive large (luanti- 

 ties of the lumber manufactured by the new- 

 Mexican Chicle & Mahogany Company of Mexico. 

 and that two ships will be chartered in the 

 near future to handle the lumber, was recently 

 given out here by Dr. Lorenzo B. Spyer, a 

 w-ealthy ^lexican banker who is heavily inter- 

 ested in the new firm. He stated that the 

 Mexican Chicle & Mahogany Company is capi- 

 talized at .lil.000,000 and has a very 'large tim- 

 ber acreage in Quintano Koo territory. Yucatan, 

 covered mostly with oak and chicle growth and 

 some mahogany. ,7. S. Codifer and a number of 

 otlier New- Orleans people are interested, and 

 local headquarters w-ill be established with 

 Mr. Codifer in charge. This is the same com- 

 pan.v that proposes to introduce the chicle rail- 

 road tie into the -American market. I'his tie is 

 said to be much more durable than the cypress 

 tie : the average life of a chicle tie is said to 

 be more than thirty years. Dr. Spyer stated 

 that within tlie next w-eek or so the company 

 would start a big saw-mill on its propcn-ty and 

 that it n-ould shortly prepare a shipload of 

 chicle ties to be sent to the United States for 

 use on the railroads. 



John Koper has been appointed as receiver 

 for the Southw-estern Lumber & ExT>ort Com- 

 pany of New Orleans. Mr. Koper's bond has 

 been fixed at .$10,000 and he has taken charge 

 of the affairs of the concern. The appointment 

 of a receiver was brought about by the suit of 

 Charles E. & W. E. Peck, Ltd., who sued for 

 premiums alleged to be due on insurance poli- 

 cies and who charged that the defendant com- 

 pany was insolvent and unable to fulfill its 

 contracts and meet its debts. The president of 

 the company. George .Turgens, admitted to the 

 court that the company could not fulfill its con- 

 tracts and the receiver w-as appointed. 



A serious car shortage prevails throughout 

 this territory and advices received from points 

 in Louisiana and Mississippi state that the car 

 shortttge Is becoming alarming. It is stated 

 tliat iniless condithms improvi' a number of 

 failures in the lumber mills may result from 

 the fact that the mills are unable to market 

 their output. The Gulf & Ship Island road, 

 one of the principal lumber carrying roads in 

 Mississippi, was short more than 400 cars one 

 day recently. 



The new plant of the Brinker Wagon Manu- 

 facturing Company, at Washington avenue and 

 Claiborne street, I his city, will begin operations 

 Octolier 1. The company Is lapitalized at 

 $.j0.iioi) and its oflicers are: Frank Brinker, 

 president: Henry Stetfeldt. vice president; Ed. 

 Miller, secretary and treasurer. 



Plans are now being laid by the Decmer 

 Manufacturing Company of Weiisboro, Pa., to 



develop its 41.000 acres of oak and liardw-ood 

 limber land in Neshoba county, Mississippi. This 

 company is one of the largest timber holding 

 (-orporations in tiic state of Mississippi and 

 has close on to 400.000,000 feet of hardwood 

 limber on its big tract. It is proposed to erect 

 .-ind equip on the tract a mill of large capacity, 

 that tt-111 cost complete .$100,000. The tract is 

 near Philadelphia, the county seat of Neslioba 

 (-ounty. One of the principal ow-ners is ,T. L. 

 Snyder of Tioga county. Pennsylvania, and In- 

 will lake entire charge of the development of 

 the lands. He expects to begin work on the 

 big mill in a short time. 



liecenl ailvices from the .\ugola State Convict 

 l'"arni at -\ngola stale that quite a success has 

 been made there in manufacturing lumber. The 

 mill at Augola is cutting about ,S0,000 feet per 

 day and the convicts are proving excellent saw- 

 mill hands. It cosls comparatively little for 

 ihe slate to manufaclure this iuml)er and. inci- 

 ilmtally. it is not bolhered by labor questions. 



It. V. Turner and .John .T. Herlihy. lumbermen 

 i>f prominence at Taylorsvllle and Fenton. Mi.ss.. 

 r-ispectively, were in New Orleans last week. 



H. II. Welle. .Tr., of Mobile, and Hampton I). 

 I'hving of Northport. L. I., recently purchased 

 at Mobile, from .Tim Hand of the Hand Lumber 

 Company. 50.000 acres of fine timber land lo- 

 cated in the vicinity of Bay Minette, Ala. They 

 paid $147,000 for the land, w-hlch contains it 

 great deal of valuable hardwood timber. 



D. W. Walker, manager of the American 

 llardw-ood Lumber Company, has returned from 

 bis vacation and again taken charge of the 

 company's big plant at Southport. 



The Mexican steamship Oaxaca. Captain Ybar- 

 reto. consigned to the Otis Manufacturing Com- 

 l)any. arrived here yesterday with SOO mahog- 

 any h^gs. 



Ashland. 



The funeral of Ferdinand C. Fischer, presi- 

 dent of the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company, 

 Coal (Jrove, O., brought to Ashland many men 

 prominent in the lumber industry of the coun- 

 iry. The funeral was held from the home of 

 his brother-in-law, L. D. Davis, and the honor- 

 ary pallbearers were J. E. Defebaugh, editor of 

 I be American Lumberman; C. Crane of Cincin- 

 nati. W. H. Nigh, fronton; W. A. Smith, Cat- 

 lettsburg ; R. H. Vansant. Ashland : Clinton 

 Green, Cincinnati, and .1. W. Mayhew. Colum- 

 bus. 



The Baker & Spitler planing mill at Hunting- 

 ton, W. Va., has been transferred to the C. 

 .M. Calloway Lumber Company. The new com- 

 pany incorporates at $25,000. of w-hich .$15,000 

 is paid up stock. The change in management 

 has already begun. Mr. Calloway has been 

 engaged in the lumber business in Raleigh 

 county for some time, and has two large lum- 

 ber yards in that county as well as something 

 like S. 000. 000 feet of uncut timber to operate 

 oil. besides options on several thousand acres 

 of valuable timber laud. The largo timbers 

 which Mr. Calloway has been holding from lack 

 iif proper means to reach the market will be 

 shipped to lltintingtun and put into shape for 

 use by local builders in the l»ig Imildings now 

 in construction in that city. The mill will 

 make a large addition to the force of men al- 

 n>ady employed at the planing mill. 



Michael Eole.v. a leading citizen of Cork, Ire- 

 land, and haying timber interests in Logan 

 county. West Virginia, lias been a local vis- 

 itor. 



Lloyd Qneensberry of the C. M. Calloway 

 Lumber Company will remove soon to Central 

 City. W. Va.. to lake charge of the lumber plant 

 recently purchased from Baker & Spitler. 



The Giles Wright Ltimtier Company has pur- 

 chased the ,\Iabaii sawni'll at Chaffee, which 

 will be rebuilt and enlarged. The Ashland office 

 will be removed lo the mill about October 1. 



The Lock Haven Development Company of 

 Lock Haven. Wayne county. A\'est Virginia, has 

 been chartered (o manufacture timber, operate 

 railways and conduct stores. The capital stoi-k 

 is $100,000. The incorporators are ; .7. W. ^I. 

 Stewart. AI. F. Fleming. S. S. Willis. Loti Wil 

 son !im! Tliomas Boggess of Ashland. 



The Front street saw-mill at Gallipolis. O.. 

 oi)erated by William Mills, was l)urned down 

 iind valuable lumber destroyed. It was used as 

 a dimension mill, cutting up stock for chairs, 

 tables and a variety of stuff of that kind. The 



machinery and stock are estimated to have 

 been worth from $2,500 to $3,000. 



C. Crane & Co.. Ashland, Ky., lost several 

 thousand logs by a recent sudden flood in the 

 Guyandotte river. The greater part of them 

 were caught at Huntington, and the remainder 

 nearly all caught before they reached Ironton, O. 



Louisville. 



J. N. Struck & Itro., prominent planing mill 

 men here, who make a specialty of hardwood 

 trim, are now making a feature of the red gum 

 door, which they call the "Struck-it." It Is a 

 built-up veneered door, furnished either in the 

 natural finish or stained, and seems to be meet- 

 ing with favor. 



F. M. Platter, who was in town from North 

 \'ernon. Ind., last week looking after affairs at 

 the mill of the Platter-Powell Company here, 

 says the company has all the orders for hard- 

 wood it can take care of. 



The Stotz Lumber Company says it has com- 

 lileted the grading on its new yard and expects 

 Ihe architect to have plans completed for the 

 new flooring plant in a few days. The demands 

 in hardwoods have been very active and the 

 company has its hands full taking care of or- 

 ders. 



.\lbert It. Kampt had the misfortune to lose his 

 .\uburn saw-mill by tire Thursday, September 13. 

 The loss is about $5,000. with no insurance, and 

 at this writing Jlr. Kampf has not decided 

 whether he w-ill rebuild the mill at Auburn or 

 go out into the country iwai-er the timber when 

 he sets it to work again. 



Will McLean has just returned from a trip up 

 among his Canada timiier holdings. He was 

 accompanied by Edw-ard L. fiavis and a few 

 others. While in the woods the party enjoyed 

 several days' fishing and all report a rery 

 enjoyable time. In regard to business, Mr. 

 McLean says they have lots of orders for lum- 

 ber, flooring and everything else and are kept 

 busy all the time. 



Edward L. Davis reports they are building 

 another sawmill down in the country about 

 twenty miles from Glasgow, Ky., where they 

 have bought several million feet of timber, 

 mostly white oak. He says the demand for 

 hardwood is excellent, and they are up to their 

 eyes in work. The Berry-Davis Saw Mill Com- 

 pany has been making some extensive improve- 

 ments to their pow-er plant here. 



Minneapolis. 



Minneapolis lumljei-men are the incorpcn-alors 

 of the Hawkins Lumber & Land Company, which 

 has just been organized with $50,000 capital, 

 and will build a mill to manufacture its timber 

 at Hawkins, Wis. The mill will be in operation 

 this winter and by next spring will have on 

 the market a stock of maple, elm. birch and 

 hasswood lumber. The company has extensive 

 hardwood holdings tributary to the mill. It is 

 incorporated by W. F. Meader, M. C. Meader, 

 George F. Meader and George C. Farnham. 



C. P. Coon, the w-ell known manufacturer of 

 Glen Flora, Wis., was in Minneapolis on busi- 

 ness a few days ago. He says many woodsmen 

 have left the Wisconsin camps to find what 

 they think will be better conditions on the 

 Pacific coast. Men will be scarce in the hard- 

 wood camps this winter, and wages will be 

 higher than ever. 



The Radford Sash & Door Company of Chicago 

 and the allied interests at Oshkosh, Wis., and 

 Duluth, Minn., have opened a sales ofiice In 

 this cit.y in charge of L. B. Craven, an expe- 

 rienced traveling salesman for sash and door 

 products. 



Albert La Bergc. a manufacturer of hai'd- 

 wood and hemlock luml)er at Stelsonville, Wis., 

 was a business visitor in .Minneapolis a few days 

 ago. 



I). F. Clark, of Osborne & Clark, the Minne- 

 apolis wholesalers, says that business w-ith them 

 is not above Hie averttge for this time of year, 

 but is satisfactory. There is an ample supply 

 iif birch on the market, btit beyond .a doubt 

 tliere w-ill be a market between now and spring 

 for all the hardw-ood now on hand. There 

 seems to be an Increased use of oak for finish 

 and in veneer work, and practically all of it 

 is coming from the South. 



E. Payson Smith of the Payson Smith Lum- 

 ber Comp.any has returned from a trip to Chi- 



