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This is the first instance I know of where insurance was taken for such 

 a purpose, and it is but another indication of the upward movement 

 toward eventually establishing suitable rates of insurance for standing 

 timber." 



CORRESPOXDENCE WITH THE PRESIDENT 



One of the most interesting features of the work of the year has 

 been the effort to obtain from the Xational Department of Commerce and 

 Labor a report on its investigation of the lumber business. A letter to 

 the President of the United States was prepared, submitted to the 

 Board of Governors for their approval, and, as finally revised, was 

 mailed to the President on Dec. 14, last. Response was made by the 

 President on Feb. 2. 1012. 



After President Taft had given permission to make it public, it was 

 sent out by the Associated Press with a news summary, which summary 

 was used by many of the daily papers in different parts of the country. 

 About one thousand copies of the summary and correspondence were thus 

 distributed. The United Press also sent out a briefer summary. 



On publication of this matter the United Press had a brief interview 

 with Commissioner Herbert Knox Smith of the Bureau of Corporations, 

 reported in the following dispatch : 



Washington. D. C, April 5.— Complete ignorance of a combine to con- 

 trol ?heh,raber manufacturing industry is expressed Ij^'.todayb.v Herbert 

 Knox Smith, commissioner of Corporations, in reply to the demand of the 

 National Lumber Manufacturers' Association to publish the result of his 

 invcS;i"atiin of the alleged lumber trust. Smith said : ■'As far as we 

 have feen ab"e to ascertain, no group of individuals control, dominate 

 Sr influence to anv great extent the lumber manutacturing mdustry. 

 However there are a few individuals who, to a certain extent, appear to 

 control the standing timber." 



Sax Francisco Exposition 



The great exposition of 1915 at San Francisco will give a chance to 

 demonstrate to the people of this country the utility of wood and it 

 seems to many that it is an advertising opportunity that should not be 



neglected. . ^ * *..,• 



A tentative proposition has been made on the Pacific coast to this 

 effect : That each of five western lumber states should have a building 

 showing its particular products in the most attractive way. 



Another suggestion, which seems to meet with favor on the Pacific 

 coast, surrenders their particular advantage in favor of a national 

 exhibit under the leadership of the National Lumber Manufacturers 

 Association. ^ ^ i. 



Whatever is to be done along this line should be set on foot, perhaps 

 authority being given to the advertising committee to handle it or 

 some special committee being appointed to co-operate with the adver- 

 tising committee. . 



Manager Bronson closed with a discussion of the desirability and 

 best methods of promoting the proposed Forest Products Exposition. 

 He h^'^ilY endorsed the idea and said that it should be flnancialLv 

 backed by the lumber trade itself, employing competent men to carry it 

 out. 



Secretary George K. Smith of St. Louis presented his report, 



which follows: 



Eeport of Secretary Geo. K. Smith 



.MEMBERSHIP 



The membership at the end of the fiscal year, March 31, 1912 consists 

 of twelve associations with members and yearly production a^ j^o[^°^j\g 



No En- Ap- 



. .. „ Members Production. titled, pointed. 



Association. .uemueia. R.,Vjnnnonn 9 s 



Western Pine Mfrs Assn . . ^ 44 6-0,000,000 . 



Southern C.vpress Mtrs. Assn. . .51 ooo.-«,^-o o 



Hardwood Mfrs. Assn ot C. S - .230 S54'o397i2 6 6 



Michigan Hardwood Mfrs. Assn.. b4 rooooOOOO 9 9 



Northern Hemlock & Hdw. Assn. . 83 5^V'S2?'g74 i? .. 17 



Northern Pine Mfrs. Assn 40 l',^2i'5Si'oi5 43 43 



Yellow Pine Mfrs. Assn 24o -^-Sf |-29§-2i| Jg lo 



North Carolina Pine Assn .3 o Uq's?!' OOO 24 IS 



West Coast Lbr. Mfrs. Assn. ... .139 -JS^'S^'XXX 4 1 



Pacific Coast Sugar & W. P. Assn 14 l^J'SSS'^se 6 6 

 Georgia-Florida Sawmill Assn... 16 i{_2,04.,4ot) o 



Redwood Manufacturing Assn 20 ^o report. 



1,079 11,589,003,459 145 132 



statistical department 



Since June 1 1911. there has been issued monthly a report entitled 



"Production an^ Movement of Lumber." It contains reports from .ipprox- 



imately seven hundred sawmills, located in twenty-two states. 



Summary of Cut and Shipments and Production Below Normal for Ten 



Months, June, 1911, to March, 1912, I?^clusi;/^: ^^^ ^^^^ 



^l"?!?'- reomlfog Cut Shipments. shipned. shipped. 



1911. repo.ting -^qoo 549,500,000 64.000.000 



Tn?v ""■40s .539 100 000 499,600,000 39,500.000 



iu4st"" 545 •796,100,000 769,100.000 27,000,000 •■;•-•■ •^;- 



SeD°tember' "557 781500 000 786,200,000 o:^-4^R'^^^ 



pllfr..::hhj. 9io.sno,oao |j^g«K,^ ::::::::::: i^i:iSS:^^S 



^TcZr/r ::i4i ok:;;;;:;:- lo|o,ooo m-ioaooo 



March .:.. 679 823.400.000 953.700,000 130.,300.00 



~^1 7 "56 oooTlOO 7.712,000,000 130.500,000 580..-:;00.000 

 Excess shlpments'3ver cut, 456,000,000 feet, or 6.28 per cent. 



Production below rated capacity of the 591 mills reporting cut and 

 shipment : 



June, 1911 276,163.000 



July 286.4112, .-,110 



August -iu-t..-'.ir,,(iii(i 



September 34."..4.".T..".i.iO 



October :.:.'. ^:<':.'^i»t 



Novemlier ;.,::;;, .,4 , .-''to 



December n'.ic.TmiiiuO 



Januarv, 1912 712,057,000 



February 500,047,000 



March " 514,247,500 



4,827,074,000 feet or 39.95% 

 Only one-third of the mills on our mailing list have reported their cut 

 and shipments. If this statistical work is continued it should be sup- 

 ported by every manufacturer who is requested to send in his monthly 

 report. 



An interesting comparison of stocks on hand at the same 609 mills at 

 three different periods has also been compiled, and is submitted herewith : 

 Comparison of Stocks on Hand July 1, 1911, Jan. and Apr. 1, 1912. 

 Hated Yearly Stock on Hand. 



No daily normal Feet in millions and tenths, 



mills cap. ft. prod, based July 1, Jan. 1. AR^o"^' 



reptg. in. M.on 275 days. 1911. 1912. 1912. 



Alabama .... 39 2.390 657.3 69.9 ^63.9 60.I 



Arkansas ... 49 3.853 1.059.6 246.0 239.6 228.3 



California .. 11 841 231.3 78.6 96.8 8..3 



Ga.-Florida.. 23 1.565 430.4 62 o7.0 oS.4 



Idaho 16 2,575 708.1 360.9 44o.4 362.3 



Indiana 4 34 14.9 6.6 i-i 8.2 



Kentucky"" * 110 30.3 21.5 18.5 16.0 



Louisiana '.".■.lOS 9.880 3,717.0 791.0 673.2 654.S 



Michigan 37 2,996 824.0 308.2 288.1 328.8 



Minnefota •.-.■. U JsSO 1,328.1 493.6 591.5 47S.S 



Mississippi .. 49 3,775 1,038.1 161.9 149.6 139.8 



Mo.-Oklahoma. 10 590 162.3 54.o 49..D 47.8 



rSina" I rst l$l ^ : ^ll 11 



B^.:A f ilf M M f 

 Sr-^-ii € ^'il ill :p ;i 



wSSwngtin . 77 8,215 2,259.0 509.5 o37.4 494.1 



Wisconsin ... 58 5,067 1.393.4 _' l^j*^ 6^0.8 Mb.i 



60i "56,182 15.450.1 4.496.5 4,538.9 4,188.5 



'''^* i!lfriulv°l'*T9V'°- '■ '*""• '?'.f°T.'.''^ 42,400,000 ft., or .9% 



'"'' wftTfuly'? f9Tf -"^^ '• '^''■.''.?°'°.'."''%08,000,000ft..or6.8% 

 ^•''t deerease in- stocky Apr. 1, 1912, ^s compared^.^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^ 



Stock on hind" Jul.v"i."l9il, 29.1% of yearly normal Production. 

 Stock on hand Jan. 1. 1912. 29.4% of yearly normal product on. 

 S?o?k oS haSd Apr. 1, 1912'. 27.1% of .yearly normal production 



Mill average-July 1,1911 :;:;:::":::: 7;t65;296 ": 



Apr' 1' 191^ ■.".;■.'." 6.SS8.980 ft. 



The manager handles the other departments of this association and the 

 work done through them will be covered in his report. 



The president read a telegram from George B. Shaw of Eau 

 '■■'ciaire, Wis., announcing the death of his uncle, Eugene Shaw. 

 Resolutions of respect were immediately prepared and by rising 

 vote unanimously passed. 



Invitation was received from the Convention Bureau of St. Louis 

 asking that that city be honored with the next meeting of the 

 association. This matter was referred to the board of managers. 



President Griggs then announced the appointment of committees. 



J. B. White, chairman of the conservation committee, n'ade an 

 exhaustive and interesting report on the subject of conservation, 

 in which he stated that he was a good deal discouraged with this 

 movement and believed that forest conservation presented very 

 little allurement for the individual at the present time. 



Charles A. Bigelow, acting on behalf of the committee having in 

 charge a memorial for the late J. E. Defebaugh, reported that the 

 committee had purchased and placed in the Forty-first Street Pres- 

 byterian Church of Chicago a memorial window in memory of Mr. 

 Defebaugh. The report was accepted and the committee received 

 the thanks of the association. 



A paper followed, covering a report of the workmen's compensa- 

 tion committee, by Paul E. Page of Buckley, Wash., which is 

 herewith reproduced in part: 



Report of Workmen's Compensation Committee 



As a report from the workmen's compensation committee I herewith 

 tender an explanation of the Washington compensation act. I have gone 

 into considerable detail in order that our members might understand the 

 act thoroughly. „ „ , r _k„. 



In Januarv. 1910. at its annual meeting, the Pacific Coast Lumber 

 Alanufacturers- Association passed a resolution deploring the conditions 

 which existed through lack of adequate laws governing industrial ac- 

 cidents, condemning the methods of the emplo.vers' liability companies and 



