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HARDWOOD RECORD 



May 25, 1922 



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 association liad necessarily been held up by the adverse Supreme 

 Court decision, and that they were now endeavoring to put them- 

 selves in full accord with the law as judicially interpreted and to 

 obtain public endorsement of their bona fides. He said his associa- 

 tion was using the rules of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation, with which they were in complete harmony. These rules 

 were simple, but there was room for improvement. 



W. L. Saunders of Cadillac, Mich., speaking for the Michigan 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, expressed the opinion that 

 hardwood grades are now well defined and recognized and that 

 dimensions are necessarily determined by the demand and the log. 



Horace F. Taylor of Buffalo said that he thought the hardwood 

 men had already gone a long way toward general standardization, 

 as 95 per cent of their product was in accordance with the rules 

 and specifications of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, 

 and that at its June meeting his association would undertake to 

 standardize selling as to terms and practices, and would fall in 

 line for grade marking if generally decided upon. 



Southern Millmen Form Huge Corporation to 

 Export Red Gum Lumber and Veneers 



Kepresentatives of 24 firms, controlling 500,000 acres of timber 

 lands and operating fifty band mills in the southern alluvial 

 region of the lower Mississippi valley, met in Memphis May 18, 

 and organized the Delta Lumber Export Corporation under the 

 Webb-Pomerene act to push the sale of gum lumber and veneers 

 in overseas markets. Charter for the company, taken out under 

 the laws of Delaware and carrying a capital stock of $500,000, was 

 received in Memphis Monday. 



E. L. Jurden, of the Penrod-Jurden Company, Memphis, was 

 elected president; H. J. Hackney, first vice-president; W. E. Sat- 

 terfield, second vice-president; W. B. Chapman, secretary, and W. E. 

 Hyde, treasurer. 



These officers, with James E. Stark, S. M. Nickey, E. C. Stimson, 

 E. B. Norman and Sam Thompson, constitute the executive com- 

 mittee. They are also members of the governing board. The fol- 

 lowing, however, were also elected as members of the board: Mark 

 H.. Brown, J. F. Mclntyre, W. A. Eansom, H. B. Weiss, Max Miller, 

 J. G. Brown, Fred K. Conn, W. H. Howe, M. Neely, E. M. Carrier, 

 Joseph Newburger and William I. Barr. 



Mr. Jur«ien has agreed to divide his time between the affairs 

 of the corporation and those of his own firm. 



Headquarters of the corporation are at 1336-37-38 Bank of 

 Commerce building, Memphis. 



The corporation plans to launch an immediate aggressive cam- 

 paign for the sale of gum lumber and veneers in overseas markets. 

 Oscar Peschardt, Copenhagen, Denmark, has already been chosen 

 as continental sales manager, while A. Antoniou has been selected 

 as sales representative for the United Kingdom. He will open 

 ofBees in London at once. Other agents will be chosen as rapidly 

 as possible. 



Those interested in the new company are: 



Mark H. Brown Lumber Company, Brown & Hackney, Inc., Gay- 

 oso Lumber Company, George C. Brown & Company, Nickey Bros., 

 Lac; James E. Stark & Company, Inc.; Chapman Dewey Lumber 

 Company, May Brothers, Anderson-TuUy Company, Penrod-Jurden 

 Company, Stimson Veneer & Lumber Company, and Delta Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company, all of Memphis; J. F. Mclntyre & Sons 

 Company, Pine Bluff, Ark.; Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company. 

 Chicago and Memphis; Miller Lumber Company, Marianna, Ark.: 

 Holly Eidge Lumber Company, Louisville, Ky.; W. P. Brown & 

 Sons Lumber Company, Louisville, Ky.; Bayou Land & Lumber 

 Company, Yazoo City, Miss.; Howe Lumber Company, Helena, 

 Ark.; Howe-Neely Lumber Company, Helena, Ark.; J. V. Stimson 

 Hardwood Company, Huntingburg, Ind.; Carrier Lumber & Manu- 

 facturing Company, Sardis, Miss.; Barr-Holaday Lumber Company, 

 Louise, Miss. 



National's Silver Anniversary Program An- 

 nounced; Record-Smashing Attendance 

 Indicated 



With the date (June 22 and 23) of the twenty-fifth annual, or 

 "Silver Anniversary," convention of the National Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Association but a month away, the indications are clear that it 

 is going to be the greatest trade convention in the history of the 

 industry. The unprecedented interest being shown not only in the 

 hardwood lumber industrj', but by the members of the many indus- 

 tries using hardwoods promises a smashing of all records in the 

 matter of attendance. The Sales Code proposition alone is expected 

 to bring out a record-breaking number of hardwood buyers and 

 consumers. Besides this important business the program is such as 

 to attract the widest attention. On the afternoon of June 22, the 

 first day of the convention, the Hon. Henry J. Allen, governor of 

 Kansas, will deliver an address, and he wrill be followed by Herbert 

 C. Hoover, secretary of commerce. On that same afternoon Axel H. 

 Oxholm, chief of the lumber division, Department of Commerce, 

 will address the convention. 



On the morning of June 22 the convention will be called to order 

 by Horace F. Taylor, president, who will deliver his annual address. 

 The report of Frank F. Fish, secretary-treasurer, will then follow. 



On June 23, the second and last day, the report of committees on 

 officers' reports will be delivered as will also the report of Charles 

 N. Perrin, chairman of the Inspection Eules Committee. 



In the afternoon of this day the important Sales Code proposition 

 will be carried to the floor of the convention when Earl Palmer, 

 chairman of the Sales Code Committee, will read the report of the 

 committee. 



After this report has been made it will be open for discussion and 

 following the discussion and disposal of the question, the convention 

 will proceed to hear the report of the resolutions committee and to 

 elect officers and directors for the ensuing year. 



In the evening of each of the two days of the convention the as- 

 sociation will provide elaborate entertainment for the members and 

 their guests. Thursday evening, June 22, the association will 

 tender a complimentary banquet and select entertainment in the 

 Gold Eoom, Congress Hotel, to members and invited guests. The 

 dinner will begin at 7 o'clock. In the same room at 7 o'clock the 

 next evening, June 23, the association will give a dinner and smoker 

 whh music and vaudeville. 



The convention will be held in Chicago at the Congress Hotel and 

 Secretary-Treasurer Fish wants to impress upon the members the 

 fact that the entire program, both business and entertainment, will 

 be conducted on daylight saving time. He urges the members to 

 regulate their watches accordingly and be on time. 



Delta Floods Subsiding; Conditions Yet Un- 

 favorable for Hardwood Production 



Mississippi Eiver is falling rapidly from Cairo, 111., south to 

 Greenville, Miss., and it is falling slowly from that point south to 

 New Orleans. The fall above Greenville has been more rapid than 

 expected, but, south of Greenville, where the heavier holdings of 

 hardwood timber are located, the rate of fall has thus far proven 

 extremely slow. But, even so, the feeling appears to be quite gen- 

 eral that the end of flood conditions is definitely in sight and that 

 the greatest flood in the history of the lower Mississippi Valley 

 will soon be a thing of the past. 



This does not mean, however, that there is to be immediate re- 

 sumjition of hardwood logging or manufacturing operations. Owing 

 to the rapid fall in the territory tributary to Memphis, logging will 

 be generally resumed within the next ten days to two weeks. But in 

 the area below Greenville, it will be at least three to four weeks be- 

 fore the lowlands will be dry enough to admit of logging operations. 

 Indeed, manufacturers in Memphis, with timber holdings in southern 

 Mississippi, southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana, agree that 

 tliey will be fortunate if they are able to secure enough logs by 



