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experience and we believe that credit is due to 

 the present force for this condition of satisfac- 

 tion as weil as for the substantial gain indi- 

 cated by the figures pi-esented. 



Your' attention is further called to the fact 

 that the amount remitted the treasurer from the 

 inspection department during the past year 



O. E. YEAGEK. BUFFALO. DIRECTOR. 



shows an increase over the previous year's work 

 of considerably more than lotj per cent. 



EXHIBIT A. 



Report oii' the I.nspectiok Depaktjiext for 

 THE Ye.^r E.ndixg May 1. 1906, Which Was 



I'KKSEXTED at Ml'J.MPHIS, Texx. 



Salary and expense of sal- 

 aried inspectors $ 12,001.12 



Fees received and due 



from salaried inspectors. $10, 449.58 



Fees received and due from 



fee inspectors 2.948.13 



Total .113,397.71 



Salary and expense of 



surveyor general .$ 4,294.36 



I-ess traveling expense 



paid by members 423.20— .$ 3.S71.28 



Total $15,872.28 



Less fees 1 3,397.71 



Total cost to association $ 2.474.57 



EXHIBIT B. 

 Report oi-' the lN.spt:cTiox Departme.xt for 



Year Exriixr, May 1, 1907. 

 Sal. and exp. of salaried 



insp's. inc. chief ins. . $28,995.85 



Fees and exp. rec'd and 



due from sal. insp's. . . .$23,008.08 

 Fees rec'd and due from 



fee inspector 3,042.06 



Reinspection tees 979.01 — 27,029.75 



Excess of disburseeients over fees 



earned $ 1,966.10 



W. W. Knight. Chairman. 



President Russe — That only took six minutes. 

 The Inspection Rules Committee is not ready to 

 report, but if we can get the reports of the For- 

 estry and Transportation Committees, let's do 

 that. 



Mr. Wall here read his report as follows : 



Report of Committee on Forestry. 



To the president and members of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association : Your 

 committee in submitting its report for the cur- 

 rent year begs to state that it has been in cor- 

 respondence and lield conferences with the for- 

 estr.v bureau at Washington, the forestry com- 

 mission of the states of New York, Tennsylvania, 

 California and other commonwealths, and has 

 done as much as lay in its power to get com- 

 prehensive information regarding the matter of 

 stumpage in the United States, to learn of 

 plans for reforestation, to know the best meth- 

 ods of preventing disastrous forest fires and to 

 determine the solution of practical forestry. 



Your committee, as a result of its investiga- 

 tions, begs to urge that it remains for the gen- 

 eral government and the government of the sev- 

 eral states to pass proper laws to protect the 

 present stumpage. 



If there is to be any hardwood lumber in the 



United States after the next thirty-flve years, 

 it will only be by means of federal and state 

 legislation "because the standing timber is being 

 rapidly depleted by the saw and by forest fires 

 and wilful waste. 



The United States Forest Service in a paper 

 on "Forestry and Irrigation," in April of the 

 current year, says : "Data upon the output of 

 the forests in 19t.)G are now being rapidly col- 

 lected by the forest service in co-operation with 

 the Bureau of Census. Figures upon the rate of 

 growtli of the commercial valuable species are 

 being gradually collected and tabulated for us, 

 so that before long it will be possible to say 

 what the annual increment should be in typical 

 forests throughout the L'nited States." 



Tliere have been but two attempts made by 

 the Kiu'eau of Census, in ISSO and 190(1. to 

 tabulate the stumpage of this country. What is 

 needed is an accurate determination of our 

 forest resources based upon thousands of cruis- 

 ings or forest surveys. This is an immense piece 

 of work, formidable more because of its magni- 

 tude than its difficulty. The machinery for it 

 alread.v exists in the Bureau of the Census and 

 the Forest Service. Let congress provide the 

 means and give authority to do the work and it 

 can be speedily accomplished. The proper time 

 is tliat of the next decennial census in 1910. and 

 your committee urges upon the members of the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association to use 

 ever.v means in their power to invoke their con- 

 gressmen, senators and state legislatures, to 

 have this most necessary census made. 



rennsylvauia is taking active steps to estab- 

 lish what is known as auxiliary forest reserves. 

 Several bills were introduced in the legislature 

 and ultimately were referred back to the For- 

 estry Committee. One act provides that no 



C. II. BARNABY, GREENCASTLE, IND., DI- 

 RECTOR. 



lands so certified as auxiliary forest reserves 

 shall be assessed in excess of $1 per acre for 

 the purpose of taxation. Another act provides 

 that the state should pay to municipalities an 

 annual charge of one cent per acre and to the 

 school districts an annual charge of 2 cents per 

 acre on all auxiliary forest reserves situated 

 within their respective limits. 



Your committee begs to state that it believes 

 some such legislation as introduced in Pennsyl- 

 vania for the protection of auxiliary forest re- 

 serves, should be passed by the legislatures of 

 every commonwealth in the United States. 



It is important that new methods be used for 

 the cutting of hardwood lumber, so that the 

 enormous wastes will be curtailed to the min- 

 imum and also that active steps be taken toward 

 iiuniediate reforestation. On the basis that there 

 remains so little hardwood stumpage in the 

 cf-untry, it is an easy matter to see that unless 

 suiue radical action is taken and both state and 

 national government encourage the replanting of 

 our forests, the hardwood lumber industry will 

 all too soon become a thing of the past. 



Last year your committee urged that state 

 legislative bodies and the American congress be 

 petitioned for the enactment of the following 

 laws : 



First. To relieve for a long period of years 

 lands owned by individuals which shall be devoted 

 to forest growth under practical supervision. 



Second. To provide legislation that shall in- 

 sure individual timber owners protection from 

 fire and depredation. 



Third. That the several states shall take up, 

 in a comprehensive and practical way. the re- 

 jilanting of lands, undesirable for agriculture, to 

 timber. 



Fourth. That national legislation be invoked 

 to prohibit the exportation of logs. 



We again urge that legislation such as indi- 

 cated should be passed, and your committee begs 

 to insist that every means possible be taken to 

 induce the federal government to make a census 

 of the stumpage of the United States. 



M. M. Wall, Chairman. 



The report was enthusiastically received. 



Mr. Palmer moved that the two reports, viz., 

 those of the Inspection Bureau and Forestry 

 Committees, be accepted. Motion seconded and 

 agreed to. 



Mr. Lloyd — Before we adjourn I want to call 

 the attention of the members to two or three 

 points. One is relative to railroad certificates, 

 which should be left at the gate as you go out. 

 .\Iso, will those members having their families 

 with them please be sure and tell them of the 

 entertainment tonight? The entertainment will 

 be right here. The gentlemen's entertainment 

 will be a smoker at the Hotel Rtidolph, three 

 blocks up the Board Walk. [Applause.] 



The convention here adjourned until 2 :;W 

 p. m. 



THURSDAY ATTERNOON SESSION. 



The convention was called to order by Presi- 

 dent Russe at 3 p. m. 



President Russe — We will now have the re- 

 port of the Transportation Committee. 



Report of Transportation Committee. 



To the National Hardwood Lumber Associa- 

 tion — Gentlemen : This Transportation Commit- 

 tee was appointed a year ago for the purpose of 

 attempting to secure a reduction in the west- 

 bound rate from the central states and Missis- 

 sippi river territory to the Pacific coast. This 

 rate was 85 cents per hundred pounds, while 

 the railroads were making the same haul east- 

 bound on coast products at as low a rate as 40 

 cents. Your committee co-operated with an- 

 other committee of the National Lumber Manu- 

 facturers' Association, consisting of Mr. Arpin, 

 Mr. Shaw and Mr. Ransom, who were appointed 

 for the same purpose. We met in Chicago on 

 .lune G. and again on ,luly 16 to 18. when we 

 were given a hearing by the Transconnnental 

 I'reight Bureau. The matter was argued by each 

 member of the committee, but a week later we 

 were notified that the request had been denied. 

 A fourth meeting was held on August 16 and 

 the matter was taken up with various western 

 trunk lines but, up to this time, we have been 

 unsuccessful in securing a reduction in the rate. 



Your committee also filed with the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission a protest against the re- 

 duction, by ten days, of the time allowed at 

 New Orleans for unloading export pnxlucts and 

 another against the advance in rates to eastern 

 points to take effect .Tune 1. 



THEO. FATHAUER, CHICAGO, DIRECTOR. 



We regret that more has not been accom- 

 plished, but we have kept in touch with matters 

 pertaining to transportation, etc., and feel that 

 we have accumulated some information that 

 may be used for the benefit of all members in 

 the future. Respectfully submitted, 



O. O. Agler, 



J. M. Pritchard, 



G. J. Laxdeck. 



