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HARDWOOD RECORD 



JaniKuy 1(1. 1022 



Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers to Meet in 



Milwaukee 



The annual meeting: of the Northern Ili'iiilock & Hardwood Manufacturers 

 Association will be held at the Pfister Hotel, Milwaukee. Wis., on Fridaj', 

 January 20. Announcements to this effect have been sent out on behalf 

 of M. J. Fox, president. O. T. Swan, secretary-manager. 



President Fox has appointed A. L. O.'^born, G. N. Harder and AV. B. 

 Clubine, as a nominating committee to select and report proposed names 

 for the officers for the ensuing year. Nominations may also be made from 

 the floor of the convention and members are requested to write the nominat- 

 ing committee in case they desire to make suggestions regarding members 

 of the board of directors, president of the association, vice-president or 

 chairman of the several bui'caus. 



Northwestern Hardwood Association Committees Named 



The standing committees of the Northwestei'n Hardwood Lumbermen's 

 Association for the ensuing year have been named by N. C. Bennett, presi- 

 dent of that organization. The committees follow : 



I'rogram — R. F. Duncan, chairman; Payson Smith. T. T. Junes. U;iii- 

 road — A. F. Wrbsky, chairman. Forestry — A. B. Leasurc, cliairman. Pub 

 licity — A. S. Bliss, chairman. Statistical — J. M. Okoneski, chairman. 



McClure Issues Holiday Message 



Remembrance of tln' tlut\' nf loy.ilty ;ind sfMvire tn the association is 

 urged upon the members of tin- National Whtdesalc Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation by J. W. McCIure of Memphis, the prosiiient, in a holiday message. 

 Mr. McCIure voiced the belief that the help and protection of the associa- 

 tion enabled the members to escape many difficulties during the recent 

 period of depression that might otherwise have beset them. He proposed 

 that as an evidence of aiipi'^ciation of the value (»f the association "(»ach 

 member give one hour" of the holiday week "to obtaining one new applica- 

 tion for membership. Bring in your friend and neighbor for his good and 

 ours." he urged. "Have him start the new year right and you will render 

 a double service — you will have I.)enefite4l yinir friend and heljied the asso- 

 ciation. You will have the personal salisfaclion of doing a very excellent 

 service for your fellow members." 



The message closetl with the expression of a sincere wish for the blessing 

 of contentment and prosperity for the members during the new year. 



With the Trade 



Missouri Pacific Grants Nineteen Cents Rate 



The Missouri Pacitie system, jucoiding tu jniiu'iuneini-iit mjide Jiumaiy 

 4 by the Southern Ilaidwuod Trjiffic Asso<i:il ion, will put inio effect Jan. 7. 

 1922, a rate of lit cents per lnindre<l pounds on lumlier and lumber articles 

 moving from points on its lines in Northeastern Louisiana and Soulh- 

 eastcrn Arkansas— north of Monroe and Tallulah, La., and south of Mem- 

 phis — applicable to New Orleans and sub-ports for export via the Missouri 

 Pacific direct. A similar rate was established from points in Norlhern 

 Louisiana some time ago. 



The reduction thus effected amounts to about ij\-^ cents ]u-v bunili'd 

 pounds. 



The association states, in making this anniuincement, that it has been 

 working for over a year to secure the n4'w rates. 



It ai.so advises its members that District Manager (leorge Scbaad, Jr., 

 at New Orleans, has secured publication of rates on tlie part of the T. V. 

 & N. railroad of 17 to 21 cents per hundred pounds on lumber and lumber 

 articles moving from points on its lines to New Orleans for expctrt. 

 effective Jan. 30, 1922. This represents a reduction of 4 to S cents per 

 hundred pounds. 



The Missouri I'acitic, accoriling to the same antluirity. will reduce 

 handling charges at the p(»rt of New Orleans 2 cents per liundred pounds 

 as soon as the ne<'essary tariff corrections can be ma<ie. 



Secures Rough Material Tariffs Extension 



The Southern Hardwood Traffic Associn titin has begun tlie new year by 

 saving shippers of hardwood lumlu'r pr:ictically ■*t;40u.oO(» l)y securing an 

 extension of rough material tariffs for a period of six months. 



Telegraphic advices were received by this organization from its Wash- 

 ington representative, Frank Carnahan, Wetlnesday, January 3, that the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission issued an order authorizing the carriers 

 to amend their rough material tariffs, on one day's notice, so as to provide 

 for an extension of six months in the time liinU on tonnage which will 

 expire, under present tariffs, during the first four months of 1922. Tliis 

 means that inliound rough nmterial tonnage now scheduled to expire in 

 January, 1922, for example, will not expire until .six months thereafter, 

 which is the additional time allowed for shipment of the outliound produc-t. 



The association found it necessary to handle this matter vigctrously with 

 both the carriers and the Interstate Commerce Commission, because prtnnpt 

 relief required voluntary and favorable action on the part of both. 



The association secured a similar extension last summer when there 

 were nearly 1,000,00(1,000 pounds of this tonnage which hail not nn)ved. 

 Some of it was handled during the additional time then granted, but. 

 owing to the depression in the industry and owing to the highness of 

 transportation costs, the bulk of it failed to move during the extension 

 Iieii<id, thus making another extension imperative. 



Little Business Will Come from Europe in 1922, Financiers Declare 



Messrs. Calvin Fentress and Frederic T. Boles of Baker, Fentress **< 

 Company have just returned from Kuropi-, after making a two-months' 

 survey of the lumber situation abroad. 



Mr. Boles states, "The American lumbermen can ex|iect but little business 

 from Europe during the year 1922. However, I believe our lumber business 

 at home in the coming year will total more than it has during the last 

 eighteen mouths. 



"The lumber business is in a bad way in England and otir selling pros- 

 pects are far from good. The British government has placed with agents 

 and dealers for retail sale about 450,000 'standards.' Much of it is not in 

 commercial shapes and many items are missing, hence it is necessary to 

 do some importing. This buying will be done in Norway and Sweden, and 

 it eliminates North America except as large dimensions in tir and other 

 woods. English imports from North America will come largely from 

 r.ritish Columbia and Ontario rather than fr<>m the Ignited States, prin- 

 cipally because of adverse exchange contiilions or the premium nf the 

 dollar. 



"Finland has about a billion feet of left-over stock to he disposed of. aiicl 

 tluit quantity, if not really very large, operates to our disadvantage in the 

 foreign market. 



"In France the use of lumber for temporary relief construction seems 

 to be at an end ; building is now being done on the old lines, with masonry 

 and concrete. 



"France will lie ji negligible iiuanlity lor our lumber, since she is being 

 supplied by fiernuiny under the reparations ngreenu'nt. 



"(lernuHiy is forced by the reparations agreement to cut an excessive 

 amount of her hardwoods, firs and pines, and it is a heavy drain on her 

 resources, though for every tiee cut a seedling is planted. 



"Belgium is taking from Norway and Sweden, and is using about as 

 much lumber as France, but exchange prevents luiyiug from us. 



■■.\s for Italy. I see little prospect of much ti'ade under exisllnu inonelary. 

 political and indusirlal condith^ns." 



Turner Succeeds Rup«e as Head of Russe & Burgess, Inc. 



Fr.inklin T. Tuiner. president of tlie I laniell l.ove Luiiilier Conipaiiv and 

 the Lidand Stave iV Lumber Comiianv, Ltdand, Miss., has purchased tbe 

 interi'st tti W. II. Uusse, jtresiilent of Itusse & Bui'gess. Inc., Memphis, and 

 has been elected as the chief executive otticer of the latter firm. Negotia- 

 tions for the purchase of Mr. Uusse's Interest, which had been under way 

 for s(ime time, were concluded Tuesday. January 3, and on that date Mr. 

 Uusse tendered his resignation as preshlent of this firm. 



A short time ago Mr. Turner jnirchased the interest of I*. Stenuiiig 

 Coate, treasurer of Uusse & Burgess. Inc., and was elected treasurer to suc- 

 r-eed that gentleman. However, on the reorganization elTccted following 

 tlie purchase of Mr, Uusse, H. I>. Love, vice-president of the Darnell-Love 

 Lumber Compai'.v and treasurer of the Leiand Stave & Lumber Company, 

 was chos»**i treasurer of Russe & Burgess. Inc. 



The other officers of the company are the sanu' as heretofore: C. A. 

 Farber. vice presWIent ; E. C. (Jauae, secretary, and H. Johannsen, assistant 

 secretary. These gentlemen retain their Interest in tbe company without 

 change. 



The business of Russe &, Burgess, Inc.. is being continued under the reor- 

 i;anization already outlined. The Darnell-Love Lumber Company is sxtp- 

 plying it with jill the timber recpiSred frrun its large holdings at Panther 

 Burn, Miss. 



.\1I of the limber lands which were owned by Uusse & Burgess, Inc., are 

 taken over under the reorganization. Mr. Russe, however, together with 

 Mrs. George I). Burgess, widow of his former associate, own approxinmtely 

 12.000 acres of Iiar<l\voo4l thnber lands in Mississippi which are not afl"ected 

 by the sale of his Interest in Uusse & Burge.ss, Inc. 



Mr. Uusse, who Joins the class of "retired capitalists" by virtue of his 

 sjile of his Interest in his old firm, is one of the best known lumbermen in 

 the South. He and his former partner. George D. Burgess, came to .Mem- 

 phis more tluin twenty years ago from Indiana, and by dint of application. 

 <-nergy and hard work. coupkHi with sound investments in timber land 

 hublings, l)uill up one of the most solid businesses in hanlwo<id lumber in 

 the South. They spe<dali'/ed in exporting and during late years they 

 nuiintained fiu-eign offices in London, in charge of (J. A. Farber, vice-presi- 

 dent of the firm. Their principal bund mill was in Memphis, but they 

 operated plants, at different times, at two ov three points in Mississipiii 

 convenient to timber lands contndled by them. 



Mr. Russe has not announced any plans for the future He routciii)d;i ted 

 a trip with Mrs. Uusse to Europe the latter part of the (iiiri-nt monih. but 

 this foreign tour has bei-n abandoned for the present. 



Office Is Opened in Texarkana 



.\ branch otfice was established in Te.varkaiia. .\rk.. on .lauuaiy 1 liy 

 Harry H. Maus, nmnufacturer and wludesaler of hardwood lundter of 

 South Bend. Ind. The new office is In charge of W. S. Stackhouse, a lum 

 bernuui of consiilerable experience and widi* ac(|ualntance in the trade. 

 He has been buying and inspecting lundier in the South for a munber of 

 years. The southern office was opened In onh-r to provide better service 

 for Mr. Maus' growing iradi-, and the home office will continue to be at 

 r>H,s Fanners' Trust building, South Bend, Ind. A 11 intpiirles <h'»uld be 

 addrcvs.'.i to the home office. 



