HARDWOOD RECORD 



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^ews Miscellany 



Memphis Statistics for 1911 

 The Lumbermen's Club of Memphis through 

 its committee on statistics has issued a state- 

 ment showing the total amount of hardwood 

 lumber handled by Memphis concerns during 

 1911. The detailed report shown gives a total 

 of 594.341.764 feet with an approximate value 

 of $14,805,364. 



Total Ft. Total Value 



Amount of lumber manu- 

 factured in Memphis. .110,363,102 ?3, 312,883 



Amount of lumber manu- 

 factured b.v Memphis 

 firms outside of Mem- 

 phis 116.516.719 2,917,815 



Amount of lumber han- 

 dled through Memphis 

 yards not included in 

 amount manufactured 110,868.040 3,401,928 



Amount of lumber han- 

 dled by Memphis firms 

 on direct shipment 

 from mills and yards 

 outside of Meinphis 

 not included in amount 

 manufactured 135,990,068 2,990,287 



Amount of veneers under 

 Vi inch thick manufac- 

 tured in Memphis 80.309,605 803,769 



Amount of veneers under 

 % inch thick handled 

 through Memphis 600,860 12,892 



Amount of lumber and 

 veneer exported from 

 Memphis 17,219,514 689,876 



Amount of lumber and 

 veneer exported from 

 outside points 22,473,856 675,814 



Total handled by 



Memphis firms 594,341,764 $14,805,364 

 Amount of logs received 

 in Memphis by rail and 



river 114,717,120 2,532,677 



Amount of lumber on 

 hand in Memphis Jan. 



1. 1912 71,818,267 2,531,689 



Amount of lumber on 

 hand outside of Mem- 

 phis Jan. 1, 1912 50,556,086 1,408,913 



Amount of logs and bolts 

 received at Memphis 

 and manufactured into 

 hoops, hearting and 



other cooperage stock 17,724,618 221,075 



Amount of logs and rough 

 material received at 

 Memphis and manufac- 

 tured into vehicle and 

 implement stock, turned 



work and pump rods. . 6,249,438 184,976 



Amount of lumber con- 

 sumed by furniture fac- 

 tories, coffin factories, 

 box factories, planing 

 mills, flooring factories, 



etc.. in Memphis 57.260,930 1,215,481 



In addition to the report on actual lumber 

 handled, there is given a summary of inbound 

 and outbound movements of logs, lumber and 

 other products as follows : 



Cars. 

 Lumber received at Memphis in 1911 . , . .17,959 



Bolts received at Memphis in 1911 1,675 



Squares received at Memphis in 1911... 15 

 Lumber received at Memphis in 1911 ... .10.367 

 Lumber shipped from Memphis, 1911. .. .11,533 



Total 41,549 



Formosa Timber Project 



The exploitation of the Mount Arisan forests 

 on the Island of Formosa, as spoken of previ- 

 ously in this publication, is progressing. The 

 mountain railway for getting out the logs is 

 three-quarters completed, and about twenty-five 

 miles are operating. It is hoped that by the 

 end of this year the entire railway, forty-one 

 miles long, will be finished, and that the Amer- 

 ican sawmill to be erected at Kagi, the terminus 

 of the lower line, may be ready for working the 

 first shipment of logs. 



The government at Formosa appropriated 

 $2,000,000 in gold for the project, and as a high 

 value has been placed on the different wood 

 species to be cut, large returns are expected. 



The greatest source of profit, it is anticipated, 

 will be from the export trade which the govern- 

 ment intends to closely develop. The forest 

 area of Arisan comprises 27,200 acres ranging in 

 altitude from 1,800 to 9,000 feet. There are 

 fifty-one species of trees of scientific and com- 

 mercial importance found on the island, the 

 most important including the Benihi ; the taiwan- 

 sugi ; the shonambokii : the shima-momi : the 

 ramdai-cedar : the camphor tree and the oaks. 



The first mentioned tree is valuable for all 

 building purposes and is used extensively. The 

 largest tree of this species is reported to have 

 a trunk twenty-four feet in diameter. The 

 second species resembles the Japanese cedar. It 

 has unusual height and s.vmmetrical beauty. 

 One of these trees is said to have a height of 

 190 feet. The third mentioned tree is valuable 

 but becoming rare. It has a light ocher-colored 

 wood which renders it particularly pleasing for 

 interior finish. It is susceptible to a good 

 polish. 



The oaks are very numerous and form the 

 largest forest at lower elevation than the coni- 

 fers, more especially in the South. 



While the camphor tree was formerly very 

 common throughout the lower forest zone, it is 

 now comparatively rare owing to its exploitation 

 by camphor gatherers. 



An interesting tree on the island is the 

 Randia cedar known as the Cunninghamia-Koni- 

 ski. This is an endemic species and is known 

 only on Mount Randal. There are only five 

 trees which are the only representatives of this 

 species in the world. The tree is named after 

 an eminent Japanese botanist. 



Coming Box Meeting 



At the meeting of the National Association of 

 Eos Manufacturers which will take place at 

 the Hotel Pontchartrain, Detroit, August 28 to 

 30, important questions having a distinct bear- 

 ing on all box manufacturers in the country 

 will be submitted to the members. 



There seems to be a pretty general sentiment 

 in favor of crystallizing the discussion which 

 has marked the meetings for several years past 

 in some active effort to take advantage of 

 the suggestions enumerated in such discussions. 

 It is pretty generally conceded that the box 

 business has attained such a position that the 

 box manufacturers should not be afraid to go 

 ahead with the various corrective ideas which 

 have been in mind for years past, and it may 

 be that some attempt will be made to get 

 definite action on the work of the National 

 Classification Committee of Lumber and Box 

 Interests in the United States. This question 

 has received such wide discussion heretofore 

 that it appears that the only thing to be done 

 now is to crystallize the sentiment into a uni- 

 versal demand for action. 



The question of cost accounting in box manu- 

 facture will also come In for considerable dis- 

 cussion. This is a topic which has interested the 

 box manufacturers and manufacturers of lumber 

 and various other forest products, but which 

 has never gone beyond the stage of a general 

 discussion. Let us hope that the addresses 

 which will be delivered before the meeting will 

 have the effect of convincing the box manufac- 

 turers present of the necessity of some concertive 

 and definite action. 



New Concern Active 



The recently incorporated Kentucky-Indiana 

 Hardwood Company, which has Just been started 

 at Louisville, Ky., by Owensboro interests, ad- 

 vises that it has a good start in its new location 

 and is getting in a considerable stock of hard- 



wood lumber. However, suflScient orders have 

 already been booked to take care of all the stock 

 the company has been able to get on the yards. 

 G. E. Bowman is president and treasurer of 

 the new company while Herbert Bowman is sec- 

 retary and vice-president. In addition to these 

 gentlemen, others of wide reputation in the lum- 

 ber business are connected with the Kentucky-In- 

 diana Hardwood Company. The Bowmans are 

 well and widely known in southern hardwood 

 circles, Herbert Bowman having previously been 

 employed by the T. B. Stone Lumber Company of 

 Cincinnati, for which concern he served as south- 

 ern buyer. 



The National Chamber of Commerce 



The National Hardwood Lumber Association 

 of Chicago, with 800 members ; the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association of New 

 York, with 425 members : and the West Coast 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association of the state 

 of Washington, with 129 members have now 

 been elected to membership in the Chamber 

 of Commerce of the United States of America. 



Recent advices indicate that the Tight Barrel 

 Stave Manufacturers' Association of Chicago, 

 which includes in Its membership seventy-four 

 individuals, was accepted to membership. The 

 acceptance of this organization puts the city 

 of Chicago in the lead with a total mem- 

 bership of sixteen organizations as against New 

 York which has a membership of fifteen. 



The advices also state that the total individual 

 membership of the organization increased during 

 the week prior to August 14 by 4,587, the largest 

 organization Joining during that period excepting 

 the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco 

 with 3,220. 



Though the chamber was organized as re- 

 cently as April 22, more than 77,000 business 

 men of the nation are now affiliated with It 

 through 102 different organizations covering 

 29 individual states and the Hawaiian Islands. 

 The Chamber of Commerce of Alexandria, Va., 

 with 52 members, is the smallest local organiza- 

 tion that has so far Joined : the Chamber of Com- 

 merce of Boston, Mass., with 4,S09 members, is 

 the greatest. The National Association of Glue 

 ,Tnd Gelatin Manufacturers of New York, with 

 36 members, is the smallest national body that 

 has so far become afflliated. The next in size 

 is the United States Potters' Association with 

 56 members. 



The detail work of the national chamber is 

 being carried on by the following men : general 

 secretary, Elliott H. Goodwin, formerly secre- 

 tary of the National Civil Service Reform 

 League ; field secretary, Edward F. Trefz, for- 

 merly advertising counselor to the Painted Dis- 

 play Advertising Association of the United 

 States ; assistant secretary, D. A. Skinner, for- 

 merly assistant chief of the Bureau of Man- 

 ufacturers, Department of Commerce and Labor : 

 chief of editorial division and editor of "The 

 Nation's Business", G. Grosvenor Dawe. for- 

 merly managing director of the Southern Com- 

 mercial Congress. 



■Veteran Lumberman Dies 



Thomas W. Riley, one of the pioneer lumber- 

 men of Washington, D. C, died yesterday at 

 his residence, 1000 F street, S. E., of an attack 

 of heart disease. For many years "Tom" Riley, 

 as he came to be generally known, was one of 

 the most picturesque characters of the National 

 Capital. Though eighty-nine years old, he car- 

 ried himself with the erectness of a soldier. 

 He was born in Accomac county, Virginia, Feb. 

 5, 1821, and was taken to Washington by his 

 parents when two years old. His father went 

 into the lumber and coal business, and the son 

 followed him, with the exception of a short 

 period, when he drove a stage coach. For a 

 long time he carried on business at the Eleventh 

 street wharf. Ten years ago he retired, being 

 succeeded by his son, WilUam W. Riley, 



