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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 25, 1919 



B 1220 — Hickory Rim Strips 



Wapakoneta, O., March J, 1919.— Editor Haudwood Record: We are 

 in the market this year for hickory rim strips suitable for bending, sizes 

 ranging from 1%" square to 3" square, 6' and 7' long. If any of your 

 members are in position to furnish this stock we would be pleased to have 

 their quotations. - 



Date of Implement Manufacturers' Meeting 



The twenty-sixth annual convention of the National Implement & 

 Vehicle .Vssociation will be held in Chicago in October, according to the 

 decision of the executive committee of the association. Invitations from 

 a number of leading cities were considered, but for many reasons it was 

 deemed advisable to hold the big convention again in Chicago where is 

 located the general offices of the association. 



Inspection Staff Changes 

 The March issue of the official bulletin of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 ABSOciation says that D. W. Ravesies, deputy national inspector at Col- 

 fax, La., has resigned and A. H. Tucker has been appointed to succeed him, 

 but will make his headquarters at ShreveiKirt, La, All applications for 

 inspection work in that district should be addressed to A. H. Tucker, 1241 

 Oakland street, Shreveport, La. 



,7. L. Benson, assistant deputy national inspector at New Orleans, La., 

 lias re.-^igned and his successor will be appointed as soon as proper selec- 

 tion for the position can be made. 



R. K. Boutwell, deputy national inspector at Jellico, Tenn., has resigned 

 and his successor will bo appointed as soon as possible. 

 Meeting of Southwestern Club 

 The Southwestern Hardwood Manufacturers' Club met at Alexandria, 

 La., on March 19. The meeting was held in conjunction with an open 

 competition plan meeting of the American Hardwood Manufacturers' As- 

 sociation. 



President P. A. R.yan of Lutkiu, Tex., was in the chair. A large delega- 

 tion of southwestern hardwood men attended. 



The main subject for discussion was ways and means of increasing the 

 membership in the club by members to be recruited from that section of 

 the country. 



J. B. Robinson of Mound, La., who is chairman of the southwestern 

 territory for the open price competition plan, presided at the open price 

 meeting which followed the Southwestern club's session. 



The deliberations of the open price meeting were made up mainly of 

 market discussions which brought out a marked curtailment In hardwood 

 stocks, production being limited by about fifteen per cent. 



Members in attendance generally agreed that there is very little pros- 

 pect tor early improvement in these conditions. Demand, according to 

 the members, is Increasing consistently and the outlook is for still fur- 

 ther activity for the spring months. 



New Orleans will be the next meeting place, it being planned to gather 

 there at the St. Charles hotel on April 10. 



Meeting of Memphis Club 

 The Lumbermen's Club of Memphis at its meeting at the Hotel Gayoso 

 last Saturday, March 15, subscribed $125 to the Mississippi Valley Wat- 

 erways' Association as its prorata of the fund it is raising from business 

 interests along the Mississippi river. This action was taken on motion 

 of George C. Ehemann, chairman of the river and rail committee. The 

 club is very much interested in the proposed rehabilitation of transpor- 

 tation on the Mississippi as a means of facilitating the movement of 

 heavy freight, with special reference to lumber, cotton, coal, steel and iron. 

 The members listened to an earnest appeal from Captain Henri Negre 

 who fought three years in the recent war and who is now a member of 

 the French High Commission. He is touring the United States in the 

 interest of the "Fatherless Children of France" and he told the lumber- 

 men what a pitiable plight would confront the more than one million 

 of these orphans if their generous friends in America suddenly withdrew 

 their support or failed to renew their pledges. He pointed out that most 

 of the pledges ran for a definite period and he begged that the members 

 of the club renew their pledges without delay, thus helping materially 

 in taking care of the children whose fathers lost their lives in the strug- 

 gle for freedom. 



President Jorgensen was authorized to, appoint a committee of inter- 

 ested lumbermen tp investigate the best course to follow to protect those 

 having sawmills on Little river, in Arkansas. The log supply is being 

 cut off from a number of these mills as a result of recent legislation in 

 Arkansas and their situation promises to be rather serious. 



J. C. Dean was elected an active member. He is president of the Cole 

 Manufacturing Company, Memphis. 



Bright Prospects for Export Association 



Very little hardwood lumber is being booked now for export, according 

 to the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association. The same authority says 

 that, while the U. S. Shipping Board advises that it does not contemplate 

 changing its ocean rate.s at this time, "nevertheless the tendency seems 

 to be toward a stiffening in the export rate" and adds : "We know of 

 lumber that is being exported at higher rates than those published by the 

 Shipping Board." 



The association says it hopes to obtain several steamers to United 

 Kingdom ports within the next thirty days and announces that distribu- 

 tion of such space as is secured will be made on the basis of the dates 

 this organization was advised of tonnage by its members. 



The association says also that it has approached the U. S. Railroad 

 Administration with respect to through bills of lading on lumber and for- 

 est products on all roads and expresses confidence in the belief that, as 

 soon as the situation clears somewhat and there is relief of some of the 

 congestion at the ports, "through bills of lading will be ordered via all 

 the railroads," 



Specifications Worked Out on Rotary Box Lumber 



The feature of the meeting of the Rotary Cut Box Lumber Manufac- 

 turers' Association at New Orleans March 18, according to John M. 

 Pritchard, secretar.v-manager of the American Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association, with which the former is identified, was the report of T. J. 

 Morris of the Anderson-Tully Company, who is chairman of the inspection 

 rules committee. He said his committee had had a joint meeting with a 

 committee from the wire bound box manufacturers' association and that 

 they had tentatively agreed upon inspection rules for recommendation to 

 their respective bodies. The Rotary Cut Box Lumber Manufacturers' 

 Association approved these recommendations with only such slight modi- 

 fications as would not in any way impair the original draft. Much satis- 

 faction was expressed over the fact that these two organizations, one rep- 

 resenting manufacturers of rotary cut box lumber and the other repre- 

 senting the largest consumers of this class of material, had been able to 

 get together on a mutually satisfactory and wholly harmonious basis. 



Interesting reports were submitted by other committees and definite 

 lines of action were marked out for the first year of this organization. 



In the discussion of market conditions, emphasis was laid on the short- 

 age of logs and on the inability of rotary cut lumber box manufacturers, 

 because of unfavorable weather conditions, to accumulate any surplus 

 stock of raw material. The association, according to Mr. Pritchard, is 

 optimistic regarding the outlook for business. It admits that there is 

 comiiaratively little buying at the moment but it points out that demand 

 is liroadening and the view is expressed that there will soon be a revival 

 of industry which will make large calls for the output of members of 

 the association as well as raw materials of all kinds. 



Ten new members were received at this meeting, as follows : 

 Independence Lumber & Box Company, Independence, La. 

 1!. J. McCnughey. Hattiesburg, Miss. 

 D. C. Anderson JIanutacturing Company, Houston, Tex. 

 White Veneer Company, Moss Point, Miss. 

 Hinton Manufacturing Company, McComb City, Miss. 

 Beatrice Veneer Works. Beatrice, Ala. 

 Ilepublic Fox Company, Inc. of Texas, Houston, Tex. 

 Mississippi Veneer Company, Saudersville, Miss. 

 Gilmer Ciate & Basket Company. Gilmer, Tex. 

 .Vcme "N'oneer Company, Omaha, Neb. 



It was decided to hold the next meeting the third Tuesday in April 

 which falls on the 22nd. 



Mr. Pritchard, who has just returned to Memphis, says that the rotary 

 cut box lumber manufacturers were slow in getting organized but that, 

 if one ma.v judge from the enthusiasm and energy displayed by the mem- 

 bers of this body since organization was effected, it must be recognized 

 as one of the most active and aggressive branches of the lumber industry. 

 Mr. Pritchard attended the open competition plan meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Hardwood JIauufacturers' Association meeting at .Mexandria, La., 

 March 19. 



Open Price Members Support Redfield Plan 

 Consideration of market conditions and approval of the plan of Secre- 

 tary of Commerce Redfield to stabilize industry were matters which 

 claimed the attention of members of the eastern division, American Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association, at a meeting under the Open Competi- 

 tion Plan at the Sinton Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 11. Those present 

 came from Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Ohio and Penn- 

 sylvania, about fort.v in all. 



"There is current a misconception of the Redfield plan," said Chairman 

 M. W. Stark, of St. Albans, W. Va. He explained that the plan as out- 

 lined by the secretary of commerce is to "bring about the operation of 

 the laws of supply and demand which were interfered with by the war." 

 The Redfield plan proposes a single cut in steel prices which will at 

 once bring price levels down to the point where no further cuts are 

 necessary. 



A number of speakers declared the Redfield plan was the best of the 

 many proposed to stabilize industry and the association went on record 

 as unanimously favoring Its adoption. A belief that the cost of living 

 must also decrease before the wages of workers are cut, also was expressed 

 by a number of speakers. 



Hardwood production in the eastern territory is sixty per cent of nor- 

 mal, Frank R. Gadd, of Memphis, Tenn., statistical manager of the Amerl- 



