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Association. An automobile ride and banquet will bo provided for the 

 attendants of the congress by the Inland Empire lumbermen. 



On Friday, September 26, a special Northern Pacific train will carry 

 the delegates to Elk River. Idaho, a distance of about 150 miles. They 

 will spend Saturday morning there witnessing the electrical and endless 

 chain system of logging utilized successfully by the Tot latch Lumber 

 Company, and also in viewing the electrically driven sawmill of that 

 company at Elk River and 'the plant at I'otlatch. Idaho. 



The congress will be the guest of the Potlatch Lumber Company, and 

 every endeavor will be made by Manager A. W. Laird ta insure the 

 pleasure of those who make this interesting trip. It is planned to 

 return to Spokane arriving Saturday evening. 



The program which is being planned will deal largely with the utili- 

 zation of electricity in logging operations, the endless chain system of 

 logging, ihe burning of fuel oil. welfare work in camp as well as many 

 other interesting topics. 



The railroads have made reduced rates on tl^e certificate plan, and 

 it is expected that there will be a very large attendance from British 

 Columbia and the northwestern states. 



Philadelphians Play Golf 

 The Philadelphia Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, through the 

 courtesy of J. "W. Turnbull of J. W. Turnbull Lumber Company, held its 

 summer outing and meeting at the White Marsh Valley Country club 

 house on July 10. Ten of the members of the association, who are 

 ardent devotees of the fascinating golf, arrived on the grounds at 1 :30 

 p. m.. and speedily got into shape for their favorite sport. The rest of 

 the members, which brought the total up to twenty-four, arrived in time 

 for dinner at 6 :30 p. m.. after which the regular monthly meeting was 

 held, the proceedings of which, however, were not given out for pub- 

 licity. The day was an ideal one and spent in such a delightful rural 

 spot was a hot weather outing enjoyed to the full by all. 



Hoo-Hoo Plans Annual 



The Concatenated Order of Hoo Hoo will hold its twenty-second an- 

 nual meeting at the Planters hotel, St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 9, 10 and 11. 

 Judging from statements of the various committees in charge of the 

 arrangements, the meeting will be the best on record. Besides the at- 

 tractive arrangements for entertainment, it is promised that many im- 

 portant topics will come up for discussion. A number of changes of 

 considerable importance will be proposed in the constitution and by- 

 laws and for this reason it is urged that a particularly large represen- 

 tation of the membership be in attendance. Those in charge make a 

 special request that memlxrs who cannot be present write to that effect, 

 addressing their letters to Frank W. Trower, San Francisco. Cal. : to any 

 member of the Supreme Nine, or to any vicegerent snark. 



Following is the entertainment committee, which will have charge of 

 all the entertainment features : 



T. C. Whitmarsh, Julius Seidel. J. E. Mink, William Lothman Jr., 

 R. B. McConnell. C. H. Coyle. Joseph Rankin. C. E. Thomas, and J. F. 

 Judd. all of St. Louis. 



Philadelphia Lumbermen on Atlantic Deep Waterways 



The Atlantic deep waterways committee of the Lumbermen's Exchange 

 of Philadelphia has returned to the exchange its report on that important 

 subject. The report states that the committee participated in the cele- 

 bration of the completion of the twelve-foot Delaware river channel 

 between Philadelphia and Trenton. N. J. It describes the trip, which 

 evidenced many expressions of enthusiasm all along the way. The arrival 

 at Trenton was heralded by the firing of cannon and a reception by a 

 large delegation of enthusiastic citizens. 



The report states that the committee was profoundly impressed by the 

 completion of one of the links of the intracoastal waterway chain. This 

 project provides for the attainment and maintenance of a channel twelve 

 feet deep at mean low water, and two hundred feet wide, from Philadel- 

 phia to Trenton, a distance of thirty miles. 



The project when completed will connect the Delaware river with New 

 York Bay, by way of Raritan Bay and the Staten Island Kills. By 

 authority of Congress, the engineer corps of the United States army has 

 completed surveys for a canal for a distance of about thirty-three and a 

 half miles across New Jersey. This canal will take the place of the old 

 Delaware and Raritan canal. 



The connection between Philadelphia and Baltimore, and between the 

 Delaware river and Chesapeake Bay in general, is a link in the intra- 

 coastal chain advocated by the Atlantic Deep Waterways Association. 



The Delaware river furnishes free navigation l>etwpen Philadelphia and 

 Delaware City. Congress has authorized surveys for free waterways 

 connecting the Delaware river with the Chesapeake Bay, and a favorable 

 report has been made for the purchase of the existing Chesapeake and 

 Delaware canal. 



The connection between the Chesapeake Bay and the North Carolina 

 Sound is provided by the Chesapeake and Albemarle canal. Tliis canal 

 was purchased by the sovernmcnt after favorable eni^ineers' reports. 



The Beaufort Cut. a short canal connecting Beaufort. N. C. with the 

 waters of Pamlico Sound, has been completed by the government and is 

 now open to free navigation. 



The completion of the upper Delaware channel and the purchase and 



opening of the Chesapeake and Albemarle canal mark two very important 

 forward steps towards the intracoastal chain. 



The inside route from Boston to Beaufort, N. C, will have 104 miles of 

 canals and will save 740 miles of outside sailing, thus avoiding the 

 dangers of Cape Cod. the shoals of the New Jersey coast, and the dangers 

 of Cape Ilatteras. It is estimated that 1,000 disasters to shipping have 

 occurred around Cape Cod alone in twenty years, and between 1900 and 

 1910 there were 5,700 disasters in the coastwise open sea route, entailing 

 a tremendous loss of lives and property. 



Lumbermen and Paint Men to Meet in the Interests of Fireproofing 



The latest circular issued by Secretary J. E. Rhodes of the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association, in commenting on the recent ordi- 

 nance passed by the city of Birmingham. Ala., forbidding the use of 

 wooden shingles, states that it is the opinion of the lumber trade that 

 it is useless to attempt to secure an annulment of that ordinance, as 

 various other cities throughout the country are taking up the same mat- 

 ter, and the results would not be permanent. Instead it is proposed to 

 approach the matter from a different angle, and the report announces 

 that a conference is being arranged between the Paint Manufacturers' 

 Association of the United States and representative lumbermen with 

 the idea of arranging for the production of a fire retarding paint or 

 compound which will soil practically at the price of ordinary paint, and 

 which can lie readily applied by the average householder. 



It is well recognized that if a method can be devised for fireproofing 

 wood, this fact together with other marked advantages which are in- 

 herent in wood as building material will place it far ahead of all sub- 

 stitutes. Various authorities have already stated that the fireproofing 

 of shingles and wood structures will make their use satisfactory if the 

 use of unprotected wood is prohibited. 



New Detroit Hardwood Club 



According to an announcement just received from Detroit the hard- 

 wood lumbermen of that city have organized the Detroit Hardwood Club. 

 The members represented up to the present time are : J. P. Scranton. W. 

 L. Brownlee. J. Ralph Sicklesteel, George I. McClure, J. M. Clifford. C. W. 

 Leech, E. W. Leech. J. M. Butcher and H. C. Dow. The first four gen- 

 tlemen named are the president, vice-president, treasurer and secretary, 

 respectively. 



The object of this organization will be the establishment of closer 

 relations between the various members of the Detroit trade in their busi- 

 ness dealings, and also closer relations with the hardwood lumber con- 

 sumers in the city. A credit bureau will be established for the benefit 

 of the club members, and it is expected that many other ideas will be 

 developed that will prove of great value to the hardwood trade in general. 



An Unusual Campaign 



The Southern Cypress Manufacturers' Association has just issued in 

 connection with its general • campaign advertising cypress, a rather 

 remarkable series of booklets, each of which covers some particular 

 purpose for which cypress is well adapted. The booklets contain all 

 neeessary information on the different subjects and most of them con- 

 tain plans and details showing just how the work should be carried out. 

 The pamphlets cover sun parlors and balconies, bungalows, canoes and 

 boats, trellises and arliors. shingle houses, pergolas, farm needs, interior 

 trim, exterior (rim. siding, tanks and silos and barns. In addition, 

 other booklets describe Sugi effects, short cuts to good carpentry on the 

 farm, common mistakes in bungalow building, and various other interest- 

 ing and instructive information. 



With the Trade 



Russe & Burgess, Inc., Start Reconstruction 

 Russe & P.iir.L'c'ss. Inc., beiian tiMving down their old mill in North 

 Memphis this week and the timbers for the new plant are now being 

 placed. The new mill, which will be of the band variety, will be 

 equipped with a Mcrshon resaw and the capacity will be in excess of 

 30.0110 feet of lumber per day. It is estimated that it will take several 

 months to complete the plant, and the firm has made arrangements with 

 Gibson & Whitaker to saw its logs in the meantime. The machinery 

 has already been ordered and will be delivered as rapidly as the timbers 

 therefor have made its installation possible. Russe & Burgess, Inc., are 

 engaged in the manufacture of hardwood lumber and make a specialty 

 of export business. They maintain offices in London. 



Cobbs & Mitchell Improve Factory 

 Extensive improvements are in progress at the big maple flooring plant 

 of Cobbs & Mitchell. Inc., Cadillac. Mich. It is further planned to 

 make several other improvements when the plant is shut down for its 

 annual repairs at an early date. Cement foundations are being placed 

 under the larger part of the mill in place of the wooden piling that has 

 been there since the mill was erected. Two more large dry kilns are 

 being put in which will be the most modern and efficient that can be built. 

 They will be 150x40 feet in dimensions. Three new boilers will be 

 installed in connection with the other improvements. 



