HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The J. W. McLaughlin Lumber Company of 

 Fremont. O., was incorporated last week with 

 an authorized capital stoclc of $25,000. The 

 company owns a large tract of timber land in 

 .\rkansas, where it will erect a sawmill and 

 stave factory. 



The home of Rowland Starr of the lumlwr 

 firm of Barbour & Starr at Toledo was entered 

 by burglars recently and all the famil.v silver 

 stolen, the loss amounting to several hundred 

 dollars. This is the second robbery within the 

 past year, the former perpetrators now serving 

 eight-year sentences in the Ohio penitentiary. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



M. S. Huey of the Capital Lumber Company 

 has returned from a visit in Chicago. 



The Mossman Lumber Company has closed its 

 hardwood mill at Dubois because of inability 

 to get logs. The company is contemplating re- 

 moving to Memphis, Tenn. 



Arrangements are being made by the Moffett 

 & Bowman Lumber Company of Madison to move 

 to Memphis, Tenn., soon. 



Among delegates to the National Rivers & 

 Harbors Congress at Washington, D. C, this 

 month was D. W. Place, a prominent South 

 Bend lumberman. 



The annual meeting of the Indiana Manufac- 

 turers' & Shippers' Association will be held here 

 January 26. The executive committee of the 

 association has asked the Indiana Railroad Com- 

 mission to adopt the demurrage rules recently 

 approved by the National Association of Railroad 

 Commissioners. 



Plans are being considered by the Parma 

 Manufacturing Company for enlarging and ex- 

 lending its business. As a preliminary step, the 

 stockholders have decided to increase the cap- 

 ital stock from 5-iO.OOO to $50,000. 



A branch wholesale .vard is to be established 

 in Michigan City soon by the National Pole 

 Company of Escanalia, Mich. It is planned to 

 ship about 2,000 carloads of poles a year to the 

 new yard by water tor rail distribution. 



The Muncie Chair Company has been organ- 

 ized by Muncie capitalists and has been incor- 

 porated with an authorized capital stock of 

 $130,000. A factory will be established at once 

 for the exclusive manufacture of chairs. Those 

 interested in the concern are : M. A. St. John. 

 E. L. Brown, J. E. Johnson, F. J. Lesh and W. 

 E. Hitchcock. 



Building operations in Indianapolis this .year 

 have amounted to something more than $7,000,- 

 000 as compared with about $5,800,000 in 1908. 

 The figure this year will be the largest in the 

 history of the city and prospects are bright 

 for increased activities next year. 



MEMPHIS 



There is no longer doubt regarding the build- 

 'ing of the union station. All details have been 

 perfected. The officials of the Memphis Union 

 Station Company have already filed with the 

 legislative council an acceptable bond as evidence 

 of Iheir good faith. Furthermore, President J. 

 L. Lancaster has $3,000,000 subject to check to 

 defray expenses connected with the building of 

 this structure. Work is to begin early in Jan- 

 uary and the railroads interested state that it 

 will he pushed to completion with all possible 

 haste. Five railroads will use this station ; the 

 Louisville & Nashville ; the Nashville, Chattanooga 

 & St. Louis : the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & 

 Southern ; St. Louis-Southwestern, and the South- 

 ern railway. There is Just a prospect that the 

 Rock Island and Frisco may Join hands with 

 these railroads and enter the Memphis union 

 station on the user basis. 



The Frisco railroad has announced through 

 W. c. Nixon, vice-president and trafiic manager. 



that Memphis will not suffer in the least b.v 

 reason of the divorcement of the Hock Island 

 and Frisco Systems. He says that the road is 

 uow completing its new terminal yards at Ma- 

 rion, Ark., and that these will not be suffi- 

 cient to meet the large requirements of Memphis 

 and the Memphis territory. The company pur- 

 chased extensive yards cast of the city some 

 years ago and will soon proceed with the erec- 

 tion of terminals fully as extensive as those at 

 Marion. 



The Auderson-TuUy Company has put its mill 

 in North Memphis in operation and is also run- 

 ning its big mill at Vicksburg. For quite a 

 while the mill at Memphis and the big mill at 

 Vicksburg were both closed down on account of 

 the low stage of the water. The company is 

 also operating its box factory here at full ca- 

 pacity and the one at Vicksburg is also being 

 run. 



The Lamb-Fish Lumber Company has prepared 

 to resume operations at its band mill in New 

 South Memphis. This plant was formerly owned 

 by the Guirl-Stover Lumber Compan.v, one of 

 the companies forming the present Lamb-Fish 

 Lumber Company. It has a capacity of about 

 25.000 to 30,000 feet and is to be superintended 

 by George Higley. who has heretofore been 

 manager of the mill of the company at Chancy. 

 Miss. It will be recalled that the company 

 decided some time ago to discontinue operations 

 at Chancy with a view to consolidating all of 

 its manufacturing enterprises in Mississippi at 

 Charleston. 



The E. Mossman Lumber Company is proceed- 

 ing rapidly with the erection of its mill in 

 North Memphis and will have this in readiness 

 for operation at a comparatively early date. It 

 has interests at both Evansville and Ft. Wayne, 

 Ind. 



Export conditions are improving, but they 

 are still not altogether satisfactory. There has 

 been a considerable amount of lumber sold to 

 Europe, but exporters as a rule say that prices 

 on the other side are hardly proportionate to 

 those in America. G. A. Farber. London repre- 

 sentative of Russe & Burgess, Inc., says that 

 there is a great deal of cheap lumber offered 

 in Europe and he also refers to the fact that 

 3 ply wood from Russia is being sold all over 

 Great Britain and the continent. He states 

 that this is supplanting thin poplar, sap gum, 

 oak and ash and that it will hurt the sale of 

 all thin lumber manufactured in this country 

 and sent abroad. He is, therefore, inclined to 

 look for some decrease in the amount of thin 

 lumber wanted in Europe from this country and 

 some interests here think this is a subject 

 which should be given serious consideration. 



The H. -Mfrc.v Heading Company. Jonesboro, 

 Ark., has liled an amendment to its charter, 

 whereby its capital stock is reduced from $215,- 

 000 to $91,000. The company operates heading 

 plants at Jonesboro and Hope. A partial ex- 

 planation of the decrease may be that the H. 

 Alfrey Land & Manufacturing Company, with 

 headquarters at Jonesboro, has been granted a 

 charter. The capital stock is $100,000. 



General Traffic Manager F. B. Bowes of the 

 Illinois Central Railroad has notified the Ten- 

 nessee Railroad Commission that a rate of 10 

 cents per 100 has been arranged on shipments 

 of ties from Medon. Teague, Toone, Shandy and 

 Bolivar, all Tennessee points, to Cairo. III. 

 The new rate goes into effect December 27. 



The Myers-Newson Lumber Company has pur- 

 chased the band mill formerly owned by the 

 Kentucky Lumber Company at Tutwiler, Miss., 

 and has already put it in operation. 



The Winston County Lumber Company has 

 been formed at Louisville, Miss., and will have 

 a capital stock of $10,000. Among the Incor- 

 porators are C. N. Wagner and G. H. Gilliam. 



The Iron Mountain Railroad is preparing to 

 spend about $5,000,000 in improvements in 

 .\rkansas. The main line of the road in that 



state is being ballasted and relaid with heavier 

 rail. The company is also l)uilding a large 

 number of stations and is otherwise putting 

 the line in first-class condition. 



The legal divorcement of the Rock Island and 

 Frisco Systems has led to the report that the 

 Illinois Central will soon begin the construction 

 of its own line between Haleyville and Birming- 

 ham, Ala. It will be recalled that the Illinois 

 Central entered into traffic arrangements with the 

 Frisco Railroad whereby it was to use the 

 tracks of the latter from Haleyville into Birming- 

 ham in making the trip from Jackson, Tenn., 

 via Corinth, to Birmingham. Lumber interests 

 are very much pleased with the prospect of 

 this new line because it will afford additional 

 facilities for the development of timber holdings 

 in northwestern Alabama. 



Citizens of Arkadclphia, Ark., have pledged 

 $60,000 to secure the extension of the Memphis, 

 Paris & Gulf Railroad from Murfreesboro to 

 Arkadelphia. The road now runs from Nash- 

 ville to Murfreesboro and officials of the com- 

 pany have issued the statement that the road 

 eventually will be extended as far south as 

 Pine Bluff. There is also some discussion of 

 the negotiation of traffic arrangements whereby 

 the Memphis, Paris & Gulf Railroad Company 

 will use the tracks of the Kansas City Southern 

 from Nashville to Texarkana, but nothing defi- 

 nite has yet been decided. This road runs 

 through a very important timber section and 

 will be an important factor in the development 

 of the Limber resources throughout this section. 



CHATTANOOQA 



The Berry Lumber & Stave Company has added 

 to its office force H. B. Henry, who in the future 

 will assist P. S. Burrow, general manager. 



A charter of incorporation was applied for 

 last week by the Chattanooga Chair Maniifac- 

 turing Company. This company will manufac- 

 ture a full line of chairs. 



A suit was filed here in chancery court lately 

 by O. S. Green against J. S. Hunnicntt and oth- 

 ers to prevent the culling and removing of a 

 quantity of hardwood lumber and crossties from 

 lands in Sequatchie county, this state. 



C. D. Berry of Oil City, Pa., member of the 

 Berry Lumber & Tie Company, was in the city 

 a few days ago on his way home to spend the 

 holidays. Mr. Berry has recently bought a large 

 tract of timber land near Rockwood, Tenn. 



Snodgrass & Field are working their large 

 stock of hardwood into moulding, ceiling, weather 

 boarding and dimensions. It is doubtful whether 

 they will ever run their sawmill again at the 

 present location, owing to the city laying out 

 several streets through their yard. 



NASHVILLE 



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Further details of the new hardwood flooring 

 plant to be built in Nashville have been an- 

 nounced during the past few days. A. H. 

 Bachelor of the Strable Manufacturing Company 

 of Saginaw, Mich., has purchased from the 

 Davidson, Hicks & Greene Company a ten-acre 

 site for $10,000. He recently visited the city, 

 bringing plans with him for a factory which 

 he hopes to have ready for operations by March 

 1. The plant will be a large frame building, 

 together with a dry kiln 104 feet long, the 

 kiln to be of brick. Mr. Bachelor will be the 

 local manager. The capacity of the new plant 

 will be about fifty thousand feet a day and 

 between fifty and one hundred men will be 

 employed. Associated with Mr. Bachelor in the 

 ent(?rprise are ; J. T. Wylie, a Michigan cap- 

 italist, and George Strable, Mr. Bachelor's part- 

 ner in Saginaw. Nashville was selected by 

 these gentlemen by reason of its being in the 

 center of the hardwood belt. The local concern 



