HARDWOOD RECORD 



Eleventh Annual National HardWood Lumber Assn, 



A review of the first day 's proceedings of 

 the jS'atioiial Hardwood Lumber Association, 

 which met in annual convention at ililwaukee 

 June 11 and 12, was given in the last issue of 

 the Hardwood Record, with the exception of 

 the report of the Committee on Waterways, of 

 which Capt. 0. F. Liebke of St. Louis was 

 chairman, which is given below. The .sessions 

 which followed were equally interesting, and 

 the entire occasion proved one of the most 

 memorable in the history of that great lumber 

 organization. 



Tlie meetings were characterized by enthu- 

 siasm and good fellowship; the legislation ap- 

 peared to be the wisest for the good of all 

 that could be put through; the officers 

 handled the vast amount of work with parlia- 

 mentary precision, dignity and dispatch. 

 Jloreovcr the many entertainment features 

 generously provided by Wisconsin lumbermen 

 and engineered almost wholly by G. J. 

 Landeck were eminently enjoyable, so that 

 the visitors left ililwaukee with a feeling of 

 the utmost satisfaction and a realization of 

 the fact that both inside and outside the con- 

 vention, they liad been remarkably well 



Eeport of Committee on Waterways. 



o[ k of the 



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Her 



ppointed b\ 



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Mem 



also m at 

 i^rnors from 

 legates wcie 



.,isHture of 

 u lot ippr 

 ng their end 

 till re should 

 Longrcss the 

 m $10 000 



iippoint.o 



inrl scnntors in Congress, urging freight 



Aliirh will be presented 



1 1' I' :;ates should be 



iii"]i 1.1 the Lakes-to- 



A~s.i. Kition. to be held 



. . 6 ..ud u of this year, and 



Ills suggestion in the form of 



ippointment by the president 



of five to ten delegates to the 



onvention to he held in Chi- 



-Mi. I'lcsideut and members of this association, 

 after all our efforts to plead and urge tor the 

 success of this great national work, all these 

 efforts sink into insignificance when compared 

 with an article published in the Los Angeles 

 Times under the heading of "Bringing the Sea 

 to the American Farmer." Gentlemen, I am 

 going to ask you to let me read this to you. 

 There is no doubt that mau\ ..i von have read it, 

 but the oftencr v.mi i ,i,l ; ■ ■ 



"There is notiiin: 



beneficent in the iim ' 

 terprise than this ii,:_ ^ 

 the-Gulf Deep Waniu,, w 



of 



ithm the trcmcnduus aiivautages 

 ansportatinii. Twenty thousand miles will 

 ive been added to the coast line of the Kepub- 

 Tlie . nil;;, ^ti.pii of thc American railway 

 ■siem Hil: II i| Niarly every problem of 



Klein All 11 limitation will be solved. 



!'■ i'i;i iniu'ht rates will be per- 



aiieiiit> : I \iii| the sea will have been 



"iiL-ht I I li Mm ■ ii:iii farmer," 

 The pii.j.' I is possible, practical and in fact 

 dispensable to the future development of the 



"Tlure be three things," said Lord Bacon, 

 i'lii<-n make a nation great and prosperous, a 

 rtilc soil, bosy workshops and easy conveyance 

 r men and commodities from one place to 

 lot her." Two of these prerequisites thc repub- 

 ■ possesses in abundance. The other element — 



',?!" 



ot 



imiiovement of 

 tillD nts of %\ 



transportation. The vast railroad problem can 

 best be settled by the development of our inland 

 waterways. 



The nations which are our chief competitors 

 have re.-Uized this proposition and are moving 

 with magnificent energy and liberality to execu- 

 tion. France, no larger than Texas, has 

 quadrupled her internal waterways at an expense 

 of $7,050,000,000. German'- i;"-" lo'i.io ...n^., .,,- 

 inland waterway, and the i, 

 to be to make a highwav 

 has water enough to fill i 

 wonderful a system of c^ni i 

 town can ship by water i.i i 



In Belgium and Holland lii i 

 to every city, and, small :i i w, 



and Holland are world pow : n i i i; i 



manufacture. A ton of riv i i . i 



them a thousand miles for >' i l-.iiusn 



Isles, with all their vasi uoast, 



have 4,000 miles of can i built 



canals until one may sail ;: in M or St. 



Petersburg to the Black s, i m iin i ,i plan or 

 to the Arctic ocean: and there are seven sea- 

 ports in Europe — all our competitors, which have 

 spent as much as we have laid ont on all our 

 rivers and harbors in all our history. They 

 know what they are about. 



In the grand strategy of ii.i.l- it ; M^li lime 

 that we were proflting In i' ■: , tit,, and 



entering upon a devehipi i i iiikhi the 



patent principle that it i i xe an 



object floating on a liquid ihin i.i .mn it on 

 any wheeled vehicle. 



A recent writer, advocating a canal from Ash- 

 tabula to Pittsburg, declares that it would do 

 the work ot fifteen railroads at the cost of one. 

 On the Stc, Marie canal a dollar paid out for 



Erie 



Even 



rry a ton a thousand 

 inal it will bear it 527 miles. On 

 he new Erie it is estimated that the dollar will 

 take the ton 1,900 miles, while on the average 

 a dollar on the American railways will only take 

 a ton 133 miles, 



America has the best natural system of water- 

 ways in the world. If she would only develop 



edict of union for 

 , The river is the 

 nation's great asset in inland navigation. With 

 its tributaries it touches and thrills all but 

 sixteeen of the forty-six states of the Union, 



The deep water canal from Chicago to Joliet 



and St, Louis to the Gulf is the key to the most 



s|il. ndid commercial development of all our 



Chicago, with splendid liberality and 



has expended $60,000,000 to open it as 



-I ditch and barge canal. One hundred 



more. It is estimated, will make of it a 



iti:ii with from fourteen to twenty feet of 



water. The government could not make a better 



iuveslment of its riches if it studied all the 



promising .>pportunities ot the country. If it 



should do no m..ie than the "Soo" canal it would 



pav for itsi II ,.i,,v vear. even if it cost $200,- 



>■■ ' . tin INI-:-! - ^ 'if freight and 



\ ii. I . . ii statecraft and 



I II I I I , , ,, . I .ill canal would 



-!;■■ !'i' ' nil' 111' III iii;h \v II h a new seaboard 



from (.)iiehee to New Orleans. It would cut 

 through the congested freight yards like a sur- 

 geons knife. It would break the freight gorge 

 in its most congested centers of Chicago and 

 St, Louis and lighten the load of tonnage from 

 Duluth through Buffalo and Cleveland to New 

 Orleans and Mobile. The east and the west com- 

 merce would make of it the busiest and richest 

 canal in the world. The cotton of the south 

 wroild zo bv water to a hundred manufacturing 



I "I il: nh. Southern lumber would pass 



III Milwaukee as cheaply as the 

 earry it to Amsterdam, Coal 



I v.. I iiiil the southwest would compete 



u II 1; .'ill :,,,Li, I'ennsylvania on the docks of 

 (Iniali.a and St. Taul. 



Northern corn and hay and wheat would go J 

 cheaply to a hundred southern cities that dc- i 

 mand them. Our great lake ships would pass , 

 out into the Gulf and restore to the salt seas ; 

 our merchant marine, earning profits during win- i 

 ters now idle, , 



The lake shipbuilders, with the cheapest coal i 

 in the world, brought by the most economical 

 i.nt..|iinQ- in the world, to the cheapest Iron In 

 111. could compete with the Clyde in 



il(i be the best ship subsidy that a great 



I nt ever made. It would take from Wln- 



- inovls as the greatest wheat center of 



1,1 iiii'i iiiing it home to American soil. 



\i 1 I ', I I'ling the ocean, with all its mar- 



I ^. ~ of water transportation, to the 



''I' I II II mi nil hern farms. Surely this is an 



.nieiioi,-. U..11I1.V of the brain and capital ot - 



the great age in which we live. * 



SECOND DAY'S SESSION. 1 



Part of the report of the Inspection Rules < 

 Committee, J. M. tritchard, chairman, was 

 then taken up and the section pertaining to 

 wagon stock adopted-: 



Inspection Rules Committee Eeport. 



Mr, President and gentlemen of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association : Merely to recall 

 to your minds something of the duties of the 

 Inspection Kulos Committee, will state that by 

 order of the executive committee all questions 

 relating to the Interpretation ot the Inspection 

 rules arc referred to this committee, and replies 



