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teams. He advanced, in faTor of the use of 

 skidders, the fact that it is not practicable to 

 handle an entire log by team, while with steam 

 skiddci-s this can readily be accomplished. Some 

 discussion of the cost of feeding teams was then 

 indulged in. 



It seemed to be the general impression of all 

 llie superintendents present that the building of 

 logging railroads should have considerably more 

 care than is at present given this matter. Spurs 

 should be close enough together to enable the 

 logging team to worl; advantageously, and fre- 

 quent attention should be given the log loaders 

 in order to secure the best results. It is also 

 important that enough men should be hired in 

 connection with road building so that the work 

 can be carefully done. 



At about one o'clock the meeting adjourned for 

 luncheon. 



At the afternoon session the first matter 

 brought up was the organization of an associa- 

 tion for the benefit for the men in charge of the 

 logging and woods operations of the lumber com- 

 panies in the South. A motion was made that 

 such an organization be formed, and it was car- 

 ried unanimously. The suggestion that the name 

 of the organization be the Southern Logging 

 Superintendents' Association met with approval 

 and this name was selected. The matter of a 

 permanent chairman and secretary of the con- 

 vention was then brought up and J. B. Baker 

 of the Huie-Hodge Lumber Company, Hodge, La., 

 was chosen for the position of chairman and 

 •lames Boyd of the New Orleans Lumber Trade 

 Journal was made secretary. 



The appointment of a committee to draft a 

 constitution and by-laws was left to the chair- 

 man with the assistance of the secretary. This 

 committee consisted of five members — one yellow 

 pine superintendent, one cypress and one hard- 

 wood man, the other two members being repre- 

 sentative manufacturers. The men named were 

 .Joseph Weldon, Bowie Lumber Company, Bowie, 

 La. : J. T. Ward, Robinson Land & Lumber Com- 

 pany, Chicora, Miss. ; C. O. Lauve, Lamb-Fish 

 Lumber Company. Charleston, Miss. ; and H. H. 

 Cust and H. S. Weston for the manufacturers. 

 A motion that James Boyd be made permanent 

 secretary of the organization was then adopted. 



Considerable time was then given up to a dis- 

 cussion of logging methods, cost of cutting, cost 

 of logging and hauling, and other matters. This 

 brought out a great deal of practical and val- 

 uable information and lasted until well into the 

 afternoon, when adjournment was taken until 

 Tuesday morning. 



The Tuesday morning session was devoted to 

 discussion on the handling of labor, and some 

 very helpful suggestions were made along this 

 line. On Tuesday afternoon the first business to 

 be considered was the reading of the constitu- 

 tion and by-laws as dratted by the committee. 

 These were presented paragraph by paragraph, 

 and were adopted with a few minor changes. 

 They read as follows : 



ARTICLE 1. 



The name of this association shall be the 

 Southern Logging Superintendents' Association. 

 ARTICLE 2. 



The membership of this association shall con- 

 sist of logging superintendents and contractors 

 employed by lumber companies of the southern 

 states. 



ARTICLE 3. 



The object of this association is to meet at 

 regular intervals to discuss matters relative to 

 logging problems and their solution. 



ARTICLE 4. 



The annual meetings of the association shall 

 be held on a Monday and Tuesday, between the 

 2.5th and 30th of September, at a place to be 

 selected bv the executive committee. Special 

 meetings may be held as often as may be called 

 by the executive committee. 



ARTICLE 5. 



The o'fficers of the association shall be a 

 president, a first vice-president, a vice-president 

 for each state, a secretary and treasurer, who 

 shall be elected at the annual meeting. They 

 shall serve for one year or until their successors 

 are elected and qualify. These officers shall be 

 the executive committee, which shall meet when 

 called by the president, who shall be ex-offlcio 

 chairman of the executive committee. 



ARTICLE G. 



The membership fee of the association shall 

 be five dollars. The annual dues shall be fixed 

 by the executive committee. 



ARTICLE 7. 



This constitution may be amended at any an- 

 nual meeting by a majority vote. 



E. O. Batson suggested that the vice-presidents 

 of each state call a meeting of the logging 

 superintendents for his state, to meet once each 

 year. The suggestion was turned into a motion 

 and adopted. 



The election of officers resulted as follows : 



President, J. B. Baker, Huie-Hodge Lumber 

 Company, Hodge, La. 



First vice-president, G. I. Ritchie, Crossett, 

 Ark. 



Vice-president for Arkansas, R. Lee Bass, 

 Edgar Lumber Company, Wesson, Ark. 



Vice-president for Florida, S. Rigell. Stearns & 

 Culver Lumber Company, Bagdad, Fla. 



Vice-president, Louisiana, O. Marsan. Salmeu 

 Biicl: & Lumber Company. 



Vice-president, Mississippi, Tkomas Laffiu, 

 Mississippi Lumber Company, Quitman, Miss. 



Vice-president, Texas, W. L. Dunlap, McShane 

 Lumber Company, Dearborn, Tex. 



Vice-president, Alabama, J. H. Givens. Ala- 

 bama & Florida Land & Lumber Company, 

 Falco, Ala. 



Vice-president, North Carolina, South Caro- 

 lina and Virginia, Bowman Marshall, Roper 

 Lumber Company, Newbern, N. C. 



It was decided that the executive committee 

 w-ould select a vice-president for Georgia and 

 other southern states not represented and cast 

 the vote of the convention for tbem. 



H. H. Cust suggested that the matter of cost 

 sheets be taken up, offering the idea that a sheet 

 showing costs in each department of logging be 

 .'irranged and sent to members, to be filled in and 

 presented at the annual meetings of the organi- 

 zatiops, to show the actual cost of logging opera- 

 tions, so that comparisons could be readily made. 

 President Baker stated that this matter would be 

 given consideration by the executive committee, 

 which held a meeting directly after the adjourn- 

 ment of the convention. 



About twenty-six of those in attendance paid 

 their membership fees as members. 



The meeting then adjourned to meet again one 

 year hence at New Orleans. 



Compound Wagon Axles 



On a recent trip to Wisconsin the writer 

 met in the smoking room of a Pullman sleeper 

 :i young man so full of information that he 

 imparted it without being urged. After seat- 

 ing himself within easy reach of the porter 's 

 call bell, he deftly rolled and lighted a cig- 

 arette, blew some smoke through his nose and 

 a few smoke rings into the air and then pro- 

 ceeded to tell what he knew. 



It was soon learned that he was a salesman 

 lor a hardwood lumber company, and that one 

 of the annoj-ing features of his business was 

 to find in the lumber business so many ' ' old 

 trailers," as he termed them, who had lived 

 between lumber piles, as it were, and knew 

 but little of what was going on in the world. 

 They had trailed along in the same old way, 

 holding to the same old ideas, year after year, 

 showing no progress or advancement and actu- 

 ally not knowing or believing that when one 

 kind of wood becomes scarce and expensive, 

 other woods are substituted which are just a» 

 good, if not better. 



The reason he knew all about these mat- 

 ters was because he was a graduate of Yale 

 and had studied forestry for two years, and 

 knew Gilford Pinehot. Those who have pro- 

 found respect for Mr. Pinehot and his work 

 when in the Forest Service, were inclined to 

 require no further evidence of the young 

 man's capabilities and let him talk on un- 

 challenged. 



It is no doubt true that in many cases the 

 young man is right in his statement that 

 other woods are substituted which do as well 

 as those which have been considered standard 

 for certain purposes. Especially is this true 

 in the manufacture of furniture where veneers 

 are used and the cores or centers are built up 

 with less expensive woods, but we can hardly 

 imagine the young man answering questions 

 like these: 



What wood is just as good or better 

 than ash for wagon poles? 



What wood is just as good or better 

 than hickory for wagon axles? 



What wood is just as good or better 

 than poplr.r for wagon boxes? 



What wood is just as good or better 

 than oak for wagon hubs? 



Substitutes have been used, more or less, for 

 all of these woods, but the old trailers know- 

 very well that the substitution has not been 

 because of the superiority of other woods, but 

 because of the growing scarcity and corre- 

 sponding advance in cost, rendering these 

 woods, in some instances, at least, almost pro- 

 hibitive for use by wagon manufacturers. 



The possibilities advanced by the Compound 

 Wood Companj', an article concerning which 

 company was recently published in Hakdwood 

 Eecokd, in relation to compound hubs, should 

 go a long way toward solving some problems 

 for the wagon manufacturers. ' It is the in- 

 tention of this company to build up, or as the 

 name of the company implies, to compound 

 one-inch material, for instance, into any de- 

 sired dimensions. The grading rules of all 

 woods entering into the construction of wag- 

 cus are very rigid and especially so regarding 

 the grading of axles. 



A standard axle for a 3^ wagon is 

 4"xo"x6', and contains just ten feet board 

 measure in which the grain must run straight. 

 Any sawmill man who has made a business 

 of sawing axles knows the difficulties encoun- 

 tered. It is quite easy for an amateur in the 

 business to size up on the skids a hickory 

 log W'hich measures possibly twenty inches in 

 diameter and twelve feet in length and to fig- 

 ure the number of axles he will get out of it, 

 but the experienced man knows that the only 

 way to determine how many axles a certain log 

 will cut is to count them when shipping dry. 

 The fall one's imagination takes is great, on 

 account of the very few straight grained 

 axles the log produces. 



The mill man who sells No. 1 hickory axles 

 f. 0. b. Chicago for $65 to $70 per M is not 

 getting rich as fast as the one who has not 

 tried it would suppose, especially when the 

 high cost of hickory stumpage is considered. 

 The wagon manufacturer buys these axles 

 shipping dry and stores them under sheds for 

 an average of three years before they are 



