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a year ago, associate 6 against 5, honorary 3 against 2, making the total 

 IGl against 165 at the beginning ot 1912. 



In reference to the finances of the club, President Robertson said that 

 these were not what they should be. He recommended that the dues of 

 active members be increased and that the banquets bo given only with 

 the money paid by the members therefor, or dispensed with altogether. 

 He referred to the fact that the past year bad been a prosperous one 

 and that the members of the club had had the good fortune to share in 

 this prosperity. He thought that every advantage should be taken of 

 the present excellent conditions to secure the highest possible prices for 

 the lumber sold during the year. He again thanked all the committees 

 for their co-operation and said tliat in closing he had one more recom- 

 mendation, that of the gentleman constituting the new administration. 



Secretary H. T. Cooper then submitted his annual report. This showed 

 that the income from all sources, including the balance left by the 

 previous administration, had been $2,S5S.31 and that expenditures had been 

 $2,847.80. The club tendered a vote of thanks to Mr. Cooper for the 

 efBcient manner in which he had performed his duties during the year. 



Mr. Pritchard, on assuming the chair, again pledged his best efforts in 

 behalf of the club and asked for the support of every member. He then 

 proceeded to name the standing committees for the year as follows : 



F. B. Robertson, chairman Advisory Board, composed of all the former 

 presidents of the club. 



ENTERTAIXSIEXT 



F. E. Stonebraker, chairman, J. W. Dickson, S. C. Major, Chas. Dudley, 

 C. C. Latanner. 



INFORMATION 



J. S. Bailey, chairman, F. W. Dugan, Jas. II. Thompson, R. Sondhelmer, 

 U. S. Lambert. 



PDELICITY 



Mark H. Brown, chairman, W. L. Crenshaw, A. N. Thompson, C. T. 

 Ransom, C. M. Kellogg. 



" EESOLCTIONS 



W. H. Greble, chairman, Geo. W, Fooshe, W. R. Barksdale, F. E. Gary, 

 TV. S. Darnell. 



LAW AND INSURANCE 



James E. Stark, chairman, S. B. Anderson, S. M. Nickey, R. J. Wiggs, 

 Frank May. 



RIVER AND KAIL 



J. W. McClure, chairman, C. D. Hendrickson, Geo. C. Ehemann, W. B. 

 Morgan, O. M. Krebs. 



MEMBERSHIP 



F. T. Dooley, chairman, R. J. Lockwood, W. A. Stark, B. C. Tally, 

 Harry Stimson. 



STATISTICS 



D. F. Hauer, chairman, Geo. O, Friedel, J. R. McFadden, Keith Blanton, 

 G. E. Bailey. 



There were five applications for membership presented at this meeting, 

 as follows : Active — Palmer Kellogg, Christianson Lumber Company, Chi- 

 cago ; Joe Thompson of the Dudley Lumber Company, and R. E. Dickinson 

 of the Anchor Sawmill Company : associate — R. L. Jordan and John Pen- 

 rod, both of the Penrod Walnut Corporation. Kansas City, Mo. These will 

 be voted on at the next meeting and will make the total membership 

 166 against 165 at the beginning of 1912. 



The resolutions committee was authorized to draw up and forward to 

 the proper authorities resolutions endorsing the National Reclamation 

 Association in its efforts to secure enactment by the federal congress 

 of the Newlands-Bartholdt bill looking to river regulation and flood pre- 

 vention. This bill seeks an appropriation of $50,000,000 a year for 

 ten years lor the building and maintenance of levees throughout the 

 Mississippi valley and for such other work as ma.v be necessary to 

 prevent a recurrence of the tremendous damage that has followed the 

 floods in the Mississippi and its tributaries during the past few years. 

 The club also directed that the Business Men's Club be asked to take 

 immediate action on the same subject and that other business bodies 

 be requested to appeal to their representatives in congress to lend this 

 matter their strongest possible support, owing to the vast importance of 

 river regulation and flood prevention to the lumber and other interests 

 throughout the Mississippi valley. 



A New Thing in Veneer Presses 



If the panel manufacturer who doesn't know should be told that be 

 can make one pressing of built-up stock and release his press in forty- 

 five seconds, he would say that the narrator was dreaming. That this 

 can be accomplished, however, has not only been stated but demonstrated 

 by a Chicago firm, the Charles F. Elmes Engineering Works, which con- 

 cern is marketing a remarkable veneer press that is so arranged and 

 equipped that it can be handled with the facility of an electric runabout. 



The press is built on the inverted type, the pressure being supplied by 

 hydraulic force created by means of the Elmes' unsurpassed hydraulic 

 pump. It might be well to insert here that this company was estab- 

 lished a half century ago by Charles P. Elmes and is being perpetuated 

 by his sons along the same lines that it was carried on by the father. 

 Absolute perfection in every detail of design and construction was 

 the watch-word of the elder E'lmes, and this policy is being followed 

 to the last detail by the firm as it is run today. 



The press is built for electric or shaft drive and requires but a frac- 

 tion of the power necessary to run the ordinary press. The feature of 

 the inverted press is the fact that slipping of the veneers is absolutely 

 eliminated. The bundle is the stationary factor and the power is applied 

 from above by means of the plunger ram, thus the bundle will be firmly 

 held in its exact position. 



Another feature Is the newly designed containers, which can be ad- 

 justed as the power is being applied, thus eliminating a considerable waste 

 of time necessitated by the older methods. Extra heavy design and 

 smooth finish are characteristic oC the entire machine. The plunger ram 

 and cylinder arc made oC semi-.steel and the pump frame, base and 

 plunger guide arc cast in one piece, making the pump practically inde- 

 structible. It is designed with two high pressure plungers, no low 

 pressure plungers being required, as the cylinder is filled automatically. 



The crank shaft and eccentrics are made in one piece, extra heavy, and 

 the eccentric straps are babbitted and bored. Bronze and hardened tool 

 steel are used in all parts where the employment ot these metals will make 

 construction more lasting. The retainer rods have exceptionally quick 

 releases. They can be tightened or released without the use of a 

 wrench or without breakage. 



It has been demonstrated that one press can easily handle one hundred 

 bundles a day. This fact, together with the assured high-class work 

 turned out by this machine, should well demonstrate its utility in the 

 manufacture of panels. 



News of the Manufacturers' Association 



The coming convention of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of 

 the United States bids well to be the biggest gathering of lumber manu- 

 facturers gotten together for several years. Thus far at the olHces of 

 the association more requests have been received for accommodations at 

 the hotels from the millmen than ever before. An extra force of clerks 

 is necessary to take care of the additional work in making the necessary 

 preparations, and while the program is not as yet completed, it is given 

 out by President W. E. De Laney and Secretary Doster that every detail 

 looking to the comfort and entertainment of the visiting delegates is to 

 be well looked after. Work on the general program is nearing completion 

 and it will soon be mailed to the lumbermen interested all over the 

 country. 



American Hubs in Africa 



Wagon makers in Rhodesia, South Africa, at elevations of 5,000 feet 

 above the sea buy American elm for wagon hubs. Native wood which 

 answers in some other parts of South Africa fails to give satisfactory 

 service in the dry climate of Rhodesia because of excessive shrinkage and 

 checking ; but elm from the United States meets the requirements. The 

 only other wood which has been found serviceable for hubs in that climate 

 is Australian blackbutt. 



NEW INVERTED HYDRAULIC VENEER PRESS 



