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HARDWOOD RECORD 



iiir Kurope last week. He goes abroad every 

 yrar and this is iiis annual business trip. The 

 luill,'^ and veneer plant of this firm are in 

 .stead.v operation now, having recentlj' secured 

 a more liberal supply of timber. 



William Wright of the Wright-Bachman I.um- 

 bei' Company, Portland, Ark., was in Memphis 

 recently. 



Steps will be taken within the next few 

 days looking to the reclamation of 135,000 acres 

 of timber and farm lands in Crittenden county, 

 Arkansas. There will be a meeting here within 

 tlie next two or three days under the auspices 

 of the Business Men's Club, which is strongly 

 in sympathy with this movement. Some of 

 the most prominent business men of Crittenden 

 county are also backing the movement and it is 

 said that there is no doubt that this land will 

 be opened to cultivation. The timber on it is 

 ul considerable proportions. 



The Archer Lumber Company is establishing 

 a gluiug-up plant at Helena, Ark., which will 

 be ready for operation shortly. It involves 

 an outlay of about .'530,000 and will give em- 

 ployment to about fifty men. The machinery 

 has already been ordered and is now being de- 

 livered. The company proposes to manufacture 

 glued-up parts for high-grade furniture, to be 

 shipped to tiuishing furniture factories in the 

 North. A planing mill and other machinery 

 will also be operated by the company, which 

 will do a general supply business in building 

 and tiuishing material of all kinds. 



The Illinois Central Itailroad Company recent- 

 ly took a number of lumbermen to its new 

 docks in New South Memphis, installed for the 

 purpose of unloading logs, lumber, cotton and 

 other river freight from boats and barges to 

 trains on that load. A demonstration v/sci 

 given of the new machinery which has been 

 installed at that point for unloading lumber 

 and this was very successful. It was shown 

 that from 100,000 to 200,000 feet of lumber 

 could be handled in a day, which is much more 

 rapid than the old method of handling by 

 liand. There is an advantage in the fact that 

 the lumber is carried from the boat to the cars 

 with one handling, thus making it possible to 

 distribute it to any consignee in the city at a 

 moderate cost. T'Tiese docks have been installed 

 at a cost of from $50,000 to $100,000 and the 

 view is held in some quarters that the facili- 

 ties provided by the Illinois Central Railroad 

 for handling river traffic will result in bring- 

 ing to this city a great deal of lumber and 

 logs which have gone to Cairo and other up- 

 i-iver points, thus increasing the prestige of 

 this market. 



The Hubbard Manufacturing Company has 

 been organized at Texarkana, Ark., for the 

 manufacture of barrel hoops, boxes, crates and 

 other packages. It is capitalized at $6,000 and 

 the principal stockholders are G. M. Hubbard, 

 Gus Ney and J. R. Thompson. 



In the case of Vf. E. Talley against the 

 i'acpcke-Leicbt Lumber Company of Chicago, ac- 

 cording to dispatches received here from Para- 

 gould. Ark., the jury returned a verdict in fa- 

 vor of the plaintiff for $25,000. The action 

 was based on an alleged breach of contract. 

 It appears from the evidence that Mr. Talley 

 made an agreement with the company to saw 

 8,000.000 feet of lumber at his mill at .Marma- 

 duke and it is claimed by him that the lumber 

 was refused after it had been cut on the 

 ground that it did not come up to specifica- 

 tions. This is the largest verdict ever ren- 

 dered in that part of the state and it is re- 

 garded as practically certain that it will be 

 appealed to the Supreme Court. 



The Crittenden Hallway Company has secured 

 from the Interstate Commerce Commission an 

 order postponing the effectiveness of the can- 

 cellation of the joint tariff by the St. Louis, 

 Iron Mountain & Southern and the Chicago, 

 ICock Island & Pacific Railway companies from 

 September 24 to January 5, 1911. It appealed 



to the commission in this case just as the 

 other tap lines in Arkansas had done in con- 

 nection with the other roads and with similar 

 results. This is the first case where a railroad 

 owned by Memphis interests has been involved 

 in any of the decisions handed down. F. E. 

 Stonebraker is president of the Crittenden Rail- 

 way Company, which operates a line from Earlc, 

 Ark., to Heth, Ark. 



Negotiations have been completed at W'aldo. 

 Ark., whereby the Gulf Cooperage Company of 

 Tesarkana, Ark., has secured possession of from 

 a,000,000 to 4,000,000 feet of oak timber near 

 the former point. It is proposed to saw this 

 timber into staves and ship the latter to the 

 linishiug mills of the purchasing firm at Texar- 

 kana. The machinery has been placed on the 

 timbcrland and the actual work of cutting the 

 timber into staves will begin at once. The pur- 

 chasing firm is in the market for additional 

 timber in that section and is trying to make 

 arrangc-ments to secure enough raw material 

 for a run of from three to four years. This 

 is- the largest timber land di'al put through 

 in that section for some years. 



NASHVILLE 



As a result of the removal of Frank Fetzer 

 to Memphis to accept a position with the 

 Memphis Hardwood Flooring Company, the 

 Nashville Lumbermen's Club will have to look 

 about for a new secretary. He was honored with 

 that position at the recent reorganization of the 

 Lumbermen's Club in this city and had been 

 filling it capably. 



Another Nashville lumberman who has at- 

 tracted notice by his capabilities is A. Hadley 

 Card, who goes to Cincinnati to handle the inter- 

 ests there of the FuUerton-Powell Hardwood 

 Lumber Company of South Bend, Ind. While 

 operating under the name of A. H. Card & Co. 

 in Nashville Hadley Card sold the South Bend 

 people great quantities of lumber. He is vice- 

 president of the Nashville Lumbermen's Club. 

 The firm of A. H. Card & Co. will continue, its 

 management being turned over to Hugh C. Card, 

 who will also conduct the affairs of the Clear 

 Fork Lumber Compan.v. 



The Superior Lumber & Tie Company has been 

 incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000. 

 The incorporators are : W. C. Cronemyer, W. B. 

 Turman. J. H. DeWit, I. L. Pendleton and 

 W. E. Boiling, all of Nashville. 



The many friends of John W. Love, one of 

 the city's most popular lumbermen, have greeted 

 him warmly following his long stay in Nova 

 Scotia during the summer months. While away 

 Mr. Love kept various ones constantly reminded 

 that he was in the land of the living, however, 

 by sending them postal cards. Many of these 

 depicted fishing scenes in which Mr. Love was 

 successfully landing bass and other fish that 

 looked bigger in the picture than did John him- 

 self. 



BRISTOL 



Some excellent lumber exhibits are to be 

 seen at the Appalachian Exposition at Knox- 

 ville. including specimens of all of the various 

 woods indigenous to this -Vppalachian region. 

 The exposition is a great success and includes 

 many exhibits of wood products, including ve- 

 hicles of all kinds, automobiles, furniture, etc. 

 A number of Michigan and Grand Rapids con- 

 cerns have extensive exhibits, as well as manu- 

 facturers of North Carolina and Tennessee. 



The White Lumber Company, which now has 

 a large baud mill at Butler. Johnson county, 

 Tenn., will soon have another operation at Elk 

 I'ark, N. C, which will make much of its pres- 

 ent timber supply much more accessible than 

 it now is. This company is doing a large and 

 flourishing business. 



B. B. Burns of the Tug River Lumber Com- 



pany of Huntington, W. Va., was in Bristol 

 this week. The Tug River company is winding 

 up the cutting of a large area of timber land 

 in southwest Virginia near Bristol, while the 

 C. L. Ritter Lumber Company, with which Mr. 

 Burns is also connected, is operating a band 

 mill at Whltewood, Va. He is sales manager 

 of the Rockcastle Lumber Company, with of- 

 fices at Huntington. This company is operating 

 a large band mill at Meek, eastern Kentucky, 

 where it has acquired and is rapidly developing 

 one of the finest tracts of timber in that 

 section. 



W. S. Whiting of the Whiting Manufacturing 

 c;ompany, Abingdon, Va., was a visitor here 

 this week and reports that his company's large 

 new band mill at Judson, N. C, will be ready 

 for operation about December 1. The machinery, 

 etc., is being gotten out as rapidly as possible, 

 and the mill is under roof. This mill will cut 

 at least 75,000 feet of stock daily and will 

 specialize in quarter-sawed oak. The company 

 has a large flooring plant and planing mill at 

 Judson. in addition to the band mill at Abingdon. 

 Mr. Whiting thinks the outlook for the lumber 

 business good. 



The Honaker Lumber Company, operating in 

 Russell county. Va., now has its two large new 

 l)and mills in operation and is tiu'ning out lum- 

 ber on a large scale. The company is prepared 

 to do a large volume of business and is rapidly 

 increasing the capacity of its plant. It owns 

 a large area of timber land in that region. 



J. A. Wilkinson's office reports business fair, 

 with indications good for a better fall and win- 

 ter trade. Mr. Wilkinson's mills are running 

 and his yards are well stocked despite the fact 

 that shipments of late have been fairly heavy. 



LOUISVILLE 



Lumbermen have noted with concern the filing 

 of tariffs by the Southeastern Mississippi Valley 

 Freight Association, indicating an advance in 

 rates on southbound freight into that territory 

 of from 15 -to 20 per cent, effective November 1. 

 While lumber will not be seriously affected, in- 

 asmuch as the greater part of the movement 

 is in the other direction, the action of southern 

 roads is regarded as in line w-ith the general 

 policy of the carriers to increase rates. 



The Hardwood Club has as yet taken no defi- 

 nite action on the advance proposed by roads in 

 central and eastern territory, although a special 

 committee, of which J. C. Wickliffe is chairman, 

 has been investigating the situation. 



A. E, Norman of the Norman Lumber Com- 

 pany is about ready to move into his new ofiBces 

 at Ninth and Magnolia streets. Lumber has 

 been going over there for several weeks. Mr. 

 Norman believes that business is picking up con- 

 siderably. 



The Paris Lumber & Manufacturing Company 

 has filed articles of incorporation at Paris, show- 

 ing a capitalization of $10,000. The incorpora- 

 tors are W. G. Layer, A. B. Peters and Ralph 

 McCracken. 



The Tennessee River Lumber Company has 

 incorporated here with a capital stock of $50.- 

 000. J. T. Morgan and J. A. Morgan of Louis- 

 ville and O. H. Margrave of Brookport, 111., 

 are the incorporators and directors. 



Local lumbermen are taking much interest in 

 the work of the Transportation Club, which in- 

 cludes the leading shippers of the city. A meet- 

 ing was held September 19, when the new inter- 

 state commerce law was gone over by E. F. 

 Trabue, a distinguished railroad attorney, who 

 predicted that litigation would result from the 

 r^ew act, some of the provisions of which, he 

 said, are not clear. The Transportation Club 

 will have its annual outing at the Audubon 

 Country Club October S. On the committee in 

 charge of the entertainment are D. C. Harris 

 and Herbert W. Mengel of the C. C. Mengel & 

 Brother Company and C. M. Pate of Chess & 

 Wymond, local coopers. 



