December 10, 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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principles involved in the determination of the cost of production. 

 Various factors entering into cost of production were discussed at 

 the hearing and it is stated that tliere was substantial agreement 

 between the commission and the lumbermen as to certain principles 

 that are involved in the fixing of prices. 



The lumbermen later held a number of meetings among them- 

 selves and appointed small committees to confer with Bernard 

 Baruch, who has charge of raw materials questions for the War 

 Industries Board, and B. H. Downman, director of lumber under 

 the board. The Southern Pine committee consisted of C. S. Keith. 

 W. H. Sullivan and R. A. Long: the Georgia-Florida committee, of 

 M. L. Fleishel and R. M. Bond; the North Carolina Pine committee, 

 of C. I. Millard and G. L. Hume; and the Douglas Fir Committee of 

 A. L. Paine, George S. Long, and J. H. Bloedel. 



The pine (jommittees conferred at length on Tuesday and Wednes- 

 day with Messrs. Barueh and Downman. The fir committee con- 

 ferred with the officials also. They discussed the prices to be 

 charged to the government and the allies, it is understood, for 

 lumber for cantonments and other construction work, for airplane 

 construction, etc., but not for wooden ships. This last question is 

 understood to be settled. 



Lumbermen in Washington 



Thf* lunil>ernii*n h»'re have bet-n I»us\- talkiu^ alttiut '-untracts f<»r fol- 

 lapsible houses for the Amerii'an armies abroad, a matter which is under 

 negotiation between the War Department, several linnlier trade emergency 

 bureaus, and representatives of sash and door interests and makers of 

 portable houses, and others. Charles B. Harnian of Atlanta. Ga.. secretary 

 of the Southern Sash. Door and Mill Work Manufactvirers' Association, and 

 Mr. Conway, representing; that organizari<in. are here on this matter, as is 

 ft Mr. Corey nf Michiiran. representing the McChire I'ortable House concern. 



It is estimated that an annual cut of T.OOO.Ooii.iiod or 8.000.000,000 feet 

 of lumber have been represented at this week's hearings and conferences. 



Hardwood lumbermen who have been foregathering for various business 

 purposes, include .T. B. Wall, president of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber 

 Co. : H. E. Montgomery of Buffalo. W. B. Burke of the Lamb-Pish Lumber 

 Company, who came to relieve H. B. Weiss as the southern member of the 

 BUbconimittee here with the Southern Hardwood Emergency Bureau ; A. 

 8. Johnson. Winfield. La., new southern member of the Southern hardwood 

 bureau managing committee: .Toe Lamb of Memphis, who is here on busi- 

 ness: Frank Fish, secretary of the National Hardwood Association, and 

 others. 



Among the government orders recently placed for lumber war material 

 Is 500.000 feet California pine with Louis Wuicbet of Chicago ; 

 7.000.000 feet with the North Carolina pine bureau for con- 

 struction work at Hogg Island, Newark, N. J. ; and Big Point, Va, ; 

 7.000.000 feet with the Douglas fir bureau for ordnance depots, waie- 

 houses. etc.. at Curtis Bay. Md. : Raritan Bay, and Newark, N. J. ; .=5.. 500, 000 

 feet with the southern pine bureau for Newark ; and 2,000,000 feet to the 

 Georgla-Florifla bureau for Hogg Island. 



E. G. Griggs of Tacoma. former president of the National Lumber Manu- 

 facturers' .Vssociation, has lieen told that he will soon be commissioned 

 major in the army. Mr. Griggs understands that Col. Disque is to raise a 

 force of S.OOO men as part of the arm.v to assist in the jiroduction of ship 

 and airplane lumber in the Pacific Northwest. 



E. T. Allen of Portland, Ore., is here on business for the first time since 

 he left the old lumber committee to go West as representative of the War 

 Department in an effort to mobilize the spruce industry to assist in the 

 aviation program. 



W. H. Sullivan of Bogalusa, La., has been named chairman of a icmi-/ 

 mlttee on war service to represent the lumber industry in co-operating with 

 the War Industries Board in connection with plans to mubili/ce the indus- 

 tries of the nation for war work. Chairmen of similar ciimiiilttees in many 

 other industries are announced, including the following ; Philip Ebrenz, 

 St. Louis, carriage maker; Charles A. Albrecht. Indianapolis, extension 

 tables. 



E. C. Miller, president of the Mueller Lumber Company. Davenport, la.. 

 WOB here recently In conference with other busin«'ss men and officers of the 

 War Industries Board regarding plans for converting so-called unessential 

 Industries in the Middle West into war production industries. 



The Council of .National Defense has written to the Chamber of Com- 

 merce of the Cnited States suggesting that the various Industries of the 

 country should name war service cnmmittees to represent them In dealings 

 with the government- 

 Shipbuilding Matters 



The first annual report of the shipping tioani has this to say regarding 

 wooden shipbuilding : 



"Contracts were placed for a large number of wooden ships, most of 

 them to be built in new yards, it being fnund that such ships could be built, 

 within certain limits, without interfering with the steel ship program. The 

 fOrporation has experienced some difficulty in arranging for supplies of 

 proper lumber, but it is believed that Ibis ilifflcnlty has been largely over- 



come, and that the wooden ships nuiy be expected to be completed with a 

 fair degree of promptness." . 



Estimated expenditures under contracts in force October 31 Include the 

 following: Wooden hulls, $101,200,000; wooden ships complete, *3,1,100,- 

 000 : composite ships. *27,";)2.000. 



The board makes some estimates of other expenditures as follows : Cost 

 of fitting out wooden hulls as complete ships, ?200,000 each, or $02,800,000 

 in all ; cost of plants, equipment and ways for wooden shipbuilding. 

 $3,360,000. 



.1. M. Prltchard, manager of the Southern Hardwrwd Emergency Bureau, 

 continues to get orders for government material, but does not make them 

 public. There arc now busy here in the southern hardwood bureau W. E. 

 Delaney, W. B. Burke, H. B. Weiss, and others. 



The executive committee and others of the National .\ssoclation of Box 

 Manufacturers have been conferring here several ilays recently about how 

 to help the government and at the same time benefit the box industry. 

 Some of the box men saw Mr. Downman. C. II. Worcester, his assistant, 

 and B. M. Barueh, in charge of raw materials for the War Industrie? 

 Board. 



The box men want to place their facilities at the dispo.sal of the govern- 

 ment and they believe they can best help in the war If the box Industry Is 

 consulted about how government box specifications should be drafted. 

 They want one of their number attached to the War Industries Board, it is 

 reported. The plan was for him to get in touch with George N. Peek, of 

 Moline, 111., vice-president of Deere & Co.. who has been made chief of the 

 bureau of manufacturing resources under the board with the right to 

 (boose his own assistants. 



The Forest Regiments 



Two more battalions of the 10th Engineers (Forest) are training at 

 Camp American Cniversity. The names of the officers of the Third Bat- 

 talion have been published heretofore. Following are the names of officers 

 of the Fourth Battalion : 



Tompany D — Capt. E. B. Carter, First Lieutenants W. G. Conklin and 

 Ralph H. Faulkner. Second Lieutenant Fred A. Roener. 



Company E — Capt. Andrew .1. Fisk, First Lieutenants Lester W. .Jacobs 

 and Henry F. Power, Second Lieutenant Luther D. McDaniel. 



Company F — Capt. Stephen C. Phipps. First Lieutenants William G, 

 Howe and .lohn Sommerset. Second Lieutenant Harry H. Miller. 



Efforts are being made to obtain commissions for more officers for the 

 second forestry regiment, it is understood. 



.\ chance for early commission in the military service for men who 

 passed the examinations for commissions in the forestr.v regiments is 

 seen in the reported plan of the government to put 8,000 or 10,000 soldiers 

 trained to the woods into the forests of the Pacific northwest to get out 

 airplane stock needed by the United States and the allies. It is under- 

 stood that some commissions are being issued on account of this plan, 

 which is regarded as necessary to circumvent the machinations of the 

 1. W. W. and other pro-German agitators who have been blocking the 

 northwestern timber and sawmill industry. 



Numerous recruits are coming into the 20th regiment at Camp Amer- 

 ican University. They come from recruiting stations and army camps 

 and posts all the way from Washington state to New York and from 

 Miunesyta to Texas and Louisiana. Some of the new men are being 

 trained at Belvoir, Md. 



Efforts are being made by those interested in relief work for the 

 forestry regiments to -avoid overlapping of activities of the various organi- 

 zations concerned, duplication of effort, duplication of gifts to some men, 

 leaving none for others, wasteful expenditures and methods, and com- 

 petition in buying. The organizations engaged in this kind of work 

 include the American Red Cross, the Women's Committee for Engineer 

 Relief, the Forestry Association, the Department of Agriculture, the Hoo- 

 Hoo relief committee, and the .\merican Forestry Association. 



The allied armies need the .American lumber and forest regiments and 

 the regiments need the support of the American people, according to 

 W. R. Brown, of the lumber and forest regiments relief committee and a 

 paper manufacturer who conducts lumbering operations on a big scale, 

 "Our duty to these men and their families is just as vital as our duty 

 to the fighting forces or the Red Cross and the X. M. C. A.," said Mr, 

 Brown. "The lumber and forest regiments have gone across the ocean 

 for a work in no degree less Important than that which takes our soldiers 

 into the trenches. Without lumber for trench building and the other 

 forms of construction essential to modern warfare the allied armies can- 

 not achieve victory. Our foresters, lumbermen and sawmill workers are 

 to supply these needs." 



War Profit Tax Law 



The application of the new war pnillt tax law to the lumber industry 

 was the subject of a recent hearing before the War Profits Tux Advisory 

 Committee of the Treasury Department, at which a committee repre- 

 senting various branches of the lumber industr.v was represented. K. B. 

 Goodman headed the delegation, and represeuled the Northern Hardwood 

 & Hemlock Manufacturers^ .\ssoclatlon. W. B. Hewes, of Jeancrette, La., 

 and R. H. Downman were there for the Southern Cypress Manufacturers' 

 .Sssociation. The Southern Pine Association was represented by T. M. 

 Barham, P. C. Rickey and D. V. Dierks, Kansas City; H. W. Chandler, 

 Chicago; the West Coast Lumbermen's .Vssoclallon by J. T. Gregory, of 

 Tacoma: R. B. .\llen, of Seattle, and W. S. Burnett, of San Francisco; 

 the Northern Pine Manufacturers' Association by C. F. WIehe, Chicago, 

 and .\. W. Clapp, Minneapolis; the Western Pine Manufacturers' .\ssocla- 



