HARDWOOD RECORD 



27 



Weeks, and their mission was tliat of looking 

 into the supply of red cedar and chestnut 

 poles left in Tennessee. 



The secretary of state has granted a charter 

 to the People's Lumber Company of Hamilton 

 county, with a capital stock of $4,000 and 

 incorporators as follows: J. F. Nipper. W. R. 

 Sullivan. 'W. M. Settlers. A. G. Goous. J. A. 

 Varner and Frank Jones. 



The E. & N. Manufacturing Company, one 

 of the largest woodworking plants in the 

 South, has just been awarded the contract to 

 suppl.v the interior fixtures of the new Cast- 

 ner-Knott building in course of construction 

 on Church street. The contract is worth 

 about $50,000. This concern also secured the 

 contract to furnish the interior finishings for 

 the department store of C. A. Kaufman of 

 New Orleans. 



One of the most spectacular fires seen for 

 many a day in Nashville was the burning of 

 a big wooden water tank on top of the E. & 

 N. Manufacturing Company's building, sup- 

 plying the sprinkler system with water and 

 holding some 15,000 gallons. The flames could 

 be seen in all directions as the tank was on 

 top of a high building and mounted on trestle 

 work at that. The flre caught from sparks 

 from a smokestack of the plant. The loss 

 was only a few hundred dollars. 



The big furniture plant of the Greenfield- 

 Tolbert-Finney-Battle Company on Third 

 avenue. North, burned out a few days ago. 

 The company carried about $50,000 worth of 

 stock and all of it was either burned or 

 seriously damaged. It was fully insured. 



Lewis & Vick are erecting a large planing 

 mill at Camden. Tenn. 



Dealers at Munsey. III., have recently placed 

 an order for 75,000 hickory spokes with the 

 Alexander-Coffee Company at Yokelet. Tenn.. 

 near Lynnville. This Is a new plant and has 

 a capacity of 10,000 spokes a day. Hickory 

 Is reported to be plentiful in that region. 



Manchester, Tenn., suffered quite a serious 

 loss by fire on May 31. The big Manchester 

 Manufacturing Company's factory went up in 

 flames, entailing a loss of $18,000. The build- 

 ings caught from a pile of shavings. J. R. 

 Tubb of Sparta, Tenn.. and T. B. Clark of 

 Manchester are the principal losers. 



Hamilton Love of the firm of Love. Boyd 

 & Co. is at Mount Clemens, Mich., for his 

 health. 



Memphis. 



Negotiations are under way here for the 

 consolidation of two prominent lumber com- 

 panies operating from Memphis headquarters. 

 Those directly interested say that plans have 

 not yet been completed and that for this rea- 

 son they are not yet in position to give out 

 any details thereon. It may be stated, how- 

 ever, that the corporation resulting from this 

 consolidation will be a very strong one, that 

 it will control a large area of timber lands 

 and will have several mills, one of which is 

 located in Memphis and the others in Missis- 

 sippi. 



Interests identified with the Bacon-Nolan 

 Hardwood Company are preparing for the 

 erection of a large hardwood mill at Charles- 

 ton, Miss. The Illinois Central is now build- 

 ing a railroad from Phillips. Miss., to Charles- 

 ton, and this will run directly through the 

 body of timber lands owned by the interests 

 in question, thus materially facilitating their 

 development. In fact, the statement is author- 

 ized that the road, which Is a branch line, is 

 being built principally to aid in the develop- 

 ment of this immense tract of timber lands. 



The Corner Stone Lumber Company, organ- 

 ized here a short time ago with capital stock 

 of $350,000, will erect its mill at Corner Stone, 

 Ark,, a station on the St. Louis Southwestern 

 railroad, from which it takes its name. The 

 company controls about 15,000 acres of hard- 

 wood timber lands and, as soon as the papers 



have been prepared and the bonds, which are 

 to run twenty years and bear five per cent 

 interest, issued, steps will be taken looking to 

 the development of these holdings. C. W. 

 Stover of the Stover Lumber Company is the 

 principal local stockholder. 



The sawmill and warehouse of W. S. Mayes, 

 Mt. Carmel, Tenn,. about five miles from Cov- 

 ington, were destroyed by flre a- short time 

 ago, entailing a loss of about $5,000, with no 

 insurance. The warehouse was filled with 

 dressed lumber, doors, sash, blinds and other 

 material, 



Fred Herrick and associates of Lac du 

 Flambeau, Wis., who recently acquired the 

 50,000 acres of timber lands owned by Foley 

 & Larson of St. Paul in the Pearl river valley 

 in Mississippi, are acquiring other tracts of 

 both hardwood and yellow pine lands. Ten- 

 nessee and Louisiana capitalists are also re- 

 ported to be operating with freedom in the 

 purchase of timber lands in Leake. Winston 

 and Neoshoba counties, further up in the val- 

 ley, their purchases being estimated in excess 

 of $1,000,000. It is believed that these pur- 

 chases insure the building of a railroad 

 through the valley to facilitate the develop- 

 ment of the land. 



The Illinois Central is making a preliminary 

 survey for a railroad running from Aberdeen. 

 Miss., to Sheffield. Ala., with the purpose of 

 establishing direct connection between the 

 Illinois Central and the Tennessee river. The 

 Aberdeen Business League is behind the 

 project and regards the new line as assured. 

 The road will run through a magnificent sec- 

 tion of hardwood timber lands in northeastern 

 Mississippi and northwestern Alabama. 



An assessment of 50 cents on the dollar has 

 been ordered l<<vied on all the stockholders 

 of the recently failed Bank of Newport. New- 

 port, Ark., which closed its doors because of 

 its inability to realize on its claims against 

 the C. B. Kelly Lumber Company of Texar- 

 kana. Ark. The latter company is now in the 

 hands of receivers and its plant is being oper- 

 ated for the benefit of creditors. The mill and 

 other holdings will be sold July 7 under orders 

 of the Federal Court. 



L. C. and E. H. Nolan, who were stock- 

 holders in the Bacon-Nolan Hardwood Com- 

 pany, have withdrawn therefrom, and are now 

 erecting a large tight heading factory in New 

 South Memphis which will soon be in opera- 

 tion. Hardwood timber will be used exclu- 

 sively in the manufacture of this product. 



Russe & Burgess have suffered a slight 

 delay recently in the operation of their re- 

 saw occasioned by the bursting of the fly or 

 drive wheel on the engine running the re-saw. 

 The accident damaged the building and foun- 

 dation of the engine considerably, but no 

 serious injury or loss of life occurred. They 

 have found the same engine in stock here 

 and are now running again on full time. 



The Royal Cafe, operated by the Max Kop- 

 pel Catering Company, in which a number of 

 prominent hardwood lumbermen here were 

 interested, has been sold to L, D. Block and 

 will be reopened by him about June 15. Max 

 Sondheimer was one of the principal pro- 

 moters of the company. 



J. W. Thompson of the J. W. Thompson 

 Lumber Company has been spending consid- 

 erable time at Selma. Ala., recently where 

 some changes are being made in the Schuh- 

 Miller Lumber Company in which he is Inter- 

 ested. 



Mr. Kile of the Kile & Morgan Co., Provi- 

 dence. R. I., who is one of the larger stock- 

 holders In the Tyronza Lumber Company at 

 Earle, Ark,, was a recent visitor here, en- 

 route to Earle to look after the Interests of 

 his firm. 



W. E. Smith of the W. E. Smith Lumber 

 Company and the Three States Lumber Com- 

 pany has gone to his old home at Eau Claire. 

 Wis., where he will spend some time in the 



hope of regaining his health. Mr. Smith has 

 been in poor health for some time. Mr. Greble 

 IS looking after the affairs of the two com- 

 panies during Mr. Smith's absence. 



George Banks of the Banks Lumber Com- 

 pany. Hernando, Miss., was in the city this 

 week. 



A railroad has been projected from Mari- 

 anna to Brinkley, Ark., a distance of 30 miles. 

 A company, known as the Marianna. Brinkley 

 & Western, has been formally chartered. 



George C. Ehemann of Bennett & Witte 

 and secretary of the Lumbermen's Club of 

 Memphis, is out of the city on business con- 

 nected with his flrm. 



New Orleans. 



A deal whereby the Pensacola Lumber Com- 

 pany and the William S. Keyser Lumber Com- 

 pany, both of Pensacola, Fla„ were merged 

 mto a half million dollar concern was con- 

 summated June 1 in Pensacola. These two 

 companies have for many years been ranked 

 with the largest exporters of lumber and tim- 

 ber in the South. A name for the big con- 

 cern has not yet been decided upon. The 

 Keyser company was composed of Mr. Keyser 

 and James M. Muldon of Pensacola and Wil- 

 liam Rudolph of Biloxi. It had offices at 

 Biloxi, Gulfport. Mobile and Pensacola. The 

 Pensacola Lumber Company was composed of 

 F. C. and D. G. Brent. W. H. Knowles and 

 F. R. Meade of Pensacola and foreign capi- 

 talists. It had offices at Pensacola and Lon- 

 don. Eng. 



Between $700,000 and $800,000 will be in- 

 vested by Michigan capitalists in a large 

 hardwood plant which they purpose to build 

 m Ouachita parish. Louisiana. The land on 

 which this plant will be built was secured 

 recently by an act of sale transferring from 

 Capt. L. D. McLain. of Ouachita, to the Oak 

 Lumber Co., of Michigan, a large tract of 

 land south of West Monroe and just across 

 the river from the Monroe Lumber Company's 

 plant. All the hardwood on the Monroe Lum- 

 ber Company's lands has also been secured by 

 the Oak Lumber Company. The site for the 

 big mill is now being surveyed and it is ex- 

 pected it will be completed and in operation 

 in less than a year. 



Stockholders of the Otis Manufacturing 

 Company, of mahogany fame, and of S. T. 

 AIcus & Co., box manufacturers, recently 

 formed the Otis-Alcus Lumber Company, 

 Ltd., with a capitalization of $100,000. The 

 officers are S. T. AIcus. president; Henry 

 AIcus, vice-president; Henry A, Otis, secre- 

 tary, and Rowland Otis, treasurer. 



.\dvices from Gulfport. Miss., state that for 

 the month ending May 31, Gulfport exported 

 84 per cent of the lumber handled in the dis- 

 trict between New Orleans and Mobile, The 

 total exports for the district, it is stated, were 

 36,083,000 feet board measure, and of this 

 amount Gulfport is credited with 30,557,000 

 feet. This was lumber actually loaded on 

 vessels at the wharf at Gulfport, and does not 

 include a foot brought by vessels from other 

 points to Gulfport, where the remainder of 

 the cargo was loaded. 



The Eoice Realty Company, Boice, La., will 

 build a sawmill of 30,000 feet daily capacity 

 about two miles from Boice on the Texas- 

 Paciflc Railway. The company owns 12,000 

 acres of cottonwood, oak, ash and cypress 

 timberlands. It is expected that the plant 

 will be in operation in about two months. 

 A. A. Joiner is president of the company; 

 interested with him are W. R. Borron, j! 

 Dawson Johnson and E. L. Joyner. 



Minneapolis. 

 Thomas E. Powe. vice president of the 

 IPummer Lumber Company of St. Louis, was 

 in Minneapolis this week interviewing cus- 

 tomers. He makes this territory about twice 

 a year and reports an increasing use of cypress 



