LUMBERMEN AND LUMBER JOURNALS 



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The Endowment Completed 



At the recent meeting of the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association, the en- 

 dowment of the chair of lumbering at the 

 Yale Forest School, undertaken five years 

 ago, was completed. Mr. Rhodes reported 

 that $66,246.20 had been paid in, and that 

 the' Weyerhaiiser interests had pledged 

 $10,000 if the balance was raised among the 

 lumbermen of the country. The yellow pine 

 manufacturers pledged $10,000, and before 

 the close of the meeting the balance was 

 secured, making the amount slightly in ex- 

 cess of the required $100,000. It was reported 

 that Mrs. Sage and Andrew Carnegie would 

 each give $100,000 if the lumbermen raised 

 their amount. 



The following officers of the association 

 were elected : President, Edward Hines, of 

 Chicago; vice-presidents, Everett Griggs, of 

 Tacoma, Wash. ; William Stillwell, Savannah, 

 Ga. ; R. H. Downman, New Orleans, La. ; 

 R. H. Vansant, Ashland, Ky. ; secretary, 

 George K. Smith, St. Louis, Mo. ; treasurer, 

 J. A. Freeman, St. Louis, Mo. ; manager, 

 Leonard Bronson, Chicago, 111. ; board of 

 governors, William Irvine, W. C. Langdon, 

 F. H. Pardoe, J. B. White, E. C. Fosburgh, 

 F. E. Wevman, R. M. Carrier; W. C. Meyers, 

 J. H. Bloedell, A. T. Gerrans, William 

 Dreary, Lloyd J. Wentworth, C. A. Bigelow. 



The association includes the following af- 

 filiated organizations: 



Association Membership Output, 1909 



Southern Cypress ^lanufacturers' Association ■ 5~ 445,000,000 



Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 70 319,000,000 



North Carolina Pine Association 71 664,000,000 



Wisconsin Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 36 100,000,000 



No. Hem. and Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 60 sso,ooOiOOO 



Western Pine Manufacturers' Association 84 874,000,000 



Northern Pine Manufacturers' Association 5° 1,419,000,000 



Southwest Washington Manufacturers' Association 28 200,000,000 



Pacific Coast Lumber Manufacturers' Association 165 3,000,000,000 



Yellow Pine Manufacturers' Association 275 3,649,000,000 



Oregon and Washington Lumber Manufacturers' Association 105 800,000,000 



Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of United States 272 600,000,000 



Georgia-Florida Sawmill Association 7^ 800,000,000 



1,344 13,420,000,000 



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Practical Reforestation Work trees during 1909, of which eighty per cent 



are said to be thriving, and this spring the 



The Papei- Trade Journal gives this ac- company has planted 169,000 spruce trees, 



count of the practical reforestation work of also 10,000 to 12,000 young poplars, and ex- 



the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company : pects to put in about 60,000 additional, and 



"The company owns practically the entire hereafter at the rate of about 100,000 trees 



Cheat Mountain Valley, near Ca'ss, W. Va., a year. Another practical feature of the op- 



the holdings starting at the sources of the eration at that point is the precaution taken 



river and continuing down the main stream to prevent the inception and spread of fire, 



a distance of probably thirty-five miles, an A space of fifty to lOO feet is cleared along 



aggregate of about 100,000 acres of virgin every logging road and spur. During the dry 



spruce forest. The spruce of that section is seasons every locomotive is followed by a 



of exceptionally fine quality and the stand is ranger, who stamps out small leaf-fires which 



very heavy. S. E. Slaymaker, of New York originate in its wake. During the ten years 



city, who is at the head of the lumber de- in which this company has operated only a 



partment. is an altruistic man. His con- little more than 1,000 acres have been burned 



science bothers him when he thinks about the over, and this was cut-over land. The of- 



havoc his several hundred woodsmen make ficers of the company deem it just as im- 



in the forest every year, and it has been portant to keep the fire out of cut-over land 



troubling him so greatly that he has devised as out of timber, and are guarding the pre- 



a practical scheme for replacing the timber. serves in such a manner as to insure prac- 



This tract was examined by experts of the tically a continuous supply of saw logs and 



government several years ago, and a plan pulp wood, 

 was suggested for replanting with small trees ^ ^ ^ 



to be shipped in from a distance. Instead of 



following this plan, those in charge of the Minnesota Lumber 



work devised one of their own. In certain 



•valleys conditions are ideal for the propaga- Lumbermen estimate that of the _ 1,000, - 



tion of an overabundant growth. The sur- 000,000 feet of Norway and \vhite pine cut 



plus plants are taken out of the ground in in northern Minnesota last winter, at least 



the afternoon and are replanted the next morn- twenty-five per cent and possibly thirty-five 



ing. The -company has set out 25,000 spruce per cent, is still in the woods and cannot be 



