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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Geoige P.. retei- of the Paul \V. Fleck lAimbei- 

 Company bas returned from a visit to the com- 

 pany's mills in Johnson county. 



William S:. Whiting of the Whiting Manufac- 

 turing Company of Abingdon came to the city 

 on business last week. Mr. Whiting reports that 

 his company's big band mill at Abingdon is run- 

 ning regularly and business is good. 



Fred W. Hughes, local manager of I'rice & 

 Heald. the Baltimore exporters, has returned 

 from a business trip in Virginia in the interest 

 of his business. 



U. S. Archer of the UnaUa Lumber Corpora- 

 tion of .lobnson City was in Bristol on business 

 last week. Mr. Archer reports his company as 

 doing a large business. The company's entire 

 output is being handled by the Rnmbarger Lum- 

 ber Company of rhiladelphia. 



The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company of Colum- 

 bus. ()., is extending its business in this region 

 and is opening up a branch at Hampton, a small 

 town on the East Tennessee & Western North 

 Carolina railway. A new band mill with a 

 capacity of 25.000 feet per day is being put in, 

 also railroad tracks from the timber land to the 

 mill. The road is to extend from the company's 

 lands on the Tiger creek to Hampton, a distance 

 of eleven miles. Tlie company owns 6,000 acres 

 of land on Tiger creek, which contains some of 

 the best hardwood timber in east Tennessee. 

 The railroad will be completed by December. 



Horace Hoskins of J. A. Wilkinson has re- 

 turned from a business trip in Virginia and 

 Tennessee. 



Chattanooga. 



The lumbermen of this city are raising a big 

 ■■kick" on account of the recent increase in the 

 rates made on lumber by the Southeastern 

 Freight Association between this point and 

 Buffalo of ,3 cents, making a total rate of 23 

 cents. The same rate has been made on lumber 

 from Nashville and Knoxville. 



The lumbermen of this city feel that this is 

 an imposition on them which should not have 

 been made and they claim that the railroads 

 leading out of the three Tennessee cities will 

 lose a great deal of tonnage by the increase in 

 rates, because Buffalo aud Rochester points will 

 now begin to look westward to Kentucky and 

 Virginia for their lumber supplies, T'he Louis- 

 ville & Nashville road is looked upon as the 

 prime cause of the increase and local lumbermen 

 do not look for a change in rates until the rail- 

 road rate bill goes into effect the first of the 

 year, if then. 



F. W. Blair has sold the real estate upon 

 which his yards are located to the BlutE View 

 Land Company, which will erect residences upon 

 it. He wiil remove his mill into the heart of 

 the timber belt away from the city in the near 

 future. He has not yet decided upon the loca- 

 tion. 



W. M. Fowler of the Case Lumber Company 

 of this city and president of the Fowler-Person- 

 ett Lumber Company of Birmingham, Ala., has 

 returned from a month's vacation at Lake Tama- 

 gami, Canada. 



George Call of the Gall Lumber Company of 

 Toronto, Can., was a recent visitor among the 

 lumbermen here. 



J. R. Lopez of the Regal-Mantel Lumber Com- 

 pany of Atlanta, Ga., was buying lumber here 

 this week. 



Capt. A. J. Gahagan, treasurer of the Loomis 

 & Hart Manufacturing Company, has been 

 elected a member of the new county court from 

 the city district to serve six years. Captain 

 Gahagan ts-as formerly a member of the county 

 court and takes great interest in public affairs. 

 He was the only republican in the city who was 

 elected at the August election. 



C. C. Arnold of the Arnold Lumber Company 



is ill. 



J M. Card of the J. M. Card Lumber Com- 

 pany is visiting mills in Mississippi and Ala- 

 bama. 



Ferd Brenner who, with L. G. Banning, a 

 prominent lumberman of Cincinnati, is touring 

 Europe, has removed his yards from this city 

 and consolidated them with bis yards at Nor- 

 folk. Va. 



F. W. Blair is buying logs on the Central of: 

 Georgia road. 



Memphis. 



(ieorge C. Ehemann, chairman of the commit- 

 tee appointed by the Lumbermen's Club of Mem- 

 phis to secure the co-operation of other lumber 

 organizations in the effort to have the Missouri 

 Pacific system rescind its new minimum weight 

 Vuling on lumber shipments, has secured the aid 

 of a number of organization3. The St. Louis Lum- 

 lier Exchange and the Buffalo Lumber Exchange 

 have appointed committees to take up this mat- 

 ter, and the latter has already drawn up resolu- 

 tions protesting strongly against the ruling. 

 Commissioner Davant of the Memphis Freight 

 Bureau has been consulted by the committee also 

 and, while he acknowledges that there are two 

 sides to the question, yet he declares the Lum- 

 bermen's Club, with the aid of the other organ- 

 izations, has a chance to win. A copy of the 

 resolutions adopted by the Buffalo Exchange has 

 been forwarded to the officials of the road at 

 interest. 



Weather conditions throughout the Memphis 

 territory have shown further improvement dur- 

 ing the past fortnight aud lumber production is 

 making good headway, though still rather below 

 the average for this time of year. Most of the 

 larger mills iu this city aud section are running 

 and putting considerable lumber on sticks, but 

 as it will be some time before this is ready for 

 market, it is believed that there is nothing in 

 sight now to suggest relief from the scarcity of 

 dry stock which has been a pronounced feature 

 of the Southern hardwood situation for a num- 

 ber of months. 



If nothing happens to prevent, the Crittenden 

 liailway Company, which has been building a 

 line from Earl to Heth. Ark., connecting the 

 Missouri Pacific and the Rock Island, for some 

 months, will finish the work by the end of this 

 month. The tracks connecting the large wheel- 

 barrow plant of the Lansing Wheelbarrow Com- 

 pany with the road will likewise be Hnished 

 within the period indicated. 



The Illinois Central is now actively at work 

 on the branch road which runs from Phillip 

 City to Charleston. Miss. Local lumber inter- 

 ests have large timber holdings in the county 

 in which Charleston is located, and steps are 

 now being taken for their development. One 

 exceptionally large plant is to be erected at that 

 point, but the firm which is backing this move- 

 ment is not ready to have its identity disclosed 

 because the style of the corporation has not been 

 agreed upon. Active work will begin on the 

 erection of the buildings in a short time. 



The Auderson-Tully Company has completed 

 the foundation work on the large box factory 

 which it is erecting in North Memphis, and 

 rapid progress is now anticipated. The plant, 

 which is to be a duplication of the one now in 

 operation, with the exception that it is to be 

 fitted with machinery for manufacturing lock- 

 corner boxes, will have a capacity of about three 

 cars of box shooks daily, thus doubling the pres- 

 ent output of the concern. 



Moore & McFerren are now operating their 

 new box factory in North Memphis, which was 

 built to replace tlie one burned some months 

 ago. In addition to manufacturing boxes, the 

 lompany operates a planing mill and manufac- 

 tures also gum, Cottonwood and cypress lum- 

 ber. 



W. II. Russe, whose last name is the same as 

 that of a man famous in the baseball world, 

 has been secured as one of the nine men se- 

 lected from the Memphis Cotton and Merchants' 

 Exchanges to play a nine from the Business 

 Men's Club for the benefit of the incipient Mem- 

 phis zoo. This is a new role for the president 

 of the National Hardwood Lumber Association. 



Secretary E. M. Terry of the National Lumber 

 Exporters' Association left for New York and 

 other eastern points last week on business con- 

 nected with the association, and will probably 

 be gone a month. He may complete arrange- 

 ments for the proposed midsummer annual meet- 

 ing of the association, which, if held at all, 

 will be at some eastern point. His trip will 

 include Buffalo. Philadelphia. Baltimore and 

 possibly other points. Mr. Terry sent his fam- 

 ily east for the summer some time ago. 



The Thomas-Maddix Lumber Company of Cal- 

 ico Rock, Ark., has been granted a charter with 

 capital stock of .1i40,000, of which $23,000 has 

 been paid in. The incorporators are Woods 

 Thomas, N. G. and .1. W. Maddix. 



The Buckeye Lumber Company of Hope. Ark., 

 has been granted a charter under the laws of 

 that state, with a capital stock of .$1.50,000, all 

 of which has been subscribed. .1. W. Willis, W. 

 G. Foster and others are the incorporators. 



The Sowell Lumber Company of Marked Tree, 

 Ark., is another .\rkansas concern to enter the 

 Held. It is capitalized at $50,000, of which ,$30.- 

 000 has been subscribed. E. Ritter, A. B. Sow- 

 ell and II. B. Sowell are the incorporators. 



Hotel facilities of Memphis are to be greatly 

 increased. In addition to the building of a six- 

 story front to the Gayoso, the Gayoso Hotel 

 Company has taken a long-term lease on the 

 Peabody Hotel, in the heart of the uptown dis- 

 trict, and will control this hostelry. T'he annex 

 to the building has been condemned, and a ten- 

 story steel structure is to replace this at an ap- 

 proximate cost of $350,000. 



The Riverside Lumber Company has been 

 chartered under the laws of Mississippi. The 

 capital stock is $10,000. It is domiciled at 

 Marks, Quitman county. 



An amendment to the charter of the Home 

 Lumber Company, Montrose, Jasper county, 

 Miss., has been secured, granting an increase to 

 $10,000 in the capital stock, 



W. E. Trainer of Trainer Brothers Lumber 

 Company of Chicago was a recent visitor in 

 Memphis : A. J. McCausland of the W. E. Kelly 

 Lumber Company of Chicago, which has a 

 branch office here, was another Memphis visitor. 

 James Thompson of James Thompson & Com- 

 pany has gone to Cincinnati and other points 

 in Indiana and Illinois. 



S. C. Major of the S. C. Major Lumbe-/ Com- 

 pany is out of the city and will be gone for 

 some days. His itinerary includes St. Louis. 

 Chicago, Indianapolis and other northern points. 

 A. N. Thompson of Thompson & McClure has 

 just returned from a trip into Arkansas. 



Louisville. 



in the Parkland end of town ground has been 

 purchased, the foundation laid out and some 

 machinery bought for a new hardwood flooring 

 plant. This operation is being established by a 

 newly incorporated concern, the Kentucky Hard- 

 wood Flooring Company, capitalized at $75,000, 

 but the individual promoters of the enterprise 

 are not new to the lumber trade here by any 

 means. T'he officers, who are holders of the 

 entire stock of tlie company, are Olaf Anderson, 

 Emil Anderson and W. V. Shepardson. The 

 Messrs. Anderson are proprietors of the South- 

 ern Planing Mill and are well known in lumber 

 circles here, as also is Mr. Shepardson, who 

 has been for some fifteen years with the Men- 

 gels. The new plant will start in with two S. 

 A. Woods flooring machines, a resaw, double 

 surfacer, rip saws, etc. The building is being 

 constructed with a view to doubling and pos- 

 sibly quadrupling the capacit.v. 



A. E. Norman of the Norman Lumber Com- 

 pany says that the company had a splendid six 

 months' business in hardwood the first half of 

 this year, and the outlook at present is prac- 

 tically all that could be desired. 



Edward L. Davis recently came in from what 

 he had intended to make a sort of holiday trip, 

 but he had so much business to attend to that 

 he didn't consider it much of a vacation, so he 



