HARDWOOD RECORD 



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|{. o. Jnmes. Indianapolis. Ind. 



\V. **. I'ulsp. <;r*'ensburg, In*i. 



Charles A. Wood. Munt-ie. Iml. 



Jiihn Moniann, cinrlnnaii. nliio. 



J. Walt (iraham. (incinnntl. Olilo. 



W. A. «;ulhrit'. luipont. Ind. 



W. r. Urown. W. V. Itrown & Sons TjUnibor 

 Tnuipany. l.onlsvilU*, Ky. 



II. .1. Ilarnard. tVntral Veneer ronipany. Indi- 

 ana|>olis, Ind. 



K. I»e<;r(H>t. National Veneer Conipauy. Indi- 

 anapolis. Ind. 



K. J. Lukens. Talge Mahogany & Veneer Coiu- 

 panv. Indianapolis. Ind. 



);et(ree M. Waters. New Palestine. Ind. 



James <'. Iiicbson. Indianapolis. Ind. 



Frank I*. Kuier, Kvansvillo. In<l. 



.?. r. Case. Indianapolis. Ind. 



James lUiikley. Rrookville. Ind. 



Theodore Fathaiier, Theodore Kalhauer Com 

 pany. Chicago. 



T. J. Christian, rulleilou IVtweil Ilardwoiid 

 l.nmber Company. South Hend. Ind. 



Jernnie Itnhinson. Leavitt LumtHM- Company, 

 i'hicaso. 



Ben Lukens, Greeneastle, Ind. 



I.ee Hninson. Carmel. Ind. 



Krank IE. Sliepard. ICasleslield & Shepard. In 

 dianapolis. Ind. 



Ki\. Kirhardson. l.onj;-KniKlil Lumber Com- 

 pany, Indianapolis. Ind. 



.1. 11. Wooley. Franklin Ltiuiher Company. 

 Franklin. Ind. 



K. (>. Collins. Karpersville LiiiiiIht Company. 

 Franklin, Ind. 



L. K. Slaek. Kargersrille Lumlier Company, 

 liargersvillc. Ind. 



S. Burkholder, S. Hurkholder Lumber Com- 

 pany. Crawfordsville. Ind. 



J. W. Long. New York Lumber Trade Jonrnal, 

 New York City. 



C. 11. Kramer. C. &, \\. Kramer Company. 

 HU'limond. Ind. 



J. M. I'ritehard. Long-Knight Lumber Com- 

 pany. Indianapolis. 



.John J. Huml)arger. Philadelphia. Vn. 



J. V. Stimson. Hunt ingburg. Ind. 



W. W. Knight. Long Knight Lumber Company. 

 IiHlianapolis. Ind. 



B. F. SwalD, IVHeur & Swain LudiIht Com- 

 pany. Seymour. Ind. 



J. V. Baird. Sun them Lumbermiin. Nashville, 

 Tenn. 



Carroll F. Sweet. Fuller & KUe Lumber & 

 Manufarturlng Company. Crand iCapldK. Mleh. 



C. II. Ilarnaby. <;rei'ni-astli>. Ind. 



J.dui M. Woods. John M. Wo.hIs & I'o.. East 

 Cambridge. Mass. 



Waldron Williams. Ichabod T. Williams & 

 Sons. New York City. 



Van B. Terrlne, Fort Wayne. Ind. 



<). II. rainier. Slieridan. Ind. 



N. F. UvvinKS. National Veneer Lumber Com- 

 pany. Indianapolis, Ind. 



I'. A. Mulin. Fairtleld Lumber <'ompany. La 

 Fayette. Ind. 



run. Ryan, Mainland Maniiraciuring Com- 

 pany. Indianapolis. Ind. 



.1 M. Hassett. Orleans. Ind. 



1 >. L. Adams. I». L. Adams Company. I'ort- 

 land. Ind. 



v.. C. An man. Kockport. Ind. 



Howard S. Vonng. Indianapolis. Ind. 



jlnnual M^^ting of HardWood Lumber Manufacturers 



of Wisconsin. 



Thf .-iiuiuai meeting ot' tlie Hardwood 

 Lumber Manufacturers of Wisconsin was 

 hobl at the Eau Claire Club. Kau Claire. 

 Wis., Jan. 16. at 10 a. in., with President 

 C. A. Goodman of Marinette in the chair 

 and Secretary Geo. H. Chapman of Kau 

 Claire, recording. About sixty manufac- 

 turers were present, representing some forty 

 or more concerns. 



rRESIDENT. 



I'resident Goodman delivered a report of 

 the year's work of the association, whicli 

 is presented herewith. 



President's Address. 



•Meeting at the i-nd of our lirst year, k is im- 

 Iforiant that we again call to mind the objects 

 of our organiitatlon and ask ourselves whether 

 llie results so far attained have realized our ex- 

 peiialions and are su<h as to encourage us to 

 furtlier effort. 



Our seerelary has worked hard for tiie up 

 building of our assoeiallon and too much praise 

 cannot be given him for ihe wurk he has done in 

 adding to the membership and strengthening tli'- 



machinery of our organization, as well as pro 

 moling tlie association feeling among our mem- 

 bers. The reports of the secretary and treasurer 

 and the clinirman of the bureau of grades will 

 give you in detail the year's record and our pres- 

 ent condition. 



Our aims were briefly to bring about a system 

 of equitable and uniform grading at the mills 

 and to collect and furnish to our members such 

 proper information regarding the supply and the 

 demand for our products as might be of mutual 

 benefit. 



In the beginning we were fortunate in secur- 

 ing a committee to undertake the revision of the 

 grading rules, the members of whicli not only 

 bad a thorougli knowledge of the work but wlio 

 above all were able and willing to <-onIribute the 

 time and energy s(» necessary to its successful 

 outcome. 



Mr. Owen and the other members of this com- 

 mittee held several conferences with committees 

 of the manufaiturers of Michigan and Indiana, 

 and as a result recommendations were made to 

 the committee on grades of the National asso- 

 ciation for certain changes in the inspe<-rion 

 rules. Willi a view of bringing them more Into 

 harmony witli the current retpiirements of the 

 liar<iw<M>d trade than the rules tlu^i in force. 

 'I'lu'se recommendations were inctu-porated to a 

 large extent in tiie new rules adopted at the Na- 

 tional association convention last May and in 

 force since Itecember 1 last, and which are in 

 1)10 main satisfactory to our members. 

 iNsfKCTioN .\T Mills. 



The work of nuiking inspections at the mills 

 which has been conducted by the bureau of 

 grades is well under way. \vill» every prospect of 

 increasing' ethdency and consequently greater 

 value. If the inspection rules as they are modi- 

 lied from time to lime by the Natbuial asso- 

 ciation, and widch are now reasonably satisfac- 

 tory to us can be made universal, we will then 

 have the greatest possiltle Held for the distribu- 

 tion of our lumber, with a minimum of trouble 

 and expense. 



Cnfortunately a number of the eastern mem- 

 bers of the National association are not favorable 

 to the new rules. Tliey are not. however, agreed 

 among themselves any more than Ihey are with 

 the National association, and the fact remains 

 that the present rules are the National rules and 

 they are the rules we expect to work under until 

 they are changed, and the revision should be 

 made only In the regular way at an anniuil meet- 

 ing of the National as'^cM-lat if>n. The next annual 

 meeting of that association will be held at Mil- 

 waukee in June and we should se.- ibni w.> an- 



properly represented before their committee on 

 grades in order that the interests of our custom- 

 ers and ourselves may be protected in any 

 changes then considered by their committee. 

 Ixci£f:.\six(; V.vm r of Sti'-mi'aok. 

 Aside fnun these questions, this association is 

 more than justitied if the work has brought home 

 to each one of us. as it should, that we are man- 

 ufacturers of a high class product ; that our 

 stumpage has a definite and increasing value: 

 that we must prize more highly our timber both 

 on the stump and in the pile: that it should be 



CKOUOK 11. CIIAI'MAN. STANI.KV. 

 Virv: rUKSIDKNT. 



sawed right and graded right : and that it \n 

 wiH'th too much In the woods to be sacrltiee<I at 

 the mill. The ti-rritory coven*d by our assoi-la- 

 li<tn produi-es more than half of the entire cut 

 of the I'nited Slates of basswrnid. blrdi and 

 rock elm and leads any other section in the pro- 

 duclton of soft elm. Wisconsin manufacturers 

 reported to the government stumpage values of 

 these woods for lltOd as follows : Basswood, $'A 

 to $^Tt: birch. $1 to ^12: rock elm. *:i lo $l.'i: 

 soft elm. ?'J to $.*>. Wliy is it that some of ns 

 reported our stumpage worth only from $1 to $'^, 

 whiMi \vc all know we can not icplace the same 



