April 10. 1922 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



may begin functiouing sometimes this summer, probably by July 1, Fvir- 

 ther tban this Mr. Stark would not make any statement for publication. 



The members of the committee, be.^itles Chairman Stark, are: Memphis, 

 Ralph May and Ralph Jurden ; southern territory, F. K. Conn, Ya/.oo City, 

 Miss. ; C. H. Sherrill, Maryville, La., and B. F. Dulwebber, GnM'Uwood, 

 Miss. ; eastern territory, B. B. Burns, Huntington, West Va., and W. M. 

 Ritter and M. W. Stark, Columbus, O. 



Increase in the size of the committee has been suggested but the per- 

 sonnel will probably remain the same as at present.- 



According to Chairman Stark, the action of attorneys for the American 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association in filing a petition with the Su- 

 preme Court for an interpretation of its recent decision, with particular 

 reference to, the rights of the defendants to gather and disseminate the 

 basic information of the hardwood industry, will not have any immediate 

 bearing on plans for the formation of the institute. It is pointed out that 

 it may require a great deal of time, even if the Supreme Court clarifies 

 its ruling, liefore this is done, and. in the nu-antime, the committee hopes 

 to take steps that will put the institute on a practi'iil, ib-finitc working 

 basis. 



Exporters Urge Return to Pre-War Rate Arrangements 



The special lomniittcp uf the National Lumher Kxporters' Association 

 appointed by Dwight 1>. llartlove. the president, at the annual meeting 

 in Cincinnati last January to confer with a similar committee represent- 

 ing the North Atlantic Freight Conference met jointly with the committee 

 from the steamship lines in New York March 23 and discussed stabiliza- 

 tion of ocean freight rates. Under instruction from the steam ship lines 

 the committee from the Freight Conference was limited to rate stabiliza- 

 tion, which prevented the N. L. E. A. committee from bringing up some 

 other matters of vital interest to the shippers. It developed from the 

 statements of the steamship representatives that they understood rate 

 stabilization to mean fixing of rates with the prevailing figures of 30 cents 

 per 100 pounds for heavy woods and 45 cents for light wood as a basis, 

 and that they expected that in consideration of certain shipping facilities 

 the exporters would be willing not only to guarantee freight, but pay a 

 premium. The exporters, for their part, let it be known at once that they 

 were against any rate increase and that, in fact, they looked for a reduc- 

 tion. What they wanted was rate regulation and not a regular rate. In 

 this connection they pointed out that although hickory logs were easy to 

 handle, almost immune to damage enroute and stowed well, they had to 

 pay the same rate as oak planks ; whereas prior to the war logs carried 

 a lower rate. The shippers also stressed the circumstances that the cur- 

 rent rate takes no account of differences in distance or conditions at for- 

 eign ports, which the exporters considered inequitable. They favor a 

 return to the pre-war state of affairs, when allowances were made for 

 variations in conditions. 



The discussion, therefore, disclosed the prevalence of some very decided 

 differences of opinion, but in spite of this diversity of views, and though 

 nothing definite was accomplished, the exporters' committee carried away 

 the impression that some progress toward an understanding had been 

 made. It was the feeling that the interchange of ideas had served to 

 make for something like a basis for further negotiations, from which more 

 concrete results are expected. 



The steamship men admitted that they were without authority to con- 

 elude any arrangement, and that they could only promise to submit the 

 claims of the exporters to the freight conference. 



All the members of the N. L. E. A. committee with the exception of 

 W. J. Mayhew of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company were present, and 

 in addition A. T. Knox of the Lucas E. Moore Stave Company of New 

 Orleans, Chester F. Korn of the Korn Company of Sumter, S. C, a former 

 president : Dwight E. Hartlove. president of the N. L. E. A.. Baltimore, 

 and several others attended the session by invitation. P. A. Ryan of the 

 International Mercantile Marine, occunied the chair and acted as spokes 

 man for the steamship representatives. 



With the Trade 



River Invades Cabinet Company's Store Rooms 



The Wiihiish Cabinet Company, at Waliash. Ind.. was threatened by a 

 flood reeently when two weeks of constant rain brought the Wabash river 

 out of its lianlis. For two nights the company l^ept pumps busy keeping 

 the basement as dry as possible and finally all the material in the base- 

 ment was moved. 



Company Formed to Make Outdoor Furniture 



W. T. Semnn, Thomas 11, Koed, Finley T. Senion, Nicholas Eitel and 

 W. M. Nauer recently or^^anized the Vernon Manufacturing Company at 

 Vernon. Ind.. having a capitalization of $15,000. The company will 

 manufacture porch and lawn furniture. 



Angier Succumbs to Appendicitis 



Franklin .T. .\ngier. U>r twi-lve years superintendent of the timber preser- 

 vation department of the Haltimore & Ohio railroad, died on March 24 

 at Mercy Hospital in Baltimore, Md., after an Illness of less than a week 

 following an operation for appendicitis. Mr. Angier, who had been to 



Chicago, attending a convention, was on his way home. When not far 

 from the western city he was stricken. He was horn December 22. 1866, 

 at LaMoille, HI., and before Joining the forces of the Baltimore & Ohio 

 railroad was associated with the timber departments of several western 

 roads. He was a thirty-second degree Mason and had a host of friends. 

 Not long ago he was elected president of the American Wood Preservcra' 

 Association. 



Expects Export Prices to Advance 



William Wright of the well known Glasgow timber firm of Wright & 

 Cruham was a visitor In Baltimore, Md., two weeks ago and saw some 

 of the exporters there. He also conferred with Dwight D. Hartlove of 

 Price & Ileald, president of the National Lumber E.xporters' Association, 

 who has spent much time recently in the office of Secretary Harvey M. 

 Dickson, the latter having been ill for nearly a month from grippe. Mr. 

 Wright, who came over on the Baltic, landing In New York, discussed 

 especially the belief prevailing on the other side of the Atlantic that prices 

 of American hardwoods would go lower, and was informed that such an 

 expectation could not be based upon a study of conditions in the States, 

 which rather supported the view that the range of values would rise. It 

 was Mr. Wright's intention to make an extended trip, visiting many of the 

 lumber producing points. 



Lumberman Leaves Estate to Widow 

 The will of the late A. E. Norman, Sr., disposing of about $185,000 In 

 personal property, leaves his estate to his wife for life, and provides that 

 at her death each of several grandchildren shall receive $1,000 each, and 

 the remainder shall be equally divided between his three sons, E. B. Nonnan 

 of the Holly Ridge Lumber Company, A. E. Norman, Jr., of the Norman 

 Lumber Company, and .1. Van Dyke Norman, lawyer. The Hardwood 

 Club at its last meeting adopted resolutions in connection with Mr. Nor- 

 man's death. 



Shaker Timber Is Sold 



The Bland & Day Tie & Lumber Company, Lewisburg, Ky., has recently 

 closed a deal to take over 4,000 acres of tlmberland at South Union, Ky., 

 extending from Logan through Warren and into Simpson county, at a 

 price said to be over $200,000, the property having previously been owned 

 by the old religious organization known as the Shakers. 



Reeves to Make Roller Grinders 

 The Reeves Pulley Company of Columbus, Ind.. will begin the manufac- 

 ture of the Reeves roller grinder soon, it has been announced by G. L. 

 Reeves, treasurer of the company. The manufacture of the grinder has 

 been in the hands of the (^handler-Taylor Manufacturing Company of 

 Indianapolis since it was put on the market three years ago. Mr. Reeves 

 also announced the forming of the Reeves-Bond Sales Company to operate 

 the firm's Chicago branch. The officers of the new company are : Charles 

 Bond. Philadelphia, president; Morgan T. Williams, Manheini, Pa., vice- 

 president : .Tohn Jewell. Colund>us, treasurer, and Miss M. Florence Shaw, 

 Philadelphia, secretary. 



Handle Company Has Handsome Brochure 



The Ivory Handle Company of Hope, Ark., has adopted a very unique 

 method of advertising its handles. They have issued a brochure contain- 

 ing cuts, descriptions and prices of their various handles, and the quality 

 of this work would do credit to a wholesale .jewelry establishment. They 

 also issue a guarantee to be attached to handles of an equally high quality 

 of workmanship. Altogether, the impression is von- favorable. 



Laboratory Decennial Record Published 



The decennial celebratiou of the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory, 

 which was held at Madison in the summer of 1920, is commemorated in a 

 book just issued by the decennial committee. This book is called "The 

 Forest Products Laboratory — A Decennial Record." Approximately 1,500 

 copies of the book have been sent to a list including prominent agencies in 

 the forestry and wood using field, mostly in this country and a few abroad. 

 Trade periodicals, trade and technical associations, companies and corpo- 

 rations, forestry and engineering schools and industrial research labora- 

 tories are representative of the field covered. 



Following this initial distribution the committee will have several hun- 

 dred copies of the report to sell at $1.75 the copy. 



Swann and Kopcke Company Annoimced 



The Kimball & Kopcke Company, hardwood InnibiT nicrehants of Knox- 

 ville, Tenn., has been succeeded by the Swann & Kopdte Company. J. W. 

 Rose is president of the new company: H. C. Kopcke, vice-president, and 

 C. R. Swann, secretary and treasui-er. 



A. C. Lange Joins Kansas City Company 



A. C. Lange, for a number of years vice-presiilint and general manager 

 of the Chicago Mill & Lumber Company, Blytheville, Ark., has severed his 

 connection with that firm and has accepted the position of vice-president 

 and general manager of the National Hardwood Company of Kansas City. 



He left Memphis Saturday evening, .April 1, for Kenwood, Okla., where 

 he has taken charge of the construction of a single band mill for this firm. 

 The company owns 100,000 acres of hardwood timber lands in that vicinity, 

 together with stumpage rights on other properties. It Is said that 95 

 per cent of the timber Is oak. The company plana to have its band mill 

 in operation by June 1, and it will then build several portable mlUs, which 

 will bring its annual output to 30,000,000 to 40,000,000 feet per annum. 

 It also owns and operates the .-Arkansas & Oklahoma railroad, twenty miles 

 in length, which connects with the Kansas City, Oklahoma & Gulf at 

 Salina, Okla. 



Mr. Lange is one of the best known lumbermen in this territory. He 



