3° 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



• rimpauy or this cltj- : S. B. Anderson, H. B. 

 Andei'sou. W. B. Morgan. H. C. Ward and John 

 West. The compan.v has taken over the hold- 

 ings of the Walton-Knox Company at Madison, 

 Arli., and will operate the plant of this company 

 for the manufacture of shipping and packing 

 boxes and fruit packages. 



The Anderson-TuUy Company has laid the 

 foundation for its big box plant in North Mem- 

 phis, which is to be a duplicate of its present 

 plant and which is to have a capacity of three 

 cars a day. It will be equipped with lock corner 

 box facilities. The machinery has all been pur- 

 chased and is now on the ground. 



The Fourche Kiver Lumber Compan.v of 

 I-"ourche. Perry county. Arkansas, has purchased 

 from the Lindsey Land & Lumber Company of 

 Iowa about 24.000 acres of hardwood timber 

 lands in Perry and Pulaski counties for $261,- 

 1144.52. The purchasing company has executed 

 n mortgage to the Central Trust Company of 

 Illinois for .JliiO.OOO. covering the property. 

 The Fourche River Lumber Company has a large 

 plant at Fourche and has been for some time 

 engaged in the construction of a railroad about 

 forty miles long for the development of some 

 of its timber holdings. 



The Coche River .Saw Mill Company has made 

 application for a charter, with capital stock of 

 .f20.000, copy of which has been tiled with the 

 register of this t Shelby) county. The incor- 

 porators are : T. .1. Orr, John E. Orr, J. R. 

 Thompson, A. W. and M. C. Ketchum. These 

 gentlemen are also the principal stockholders 

 of the T. J. 0:-r Land & Lumber Company 

 which for some months had headijuarters in this 

 ciry and removed from here to Heth, Ark. 



The Wynne, Newport & Western Railroad 

 Company, capitalized at .S2S0.O0O, has filed 

 articles of incorporation with tile secretary of 

 slate of Arkansas for the purpose of building a 

 line from Wynne to Newport, a distance of 4.S 

 miles. Tire road will furnish direct connection 

 between the Missouri Pacihc and Rock Island 

 systems and will open up a section rich in 

 hardwood timber and mineral resources. 



W. E. H.vde of the W. E. Hyde Lumber Com- 

 pany, South Bend, Ind.. has been in Memphis 

 during the past fortnight making arrangements 

 tor establishing a branch office in this city, in 

 charge of his brother. C. E. Hyde, who has 

 traveled southern territory for some time in the 

 interest of this tirm. 



A. L. Foster of the J. W. Thompson Lumber 

 Company, who was called to West Point. Ark., 

 a short time ago on account of the sudden 

 death of h'n brother, Aubrey Foster, has returned 

 to ilemphis. lie reports that bis brother's 

 death resulted fi'om neuralgia of the heart. 

 The deceased was engaged in the lumber busi- 

 ness, making a specialty of the manufacture of 

 cypress and cypress shingles. 



Charles A. Price, for some years purchasing 

 agent of the American Car & Foundry Company 

 with headiiuarters at Detroit, Mich., has been 

 appointed manager of the Binghamton plant of 

 t he American Car & Foundry Companj' here, 

 one of tlie largest woodworking plants in this 

 city. He succeeds George L. Henrion, who goes 

 to Madison. Wis., to take charge of the plant 

 of the company at that point. The change is 

 effective September 1. 



W. E. Smith, secretary of the Three States 

 Lumber Company and the W. E. Smith Lumber 

 Company, with headquarters in this city, is 

 quite ill in a northern sanitarium. Mr. Smith 

 left here early this summer suffering from ner- 

 vous prostration and. while he improved for a 

 time, his condition now is said to be quite 

 critical. Hopes of his recovery are entertained, 

 however, by his large circle of friends. 



The A. L. Teachout Stave Factory of Jackson, 

 Tenn., will remove to Ackerman, Miss., within 

 the next few weeks, because of the scarcity of 

 timber in the section tributary to Jackson. 



The Planters Lumber Company of Greene- 

 ville, Miss., has passed into the hands of the 



< hicago-MissLssippi Land & Lumber Company, 

 and J. L. Strickland, formerly vice-president 

 and general manager of the concern, has been 

 selected to look after the interests of the con- 

 solidated companies. The statement is made 

 that the Neal interest in the Planters company 

 alone has been purchased and that Jlr. Strick- 

 land still holds the equivalent of his interest in 

 the old concern in the new. 



J. C. Cowen of Schultz Brothers & Cowen of 

 Chicago : George Gall of the Gall Lumber Com- 

 pany. Toronto. Can., and James Hale, wholesale 

 hardwood lumbermen of New York City, have 

 been among the recent visitors in this city. 



W. H. Russe. president of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association and of the National 

 Lumber Exporters' Association, has returned 

 from a business trip to Chicago. 



George C. Ehemann of Bennett & Witte is in 

 Cincinnati, where lie is visiting his mother and 

 where he is incidentally in close touch with the 

 headquarters of his firm. 



W. R. Barksdale. president of the Lumber- 

 men's Club of Memphis, has returned from a 

 northern trip during which he did everything he 

 could in favor of the move for a rescinding of 

 the miuillium weight ruling of the Missouri 

 Pacific system. 



W. H. Greble of the Three Stateg Lumber 

 Company and A. N. Thompson of Thompson & 

 McClure have returned from a recent trip to 

 points in Louisiana. 



S. C. Major of the S. C. Major Lumber Com- 

 pany, who has been in the Northwest for some 

 time, is expected home this week. 



James Thompson of James Thompson & Co. 

 has returned from a trip including Cincinnati 

 and Chicago and he reports the outlook as very 

 satisfactory for the fall and winter. 



Weather conditions during the past fortnight 

 have been moderately favorable but there are 

 complaints yet of too much rain and bad roads 

 resulting therefrom. One prominent firm is 

 authority for the statement that none of its 

 mills is cutting more than 30 per cent of its 

 estimates and declares that the production of 

 lumber in the Memphis territory is really very 

 short for this time of the year. There are 

 numerotis reports of labor shortage and this 

 feature will probably become more pronounced 

 when cotton picking gets well under way. 



Ne'w Orleans. 



The Frank Brinker Manufacturing Company 

 has been organized in this city with a paid-in 

 capital of $50,000 and will very shortly begin 

 the manufacture of wagons here. The company 

 has purchased a fine site containing a square of 

 ground at Washington avenue and Claiborne 

 street and expects to be ready for business by 

 October 1. It will begin at once to build its fac- 

 tory. All of the necessary machinery has been 

 secured. It is stated that the company will 

 carry a stock of from seventy-five to 100 wagons 

 on hand at all times. 



Fred Muller has resigned as secretary of the 

 Southwestern Lumber & Exporting Company and 

 has left for Europe to study the lumber export- 

 ing business from that side. The present sys- 

 tem of exporting at southern ports, as New 

 Orleans. Mobile, Pensacola, Gulfport, Port Ar- 

 thur, etc.. is said to be without organization and 

 cooperation among the exporters, and as a nat- 

 ural result depression of market prices occurs 

 at a time when the logical position of the lumber 

 business is bullish. L'pon his return Mr. Muller 

 will report his findings to the interests he repre- 

 sents and there is a strong probability that the 

 methods of exporting from these ports will be 

 subject to revolution. Incidentally, since so 

 many mills are suffering from the scarcity of 

 labor, Mr. Muller w'ill endeavor to locate desir- 

 able mill hands and will try to induce them to 

 emigrate to this country. 



The Muller Furniture Company of New Or- 

 leans recently bought the building adjoining its 

 already large factory in North Roman street 



and will make extensive improvements therein. 

 Work on the new addition will be begun shortly. 



The Covington Contracting & Manufacturing 

 Company, a new concern at Covington, La., is 

 experimenting with gum as a substitute for oak 

 and locust in the manufacture of foot-blocks, 

 cro.ss-arms. pins and brackets for use by the 

 telephone companies. The new company is now 

 preparing a trial carload of blocks, brackets, 

 etc., and these will be shipped over the conti- 

 nent to be experimented with. The success of 

 this experiment will mean that an entirely new 

 market will be created for gum lumber. 



The board of supervisors of Pearl River 

 county, Mississippi, has raised the assessment 

 on virgin timber lands to .$20 an acre. 



The police in several of the timber parishes 

 have been devoting themselves to running down 

 timber depredators during the last few weeks, 

 and only a few days ago arrested at Crowley 

 four men who were charged with cutting timber 

 from the lands of the Pacific Improvement Com- 

 pan.v. The affidavit charging these men, Maurice 

 and Edward Darbonne, George Bourgeois and 

 Arthur Boudreaux, with cutting timber was 

 filed by W. W.- Duson, the agent for the Pacific 

 company. All four were released on bonds. Sev- 

 eral other men of this class are said to be oper- 

 ating in Louisiana and are giving timbermen a 

 great deal of trouble. 



W. S. F. Tatum, buying for Wisconsin par- 

 ties, recently paid .$392,500 for a two-thirds 

 interest in a large tract of timber in Lamar 

 and Rankin counties. There is said to be a 

 large amount of hardwood on the tract. The 

 sellers were John Landers, Springfield, Mo, ; L. 

 N. Anson, Merrill, Wis., and George F. Kilkey, 

 Oshkosh, Wis. 



The Royal Lumber Company, Ltd., has been 

 organized at Royal, ten miles east of Winnfield, 

 La., on the new line of the Tremont and Gulf 

 railroad. The company is capitalized at $50,000 

 and will build immediately a saw and planing 

 mill with a daily capacity of 50,000 feet. Dr. 

 D. E. James of Royal is at the head of the 

 organization. 



George H. Spencer, a lumberman of Pearl 

 River, La., has filed a petition in voluntary 

 bankruptcy in the L'nited States courts here. 

 His liabilities will reach $15,152.50, while his 

 assets amount to $9,300. Mr. Spencer's sawmill 

 is listed at $G.000. 



V. M. Scanlan, F. W. Williams and others 

 have organized the Lamar Lumber Company at 

 Purvis, Lamar county. Miss. The capital is 

 $100,000. 



Advices reaching here from Beaumont, Texas, 

 state that a deal involving the transfer of a 

 newly completed sawmill at Hyatt, with 180,- 

 000,000 feet of standing timber is now under 

 way, but just who will get it has not been 

 determined. The Kirby Lumber Company and 

 several others are after it, and the bidding has 

 been very sharp. It is understood that the 

 Kirby people prefer to buy this and let one of 

 their new mills go by default. 



W. D. Washburn, attorney for D. S. Lansden. 

 the trustee for the defunct F. E. Creelman Lum- 

 ber & Manufacturing Company, was here recently 

 looking around for assets of the insolvent con- 

 cern. He announced that the assets would not 

 be more than $100,000, The Creelman Company 

 borrowed nearly $1,000,000 from banks in va- 

 rious parts of the country- 

 Two big factories, one of which will cost 

 $100,000, will replace the factory of S. T. Alcus 

 & Co., which was destroyed by fire during the 

 latter part of last month, entailing a loss of 

 $75,000 to $80,000. One of the new factories 

 will occupy a fine site on the New Basin Canal, 

 while the other will very probably be built on 

 a site adjoining that occupied by the structure 

 which was destroyed. S. T. Alcus & Co. a few 

 days agt) closed a deal with the Illinois Centra! 

 Railroad Company which involved something 

 like $250,000 and by the terms of which Alcus 

 & Co. get two sites for the one they formerly 



