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HARDWOOD RECORD 



November 25, 192i) 



Appalachian Loggers Hold Congress 



F. G. Norcross Is Elected President; Permanent Secretary Is Appointed; 

 Liberal Forest Conservation Appropriation Urged 



The fall meeting of the Apjialachian Logging Congress, held in 

 Knoxville, Tenu., on Nr)v. 11, 12 and 13, was highly successful from 

 every point of view. The best result of the meeting was that its 

 members decided to broaden the scope of its work, employ a per- 

 manent secretary and open headquarters in Knoxville. 



Heretofore, the activities of the Congress have largely been con- 

 fined to the spring and fall conferences, usually of three days' 

 duration, and, when practicable, taking the third day to visit some 

 operation. 



The published program was closely followed, except that the 

 response of welcome was made by D. M. Eose of D. M. Bose & 

 Company of Knoxville, in place of Col. W. B. Townsend, first presi- 

 dent of the Congress, who found it necessary to go east on the day 

 before the sessions opened; and the substitution of A. W. Dodge 

 of the Lidgerwood Company for E. A. Gas- 

 kill, also a former president of the Con- 

 gress, who was unavoidably detained at the 

 last moment. 



Mr. Dodge made a most interesting talk 

 on his brief experience in the employ of 

 John D. Eockefeller, Jr., in labor and wel- 

 fare work, diverging to making some valu- 

 able remarks on cooperation and organi- 

 zation. I 



F. G. Norcross, in charge of the opera- 

 tion of the New River Lumber Company 

 at Norma, Tenn., was elected president, 

 and John Eaine of the Meadow Eiver Lum- 

 ber Company, Eainelle, W. Va., was re- 

 elected vice-president. Mr. Eaine has just 

 returned from a visit to the battlefields of 

 France, so felt he could not attend this 

 session, but was represented by his son, 

 B. D. Eaine, and H. L. Graves of the same 

 company. 



Sunderland Made Secretary 



T. Sunderland, for eight years with the 

 Kentucky Lumber Company, Williamsburg, 

 Ky., and later with the Jellico Lumber 

 Company, was elected secretary for the 



next twelve months, he having made practically all arrangements, 

 including the program, for the Knoxville session. M. W. Stark, 

 Columbus, 0., of the American Column & Lumber Company was 

 chosen chairman of the executive committee, and on the same com- 

 mittee are retiring president W. T. Latham, Andrews Manufac- 

 turing Company, Andrews, N. C; C. L. Babcock, Babcock Lumber 

 & Land Company, Alcoa, Tenn.; G. N. DeLaney, Kentucky Lumber 

 Company, Williamsburg, Ky.; J. F. Shea, Shea Bros., Knoxville, 

 Tenn.; Andrew Gennett, Gennett Bros., Asheville, N. C; T. W. 

 Hampton, Boone Fork Lumber Company, Shull 's Mills, N. C. ; L. D. 

 Gasteiger, Pittsburgh Lumber Company, Braeinar, Tenn. 



On the nominating committee for the next twelve months are: 



W. T. Latham, chairman; C. L. Babcock, L. D. Gasteiger, G. N. 

 DeLaney and T. W. Hampton. On resolutions: Geo. L. Wood, 

 R. E. Wood Lumber Company, Baltimore, Md.; M. W. Stark and 

 W. H. Hopkins, New Eiver Lumber Company, Cincinnati, O. 

 On entertainment: W. C. Champion, Cincinnati, representative of 

 the Clyde Iron Works, chairman, with power to appoint his eom- 

 •iiiittee. 



Eesolutious were passed urging more liberal federal appropria- 

 tion for forest conservation and reforestation; calling for more 



stringent prohibition enforcement in the mountains (present lax 

 enforcement said to be demoralizing labor) ; pledging the Congress 

 to support every proper effort to increase home building, declaring 

 lumber prices to approximate production cost, further stating that 

 lumber is only about one-third the cost of frame buildings; and 

 thanking all Knoxville and its newspapers for their interest and 

 support of the Congress, and the Lumbermen 's Club for its lavish 

 hospitality. 



Lumbermen's Club Entertains 

 The Lumbermen's Club resolved itself into a glad hand commit- 

 tee, and its members not only welcomed the Congress but were on 

 the job entertaining and looking after every want of members of 

 the Congress,. their efforts reaching the peak in the entertainment 

 of Thursday night with a jazz band, a bountiful buffet lunch and 

 snappy vaudeville stunts. Carl F. Maples, 

 president of the club, welcomed the Congress, 

 and J. M. Logan, chairman; U. S. Andes 

 and H. N. Sexton comprised the committee 

 which arranged the Thursday night session. 

 W. C. Champion arranged the Friday 

 night banquet, which was a complete suc- 

 cess, Judge H. B. Lindsay acting as toast- 

 master and Eiley Wilson of Charleston, 

 W. Va., aiding in the entertainment. The 

 vaudeville stunts following this were also 

 very enjoyable. 



The attendance was very representative, 

 members coming from as far north as Cin- 

 cinnati and Columbus, as far east as Penn- 

 sylvania, Baltimore and Clarksburg, while 

 operations in West Virginia, Virginia, 

 Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Ala- 

 bama and Georgia were represented by 

 their highest executives. Many leading 

 machinery, trade journal and lumber asso- 

 ciation representatives were present, the 

 attendance reaching 150 Thursday night, 

 when motion pictures of Lidgerwood & 

 Clyde skidders, Bueyrus steam shovels and 

 Holt tractors were shown. A large num- 

 ber of the lumbermen saw a successful 

 demonstration of the Oliver tractor, made in Knoxville on Satur- 

 day afternoon. 



Friday afternoon proved a highly beneficial session, confined to 

 the lumbermen, when heart to heart talks were made on costs, labor 

 and other production problems. 



The new secretary was given a tentative program to work out, 

 but the president, executive committee and members will make an 

 exchange of ideas bureau of the secretary's oifice, and he will issue 

 bulletins from time to time when there is any information of value 

 to disseminate. 



President Norcross is a man of ideas and force, and the Con- 

 gress was most fortunate in electing him president at this pivotal 

 time. He will work hand in hand with Secretary Sunderland, 

 which should assure that the Congress will be of great benefit to 

 every member who will cooperate with them. 



Stark, Columbus, Ohio, Chairman of 

 Executive Committee 



Large and valuable coal and timber territories will be opened up by the 

 construction of the Morgantown & Northwestern railroad, which is one of 

 the new carriers to which charters have recently been issued By the Sec- 

 retary of State of West Virginia at Charleston. The railroads will be 

 built in Monongalia county and will connect with trunk lines into Wheeling 

 and other points. 



