HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Grand Tiapids Lumbermen's jisso. 



One of the important hardwood markets 

 of the United States is that of Grand Rap- 

 ids, Mich. The score or more of manufac- 

 turers and dealers of that city have learned 

 the value of co-operative endeavor and have 

 a very active association known as the 

 Lumbermen's Association of Grand Eapids, 

 Mich. Numbered in this organization are 

 not only hardwood men but concerns who 

 deal in building woods as well. 



The president of the Grand Eapids 

 Lumbermen's Association is W. O. Hughard, 

 .Jr., ivho has long been prominently identified 

 in lumber enterprises of Michigan and 

 other states. Unfortunately Mr. Hughard 

 has been ill the greater portion of the win- 

 ter and spring, and has been unable to give 

 any attention to Association matters. 



The vice-president is C. F. Perkins, secre- 

 tary of the Thompson Lumber Company, one 

 of the best known houses of Grand Rapids 

 dealing in both northern and southern hard- 

 woods. 



The! secretary is L. L. Skillman of the 

 Longfellow & Skillman Lumber Company, 

 one of the live and active concerns of the 

 IMichigan furniture city. 



The treasurer is Harry C. Angell of Wag- 

 ner & Angell. This house is well known 

 throughout the country as a handler of 

 Mivihigan and Pacific Coast shingles and 

 white pine lumber, but more recently has 

 taken on hardwoods. 



These gentlemen with J. W. Ferdon, C. 

 A. Phelps, A. L. Dennis, C. F. Sweet and W. 

 E. Cox constitute the board of directors of 

 the Lumbermen's Association of Grand Rap- 

 ids. 



It is the custom of this Association to hold 

 regular weekly business meetings and semi- 

 occasionally to serve a dinner to its mem- 

 bers and invited guests. One of these func- 

 tions took place at the Cody Hotel, Grand 

 Rapids, Friday evening, March 31, at which 

 were present : 



C. F, Perkins. Thompson Lumber Company. 



Chas. W. Garfield. Chairman Michigan Forestry 

 Commission. 



C. S. Morley. 



C. C. Follmer, C. C. Follmer & Co. 



H. C. Angell. Wagner & Angell. 



L. L. Skillman, Longfellow & Skillman Lumber 

 Company. 



N. J. G. Van Keulen. Van Keulen & Wilkinson 

 Lumber Company. 



Henry Schneider, Dudley Lumber Company, 



Frank Chlckering. 



W, R. Kussel. Longfellow & Skillman Lumber 

 Company. 



M, E. Stockwell. 



Almond Gritfen, Hardwood Record, Chicago, 



Wm. E. Cox, Nichols & Cox Lumber Company. 



Geo. Engel. Engel Lumber Company. 



Orin A. Ward. 



H. P. Newton. G. X. Wagner Shingle Company. 



Geo. B. Daniels. Winchester & Daniels. 



B. R. Thompson. Thompson Lumber Company. 



H. J. Dudley, Dudley Lumber Company. 



S. W. McKee, Wagner & Angell, 



G. W. Perkins, Jr., Thompson Lbr. Company. 



H. G. Tracy, F. Tracy & Son. 



Hegry H. Gibson, Editor Hardwood Record, 

 Chicago. 



Owing to the illness of the president the 



meeting was presided over by Vice-President 

 C. F. Perkins. The dinner w-ss a very enjoy- 

 able one and notable in the iiarticulars that 

 there were present Chas. VV. Garfield, chair- 

 man of the Michigan State Forestry Commis- 

 sion and Mrs. C. S. Morley, a "lumberman" 

 of repute of Grand Eapids. More than half 

 of the members of the exchange were repre- 

 sented, and both the dinner and the meeting 

 following were most thoroughly enjoyed. 



Following the banquet in the main dining 

 hall of tlie hotel, the visitors retired to the 

 spacious parlor, and upon Mrs, Morley "s an- 

 nouncement that she was perfectly wiNing 

 that the gentlemen should indulge in cigars 

 as they were in no wise offensive to lier, a 

 smoker was indulged in. 



L. L. SKILLSL^X, 



Secretary Lumbermen's Association of tJraud 



Rapids. 



The principal entertainment arranged for 

 by the association was an address by Chas. 

 ^\'. Garfield, who has for more than a quarter 

 of a century devoted a good deal of his time 

 to the exploitation of the possibilities of 

 Michigan reforestry. Mr. Garfield is a 

 tnrmer-banker of Grand Rapids and has 

 taken up the forestry problem from the 

 standpoint of practicability probal;ly equaled 

 by no professional in the United States. 



Mr. Garfield stated that the state of 

 Michigan owns 6,000,000 acres of abandoned 

 lands within the state which were formerly 

 forest-clad, having come back into the pos- 

 session of the state by reason of their for- 

 feiture for taxes. He stated that this ex- 

 tent of lands equaled approximately one- 

 sixth of the total area of the state, and that 

 practically every acre of it was susceptible of 

 ii'forestation. This fact he and his associates 

 iif (he Michigan Forestry Commission have 

 amply demonstrated by experiments made 

 under the sanction of the state authorities in 

 f<.ur of the least fertile townships of sand 



barrens in Roscommon county. Here the com- 

 mission had planted pine trees in the desert 

 and had succeeded in .securing a fine type 

 of growth, with a loss of less than ten per 

 cent of the number of trees planted. 



It was the opinion of Mr. Garfield that 

 could the abandoned acreage of Michigan be 

 taken out of political channels and handled 

 bj' a competent, commission, and that it the 

 state would legislate for ranging the prop- 

 erty and protecting it from fire, within a very 

 few years the state would have a revenue 

 from , the sale of timber off its lands that 

 would more than pay the entire cost of state 

 government. He analyzed the iniquitous 

 political conditions that surrounded the con- 

 trol of state lands, from which it would 

 seem that it was a Herculean task to attempt 

 to dislodge the grafters on the state treasury, 

 to perfect a business method by means of 

 which the vast abandoned acreage might be 

 handled on a business basis, and be made a 

 source of great profit rather than one of cost 

 to the commonwealth, 



Mr. Garfield's exposition of what had been 

 accomplished as an object lesson in reforesta- 

 tion in the state of Michigan, and of what 

 the possibilities in the state were, comprised 

 one of the most interesting expositions from 

 a practical standpoint that has ever been 

 delivered. At the conclusion of Mr. Gar- 

 field's remarks he was most heartily ap- 

 plauded. 



The editor of the Hakdwood Record was 

 also a guest of the Grand Rapids Lumber- 

 men's Association and delivered a brief ad- 

 dress supplementary lo that of Mr. Garfield, 

 telling of the success of forestry and refores- 

 try endeavors in various parts of the United 

 States. He also told something of the his- 

 tory of lumber association work, especially 

 of the hardwood lumber associations, and 

 urged up«n the Grand Rapids Lumbermen's 

 Association the importance of its attendance 

 in a body upon the forthcoming annual meet- 

 ing of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation at Buffalo on May IS and 19 next. 



The full roster of the Lumbermen's Asso- 

 ciation of Grand Rapids comprises practi- 

 cally every himber institution of any impor- 

 tance in that market, and is as follows: — 

 Wagner k Angell, Engel Lumber Company, 

 C. C. Follmer & Co., Van Keulen & Wilkin- 

 son Lumber Companj-, Mercer-Ferdon Lum- 

 ber Company, The Stearns Company, Winches- 

 ter & Daniels, Thompson Lumber Company, 

 Ltd., Longfellow & Skillman Lumber Com- 

 pany, G. N. Wagner Shingle Company, A. H. 

 David Lumber Company, Arthur J. Zipp 

 Lumber Company, J. F. Quigley Land and 

 Lumber Company, Gibbs & Hall, The Acme 

 Lumber Company, Ltd., H. G. Dykhouse, 

 Wolf Brothers, F. I. Nichols Lumber Com- 

 pany, Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company, F. 

 jr. Sprague, Dennis Brothers, Foster, Win- 

 cliester Lumber Company, C. S. Morley & 

 Son. Fuller & Bice Ltimber Manufacturing 

 Company, Chas. McQuewan. R. M, Schorn-, 

 stein, Orin A. Ward, J. W, Travis & Son, 

 Dudley Lumber Company, W. 0, Hughart, Jr. 



