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HARDWOOD RECORD 



August 10, 1922 



Southern Hardwood Traffic Association Opens Chicago Office 



The Southern Hardwood 

 Traffic Association now 

 has district offices at 1933 

 Conway building. Chicago. 

 These were opened Aug- 

 ust 1 and they are in 

 charge of W. E. Wherity 

 as manager. The latter 

 has had fourteen years 

 continuous service with 

 one of the principal Chi- 

 cago trunk lines and three 

 years commercial expe- 

 rience and is rated as one 

 of the best men in his line 

 north of the Ohio river. 

 The Chicago offices make 

 the seventh for this or- 

 ganization. The others, 

 in the order in which 

 they were opened, are: 

 Helena. Ark., Louisville. 

 Ky., New- Orleans, La., 

 Memphis, Tenn., Cincin- 

 nati. O., Washington, D. 

 C, and Mobile, Ala. The 

 first opened by the asso- 

 ciation were the general 

 offices at Memphis, but 

 later district offices were 

 created at this point. 



J. H. Townshend, sec- 

 retary-manager, says that 

 the entrance of the Gen- 

 eral Bo.x Company into 

 membership in the asso- 

 ciation and the assistance rendered by Al Wilson, secretary of the 

 Four-One iBox Association, made tlie opening of the Chicago offices 

 possible. 



New Orleans Club Goes on Picnic 

 The New Orleans Lumbermen's Club staged a big outing and pic- 

 nic at Little Woods on Saturday, July 29. The event was so successful, 

 more than 160 lumbermen, their wives, daughters and friends attend- 

 ing, that it was decided to make the event annual. The picnickers 

 motored out to the place from the club headquarters at Union and 

 Carondelet streets leaving at 8:30 a. m. and remaining until late in 

 the evening. Various kinds of amusements were enjoyed, including 

 dancing, boating and swimming. 



The New Orleans Lumbermen's Club voted at its last weekly luncheon 

 not to hold any more Tuesday noon weekly luncheon -meetings until 

 September. 



W. E. Wherity 



With the Trade 



Indiana Commission Pleads for Lower Log Rates 



Testimony calculated to show that freight rates ou logs in Indiana are 

 in many cases twice as high as those in other states, thus discriminating 

 against the loggers and lumbermen of the state, was introduced the week 

 of July 9 by representatives of the Indiana public service commisslun lie- 

 fore John McChord, representing the Interstate Commerce Commission, 

 at a hearing in the federal building at Indianapolis. 



The hearing was called following the tiling of a petition by the public 

 service commission before the I. C. C. asking that the discriminatory 

 rates in this state be lowered so that hardwood niauufactiu-ers and lum- 

 bermen may be enabled to compete with those of other states. 



Evidence introduced by the public ser^'lce commission, assisted by the 

 manufacturers of the state, is intended to show the high freight rates in 

 this state make it impossible for lumbermen here to ship to Indiana manu- 

 facturers and that it is cheaper for the manufacturer in Indiana to pur- 

 chase his logs or timber in other states, having them shipped here. 



Representatives of the railroads operating in Indiana testified that a 

 change in the present rates would break down a rate-making structure 

 which has been in force for more tlfan a generation and the effect of any 

 attempt to change rates prevailing in Indiana would be nation-wide. Evi- 

 dence presented tended to show that combination rates, resulting favorably 

 to Illinois shippers and the reverse tor those of Indiana and other states 

 east of the Missouri river, have grown up through the fact Chicago is a 

 terminal point for eastern and western railroads and that different rates 

 prevail for the eastern and western roads. Thus, Illinois shippers pay a 

 through rate to Missouri river points, and Indiana shippers pay the east- 



ern rate added to the western rate. Railroad authorities assert the rates 

 have grown up through the competition of privately owned railroads and 

 they can not bo altered to meet the needs of Indiana shippers. 



Representatives of many of the Missouri river cities attended the hear- 

 ing, in order to prevent any increase in rates between those points and 

 Illinois, it was said. Railroads represented by attorneys who examined 

 witnesses at the hearing were : Chicago & Northwestern ; Chicago. Rock 

 Island & Pacific; New York Central; Pennsylvania system, and the Chi- 

 cago, Burlington & Quincy. A. B. Cronk, rate expert for the Indiana pub- 

 lic service commission, represented that body. 



The contest for the removal of discriminatory rates has been carried ou 

 since 191.3, ■when a similar petition was introduced before the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission by the Indianapolis freight bureau. The case was 

 dismissed by the commission on a theory which is said to have been 

 i-eversed recently when "through rates" were granted to Indiana shippers 

 to St. Paul and Minneapolis. It is on a basis of this latter decision that 

 the present petition is based. The public service commission also demands 

 the removal of discriminatory freight rates on automobiles, furniture, 

 kitchen caliinets and agricultural implements. 



Cloud Prepares to Cut Hardwoods and Pine 



.1. V. Cloud, proprietor of the Dixie Lumber & Land Co.. of Vicks- 

 burg. Miss., has just closed a deal for a 2,500 acre tract of hardwood 

 and pine timber and a saw mill at Elliott, Miss. The company will 

 begin operations at once, and the office will be transferred from 

 Vicksburg to Elliott. 



Giffen Retires Because of 111 Health 



Because of ill health S. E, Giffen has disposed of hia interest in 

 the Fagin-Giffen Lumber Company to his partner Harry W. Fagin. 

 The firm name has been changed to the Fagin Lumber Company. 

 Mr. Giffen had been in charge of the Cincinnati office since the 

 company was organized ten years ago. Several months ago, Mr. 

 Giffen suffered a nervous breakdown. At present he is residing with 

 his brother at Wheeling, W. 'Va. In letters to several Cincinnati 

 lumbermen recently, Mr. Giffen expressed the opinion that in the 

 event he fully regains his health he will return to Cincinnati and' 

 engage in the lumber business for himself. 



King of Italy Decorates Nelson C. Brown 



Word has been received at the New York State College of Forestry that 

 Nelson C. Brown, head of the Utilization Department, has been decorated 

 by the King of Italy for his services in connection with forestry work 

 during the war. 



Lumber Prospects Never Brighter, Says R. A. Long 



'"Statistically speaking, I do not think I liave ever seen a period when 

 the permanent outlook for the lumber industry W'as more promising 

 than that which now prevails," said R. A. Long, chairman of the Board 

 of the Long-Bell Lumber Company in a statement made to the press 

 recently. Mr. Long pointed out that underproduction during and since 

 the -war and an unusual demand for residential building released since 

 the removal of w-ar restrictions, are responsible for the consumption of 

 all the lumber produced during the last two years. 



"As a result of the restrictions against building for other than war 

 purposes." Mr. Long continued, "practically all cities in this country 

 were underhoused at the close of the war and are underhoused today. 

 Since it would require some twelve years of work at 25 per cent above 

 normal to make up the country-wide housing shortage it is clearly 

 evident that the demand for lumber certainly should increase rather 

 than fall oft. 



"In addition, there is the demand for the railroad material which has 

 been better during the last few months than for a long while — and this 

 demand still is increasing. Then, too, general conditions are better now 

 tlian they have been for some time. 



"On the other hand little has been done as yet by producers to cope 

 with the present and prospective demand for lumber. A saw mill of any 

 great producing capacity cannot be erected and put into operation in 

 much less than a year to eighteen months. As there are no new saw 

 mills of consequence under construction, stocks of lumber in the hands 

 of retailers and at the source of production are below normal. In the 

 next few years at least, this situation is apt to become more ratbei 

 than less accentuated. 



Sam Thompson Again Knows the Pride of Fatherhood 



-V daughter. Miss Louise Le Master Thompson, was born to Mr. aufl 

 Mrs. Sam A. Thompson of Memphis on the morning of July 21. The bahy 

 weighed eight pounds and is said to have arrived equipped with a fine set 

 of lungs, which she understood how to operate from the ver.v start. Mr. 

 and Mrs. Thompson are being congratulated upon the fact that the baby 

 bears only a slight resemblance to her father. The Thompsons also have a 

 liaby son. Mr. Thompson is sales manager of the Anderson-Tully Company. 

 Memphis. 



Opportunity Limited for Sale of Hardwoods in Italy 



Commercial .\ttaelie II. C. MacLean, Rome, reports that the opportunity 

 fer the sale of American hardwoods in Italy appears to be decidedly limited. 

 Red gum for furniture making and oak for hardwood flooring, especially 

 till former, were Imported in considerable quantities before the war, but 

 whii. they are favorably known, the present demand is limited by the high 

 pri, e.- and the unfavorable rate of exchange. It can not be snid that 

 othei- American hardwoods have ever been introduced into Italy, and the 

 pres>\jt < nnditions are decidedly unfavorable for making any such attempt. 



