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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Secretary and treasurer — J. W. Thompson, 

 J. W. Thompson Lumber Company. 



One-y^ar directors — E. E. GoodhinUcv. Cood- 

 lander-Robertson Lumber Company ; C. >S. [Icn- 

 drickson. C. S. Ilendrickson Lumber ("oniiiany ; 

 C. S. Gladden. 



Two-year directors — K. J. \A'iggs, R. J. Darnell. 

 Inc. : W. H. Greble, Three States Lumber Com- 

 pany : A. L. Foster. J. W. Thompson Lumlier 

 Company. 



The nominating committees assured I he club 

 that their respeclive tickets would win without 

 a single member being scratched, but. even after 

 such statements from the chairman of each com- 

 mittee, the members were not certain of the 

 ■Election of any candidate with the exception of 

 J. W. Thompson, who was nominated on both 

 tickets. It is regarded as the "one best bet" 

 (hat be will have the only walkover of the entire 

 campai.sn. 



The time for campaigning has been shortened 

 to two weeks l)y the recent changes in the con- 

 stitution and by-laws, but the campaign will be 

 all the more strenuous because of the shorten- 

 ing of the time for vote getting. 



The Lumbermen's Club is the largest local 

 hardwood lumber organization in existence and 

 it is recognized as one of the potent factors in 

 the hardwood lumber industry, having accom- 

 plished a great deal of good not only for this 

 city and the lumljer interests of this section but 

 also having rendered service of much benefit to 

 the hardwood lumber industry of the wtn-Id. It 

 is therefore considered a high honor to be elected 

 to office therein and there is no doubt that every 

 candidate will seek to land the office for which 

 he has been nominated. Those who have been 

 called upon to make the race have been identi- 

 fied with the club for some years, as a rule, and 

 have done good work, and their friends will do 

 all they can to elect them. Some of the nominees 

 have become members only within the past year 

 or (wo. but it is the desire of the members to 

 bring them into closer touch with the affairs of 

 the organization, which, in addition to their fit- 

 ness for the respective positions, i^rompted their 

 selection. 



The election will be held December 18. 



Features pertaining to the launching of the 

 campaign practically overshadowed every other 

 consideration and little other business was trans- 

 acted. The club listened with much pleasure to 

 an address by ,Tohn W. Bailey, president of the 

 Day & Bailey Grocery Company, who suggested 

 the formation of a bank, with .f."i,(]00,000 capital, 

 that would cater to the needs of the lumbermen 

 in particular and that would loan money in al- 

 most any amount for six months with a .guaran- 

 tee that the borrower could renew at the date of 

 maturity. These remarks were, of course, in 

 the nature of a .loke, but the treatment of lumber 

 interests by local bankers and the preference the 

 latter show for cotton as against lumber business 

 furnished the groundwork for the satire along 

 the lines indicated. 



James K. Stark of the river and rail commit- 

 tee reported that his committee bad taken up 

 the question of estimated weights with the offi- 

 cials of the Southern and Western ^A'eighing & 

 Inspection Bureaus and that a conference would 

 be held at an early date. Mr. Wolfe of the 

 Southern Weighing & Inspection Bureau asked 

 for specific instances of abuse in connection with 

 estimated weights, but the committee deemed 

 Itiat it was rather unnecessary, to say the least, 

 to furnish sucli evidence. There is some prob- 

 ability that the conference ma.y result in an ad- 

 justment of the differences between the members 

 of the committee and the representatives of the 

 bureaus in question. 



Announcement was made of the advancement 

 of Joe Ilattendorf. who has served the Illinois 

 Central with eminent success in several official 

 positions, with headquarters in this city, to ln' 

 assistant tr-affic manager of the Illinois Central 

 System, with headquarters in Chicago, and the 

 club voted unanimousl.v to express to Mr. Ilatten- 

 dorf in some tangible manner the high regard in 

 which he is held by the lumbermen of this city 

 and section. His severance of his relations with 

 the local offices of the company is much regretted 

 by all members of the club, though they con- 

 gratulate him upon his promotion. 



Shipment of Fine Walnut Logs 



Illustrated on this page are two carloads of 

 piime dressed walnut logs recently shipped friun 

 Calvert, Tex., by the Tenrod Walnut & Veneer 

 Company of Kansas City, to Hamburg. Get- 

 many. These were unquestionably two of tlic 

 finest cars of walnut logs ever shipped out of 

 this country, and were really remarkable for 

 size and quality at the present time, when good 

 walnut limber is so scarce. 



The first car contained twelve splendid logs, 

 averaging 3oVii inches in diameter, and the total 

 carload amounted to 8,240 feet. The smallest 

 log on the large car was 8 feet long and 31 

 inches in diameter and contained 365 feet. The 

 second car contained twenty-one logs, averaging 

 27% inches in diameter, and the carload ag- 

 gregated 6,840 feet. 



This fine walnut timber grew on the farm of 

 J. H. Adoue. a banker of Calver. Tex., and was 

 cut* from a tract of thirty-two standing trees 

 which R. L. Jurden, secretary of the Penrod 

 concern, purchased for the company. From 

 these thirty-two trees 28,000 feet of prime logs 

 were cut, and 2,700 cubic feet of figured stump 

 wood. 



The largest tree on the tract produced a l)ntt 

 log 14 feet long, 42 inches in diamet(U\ con- 

 taining 1,264 feet of timber ; the second log was 

 13 feet long, 34 inches in diameter, and con- 

 tained 731 feet. These two fine logs contained 

 l.OS.'J feet, quite a record for one tree. 



The next largest tree produced a 13-foot log. 

 40 inches in diameter, containing 1.053 feet, and 

 a second log feet long, ,3.5 inches in diameter. 



containing 540 feet, making a total of 1,593 

 feet for the tree. 



The wood was absolutely free from shakes and 

 was very sound in the butts, which, for such old 

 and large-size timber, is remarkable. 



The Tenrod Walnut & Veneer Company is the 

 foremost walnut concern in the country, 

 and it is to be complimented on securing 

 such a fine bunch of logs, since timber of this 

 character is all but extinct in this country, and 

 only diligent search brings to light an occasional 

 prize such as these. 



The I'enrod concern produces, besides high- 

 grade walnut veueers and plain and figured long 

 ;ind butt wood of the finest quality, rotary cut 

 led and white oak veneers. Its headquarters are 

 ;it Kansas City, Mo. 



December Meeting Philadelphia Lumber- 

 men's Exchange 



Tile l.umbermeus Exchange of Philadelphia 

 held its regular monthly meeting, preceded by 

 ihc usual luncheon, on December 2, President 

 Herbert P. Robinson in the chair. 



Samuel B. Vrooman, chairman of the commit- 

 tee representing the exchange at the Deeper 

 Waterways Convention, which was held at Nor- 

 folk, V'a., Xovember 17, IS and 10, reported that 

 great progress had been made at the convention 

 and the point reached where the government 

 can make its appropriation without further de- 

 lay. Mr. Vrooman offered a resolution at this 

 meeting, that the members of the exchange be 

 instructed to join the Deeper Waterways Asso- 

 ciation, the costs of which are .$5 per annum, 

 and in this way help to increase the fund neces- 

 sary to carry on this good work. A resolution 

 was carried extending the thanks of the exchange 

 to Mr. Vrooman and his committee for the able 

 manner in which they handled the important 

 work assigned them. 



A letter was received from the I'hiladelphia 

 Car Demurrage Bureau stating that during 

 October 1,693 cars of lumber were reported to 

 this department by the various stations of all 

 lines of railroads within the city of Philadel- 

 1 hia, being a total of 25,395.000 feet of lumber, 

 which is an increase of 534 cars, or 8,010,000 

 feet, of lumber over that of October. 1908. 



Death of Prominent Indiana Lumberman 

 Daniel A. Sanders, senior member of the San- 

 ders & Egbert Company of Goshen. Ind., died 

 December 5 at his home in Goshen from an at- 

 tack of paralysis suffered some weeks before. 



Mr. Sanders w'as horn in York, Pa.. .January 

 31. 1841. his father being a native German. At 

 the age of twenty-one he began an apprentice- 

 ship as a stone-mason, remaining in that trade 

 for thirteen years. Mr. Sanders went to 

 Goshen in 1865. At the termination of his work 

 as a stone-mason he engaged in the buying and 

 selling of timber, .it the organization of the 



CAR CnNT.VlMNG T\\i;\n 

 AVERAGE DIAMETER VI' 27 



iM; WAL.NUT logs WITH AN 

 h INCHES. TOTAL 6,840 FEET. 



CAR CONTAINING TWELVE WALNUT LOGS AVERAGING 

 3514 INCHES IN DIAMETER, TOTAL 8,240 FEET. 



