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HARDWOOD RECORD 



April 25. 1922 



Proctor, Ark. — The mill of George C. Brown & Co. 



Marianna, Ark. — Mill No. 2 of the Miller Lumber Company and 

 the shook plant of the same firm. 



Helena, Ark. — The plants of Perkins Brothers, Helena Bund 

 Mill Company, Rex Mill & Lumber Co., J. P. Buchanan and Kurz 

 Brothers. The other companies at Helena have only limited log 

 supplies and will soon be down, including the J. V. Stimson Hard- 

 wood Company, Penrod-Jurden Company, Chicago Mill & Lumber 

 Co. and the Van Briggle Veneer Company. It is estimated that 

 every one of these will be idle before May 1. 



Sardis, Miss. — Carrier Lumber & Manufacturing Company. 



Charleston, Miss. — Lamb-Fisli Hardwood Company. 



Gary, Miss., and Louise, Miss. — Bellgrade Lumber Company. 



Yazoo City, Miss. — Bayou Land & Lumber Qo. 



Belzoni, Miss. — Alexander Brothers and all companies operating 

 in that particular region. 



Vieksburg, Miss. — Double band mill Anderson-TuDy Company. 

 and the plants of the Lamb-Gary Lumber Company and Houston 

 Bros. The single band mill of the first named company is the only 

 one running at that point. 



Louisiana — Willetts, Black River Lumber Company; Merry ville. 

 Sherrill Hardwood Lumber Company; Blanks, Bomer-Blanks Lum- 

 ber Company; Wilson, Wilson & Cochran; Junks, Alexander Broth- 

 ers; Holly Ridge and Monroe, Holly Ridge Lumber Company; Win- 

 field, Mansfield Hardwood Lumber Company; Alexandria, Ferd 

 Brenner Lumber Company, and E. Sondheimer Company; Fon- 

 dale, Kellogg Lumber Company; Shreveport, E. Sondheimer Com- 

 pany; Rayville, Mengel Company and Anderson-Tully Company. 



American Hardvs/ood Institute Plan Is Adopted 

 by Committee of Nine 



After spending two days in preliminary discussion, the commit- 

 tee of nine, of which James E. Stark of Memphis is chairman, 

 late the afternoon of April 19 adopted ]ilans for organization of 

 the American Hardwood Institute, the now agency to be used for 

 the gathering of the vital statistics of the hardwood industry and 

 distributing these among both producers aud consumers. The 

 meeting was held in Memphis. 



For the present, however, nothing will be given out for publica- 

 tion beyond the mere fact that the committee of nine, appointed 

 at the recent meeting of the American Hardwood Manufacturers ' 

 Association at Louisville, Ky., has reached a decision to proceed 

 with the organization of the institute. A draft of the incorporation 

 papers will be reviewed by counsel employed by the industry, and, 

 until this is done and the attorneys are ready to make their report, 

 no other meeting will be held. 



"We are thoroughly satisfied that the plan we have adopted 

 will serve both producers and consumers of hardwood lumber and 

 at the same time meet the most rigid requirements of the govern- 

 ment in its views on trade association activities," said Chairman 

 Stark, after adjournment. "The plan is largely the one outlined 

 at the recent annual of the association at Louisville, though it is 

 changed in some respects. 



"We have decided not to make any public announcement re- 

 garding the plan until it is thoroughly reviewed by counsel and a 

 report has been made to us by the latter." 



Mr. Stark would not attempt to forecast the date of the next 

 meeting but it is understood that no time is to be lost and that 

 the plan will be put in operation at the earliest possible moment, 

 on or before July 1. 



All members of the committee of nine with the exception of two, 

 Ralph May, of Memphis, and M. W. Stark, of Columbus, C, were 

 present when the meeting was called to order Tuesday morning, 

 April 18. Three sessions were held the first day and two sessions 

 on the 19th. The greater portion of the time was spent in prelim- 

 inary discussion but the committee got down to business at the 

 concluding session and cleared the way for early institution of the 

 plan. 



Members of the committee, besides Cliairman Stark, who par- 



ticipated in the conferences, were: Ralph Jurden, Memphis; W. M. 

 Ritter. Columbus, O.; B. B. Burns, Huntington, W. Va.; F. K. 

 Conn, Yazoo City, Miss.; B. F. Dulweber, Greenwood, Miss., and 

 C. H. Sherrill, Merryville, La. 



L. C. Boyle, general counsel for the association, and L. 0. Bell, 

 of Columbus, O., also participated in the meeting. General Boyle 

 left Tuesday evening for Kansas City, while Mr. Bell remained 

 throughout the conference and offered much valuable assistance. 



R. M. Carrier, president of the American Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers' Association, John M. Pritchard, secretary-manager, and 

 F. R. Gadd, manager of statistics, also attended all of the sessions 

 and took part in the deliberations. 



The sessions were characterized by the finest sort of spirit. Har- 

 mony prevailed throughout. The committee, the attorneys and the 

 other officials who took part had a big work to do and they tackled 

 the problem with the determination to solve it as quickly as pos- 

 sible. The emphatic statement made by Chairman Stark indicates 

 that it was successful. 



Sales Code Conference Will Usher in Twenty- 

 fifth Annual of National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association 



The consideration of a Sales Code for the hardwood lumber pro- 

 ducing and consuming industries, which has been going on for many 

 months under the leadership of Earl Palmer, chairman of the Sales 

 (?ode Committee of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, 

 will culminate in a large conference of lumbermen and lumber con- 

 sumers at Chicago in the Drake Hotel at 2 p. ni., June 21, which 

 is the day before the opening of the twenty-fifth annual convention 

 of the National in the Congress Hotel. 



Invitations will be sent to all organizations of lumbermen and 

 lumber consumers with which the chairman of the Sales Code Com- 

 mittee ha.s been in correspondence to send a committee of five or 

 not less than three to attend the conference. A number of the 

 furniture and woodworking associations, as well as state and local 

 lumbermen 's clubs, to whom this plan has been suggested, have 

 announced their willingness and desire to send a committee to this 

 conference, and in all instances the chairman of the Sales Code 

 Committee will request that the secretary of the association be 

 one of the committee. 



The call will also carry witli it an earnest and very cordial invi- 

 tation to all of the organization's delegates to attend the annual 

 convention on the two following days and be the association's 

 guests at the banquet and dinner to be given on the evenings of 

 .Tune 22 and 2.'? respectively, and also to attend all business sessions 

 of the convi'Mtiou. 



Indications are that there will be an attendance at the confer- 

 ence of about 125 and visiting delegates to the sales code confer- 

 ence will lie guests of the National Hardwood Lumber Association 

 at a dinner given in their honor at the Drake Hotel Wednesday 

 evening, .June 21. 



All concerned can rest assured that this association is not going 

 to adopt any Sales Code that is not fair and practicable to every 

 branch of the hardwood lumber industry, producer, distributor 

 and consumer alike. 



South Bend Hardwood Club Meets 



The South Bend H.Trdwood Club licld its rcmiLtr luncheim .tud business 

 meetins Mdnday. April 17. ('. C. Shafcr recimiiiipniled that the club take 

 action looking toward the preservation of the hardwood groves adjacent 

 to South Rend, to be established as a count.v or state preser\'e. The mat- 

 ter was favorabl.v discussed and a committee appointi'd to secure infor- 

 mation and formulate a plan of action. 



The Steele List romuiittee reported that the initial issue of "Scnith lU-nd 

 Stocl< I>ist" would lie ready for distribution on or about Ma.v 1. 



X discussion of business conditions Iirought out an almost nnsininious 

 report that the volume and general tone of business was better than for 

 sonic time past aud all look for continued steady iniproveiiient — the onl.v 

 unfavorable factor being tlin serious flood ctmditions tbroughont the Missis- 

 sippi Valley, 



