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Director Downmau, nor some members of the price fixing commit- 

 tee, but it is to be done nevertheless. 



Some of the most prominent lumbermen in the country are here 

 in the price conferences, including ticsiiies those named above Presi- 

 dent Burnside of the West Coast Association, F. L. Sanford of 

 Zona, La.; W. J. Sowers of the Southern Pine Emergency Bureau; 

 R. B. Allen, secretary West Coast Association; Lewis Germain, 

 Pittsburgh wholesaler and president of the wholesalers' bureau; 

 W. H. Sullivan, Bogalusa, La.; R. A. Long and L. C. Boyle, Kansas 

 City; E. D. Kingsley, Portland, vice-president of the West Coast 

 Association; Edward Hincs, Chicago; E. C. Harrell, secretary 

 Georgia-Florida Sawmill Association; M. L. Fleishell, chairman 

 Georgia-Florida Emergency Bureau; Roland Parry, manager of that 

 bureau; John L. Kaul, Birmingham; 11. R. Wood, president Alabama- 

 Mississippi Emergency Bureau; M. L. Woottcn, its Washington 

 manager, and others. 



The wholesalers have been making a hard fight for recognition. 

 They are compiling answers to hundreds of questionnaires sent out 

 by the wholesalers' bureau to small mills asking whether they 

 belong to manufacturers' emergency bureaus, whether they are 

 getting government business, whether they could handle it, whether 

 they need the services of the wholesalers, and will join in a petition 

 asking for recognition. In hundreds of eases, it is said, the small 

 mills are backing up the wholesalers. 



Maximum Prices for Pennstlvania Hemlock 



After considering the information submitted by the Federal Trade 

 Commission as to the costs of hemlock lumber production in Penn- 

 sylvania, and the information submitted by representatives of the 

 manufacturers of such lumber at a hearing granted to them on 

 Wednesday, May 8, 1918, the price-fixing committee of the war 

 industries board passed the following ruling covering maximum 

 prices for mill shipment of Pennsylvania hemlock lumber: 



That the price of S31 per thousand feet, f. o. b. cars Philadelphia, which 

 lias been In force since -Vprll G, 191S, shall be continued In effect as the 

 tiaslc maximum price of Pennsylvania hemlock lumber to all departments 

 of the government until August, 191S. 



The following companies, which produce the greater part of the 

 Pennsylvania output of hemlock lumber, were represented at the 

 Tiearing: 



The Goodyear Lumber Company, Xonvlch, Pa. 



Wheeler & Dusenbury. Endeavor, Pa. 



Pennsylvania Lumber Company, Kellettvllle, Pa. 



Central Pennsylvania Lumber Company, WllUamsport, Pa. 



In order to avoid the complication and confusion of the varying 

 freight rates from the different mills, and by reason of the govern- 

 ment construction program on the Atlantic seaboard, which makes 

 it apparent that the United States will require substantially the 

 entire output of No. 1 and No. 2 grades of Pennsylvania hemlock, 

 it was agreed at the hearing by all of the above manufacturers: 



That the system of delivered prices be discontinued, and that there be 

 substituted as basic maximum the price of $27 per thousand feet, f. o. b. 

 mill, to be effectuated as per list attached. 



That their entire stock and produrtlon of Pennsylvania hemlock, grades 

 Nos. 1 and 2, will be held available for the direct and Indirect needs of the 

 government in the war. and will be distributed and dealt In subject to the 

 •control of the war Industries board. 



That such of the foregoing lumber as. In the Judgment of the chief of 

 the lumber section of said board, can without detriment to governmental 

 requirements be released for urgent commercial or other needs, may be 

 sold to carlot purchasers (with his consent) at prices which, per Item, 

 shall not exceed the prices as established by the attached list. 



The foregoing arrangement shall continue effective until August 8, 1918. 



Miscellaneous Happenings 



Bids on 145,000 feet of white oak lumber are wanted by the 

 Jiavy department to be opened June 17, as follows: 



68,266 feet B. M. (about), 200 pieces 16 by 16 inches by 16 feet. 



51.200 feet B. M. (about), 200 pieces 12 by 16 inches by 16 feet. 



25.600 feet (about), 200 pieces 8 by 12 Inches by 16 feet 



The government is placing small freight car orders, left overs 

 ■of the big total of 100,000 cars ordered some time ago. It is reported 

 that orders for thousands of refrigerator and live stock cars will 

 Tbe placed. 



T. A. Green of the Southern Pine Association is here interested 

 in this matter and in having a number of wooden barges built by 

 the government for inland waterway use. 



P. L. Sanford is representing the lumbermen in submitting sug- 

 gestions to the treasury department for modification of the legal 

 definition of invested capital under the excess profits tax law, and 

 for other changes in that law that will clear up its meaning. 



The war department construction division is to establish a big 

 lumber storage yard at Norfolk, where construction material may 

 be assembled and distributed as needed. 



Southern Pine Emergency orders in May aggregated 266,000,000 

 feet and shipments aggregated 151,000,000 feet. 



More wooden ships of the Ferris type are to be built, according 

 to lumbermen's understanding, because some southern mills are com- 

 pleting the cutting of their contracts for Ferris ship schedules and 

 would be idle or their ship schedule cutting organization broken 

 up before the Daugherty wooden ship schedule specifications are 

 ready for contracts for the larger ships to be awarded. It is re- 

 ported that fifty more Ferris schedules may be ordered. 



It is reported that the government may spend $3,000,000 building 

 a railroad into the Olympic national forest, Washington, to get 

 isolated spruce timber there for airplane manufacture. 



It is also reported that many draftees in the limited service 

 classes will be called out for work in the forests, cutting airplane 

 material. 



Sawmills, it is especially requested by the war industries board, 

 should burn wood wherever possible; likewise logging railroads. 

 However, many mills have asked the board's priorities committee 

 to give them priority in obtaining coal. There is a coal shortage, 

 especially in the East and South, it is stated, and not enough coal 

 for all. The board has asked the railroad administration for infor- 

 mation as to which logging roads need coal for their locomotives, 

 owing to the steepness of grades on their lines. 



Government contracts of interest to the trade have been granted 

 recently as follows: 



Edward L. Davis Lumber Company, Louisville, Wash. 



American Axe & Tool Company, handles. 



Strombeck Manufacturing Company, file handles. 



Economy Drawing Table Company, handles. 



Northwestern Manufacturing Company, barrack chairs. 



Biniel Spoke & Auto Wheel Company, Portland, Ind., wood wheels. 



Schwarz Wheel Company. Philadelphia. Pa., wood wheels. 



Standard Wheel Company. Terre Haute, Ind., wood wheels. 



Auto Wheel Company. Lansing, Mich., wood wheels. 



Hayes Motor Truck Wheel Company, St. John, Mich., wood wheels. 



Prudden Wheel Company, Lansing, Mich., wood wheels. 



Besides oak, the navy wants 16,000 feet of cedar, 80,000 feet 

 cypress and 40,000 feet poplar lumber. It is also asking bids on 

 hundreds of chairs and other furniture. 



M. H. Robertson of the Maple Flooring Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion has been here lately to interest government officials in flooring 

 for the war housing operations to be undertaken. 



Capt. A. E. Selfridge of California is back at his desk in the 

 lumber director's office. 



Major E. G. Griggs is reported to be running a government cut- 

 ting mill for spruce and fir airplane stock at Vancouver, Wash. 



It is announced that by agreement between the war trade board 

 and the Norwegian government Norway will permit the exportation 

 of the following to the allied nations: 



Wood and manufactures of wood — Round timber, mainly pitprops, 

 150,000 tons; sawn planed wood. In all 400,000 tons; pulp (dry weight), 

 125,000 tons; chemical pulp (cellulose), 200,000 tons; paper, 125,000 

 tons ; matches. 5,000 tons : total, 1,005,000 tons. 



It is also announced that Great Britain has clapped an embargo 

 on the exportation of handles, wooden barrels and casks, unmounted 

 sticks, woven rattan, etc. 



Issues Box Specifications 



The National Emergency Bureau of the Wooden Box Industry 

 makes public the following: 



The ordnance department wants packing boxes to hold fibre containers 

 carrying powder. There are seven sizes of these boxes, as follows : 



