HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Ml' r.ilO. out of a list of forty-six k-ailln« titles 

 In tlie United States. 



A line of railway has been proposed from 

 Hetli, on the Rock Island, via Marianna, to 

 Kondo, on the Missonri North Ariiansas. P. C. 

 Allen of Memphis is back of the road and, if 

 the line is built as proposed, it will afford ex- 

 ceptional facilities for developing the timber 

 supply on immense tracts of virgin timlMH' lands. 

 The road as outlined will be about thirty-five 

 miles in length and Mr. Allen is now attempt- 

 ing to interest people along the line in the new 

 enterprise. 



It is definitely announced from Washington 

 ili.tt an appropriation of .$740,000 has been ap- 

 proved for improvement work on the Missis.sippl 

 and other streams in the Memphis district. 

 Among the others is .$10,000 for Wolf River. It 

 ij, necessary to dredge this stream every once 

 in a while, as it is inclined to fill just above 

 the city where it empties into the Mississippi. 

 There are a number of prominent woodworking 

 (ompanTes having their plants on Wolf River 

 and using this stream for handling both logs 

 and lumber. It is a matter of very decided 

 interest to them that this money has been set 

 aside, as it assures them that the stream "will 

 be placed in very satisfactory condition. 



Announcement is made that .1. F. Mclntyre 

 & Sons Company has been incor]>orated with 

 headquarters at Pine Bluff, Ark. J. I"., R. R.. 

 It. A. and F. M. Mclntyre and .1. D. Burbank 

 are the incorporators. The capital stock Is 

 $100,000, of which $40,000 has been subscribed. 

 Announcement has recently been made in this 

 correspondence of the fact that J. F. Mclntyre, 

 who was until recently vice-president of the 

 Hempbls Veneer & Lumber Company, has re 

 moved to Pine Bluff, and that he had formed 

 a company which was erecting a large band 

 mill near that point. 



Alleging the East End Harawood Lumber 

 Company is insolvent and unable to meet its 

 bills, application has been made for a receiver 

 for the corporation in chancery court in a bill 

 filed by E. C. Atkins & Co. The bill alleges 

 the liabilities of the lumber company amount 

 to between $8,000 and $10,000 and that its as- 

 sets are between $4,000 and $,5,000. The Atkins 

 company asks that the bill be made a general 

 creditors' bill. 



The Lamb-Fish Lumber Company, it is an- 

 nounced, has sold its plant in tills city to the 

 Tschudy Lumber Company, which was recently 

 organized here with a capital stock of $25,000. 

 The plant has a daily capacity of 30,000 feet. 

 Included in the transfer, besides the mill, was 

 the stock of the retail lumber yard, estimated 

 at from 150,000 to 200,000 feet. It is stated 

 that the purchasing company has an option on 

 the property on which the plant and yard of 

 the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company were located. 



The Mathis & Duntze Timber & Land Com- 

 pany, which was recently organized here with 

 a capital stock of $30,000, has perfected or- 

 ganization by the election of the following 

 officers : Charles Duntze, president ; H. S. 

 Shav\', vice-president, and .1. A. Mathis, secre- 

 tary and treasurer. The company will make a 

 specialty of looking after timber lands. E. H. 

 Claypool. one of the directors, was at one time 

 connected with one of the prominent log load- 

 ing companies of this city. 



A charter has been applied for by the South- 

 ern Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Miss. 

 The incorporators are W. W. Craig, Columbus, 

 Miss. : T. F. Lundergan, Marion, O., and .Tohn 

 F. Elder. Cleveland, O. Tliese gentlemen some 

 months ago purchased the New South Plow 

 AVorks at Columbus and under the new iiicor- 

 poratlon these will be placed in operation about 

 August 1. They have been idle for several 

 years. The capital stock is $75,000 and the 

 charter confers on the company the right to 

 manufacture and sell all kinds of agricultural 

 implements, farm machinery and vehicles, as 

 well as to buy timber lands and erect saw 



and planing mills for the purpose of manu- 

 facturing lumber used in the various products 

 of tile firm. It is also reported in this con- 

 nection that the incorporators of the company, 

 who operate a large bugg.v factory at Marion, 

 C, contemplate the establishment of such an 

 enterprise at Columbus. 



It has become definitely known that R. J. 

 Darnell. Inc., is behind the building of the 

 Batesville & Southwestern Railroad Company, 

 which was recently incorporated under the laws 

 of Mississippi to build a line of railway from 

 Batesville to Charleston, Miss. This informa- 

 tion is obtained from R. J. Wiggs, secretary 

 and treasurer of R. J. Darnell, Inc. The firm 

 owns a large amount of limber land, between 

 15,000 and 1:0,000 acres, on the route of the 

 proiiosed line. It is not the intention of the 

 firm to establish a mill convenient to the tim- 

 ber at once, but this will be done later. As 

 soon as the road is completed it will be used 

 by the firm to bring its logs from its timber 

 lands along the lino to Memphis. 



LOUISVILLE 



NASHVILLE 



Arthur B. Ransom of .John B. Ransom i Co. 

 leaves the latter jiart of the month for an 

 extended trip through the West. Mr. Ransom 

 has come to make these western trips an an- 

 nual affair and he returns each fall in re- 

 newed spirit to take up the busy duties of n 

 rushing fall business. 



The big hall game between the Nashville and 

 the Memphis lumbermen has been the sole topic 

 of conversation all week. The local boys went 

 to the Bluff City and were duly taken into 

 camp and their one effort and idea ever since 

 their adventure in Shelby county has been to 

 get even, more than even. This they have 

 been claiming all week they would do. The 

 game has been extensively advertised and 

 whether Memphis wins or loses, her team is 

 in for a great reception at the hands of the 

 Nashville lumbermen's team. 



The Pearson-Hutchinson Lumber Company is 

 installing the machinery for its new flooring 

 plant. This firm, one of the new ones in Nash- 

 ville, is branching out and its management 

 is sanguine over, the prospects for the new 

 feature of its business. 



John W. Love of Love, Boyd & Co. has left 

 for Markland, Nova Scotia, his summer home, 

 to be there for several weeks. As usual, quite 

 a Southern colony will join the Loves at Mark- 

 land. A new recruit will be the family of 

 Walter Keith, a prominent hardware man of 

 Nashville. 



Simon Lieberman, the veteran lumberman of 

 the firm of Lieberman, Loveman & O'Brien, has 

 gone fishing. Mr. Lieberman had been on the 

 witness stand in a damage suit his firm had 

 against the railroad for something like a month. 

 As soon as he was released from the chair he 

 got ready to go away. This time he headed 

 for Long Island. He has a son-in-law up there 

 and the old gentleman will fish with him for 

 blue fish and weakflsh. He will remain in the 

 Kast several weeks. 



Hamilton Love has returned from a stay 

 of several weeks at A'irginia beach. 



Fire a few mornings since destroyed the 

 warehouse of Montgomery & Co. in North Nash- 

 ville. The damage was only a few thousand 

 dollars, as this particular warehouse did not 

 have much fine stuff in it. 



The liigli tide in Cumberland river has heen 

 troublesome to some of the lumbermen, even if it 

 has helped get timber to them at the same time. 

 Quite a number of rafts have broken loose 

 and been scattered all over the wide swift wa- 

 ters. . One firm has suffered the misfortune to 

 lose three rafts. Two of them struck the stone 

 or concrete piers of the Jefferson street bridge 

 and were torn all to pieces. 



"Are we downcast? No o-o," is about the 

 way the hardwood trade in Louisville feels 

 regarding the situation. Though it is admit- 

 ted that the demand has been sluggish, and 

 that new orders are coming in slowly, the 

 volume of business already booked is sufficient 

 to keep everybody busy, while every hardwood 

 man is confident that in a few weeks the 

 buyers who have been out of the market for 

 some time will begin to stock up again, notably 

 the railroads and the furniture factories, which 

 have been ordering with extreme caution for 

 several months. 



The recent meetings of the Louisville Hard- 

 wood Club have been devoted largely to a dis- 

 cussion of trade conditions, with views devel- 

 oped about as summarized above. Though the 

 weather has been rather warm of late, the at- 

 tendance at the meetings has been good, and 

 the enthusiasm of everybody in connection with 

 the work of the organization remains at a 

 high point. A recent guest of the club was 

 (Jodfrey Saunders of the Foreign Hardwood 

 Company of London. 



The filing of and amended petition by attor 

 noys for the club before the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission last week called renewed 

 attention to the progress of the case. The 

 club is seeking to have rates through Louisville 

 reduced, as well as to have the reconsignment 

 system enjoyed at other points put into effect 

 here. Overtures made by the railroads indi- 

 cate that the latter will be agreed to, but 

 the club intends to push the rat6 reduction 

 matter and also the matter of reparation on 

 overcharges. The amended petition just filed 

 contains the names of several railroads which 

 were not included in the first petition, eight- 

 een roads now being defendants. The commi.s- 

 sion has notified these of the filing of the 

 petition and a hearing will be held in Louis- 

 ville in due course to determine the facts jn 

 the matter. McChord, Ilines & Norman are at- 

 torneys for the club. 



The Commercial Club, in which most of the 

 hardwood men are interested, has a project 

 which is bringing the attention of everybody 

 who is affected by traffic matters to bear upon 

 it. It is to provide a traffic bureau for the 

 handling of technical matters, and to see that 

 Louisville shippers are not injured by changes 

 in rates. The transportation committee of the 

 club of which D. C. Harris of C. C. Menge! 

 & Bro. Company is a member, has the matter 

 under consideration, and has secured a lot of 

 information from other cities about the opera- 

 tion of similar bureaus, and it is believed that 

 the organization will be formed. This would 

 of course he a great advantage to the lumber 

 interests of the city, which heretofore have had 

 to depend on their own resources for informa- 

 tion regarding traffic matters. A well-known 

 railway official, who has spoken several times 

 before the Hardwood Club, has been mentioned 

 in connection with the position of superintend- 

 ent of the bureau in case it is created. 



T. M. Brown of the W. P. Brown & Sons 

 Lumber Company said that business is good 

 with his firm. The recent heavy rains which 

 have fallen in this section have prevented the 

 shipping and handling of lumber and have de- 

 layed matters considerably. Mr. Brown is look- 

 ing for the railroads to begin buying lumber 

 again shortl.v, as July 1 marked the beginning 

 of the fiscal year for several in this terri- 

 tory. 



H. L. Menaugh of the Ohio River Saw Mill 

 Company was in the city a few days ago and 

 with R. F. Smith, the local manager, went to 

 Frankfort to look after one of the mills there, 

 the output of which is being taken by the 



