October 25. 1921 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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interests under the name of Shafer-McT.aughlin & Ilillier, Inc., with sales 

 office at South Bend, Ind.. and mill and yard at Portland, Ore. 



The new organization will market western forest products, as did its 

 oredecessors. The personnel of the new organization will be as fcdlows : 



President — John I. Shafcr. 



Vice-president — H. H. McLaughlin. 



Secretary-treasurer — Forest Ilillier. 



Mr. McLaughlin will have his office at Tortland and will be in general 

 charge of production and shipment, including the mill and yard at 

 Portland. 



Mr. Ilillier will have general charge of sales and will have his office 

 at G19 J. M. S. building. South Bend. 



The parties interested have had over twenty years of experience in the 

 lumber business. 



Louisiana Red Cypress Company to Open Hardwood 

 Office in Memphis 



Beginning November 1 the hardwood department of the Louisiana Red 

 Cypress Company of New Orleans, La., will be located in the Bank of 

 Commerce & Trust Company building, Memphis, Tenn. In making this 

 announcement Chris A. Walker, manager of the hardwood department of 

 this company, said that the change is being made because Memphis is so 

 obviously the logical point for such a department. "It will put us in 

 closer touch with our customers, which will enable us to serve them more 

 advanta.geously," said Mr. Walker. "It will also bring us closer to our 

 mills, and to what we consider the hardwood center of the United States. 

 We are confident this move will prove beneficial to both our customers, our 

 mills and ourselves." 



The Louisiana Red Cypress Company has just made connections with 

 another mill from which to draw hardwoods to be handled through this 

 department. These arrangements were made about October 10 with the 

 Brown-Ingram Lumber Company, Poston, S. C, and provide for the 

 exclusive handling of the output of their eight-foot band mill at Poston. 

 This mill has approximately 100.000.000 feet of timber back of it, com- 

 posed of sweet gum, oak. ash. poplar, sycamore and tupelo. The largest 

 per cent is sweet gum. which runs exceptionally good to red. The texture 

 of the gum is said to be equal to the Louisiana and Arkansas stock and 

 to run a little better to red than the gum in the named states. The mill is 

 very completely equipped and has yarding and other space to care for 

 fifteen to twenty million feet of lumber. The mill is now operating full 

 time, producing 35.000 feet of luml)er per day. The logs are being cut so 

 that they can produce 70 to SO per cent of 14-foot and IG-foot stock, of 

 whif'h 50 per cent is 16-foot. 



Clubs and Associations 



National Chamber of Commerce Forestry Committee to Meet in 

 New Orleans 



Continuing its investigation of forestry conditions througliout the 

 country, the Committee on Forestry Policy of the Chamber of Commerce 

 of the United States will hold hearings at New Orleans on November 

 14. 15 and 16. This Comniittoe was appointed to recommend to the 

 United States Chamber a national forestry policy. 



At the New Orleans hearings, the committee hopes to get all the 

 information possible concerning the forestry situation in the South, South- 

 west and Middle West. Invitations to attend the hearing will be sent to 

 men interested in the various phases of the forestry question in those 

 parts of the country. The list of those invited to the hearings includes 

 lumbermen, conservationists, officials of national and state forest services, 

 directors of experiment stations, college professors and other scien- 

 tists interested in forestry work, county agents, members of the Society 

 of American Foresters, editors of trade journals interested in forestry, 

 and large lumber, paper and pulp, and other wood using associations. 



Similar hearings have been hold in Chicago, Minneapolis, Spokane, 

 Seattle, Portland and San Francisco. The Committee spent time investi- 

 gating actual conditions in the timber lauds of the northwest and Pacific 

 Coast. 



The committee will conclude its hearings in Washington in December 

 when the various forestry interests of the east and north,east will have an 

 opportunity to be heard. Following the Washington hearing, the committee 

 will prepare its report, which may be made the basis for a referendum 

 to be taken by the United States Chamber of Commerce. 



London's New Hardwood CIF Proposal Creates Interest Among 

 U. S. Exporters 



^luch interest was manifested in Baltimore among hardwood exporters 

 in the account of a meeting of the hardwood section of the Timber 

 Trades Federation publlshi'd in the London Timber Trades Journal, at 

 which the proposed form of Hardwood CIF. contract, formulated by the 

 hardwood contract committee, was considered. The form was approved, 

 subject to slight alterations, the report said, and the secretary was 

 instructed to forward a copy of the form as approved to the National 

 Lumber Exporters' Association. 



This contract form was one of the principal matters considered at the 



last annual meeting of the N. L. E. A. held in New Orleans, and it again 

 came up at the semi-annual mi^etlng held in Chicago. The Timber 

 Trade Federation had rejected a previous draft of contract, which had 

 the indorsement of the N. L. E. A., and had drawn up another, with 

 various changes, which in turn failed to receive the approval of the 

 N. L. E. A. The association received the I'eport of the committee and 

 continued the latter, a further revised form of contract being taken back 

 to London by (lustave A. Farber, British representative of Kusse & 

 Burgess, Inc., of Memphis, as the delegate for the N. L. E. A. Presumably 

 it was this revised draft which came up for consideration, at the London 

 meeting, though, whether the changes nmde there will be more accept- 

 able than were the old ones, remains to be seen. 



Keceipt of the revised draft by the N. L. E. A. is awaited with interest, 

 and it is thought that the association will have to give its O. K. before 

 the matter can be rcgarderl as ttnally disposed *.f. 



Evansville Opposes National Agreements 

 At the regular monthly meeting of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club held 

 at the New Vendome hotel in that city on Tuesday night, October 11, the 

 club went on record as endorsing the action of the executive committee of 

 the National Industrial Traffic League requesting that the railway execu- 

 tives abrogate immediately the so-called national agreements made effective 

 during the period of federal control and which in the opinion of the execu- 

 tive committee of the league expired with the return of the railroads to 

 private management. 



Louisville Club Restores Weekly Schedule 

 The Louisville Hardwood Club at a meeting on October IN, decided to 

 go back to its old system of meeting every week instead of every other 

 w'eek. For years the club met weekly, and claimed to be one of the only 

 lumber clubs in the couutry that met that frequently. For a time 

 meetings were held twice a month, and then back to the weekly plan 

 which was again abandoned for the every other week plan. ,\rgument 

 came up when the question arose as to holding the annual meeting on 

 election night, November 8, which was not a regular meeting night, but 

 a date upon which the club had met annually throughout its history. 

 The first Tuesday of November, following the first Monday, is always 

 election night as a tradition of the dul). 



An interesting feature of the last regular meeting of the Louisville 

 Hardwood Club was in the fact that it was the first time in months that 

 every member was represented, and when every member reported good 

 business. Not a single dissenting voice was heard, and everyone reported 

 improved business and fair prospects. 



Southwestern Club Meets 



-V distinct tone of optimism prevailed at the regular monthly meeting 

 of the Southwestern Hardwood Manufacturers' Club at the New Orleans 

 Lumbermen's Club, Carondelet and Union streets, Thursday. October 13. 

 The meeting was attended by upward of a score of leading manufacturers 

 from the three states of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi comprising the 

 club and the trend of the messages brought by delegates from the broad 

 territory was uniformly to the effect that the hardwood industry is now 

 turning the corner of depression sharply and before many weeks should 

 follow the southern pine market in its improvement. 



President C. J. Coppock, representing the Cybur Lumber Company, 

 Cybur. Miss., presided and George Schaad of the New Orleans office of 

 the Southern Hardwood Traffic substituted as secretary for A. C. Bowen, 

 detained in Memphis. 



Short, crisp talks were made by a number of prominent manufacturers 

 and others. Including the following : 



Phil Lanier, president of the New Orleans Lumbermen's Club, who 

 welcomed the hardwood manufacturers to the new club quarters in 

 felicitous terms; Chris A. Walker, manager of the hardwood department 

 of the Louisiana Red Cypress Company; J. E. Edwards, president. Hillyer 

 Deutsch Edwards, Inc., Oakdale, La. ; W. Brown Morgan, S. T. Alcus & 

 Co., New Orleans; H. G. Bohlssen of the Bohlssen Mfg. Co., Ewing, Texas; 

 L. P. DuBose, manager, hardwood department, A. J. Higgins Lumber & 

 Export Company, New Orleans and others. 



Production has made a slight change for the better, it appeared from 

 expressions of representative manufacturers from throughout the tri-statc 

 territory and now probably is about twenty-flvc per cent of normal. 

 There Is a general shortage of stocks of all the better grades ; that is, 

 from No. 1 Common up and there is at last some slight movement, though 

 not as yet considerable, of the lower grades. 



The big problem before the manufacturers, at the present time, it 

 appears is to be able to provide a sufficiency of the better grades with 

 the Winter season coming on with its consequent further curtailment of 

 output and all mills in a position to do so are doing all within their 

 power to build up their stocks of the better grades. Further optimism 

 was expressed over the outlook for freight rate reductions at an early 

 date and this was branded again as the big drawback to the dullness in 

 the market for the lower grades ; the item of freight literally knocking 

 this business out. 



On motion of Mr. Sherrill of Merryville the meeting passed a resolution 

 of thanks to J. E. O'Rourke, manager of the New Orleans branch of the 

 American Overseas Forwarding Company, for his efforts in obtaining a 

 substantial reduction in ocean freight rates on forest products. 



The next meeting date was set for Thursday, November 10, and all 

 meetings hereafter will be held at the New Orleans Lumbermen's Club. 



