HARDWOOD RECORD 



43 



MEMPHIS 



Announcement is made by F. C. Zupke & Co. 

 (hat they have opened offices at 442-444 Scimitar 

 huilding. this city, and that they will engage in 

 the wholesale lumber business foi- both foreign and 

 domestic account. Mr. Zupke w'ill have charge of 

 the business of the tirm. He was. until recently, 

 second vice-president of the Darnell-Taenzer Lum- 

 ber Company. , Prior to his connection with this 

 lirm he was one of the stockholders in the old 

 firm of E. E. Taenzer & Co., Inc. He has had 

 Iwenty-four years' experience in the lumber busi- 

 ness, both at home and abroad, has traveled ex- 

 lonsively and is thoroushly familiar with the re- 

 (luirements of the markets both in America and 

 Kurope. The firm has only been recently or- 

 ganized and began business February l.'j. 



The MofEett-Bowman Lumber Company, with 

 headquarters at Madison. Ind., has broken 

 ground for a hardwood mill in this city, which 

 will have a capacity of 40,000 feet per day. The 

 mill is to be located in South Memphis, where a 

 tract of a little more than five acres has been 

 secured. The main buildings will be fireproof 

 and the most improved machinery will be in- 

 stalled. The firm hopes to have this plant in 

 operation within less than ninety days. The 

 headquarters of the company will continue at 

 Madison, but, as in the case of a number of other 

 northern firms, the mill will be located in Mem- 

 phis in order that it may have its plant closer 

 to the base of timber supply. 



'I'he Perkins Lumber Company, which has a 

 capital stock of .?25,000, has been organized here. 

 The company will buy and soli lumber at whole- 

 .=ale, but the management states that later a 

 sawmill may be erected here. H. E. Perkins, 

 I'r.-.nk Calville, H. F. Harwell, E. C. Perkins and 

 L. E. Brown are the principal incorporators.' 



The Michigan-Arkansas Lumber Company has 

 received the machinery and equipment for the 

 hand mill which is being erected at Nettleton, 

 /Tk., and work on the plant is now being rushed. 

 The capacity will be 40.000 feet. The company 

 owns between 4.000 and u.OOO acres of timber 

 land, and in order to prepare facilities for its 

 development it has already built several miles 

 of railroad connecting with the St. Louis. Iron 

 Jrountain & Southern. The engine and machinery 

 for the plant are now being placed. 



Machinery for the box factory recently located 

 at Hope, Ark., has arrived and it is now being 

 installed. The plant will Ije used for the manu- 

 f.icture of box shooks and will have a capacity of 

 1.3.000 feet. 



The Mercantile Lumber Company has pur- 

 chased a tract of land in one of the suburbs of 

 .lacksoD, Miss., paying therefor $6,.500. It pro- 

 poses to erect a lumber plant and ice factory on 

 this property, representing an investment of 

 about .?50,000. It will employ between sixty and 

 seventy-five men. 



The Mississippi Valley Transportation Com- 

 pany has had officials here during the past few 

 d.Tys investigating a site for adequate dock facili- 

 ties and river terminals. They have not defi- 

 nitely decided upon any location, but they state 

 that they propose to have everything ready at 

 Memphis, St. Louis and New Orleans before the 

 fii'tual service is inaugurated. They estimate that 

 it will require the expenditure of several hun- 

 dred thousand dollars to meet the requirements 

 of the situation here, and state that service will 

 begin not later than August or September of this 

 year, as some of the boats are already being 

 constructed. Some of the lumbermen here are 

 stockholders in this company and are very much 

 interested in the movement because they believe 

 that heavy traffic, such as steel, iron and lumber, 

 should be handled by boat instead of by railroad, 

 leaving the lighter and more profitable class of 

 freight to the latter. Lumbermen here have 

 been strong advocates of the deepening of the 

 Mississippi and they believe that the establish- 

 ment of a successful carrying business on this 



stream would do more than anything else to 

 forward this movement. Officials of the company 

 state that they do not expect to monopolize traf- 

 fic, but they have made it quite clear that they 

 will furnish considerable competition for the 

 north and south lines of railroad. 



The New Orleans, Mobile & Chicago Railroad 

 Company, the reorganization of the old Mobile, 

 ,Tackson & Kansas City railroad, has decided to 

 f.pen offices in this city, John F. Ryan has been 

 :;ppointed traveling freight agent and will make 

 his headquarters here. Mr. Ryan is the right- 

 hand man of President Louis S. Berg of the New 

 Orleans, Mobile & Chicago, and his appointment 

 to this position is regarded as significant. The 

 company has a line in operation from Mobile to 

 Middleton, Tenn., and it is seeking an outlet 

 north. It will have no difficulty whatever in en- 

 tering Memphis for the reason that the line run- 

 ning up from Mobile crosses both the Frisco 

 System and the Southern railway a short dis- 

 tance east of Memphis. Lumber interests will 

 welcome the opening of freight offices here by 

 this road because it will provide another outlet 

 tor their shipments of lumber intended for 

 Europe. 



It is probable that Memphis will have another 

 north and south trunk line as a result of the 

 reorganization of the Dyersburg & Northern into 

 the Chicago, Jlemphis & Gulf, and plans for ex- 

 tending the old road, which ran from Tiptonville 

 to Dyersburg, Tenn., a distance of thirty-one 

 miles, northward to Cairo, 111., via Hickman, Ky., 

 and southward via Memphis and Yazoo City, 

 Miss., to .lackson. Miss. President Latta of the 

 reorganized company is authority for the state- 

 ment that surveys will soon be made for the 

 licrthern extension and that plans have pro- 

 gressed to such an extent that the bonds are soon 

 to be placed on the market. He says that the 

 road is to be a water level line from Cairo to 

 .Jackson. It is believed that the Burlington Sys- 

 tem is back of this movement. It has a line of 

 railway practically into Cairo and this will, if 

 extended to that point, make direct connection 

 M ith the new road. At Jackson, Miss., connec- 

 tion is made with the New Orleans & Great 

 Northern for New Orleans, and this will give a 

 liue of railroad running from the extreme North- 

 west to New Orleans. The Frisco System is also 

 believed to be interested in the movement to 

 some extent. It is stated that the Frisco and the 

 Chicago, Memphis & Gulf will build terminals 

 jointly on the tract which was purchased some 

 time ago by the Frisco System and now being 

 held in trust by former President A. J. Davidson. 

 Since this announcement was made options have 

 been taken on about ,$250,000 worth of property 

 by the Chicago, Memphis & Gulf adjacent to that 

 held by the Frisco. It is also suggested that the 

 Frisco System will use the new line from Mem- 

 phis 10 New Orleans instead of the arrange- 

 ment it now has. Construction work on the new 

 line, according to President Latta, will begin not 

 later than September 1, and the road is to be 

 completed within nine months after grading has 

 been finished. 



W. A. Matthews & Co. have purchased 8,SS2 

 acres of white oak timber near Pine Bluff, Ark., 

 from the Kendall Lumber Company. This is one 

 of the largest tracts of white oak timber land left 

 in the South, and the purchasing company pro- 

 poses to develop the timber thereon for use in 

 the manufacture of staves and other tight coop- 

 erage stock. 



Plans are under way for the reopening of the 

 plant of the New South Plow Works at Columbus, 

 Miss., among the largest of its kind in the South, 

 The plant was recently purchased by Messrs. 

 f/undegren and Craig of Ohio. These gentlemen 

 ra'o engaged in the manufacture of buggies in 

 Ohio, and it is stated that they will probably 

 establish a buggy plant at Columbus also. The 

 plow works have bean idle for the greater por- 

 tion of the past two years. 



C. A. Stuck & Sons. Jonesboro, Ark., are en- 

 larging their planing plant and sawmill and will 

 spend a considerable amount in improvements. 



The Indiana & Arkansas Lumber & Manufac- 

 turing Company is preparing to make extensive 

 improvements at Mariana, Ark. Among the num- 

 ber is the building of concrete foundations for 

 its lumber stacks, covering about twenty-five 

 acres. Concrete foundations are becoming more 

 poi)uIar for lumber stacks, while some of the 

 lumber manufacturers here are making use of 

 Kaolin as a covering for their yards. The com- 

 pany held its annual meeting a few days ago 

 -and the officers and directors express themselves 

 as very well pleased with the results of the past 

 year. The plant of the company at Mariana is 

 under the management of Capt, M. P. Fulton. 



The Franklin Carriage Company, according to 

 dispatches received here from Jackson, Tenn., 

 will be sold at the office of the company to sat- 

 isfy the creditors. For some years this company 

 was very successful and paid handsome returns 

 on the investment. The management, however, is 

 unable to finance it further and it will be sold 

 in order that the claims of the creditors may be 

 taken care of. 



Max Sondheimer, president of the E. Sond- 

 hcimer Company, has been out of the city for 

 some time. At the offices of the company, how- 

 ever, it is announced that the mills are going on 

 full time and that business is very good. 



The J. W. Thompson Lumber Company has 

 sold its Berclair (Miss.) mill and the remainder 

 of its timber holdings at that point to lumber- 

 men at Greenwood, Miss. It is estimated that 

 there is between 000,000 and 700,000 feet of 

 timber still available. 



The Laub-Fish Lumber Company is running 

 all of its woodworking plants and its big band 

 mill at Charleston, Miss. It began work on the 

 railroad between Charleston and Chaney some 

 time ago, but will be able to do little on this until 

 the weather is more favorable. The management 

 leports the outlook as quite encouraging, declar- 

 ing that the demand is much better and that 

 there is considerable scarcity of dry stock. 



George C. Ehemann of Bennett cS: Witte has re- 

 turned from New Orleans and other southern 

 points. Mr. Ehemann also reports business as 

 better and the outlook as more favorable.' 



The Central Arkansas (& Eastern Railroad Com- 

 pany has been authorized to extend its line for a 

 distance of thirty-five miles. The first fifteen 

 miles will be built in a southeasterly direction 

 from McGregor, its present terminus in Lonoke 

 county, to Stuttgart, in .\rkansas county, while 

 the last twenty miles will extend from Stuttgart 

 in a northwesterly direction to a connection with 

 the Rock Island System in Prairie county. Its 

 capital stock will be increased from ,$100,000 to 

 .SSOO.OOO. There is a large amount of timber 

 in the section through which the extension will 

 be built and the new line will afford facilities 

 for its development. 



NASHVILLE 



An interesting business change of the past 

 (ew days has been the resignation of Thomas 

 L. Leseuer, president and general manager of 

 the Brown Chemical Company, to become secre- 

 tary to the W. J. Cude Land & Lumber Com- 

 pany. Mr. Leseuer is not without experience in 

 the lumber business, as for a number of years 

 he was with the well-known firm of Love. Boyd 

 & ^o. He is an alert and efficient young business 

 man and his friends are confident that he will 

 achieve still greater success in his new position. 



Fifteen thousand finished cedar buckets were 

 completely destroyed by fire the other night at 

 Murfreesboro, Teun.. when the Tennessee Red 

 Cedar Woodenware Company's plant was burned. 

 The origin of the fire is a mystery as the plant 

 had not been running for over a week. About 

 $27,000 insurance was carried. The plant will 

 be replaced in the near future. This plant was 

 the largest of the kind in the world. It was 

 located about three-quarters of a mile from the 

 central part of the city and owing to the slick 

 and sleety condition of the streets the fire de- 

 partment was slow in getting to the fire. The 



