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HARDWOOD RECORD 



June 25. 1921 



Pertinent Information 



Koehler Resumes Helena Office 



Thr S.iulli>-cii Ibilclwcioil Tnifflc AsSDi'ial Inn iinnounces Unit .1. A. 

 K.ichliM-. Willi was fiiniii'i-l.v In charKc "f the offlri's of tills iiixiiiiiziitiiin 

 :il Ili'Iriiii, liiis liccn n'apyiilnti'il to that position. cITpctlvp .Fnnr 1. Mr. 

 Ki.i'hlci- scrviMl as ilistrlit nianagi-r until almut eighteen months ago, when 

 111' reslgneii to lieeiiiiie traffic manager of the ,\reher Lumlier Company. 

 II may he saiil. to his creilit. that every memlier of the Southern llanlwonil 

 I'raflle Assiielatlnn In the Helena ilistrlet insisted upon his reappointment 

 as successor of .). M. Stovall. who recently resigneil. 



I'aul C. Smith of the Helena Hand Mill Company. Helena. Ark.. Is the 

 viiepresiilent nf the associalinn In charge of the Helena district. He 

 succeeds I'rank Cannon, who has recently resigned on account of ill heallli. 

 .Mr. Smith is very cntliuslastlc and is highly interested in transportation 

 nSatters. 



Missouri to Sue St. Louisians 



].'] authoritative sources it Is learned that .Xttorney-deneral Barrett 



of .Missouri has decided to institute civil proceedings under the anti-trust 

 statutes against members of the St. Iiouls Lumber Trade Exchange and the 

 St. Louis Millmeirs .\ssoclntlon. The proceedings were to be started 

 Wednesday. .Tune 22. 



The attorney-general's decision lo Institulc anti-lrnst proceedings fol- 

 lows the April inquiry of the attorney-general Into tlie practices of credit 

 and statistical bureaus of lumber, and otlier luiililing iiialeriais manu- 

 facturers. 



The proceedings will be .similar to those of a few years ago by the then 

 .Mtormy-lieneral Hadley and which resulted in some lumber companies 

 paying heavy tines and. in some instances, being ousted from the state. 



Hardwood Exports Decrease 



~ The statement of exports of Uiinbcr and logs from Haltiniore for April, 

 which was issued in complete form Thursday. .Tune l(i, shows the extent 

 lo which the foreign movement has been curtailed and Indicates tile degree 

 to which business is held back by the conditions prevailing on the other 

 side of the Atlantic. The shipments of oak and poplar boards, two of 

 tile principal items, which in ordinary times lead the list, are down to 

 nominal proportions, with the exports of oak boards amounting to only 

 S2.(IO(i feet, of a declared value of .$8,420, against 793,0(10 feet, of a declared 

 value of .f80.32.S. for the same month last year. Poplar went forward to 

 the extent of 79,00(1 feet, of a declared value of .$S,,S6,"), compared with 

 274.000 feet, valued at .$32,614, for the corresponding month of 1920. 

 Hardwood boards also suffered a heavy drop, the shipments being 43.000 

 feet, of a declared value of .S5.36H, against 444,000 feet, of a declared value 

 of .$50. 990 for .\pril. 1920. But one of the heaviest declines was in 

 "other manufactures of wood." which decreased from $107,400 for April 

 last year to .$.">7.S71 in April this year. The total exports for April were 

 valued at $ll.",K(i5 against not less than .$407,879 for April, 1920, which 

 latter month is by no means to be classed among the periods when normality 

 could be said to prevail in the trade. 



Say Loading Rates Are Lowered 



The A'alley l.og Loading Company has annouiued sulistantial reduction 

 in the cost of loading on the main and branch lines of the Yazoo & Missis- 

 sippi Valley railroad, effective .Tuly 1. 1921. These reductions are based 

 on the lower cost of labor, food and feed stuffs, and other elements. The 

 management of the railroad has not made any reduction in the cost of 

 engine hire and train service, but .T. W. Dickson, preshlent of the company, 

 is autliority for the statement that, if the railroad should make such 

 reduction, the clients of his firm will be given the benelit thereof. The 

 scale of new rates is given herewith : (II West .Tunctlon to Tutwiler via 

 Charleston, Tutwiler to Sawn I.,ake via Lamliert. Helena Ilistrlet and 

 (Irenada District, mixed logs .$5 per thousand feet: ash, elm and hickory. 

 .$0 per thousand feet. (2) Main line, Clarksdale to Vlcksburg. mixed logs. 

 .$4.."iO per thousand feet: ash. elm and hickory. $5.50 per thousand feet. 

 i3) Riverside. Helm. X. W. Silver Creek, Charleston, Rlue I,ake, Itound- 

 awa.v. Yerger. Kimball I.,ake and Sunflower Districts, mixed logs. $4 per 

 thousand feet: ash, elm and hickory, .$."i per thousand feet. 



Clubs and Associations 



Throgmorton Leaves Overseas Company 



K. I/. T'hlo;:iii-irIun. general ageiil of the .Vmerican (Iverscas Forward- 

 ing Company for the past year, with headquarters at Memphis, has 

 resigned to liecome representative at Memphis and In the Memphis terri- 

 tory of the Waterman Steamship Corporation, with general offices in 

 Moliile. He has opened offices In the T'orter building and has already 

 **ntereil upon his new duties. 



Mr. Throgmorton was selected for his new work beciuse of his i-xten- 



slve experience in handling overseas shipments and because of his wide 

 acquaintance with exporters and Importers in this territory. The Water- 

 man Steamship Corporation operates vessels sailing from Mobile. (Iiilfport 

 and Pensacola to the rnitcd Kingdom and to Hamburg and Bremen, tier- 

 many. 



.1. 11. Townsliend. president of the American Overseas Forwarding Com- 

 panv. announces that li. V. McCame.v, vice-president of the company, 

 nas been appointed temporarily to take up the duties which were formerly 

 [lerformeil by .Mr. Throgmorton. Mr. McCamey has had supervision over 

 all general agents employed by the .\merlcan Overseas I'"orwarillng Com- 

 panv and is. therefore, thoroughly familiar with every phase of this work. 

 He Is also manager of the district offices of the Southern Hardwood Traffic 

 .\ssociation and has fifteen years of railroad experience behind him. Few 

 traffic men in tliis part of the country are better known to all classes ot 

 exporters and shippers than he. 



In connection with these changes in the personnel of the American Over- 

 seas I'lirwarding Company, Mr. Townshend says that preparations are 

 under way to enlarge the activities of this organization as a means of giv- 

 ing to the export trade additional facilities. This company. In addition 

 to its executive offices at Memidiis. maintains offices in New Orleans and 

 other ports, as well as at Helena. .\rk.. Louisville. Ky., and Cincinnati. 

 Ohio, in Ibe interior. 



Natiiinal Lumber Exporters Meet 



The semi-annual meeting of the Hoard of Managers of thn National 

 Lumber Kxporters' Association, which was held In Koom B of the Manu- 

 facturers' Club, in I'hiiadelphia. In June, the day before file annual meet- 

 ing of the National Hardwood .\ssoclatlon, brought together not only 

 practically all the members of the board, but a number of those affiliated in 

 a general way with the association, and resulted in the consideration ot 

 various matters of great Importance to the organization, but even more 

 to the foreign trade generally. 



Edward I'.ariier. former president of the association and now chairman 

 of the Itaiiway Oak Scantling Committee, made a report of the activities 

 of this body, stating that the Inspection rules which his committee liad 

 prepared had not lieen acceptable to the I..iverpool Timber Trade .\ssocin- 

 tlon, and that the latter had submitted another set of rules, which were 

 not acceptable to the committee. M his suggestion the committee was 

 continued with instructions that an effort be made to prepare a set of 

 inspection rules which shall be satisfactory to both sides of the contro- 

 versy. 



In a way related to this subject was the presentation by (histave A. 

 Farlier. London representative of Russe & Burgess. Inc.. Memphis, and 

 cliairman of the United Kingdom Uniform Form of Contract ('ommittee. 

 of a proposed draft. A special committee, consisting of Mr. Farber. John 

 L. Alcock. of John L. Alcock & Co., Baltimore, and Mr. Barber, the latter 

 of the Howard & I'.arber Lumber Company, Cincinnati, was appointed to 

 draft a form of contract for Mr. Farber to submit to the Hardwood Section 

 of the Timber Trade Federation ot the United Kingdom, on his return 

 home. 



Shortly after Mr. Farber sailed for the United States last December it 

 was brought to the notice of Harvey M. Dickson, the secretary of the 

 N. L. E. .\.. that the Hardwood Section of the Timber Trade Federation ot 

 the U. K. was about to prepare a form of contract for submission to the 

 N. L. E. A. On request the chairman of the Hardwood Section consented 

 to hold the matter over until Mr. Farber's return. The question of a 

 uniform contract has been under discussion for a number of years. Vari- 

 ous forms of contract have been submitted by the Timber Trade Federation 

 and by the National Lumber Exporters' Association, but the two organiza- 

 tions have never been able to get together. .\t one time the X. L. E. A. 

 even went so far as to send a special committee over to England, hut the 

 trip proved futile. It is now believed that by haying a representative of 

 the N. L. E. A. meet In conference with the special committee of the Timber 

 Trade Federation a form of contract can be frame<l which will be satis- 

 factory to the .\merlcan exporters and to the British importers as well. 



The Liverpool Form of Contract has also been under discussion during 

 the last year, with the result that a draft has been agreeil upon by the 

 N. L. K. .\.. and that Mr. Farber. who is chairman of the N. L. E. A. com- 

 mittee, has been re(|uested to take up the matter personally with the 

 Liverpool organization on his return. 



President R. S. Huddlestou called the meeting to order and presented a 

 concise statement on the export trade situation at the present time. He 

 was followed by Secretary Dickson, who read a report on what has been 

 done by his office during the last six months in the way of bringing claims 

 to settlement and the progress made in other directions. Still another 

 report presented was tliat of D. D. llartlove, chairman of the Transporta- 

 tion Ciimmittec. on transportation conditions, rates ot inland and ocean 

 freight, bill of lading troubles and other related matters. 



During the past few months brokers and buyers have filed complaints 

 against shipments of Northern oak made through the Southern Atlantic 

 and (!ulf ports, claiming that the stock shipped was not Northern oak. It 

 was suggested that the general term Northern oak. as used in buyers' 

 contrai'ts. was much abused and misunderstood. After a discussion of 

 tile matter President lluddleston appointed a committee consisting of 

 ICdward Barber, chairman: J. J. Linehau, of the Mowbray & Robinson 

 Company, and J. W. Turnbull. of the .T. W. Turnbull Lumber Company, to 

 investigate, and to define Northern oak, and. if possible, name the States 

 from which Northern oak may be shipped. 



