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HARDWOOD RECORD 



July 



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Clubs and Associations 



Change in Fees 



Thi' National Ilardwipod Lumlier Association has ilistrihuted the follow^ 

 ing notice : 



Beginning August 1, 1918, the fees for the raea.surcment and inspection 

 of hardwood lumber were increased to 75c per thousand feet on all woods 

 excepting cherry, rock elm, figured and quartered gum, hickory, pecan, 

 mahogany, walnut, quartered woods and strips, for which the charge will 

 he $1.00 per thousand feet. This increase was made necessary by the 

 advance in salaries which, in conformity with present conditions, we were 

 obliged to pay all of our inspectors. For the present the charge of $6 per 

 day on account of time lost, and the minimum fee of $3 on small lots will 

 not he increased. 



Townshend Confers in Washington 



J. H. Townshend. secretary-manager of the Southern Hardwood Traffic 

 Association, left tor Washington Saturday evening, .Tuly 29, for a confer- 

 ence with iitticials of the United States Railroad Administration and the 

 interstate commerce commission regarding application of net rates on logs, 

 bolts and billets into milling points; regarding the decision of the commis- 

 sion in connection with transit arrangements on haj-dwood lumber and 

 forest products at Memphis, Louisville, Evansville and Nashville, and 

 regarding the reclassification case involving veneers, built-up woods and 

 other products the rates for which are based on the lumber rate. 



All of these matters have been hanging Are for some time, the first since 

 last December. Mr. Townshend hopes to speed up action through his 

 conferences with the authorities in Washington. 



Through Export Bills Probable 

 Harvey M. Dickinson, secretary of the National Lumber Exporters' Asso- 

 ciation, Baltimore, received word last week from C. E. Spens of the United 

 States Shipping Board that the latter had taken up consideration of issuing 

 ocean through bills of lading via South Atlantic and Gulf ports, and that 

 there was a prospect of early action in the affirmative. This, It is expected, 

 will tend still moi-e to stimulate the export luisiness. which has been more 

 or less hampered in the last months by the inability of shippers to get 

 through bills of lading. Mr. Dickson, in pushing his appeal for the export- 

 ers, emphasized the fact that the failure of the Shipping Board to authorize 

 through bills of lading on lumber when they were issued on other commodi- 

 ties that loom less large in the foreign trade of the United States, looked 

 much like discrimination. In spite of the lack ofsuc h through hills, how- 

 ever, the accumulations at southern ports of stocks held for export have 

 been cleaned up, and these ports are in the position of being able to handle 

 lumber shipments promptly. 



Building Is Active in South 



The Southern Alluvial Land Association, in a statement issued through 

 the Memphis daily press, gives detailed information regarding the extent of 

 building operations in Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana and 

 points out that these are running into millions of dollars. It emphasizes 

 the fact that there is no let-up in I.niilding because of the high prices prevail- 

 ing and makes it clear that building is taking on such tremendous activity 

 because of the prosperity of the people of these states and because of the 

 serious interruption occasioned by inability to secure the necessary mate- 

 rials during the period of the war. 



Memphis is making excellent showing in the building line. There are 

 several hundred residences in process of construction in this city at present 

 and many others have been projected. Stores, factories and other places 

 of business are being constructed and it Is quite clear from the records in 

 the office of the building commissioner that Memphi.s is doing several times 

 as much in the way of construction activities as at this time last year. 



Indications are that there will be a showdown about August 1 between the 

 Building Trades Council and the Memphis Builders' Exchange on the ques- 

 tion of the union card system. The former announces that the card system 

 will likely go into effect on that date and that neither contractors nor sup- 

 ply men can prevent the union card from being put into effect, even though 

 the former stop work and the latter refuses to sell materials. It declares 

 that contractors will be brought here from other points if local contractors 

 refuse to recognize the union card system and that materials wUl be 

 brought in from other sources if the local supply men refuse to furnish 

 them. The Memphis Builders' Exchange and the Chamber of Commerce are 

 both up in arms against the proposed system and both have gone on record, 

 in published resolutions, of their determination to resist to the last ditch 

 efforts to put the system into effect. Present indications are that there will 

 be a deadlock and that there may be serious interference with building 

 operations at a time when there is a vast amount of work to be done. 



Traffic Association Extends Services 



The Southern Hardwood Traffic Association is planning to extend Its 

 service to its members by opening branch offices in other cities, with par- 

 ticular reference to St. Louis and Cincinnati, according to James E. Stark. 

 president. 



"We already have branch offices in Louisville, Helena (Ark.) and New 



Orleans," he said on July 19, "but we have a large number of members 

 in the two cities mentioned who are anxious to secure the benefits of the 

 direct service that can be afforded through opening of branch offices 

 therein, 



"In this connection, I would like to emphasize the fact that, while the 

 Southern Hardwood Traffic Association has its principal offices in Memphis, 

 it is no more a Memphis institution than it is a New f^rleans, or Louisville, 

 or Cincinnati, or Helena one. Indeed, it is no more a local organization 

 than is the Southern Pine .\ssoclation or the American Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers' AssociatifUi. It has members all over the southern and eastern 

 hardwood producing fields and serves all of them with just as much eager- 

 ness and just as much efficiency as It serves those who are located in the 

 territory tributary to Memphis. 



"The lumber trade press has a way of localizing the Southern Hardwood 

 Traffic Association every time anything about it is published and I am 

 making this statement in the hope that it will clarify the situation and 

 put the association in the class of a distinctly general one instead of a 

 purely local one." 



The American Overseas Forwarding Company, which recently made appli- 

 cation for a charter to engage in the forwarding, chartering, booking and 

 insuring of hardwood lumber and forest products destined for Europe and 

 other foreign countries, will cover the entire southern and eastern hardwood 

 producing regions and will be no more local in its scope than the association 

 which is responsible for its launching. 



With the Trade 



Black Walnut Cut in Missouri 



As in other years of the last decade, Missouri, for the year of 191S, 

 holds first rank among the states for quantity and value of black walnut 

 lumber and logs placed on the market, production amounting to 13,373,000 

 feet of lumber and 420 extra cars of logs. The valuation given to the 

 products is $2.2()4,93,S. 



Will Raise Prize Stock 



J. V. Stinusun, the well-known hardwood lumber manufacturer of Indiana, 

 Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas, has purchased the Renner stock farm 

 in Blackford county, Indiana, in the famous bluegrass country. He ex- 

 pects to engage in the breeding of full-blooded polled Hereford cattle. 

 F. A. Stimson will be associated with him. 



Mr. and Mrs. Holloway Back in Chicago 



Mr. and Mrs. (ilenn H. HoIIowny of Chicago returned from France, July 

 16, 1919. They were married in Paris. October 21, 191S. Mrs. Holloway 

 was formerly Miss Alberta Brophy, prominent in Chicago society and 

 daughter of Dr. Truman W. Brophy, 6007 Kenmore Avenue, Chicago. In 

 August, 191.S. she left for France as assistant to her father, who was a 

 surgeon in the United States Army. After her father's return to the 

 States .she joined the Red Cross as a canteen worker. Lieut. Holloway was 

 a member of the Forestry Division, Twentieth Engineers, going over in 

 May, 1918. In civilian life he Is a member of the well-known lumber 

 concern of Utle.v-IIolloway Company located in Chicago with mills at 

 Clayton, La. 



MRS. GLENN H. HOLLOWAY 



GLENN H. HOLLOWAY 



