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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Furniture makers occasionally use the wood for narrow panels 

 where plain effect is all that is desired, for pecan has little figure. 

 It has well-marked annual rings, but the difference in color between 

 the bands of spring and summer wood is too slight to give much 

 contrast, even when stains and fillers are employed to heighten the 

 effect. 



The available supply is fairly large, and it will probably last 

 longer than the other hickories with which it is associated, for the 

 reason that it is not specially sought, but is taken only when 

 lumbermen find it convenient. 



Pecan culture is rapidly assuming considerable importance in 

 this country. The commercial growing of the pecan bearing hick- 

 ory is being worked out on a scientific basis, with the result 

 that the quality of the nut as well as the abundance of the crop 

 is constantly becoming more satisfactory. Pecan orchards are laid 



out symmetrically, the quality of the nuts being secured by 

 planting seeds from selected trees, or by grafting from trees 

 which are already bearing a high grade of nut. However, even 

 with the best methods, there is a great uncertainty in the quality 

 and quantity of crops, which results in a great deal of specula- 

 tion in the pecan market. The old methods of buying from the 

 owners of small lots of pecan trees, wherever the nuts are obtain- 

 able, is being supplanted by larger interests going into the field 

 on an extensive basis. This condition has already led to the intro- 

 duction in some instances of questionable financing of these propo- 

 sitions. Schemes have been promulgated similar to the manj' get- 

 rich-quick methods followed bj- some of the supposed introducers 

 of eucalyptus culture in California. But this condition is not at all 

 prevalent and an investment in pecans offers rather flattering 

 returns if backed and carried through by responsible people. 



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National Lumher l^frs* Assn. 



The tenth annual convention of the National Lumber Manufac- 

 turers' Association was held at the Sinton hotel, Cincinnati, O.. 

 on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 7 ^nd 8. The meeting was a 

 typical one of this important national organization, which, as is 

 well known, is the parent association of the various lumber manu- 

 facturing associations of the United States. Comprising its mem- 

 bership are the Northern Pine Manufacturers' Association, North- 

 ern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, Michigan 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, the Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers' Association of the United States, North Carolina Pine Asso- 

 ciation, Georgia-Florida Saw Mill Association, Yellow Fine Manu- 

 facturers' Association, Southern Cypress Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion, the Western Pine Manufacturers' Association and Pacific 

 Coast Sugar and White Pine Manufacturers' Association. 



Being a convention by delegates of comparatively limited num- 

 bers, the attendance was not large, but strictly representative of 

 the great lumber industry. 



President E. G. Griggs of Tacoma called the first session to 

 order at ten a. m., and after an invocation by Rev. Charles Fred- 

 erick Goss, appropriate addresses of welcome were made by W. E. 

 DeLaney, president of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, 

 and by Charles F. Shiels, the newly elected president of the Cin- 

 cinnati Lumbermen's Club. 



President Griggs made a brief response. 



The roll call of the associations showed that all the subsidiary 

 organizations involved were represented by from one to a dozen 

 delegates. 



President Griggs then presented his annual address, which is 

 herewith reproduced in full: 



President's Address 

 Tin yeais ago. on December 10. 19iiL>, this association was organized. 

 We are now celebrating its decennial and are confronted by so many 

 National problems that our future discloses opportunities more absorbing 

 than our past accomplishments. 



It must, indeed, be a source of gratification to the founders of this 

 association to realize the combined strength of its affiliated membership 

 and feel that as a national body we can claim presidential recognition, 

 senatorial courtesy and congressional investigation. Composed, as we now 

 are, of ne.trly a dozen affiliated associations of 1,000 members, and an an- 

 nual capacity of sixteen billion feet, we represent the combined capacity 

 of the lumber producing districts of the entire United States. 



When you realize that in 1910 the Bureau of Census compiled statistics 

 from 31,934 active sawmills, cutting 40,018,282,000 feet of lumber, 

 3,494,718,000 latb and 12,976,362,000 shingles, you begin to appreciate 

 what the Department of Commerce and Labor seems finally to have dis- 

 covered and so haltingly announces that here is no lumber trust. 



We have a business organization capable of doing what it has Inaugu- 

 rated in tbe past, a great national work in uplifting an industry that con- 

 cerns a vast army of employes and a wealth of raw product that affects 

 the entire country, federal and state alike. 



During the past year your president has been confronted with some 

 problems of membership, but I am pleased to report all have been satis- 

 factorily adjusted. The membership Is united and active. On the coast 



we have formed the West Coast Lumber Manufacturers' Association, ab- 

 sorbing three others, and vigorously supporting the National. There is 

 a confidence expressed throughout our membership in our honest efforts 

 to accomplish real beneficial results for the entire lumber fraternity. We 

 must look beyond the individual membership and compass in our work the 

 entire industry and even those outsiders who prey upon the combined 

 efforts of others, profiting but not subscribing. 



Radical steps were necessary during my mcumbency, but your board has 

 been unanimous in its recommendations and appreciative of the difficulties 

 encountered. I can only say that I bring you today a united organization, 

 linked together for the common good, and true to the principles that called 

 it into being. 



Associations of independent business organizations must of certainty 

 pass through travail and trial in meeting the problems of the day. If It 

 is awake and actively alive to the interests of its members it will make 

 itself felt. Its policies, laid down by its organizers and interpreted by its 

 board of governors, may not always be approved by the individual mem- 

 bership, but the work of the National association in its ten years has been 

 an epoch in association work and every member may feel proud of its 

 record. 



I can not censure too strongly the efforts of publicity seekers to foist 

 upon the public a misinterpretation of the work of the National, and a 

 narrowing of its efforts to the scope of the individual. 



If we as an association do not take up the cudgel and fight for our 

 rights, who in Heaven's name will: It we are to reward conscientious 

 individual effort toward the betterment of our associated condition with 

 censure and distrust, where can we look for sacrificing personality': The 

 success of this association is not determined by the men who occupy the 

 honorary positions, but by the confidence imposed in it by its entire mem- 

 bership. 



During the past year, and immediately on succeeding to the office of 

 president, I found it absolutely necessary to recommend to the board the 

 removal of tbe manager's headquarters to the West, where I could be in 

 close touch with the organization. At the end of a year, and by that same 

 authority invested in me by the board, after launching into the advertis- 

 ing campaign, and being unable to again meet with the board before this 

 annual meeting, I authorized Mr. Bronson to again establish his office In 

 Chicago, where he could conduct the association work and be in touch 

 with the advertising committee. 



I know the move has resulted in a strong supporting fiank on the West 

 coast, and not a little credit is due both the manager and our treasurer, 

 Mr. Freeman, for the attitude of the West coast manufacturers. 



The frequent exchange of ideas and the necessity of familiarizing the 

 National with the conditions and men in each component part is my rea- 

 son for insisting upon at least occasional visits to the different associa- 

 tions by our manager. 



There will be from time to time organizations and reorganizations, but 

 I trust the lumbermen will ever maintain that respect for the National 

 which it deserves and which is indicative of the character of tbe men who 

 founded it. No matter how strong, either financially or numerically, the 

 individual associations, there is still that great field in the National work 

 that can only be filled by the larger organization. Maintain it at all 

 hazards : it will prove its importance in the years to come, and it will 

 survive all the petty disturbances that the local associations must of 

 necessity inflict upon it. 



We are concerned in the welfare of an industry employing the largest 

 body of laborers in the United States, affecting the one asset in the coun- 

 try of which the government itself is the largest individual owner, 

 permeating in its ramifications all the conservation theories of the day 

 and controlling through its timbered area many irrigation problems, an 



