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HARDWOOD RECORD 



January 25, 1917 



close associations for the purpose of working out intelligent data 

 whereby production may be kept within intelligent bounds, with the 

 result that prices will follow the natural adjusting of supply and 

 demand. Mr; Stark concluded with the request that all members 

 give diligent attention to the question of getting stock reports in 

 promptly. 



E. S. Kellogg, secretary of the National Lumber Manufac- 

 turers' Association, spoke briefly. He declared that association 

 work had undergone, and was still undergoing, a genuine revolu- 

 tion and asserted that there was about three times as much 

 money now available therefor as there was two or three years ago. 

 He pointed out that the members of the hemlock association 

 who formerly paid 1% cents are now paying 11 cents and were 

 glad of the opportunity to contribute on the higher basis. He 

 thought it was wise to put enough money in all association work 

 to make it possible to accomplish something and that lumbermen 

 were beginning to appreciate the fact that their assessments for 

 the benefit of the association with which they are connected are 

 not a contribution but are rather an investment, a sort of "future 

 assurance" of the stability of their business. 



Mr. Kellogg dealt with technical research and declared that the 

 lumber industry offered a Tvide field for experimentation along 

 this line. He thought that experimentation should be made along 

 the line of "what lumber is good for" and "what it may be 

 used for" but he emphasized that research work was so expensive 

 that it would have to be done through co-operative efforts as no 

 individual, no firm or no association could undertake it singly. He 

 also said that another rich field lay in teaching the public how to 

 use lumber and lymber products better. He particularly empha- 

 sized the importance of dealing with stains and finishes which set 

 woods off in a proper manner and gave pleasing effects. 



Mr. Kellogg declared that each association has a field in which 

 it could work by itself and that it could successfully push its own 

 particular product but he pointed out that some of the objects to 

 be attained could be successfully prosecuted only through com- 

 binations of associations. 



C. L. Harrison, chairman of the assessment committee, empha- 

 sized the fact that his committee could not finish its work until 

 members had furnished their reports on cut and that no adver- 

 tising campaign could be undertaken until these reports had been 

 furnished and the assessments, based thereon, had been fixed. 



President Lang read a telegram from the Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association congratulating the American Oak Manu- 

 facturers' Association on the success with which it had been 

 organized, expressing best wishes for its future welfare and ex- 

 tending an invitation to all members of this body to attend its 

 next annual. 



There being no further business the association adjourned. 



The following list shows membership in the oak association, 

 revised to January 23: 



Alexander Brothers. BeUonl, Miss. 



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



Anderson-Tull.T Co., Memphis, Tenn. 



Archer Lumber Co., Helena, Ark. 



Bedna Young Lumber Co., Jackson, Tenn. 



Bellgrade Lumber Co., Memphis, Tenn, 



Barr-Holaday Lumber Co., Greenfield, O. 



Bonner & Sons, J. H., Heth, Ark. 



Brown & Hackney, Inc., Memphis, Tenn. 



Brown, Geo. C. & Co.. Memphis, Tenn. 



Brown, W. P. & Sons Lbr. Co., Louisville, Ky. 



Brenner Lumber Co.. The Ferd, Alexandria, La. 



Carrier Lumber & Mfg. Co., Sardis, Miss. 



Clearfield Lbr. Co., Clearfield, Ky. 



Colfax Hardwood Lbr. Co., Colfax. La. 



Crenshaw-Gary Lumber Co., Memphis, Tenn. 



Crittenden Lumber Co., The, Crittenden, Ark. 



Darnell, R. J., Inc., Memphis, Tenn. 



Davis, Edward L. Lbr. Co., Louisville, Ky. 



Desha Lbr. Co., The, South Bend, Ind. 



Dooley Lumber Co., F. T., Inc., Memphis, Tenn. 



Dugan Lumber Co., Memphis, Tenn. 



Fee-Crayton Hdwd. Lbr. Co., Dermott, Ark. 



Ferguson Hardwood Co., Paducah, Ky. 



Ferguson & Palmer Co., Memphis, Tenn. 



Gayoso Lumber Co., Memphis, Tenn. 



Galloway-Pease Co., Poplar Bluff, Mo. 



Glass Lumber Co., H. D., Lambert, Miss. 



Goodlander-Robertson Lumber Co., Memphis, Tenn. 



Green River Lumber Co:, Memphis, Tenn. 



Hall Lumber Co., D. H., New Albany, Miss. 



Himmelberger-Harrison Lbr. Co., Cape Girardeau, Mo. 



Boffa, W. B., Grenada, Miss. 



Hoffman Bros. Co., Fort Wayne, Ind. 



Holly Ridge Lumber Co., Louisville, Ky. 



Hutchinson Lumber Co., Huntington, W. Va. 



latt Lumber Co., Alexandria, La. 



Kentucky Lumber Co., Lexington, K.y. 



Lamb-Fish Lumber Co., Charleston, Miss. 



Long Bell Lumber Co., The, Kansas City, Mo. 



Luehrmann Hdwd. Lbr. Co., Chas. F., St. Louis, Mo. 



Lyons Lumber Co., Packard, Ky. 



McFarland Lbr. Co., Thomas, Cairo, 111. 



Mclntyre. J. F. & Sons, Inc., Pine Bluff, Ark. 



Male.v & Wertz, Evansville, Ind. 



Mansfield Hdwd. Lbr. Co., Winnfleld, La. 



Massee & Felton Lbr. Co., Macon, Ga. 



May Brothers, Memphis, Tenn. 



Memphis Band Mill Co., Memphis, Tenn. 



Memphis Veneer & Lbr. Co., Memphis, Tenn. 



Miller Lumber Co., Marianna, Ark. 



Mossman Lumber Co., Memphis, Tenn. 



Mowbray & Robinson Co.. The. Cincinnati, O. 



Nickey Bros., Inc., Memphis, Tenn. 



Northern Ohio Cooperage & Lbr. Co., Parkin, Ark. 



Paepcke Leicht Lumber Co., Chicago, 111. 



Penrod, Jurden & McCowen. Memphis, Tenn. 



Ransom & Co., John B., Nashville, Tenn. 



Riel-Kadel Lumber Co., Memphis, Tenn. 



Ritter Lumber Co., C. L., Huntington, \V. Va. 



Russe & Burgess, Inc., Memphis, Tenn. 



Ryan. Philipp A., Lbr. Co., Lufkin, Texas. 



Salt Lick Lumber Co., Salt Lick, Ky. 



Shotten Lbr. Co.. Lumberton, N. C. 



Sondheimer, E. Co., Memphis, Tenn. 



Stark, Jas. E. & Co., Memphis, Tenn. 



Stimson Veneer & Lbr. Co., Memphis, Tenn. 



Tallahatchie Lumber Co., Philipp, Miss. 



Three States Lumber Co., Memphis, Tenn. 



Triangle Lumber Co., Cincinnati, O. 



Tschudy Lumber Co., Kansas City, Mo. 



Utley-Holloway Co., Chicago, 111. 



Vansant, Kitchen & Co., Ashland, Ky. 



Ward Lumber Co., Chicago, 111. 



West Virginia Timber Co., Charleston, W. Va. 



Wheeler & Co., J. W., Memphis, Tenn. 



Wisconsin Lumber Co., Chicago, 111. 



Woods Lumber Co., Memphis, Tenn. 



W.vatt Lumber Co., Gandy, La. 



Xellow Poplar Lumber Co., Coal Grove, Ohio. 



Logging Conditions Around Memphis 



The southern hardwood territory is experiencing pretty severe 

 weather at the moment. Heavy snow began falling last Saturday 

 and the ground has been covered to the depth of three to six inches 

 since that time. The ground was frozen when the snow fell 

 and the process of melting appears to bo going forward very 

 slowly. Meantime the unfavorable weather has practically put 

 a stop to work in the woods and cutting and hauling of timber 

 are almost nil in this immediate section. Fortunately most of 

 the mills have enough logs at their plants or at loading stations 

 to enable them to continue in operation, with the result that the 

 bad weather has so far forced little if any curtailment. 



An officer of the Valley Log Loading Company of Memphis is 

 authority for the statement that this firm will load approximately 

 1,700 cars of logs during the current month for mills at Memphis 

 and other points on the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley line of the . 

 Illinois Central and the Memphis-Marianna cut-off of the St. Lduia, 

 Iron Mountain & Southern. He said that the logs had already 

 been placed at loading points ready to be handled and that there 

 were enough cars in sight to insure loading of the volume indicated. 

 The same official said there were plenty of logs in sight to 

 insure operation at capacity for his firm for the next two or 

 three months. This firm loaded about 1,350 cars during December 

 so that it expects to show an increase of approximately 350 cars 

 for the current month. It is operating all of its five machines but 

 is working on a much larger scale in Mississippi than in Arkansas 

 on account of the manner in which timber is distributed for loading. 



The whole question of work in the woods at the moment 

 derives its principal interest from the fact that it has such an 

 important bearing upon the amount of timber that will be available 

 for later use. Owing to the unusual efforts put forth by owners 

 of mills and woodworking enterprises to get out logs during the 

 late summer, the entire fall and the early winter, the supply ahead 

 is considerably above the average for this time of the year. 

 However, a great number of the trade recognize that a serious inter- 

 ruption to the getting out of timber now must interfere materially 

 with manufacturing operations during the early spring. The season 

 for high water, possible flood conditions, extensive rains, sleet and 

 snow, is at hand and developments will be awaited with consider- 

 able interest by everybody identified with the hardwood trade. 



