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"' .lii li/n l.'-r- ",',| "i,i(','r,. t\''''\< \ ''"'\ HCGH MclLVAIN, 



-I'l "i .1 .Mi:.ui. 1 .ai'.l 'iiiirM,-',.,!! lii'nn Acting Chairman. 



Another Inspection Conference. 



The following letter is being sent out by 

 Hugh Mcllvain of J. C4ibson Mcllvain & Co., 

 Philadelphia, acting chairman, referring to 

 the conference on inspection rules held in 

 Philadelphia in March, and calling another 

 for next month. The invitation has been 

 sent to the delegates present at the former 

 conference and to the Eastern States Eetail 

 Lumber Dealers' Association, New Haven, 

 Conn. ; Lumber Trade Club of Boston ; Massa- 

 chusetts Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation, Springfield, Mass.; Eetail Lumber 

 Dealers' Association of Philadelphia; Lum- 

 bermen's Exchange of Philadelphia; Lum- 

 bermen's Exchange of Baltimore; New York 

 Lumber Trade As.sociation; Building Ma- 

 terial Men's Association of West Chester, 

 N. Y.; Eetail Lumber Dealers' Association 

 of the State of New York, Utica, N. Y.- 

 New Jersey Lumbermen's Protective Asso- 

 ciation, Newark, N. J.; Pittsburg Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association; Lumber Deal- 

 ers' Association of Connecticut, New Haven, 

 Conn.; Cincinnati Lumbermen's Exchange; 

 Buffalo Lumbermen's Exchange; Hardwood 

 Lumber Dealers of Norfolk, and the Lum- 

 bermen's Exchange of Washington. 



The call reads as follows: 



^-rentlcmen : Act 

 the advice of a nur 

 .vou are hereby not 

 resented at the c> 

 which was held in 

 are urgently reque> 

 Bellevue-Stratford 



tious and hy 

 IS interested, 

 "intions rep- 

 'ction rules. 

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l>ere 



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come before the ii 

 the purpose of giv 

 further consideratic 

 one of the most in 



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I' '"- w as shall 



iii'l '^iiccially for 

 ni>prciion question 

 s will probably be 

 meetings ever held 

 liy the hardwood trade, and your association 

 should be represented. .Send as large a dele- 

 gation as you think proper, arranging to stay 

 two days if necessary. In the meantime, kindly 

 have your association defer consideration of the 

 new National hardwood rules, as adopted at the 

 Milwaukee convention June H and 12, 1908. 

 and recommend to the individual members of 

 your association that they continue buying 



the old National Hardwood Lumber 



of 



About Consignments to Hamburg. 



Hamblbg. .July 25.— Editor Hardwood Rec- 

 ord : I have just noticed the article rel- 

 ative to consignments of whitewood logs, 

 etc., on page 32 of your June 25 issue, 

 and can only assert that what is said 

 about Antwerp and Havre ports refers with the 

 same force to Hamburg. The heavy consign- 

 ments of American lumbermen to their foreign 

 customers !ia\, inim,.! Ill,, niarket so that condi- 

 tions here .n, i , , ,,iy now, and even fine 

 logs are i > , _ |ii ires. Hamburg has 

 never seen -n, I, a ]i.;ny stock of American 

 whitewood lo-s as now. All sheds and yards are 

 absolutely filled up. so that it has been nec- 

 essary to enlarge the largest yards very con- 

 siderably. If the American exporters of white- 

 wood would not bear losses, they should not 

 make further consignments in the present state 

 ot the market, or at all events not make con- 

 signments in immf-nsr .iaanfiti.. Some six 

 weeks ago an Am. i i, ,!, , i,,,-,.i. anj ex- 

 porter shipped to lian,!,,! ,.i^, .onslgnment 

 of poplar or whii.u i ,,_ ,1,111- S5 marks 



the 



lies. 



ing his limil. I'.uyers askcMl to make a firm, 

 reasonable offer laughed and said : "We can 

 buy all we need from 45 marks to 72 marks." 

 The shipper was not inclined to reduce his price 

 according to the present situation of the mar- 

 ket, and I must pass the lot. 



Some days ago I saw the shipment still lying 

 in the open room of the dock in the rays ot 

 the sun, so that the logs now here about six 

 weeks will burst more and more. Until that 

 <late the dock rent was already more than 400 

 marks and if time of Interest and damage by 

 weather, etc., be considered, it is quite, out of 

 question at the present moment to get the price 

 asked. 



A further nuisance is that some people mark 

 their logs with their full firm and domicile. 

 The shipper of the before-mentioned lot did this, 

 too, so that consumers remarked, "We know 

 the exporter who has marked his firm, etc., on 

 the ends of the logs ; now we can buy directly 

 and will save us the amount of the agent's 



If satisfactory business relations shall be 

 continued between these American exporters and 

 their agents here, shippers should only mark 

 their logs with their initial letter, as the most 

 prominent firms are doing it. I should be 

 glad if you would submit this to your readers, 

 believing it will be of interest to some lum- 

 bermen. F. f;iIILt,IAM Sn.VDLKB. 



NeWs Miscellanp. 



Death of Colonel McLeod. 

 The death of Col. A. D. McLeod. assistant gen- 

 eral freight agent of the Chicago, Hamilton & 

 Ilayton Uailroad, which occurred at Cincinnati 

 July IS, was a severe shock not only to the 

 railroad fraternity, but to the lumber trade gen- 

 erally, by whom he was greatly beloved. As a 

 matter of fact there was no man connected 

 with railroad interests so well known to lum- 

 bermen as was Col. McLeod. He was an ex- 

 pert on lumber freight trafBc cost, and was al- 

 ways an advocate of transporting stock at a 

 .lust price. To him, perhaps, more than to any 

 other individual connected with the roads were 



lumbermen indebted for moderate transporta- 

 tion charges throughout the territory in which 

 the C, H. & 1). is a prominent factor. 



Col. McLeod was in Chicago only a few weeks 

 ago and attended the last Hoo IIoo concatena- 

 tion held here. He was apparcntiv in the best 

 of health and his sudden taki-, .lis- 



tinct shock to his Hoo Hin. ly. 



He was an exceedingly popni lis 



cordiality, his extreme polii' 1 1 n-- 



commodatlng disposition. Not only had he hosts 

 of friends among lumbermen and railroad men. 

 but every lumber newspaper man held him in 

 rare affection, because he was at all times fhelr 

 friend. .He will he missed by all of them. 



Large New Liunber Company. 

 T. A. Green of Ontonagon and C. H. Worces- 

 ter of Chasseli, Mich., have purchased the in 

 terssts of the C. V. McMillan Company and 

 formed the Greenwood Lumber Company. Mr. 

 Worcester is president and Mr. Green secretary 

 and general manager, and these gentlemen con- 

 trol practically all the stock. 



The trnnsaction is a large one, involving about 

 15,000 acres of timber land, a sawmill and other 

 property. Two-thirds of the land is west of 

 Ontonagon, the rest east, while the mill has 

 been one ox the industries ot the town for 

 many years. Woods operations will be started 

 at once, and work will consist principally in 

 extending tracks and getting ready for great 

 activity in future. The Ontonagon Railroad 

 Company, which owns the line connecting the 

 1. is not in- 

 5 institution. 



\. GHKEN. ONTONAGON, MICH. 



It will be continued under the management of 

 Mr. Green, who virtually owns all the stock. 



Messrs. Worcester and Green of the new com- 

 pany are both successful lumbermen, and are 

 well known throughout the upper peninsula. 

 Mr. Worcester is president of the Worcester 

 Lumber Company, which is operating at several 

 points in the northland. Mr. Green has been 

 tr.'asirer and manager of the C. V. McMillan 

 t'on.par,. H, ,ari.. to Ontonagon in 1900. the 



year 1 ,,| I, ,\\ i n- 11 stablishment of the business. 



Lar-.;.ii iiin.ii.l, Ills efforts the institution has 

 bei'M 11, ,1,1 ,,ii. ,,. I la ^ali-.tantial, reliable ones 

 of 11 MI.- ;, I, II .,,„! there is much sat- 



isi:i' ' :, III, I that he is to con- 



Semi-Amiual Pennsylvania Lumbermen's 

 Association. 



The seventeenth semi-annual meeting of the 

 Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Association was held 

 at Lancaster, Pa.. .)n July 29, President T. J. 

 Snowden of S. i:ii.(,,ii in il hair and 150 mem- 

 bers present. K,ii,i,i i-a,],,,,. Rosenthal of Sha- 

 arai Shom<-im IVniph 1 . pi,-senting Mayor Me- 

 Caakey, mailr Ha a.l.lr.-s of welcome. Vice- 

 president S. f. Creary of Hloomsburg responding. 

 Matters concerning mainly trade conditions took 

 up the day's session. 



On July 30, resolutions endorsing the step 

 taken for the preservation of the forests, and 

 one condemning as dishonest the practice, which 

 is growing In the trade, of cancelling orders for 

 material without the consent of both buyer and 



