lioceiiiber 25, 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



37 



Baltimore Exchange to Have Permanent Quarters 



Prpslilont Parker D. Dix of the Bnltlmorc Lumber Exchange, lias ap- 

 pointed the standing committees for the ensuing year as follows : 



Arbitkation and Grievance — Lewis Dill. Lewis Dill & Co., chairman ; 

 Theodore Mottu. Theodore Mottu & Co. ; John L. Alcock. John L. Alcock 

 & Co.; llcnr.v D. Drc.ver, Henr.v D. Dreyer & Co., and Kidgeway Merry- 

 man. 



iNsi'EOTiox — Kidgeway Merrynian, W. Hunter Edwards, B. W. Edwards 

 & Sons : r. A. .\sclierfeld. James Lumber Company. 



MKMBEiisnir — Theodore Mottu, Dnvid M. \Volf, Canton Lumber Com- 

 pany, anil John L. .Mcock. 



Lkuisi.ation and Transportation — John L. .\lcock. chairman; Rufus 

 K. Goodenow. Canton Bo.x Company; Pembroke il. Womble, F. -V. Ascher- 

 feld and Lewis Dill. 



Hardwikid.s — Daniel MacLca, MacLea Lumber Company, cliairman ; 

 John n. Zouok and John J. Kidd, Kiild & Itnikiniibam Compnuy, 



HoisE — Hufus K. Goodenow, cliairman ; IVmlirokc M. Womble and 

 Lewis Dill. 



In accordance with the recommendation contained In the president's 

 annual address, that the exchange secure a permanent meeting place, 

 where the members might assemble frequently and where matters affect- 

 ing the lumber trade could always be discussed, a special committee was 

 named to secure such headquarters. 



Alluvial Association Loses Schoffelmayer 



Through the appointment of \'ictor FT. ScIio(Ti'ltn.'i.\er to the position of 

 agricultural investigator and field editor of the Dallas Farm News, the 

 Southern Alluvial Land Association, Memphis, loses its field secretary. 

 Mr. SchofTelmayer will enter on ills new duties January I. He was an 

 active force In the recent agriculturai development and tlie coionization 

 of the alluvial lands of eastern .\rkansas, the Yazoo delta and eastern 

 Louisiana. His recent booklet, "The Call of the .Mluvial Empire," lias 

 had wide distribution in the East, West and North. 



Mr. Schoffelmayer is familiar with Texas and the Southwest, having 

 studied agricultural conditions there for several years while editor of the 

 Southtcest Trail, the official agricultural publication of the Rock Island 

 Lines. Ciiicago. He was formerly associated in tliis work with H. M. 

 Cottreli, now agriculturist of the Tri-Statc I'arm Bureau at Memphis. 

 Mr. Schoffelmayer will have full charge of his paper's agriculturai activ- 

 ities in Texas and will write series of articles based upon close observation 

 and Intended to promote better farming and greater crop production. 



Wisconsin Loggers Organize 



.\ permanent organiziition oi" the Norlbr'astern Wisconsin and I'piier 

 Peninsula Loggers' .\ssociation was perfected at a meeting held, Saturday. 

 December S. at Marinette. Wis., at which time the following officers were 

 elected : President. John Gleason. Wis. : vice-president. Lewis Harmon. 

 Wells. Mich. ; secretary and treasurer, S. D. Switzer, Wabeno. Meetings 

 win be held regularly, it being planned to confer next at Escanaba, Mich.. 

 In about two months. Memliership is open to any manufacturer or job- 

 ber handling one or more millions of feet of log input a year. The main 

 address of the meeting was delivered by E. J. Luther, representing the 

 Wisconsin Council of Defense, who urged conservation of all resources 

 and food, especially of meat and wheat. .\ccordingly the association 

 voted to observe meatless and wheatless days in all of their camps. In 

 the general discussion it was brought out that in Forest county the log 

 Input would be about twenty-five per cent greater than last year while 

 In other districts a contrary condition would prevail and the amount of 

 timber would he less than last year due almost entirely to the shortage 

 of labor. .\s far as weather conditions are concerned it was stated that 

 these could not he better. 



St. Louis Exchange Elects Officers 



The annual election of tlie Lumbermen's Exchange of St. Louis took 

 place at the headquarters of the excliange. on December 4. 



The result in the Hardwood Division (B) was as follows: 



Chairman- E. II. Luchrmann. C. F. Liiehrnianu Hardwood Lumber 

 Companv. 



VirE-CiiAiRMAN — Frank Waldsteln, Waldstein Lumber Company. 



Kei'resentative Director — Thos. E. Powe, Thos. E. Powe Lumber 

 Company. 



First VicE-IiEPRESENTATivB Director — E. W. Wieso, Thomas & Proetz 

 Lumber Companv. 



Second VicK-RErRESENT.iTivE Director — W. P. Anderson. Gideon-.Vnder- 

 son Lumber & Slercantile Company. 



Division A, retailers, and Division C, yellow pine manufacturers, also 



elected their respective officers. 



The arbitration and appeals committees, elected by the vote of mem- 

 bers, was as follows : 



Arritration Committee — I. It. L. Wiles, chairman. O'Neil-Wlles Lum- 

 ber Company, C. K. McClure, W. P. .Vnderson, A. R. Fathman, W. J. 'i'ard- 

 ley, A. v.. Smart. 



Appeals Committee — -F. C. Brewer, chairman, A. P. Brewer Lumber 

 Companv. Fred Moehlenbreck, Franz Waldsteln, J. A. Meyer. P. R. Walsh, 

 G. P. liospes. 



President Pop will call a meeting shortly, when the president for the 



coming year will be named. 



Scrap of Big Timber History 

 All the big Hmbers In the world's history have not been produced on 

 the Pacific coast in recent years. There Is record of a stick of bridge tim- 

 ber used In repairing a bridge 1.900 years ago in Italy. The stick was 

 two feet square and 120 feet long. It compares favorably with some 

 of the Douglas fir big pieces. The Italian timber wa.s described as fir, 

 but It was the custom of that time to call all softwoods flr If they were 

 not cedar. It was probably a pine log. 



Trying to Advance Memphis-Pacific Rates 



It transpires that the railroads are ultemptiiig un advance of 10 cents 

 per hundred pounds on lumber rates from Memphis to I'uclflc coast points 

 by cancelling the recently maile tariff of (ill cents per humlred pounds on a 

 minimum weight of 00,000 ponnils. There Is a rate of 70 cents on minimum 

 weight of -10,000 pounds and this rate will i)revali, without regard to how 

 much more than 40,000 pounds each car may contain, thus making an ad- 

 vance of 10 cents per hundred poumis, provided the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission approves. 



The Southern Hardwood TralHc Association has been doing excellent 

 work in enabling southern hardwood manufacturers to compete successfully 

 with Japanese oak in the rich states along the Pacific coast and it suc- 

 ceeded in getting the fiO-cent rate on 00,000 pounds. Since that time 

 manutacturers of oak have been able to regain considerable Pacific coast 

 business they had lost to the Japanese and they an- opposing the proposed 

 Increase in rates principally bec-au.se they will again lose this Pai-lllc coast 

 liiisiness. They cannot compete with the Japanese on the basis of the 

 higher rates and this accounts for the Intense opposition there Is to the 

 proposed increase. 



Traffic Association to Elect Officers 

 The annual election t>( oBicers of the Southern Hardwood TraHic Asso- 

 ciation will be held in .Memphis sonic time during the second week In 

 January. 



Tlie board of governors at the meeting licid at Memphis December 18 

 appointed the following nominating i-ouimittee : Flats — O. M. Krebs, chair- 

 man; 1!. J. Hackney and S. C. Major. Itoxes — George C. Ehemann, chair- 

 man : F. W. Dugan and H. II. Alexander. 



It has been customary heretofore for these nominating committees to 

 agree on the same gentlemen for the various offices and it is expected 

 that this plan will be followed this year. 



The annual election will take place one week before the annual meeting 

 of this body, or about January 11. The annual meetiug is scheduled for 

 .Tanuary IS. 



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John B. Ransom & Company Acquire Big Tract 



A deal by which John B. Ransom & Co., Nashville, Tenn., have acquired 

 the timber ou the holdings of the Bon Air Coal & Iron Corporation was 

 recently completed, according to announcement made from the offices of 

 these two enterprising corporations. The deal involves all the timber on 

 the land owned by the Bon .\ir Coal & Iron Corporation in Wayne, Perry, 

 Lawrence, Lewis and Hickman counties, comprising in all some 82,000 

 acres, of which 45,000 acres are absolutely virgin timber. 



This body of timber is probably the largest tract of virgin iiardwoods 

 of anything like the same quality and accessibility left in the United 

 States. It is valued at several million dollars and is estimated to contain 

 more than l.'iO.OOO.OOO feet of merchantable timber ; over half a million 

 eross-ties ; thousands of cords of dye-wood and tan-bark, and many thou- 

 sand telephone and telegraph poles, for which there is a very insistent 

 demand. While these are the principal products, there are also numerous 

 by-products, including a quarter of a million cords of hre wood. - This tim- 

 ber lies for the most part between Collinwood, Tenn., on the Tennes^e 

 Western railroad and -Mien's Creek on the N. C. & St. L. Railway. 



It is the plan of .John B. Ransom & Co. to completely develop this big 

 virgin forest, leaving it practically clear of forest growtli and ready for 

 agricultural development, to which the land is admirably adapted, as is 

 evidenced by farms which at numerous places now adjoin this tract, and 

 on which even by the methods now employed excellent crops are raised. 

 Most of this vast tract is also ore-bearing and leaves the Bon -Mr Coal 

 & Iron Corporation with its iron ore and phosphate lands intact, on which 

 the large developments it now lias under way may be continued indefinitely. 



The timber acquired by John B. Ransom & Co. consists largely of white 

 oak. poplar and hickory, woods In the manufacture and sale of which this 

 company specializes. The acquisition of this timber is a distinct compli- 

 ment to Nashville enterprise. 



The sale was made after several of the largest lumber consuming cor- 

 porations In the country had negotiated for the purchase of this timber. 

 Through Its two box factories, planing mill and subsidiary flooring and 

 furniture factories, .John B. Ransom & Co., already have a market In 

 Nashville for some fifty per cent of the yearly output of the new devel- 

 opment. 



A Nashville man, Cecil Ewing, formerly for eight years managing 

 editor nX the f<outhcrn Lumberman of this city, and later for a short while 

 connected with the Broadway National bank, is general manager of this 

 new development for John B. Ransom & Co., and has actively assumed his 

 duties with headquarters for the present at Collinwood, Tenn. 



Several large sawmills will be put In operation In the timber at once, 

 and the most up-to-date and scientific methods of logging and manufac- 

 ture will be employed throughout the entire operation, which will require 

 ten or twelve years to complete. 



