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HARDWOOD RECORD 



January 25. 1922 



A. E. Clark, President 



Canadians View 1922 Hopefully 



Optimism concerning 

 the outlook for tbe pres- 

 ent year in the lumber 

 industry in Canada fea- 

 tured the deliberations 

 of the Canadian Lum- 

 b e r m e n's Association, 

 which held its annual 

 convention in Toronto 

 on January 11 and 12, 

 which was attended by 

 lumbermen from all 

 over Canada and some 

 from the United States. 

 Dan McLaughlin of Arn- 

 prior, Ont., president, 

 reported a large in- 

 crease in membership 

 and said that while the 

 present year held much 

 of promise, the fall. in 

 prices, dislocation of 

 trade and stagnation of 

 industry during 1921 

 had combined to dis- 

 courage both building 

 and box-making, to 

 which industries went 

 the largest part of the 

 lumbermen's products. 

 Statistics showed the 

 lumber industry to have 



3,410 log products establishments, representing $231,000,000 invested 

 capital, a payroll of over $60,000,000 divided among 60,000 men, and a 

 product for the year 1919 valued at $222,000,000. 



The report of the Executive Committee stated that the average wage 

 in the Canadian lumber industry is greater than that in the United States. 

 It gave the following figures to show that the average wage for common 

 labor is greater in Canada than in the States : 1920, United States $3.88, 

 Canada $4.82 ; 1921, United States $2.86, Canada $3.37. After pointing out 

 that the exports of wood products for 1921 amounted to $191,516,962, as 

 against $150,057,207 in 1920, the report says : "It need hardly be said 

 that the export of lumber from Canada is one of the prime factors in the 

 total export trade of Canada, and undoubtedly has a very important place 

 to play in the future as regards restoring the rate of exchange on the 

 Canadian dollar. To this extent the export trade of the country affects 

 every person in the Dominion and is entitled to his enthusiastic co-opera- 

 tion and support." In the total of 1921 exports, $143,248,244 was to the 

 United States and $32,728,353 to Great Britain. 



A number of interesting papers was read and addresses given, and the 

 following officers were elected : President, A. E. Clark, managing director 

 of Edward Clark & Son. Limited, Toronto, who is also the director for 

 Ontario, together with W. E. Bigwood and Gordon C. Edwards, the latter 

 of Ottawa ; other directors are, for Quebec, W. G. Power, Quebec ; for 

 New Brunswick, Angus McLean, Bathurst ; for the United States, R. E. 

 Stocking, New York, and Spencer Kcllog, Utica, N. Y. 



McClure Honor Guest In City of Brotherly Love 

 The annual meeting of the Philadelphia Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation was held the night of January 12, in the Adelphia Hotel, with J. W. 

 McClure, president of the National Association, as the guest of honor. 

 The retiring president, William H. Fretz. presided, and made an excellent 

 speech outlining the working of the organization and the future of the 

 industry. Mr. McClure told of the work of the National Association, after 

 which the sixty guests present arose and cheered him as the next president 

 of the National Hardwood Lumber Association. 



There was a general consensus of opinion that two months Trould elapse 

 before conditions in the lumber industry approached anything like normal. 

 Virtually all the dealers, however, predicted excellent spring and summer 

 business. 



Elmer Troth, of the J. S. Kent Company, one of the most popular lumber 

 dealers in the city, was elected president for the present year. 



Evansville Club Installs Officers 

 The Evansville Lumbermen's Club at Evansville, Ind., at its regular 

 monthly meeting held Tuesday night, January 10, installed new officers 

 for the year as follows : President, J. C. Greer, of the J. C. Greer Lumber 

 Company; vice-president, Gus E. Bauman, of the Maley & Wertz Lumber 

 Company ; secretary and treasurer, William S. Partingtsn, of the Maley 

 & Wertz Lumber Company ; directors, Charles A. Wolflin, of the Wolflin 

 West Side Lumber Company ; George H. Foote, of the Evansville Band 

 MUl Company, and Daniel Wertz, of the Maley & Wertz Lumber Company. 

 President Greer announced his standing committees for the year as 

 follows : Membership — Charles A. Wolflin, of the Wolflin West Side Lum- 

 ber Company ; Elmer D. Luhring, of the Luhring Lumber Company, and 



Louis A. Holtman ; Publicity and Resolutions — William B. Carleton ; Claude 

 Wertz, of the Maley & Wertz Lumber Company, and H. M. Lukens. of the 

 H. and M. Lumber Company ; River and Rail — William S. Partington, of 

 the Maley & Wertz Lumber Company ; George O. Worland, of the Evans- 

 ville Veneer Company, and John C. Keller, the traffic manager of the club; 

 Entertainment — Gus E. Bauman, of the Maley & Wertz Lumber Company ; 

 J. W. Waltman, of the Evansville Band Mill Company, and Carl Wolflin, 

 of the Wolflin West Side Lumber Company ; Co-operative — Daniel Wertz, 

 of the Maley & Wertz Lumber Company ; George H. Foote, of the Evans- 

 ville Band Mill Company, and Charles A. Wolflin, of the Wolflin West Side 

 Lumber Company. 



The next regular monthly meeting of the club will be held at the New 

 Vendome hotel on Tuesday night, February 14, and a large attendance is 

 looked for. 



South Bend Club Elects John I. Shafer President 

 At the recent annual meeting of the South Bend Hardwood Club, John I. 

 Shafer, John I. Shafer Hardwood Company, was elected president. Harry 

 H. Maus. Harry II. Maus Lumber Company, was elected vice-president; 

 V. O. Woodruff, Woodruff-Powell Lumber Company, secretary-treasurer. 

 There was a large attendance at the meeting and a discussion of pros- 

 pects for 1922 was entered into, resulting in the expression of the general 

 belief that the new year will bring improved conditions to the sellers of 

 hardwood lumber. 



Northern Wholesalers Set Date for Annual 



The annual convention of the Northern Wholesale Hardwood Lumber 

 Association will be held in Milwaukee, Wis., Monday, February 13, it has 

 been announced by J. F. Ilayden, secretary of the association. 



"Further definite notice will be sent to members," the secretary states. 

 "As the Wisconsin retailers will hold their annual convention on the fol- 

 lowing three days, those who expect to remain for that meeting would 

 do well to make their hotel reser^'ations in advance." 



With the Trade 



Turner-Farber-Love Company Formed, Making One of the 

 Strongest Hardwood Organizations in the South 



The Turner-Farber-Love Company has been organized here with a paid 

 up capital stock of $1,200,000 and has taken over the properties of the 

 Darnell-Love Lumber Company, operating two band mills at Leland, Miss., 

 the Leland Stave & Lumber Company, operating a stave plant near 

 Leland, and Russe & Burgess. Inc., operating a band mill at Memphis, thus 

 representing one of the most Important consolidations in the more recent 

 history of the southern hardvcood lumber industry. All of these plants are 

 now operating at capacity and details of the absorption of the three firms 

 by the new company were completed Wednesday, Jan. 18. 



The new firm has an annual output of 50,000.000 feet of hardwood lum- 

 ber and 15,000,000 staves at the plants already in operation but it pro- 

 poses to establish a fourth band mill in Mississippi at an early date, with 

 a yearly cut of 10,000,000 feet. It owns 20.000,000 feet of untouched 

 virgin hardwood timber in Mississippi and extensive stumpage rights, 

 including 40,000,000 feet of cypress at Pantherburn, Miss. 



The officers of the Turner-Farber-Love Company are : Franklin T. 

 Turner, president ; G. A. Farber. first vice president and European man- 

 ager, with headquarters in London ; H. D. IjOvc, second vice-president, 

 manager of Leland mills ; R. W. Ricketts, third vice-president ; F. G. Woods, 

 treasurer and manager of foreign sales department ; E. C. Gausc, secretary, 

 and manager of the Tchula mill at Tchula, Miss. ; H. Johannsen, assistant 

 secretary, and manager of the general offices at Memphis ; G. W. Harris, 

 assistant secretary, and manager of the Leland oflices ; C. W. Parhani, sales 

 manager, Memphis; and W. F. Little, manager of the cooperative depart- 

 ment, with headquarters at Leland. 



The general offices of the company will be at the plant of Russe & 

 Burgess, Inc.. in North Memphis. 



European offices will be at 162-163 Suffolk House. Laurence Pountney 

 Hill, Cannon St., London. These will be in charge of G. A. Farber, vice- 

 president, who will be assisted by Lewis Garrett, formerly United Kingdom 

 manager for Russe & Burgess, Inc. Both of these gentlemen are well 

 known to the British and continental trade as they have for some years 

 looked after the foreign business of Russe & Burgess, Inc. 



Sales offices will be maintained at 1039 Marquette building, Chicago. 

 These were formerly used by the Leland Stave & Lumber Company, which 

 did a general wholesale lumber business and which handled a considerable 

 percentage of the output of the Darnell-Love Lumber Company. 



Offices in connection with the operation of export yards are also main- 

 tained at 029-30 Hibernia Bank building. New Orleans, where the new 

 firm has taken over the lumber yards and sheds of Russe & Burgess, Inc. 

 Roy DuPere is manager of the hardwood lumber department in the Cres- 

 cent City and T. II. Snider is manager of the pitch-pine and export log 

 department. 



The company proposes to engage In both doinostic and export trade In 



