February 25. 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Northwestern Cooperage & Lumber Company 



The Home of the "Peerless " Standard Brand Products 



Wntcm Office: 

 S16 Lainb?r Exchange, MlnneapoUB. Minn, 



GLADSTONE, MICHIGAN 



Mlllg at Gladstone and Eacanaba, Michigan 



Manufacturers of the following "Peerless" Standard Brand Products: Hardwood Flooring, Staves, 

 Hoops, Heading and Veneers, Hemlock Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Posts, Poles and Ties, 

 and Hemlock Tan Bark 



"Peerless" Rock Maple,Beedi& Birch Flooring K^vSalSZiSS^lS ^"^ 



ilembert of Maple Flooring Uanufacturert' Assaoiation. (When writing mention the Hardwood Record.) 



BUOl— Red WiUow Wanted 

 New York, N. Y., February 16. — Editor Hardwood Record : We are 

 interested in securing a supply of red willow, and if you can give us any 

 information as to wliere a supply of this wood can be obtained, we would 

 appreciate it very much. 



B1102— Birch, Maple and Beech 

 Philadelphia, Pa., February 16. — Editor Hardwood Record : Would 

 like to place orders for two cars hard birch 4" to be delivered freshly cut ; 

 also for 50,000 feet rock maple squares 2x2", 48" long ; also for two cars 

 2V4x2i'4" short pieces maple or beech. 



Clubs and Associations 



F. R. Gadd Takes Up New Duties March 1 



Frank R. Gadd has resigned as vice president of the Wisconsin Lumber 

 Company, Chicago, to take up the management of the Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association of the United States with headquarters at Cincinnati, 

 O. He will leave Chicago Tuesday night, February 27. Mr. Gadd is ex- 

 tremely pleased, in his contemplation of the new work, by the astonishing 

 enthusiasm of members of the association for the new open price plan, the 

 institution of which was a direct cause for his going to Cincinnati. He 

 says that not only have those members who gave their active approval to 

 the plan at the recent convention repeatedly renewed their allegiance to 

 the cause, but many others who either were not present at the convention 

 or who hesitated in expressing themselves, have come in with unqualified 

 support. Thus he takes up his work under the best of conditions. 



Mr. Gadd says that his plan of pushing the idea contemplates a solid 

 building on firm foundation and gradual building up to the highest possible 

 point of development ; that the first task is to demonstrate to those who 

 are already in favor that the plan is not only logical, but the only possible 

 solution for present ills in the hardwood business ; that after thus demon- 

 strating its feasibility, further development will be comparatively easy. 



The present quarters of the association in the First National Bank 

 -building were found inadequate to provide for the additional necessary 

 help, and as other quarters were not available in that structure, space lias 



been taken in the Union Trust building ancj the present and new equip- 

 ment will be moved in on February 28. Mr. Gadd will add to his force a 

 statistician and a rate man, who will be employed in direct connection 

 with the open price work. 



Mr. Gadd will make his residence at the Hotel Sinton for the time being 

 at least. 



New Northern Logging Association 



A close organization of northern loggers was formed at Meilen, Wis., on 

 February 10 at a meeting of prominent operators. It will be called the 

 North Wisconsin Loggers' Association. Its members will be mill owners, 

 timber holders and general managers and contractors whose annual output 

 is 1,000,000 feet or more. 



The object of the association is to meet at regular intervals and discuss 

 matters relative to logging. P. S. McLurg, of the Kneeland-McLurg Lumber 

 Company, Phillips, was elected president ; Ed. Mercer, of the J. S. Stearns 

 Lumber Company, Odanah, vice-president ; William Maitland, of the Park 

 Falls Lumber Company, Park Falls, secretary, and W. G. Campbell, Roddls 

 Lumber & Veneer Company, Marshfleld, treasurer. Various committees have 

 already been appointed. 



Changes in Southern Associations 



With the acceptance by F. R. Gadd of Chicago of the management of the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the United States, Cincinnati, 

 O., the American Oak Manufacturers' Association, Memphis, announces that 

 M. B. Cooper will take Mr. Gadd's place as a member of the board of direc- 

 tors and as a member of the executive committee. H. B. Weiss becomes 

 chairman of the advertising committe and P. E. Gilbert has been added 

 as a member. 



Appalachian Loggers Will Meet in Huntington 



The Appalachian Lodging Congress has accepted the invitation of the 

 Chamber of Commerce, of Huntington, W. Va., to hold its 1917 annual at 

 Huntington, the conference to be held April 13-20. These conferences have 

 become big events in Appalachian logging. 



No Changes Considered After March 16 



The National Hardwood Lumber Association in its February bulletin gives 

 final notice to the effect that the inspection rules committee will convene 

 March 14 to 16 for the purpose of considering all possible Inspection rule 

 changes and preparing recommendations. The bulletin emphasizes the fact 

 that no change will be given consideration or be voted upon by the member- 

 ship at the June convention unless the proposals have been submitted in 

 writing to the chairman of the inspection committee not later than 

 March 16. 



In the same bulletin It is announced that the new official hand-book of the 

 association has just come from the press. This is Volume 25. The hand- 

 book recites a gain of ninety-five new members during the past fiscal year. 



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