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HARDWOOD RECOHD 



July 25, 1921 



Manufacturers 



SOUTHERN HARDWOODS 



Ash 



Poplar 



Red Gum 



Mixed Oak ,^f 5^^"? 

 J,, Soft Maple 



Tupelo 



CUMMER LUMBER COMPANY 



SALES OFFICE: 



280 MADISON AVENUE 



NEW YORK, N. Y. 



MAIN OFFICE 



JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA 



Clubs and Associations 



Michigan Operators Hold Annual Convention 



Quantities of firsts and seconds and selects In the stocks of the mem- 

 bers of the Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Association are very small 

 at this time, reports made at the fifteenth annual meeting in Detroit, 

 Mich., at the Statler Hotel on July 20, showed. The percentage of firsts 

 and seconds in birch was shown to be but 3 per cent of the total stock of 

 birch ; of soft elm, 3.7 per cent ; of maple less than 1 per cent ; of bass- 

 wood only 7 per cent, and In the other woods virtually no firsts and 

 seconds. 



The total of all hardwoods appeared to be 50 per cent over that of a 

 year ago, but in July, 1920, the stocks ou hand were less than 40 per cent 

 of normal. It seems also that a large quantity of the stock sold has not 

 been shipped, which accounts for about 33 per cent of the stocks on hand. 

 In July, 1920, the stock unsold was very small ; in fact, barely 20 per 

 cent of the stock then on hand. 



The accumulation of low grades is much more marked this year than 

 In July, 1920, there now being 60 per cent more low grade lumber on 

 hand than at this time last year. A large part of this is No. 3 common 

 maple. 



A contract of total results for the first six months of 1921 as compared 

 with 1920 showed that out of a production of hemlock and hardwoods of 

 174,000,000 feet in the first half of 1920, shipments were made of 

 154,000,000 feet, while of the production of 150,000,000 feet of all woods 

 the first half of 1921 shipments were made of 71,000,000 feet. A large 

 part of this excessive surplus, however, is in the staple hardwoods, which, 

 the members of the trade believe, are assured of an early market. 



An extended examination of the problem of lower freight rates to the 

 Pacific Coast and other rate questions resulted in the consensus of opinion 

 that some vigorous action must be taken to compel the railroads to give 

 these rate pleas their prompt attention. The Michigan manufacturers 

 some time ago applied to the trans-continental roads for the same rate 

 on west bound lumber that is now accorded east bound lumber from 

 the Pacific Coast, namely, 72 cents. Lumber and hardwood flooring is now 

 being burdened wilh a rate of $1.13V^ per 100 pounds from lower Mich- 

 igan points to common points on the coast and $1.06% from upper Mich- 

 igan points. The railroads emphatically declare the 72 cent west bound 

 rate Impossible, but did promise that when the inter-mountain freight 



rate case was settled they would take up the question of lowering rates 

 from upper and lower Michigan to the coast. The members of the asso- 

 ciation also want a readjustment of intra-state rates in Michigan 



A discussion of market conditions was nearly unanimously to the effect 

 that trade is far below normal for this time of the year. But fall pros- 

 pects were rated much more favorably, especially as there is every evidence 

 of a considerable revival of demand in the furniture and automobile indus- 

 tries, which take a large part of the Michigan product. 



The following is the result of the annual election : 



President — F. O. Harden, Boyne City Lumber Co., Boyne City, Mich. 



First vice-president — W. N. Wrape, Kneeland, Lunden & Bigelow Co., 

 Bay City, Mich. 



Second vice-president — J. L. Colby, Cummer-Diggins Co., Cadillac, Mich. 



Treasurer — Geo. G. Brown, Cadillac, Mich. 



Secretary — J. C. Knox, Cadillac, Mich. 



Executive board : 



F. O. Barden, Boyne City Lumber Co., Boyne City, Mich. 



W. L. Saunders, Cummer-Diggins Co., Cadillac, Mich. 



O. S. Hawes, 0. S. Hawes Lumber Co., Detroit, Mich. 



Directors : 



R. Hanson, Galling-Hanson Co.. Grayling, Mich. 



W. L. Martin, Embury-Martin Lumber Co., Sheboygan, Mich. 



D. H. Day, D. H. Day, Glen Haven, Mich. 



C. A. Bigelow, Kneeland, Lunden & Bigelow Co., Bay City, Mich. 



N. M. Langdon, Antrim Iron Co., Mancelona. Mich. 



F. L. Richardson, Richardson Lumber Co., .\lpena, Mich. 

 C. T. Mitchell, Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., Cadillac, Mich. 



J. C. Ross, Ross & Wentworth, Bay City. Mich. 

 W. K. Jackson, Tindle & Jackson, Buffalo, Mich. 

 H. Kunert, Newberry, Mich. 



G. M. Clifton, Louis Sands Salt & Lumber Co., Manistee, Mich. 

 Geo. N. Harder, I. Stephenson Co., Trustees, Wells. Mich. 



Extreme South Demands Lower Rates 



Further demands for drastic freight reductions on hardwood lumber 

 or at least readjustment that will place the extreme Southern territory on 

 an equal basis with the other sections of the United States were vigor- 

 ously sounded by the Southwestern Hardwood Manufacturers' Club, com- 

 prising leading manufacturers in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi at the 

 club's regular monthly meeting at Lumbermen's Quarters. lOS University 

 Place, New Orleans, Thursday, July 14. 



The leading addresses on the subject were made by Frank R. Gadd, of 

 the statistical department of the American Hardwood Manufacturers' As- 



