November 10, 1918 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Clubs and Associations 



Open Competition Plan 



Members of the Open Cumpetitiou I'lau bave been called to a meeting at 

 Sinton Hotel, Cincinnati, 10 o'clock a, m., Nov. 13. The call was issued 

 by authority of E. O. Robinson, president of the Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 .Association. Among the things on the program is a discussion of the 

 uniform cost system. 



Wholesalers' Executive Committee Meets 



The executive committee of the Xiitional Wholesale Lumber Dealers" 

 .Association was held in New York Oct. 24. The organization was reported 

 in a prosperous condition with a membership of 434, the largest in its 

 history, and the bureau of information is now larger than it ever was 

 before. .\ committee was appointed to attend a convention of the National 

 Federation to be held in Xo\-ember. 



National Association Directors to Meet 



The directors of the National Lumber Manufacturers* Association will 

 meet in Chicago Dec. IC to transact important business. The chief pur- 

 pose is to provide ad<litioual revenue to enable the association to carry 

 on important work. It is proposed that on Jan. 1, 1919, a new contract 

 be made with affiliated regional associations by which the assessments 

 for each shall be as follows : 



For the tirst three months, beginning Jan. Ij 1919, %c per M feet. 



For the second three months, beginning .\in-il 1, I'.Hit, le per M feet. 



For the third three months, beginning July 1, l!ll!l, 114c per M feet. 



For the fourth three months, beginning Oct. 1, 1919, IMiC per M feet, and 

 continuously thereafter at the rate of IVic per M feet produced, or shipped, 

 until the rate of assessment shall have been changed by mutual consent. 



Conference of War Service Committee 



The Chandler of Commerce of the United States has announced prelimi- 

 nary plans for a conference of war emergency and reconstruction cojnrait- 

 tees at Atlantic City, December 4, 5, and G. Reconstruction will be given 

 a prominent place on the program, as it is recognized this subject must 

 be taken up by business men to the end that there may be placed at the 

 command of the government all available sources of information. The 

 work of reconstruction suggests the creation of a federation of all war 

 service committees that whatever study and planning is carried on may 

 lie on behalf of all business. War industries and non-war industries are 

 eoneerued equally in the determination of reconstruction problems. All 

 Europt'an countries already are under way with reconstruction plans. 



Land Ovmers Fail to Co-operate in Land Survey 



Owners of cut-over and other lands in the valley territory are respond- 

 ing very slowly to the questionnaires recently sent to them by F. E, 

 Stonebraker, secretary of the Southern .\lluvial Land Association, at the 

 request of D. W. Ross, engineer reclamation service, department of the 

 Interior, Washington, and, unless they show much greater interest, it Is 

 anticipated that the government, in seeking lands to be purchased tor the 

 use of returned soldiers and sailors after the war, will pay little atten- 

 tion to this part of the country. 



.Veeording to Mr. Stonebraker, less than one-third of the 1350 men to 

 whom questbinnaires were sent have tilled them out and returned them. 

 He further states that the land covered by those returned does not 

 amount to. 400,000 acres and lies in widely scattered sections. 



The association went on record as favoring purchase by the government 

 of these lands at its semi-annual in July, and keen disappointment is 

 expressed over the failure of its own memlters, as well as other large land- 

 owners, to make more prompt and more encouraging response. 



Buys Fine Timber 



The Memphis Band Mill Company, Memphis, has purchased between 250 

 and 300 acres of hardwood timber land just outside the city limits, con- 

 taining 500,000 to 750,000 feet of gum, poplar, red oak. white oak and 

 Cottonwood, which will be delivered by truck to its plant in New South 

 Memphis. The property was bought from the South Memphis Land Com- 

 pany. The purchase price is not known. 



Planning for Big Louisville Meeting 



The special meeting of the American Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion, Memphis, for which provision was made In the recent tentative agree- 

 ment between members of the executive committees of this organization 

 and the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, Cincinnati, will be held 

 at the Seelbach Hotel, Louisville, December 17-18, according to announce- 

 ment made by President R. L. Jurden of the American association. 



Although this is called as a special meeting, it will also serve as the 

 annual of the American Hardwood Manufacturers' Association. Officers 

 win be elected, committees will be announced, reports will be heard and 

 other such business as usually comes before annuals will be transacted 

 at that time. 



It is also anticipated that the attitude of the association toward Inspec- 

 tion will be settled at that time and that other questions of policy will be 

 determined by tlie organization in its larger form. 



Members of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the United 

 States will, it is anticipated, become affiliated with the American Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association before this meeting and President Jurden 



says that, in his opinion, the attendance of hardwood lumber manu- 

 facturers will probably be the largest in the history of the hardwood 

 lumber industry. 



This meeting is expected to be epochal and hardwood lumber manu- 

 facturers in tills part of the hardwood producing territory are looking 



forward to it with interest and with confidence in what it will accom- 

 plish in behalf of the industry, 



Memphis Wants Adequate Barge Terminals 



The Lumbermen's Cluli of Memphis, at its regular semi-nionthly meet- 

 ing at the Hotel Gayoso, Saturday afternoon, November 2, the first for 

 some time because of the inlluenza epidemic, decided upon the continuance 

 of its river and rail terminals committee and instructed the chairman of 

 that committee, F. E. Stonebraker, to invite the co-operation of the 

 Memphis Cotton Exchange, Memphis Merchants' Exchange and other busi- 

 ness organizations, whose members handle freight in carload lots, in 

 securing river terminals capable of handling carload freight. 



The club listened to the report of this committee and to an address by 

 B. L. Mallory, chairman of the central committee having In charge the 

 question of location of the terminals. Much disappointment was felt over 

 the purchase of the property belonging to the Memphis River & Rail Stor- 

 age Company at the toot of (ieorgia avenue, because of its location and 

 because of the very small facilities there for loading and unloading freight 

 to and from the government river barge line. Indeed, It was disappoint- 

 ment over this question that caused the lumbermen to decide upon an 

 attempt to induce the city commission to buy an additional terminal site 

 and to install facilities for handling freight in carload lots, leaving the 

 present terminals for handling package freight. 



Lumber interests are anxious to see river traffic built up and to see 

 logs, lumber and forest products handled to and from Memphis on the 

 government barge line, but they are confident that there will be no such 

 development if the present terminals are the only ones available. 



S. B. .\nderson, head of the .\nderson-Tully Company, called attention 

 to the forthcoming united war work campaign. He declared that the lum- 

 bermen had never fallen down in this kind of work, and that it would 

 never do for them to lag behind at this stage of the game. Mr. Anderson 

 will head the team soliciting contributions from the lumbermen and Is 

 confident that results will be highly gratifying. 



Resolutions of respect to the memory of the late Everett True Bennett, 

 charter member of the club and its first president, were adopted by unani- 

 mous vote and ordered spread upon the minutes of the meeting. High 

 tribute was paid to the splendid character and unswerving loyalty of the 

 deceased. 



The attendance was unusually large. J. F. McSweyn presided. The 

 usual luncheon was served. 



Meeting to Organize Export Department 



There will be a meeting at Memphis on Tuesday, November 19, of the 

 executive and advisory committees, recently appointed by James E. Stark, 

 president of the Southern Hardwood Traffic .Association, to work out 

 definite plans for the establishment of an export department to handle 

 all phases of foreign and coastwise movements of hardwood lumber and 

 forest products from southern and eastern producing territory. 



The meeting was called by George C. Eheniann, chairman of the execu- 

 tive committee. It is anticipated that all members of both committees 

 will be present and that, when they have completed their deliberations on 

 that date, there will be a pretty clear and pretty definite idea of the scope 

 of the operations of this department and of the manner In which it pro- 

 poses to perform its functions. 



The other two members of the executive committee besides George C. 

 Ehemann are : Walker L. Wellford, president of the Chickasaw Cooperage 

 Company, Memphis, and S. N. Nlckey, head of the Green River Lumber 

 Company, this city. 



Members of the advisory committee are : John W. McClure, Bellgrade 

 Lumber Company ; F. B. Robertson, Ferguson-Palmer Company, Inc. ; 

 W. A. Ransom, Gayoso Lumber Company ; W. H. Russe, Russe & Burgess, 

 Inc. ; F. Grismore, Grismore-Ilyman Company, and R. L. Jurden, Penrod, 

 Jurden & McCowen, Inc., all of Memphis ; Ferd Brenner, Ferd Brenner 

 Lumber Company, Alexandria, La. ; T. M. Brown, Louisville, Ky. ; Frank F. 

 B^ee, Pee-Crayton Lumber Company, Dermott, Ark. ; George Land, Lamb- 

 Fish Lumber Company, Charleston, Miss. ; C. F. Korn, Korn-Conkling 

 Lumber Company, Cincinnati, O., and E. B. Norman, Louisville, Ky. 



Walker L. Wellford of the executive committee and Mr. Grismore of 

 the advisory committee are representatives, respectively, of tight and slack 

 cooperage interests In this movement. The former Is president and the 

 latter vice-president of United Cooperage Industries. 



The other gentlemen have been chosen with particular reference to the 

 sections in which they operate so that they shall be able to give the asso- 

 ciation the benefit of knowledge on conditions in their own respective 

 areas. The entire southern and eastern hardwood producing regions are 

 covered by representation. 



Lumber interests here believe the war will soon be over, and that there 

 will be not only a large demand for hardwood lumber, but facilities for 

 shipping it. They are therefore anxious to have the department In work- 

 ing order before the war ends. 



J. H. Townshend, secretary-manager of the association, says that he Is 

 already receiving requests from lumbermen not identified with the asso- 

 ciation, as well as from members, to handle their bookings and other phases 

 of their export business. Mr. Townshend announced on Tuesday that he 



