June 10, 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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A "Big Time Will Be Had" 



Nothing more impressive has ever been planned in lumber cii-cles than 

 the coming meeting o£ the National Hardwood Lumber Association at 

 Chicago next Thursday and Friday, .7unc 14 and 15. 



In sending the following revised program of events. Assistant Secretary 

 Fuller puts the following footnote to his letter ; 



"Please do not overlook the row of asterisks in the list of arrangements 

 for Friday evening" ; 



Banquet, Locis XVI Room. TncRSD.tT, June 14. 



MENU 



Canape of Crab Meat. Figaro 



Celery — Radishes — Mixed Olives 



Bortsch, Polonaise 



Filet of Bass, Suchet 



Potatoes, Parisienue 



Kernel of Spring Lamb, Soubisc 



French Peas, Paysanne 



Loganberry Sherbet 



Breast of Milk Fed Chicken. Princessc 



New Asparagus Tips au Buerre 



Hearts of Lettuce Salad 



Roquefort Dressing 



Biscuit Glace Lumberman 



Petits Fours 



Demi Tasse 



Cigars and Cigarettes 



The 

 Tenn., 



Orchestra — ^Quartette — Soloists 



BEEF.STEAK SuPPER AND SMOKER, LOUIS XVI ROOM, 



Friday, June 15, 7 P. M. 



MENU 



Cherrystone Clam Cocktail 



Radishes — Olives 



Cream of Asparagus. Comtesse 



Mignon of Charolais Beef, Broiled au Madere 



Baked Potatoes 



String Beans au Gratin 



Combination Salad 



Thousand Island Dressing 



Brie Cheese and Crackers 



Coffee 



Smokes aplenty 



********! 



Music 



Vaudeville 



Some Surprises 



Admission to both the Banquet and the Smoker will be 



by tickets, which will be given out at Registration Desk 



Educational Campaign Planned 



Hardwood Dimension Manufacturers' Association of Memphis. 



is planning an educational campaign for its members. It is pro- 

 posed to visit in a body from mill to mill for the purpose of observing 

 and studying methods in use. The whole round will not be made in one 

 trip, but there will be several excursions, each taking in one or more mills. 

 The oflBcers of the association are : D. P. TJpshaw, president, Memphis. 

 Tenn. ; R. T. Bugg. vice-president. Arlington, Ky. ; Frank Lyon, treasurer, 

 Memphis, and M. F. Hannahs, secretary, Memphis. The secretary has sent 

 a circular to members of the association, explaining the plan. 



Kellogg in Washington 



R. S. Kellogg, secretary and manager of the National Lumber Manu- 

 facturers' Association, has taken up new work at Washington. Mr. Kellogg 

 has been called upon to be secretary of the sub-committee on lumber and 

 forest products of the Council of National Defense and is already per- 

 forming the job with his usual thoroughness and eflSciency. He is taking 

 care of all of the vast amount of details of the committee's work. E. A. 

 Sterling is in charge of the National's offices during Mr. Kellogg's absence. 



Open Price Plan Shown Trade Commission 



.\ committee of the Hardwood Manufacturers' .\ssociiUion of the I'nited 

 States has returned from a recent visit to Washington, where a conference 

 n-as had with the Federal Trade Commission. The committee consisted of 

 President B. E. Burns, Huntington, W. Va. ; J. W. Mayhew, Columbus ; 

 E. O. Robinson and F. R. Gadd, Cincinnati ; M. W. Stark. St. Albans, W. 

 Va., and W. M. Ritter, Columbus. The purpose of the conference was to 

 present for any criticism the commission might make the open competition 

 recently adopted by the association. A copy of the plan and copies of all 

 reports so far issued under it were filed with the commission, and the 

 committee is now with the assistance of Colonel L. C. Boyle, Kansas 

 City, ilo., preparing a statement covering every phase of the plan, copies 

 of which will be filed with the commission and the Department of Justice. 



Speaking of the conference, Mr. Gadd, assistant to President Burns, said : 



The committee is well satisfied with its mission to Washington and 

 has everv confidence in the favorable attitude of the Washington authori- 

 ties touching our associated effort. We substantially established the fact 

 the purpose of the plan was worthy and along constructive lines ; that, 

 insofar as standardization was concerned, it was not only legal, but very 

 helpful, not onlv to the dealer but to the public ; that we had a right 

 to study market conditions In the light of past transactions, and that 

 we were honestly trying to overcome well defined economic handicaps and 

 that through market publicity we sought to bring about more stablo 

 market conditions in our industry and that here also the public would 

 be the gainer. 



The committee, with W. E. DeLaney, Lexington, Ky., will return to 

 Washington this week for a further conference with the commission and 

 with other authorities concerning what the hardwood interests will be able 

 to do toward meeting the requirements of the government for the con- 

 struction of the wooden ships planned in order to increase ocean-carrying 

 capacity. 



Plans for Evansville Outing 



Mertice E. Taylor, secretary of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club, an- 

 nounces that the steamer Joe Fouler will be used for the annual summer 

 outing of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club on Tuesday afternoon, June 

 19, instead of the steamer Prince and barge Priiu-ess as formerly an- 

 nounced. The Joe Fowler will accommodate several hundred people and 

 Secretary Taylor estimates that it will be amply large for the party. Sec- 

 retary Taylor says that all arrangements for the outing have been made 

 and he looks for it to be the largest and best that the lumbermen have 

 ever attempted. The boat will leave the Evansville port on the after- 

 noon of June 19 and a trip will be made to the new government dam No. 

 4S on the Ohio river, seventeen miles below Evansville. Dancing and 

 music will be enjoyed and at 5 o'clock a fried chicken supper will be 

 served. It is expected that a great many lumbermen will come to Evans- 

 ville from points in southern Indiana, southern Illinois and western Ken- 

 tucky to take in the outing this year and a gala time is awaiting all who 

 make the trip. 



Change Date of Land Meeting 



The board of governors ot the Southern Alluvial Land .\ssociation has 

 announced that the semi-annual of that organization, originally scheduled 

 for June 11, will be held at fhe Chisca hotel, Memphis, June 30, The 

 change in date has been made with a view to preventing conflict with 

 other important meetings which members of the association are anxious 

 to attend. 



The association has been officially advised that Governor Brough of 

 Arkansas will be present and deliver an address on that occasion. It has 

 likewise been advised that representatives of the agricultural colleges in 

 the alluvial land regions, as well as of the heads of the agricultural 

 departments of the railroads operating in this territory, will attend the 

 meeting and take part in the program. 



More than 1,000 invitations have been Issued and the meeting promises 

 to be a most enthusiastic one. It will be specifically for the purpose of 

 stimulating and co-ordinating the various forces at work looking to the 

 development and colonization ot the vast alluvial land regions controlled 

 by members of this organization and other owners in the alluvial states. 



Hardwood Lumber Outlook 



The Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the United States, with 

 headquarters in the Union Trust building, Cincinnati, sent out a bulletin 

 under date of May 25, 1917, in which the cfcndition of the market was 

 summarized and many actual prices received were quoted. The market 

 for hardwoods is reported strong and is limited only by ability to deliver. 

 Buyers seem to have abandoned the idea that prices will fall. Manufac- 

 turers of implements are buying, and box makers are in the market for 

 large bills of lumber. Embargoes continue, and New England markets 

 are now practically closed to southern lumber. Scarcity ot cars for 

 moving the product has caused a heavy curtailment in the output of 

 some mills and the closing of others depending upon a log supply on 

 nat cars. 



The following prices on actual sales have been reported f. o. b. Cincin- 

 nati, Ohio : 



Grades — 



Qtd. Wht. Oak— %" 



Fas ?G7 



Selects 55 



No. 1 Com. & Sel 43 



No. 1 Common 40 



No. 2 Common 26 



Sound Wormv 



CI. Face Strips, 2 14 "-5%" . '. 

 No. 1 Com. Strips, 



2li"-5^4" 



Quartered Red Oak — 



Fas 



Selects 



No. 1 Com. & Selects 



No. 1 Common 



No. 2 ('ommon 



Plain Oak — 



Fas ^Tiite 49 



Fas Red 49 



Selects. White and Red.. .38 

 No. 1 Com. & Sel.. W. & R. 28 

 No. 1 Common, W. & R. . 26 

 No. 2 Common. W. & R. . 22 

 No. 3 Common. W. & R. . 12 

 No. 4 Common. W. & R. . . . 

 No. 1 Com. & Btr. S. \y., 



W. & R 



No. 2 Com. & Btr. S. W., 



W. & R 



CI. Face Strios, 2Vn"-5V,", 



w. & R. . : — 



No. 1 Com. Strips, 



.^76 

 61 

 45 

 42 

 28 



1" 

 $84 

 68 

 55 

 51 

 34 

 33 

 62 



1%" 

 $87 

 71 

 58 

 54 

 37 

 36 



1%" 

 $87 

 71 

 58 

 54 

 37 

 36 

 65 



2" 

 $89 

 73 

 60 

 56 

 39 

 38 



2W 



4" 



-0V2 



W. & R. 



6x6 8x10 



7x7 9x10 



Bill Stock 8x8 9x11 



SSE Timbers 9x9 10x10 



10-16' 32 34 



IS- 35 37 



20' 38 40 



22' 41 43 



24' 44 46 



26' 49 51 



5x12 



6x12 



' 8x12 



9x12 



8x14 



10x12 



11x11 



10x14 



12x12 



39 



42 



45 



49 



53 



57 



12x14 

 14x14 



42 



45 



48 



52 



56 



60 



14x16 

 16x16 



47 



50 



53 



57 



61 



65 



2xA.W.3xA.W.4xA.W. 

 to not to not to not 

 over over 

 14" 

 33 

 36 

 39 

 42 

 45 

 50 



over 

 14" 

 33 

 36 

 39 

 42 

 45 

 50 



14" 

 33 

 36 

 39 

 42 

 45 

 50 



