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Daring the past year the association has had 

 two resignations, that of Kennedy & Co., Ltd.. 

 Ft. Wayne, removed to Cincinnati, nud Fer- 

 guson & Co. of Rockvillf. We have the follow- 

 ing names to present :is n<*\v mt'inbi-r* : The 



O. t>. vVt^LKi;. CIIICAGU, ILL. 



Peabody Bros. Co.. T.afontaine : Young & Cut- 

 singer, Evansville : Comer & Scearce. Moores- 

 ville ; Wood-Mosaic Flooring Co., New Albany; 

 Frey Bros. & Co.. Lafayette: Mainland Mfg. 

 Co., Indianapolis : (i. W. Bishop. Walton : W. 

 H. Guirl & Co.. Clay City: J. I). Saiith. Ft. 

 Wayne : A. M. .Jackson. Indianapolis. Most of 

 these firms have representatives present at this 

 meeting. 



Tlial the Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's As 

 social ion has prospered is shown by the list of 

 new members secured, and we believe thai its 

 influence has t)een widened and we can fee! 

 assured that as an organization wu have made 

 ourselves felt on all matters for the betterment 

 of the hardwood lumber interests. Much work 

 has been accomplished in the past and there are 

 many reasons for the continuance and strength- 

 ening of our organization. There is no <-om- 

 parison in tbt. waj- the lumber business Is car- 

 ried on tnday witli even ten years ago. Belter 

 condltiiins have been brought about by tlie or- 

 ganization of lumbermen into state and national 

 associations. The great work that has been 

 accomplished by the lumber ofganizati<ms has 

 been the establishment of a uuiform system of 

 inspection, and the national associations are now 

 tribunals for the settlement of differences in the 

 interpretation of the inspection rules. Our asso- 

 ciation, we fe*-!. can justly be proud of the part 

 it iias performed in bringing about this condi- 

 tion. While we no longer have at our meetings 

 hot debates and discussions on inspection rules, 

 let us not think tiiat. because our efforts along 

 these lines have been successful and that In the 

 main the rules we fought for are now universal. 

 there Is no more work for us to do and no other 

 benefits to be derived from meetings. We be- 

 lieve that one of the greatest benefits that lias 

 been 'derived from the organization of the In- 

 diana Hardwood Lumbermen's Association has 

 been the fraternnl feeling that has grown 

 among the members that have regularly al 

 tended our nieeilngs. The sociability and tin- 

 exchange of ideas of our members when meetlnii 

 together !»as proved to be of great benefit to 

 the individuals. As competitors we are no 

 longer enemies, but friends. 



I wish to thank each individual m^^mber of 

 this aSKor-iatifin, both for President Wood and 

 myself, for the loyal support and help given to 

 us as offlcers of the association during the past 

 year, and we wish the association and all mem- 

 bers a prosperous New Year. 



J. .\l. IMiiTfiiAiUt. Secretary. 



Thi.s report was referred to a committee 

 eonsistjng of T. J. Christian, E. A. Swain 

 and Claude Maloy. On recommendation 

 of this committee the report was adopted 

 and ordered spread upon the records of the 

 association. 



Report of Treasurer. 



Treasurer C }i. iJarnalty suhmitterl the 

 following report, which was on motion ap- 

 proved an.l accepted: 



HARD (WOOD RECORD 



RECEIPrS. 



Balance on band at last meeting ;so42.1l 



Ueceived for dues and extra banquet 



tickets 330.50 



?472.61 



DISBLKSEMENTS. 



Ttouation to R. W. Iligbee, chair- 

 man 9 L^.i.OO 



Imnatiou to C. B. Riley, secretary 



aud treasurer 2."5.0O 



Secretarv's oftice expenses 22.52 



W. It. iiurford. stationery l."..2r> 



Hanquet expenses last meeting.. '.10.75 



I'onation to Shippers' I'rolectivc 



League 15.00 



lionation to C. 1. Millard. Car 



Stake Kquipuient {'ommittee. . 50.00 



Total disbursements 252.52 



Kalaiic-^' on hand .'f;220.0!) 



C. I[. l!Ait\Auv, Treasurer. 



A Report of Forestry Work in Indiana. 



At llic request nf t lie chairman. Sam 



Hurkliolder, who represented the associa- 



tion on tlie State Board of Forestry, read 



the following report, covering details of the 



forestry work undertaken by the state: 



Gentlemen: The forestry question, wliich is 

 now being introduced and agitated in the most 



\V. 11. ULSSi;. .MKMl'llIS, TKNN. 



vigorous manner po.ssible under existing oppor 

 t unities, should interest no class of industrial 

 people more than lumlKMinen. They must look 

 to the forests as llie source of supply to carry 

 on their busiiioss. In dealing with the subject 

 of forestry in its relation to lunjijermen I call 

 attention to the following facts: 



Kirsi. thnl the lumber business is a large, im- 

 portant and Ie;;illnuite one: 



Kecoud. thai every Improved and conserva- 

 tive method of using timber in the mills will 

 further the lumber industry; 



Third, that the present method of handling 

 timber in the forests is wasteful and destruct- 

 ive: 



Fourth, that the present method Is opposed 

 to continuous forest management on timber 

 tracts : 



I'lftli. that comnumltles have Interests in the 

 perpetuity <if forests and their conservative use: 



Sixth, that tlie timber conditions In Indiana 

 and elsewhere demand a more rational method 

 In handling the forests for lumber: 



Seventh, thiit the forest owners and the lum- 

 bermen. MS a rule, do not understand that It 

 pays better to protect a good forest hi harvest- 

 ing the timber ciop than destroying It; 



Kighlh, llifit a knowledge of how to handle a 

 lores! rightly Is not generally known, or if 

 known Is not regarded ; 



Ninth, that community Interests and the lum- 

 ber Interests, as now conducted, are In dual rela- 

 tions. 



Thewe concessions are facts which will admit 

 of no successful contradlclbui. The ennnnlty of 

 the lumber Industry Is evbleut from the follow 

 Ing statistics for the I'niled Staler: the an- 

 nual consumption of wood In the Inlfd Stales 

 Is 25.(tUU,OU(i,OOU cubic feet. Of Ibis amount 



40,000,000,000 square feet is made into lumber. 

 500,000,000 cubic feet for railroad car construe 

 tion, aud a like amount for fencing nuiterial. 

 It is estimated that the annual consumption of 

 wood is o50 cubic feet per capita. For Indiana 

 exact statements cannot be given, but good re- 

 liable inferences may be drawn. Indiana, a few 

 years ago. according to the United States census, 

 ranked lifth in the produ<iiou of lumber. In 

 1808. the last partial statistics showed that 

 273,510,000 feet of lumber were sawed from the 

 dlBferent varieties of timber in the state. That 

 year was one of the largest in the lumber out- 

 put, so that for Indiana the lumber business 

 IS very grent. but growing less every year. 



It is admitted truthfully that the present 

 methods of handling timber, so far as sawing it 

 with tlie least waste is concerned, leave little 

 chance for improvement in most mills of any 

 considerable capacity; the great destruction and 

 waste come in the handling of the timber in 

 the forest. A visit to a tract of timber that 

 has just been cut for lumber will show no signs 

 of any attempt at economy in the saving of the 

 young timber. It would be hard to tind 

 an e.vample of more absolute destruction. 

 The young growing trees are not re- 

 garded in the felling of the timber. They are 

 cut and slashed for every conceivable conven- 

 ience of handling. In many iustan<-es if tlie 

 young tind)er had been carefully protected and 

 let grow, in a very few years another good crop 

 might have been harvested, as great or greater 

 in value than the one removed. No attempt is 

 made or even considered of replanting the tract 

 in timber: it is burned off and given over to 

 agriculture. 



This absolute disregard for the right conver- 

 sion of the timber and a failure to perceive that 

 it would have paid better to have jprotected the 

 forests in harvesting and continuing the forest 

 tracts lias brouglit us face to face with timber 

 .scarcity and the damaged community interests 

 of agriculture, as well as of lumbering. The 

 lack of knowledge of these things, at a time 

 when they might have been guarded, has put 

 the ccunmunity interests and lumbering in dual 

 relation, aud forestry has for Its purpose the 

 arbitration of these interests. 



Lumber- dealers know of the condition of the 

 limber supply in Indiana. We. as actual de.al- 

 ers, know of its scarcity. I am satisGed that 

 the following facts must be admitted : 



First, that the large virgin growths of pop- 

 lar, walnut, ash. oak and ciierry no longer 

 exist in abundance to be purchased at any price 

 in the liardwood district : 



Second, trees are now bought at fancy prices. 

 which twenty years ago would not have been 

 considered for fuel ; 



Third, that regions abandoned as sawed up 

 twenty years ago. now liave extensive mills and 

 lumber tratlic from the second crop to its al- 

 most complete exhaustion In the community: 



Fourtli, that the greatest competlthm exists 

 in every locality of timber supply outside the 

 state, as well as In it : 



Fifth, that, so long as timber buyers have 

 the cash and can offer enough, they can buy. 

 except in rare instnnces. 



Hu.\s.\rK. ^W I.iiCLS, Mu. 



I do not care to submit any more of these 

 fads for consideration. Lumber dealers may 

 say truthfully Ihnl they can gi-t al! tlu- timber 

 they want wllboul trouble; but the qui<stion Is 

 how many years from now will they be able to 



