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lachian foi-est reserve in east Tennessee. The 

 measure calls tor an appropriation ot $3,000,000 

 to inaugurate the work. The entire Tennessee 

 delegation went to Washington to appear before 

 the house rommittee, and while there called on 

 President Uoosevelt. who is heartily in favor 

 of the reserve. Dr. Glenn says that the need 

 of this reserve is apparent and he is confident that 

 congress will make the necessary appropriation 

 at the December session. 



Memphis. 



S. Winner, vice president and general manager 

 of the American Art Wood Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, has gone to Europe tor a business trip of 

 about four or five weeks to look after the in- 

 terests of the corporation. The company's plant, 

 which was erected here for the manufacture of 

 lumber, colored in the log, for use in the making 

 of picture frames, cabinets and specialties where 

 fancy material is required, is now in operation 

 and is turning out a product which is satisfac- 

 tory to stockholders. 



The t'. D. Kelly Lumber Company of Texar- 

 kana, Ark., has been placed in the hands of H. 

 G. McBriney of Texarkana and Judge Leon 

 Lippuian of Newport, Ark., as receivers, and 

 will be operated by these gentlemen for the 

 benefit of creditors until July 7. when it will be 

 sold. The company was the largest creditor of 

 the Bank of Newport. Newport. Ark., which failed 

 some time ago, the failure being directly due 

 to the inability of the company to take up its 

 maturing paper. The management attributes 

 this condition to the inability to operate the 

 plant at lloman, Ark., because ot the excessive 

 rains for the past eighteen months. The 

 president of the company asserts that It would 

 be able to pay out with favorable weather, esti- 

 mating the assets at $180,000 and the liabilities 

 at only $140,000. Its holdings consist of the mill 

 at Homau. a G-mile standard gauge railroad, 

 valuable timber land holdings and leases on 

 timber property in that section. 



The Cottonwood interests in this city estimate 

 that the recent rise in the Mississippi, the most 

 pronounced in two year.s, brought out only about 

 5,000,000 feet of cottonwood timber, the bulk 

 of which went to two manufacturers on Wolf 

 river, North Memphis. This is only a very small 

 proportion of what should have come out, and 

 this condition is attributed to the scarcity of 

 labor, the decreasing supply of cottonwood tim- 

 ber and the unfavorable weather which has pre- 

 vailed for a number of months in the cottonwood 

 section of the Mississippi valley. The amount 

 of other woods floated out on this rise was also 

 exceptionally limited. 



An interurban electric line will lie built from 

 Memphis to Clarksdale. Miss., paralleling the 

 Yazoo & Mississippi Valley portion of the Illi- 

 nois Central system the greater part of the 

 distance. The company is capitalized at $100,- 

 000 and is beaded by Thomas Taggart of Indian- 

 apolis, Ind., as president. The company pro- 

 poses to operate cars for both passenger and 

 freight trafRc. and it is felt by lumber interests 

 here, owning property in the delta, that the road 

 will prove an important factor in the develop- 

 ment of the timber resources of this section. 



The riue Bluff Lumber & Veneer Company. 

 Pine Bluff, Ark., has filed a certificate with the 

 secretary of state showing a decrease from 

 $100,000 to $50,000 in its capital stock. 



The Wolverine Manufacturing Company, a 

 Michigan corporation, is constructing a dimen- 

 sion mill in South Memphis for the manufacture 

 of stock to be shipped to Michigan for the 

 manufacture ot center tables, cabinets, furniture 

 and numerous hardwood specialties. 



Sparks from a passing locomotive a few days 

 ago caused a fire in the yards ot the Sheflield 

 (Ala.) Furniture Company, which destroyed a 

 considerable quantity of lumber and entailed a 

 loss of about $7,000. uninsured. The main plant 

 W.1S saved by heroic work on tlie part of the 

 fire department. 



The Plummer Lumber Company of St. Louis 

 has been awarded damages in the sum of $4,500 

 against W. K. Canaday in the federal court at 

 Jackson, Jliss. Tlie suit was brought to enforce 

 a contract for hardwood timber to be furnished 

 by Mr. Canaday. who, it is alleged, failed to 

 comply with the terms agreed upon. The suit 

 was for between $8.~>.000 and $40,000. 



The Corner Stone Lumber Company has been in- 

 corporated with a capital stock ot $350,000, one 

 of the largest companies that has been launched in 

 Tennessee for a number of months. The incor- 

 porators are : W. M. Pretorious ot Pine Bluff, 

 Ark., a member of the Mann & Giranflo Land & 

 Lumber Company at New Madrid. Mo. : C. D. 

 Codlingtou ot Pittsburg, formerly manager of 

 the Montana Lumljer Manufacturing Company at 

 Butte. Mont. ; N. N. Thompson of Memphis ; 

 C. W. Stover, president of the Stover Lumber 

 Company and a director and stockholder in the 

 Guirl-Stover Lumber Company. Memphis: T. S. 

 Estabrook of the Eslabrook-Skeele Lumber Com- 

 pany, Chicago, and Edgar G. Stover of the Stover 

 Lumber Company, Memphis. Tlie company is 

 preparing to make a large bond issue, consisting 

 ot twenty year five per cent gold bonds, which 

 will be placed on the market soon. It owns 

 15,000 acres of hardwood timber lands on the 

 Uob Roy (Ark.) branch of the St. Louis South- 

 western (Cotton Belt) railroad and will put in 

 a large band saw mill for the development ot 

 these resources. The headquarters of the com- 

 pany will be at Memphis. 



Plans are under way looking to a reorganiza- 

 tion of the Guirl-Stover Lumber Company, but 

 details are not yet obtainable. 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company has com- 

 pleted one of (he handsomest mills in this city, 

 with a daily capacity of about 50.000 feet. It is 

 a .band mill with resaw, and is now in opera- 

 tion with E. R. McKnight and O. M. Krebs in 

 charge. The plant is located in New South 

 Jleniphis. 



E. K. McKnight and O. M. Krebs, managers of 

 the Hugh McLean Lumber Companys' plant here, 

 have joined the Lumbermen's Club ot Memphis. 

 J. XL Pritchard of the Long-Knight Lumber Com- 

 pany ot Indianapolis. Ind., has also become a 

 member ot this organization, thus carrying the 

 total around eighty, the highest in the history 

 of the club. 



Secretary George C. Ehemann of the Lumber- 

 men's Club is authority for the statement that 

 the club has secured, through subscriptions 

 from its membership, about $1,000 for the bene- 

 fit of San Francisco sufferers. 



R. J. Darnell for the past few days has lieen 

 looking after his interests in Mississippi and 

 Arkansas. 



W. A. Bennett of Bennett & Witte, who re- 

 mained here after the convention of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, has returned 

 to Cincinnati. 



Ashland, Ky. 



The J. R. Drouey Lumber Company of Island 

 Lick has been incorporated under the laws of 

 West Virginia. The incorporators are J. R. 

 Droney ot Clean. N. T., L. M. McClinty. H. H. 

 Clayes. J. W. Sullivan and C. A. Yeager of 

 Marlinton. W. Va. The capital stock is $200.- 

 oon. 



The R. G. Page Lumber Company of Soutli 

 Bend. Ind., has leased land in this city from 

 the C. & O., on which will be established a 

 large wholesale lumber yard. It is said negotia- 

 tions are on for one of the local planing mills, 

 but for the present the busine.ss will be con- 

 fined to buying lumber from the country mills 

 and reshipping in mixed carload lots. 



James W. Burns ot Catlettsburg and King 

 Burchett of Zelda, Ky., have formed a partner- 

 ship under the firm name of Burchett & Burns 

 to carry on a lumber business at Boone's Camp, 

 Johnson County, and are putting up several big 

 saw mills with a commissary in connection. 



R. II. Vansant is at Hot Springs, Ark., for 

 a month's stay. 



AVhat is said to be the largest log ever floated 

 down the Big Sandy has recently been sold to 

 The General Lumber Company of Columbus, O. 

 The log is a sycamore and was cut high up 

 in the mountains of West Virginia. It is 54 

 feet long and 59 inches in diameter at the 

 smailei' end, and it is estimated will cut 10,000 

 feet of lumber. The log will be quarter-sawed. 



11. J. Millies, a prominent lumber dealer of 

 Ironton. O., died recently after a long illness of 

 cancer of the stomach. Mr. Millies was born 

 in Chicago 57 years ago. and came to this sec- 

 tion in 18.80 with the Chicago Lumber Com- 

 pany, now the Yellow Poplar Lumber (Company 

 of Coal Grove. O. Of late years he has been In 

 business for himself and was identified with all 

 leading mtivements. 



F. C. Fischer of Tryoii. N. C.. is here look- 

 ing after the interests ot the Yellow Poplar 

 Company of Coal Grove, O. 



Clarence Crowell has gone to Tunica. Miss., 

 to engage in the lumber business with his father, 

 S. N. Crowell. 



W. G. Ward of Ironton. O., has formed a 

 company to operate a large planing mill, w-hlch 

 he expects will be in operation within ninety 

 days. The building will be 100x75 feet and 

 from 40 to 50 men will be employed. 



Louisville. 



Considering the general scaniiy of timber 

 there is a remarkable amount of walnut lumber 

 being made in Louisville this spring. Nearly all 

 the mills are rutting more or less. The Barry- 

 Davis Saw Mill Company has some, the Platter- 

 Powell Company has several stacks of nice black 

 walnut lumber recently cut. and the Louisville 

 Point Lumber Company has already cut 100,000 

 feet and expects to cut between loii.ooo and 

 lino. 000 feet more. The logs are now coming 

 down the river to make this amount. The 

 Louisville Point Lumber Company has in its 

 stock about forty fine big logs, which will prob- 

 ably be exported in the log. 



Edward L. Davis says of the hardwood situ- 

 ation that practically the only noticeable change 

 in conditions is the stronger demand tor poplar. 

 Other hardwoods continue about as they were, 

 with plenty of demand to take care of all the 

 dry stocks. 



W. H. Gillette, manufacturer ot hickory ex- 

 clusively, is in Mississippi l(joking after the mov- 

 ing of one of his mills, which turns out hickory 

 sto<'k for the factory here. The whole Gillette 

 family seems to be wagon w'ood stock people. A 

 cousin of W. H. Gillette is in this btisiness at 

 Boston, another Gillette in the same business 

 at Mempliis and there are still others. 



R. McCracken of the Kentucky Veneer Works 

 has a yard full of nice poplar, oak. maple and 

 gum. aiul is figuring on buying a tract of gum 

 timber. He is turning out more gum right 

 along on the rotary side of the plant, but still 

 continues to make a specialty ot quarter-sawed 

 oak in the sawing department. 



J. E. Buscher of the Louisville Spoke & Bend- 

 ing Company says the demand for vehicle wood 

 slock is in good shape. The only thing (o com- 

 plain about is the scarcity and high prices of 

 i-aw material. 



Minneapolis. 



E. Paysou Smith of the I'ayson Smith Lum- 

 ber Company is away on a business trip to 

 Chicago, Milwaukee and neighboring points. A. 

 S. Bliss of the same company reports tliat they 

 are getting freer shipments of oak. and are now 

 able to supply their customers with a fair de- 

 gree ot promptness. They find a good run of 

 trade from the northwestern factories, and in- 

 deed in every direction. 



The Industrial Lumber Company is the name 

 of a new concern which has just opened offices 

 in this city. Its incorporators were formerly 

 with the Waterloo Wholesale Lumber Company 

 of Waterloo, la., and are also interested in the 

 Wisawa Lumber (^'ompany, a line yard concern 

 which has moved here from Waterloo. The In- 

 dustrial Lumbei' Ciimpauy has two yellow pine 



