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W. H. MdUGAN. MEMPHIS, TEXX.. TUANS- 



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COMMITTEE 



B. AXDERSOX. MEMPHIS, TEXX., PRESI- 

 DEXT AXDERSUX-TULLY COMPAXY. 



ing Olio at' the hiiiibermen 's clubs in one of our large cities, Mr. 

 A. E. Norman of the Norman Lumber Company, Louisville, Ky. 



Mr. Norman: (ientlemen, Louisville is better represented here, 

 T am sure, than by myself. Louisville is a younger market, per- 

 haps, than some of these other markets in the way of stocks. We 

 are mighty bad off in Louisville with the stocks vre have. If 

 we had a hundred and fifty million feet, like Nashville, I don't 

 know what shape we would think we were in. Stocks in Louisville, 

 fortunately, are not so very heavy and we feel pretty good about 

 the situation to come. We are not having any big business now; 

 we have not expected it so far this year; but we see some strong 

 indications that we will have it. We have recently made a trip 

 to one of our sister markets — Memphis, Tenn. We found that they 

 felt .iust as good as we do and we are glad we went down there. 

 We would be glad to have all of you come to Louisville. As a 

 rule, you will find us jiretty good feeders down there. I would 

 like for every one to feel that way. I thank you. [Applause.] 



President Carrier: We have witli us today Mr. L). V,. Kline of 

 the Louisville Veneer Mills. He is ex-president of the Veneer 

 association. Mr. Kline has just come into the room; 1 will say- 

 to him that we are having a discussion on the conditions of stocks, 

 and being a veneer man, I thought might be able to say so;iie- 

 thing of interest to this liody of lumber manufactuiers. 



-Mr. Kline: I don't know that there is anything that I can say 

 to you that would be nf interest. The veneer man does not a'-cu- 

 mulate very much stock. At the same time I believe that the 

 stocks on hand at the present time are in excess of what they 

 usually are at this time of the year and the demand has not been 

 very great. There is a slight betterment of conditions th;<i has 

 come about quite recently and which we hope will continue. 



President Carrier: Now, going up into the poplar regions, we 

 will start out with Mr. Vansant. | Applause. | 



Mr. A'ansant: Centlemen, the conditions of pojilar in our sec- 

 tion of the country is that stocks have been very limited and 

 short. Stocks are very much broken in our section, not near up 

 to what they normally are. Speaking personally, our business 

 has 'oeen good since the first of the year, or, I might say, since 

 the first of November; I have been surprised at the amount of 

 business that we have been receiving, Everj-thing looks satis- 

 factory to us, and I hope we will have a larger stock for our 

 mills this year than we had last. I understand we have a tide 

 now, which may give us a better opportunity in the near future 

 than we have now. 



President Carrier: Kepresenting the upper mountain country 



in [loplar we will call on Mr. C. M. Clark, general sales man- 

 ager of the 8wann-Day Lumber Company, Cincinnati, £)hio. 



Mr, Clark: So far as the poplar situation is concerned in our 

 immediate section, I cannot speak for others. Individually we 

 have just received a telegram that assures us of a big tide on 

 in the Cumberland and I think in the Sandy, ami, like Mr. 

 Vansant, we still have hopes. 



President Carrier: We will go a little farther up in the 

 mountains and call on Mr. B. B. Burns of Huntington, W. Va. I 

 understand Mr. Burns is not in the room. Is there anybody 

 else up in that district here.' Let us hear from Mr. Breece of 

 Charleston. 



Mr. Breece: Mr. President and geirtlemeii, the Charleston dis- 

 trict used to be ;i good poplar country, but that day is gone, 

 and in a very short time the local market in the Charleston 

 district will be calling on the South for materia!. There is very 

 little tiniher left there. A great many of the operations have been 

 finished and the men gone out of business. We will have to draw 

 on the South for our future supplies. 



President Carrier: We would like to hear from Mr. K. L. 

 Davidson of the Parkersburg Mill Company, Parkersburg, W. v'a. 



Mr. Davidson: Stocks in the eastern end of the state of West 

 Virginia are fair. .\s to poplar in our jiarticular sect'oii. we 

 do not have any more of it to speak of. 



President Carrier: Now, we will go over in the St. Louis 

 district. I want to call upon Mr. W. W. Dings, of the Garetson- 

 Greason Lumber Company, St, Louis, Mo. 



Mr. Dings: The only really reliable statistics that we have 

 are from the secretary of the Lumbermen's Club of St. Louis. 

 Heretofore when I have spoken I have found it necessary to 

 mention St. Louis as the largest hardwood market in the world. 

 That fact is so well estalilislied that I think you will have to 

 excuse ine further. 



President Carrier: We will have to call on Mr. Powe of the 

 Thomas E. Powe Lumber Company, St. I-ouis. He was the only 

 man that applauded Dings, so I will call upon him and let him 

 tell us what Mr. Dings would not tell. 



Mr. Powe: I think that subject was so completely handled 

 by Mr. Dings that it leaves nothing for me to say. 



President Carrier: We would like to have information as 

 to the conditions of stocks in your market, 



Mr. Powe: That is difl:icult to go into. Our d 'strict, however, 

 does present a number of peculiar conditions. Up to witliiu the 

 last two or three months the building trades have done nothing 



