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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Treasurer's Report. 



RECEIPTS. 



Amount iu treasury, paid by C. II. Bar- 



naby $220.01) 



Amount collected for dues and banquet 



tickets 7G.00 



Amount collected for dues 32.00 



Total $328.09 



DISBURSEMENTS, 



Cost of banquet $133.50 



Incidental expenses of convention. 24 93 



Subscription to Interstate Com- 

 merce Law convention ."iO.OO 



Contribution, account of car stake 



and equipment complaint 50.00 



Check to James T. Eaglesfleld, ac- 

 count reciprocal demurrage. . . . 61.30 



- 319.73 



January 1. amount in treasury.... S.3G 

 Since January 1. 1907, collected for dues, 



etc 297.00 



Amount now in treasury $305 ::r, 



The treasurer's report was accepted. 



J. V. Stiinson addressed the association re- 

 garding the death of C. D. Strode, and voiced 

 the general regret at his loss and the high 

 esteem in which he was held. 



Excursion Committee. 



The committee on the Cuban excursion, 

 composed of J. M. Pritchard, George H. 

 Palmer and Sam Burkholder, recommended 

 that the prospective trip be postponed until 

 after the next annual meeting. The report 

 was adopted. 



On the Car Stake Matter, 



W. W. Knight addressed the meeting on 

 the car stake matter, and made an urgent 

 plea for funds with which to forward tie.' 

 work. 



Mr. Bennett — Mr. President: I don't wanl 

 to throw cold water on the matter, bin it 

 strikes me that the car stake business don't 

 interest us very much. Now, gentlemen, this 

 car stake proposition, in my judgment, although 

 it has been handled by the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association, has been a very 

 foolish project from first to last. In the first 

 place, why didn't they ask the railroads for a 

 lower rate on flat cars? You can afford to 

 equip if you have a lower rate on. a flat car ; 

 you can load it heavier, and they ought to be 

 willing to give you a lower rate on a flat car 

 than on a box ear. This thing of suing the 

 railroads in order to get something out of them 

 is a false proposition. You can do more with a 

 man by persuasion than with a lawsuit. The 

 railroads are ready to meet us on a fair anil 

 square basis, and I believe that by persuasion 

 we can make a good deal more money out of 

 the railroads than we can by suing them. The 

 Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club has never even 

 noticed this matter. We did raise two thousand 

 dollars down there to take the railroads of our 

 city up before the commission and make them 

 do right on our switching charges. We haven't 

 settled that yet. Besides, we support the Na 

 tional Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association. 

 Our firm gives them $100 a year, and a great 

 many other people do the same thing. Aboul 

 twenty* per cent of our business goes to the 

 railroads. The railroads are making more 

 money than any other class of people. We. to- 

 gether with the merchants of Cincinnati, have 

 just been through a tight with them, and you 

 have no idea how we fought them, and we beat 

 them, hands down. It was the railroads against 

 the people, and the people ' won for the first 

 time. You want to get this association into the 

 idea of taking their part against the railroads. 

 Don't you be afraid of the railroads — they will 



take care of themselves. The trouble is that 

 they won't take care of themselves and us, too. 

 Now let us take care of ourselves. That strikes 

 me as being the proper spirit in this matter. 



Mr. Knight — In answer to Mr. Bennett's 

 statement with reference to the situation at 

 Cincinnati being a fight of the people against 



S. BURKHOLDER, CRAWFORDSVTLLE. 



the railroads. I want to say that our fight is 

 equally one of the people against the railroads. 

 These people ask for subscriptions and I move 

 you, Mr. President, that wc make a contribu- 

 tion with which to carry on this work. 



Mr. Stimson I second Mr. Knight's motion, 

 and in doing so I desire to say that I heartily 

 agree with much that Mr. Bennett has said with 

 reference to the railroads. But on this propo- 

 sition I don't quite agree with Mr. Bennett. We 

 are simply asked to join our interests with 

 those of an organization that is making a fight 

 against the railroads and in the interests of 

 the shipper, ami it is only in such reciprocal rela 

 tions thai we get strength, or make any pres- 

 ume or accomplish anything. The greatest or- 



C. II. KRAMER, RICHMOND. 



gauizations in the world are the railroad com- 

 panies, and the people are keeping them busy 

 just now in a good many ways. We know that 

 the pine people are the big shippers on flat cars 

 and gondolas, but somehow I think it is bet- 

 ter for our Interests and our business to help 



our neighbor, and I am in favor of the mem- 

 bers of this association giving as they can af- 

 ford to give to support this movement. 



President Barnaby called for a vote on Mr. 

 Knight's motion; it was carried. 



S. Burkholder on Forestry. 



Gentlemen — The work attempted and accom- 

 plished by the board for the period of time cov- 

 ered by the herein report was a continuation 

 of the plans as outlined in former reports. 

 Much information of both scientific and prac- 

 tical import was ascertained and given out from 

 time to time through correspondence, visits 

 and lectures to those who made inquiry for 

 forestry knowledge. 



There is at this time a strong sentiment fa- 

 vorably inclining to the institution of stronger 

 forestry methods in almost every community 

 within the state. The board finds on every 

 hand interested men and women of clear and 

 advanced conceptions of the forestry problem 

 and who. are rendering assistance by both word 

 and action. 



It is a rare instance where an individual of 



g 1 business judgment, capable of broad dis- 



eernmcut and unbiased by selfish motives, is 

 found opposed to the project. The cause of for- 

 estry will never lie opposed or hampered by the 

 strongest thinking men and women of the coun- 

 try, but all danger is to be looked for from 

 individuals who do not understand its im- 

 portance and who will not give it a just con- 

 sideration or who by nature are opposed to any 

 form of evolution. It is from this element that 

 : ry must be guarded in its future advance- 

 ment. The most dangerous individuals to the 

 general welfare arc those who always oppose a 

 thing when they are in doubt as to its im- 

 portance. 



As has been stated before, the money invested 

 in the two thousand acres as a real estate 

 transaction is $1G,000. The state appropriates 

 annually $3,000 with which to manage and per- 

 form the various kinds of work thereon in the 

 advancement of the forestry feature to the ex- 

 tent as such sum will go. Sundry amounts 

 have been specifically appropriated to improve 

 the lands and the forest area and place the 

 -.Hie in such an organized condition as will 

 make it sland out as a state institution of merit 

 anil recognition. The aggregate of such allow- 

 ance is $10,190, divided between the coming 

 I wo years. Of this amount $3,600 is for the 

 cultivation of the aforesaid area and putting 

 upon the market such material as is taken off 

 in doing this work, the money received from the 

 sal-- of the same to be returned to the state 

 treasurer to be in the general funds of the 

 state. The amount expended for the last year, 

 $1,800, has been returned to the state treasurer 

 and we are confident that the full amount of the 

 $3,600 will be returned and we will have that 

 part of tic forest area in good condition for 

 nature to do the rest. And this amount should 

 not be figured in the total of the amount in- 

 vested in the institution. The amounts so far 

 appropriated will not equip, improve and organ- 

 ize the institution as it should be to make it 

 the most valuable and influential in its aims 

 and purposes. 



The forest reservation and experimental sta- 

 tion is a stale concern and must therefore be 

 improved to meet the expectations of ideal cit- 

 izenship in such matters. The individual who 

 will stand out against any intelligent improve- 

 ment of this land to meet the ideas of up-to- 

 date citizens of Indiana is no more nor less than 

 the same citizen who will wail against any and" 

 all modern improvements, whether of municipal 

 or private concern. This institution, though 

 conducted upon the highest plane of forestry 

 technique, if not improved and organized In a 

 business manner, will fail to have the best re- 

 sults upon its observers. Splendid state park 

 i, in nr. - add il in the insl it nt ion w ill not hindi i 



