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HARDWOOD RECORD 



IPTS. 



Membership dues § 8,950.00 



Inspection fees 11,193.38 



Sales of Inspection rules :;02.07 



Cash deposits 2 1 



Reins| tlements 494.74 



L40.19 



t'lSIlLKSE.V ! 



Remitted to i reasurer si'l. I 



In addition to the above, the amount realized 

 from the fund of San Francisco sufferers of 

 $1,045 was remitted to the treasurer. 



In conformity with the by-laws, the executive 

 committee have held meetings as follows: May 

 4. 1906, at Memphis, June 14 and 15 at Chi- 

 and August 16 and 17 a full meeting of 

 the board of managers was held at Chicago. 

 Further proof of the growth of the association 

 is found in the fact that during former 

 the hoard of managers have been able to' dis- 

 pose of all business during one day's session, 

 but under the present conditions it has been 

 necessary to devote two days to matters pre- 

 sented for their consideration. All these meet- 

 ings have been well attended and the chairmen of 

 the inspection bureau committee and the i 

 spection rules committee have also been pies 

 ent. 



Result- obtained through publishing the 

 proceedings of our Buffalo convention in pamph- 

 let form were so satisfactory that the board 

 of managers issued instructions to publish the 

 official report of our ninth annual convention at 

 Memphis in similar form. Copies of this report 

 nave been senl all members and several thou- 

 sand additional copies have been distributed 



AGLER FIRST VICE" PRESIDENT, CHI- 

 CAGO, ILL. 



among consumers ami oilier uon-memDers. The 

 I. and book issued in October last proved of much 

 value in acquainting the trade with the methods 

 employed by Ihe inspection bureau, and revised 

 copy is now in the hands of our printer for 

 another edition, in which will be included a 

 complete list of inspectors anil members. 



The recommendation of the committee on offi- 

 i- reports that our members adopt the em- 

 Mem in use on the stationery at the executive 



office has i ii followed by a number of our 



members, but we si ill have a supply of these 

 which I will be pleased to furnish on ap- 

 plication. 



I desire to thank you for the liberal support 

 given my office and for your attention to this 

 report. 



Treasurer's Report. 



Tn presenting Ms report Treasurer .J. Wat! 

 Graham called attention to the stable finan- 

 cial condition of the organization and 

 showed a surplus on hand. 



ed San Francisco fund $ 1,045.00 



June 25, J. B. 1'helan, chairman re- 

 lief and Red Cross committee 1,045.00 



ASH DEPOSIT FUND. 



0. E. Seager, treasurer 1,800.4] 



Deposit eight inspectors 200.00 



> 2. 000. 41 

 Refunded to thirteen inspectors 325.00 



Balance s 1,675.41 



General fund. O. E. Yeager, treasurer 520.47 



Dues 358 members 8,950.00 



Inspection lees 11,223.23 



Reinspection 514.89 



Inspection rules 302.07 



$21,510.66 



DISBURSEMENTS. 



I; inspection s 756.72 



Official stenographer .Mem 



phis meeting 152.20 



.Secretary's salary . $1,600.00 

 Office and traveling 



expenses . 1,565.31 



Rent 448.00 4,072.57 



Printing 559.26 



Surveyor general's 



salary $1,200.00 2,135.69 



Surveyor general's 

 office and trav- 

 eling expenses. 935.69 



inspector's salary. ..$7,014.35 8,644 19 

 Inspector's expen- 

 ses 1.030.14 



Treasurer's bond.. 15.00 

 Incidental expen- 



ses l.",il. SO 



Balance paid on 



Talbot. deposit 



account 4.8.". 15.'..'.:S.;',2 



$ 5,572.34 

 The customary committee was appointed to 

 receive and audit the reports of the secre- 

 tary and treasurer. The committee consisted 

 of Earl Palmer, Carrol] I' Sweei and .1. B. 

 Wall. 

 Report of Inspection Bureau Committee. 



The report of the Inspection Bureau Com- 

 mittee was read by Chairman \V. W. Knight, 

 and showed an increase of five men in that 

 department sinci May 1. 



The report presented at Memphis snowed 

 ten salaried inspectors. Since May 1 we have 

 added rive men to the list of salaried inspectors, 

 as follows: An assistant at Memphis, New 

 York and Chicago, and inspectors have been 

 placed at Boston and Baltimore, bringing the 

 present list ,,t salaried inspectors up to sixteen. 

 The men are stationed as follows: 



i 'hieago. III 2 



New Vork City 2 



Memphis, Tenn •' 



Buffalo, N. Y 3 



Boston. Mass i 



Baltimore, Md l 



Philadelphia, Pa i 



.Milwaukee, Wis 1 



St. Louis. Mo, . , i 



Cincinnati, O " 



Grand Rapids, Mich j 



New i irleans, La l 



We have now a request for an additional in- 

 spector at Cincinnati, as the applications re- 

 ceived from that market are more than one 

 man can handle, and it is believed St. Louis will 

 require another inspector within a short time. 



During the five months beginning May 1, 

 1906, and ending October 1, 1906, the salaried 

 inspectors' certificates show a total of over 

 16,000,000 feet, and the fee inspectors during 

 the same time have issued certificates on 32.000,- 

 000 feet. During this period the salaried in- 

 ! is have earned SO. 692. 05. and the fee in- 

 spectors have remitted to this office $1,500.73, 

 making the total inspection fees collected by the 

 secretary and remitted to the treasurer $11,- 

 193.38, covering all expenses of the bureau. 



The books show that the salary and expense 

 of inspectors during the same period amounts 

 (8,301.18, so that the total expense of main 

 taining the present salaried force has been fully 

 covered by their earnings. These figures do not 

 include the salary and expense of the surveyor 

 general, which amounts to $1,935.39 for the past 

 live months. 



Applications from members for inspection at 

 points where we are unable to maintain a regu- 

 lar salaried inspector have increased so rapidly 

 that arrangements have been made with the 

 assistant inspector at Chicago to ha'ndle these 

 requests, which insures prompt and improved 

 service on requests of this nature. 



In the report presented at our ninth annual 

 convention in Memphis reference was made to 

 the difficulty experienced in getting competent 

 inspectors. We have recently obtained applica- 

 tions from about 100 inspectors now employed 

 as a result of an advertisement, which have 

 been thoroughly investigated among references 

 and are now on file. Yvith this list to draw 



from it is believed we will be able to set satis- 

 factory men as promptly as they may be 

 needed. 



I would suggest urging upon members the 

 importance of giving, in their applications for 

 reinspection, the number of the original certifi- 

 cate, together with ihe name of the inspector, 

 as considerable delay will be avoided through 

 following this plau. At present very few of 

 theni follow the plan and correspondence and 

 consequent delay result. 



Your committee wishes to call attention to 

 the fact that today the surveyor general has no 

 calls for reinspection on hand, wdiich we con- 

 sider a very favorable condition of affairs, and 

 in the opinion of the chairman is largely ac- 

 counted for by the personal work of the sur- 

 veyor general in the field, as he has visited 

 practically every market where we have paid 

 inspectors doing work for the association, and 

 has stayed wiih them a sufficient length of time 

 to not only see what sort of work they were 

 doing but to instruct them where, in his opin- 

 ion, the men were not doing the right sort of 

 work. 



The total amount of lumber handled by sal- 

 aried and fee inspectors of 48,000.000 feet indi- 

 cates that the work of the association in this 

 direction is increasing, and has increased appre- 

 ciably in comparison with the corresponding five 

 months of last year, when the present surveyor 

 . qi ral was installed. 



Report of Transportation Committee. 



The report of the Transportation Commit- 

 tee, read by Chairman 0. O. Agler, was 



C E LLOYD, JR.. SECOND VICE PRESI- 

 DENT. PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



listened to with interest, as considerable ac- 

 tivity had been manifested by that committee 

 since the last meeting of the association. 



For tic benefit of any members present who 

 weii m»t at the annual meeting at Memphis in 

 May, I wish to explain that the rate on lumber 

 from this territory to the Pacific coast is 85 

 cents per 100 pounds, and that the railroads are 

 bringing the coast product into this territory at 

 as low a rate as 40 cents per 100 pounds. The 

 Interstate Commerce transportation committee 

 was appointed at Memphis to do what it could 

 in the way of securing a reduction in the west 

 bound rate. Soon after our appointment we 

 found that a committee had been appointed by 

 the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association 

 at their .May meeting in St. Louis to take up 

 the same question. Their committee consisted 

 of John B. Ransom of Nashville, Tenn. : Eugene 

 Shaw of Eau Claire. Wis., and E. V. Arpin of 

 <:rand Rapids. Wis These gentlemen and your 

 committee have worked together in an effort 

 to secure an adjustment of the rate. On June 

 1 we were advised of a meeting to be held in 

 Chicago by the Transcontinental Freight Bu- 

 reau, and immediately filed formal request with 

 thein for a reduction in ihe west bound rate 

 from 85 to 00 cents, and also asked them for 

 a hearing of our committee. We met in Chicago 

 June 6, but as the meeting of the freight bureau 

 was postponed on that date to July 10. nothing 

 could be done except see some of the members 

 of the freight bureau personally with a view 

 of securing their cooperation in our behalf. 

 Your committee met again in Chicago on July 



