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HARDWOOD RECORD 



June 2.J. 1922 



Hardwood Manufacturers^ Instit 



Organization Intended to Unite Regional Groups Into Compact 



National Body; Committed to Hoover Conference Program, 



with Grade-Marking and Scientific Inspection System 



The Harjwood Manufacturers' Institute was launched at Louis- 

 ville, Ky., on June 15 and 16, to back the Hoover program and in 

 defense of standardization of hardwood lumber products, under 

 the plan whereby the manufacturer shall grade and mark his lumber 

 as the producer, thus insuring the consumer that which he buys 

 and pays for, in this way defeating unfair methods and forcing all 

 selling agencies to sell under inspection rules and grading that 

 will insure the consumer a fair and honest deal. The new organiza- 

 tion succeeds the American Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, 

 and the proposed American Hardwood Manufacturers ' Institute. 

 It starts off with a membership composed of seventy-four of the 

 more prominent manufacturers of hardwood lumber, including a 

 number of the largest concerns in the country, and represents mills 

 in a total of eighteen states and with a total annual cut of one and 

 one-half billion feet of hardwoods. 



The plan as outlined backs the Hoover conference throughout, 

 and while there are still many details to be worked out, the organ- 

 ization will develop these matters as rapidly as possible. For the 

 time being business will be done under the grading rules of the 

 American Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, 



The organization will adopt new grading rules and will arrange 

 for inspection service, open to anyone and everyone, upon the same 

 basis. 



Considering the fact that, including newspaper men, speakers, 

 etc., there were but a few more than 100 registered at the meeting, 

 the membership of seventy-four concerns to start with, representing 

 an annual production of 1,500,000,000 feet, is a very auspicious be- 

 ginning. Added to this is 300,000,000 feet of lumber annually, au- 

 thorized through C. H. Sherrill, to be signed up, but which will not 

 he included until cards are signed by the individual mills. There is 

 a guaranteed membership of something over 100 members to start 

 with, considering a number of concerns which had previously 

 agreed with delegates attending the meeting to join in. In addi- 



tion, a large number of northern hardwood men are expected to 

 join, especially Michigan ^nd Wisconsin operators. 

 Headquarters in Chicago 

 Permanent headquarters of the new organization are to be estab- 

 lished at Chicago, that matter having been decided at a meeting of 

 the board of directors, to which it was left by the convention, 

 after several had spoken favorably for Chicago headquarters, as 

 being more central for the manufacturers of the entire United 

 States. 



Officers of the new association as elected, constituted the full 

 recommendation of the nominating committee, W. R. Satterfield, 

 Chairman, there having been no change made: 



President — C. H. Sherrill, Sherrill Hardwood Lumber 



Company, New Orleans, La. 

 First Vice-President— W. M. Ritter, W. M. Ritter Lumber 



Company, Columbus, Ohio. 

 Second Vice-President — E. B. Norman, Holly Ridge Lumber 



Company, Louisville, Ky. 

 Treasurer — C. M. Kellogg, Kellogg Lumber Company, Mem- 

 phis, Tenn. 



Directors for Three Years 

 B. B. Burns, C. L. Ritter Lumber Company, Huntington, 

 W. Va. 

 Jas. E. Stark, Jas. E. Stark & Co., Inc., Memphis, Tenn. 

 Leon Isaacsen, Yellow Poplar Lumber Company, New York, 

 N. Y. 



R. M. Carrier, Carrier Lumber & Manufacturing Company, 

 Sardis, Miss. 



B. F. Dulweber, Kraetzer Cured Lumber Company, Green- 

 wood, Miss. 



W. E. DeLaney, Kentucky Lumber Company, Lexington, 

 Ky. 

 W. T. Murray, Tremont Lumber Company, BocheUe, La. 



W. M. Ritter, First Vice-President 



E. B. Norman, Second Vice-President 



J. M. Pritchard. Secretary 



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