February 25, 1910 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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constitution and by-laws and prepare a form of organization to be sub- 

 mitted at a later meeting ot those wlio attended the conference last week. 

 The committee performed its service late in the week and the formal 

 ratiScation of the by-laws etc., will be held In a few days. 



It was suggested that an actual exchange lor lumber, such as- exists 

 in the Real Estate Exchange, be established and a bulletin board be 

 provided where daily bids and offerings and sales be posted. 



It was announced that this exchange will in no manner conflict or take 

 the place of the Lumbermen's Club of Cincinnati, many lumbermen in 

 the city now belonging to both organizations. The resolution to establish 

 the exchange was introduced by J. Watt Graham. Last year an attempt 

 was made to have the Lumbermen's Club become a subsidiary of the 

 Chamber of Commerce but the proposition w'as defeated by a vote of the 

 lumbermen. 



W. J. Eckman was made president pro tem of the new organization 

 and W. C. Culkins, secretary pro tcm. Others who spoke at the meeting 

 in favor of the exchange were Chester F. Korn, E. J. Korn, E. J. Thoman, 

 K. E. ■n'illiams, I. M. Asher, S. E. Giffen and .7. D. Falsey. 



Prominent Lumbermen Talk on Lumber Topics 



Officials of various national lumber oryanizatious a|ipiarc<l before the 

 American Society of Foresters at Washington, D. C, on tlie evening 

 of February 10, to discuss the relationship ot the lumber industry to 

 the forestry work. 



U. H. Downman, president of the National Lumber Manufacturers' 

 .\ssociation, spoke on the subject "The Need for Co-operation among 

 Lumbermen," while R. S. Kellogg, secretary of the same organization 

 described the lumbermcns' efforts to aid themselves. 



In a paper on "The Need for Larger Units ot Control in the Lumber 

 Industry," E. B. Ilazen of Portland, Ore., touched on many technical 

 phases of the efforts of the lumbermen to help advance their own inter- 

 ests. Speaking on sales work Mr. Ilazen said that while lumber was 

 formerly bought it is now decidedly up to lumbermen to establish projier 

 merchandizing methods to dispose of it at a profit, lie grouped all 

 association efforts into the national association, the producing zone assci- 

 elation and the selling association, saying that each has a clearly deflned 

 field but in the end all are essential and none superfluous. He said 

 further that in lumber there is a real opportunity for concerted action 

 through the national association in addition to the cumulative effect that 

 will be forthcoming through the association zone activities. 



Speaking again of selling, Mr. Ilazen said that the producer must got 

 into the field with better schooled salesmen, that if the individual pro- 

 ducer has not sufficient output to enable him to put skilled men in the 

 field he must associate himself with the other producers so that they 

 can do this co-operativel.v. 



Action on Manifest Declaration Secured by Memphis Club 



Walker \\'ellfor<l of the ^'lucUasaw' ^'ooi)erage Company voiced such 

 vigorous protest against the expense and other features incident to the 

 manifest declaration ruling on lumber exports made by the Treasury 

 Department at Washington that the river and rail committee was author- 

 ized to take up the various objections to these declarations and put them 

 in proper shape for submission to Stanley H. Rose, agent of the Bureau 

 of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Washington. This will be done 

 without delay and Mr. Rose, who was present at this meeting, said that 

 he would take the subject up with the proper authorities when the com- 

 mittee entrusted with this work had put these objections in form for 

 handling. 



The principal objection urged against the manifest declaration rulings 

 by Mr. Wellford was that the expense was too heav.v, being sufficient in 

 some instances to take up a large part of the profits on export business. 

 Me said that this woud be particularly the case if it were necessai-y for 

 every exporter of lumber to maintain a forwarding agent at the various 

 ports to sign these declarations. In his own business Mr. Wellford said 

 that shipments of one part of an order went from one mill and other 

 parts from another. He cited the case of a shipment to China recently 

 in which the component parts of the cargo were taken from four different 

 places. He said it was entirely impossible to sign these manifests at all 

 of these mills and that the port was the only place at which this require- 

 ment could be complied with. Mr. Wellford thought that it was unrea- 

 sonable to ask that exporters who paid to get foreign business be taxed 

 to furnish government statistics for those who did not export but who 

 hoped to get foreign trade. 



Geo. C. Ehemann, chairman of the river and rail committee, announced 

 that the transcontinental roads would put in reduced tariffs on lumber 

 and lumber products from Memphis and intermediate points to Pacific 

 coast terminals. The new rate will be 60 cents per hundred from ilem- 

 phis and 03 from interior points, provided in each case that cars are 

 loaded to a minimum capacity of 60,000 pounds. They become effective 

 April D. Where less than the specified minimum loading is noted, rates 

 will be on a slightly higher scale. The idea of the railroads. is to force 

 every shipper of lumber to Pacific coast terminals to load 00,000 or more 

 in every Pacific coast car. 



C. G. Kadel, a former president of the club, moved the appointment 

 of a committee of five to choose two members of the club to be recom- 

 mended for election as directors of the National Hardwood Luml)er 

 Association at the annual of that body in Chicago. This was carried by 

 unanimous vote. 



The club endorsed the boy scout movement, which was forcibly pre- 

 sented by Joe Lamb of the Larkin Company of America, with headquar- 

 ters at Memphis. Contribution to this movement will be made by indi- 

 vidual members of the club during the campaign now being waged to 

 raise .$7,000 for Chickasaw Council at Memphis. 



Rudolph Sondheimer of the E. Sondheimer Company spoke of the fund 

 being raised for the benefit of stricken .Tews in Russian Poland, and sug- 

 gested that members of the club would be given an opportunity to make 

 individual contributions to this cause. W. R. Barksdale. a former presi- 

 dent, heartily endorsed what Mr. Sondheimer said and expressed the hope 

 that the lumbermen would support this cause with their usual generosity. 



Two new active members were elected, R. A. Taylor, Desoto Hardwood 

 Flooring Company, and Robert York, York Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 I'any, both of Memphis. 



The entertainment committee, Ralph May chairman, was instructed to 

 arrange a club dance to be given some time between now and Lent. The 

 day will be selected by the committee and all arrangements will he in its 

 charge. 



The attendance at this meeting, which was held at the Hotel Gayoso 

 Saturday, February 12, was seventy. S. M. Nickey presided and the 

 us\ial luncheon was served. 



Pennsylvania Retailers in Annual Convention 

 Tlie recent convention of the Itetail Lumber Dealers' Association of 

 Pennsylvania, held in Pittsburgh, Pa., was a genuine success. Splendid 

 arrangements had been made for a live convention and for the entertain- 

 ing of the 200 or more retailers who were present. The discussions 

 throughout were largely participated in and were mightly helpful. The 

 leading speakers of the convention were Hon. John Z. White of Chicago, 

 who talked on the single tax question ; W. W. Scott of Bridgeport, Ohio, 

 who spoke on "Lumbermen's Ethics"; P. A. Rogers of the Southern IMne 

 .Association, who told the lumbermen what the yellow pine men were 

 doing for them ; Attorney Carl Van der Voort, secretary of the Lum- 

 liermen's Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Pennsylvania, who spoke 

 on "Workmen's Compensation." The banquet orators were Hon. Henry 

 W. Temple of Washington, Pa., who warned lumbermen not to over- 

 rate themselves In this time of "shrapnel prosperity," and William J. H. 

 P.oeckler, who talked on the dangers that beset this country. 



The new officers for the association are : President, J. P. Textor ot the 

 G. P. Textor Lumber Company, Wilkinsburg, Pa. (reelected) ; treasurer. 

 It. J. Stewart, Washington, Pa. (re-elected) ; secretary, W. G. Rebbick, 

 I'ittsburgh, Pa. ; vice-president, W. T. Geddis, Johnstown, Pa. ; directors, 

 (i. P. Textor, A. J. Stewart and D. W. Simpson of Indiana, Pa., and F. R. 

 Lillo, Oakdale, Pa. 



W. T. Culver Honored 

 At the annual meeting of the Michigan Manufacturers' Association, 

 ludd in the city ot Detroit, February 13-17, W. T. Culver, vice president 

 and general manager of the Stearns Salt & Lumber Company, Luding- 

 tc.n, Mich., was elected president. Mr. Culver has for many years been 

 an active and efficient force In the industrial life of the state of Michi- 

 gan and his election to this office will undoubtedly be followed by the 

 adoption of a vigorous and aggressive policy looking to the betterment 

 r4" Industrial conditions both among employers and employees. This 

 organization has been growing stronger every year and now includes in 

 its membership practically all the manufacturers of the state. 



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New Sawmill to Be Built at Antigo, Wis. 



Antigo Is to get the sawmill of the Langlade Lumber Company, the new 

 concern recently organized with a capital of :fl, 200,000 for the purpose of 

 taking over and developing the holdings of the Paine Lumber Company 

 in Langlade county, totalling 52,000 acres. Work on the new mill will 

 he begun at once and it will be completed and ready to run by August 1. 

 It will have a capacity of about 23,000,000 feet of lumber annually and 

 will be operated with both day and night shifts. The timber holdings 

 of the company insure Its operation for from twelve to fifteen years and 

 other purchases will probably keep It running many years longer. 

 .Machinery for cutting shingles, lath and ties will be incorporated In 

 tlie sawmill. The planing mill will be of large size and will be operated 

 by electric motors, as the company will have its own power plant. Its 

 machine shops will be equipped for building logging and camp cars lor 

 the company and for the repair of its locomotives. A separate office 

 I'uilding will be erected. 



Location of the mill at .\ntigo is the result of a brief but highly 

 energetic campaign by the Commercial Club, which succeeded in raising 

 I'V popular subscription the sum of .^lO.OOO toward the purchase of an 

 eight-acre site, part of which Is within and the Test outside the city 

 limits. It is conveniently situated with regard to railroad and shipping 

 facilities. 



Six logging camps are being operated by the Langlade Lumber Com- 

 pany. It has eighteen miles of logging railroad connecting with the 

 Chicago & Northwestern railway at Bass Lake and will build about 



