HARDWOOD RECORD 



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A. Houghton of the Greer-Houghton Lumber 

 Company, is home after a business trip through 

 northern Indiana and Ohio. 



The. Pittman Handle Company at Logansport 

 recently suffered a $10,000 loss from fire. The 

 plant will be rebuilt. 



Local lumbermen have asked the board of 

 county commissioners to build a bridge across 

 White River at West New York Street, but have 

 obtained no promise -of favorable action. 



The Indiana State Railroad Commission has 

 ordered a reduction in the freight rates on logs 

 between Disko and South Bend and between 

 MIchigantown and Goshen, acting on a petition 

 filed by Sanders & Egbert of Goshen. 



Ned Wample, who represents William Buchanan 

 In this city, is seriously 111 at his home with 

 appendicitis and may have to go to a local, hos- 

 pital for an operation. 



N. P. Sailing of Anderson Is home after a 

 fishing trip in Michigan. 



The Foster Lumber Company has several gov- 

 ernment contracts for interior finish for post 

 ofiice buildings under construction. The con- 

 tracts amount to about .$100,000. 



A picnic of representatives of all branches of 

 the lumber industry will be held in this city 

 some time within the next month. It Is prob- 

 able that the picnic will be accompanied by a 

 Hoo-Hoo concatenation. 



S. P. Matthews, manager in this territory for 

 the South Arkansas Lumber Company, has gone 

 cast for a few weeks and will visit Atlantic City, 

 New York City, Boston and Baltimore. 



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MEMPHIS 



The American Car & Foundry Company, which 

 has a large factory at Binghamton, a suburb 

 of Memphis, has booked an order for 400 cars 

 for the New Orleans, Mobile & Chicago Railroad 

 Company, formerly known as the Mobile, .Tack- 

 son & Kansas City. The company has an order 

 for nearly 3,000 steel framed cars from the Na- 

 tional Railways of Mexico and orders now ia 

 hand :issure steady and continued operation. 

 The company has materially increased its force 

 of employes lately but it is not able to secure 

 all the men it wants, declaring that a great deal 

 of unskilled labor is on the plantations where 

 it Is assisting in the cultivation of the cotton 

 crop. This plant has been operated only in a 

 spasmodic and somewhat desultory manner dur- 

 ing the past three years. It is one of the most 

 important of the hardwood consuming Industries 

 here and much pleasure is expressed over the 

 fact that it has been again placed in opf ration 

 on a large scale. 



L. C. Nolan of the Nolan Brothers Hardwood 

 Company, which was organized here a short time 

 ago. with a capital stock of $25,000, states that 

 no mill will be operated by the company for the 

 present. It will not even have yards in this 

 city, but will give practically all of its time to 

 the handling of shipments from the mills in the 

 Memphis territory direct to destination. 



Bank clearings for Memphis during July broke 

 all previous records for that month. The gain 

 Itself was not so important, but there has been 

 un Increase every month this year over the 

 corresponding month last year, which gives an 

 unbroken record. Since January the tot.'tl Ju- 

 crcase has been more than $25,000,000. 



Several mills in Memphis have shut down on 

 account of either lack of logs or repairs and im- 

 provements. The Memphis Saw Mill Company 

 has been closed down for some time while im- 

 provements are being made that will materially 

 Improve the output of the plant. It would ap- 

 pear thai the machinery carrying the lumber 

 from the plant to the yard was not coordinate 

 with the capacity of the mill and the improve- 

 ments will give a considerably larger production. 

 The mill will resume not later than the middle 

 of this month. 



Building permit has been taken out at last for 

 the New Union Terminal Passenger Station 

 which is to be used by five of the leading rail- 

 roads entering Memphis. It calls for the ex- 

 penditure of $G00,00o for a three-story building 

 to be erected on the site which was secured some 

 tiu-c ago. The contract provides for the com- 

 pletion of the station before the end of the next 

 fiscal year. 



The Dugger & Goshorn Company, which will 

 engage in the manufacture of plow handles, 

 wagon stock, beams, rounds and other dimension 

 material, has filed formal application for a char- 

 ter under the laws of Tennessee. The capital 

 stock is $30,000 and the incorporators include 

 .1. O. Goshorn, Charles Hudson, II. R. Boyd, J. 

 M. Manuen and E. T. Fuller. Dugger & Goshorn 

 have been engaged here for some time in the 

 manufacture of dimension stock under a part- 

 nership. This is the first step that has been 

 taken to incorporate the business. 



I'reparations are being made for the buildi/i? 

 of a railroad five miles in length from Marianna, 

 Ark., to a large body of timber recently pur- 

 chased by the Indiana & Arkansas Lumber & 

 .Manufacturing Company. The purpose of build- 

 ing the road is to furnish facilities for quick 

 development of the timber on this tract. It is 

 proposed to build a standard gauge road and the 

 suiveys are now being made. 



J. F. Schmuck, of the Forrest City Box Com- 

 pany, has announced that extensive improve- 

 ments will be made at the plant of the company 

 lu Ibflt town immediately. Two large Berlin . 

 moltlcrs, a large Berlin sander, two automatic 

 cutoff saws and a concrete dry kiln with a 

 capacity of 15,000 feet will be installed. It Is 

 estimated that these improvements will cost 

 about $15,000 and that the capacity of the plant 

 will be materially enlarged. 



C. W. H.vde, president of the Hyde Lumber 

 Company, who was at one time located in Mem- 

 phis, has recently purchased for the Desha lum- 

 ber Company a large tract of timber land in 

 East Carroll I'arlsh, Louisiana, estimated to 

 contain large quantities of oak, ash, cottonwood 

 and other hardwoods. As soon as a railroad can 

 be constructed into the timber and a steam 

 skidder installed the logs will be transferred to 

 the company's plant at Arkansas City, Ark., 

 where it recently installed a large modern band 

 mill and other new equipment which increased 

 i"lio daily cutting capacity to 50,000 feet. The 

 purchase increases the Desha Company's hold- 

 ings in southwestern Arkansas and northeastern 

 Louisiana to over 75,000,000 feet of hardwood 

 stumpage, including valuable land. The sale of 

 the lumber is handled exclusively by the Hyde 

 Lumber Company. 



Formal announcement of the organization of 

 the Batesville & Southwestern Railroad Compan.v, 

 capitalized at $100,000, has been filed at Jackson. 

 Miss. The company plans to build a line run- 

 ning southwest from Batesville a distance of 28 

 miles to Charleston, the county seat of Talla- 

 hatchie. At the latter point connection will be 

 made with the loop line running from Phillip 

 to Charleston, thus forming a valuable connec- 

 tir.il of the Illinois Central and the Vaioo i 

 Mississippi Valley roads. It will also afford a 

 direct route from Charleston to Memphis, St. 

 Louis and points beyond. The officers are James 

 C. Longstreet, president, W. L. Park, Chicago, 

 first vice president, R. J. Darnell, Memphis, 

 second vice president, M. P. Blauvelt, treasurer, 

 and B. A. Beck, secretary. This road Is the one 

 which Is being backed by R. J. Darnell, Inc., of 

 Memphis, in order to facilitate the development 

 of a very large tract of timber land secured by 

 that firm in the neighborhood of Batesville. The 

 road will run directly through the timber and 

 the logs for the present will be brought to the 

 band niill and veneer plant of R. J. Darnell, Inc., 

 in this city. Later It Is proposed to establish a 

 mill on the property for the development of the 

 timber thereon. 



J. W. McClure, manager of the baseball team 

 of the Lumberman's Club of Memphis, has com- 

 pleted final arrangements for the northern tour 

 which is to be made by the team this season. 

 The Memphis boys will leave on the evening of 

 August 25, and will arrive in Cincinnati the fol- 

 lowing day in ample time for the game which 

 is to be played with the lumbermen of that 

 city. On the following day a game will be played 

 with the lumbermen's team at Indianapolis. 



James S. Davant, commissioner of the Mem- 

 phis Freight Bureau, has gone to Ocean City, 

 Ml!., v-'hecL he will hold a conference with mem 

 hers of the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 n.th reference to shipments of logs into Mi'm- 

 phis. There has been considerable dissaiisiac- 

 tion among lumber interests over the rates and. 

 acting under instructions of the board of di- 

 lectors, who held a conference with lumber in- 

 terests before reaching a decision, Mr. Davant 

 will try to bring about a satisfactory arrange- 

 ment. If this is impossible proceedings will be 

 taken before the commission with a view to rec- 

 tifying the alleged trouble. 



The Woodruff-Kroy Tight Barrel Stave Com- 

 pany, of Kenneth, Mo., which recently purchased 

 a site for a factory at Marked Tree. Ark., has 

 moved its machinery to the latter point and has 

 begun the erection of the necessary factory build- 

 ings. The superintendent of the company is 

 already on the ground and says that the manu- 

 facture of staves will be under way by the 

 middle of September. 



The plant of J. F. Hasty & Son. manufac- 

 turers of staves and heading at Paragould, Ark., 

 was badly damaged by fire some days ago. The 

 loss is estimated at $S,000. The fire was checked 

 after the main factory was destroyed and before 

 It spread to the immense stacks of logs and 

 finished lumber surrounding it. The loss is 

 covered by a private sinking fund of insurance. 

 One of the most enjoyable occasions in the 

 history of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis 

 was the boat ride on the Mississippi on the 

 evening of July 26. The steamer Pattona was 

 used and there were nearly five hundred pas- 

 son.gers on board, including members of the 

 club, their wives, daughters, sweethearts and 

 friends. A band was engaged for the occasion 

 and there was much dancing during the even- 

 ing. Delightful refreshments were served. The 

 boat left the local wharf at 7 :30 and did not 

 return until about 1 :30. The trip was made 

 considerably below President's Island. These 

 entertainments, the second of which is under 

 discussion, have proven so enjoyable that it is 

 regarded as practically certain that they have 

 become a fixed feature of the entertainment pro- 

 grain of the club for each year. 



J. W. Thompson, president of the J. W. Thomp- 

 son Lumber Company, has recently returned from 

 a business trip to Chicago, Milwaukee, Grand 

 Rapids and other northwestern points. 



C. B. Dudley of the C. B. Dudley Lumber 

 Company has just left Memphis for his home in 

 Michigan. Mrs. Dudley preceded him last week. 

 Charley apparently is going to have a big time, 

 as he has shipped his touring car for use during 

 his stay. 



Frank May has returned from an extended trip 

 to Yellowstone Park, Denver, Salt Lake City and 

 other western points. He was accompanied by 

 his wife, and they were members of a large party 

 which went from Memphis for this trip. 



N. Butler Haines has returned from Chicago, 

 where he recently went on business. 



The members of the Lumbermen's Club base- 

 ball team who went to Nashville July 23 to play 

 against the team of that city, composed of lum- 

 bermen, have made all sorts of excuses for get- 

 ting beaten, but the fact remains that they lost 

 the game and that It will be necessary to play 

 the third game in order to settle the question of 

 supremacy of one team over the other. No defi- 

 nite date has been arranged for the return en- 

 gagement and the place has not been decided 



