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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The Hoosier Veneer Mills, at Ladoga, Ind., 

 is making extensive improvements in its 

 plant. 



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The Landisville Basket Manufacturing 

 Company of Landisville, N. J., will engage 

 in the manufacture of baskets, crates, bar- 

 rels, boxes, etc. It was recently organized 

 with $20,000 capital stock. 



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Improvements in the plant of the Southern 

 "Veneer Company at Louisville, Ky., will be 

 made shortly at a cost of $25,000. 



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The Park FaUs Manufacturing Company, 

 Park Falls, "Wis., has recently installed a new 

 50-inch veneer machine. 



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The fine new office of the Memphis Veneer 

 & Lumber Company in North Memphis was 

 damaged by fire on the night of May 20. 

 The fire started in a closet where books and 

 papers were kept and strongly suggests the 

 usually disastrous combination of mice and 

 matches. 



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A loss of about $80,000 w-as sustained by 

 the Eamseur Furniture Factory at Eamseur, 

 N. C, by fire recently. The fire originated 

 in the dry kiln. It is not known as yet 

 whether the plant will be rebuilt or not; the 

 insurance amounted to about $25,000. 



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The veneer plant of Connelly & Teague at 

 Taylorsville, N. C, was damaged by fire on 

 the night of May 7 to the extent of $12,000, 

 only about half covered by insurance. Out- 

 buildings and veneering on the yard were 

 saved, but the main structure and machinery 

 were a complete loss. 



The plant of the Adler Veneer Seat Com- 

 pany, manufacturer of veneer seats and 

 tables at 59-61 Milton street, Brooklyn, N. 

 Y., was destroyed by fire on May 15. The 

 loss is estimated at $5,500, fully covered by 

 insurance. 



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The veneer plant of the Maley, Thompson 

 & Moffett Company is running full time, cut- 

 ting sliced quartered oak as well as sawed 

 mahogany and oak veneers. 



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The E. D. Albro plant of Cincinnati is busy 

 cutting mahogany and Cireas-^ian walnut ve- 

 neers, sUced and sawed. 



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The Cincinnati Veneer Company, whose big 

 plant was destroyed by fire recently, is rapidly 

 getting into shape in the veneer department 

 that suffered most. The portions of the plant 

 which were undamaged are actively at work. 

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The latest addition to the veneer industry 

 in Cincinnati is the sawed veneer department 

 of the Freiberg Lumber Company, which 

 operates a mahogany sawmill and makes its 



own flitches. 



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The Ohio Veneer Company of Cincinnati 

 cuts all classes of veneers, both sawed and 

 sliced, as well as rotary cut. The plant is 

 running full time at present. 

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What is said to be the oldest veneer mill in 

 the Ohio valley is that connected with the 

 old sawmill of C. C. Boyd & Co., at North 

 Bend, a suburb of Cincinnati. 



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The Talbert-Zoller Lumber & Mill Company, 

 at Winton Place, a Cincinnati suburb, also 

 manufactures quartered-oak sawed veneers. 



Annual Cypress Association 



The annual meeting of the Southern Cypress 

 Manufacturers' Association convened in the 

 Grunewald Hotel. Xew Orleans, La., at 11 :13 

 a- m., on May IS. President Frederick Wil- 

 bert of Plaquemine, La., presided and there was 

 a good attendance. 



George W. Dodge, chairman of the Marlj't 

 Conditions Committee, in analyzing market con- 

 ditions, stated that prices are showing a down- 

 ward tendency, partly attributable to the gen- 

 eral depression in values and to the industrial 

 Inactivity prevalent all over the country at the 

 present time, but principally to overproduction 

 In cypress which during the past year has been 

 about five per cent heavier than consumption. 

 The last month or two this per cent has been 

 materially increased. Mr. Dodge brought to the 

 attention of the convention the fact that cypress 

 lumber is today selling at a general average 

 price below that of five years ago, while the 

 value of stumpage and the cost of labor has 

 materially Increased. 



Among the visitors at the convention who ad- 

 dressed the meeting were Leonard Bronson, man- 

 ager of the National Lumber Manufacturers' As- 

 sociation, Dr. Hermann Van Schrenk, technical 

 expert of the association, and Lewis Doster, sec- 

 retary of the Hardwood Manufacturers Associa- 

 tion. 



Address of President Wilbert 

 The annual address of President Wilbert was 

 as follows : 



In reviewing what has been accomplished by 

 the association during the past year, and also 

 since its organization, I will necessarily consume 

 little of your time, for the reason that our work 

 is very thoroughly covered by the committees, 

 which committees will report to you in detail 

 at this meeting. 



In the first place, I desire to compliment the 

 manufacturers of cypress upon the way in which 

 they have held together. There is a good deal 



lacking in this respect, still the association has 

 held Its members and has continued to make 

 progress despite the fact that the past two 

 years have been years of trial and tribulation. 

 So far as I know, the cypress manufacturers 

 have been able to weather the financial diffl- 

 culties which have beset the lumber trade and, 

 . while the general business situation of today 

 contains few comforting features, cypress is un- 

 doubtedly in a position to pull through what lit- 

 tle there may be left of the general business 

 depression. in considering whatever progress 

 we may have made during the past five years 

 it should always be borne in mind that there 

 is considerably more cypress manufactured to- 

 day than when the association began its work, 

 which makes it difficult to compare conditions 

 as they were to conditions as they arc. With 

 a definite output which would not vary it would 

 be much easier to point out wherein the asso- 

 ciation has benefited the cypress industry. And 

 we are still somewhat at sea as to the produc- 

 tion, for despite the fact that a few of our 

 members will cut out during the next year, or 

 two years, a number of new enterprises are 

 starting so that the cypress production for an- 

 other year or more will gain rather than de- 

 crease. A market must be found for this in- 

 creased production, the same as the market has 

 been found for the increased production of the 

 past five years, and I would earnestly commend 

 to your attention any propositions which may 

 be brought before you today looking to the ex- 

 tension of the cypress trade and the building up 

 of a greater demand for our wood. We can- 

 not expect the world at large to have the same 

 knowledge of cypress that we have unless we 

 tell them, nor can we expect to Increase the 

 demand for cypress until an increased number 

 of people have made up their minds that cy- 

 press, for given uses, is the best wood the.v 

 can purchase. With the intrinsic worth of this 

 wood, the worth which we know it possesses as 

 compared with other woods, there should be a 

 demand today which would not be satisfied with 

 what we are producing. The tables should be 

 turned and the consumers should be thinking of 

 substitutes for cypress Instead of. as is the case 

 today, using cypress as a substitute for other 

 woods. The association has done much during 

 the past few years to extend the use of cypress ; 

 much printed matter has been issued and there 

 is no doubt but that the present demand is at 



least one-fourth greater than would have been 

 the case had no effort been made to increase 

 both the use and users of cypress. There Is 

 much room for further exploitation in this di- 

 rection, however, and whether you see fit to 

 adopt its suggestion or not, I sincerely hope you 

 will give earnest consideration to the report 

 which will be submitted by the Committee on 

 Advertising. 



The report of your Committee on Grades and 

 Specifications will, so far as the work of the 

 Inspection Department is concerned, show that 

 this department has handled almost double the 

 number of complaints cared for during the pre- 

 ceding year. This has been done at an increased 

 expenditure for this department of only thirty 

 dollars, the working force having been the same. 

 I do not know whether to attribute this in- 

 creased work to a greater carelessness in grad- 

 ing at the mills, the dull trade conditions which 

 invariably cause greater complaints, or to other 

 causes, but I do know that the consignee has 

 cause to complain in altogether too many in- 

 stances. It is true that 390 cars complained 

 of is only a small proportion of the total stock 

 shipped by association mills and that, therefore, 

 by far the larger percentage of shipments go 

 through without complaint. Still there is evi- 

 dence of careless grading and the members 

 should, in order to extend the kindly feeling 

 the northern market is beginning to evince for 

 cypress, be more careful in their grading. I 

 cannot speak too highly of the good work done 

 for the cypress Industry by the Committee on 

 Grade and Specifications. 



So far as finances are concerned, the associa- 

 tion Is on a sound footing and it is not neces- 

 sary to alter in any way our source of income. 

 The indications are that the small surplus we 

 now have will increase steadily from now ob 

 and that we will no longer have to contend with 

 a deficit. 



In addition to tabulating the multitudinous 

 changes in freight rates and keeping, by rate 

 book and supplement thereto, the members post- 

 ed as to these changes, our Traffic Department 

 has done good work in the collection of claims 

 during the past year and shows to its credit 

 about ?33,000. We do not believe the members 

 could have collected for themselves anything 

 like this amount, nor do we believe they could 

 have kept In touch with freight rate changes 

 had it not been for this department. I believe 

 the members fully appreciate the detail work 

 this department has saved them and that they 

 will continue to give it their support. 



In all of the other things the association has 

 undertaken progress has been made and these 

 matters will be pretty well covered by the va- 

 rious committee reports. 



I wish to thank the members for the sup- 

 port they have given the association during the 

 year, for the energy they have displayed in com- 

 mittee work and for the kindly feeling and 

 willingness to help they have always evinced 

 towards me during my term of office as your 

 president. 



Secretary Watson's Report 



Secretary George E. Watson then gave kis an- 

 nual report, which was as follo\rs : 



By using our bulletin and circular letters our 

 meinbcrs have kept well in touch with the vari- 

 ous propositions before the association and there 

 is, therefore, little which I can report at this 

 meeting without, in part, duplicating the reports 

 of the committees which will be turned in later. 

 There is really no part of our work that is not 

 under the jurisdiction of a committee and it is 

 for this reason that my report at our meetings 

 does not follow the lines of usual reports of this 

 character and is more in the nature of a list of 

 suggestions. 



One thing which seems uppermost at this 

 particular time, especially to our Louisiana mem- 

 bers, is the timber conservation movement. While 

 this is of interest to tb*^ entire country, the 

 indications are that Louisiana will act first, 

 and it Is for this reason that I mention it es be- 

 ing of more particular Interest at this time 

 to our Louisiana members. The Ijouisiana State 

 Legislature is now in session and it is my un- 

 derstanding that a large number of bills will 

 be introduced which will have more or less 

 bearing upon the lumber trade. One or more 

 of these will be Introduced by the State Com- 

 mittee on Conservation, and it seems to me that 

 the Committee on Legislation of this association 

 should make a careful study of this bill whe» 

 it is presented. It is not my intention to pass 

 an opinion in any way upon the conservatio» 

 idea, but there is no question but that a law 

 on this subject will have a general ettect upo« 

 the lumber business. It may be true that there 

 should be conservation, hut It is also true that 

 it Is a very deep problem which cannot^ be 

 solved in a haphazard way. and it certainly 

 should be kept out of politics. I may be 

 wrong, but it is my belief that the conserva- 

 tion movement in Louisiana is. to a certaia 

 extent, political, and for this reason our mem- 

 bers should carefully study the provisions of 



