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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



PoplsLr Maiwifa^ctvirers OrgOLnize. 



HOLD LARGE MEETrNC, ORGANIZE, \V. JI. Hitter Lumber Co., Cincinnati, 



ADOPT RULES AND PRICES. Ohio. 



On April 17 there was held at Loxing- .1/'^'''';""='"' Loveman .t Q-Brlen, Nash- 



,,,,,. , ville, Tenn. 



ton, Ky., what was probably the strongest yellow Poplar Lumber Co., Coal Grove, 



and most representative meeting of poplar Ohio, 



manufacturers held in recent years. C. Crane & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 



A permanent organization was effected, »«y';i^°'^-Beuedict Co. Nashville, Tenn. 



- , ,^ ,, Ti 1 AT „ Sudduth tVi Bailey, Welch, W. Va. 



under the -name of the lellow Poplar Man- ^y ^ Dawkins Lumber Co., Ashland, 



ufacturers' Association. A constitution Ky. 



and by-laws were adopted and the follow- E. L. Edwards Lumber Co., Dayton, 



ing officers elected: ° Fridman Lumber Co., New Richmond, 



President— W. M. Ritter, Welch, W. \a. ^^^^ 



Vice-President— C. Crane, Cincinnati, Ad'kinson Bros., Carrollton, Ky. 



Ohio. Covington Saw ilill & Mfg. Co., Coving- 



Tre-n surer P C Fisher, Coal Grove, ton, Ky. 



iieasutei t<. <-. ii.uti, ^ ,^, j ,^^^^^ ^ ^^^^^ Wasioto, Ky. 



Ohio. Norman Lumber Co., Louisville, Ivy. 



Directors— E. C. Colcord, St. Albans, W. rj.jjp xjcola, Stone & Myers Co., Cleve- 



Ya ■ Floya Day, Jackson, Ky.; R. T. Mc- land, Ohio. 



Keen, Burnside, Ky.; H. B. Curtin, Sut- J- D. Hughes Lumber Co.. High Bridge, 



ton, W. Va.; S. Lieberman, Nashville, ^|-i^gj.,3yj.^e j^ji,lij,„ ^0., Sherburne, Ky. 



Tenn.; C. W. Burt, Ford, Ky.; A. .T. Ga- Newport Milling Co., Newport, Ky. 



hao-an Chattanooga, Tenn.; M. F. Green. Vansant, Kitchen & Co., Ashland, Ky. 



x-'whv'illP Tenn • H P Wiborg, Cincinnati. John W. Mahan .t Co., Catlettsburg, K.v. 



N.ishMUe, ±enu., a., r. uu *,, ^, ^ jj.^^^^_ Lumber Co., Cl.ay, W. Va. 



Ohio. H. Fugate Co., Richlands, Va. 



George K. Smith, secretary of the isouth- g^.^. ^,;. ^j.^bb Lumber Co., Ford, Ky. 



eru Lumber Manufacturers' Association, After considerable discussion of prices a 



was present and he addressed the meeting jn-jce list committee was appointed as fol- 



upon the plan under which his association j^^g. 



of yellow pine operators had operated so q Crane, chairman: F. S. Hamlin, H. B. 



successfully and e.xiplained the details of Curtin, M. F. Green, A. J. Gahagan. 



the various departments. Later this committee and its report, as 



His address was followed by a general amended and adopted, was as follows 



experience meeting of the poplar manufac- f- <>• b. Ohio River points: 



turers present, the burden of which was PRICE LIST, 



to the effect that poplar stocks are very %-inch first and seconds, 10-inch and 



light, that poplar lumber was not bringing ,^-^-- '^^ ^ ' • ^- ; •,• " ' ■ ' '^^"^ 



the price it should, especially m the \ippei j^^^^j^ 3g_Q,j 



grades now used largely as a substitute .>j,-inoh lirsts and seconds, 30-inch and 



for white pine; that the poplar trade was up 60.00 



behind other departments of the_ lumber Jinch saps^^_. •■_;••;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ^^ 



business in that it lacked organization; that ,y..i^(-.^ shipping cull 13.00 



organization was necessary to the protec- a^.juch tirsts and seconds, 7 to 19- 



tion of their interests; that the present inch 33.00 



was a good time to organize, and that all %-^nch firsts and seconds, 20-inch and ^^ ^^ 



were willing to enter the organization. %"neh common ".'.'..'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 23.'00 



The following firms were represented: %-ineh shipping culls 14.00 



David S. Collins Company, Yankee Dam, l-iiidi firsts and seconds, 7 to 18-inch. 37.00 



■\V. Va. 1-inch firsts and seconds, 19 to 24- 



Charleston Lumber Company, Charles- inch 44.00 



ton, W. Va. 1-inch firsts and seconds, 25 to 29- 



Devei-ean.K Lumber Company, Charles- inch 50.00 



ton W. Va. 1-iuch firsts and seconds, 30-inch and 



Roan & c'urll Lumber Company, Weston, up 65.00 



Yf Va. 1-inch No. 1 common 20.00 



S. Hinkle & Co., Rowlesburg, W. Va. 1-ineh No. 2 common 20.00 



N. B. McCarty & Co., Buckhannon, W. 1-inch shipping culls 15.50 



Va 1-inch saps and selects 30.00 



Vndiana Lumber Company, Nashville, I14, 1% and 2-ineh saps and selects. . 32.00 



rpgjjj) 114, 1% and 2-iuch firsts and seconds. 39.00 



Prewitt-SpuiT Mfg. Co., Nashville, Tenn. 1%, 1% and 2-inch No. 1 common 28.00 



Pardee & Curtin Lumber Co., Sutton, 1%, li/o and 2-inch No. 2 common... 21.00 



W. Va. 1'4- ^% 'I'^f' 2-inch shipping culls.... 17.00 



Bowman Lumber Company, St. Albans, 2% and 3-inch firsts and seconds 41.00 



■\V Va. 4-inch firsts and seconds 43.00 



W. W. Reilly & Bro., Buffalo, N. Y. 2%, 3 and 4-inch No. 1 common 30.00 



Washington Mfg. & Mining Co., Myers, 2%, 3 and 4-inch shipping culls 20.00 



Ky 4x4-inch squares, firsts and seconds. 37.00 



F. W. Blair & Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. 5x5 and 6x6-inch, 1st and 2ds 40.00 



Loomis & Hart Mfg. Co., Chattanooga, 7x7-inch squares 42.00 



Xenn. SxS-ineh squares 44.00 



Swan-Day Lumber Company, Jackson, 9x9-inch squares 46.00 



Kv 10x1 0-inch squares 48.00 



Wiborg, Hanna & Co., Cincinnati. Ohio. 12x]2-inch squares 50.00 



John B.' Ransom & Co., Nashville, Tenn. Common sqs.. .$10 below 1st and 2ds 



Ford Lumber Company, Ford. Ky. Box boards, 8 to 12 34.00 



Kentucky Lumber Co.. Burnside, Ky. Box boards. 13 to 17 40.00 



A number of those present stated that 

 they were obtaining the equivalent of 

 those prices, others were getting nearly a& 

 much and It Avas believed the list did not 

 represent an unreasonable advance and 

 that it could easily be maintained. 



Regarding the matter of grading rules a 

 committee on grading was appointed, con- 

 sisting of A. B. Ransom, C. M. Crawford, 

 W. H. Thomas, C. S. McConnell and John 

 Moriarty was appointed and reported the 

 following rules on rough poplar, which 

 were adopted. They also adopted rules on 

 dressed poplar, which space will not per- 

 mit us to publish. 



OFFICIAL GRADING AND INSPEC- 

 TION RULES OP THE YELLOW POP- 

 LAR MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIA- 

 TION, ADOPTED APRIL IS, 1902, AT 

 LEXINGTON, KY. 

 Rules for the Inspection of Poplar Lumber. 

 General Instructions. 

 1. The question of grading and inspecting 

 lumber is so much a matter of jud.gment 

 to the inspector, as each piece comes be- 

 fore him, that no definite and positive rules 

 can be laid down on paper by which any 

 piece of any thousand feet can be in- 

 spected. , ^, . , 



2 The variety of defects and their lo- 

 cation upon a piece and their size have such 

 relations to each other that the inspector 

 necessarily must depend upon his own 

 judgment in grading, guided by the toUow- 

 ing rules so far as they will apply prac- 

 tically. 



3 Lumber must be inspected and meas- 

 ured as the in.spector ands it of full length 

 and width. He shall make no allowance 

 for the purpose of raising the grade. 



4 In inspecting all lumber, both sides ot 

 the piece shall be taken into consideration 

 in making the grade, bearing in mind that 

 00 per cent of all lumber only shows one 

 face when finished. 



5. Lumber shall be well manufactured, 

 of plump and even thickness, and have 

 parallel edges, and all ends shall be sawed 

 square or as near as can be done with a 

 cross-cut saw. All ragged or bad ends 

 shall be trimmed by the manufacturer or 

 reduced one full gi-ade. 



6 Tapering lumber sh.all be measured 

 one-third the length of the board from the 

 narrow end, except lumber sawed for di- 

 mension widths, which shall be measured 

 at the narrow end and must not be over 

 one-quarter inch scant of the width in- 

 tended. 



7. All badly missawed lumber and scant 

 sawed inch which will dress only three- 

 quarter inch shall be reduced one full 

 grade, or dressed down by the manufac- 

 turer and put in the standard thickness m 

 which it belongs. 



8. All lumber shall be tallied surface or 

 face measure and the tally counted up, and 

 the one-quarter or one-half added to the 

 total where the lumber is one and one- 

 quarter, or one and one-half inches thick, 

 and two inches and thicker to be multi- 

 plied by the thickness. 



9. In the measurement of all lumber all 

 fractions over one-half inch shall be 

 counted to the next foot and all frac- 

 tions of one-half inch and under shall be 

 counted off, except in the measurement of 

 green lumber all fractions of a foot shall 

 be disregarded. This applies only to lum- 

 ber that has never been on sticks. 



10. Splits are not to exceed twelve inches 

 in length in firsts or one-sixth the length 

 of the piece in seconds. In the aggi-egate 



