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"Increased salps and got us in toueli witli a large assortment of 

 customers." 



"Has brought birch to attention of many unfamiliar with it. and in- 

 creased demand." 



"Our advertising brings us no results. We simply carry it as a 

 recognition of the value of service of lumber journals." 



To my mind, such information direct from our members proves con- 

 clusively that wo should start some systematic advertising, and I believe 

 that this can be done at a very small individual cost. I have only gone 

 into this in a general way, and do not think it should be dropped, but on 

 the other hand, would suggest going into an advertising campaign as soon 

 as it can be properly outlined. If this cannot be handled as an association 

 matter, I have no doubt but that it can be carried out by a number of our 

 members who are already greatly interested in the scheme. I feel, however, 

 that it certainly should be backed by the entire association membership, 

 as each and every one of them would reap their share of the benefits, 

 and the campaign would not be carried on by individuals and their 

 companies given prominence. M. P. McCdlloogh. 



Chairman advertising committee. 



The morning session closed with a discussion of the question of 

 general advertising. 



AFTEENOON SESSION 



The meeting ojiened with a report of the committee on grades 

 and information which told of the working on the general revision 

 of the present grading rules of the association. Regarding the 

 market conditions, the committee said that hardwood stocks are 

 pretty well cleaned up, with low-grades from one to two dollars 

 higher than during the winter. Box lumber is still further ad- 



vanced and hemlock lumber has enjoyed a two dollar increase in 

 price during the last ninety days, especially in lower Michigan 

 and Ohio Territory. 



A discussion of the prevention of forest fires brought out that 

 unless some action is taken by Wisconsin timber holders, legis- 

 lation on the subject inimical to the best interests of the Wiscon- 

 sin operators is likely at the next session of the Wisconsin legis- 

 lature. As an offset to such legislation, it was proposed to join the 

 Northftn Forest Protective Association, an organization that 

 has already proved of inestimable worth in the suppression of 

 forest fires and their prevention by means of efScieut patrols and 

 by a comprehensive system of education among all persons who 

 might be in the woods as settlers, operators, campers, etc. 



T. A. Green reviewed very vividly the work of the Northern 

 Forest Protective Association, after which a motion prevailed 

 instructing the secretary to arrange for a meeting in Wausau of all 

 the Wisconsin timber owners, with a view of meeting Thomas B. 

 Wyman of the Northern association and working out means of 

 spreading the good work of that organization through Wisconsin. 



A motion was then made and carried that the next meeting of 

 the association be held at Houghton, Mich., instead of at Mil- 

 waukee. This meeting will probably be held about the middle of 

 July. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



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Huntington as a Lumber Town 



The plentiful supply of cheap fuel, power and raw material, 

 makes Huntington, W. Va., an ideal center for manufacturers. 

 This is particularly true of those manufacturing industries which 

 use as raw material the products of the forest, for this city is so 

 situated as to be within easy call of the hardwood forests of 

 eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, West Virginia and western 

 Virginia. Situated as it is on the Ohio river, it has ideal water 

 transportation in addition to splendid facilities for shipping by 

 rail. The Ohio is an avenue of traffic for the Southwest to the 

 Cincinnati and Louisville markets, while from the Northeast tons 

 of freight are exported to and imported from Pittsburgh, Wheel- 

 ing and other points, at a very low cost. 



Huntington is fortunate in being located on three of the big 

 trunk lines of the country — the Norfolk & Western, the Ohio river 

 division of the Baltimore & Ohio, and the main line of the 

 Chesapeake & Ohio. Huntington depends upon the Norfolk & 

 Western for access to the agricultural territory north, and the 

 mining region to the south and east. This region offers a consum- 

 ing market for a great many lines of manufactured products, 

 including those of the forest. The Baltimore & Ohio, passing 

 northward and eastward through the territory along the Ohio, 

 and connecting with northern markets, is an important artery 

 which carries from Huntington a great deal of raw material and 

 finished products. The main line of the Chesapeake & Ohio opens 

 to Huntington the region of the New river and the Alleghany 

 mountains, and with It the immense Kanawha and New river coal' 

 fields. In addition, it connects directly with Cincinnati and 

 markets to the south and west. Its main branch lines tap the fast 

 developing timber and mineral territory. 



It is undoubtedly due to the excellent transportation facilities 

 and unusual opportunities for procuring fuel, labor and raw ma- 

 terial that Huntington has shown the remarkable development it 

 has during the last few years. It is a fact that in five years the 

 population of this progressive town has doubled, and now stands 

 at about 35,000. 



The development of the wood using industries in Huntington has 

 placed them foremost among the city's industrial enterprises. They 

 are represented by twenty -five to thirty concerns in good stand- 

 ing, which consume annually in the neighborhood of 16,000,000 

 feet of lumber. Of this approximately fifty per cent is pine and 



the remainder hardwood. The most important of the wood 

 consuming industries are the Baltimore & Ohio Railway ear shops, 

 at 'Which are manufactured a great many of the express cars and 

 some of the passenger cars used by this system. It is estimated 

 that this concern alone consumes 600,000 feet of lumber per month. 

 The American Car & Foundry Company was formerly a large 

 consumer of lumber at Huntington, but its plant is now confined 

 entirely to the production of steel cars, and it is using wood only 

 in minor details of car construction. The city boasts of two well- 

 equipped sawmill plants and a high-class veneer plant. Among 

 the other wood-working concerns are numbered table factories, 

 furniture factories, sash, door and blind factories, planing mills, 

 handle plants, a bung factory, which is the West Virginia branch 

 of the United States Bung Company and a plant of immense size, 

 wagon factories and car plants. 



There are eight concerns actively interested in the lumber busi- 

 ness in Huntington, and they ship their products over a large 

 territory in the eastern part of the country. They have the pick 

 of the choicest timber and a region which produces unequaled 

 hardwoods. Three of the companies are actively interested in 

 the manufacture of lumber either in Huntington or adjacent 

 country. These concerns are the Tug Eiver Lumber Company, the 

 Rock Castle Lumber Company and the C. L. Eitter Lumber Com- 

 pany, as a group, the D. E. Hewit Lumber Company and the 

 Peytona Lumber Company. Other active concerns in the trade at 

 Huntington are the Hutchinson Lumber Company, C. S. Brown, the 

 Wood Lumber Company and the R. P. Chambers Lumber Company. 



Huntington 's largest lumber interests are the associated Tug 

 River, Rock Castle and C. L. Eitter Lumber companies, whose 

 administrative oflSces are in the Frederick block in Huntington. 

 B. B. Burns is the active manager of the sales end of the business. 

 These allied interests handle almost entirely their own stock 

 manufactured at their own mills, although the.y do quite a little 

 wholesaling in oak and poplar. The mills are located in Virginia, 

 West Virginia and Kentucky. The three companies are of wide 

 prominence in the trade at large, and their ofiScers are prominent 

 in association work. 



The T>. E. Hewit Lumber Company is now actively engaged in 

 the manufacture of lumber in Huntington, having taken over the 

 Sliger mill in that city. This company recently purchased 17.500 



