March 25. 1917 



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material. They are expected to serve as a stimulus in tiic use ui noma 

 grown lumber. . ■-- 



Forest Protective Association Meeting 



On March 13 the Northern Forest Protective Association held Its annual 

 meeting at Marquette. This as.socintion has been at work with the fire 

 problem for six years and has acronipllshed important results. When it 

 entered the Held, forest fires were the rule ; now' they are the exception 

 in the northern peninsula. The results have been reached by awakening 

 popular sentiment to the necessity of taking care of the timber, and the 

 response has been general and effective. At the Marquette meeting the 

 following directors were elected : 



C. V. R. Townsend, Negaunee, representing the C. C. I. Co. 



P. H. Smith. Traverse City, representing the Oval Wood Dish To. 



.Tas. E. Sherman, Marquette, of the Longyear interests. 



Geo. J. Webster. Marquette, of the Charcoal Iron Company oC .Snierica. 



W. H. Johnston, Ishpeming, representing the Oliver Iron Mining Com- 

 pany. 



A. E. Miller, .Marquette, representing the J. C. Ayer Estate. 



T. A. Green, Ontonagon. 



Following the association meeting the newly elected directors organized 

 with C. V. R. Townsend as president : P. H. Smith, vice president ; Jas. E. 

 Sherman, treasurer; Thos. B. Wymau, socretary-torester. 



Temporary Suspension of Tariffs 



The Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber Association, Inc., is in receipt of a 

 decision by the Interstate Commerce Commission to suspend until July 13 

 many proposed tariffs Increasing heavily the cost of hold and diversion in 

 transit, notably on the three trunk lines to New England. The lumber- 

 men of Boston together with other trades made representations through 

 the Boston Chamber of Commerce which resulted in this refusal to apply 

 the new schedules and they will make a strong effort to have the hnal 

 determination of the question made to avoid the threatened severe reduc- 

 tion in their facilities for distribution. 



The three Massachusetts lumber associations, together with those of 

 Connecticut and Rhode Island are now taking up with the American Rail- 

 way Association and the Interstate Commerce Commission the matter of 

 the relatively great decrease in lumber shipments amounting from some 

 sections to practically complete stoppage of the industry, which they main- 

 tain after all reasonable allowances must be relieved in some degree to 

 save disastrous results to business and- labor. 



Hardwood Governors Meet 



At a meeting held in Cincinnati headquarters of the Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers' Association of the United States last week. President B. B. Burns. 

 Assistant P. R. Gadd, W. E. DeLaney, R. L. Hutchinson and E. A. Lang 

 were named as a committee to represent the association at the Chicago 

 convention of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association on April 

 3 to 5. 



Samuel B. Herndon. from the General Freight Department of the Balti- 

 more & Ohio, Southwestern, was appointed rate clerk for the association 

 by Mr. Gadd, to look after tratfic matters for the members. 



New Northern Wholesalers Organization 



The Northern Wholesale Hardwood Lumber Association is still in its in- 

 fancy, having been formed on March ItJ at Khinelander, Wis. 



C. P. Crosby. Rhinelandcr, delivered the address of welcome and talks 

 were given by R. P. Krause on "Terms of Purchase, Sales and Discounts," 

 "Relations of Wholesaler to Manufacturer," by W. D. Wheeler and George 

 W. Maxson, and one liy H. C. Humphrey entitlted "The Lumber Trade, Past, 

 I'resent and Future." 



A. E. Solie, traffic manager of the Central Traffic Bureau, spoke on the 

 subject of the reconsigning charges proposed by the railroads and present 

 demurrage charges, and discussion followed. 



The following officers were elected : 



PiiESiDEXT — H. C. Humphrey, G. W. Jones Lumber Com|iany. .\ppleton, 

 Wis. 



Vice-Presidext — C. P. Crosby. Rhinelandcr, Wis. 



Secketaev — Philip Monson, Wheeler-Timlin Lumber Company. Wausau, 

 Wis. 



Treasceek — J. B. Andrews, Gill-Andrews Lumber Company, Wausau, 

 Wis. 



Directors — X. G. Wilson, Mason-Donaldson Lumber Company, Rhine- 

 lander; T. T. Jones. Welister Lumber Company. Minneapolis, Minu. ; L. II. 

 \MieeIer, Wheeler-Timlin Lumber Company. Wausau, Wis.; H. J. Stone, 

 Kraus & Stone, Marshfield, Wis. ; F. M. Bartelme, Bartelme-Loyd Com- 

 pany, ilinneapolis, Minn. ; A. S. Pierce. Lovett-Pierce Lumber Company, 

 Rhinelander, Wis. 



A banquet in the new Oneila hotel. Rbinelander. was tendered the Visit- 

 ing lumbermen by the local lumbermen, and it was decided that the new 

 organization will hold its second mn'tiiis at Wausau. March ."0. 



A Significant Mortuary List 



The Casket Manufacturers' Association of America, has sent out a list 

 of 337 casket manufacturers who have gone to the wall during the past 

 seventeen years. The ratio of those who have fallen by the wayside to 

 those that are still in the race is enormously high. The reason for the 

 great percentage of failures Is said to be the false impression given by the 

 cost of funerals. In popular opinion the cost of the funeral is supposed 

 to consist principally of the price of the casket. People conclude that the 

 profits in casket making must be very high, and companies are organized 

 to make them. They soon discover that the casket that leaves the factory 

 represents a comparatively small part of the funeral cost, and the new 

 companies soon go out of business. According to Forest Service statis- 

 tics, the total annual purchases of lumber by casket manufacturers in the 

 United States is 153,394,557 feet. 



— Lumbermen's Luncheon 



The Lumbermen's Association of Chicago will meet at a luncheon to be 

 given at its rooms in the Lumber Exchange building, under the auspices 

 of Division D, Tuesda.v, March 27, \1:\7> p. m. The guest of honor and 

 speaker will be Capt. Bentley, Second Wisconsin Cavalry. His subject will 

 be "Personal Reminiscences of the Civil War." 



The members of the Chicago Luml>ermen's Association on March 13 

 listened to an able address on the subject of trade routes and their rela- 

 tion to wars, by Major P. B. Malone of the United States infantry service, 

 who has charge of the citizen training camp in fourteen western states. 

 The speaker discussed the connection between trade routes and war, and 

 held that one of the most potent causes of war is the change in trade 

 routes. He held that history abundantly proves that such is the case, 

 and he cited instances from two thousand years ago down to the present 

 to support the grounds on which his assertion is made. He considers that 

 the trade of South America may lead to wars, and that the United States, 

 because of its position and because of its ownership of the Panama canal, 

 cannot take a subordinate place in settling the trade questions growing 

 out of South America. 



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With the Trade 



Cooperage Plant Ready to Start 



More complete information regarding the progress of the Chickasaw Coop- 

 erage Company's plant, which is being rebuilt at Memphis, and regarding 

 the plans of this company in other directions, indicates that the finishing 

 factory at Memphis will be ready for operation shortly after April 1. and 

 that, while this will not have more than about half the capacity of the 

 one destroyed by fire, there are offsets in other localities that will make 

 up for this loss in production. The company announces, through Walker 

 Welford, general manager, that the capacity of the finishing plant at 

 Gretna, La., which has been operated for a number of years, is being dou- 

 bled and that the machinery necessary to this end is being so rapidly installed 

 that it will be ready for use in the immediate future. The company has 

 already established another rough material plant at Crowder. Miss., which 

 is in operation, ctitting staves antl heading, and it is building another at 

 Parkin, Ark. It was announced following the big fire here, which did 

 damage estimated at $350,000 to $400,000, that the company would scat- 

 ter its risk and resources to a much greater extent, instead of leaving 

 them so concentrated at Memphis, and the decision made at that time is 

 now being carried out. Mr. Welford does not think the outlook for the 

 heading and stave, or for the finished barrel is quite so good as a short 

 time ago. Demand is not quite so aggressive and while prices have not 

 shown appreciable change, they are beginning to show signs of wavering 

 slightly. 



Box Lumber Rather Scarce 



The Anderson-Tully Comp.1ny has placed its big new mill at Vicksburg, 

 Miss., in operation and it is now being worked at cjtpacit.v on single shift. 

 This firm, however, is having considerable difficulty in securing the quan- 

 tity of low-grade cottonwood and gum needed in the manufacture of 

 boxes and it is therefore planning to discontinue the use of the smaller 

 mill at Vicksburg and to place the new mill on double shift. When this 

 is done its production will be quite large. The mill has a capacity of 

 some 70,000 feet on a single shift. All of the box factories of the com- 

 pany at Memphis, Vicksburg, Miss., and Madison. Ark., are working on as 

 full time as'tlie supply of low-grade cottonwood and gum will admit. The 

 company lost between 9,000,000 and 10,000,000 feet of cottonwood and 

 gum in the yards at Vicksburg last fall and the loss of this vast amount 

 of raw material has been a serious handicap to it, especially since 

 the qnautity of low-grade cottonwood and gum offering in the 

 open market is quite small. Meantime there is a tremendous demand for 

 wooden containers of every kind, and manufacturers are able to name 

 their own terms to an unusual degree both as to prices and as to delivery. 

 It is doubtful if in the entire history of the box manutacturiug industry, 

 they have been so wholly Independent as at present. .\11 standard con- 

 tainers are wanted but perhaps the most aggressive and most inexhaustible 

 source of buying is noted in the egg case line. 



Will Manufacture Gum Panels 



Plans are rapiilly taking sba|M' for tln' lauiubing i>f Ibe Giun T'anel Com- 

 pany at .Memphis which will engage in the manufacture and distriliution 

 of linilt-np wood or veneered panels. C. B. Allen, for some years manager 

 of the built up department id' the Anderson-Tully Company, is the prime 

 movi'r in the new enterprise. Some prominent business 'men of Jlemphis 

 are interested in the company and the stock is being graduall.v placed. 

 It is planned to make application for a iharter shortly, organize the com- 

 pany and make arrangements for the necessary machinery. The new in- 

 dustry has already received the hearty endorseuK'nt of the industrial di- 

 vision of tbc Business Men's Club and Chandier of Commene. and there 

 appears no iloiilit that it will have its machinery in ojieration some time 

 this summer as most of the stock has already been sold. C. I'.. .Vllen is to 

 be president and general manager. The names of the others identified 

 with the company will be given out later. Mr. Allen has had a numbiu- 

 ot years experience in the manufacture and distribution of b\Mlt-up woods, 

 partly in Memphis and partly at points in East Tennessee. 



