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sive timber holdings in the section traversed 

 by the road. It is probable that it will be ex- 

 tended to Humphries, where connection will be 

 made with the St. Louis Southwestern. 



The Great Southern Automobile Company has 

 been granted a charter under the laws of Ala- 

 bama. It is capitalized at .$100,000, all paid in, 

 and will have its headquarters at Birmingham. 

 It will engage in the manufacture of automo- 

 biles, specifications for which will be adopted at 

 an early date. It will also maintain a complete 

 repair department. E. F. Enslen is president, 

 Ike Adier is vice-president and E. F. Enslen, Jr., 

 is general manager. This is the first automobile 

 plant to be erected in the central South. 



J. W. Brown, Junction City, Ark., and A. E. 

 Silverton, St. Louis, Mo., have purchased the 

 controlling interest in the Interstate Lumber 

 Company, with headqu.irters at Columbus, Miss. 

 The former will assume control of the manage- 

 ment of the big plant, which is located at Colum 

 bus. The purchasers also have acquired control 

 of the railroad the corporation had under con- 

 struction from yteens. Miss., to Wintiela, La., 

 and there is some probability that the latter will 

 be built into Columbus, thus giving that town 

 another independent railroad. Connection will 

 be made at Winfleld with the Frisco System. 

 This is one of the larger transactions in lumber 

 circles south within the past few months, more 

 than $500,000 being involved. A. E. Silverton 

 has extensive holdings of pine and hardwood 

 timber lands in Arkansas and Mississippi, own- 

 ing a big mill at Ellisville, Miss. 



Deeds have been recorded at Brookhaven, 

 Miss.» showing the sale of the entire holdings 

 of the Pearl River Lumber Company. Brookhaven, 

 to Frank L. Adams, Candersport, Pa., for a con- 

 sideration of $750,000. It is shown that $100,- 

 000 was paid in cash and that notes have been 

 given for the remainder, secured by trust deeds 

 on the property transferred. Although this deal 

 was consummated in July, the records have been 

 filed only within the past fortnight. Included in 

 the purchase are 3,597 acres of timber lands 

 lying in the Pearl river valley. The Pearl River 

 Lumber Company was formerly included in the 

 Goodyear syndicate, and no reason whatever is 

 given for the sale of its holdings by the com- 

 pany. 



John II. Watkins, formerly- a promiuent banker 

 here, but now a handler of securities in New- 

 York, has. together with southern associates, 

 purchased the Dyersburg Northern railway, which 

 runs from Dyersburg, Dyer county, to Tiptonville. 

 Lake county, western Tennessee, a distance of 

 about thirty miles. The price paid was .$316,000 

 and the new owners have announced their inten- 

 tion not only of extending the road to Hickman, 

 Ky., a distance of about fifty miles, but also of 

 greatly increasing the rolling stock on the pres- 

 ent line and materially improving the roadbed. 

 The line runs through a splendid timber section, 

 some of the property being owned by lumbermen 

 of Memphis. The latter are much pleased with 

 the prospect of decided improvement in the 

 service afforded by this line. 



A new wholesale hardwood and yellow- pine 

 firm has opened offices in the Scimitar building 

 under the name of D. C. Furniss & Co. I. L. 

 Fenimore, a prominent lumberman of north Mis- 

 sissippi, and D. C. Furniss, formerly with the 

 Wabash Screen Door Company of this city, are 

 the owners of the new company. 



Mr. Krebs of the Krebs-Scheve Lumber Com- 

 pany, with headquarters at St. Louis, has been 

 spending a few days in Memphis recently. 



John T. Latham of the Monarch Lumber Com- 

 pany, Philadelphia, is another northern lumber- 

 man spending a few days at Memphis. 



Ernest Louis Max, Marseilles, France, was 

 here during the past week. He is engaged in 

 the lumber brokerage business and while he 

 reports some improvement in business conditions 

 in France he does not give a very glowing ac- 

 count of the hardw-ood lumber outlook, declaring 

 that there is a tendency to substitute something 



else for hardwoods at the prevailing price of the 

 latter. 



W. A. Gilchrist of the Three States Lumber 

 Company is back in Memphis after a somewhat 

 extended absence from this city. 



Much regret is expressed in lumber circles here 

 over the recent death of W. W. Cargill, owner 

 of the Sawyer & Austin Lumber Company, Pine 

 Bluff, Ark. His home was at Racine, Wis., but 

 he had very extensive lumber interests in the 

 South, principally at Pine Bluff. He was quite 

 an important factor in the development of the 

 section tributary to that town, having, in addi- 

 tion to the purchase of large quantities of 

 timber land and the establishment of the big 

 Sawyer & Austin plant, built the logging road 

 from Pine Bluff to Benton, which was after- 

 ward sold to the Missouri Pacific System for 

 $1,000,000 and which now forms a part of the 

 Pine Bluff & Western. 



The Anderson-Tully Company and the Jorgen- 

 scn-Bennett Company, both of which recently suf- 

 fered loss by fire to the extent of $10,000 to 

 $20,000. fully covered by insurance, have set 

 about repairing the damage. One of the sheds 

 of the Anderson-Tully Company stored with dry 

 lumber w-as completely burned, while the plant 

 of the Jorgensen-Bennett Company was materially 

 damaged. 



J. W. Dickson of J. W. Dickson & Co. is con- 

 gratulating himself and associates on the splen- 

 did work done by the tire department a short 

 time ago, w-hen what threatened to be a very 

 serious conflagration at its yards in East Mem- 

 phis was gotten under control before damage 

 exceeding $4,000 was done. Mr. Dickson has had 

 some very trying experiences with fire during 

 the past few years, having lost his mill in East 

 Memphis within the past twelve months. Since 

 that time the company has had its mill site at 

 r:dmondson. Ark., operating only its yards in 

 East Memphis. 



BRISTOL 



The outlook in the lumber market in this 

 section is still bright. There is a continued 

 steady advance in price and demand. .Stocks . 

 generally are moving well, while the market is 

 characterized by a better demand for the lower 

 grades. Most of the mills are running and will 

 get in as much time as possible during the win- 

 ter, in view of the improved and rapidly im- 

 proving conditions of the trade. There is a 

 , serious fear of the car shortage soon among 

 the lumbermen and other shippers in this dis- 

 trict, but they have resolved not to climb the 

 hill until they get to it. The railroads have 

 Impressed all of their cars into service in the 

 past few weeks. 



C. L. Matthews of Corry, Pa., special travel- 

 ing salesman for the Climax Manufacturing 

 Company, was in Bristol this week and received 

 some nice orders, including an order for a Cli- 

 max locomotive from the Rockcastle Lumber 

 Company, which recently started its new band 

 mill at Meek, Ky. Some important purchases of 

 machinery have recently been made by lumber- 

 men here. 



W. G. McCain of the Peter-McCain Lumber 

 Company has returned from a trip in the moun- 

 tains, where he was looking over some timber 

 boundaries his company contemplates purchas- 

 ing. Mr. McCain is also at the head of the 

 firm of W. G. McCain & Sons, w-hicb is operating 

 a band mill at Neva, Johnson county, Tennessee. 



Joseph Dunwoody of B'leck & Dunwoody, Phil- 

 adelphia, w-as among the buyers in the Bristol 

 hardwood market this week and brought news 

 of further and more rapid improvement in the 

 condition of trade in the East. The new firm 

 of Fleck & Dunwoody has just been formed and 

 is composed of Paul W. Fleck, for years in 

 business in Bristol, and Mr. Dunwoody. 



The Consuaga Lumber Company is going for- 

 ward rapidly with its operations at Consuaga, 



Polk county, Tennessee. The Pendergrast Lum- 

 ber Company of Marion, O., started a band mill 

 at Duckton, near the Consuaga property, this 

 week. 



L. F. Jackson of Honaker, Va., has gone to 

 Lindside, W. Va., where he has started a new 

 mill. 



Lee McChesney, the well-known Bristol lum- 

 berman, returned this week from Mississippi, 

 where he has purchased additional lumber inter- 

 ests. 



Among the hardw-ood buyers on the Bristol 

 market last week was W. E. Douglas of the 

 Crosby & Beckley Lumber Company of New 

 Haven, Conn. This company has done an exten- 

 sive business in this section for several years. 



C. W. Wallis of the J. R. Droney Lumber Com- 

 pany of Olean, N. Y., came to Bristol this week 

 to pay a brief visit to the local lumbermen. 

 He left for Erwin, Tenn., to look after timber 

 Interests in that section. 



L. J. Baltes of White, Frost & White, well- 

 known hardwood dealers of North Tonawanda, 

 N. Y., was a visitor on the Bristol market last 

 week and left some orders. 



Work is going forward on the three new 

 band mills being erected at Honaker, Russell 

 county, Virginia, by the Honaker Lumber Com- 

 pany for the development of a large area of 

 timber land It has acquired in that section. It 

 is expected that the mills will be ready for 

 operation not later than March 1, 1910. 



W. W. Pruitt, superintendent of the Wood 

 Lumber Company of Carter, Tenn., and Miss Ida 

 Belle Slimp, a daughter of the late Capt. Fred- 

 erick Slimp, were married in Bristol this week 

 and left for New York and Boston for a three 

 weeks' honeymoon. 



A. G. House will erect a new mill at Weldon, 

 N. C, .for the development of a tract of hard- 

 wood timber in that section. 



••Business is improving right along," said B. 

 B. Burns of the Rockcastle Lumber Company and 

 allied concerns of this city. He thinks that 

 the improvement will continue through the win- 

 ter. 



F. C. Knight of the Tug River Lumber Com- 

 pany is back from a trip to points in Kentucky, 

 where he has been looking after mills. 



W. ■ S. Whiting of the Whiting Manufacturing 

 Company was a recent visitor in Bristol, on 

 bis way to Abingdon, Va., to look over his com- 

 pany's property at that place. 



The Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio railroad, the 

 new trunk line from eastern Kentucky to south- 

 west Virginia to the south Atlantic seaboard, 

 in w-hicb W. M. Ritter of the W. M. Ritter Lum- 

 ber Company of Columbus, O., is interested, will 

 be completed to Spartansburg, S. C, a distance 

 (if 225 miles, on October 29. The last spike 

 will be driven on that day and a special train 

 will immediately be run into Spartansburg bear- 

 ing officials who go to attend a celebration in 

 the form of a barbecue, given on the occasion 

 of the completion of the important line to that 

 city. 



Lumber corporations of other states, which 

 formerly did business in Tennessee and have 

 retired, but still own stumpage, are protesting 

 against the action of the officials of that state 

 in compelling them to pay taxes just the same 

 as if they were doing business. This also ap- 

 plies to concerns proposing to enter the lumber 

 business in Tennessee which buy timber and 

 have their charters recorded but which have 

 not yet started to work. 



R. L. Wilson of New Y'ork was a visitor on the 

 local market this week. 



LOUISVILLE 



The Louisville Hardwood Club is getting ready- 

 In celebrate an important anniversary, namely, 

 the first birthday of that organization. It will 

 be observed about the middle of November and 



