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Wolflin-Luhi-ing Lumber Company, who will 

 take care o£ the financial end o£ the entertain- 

 ment. 



John K. Walker, president o£ the Lumber- 

 men's Bureau of Washington, D. C, was intro- 

 duced and he talked along the line o£ publicity. 

 Chas. Davis of the Mengel Box Company, was 

 present and talked entertainingly on the etEorts 

 and success of the Louisville Hardwood Club. 

 Mr. Davis said. '"We all work together for the 

 good of Louisville as a hardwood market. Each 

 member of the club knows of what each of the 

 other's stock consists, and if he cannot fill an 

 order, if it's in Louisville, and it nearly always 

 Is, he refers his customer to his fellow club 

 member who has the stock. We are for Louis- 

 ville all the time." 



State Senator W. B. Carleton extended an in- 

 vitation in behalf of the Press Club to the visit- 

 ing lumbermen to partake of the hospitality of 

 the club. 



The J. W. Thompson Hardwood Company 



As previously recounted in Hardwood Record, 



J. W. Thompson, formerly of Memphis, Tenn., 



has located in Chicago, with headquarters at 



J. W. TIKIMI'SON, J. W. THOMl'SON HARD- 

 WOOD COMPANY, CHICAGO. 



1332 McCormlck building. Under the title of the 

 J. W. Thompson Hardwood Company he has 

 entered into the wholesale hardwood business 

 and will specialize in southern hardwoods, with 

 which he is so familiar. 



Mr. Thompson enters the Chicago wholesale 

 lumber trade with the prestige of a long experi- 

 ence in lumber affairs, a clean record, an ex- 

 ceptional knowledge of sources of supply, and a 

 very comprehensive acquaintance with the pine 

 trade. 



Mr. Thompson had his early experience in 

 hardwood affairs in Indiana, and twenty years 

 ago went to Mississippi, and from that state 

 moved to Memphis, where he was engaged in 

 the wholesale trade for several years, and but 

 recently closed out his interests. He has been 

 Identified with the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association ever since Its organization, and for 

 some years was an official of the association. 



If bis personal popularity counts for anything 

 In the making of success, Mr. Thomp.son cer- 

 tainly Is mighty well equipped to secure a very 

 handsome business In Chicago and vicinity, since 

 his affability, courtesy and consideration to his 

 fellows are of such a character that he com- 

 mands not only the respect, but the sincere per- 

 sonal regard of hosts of hardwood producers and 

 buyers. He Is already capturing a .very hand- 

 some volume of business. 



The Veneer AFSociation 



In anticipation of the forthcoming annual 

 meeting of the National Veneer & Panel Manu- 

 facturers' Association to be held at the Audi- 

 torium hotel, Chicago, on Dec. 12-13, Secretary 

 E. H. Defebaugh has forwarded a letter, of 

 which the following is a transcript, to all mem- 

 bers of the organization : 



Chicago, Nov. 17, 1911. 

 Dear Sirs : — 



The prevailing conditions incident to the gen- 

 eral business of all lumber manufacturing lines 

 necessitate operations for the next twelve 

 months being placed on diCCerent lines than for 

 several years past. 



In the first place, there is too much capacity 

 in all wood-working lines ; raw material is too 

 accessible, and the result is that over-produc- 

 tion prevails. 



You will not doubt this statement, and I am 

 callicg your attention to it, because we are 

 going to talk about it at the annual meeting of 

 the National Veneer & Panel Manufacturers' 

 Association, to be held Dec. 12-13, at the Audi- 

 torium hotel, Chicago. 



I am going to suggest that you plan to make 

 less veneer next year, and when you sell an 

 order, be sure you have a profit on it. 



You do not do this now ; not because you do 

 not want to, but because you cannot under pre- 

 vailing conditions. Unless some concerted effort 

 is made to make less veneer in 1912, it will be 

 impossible for any man to make any money in 

 the veneer business; 



The slipshod way of determining cost and sell- 

 ing values of the past cannot prevail today, 

 because — 



First : Timber prices are extravagantly high. 

 Second : Owing to Increased waste, and de- 

 creased efHciency in labor, it is costing more 

 money to put your veneer in the warehouse. 



Third : Your selling expenses arc greater than 

 they should be, and you are having to meet 

 competition which disregards all rules of good 

 business in making prices. 



We are going to have an address at this meet- 

 ing that will tell you about a method of abso- 

 lutely determining the cost of doing business. 



A clear sky, an occasional star and a moon 

 that looks like a watermelon awakens interest 

 in any man who loves nature. 



The great white way in business has been 

 under a cloud for more than twelve months. 

 Some of the "seers" in wood-working lines seem 

 to have discovered a flash here and there, which 

 indicates 1912 is not going to be a bad business 

 year, owing to the fact that stocks of the con- 

 sumers are light and the politicians have talked 

 themselves to death ; the muck-rakers have discov- 

 ered they are on the wrong track, and the com- 

 mercial world is going to have a chance to do a 

 little business next year, notwithstanding the 

 rulings of the Department of Justice, and the 

 wet blanket the Sherman law Interpretation has 

 put on all of us. 



We want you to come to Chicago, because It 

 is for your Interest to be here. If you have a 

 sore spot that you cannot cure In your business 

 life, Just write It out and bring It to the meet- 

 ing ; put it on the blackboard, let the people dis- 

 cuss It and perhaps a remedy can be suggested. 

 We do not need to bring you In the limelight In 

 connection with any question, but we want this 

 meeting to accomplish something. If you come 

 earnestly appreciating the need of the hour, we 

 will do some things that will make 1912 more 

 profitable to every member of the association. 

 Very truly yours, 

 E. II. l)»:FKnAtjaii, Sec'y & Trcas. 



Starts Hardwood Mill 

 The Central Hardwood Company, onj.ce8 1001 

 Hlbernla building. New Orleans, La., started Us 

 new eight-foot single hand mill at Malboeuff, 

 La., on Oct. 30. It Is situated on the Lafayette- 

 Baton Rouge branch of the Southern Pacific 

 railroad and has a Iwenly-fivc-year cut of 



mixed hardwoods, and will manufacture oak, red 

 gum. ash cypress and cottonwood. 



J. Edward Crusel of New Orleans, is presi- 

 dent ; M. J. Voorhies of Saint Martinville, La., 

 vice-president and general manager ; C. J. Swan 

 of New Orleans, secretary and treasurer. The 

 board of directors includes besides the officers, 

 J. F. Clarke of Hayward & Clarke, New Or- 

 leans; A. V. Fournet of Saint Martinville, and 

 I'. Rouge of New Orleans. 



New Hardwood Company 

 The Diamond Lumber Company, manufacturer 

 and wholesaler of hardwood lunilicr. has opened 

 offices in the Union Trust building, Parkers- 

 burg, W. Va. E. M. Bonner is president and 

 general manager and William Rogers is secre- 

 tary and treasurer. This company controls 

 the output of several mills on the West 'Vir- 

 ginia and Pittsburg division of the Baltimore 

 & Ohio railroad, approximating 12.000,000 feet 

 annually, principally oak, poplar and chestnut. 

 Mr. Bonner and Mr. Rogers are lumbermen of 

 high standing and extensive experience, and 

 their many friends predict for them unbounded 

 success. 



J. T. CLELAND, MlLTlMORE LUMBER COM- 

 PANY, KNOXVILLE, TENN. 



The Miltimore Lumber Company 



One of the enterprising hardwood jobbing 

 houses of Knoxville, Tenn., Is the Miltimore 

 Lumber Company, of which J. T. Cleland Is the 

 presiding genius. Mr. Cleland has offices In the 

 Empire building, and has a very desirable busi- 

 ness, specializing chiefly in high-grade poplar. 



Growing Mexican Lumber Port 

 Notable among commercial developments of 

 Mexico are the growth and shipping Improve- 

 ments of Manzanlllo, on the west coast, the 

 door to the State of Colma, the most populous 

 and productive section of the republic. The 

 city's harbor has been greatly Improved and 

 extended by the government under the direction 

 of an American engineer and contractor, and 

 the Mexican Central railway, one of the gov- 

 ernment merger lines, has built a wharf 720 

 feet long and SO feet wide with every modern 

 facility. 



Prominent among the largo commercial enter- 

 prises of Manzanlllo arc Its lumber concerns. 

 The Collma Lumber Company, according tio 

 Richard M. Stadden, American VIce-Conaul, has 

 Invested about .$700,000 In the development of 

 Its business In Collma. This company owns 

 51,000 acres of timber land at Ccrro Grande, a 

 sawmill of 40,000 feet capacity every twelve 

 hours of work, thirty miles of main line track, 

 and four locomotives. The principal production 



