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HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Joint Meeting of the Executive and Sales Code Committee of 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association 



The Sales Code Committee of the National llaniwood Lumber Associa- 

 tion will meet in Chicago on January 18 and li), for the purpose of review- 

 ing the progress which the committee has made since it was created at the 

 annual meeting in Philadelphia. Pa., last June, for the purpose of formulat- 

 ing a code which can be presented for the judgment of the members 

 assembled in annual convention in 1922. The meeting will be held in 

 <'onjnnction with a meeting of the Executive Committee of the association, 

 which has been called by Horace F. Taylor, president, for January IS. 



That the Code Committee will be able to report a satisfactory progress 

 is assured by the relentless vigor with which Earl Palmer of ttie Ferguson 

 & Palmer Company, Inc.. of Memphis, chairman of the committee, has 

 pursued his difficult and important task. All of Mr. Palmer's unequaled 

 experience in the hardwood industry and his characteristic energy has been 

 devoted "for six months to the task of securing and sifting suggestions 

 for the proposed code. The committee has been in correspondence with 

 about forty otlier lumber and lumber-buying trade organizations and all 

 interested groups of the hardwood and allie<l industries have been given 

 a chance to submit their ideas. Thus there is every assurance that the 

 ultimate result will be a Sales Code that will be equitable and practicable 

 enough to win the support of all concerned. The committee has been fully 

 impressed with the enormity and vast importance of its task and has 

 spared no effort to discharge the onerous duty faithfully. 



At the meeting In Chicago plans will be formulated for completing 

 the work. 



The Executive Committee will have some important matters to consider, 

 among which will be the selection of the time and place for the twenty- 

 fifth annual meeting. With the termination of the association's current 

 fiscal year it will complete a quarter century of existence, and considerable 

 sentiment is being expressed among the members to the effect that the 

 twenty-fifth annual should be planned as a special event of its kind in 

 honor of the occasion it represents. 



Greer Re-elected by Evansville Club 

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

 that was held at the New Vendome Hotel at Evansville. Ind., on Tuesday 

 evening, December 13, John C. Greer, of the J. C. Greer Lumber Company, 

 was re-elected president to serve the ensuing year. Gus Bauman, of the 

 Maley & Wertz Lumber Company, was re-elected vice-president and William 

 S. Partington, of the Maley & Wertz Lumber Company, was chosen again 

 as secretaiy and treasurer. Charles A. Wolflin, of the WolQin West Side 

 Lumber Company ; George H. Foote, of the Evansville Band Mill Com- 

 pany, and Daniel Wertz, of the Maley &. Wertz Lumber Company, were 

 thosen as directors. The new oflBcers will be Installed at the next meet- 

 ing of the club, which will be on Tuesday evening, January 11. 



awarded to E. C. Atkins & Co.. saw manufacturers of Indianapolis. 

 Officials of the company received many direct orders as a result of the 



With the Trade 



F. T. Turner Enters Russe & Burgess, Inc. 



Franklin T. Turner, presiilcnt of tbe Darnell-Love Lumlier Company. 

 Leiand, Miss., has purchased The entire interest of P. Stenning Coate in 

 Russe & Burgess, Inc., Memphis, and has succee<led that gentleman as 

 treasurer of this well known hardwood exporting firm, according to 

 announcement made by W. H. Russe. president. 



It is a noteworthy fact that Mr. Turner began his lumber career just 

 nineteen years ago as office boy in the firm in which he has secured the 

 entire interest formerly owneil by the late George D. Burgess, one of his 

 earlier superiors. Mr. Turner showed remarkable ability from the start 

 and has, in recent years, secured the controlling interest in the Darnell- 

 Love Lumber Compan.v, which operates two large band mills at Leiand, 

 Miss., which has extensive timber land holdings in that territory, and 

 which recently announced the beginning of construction of a plant at 

 Panther Burn. Miss., with a daily capacity of lOD.OOd shingles. 



Mr. Turner has already delivered a large quantity of cypress logs to 

 Russe & Burgess, Inc., at Memphis, and he will keep a steady flow of all 

 varieties of hardwood logs moving to the Memphis plant of this firm. The 

 latter, as a result, was placed in full operation a few days ago after hav- 

 ing been run rather intermittently for the past year or more. 



Mr. Turner will remove to .Memphis after .January 1 and makehis head- 

 quarters there. 



His entrance into Russe & Burgess, Inc.. will not affect any of the 

 stockholders or officers with the single exception of Mr. Coate. whom he 

 succeeds as trea.surer. Mr. Coate. following the death of Mr. Burgess, took 

 over the entire holdings of the latter. 



Atkins' Exhibit Wins First Prize 



The fii-st prize for the liest exhil.it of the three humlred and eighty-three 

 shown at the recent Industrial exhibition given in Indianapolis by the 

 manufacturers' committee of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce was 



E. C. Atkins Company's Prize-Winning Display 



exhibit and secured a list of prospective buyers. Their exhibit was quite 

 pretentious, and in addition to an assorted display of highly polished 

 saws, the largest band saw in the world, which was sixty-nine feet long, 

 was shown. The members of the National Purchasing .-Vgents' Association, 

 who attended the convention here during the week of the exposition, made 

 a trip through the exhibits. 



Bonita Will Start About January 1st 



F. E. Stonehraker, president of the I'.unita Luinl>ei- Company. Bonita, 

 La., is authority for the statement that the band mill of that firm will be 

 placed in operation about Jan. 1, 1922. This is practically a new mill, 

 having been completed during the present year and having been operated, 

 on account of market conditions!, only a little while. 



The Bonita Lumber Company is controlled by the same interests, the 

 Crittenden Lumber Company and the L. H. Gage Lumber Company, which 

 operated so extensively in the territory tributary to ISarle. Crittenden 

 County. Ark., a short distance west of Memphis. These interests pur- 

 chased timber lands near Bonita when they had cut their holdings in 

 Crittenden County and constructed a new mill to develop the timber on 

 these. 



Mr. Stonehraker. who was in Memphis some days ago. stated that very 

 little logging is possible in southeastern Arkansas and that the majority 

 of the mills in Helena and other towns in that section are very poorly 

 supplied with logs. He pointed out that efforts to get out timber were 

 being frustrated by the large amount of surface water resulting from 

 recent heavy precipitation. This evidence is substantiated by the state- 

 ment that Helena mills have only one to five days' log supply ahead of 

 their plants, and by the additional fact that some firms there with more 

 than one mill are not attempting to operate all of their machinery. 



Keith Leaves Estate to Widow 

 Tlie late J. Frank Keith, president .■!' the Keith Lumber Company, 

 mantifacturers of yellow pine and hardwood, who died in Beaumont 

 November 6. left his entire estate to his widow, Mrs. .\lice Keith, by the 

 terms of his will. Mr. Keith directed that no legal action other than 

 probating the will be taken, and that his widow have complete control of 

 the estate to manage and dispose of as she might see fit. The estate is 

 estimated to have a value of .$4ii0.non. 



Wilsons Form Wholesale Firm 

 Cincinnati has added another wholesale lumber concern to its already 

 long list. The latest a<lditiou is that of the Wilson Brothers Lumber 

 Company, which has opened an office in the Second National Bank Build- 

 ing. The concern, which will specialize in West Virginia and soutliern 

 hardwoods, will be conducted b.v C. J. Wilson and R. E. Wilson, who have 

 formed a partnership. C. J. Wilson is widely known in lumber circles in 

 this locality, having been identified with the Mowbray & Robinson Lumber 

 Company for many years and more recently with the George C. Brown 

 & Co. of Memphis, Tenn. 



Louisville Firms Consolidate 



.Vnnovincement was made in I,ouisvi!le on December 10 of a merger of 

 lii<-;il lumber interests, when Olaf Anderson, Hi:, of the I^uisville Planing 

 Mill and well known as a hardwood and veneer manufacturer, purchased 

 the Alfred Struck Co., manufacturers of millwork, sash, greenhouses, 

 silos, etc., and operators of a large planing mill, contracting business, etc. 

 Mr. Anderson's son, Olaf. Jr., and brother, Charles .\ndcrson, are inter- 

 ested with him in the firm. 



