HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Mill CompaDy, Jamestown, X. Y., was a visitor 

 at tlio Lumbermen's Club meeting, as tlie guest 

 of Maley, Tliompson & Moffett. 



John Buchanan, a mahogany merchant of 

 Laguiia. Mexico, is spending a few days in 

 this city, the guest of the Frieberg Lumber 

 Company. 



R. E. Gilbert of the S. C. Major Lumber Com- 

 pany, Memphis. Tenn., and J. J. Linehan of the 

 Linehan Lumber Company, Pittsburg. Pa., visit- 

 ed with (Cincinnati lumbermen last weelf. 



H. E. Millies of the Clarksdale Manufacturing 

 Company of Clarijsdale, Miss., was a guest at 

 the meeting of the Lumbermen's Club. He spent 

 several days in the city looking over the condi- 

 tions. 



J. F. Crimm, president of the Crimm Brothers 

 Lumber Company, Gordo, Aia., recently spent 

 two weeks visiting the trade in this vicinity, 

 but was not greatly impressed with the volume 

 of business transacted. 



Ralph Gravely, representing Illingworth, Ing- 

 ham & Co., Ltd., Leeds, England, buyers of 

 American lumber and logs, is in the city mak- 

 ing a protracted visit to study up the American 

 lumbering trade. He was a guest at the Lum- 

 bermen's Club. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



C. D. M. lioug.'itou of the Greer-Houghton 

 Lumber Company is home from a three weeks' 

 eastern trip. 



EaglesUeld & Shepard are erecting a new office 

 building at their plant at Thirtieth street and 

 I be Monon railroad tracks. 



The Veneer I'ackagc Company has ordered 

 c:onsiderable new machinery, expecting to in- 

 crease the capacity of its plant. 



A new factory building is being erected at 

 Martinsville for the Greencastle Cabinet Com- 

 pany, now located at Greencastle. 



The Indianapolis Trade Association will be 

 host to all merchants and retail dealers in the 

 state Oct. 18-19-20. There will be an industrial 

 parade Qve miles long and local hardwood con- 

 cerns will participate with their wagons and 

 teams. There will also be a smoker and a 

 theater party. 



Plans fpr a permanent organization for re- 

 forestation of the forests of Indiana were made 

 at a meeting held in the office of Charles W. 

 Fairl>anks, former vice-president of the United 

 States, on Oct. 5. The new organization will 

 be known as the Indiana FoFestry Association 

 and will be incorporated by the following in 

 addition to Mr. Fair'oanks : Governor Thomas 

 E. Marshall ; Addison C. Harris, former minister 

 to Austria ; Dr. William L. Bryan, president 

 of Indiana University ; Dr. J. N. Hurty, secre- 

 tary of the state board of health ; John B. 

 Connor, editor of the Indiana Farmer : Prof. 

 Mason B. Thomas of Wabash College ; Edgar A^ 

 Perkins, president of the Indiana Federation of 

 Labor ; George B. Lockwood, editor, Marion ; 

 Hugh J. McGowan, president of the Indian- 

 apolis Traction and Terminal Company, and 

 Oscar C. Hadley, treasurer of state. 



MEMPHIS 



Weather conditions in this section during the 

 past fortnight have continued favorable for the 

 production of hardwood lumber, though within 

 the past day or two it has begun to rain and 

 the weather is becoming somewhat unsettled. 

 Figuring on the law of averages a great deal of 

 rain in this section would not be at all sur- 

 prising, as the precipitation since spring has 

 teen small. Hardwood manufacturers are doing 

 everything in their power to secure a fair tim- 

 ber supply before winter sets in. The river 

 mills are still handicapped in bringing in logs 

 because of the low stage of the Mississippi and 

 its tributaries. However, this difficulty would 



also be overcome by increased rainfall. These 

 river mills have considerable logs on the banks 

 of the streams and these will be brought down 

 at the first favorable opportunity. 



There has been no change in the attitude 

 of manufacturers unless it has been that there 

 has been an increased disposition to operate. 

 Iherc are only one or two cases that the cor- 

 lespondcDt of the Hardwood Kkcokd can recall 

 where there is voluntary curtailment. On the 

 other hand reports are received from various 

 portions of the Memphis territory suggesting 

 that lumber is being produced just as rapidly 

 as it can be turned out. It is conceded that the 

 demand is not quite as active as was expected, 

 but general business conditions are considered 

 good and there is a note of optimism in the 

 views expressed by lumber interests here. It 

 is noteworthy that the fall elections have been 

 set as the limit of the present comparative 

 quiet. After these are over the feeling prevails 

 that there will be a large increase in business 

 and that values will be more satisfactory than 

 at present. Bank clearings here are quite full 

 and, while money is tight, there has been no 

 special trouble about financial operations. How- 

 ever, it may be noted in passing that there 

 has been rather poor success recently attending 

 collections. 



(ienerai satisfaction is expressed among 

 members of the Hardwood Manufacturers' As- 

 sociation here over the appointment of J. L. 

 Brannon. for some years connected with John B. 

 Hansom & Co. of Nashville, as official inspector 

 for that body in Tennessee. Mr. Brannon will 

 have headquarters at Nashville, but be will 

 spend a good portion of his time in Memphis 

 where the association has a number of mem- 

 bers. 



Building operations during September reached 

 a total of $324,840 as compared with $304,504 

 for September, 1909. This is a comparatively 

 small gain over last year, but it keeps up the 

 chain of unbroken increases since January 1. 

 and the total to October 1 is, therefore, heavily 

 in excess of the first nine months of last year. 

 There are a number of large building prospects 

 under way at present and indications are the 

 winter will see as much activity as weather 

 conditions will allow. 



A. G. Fritchey of the Lamb-Fish Lumber 

 Company is authority tor the statement that 

 this firm is running ail of its plants at Charles- 

 ton on full time and that it proposes to con- 

 tinue this policy. Mr. Fritchey calls particular 

 attention to the fact that there is no large 

 supply of low-grade lumber on the yards and 

 that no uneasiness is felt over the higher 

 grades. 



E. T. Bennett, president of the Bennett Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company, has recently returned 

 from a vacation and reports that his plant here 

 is working on full time. He says business is 

 very good and that it is proposed to continue in 

 steady operation. 



All efforts to secure another baseball game 

 for the season of 1910 by the Lumbermen's Club 

 of Memphis have failed. Nashville could not 

 come, then the offer was made to Indianapolis. 

 That city turned it down and an appeal was 

 made to Cincinnati to fill the date of Oct. 1. 

 It was found that that club had disbanded for 

 the season and there will, therefore, be no 

 further games between the lumbermen here and 

 those of other cities until next season. Memphis 

 did not do quite as well this year as last, 

 breaking even with Nashville and losing to both 

 Cincinnati and Indianapolis. However, next 

 season may bring forth an altogether different 

 story. 



The Favorite Washer Company and the Inter- 

 national Furniture Company, which are under 

 the same management, have started the plant 

 formerly owned by the New Albany Furniture 

 Manufacturing Company of New Albany, Miss. 

 There will be two departments, one looking after 

 the manufacture of washing machines, ironing 



boards, baby jumpers and carts, while the other 

 will manufacture all kinds of standard fur- 

 niture. The management estimates that the 

 total output will reach 500 carloads annually. 

 L. E. Minot is president and general manager. 

 L. N. Brown is vice-president and general 

 counsel, H. Reynolds is treasurer and office 

 manager and H. A. Minot is secretary. The 

 company will inject a rather new feature in its 

 sale of furniture by offering direct to the con- 

 sumer. It Is estimated that the plant within 

 a year will give employment to about 200 per- 

 sons. All products will be finished at the plant 

 without having to be sent away. 



James S. Davant, commissioner of the Mem- 

 phis Freight Bureau, says that there is. In his 

 opinion, little prospect that the Interstate Com- 

 merce ComniLssion will allow the advance of 

 10 cents per hundred pounds in freight rates 

 to Pacific Coast terminals. He argues that the 

 linal determiualion of this matter is before the 

 same body that ordered the rate reduced 10 

 cents per hundred pounds two years ago and 

 that it is up to the railroads to show why an 

 advance, which was not justified at that time, 

 is now reasonable. He is one of the best in- 

 formed traffic men in this section. 



J. S. Warren, J. S. Wellingham and J. H. 

 Doughty are now in Grand Rapids, Mich., 

 whither they hav.? gone as a committee to in- 

 terest woodworking industries in Memphis, as 

 representatives of the Bureau of Publicity and 

 Development- of the Business Men's Club of 

 Memphis. The daily papers at Grand Rapids 

 are reported to have refused to sell these gentle- 

 men space in which to advertise their presence 

 and purpose in that city, hut at the latest ac- 

 counts they were making favorable progress. A 

 strenuous effort is being made by the bureau In 

 the direction of securing furniture and other 

 woodworking enterprises. 



NASHVILLE 



John E. Fountain of Chicago, chief inspector 

 of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, 

 has been in Nashville for the past few days 

 giving J. Lee Brannon, the recently appointed 

 inspector for Tennessee, some valuable 

 pointers about the work of the position. 



J. D. Dies & Son, prominent cedar people 

 of Lebanon, Tenn., have opened up a yard in 

 Nashville for red cedar post and piling tim- 

 ber. They leased a yard from the J. P. Mere- 

 dith Cedar Company. 



E. B. Norman of E. B. Norman & Co., 

 Louisville, was in the city recently in search 

 of quartered oak. 



John W. Love has well nigh taken up his 

 abode in New York and Nashville seldom sees 

 his genial face. He is in the Metropolis now 

 and will remain there all winter. It is not 

 known yet whether he will remove to New 

 Y'ork, but it is being rumored that he may 

 open an office in that city and make it his 

 home. 



In a pamphlet recently gotten out by the Nash- 

 ville Lumbermen's Club, entitled •'Nashville 

 Sets the Pace," it is shown that Nashville 

 manufacturers make more oak flooring than 

 any city in the world; that the output of her 

 flooring factories exceeds that of all the other 

 southern factories together; that a total of 

 150,000,000 feet of lumber is carried by 39 

 yards in the Nashville district on an average, 

 divided as follows: Quartered white oak, 10,- 

 000,000 feet; quartered red oak, 10,000,000 

 feet; plain white oak, 15,000,000 feet; plain red 

 oak, 20,000,000 feet; poplar. 50,000,000 feet; 

 chestnut, 12,000,000 feet; white ash, 10,000,000 

 feet; hickory, 3,000,000 feet; walnut, 1,000,000 

 feet; basswood, 1,500,000 feet; Tennessee red 

 cedar, 1,500,000 feet; miscellaneous, 16.000,000 

 feet. The little pamphlet claims the absolute 

 supremacy of the Nashville district in the 

 hardwood market of the w-orld. It is shown 



