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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Pacific Coast Freight Bate. 



R. H. Vansant then offered a resolution 

 protesting against the unjust rate to the 

 Pacific coast, which was adopted as herewith 

 given: 



Whereas. The transcontiDental lines are now 

 charging and receiving So cents per cwt. on 

 lumber from Chicago and common points to 

 Pacific coast points ; and 



Whereas, This excessive and unjust rate al- 

 lows the importation of hardwoods from Japan. 

 Australia. Kussia and other Asiatic countries, 

 to the exclusion of the hardwoods native to the 

 central districts of the United States, and has 

 never been justified in an.v manner whatsoever ; 

 and. 



Whereas. The average rate on forest products 

 in hardwoods from the east being carried by 

 the railroads to the Pacific coast market is 

 70 per cent higher than the rate on forest prod- 

 ucts carried by the same railroads from the same 

 territory west to the same territory east:. there- 

 fore, be it 



Resolved, By the National Lumber Manufac- 

 turers' Association, in convention assembled, 

 that we protest against this excessive and un- 

 fair west bound rate, which prohibits the sale 

 vif native hardwoods on the Pacific coast (ex- 

 cepting in limited (juantitiesi : and be it further 



Resolved, That a committee of three be ap- 

 pointed by the president of tliis association to 

 take this "matter up at once with the transcon- 

 tinental freight bureau (and its allied lines in- 

 dividually) and secure justice for this important 

 branch of the Iuml>er industry, which will enable 

 the hardwood manufacturers of the Mississippi 

 valley and Lake Michigan districts to sell their 

 products in competition with imported hard- 

 woods on the Pacific coast. 



Election of Officers. 



Election of officers followed the reports of 

 the various committees and resulted as fol- 

 lows : 



President — Wm. Irvine. Chippewa Falls, Wis. 

 Vice-President — R. A. Long, Kansas City. Mo. 

 Treasurer — .1. A. Frfeman, St. Louis, Mo. 

 Secretary — Geo. K. Smith, St. Louis, Mo. 



.Board of Directors Appointed. 



Boll call of the affiliated associations for 



the purpose of receiving nominations to the 



Board of Directors resulted in the following 



selections : 



Wm. B. Stillwell, Savannah, (ia., representing 

 Georgia Interstate Sawmill Association. 



E. (_'. Fosburgb. Xorfolk. Va., representing 

 North Carolina Pine Association. 



J. H. White. Kansas City, Mo., representing 

 Yellow Pine Manufacturers' Association. 



Edward Mines. Chicago. 111., representing 

 Northern Pine Manufacturers' Association. 



Wm. Wilms. Chicago. 111., representing Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Asscfciation of the United 

 States. 



E. (i. (iriggs. Tacoma. Wash., representing 

 Pacific Coast Lumber Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion, 



A. R. Week. Stevens Point. Wis., representing 

 Northwestern Hemlock Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion. 



.1. A. Vaness. Winlock, Wash., representmg 

 Sioithwestern Washington Lumber Manufac- 

 turers' Associatinn. 



(Jeo. E. Foster. Mellen. Wis., representing Wis- 

 consin Hardwood Lumbermen's Association. 



li. H. Downman. New Orleans. La., represent- 

 ing Southern Cypress Manufacturers" Associa- 

 tion. 



After eloquent addresses on the subject of 

 endowing the proposed chair of forestry by 

 J. B. White, R. A. Long, Edward Hines aiTd 

 others, the meeting adjourned. 



The next annual will be held at Norfolk, 

 Va. 



District Meetings HardWood M^^u= 

 facturers' Association. 



Lewis Doster of the Hardwood .Mauufacturers' 

 Association Is campaigning the country very 

 generally, organizing local hardwood manufac- 

 turers into district organizations affiliated with 

 the big association of which he is secretary. 

 New Orleans Meeting. 



A meeting of the hardwm d producers of Lou- 

 isiana was held at the St. Charles Hotel. New 

 Orleans, on Thursday, May 17. for the purpose 

 of discussing matters of sectional interest, and 

 taking action to improve conditions that are 

 now inimical to the success of the hardwood 

 industry in the state. 



Tlii-re ui'ii' prcsi'Ut Samuid Hopper. Samuel 

 Hopper & Sou. Raton Rouge ; W. E. Hoshall, 

 ' Iloshall & McDonald Bros., Eola : E. T. Miller, 

 McDonald Bros.. Macland : II. A. Joyner, Boyce 

 Realty Company, Boyce : Jas. II. Haird. Southern 

 Lumberman. Nashville, Tenn. ; James Bo.vd. Lum- 

 l)er Trade Journal. New Orleans ; W. E. Barns, 

 St. Louis Lumberman. St. Louis. Mo. : W. C. 

 Wright. Lumber Trade Journal. New Orleans : 

 Lewis Doster. sei-retary Hardwood Manufactur- 

 ers' Association. Chicago. 



Samuel Hopper acted as chairman of the meet- 

 ing and James Boyd secretary in accordance with 



the action taken at the meeting held on April 27. 



The session was called to order by the chair- 

 man, who "stated that the purpose of the meet- 

 ing was to consider the conditions surrounding 

 hardwood production in Louisiana, and to take 

 steps toward forming a state organization for 

 the betterment of the industry. 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, outlined the plan of 

 procedure entered into by other state organiza- 

 tions recently formed. 



(3ther topics were discussed by those present, 

 covering the subjects of grading and manufac- 

 ture, and all were very much interested in the 

 matter of forming a state organization. One 

 topic which was given especial attention, out- 

 side of the organization plan, was that portion 

 of the governor's message in which he recom- 



LUMBERMEN ASIIEVIl.l.E DISTRICT MEET INC AT SWANNANOA COUNTRY CLUB. 



mended that laws I- passed which would pro- 

 hibit the removal oi logs in the rough from the 

 state, on the grounds that the l)est interests of 

 Louisiana required that all lumber cut in the 

 state should be manufactured within its limits. 



It was decided at this gathering that a future 

 meeting should be arranged for, either at Alex- 

 andria or Monroe, to which all manufacturers 

 of hardwood should be invited. It was not 

 definitely determined at which place this meet- 

 ing will be held, but this will be decided later. 

 The date for such meeting was suggested as 

 June 27. 



At this future meeting plans will be outlined 

 more definitely for the formation of a state 

 organization of Louisiana hardwood manufac- 

 turers, with the idea of developing the interests 

 of the state in the matter of hardwood produc- 

 tion, manufacture, etc. 



Coming Meetings. 



The very successful meeting held a few weeks 

 ago at Asheville is to be followed by another 

 gathering of hardwood operators of that district 

 on Saturday, May 26. G. Leidy Wood, manager 

 of the R. E. Wood Lumber Company's hardwood 

 manufacturing enterprises in eastern Tennessee 

 and western North Carolina, is very prominent 

 in this movement. 



On Saturday, June 2, a district meeting of 

 hardwood manufacturers doing business at 

 Charleston, W. Va., and vicinity, will be held 

 in that city. 



On Saturday. June 0. the hardwood manu- 

 facturers of Arkansas will bold a similar meet- 

 ing under the auspices of the Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association at Hot Springs. 



Another meeting is planned for Missouri hard- 

 wood manufacturers at some point, to be de- 

 termined upon later, which will be held about 

 the middle of June. 



