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by Senator Foster appropriating $150,000 for tlie 

 survey of the drainage districts of tlie Missis- 

 sippi Valley from Cape Girardeau to New Or- 

 leans. The measure is regarded as of great im- 

 portance because, if the bill is passed, it means 

 that this work will be carried on under gov- 

 ernment supervision. 



The entire Memphis delegation to the annual 

 of the National Hardwood Lumber Association. 

 at Louisville, has returned and pleasure is ex- 

 pressed on all hands over the fact that the 1911 

 meeting will be held in Memphis. .\ strong 

 fight was necessary in order to secure this con- 

 vention. It is almost a year before the next 

 convention will be held, but Memphis himbermcn 

 have already begun to plan, and it is expected 

 that the occasion will be one of the most re- 

 markable in the history of the association. 



Building operations here during May not only 

 showed an increase of $S0,000 over the same 

 month last year but they were so large that they 

 placed Memphis at the head of all the southern 

 cities. In point of increase Memphis was also 

 the thirteenth city in the Vnited States. 



The General Lumber Company has purchased 

 a large cypress brake near Tishomingo, Miss., 

 and it is stated that arrangements are being 

 made to establish a large mill to develop the 

 timber thereon. It is said that the company 

 will discontinue operations at the mill at Huds- 

 peth. Ark., and that it will remove the machin- 

 ery from that point to Tishomingo. Operations 

 at the latter point will begin as soon as the 

 transfer of the machinery can be made. This 

 change will have no bearing on the local offices 

 of the company, which will be continued as here- 

 tofore. 



Announcement is made that J. P. Sullivan has 

 sold his interest in the Crescent Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Company to J. H. Vanderboon of Quincy, 

 III. Mr. Sullivan was president of the Crescent 

 Hardwood Lumber Company and, while he re- 

 tires from that firm, it is reported that he will 

 enter another business. The local end of the 

 Crescent company's business will be handled by 

 Joe Thompson, who is known to lumbermen of 

 this section. The general headquarters of the 

 company will be removed from Memphis to 

 Quincy. 



It is known that W. B. Bayless & Co. of this 

 city have purchased from the Ferguson & 

 Wheeler Land. Lumber & Handle Company, 

 Corning. Ark., a large tract of timber land near 

 the latter point, together with the lumber and 

 handle plant. Mr. Bayless confirms the report 

 that such a transaction has been made, but he 

 has declined to give out any details. 



Frederick C. Van Xorstrand of Chicago has 

 purchased 8,700 acres of timber land near Vance, 

 Miss. The transaction was made through Will- 

 iam L. Johnson & Co. of Chicago. Chess. Wy- 

 mond & Co. of Louisville were the owners of 

 this property. No statement has been obtained 

 from the new owner in regard to the develop- 

 ment of this property. 



A recent announcement, which was received 

 with much pleasure by lumber interests at Mem- 

 phis, was that the Binghampton plant of the 

 American Car & Foundry Company would ma- 

 terially increase its force. It has been employ- 

 ing about 200 men, whereas the number will be 

 increased to 400 or 450. This is one of the 

 large hardwood consuming plants in Memphis. 

 It is expected that the plant will be placed in 

 full operation before fall, giving employment to 

 between eleven and twelve hundred men. 



T. n. Brebach, seaetary and treasurer of the 

 Memphis Car Company, denies absolutely that 

 there is any foundation for the sensational suit 

 which has been brotight against that company 

 by the Illinois Central Railroad Company 

 through its attorneys here. The bill was filed 

 some days ago and it charges that it has been 

 defrauded out of about $2,000,000 and that the 

 men who are alleged to have secured this money 

 are the real owners of the Memphis Car Com- 



pany. It is charged that the railroad company 

 was defrauded by the padding of bills for the 

 repair of cars, by bribing inspectors and by 

 means of vouchers issued by the men mentioned, 

 in their official capacity with the Illinois Cen- 

 tral. It is further averred that material of the 

 railroad was delivered to the Memphis Car Com- 

 pany and never paid for by the latter, and that 

 cars were robbed of good equipment which was 

 put into bad order cars. Yesterday Lamar Heis- 

 kell was appointed temporary receiver for the 

 Memphis Car Company, while an injunction was 

 secured some days ago by the complainants re- 

 straining the defendant company from disposing 

 of any of its assets or removing any of its prop- 

 erty from Tennessee. 



NASHVILLE 



It has been finally decided that the two rival 

 cities of Tennessee, Nashville and Memphis, will 

 be rivals likewise in the baseball world. In- 

 stead of just one ball game there will be two. 

 The first one will be played in Memphis July 2 

 and the second in Nashville July 25. Memphis 

 sprang the idea of playing two games and the 

 local committee promptly acquiesced. The de- 

 cision was reached at an enthusiastic meeting 

 of the lumbermen's baseball committee, of which 

 Wade Kirkpatrick of J. O. Kirkpatrick & Sons 

 is chairman. Clarence Dews is captain and he 

 is most enthusiastic over the outlook, claiming 

 that the Nashville lumbermen are surely booked 

 to trim the Mc-mphians. Ed Hamilton, former 

 star second baseman for Vanderbilt University, 

 will coach the local team. 



One of the busiest lumbermen for the week 

 just ending has been Richard Wilson of the Wil- 

 son Land & Lumber Company and the Nashville 

 Hardwood Flooring Company. Mr. Wilson is 

 prominent in Nashville's social circles and has 

 been busy helping to entertain the many dis- 

 tinguished visitors to the city during this the 

 week of the big military tournament. 



The recent bill filed in the Chancery Court, 

 whereby the great Bon Air Coal & Iron Com- 

 pany was thrown into the hands of a receiver, 

 has caused some of the knowing lumbermen to 

 sit up and notice. The bill was filed by the 

 I'nion Bank & Trust Company, trustee under 

 the bonds, to compel a reorganization through 

 friendly litigation, after an effort to secure such 

 reorganization through the stockholders had 

 failed. Many of them signed up. agreeing to a 

 reorganization, but not enough to make the ma- 

 jority, and the bill followed. The Bon Air peo- 

 ple have thousands and thousands of acres of 

 valuable timber on their holdings in the upper 

 river counties ; in fact, it is said the company 

 has far more timber than would be sufficient to 

 pay off its indebtedness. It is hardwood, too, 

 in the heart of the hardwood belt. 



A move that has made a hit with the em- 

 ployes of the concern has been inaugurated 'oy 

 the Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company, the 

 idea being that of its capable manager, C. L. 

 McConnell. In the basement of the plant twelve 

 shower baths have been built, and wash basins 

 as well. The walls have been neatly whitened 

 and the fioor concreted and properly drained. 

 A reading room known as "The Employes' Club" 

 has also been built. Here standard books are 

 kept on the shelves, magazines and the various 

 lumber journals. The management feels that it 

 will lose nothing in showing its help such de- 

 served consideration. 



In addition to being secretary of the W. J. 

 Cude Land & Lumber Company, Tom Leseuer is 

 a sportsman as well. Tom has fine dogs and 

 guns and a room full of fishing tackle, as he is 

 a fly fisherman. When Tom isn't hustling he's 

 fishing. Saturday afternoon will find him on 

 some creek bank invariably, if the water is any- 

 where near "right," and he generally comes 

 back with a good string. If he doesn't — why, 

 "They weren't bltin'," Tom says. 



A special from Covington states that R. B. 

 Dewese of Brighton recently sold more than 

 300,000 feet of oak and poplar timber to parties 

 in Louisville and Chicago. 



Lieberman, Loveman & O'Brien vs. L. & N. 

 Railroad et al., is the style of a big damage suit 

 pending in the circuit court here. The suit 

 grows out of a fire in the yards of the lumber 

 company in 1005, damaging the plant some $20.- 

 000. It was claimed that sparks from passing 

 engines of the plaintiff company caused the flre. 



Robert J. McGavock of Columbia, Tenn., has 

 just closed up a deal for the sale of 5,000 acres 

 of timber and iron lands in Lewis and Perry 

 counties to W. B. Otto and F. H. Beach of Char 

 lotte, Mich. Much of the timber lies near 

 Hohenwald in Lewis county. A series of slack 

 ?nd tight barrel stave factories will be estab- 

 lished on the land at once. 



A special from Harriman, Tenn.. announces 

 that a flre lasting some twelve hours at Wilder, 

 Tenn., destroyed some 2,000,000 feet of lumber 

 there belonging to John H. Watts. The lumber 

 was valued at $27,000, with $23,000 insurance. 



A. H. Card, now operating the old Dodge mill 

 at Nashville, reports an exceptionally fine cut 

 of ash logs recently. 



A recently organized concern in Nashville, the 

 Tennessee Hardwood Company, reports rapidly 

 increasing business. William C. Hagan is the 

 head of the company. 



Henderson Baker of Baker, Jacobs & Co. is 

 back from a successful trip to the mills of th-j 

 company in Middle Tennessee. 



J. D. Bolton of the Hayden & Westcott Lumber 

 Company of Chicago, was a recent visitor to 

 Nashville. 



BRISTOL 



An important timber deal was consummated 

 in Bristol last week when the Morton, Lewis & 

 Willey Lumber Company of this city sold to 

 A. T. Smalling, also of Bristol, a boundary of 

 14,000 acres of timber in the Holstou moun- 

 tains, about ten or fifteen miles from Bristol. 

 While the price paid has not been given out, the 

 land is estimated to be worth $3 per acre. Most 

 of the land was cut over by the Morton, Lewis & 

 Willey Lumber Company until about a year or 

 two back, but it is estimated that it will still 

 yield upwards of 10,000,000 feet of merchantable 

 timber. It is not Mr. Smalling's intention to 

 manufacture the timber at an early date, but he 

 will use the land temporarily for grazing pur- 

 poses. The company cut probably 200.000,000 

 feet of merchantable timber from this tract, 

 which has proved to be one of the most prolific 

 in this section. 



D. D. Hartlove of Price & Heald, Baltimore, 

 was at the firm's Bristol office last week and 

 spent several days with F. W. Hughes, local 

 manager. Mr. Hartlove reports business as in 

 fair condition only. 



A. W. Agee of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Com- 

 pany was in Bristol last week and stated that 

 work is going forward on a new band mill of 

 the company at Ritter, N. C, which will have 

 a daily capacity of 100,000 feet. The company 

 owns an immense boundary of hardwood timber 

 in western North Carolina and is increasing its 

 facilities for manufacturing the stumpage. 



A beautiful hardwood box, skillfully carved 

 from wood from the forests of east Tennessee, 

 was used last week in presenting to Ex-Presi- 

 dent Roosevelt, immediately upon his arrival in 

 .Vew York, an invitation to visit the Appalachian 

 Exposition at Knoxville this fall. The invita- 

 tion was carved on a slab of Tennessee marble, 

 enclosed in a leather case tanned from the bide 

 of a Tennessee steer, and the whole enclosed in 

 the artistic hardwood case. 



A recent visitor in Bristol was A. Johnson of 

 Pennington Gap. Va., a leading Virginia hard- 

 wood manufacturer. 



