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HARDWOOD RECORD 



mum of 40,000 pounds in a car of 60,000 pounds 

 capacity in the case of bone-di-y Cottonwood, 

 cypress, poplar and otlier similar woods, also 

 that it is impossible to load 3.J.O0O pounds in 

 a car of 40.00 pounds capacity. Other lumber- 

 men are writing in similar strain. 



Following are the more important movements 

 among the tow boats handling lumber and logs 

 on the Mississippi river during the past fort- 

 night : The Fred Ilartweg has passed up the 

 Mi.<sissippi river from the lower bends loaded 

 with lumber for Ohio river points : the Joy Tat- 

 ton has brought in a large load of logs from 

 points above tor Memphis Hrms : the tow boat 

 Dolphin No. 3, the property of the Anderson- 

 Tully Company, has brought in three barges 

 loaded with logs for the mill of the company in 

 North Memphis : the Harry Lee has arrived with 

 a large consignment of persimmon logs for the 

 Anchor Block Mills to be manufactured into 

 tackle blocks, shoe lasts and other hardwood 

 specialties : the tow boat Katherine has passed 

 up from the lower bends of the Mississippi 

 with a barge of lumber for a firm at Cairo. 111. 



C. It. Palmer, who has spent some time at the 

 offices of the I,. II. Cage Lumber Company at 

 Memphis, has returned to I'rovidence. R. I., and 

 will be gone all summer. He was accompanied 

 by his wife, who came south only a short time 

 before his departure. 



The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company has 

 purchased seven acres of land in North Memphis 

 and will establish a hardwood lumber plant 

 thereon, to be operated as a branch of the home 

 concern. The land purchased adjoins the tract 

 purchased some time ago by the E. Soudbeimer 

 Companv. The plant will, it is understood, be 

 in operation here some time this fall. 



Viispatches received here from Clarksville. 

 Tenn.. are to the effect that a company is lieing 

 formed there for the manufacture of wagons, 

 nlth an annual capacity of 10.000. 



Building permits taken out here during June 

 were the largest in the history of this city for 

 this particular period, reaching .f 509.000. against 

 S3S8.000 last year. This brings the total to 

 date this year to .$2,4.S4.nO(i. against $1,953,000 

 for the corresponding period last year. 



A well-known manufacturer, who has traveled 

 over a considerable portion of eastern Arkansas, 

 is authority for the statement that there are 

 more mills running now than for a long while. 

 However, he says there are very few small mills 

 doing anything, as most of these quit the field 

 during the trying experience of the preceding 

 twelve months. Weather conditions during the 

 past fortnight have been very satisfactory, and 

 most of the mills, especially the larger ones, are 

 better supplied with timber than they have been 

 for some time. 



John P. Ilanna of the Wiborg & Hanna Com- 

 liany of Cincinnati, O.. who has been visiting the 

 branch ot&ce of the company in the Tennessee 

 Trust building, this city, has returned to head- 

 quarters. 



John M'. McClure of Thompson & McClure. 

 hardwood lumber dealers and manufacturers, 

 lias returned from a recent pleasure trip to mid- 

 dle and east Tennessee. 



\V. 11. Russe. president of the Natioial Hard- 

 wood I^umber Association and of the National 

 Lumber Exporters' Association, who went to 

 Indiana two weeks ago for the benefit of his 

 health, has returned to Memphis, but says he 

 has not been much improved by his trip. 



Fire at the plant of the American Car & 

 Foundry Company at Binghampton, one of the 

 largest woodw-rking concerns in the city, which 

 occurred a few days ago. entailed a loss of about 

 $15,000. 



New Orleans. 



J. W. strong, proprietor of the J. W. Strong 

 Milling Company of Baton Rouge, which was 

 recently adjudged bankrupt, has been arrested in 

 this city for interfering with the keeper ap- 

 pointed to take charge of some goods seized 



and held under the proceedings which took 

 place in the federal district court. Mr. Strong 

 is also charged with assaulting the United 

 States marshal. As the offense was committed 

 in the Baton Rouge district, the accused lum- 

 berman was taken before the United States 

 commissioner at that place and entered a plea 

 of not guilty. He was placed under bonds of 

 .$5o0 to appear before the United States circuit 

 court for the eastern district of Louisiana for 

 trial during the November term. The schedule 

 recently filed by Mr. Strong showed that his 

 company, which had been engaged in the hard- 

 wood lumber business, had liabilities amounting 

 to $74.0:^7.46 and assets that would total only 

 $.30,443. 



li. L. Dinkins. representing the Delta Realty 

 Compan.v of Vicksburg. Miss", has just closed a 

 big deal in realty selling to the Southern Land 

 & Lumber Company of Bardwell, Ky., a fine 

 tract of land which was owned by N. T. Bur- 

 roughs of Chicago and which is Io<'ated in Cald- 

 well parish, near ilonroe and Riverton, the 

 hardwood section of the state. The tract con- 

 tains 4'J.2S3 acres and sold for $339,000. It is 

 stated that the purchasers will build mills to 

 cut the timt>er and then resell the land in small 

 tracts. 



The charter of the New Orleans Chair Com- 

 pany, a $30,000 corporation which will manu- 

 facture chaii^ and other products from hard- 

 woods, has been filed in this state. The com- 

 pany will be domiciled in New Orleans and will 

 make a si)ecialty of olfice furniture and fixtures, 

 chairs, tables, etc. 11. H. Connart, E. Ruben- 

 stein and H. H. Waters are among its organ- 

 izers. 



The Washburn Lumber Company of Shreve- 

 port. La., has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $23,000. The officers are: T. E. 

 Stephenson, president and treasurer : D. A. 

 Thompson, vice president : T. II. Thurmond, sec- 

 retary. 



1{. B. Blanks recently transferred to W. K. 

 Kidcout a fine tract of land in Ouachita and 

 Caldwell parishes in this state, receiving $100.- 

 000 in cash for his property, which consisted of 

 12,069 acres of fine pine and hardwood timber 

 lands. 



Exports of lumber from Pensacola, Fla.. dur- 

 ing June were greater than those of any other 

 month during the last two years. Over 40,000,- 

 000 feet were shipped out of the Pensacola port 

 to foreign countries and a large quantity was 

 sent on coastwise vessels to New York and 

 Philadelphia. The exports were as follows : 

 Austria, $6,808 ; France, $44,269 : Germany, 

 $27,000 ; Italy, $124,463 ; Netherlands, $30,479 ; 

 Spain, $20,000: England. $431,091: Scotland, 

 $64.328 : British Honduras. $3.838 : .\rgentina, 

 $147,013: Brazil, $100,142: Uruguay, $9,528; 

 total, $1,010,981. 



Hawkins & Co. of Hattiesburg, Miss., have 

 closed a deal for 3,400 acres of timber in Lamar 

 county, paying $127,000, or something over $37 

 per acre, for the tract. 'Inhere is considerable 

 hardwood on the property, and this will be 

 used by the several spoke and handle factories 

 in that vicinity. 



Steamboats plying out of New Orleans in 

 what is known as the Ouachita and Black rivers 

 trade have for the last few weeks made a spe- 

 cialty of shipments of persimmon logs which 

 they are bringing from the Black river territory 

 and exporting to foreign countries, where they 

 are being manufactured into shuttles and shoe 

 lasts. I'ersimmon is a hard, dry wood, and be- 

 cause it does not shrink is especially adapted to 

 these uses. 



A valuable addition to the large number of 

 woodworking plants in the vicinity of Jackson. 

 Miss., is that of Cambria Brothers, which will 

 be opened in the next few days. The company 

 will manufacture stair cases and other articles 

 from hardwood, making a specialty of scroll 

 work. 



The Jackson (Miss.) Furniture & Casket Com- 



pany has completed its plant and will begin 

 operations in a few days. It will give employ- 

 ment to about 100 men. 



The Silsbee mills of the Kirby I^umber Com- 

 pany, with- 5,000,000 feet of all kinds of lumber 

 and numerous other buildings, were burned July 

 4. The total loss is estimated at $700,000. It 

 is said to be covered by insurance. 



Part of the big plant of the W. T. Adams 

 Machinery Works, near Corinth, Miss,, was 

 destroyed by fire July 4. This is one of the 

 biggest lumber machinery supply houses in Mis- 

 sissippi. The loss is estimated at $150,000. 

 The machinery shop, old pattern shop, sawmill 

 and foundry were destroyed and the new pattern 

 shop was badly damaged. 



Minneapolis. 



Indications from the liuilding trade are for 

 a good hardwood business this summer and 

 fall. The volume of building in the twin 

 cities keeps pace with last year. St. Paul 

 .shows a good increase. Minneapolis made a 

 remarkable record last year, and is not quite 

 keeping to the same rate this season, but the 

 acti^'ity here is much above the average. 

 Building permits for this city were for a 

 value of $681,815 in June, compared with 

 $577,000 in the same month a year ago. The 

 total for six months is $4,147,650, compared 

 with $4,787,870 for the same six months in 

 1905. Considering that there have been no 

 skyscrapers started this year, this showing is 

 remarkable. The receipts of lumber here 

 are also on the advance, showing increasing 

 local consumption. June receipts were 15.- 

 696.000 feet, compared with 14.624,000 feet in 

 June of last year. 



W. H. Sill of the Minneapolis Lumber Com- 

 pany has returned from a business trip to 

 Chicago and Wisconsin points. They are en- 

 joying a fair trade for the time of year, and 

 find stocks on hand at the mills generally 

 less than last year at this time. 



E. Payson Smith of tile Payson Smith Lum- 

 ber Company is back from a business trip in 

 Missouri. The former quarters of the com- 

 pany have been outgrown and it has moved 

 into more commodious ones at 519 Andrus 

 building. A. S. Bliss says June was the best 

 month the company ever had. and it is look- 

 ing for a big fall trade. 



F. M. Bartelme has returned from a two 

 weeks' trip through Wisconsin and a side 

 trip down to Chicago. He found decidedly 

 small stocks of hardwood at the mills, with 

 the exception of birch and basswood, which 

 are fairly plentiful. Wholesale trade he finds 

 quiet, except sales to retail yards, but busi- 

 ness is all that could be expected at this sea- 

 son. 



Osborne cJt Clark, the local hardwood whole- 

 salers, are building a large shed in connec- 

 tion with their mill at Ladysmith. Wis. They 

 manufacture considerable pine and hemlock 

 there besides hardwood and sell the soft lum- 

 ber at retail on the ground. The hardwood 

 is shipped into this market. Mr. Osborne 

 says they are enjoying a big carload trade 

 from their retail yard customers. They have 

 in many cases exhausted the stock bought in 

 the spring, and are forced to buy again to 

 stock up for summer. Many shipments are 

 going long distances. 



I. P. Lennan of I. P. Lennan & Co. says 

 he is finding a better trade in other lines 

 than in hardwood, as the factory trade is not 

 going after stock very acti^'ely at present. 



A. E. Butler of Antigo, Wis., represent- 

 ing the C. Wunderlich Lumber & Manufac- 

 turing Company of Antigo. and H. S. Wun- 

 derlich of Koepenick. Wis., was in Minneap- 

 olis a few days ago calling on customers to 

 interest them in his line of hardwood. 



A new sash and door factory is running at 

 Thief River Falls. Minn. It is called the 

 Pioneer Sash & Door Company, and has 

 $50,000 capital. 



