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quay. They inform me that the quality was 

 not strictly prime, but the logs were of such 

 a grade that they would have paid at least 

 22d in normal times. I have read your article, 

 ■Can It Be Possible?' under the heading 

 •Hardwood Record Mail Bag.' and can assure 

 you that the first letter referred to is nearer 



the mark than your correspondent's second 

 letter. I don't know who your Liverpool 

 correspondent is. but he certainly was in error 

 regarding the demand and prices obtainable 

 tor the wood in question — but mistakes do 

 happen, and even lumber correspondents are 

 not infallible." 



Of Interest to the Veneer Trade. 



Semi-Annual Meeting. 

 On Tuesday and Wednesday, June 9 and 

 10, the National Veneer & Panel Manufac- 

 turers ' Association, of which Burdis Ander- 

 son of the Great Lakes Veneer Company, 

 Munising, Mich., is president, will hold its 

 semi-annual meeting at the Ponchartrain 

 Hotel, Detroit, Mich. 



The first day's session will be devoted to 

 meetings of the various divisions composing 

 the association, when measures of special in- 

 terest to each will be taken up. On the sec- 

 ond flay the association will hold what is 

 known as its ' ' Harmony Session, ' ' when all 

 divisions will meet together for the considera- 

 tion of matters of common interest. This 

 and all others of the association will be ex- 

 ecutive. 



All these various meetings are important 

 ones and business of vital interest to the 

 trade will be brought before them. It is 

 urged not only that every member should 

 attend meetings of his association on general 

 principles, but it is especially desirable to 

 do so in times like the present. Trade is 

 none too good in the veneer industry, which 

 has suffered in common with all others in the 

 country of late, and various measures wUl be 

 proposed toward ' ' easing up ' ' conditions a 

 little. For instance, no factory can keep 

 running on a profitable basis with short hours 

 or operating with only half the usual crew, 

 so that manufacturers will talk over plans 

 with competitors in whom they have con- 

 fidence, for arranging their various operations 

 so that some can run a certain proportion of 

 the time and others the remainder. Some 

 such arrangement as this, if it could be made 

 to the satisfaction of all concerned, would 

 help take care of overhead cost and perhaps 

 be a matter of mutual benefit. 



The proposed program for the regular ses- 

 sion of the association is about as follows : 



EoU call. 



ilinutes of last meeting. 



President's address. 



Secretary 's suggestions. 



Assistant secretary's report. 



Eeports of standing committees. 



Addresses on pertinent topics. 



A number of interesting papers or ad- 

 dresses will be delivered by people prominent 

 in association work and with long experi- 

 ence in the trade. Z. Clark Thwing of the 

 Grand Eapids Veneer Works, Granu Eapids, 

 Mich., will talk on ' ' Drying Veneer ' '—a sub- 

 ject which he is particularly fitted to handle. 



D. E. Kline of Louisville, Ky., ex-presi- 

 dent of the association, will speak on "How 

 to Enn the Factory on Half Time and Pre- 

 vent Loss." 



D. W. Williamson of the Williamson Ve- 

 neer Company, Baltimore, Md., will talk on 

 "Is the Price of Veneer High Enough, as 

 Compared with Lumber Values ? ' ' 



B. W. Lord of the CMeago Veneer Com- 

 pany, Burnside, Ky., will handle the subject, 

 ' ' Classifications, ' ' and try to predict the fu- 

 ture of the veneer and panel industry if the 

 railroads advance freight rates, as they 

 threaten to do. 



By way of entertainment the committee in 

 charge suggest a fish dinner at one of De- 

 troit's famous St. Clair river resorts, on the 

 evening of June 9. On the whole, the meet- 

 ing promises to be a live one, and it be- 

 hooves members to get busy and make it one 

 from which they may carry away much good. 



■Veneer Trade Notes. 



W. H. Roddis of the Roddis Lumber and 

 Veneer Company, Marshfleld, Wis., was in the 

 city on May 13. 



The Frome Veneer Plant at Rice Lake, Wis., 

 recently turned out the first carload of veneer 

 for the season. The company has stock enough 

 on hand to continue for the next six months. 

 R. L. Frome of Sheboygan Falls, manager, plans 

 to install heading machinery very shortly, which 

 will add three or four months to the annual run 

 of the plant. 



The Mummert Veneer Factory at Millersburg, 

 Ind., owned by E. E. Mummert of Goshen, will 

 soon resume operation after several months of 

 idleness. 



The F.urt Township Board of Alger county, 

 Michigan, has purchased the Schneider veneer 

 plant at Grand Marais, and leased the property 

 to G. E. Le Veque. However, the factory will 

 not run on veneers, but will be converted into 

 a stave plant. 



News Miscellang. 



Meeting Chicago Hardwood Exchange. 



On Friday, May 1.5, the regular monthly meet- 

 ing of the Chicago Hardwood Exchange was held 

 in a club room of the Great Northern hotel at 

 1 p. m. The meeting was preceded by an at- 

 tractive luncheon, and was one of the largest 

 gatherings ever held by the organization. There 

 were present a score of distinguished guests. 

 Presiding at the meeting was President J. S. 

 Trainer, with Secretary A. H. Ruth recording. 



The first business was the reading of the fol- 

 lowing communication from the Lumbermen's 

 Club of Cincinnati. 



Cincinnati, O., April 17.— Chicago Hardwood 



Lumber Exchange — Gentlemen : At a special 

 meeting of our club held on Tuesday, April 14, 

 the following resolutions were unanimously 

 adopted : 



■Tvesolved, That it is the sense of the Lumber- 

 men's Club of Cincinnati that we return to the 

 use of the 1905 rules of inspection on rough 

 hardwoods, and be it further 



"Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be 

 sent to the National Hardwood Lumber Associa- 



We believe that it is for the good of the Na- 

 tion.il association that the Buffalo rules be re- 

 instated, as all of the inquiries we are receiving 

 at the present time call for inspection as per 

 those rules. Furthermore, we are of the opinion 

 that if we make a united effort we will succeed 

 in having same reinstated at the Milwaukee 

 meeting. 



Kindly let me hear from you at your earliest 

 convenience, giving an expression as to what the 

 members of your association think on this sub- 

 ject, and what sort of action they will take re- 

 garding same. Yours truly. Inspection Com- 

 mittee, George Littleford, Chairman. 



On motion of Theodore Fathauer. the secretary 

 was instructed to advise the Lumbermen's Club 

 of Cincinnati that its communication had been 

 received and that the Chicago Hardwood Ex- 

 change would abide by the decision of the forth- 

 coming annual meeting of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association at Milwaukee on in- 

 spection matters. 



The resignation of W. O. King & Co. as mem- 

 bers of the exchange was presented and on mo- 

 tion was laid on the table. 



The following communications from E. E. 

 Hooper, secretary of the Lumbermen's Associa- 

 tion of Chicago were read : 



Chicago, May 7, 1908.— J. L. Lane, Treasurer 

 Chicago Hardwood Exchange — Dear Sir : Under- 

 standing that you will have a meeting of your 

 association in the near future, I enclose a copy 

 of a circular letter which I have Just issued to 

 the members of this association, referring to the 

 Wide Tire and Wheel Tax Laws, believing you 

 might desire to read it for the benefit and in- 

 formation of your members. — E. E. Hoopee, Sec- 

 retary. 



J. S. TRAINER. CHICAGO, PRESIDENT. 



in accordance with the views of the assistant 

 corporation counsel, is the wide tire law now in 

 effect. You have been favored with a copy of 

 this law. which advises you of the widths of 



place thereon in plain letters and figures the cor- 

 rect weight and the correct legal capacity of 

 same. Regarding the Wheel Tax Law, you are 

 advised not to take out any license until such 

 time as the Supreme Court has handed down de- 

 cisions of two .n^os tlmt bnve been argued and 

 are now in thru li:iii,N i am assured that no 

 arrests will li- immI. i..i n,.t taking out the 

 license until in .: . n^ have been disposed 

 of and yon lia , : i, li ; advised. This in- 

 formation an- . : -mmunicated bv in- 

 stru.tniii -I i; , I ,,1 the trade commit- 

 On was instructed to 



This clc-icd the regular business before tli- 

 exchange, and President Trainer then introduo.! 

 W. H. Russe of Memphis, president of the Na 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association. Mr. Russu 

 thanked the organization for the courtesy of 

 the invitation to be present at its conference, 

 and said that the National association was mak- 

 ing remarkable progress, especially considering 

 the unfavorable business conditions prevailing 



