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HARDWOOD RECORD 



INDIANAPOLIS 



the planing mills have declared open shop and 

 are endeavoring to employ enough non-union men 

 to operate their mills again. 



The Indianapolis Sawed Veneer Company is 

 making a number of improvements in its plant. 



An addition that will give it 75,000 square feet 

 more of floor space is being erected to its furni- 

 ture factory by the Campbell, Smith & Ritchie 

 Company of Lebanon. 



The Laporte Building & Realty Company of 

 Laporte is planning to erect one hundred 

 dwellings this year, representing an expenditure 

 of about $150,000. 



Arthur B. Eldrldge is among the new mem- 

 bers of the Indianapolis Commercial Club. 



A factory building to cost .$S,000 is being 

 erected at Kentucliy avenue and Ray street by 

 the Indianapolis Grille Company. It will be a 

 two story brick structure. 



B. D. Brooks, one of the pioneer lumbermen 

 of the city, has anounccd that he will be a can- 

 didate for nomination for county commisioner. 



E. R. Dye. Bert H. Thompson and Rexford S. 

 Banes have organized the Monon Lumber Com- 

 pany at Monon and have incorporated the com- 

 pany with an authorized capitalization of $15,- 

 000. 



The Wabash Manufacturing Company of Wa- 

 bash is dismantling its' plant and will move to 

 Terre Haute, where a free site and factor.y build- 

 ing have been offered by business interests. 



The Anderson Carriage Company of Anderson 

 has decided to build 7.000 vehicles this year 

 and will increase its capitalization from .$100,000 

 to $200,000. 



MEMPHIS 



EVANSVILLB 



Fire recently destroyed the l)uildinss former- 

 ly occupied by the H. Herrmann Lumber Com- 

 pany on the west side. They have been vacant 

 for some time. The property at present is owned 

 bj the Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad Com- 

 pany. The origin of the fire is unknown. 



C. W. Talge of the Evansville Veneer Works 

 is in Indianapolis this week on business. Mr. 

 Talge returned from Jackson the first of the 

 week and reports everything working smoothly 

 at the new plant at that place. The company 

 is operating all departments of the new plant 

 now and with a large stock of logs on its yard, 

 it is able to take care of its increasing business. 

 Maley & Wertz. whose plant was recently de- 

 stroyed by fire, are pushing the reconstruction 

 work rapidly. Claude Maley of this concern, 

 met with an accident on April 10, while re- 

 turning from the Country Club in an automobile. 

 His chauffeur was driving the car and in order 

 to make a bridge and pass another automobile 

 at the same time, he swerved the car a little 

 too much to one side to recover quick enough on 

 the slanting road to avoid a telephone post. In 

 some way Mr. Maley's hand was caught and 

 one of the bones of the wrist broken. None of 

 the other occupants of the car were injured. 

 The car was pretty badly damaged. 



F. M. Cutsinger of Young & Cutsinger and 

 Mrs. Cutsinger are visiting at Hot Springs. Ark. 

 Ralph Sumner of Hamilton II. Salmon & Co.. 

 New York City is in the cit.v this week. 



William Threlkeld of the Indiana Quartered 

 Oak Company, New York City, stopped in town 

 for a few days. He is on his way west. 



A half Interest in the Spencer Wagon Works 

 at Chrisney has been purchased by James Bill- 

 ingsley ol Grandview, Ind. Robert Bolin was 

 the sole owner of the plant up to this time. 



Twenty-flve carloads of hoops were destroyed 

 by fire of unknown origin at Mound City, 111., 

 recently along with two warehouses and the 

 mill of O. L. Bartless. The loss is placed at 

 $30,000, partly covered by insurance. 



The building trades unions are out on strike 

 here, with all kinds of building and the planing 

 mills shut down. Carpenters are demanding an 

 Increase of from 40 to 50 cents. The boss car- 

 penters say they will not grant the increase and 



The mill of the J. W. Thompson Lumber Com- 

 pany at Biscoe, Ark., has recently begun opera- 

 tions. This mill was acquired by the purchase 

 of the controlling interest of the Brasfleld- 

 Thompson Lumber Company by the J. W. 

 Thompson Lumber Company. Since the purchase 

 there have been a number of improvements made 

 and the plant Is now in very satisfactory condi- 

 tion. The company has a large supply of gum 

 and oak timber on hand, and proposes to con- 

 tinue operations steadily. 



The Kimhall-Lacy Lumber Company, which 

 has headquarters at Arkansas City, Ark., Is 

 working both of its plants at full capticity. It 

 is cutting Cottonwood exclusively, and is selling 

 Its stock of log-run in some instances. The con- 

 cern states that the demand is very satisfactory. 

 The Russell Uniform Stave Company has been 

 granted a charter under the laws of Tennessee. 

 Its capital stock is $50,000, and it will have its 

 headquarters in Memphis and will also operate 

 a plant here for the manufacture of uniform 

 staves from gum timber by a patented process. 

 The principal incorporators are J. J. Russell. E. 

 J. Young, J. H. Hines, Geo. C. Brown and J. 

 W. Buchanan. The company will effect organ- 

 ization in a few days, and will begin at once 

 the erection of its factory, which will have a 

 capacity of 60,000 staves. Lumber interests are 

 pleased with the location of this enterprise at 

 Memphis because they believe that it will tend 

 te stimulate the demand for gum. The machinery 

 of J. J. Russell at Minneapolis will be brought 

 here and installed in the plant. 



J. G. Mark, formerly of Chicago, has become 

 sales manager for the Memphis Column Com- 

 pany, of which Mr. Goold is manager. Mr. Mark 

 is well known to the sash, door and lumber 

 trade. 



The W. & H. Lumber Company has been 

 formed at Cleveland. Miss., by Wm. B. Hays. 

 Edw. Rickey, of Cincinnati, A. A. Hubbard, 

 Memphis, and W. G. Hardee, Cleveland. The 

 company will engage in the lumber business, but 

 has not yet made formal application for its 

 charter. 



The Walker-Jones Land & Timber Company 

 has been organized at Texarkana, Ark. It owns 

 extensive tracts of timber lands In Arkanasas, 

 Louisiana and Texas, and proposes to take im- 

 mediate steps in the development of this 

 property. 



Announcement was made by J. M. Parker, gen- 

 eral manager of the Arkansas, Louisiana & Gulf 

 railroad, that work will begin on the extension 

 north from Hamburg via Pine Bluff to Mena, 

 Ark., where connection will be made with the 

 Rock Island System. Hamburg is the northern 

 terminus. Mr. Parker states that all arrange- 

 ments have been made and that when work 

 starts shortly it will be pushed to completion as 

 rapidly as possible. In fact, he states that the 

 road will be completed this year. An extension 

 is to be one of the most important pieces of rail- 

 road construction in Arkansas, and is to prove 

 an important factor in the development of the 

 hardwood resources of the territory through 

 which It passes. 



AV. Brown Morgan, secretary and treasurer of 

 the Anderson-Tully Company, has been nomi- 

 nated for the first vice-presidency of the Busi- 

 ness Men's Club on the blue ticket. Jas. E. 

 Stark of Jas. E. Stark & Co. has been nominated 

 for one of the directors on the red ticket. The 

 nominations were announced on April 17, 

 and the election will be held at the home of the 

 Business Men's Club on Monroe avenue April 23. 

 The lumbermen of Memphis have a large mem- 

 bership in the club and a strong fight will be 

 made to secure the election of these gentlemen 

 who will represent the lumber fraternity in that 

 organization. 



Definite action will be taken by the bureau of 

 publicit.v and development of the Business Men's 

 Club at an early date looking to the plans for 

 advertising Memphis. As was announced a 

 short time ago, the entire fund of $50,000 to be 

 used for this purpose has been subscribed. It 

 is proposed to formulate plans by which the 

 money can be spent to the best possible advan- 

 tage. It is certain that a strong pull will be 

 made for woodworking enterprises and particu- 

 larly for those which consume medium to low 

 grades of hardwood lumber. There are several 

 lumbermen on the committee of forty, and the 

 lumber fraternity will also have representation 

 on the smaller executive committee of ten. 



A large timber land deal was completed some 

 days ago at BIytheville, Ark., when the Barron 

 & Lilly Real Estate Agency purchased from 

 Strangways & Philips 3,500 acres of timber land 

 near St. Francis. Ark., in Clay county, Arkansas, 

 and Butler county, Missouri. The consideration 

 is understood to have been nearly $100,000. The 

 new owners will take steps toward development 

 of the timber on their property and after this 

 has been cut the land will be divided into 

 smaller tracts and sold for agricultural purposes. 

 F. M. Platter, president of the North Vernon 

 Lumber Company, North Vernon, Ind., is nego- 

 (iatlng for the purchase of a tract of land just 

 outside of Dyersburg, Tenn.. for the establish- 

 ment of a branch mill. It is stated that the 

 company proposes to erect both a veneer factory 

 and band mill thereon. The company has been 

 investigating the resources of that section for 

 some time through C. E. Talbott and is much 

 pleased with the outlook. 



The Memphis creditors of the defunct W. E. 

 Kelly Lumber Company, at a meeting recently 

 held here, decided to pool their claims and to 

 place them in the hands of Boyle, Mott & Height, 

 a Chicago law firm. Walter C. Height of this 

 firm attended this meeting and stated that, in 

 his opinion, it will be possible to secure dollar 

 for dollar on the local claims. No definite 

 statement has ever been made as to the exact 

 loss suffered by members of the lumber fraternity 

 here by this failure, but it is understood that It 

 runs from $14,000 to $15,000. 



Jas. F. Mclntyre, of the Memphis Rim & Bow 

 Company ; Jas. M. Thompson, secretary of the 

 Lumbermen's Club of Memphis ; Max Sond- 

 hcimer, president of E. Sondheimer & Co., and 

 Geo. M. Russe, southern manager of the Long- 

 ICnight Lumber Company, have returned from 

 New Orleans where they attended the Shriners' 

 convention. They stated that this was a most 

 enjoyable trip and they are very enthusiastic In 

 their praise of the splendid hospitality afforded 

 by New Orleans. 



W. I. Barr of Greenfield, Ohio, who is also a 

 member of the Barr-HoUaday Lumber Company, 

 Isola, Miss., passed through Memphis during the 

 past week enroute to the mill of the firm at that 

 point. 



Jas. B. Wall of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber 

 Company, Buffalo, N. Y., was a visitor In 

 Memphis during the past few days. One of his 

 sons has already come to Memphis to learn the 

 hardwood lumber business. 



C. R. Lamb, Lafayette Lamb and other large 

 stockholders in the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company 

 spent some days at Charleston, Miss., during the 

 past week. The company is centering all of its 

 operations in Mississippi at that point, having 

 discontinued the mill and box plant at Chancy. 

 A. G. Frltchey, in charge of the Memphis offices, 

 was at Charleston also. He states that every- 

 thing is going at full capacity and that the 

 outlook is very satisfactory. He reports the 

 demand for hardwood lumber as exceptionally 

 good. 



C. L. WUley of Chicago was a visitor In 

 Memphis during the week. The band mill of 

 the Willey interests Is located at Memphis. 



E. E. Goodlander of the Goodlander-Robertson 

 Lumber Company has returned from a western 

 trip which carried him as far as Denver. L. W. 



