48 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



the hear(.T moral support of that organization to 

 this movement. The resolutions set forth that 

 there was widespread interest in this proposed 

 exposition and expressed the view that it would 

 be of very great benefit to the manufacturers of 

 lumber, owners of timber lands and operators of 

 sawmills and wood-worlsing enterprises. 



It was decided at this meeting that the base- 

 ball team should be discontinued as an adjunct 

 of the club. The team has been in existence for 

 a number of years and has done some very 

 effective work in the way of keeping the Memphis 

 lumbermen before the public. However, it was 

 believed that it was useless to continue the team 

 unless the lumbermen here attended the games 

 which were played away from Memphis and cul- 

 tivated the social relations which the contests 

 on the diamond were intended to encourage. 

 Some members expressed extreme regret that the 

 team should be disbanded. Memphis was the 

 first club to have a team as an integral part 

 thereof and there was naturally more or less 

 sentiment connected with the subject. It was 

 ordered that the present paraphernalia of the 

 club be turned over to the team of last year 

 so that the boys may play if they wish. 



No further progress was reported on the propo- 

 sition looking to the establishment of a traffic 

 bureau here to look after rates and other similar 

 matters for the lumbermen. It was stated, how- 

 ever, by W. B. Morgan, a member of the river 

 and rail committee, that the Merchants' Exchange 

 already had a traffic bureau in existence and that 

 probably the cheapest and most satisfactory plan 

 for the lumbermen would be to identify them- 

 selves with the Merchants' Exchange and thus 

 become beneficiaries of the traffic department of 

 that organization. This subject is being dis- 

 cussed, and conferences looking to a working out 

 of the necessary details may be arranged in the 

 near future. The Merchants' Exchange extended 

 to the Lumbermen's Club an invitation to con- 

 fer over the matter. 



The statistics committee estimated that Its 

 report would be ready within the next few days 

 and would be distributed as soon as it had been 

 completed. 



.lames E. Stark called to the attention of the 

 law and Insurance committee the fact that It 

 had been discovered in some states that lumber 

 interests were paying higher rates for insurance 

 than those engaged in other lines. He thought 

 that an investigation to determine whether or 

 not this was true in Tennessee should be made 

 and suggested that the law and insurance com- 

 mittee take up this subject at once and report 

 back to the club the result of its findings. Mr. 

 Stark thought it possible that lower rates might 

 thus lie obtained for lumber in Tennessee. 



The majority of the members of the Lumber- 

 men's Club will be in Chicago attending the an- 

 nual of the National Hardwood Lumber Associa- 

 tion tlio coming week. Because of this fact there 

 will be no meeting of the club on the regular 

 date, Saturday, ,Tune 8. Instead it will be held 

 June 15 and will be the last until next fall. 



Wonderful Baud Saw History 



Seventeen years ago the Stearns Salt & Lum- 

 ber Company, Ludington, Mich., purchased from 

 Wm. B. Mershon & Co. the band sawing ma- 

 chinery manufacturers of Saginaw, Mich., one of 

 their earlier types of band resaws, which was one 

 of the first ever employed as a sawmill resaw. 



In a recent letter to Wm. B. Mershon & Co.. 

 W. T. Culver, vice-president of the Stearns Salt 

 & Lnmlx!r Company, says : "We have been using 

 this machine for so many years th.at the writer 

 is not sure of the exact number. It is ancient 

 history when we try to think back to the time 

 the machine was purchased. Our mill has been 

 running continuously since the machine was pur- 

 chased, and we have made an average cut of 

 nearly thirty million feet per yea.r. A pood per- 

 centage of this cut has been put through this 

 resaw. Barring natural wear, the machine i- 

 in excellent shape today and is doing as good 



work as it did at the beginning. If we keep the 

 working parts repaired from time to time there 

 is no reason why it would not last until the end 

 of our cut, which would be about fifteen years. 

 We are operating two single band mills and the 

 resaw easily cares for all of the lumber that is 

 suitable for resawing." 



At the rate of a cut of thirty million feet per 

 year, it would mean that this Mershon resaw 

 already has sawed fully a half billion feet of 

 lumber, which certainly is a phenomenal history 

 for any sawing equipment ever built. 



Beside building bandsawing machinery, Wm. B. 

 Mershon & Co. have also built during their his- 

 tory a reputation for producing the best that 

 can be made in this line of sawmill and planing 

 mill equipment. Thus it is that while a good 

 many machinery people have for some years past 

 run on short time, owing to a paucity of orders, 

 the Mershon shops have at all times been busy 

 in taking care of their orders. 



Some Oak Lumber in Sight 



The accompanying picture is a little bunch of 

 oak logs, about a million feet in quantity, owned 

 by the Williamson-Kuny Mill & Lumber Company 

 of Mound City, III., which were unloaded a few 

 days ago from barges at its log harbor. When 

 this fine stock of logs is reduced to lumber it 

 surely will relieve the stringent oak lumber situa- 

 tion to some extent. This is only a part of the 

 large quantity of oak timber that will be sawed 

 by the Williamson-Kuny Mill & Lumber Company 

 during the present season. 



A MILLION FEET OF OAK LOGS IN LOG 

 HARBOR, WILLIAMSON-KUNY MILL & 

 LUMBER COMPANY, MOUND CITY, ILL. 



Cotomittees National Wholesalers 



President F. E. I'arker of the National Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association has completed 

 his list of committees of the current year. Of 

 course, by reason of his office, Mr. Parker is 

 chairman of the executive committee, the other 

 members of which are N. H. Walcott, Gordon C. 

 Edwards, W. W. Knight and F. R. Babcock. 



The chairmen of the other committees are as 

 follows : 



Board of Managers of Bureac of Informa- 

 tion — A. L. Stone. 



Hardwood Inspection — Hugh McLean. 



Special Comsiittee on Single Standard Uni- 

 versal H.\RDW00D Inspection — Lewis Dill. 



Fire Insurance — G. H. Holt. 



RAILRO.AD AND TRANSPORTATION B. F. BcttS. 



Lake Insurance — E. B. Foss. 



Coastwise Insurance — A. J. Cadwallader. 



Arbitration — Edward Eiler. 



Forestry — J. M. Woods. 



Terms op Sale and Trade Ethics — F. S. 

 Underbill. 



Audit and Finance — Henry Cape. 



Legislation — J. G. Criste. 



Advisory to American Forestry Association 

 — R. C. Lippincott. 



Membership — E. E. Goodlander. 



Trade Relations — W. E. Litchfield. 



Special Congressional Car Stake — G. F. 

 Craig. 



Columbus Firm Will Increase Plant 

 The Dodson Saw Mill & Lumber Company Is 

 the style of a concern which was formed in Co- 

 lumbus, O., about two months ago, but which 



as yet has not actively entered the field under 

 that name. The principals of the company are 

 C. W. Seaman, formerly of the Domestic Lum- 

 ber Company, Columbus, and E. Dodson, who 

 for a long time has been running a sawmill in 

 that city. Mr. Dodson specializes in the manu- 

 facture of stock such as chair rockers in the 

 rough, and similar articles. 



The idea of the new organization is to provide 

 increased capital and to make it possible to en- 

 large the scope of the concern by branching out 

 into the general market. Mr. Dodson will con- 

 tinue actively in charge of the sawmill and tim- 

 ber buying, while it is planned that Mr. Sea- 

 man will be in charge of the office. 



The company is planning the erection of a new 

 planing mill, which will contain resaws and 

 other equipment necessary to take care of spe- 

 cial orders. 



Barnaby Sells His Retail Yard 

 C. H. Barnaby of Greencastle, Ind.. recently 

 disposed of his retail business, which he ran in 

 connection with his manufacturing department 

 in that place, to the True & True Lumber Com- 

 pany, formerly True & True of Chicago, manu- 

 facturers of doors. Mr. Barnaby has been con- 

 ducting bis retail department ever since he 

 started in business at Greencastle but is desirous 

 of confining his efforts to the manufacture of 

 hardwood lumber and veneers. The deal will in- 

 volve a sum of approximately $20,000. It is 

 probably the intention of the True & True Lum- 

 ber Company to make this one of a string of 

 retail yards which it will maintain in various 

 parts of the country. 



Mr. Barnaby started his sawmill on June 3, 

 it having been shut down for a general over- 

 hauling for two weeks. He reports volume of 

 sales and prices for both veneers and lumber in 

 excellent shape. 



Alabama Has New Hardwood Concern 



Advices from Axis. Ala., state that the Kirk- 

 McConnell-Davies Company has been incor- 

 porated at Mobile for the purpose of manufac- 

 turing hardwood lumber. The principals of this 

 concern, who have been associated in the lumber 

 business for some time, are H. S. Davies, C. M. 

 Kirk and H. L. McConnell. Mr. Davies is from 

 Bucks, Ala., Mr. McConnell from Mobile and Mr. 

 Kirk from Axis. The concern will incorporate 

 with a paid up capital stock of $i;."),000. A 

 tract of excellent hardwood timber with about 

 •J8,000,000 feet stand has already been pur- 

 chased. This will run about half to oak and 

 the balance to sweet and tupelo gum and ash. 

 The concern is putting in a mill at Pierce's Land- 

 ing, which will have a capacity of from 20,000 

 to 30,000 a day. It will also Install a stave 

 mill for the purpose of utilizing sweet gum. The 

 company's timber is on the Alabama river and 

 the offices will be at Mobile. 



Biltmore Doings for May 



The month of May was passed by Dr. C. A. 

 Schenck and the students of the Biltmoro For- 

 est School in North Carolina. During the first 

 part of the month the students were treated to 

 an excursion over the Biltmote estate, where 

 the school was formerly located. Here they 

 viewed the results of intensive forestry which 

 has been applied for twenty years. There is no 

 question but that the Biltmore estate forms one 

 of the most perfect practical demonstrations of 

 actual results to be accomplished from intelli- 

 gent handling of woods and tree species, and 

 every Biltmoro graduate can look back with 

 much sntislaction to having had the opportunity 

 to work in that field. 



After leaving Biltmore, headquarters were 

 established at Sunburst, near Canton. N. C. on 

 the holdings of the Champion Lumber Company. 

 The quarters here are ideally situated, being 

 right in the midst of some of the largest timber 

 and pulping industries of the country, thus af- 

 fording the students an excellent working field. 



I 



