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HARDWOOD RECORD 



October 10, 1922 



(Continued from page 18) 

 •will act in an advisory and consulting capacity to the Central Com- 

 mittee, the members of which plan to meet frequently aad give 

 much personal attention to the progress of the work. 



The committee will have its central office in Washington, and 

 will make use of the machinery of the National Lumber Manu- 

 facturers' Association and its member bodies in carrying on its 

 work. It is expected that the committee will also avail itself of 

 the technical and administrative facilities and standardization 

 committees of all the interested associations, in crystallizing the 

 principles and details of standardization and simplification, and will 

 thus be able to effect its purposes in intimate contact with the 

 industry and without setting up any elaborate new executive 

 machinery. But the committee plans to pursue its course inde- 

 pendently of any existing association or other organization in the 

 lumber industry. The technical side of the standardization and 

 simplification will be very largely guided by the Forest Service of 

 the Department of Agriculture, which will be adequately repre- 

 sented on the technical committee. 



The committee, under the resolution creating it, adopted by the 

 lumber industry conference in Chicago last July, has authority to 

 enlarge its membership, and may avail itself of that right later on. 



In the nex: two days the committee plans to agree upon the 

 broad general bases of simplified grades and dimensions, and 

 authoritative certification of quality and quantity of lumber. 



Mahogany Lumber Prices Advance With 

 Imposition of Duty on Logs 



One of the first practical reactions of the lumber industry to 

 Schedule 4, the "Wood and Manufacturers of" schedule of the 

 new tariff measure, the Fordney-McCumber bill, signed by the 

 President on Friday, September 22, is an estimated average advance 

 of some $10 a thousand on mahogany lumber. Mahogany logs en- 

 tered duty free under the Underwood-Simmons tariff measure, which 

 was repealed by the Fordney-McGumber bill, which places an ad 

 valorem duty of 10 per centum on these logs. 



The Schedule increased the duty on other woods products and 

 placed duty on some which like mahoganj' logs had been on the free 

 list since 1913 and before. 



The text of Schedule 4 follows: 



SCHEDULE 4. — Wood and Manufactures of 



Par. 401. Logs of fir, spruce, cedar, or Western hemlock, $1 per thou- 

 sand feet board measure ; Provided, That any such class of logs cut £rom 

 any particular class of lands shall be e-vempt from such duty if imported 

 from any country, dependency, province, or other subdivision or govern- 

 ment which has, at no time during the twelve months immediately pre- 

 ceding their importation into the United States, maintained any embargo, 

 prohibition, or other restriction (whether by law', order, regulation, con- 

 tractual relation or otherwise, directly or inilirectly), upon the exporta- 

 tion of such class of logs from such country, dependency, province, or other 

 subdivision of government, if cut from such class of lands. 



Par. 402. Brier root or brier wood, ivy or laurel root, and similar wood 

 unmanufactured, or not further advanced than cut into blocks suitable for 

 the articles into which they are intended to be converted, 10 per centum 

 ad valorem. 



Par. 403. Cedar commercially known as Spanish cedar, lignum-vitae. 

 lancewood, ebony, box, granadilla, mahogany, rosewood, satinwood, Japan- 

 ese white oak, and Japanese maple, in the log ; 10 percentum ad valorem ; 

 in the form of sawed boards, planks, deals, and all other forms not further 

 manufactured than sawed, 15 per centum ad valorem : veneers of wood 

 and wood unmanufactured, not specially provided for, 20 per centum ad 

 valorem. 



Par. 404. Hubs for wheels, posts, heading bolts, stave bolts, last blocks, 

 wagon blocks, car blocks, heading blocks, and all like blocks or sticks, 

 rough hewn or rough shaped, sawed or bored, 10 per centum ad valorem. 



Par. 405, Casks, barrels, and hogsheads (empty), sugar-box shooks, and 

 packing boxes (empty), and packing-box shooks, of wood, not specially for, 

 15 per centum ad valorem. 



Par 406. Boxes, barrels and other articles containing oranges, lemons, 

 limes, grape fruit, shaddocks or pomelos, 25 per centum ad valorem ; 

 Provided, that the thin wood so called, comprising the sides, tops, and bot- 

 toms of fruit boxes of the growth or manufacture of the United States, 

 exported as fruit box shooks, may be reimported in completed form, tilled 

 with fruit, by the payment of duty at one-half the rate imposed on simi- 

 lar boxes of entirely foreign growth and manufacture : but proof of the 

 identity of such shooks shall be made under regulations to be prescribed 

 by the Secretary of the Treasury. 



Par 407. Reeds wrought or manufactured from rattan or reeds, whether 

 round, flat, split, oval, or in whatever form, cane wrought or manufactured 

 from rattan, cane webbing, and split or partially manufactured rattan. 



not specially provided for. 20 per centum ad valorem. Furniture made 

 with frames wholly or in part of wood, rattan, reed, bamboo, osier or 

 willow, or malacca, and covered wholly or in part with rattan, reed, grass, 

 osier or willow, or fil)er of any kind. 60 per centum ad valorem : split 

 bamboo, IH CENTS per pound : osier or willow, including chip of and split 

 willow, prepared for basket makers' use, 35 per cent ad valorem; all 

 articles not specially provided for, wholly or partially manufactured of 

 rattan, bamboo, osier or willow, 45 per centum ad valorem. 



Par 408. Toothpicks of wood or other vegetable substance, 25 per centum 

 ad valorem : butchers' and packers' skewers of wood, 25 cents per thousand. 



Par. 400. Porch and window blinds, baskets, chair seats, curtains, 

 shades or screens, any of the foregoing wholly or ip chief value of bamboo, 

 wood, straw, papier-mache, palm leaf or compositions of wood, not spe- 

 cially provided for, 35 per centum ad valorem ; if stained, dyed, painted, 

 printed, polished, grained, or creosoted, 45 per centum ad valorem. 



Par. 410. Spring clothespins. 15 cents per gross: house or cabinet fur- 

 niture wholly or in chief value of wood, wholly or partly finished, wood 

 flour, and manufactures of wood or bark, or of which wood or bark is the 

 component material of chief value, not specially provided for. 33 '/s per 

 centum ad valorem. 



Under the free list are found: 



Par. 1660, Shingles. 



Par. 1G72. Standard newsprint paper. 



Par. 1700. . Wood : Logs ; timber, round, unmanufactured, hewn, sided 

 or squared otherwise than by sawing; pulp woods; round timber used 

 for spars or in liuilding wharves: firewood, handle bolts, shingle bolts; 

 and gun blocks for gunstocks, ro\igh, hewn or sawed or planed on one side: 

 sawed boards, planks, deals, and other lumber, not further manufactured 

 than sawed, planed, and tongued and grooved ; clapboards, laths, ship 

 timber: all of the foregoing not specially provided tor: Provided. That If 

 there is imported into the United States any of the foregoing lumber, planed 

 on one or more sides and tongued and grooved manufactured in or ex- 

 ported from any country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of 

 government which imposes a duty upon such lumber exported from the 

 United States, the President may enter into negotiations with such country, 

 dependency, province, or other subdivision of government to secure the 

 removal of such dutv. and if such duty is not removed he may by procla- 

 mation declare such failure of negotiations, and in such proclamation shall 

 state the tacts upon which his action is taken together with the rates im- 

 posed, and make declaration that like and equal rates shall bo forthwith 

 imposed as hereinafter provided : whereupon, and imtil such duty is re- 

 moved, there shall he levied, collected, and paid upon such lumber, when 

 imported directly or indirectly from such country, dependency, province, 

 or other subdivision of government, a duty equal to the duty imposed bv 

 such country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of government 

 upon such lumber imported from the United States. 



Par. 1701. Paving posts, railroad ties, and telephone, trolley, electric- 

 light and telegraph poles of cedar or other woods. 



Par. 1702. Pickets, palings, hoops, and staves of wood of all kinds. 



Par. 1703. Woods: Sticks of partridge, hair wood, pimento, orange, 

 myrtle, bamboo, rattan. India malaccfc, joints, and other woods not specially 

 provided for. in the rough, or not further advanced than cut into lengths 

 suitable for sticks for umbrellas, parasols, sunshades, whips, fishing rods, 

 or walking canes. 



Richards Killed When Car Overturns 



Ralph J. Richards, head of the Richards Hardwood Company, wholesale 

 lumber dealer of Memphis, Tenn.. met a tragic death on Friday, September 

 29, when his Podge roadster overturned and pinned him beneath it on the 

 return trip from Earle, .\rk., whither he had gone earlier in the day. Only 

 his hand extended from beneath the car and there were no witnesses to 

 the accident. The driver of a bus discovered the overturned car probably 

 two hours or more after the accident. Mr. Richards was still alive and 

 recovered consciousness enough to tell where he lived, but was never able 

 to give any information regarding the accident. He was rushed to a 

 hospital, but died on the way there. Funeral services were conducted 

 from the family residence in Memphis, Sunday afternoon, October 2, under 

 the auspices of the Masonic IjOdge. A widow and three children survive. 



Mr. Richards went to Memphis about seven years ago and was associated 

 for some time with W. H. Bonner & Sons. Later he became a member of 

 the Richards-Dacus Hardwood Company, and within the last two years 

 formed the company bearing his name. He was a member of the Lumber- 

 men's Club of Memphis and served as chairman of the entertainment com- 

 mittee of that organization for one year. 



Utilizing "Inferior" Hardwoods 



An eastern manufacturer of furniture had always used yellow poplar 

 or whitewood for certain purposes and found it eminently satisfactory. 

 Not until two years ago, when prices began to go "out of sight," did it occur 

 to him that some less expensive lumber might meet his needs equally well, 

 lie put his problem up to a lumber dealer, who recommended soft maple, 

 for which the market has always been rather poor. It proved to be fully 

 as good for the purpose as the whitewood, and this item of cost Is kept 

 down to the pre-war figure. 



Another manufacturer in the same locality had been using selected beech 

 for miter boxes, and he too began to wonder if there wasn't some less 

 costly wood that could be used. The next time the lumber salesman called 

 on him he stated his case and was advised to try out a small lot of log-run 

 white birch. The white birch in southern New England runs harder than 

 that of Maine, and proved to he fully as good tor miter boxes as the 

 selected beech. The waste in cutting up is small, and the net cost is 

 very much less than In the case of beech. 



