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of Fort Woyni? is establishing a large transit 

 yard. 



An increase in capital stock from $20,000 to 

 $70,000 has just been made by the Batesville 

 Lumber & Veneer Company of Lawrenceburg for 

 the purpose of extending the business. 



F. C. Clinc of this city has organized the 

 F. C. Ciine Lumber Company at Andei'son which 

 has taken over the business of the late George 

 E. Springer in that city. Others interested in 

 the new concern are L. 0. Cline. D. L. Mus- 

 tard and F. E. Slustard. and the capitalization 

 is $10,000. 



The Indiana Hardwood I^umber Company is a 

 new concern at Shelby, liaving ,iust been organ- 

 ized with an authorized capitalization of $40,- 

 000- Those interested are Joseph F., Arthur 

 L. and Ola B. Johnson. 



E. II. Eldridge. president of the E. H. 

 Eldridge Lumber Company, died at his home 

 in this city a few days ago, after an illness of 

 several months. He was sixty-five years old 

 and originally engaged in the lumber business 

 in Chicago, but had been located hero for about 

 forty years. A widow, two sons and a daugh- 

 ter survive liim. 



The hardwood and refrigerator business of the 

 Wilkie Manufacturing Company of Anderson was 

 sold on January 31 to the Anderson Trust 

 Company for $50,000. on order of H. C. Sheri- 

 dan, referee in bankruptcy. The trust com- 

 pany is trustee for the bondholders of the 

 Wilkie company, the bonds outstanding amount- 

 ing to .SoO.OOO. The company went into the 

 hands of a receiver six months ago. 



On the evening of January 20, the annual 

 banquet of the Atkins Tioneers was held at the 

 Spencer bouse in this city. The association is 

 composed of 113 men who have been in the 

 employ of E. C. Atkins & Co. for more than 

 twenty years and was organized in 1906. Those 

 who spoke at the banquet were H. C. Atkins, 

 J. H. Wilde, J. T. Dowling, Nelson A. Gladding. 

 William Brennan, Albert Meredith, Franlj Wells 

 and I'rank Kinssley. 



MEMPHIS 



Weather conditions throughout this section 

 during the past fortnight have been favorable 

 for the production of hardwood lumber and the 

 mills have made good progress. There are some 

 short of timber and owing to the wetness of 

 the woods it is impossible for them to make 

 much progress, but most of the mills have a 

 good supply of logs on hand or within easy 

 reach. Indications are that production will con- 

 tinue on a liberal scale providing weather con- 

 ditions are favorable therefor. Most of the 

 mills in Memphis and vicinity are operating on 

 full time. 



Messrs. Cockrell and Clements, members of the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission, held extensive 

 hearings here this week in connection with the 

 reconsignment practice as applied to cotton, cot- 

 ton-seed products, grain, lumber and logs. The 

 commission appears to be very much interested 

 in this matter, and it is summoning witnesses, 

 not only from the railroad people, but from the 

 shippers. Practically every railroad here was 

 represented at this hearing and among the lum- 

 ber fraternity A. L. Foster of the J. W. Thomp- 

 son Company, C. B. Dudley of the Dudley Lum- 

 ber Company, Jas. E. Stark of the J. E. Stark 

 Lumber Company, and other representatives, ap- 

 peared for the lumber shippers of Memphis. 

 The commissioners gave no intimation in re- 

 gard to final action in connection with this 

 matter. The report will go before the entire 

 commission and decision will be reserved until 

 that time. However, the members of the trade 

 here are encouraged over the statement made 

 by Commissioner Clements that he was satisfied 

 with the testimony of the representatives of the 

 lumber industry. Messrs. Darnell & Taenzer 

 appeared in connection with the reconsignment 



rate as applied to logs, but the commissioners 

 gave no indication of their feeling In regard to 

 this matter. The reconsigning rate in Memphis 

 at present consists of a reduction of one cent 

 on lumber shipped from Memphis to northern 

 and eastern points if the shipments are made 

 within four months after the lumber has been 

 sent to Memphis from some out-of-town point. 

 The commission will hold hearings at other 

 points before returning to Washington and be- 

 fore a decision will be reached in connection 

 with this reconsigning practice as applied to 

 lumber and other commodities. 



Building operations in Memphis are on a very 

 large scale. During the month of January 

 building permits in excess of $1,000,000 were 

 issued and the officials of the Memphis Union 

 Station report that they will take out a per- 

 mit during February for the new Union station, 

 which is to cost approximately $3,000,000. All 

 indications point to continued activity in build- 

 ing circles and the outlook is for record-breaking 

 ligures for this month. As a result of this activ- 

 ity, building material of all kinds is in excel- 

 lent demand and prices are very satisfactory. 

 .Vll of the planing mills and those turning out 

 interior finish are engaged at full capacity. 



The J. W. Thompson Lumber Company has 

 sold its mill at Berclair. Miss. The company 

 has cut out most of its timber owned near that 

 rilant. there being only about 7.50.000 feet left. 

 This was sold with the mill. The sale was 

 made to lumbermen at Greenwood. Miss. 



W. H. Grcble. W. B. Morgan, Claude Moore, 

 Frank May, Ralph May and other delegates 

 from Memphis, who attended the annual meet- 

 ing of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion, have returned to Memphis. Mr. Greble 

 is very enthusiastic over the meeting, which he 

 declares was one of the most successful in the 

 history of that organization. 



The American Lumber Company was recently 

 incorporated here with a capital stock of $50,- 

 000. J. Lindsay Wells and others are the in- 

 corporators. Mr. Wells has been carrying on 

 a business in hardwoods and yellow pine for 

 some time, but decided recently to incorporate 

 the business. It will continue to engage in 

 this same line. 



The committees appointed to raise the fund 

 of $50,000 to advertise the advantages of 

 Memphis and to secure new industries for this 

 city have succeeded in securing more than half 

 of this amount and believe that they will have 

 no diliiculty in obtaining the remainder. A com- 

 mittee of forty has been appointed by the Busi- 

 ness Men's Club from its ovm members and 

 from members of the other commercial organ- 

 izations of this city, who will have charge of 

 the publicity campaign. A strong efEort will 

 be made to secure lumber and other wood- 

 working enterprises, although bids will be made 

 for industries of every character. It is be- 

 lieved that both the population and business of 

 Memphis will be largely increased as a result 

 of the work of this committee. 



The Alabama Tile & Timber Company has 

 been incorporated under the laws of Alabama, 

 with headquarters at Birmingham, Ala. The 

 capital stock is $25,000. The company will 

 deal in .yellow pine, hardwood lumber and in 

 cross-ties. Claude Nabors and H. C. Howell are 

 the principal incorporators. 



The "Rapids" has been purchased by the 

 C. B. Hall Stave Company of Memphis from 

 the Little Rock Packet Company, and will be 

 used for carrying heavy timber and staves. The 

 consideration was $8,000. The boat will claim 

 Slemphis as its home. 



The Minden Lumber Company has recently 

 purchased property at Charleston, Ark., which 

 will be converted into a large lumber yard. 



The leading lumber firms In the North 

 Memphis lumber district contributed from $10 

 to $50 each to the Memphis Fire Relief fund, a 



subsidiary organization of the Memphis Fire 

 Department. The contributions were made be- 

 cause of the excellent work done by the fire 

 department in putting out the flames which 

 damaged the holdings of the Crescent Lumber 

 Company to the extent of $20,000 and which 

 also seriously damaged one of the warehouses 

 of the Anderson-Tully Company. The North 

 Memphis lumber district is considerably con-, 

 gested and but for the excellent work of the 

 r.rc department the flames would have spread to 

 the adjoining yards and greatly increased the 

 losses. 



A preliminary survey is being made from 

 Cotton Plant, Ark., to Cache river, in Arkansas, 

 for the purpose of transporting logs from White 

 and Cache rivers' bottoms to Cotton Plant for 

 manufacture into lumber. There is a great deal 

 of timber in these bottoms which is practically 

 inaccessible at present but which will be ren- 

 dered available upon completion of this line. 



The Dierks Lumber & Coal Company. De 

 Queen, Ark., it is announced, has decided to 

 build a large mill on its property at De Queen, 

 to take the place of the one recently destroyed 

 by fire. Work is to begin within the next two 

 months. 



M. A. Beavers and W. J. Smith have estab- 

 lished a sawmill at Manson, Ark. It will be 

 used for the manufacture of hardwood lum- 

 lier and railroad ties. 



The mill of Russe & Birgess, Inc.. will resume 

 operations at an early date. The plant has been 

 closed down for repairs and improvement since 

 January 1. These will increase the capacity 

 from twenty-five to thirty per cent. The plant 

 will be in operation not later than the middle 

 of this month. 



There are four mills in process of erection 

 here, including that of the Nickey Brothers Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company. The others are being 

 erected by the East End Lumber Company, Gib- 

 son & Whitaker and J. E. Munal & Sons. Work 

 is being rushed on tliem as rapidly as possible 

 and they will soon lie read.v for operation. 



The Queenstown Manufacturing Company, at 

 the head of which is C. W. Quinn of Chicago, 

 has begun operations at its plant at Birming- 

 ham, Ala., for the manufacture of oflice, house 

 and bank fixtures. The company began with 

 orders sufficient to keep the plant in steady 

 operation for the next six months. 



R. J. Darnell of R. J. Darnell, Inc., and W. S. 

 Darnell of the Darnell-Taenzer Lumber Com- 

 pany, have returned from Terre Haute, where 

 they went to attend the burial of their father, 

 I. M. Darnell, who died some days ago at St. 

 Petersburg. Fla. 



J. R. Eakin has removed from Wesson to EI 

 Dorado, Ark., and launched the J. R. Eakin 

 liumber Company, which will handle both yel- 

 low pine and hardwood lumber at wholesale. 

 He was formerly connected with the Fordyce 

 Lumber Company, Fordyce, Ark., and later with 

 the Edgar Lumber Company, Wasson, Ark., 

 .serving both in the capacity of sales agent. He 

 is still a director of the latter company. 



NASHVILLE 



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Cheering reports are being received from Con- 

 gressman Joseph W. Byrns as to the probabili- 

 ties for a liberal appropriation for the continua- 

 tion of work on Cumberland river. This is a 

 feature in which Nashville lumbermen and all 

 those in the great valley of the Cumberland are 

 vitally interested and one they watch with alert- 

 ness. 



A special from Adams, Tenn., announces the 

 destruction there by fire of the Adams Planing 

 Mill. The loss was $7,000, insurance $2,000. 

 The mill was owned by a stock company com- 

 posed of M. A. Carnard, Tillman Carnard, Wash 

 Carnard and W. H. Miller. 



The Nashville Builders' Exchange has taken 

 up the project of the builders putting in perma- 



