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HARDWOOD RECORD 



January 25. 191T 



These gentlemen will report the result of their calls for funds at a 

 meeting of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis to be held In the ne?ir 

 future. 



This celebration is intended to commemorate the completion of the 

 new bridge of the Rock Island System across the Mississippi at Memphis. 

 This bridge will prove of vast assistance to lumber interests as well as 

 to all other business men in the handling of both their inbound and 

 outbound western traffic. 



R. L. Jurden Re-elected President Rotary Gum Association 



The following officers and directors were elected at the annual of the 

 Commerci.ll Eotary Gum Association held at Memphis January 9 : 



Phesident, R. L. Jurden, I'enrod, Jurden & McCowen, Memphis. 



Vice-President, G. W. Sparks, Des Are Veneer & Lumber Company, 

 Des Arc, Ark. 



Secbetaby-Trbasdeek, E. C. Stimson, Stimson Veneer & Lumber Com- 

 pany, Inc.. Memphis. 



Assistant Secretary, Jno. M. Pritchard, secretary of the Gum Lumber 

 Manufacturers' Association. 



Dieectors : Benjamin Lord, Chicago Veneer Company, Danville, Ky., 

 E. D. Beals, Mississippi Veneer & Lumber Company, Nunah, Wis., H. J. 

 Ingram, Stout Lumber Company, Thornton, Ark., W. B. Morgan, Morgan 

 Veneer Company, Pine BlufiE, Ark., W. E. McGehee, McGehee Veneer & 

 Lumber Company, Tuscaloosa, Ala., S. M. Bush, Southwestern Veneer 

 Company, Cotton Plant, Ark., and W. E. Tuxford, Byram Veneer & 

 Lumber Company, Byram, Miss. 



All of the officers with the exception of Mr. Sparks were re-elected 

 while all of the directors are new with the exception of the flrF?t two. 



The principal features of the meeting were the decision to continue 

 the affiliation arrangement with the Gum Lumber Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation for another year and to change the date for the quarterly 

 meetings from the second to the third Tuesday in each month in which 

 these become due. Under this plan the first quarterly meeting will be 

 held the third Tuesday in April, the second the third Tuesday in July, 

 and so on through the calendar. 



Reports made during the meeting showed the market for rotary cut 

 veneers to be in quite wholesome condition. It was shown that demand 

 is running quite up to, if not actually ahead of, supply, thus leading to 

 quite firm values. It was emphasized, however, that the advancing 

 tendency must continue if manufacturers are to secure a reasonable 

 profit because of the great advance in the cost of logs, machinery, labor 

 and everything else entering into the manufacture of this product. 



Members of the association expressed themselves as very highly pleased 

 with the affiliation arrangement with the Gum Lumber Manufacturers' 

 Association and heartily commended Jno. M. Pritchard, assistant secre- 

 tary, for the excellent work done by him and his organization in behalf 

 Of the Commercial Rotary Gum Association. 



Alluvial Land Directors Select F. E. Stonebraker 



At a meeting of the board of governors of the Southern Alluvial Land 

 Association, held at Memphis, Friday, January 19, P. E. Stonebraker, well 

 known tor years in southern lumber circles, was chosen as its secretary. 

 Mr. Stonebraker was for several years manager for the Crittenden Lumber 

 Company's operations at Earle, Ark., and latter in addition to carrying 

 on his own business at Memphis was American representative of Amedee 

 C. Franck & Co., a large Dutch lumber organization. Quarters will be 

 secured immediately in the Bank of Commerce & Trust building, Memphis, 

 and Mr. Stonebraker will take up his work on February 1. 



The association has already enrolled members owning 500,000 acres of 

 land and will start its work definitely when membership holding 1.000,000 

 acres is secured. Those already signed up have agreed to advance six 

 months* dues in order that the work may not be delayed. The assessment 

 will be two cents per acre, this to cover timbered land as well as cut-over 

 land situated in the alluvial belt of Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Ar- 

 kansas from Cape Girardeau, Mo., and Cairo, 111., down to the southern end 

 of the hardwood section. 



J. M. Pritchard is treasurer of the association and B. H. Schoffelmayer 

 of Chicago is assistant secretary. Mr. Schoffelmayer is with the agri- 

 cultural department of the Rock Island railroad and editor of the South- 

 western Trail. His experience fits him perfectly to carry on much of the 

 active field work in connection with the association. In addition to the 

 initiation fee of $2.\), the by-laws provide tor a maximum assessment of 

 five cents per acre, but it was decided at the meeting that the levy of two 

 cents would suffice. 



It is emphasized that the association is in no way a land selling organiza- 

 tion, but is designed purely for educational and development work. 



Helping to Sell Lumber 



The organization of a city association advertising campaign for every 

 important city in America where the lumber dealers can be persuaded to 

 pool their efforts for the good of the industry has been started by the 

 National Lumber Manufacturers' Association with the first steps toward 

 the drawing up of a series of display advertisements for the use of retail 

 lumber dealers' associations. One of the first points where this type of 

 lumber advertising will be attempted will be at Detroit, where the lumber- 

 men are to install a permanent exhibit with a trained forester in charge, 

 to give service of all sorts to prospective builders. 



The first of the proposed series is on the adaptability of wood, the second 

 on its being the cheapest building material, another on its susceptibility 



to handling with tools, and so on through a series of six advertisements 

 devised for a six weeks' advertising campaign. One of the advertisements 

 denies the claim that the forests of the United States are nearlng exhaus- 

 tion. Properly conserved, it is declared that there is lumber enough in 

 the country today to last for centuries. 



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With the Trade 



W. p. Brown & Sons Lumber Company Buys Penrod, Jurden 

 & McCowen Mill 



Announcement has just been made of the purchase by the W. P. Brown 

 & Sons Lumber Company of Louisville of the sawmill, lumber, logging 

 equipment, etc., of Penrod, Jurden & McCowen of Memphis, located at 

 Brasfleld, Ark. The purchase does not affect the operations of Penrod, 

 Jurden & McCowen at any other point. 



The acquisition of this mill, which is one of the most modern in the 

 South, having taken the place of the plant destroyed by fire about two 

 years ago, is of special interest on account of its relation to a tract 

 of 14,000 acres held by the Brown interests since 1910. This tract, 

 located just across the Cache river from Brasfleld, will be developed at 

 once, railway extensions already having been provided to enable the 

 timber to be reached. 



The W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company has purchased additional 

 timber on the river, and has river logging equipment, etc., so that the 

 Brasfleld operation looks good for at least ten years. The timber is In 

 the famous St. Francis basin district, and is composed of gum, white 

 and red oak, ash, elm and cypress. 



The stock of lumber at Brasfleld, which is dry and ready to ship, 

 consists of about 6.000,000 feet. Sales of this lumber, like that of all 

 the other Brown operations, will be handled through the general offices 

 at Louisville. 



The purchase of the Brasfield operation calls renewed attention to 

 the growth and importance of the Brown concern, which now has eight 

 southern mills. There are three at Fayette, Ala., one at Guin, Ala., 

 operated by the B. E. Kenuey Lumber Company, a Brown subsidiary ; 

 mills at Furth and Allport. Ark., and another at Geridge, Ark., taken 

 over recently from the Carnahan-AUport Lumber Company. 



The Kenney company recently closed its operations at Frankfort, Ky., 

 and has started manufacturing at Guin, Ala., where it will have planing- 

 mills and dry-kilns for handling short leaf yellow pine, a department 

 of the business which has assumed growing importance with the Brown 

 company. 



George C. Brown & Co. Hold Annual Meeting 

 At the annual meeting of the stockholders of George C. Brown & Co., 

 Memphis and Proctor, Ark., held at Memphis some days ago, all of the old 

 officers and directors were re-elected as follows : L. E. Brown, president ; 

 Butler Smith, vice-president ; H. B. Weiss, secretary-treasurer, and H. P. 

 Harwell, Frank Colville, Mrs. George C. Brown and W. B. Drake, directors. 

 The company made a most favorable report to its stockholders covering 

 operations during the past year and it was indicated that prospects were 

 quite favorable for the current one. George C. Brown & Co. recently an- 

 nounced very large purchases of timber lands in both Mississippi and 

 Arkansas and stated that two mills would be established for the develop- 

 ment of these timber holdings. It is understood that steps are being taken 

 looking to the construction of these plants, but no definite announcement 

 as to their location or time of erection has been made by officers of the 

 company. This firm has its headquarters in Memphis, but its principal 

 mill at present is located at Proctor, Ark. 



Penrod, Jurden & McCowen Purchase New Yards 



R. L. Jurden, president of Penrod, Jurden & McCowen, who have sold 

 their Brasfleld, Ark., mill to the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company of 

 Louisville, as reported in another item in this issue, has announced the 

 purchase of the yard and ground, consisting of twelve acres, adjoining its 

 mill at Helena, Ark., formerly owned by Upham & Agler of Chicago, and 

 later operated by the A. M. Richardson Lumber Company of Helena. 



"We are buying this ground and yard," said Mr. Jurden, "for the pur- 

 pose of. handling our increased operations at Helena, where we are produc- 

 ing about 1,000,000 feet of hardwood lumber a month. K. S. Daugherty, 

 who has been our mill manager at Brasfield. has been transferred to 

 Helena, and will have charge of our timber operations in that district. 

 H. L. Saxton, our chief inspector and yard superintendent at Brasfleld, has 

 been moved to Helena, where he will be In charge of the lumber depart- 

 ment." 



The change indicates that Penrod, Jurden & McCowen are concentrating 

 their manufacturing operations at Helena, and that their lumber business 

 there will be greatly expanded. 



WUl BuUd New Hardwood Mill 

 It is reported from Meridan, Miss., that arrangements have been com- 

 pleted for the construction of a new hardwood mill at that place, by 

 Clarence Boyle, Inc., of Chicago. C. V. Kimball is looking after the 

 details. The company is said to have secured adequate timber options. 



