HARDWOOD RECORD 



January 25, 1917 



The nominating committee reported with recommendations for 

 officers for the coming year: 



President : H. B. Weiss. 



First Vice-President. B. F. Dulweber. 



Second Vice-President, L. P. Du Bose. 



Treasurer, F. E. Gary. 



Trustees for Two Years : W. C. Bonner, R. H. Darnell, W. E. Hyde 

 and Mr. DeGoIyer. 



Trustees for Three Tears : W. E. DeLaney, H. H. Alexander, S. B. 

 Anderson and R. L. Jurden. 



• These were duly elected. 



After President Weiss had made a little speech of appreciation, 

 in which he particularly thanked Secretary Pritchard, he called 

 upon George E. "Watson, secretary of the Southern Cypress Manu- 

 facturers' Association, and E. S. Kellogg, who in their turns gave 

 short talks on association work. 



On motion of C. L. Harrison, the report of the cost committee 

 was adopted as a preliminary basis for arriving at a uniform 

 system, it being incori^orated in the resolution that members lend 

 their aid in exchanging information and ideas on costs and that 



ultimately with this information and the committee's suggestions 

 as a basis, the final plan be worked out. 



Resolutions were adopted urging Congress and the President 

 to do everj'thing possible to build up a merchant marine for this 

 country. 



The motion by F. L. Schertzer of the Chickasaw Lumber Com- 

 pany, Demopolis, Ala., that a conservation committee be appointed 

 was lost by. unanimous vote. 



C. L. Sherrill of Paducah, Ky., gave an interesting talk in which 

 he showed the influence of the proper application of gum and the 

 value of each member doing his part in pushing gum individually 

 aside from his participation in association work. 



William Beebe of the Long-Bell Lumber Company, Kansas City, 

 Mo., talked briefly on the benefit his company has enjoyed from 

 the association. He referred particularly to the results from the 

 stock reports and to the great possibilities in the Southern Alluvial 

 Land Association. 



Following Mr. Beebe 's talk the meeting adjourned. 



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Dimension I\den Finally Organize 



The newest lumber organization to be launched in Memphis is 

 the Hardwood Dimension Manufacturers' Association, which was 

 formed at the Hotel Gayoso Friday afternoon, January 19, with 

 an enrollment of thirty-five active members. 



No sooner had birth been given to this organization than it was 

 decided that headquarters should be opened in Memphis at once 

 and that an active campaign should be launched to bring in as 

 many dimension lumber manufacturers as possible as members. 



Oflacers and directors were elected as follows: 



President, D. P. Upshaw, Arlington, Ky. 



Vice-President, R. T. Bugg, Winchester, Tenn. 



Secretary, M. F. Hannahs, Memphis. 



Directors, W. S. Elder, Pine Bluff, Ark.; Frank Lyon, Memphis; 

 J. W. Byrn, Brownsville, Tenn., and H. P. Clark, Amory, Miss. 



The constitution adopted sets forth the objects and purposes 

 of the association in the following language: 



To secure full understanding of the conditions surrounding the dimension 

 lumber manufacturing business and to 'adopt such measures as will provide 

 for Improved methods of manufacturing and marketing this class of lumber 

 and to Instruct the mills which are members of this association in the 

 proper grading of their product for the various uses for which It is made. 



The initiation fee was fixed at $10 for each member and dues 

 will be in the form of an assessment of ten cents for each 1,000 

 feet, board measure. It is believed by officials of the organiza- 

 tion that funds derived from these two sources will afford enough 

 money for constructive association work, particularly when the 

 membership has been brought to the limit which is regarded as 

 both possible and probable. 



Secretary Hannahs will be in active charge of the work of the 

 association and will open offices here, probably in the Union & 

 Planters Bank building. 



It is the present plan of the association to compile and issue 

 stock reports each month and to gather and disseminate any and 

 all information that may be regarded as of possible benefit to 

 its members. 



Those who enrolled as charter members are given herewith: 



R. L. Muse Lumber Company, Walnut Ridge, Ark. 



Caney Pork Lumber Company, Doyle, Tenn. 



Laurel Cove Lumber Company. Sparta, Tenn. 



Lee & Fooshee, Sparta, Tenn. 



Frank Lyon, Memphis, Tenn. 



Arlington Lumber Company, Arlington, Ky. 



J. V. Wright, Bolivar, Tenn. 



W. S. Elder, Pine Bluff, Ark. 



Larkin Company of America, Memphis, Tenn. 



R. T. Bugg, Winchester, Tenn. 



J. H. West, CoCteeville, Miss. 



W. W. Fort, Plttsboro, Miss. 



Monterey Spoke Company, Monterey, Tenn. 



I. I. Gunn, Beans Creek, Tenn. 



Interstate Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn. 



C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company, Louisville. 



Canada Pole & Shaft Company, Deemer, Miss. 



Covington Bros., Brownsville, Tenn. 



Byrn Bros., Brownsville, Tenn. 



Amory Dimension Mill Company, Amory, Miss, 



W. T. Harralson, Brownsville, Tenn. 



Samuel Werner, Tracy City, Tenn. 



Liedy Baker Lumber Company, Newport Ark. 



Theo. B. Milkey, Jeffris, La. 



The Hickory-Jones Company, Lufkln, Texas. 



Coules-Masters Company, Havanna, Fla. 



C. F. Work, New Albany, Miss. 



American Column & Lumber Company, St. Albans, W. Va. 



Hardware Dimension Company, Eldorado, Ark. 



Help Save the White Pine 



Setting an example to other land owners in New England and New 

 York state Charles F. Quincy of 90 West street, New York City, 

 recently ordered all of the currant and gooseberry bushes and 

 flowering currants on the Quincy farm at Center Harbor, N. H., de- 

 stroyed, in the effort to prevent the spread of the deadly white pine 

 blister rust which threatens the destruction of all of the white pine, 

 not only in New England, but throughout the entire United States. 



Mr. Quincy is chairman of the executive committee of the American 

 Forestry Association, Washington, D. C, which is now sending out 

 warnings throughout the country that white pine in the New England 

 states valued at $75,000,000; in the Lake states at $96,000,000; in 

 western states at $60,000,000, and in national forests at $30,000,000, 

 or a total value of $261,000,000, is now threatened with destruction 

 by the white pine blister rust. The most effective way to prevent 

 the spread of this disease, for which no cure has been found, is to 

 destroy currant and gooseberry bushes, both wild and cultivated, for 

 it is on these bushes that the disease develops to the stage when it 

 affects pine trees, the poisonous spores being blown from the currant 

 and gooseberry bushes to the pine trees by the wind. 



Mr. Quincy says the situation is so serious that owners of land on 

 which there are currant and gooseberry bushes should without delay 

 out them down and destroy them, as this is the time of the year when 

 the icfection of the pine trees occurs. Despite the fact that Mr. 

 Quincy two years ago had a large quantity of fine quality currant and 

 gooseberry bushes planted at Quincy farm he is having them all de- 

 stroyed in the effort to do what he can to save the remaining white 

 pines of the state, and as an official of the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation he urges all the land owners of New England to do likewise. 



