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HARDWOOD R i: C O R D 



Miiy 10. 191'. 



rvaiioD wby wp atiould not mflxr dip pcU~ni tinmiHl In llio rriHjil f«ir 

 what w^ do •<*1l. 8«m*» of owr nicmb^m »rp rprflvliii: inort* than llir 

 pri 



I 'Uf prvMnt Natlooal admlnlatrallon havi' 



* • WHIiout 



1 -y, we can 



„, ., . . > .IhOll <tf (hit 



nf In tlirlr illcn. TliU niny 



be irt of til-- I", but nonp tbo 



Ira It pxlma, and wc arc oDly mmlns a w>-ll known fnrt wlirn wr >n.r 

 that Ibc gonrrnl rrvlral of buiilniiii will not romp until thpno pollllral 

 qDr*tlon» arp pntlrplr dlnponpd of and porninmntly put away. 



In tbp nipantlmp wp all know that thpro la a rprtnln amount of ron- 

 »tr-: ■« on ovrr thp UnltPd StatPK. Nt'Ihlni: liaa bppn ablo to 



tnt; ihc dpvelopmpnt of thp country, nnd Ihcri- Ik nt nil tlnn'ii 



•OHi- <iiw. .i.iiiand for our product. Wo know that thp paKruiKo of tlmi> 

 lUonr will hrlni; nUuit <i>iHlilloiii> nlili-li will eiv uh nt li'iiKt n nin for 

 our monpy. Wp know that with thp bli; war apt to end nio8t any day, 

 and with tbp poxslblllty of a morp satUfartory Hlnto of mind rplatlvc 

 to National pollclps. cvpryl>ody Ih KolnR to makp up what ground wnn 

 lost durlnc the dark month* which are In the paxt. 



So WP In thp lumtior buslneaif should play n waiting gamp. If wp hold 

 fast to thp pollclps which thin niisoclatlon lins nlrondy dotcrmlncd, wp arc 

 going to t»p among thp bnrvpstprs when the big day finally dawnt<. If 

 wp get discouraged and decide that the lunilK-r hustnesH has vnnlKhod 

 from the facp of the earth as a regular lUHtitutlon. nnd that wood In 

 any form Is only fit to burn, we are going to piny Snntn Claus for a 

 lot of jobbers who will take In our stuff nt rut mtes now and turn It 

 over at tremendous profits when the inevitable readjustment of business 

 conditions comes. 



Ktt'ij man ought to feel It liU |>eriional an well as |iatrloUr duty to 

 u|ilii>ld the (lollrlps WP have dclpriiiined on. Wp don't mean by thai that 

 III- hai dli>chntt:i-d liU duly to blinnilf and hU frllow mpmbers In the 

 aixoriallon l>y ninkliig a long apri-ili nltuul rurlallment and the malnte- 

 nnnoi' of |irl< ■'». but we mean that In- kliuuld apply tbpsp principles to tba 

 dealu alxiiil which only bliu^ilf nnd bla cudIuiiht may know, to the pnd 

 that the whole trade may Ih' Hllffcned and slnngthcnrd, and the l>pnrflt* 

 of our comblnrd effort be ahan-d by all of us allkp. 



W. T. Ciilvpr raiwil the (|urKtiuii ua to the pro|)cr cln»«iflcjition of 

 Htorka nrconlint; to ilryncM. Ho Raid this qupition ibould bo con- 

 siiloroil now in order to (;ct n fi)^ire on price possibilitiea in the future. 

 The sorreliirv wns instrurtcd to get out n sj>ocinl letter bearing on this 

 >ul)jeot in oriler to find out how inucli luml)er will l>e mature for 

 xliipiiieiit in the neiir future. Mr. Culver wiid thnt lie conbiilcred dry 

 lumber ns that lunilier cut prior to Novemljcr 1, 1914. 



President Mitchell introduced the question of the advisability of 

 providing for a regular luncheon nt succeeding meetings in order thnt 

 the session may Ih- carried over without the members leaving the con- 

 vention room with the probability of their not returning. It was 

 ro^^ilarly moved and carried that this will be a regular feature of 

 the next meetings. 



On motion it was decided that the next meeting shall be held at 

 Mackinac Island in the early part of July, the date to conform to 

 thnt of the meeting of the maple flooring manufacturers, to take place 

 nt the same ]>lace. 



H^WMeaj&iBiwmiaiiWiiiiaaii^^ 



Traffic Conference Date Set 



J. H. Townsend, secretary and general manager of the Southern 

 Hardwood Traffic Association, is authority for the statement that 

 May 19 has been decided upon as the date for the first joint con- 

 ference between the committees representing the lumbermen and the 

 railroads in accordance with the action of the harmony conference 

 held at Memphis April 7. This will be held at Memphis in the offices 

 of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association. 



Mr. Townsend is authority for the further statement that the 

 lumbermen 's committee of eight will hold a meeting at Memphis 

 May IS, the purpose of which will be to decide upon the subjects 

 which will be brought before the joint conference the following day. 

 F. B. Bowes, chairman of the railroad committee which will confer 

 with the committee appointed l>y the Southern Hardwood Traffic 

 Association as a result of the harmony conference held at Memphis 

 April 7, has announced that the following railroads will have repre- 

 sentation on the committee of which he is the head: East of the Mis- 

 sissippi — (1) Louisville & Nashville, (2) Southern Railway, (3) 

 Mobile & Ohio and Southern Railway in Mississippi, and (4) Illinois 

 Central; West of the Mississippi — (1) Frisco System, (2) Rock 

 Island, (3) St. Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt Railroad, and (4) 

 St. Louis, Iron Mountain Sc Southern. It was thought at one time 

 that the railroads would name certain officials to represent the lines 

 in question but instead the railroads themselves have been named 

 and the latter will be free to send whatever individual traffic or execu- 

 tive officials they may see fit. The association has urgently requested 

 each railroad, in naming its representative, to decide upon the vice- 

 president in charge of traflic' or receiver in charge of traffic in order 

 that decisions may be promptly reached without having to refer the 

 matter back to somebody higher up. This request has been made 

 by the lumbermen's committee because of the recognition on its 

 part of the very great importance of the first joint conference and 

 because of the bearing which the progress made at this will have 

 upon subsequent joint meetings. 



The activity which the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association 

 is manifesting in connection with the subject of rates and other 

 traffic matters is bringing it more members. In addition to the 

 Kansas City Shook & Manufacturing Company, which recently joined, 

 four more have joined within the past few days, as follows: Penrod- 

 Jurden & McCowen, Memphis ; Wynne Stave Company, Wynne, Ark. ; 

 R. S. Robertson, Paducah, Ky., and Hudson & Bugger, Memphis. 



These new members bring the tot^l somew^here in the neighborhood of 

 eighty, the largest shown by this organization since it Tvas launched 

 about two years ago. 



In view of the fact that the railroad committee has been incrsased 

 to eight instead of six, it has been necessary for the Southern Hard- 

 wood Traffic Association to adil two more committee men, C. D. 

 Uondrickson of the C. D. llendrickson Lumber Company, and J. H. 

 Townsend, secretary of the Southern Hardwood Traffic As.sociation, 

 Mr. Townsend is put down as a mcmljer of the committee east of the 

 Mississippi but he is in fact a committeeman at large as he is the 

 representative of the association in the entire territory covered by its 

 meuibership. Mr. llendrickson is credited to the territory west of 

 the Mississippi. 



At the last meeting of the Southern Hardwooil Traffic Association, 

 .1 committee of three was appointed to take up with Congress the 

 «|ucstion of amending the interst.ite commerce act so that shippers will 

 have the right of appeal in the event decisions of the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission are against them. At present they have no such 

 appeal. This committee is composed of R. J. Lang of R. J. Darnell, 

 Inc., chairman ; Geo. C. Ehemann. Geo. C. Ehemann & Co., and C. D. 

 llendrickson, C. D. Hendrickson Lumber Company. 



Conference on Traffic Matters 



On May 12 a conference will l>c liolil at tlie (.'entral Traffic Asso- 

 ciation rooms, twenty-second floor of the Transportation building, 

 Chicago, of the railroad interests with the idea of discussing the pres- 

 ent rates on all lumber and timber products and making such changes 

 as will add to the revenue of the railroads and adjust present classi- 

 fication and rates. 



It would seem important that every branch of our industry be rep- 

 resented at this conference in the hope that when each phase of this 

 list is considered the railroads will be glad to consult with the 

 interests invoh'ed. Each part of an industry should take enough 

 interest to protect itself against error if not changes in list 

 that may seem necessary by railroads. 



Proposed increases of the rates on lumber from Mississippi valley 

 points to Cairo, III., have been suspended until November 20. A 

 previous order had suspended these rates from January 20 to May 20. 



