Decembf-r 27>, lOlS 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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November Inspection Work 



During; November the ins[>t'ct»>rs of hardwood luiiiluT in the employ of 

 the National Hardwood Lumber Association, inspected 13,824,113 feet. 

 Approximately three-fourths of it was handled by salaried inspectors and 

 the remainder by those who worked for fees. 



Indiana Hardwood Men to Meet 



On January 16 the twentieth annual meeting of the Indiana Hard- 

 wood Lumbermen's Association will be held at the Claypool hotel, Indian 

 apolis, and a banquet will constitute part of the program, at seven p. m, 

 of that day. The business session will be held in the afternoon and an 

 interesting program has been prepared. The call for the meeting was sent 

 out Decemlier 15 by Edgar Richardson, secretary-treasurer of the associa- 

 tion. 



Lumber Inspection Fees Increased 



The National Hardwood Lumber Assofintiun lias made the following 

 notice prominent in its monthly bulletin fur I>ecember, concerning the 

 fees and costs of inspecting lumber : 



Beginning the first of August, 191S, the fees for the measurement and 

 inspection of hardwood lumber were increased to seventy-five cents per 

 thousand feet on all woods excepting cherry, rock elm, figured and quar- 

 tered gum, hickory, pecan, mahogany, walnut, quartered woods and strips, 

 for which the charge will be $1.00 per thousand feet. This increase was 

 made necessary by the advance in salaries which, in conformity with 

 present conditions, we were obliged to pay all of our inspectors. For the 

 present the charge of ?6 per day on account of time lost, and the mini- 

 mum fee of $3 on small lots will not be increased. 



Change Date for National Directors* Meeting 



The National Hardwood Lumber Association office at Chicago announces 

 that the date for the semi-annual meeting of the board of directors has been 

 changed from Friday, January 24, to Friday, January 17. The change was 

 made in order to avoid conflict with other meetings to be held in .different 

 parts of the country that might interfere with the attendance of some of 

 the directors. The meeting will take place in the association offices at 

 10 a. m. 



Knoxville Lumber Club Election 

 E. M. Vestal, vice-pn'sident and secretary of the Vestal Lumber and 

 Manufacturing Company, Knoxville, Teun.. was unanimously re-elected 

 president of the Lumbermen's Club of Knoxville at the meeting held in 

 the Atkin Hotel, Saturday, December 7, as were also the other officers, 

 vice-president Walter McCabe, secretary H. C. Kopcke and treasurer J. C. 

 Kimball. The society is not yet one year old, and because of the good 

 work done in such a short time it was decided that the first officers de- 

 served another good, full term. 



W. W. Barnard, the well known lumberman of Greeneville, Tenn., was 

 elected an associate member and C. D. Newport, the new manager for 

 the Knoxville office of the Frampton-Foster Lumber Company of Pitts- 

 burgh, was taken into full fellowship. 



Colonel J. W. Andes of the Andes Lumber Company, who has been in 



the officers training 

 camp at Atlanta, told 

 how he went over the 

 top there. 



The meetings of this 

 club have their greatest 

 value in the exchange of 

 ideas, practically every 

 member taking part. 



A forward step was 

 taken by the club in se- 

 curing a clubroom in 

 the Sterling hotel ar- 

 ' ade. adjoining the mod- 

 ern nine-story Farragut 

 hotel, just being com- 

 pleted in the heart of 

 Knoxville's business dis- 

 trict. This will be open 

 at all times for members 

 and lumbermen visiting 

 in the city. 



The club is growing 

 rapidly taking in new 

 members every week, 

 especially since it wid- 

 ened its scope to receive 

 members from all east 

 Tennessee. 



F. R. Gadd was a re- 

 cent visitor to the club 



We have the 

 Following Stock: 



HIGH CLASS STOCK FOR PROMPT DELIVERY 



PELICAN LUMBER CO. 



MOUND, LA. 



E. M. VESTAL, 

 Re-elected President Knoxville Club. 



und sciiin-d (inilr ;i miinlifr (if uiL-niberships fur llie new hartlwncMi nssoeia- 

 tion. 



Northern Lumbermen Organize New Export Bureau 



At a meeting (it the emergency committee of the Northern Harilwood 

 Emergency Bureau, held in Chicago, Tuesday, December 17. steps were 

 taken looking to the formation of a corporation to handle the export trade 

 in birch, beech, maple, basswood, elm, and ash. 



The Northern Hardwood Emergency Bureau is made up of the menibers 

 of the Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Association, Oshkosh, Wis., and of 

 the Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, Cadillac. Mich. Its 

 work in meeting government lumber requirements has been practically 

 completed and under the plans proposed at Chicago the new organization 

 will in effect move the emergency bureau branch office from Washington 

 to Paris. 



It is the belief of the northern lumbermen from Wisconsin ami Mi<'higan 

 who atteniled the ctmference that northern hardwoods have not been 

 properly exploited aliroad and that new markets await these woods if an 

 energetic campaign is undertaken at once. 



Under the plan worked out by the committee, a sura will be raised 

 immediately sutScient to finance a thorough investigation of the hardwood 

 markets in England. France. Belgium, Spain. Portugal and Italy. This 

 sum will be underwritten by such members of the two northern associa- 

 tions as care to participate in the direct foreign trade. 



The flrms which bear their pro-rata share of the <'cist of the investiga- 

 tive work for thr' next six mouths will be eligible to membership in the 

 t^xport corporation which will then be fprmed- 



Roy H. Jones, who has represented the emergency bureau ut Washington 

 to the great satisfaction of the northern manufacturers, has been engaged 

 to represent the new organization abroad and will leave this c-ountry 

 shortly after January 1. 



During the investigation period the management of the work will be 

 vested in an executive committee selected by the underwriters and will 

 be administered by the present officers of the emergency bureau, C. A. 

 Bigelow. Bay City. Mich., chairman : O. T. Swan. Oshkosh, Wis., manager, 



Every producer of 

 northern hartlwoiid proil- 

 ucts will have the oppor 

 tunity to participate in 

 the underwriting and so 

 t o establish eligibility 

 for membership in the 

 export corporation. 



Among those present 

 at the organization 

 meeting were: C. .\. 

 Bigelow. Bay City. 

 Mich. ; W. L. Saunders. 

 Cadillac, Mich. ; R. B. 

 (Joodman. Marinette-, 

 Wis. : G. N. Harder, Rib 

 Lake, Wis. ; A. L. Os 

 born. Oshkosh, Wis. ; M. 

 J. Fox. Iron Mountain. 

 Mich. : M. P. .McCul 

 lough. Schofield. Wis. ; 

 Mr. Jackson, G r and 

 Rapids, Mich. ; (). 'I'. 

 Swan, Oshkosh, Wis. 



Mr. Jones Is splen 

 didly qualified to carry 

 on investigation, having 

 been directly connei-ted 

 with the lumber busi 

 ness all his life. roy h. JONES WILL GO ABROAD 



