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HARDWOOD RECORD 



An Excellent Forced Draft System. 

 On the approach of bad weather it is an ex- 

 cellent plan for all sawmill operators to render 

 themselves independent of atmospheric condi- 

 tions by installing a forced draft system, thus 

 doing away with annoying and expensive shut- 

 downs to wait for steam to rise, during which 

 production is at a standstill, while expenses go 

 on. No one would think of heating or melting 

 iron without a blast (witness the blacksmith 

 shop and the foundry) ; and the same principle 

 is used in the Gordon Hollow Blast Grate to 

 burn wet or green sawdust, slabs, etc. Its manu- 

 facturers will supply an outfit of this kind with 

 the understanding that thirty days' time will be 

 allpwed in which to thoroughly test it, and that 

 if not satisfactory it may be returned and they 

 will pay freight both ways. Doubtless many 

 operators will be glad to take advantage of this 

 liberal offer. The Gordon Hollow Blast Grate 

 Company is located at Greenville, Mich. 



Death of J. W. Himebaugh. 



J. W. Himebaugh, president of the Ohio 

 Sash & Door Company of Cleveland, O., and 

 vice-president of the Paine Lumber Company 

 of Oshkosh, Wis., died suddenly at the Conti- 

 nental Hotel, Philadelphia, on Dec. 3. Mr. 

 Himebaugh was widely conversant with con- 

 ditions in the sash and door trade, in which 

 he had spent the greater part of his life, and 

 was a specialist in everything bearing on that 

 branch of the lumber manufacturing industry. 

 He was a man of exceptional executive capa- 

 city and his prominence in the affairs of both 

 the large -corporations in which he was inter- 

 ested had much to do with their success. He 

 leaves a widow and one son, Clinton M. Hime- 

 baugh, who is well known in the business life 

 of Chicago. The deceased .was fifty years old. 



The funeral was held at the family home at 

 Oshkosh on Saturday, Dec. 8. and was attended 

 by men from the East and the Middle West 

 prominent in the sash and door industry. The 

 services were quiet and impressive and the 

 occasion was marked by a great wealth of 

 floral offerings. 



Annual Northwestern Hardwood Lumber- 

 men's Association. 



The Northwestern Hardwood Lumbermen's As- 

 sociation held Its eighteenth annual meeting in 

 Minneapolis, Dec. 4. A short but interesting 

 business session came to a close with the elec- 

 tion of the following officers for the ensuing 

 year : 



President, D. F. Clack, Minneapolis ; Vice 

 President, A. H. Barnard, Minneapolis ; Treas- 

 urer, C. F. Osborne, Minneapolis ; Secretary, J. 

 F. Hayden, Minneapolis. 



Board of arbitration, — F. H. Lewis, P. R. Ham- 

 ilton and S. H. Davis, Minneapolis ; F. A. Nolan 

 and A. E. Peterson, St. Paul. 



Membership committee — W. C. Stanton, St. 

 Paul ; I. P. Lennon and N. C. Bennett, Minne- 

 apolis. 



The meeting was held in one of the club rooms 

 of the Minneapolis Commercial Club and was 

 called to order at 4 p. m. by President A. E. 

 Peterson. Secretary Hayden read the minute, 

 of the previous annual meeting and of the last 

 monthly meeting and both were approved. 



C. F. Osborne, Treasurer of the association, 

 then presented his report, in substance as fol- 

 lows : 



Balance Dec. 5, 1905 .$ 39.67 



Receipts during year . 60.50 



Total $100.17 



Expended to date 89.45 



Balance on hand ? 10.72 



Secretary J. F. Hayden in his annual report 

 reviewed the state of trade and called attention 

 to what the association had done at its meetings 

 during the year. 



F. H. Lewis, chairman of the board of arbitra- 

 tion, reported that nineteen cars had been in- 

 spected under authority of the board during the 

 year and that all inspections had been satis- 

 •factory but one. 



The railroad committee appointed at a pre- 

 vious monthly meeting was not ready to report. 

 C. F. Osborne, its chairman, announced that he 

 would call the committee together in January 

 and take up several propositions. The subject 

 of estimated weights was discussed, disclosing 

 that the railroads have no standard that is uni- 

 form as to hardwoods, and that the cases are 

 few when a claim for overweight on hardwood 

 is recognized by the Western Railway Weighing 

 Association. A motion by P. R. Hamilton was 

 carried, directing the railroad committee to pre- 

 pare a table of estimated weiglits to submit, 

 with the idea of adopting it as official associa- 

 tion weights, backed up by the organisation. 



W, C. Bailey moved the appointment of a nom- 

 inating committee of three. President Peterson 

 appointed W. C. Eailey, I. P. Lennon and W. ' '. 

 Stanton. They* retired and reported the list of 

 officers and committees already given. On mo- 

 tion of W. II. Sill the secretary was instructed to 

 east the ballot of the association for all of them. 



THE NEW PRESIDENT. D. F. CLARK, OF 

 OSBORNE & CLARK. MINNEAPOLIS. 



D. F. Clark, the newly elected president, was 

 called on for a speech. He responded with cor- 

 dial thanks for the honor, which he sad was a 

 complete surprise to him. He appre iated the 

 responsibility meant by the position and ex- 

 pressed his high regard for the members, one 

 and all, pledging them his best services in an 

 effort to keep up to the high standard set by the 

 presidents who have preceded him. 



Following the meeting a banquet was served in 

 the club room. From the banquet table the 

 members went to the Mrpheum Theater, where 

 they enjoyed a gocd vaudeville program, round- 

 ing out the evening nicely. 



The following were present at the meeting: 



A. E. Peterson, Peterson-Moore Lumber Com- 

 pany, St. Paul. 



D. F. Clark, Osborne & Clark. Minneapolis. 



I '. F. Osborne, Osborne & Clark, Minneapolis. 



W. C. Stanton, Stanton-De Long Lumber Com- 

 pany. St. Paul. 



W. C. Bailey, Minneapolis. 



F. H. Lewis. Minneapolis. 



P. K. Hamilton, Minneapolis Lumber Company, 

 Minneapolis. 



W. II. Sill. Minneapolis Lumber Company. Min- 

 neapolis. 



A. 11. Barnard, Minneapolis. 



C. A. Kellogg, A. H. Barnard, Minneapolis, 



F. A. Nolan, St. Paul. 



S. H. Davis, S. H. Davis Lumber Company, 

 Minneapolis. 



I. P. Lennon, I. P. Lennon & Co., Minneapolis. 



George J. Agnew, Payson Smith Lumber Com- 

 pany, Minneapolis. 



T. T. Jones, G. W. Jones Lumber Company, 

 Appleton, Wis. 



F. H. Bartelme, Minneapolis. 



N. C. Bennett, N. C. Bennett Lumber Com- 

 pany, Minneapolis. 



Charles Oliver, Minneapolis. 



G. W. Everts, G. W. Everts Lumber Company, 

 Minneapolis. 



J. F. Hayden, secretary, Minneapolis. 



Conference on Establishment of Wood-Test- 

 ing laboratory. 



A number of representatives of associations 

 of manufacturers and users of forest products 

 met the officers of the Forest Service Nov. 16 to 

 discuss plans for the establishment of a wood- 

 testing laboratory. The conference was held as 

 a result of action taken by a number of such 

 associations strongly favoring the movement. 



This laboratory is for the purpose of making 

 tests on commercial timbers with the idea of 

 definitely establishing their essential properties, 

 as to strength, stiffness and genera! durability 

 under all conditions of construction. The gov- 

 ernment has wood-testing laboratories at Yale 

 University, New Haven, Conn. ; Purdue Uni- 

 versity, Lafayette, Ind. ; at the University of 

 Washington, Seattle, and at the University of 

 California, Berkeley. The laboratories have al- 

 ready made a number of important tests. 



The meeting was held to discuss the question 

 of a national laboratory to be operated by the 

 Forest Service in cooperation with lumber manu- 

 facturers and users. Gifford Pinchot, Forester, 

 on request of the members of the conference, out- 

 lined the scope of investigation which such a 

 laboratory could cover, and showed the need of 

 cooperation between lumbermen and manufac- 

 turers and the forest administration. Two 

 points, he said, are absolutely necessary to con- 

 serve the timber resources of the United States : 

 one is the greater economy in the use of timber, 

 and the other is the conserving of present for- 

 est resources by elimination of waste, fire and 

 wrong methods of lumbering. 



William L. Hall, chief of the office of products, 

 Forest Service, pointed out that consumers de- 

 mand certain timbers regardless of their actual 

 litness and irrespective of the fact that other 

 and cheaper woods might answer the purpose 

 equally well. As a result of these traditional 

 prejudices many wrong practices exist in the 

 manufacture of wood products. "In order that 

 tin- Forest Service carry on the tests requested 

 by the lumbermen," said Mr. Hall, "the govern- 

 ment work should possibly be under the direc- 

 tion of a committee to supervise and put it on 

 practical lines, and to see that it is kept there." 



The delegates of the various associations 

 showed that the Forest Service's cooperation has 

 already helped their industry by pointing out 

 good substitutes for disappearing species and 

 establishing new uses for the less commonly 

 known woods. 



Tne members of the conference advocated the 

 presenlation of a bill in Congress, which they 

 will ursre their associations to heartily support, 

 to appropriate a necessary sum of money to 

 establish and equip a laboratory to make neces- 

 sary timber tests in the interest of the lumber 

 ami wood-using industries of the United States. 



The following resolution was adopted : 



"Resolved, That it is the unanimous sense of 

 this conference that a laboratory for testing the 

 strength and other characteristics of wood, and 

 for solving problems connected with its economic 

 use. is absolutely essential to the manufacturers 

 and users of forest products of this country; 

 that we ask these interests to petition Congress 

 for an appropriation of $200,000 to establish 



