December 10, 1918 



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Hardwood Men^s Thirtieth Annual 



The tliirtieth annual meeting of the Northwestern Hardwood 

 Lumbermeu's Association was held in Minneapolis, Minn., Decem- 

 ber 3, at the West hotel, witli I'resideut P. M. I'arker in the chair. 

 The chairman 's address saw iniu-h in the situation that encourages 

 expectations of prosperous business, and some things not so encour- 

 aging. One of tlie unpromising pliases is the railroad situation. The 

 transportation lines under government control are not growing in 

 jiopularity, and the meeting went on record, in the form of a reso- 

 lution, asking that the roads be speedily returned to their owners. 

 The disastrous tires of the past season in the Minnesota woods came 

 in for consideration and comment. 



The resolutions committee was made up of D. F. Clark, J. M. 

 Okoneski, and C. L. Kellogg. 



T. T. Jones reported for the statistical committee. He said that 

 the present committee list is fairly representative of the market 

 and that no changes are recommended. He expressed the belief 

 that through the year the list has been nearer the market than any 

 other northern hardwood list. It has not been based on statistics, 

 he said, or on guesses, but on actual' sale prices, and its success 

 has been possible because of the fine cooperation of the members 

 of the association. 



Inspections last year fell rather below what they had been the 

 year before. T. T. Jones brought up the subject of the present 

 inspection fee and moved that the National association be asked to 

 restore the old rate of fifty cents a thousand. Payson Smith said 

 that the increase had been held necessary in order to pay higher 



salaries due the inspectors and he did not believe there could be 

 a reduction for a while. Mr. Jones said that inspection in this 

 market always has paid its way. A. H. Barnard thought the lower 

 rate would increase the amount of lumber inspected. Arthur F. 

 Jarvis of Eau Claire thought that the increased fee is only reason- 

 able under the conditions of high prices. After some further dis- 

 cussion Mr. Jones amended his motion and it was passed unani- 

 mously, requesting the National association to restore the old scale 

 of inspection fees "as soon as in the judgment of the board of 

 directors conditions warrant it." 



F. H. Lewis, N. C. Bennett and D. F. O'Leary were appointed as 

 a nominating committee, and after a brief deliberation they re- 

 ported, recommending election of the following officers: 



President — rayson Smitli. 

 Vice-president — H. B. Sutton. 

 Secretary — J. F. Hayden. 

 Treasurer — F. H. Lewis. 



Board of arbitration — T. T. Jones, N. C. Bennett, A. B. Leasure, J. M. 

 Okoneski, A. S. Bliss. 



Membership committee — D. F. Clark, A. F. Jarvis, H. Booraem. 



All those name are of Minneapolis except Mr. Jarvis, who is of 

 Eau Claire, Wis. The committee report then was unanimously 

 adopted. 



The annual dinner of the association was given in one of the din- 

 ing rooms of West hotel. No speeches were made and the dinner 

 was informal. The entertainment committee, consisting of R. L. 

 Duncan, A. H. Barnard, and E. H. Broughton. 



Shortage of Southern Logs Indicated 



The Valley Log Loading Company, operating on the Yazoo & 

 Mississippi Valley and Missouri Pacific roads, loaded 1,428 cars of 

 logs during the month of November, an increase of approximately 

 twenty jjer cent over the corresponding month last year. 



J. W. Dickson, president of the company, however, said today 

 that, because of unfavorable weather and the disposition of owners 

 of timber to curtail logging operations, comparatively little timber 

 is coming out now. He further said that, unless tliere is material 

 increase in the rate at which logs are cut and hauled to the rights 

 of way of the railroads, the company will catch up with its work so 

 closely by the middle of January that it will have little or nothing 

 to do. 



Many firms announced their intention of curtailing cutting and 

 hauling of timber immediately after the drastic embargo of Sep- 

 tember 16 went into effect, and it is quite apparent that this is 

 largely responsible for the slowing-down in the preparation of logs 

 for the mills. The winter season is at hand when it is impossible 

 to make more than nominal progress in getting out timber, and 

 some manufacturers already say tliat a decided shortage of logs 

 for the late winter and early spring is indicated. 



foregoing, and A. O. Silver, Silver Manufacturing Company; C. F. 

 Smalley, Smallcy Manufacturing Company; A. J. Rosenthal, Rosen- 

 thal Corn Husker Company; J. P. Garvey, Freeman Manufacturing 

 Company. 



War Eliminations to Remain 



The manufacturers of ensilage cutters intend to retain the 

 schedule of machines recommended by the war industries board. 

 That board eliminated all but four sizes of cutters, and the makers 

 do not intend to go back to the old schedule of many sizes. They 

 regard four as enough. That was the decision reached at the 

 recent meeting of the ensilage machinery department of the Na- 

 tional Implement and Vehicle Association in Chicago. The decision 

 was unanimous. It would be poor economy to go back to the 

 former large variety of sizes and styles of ensilage machinery and 

 the manufacturers do not intend to do it. The manufacturers 

 standardized the feeding mechanism and for the period following 

 1919 will equip their machines 'to cut but two lengths. Any addi- 

 tional equipment that may be necessary for cutting additional 

 lengths may be furnished, but only as an extra. 



The ensilage machinery department elected officers for the en- 

 suing year as follows: President, John Reid, Jr., Belle City Manu- 

 facturing Co.; vice-president, C. O. Aspenwall, International Har- 

 vester Company; secretary-treasurer, P. A. Rynd, Wilder Strong 

 Implement Company. The executive committee comprises the 

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September Lumber Exports 



The exports of forest products from this country during last Sep- 

 tember are shown in the report just published by the Bureau of 

 Foreign and Domestic Commerce. For convenience in comparison 

 the corresponding figures for 1917 are given: 



Articles— 1917 1918 



Logs $43,948 $28,724 



Square timber 438,226 355,835 



Railroad ties 220,863 176,046 



Lumber 2,680,335 5,176,476 



This large increase in the export of lumber was made up prin- 

 exceeded $500,000; of gum, $75,000; of oak, $185,000; of longleaf 

 pine, $200,000; of spruce, $1,000,000. 



The total export of wood and wood products rose from $5,773,233 

 cipally of a few items. The increase in the export of Douglas fir 

 in 1917 to $8,359,921 in 1918. 



Furniture Restrictions Removed 



The goverunient's supervision of tlie niauufacture of furniture did not 

 last long. It is all otE now. The schedule which was to have gone into 

 effect January 1 has been rescinded. 



This action has been taken because there no longer exists the pressing 

 and imperative necessity for the conservation of material, labor, and 

 transportation for strictly war needs. 



The freeing of the furniture industry from the conservation restric- 

 tions and the raising of the barrier against the semiannual furniture 

 exhibit, which is a feature of the furniture trade, will enable the furni- 

 ture industry, to get back quickly on a normal basis. 



The schedule applied to the manufacture of bedroom, dining room, and 

 upholstered furniture, chairs, parlor frames, extension, library, parlor, and 

 bedroom tables. Active patterns were reduced fifty per cent, and no new 

 patterns were to be introduced during the war. Beveled mirrors were 

 eliminated, bedroom mirror plate reduced twenty-flve per cent, and dining 

 room arm chairs .nnd toilet table chairs discontinued. Metal ornamental 

 tacks and nails, metal ornamental trimmings, and metal wheel castors 

 were eliminated. There were detailed instructions for packing furniture 

 worked out with a view of protecting the furniture and saving transpor- 

 tation space and lumber. 



