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HARDWOOD RECORD 



July 10. Win 



Clubs and Associations 



Western Lumbermen to Meet 



The aunual iiiiM>fiug uf the West Coast Lumbermen' sAssociatiou will be 

 held at Paraillse Inn, Rannier National Park, Washington, July 30 and 

 31. A program has been prepared which includes a number ot men well 

 known in the lumber business. 



Association of Wood Turners 



The National Association ot Wood Turners, with headiinarters at South 

 IJend, Ind.. was ortranizcd at the June meeting in New York. The old 

 association, which was largely o£ a friendly and social character, was 

 disbanded and the new \vas organized for Imsincss, with the following 

 officers : 



I'RESiiiK.VT — Louis C. Hump, Brandon, Vt., president Newton & Thompson 

 Manufacturing Company, Brandon, Vt. 



Vice I'UKsiiiBNT — William Cook Rogers, president The Piqua Handle & 

 Manufacturing (.'ompany, Piqua, Ohio. 



(lE.NEinL t>i;ci!ET.\iiY — W. A. Babbitt, South Bend, Ind., Box 517. 



TREASUKEit — Virgil Bogert, Bogert & Hopper, New York City. 



Board of Director.s — The above named officers and N. S. Stowell, presi- 

 dent N. S. Stowell Company, Dix Field, Mo. ; L. A. Walker, general manager 

 Stephenson Manntactnring Company, South Bend, Ind.; H. B. White, 

 president H. B. White Wood Products Company, Crowthersvllle, Ind. ; 

 (Jeorge II. Frary, president Frary Manufacturing Company, Charlemont, 

 Mass. 



ExECOTivE Committee — The president, ex-ofHcio ; N. S. Stowell, L. A. 

 Walker, Virgil Bogert. 



Committee on Export — William Cook Rogers, chairman. Chairman to 

 select committee. 



With the Trade 



Southern Exporting Company Chartered 



Application for a cliartcr uf incoriinration of Ilic American Overseas 

 Forwarding Company, capitalized at .^l.jO.OOO, has been made by C. L. 

 Sivley of the law firm of Sivley, Evans & McCadden, on behalf of a number 

 of prominent lumbermen of Memphis, including James E. Stark, president 

 of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association ; J. H. Townshend, secretary- 

 manager ot the same body ; George C. Ehemann, George C. Ehemann & Co,,; 

 John W. McClure, Bellgrade Lumber Company ; S. M. Nickey, Green River 

 Lumber Company ; Walker L. Weiiford, Chickasaw Cooperage Company ; 

 and Ralph L. JurOen of the Penrod-Jurden Company. 



All of these gentlemen appear as incorporators and the company will 

 engage in the forwarding business as agents, will charter vesseLs, establish 

 warehouses and storage yards, and will, if the need arises, actually operate 

 ocean going vessels. The company will handle business exclusively for 

 export. Lumber will be the commodity dealt in at first, but the charter 

 will be broad enough to enable it to include cotton, agricultural imple- 

 ments, steel and Iron articles and other staple commodities. 



Formation of this company is the direct result ot the recomnieudations 

 ot the export booking committee made at the last aunual meeting of the 

 Soutliern Hardwood Traflie Association. George C. Ehemann was head 

 of this committee and had the co-operation of some of the best known 

 lumbermen of Memphis. The recommendations were adopted by unanimous 

 vote and the application for a charter for the American Overseas Forward- 

 ing Company is the first formal step in carrying out these recommenda- 

 tions. 



Headquarters will be maintained in Jlemphis. These will be, at least 

 temporarily. In the Bank of Commerce building. As soon as the charter 

 is granted, officers will be elected and branch offices will be opened in New 

 Orleans, Louisville and Helena, Ark. II. E. O'Rouk, who is an experienced 

 shipping man and who has for years been engaged in the forwarding busi- 

 ness on his own account in New Orleans, will be general manager ot the 

 New Orleans offices, according to J. H. Townshend, secretary-manager of 

 the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association. Managers will be selected 

 for the other offices with as little delay as possible and it may be stated, 

 on the highest authority, that some of the most aide shipping men in the 

 country will be engaged by the company. 



The company is th(' outgrowth of the inability of exporters of lumber, 

 acting singly, to secure the oci'an shipping space required for their overseas 

 business. The convicticui has been gaining ground for months that it would 

 be necessary for united effort to overcome the handicap of shortage of 

 ocean freight room, and the lumbermen who are launching the company 

 believe that, through the co-operation that will be thus assured, far better 

 results will be obtainalde. There is a feeling that there Is discrimination, 

 in some degree, agftinst southern gulf ports, in the allocation of ships and 

 that the South ig not being given a fair deal by the United States Shipping 

 Board. This Is a matter that the lumbermen of this territory, acting In 

 concert through the company, will take up and push with all possible 

 vigor. 



The comi)any, it is announced, has already booked more than 100 cars 

 of hardwood lumber and forest products for fnrwanling and it has many 



applications for ocean shiiipiug room now. Tliis is accepted as emphasizing 

 the need for the launching of the ciuupany anfl as proof positive that it has 

 a ver.v large field before it. 



The company ju-oposes, in the beginning, to charter vessels and to book 

 space on ships that are available. Later, if the need arises, it will have 

 the power to actually buy ships and operate them for Its own account. 

 The charter is made broad enough also to enable the company to own 

 and operate, if desirable, barges on the Mississippi river for handling 

 lumber to southern gulf ports. What is done in both of the latter direc- 

 tions will depend altogether on the character of service for its stock- 

 holders afforded by ocean steamship companies and by the operators of 

 barge lines on the Mississippi and other southern streams. 



Kearns-Quinn Lumber Company Starts at Memphis 



The Kearns-Quinn Lumber Company has been formed at Memphis, Tenn., 

 and is now engaged in the manufacture and exportation of hardwood 

 lumber. It has a hardwood mill at Earle, Ark., and its offices are on the 

 fifth floor of the Bank of Commerce building. The members of the firm are 

 Miss R. M. Quinn and J. J. Kearns. The former has had a wide experience 

 in the hardwood business, having been in the employ of the Bennett Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company and the Kraetzer Cured Lumber Company of Mem- 

 phis for years. The latter recently reino\'ed its offices to Greenwood, Miss., 

 and, as Miss Quinn did not wish to leave this city, she decided to launch a 

 business of her own. Mr. Kearns, her partner, is an experienced buyer and 

 seller of southern hnrdwriods and is familiar with the exporting enil of the 

 business. During the period of the war he purchased spokes for the Govern- 

 ment. He will look after operations of the mill at Earle. 



Buys Big Hardwood Properties 

 The Delta & I'ine Land Company of Mississippi, it is announced, has 

 taken over the properties of the Mississippi Delta Planting Company, the 

 Lake Vista Plantation Company and the Triumph Plantation Company of 

 Scott, Miss., and will, in the future, operate the hardwood mill formerly 

 belonging to the first named company at Scott. The absorbing company is 

 one ot the oldest corporations in Mississippi and at one time held very 

 extensive pine timberland holdings. It has disposed of most of these, 

 however, and in the future will specialize largely in hardwoods, with 

 special reference to red gum. The mill at .Scott has a daily capacity of 

 40,000 to 45,000 feet of lumber. There is also additional equipment in the 

 shape of a shingle and planing mill. There will be no change in the per- 

 sonnel of the management of the mill. S. J. Hughes will continue in charge 

 of operations and H. P. Moyer, who has been purchasing agent and sales 

 manager, with headquarters at 156 Madison avenue, Memphis, will actively 

 function in those capacities. 



Poetry in Buying 



Homer Alexander of Alexander Brothers, Belzoni, Miss., averred during 

 the hardwood convention last week that all is not prosaic or prose in 

 business. He supported his theory by presenting a unique inquiry com- 

 ing from a well-known consumer, and also showing his copy of the original 

 answer to this inquiry. The inquiry and the reply follows : 



Consumer's I.nquirv 



Though stocks are low, and prices are high 

 You're bound to have something I wish to buy ; 

 If you'll send me a list with prices mill, 

 I'll send you orders you'll be glad to fill. 



The boom you've expected is here at last ; 

 Everything's moving, and moving fast. 

 Nearly all items are in strong demand. 

 So quote me prices as quick as you can. 



I'll take all you have in one-inch Sap Gum, 

 And pay you a price that'll startle you some ; 

 Don't think for a moment I'm a cheap guy — 

 I must pay the price, for I've got to buy. 



I'm needing inch White Oak, Red Oak and Ash. 

 Red and Sap Gum, too — prices spot cash ; 

 Log Run Soft Elm, one to three iiu^hes thick". 

 Same thing in Maple — let's hear from you quick. 



— W. D. Jami.son. 

 Producer's Reply 

 We always have something to sell. 

 But just now w'e can scarcel.v tell ; 

 Will have to have a brief spell. 

 For our stocks are shot to Hell. 



Worlds of people want to buy, ' 



Since lumber has gotten so high. 



We love to hear their htie and cry 



And we are making every effort to .satisfy. 



The lumbermen have struggled long 

 And envied the prosperous throng. 

 Now. they freely forgive the wrong 

 And raise their voices in beautiful song. 



That lumber is scarce, we have no doubt. 

 And with others, we are looking about 

 To discover the means and the route 

 By which a lot more can be put out. 



We contemplate the future with delight. 

 And we shall try with all otir might 

 To reap the golden harvest in sight 

 By every means we know to be right. 



— Alexander Bros. 



