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HARDWOOD RECORD 



a splendid sbowing, there being a gain of more 

 tban $2,000,000 for Octol)er as compared with 

 last year and the gain since January 1 exceeding 

 $10,000,000. 



Gibson & Whitaker, who have been operating 

 a resaw and veneer plant in Memphis for some 

 months, will install a band mill with edger and 

 trimmer and wilt manufacture all kinds of 

 hardwood lumber. The additions will be made 

 as soon as possible. 



Building operations in Memphis were of rec- 

 ord proportions during October, reaching $571,- 

 869, a gain of $281,751 over the same month 

 last year. This brings the total increase for the 

 first ten months of 1909 to more than $600,000 

 over the same time a year ago. There is marked 

 activity in building circles still and November 

 is expected to make a splendid showing in this 

 respect. 



The Citizens' Lumber Company has filed appli- 

 cation for a charter at Covington, Tenn. The 

 capital stock is $10,000. The company proposes 

 to take over the branch office of the Hines Lum- 

 ber Company at Covington and to conduct a 

 general lumber business, wholesale and retail. 

 B. York of Memphis and W. A. Owen, J. A. 

 Buckncr and J. R. Swan, all of Covington, are 

 the incorporators. 



C. S. McCrosky of Huntington, Tenn., has 

 gone to Jonesboro for the purpose of locating 

 a box factory at that point, which will give 

 employment to a hundred persons. The business 

 men of Jonesboro are enthusiastic over securing 

 this enterprise, which is regarded as assured. 



The Michigan-Arkansas Lumber Company has 

 been granted permission to do business under the 

 laws of Arkansas. H. W. Cooley is state agent 

 with headquarters at Jonesboro. The company 

 some time ago bought a large tract of timber 

 land in that state and proposes to establish a 

 plant in Jonesboro. Its capital stock is $150,- 

 000. 



An acute car shortage is reported in Arkansas, 

 especially along the lines of the St. Louis, Iron 

 Mountain & Southern, Kock Island and St. 

 Louis & Southwestern. The chief dispatcher of 

 one of these lines states that the first named 

 road is not able to supply more than 25 per 

 cent of the demand for cars and that the second 

 cannot supply more than 3D per cent. He also 

 states that the St. Louis & Southwestern is badly 

 behind in furnishing cars. The heavy movement 

 of cotton is pointed out as being in some meas- 

 ure responsible for inability to get prompt serv- 

 ice. The movement of lumber in Arkansas is 

 on a very large scale and the lumbermen find 

 themselves very badly handicapped by the un- 

 satisfactory service. The local situation is all 

 right and lumber shippers here are able to 

 secure all the cars that are necessary, and re- 

 ports from Mississippi also indicate that very 

 little trouble is being experienced on this score. 

 Arkansas appears to be in worse shape from 

 the standpoint of railroad service than any other 

 state contiguous to Tennessee. 



C. L. Wheeler of J. W. Wheeler & Co., who 

 has been spending some time with his son at 

 Roswell, N. M., has returned to Memphis. Mr. 

 Wheeler states that the big mill of the company 

 at Madison, Ark., which was closed down about 

 a month ago, will have to remain out of com- 

 mission until the water reaches a considerably 

 higher stage than at present. 



The North Memphis Fire Protective Associa- 

 tion is in process of formation for the purpose 

 of devising better bre fighting facilities in the 

 lumber district of North Memphis, and for the 

 additional purpose of securing lower rates of 

 insurance. The lumber district lies outside of 

 the city limits of Memphis and the fire facilities 

 have never been as good as desired. It is pro- 

 posed to establish two large tanks at centrally 

 located points in North Memphis and to have 

 a complete sprinkler system. It is proposed to 

 serve not only association members but also 

 non-association members. The latter will of 

 course pay a charge for the service. 



A number of business men of Paragould, Ark., 

 have rscently purchased about 12,000 acres 

 near Ilarrisburg, and propose to ship the timber 

 from there to Paragould, where they will have 

 their plant. The logging camp has already been 

 established on the property and a large crew of 

 men is engaged in cutting the right of way 

 lor a branch road which will run from the 

 iron Mountain, a distance of five miles, to 

 this timber. 



An authorized agent of the Business Men's 

 Club of Jonesboro has received the signed bonds 

 of a number of gentlemen who propose to estab- 

 lish a woodworking plant at that point, which 

 will have a pay roll of $50,000 per annum. 

 The city has agreed to put up a bonus of $3,000. 

 The names of the gentlemen interested are with- 

 held until all the details are perfected. The 

 plant, however, is regarded as assured. 



Mr. Long of the Long-Knight Lumber Com- 

 pany, Indianapolis, Ind., was a guest of the 

 Lumbermen's Club of Memphis at its luncheon 

 at the Hotel Gayoso last week. 



It is the intention of the Leavitt Land & 

 Lumber Company at Dermott to have its plant 

 ready for operation by the middle of the month. 

 It will have a capacity of 50,000 feet a day. 

 The company will have eight miles of railroad 

 and this will be extended from time to time as 

 necessary. It owns a large amount of timber 

 land in that section. E. J. Petteys, who has 

 been with the company at Chicago for some 

 years, will be superintendent of operations at 

 Dermott and will remove from Chicago to that 

 point. 



C. R. Ransom of the Gayoso Lumber Com- 

 pany, who has been to the East and North on 

 a selling trip, has returned to Memphis and 

 reports that he found business good. 



Mr. Kritchie of the Lamb-Fish Lumber Com- 

 pany, has recently returned from a business trip 

 through the large cities of the North. Mr. 

 Fritchie says that there is some improvement 

 in business, but that there is a disposition on 

 the part of consuming interests to buy only for 

 more pressing needs. 



J. E. Miinal & Son are erecting a mill in New 

 South Memphis and will cut for May Brothers. 

 The plant will have a capacity of about 25,000 

 teet and will be completed soon. 



Hugh Ford, for some time manager of the 

 .ikron (Ohio) factory of the Pioneer Pole & 

 Shaft Company, has come to Memphis and will 

 have charge of the timber department of the 

 same company, of which he is a member. The 

 change has been made on account of his health. 

 He reports himself as highly pleased with the 

 climate and water of Memphis and thinks he 

 will like it here very much. 



NASHVILLE 



More cedar timber was scattered on the streets 

 of the city a few days since than was probably 

 ever the case in the history of Nashville. Trol- 

 ley wires, telephone and telegraph wires and 

 even the great cables were swung on big cedar 

 uprights. Recently a Kaybe avenue car Jumped 

 the track and ran into a post on the corner of 

 Lroadway and Sixth avenue, causing the post 

 with its burden of heavy cables to come down. 

 Almost instantly there was a crashing of heavy 

 timber on a number of streets and heavily 

 charged trolley and electric light wires writhed 

 .Tud popped on the ground. Some of the posts 

 were worm-eaten, while others showed remarkable 

 preservation, and these were eagerly gobbled up 

 by the pencil factories in this section. The new 

 poles erected were locust instead of cedar, as 

 there are no more cedar posts in this section to 

 be had now. Fortunately the accident occurred 

 at midnight and no lives were lost. The damage 

 done was between $10,000 and $15,000. 



The Hermitage National bank, a newly or- 

 ganized institution in the city, of which W. J. 



Cude, the well-known Nashville lum1>ermaD, Is 

 vice-president, has just issued $50,000 in bank 

 notes, the issue being duly signed by Mr. Cude. 



Attorney-General Charles T. Gates has just 

 rendered an opinion to Secretary of State Hal- 

 lum W. Goodloe, in which he holds that so long 

 as a corporation is qualified to do business in 

 the state of Tennessee that it must make annual 

 reports to the secretary and accompany them 

 by the fee prescribed by law. This decision 

 comes in the case of Harris & Cole Brothers, 

 makers of interior finish of Cedar Falls, 

 Iowa. The company formerly operated in the 

 slate and still owns some cutover timber lands, 

 but has sought to relinquish its rights to operate 

 after having secured the same. The attorney- 

 general holds that the company, still having 

 the right to operate in the state, must comply 

 with the corporation act. The claim of the com- 

 pany was that to come within the provisions of 

 the act a company must actually be engaged in 

 business. The attorney-general held this claim 

 to be without foundation in law, but at the 

 same time he recommends that the corporation 

 law of 1907 be so amended as to relieve just 

 such cases as this in one of two ways, as fol- 

 lows : First, an amendment by which a foreign 

 corporation could legally withdraw from the 

 state and waive the authority conferred upon it 

 to do business in the state ; and, second, amend 

 the corporations act of 1907 so that its pro- 

 visions would not operate as to foreign corpora- 

 tions merely owning property in the state, yet 

 not attempting to do business in the state. 



At a bankrupt sale of the property of John M. 

 Smith Lumber Company, A. L. Moore bid in the 

 property for $3,700. It consisted of a lumber 

 shed 66 by 187 feet on Delaware avenue In 

 West Nashville and a three-room oflice building. 



The firm of John B. Ransom & Co. shows a 

 substantial increase in business for October over 

 the preceding month of September. During the 

 past week or two this firm obtained the highest 

 jirice in its history for quartered oak. 



The Baker, Jacobs Company reports good busi- 

 ness and increasing prices all the while, with a 

 good demand for all grades of stock. 



The W. J. Cude Land & Lumber Company 

 reports that a large per cent of its orders are 

 on low-grade stock. This is regarded as most 

 lavorable, for this class of stock has been for 

 the most part a drag on the market. 



Love, Boyd & Co. report the biggest business 

 done in October since the panic and they expect 

 a big month for November as well. They will 

 run their country mills straight on through the 

 winter. Over in Arkansas, however, they are 

 having some trouble with the car question. 



The Prewitt-Spurr Manufacturing Company Is 

 running its big" plant night and day and reports 

 business good. It recently captured first prize 

 with its exhibit of cedar buckets and wooden- 

 ware at the Tennessee State Fair and the ex- 

 hibit of hardwood flooring. With 1,000,000 feet 

 of lumber in the river and trade good it is rtin- 

 uing its big plant on full time. 



A recent visitor to the city was John H. 

 Baskette, formerly with Prewitt-Spurr Manufac- 

 turing Company in this city, but now in the 

 woodworking manufacturing business in Helena, 

 Ark. 



A big timber deal has just been closed In 

 Wayne county, Tennessee, in which the Lucas 

 Land & Lumber Company of Waverly, Tenn., 

 has bought of T. T. Dickson of Olive Hill and 

 T. S. Uassell of Clifton, Tenn., the poplar and 

 chestnut on some 19.000 acres in Wayne county. 

 The consideration was $65,000. 



The storm which swept over the southern 

 portion of middle Tennessee and northern Ala- 

 bama a few days since did great damage to tim- 

 ber. Thousands of trees were either blown up 

 by the roots or else broken off above the ground 

 and shattered to pieces. 



The new sawmill of W. E. Catchy & Co. at 

 Burns, Tenn., has been put In place and large 

 quantities of timber are being hauled into it. 



