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HARDWOOD RECORD 



000. J. R Pepper, W. N. Taylor and others 

 have signed the application. 



The Chanman-Dewey Lumber Comijany, accord- 

 ing to advices received here, has given the 

 Arkansas authorities notice that it has decreased 

 its capital stock from $400,000 to $300,000. 

 This company has extensive holdings in and 

 around Marked Tree, Ark., just west of Mem- 

 phis. 



As an offset to the announcement o£ the de- 

 crease of the capital stock of this company 

 comes the report from Helena, Ark., that the 

 Archer l.,umber Company at that point has given 

 notice of the intention to increase its capital 

 stock from $3 00,000 to $250,000. 



Houston Brothers have resumed operations at 

 their hardwood plant at Walters, Miss., after an 

 idleness of several months. 



The Coopcr-Purdy Chair Company, capitalized 

 at $100,000, has succeeded and taken over the 

 plant and other holdings of the Malvern Chair 

 Company, Malvern, Ark. C. H. Purdy. formerly 

 of Philadelphia, has been elected president and 

 general manager of the new company. Opera- 

 tions have already begun under the new man- 

 agement. 



The Blythesville Lumber Company of Blythes- 

 ville, Ark., has been granted a charter under 

 the jaws of that state. The capital stock is 

 $25,000. J. H. Elkins and A. L. Sanders are 

 the incorporators. 



Announcement is made by W. W. Craig, one 

 of the Ohio capitalists who recently purchased 

 the plant of the New South Works at Colum- 

 bus, Miss., that oijcrations will not be resumed 

 until August 1. The reason assigned is the 

 lateness of the season. It is further stated by 

 the new management that up-to-date machinery 

 is to be installed and that facilities are to be 

 prepared whereby the company will be able to 

 turn out a higher grade article at smaller cost 

 than under the old regime. 



John W. McClure, secretary-treasurer of the 

 Bellgrade Lumber Company, and first vice-presi- 

 dent of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, is 

 one of the happiest men in Memphis at the 

 present time. He is receiving the congratula- 

 tions of his many friends on the birth of his 

 first son, a bouncing ten-pounder. 



George XJ. Burgess, John W. Dickson, J. S. 

 Dickson, W. S. Darnell, Frank May, J. T. Mc- 

 Sweyne, E. R. McKnight and other prominent 

 lumbermen of this city were the guests of J. F. 

 Meath, commercial agent of the Illinois Central 

 railroad M'ednesday afternoon, when they went 

 to New South Memphis to inspect the new sys- 

 tem of unloading cotton and lumber from barges 

 into freight trains. The work is done by ma- 

 chinery which is known as an electric telepher. 

 The machine is rather simple, but it is capable 

 of doing very rapid work, and the officials of 

 the Illinois Central believe that it marks the 

 end of the trouble with roustabouts for unload- 

 ing heavy traffic from the steamboats. No at- 

 tempt will be made to handle cotton with the 

 telepher this season, but lumber and logs brought 

 in on barges or rafts will be handled by this 

 means which accounts for the fact that the 

 lumbermen here are much interested in the new 

 movement. The telepher not only elevates logs 

 and lumlier from the barges but carries them a 

 distance of several hundred feet to the freight 

 cars of the Illinois Central Railroad, standing on 

 top of the banks. It is expected that this sys- 

 tem of loading and unloading will materially 

 reduce the cost of bringing logs and lumber 

 to Jlemphis by water. 



The plant of C. & W. Kramer Company, Prince- 

 dale, Ark., was totally destroyed by fire a short 

 time ago. Owing to the fact that the plant was 

 closed down a couple of days for repairs, but 

 few of the employes were on hand. The Are 

 made very rapid headway, destroying not only 

 the mill but 3,000,000 feet of lumber and all 

 of the houses occupied by the employes. The 

 loss is estimated between $70,000 and $75,000, 

 while the insurance is considerably less than 



tjiat amount. No plans have been announced 

 by the management as to the future. 



W. A. Gilchrist and W. U. Greble have Just 

 returned from Arkansas where they went to 

 look after the interests of their firm. 



Frank B. Robertson, J. W. Thompson, James 

 E. Stark, W. R. Barksdale of Memphis and Will- 

 iam Wright of Portland, Ark., have returned 

 from Cincinnati, where they attended the annual 

 of the National Wholesale Dealers' Association. 

 J. W. Thompson, president of the J. W. Thomp- 

 son Lumber Company, has been one of the trus- 

 tees of that organization for some time. 



The Arkansas, Oklahoma & Western Railway 

 Company will extend its line from Rogers to 

 Huntsville, Ark., a distance of thirly-flve miles. 

 The contract for the construction of all the 

 necessary bridges has been let to the W. R. Fel- 

 ker Construction Company and the same firm 

 has the contract for grading the entire line. 



The Valley Log Loading Company, of which 

 J. W. Dickson is president, reports that it han- 

 dled about 950 cars of logs into Memphis during 

 February and that it will handle a large amount 

 during March. Mr. Dickson states that the rail- 

 road has withdrawn a^ considerable number of 

 the cars heretofore used by the log-loading com- 

 pany, but it does not anticipate any particular 

 trouble on this score as it believes that the 

 Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company 

 will furnish all the cars necessary. 



Work is making rapid progress on the 50,000 

 ft. band mill being built by the Wisconsin Lum- 

 ber Company of Chicago at Huttig, Ark. The 

 company hopes to have this mill in readiness 

 for operation by the latter part of July. The 

 site of the plant has been cleared and side tracks 

 laid so tliat the material may lie unloaded with- 

 out any hitch. 



C. L. Wheeler of J. W. Wheeler & Co. has 

 returned from New Mexico, where he spent the 

 greater portion of February. Mr. Wheeler states 

 that the big band mill of the firm at Madison, 

 Ark., is running on full time and that the out- 

 look is very satisfactory- 

 There will be a Hoo-Hoo concatenation fol- 

 lowing the banquet of the Retail Lumber Deal- 

 ers' Association of West Tennessee and Kentucky 

 at the Business Men's Club Tuesday evening, 

 March 8. A number of applications have been 

 taken and many kittens will be in search of 

 light. The association will be in session Tues- 

 day and Wednesday and a number of subjects 

 of interest to the retailers will be fully dis- 

 cussed. In addition to the banquet and con- 

 catenation, the delegates will be taken on a 

 tour of the manufacturing district of Memphis, 



NASHVILLE 



"The Selects" and "Tlie Sai>s" are the names 

 of the two tickets that will be run by the Nom- 

 ination Committee of the reorganized Nashville 

 Lumbermen's Association, the election to be held 

 March 19. The committee has arranged two 

 strong tickets and there is no doubt that entire 

 satisfaction will result, no matter which wins, 

 or if a mixed ticket wins. The personnel of 

 the two tickets are : 



"Selects" — J. W. Love, for president ; A. D. 

 Card, vice-president; F. Fetzcr, secretary; A. N. 

 Price, treasurer ; and H. Baker, S. Liebcrman, 

 J. U. Baird, J. R. Jlclhvaine and W. J. Wnllaee, 

 directors. 



"Saps" — M. F. Greene, president ; J. S. Den- 

 ton, vice-president ; S. C. Ewing. secretary ; W. 

 J. Cude, treasurer ; and A. B. Ransom, C. E. 

 Hunt. Hamilton Love, J. Hamilton and A. I^ove- 

 litan, directors. 



Already the Membership Committee of the 

 new organization has reported fifty new mem- 

 bers and these were approved at a meeting held 

 a few days since. 



Simon Lieberman of the firm of Lieberman, 

 liOremau & O'Brien has returned from his an- 

 nual camp fish in Florida and reports a most 

 delightful trip. Annually Mr. Lieberman with 



a congenial party of friends from Nashville and 

 elsewhere makes for Homosassa on the western 

 coast of Florida, and there he and the party 

 of ten or a dozen take a boat and make a 

 thirty-mile run to the Chesowhitzka river. It 

 is up this beautiful river that they do their fish- 

 ing and camping. In the day they amuse them- 

 selves trolling and still-fishing for the myriad 

 bass and other game fish that abound in the 

 clear waters of the river and at night they 

 fight mosquitoes, swap lies, brag about the fish 

 they caught and argue about who caught the 

 biggest one. At none of the pastimes have any 

 of the "bunch" got anything on the veteran 

 lumberman and from confidential advices from 

 the camp none have a thing on him either in 

 the eating line. Last year Mr. Lieberman had 

 the honor of catching the biggest bass of the 

 trip, a monster weighing 91,4 pounds, and this 

 year he was right up "in the money," as it 

 wore, on the size and extent of his catches. 



The annual report ot Building Inspector E. A. 

 Laurent ot the city of Nashville submitted to 

 Mayor Howse a few days since shows that for 

 the year 1900 the building operations of the 

 city footed up a million and a half dollars. The 

 total number of permits was 2,389. 



A special from Jackson, Tenn.. announces tliat 

 the W. W. B. Company, a hardwood manufactur- 

 ing plant 01 Richmond, Ind., is seeking a loca- 

 tion in the South to manufacture spokes, handles 

 and other hardwood specialties. It is probable 

 that Nashville. Jackson and other cities will be 

 visited in the near future by representatives of 

 this company. 



A special from Decatur, .\la., announces the 

 incorporation there ot the E. C. Payne Lumber 

 Company with a capital stock of $17,600. The 

 officers are : E. C. Payne, president and general 

 manager ; J. D. Bush, secretary and treasurer, 

 and R. L. Parsons, superintendent. 



F. P. Handley, a prominent lumberman of 

 Dickson, Tenn.. was taken seriously ill a few 

 days since, but with timel.v ' medical assistance 

 was soon out of danger. He is with the W. P. 

 Brown & Sons Lumber Company. 



Commissioner of Agriculture John Thompson 

 the other day advanced some timely and interest- 

 ing suggestions for the state of Tennessee along 

 the line of forest preservation and conservation, 

 lie points out that there are thousands of acres 

 of cut-over lands in the state which are not 

 suitable for cultivation and which finally revert 

 in many instances to the state for taxes, and 

 even if they do not so revert he thinks these 

 lands could be secured for a mere song. He 

 proposes that the state use or acquire these 

 tracts to be used for forest preserves. Mr. 

 Thompson declares that the time has not only 

 come for the southern states to maintain forest 

 preserves, but he maintains that as far as local 

 conditions vrill permit these laws in the various 

 states shall be practically uniform. Recent sta- 

 tistics gathered on the subject of timber cutting 

 in the South are to the effect that there are 

 14,000 sawmills in this section, representing an 

 investment of $200,000,000 with an annual out- 

 put of lumber valued at $300,000,000. This esti- 

 mate went further and was to the effect that 

 the chiefest lumber supply of the nation is in 

 the South, whore there are 250,000,000 acres of 

 forest lands containing 000.000.000 feet of the 

 best hardwood to be found anywhere. Commis- 

 sioner of Agriculture Thompson insists that the 

 South must continue to be the country's chief 

 source of timber and that consequently the 

 South's forests must be maintained. 



The offices of the W. J. Cude Land & Lum- 

 ber Company have been moved from the Stahl- 

 man building to the rooms over the Hermitage 

 National Bank, of which institution Mr. Cude is 

 vice-president. 



A prominent visitor to Nashville during the 

 past week was G. A. Maxwell of Cookeville, 

 Tenn. 



C. F. Gilmore of the Goshen Lumber Com- 



