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ested in making personal examinations of 

 timber. In case a personal examination is 

 not convenient, detailed information is being 

 sent out upon request as t» the fire-killed 

 timber which it desires to sell. 



How much of the 6,000,000,000 feet which 

 was either killed or burned up in Montana 

 and northern Idaho can eventually be salvaged 

 it is of course impossible to predict. If it 

 were all a total loss, and if its stumpage 

 value were put at the average price at which 

 ^National Forest timber was sold last year, it 



would be the equivalent of a money loss of 

 about fifteen million dollars. 



It is believed that last summpr's fixes 

 cither burned up or killed between one and 

 two per cent of the total stand of National 

 Forest timber. At the present rate of cut- 

 ting from the National Forests, 6,000,000,000 

 feet is equal to twelve years' supply, but it 

 is less than one-sixth of a single year's cut 

 in the entire country, or enough to keep all 

 r.ur lumber miUs busy for .something under 

 two months. 



NeWs Miscellany 



Annual Louisville Hardwood Club 



New officers for the Louisville Hardwood Club 

 were elected at the annual meeting. November 

 1, as follows : 



T. M. Brown, W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber 

 Company, president : S. E. Booker, E. B. Nor- 

 man & Co.. vice-president ; Claude M. Sears, 

 Edward L. Davis Lumber Company, treasurer, re- 

 elected ; G. D. Grain, Jr., the permanent sec- 

 retary, retained that position by appointment. 



T. M. Brown, the new head of the Louisville 

 Hardwood Club, succeeded A. E. Norman of the 

 Norman Lumber Company, who held the position 

 for two years, since the organization of the club 

 in 1908. He declined to serve again on the 

 ground that others should be allowed to have 

 the honor. 



Mr. Brown is one of the youngest and most 

 aggressive members of the Louisville trade. He 

 was one of the organizers of the club and has 

 always been active in its affairs. He was chair- 

 man of the entertainment committee which was 

 In charge of the arrangements for the conven- 

 tion of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation last June, and at that convention was 

 elected a director of the national association. 



Mr. Booker, the new vice-president, is a mem- 

 ber of E, B. Norman & Co.. and has been chair- 

 man of the advertising committee of the club, 

 which has exploited the advantages of the Louis- 

 ville market with unusual success since the 

 club as a whole took up the cudgel in this direc- 

 tion. He also is one of the younger members 

 of the club. 



Following the election of officers Mr. Norman, 



the retiring president, spoke of his work in that 

 office during the two previous years and de- 

 clared that it was a high honor and one which 

 had been appreciated. He referred to the 

 splendid feeling of fellowship which had been 

 engendered by the club, and declared that the 

 trade had reaped many advantages from the 

 work of that body. Among them he cited freight 

 rate adjustments which have been made and the 

 work which is now being done in that direction. 

 Following his talk, and on motion of Edward 

 Shippen of the Louisville Point Lumber Com- 

 pany, Mr. Norman was given a rising vote of 

 thanks by the Hardwood Club. 



The treasurer read his annual report, which 

 showed the finances of the club to be in excellent 

 condition. 



The meeting was followed by a dinner at the 

 Seelbacb Hotel. 



Those present were : 



A. E. Norman, Norman Lumber Company. 



T. M. Brown, W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber 

 Company. . 



Edward L. Davis, Edw. L. Davis Lumber Com- 

 P''>ny. „ _, 



S. E. Booker, E. B. Norman & Co. 



W. V. Shepardson, Kentucky Hardwood Floor- 

 ing Company. 



Everett Haynes, Mengel Box Company. 



E. B. Norman, E. B. Norman & Co. 



J. E. Davis, Edward L. Davis Lumber Com- 

 pany. 



Harry Kline, Louisville Veneer Mills. 



R F." Smith, Ohio River Saw Mill Company. 



Claude M. Sears, Edward L. Davis Lumber 

 Company. _ „ , ^ 



J. G. Brown. W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber 

 Company. 



Edward Shippen, Louisville Point Lumber 

 Company. 



G. D. Grain. Jr., H.\kdwood Kecord. 



Semi-Monthly Memphis Lumbermen's Club 



The semi-monthly meeting of the Lumbermen's 

 Club of Memphis, wblch was postponed on Oc 

 tober 29, was held at the Hotel Gayoso on No- 

 vember 5, with the largest attendance of the 

 season. Owing to the absence of President S. 

 C. Major, who is away on his bridal tour, John 

 W, McClurc, first vice-president, occupied the 

 chair. The usual luncheon was served, which 

 proved highly enjoyable to all present. 



One of the features of the meeting was the 

 announcement that the annual election of offi- 

 cers, one of the most important functions of the 

 year, would be held Saturday, December IT. 

 Nominating committees to choose those who 

 will run on the two tickets will be announced 

 at the meeting two weeks hence, and from then 

 until the election there will be a repetition of 

 the heated campaigning which has been promi- 

 nently associated with all elections held by 

 this organization. The rivalry is always in- 

 tense, because of the high honor attached to 

 the holding of the presidency as well as the 

 other offices in the organization. No idea can 

 bo given at this time of the personnel of the 

 two tickets, but there is plenty of good material 

 from which to make selections, and there is no 

 doubt but that the club during the ensuing year 

 will be served by as strong men as have occu- 

 pied the positions of honor in the past. 



W. R. Barksdale, chairman of the special 

 "boosters committee," which went to St. Louis 

 last June, submitted the report of his commit- 

 tee, detailing the fight which resulted in the 

 capture of the 1911 annual of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association. He reviewed the 

 competition which Memphis encountered, be- 

 cause of the efforts of the lumbermen of St. 

 Louis and Chicago to prevent the convention 

 from coming to Memphis. In detailing the work 

 of his committee he did not fail to give proper 

 credit to the general lumber interests of Mem- 

 phis as well as to the other business organiza- 

 tions here for the splendid efiforts put forth 

 in behalf of this city. He gave special atten- 

 tion to the effective work of the Bureau of Pub- 

 licity and Development, which improved this 

 opportunity to set forth the advantages of Mem- 

 phis not only as a convention city but as a 

 permanent home for those engaged in the hard 

 wood lumber industry. 



W. B. Morgan, vice-chairman of the River and 

 Hail Committee, told of the success that had 

 attended the efforts of lumbermen of Memphis 

 and other cities in connection with the pro- 

 posed sharp increase, ten cents per hundred 

 pounds, in freight rates on lumber from Mem- 



T. M. BROWN, PRESIDENT. 



S. E. BOOKER, VICE-PRESIDENT. 



C. M. SEARS, TREASURER. 



