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HARDWOOD RECORD 



August 10, 1917 



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The Mail Bag 



B 1131— Wants to Buy Maple 

 8au FrauHsco, (_'al., .luly 2:;. — lOditcn- H.ikhwipui. Kkiuuh : We are in 

 ihi> market for 2", 3" anil 4" tirst ami sei-"nil uiaple. dry stock. Will you 

 Uiuilly inform your list regarding this? 



("ompany. 



Clubs and Associations 



Traffic Association to Open New Branch 



.1. II. Townshend. sr.i.'tary ijiaiiag.M' ol tlio Soutliorn llariUvood Traffic 

 .Vssociatiou, announced .\ugust 7 tliat a branch of that organization, 

 similar to the one established several years ago at Louisville, Ky., will 

 be opened at Helena, .\rk., within the next ten days. It will be in charge 

 of a district manager who has not yet been named. l'\ B. Larson, assistant 

 secretary of the association, will take charge temporarily. 



In addition to the district manager there will be an advisory committee 

 comijosed of the following : S. H. Swanson, Archer Lumber Company, 

 cliairman ; Paul C. Smith, Theodore Fathauer Company ; 1{. I!. Rhodes. 

 Hex Hoop, Stave & Heading Company ; A. C. Thompson. Kurz-Downey Com- 

 pany, and JL C. Cannon of the Arkansas Veneer Company. These gen- 

 tlemen will help with the work which the branch of the organization has 

 in hand and will prove an important factor in the success of this new 

 mc»ve. 



There are about twenty members of the Southern Hardwood Traffic 

 .\Ksociatiou at Helena and in the innnediate territory tributary thereto, 

 and it is expected that others will be added as the work of the associatimi 

 progresses. The Helena members will hear the expenses incident to the 

 liranch office, a.s they will be the direct beneficiaries thereof. 



-Mr. Townshend said that it .had been decided to ojien this branch because 

 of the rapid increase in the work to be done in that locality. The car 

 situation demands increasing attention and many rates have to be quoted. 

 It is believed the oiiening of the office will greatly facilitate the service 

 and members of tin- organization believe the success of the Louisville 

 branch will be duplicated .-it Hel.-na. 



The Southern Hardwood Traffic Assixiatiou is young in yi'ars but old in 

 accomplishment.s in behalf of its meml)ers. and the fact that it is finding 

 it necessary to estaldish branch offices in different parts of the hard 

 wood territory Indicates the rapidity with which it is growing and the 

 .■haracter of service it gives. It stands for service of the most prompt 

 and vigoriais character and its position can always be found without 

 difficulty. 



Will Issue Pocket Tariff 



The pocket tariff book compiled by the Soul hern .1 lardwood Traffic Asso- 

 ciation will be issued from the press about August 1 ."■ and will then be dis- 

 tributeil among members of this organlzatii>n. 



It will contain rales on all hardwood lumber and lumber |iroducts from 

 .Mississippi and Ohio river crossings and from all southern producing pcdnts 

 to all destinations where hardwood lumber is consumeil. and it is ex|iecteil 

 that it will prove of very great value to manufacturers and distributors 

 thr.Migh enabling them to name delivered prices and through making it 

 IH.ssible for them to provide their salesnuui with such prices. It is als., 



'■'^ ''■'• tli'it it will greatly simplify the rate work of the asso<'iation. 



For the past two years one man has had to give practically all of bis time 

 to supplying members with rate infornmtion. 



Owing to the I'ri'iiucnt chaiigi's occurring in hardwood lariflfs. Secretary 

 ■I'ownshend announces that a supplement will be issued every thirty ila.vs 

 i-r.vering such changes as have taken pla..'. Thus the r:ite' b,„.k will i.e 

 kept iiraeticaliy up to the niiiinle. 



Stock Summary from Manufacturers' Association 



The m.mthly stock report of the Hard« 1 Manufactiir.'rs- Associati.oi 



of the I-nited States dated ,Iuly 1, gives interesting summaries of stocks at 

 eastern and southern mills and the various grades and thii-knesses of hard- 

 wood. Starting with the quartered white oak, it shows that reporting 

 members gave at eastern mills a net stock increase of S2.ni)0 feet, while 

 southern mills show a net increase of 417,000 feet. In selects, eastern 

 mills show a net increase of 147,000 feet, while southern mills have in- 

 I'l-eased their stock by 1.-,.(I00 feet. In No. 1 comm.m and selects grade, 

 the net decrease is 185,000 feet, while in No. 1 common, eastern mills 

 report a net decrease of 424,000 fei.f, while southern mills show a net 

 increase of S19,000 feet. The sound wormy grade shows increase of 

 11,000. No. 2 common grade, eastern mills, shows a net decrease of 

 143,000 feet, and southern mills a net increase of 147.000 feet. There is 

 an inconsequential decrease in No. 3 common at eastern mills, while the 

 stock in southern mills showed a net increase of 206,000 feet. 



Quartered red oak in the firsts and seconds grade had a net decrease of' 

 300,000 at eastern mills ami a net increase of 183,000 feet at southern 

 mills. lOastern mills also showed a <lecrease in selects of 47,000 feet, while 

 the net decrease at the some mills In No. 1 common was 527,000 feet. 



and at southern mills was 6,000 feet. No. 2 common, southern mills, re- 

 mained about even, while eastern mills showed a decrease of 207,000 feet. 



Plain white oak showed the following : Firsts and seconds, eastern 

 mills, a net decrease of 53,000 feet, southern mills a net increase of 283,000 

 feet : selects, eastern mills, net increase of 727,000 feet, and southern 

 mills a net increase of 31,000. On No. 1 common and select no report 

 was shown from southern mills, while eastern mills showed a net increase 

 of 1.377,000. No. 1 common southern mills showed a net increase of 

 707,000 and eastern mills net increase 1.101,000; No. 1 

 eommon and wormy, eastern .mills, a decrease of ,jG,000, 

 decrease of 0,000, southern mills a decrease of 258,000. Plain white oak 

 southern mills showed a decrease of 977,000. Eastern mills showed an 

 increase net of 86,000. On No. 4 common eastern mills decreased their 

 stock by 240,000 feet. 



The situation In plain red oak shows the following figures : Firsts and 

 seconds eastern mills, net decrease 217,000, southern mills net increase 

 l.."i6S,000; selects eastern mills show decrease of 00,000; No. 1 common 

 and select eastern mills show increase of 39,000 and southern mills .".(i.Oiiii, 

 No. 1 common net increase in eastern mills of 672,000. southern mills an 

 increase of 1,1397,000. No. 2 common situation shows eastern decrease of 

 347.000 and southern decrease of 79,000, while No. 3 common .southern 

 stocks increased by 800,000 and eastern stocks decreased by 133,000. 



In poplar eastern mills report about a state of eipiilibrium in panel and 

 box board poplar, while in firsts and seconds there was a decrease of 

 0:;8,000. The situation in saps and selects remained about level, while 

 .\o. 1 common showed an increase of about 800,000. The net increase for 

 .No. 2 common was about ()00,000 feet and tor No. :; common a little less 

 than 500,000 feet. No. 4 common remained about the same. 



In chestnut firsts and seconds grade showed a decrease of about 200,000 

 feet, selects showed a slight increase and firsts and seconds wormy showed 

 an increae of 600,000. No. 1 common showed an increase of about 580,000, 

 sound wormy an increase of about 550,000, while other grades remained 

 :ibout on a level. In Cottonwood there wore net increases of stock in all 

 items, the largest being in firsts and seconds, which showed about 600,000 

 feet greater than on the first of June. 



The figures are not at all striking, being on the other liaud merely 

 natural lluctuations that come about from month to month which might 

 ji;st as well swing one way as the other. 



Prepare for More Serious Car Shortage 



.lames E. Stark, lu-esidi'iit of the Southern llar.hv I Tiatfic Association, 



.■mil .1. H. Towiisbenil, secretary iii.-mager of tli:it organi/,ati<ui. have issued 

 a Imib'liu to members calling attention to various iduises of the car sitn- 

 i-tion. 



It is pointed out that, while thousands of cars are being sent to south- 

 eiii lines to fjicilltate the movement of lumber needed b.v the government, 

 many of the members of the association having tluir plants on short or 

 liianch lines tire experiencing much difficulty in securing their retpiire- 

 miMits. All of the latter are urged to keep in close touch with the associa- 

 tifin and to keeii the latter fully tidvised as to their ri-quirements and the 

 manner in which these are taken care of by the government. .Ml members 

 are also tirged to make known their needs to the associjition, whi<'h is 

 anxious to aiil in an equitable distribution of all the equipment available. 



The bulletin sets forth that there are 2,575,000 freight cars in the 

 rmted States, that there are 120,000 now being usid by the government 

 in h.'indling materials nei'i'ssary to the prosecutum of the war, and that, 

 within less than a monlh. something like 500,000 will be required for the 

 latter purpose, thus bringing about a worse ear situaticm this fall. It cm- 

 jdiasizes the fact thjit the Car Service Commission has eontrcd over the 

 distribution of cars and that the nssoclatiim is keeping in close tiuu'h with 

 this boiiy to insure equitable distribution not only as among lumbermen 

 but also as between lumbermen ami other lines of business. 



The liulletin also urges that the lumbermen load all cars |iro|ierly be- 

 cause of the idose watch being kept on loading of lumber on the part of the 

 carriers. 



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With the Trade 



White Brothers Issue Instructive Catalogue 



White I'.rotbers. .San Francisco. Cal.. have alre.nl.v made quite a rtquit.-t 

 lion lor the stock list and catalogue which they issue. The list of .luly 

 1 is \-ery well gotten up and gives a summary of the dry stock on hanii. 

 it also contains list of estimated weights of dry lumber, giving a nunibi'r 

 of unusual species not ordinarily considered. It gives the classification 

 and habitat of a variet.v of hardwoods not in ordinary use, and contains 

 harilwo.id lumber and log tables. 



Death of A. B. Nickey 



.\nother iiioneer lumliei-num. hailing from Indiana but a resident of 

 .Memphis lor the i)ast eight years, has gone to his reward in the persiui 

 of A^li. Nickey, president of the (Jreen Kiver Lumlier Company, Jlemphls ; 

 vice-president of Nickey & Sons, Inc., Memphis, and president of the 

 Capllano Timber Company, Vancouver, B. C. His death occurred at the 

 liome of his daughter, Mrs, .Mice Sanders, at Los .\ngeles, Cal., Saturday, 

 ■Vugust 4. His remains were brought to Mempliis and interment took 

 place there August 8. 



