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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The delegates from ISIempliis to the annual of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association at Chicago will, according to action taken at this 

 meeting, leave Memphis at 4 :20 on the evening of June 4 over the Illi- 

 nois Central. It is proposed to have as many delegates as possible from 

 points outside of Memphis join with the local delegation on this trip. The 

 entertainment committee will secure the names of those who will attend 

 and will also make the necessary reservations. The party will reach 

 Chicago early in the morning of the opening day. 



The chairman of the statistics committee reported that the figures 

 covering the volume of business done at Memphis during 1912 would be 

 ready for distribution by the time the National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation meets. 



A communication from the St. Louis Lumbermen's Club, apprising the 

 Lumbermen's Club of Memphis of its action in adopting resolutions favor- 

 ing a continuance of the commerce court and seriously protesting against 

 the abolition thereof, was referred to the law and insurance committee. 



All of the delegates from Memphis to the annual of the National Lumber 

 Manufacturers' Association have been invited to attend a reception at the 

 home of R. A. Long, Kansas City, on the evening of June 3. This invi- 

 tation came through Secretary Rhodes of this association and includes 

 Ihe wives and friends of the delegates as well as themselves. 



The subject of more commodious quarters for the Lumbermen's Club 

 in the building of the Business Men's Club came up for discussion. It was 

 referred to the executive board which was empowered to take such action 

 as it saw fit. 



Delegates Michigan Hardwood Association to National 

 Manufacturers' Convention 



President 1'". L. Richardson of the Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association has announced through the office of the secretary, the names 

 of the delegates and alternates who will represent that association at 

 the forthcoming meeting of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion to be held at the Hotel Baltimore, Kansas City. Mo., June 3 and 4. 

 Among the delegates and alternates are many men prominent among 

 association and lunibci- affairs in the slate of Michigan. 



Bulletin of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association 



The latest bulletin or report addressed to the board of governors of 

 the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association w'as recently issued. 

 The book reviews the fiber box case hearing at Chicago : recent track scales 

 and weighing hearing at Washington, D. C. : tells bi'iefly of recent meetings 

 of affiliated associations; gives the status of the lumber tariff discussion 

 lo date, and notice of the coming annual meeting and meetings of the 

 board of governors. 



Coining Meeting 'Veneer and Panel Manufacturers 



The National Veneer and Panel Manufacturers' Association will hold 

 its regular annual meeting at the Auditorium hotel, Chicago, on Tuesday 

 and Wednesday, June 10 and 11. The regular session will he preceded 

 by meetings of the various affiliated clubs. Secretary Howard S. Young 

 announces that there will be presented questions and addresses of con- 

 siderable importance to the veneer and panel manufacturing trade. 

 National Wholesalers File Petition on Lumber Bates on Southern 



Bailway 



The National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, through its trans- 

 portation bureau, has file<l a petition with the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission requesting the suspension pending investigation of the proposed 

 advances on the rates on lumber and forest products at stations on the 

 Southern Railway in western North Carolina territory. These tariffs 

 which have been published by the Southern Railway to become effective 

 May JtO contain a large number of increases running from one-half cent 

 to six and a half cents per hundred pounds, the average increase being 

 about two cents. 



The rates from the Ashevllle section to Norfolk. Va., on local and export 

 delivery are advanced four and a half cents per hundred pounds with 

 corresponding advances to other Virginia cities. Lumber shippers are 

 very much exercised over these proposed advances, which if permitted 

 will seriously affect every export and domestic interest. 



The National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association has taken up the 

 cause of the shippers and hopes to suspend these proposed advances until 

 such time as the shippers can be heard and a careful examination made. 



The petition argues that if the advances published in the tariff supple- 

 ment, running as stated from one-half to six and a half cents a hundred 

 pounds, are permitted to go into effect they will increase present rates 

 from five to thirty-five per cent. As an example is given the rates on 

 the Asheville division from Buena Vista, N. C, to Saluda, N. C. Here, 

 with the exception of rales to Alexandria, Va., the advance is one and a 

 half cents per hundred pounds, and the rates to Norfolk and other Vir- 

 ginia cities as published in Supplement 13, ICCA-4800 show advances 

 of four and a half cents per hundred pounds. This represents an increase 

 of $2 a thousand feet on hardwood lumber for distances averaging from 

 450 to 483 miles. It means further an increase of twenty cents per ton 

 per mile. The petition argues that such an increase is exorbitant for 

 either local or export delivery. If states further that it Is in a great 

 many eases more than the shipper's margin of profit, especially on the 

 lower grades of hardwood. 



A further argument is shown in connection with Supplement 6 to tariff 

 ICCA-5.j60, which takes Asheville. N. C, as a basis, and the advances 

 run from one-half to six and a half cents per hundred pounds, the av<'rage 



being two cents. This represents an increase for stations in group 7 of 

 from tairty-one to thirty-seven and one-half cents per hundred pounds on 

 hemlock and spruce, and thirty-two to thirty-seven and one-half cents on 

 other kinds of wood, which means an Increase on freight charges of 

 approximately $1.75 a thousand on hemlock and spruce, and $2.50 a 

 thousand on hardwood. 



The pelition further maintains that the proposed advances are discrimi- 

 natory against lumb.-r shippers, and states there is a large amount of 

 low-grade lumber shipped from this territory and sold at a low margin 

 of profit. This will be entirely wiped out if the advances become 

 effective. 



It is pointed out that any exorbitant increase in freight charges which 

 prohibits shippers from manufacturing and marketing low-grade lumber 

 would shortly act upon the carriers and decrease tonnage and effect a 

 consequent loss of revenue. Furthermore, it is pointed out that many 

 mills have already made contracts based on present rates and should the 

 new tariffs go into effect these contracts would result in an actual loss. 

 It Is stated that business has already been retarded on account of the 

 proposed advanced rates as manufacturers in that section of North Caro- 

 lina cannot figure on a competitive basis with manufacturers in other 

 territories. 



Biltmore Doings for April 



The Biltmore Forest School has just published its record of work dur- 

 ing the month of April. The school assembled the first of the month at 

 Tupper Lake in the heart of the Adlrondacks, where it remained two 

 weeks studying questions of logging, regeneration, and protection of state 

 and private forests. A great deal of this work is going on in that sec- 

 tion of the country with a view of forest conservation. Tlie work has 

 been favored by unusually good second growth regeneration on cutover 

 lands. The students visited state nurseries and plantations as well as 

 fish hatcheries maintained by the state forestry service. They also spent 

 a day with pulp, fiber and paper mills of the International Paper Com- 

 pany and later studied the operations of the Brooklyn Cooperage Com- 

 pany. On Apr. 14 the students arrived at Washington, D. C, where 

 they spent a full week. They were favored with lectures by various men 

 prominent In the Forest Service, and were shown all there is to be shown 

 in connection with the forestry work and the allied studies at Washington. 



On Apr, 21 the students arrived at Norfolk, Va., where they were the 

 guests of the J. L, Roper Lumber Company. After going over the oper- 

 ations of the Roper company at its juniper mill at tiilmerton, they had 

 a chance to see the sights of Ihe famotis harbor of Norfolk. 



On Apr. 22, the school arrived at Newbern, N. C. From there the 

 students went into the woods operations of the J. L. Roper Lumber Com- 

 pany, which concern owns 800,000 acres of coastal pine land. They went 

 through the series of modern mills operated by that concern and also 

 made a close study of second growth and conservative forestry methods 

 in vogue in the woods. The flora of North Carolina, which, next to Cali- 

 fornia, is Ihe richest in the Union, was studied closely. As the wlndup 

 to the month's work, the students visited the mill of the Roper com- 

 pany at Newbern. They left that place the last day of .\pril. en route 

 for Biltmore, N. C. 



Inspection Statement of National Hardwood Association 



The statement of inspection for April of the National llardwnod Lumber 

 Association states that the total amount of hardwood Inspected under Ihe 

 bonded certificate during that month was 12.377.404 fed. an increase over 

 April. 1912. of 1,163,804 feet. This volume of inspectiim was accom- 

 plished with expenses $531.33 in excess of the amount earned. This was 

 due largely to flood conditions at many points, which rendered it impossible 

 for inspectors situated in those districts to do anything. 



Since the letter of April 15, eighteen new applications for membership 

 have been received by the association, which brings the total number of 

 new members admitted during the year to 144. 



The bulletin contains the notation that N. W. Rice, inspector for the 

 Pittsburgh district, has resigned and been succeeded by I. O. Burdette, 

 whose address is 044 Western avenue. North Side. Pittsburgh. -Vll appli- 

 cations for inspection in that district shotild he addressed to him. 



A copy of the recommendations of the inspection rules committee for 

 changes In the inspection rules has been maili'd every member, but those 

 desiring additional copies can get them on application to the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association office at Chicago. 



New Committees of the National Wholesale Limiber Dealers' 

 Association 



The National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association has announced 

 through its office at New York the following committees for 1913-14 ; 



Executive Committee: N. H. Walcott. Providence. R. I.: (i. C. 

 Edwards, Ottawa, Ont. ; W. W. Knight, Indianapolis, Ind. : F.E.Parker. 

 Saginaw, Mich. ; B. F. Betts. Philadelphia, Pa. 



Board of MaN-^gers of Buiieac of Information: .■\. L. Stone, chair- 

 man. Cleveland, O. : C. I. Millard. Norfolk, Va. : Alexander Wlllson, Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa. ; M. E. Preisch, North Tonawanda, N. Y. : W. A. Bennett, Cin- 

 cinnati, O. : C. F. Treadway, New Haven. Conn. 



Hardwood Inspection Committee: Hugh McTjean, chairman, Buffalo, 

 N. Y. : J. L. Alcock, Baltimore, Md. : R. M. Carrier, Sardls, Miss. ; R. W. 

 Scofield. Philadelphia. Pa. : T. A. Washington, Nashville, Tenn. ; G. I. 

 Jones. Boston. Mass. ; J. W. McCIure. Memphis. Tenn. 



Special Committee on Sinoi.e Standard ITniversai. IIardwodd In- 

 spection : Lewis Dill, chairman, Baltimore, Md. ; O. O. Agler. Chicago. 

 111. : E. V. Babcock. Pittsburgh. Pa. : R. M. Carrier, Sardls, Miss. : R. H. 

 Vansant. .\shland. Ky. 



