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HARDWOOD RECORD 



February 10, 1922 



lumber In the United States In respect to more efficient utilization methods 

 In manufacture and that gradually we were approaching the careful use 

 of timber that is being practiced In Europe. Much of this saving in wood 

 would be brought about by the improvement and perfection of saw equip- 

 ment and by the employment of technically trained men in the important 

 positions in the mill. 



Mr. Atkins stated that the cost of saw equipment for a mill that would 

 cut 85,000 b.f. per day would be about $2,200 per annum and that the ex- 

 pense for saw equipment In a big mill should average about 4% cents per 

 thousand feet of lumber cut. This amount is about equal to the cost of oil 

 used In the mills. 



One of the students showed considerable curiosity In asking Mr. Atkins 

 to explain what he meant by the word "bullhead." Mr. Atkins said that a 

 "bullhead" in a sawmill parlance was a board that had been sawed large at 

 one end and that the "bullhead" was a saw problem. 



Clubs and Associations 



Wisconsin Attacks Milwaukee Millwork Association 



The attorney-general of Wisconsin has instituted proceedings In the 

 Circuit Court of Milwaukee county charging ten of the largest sash, door 

 and millwork manufacturing concerns of that city with conspiracy to 

 restrain competition and to fix prices through the existence and operation 

 of the Millwork Bureau, 505-506 Watkins Building, Milwaukee, of which 

 Claude E. Flambeau is manager. The suit is one of a series the attorney- 

 general has been instituting for some time ijast against groups of manu- 

 facturers of various classifications. Tlie defendant concerns are : Interior 

 Woodwork Company, Badger Sash and Door Company, Wm. H. Schmidt 

 & Sons Company, Gruhl Sash and Door Company, Hilgen Manufacturing 

 Company, Grobben Manufacturing Company, A. F. Meckelberg Sash and 

 Door Company, Rockwell Manufacturing Company, West Side Manufac- 

 turing Company and Woodwork Manufacturing Company. A penalty of 

 $5,000 Is demanded from each of the defendants. The complaint charges 

 that following the organization of the establishment of the Millwork 

 Bureau about seven months ago, the defendants "unlawfully conspired and 

 combined to control and fix the prices of manufactured woodwork, con- 

 sisting of sashes, doors, window casings and interior woodwork, and that 

 they did control and fix the prices of said articles and commodities and 

 Illegally restrained trade within the state of Wisconsin contrary to the 

 provisions of Chapter 458, Laws of 1921." According to a statement 

 made by G. F. Clifford, special assistant to the attorney-general, handling 

 the cases, the action was Instituted as the result of genera] complaints by 

 contractors against members of the Millwork Bureau that the prices they 

 are charging are exorbitant and unreasonable. 



Executives of National Wholesale Association Meet 



A meeting of the executive committee of the National Wholesale Lumber 

 Dealers' Association was held at Buffalo, January 14. The membership 

 numbers 532, a substantial gain over last year, and reports of the mem- 

 bership committee indicate a membership of 550 before the coming annual 

 convention In March. Secretary Schupner says there has never been a 

 period when the association facilities were used so extensively as at present, 

 undoubtedly caused by fluctuating and uncertain conditions requiring 

 close attention to matters covere<l by the association's distinctive serv- 

 ices, and which are so highly endorsed by the members. 



The executive committee recorded itself in fa%or of the increased appro- 

 priation for the Forest Products Laboratory ; accepted the invitation from 

 the American Lumber Congress to be represented by eight delegates at 

 the meeting in Chicago in April, and considered communications from the 

 Chamber of Commerce of the United States on matters requiring co-opera- 

 tion. Pending legislation on forestry was again considered, the executive 

 committee reaffirming the association's previous action of withholding its 

 support or endorsement on either of the two bills now before Congress, 



Those who attended were : J. W. McCIure, president, Memphis, Tenn. ; 

 W, H. Schuette, Pittsburgh, Pa. ; II. W. McDonough, Boston, Mass. ; Dan 

 McLachlin, Arnprior, Ontario ; Horace F. Taylor, Buffalo, N. Y. ; F. R. 

 Babcock, Pittsburgh, Pa. ; John McLeod, Buffalo, N. Y. ; C. A. Goodman, 

 Marinette, Wis. ; W. W. Schupner, secretary. 



Southern Exporters Expect Sharp Improvement 

 business from the southern lumbering belt, and the utmost confidence is fflt 

 by leading exporters from Hampton Roads, Va., to Galveston, Tex., that the 

 movement should begin to approach normal in a comparatively brief period. 

 Such was the consensus of opinion expressed by lumber exporters gathered 

 in New Orleans at the Lumbermen's Club Wednesday, January 11, for the 

 annual convention and election of officers of the Southern Lumber Ex- 

 porters' Association. 



The association, which comprises practically all the leading exporters 

 from the gulf tier of southern states from Virginia to Texas, inclusive, 

 handles pine and hardwoods. None of its members are interested In the 

 exportation of cypress. Reports indicated that for the past few months 

 the movement of the hardwoods has been better in proportion to the 



amounts usually shipped than has that of southern yellow pine. The recent 

 deal by the French government for 240,000,000 feet of pine is expected to 

 change the tables ; but, with Mexico gradually building up, with the River 

 Plate region becoming more and more insistent for the better grades of 

 southern hardwoods and with the financial conditions of France, Germany 

 and Italy as well as the United Kingdom gradually adjusting themselves, 

 the exporters interested in the movement of hardwoods were unanimously 

 of the opinion that the outlook for hardwood sales abroad are brighter for 

 1922 than they have been for two or three years or more. 



Officers of the Southern Lumber Exporters' Association were elected as 

 follows : E. R. DuMont, Standard Lumber Export Company, New Orleans, 

 president ; L. L. Chipman, Long-Bell Lumber Company, Beaumont, Tex., 

 vice-president ; C. W. Hempstead, Hempstead Lumber Company, Mobile, 

 Ala., also a vice-president ; R. G. Robinson, Robinson Lumber Company, 

 New Orleans, treasurer, and C. E. Dobson, managing director. Directors 

 were elected as follows : James Gauriga, Pensacola ; W. N. Hunter, Mobile ; 

 F. W. Pettibone, Gulfport ; Roger E. Simmons, New Orleans ; F. H. Farwell, 

 Orange; L. L. Chipman, Beaumont; Lucas E. Moore, Galveston and Hous- 

 ton, and O. H. Taylor, Jacksonville. 



National Wholesalers Move 



The offices of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association 

 since January 28 have been located in the Liggett building, 41 East 

 Forty-second street. New York. The headquarters used at 66 Broadway 

 for more than twenty years are now inadequate, and Secretary Schupner 

 states that the larger and lighter space in the Liggett building will enable 

 the office to more expeditiously function to the growing needs of the mem- 

 bership. 



In order to save mail delay, members will please note change in address. 



Southern Traffic Annoimcements 



Traffic pas.sing through New Orleans for shipment to the Pacific coast 

 via the Panama canal is now on the same basis as traffic passing through 

 that port for shipment overseas as a result of the securing of publication 

 by George Schadd, Jr., district manager of the Southern Hardwood Traf- 

 fic Association at that point, of an amendment to Emerson's joint demur- 

 rage and handling charges tariff. There are to be seven days of free time, 

 with $1 a day for each day after the expiration of that limit. 



The Southern Hardwood Traffic Association gives the following infor- 

 mation regarding reductions in rates* on hardwood lumber and forest prod- 

 ucts on the part of transcontinental lines to Pacific coast destinations, 

 eCfectlve Jan. 30, 1922 : 



"A rate of 80c i)er hundred pounds has been published from groups D, E, 

 F, G, II and J, and of 85c from the following portions of Group C: 



"A. & V. Railway — Points east of Vlcksburg to and including Jackson, 

 Miss. 



"I. C. R. R., Y. & M. V. R. R. — Louisville, Owensboro, Henderson, Padu- 

 cah, Ky., and intermediate points via New Orleans, La., and Mississippi 

 River crossings north thereof ; Vicksburg, Miss., and A. & V. Railway ; 

 Natchez, Miss., and Mississippi Central R. R. 



"L. & N. R. R. — Louisville, Ky., Henderson, Ky., and Intermediate points 

 via New Orleans, La., or Memphis, Tenn., also points Intermediate points 

 cinnati, Ohio, via and including Louisville, Ky. 



"L. H. & St. L. Railway — Louisville, Ky., and intermediate points via 

 and including Henderson, Ky. 



"Jllssisslppi Central R. R. — Points east of Natchez to and Including 

 Brookhaven, Miss. 



"St. L. & S. F. Railway — Points east of Memphis to and Including Bir- 

 mingham, Ala." 



It has asked for the publication of a rate of 85c from all portions of 

 Group C, of 90c from Group B and of $1 from Group A, and adds : 



"We are insisting that similar reductions be made at once from Groups A 

 and B and from those portions of Groups C which have not been lowered. 

 We feel confident that the additional reductions sought will be promptly 

 published on short-notice authority from the Interstate commerce com- 

 mission." 



The association has been working for more than a year to secure these 

 reductions and It is anxious for the lines serving all groups to participate 

 in the lower rates. 



It would seem that there Is some confusion regarding rates from Group C, 

 as published In the new tariffs, and the association strongly suggests the 

 advisability of conferring with it before quoting rates on shipments des- 

 tined to the Pacific coast. 



North Carolinians Urge Forest Conservation 



An extended resolution Indorsing in detail the conservation of the 

 nation's forest resources through federal and state legislation was adopted 

 by the North Carolina Forestry Association, at the eleventh annual meeting 

 in Wilmington, N. C, on January 27. The resolution approved the pro- 

 visions of the several bills pending in Congress, providing for extending 

 the scope of the work of the V. S. Forest Service and Increasing the fire 

 prevention appropriations for use In co-operation with the various states 

 as authorized under the Weeks Law. An appropriation by Congress of not 

 less than $1,000,000 tor the purchase of additional forest lands at the head- 

 waters of streams and elsewhere was urged. "We urge," the resolution said, 

 "that the present area of public forests, national, state or municipal, be 

 kept not only rigorously Intact, but Increased as rapidly and extensively 

 as possible by purchase, gift or exchange. 



