26 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



Septemlicr 



Cincinnati Club Notes Improvement 



, The first meeting ul' the fall seMsiiii ef Ihe Ciniiiujiill I.mnliei-inen's Club, 

 whleli was held at the Business Mens Club, \vas devoted to discusshi); 

 conditions in the lumber Industry. Wholesalers and manufaeturers alike 

 were unanimous in expressing tbelr opinion that the lumber industry 

 lias seen Its worst times and that business during the jiast six weeks has 

 taken on an encouraKlUB aspect. 



Samuel Richey of the lumber firm of Klehey, Ilulsted & Quick said that 

 orders for hardwoods have increased about 5 per cent in the Cincinnati 

 market during the past month. The three factors that make up the hard- 

 wood business — railroads, wood cnnsumlng industries ami export trade — 

 Mr. Ulchey said, were showing hi^tter activity than at any previous time 

 this year, and tliis is a real indication that buying would start from these 

 sources shortly. Another matter brought up at the meeting was that 

 of the club joining iu the Inter-associatlon Arbitration Movement and a 

 committee consisting of Dwight Hinckley, chairman ; George Hand and 

 Will Sterrett was appointed to represent the organization at the meetings 

 of the Inter-asBociatlon Arbitration Committee. 



The following concerns were admitted to membership : The M. J. Byrns 

 Lumber Company and the J. H. Burns Lumber Company of Mansfield, O., 

 of which P. D. Bailey is the Cincinnati representative. 



Export Revival Imminent Belgian Tells New Orleans 



With a representative attendance of members from Texas, Louisiana 

 and Mississippi — the three states comprising the organization — the South- 

 western nardwood Manufacturers' Club held its regular monthly meeting 

 at the Monteleone hotel. New Orlrans, September S. 



Short talks were made by leading hardwood manufacturers of the 

 Southwestern territory and the delegates devoted a couple of hours to 

 general discussion of timely topics of importance facing the hardwood 

 industry. 



C. J. Coppock of the Cybur Lumber Company, Cybur, Miss., and presi- 

 dent of the club, wielded his trusty gavel with characteristic force and 

 vigor and A. C. Bowen of the Southern Hardwood Trafiic Association and 

 secretary of the club was on the job. 



Among the speakers of the day were the following : F. H. Sanguinet. 

 manager of sales of the Lyon Lumber Company, Garyville, La. ; W. Brown 

 .Morgan, S. T. AIcus & Co., New Orleans ; C. H. Sherrill, New Orleans, 

 president of the Sherrill Hardwood Lumber Compan.v, with a huge plant 

 at Maryvilie, La., and also president of the Sherrill-Russell Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, Paducah, Ky. : William Fischer, lumber importer of 

 Antwerp, Belgium ; George Schaad, Southern Hardwood Traffic, New 

 Orleans, and U. E. O'Rourke of the American Overseas Forwarding Com- 

 pany, New Orleans. 



The committee appointed at the previous meeting to draw up an indict- 

 ment against the Adanison law with regard to its responsibility for present 

 high fi-eight rates and the discouraging plight of the carriers, did not make 

 its I'eport, due to an announcement by Secretary Bowen, who Is also con- 

 nected with the Southern Hardwood TrafBc Association, that that body had 

 alreudy exploited that question befoi'e the federal authorities. 



Production costs, it was revealed, approximate the $27 mark per thou- 

 sand! feet. Amount of production does not exceed 25 per cent of normal 

 and stocks on hand are much above normal, particularly in the lower 

 grades, the lowest being 100 per cent in excess of normal. 



Pi-obably the two brightest spots of the meeting were the talks by Mr. 

 O'Rourke and Mr. Fischer of Belgium, in which both speakers predicted 

 improvement in the demand from abroad for Southern hardwoods. 



Mr. Fischer said it was idle to expect a rapid increase in foreign buying 

 until the rates of exchange are better, for the difference of today made it 

 Impossible for the man in Europe to buy except what be actually had to 

 have. However, there was an apparent change for the better in Europe, 

 whicli would bring with it a change in exchange rates and that he looked 

 forward to a revival of export buying before long. There was a time 

 when American logs were imported into Europe, but their use had been 

 dropped because of the rates of exchange, but with a i)etter situation in 

 the rates there would be a revival of demand for American logs, he 

 declared. It is now, he continued, a question with European buyers as to 

 whether they shall buy exchange or American products. 



"The consumers and dealers aliroad have no stocks, as the carrying of 

 stocks ahead is too much of a speculation," declared the Belgian. "France 

 has lots of good oak and is manufacturing it. The continental buyers are 

 also getting Slavonian oak, but, of course, they prefer that of the United 

 States. There is some Japanese oak coming in and there Is at least 

 5,000,000 feet of such at Antwerp now. It is good oak and well manu- 

 factured, some of it being better done up than the .American oak. Unfor- 

 tunately, Japan can furnish only short lengths. For another reason Japan 

 can never be considered your competitor ; namely, the limit of her supplies. 

 She has not much to spare." 



The Southwestern Hardwood Manufacturers' Club will hold its next 

 meeting at the new home of the New Orleans Lumbermen's Club, Caron- 

 delet and Union streets, on Thursday, October l.*?. 



New Orleans Club to Have "Hall of Fame" 

 The New Orleans Lumbermen's Club, comprising in its membership and 

 officers a number of the leading hardwood men of the Crescent City terri- 

 tory, is now snugly housed in its splendid new home at Carondelet and 

 Union streets and is establishing a "Hall of Fame." The hardwood branch 



of the lumber Industry promises to he well represented when the selections 

 of the worthies of the past and present is completed. 



W. Brown Morgan of S. T. Alcus & Co., New Orleans, is the hardwood 

 manufacturer named by President Phil Lanier on the committee of three to 

 make the selections, as provided for by special resolution of the club. 

 Others on the committee are Walter C. Wright and Guy H. Mallam, Sr. 



The committee jjroposes to admit to the roll of honor about thirty "men 

 who were iihtneei's and men who are prominent" iu llie industry, hanging 

 their likenesses In the club. 



The following idne selections have been made up to date : 



William Barnes, U. II. Keith, tieorge Lock, Robert A. Long, John Hi*nry 

 Klrby, W. .M. Cady. Charles S. Keith. W, II. Sullivan and John B. White. 



Appalachian Loggers Meet in October 



The sixth jiniuial fall meeting of the Appalachian Logging Con- 

 gress will be held in Knoxville, Tenn., October 18 to 20, inclusive, 

 according to announcement recently made by T. Sunderland, secre- 

 tary. 



Mr. Sunderland reports that a strong program is being arranged 

 for the meeting and a large attendance is expected. The date and 

 ]ilace of the meeting was selected on August 26, when the members 

 of the executive committee met at Xorm.a, Tenn. The niemljers of 

 the committee wlio attended the meeting were F. ti. Xocross, presi- 

 dent; C. L. Babcock, John Shea, George N. Delaney, L. D. Gasteiger, 

 W. T. Latham and the secretary. 



With the Trade 



Abbott Joins Vangsness Lumber Company 



The many friends of W. H. ("Bill") Abbott, former manager of the 

 Chicago oflice of the Chas. Gill Lumber Company, will be interested to know 

 that he resigned from the Gill company on September 10 and joined the 

 Vangsness Lumber Company, the office of which is in the Marquette build- 

 ing, 140 South Dearborn street, Chicago. This company, which is headed 

 by G. A. Vangsness will give substantial support to rather large clientele 

 which Mr. Abbott had built up among the consuming industries in the 

 Chicago territory. Mr. Abbott will continue to sell hardwoods in Chicago 

 and the vicinity. He Is a man of very wide experience in the hardwood 

 industry, particularly in the northern end of it, though he has had a good 

 share of work In the southern field. His experience began way back when 

 he worked with his father for the Gibson interests at Greenwood, Wis. 



Robinson Buys Retail Mill and Yard 

 Cliff A. Robinson, wholesale lumiierman of Bolgeville, N. Y.. has an- 

 nounced that he has bought out the Wm. Levitt mill and property on Main 

 street, Dolgeville, for the purpose of conducting a retail service yard in 

 connection with his wholesale business. Mr. Robinson has had fifteen 

 years' retail experience beside his wholesale experience. 



Memphians Organize Cedar Company 



The Red Cedar Products Company, with headquarters at Memphis, has 

 made application for a charter under the laws of Tennessee. The capital 

 stock is $10,000 and following are the principal incorporators : H. B. 

 Weiss, Leroy Halyard, C. W. Brower, B. C. Fain and Harry M. Adams. 

 .\11 of these gentlemen reside in Memphis and Messrs. Weiss and Halyard 

 are identified with George C. Brown & Co., of Memphis, who have special- 

 ized in red cedar products for a number of years. The new company 

 proposes to install its own mill in Memphis for the manufacture of cedar 

 lumber and products made therefrom, but for the present it will have its 

 sawing done at custom mills. 



New Dawkins Mill Is Operating 



The Dawkins Lumber Company of Ashland, Ky., began the operation of 

 its new mill on August 1 and the mill is now turning out its full daily 

 quota of lumber. The mill is an eight-foot double band, the heaviest and 

 best that Allis-Chalmers make. The entire equipment is the latest thing 

 of its kind from the mill, power and electric light plant to the machine 

 shop. The company maintains a hotel, commissary, club house and about 

 forty dwellings on its mill site. It owns 40,000 acres of one of the best 

 hardwood tracts in the countr.v, situated in Breathitt and Knott counties. 

 The saw mill is located at Royalton, Magoffin county, Ky.. on Licking 

 River. The company also owns the Big Sandy & Kentucky Rivor railway, 

 which opei^tes twenty-five miles of standard gauge railroad, built to 

 develop the above boundary, including the coal as well as timber. In 

 addition to the railroad the lumber company has five miles of standard 

 gauge logging railroad. 



The Dawkins Lumber Company timber runs largely white oak, showing 

 also poplar, chestnut, basswood, ash and the forest run of other hardwoods, 

 all of an extra good quality. The officers of the company, which is incor- 

 porated, are : W. H. Dawkins. president ; F. W. Fletcher, vice president ; 

 W. E. Berger, secretary ; J. H. Fisher, treasurer. 



