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HARDWOOD RECORD 



demand for basswood, gray elm and beech, and quite an increase 

 in requests for rock elm. Northern operators have their stocks 

 well in hand, and there is apparently no surplus of any kind or 

 grade. 



Bad weather conditions are keeping down the log output, both 

 in northern and southern sections, and it is doubtful if an over- 

 stock of any item of hardwood could be secured, even if operators 

 were anxious to increase their cut. 



The money market is very easy, but iu the face of this, lumber 

 collections generally are notoriously slow. 



The January furniture expositions have been going on for 

 several weeks, and while the sales are not particularly disappoint- 

 ing, they have reached no remarkable volume. Buyers are taking 

 on moderate quantities of new designs, but are placing no large 

 orders. There is every indication ijointing to a fair demand 

 for material entering into this line of work, but there will be no 

 big demand from this source for some time. 



Since bad weather lias inatorially interrupted building opera- 

 tions, there has been a slowing up of demand for interior finish 

 lumber for the past month, but with the large amount of new 

 work in sight, there will surely be an increased call for lumber 

 from this source. 



It is certain that a very largely increased volume uf ordcis will 

 be had from railroads and car builders this year. Bills of no in- 

 considerable size have already been placed, and thousands of 

 others are out for bids. 



Hence, leaving out of consideration the grade and price situ- 

 ation, the prospect for a good business in hardwoods is most 

 excellent, and so marked, in fact, as to tax the stock and capacity 

 of practically everyone engaged in hardwood production and 

 marketing. 



It is believed by many that prices will very shortly readjust 

 themselves to a much more profitable basis, which must needs be 

 accomplished before any considerable profit can be secured to the 

 manufacturer or jobber. 



Lumber Association Meetings 



On January 2o will be held the midwinter meeting of the 

 Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Association at the Pontchar- 

 train Hotel, Detroit. This issue of Hardwood Kecokd is being 

 held so as to enable it to cover briefly the work of this meeting, 

 which involves a discussion of market conditions, the Michigan 

 cut for 1911, the proposed cut for 1912, proposed forest fire pro- 

 tection measures, and many other topics of general interest. 



Vhe Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the United States 

 will hold its tenth annual meeting at the Sinton Hotel, Cincin- 

 nati, O., on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 30 and 31. On 

 Monday preceding the meeting a conference of the executive 

 board on the association will be held, and also a meeting of oak 

 producers. There is every promise that this convention will call 

 out even a larger attendance than the more than seven hundred 

 that have been in attendance at these gatherings during the last 

 few years. A program of importance to every hardwood manu- 

 facturer, wholesaler and wholesale consumer has been arranged. 

 The Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers' Associ- 

 ation will hold its third annual meeting at Hotel Pfister, Mil- 

 waukee, on Wednesday, January 31, beginning at 10 a. m. The 

 program will include reports of the offiers, reports of the bureau of 

 grades and railroad committee, statement of cut and shipments, 

 and stock on hand, discussion of market conditions, etc. 



A general meeting of the signers for application to membership 

 to the new Lumbermen's Club of Chicago will be held at the 

 Auditorium Hotel on Thursday, February 1, at which time re- 

 ports will be received from the various committees, and the organ- 

 ization perfected. 



The Yellow Pine Manufacturers' Association will hold its annual 

 meeting in New Orleans on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 

 February 0-8. 



What promises to be a remarkably important meeting is the 

 annual of the Lumber Sales Managers' Association, which will be 



held at the Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, Thursda}- and Friday, 

 February 15 and 1(5. The committee in charge of the program for 

 this meeting promises one that no lumber sales manager can afford 

 to miss. Secretary Klann of this association will have head- 

 quarters at the Cincinnati meeting of the Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers' Association next week in room 909, Sinton Hotel, on the 

 convention floor, and will be pleased to talk sales managers' 

 association afl"airs.to all interested. 



The National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association will hold 

 its annual meeting at the Seelbach Hotel, Louisville, Ky., on 

 Wednesday and Thursday, March 6 and 7, with the Louisville 

 Lumbermen 's Club and several other important commercial bodies 

 of Louisville as hosts. The board of trustees of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, as well as the hosts, 

 invite all lumber manufacturers and wholesalers to be present 

 and participate in the deliberations of this orjianization. 



Program of Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 

 Meeting 



The program for the tenth annual meeting of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association of the United States, which is to be 

 held at the Sinton Hotel, Cincinnati, O., January 30 and 31, in- 

 volves the opening of the meeting at 10:30 ■&. m. on Tuesday, Jan- 

 uary 30. Addresses of welcome w'ill be delivered by the Hon. Jud- 

 son T. Harmon, governor of Ohio; Hon. Henry T. Hunt, mayor of 

 Cincinnati; W. T. Hutton, president of the Cincinnati Business 

 Men's Club, and Samuel W. Ritchie, president of the Lumbermen's 

 Club of Cincinnati. These addresses will be followed by a re- 

 sponse by some member of the association, and the annual address 

 of President Townsend; the report of the treasurer, and that of 

 the secretary. The morning session will be concluded by the 

 appointment of committees. 



The afternoon session will involve committee ami officers' 

 reports, and a series of important addresses by exjierts in various 

 lines of lumber manufacturing, distribution and utilization. 



At 6:30 Tuesday evening in the main convention hall, a banquet 

 will be given, at which all visitors will be invited to participate. 



The greater part of Wednesday morning will be devoted to com- 

 mittee meetings, and hence it is not expected that the convention 

 will reconvene until 11:30 a. m., at which time the reports will be 

 received and acted upon; new business will be taken up, and the 

 election of ofticcrs for the ensuing year will take place. 



All indications point to an unusually large attendance. 



An Amazing Fire 



In the destruction by fire of the palatial Kquilablo building a few 

 days ago, in New York, there were features that make the circum- 

 stance unique. Here was a building thought to be fireproof, which 

 proved to be a storehouse of countless tons of iHfl:immable matter, 

 which once in flames made stone and iron crumble like paper. Cer- 

 tain things about this erstwhile palatial marble building should have 

 educational results that are worthy of remembrance. 



There certainly is a moral criminality in putting flues near an 

 elevator shaft. It is morally criminal to throw away a lighted match, 

 cigarette or cigar stub even in a supposedly fireproof building. It 

 is a mistake to conclude that monster stone or concrete walls make 

 a building fireproof, because no matter what the component con- 

 struction of the building may be, it is not fireprool' when filled with 

 inflammable materials. 



This fire again repeats the demonsl ration that stone, concrete and 

 steel, so called fireproof buildings, are in no wise fireproof, and should 

 further emphasize that slow-burning wood construction is much the 

 safer type of building construction yet planned. 



The Oldest Lumberman Dead 



The newspapers report the death of Col. A. P. Hanson, the oldest 

 resident of Newton, Iowa, who died at the age of ninetyfive. He 

 was formerly a timber nicrchiint aiul for the last ten years h.ns borne 

 the disfinctiiui of being the oldest liitnlierm:iii in llie rniteil States. 



