HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Bedna Young of Young & Cutslnger returned 

 the latter part of last week from a trip to the 

 South. 



Among recent visitors to this market were 

 Otto Hill of S. P. Coppock & Co., Fort Wayne; 

 George M. Hobau, with George J. Kennedy, No. 

 1 Madison avenue, New York ; George I. Hull 

 of the Webster Lumber Company, Swanton, Vt. ; 

 Mr. Palmer of the Palmer-Hunter Lumber Com- 

 pany, Boston, Mass. ; Mr. Dewitt of the Dewitt 

 Lumber Company, New York ; Mr. Boswell of 

 the Domestic Lumber Company. Columbus, O., 

 and Mr. Fletcher of the East St. Louis Walnut 

 Company, East St. Louis, 111. 



The manufacturing plant of the Hickman- 

 Ebbert Company, defunct w.igon manufacturers 

 of Owensboro, Ky., was recently sold at public 

 auction by O. H. Haynes. J. W. McCuUoch, 

 president of the Green River Distilling Com- 

 pany, bought the property for $17-1,000. The 

 company was capitalized at $300,000. Mr. Mc- 

 CuUoch gave out no information as to what 

 his plans were, but it is probable that the plant 

 will be resold to capitalists. 



James Rush, formerly of Evansville, was here 

 last week attending to some business matters. 

 From here he went to Memphis, where he will 

 go into business with Messrs. Moffett and Bow- 

 man of the Moffett-Bowman Lumber Company 

 of Madison, Ind. This concern is now removing 

 its mill to Memphis. 



Prospects are bright for the location in this 

 city of the Pullman Automobile Company of 

 York, Pa., and the Vulcan Steam Shovel Com- 

 pany of Toledo, O. A large tract of land has 

 been platted into lots and sold, the proceeds of 

 which are used to bring factories here. It is 

 certain that one and probably both of these fac- 

 tories will be located here, as the lots are nearly 

 all sold and the money necessary to bring them 

 here raised. 



MEMPHIS 



J. W. Thompson of the J. W. Thompson Lum- 

 ber Company has purchased the interest of 

 George M. Brasheld in the Brasfield-Thompson 

 Lumber Company. Mr. Thompson was vice-presi- 

 dent and Mr. Brasfleld president of the com- 

 pany. Plans are now under way for the disso- 

 lution of the old corporation and for the ab- 

 sorption of its stock by the J. W. Thompson 

 Lumber Company. By this transaction the 

 Thompson company comes into possession of a 

 big band mill at Biscoe, Ark., and also of a 

 large body of timber. It is probable that there 

 is more gum than anything else on this land, 

 but there is also a great deal of oak. Some 

 improvements are being made at the mill and 

 .Mr. Thompson is authority for the statement 

 that it will be placed in operation within the 

 next fortnight. As previously stated, E. M. 

 Shulte, who was manager of the operations of 

 the J. W. Thompson Lumber Company at Ber- 

 clair. Miss., prior to the recent sale of that 

 plant, will be in charge at Biscoe. 



The East End Hardwood Lumber Company, 

 which some months ago purchased the mill of 

 the Tyronza Milling Company, Tyronza, Ark., 

 with a view to removing it to Memphis, has com- 

 pleted its arrangements here and the plant is 

 now in operation. It began only this week and 

 has a capacity of about 30,000 feet. The mill 

 Is a band one and a specialty will be made of 

 hign-grade stock. Operations began with a good 

 supply of timber on hand. J. R. Bailey, N. A. 

 Hurst and R. N. Bailey are the principal stock- 

 holders. 



J. E. Munal & Son, South Memphis, have be- 

 gun operations at their mill, which has a ca- 

 pacity of 23,000 feet. The plant was built by 

 Munal & Son, but will cut for May Brothers. 



Another plant which began operations recently 

 is that of Gibson & Whittaker in South Memphis. 

 It will cut about 30,000 to 40,000 feet of lumber 

 per day. This firm has heretofore operated only 



a resaw, but decided last fall to put in a hard- 

 wood mill, and has been busily engaged thereon 

 for some time. Mr. Whittaker was formerly as- 

 .sociated with the Bennett Hardwood Lumber 

 Company and Mr. Gibson is well known to a 

 large portion of the trade through his affiliation 

 with the inspection bureau of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association. 



The Nickey Brothers Hardwood Lumber Com 

 pany is making rapid progress on its plant in 

 the northeastern part of the city. The necessary 

 buildings have already been erected and the ma- 

 chinery will be installed as rapidly as possible. 

 This will be one of the largest of the new mills 

 in Memphis. 



The Bennett Hardwood Lumber Company has 

 resumed operations recently after an extended 

 shutdown. The company, which has its mill in 

 North Memphis, is well supplied with timber and 

 proposes to operate steadily. 



W. R. Barksdale of the Barksdale-Kellogg Lum- 

 ber Company has placed his mill at Galen, Miss., 

 iu operation. He has between 300,000 and 400,- 

 000 feet of lumber to cut at that point, and, 

 when this is sawn, lie will remove the mill to 

 another point. The other two mills of the firm , 

 at Cyclone and Inverness are in operation and 

 arc running on full time. Mr. Barksdale states 

 that the demand for lumber is splended, that he 

 has less dry stock than he has had for a long 

 while. 



Announcement is made here that the National 

 Box Ma^ufacturers' Association will hold its 

 midwinter convention in Memphis in 1911. 

 Charles R. Brower, who recently attended the 

 annual convention of this body, succeeded in 

 landing the convention for Memphis. Mr. Brower 

 went as the delegate from the Business Men's 

 Club of Memphis. It is expected that at least 

 1,500 delegates will be present and much im- 

 portance attaches to the fact that efforts will 

 be made, while the convention is in session here, 

 tc. have the organization adopt Memphis as its 

 permanent headqu.arters. There are several 

 prominent members of the association here and 

 Memphis takes exceptionally high rank as a 

 maker of boxes and box shooks out of cotton- 

 wood and gum, which abound in this section. 

 Several of the large Arms here which have 

 headquarters in this city also operate box fac- 

 tories at points in the Memphis territory. 



The Mississippi river has passed the danger 

 line of thirty-three feet and it is ofDcially fore- 

 casted that it will reach a stage of thirty-live 

 feet. The levees, however, have been built with 

 a view to withstanding a stage of forty feet, 

 and lumber interests and others who have hold- 

 ings on either side of the levees are giving them- 

 .selves no uneasiness over the situation. 



The Garland Land & Timber Company, Hot 

 Springs, Ark., has filed an amendment to its 

 charter whereby its capital stock is increased 

 from $50,000 to $100,000. C. N. Rix is presi- 

 dent of the company. 



Plans are under way for the construction of 

 a plant here for the manufacture of doors of 

 all kinds. W. C. Wing of Wisconsin and H. B. 

 Aden of Memphis are among the promoters. The 

 firm owns a considerable amount of timber land 

 in Mississippi, and Memphis has been selected 

 because of its convenient location with respect 

 to these holdings. 



The building for the big box factory at Hope, 

 Ark., has been completed and the greater part 

 of the machinery placed. It is expected that 

 the plant will be ready for operation by April 1. 

 Plans are under way for the extension of the 

 Louisiana & Pine Bluff railroad to a connection 

 with the Rock Island System at ChampagnoIIe. 

 The extension will be twenty-two miles In length 

 and will run from Huttig via Dollar Junction 

 to the point indicated. The road has already 

 been graded for a distance of five miles north of 

 Dollar Junction. A large amount of virgin tim- 

 ber is located in Union county and the building 

 of the road will furnish facilities for its de- 

 velopment. The Wisconsin Lumber Company of 



Chicago is at present building a big band mill 

 at Huttig, one of the terminals of the road, 

 with a capacity of 50,000 feet per day. This 

 will be in readiness for operation some time this 

 summer. 



The Perkins Land & Lumber Company has filed 

 a copy of its certificate of incorporation with 

 the Arkansas authorities as a preliminary step 

 to the building of a mill near Helena. Ark., for 

 the development of its timber land holdings 

 la that state. The company is incorporated un- 

 der the laws of Tennessee with a capital stock 

 of $25,000 and has its headquarters at Memphis. 

 It is closely identified with the hardwood firm 

 of George C. Brown & Co., L. E. Brown being 

 president of both. 



Several prominent capitalists of Memphis, to- 

 gether with business men of Mississippi, as well 

 as Paris and London, have made application for 

 a charter for the Memphis. Pensacola & Gulf 

 Railroad Company, for the purpose of building 

 a railroad from a point on the Illinois Central 

 raMroad, south of Memphis, through Meridian 

 and Plumb Point to Pensacola, a distance of 

 385 miles. Among the incorporators are : J. M. 

 Dockery of Dockery & Donelson ; Will Dockery 

 of Dockery, Miss. ; George Neuhardt of the 

 Chickasaw Bank & Trust Company ; H. T. Bruce, 

 Dr. B. G. Henning, M. J. Roach, J. U. Scaife, 

 D. S. Rice and S. Walter Jones. The promoters 

 say that a route has already been mapped out 

 and that financial arrangements have practically 

 been completed. One of the incorporators states 

 that grading ought to begin with the next three 

 or four months, and it is further stated that 

 extensive terminals will be built at Pensacola. 

 The same authority denies that there is any 

 other system back of the new road. There have 

 been a number of charters issued covering prac- 

 tically the same route, but nothing has ever 

 been done by any of the incorporators, the char- 

 ters expiring because of inactivity on the part 

 ef those who proposed to build the authorized 

 road. Lumbermen would not be averse to seeing 

 a new line of railway to tide water at Pensa- 

 cola, but they will wait some time before com- 

 mending themselves as to the present outlook. 



W. H. Russe of Russe & Burgess, Inc., has 

 just returned from Naples, Tex., where he went 

 on business for his firm. 



F. P. Southgate, chief inspector of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association, spent some 

 days in Memphis recently. 



E. Dalton has purchased the plant of the 

 Pocahontas Bending Company, near Pocahontas, 

 Ark., for $24,000. In addition to the plant, a 

 considerable body of timber land was involved 

 in the purchase. 



NASHVILLE 



The Tennessee Hardwood Lumber Company 

 has been incorporated with $50,000 capital by 

 T. B. Johnson, George W. Killebrew, Johnson 

 Bransford. A. H. Robinson and Robert Lusk 

 to operate in this city. All these men are 

 well-known local capitalists. 



A new firm in Nashville that is going after 

 business hard, and getting it, is the Nashville 

 Floor-Laying Company, the officers of which 

 are : Richard T. Wilson, president ; L. J. Ver- 

 chota, secretary, and R. E. Bigger, general man- 

 ager. The company has offices in the Arcade and 

 is doing floor laying in and out of the city 

 and in addition is retailing all kinds of finish- 

 ing material. Richard T. Wilson, the president, 

 is a son-in-law of the late John B. Ransom, the 

 Nashville lumber king. 



The sawmill of W. A. Sharp & Son of Lewis- 

 burg, Tenn., has been destroyed by fire. Loss, 

 .^050 ; no insurance. 



Charles Williamson Sr., a prominent farmer 

 living near Culleoka, in Maury county, recently 

 sold sixty-five giant poplar trees for $70 each, 

 standing. 



Hamilton Love of the well-known firm of 

 Love, Boyd & Co. has Just completed a new 



