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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Coal & Coke Company spent the holidays at 

 Woi'thlngton. 



An incrcasi' in capital stoclt from $15,000 to 

 $25,000 has bi'en made by the Tessellated Floor- 

 ing Company of Edinburg. 



P. W. Bowman, for some time office manager 

 lor the Groer-Houghton Lumber Company, has 

 laken a traveling position with the company in 

 Indiana territory. 



Ofllces at S22 State Life building have recently 

 been opened by W. C. Greer, formerly located 

 at 407 Board of Trade building. 



The circuit court has given the German Lum- 

 ber Company permission to change its name 

 to the Gemmer Lumber & Veneer Company. 

 Recently the company purchased a veneer plant 

 and increased its capital stock. 



A meeting of the directors of the Wilkie 

 Manufacturing Company, Anderson, manufactur- 

 ers of hardwood and refrigerators, will be held 

 January 13 to determine what disposition shall 

 be made of the plant by the trustee in bank- 

 ruptcy. 



Stockholders of the Talge Mahogany Company 

 have decided to increase the capital stock from 

 .$200,000 to $300,000. The company reports 

 an exceptionally large business for 1909. 



The Henry Brothers Lumber Company has 

 moved its business from Wingate to Vreeders- 

 burg. where it has a larger and more complete 

 plant. Joseph S. Henry is president of the 

 company. 



The F. M. Bachman Company, hardwood 

 and veneer manufacturers, has installed a smoke 

 consuming device, to comply with the local anti- 

 sraoke ordinance. 



James T. Eaglesfleld, president of the Eagles- 

 field Company and of Eaglesfleld & Shepard, 

 hardwood concerns, has been named as a jury 

 commissioner for this county during 1910. He 

 served in a similar capacity during last year. 



The Indiana Manufacturing Company of Peru 

 is looking forward to the best trade in its his- 

 tory during 1910. The company has already 

 booked orders for 25,000 refrigerators for 1910 

 delivery. 



A substantial addition to its plant has just 

 been completed by the Brookville Furniture 

 Company of Brookville. It is a four-story brick 

 building, 40 by 123 feet, and will be equipped 

 with machinery operated by electric motors. 



The Mohawk Lumber Company has been or- 

 ganized and incorporated with .an authorized 

 capitalization of $10,000 and will establish a 

 planing mill and lumber business at Mohawk. 

 Members of the company are O. A. Newman, 

 Arthur Kingley, Robert Steele and Adam H. 

 De Shong. 



With an authorized capitalization of $50,000, 

 the American Dry Kiln Company has been 

 organized here and has begun the erection of a 

 $25,000 plant at Newman street and the Big 

 Four railroad tracks. About 200 men will be 

 employed as soon as the plant is completed. 

 Edward Gerrard has been elected president ; Ira 

 A. Minnick, vice-president, and Lemuel A. Mc- 

 Donald as secretary and treasurer. The city 

 council has granted the company permission to 

 lay a switch. 



MEMPHIS 



The Follies of the Beds 

 Reds, your critics are legion. 



Unnumbered the faults that they name. 

 0, where in the world is a legion 



More given to sin and to shame? 

 But whether the critical volleys 



Are founded on fable or truth. 

 Your faults are the foibles and follies 



Of ignorant youth. 



The oldest of all the professions 

 Is practiced light-fettered and gay ; 



.Vud numberless, nameless transgressions 

 Committed by night and by day. 



But why should such matters disquiet. 

 Why fear for the future, forsooth. 



When we know they are merely a riot 

 Of radiant youth. 



Though your sins be as seven times scarlet. 

 We shall wash them with Somebody's Soap : 



Your future is star-eyed and starlit — 

 At least we may venture to hope. 



Meanwhile we must scour and spank you. 

 ^Vnd bridle your turbulent blood. 



And see if somehow we can .vank you 

 From out of the mud. 



— "The Blues." 



Building operations are shown to have been 

 on a large scale during 1909. The total for 

 the year was $4,324,377 against $3,300,508 the 

 preceding year, a gain of $1,023,869. Conserva- 

 tive authorities estimate that building operations 

 for 1910 will be the largest by far ever known. 

 There are enough projects already under way 

 to insure several million dollars more than was 

 reached during the past year, even if no other 

 liirge projects are undertaken. 



Uusso & Burgess. Inc., have closed down their 

 mill in North Memphis for a month, in order that 

 they may make extensive repairs. Three Dutch 

 ovens and two engines are being put in. and 

 other improvements whereby the capacity of the 

 plants will be increased about 25 per cent, are 

 also being made. About $5,000 will be expended 

 on the improvements. 



The box factories of the Anderson-TuUy Com- 

 pany which w'ere run on full time prior to 

 Christmas were shut down throughout the Christ- 

 mas holidays. They resumed January 3. The 

 mill of the company has not yet shut down, but 

 it may have to do so if the ice in the Mississippi 

 does not soon disappear and make it possible 

 to bring out more timber. In fact, all the mills 

 depending on the river for their logs are con- 

 fronted with a rather unfavorable situation. 

 There is so much floating ice in the Mississippi 

 that it is impossible for the timber to be brought 

 down and some curtailment by the river mills is 

 uot unexpected. The recent cold wave has been 

 very severe and a further drop in temperature 

 is indicated at the present time. 



The York Lumber & Manufacturing Company 

 has succeeded the I'ork-Browning Lumber Com- 

 pany and is now busily engaged in increasing the 

 facilities at its plant. New machinery is being 

 added and efforts are also being made to increase 

 the capacity of that already installed. The com- 

 pany has recently secured the services of Frank 

 Macey, formerly connected with the Macey Com- 

 pany, Grand Kapids, Mich., and will operate on 

 a large scale. 



The Nettleton Box & Lumber Company, Jones- 

 boro. Ark., is making extensive improvements. 

 These were begun with the flrst of the year. The 

 cost will exceed $200,000. 



Charles W. Miller of the Michigan-Arkansas 

 Lumber Company, Detroit, Mich., is erecting a 

 big band mill at Nettleton, Ark., which will have 

 a daily capacity of 60,000 feet. The company 

 has recently been cutting a large amount of 

 timber on its tract of 4,400 acres but announce- 

 ment was made a few days ago that it would 

 stop cutting until spring when it would be able 

 to handle its timber to better advantage. The 

 company, in the meantime, will proceed with the 

 construction of the necessary tracks from Its 

 property to the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & 

 Southern Railroad and with the erection of its 

 mill. 



Announcement is made that A. A. Parsons of 

 Memphis, who is associated with E. K. Zimmer- 

 man of Ann Arbor, Mich., has purchased con- 

 trolling interest in the plant of the Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, Aiken, S. C. The purchase 

 price is $2.^0,000. In addition to the box plant 

 itself, there is a line of steamboats operating 

 in connection therewith. 



Miller & McHall of Indiana, some time ago 

 acquired 800 acres of timber land near Bald 

 Knob, Ark., and are erecting two large sawmills 

 at that point for the development of the timber 

 thereon. 



The Morgan-Fuller Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated at Lexington, Tenn. It has acquired 

 and is developing 1,620 acres of hardwood timber 

 lands. J. A. Morgan is president and A. I-I. 

 Fuller secretary. 



The East Union Lumber & ilanufacturing 

 Company. Brookhaven, Miss., has flled an amend- 

 ment to its charter, increasing its capital stock 

 from $50,000 to $200,000, all paid. This is a 

 step preliminary to taking over the holdings of 

 the Hammond Lumber Company, Ltd. of Ham- 

 mond, La., including the Hammond & Holtenvllle 

 Railroad Company. This is practically a con- 

 solidation of the two companies. The general 

 offices will be located at Brookhaven. J. B. Nalty 

 is president and L. D. Nalty secretary. T. II. 

 Loggins is in charge of the sales department. 



The Builders' Exchange of Memphis is con- 

 sidering plans for the erection of a home of it.s 

 own. It does not regard its present quarters 

 as entirely satisfactory and thinks its members 

 are quite as able to own their home as those in 

 other cities. Definite plans are expected very 

 shortly. 



The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Lum- 

 bermen's Club was postponed from January 1 

 to January 7, to be held at Hotel Gayoso. The 

 retiring officers will deliver their reports and the 

 newly elected ones will be installed. It is under- 

 stood that President Crenshaw will deliver an 

 address covering the principal features of his 

 administration, while President-elect Major will 

 outline the policy of the new officials. 



U. S. Lambert, who has charge of the plant 

 and office of the A. B. Nickey & Sons Company, 

 Memphis, is back from his wedding trip. Mr. 

 Lambert was married here early in December and 

 has been away from Memphis the greater portion 

 of the time since. He looks forward to an ex- 

 ceptionally good business here and the entire out- 

 look from his standpoint is quite cheerful. 



F. Zupke, second vice-president of the Darnell- 

 Taenzer Lumber Company since it was formed 

 here several years ago, has resigned his position. 

 He has not decided definitely upon his plans for 

 the future, but these will be matured at an early 

 date. Mr. Zupke has had about twenty-four 

 years' experience in the hardwood lumber trade. 

 He was with E. E. Taenzer & Co. for about nine 

 years and has traveled all over Europe, being 

 familiar not only with the foreign hardwood 

 business but also with that in this country. 



BRISTOL 



A charter of incorporation was granted this 

 week to the C. L. Ritter Lumber Company ot 

 Bristol, headed by C. L. Ritter of West Virginia, 

 Edwin Mann ot Bluefleld, W. Va., and B. B. 

 Burns of Bristol. The company's capital stock 

 is $200,000 and it will do a general lumber 

 manufacturing business. The company recently 

 acquired all of the Virginia holdings of the 

 Yellow Poplar Lumber Company of Coal Grove, 

 O., including the band mill at Whitewood, Va., 

 togetlier with a large area of timber land. The 

 timber is some of the finest in this section. 

 The Yellow Poplar Company will withdraTv 

 from Virginia. 



A new band mill is being installed in Elk 

 Valley, near Knoxville, Tenn., by Lee McChesney 

 and Mr. Douglas of Bristol. Mr. McChesney is 

 well known in the lumber business, having for- 

 merly been with the Crosby Beckley Lumber 

 Company. They own a considerable boundary 

 of timber in Elk Valley. 



C. E. Paxton of the Paxton Lumber Company 

 is in the North and Northwest calling on his 

 company's trade. The company plans the big- 

 gest business in its history this year. 



The installation of circular mills will be 



