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HARDWOOD RECORD 



ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 



The president, vice-presidents, treasurer and 

 board of directors shall be elected bv ballot at 

 each annual meeting and they shall continue 

 In office for the term of one year, or until 

 their successors are elected and qualified. 



In case of vacancies on the board or in any 

 of the official positions the same shall be filled 

 by the executive board at any meeting. 



MEETINGS. 



Meetings shall be called from time to time 

 in various sections of the state agreed upon by 

 the executive board at the request of those in 

 terested in the development of the association 

 work. 



EXECUTIVE BOARD. 



The executive board shall exercise all the 

 power of the board of directors at all times 

 when the board of directors is not in session. 



OFFICIAL HEADQUARTERS. 



The Official headquarters of this association 

 shall be located at Cadillac, Mich. 



BY-LAWS. 



1. Order of business : 

 Roll call. 



Heading of minutes of last meeting. 



Enrollment of new members. 



Reports of secretary and treasurer. 



Reports of committees. 



General business. 



Election of officers (at annual meeting). 



Selection of location for next meeting. 



2. The board of directors shall make such 

 additional bylaws and rules for the transaction 

 of the business of this association as they mav 

 deem its development to require, and Ave of such 

 directors shall constitute a quorum for the 

 transaction of business at any meeting. 



3. Absent members of this association may 

 be represented and vote by proxy given in writ- 

 ing to any member of the association, or to any 

 employe of said firm or company, provided that 

 no person shall vote more than two proxies be- 

 sides that of the firm or company of which he 

 shall be a member or employe. The secretary 

 of any regular meeting shall make a register 

 of all those present entitled to vote, with a 

 record of the proxies held, and the number of 

 votes entitled to be cast by each individual pres- 

 ent. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Wm. H. White, 

 E. Fitzgerald, 

 R. J. Clark. 

 S. G. MoClellan, 

 Hbnry Ballou. 



Mr. White : Gentlemen, you have heard the 

 report. What will you do with it? 



Mr. Mitchell : I move that the report be 

 accepted and adopted. 



This motion being duly seconded, it was put 

 to vote and carried. 



Election of Officers. 



Mr. White : iou will notice, gentlemen, that 

 this report calls for election of officers. 



A motion was made by Mr. Dunton, seconded 

 and carried to the effect that a committee of 

 three be appointed to select such names for 

 officers and directors as they deemed desirable, 

 for presentation to the meeting. The chairman 

 appointed as such committee Messrs. Clark. 

 Gnstine and Martin, who after due deliberation 

 presented their selection as follows : 



President, William H. White. 



First vice-president, W. W. Mitchell. 



Second vice-president. R. Hanson. 



Treasurer, D. F. Diggins. 



Board of directors, H. Ballou. Cadillac : R. E. 

 McLean, Wells ; G. Von Platen. Boyne City : 

 R. G. Peters, Eastlake ; C. A. Bigelow, Bay City ; 

 W. L. Martin, Cheboygan : S. G. McClellan, Sim- 

 mons ; D. H. Day, Glen Haven ; H. A. Batchelor, 

 Saginaw : R. J. Clark, Sault Ste. Marie ; E. 

 Fitzgerald, Cadillac; H. M. Loud, Au Sable. 



The committee further recommended the adop- 

 tion of the following resolutions : 1. That the 

 president appoint at this meeting the standing 

 committees provided for in the report of the 

 committee on organization. 2. That the presi- 

 dent and first and second vice-presidents act as 

 the executive board. 3. That suggestions be re- 

 quested from all members as to the proper per- 

 son to be selected for the position of secretary 

 of the association. 



Mr. Clark : I move that the secretary pro 

 tem be instructed to cast the unanimous vote of 

 this meeting for the officers suggested, and that 

 the resolntions be adopted. 



Duly seconded and carried. 



Chairman White then appointed the commit- 

 tees as follows : 



Grading committee : Wm. H. White, Henry 

 Ballou, R. J. Clark, G. Von Platen, C. A. Bige- 

 low, Fred A. Diggins, D. H. Day, A. F. Ander- 

 son, Bert Cook. 



Committee on market conditions : Bruce 

 Odell, H. M. Loud, W. L. Martin, A. W. Newark, 

 John S. Weidman, S. G. McClellan, E. C. Rlist, 

 C. L. Hull, F. L. Richardson. 



Mr. White : I have looked over the geo- 

 graphical situation of the lumber interests in 

 our state and have selected these men accord- 

 ingly, so that each town and locality is repre- 

 sented and we hope to get them all out for the 

 next meeting. 



I wish to' thank yuu for the honor bestowed 

 upon me here today, gentlemen. I am a very 

 busy man, but I am much interested in this 



work and in hardwood manufacture, and will 

 do all I possibly can ; but I want the coopera- 

 tion of every manufacturer here and everyone 

 who joins this association. I would not have 

 taken hold of this matter, but for the promise 

 that Mr. Mitchell here, would be vice-president. 

 He is really the logical man to be president of 

 this body, for be is a larger manufacturer than 

 I am. but he is naturally a little modest, and 

 he pushed me to the front, and so — as I am 

 .somewhat susceptible to flattery — I took it. I 

 think we should have another meeting as soon 

 as possible and would like to have the matter 

 talked over and decided upon. 



After some discussion it was agreed to hold 

 the next meeting at the John Jacob Astor House, 

 Island of Mackinac, Wednesday, August 8, at 

 10 a. m. 



On motion the meeting adjourned. 



Meeting National dissociation of 

 Hicliory Consumers. 



Thirty very earnest men met in the Red Room 

 of the Cataract Hotel, Niagara Fails, N. T., 

 on July 13, to take up a question which con- 

 cerns the very existence of the vast industry 

 they represented, and which is of vital moment 

 to the welfare of the whole country. Those 

 present represented the principal consumers of 

 hickory in the country, manufacturers of vehicle 

 Woodstock, carriages, wagons, agricultural im- 

 plements, etc. The supply of hickory timber in 

 this country has been practically exhausted, and 

 it is stated that in a dozen years or so the ve- 

 hicle and allied interests, and all the industries 

 dependent on such manufactures, will be crip- 

 pled, as there has as yet been no substitute for 

 hickory found, either in this country or else- 

 where. 



The meeting was the result of some good work 

 undertaken of late by a few members of the 

 hickory trade, led by John W. Herron of the 

 Royer Wheel Co., Cincinnati, 0., and O. B. Bannis- 

 ter of tV Muncie Wheel Co., Muncie, Ind., who 

 had formed themselves into an informal committee 

 and sent letters broadcast among hickory con- 

 sumers. Some branches of the industry are 

 organized, some are not, and it was found that 

 there are about fourteen divisions of hickory 

 consumers. One of the first steps taken at the 

 meeting was to form a general committee com- 

 posed of representatives of each of these divi- 

 sions to take up the work of furthering the hick- 

 ory interests of the country. Mr. Herron wan 

 chosen chairman of the meeting and Mr. Ban- 

 nister secretary. 



It was very gratifying to find so numerous 

 and enthusiastic an attendance and it was felt 

 that but for an unfortunate conflict in dates — 

 there being a meeting of Michigan hardwood 

 manufacturers at Ottawa Beach on the same 

 day — there would have been a much larger at- 

 tendance. There were close to a hundred let- 

 ters of regret sent in, all expressing the utmost 

 concern for the future of hickory and promising 

 the promptest cooperation in whatever should 

 be done. 



One of the principal objects of the meeting 

 was to enlist the aid of the government forestry 

 experts. Several were present and gave very 

 valuable talks. A very interested attendant was 

 Prof. Golden of Purdue University, which insti- 

 tution it is expected will take an active part in 

 the work. 



After reading the letters from those unable 

 to attend. Chairman Herron called on Wm. L. 

 Hall of the Forest Service to give an outline 

 of government work along this line. Mr. Herron 

 said that it had been estimated that the in- 

 terests represented at the meeting were using 

 about 250,000,000 feet of hickory annually, and 

 that every serious-minded man connected with 

 the industry was convinced that before long 



some other wood would have to be used in ii'a » 

 of hickory, and yet so far there had been ]. j 

 substitute found for it. 



Mr. Hall, however, did not favor the idea of 

 substitution. He stated that there was really 

 no other wood to take its place entirely, al- 

 though some might be found to fill certain uses 

 very well. He mentioned only the eucalyptus of 

 southern California as a possibility, and said 

 that even the substitution of metals was quite 

 impractical. At the same time, hickory stump- 

 age is rapidly being diminished. It is not 

 known exactly bow much there is now, as it is 

 so widely scattered, but certain it is that the 

 supply is very limited and the question of who 

 is to take up the problem and solve it is one 

 that demands prompt attention. Mr. Hall 

 stated that the government has gone into timber 

 raising and has large reserves, but so far very 

 little but the soft woods have been considered. 

 A hardwood reserve has not been provided. An 

 effort has been made to secure an appropriation 

 to establish a reserve for hardwoods In the .\p- 

 palachians of I'ennsylvanla, but the bill has 

 only passed the senate. In the end from .$12,- 

 000,000 to $15,000,000 would be needed. He 

 said that there was a great area of land in 

 Pennsylvania suitable for hickory raising, and 

 that Ohio and Indiana came next in availabil- 

 ity, but he did not favor the Adirondack region 

 of New York. Mr. Hall's conclusion was that 

 while the government would undoubtedly take 

 steps in the matter in time. Immediate measures 

 were absolutely necessary. The raising of hick- 

 ory must be begun at once by either associations 

 or individuals in the trade. 



Chairman Herron varied the discussion by call- 

 ing on members of the trade, who proceeded to 

 pile up the evidence as to the scarcity of hickory 

 and the great need of prompt action toward in- 

 suring a future source of supply. 



W. A. Snyder of the Pioneer Pole & Shaft 

 Company, Piqua, O., said his company was op- 

 erating west of the Mississippi and had always 

 tried to get the owners of tracts to bring the 

 timber to the mills, but that this could not al- 

 ways be done. Long hauls, bad weather, water 

 and the quarantine were among the difficulties 

 of the situation as viewed by his company. It 

 takes what appears to be a heavy growth of 

 timber to make even 600 to 700 feet of lumber 

 to the acre, and it would not pay to put in a 

 portable mill for less than 100,000 feet. He 

 did not believe that the supply would last more 

 than from 12 to 15 years. 



D. P. Cooper of the J. A. & D. P. Cooper Com- 

 pany, Struthers, 0., who next took the floor 

 was of the opinion that the matter of hickory 

 cultivation lay with future generations, as he 

 said it would take 60 to 200 years to grow 

 trees such as the trade needs. He advocated 



