April 111. lillS 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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AitUli' 1. Xiiiiio. Niirtl.iTii I.DKtuTs' ('i)nsrt'ss. 



Article •-'. Thp iivmlii^rshli) u( tills coiiBrcss shall consist of all niem- 

 iicrs In regular stuiiilinii; In llic following associations uanicly : North 

 Wisconsin LoRKors" Association, (Vnlnil Wisconsin Loggers' Association, 

 North Kastcrn Wisconsin an.l I'ppcr Michigan Loggers' Association and 

 Upper I'cninsula I.om;i'rs' Association. 



.Vrticlc :<. The oiijcct of this congress Is to promote ami co-orillnate 

 the mutual Interests •>{ Us menihcrs. 



Article 4. Mi'etlngs shall le hehl at any time upon the call of the 

 president anil secretary at places .to he designated hy them. Annual 

 meetings shall be held the third Thursday of September of each year. 



Arthle n. The otiliers of this Congress will be — president, vice-presi- 

 dent, secretary and treasurer. The two latter olflces nuiy be held by one 

 person who shall l)e elected at each annual meeting. They shall serve 

 for one year or until their successors are elected and inialllied. 



Article fi. This constitution may be amended at any annual meeting 

 l>y a majority vote. 



Article 7. The expenses of this iiuigress shall be met by an assess- 

 ment to be levied by its officers on the assoelatbuis nameil in .Vrtlcle 2 

 and based on the basis of meuibership of said associations. 



.\rtlcle S. Kach company or individual which shall hold niendieisliip 

 in this Congress shall be alloweil one vote. 



Article 9. The officers may establish such by-laws under this constitu- 

 tion as they nuiy deem necessary. Rciug In full force and effect until 

 approved or disapproved at the ne.\t meeting of this congress. 



The report on tlie constitution and by-laws was adopted as read. 



Klection of Officers 

 Tlie followiii}; names were placed in nomination for the several 

 offices and were unanimously elected: 



President — G. S. McLurg, Kneeland-McLurg Lumber Compau.v, 

 Phillips, Wis.; vice-president — Edward A. Hamar, Worcester Lum- 

 ber Company, ChassoU, Mich.; secretary — August J. Stange, Union 

 Land Company, Merrill, Wis.; treasurer — W. E. Hallenbeck, J. W. 

 Wells Lumber Co., \Vausaukee, Wis. 



Each association forming the congress was authorized to appoint 

 as many "four-minute" men as might be deemed necessary, and 

 send the names to the secretary. 



The chair appointed a committee of one, W. K, Parkinson, to in- 

 vestigate the matter of forest products insurance, and to take it 

 up with the Wisconsin insurance commission at Madison. 



It was ariangod tliat the associations forming the congress take 

 the necessary steps to work out a scale of wages, or scales of 

 wages, to be made applicable to the several districts, the scale 

 for each district to conform as nearly as possible to local condi- 

 tions and circumstances. The scales as worked out will be held 

 for action by special committees. 



The food situation will be given special attention and a man who 

 is posted on the subject will visit the various camps and explain 

 the situation in regard to substitutes for wheat flour. 



The offer of the Clyde Iron Works to furnish badges for the 

 members was accepted. 



Developing Cit-Oveb Lands 

 An address by W. G. Bissell ou the subject of developing the cut- 

 over lands of northern Wisconsin was so well received that copies 

 of the address were ordered in sufficient numbers to supply all the 

 members of the congress. He advocated the raising of sheep and 

 cattle ou the cut-over land, and sheep in i)iirticular. The follow- 

 ing pointed extracts are from the address: 



For years "ISack to the Land " has been the slogan of many, and the 

 wisdom of this slogan Is more clearly set forth today than ever before. 

 This appeal must reach beyonil those who are actively engaged In agri- 

 cultural pursuits. p]very business man, every professional man, and every 

 law niaki-r must give It heed ami ilirect I'tfnrts to co-tiperate and assist 

 in this work. 



For the past year we have I n talking "more sheep more wool" for 



upper Wisconsin, and we' fe<d we have abunilant reastms for so doing. 

 We have large areas of splendid agricultural and grazing lands lying 

 ab.solutely dornuint. not earning or pniduilng a dollar In food value or 

 raiment. That these lands are splemlidly a<lapted to sheep husbandry 

 there can be no iiuestlun. World conditions are such to-day that the 

 question of woid production is but little less Important than that of 

 food. 



There was a marked shortage of this Important commodity before war 

 was declared, and since then the world's consumption has been Increased 

 by 2'* per cent, and the' world's production has been decreased by almost 

 a like amount. Prices have advanced by lejijis and by bounds until to-day 

 there Is practically no prices placed upon wo>d. The small amount of 

 raw material we have on hand in this country has within the imst two 

 weeks been coinmandecred hy enr government. 



A recent survey of the number of sheep in the United States, has 

 placed the number that will he shorn clurlng the summer of 1!)1K at less 

 than ,'13.0(10.(1(1(1. If this be true, our total production for lUlS will not 

 I'.xceed •,>;io.O(i(i,()ti(l pounds and our riMiulrements will be at least SOO.OOO.- 

 (POd pounds. Tills would not be so startling were' It not for the fact that 

 ill every wool producing country throughout the world there Is an e(|ual 

 f:illing off in iPioductlon. Our total hoiiii' prmluctloii, if divided eiiually, 

 will give but a trifle over a pound of scoured wool per capita and our 

 entire output will no more than supply our military wants to provide for 

 an army of V'.'HKI.OOO men, leaving nothing for our civilian population. 



Seventy per cent of our wool Is being produced west of the Mississippi 

 Klver. The Hock masters of this region have been deprived of their graz- 

 ing lands to the extent that they now have '2.5 per cent more sheep than 

 they can summer graze. The problem that confronts them is whether they 

 sliall send these surplus brei'dlng sheep to the shambles or seek new pas- 

 tures tor them. It is most natural under present price ccuiditions that 

 they desire to expand rather than contract their business. So we have 

 been directing our energies with a view of attrai.-tlng the flock masters 

 toward our undeveloped country, not onl.v that, but we are striving to 

 organize our own people, our surplus ca|iltal, In Wisconsin, to interest 

 themselves and invest their money In a business that we believe Is not 

 only fumlanientally sound, but which will he very profltahle. 



We lielleve in sheep for T'pper Wisconsin because the flnancial i*eturns 

 from them, if properly supervised and handled, will produce S2.(i(i to .?ino 

 <'Ver that of the productltiu of an.v otlier ilomestic nniinal. Shee[) and 

 lambs can be made niarketabli' and a (Inisheil proihn't without grain. 

 Less labor ami less man power is requif'-'il on a sh(»ep ranch than on any 

 other, thus it will assist largely In solving the labor problem. To suc- 

 cessfully care for them, expensive machinery Is not required, expensive 

 iiuildings are not ncL-essary. less productive and lower priced lands can 

 lie effectively utilized. Sheep are natural scavengers; they will eat and 

 relish almost any kind of a weed thereby benefiting the lands. 



There are scores of reasons why capital should embark freely in this 

 wonderful game In upper Wisconsin. With our splendbl wati'r. our 

 wonderful growth of grasses, our shrubs and brush uiion whicli sheep 

 naturally feed, it is only a matter of a few years when ui>per Wisconsin 

 will be one of the great sheep jimducing countries and perliaps the great- 

 est flnishing country in the Unlteil States. 



We can offer the flock master a country where droughts are unknown, 

 where pure water is in abundance everywhere, and a climate that is par- 

 ticularly adapted to the highest and best devtdopment of sheep. .Vow, 

 if this be true, why not as sen.silde business men go to it? It means much 

 to us as a state, it means a whole lot more to us as land owners. In my 

 .iiidgment, the time has arrived, when to accomplish the best ami most 

 desirable results, we have got to adopt a new slogan, let It be "push back 

 the brush line." The fact that you large land owners occasionally sell 

 a tract of land purely for speculative purposes, does not get us anywhere 

 as a development proposition. That is simply changing money and titles. 

 What the world needs to-day is Increaseil production and if any of you 

 men know of a shorter cut to "push back the brush line" than going into 

 the sheep business. I would like to have you tell me what it is and I will 

 immediately revise my ideas. 



Government Wants Line on Walnut 



The Signal Corps is in need of all the waJnut lumber suitable for 

 the construction of propellers that it can secure, and the Ordnance 

 Department likewise needs all of the walnut liunber suitable for 

 the construction of gun-stocks that it can secure. 



In view of tliis condition during the present national emergency 

 it is absolutely imperative that no walnut suitable for either of 

 the two above mentioned purposes should be disposed of for any 

 other purpose and anyone holding walnut, or knowing where it is 

 held that is suitable for either of these purposes should communi- 

 cate with whichever of these two departments is the proper one to 

 write to. 



It is likewise the duty of anyone knowing of cases wherein this 

 national need is not being complied with to commiuiicate with one 

 of these Departments, by addressing in connection with propeller 

 material the ' ' Materials Department, Equipment Division, Signal 

 Corps, 119 D Street Northeast, Washington, D. C," or, in connection 

 with gunstock material the "Ordnance Department, Procurement 

 Division, 6th and B Streets Northwest, Wasliington, D. C. " 



A Caterpillar's Record Load 

 The steam caterpillar log hauler makes records and then breaks them. 

 The latest high notch Is claimed for such an engine working for the 

 fiekkedid Lumber Company. Couderay. Wis., and operated hy .1. F. Crandall. 

 It brought to the mill a train of eighteen sleds, each loaded with 4.0(10 feet, 

 or 72,0(10 feet In all. with a total weight exceeding a million jiounds. 



