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V.KU EXEiTTlVE BOARD BEU EXECUTIVE BOARD 



tee. This motion being duly carried, the president announced that 

 he would read the names of this committee later. 



President DeLaney introduced John A. Fox, representing the ilis- 

 sissippi River Levee Association. Mr. Fox announced that he had 

 requested the opportunity of addressing the meeting on behalf of 

 the levee project and then told in a very concise and convincing way 

 of the purposes and importance of that proposition. He stated that 

 he had asked for the opportunity because an adequate levee 

 system is essential to the lumber interests operating in the 

 29,000 square miles embraced in the Mississippi delta. He stated 

 that thirty-one states send their overflow water down through the 

 Mississippi and that the damage resulting from the insuflBcient 

 levees is tremendous. 



He stated that his association is trying to bring the national con- 

 gress to a full realization of the importance of work of this sort 

 and stated that it is vastly different from any flood problem that 

 confronts any nation or locality on the globe. According to the 

 statement of Mr. Fox, .$70,000,000 have already been secured through 

 local taxes and the project needs a further $60,000,000 to put it 

 through. He stated, however, that in his opinion the government 

 wUl concede its duty in this direction and take hold of the rest of 

 the work to be accomplished. The Mississippi Eiver Levee Associa- 

 tion was formed for the purpose of pushing this project and is now 

 urging the passage of the Ransdell-Humphreys bill at Washington, 

 which will provide for an appropriation of $12,000,000 a year for 

 five years, to be used for purposes as outlined by government en- 

 gineers. He suggested that interested lumbermen lend their assist- 

 ance to securing the passage of this bill. 



E. H. Vansant then presented a resolution bearing on this project, 

 as follows: 



WuERF.As, The hardwood lumber industry of the United States is serious- 

 ly Injured by reason of the floods in the lower Mississippi valley ; and 



W'HERE,vs, These floods are caused by the drainage waters of thirty-one 

 states of the nation, or more than forty-one per cent of its total area, thus 

 rendering the problem distinctly a national one ; and 



Whereas, Plans and estimates have already been submitted by the corps 

 of engineers of the United States Army and by the Mississippi River Com- 

 mission for controlling these floods by a system of levees and bank revet- 

 ments, at a cost not to exceed $00,000,000 ; and 



WHEREA.S, A measure known as the Ransdell-Humphreys bill, now before 

 Congress, provides for an appropriation of such moneys as are needed to 

 carry these plans into effect ; therefore, be it 



Resolved, By the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the United 

 States, In session at Memphis, Tenn., this 21st day of January. 1014. that 

 we heartily endorse said measure as affording the most direct, feasible and 

 practical means of solving the flood problem in the lower Mississippi river 

 and respectfully recommend it to the members of Congress as worthy of 

 their support ; be it further 



Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be sent to the president and 

 vice-president of the United States, to each member of the cabinet and to 

 each member of the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress. 

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President DeLaney announced the nominating committee as Simon 

 Lieberman, Nashville, chairman; E. L. Davidson, Parkersburg, W. 

 Va. ; Leon Isaacson, Coal Grove, O. 



James Boyd of New Orleans then read the following interesting 

 paper on logging methods and the Southern Loggers' Association: 



Logging 



On account of the good work of the Southern Logging Association, or- 

 ganized by me in 1910. which has come to its attention, the board of gov- 

 ernors of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the United States 

 invited me to talk to you today about logging. 



There is no department of lumbering, with the possible exception of 

 the sales department, where there is an opportunity for so much loss as 

 in the logging department. 



Prof. R. C. Bryant, professor of lumbering. Yale Forest School, Yale 

 University, in a recent letter says : 



I have traveled over the greater part of the South durinc the last 

 seven or eight years, and have visited a good many operations. One 

 thing that strongly impressed me in the logging work has been the lack 

 of standardization of lodging methods, even where operators were work- 

 ing under conditions that were very .similar. I have always felt that 

 the southern logger knows too little about what his neighbor is doing, 

 and for several years I have advocated in a quiet way amongst my 

 friends in the South who are engaged in the lumber business, the advisa- 

 bilit.v of sending their logging superintendents around to visit operations 

 of at least the companies "in their vicinity. 



1 believe that yoiir association can do a great work by attacking the 

 problem of standardizing melhoos of operation in the South. It is pos- 

 sible that you already have this in mind. It would seem to me that it 

 would be money well spent to employ one of your most efficient loggers 

 to study the various methods of operation, and to bring before the mem- 

 bers of your association the best points of the more efljcient operations. 

 I do not know of anything that would be of more real value to the in- 

 dustry than work of this sort. 



The object of the Southern Logging Association is to bring about a low 

 cost of logging, which can be done only by standardization, while stand- 

 ardization can only be accomplished by a discussion of methods at frequent 

 intervals by men who are actively engaged In logging operations. The 

 Southern Logging Association affords the medium of exchange of ideas and 

 experiences in an orderly manner. Its greatest accomplishment has been 

 to stimulate each superintendent to compete with himself, so that he is 

 constantly lowering his costs. Instead of approaching his work with an 

 attitude to get through with it anyway so it is done, he makes a study of 

 it. having in mind solely how it can be done in the quickest time and at 

 the lowest cost. 



At our meetings we take up every phase of logging. We usually begin 

 with the tree, ending with the mill pond. In the last two years lower 

 stumps are common practice, resulting in a saving of considerable lumber In 

 the best log in the tree. One of our members says his employer says that 

 since he attended our meetings he saves twenty per cent of what he used 

 to waste. Laying out spurs and building railroads are subjects that are 

 al»-ays fruitful for discussion. It has developed that steel gangs handle 

 four, five and sis rails a day up and down to a man. The superintendents 

 who were getting only four rails found out that they were deficient, so 

 when they got home they speeded up their gangs. Some men use hewn 

 ties, others poles. A variation In the prices paid for ties resulted In sav- 

 ings to those who had been paying too much. 



At one of our meetings inquiry was made as to the cost of unloading 

 coal burned in locomotives. It was found that it varied from $3.20 to 

 $lo a car. The $15 man was using his section crew to do the work. One 

 man said he had been paying $10 a car, which he thought too much, so 

 he looked around, finding a man who would do it for $5. He then found 

 some men who would unload it for eight cents a ton. Another man said 



