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HARDWOOD RECORD 



sumers is the recent decision of tlie Interstate 

 Commerce Commission, in the case of the Vulcan 

 Steam Shovel Company against the Wabash and 

 other railways. The commission held that no 

 greater freight charge can be made where parts 

 of machinery are disconnected than if set up 

 and carried on their own wheels. 



A new boat manufactured for A. Chesbrough 

 lias left the local docks for Thompson, Mich., 

 where it will be used in the lumber business. 



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INDIANAPOLIS 



Charles Kaehne, founder of the H. Lieber 

 Company, died at Gotha, Fla., on May 4. 



The Tessellated Flooring Company of Edin- 

 burg has increased its capitalization from ?40,- 

 000 to $80,000. 



Building permits issued in the city last month 

 amounted to $721,918, as compared with $545,- 

 182 in April, 1909. The gain in permits for the 

 first four months this year was $631,880. 



At the annual meeting of the Manufacturers- 

 Bureau of Indiana in this city a few days ago, 

 M. W. Mix of Mishawaka was elected president ; 



C. M. Kimbrough of Muncie, first vice-president ; 



D. M. Parry, of Indianapolis, second vice-presi- 

 dent, and B. A. Van Winlde, Hartford City, 

 treasurer. 



The newly organized Smoger Lumber Company 

 at South Bend will take over the business of the 

 Dresden & Stanfleid Lumber Company. Those 

 interested in the new company are J. A. Wer- 

 winsUi, C. S. Smoger, J. T. Niezgozki and M. S. 

 Goiski. The capital stock is $20,000. 



Improvements in the fire department to cost 

 approximately $250,000 are to be made by the 

 city as soon as positive assurance can be ob- 

 tained from insurance interests that if such 

 improvements are made, an equitable reduction 

 in insurance rates will occur. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed with 

 the secretary of state for the Adams & Ray- 

 mond Veneer Company, which has taken over 

 the business conducted for many years under 

 the partnership name of Adams & Raymond. 

 The authorized capitalization is $100,000 and 

 those interested are Rebecca Adams, Perley B. 

 Raymond and Frank N. Lewis. 



A poplar tree, for many years a landmark in 

 Brown county, where it was famous as "The 

 Lone Tree," has been purchased by Lewis E. 

 Yoder, a timber buyer of this city, for $90. It 

 will be cut into lumber. 



James Carter, for many years a wealthy lum- 

 ber dealer of this city, died as the result of a 

 fall a few days ago. He was sixty-five years 

 old and was, until a few years ago, engaged 

 in the hardwood and veneer business at Fif- 

 teenth and Lincoln streets. 



MEMPHIS 



The production of hardwood lumber has been 

 on a large scale during the past fortnight. The 

 South was visited by some very peculiar weather 

 a short time ago but there has been very little 

 rainfall recently and for this reason weather 

 conditions may be said to have been highly fa- 

 vorable, rractically every manufacturer of 

 hardwood lumber here is running his plant on 

 full time and the same is true of the majority 

 of those throughout the Memphis territory. The 

 heavy rainfall during the middle of April 

 brought about some difficulty in getting out 

 timber and has handicapped some of the mills 

 which had only a limited amount of logs in 

 sight. However, there has been very little cur- 

 tailment during the past month from any cause. 

 The demand is not as active as It was auriug 

 March and the earlier part of April, but manu- 

 facturers have proceeded on the theory that 

 there would be demand enough to take up all the 

 stock that could be manufactured. 



Railroad interests report a heavy volume of 

 lumber traffic. It is probable that shipments 

 have not been as heavy recently as they were a 

 short time ago but railroads have shown no dis- 

 position to complain regarding the amount of 

 business furnished them by the lumber com- 

 panies. 



Another healthy indication of good business is 

 to be found in bank clearings, which were the 

 largest in the history of this city for the month 

 of April. The gain compared with last year was 

 about $1,800,000, while that compared with 

 other preceding years ran from $4,000,000 to 

 $12,000,000. The amount of cottoo sold during 

 April was exceptionally light and the excellent 

 showing with respect to bank clearings is due in 

 no small measure to the activity of lumber in- 

 terests. They have contributed very largely to 

 the total volume of transactions. 



The report of the building commissioner shows 

 that building permits issued during April 

 amounted to $349,967, compared with $313,323 

 the same month last year. The number of per- 

 mits issued was 311, as against 218 last year. 

 Each month thus far this year has shown a de- 

 cided increase over the corresponding month last 

 year and the total gain since the first of Janu- 

 ary has been in the neighborhood of $1,250,000. 

 There are some very large projects under way 

 which will call for the issuance of heavy permits 

 within the next two or three months and mem- 

 bers of the building trade are looking forward 

 to a summer of unusual activity. Among the 

 big buildings in prospect is the Union Station 

 which will involve an expenditure of several mil- 

 lion dollars. 



G. Picarnelle, a large dealer in hardwood lum- 

 ber at Barcelona, Spain, is authority for the 

 statement tliat there is a very large demand for 

 American hardwoods in his country. He says 

 that business has rapidly increased during the 

 past few years and that there is room for still 

 further gain. He is very optimistic regarding 

 the outlook for business between Spain and this 

 country. He says that Spain imports twice as 

 much hardwood lumber from the United States 

 as from any country and that the greater por- 

 tion of all the hardwoods that come from Amer- 

 ica are secured in the Immediate Memphis terri- 

 tory. Mr. Picarnelle Is here now for the pur- 

 pose of securing a portion of the needs of his 

 patrons. 



The Russell Uniform Stave Company, recently 

 incorporated here with a capital stock of $50,000, 

 closed a lease on four acres of ground belonging 

 to the Frisco Railroad Company on the river 

 front and will begin at once the erection of a 

 fire proof mill that will cost about $30,000. One 

 of the principal features of the plant will be its 

 concrete vats. These will be large enough to 

 hold hundreds of logs that must be soaked in 

 water a certain length of time hetore being 

 manufactured into staves. The plant will be 

 equipped with machinery patented by J. J. Rus- 

 sell, the chief owner in the new enterprise, and 

 will have a capacity of 60,000 staves per day. 

 It will give employment to about seventy per- 

 sons and will be in readiness for operation with- 

 in the next sixty days. 



C. & W. Kramer Company, whose mill at 

 Princedaie, Ark., was burned some time ago, has 

 purchased and already taken charge of the plant 

 of the American Saw Mill Company at Helena, 

 Ark. The amount paid therefor and the capac- 

 ity of the plant are unknown. Negotiations for 

 the property have been in progress for some time 

 but they have only recently been completed. 

 Both of the Kramers are very popular in the 

 Memphis territory, and much pleasure is ex- 

 pressed by members of the lumber fraternity 

 here that they have secured a plant so close to 

 Memphis. 



C. W. Miller, general manager of the Michi- 

 gan-Arkansas Lumber Company, has been spend- 

 ing some time at Nettleton, Ark. recently look- 

 ing after details in connection with the erection 



of a hardwood mill there to cut about 40,000 

 feet per day. It is its plan to have this mill in 

 operation at a comparatively early date. The 

 company owns several thousand acres of hard- 

 wood timber land in that section and has al- 

 ready constructed a branch track from the tim- 

 ber to the mill at Nettleton. 



\V. B. Morgan, secretary and treasurer of the 

 Anderson-Tully Company, was chosen first vice- 

 president of the Business Men's Club at the an- 

 nual election which was held April 23. Mr. 

 Morgan is one of the best association men In 

 this city and the Business Men's Club is very 

 fortunate in having secured his services. He 

 lias been a very active member of the Lumber- 

 men's Club of Memphis and has always done 

 what he was asked to do, and done it well. 



Good progress is reported on the plant of the 

 Wisconsin Lumber Company at Iluttig, Ark. 

 The mill will be a double band one, and in addi- 

 tion to this there will be a plant for the manu- 

 facture of dimension stock. The company owns 

 a vast amount of white oak timber and believes 

 it has enough timber of ail kinds to allow it to 

 run for twenty years or more. The headquar* 

 ters of the company are at Chicago, while T. R. 

 Helm is in charge of construction work. The 

 contract was let about two months ago. 



Lee Wilson & Co. have asked for bids on the 

 construction of their hardwood mill, veneer fac- 

 tory and box plant at Wilson, Ark. It will be 

 recalled that this plant was destroyed by fire 

 some time ago. All the insurance matters have 

 been adjusted and everything Is now in readiness 

 tor rapid work on the rebuilding of the plant. 

 As soon as the bids are submitted it is expected 

 that the contract will be awarded and construc- 

 tion work will begin. The company has a large 

 supply of timber in its yards which needs atten- 

 tion and to which it is very anxious to get. 

 The headquarters of the company are in Mem- 

 phis. 



The Prescott Land & Timber Company has 

 been organized at Prescott, Ark. The capital 

 stock is $50,000. Nat Martin is president, M. L. 

 Moore vice-president and J. A. Davis, secretary. 

 The company has 8,000 acres of timberland in 

 Clarke county and a mill belonging to one of 

 the directors will be moved at once to Prescott 

 in order that the development of this timber 

 may begin. 



The H. A. Langton Manufacturing Company is 

 being organized with a capital stock of $20,000. 

 It will engage in the development of timber 

 lands a few miles north of McCrory, Ark. 



The Carter Lumber Company has been granted 

 a charter at Meridian. Miss. Its capital stock 

 is $30,000. Among the incorporators are R. C. 

 Carter, T. J. Burton and H. B. Graves. 



The Arkansas Lumber Company, Warren, Ark., 

 has recently amended its charter so that Its 

 capital stock has been increased from $100,000 

 to $500,000. 



A new lumber company has been organized at 

 Trenton, Tenn., for the purpose of manufactur- 

 ing material of all kinds for building purposes. 

 Application for a charter will be made within 

 the next few days and at that time the names 

 of those identified with the new enterprise will 

 become known. 



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

 her Company, returned May 4 from French Lick, 

 Ind., where he has been spending the past few 

 days. 



B. E. Taenzer, of the Darneli-Taenzer Lumber 

 Company, and W. L. Crenshaw, of the Bellgrade 

 Lumber Company, have returned from Hot 

 Springs, Ark. 



One of the most regrettable accidents that has 

 happened in lumber circles for a number of years 

 is that which caused the death of sixteen-year- 

 old Richard Hurst, son of N. A. Hurst of the 

 East End Lumber Company. It occurred Satur- 

 day afternoon, April 23. The young man had 

 been taken out of school by his father to learn 

 the business and was operating the feed on the 



