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A Few Reasons Why The National Harl 



Our Inspection Service 



THE National Hardwood Lumber Assucialion. at the close of its cigluh fiscal year in May of 1905. and as 

 shown by the reports of its officers at the annual convention held in Buffalo, had 332 members and a force 

 of 14 Inspectors. Today, at the close of its seventeenth fiscal year, the Association has 900 members and 

 Its Inspection StafT numbers 70. While its INSPECTION SERVICE was the ORIGINAL BENEFIT of 

 membership and is still the CENTRAL F"EATURE of its work, the Association has. from time to time, added 

 other service benefits each having a definite practical value in itself and all of which have well demonstrated 

 this value. 



NATIONAL INSPECTION is now a STAPLE UTILITY of the Hardwood Industry and the reasons for 

 its being such stand out very clearly. This branch of the service with its corps of 70 INSPECTORS covers 

 the entire Hardwood field, and as OFFICIAL INSPECTION in order to be effective against the probabilities 

 of demurrage, deterioration and the other concomitants of delay must be prompt, it is manifestly well equipped 

 for action accordingly. 



A member of the National Hardwood Lumber Association has always at his command one or more com- 

 petent Inspectors in every market who look after his shipments and protect his interests with the same fidelity 

 as if carried on his personal pay-roll. Their work is constantly saving our members material sums of money. 

 In fact, it frequently happens that they save some member more than the cost of his yearly membership on the 

 inspection of a single shipment. The truth of this statement will be appreciated by those who have ever had a 

 car disputed at a destination several hundred miles distant and have sought to obtain a satisfactory adjustment 

 through their own direct efforts. Correspondence almost invariably only tends to further complicate the situa- 

 tion. Getting on the ground yourself or sending a representative there is a costly proceeding and even then, if a 

 settlement is thus secured, it is generally a compromise and anything but satisfactory. You may retain an 

 attorney, but that is the most expensive recourse of them all. It is impossible to estimate the amount of money 

 that our inspection work is saving to our members as a whole every year, strictly on the score of AVOIDED 

 LITIGATION. 



NATIONAL INSPECTION gives you immediate and reliable action at a nominal cost. It is accepted by 

 FAIR BUYERS everywhere as FINAL and its BONDED CERTIFICATE, backed by the financial guarantee 

 of the Association, safeguards both buyer and seller as strongly as the warehouse receipt does the operator in 

 grain, or the fire insurance policy the property owner. 



Our Reporting Service 



This department, while comparatively new. having been installed in January, 1913. has made a remarkable 

 record for itself and now ranks as one of the chief benefits of membership. Its functions are various and vital. 

 It is designed primarily to furnish our members with financial statements and lists of the lumber requirements of 

 the Hardwood consuming trade of the United States and Canada, but its possibilities go much further. Through 

 it a member can obtain, upon application, reliable information as to the financial status and the Hardwood 

 needs of any consumer in whom he may be interested. In this connection, it enables him to save a portion at 

 least of what he otherwise pays out for regular Commercial Agency service and the information that it gives him 

 goes far beyond anything that any of the regular Commercial Agencies have ever attempted. The same 

 department also furnishes our members with lists of the users of any certain kind of Hardwood in any certain 

 section or state. Again, in cases where members have blocks of stock they desire to market and will give us 

 specifications as to kinds, grades and thicknesses, we can, from our files, provide a list of responsible consumers 

 who are in immediate need of the stock they have to offer. This department also places before our members 



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