HARDWOOD RECORD 



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This financial cunditiuu of llie association is 

 better than usual at this time in the year. 

 After all salaries and all obligations of every 

 nature were paid, we had a balance of $1,032.71 

 in the bank Jan. 1, 1912. 



We submit this true statement of the affairs 

 of the association to you with the belief that 



,vou will in a measure feel repaid for the un 

 selfish support you have given your executive 

 officers, without which this splendid showing 

 would not be possible. 



Wishing you a full measure of prosperity for 

 1912, we are sincerely your obedient serv- 

 ants. 

 F. F. Fish, Secy.-Treas. F. A. Diggixs, Prcs. 



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Annual Dinner Chicago Lumbermen's Asso- 

 ciation. 



The forty-third annual dinner of the Lum- 

 bermen's Association of Chicago was held in the 

 Red Room of the La Salle hotel, Monday eve- 

 ning. Jan. 15. About 125 enthusiastic members 

 were present. J. L. Lane, chairman of the en- 

 tertainment committee, lived up to his excellent 

 reputation for providing good things to eat, 

 and further arranged for the entertainment of 

 the guests, a series of vaudeville and song stunts 

 that made a decided hit. An excellent quar- 

 tette and accompaniest did the bulk of the en- 

 tertaining, but were ably supplemented by Lou 

 Rollo of the Chicago & Eiverdale Lumber Com- 

 pany, the reputation of whose voice and genial 

 personality is well known to every lumberman 

 of Chicago. Herman H. Heftier touched the 

 hearts of the audience by a touching rendition 

 of his favorite song entitled "I'ou Can Push the 

 Damper in. You Can Pull the Damper Out, But 

 the Smoke Goes Up the Chimney Just the 

 'Same." 



The meeting was presided over by President 

 F. E. Boles, whose opening address, inspired no 

 doubt by the excellent attendance, was on the 

 subject of association spirit and what it could 

 do for the furtherance of the lumber industry 

 in Chicago. 



E. E. Hooper, secretary of the association, re- 

 ported an addition of ninety-seven new members 

 since the amalgamation of the three formerly sep- 

 arate organizations on .July 1, 1911. Among 

 other interesting facts. Secretary Hooper stated 

 that the total lumber receipts during the last 

 six months were 2,134,564,000 feet, or a decrease 

 of 384.790,000 over the receipts for the pre- 

 ceding year. Shipments from Chicago amounted 

 to 803,000,000 feet. 



E. E. Skeele, chairman of the traffic com- 

 mittee, supplemented his report with an en- 

 thusiastic boost of the recently organized Lum- 

 bermen's Club of Chicago. He was followed by 

 F. L. Brown, chairman of the membership com- 

 mittee, who urged that working together is ab- 

 solutely essential to the successful organization 

 of any trade body. He warned the members 

 of the association, while lauding the organiza- 

 fion of the Lumbermen's Club, not to let it 

 absorb so much of their time and attention as 

 to make results in the general association im- 

 possible. 



George J. Pope, reporting for the inspection 

 committee, stated that out of ninety-seven in- 

 spections the judgment of the association in- 

 spectors had been questioned but once. He 

 urged local lumbermen to make more use of 

 this valuable and efficient department of the 

 association. 



Following the report of J. L. Lane, chairman 

 of the entertainment committee, Harvey S. Hay- 

 den gave a resume of the work done by 

 Division C. 



Frank F. Fish, secretary of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, spoke concern- 

 ing the approaching convention of that body in 

 Chicago next spring. He said that it will give 

 the Chicago lumbermen an opportunity to show 

 their strength and power to advantage, and that 

 it was due to the push and enthusiasm of the 

 Chicago delegates sent to Memphis last May 

 that the convention was brought here this year. 



G. W. Hotchkiss. for many years secretary 

 emeritus of the Illinois Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation, was the last speaker of the evening. 

 lie gave some interesting reminiscences of trade 

 conditions and efforts at association organiza- 

 tion fifty years ago. 



The association re-elected five out of si.^ of 

 the old directors, namely: F. L. Brown, J, L. 

 Lane, Murdock McLeod, E. E. Skeele, Geo. J. 

 Pope. F. T. Boles, retiring president, volun- 

 tarily withdrew from a directorate, his position 

 being taken by V. F. Mashek. 



F. L. BROWN, PRESIDENT CHICAGO LUM- 

 BERMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Members of the two most important commit- 

 tees were elected and other committees will be 

 appointed later. Frank J. Heighmann was re- 

 i-lected to the committee on aroitration, with 

 the following other new members; J. M. Riel, 

 O. O. -\gler, George D. Griffith, George B. Os- 

 good and Edmond A. -lllen. On the committee 

 <m appeals M. F. Rittenhouse and R. S. Huddle- 

 sion were re-elected, while the following new 

 members were installed: T. S. Estabrook, George 

 D. Michle, John C. Spry and James D. Miller. 

 -\fter the results of the election had been made 

 known the meeting adjourned. 



New Officers Chicago Association 



At a meeting of the directors of the Lumber- 

 men's Association of Chicago, held Jan. 18, the 

 following officers were elected : 



Frederick L. Brown of Crandall & Brown, 

 president ; Murdock McLeod of the Oconto Com- 

 pany, vice-president ; George J. Pope of the 

 D. S. Pate Lumber Company, treasurer, and 

 1'-. E. Hooper, secretary. Mr. Hooper is now 

 entering upon his twenty-fifth year as secretary 

 of the Chicago Lumbermen's Association, and the 

 best evidence of the service he has given is seen 

 in the remarks of Retiring President Boles, in 

 speaking of Secretary Hooper's work. 



Canadian Forest Products 

 The forestry branch of the Department of the 

 Interior in Canada reports that the lumber out- 

 put of the Dominion in 1909, based upon returns 

 from 2,085 mills, was 3,814,900,000 feet, valued 

 at $62,819,477, an increase of 13.9 per cent over 

 figures for 1908. The province of Ontario was 

 well in the lead, producing almost three times 

 the value of the next in line, British Columbia. 

 These values are based on prices at the mill. 



The only available figures as to cut of square 

 timbers annually are export statistics furnished 

 by the Department of Trade & Commerce of the 

 liominion. There is very little square timber 

 used in Canada, and as all the sawn and square 

 stock is entered under the head of lumber, the 

 (fuantity of hewn square timber exported is ap- 

 proximately the quantity cut. The values of 

 square timber of different species exported dur- 

 ing 1909 were $655,784 for white pine ; $148,105 

 for birch; $134,633 for red pine; $35,808 for 

 elm; $6,183 for ash; $10,936 for oak; $42 for 

 maple. The total number of cross ties of all 

 kinds used in Canada during 1909 as reported 

 was $14,178,241, the average cost per tie being 

 $.37, making the aggregate cost $5,210,490. Of 

 this about one-third were cedar ties, which 

 b;ought an average price of $.45. 



American Forestry Association Meeting 



The American Forestry Association held its 

 annual meeting in Washington on Jan. 10. 

 Among other proceedings the association adopt- 

 i-d resolutions bearing upon the chestnut blight, 

 ■ quitable timber taxation, forest fire protection, 

 'o-operative fire protection and timber conserva- 

 tion duties of the states. Among the speakers 

 liesides Robert T. Bass, president of the asso- 

 ciation and governor of New Hampshire, were 

 ihief Forester Henry Solon Graves, Dr. L. O. 

 Howard, entomologist, and Thomas Nelson Page. 



Annual Election St. Louis Lumbermen's 

 Club 



The Lumbermen's Club of St. Louis held its 

 regular monthly meeting and annual election of 

 officers at the Planters hotel on Tuesday even- 

 ing, Jan. 9. The attendance was fair, consider- 

 ing the disagreeable weather which prevailed. 

 The usual 6 :30 o'clock dinner was given before 

 the business meeting was called to order. 



At the conclusion of the dinner. President 

 George E. Hogg called the meeting to order with 

 the remark that this was the last time he would 

 have the pleasure of presiding as president of 

 the club. He then made his report as retiring 

 president, in which he reviewed the work of the 

 club during the past year and referred at some 

 length to some of the leading features which had 

 been carried out by the club. 



Following the president's address. Secretary 

 J. B. Kessler submitted his report, after which 

 he read Treasurer E. C. Robinson's report, show- 

 ing the club to be in a good financial condition. 



R. E. Fine and R. S. Price were appointed an 

 auditing committee to go over the accounts. 



Henry G. Eolfes, chairman of the entertain- 

 ment committee, submitted his report. It gave 

 the various entertainments furnished by his com- 

 mittee. 



On account of the illness of Thos. E. Powe, 

 chairman of the traffic committee, his report was 

 omitted. 



Secretary Kessler, in the absence of J. G. 

 Knebel. chairman of the arbitration committee, 

 stated that three cases had been arbitrated by 

 the committee, to the satisfaction of both parties. 



R. B. McConnell, chairman of the membership 

 committee, made no report, but submitted the 

 names of G. B. Boone, Angelina County Lumber 

 Company : J. E. Mink, Fidel Ganahl Lumber 

 Company, and Louis C. Johnson, Masters Lum- 

 her Company, for membership. On motion they 

 were unanimously elected, giving the club a total 

 of eighty-seven members in good standing. 



R. P. Krebs, a member of the traffic committee, 

 stated that the fight for the freight rate reduc- 



