HARDWOOD RECORD 





A. I GAIIAGAN. CHATTAXOOCA, TENNES 

 SEE DIRECTOI! 



r.. L DAVmSON. PARKERSBUKG. WEST 

 VIRGINIA DIRECTOR 



W. L. WATSON, MAHAN. WEST VIRGINIA 

 DIRECTOR 



Resolutions 

 W B Townsend, Townsend, Teno. Thomas W. Fry, SI. I.ouis. Mo. 



,1. J. Linehan, Pittsburg, Pa. 



NOMIN.^TIONS 



Thom.is W. Frv, St. Louis, Mo. .1. W. Mayhew. Columbus. Ohio. 



0. L. Harrison, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 



Committee to Act on Officees' Hepoets 



Thomas W Frv, St. Louis, Mo. Frank F. Fee, Little Rock. Ark. 



Frank May. Memphis, Tenn. 



In addition to tlie committee appointed, the followins: standing 

 i-ommittees were continued during this year: 



FIX.IXCE 



George E. W. Luehrmann, Chair- W. A. Gilchrist, Memphis Tenn. 



man, St. Louis, Mo. W. M. Rittcr, Columbus, Ohio. 



R. H. Vansant. Ashland, Ey. 



Transportation and Freight Rates 

 W. E. Weakley, Chairman, Colum- R. L. McClelland. Chicago. III. 



bus, Ohio. \V. B. Morgan, Memphis. Tenn. 



Standard Weights of Hardwood Lumber 

 W E. Delanev. Chairman, Cin- A. P. Steele. Sardis, Miss. 



cinnati, Ohii. W. H. Greble, Memphis. Tenn. 



Harvey Derne, Columbus, Ohio. R. L. McClelland, Chicago, 111. 



C. L. Harrison, Cape Girardeau, Mo. 



Cost of Manufacture 

 Frank F. Fee, Chairman. Little T. B. McCormick. Sardis, Miss. 



Rock Ark W. A. Gilchrist, Memphis, Tenn. 



G. O. Worland, Evansville. Ind. 1'. Ford, Chicago, 111. . 



C M Crawford, Coal Grove, Ohio. W. E. DeLaney, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



Thomas W. Fry, St. Louis, Mo. 



,1. E. Defebaugh Memokial 

 W. H. Shippcn, Chairman, Ellijay, C. M. Crawford, Coal Grove, Ohio. 



Ga. George E. W. Luehrmann, St. 



W. A. Gilchrist, Memphis. Tenn. Loiiis. Mo. 



R. H. Vansant, Ashland, Ky. 

 Sales Code 

 W. A. Gilchrist, Chairman, Mem- A. P. Steele, Sardis. Miss. 



phis, Tenn. W. E. Delaney, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



Secretary Doster: I liave been instructed to advise the asso- 

 ciation that the grading and subcommittees on all the different 

 woods will be continued during the year 1911 as they have been 

 during the past year and subject to the call of the association 

 at any time. I want also to state that the names of all these 

 committees will be published at Room 007, and we will have dupli- 

 cate copies made for the chairman of each committee, so that he 

 can paste on the bulletin board, which will be provided there, 

 an announcement showing what rooms the committees will meet 

 in. Blank forms for the statistical committees will also be pro 

 vided from the registration room. No. 907, for these committees, 

 so that they can turn in their reports. The present market con- 

 ditions, which we now have in effect, will also be given to these 

 committees on application at the registration office. 



Mr. Vansant: Mr. Chairman, we have only a two days' ses- 

 sion of the convention at this time. There is one committee 

 that should have a little time to act, and I therefore now move 



that the cluiirman appoint a committee on nomination of officers 

 to consist of three members. 



The motion was seconded and carried. 



i^rcsident Carrier: We are going to discuss now "Territorial 

 Conditions.'' I will first call upon Mr. Hamilton Love of Nash- 

 ville, Tenn. 



Territorial Conditions and Conditions of Stock 

 Mr. Love: Mr. Chairman, I don't know exactly what I am 

 supposed to tell. You can see pretty well from the printed slip - 

 that has been distributed around how things are in Nashville. 

 There seems to be one hundred and fifty million feet there. The 

 conditions that obtain at Nashville, I suppose, are pretty much 

 the same as in other parts of the country. Stocks are very much 

 broken. We find it difficult now even to supply the demand for 

 oak, which is one of the standard stocks. For the last few months 

 we have noticed an increasing demand and from now on will have 

 to use a little more effort to find stock to supply the demand. 

 The conditions at Nashville are not very promising as to supply. 

 We are gradually getting away from the supply for the district. 

 We find it harder to keep up stock all the time. 



1 don't think we will have any trouble in selling our output 

 for the year. I am not very familiar myself with all the stocks 

 in Nashville, but have simply been looking after our own and it 

 is hardly fair to attempt to give statistics, except on cypress, and 

 I am not prepared to present them. 



President Carrier: We have with us today the ex-president 

 of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, Mr. W. L. Crenshaw, who 

 is trying to get out of the room. I would like to hear from him 

 on the conditions of stocks in Memphis before the holidays. 



Mr. Crenshaw: I am from Memphis and that is about ail 1 

 know— that I am from Memphis. Mr. Brower was talking about 

 the box people using strawboard boxes. I think that the lumber- 

 men are hurting their own business Ijy using iron in place of 

 wood— iron beds. I know half a dozen lumbermen now who do 

 not sleep on wooden bedsteads. We usually have a line of trade 

 from tlie furniture people; if we would all go back to wooden 

 beds we would get to sell more common oak. 



The lumber conditions in Memphis are fair. Prices on gum are 

 good. Plain oak is fair. Quartered oak is low. 



In behalf of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis I want to in- 

 vite all you gentlemen to the meeting of the National Associa- 

 tion of Box Manufacturers, which will be entertained by the 

 Lumbermen's Club on February 15, 16 and 17. Gentlemen, we will 

 be glad to see you all. I thank you. [Applause.] 



President Carrier: We have another gentleman here represent- 



