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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Meeting Michigan HardWood Manufacturers^ jiss'n. 



Tlie secoui.l meeting of that most lusty 

 association infant, the Michigan Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, was held at the 

 John Jacob Astor House, Mackinac Island, 

 on Wednesday, Aug. 8. The meeting was 

 held for the dual purpose of increasing the 

 membership and for compiling a set of in- 

 spection rules to he submitted to all mem- 

 bers for suggestions before final adoption by 

 the association. Both of these objects were 

 accomplished, and the association started off 

 at the end of this meeting with an alliance 

 of forty-eight hardwood manufacturers rep- 

 resenting approximately ninety per cent of 

 the total hardwood output of the state. 



Tlie entire work of the association was 

 carried on with the utmost harmony and 

 there were many pleasant features in con- 

 nection with the meeting. The number of 

 ladies accompanying their husbands was not- 



WM. H. WHITE, PRESIDENT MICHIGAN 



HARDWOOD MANUFACTURERS' 



ASSOCIATION. 



ably large, and their presence added much 

 to the pleasure of the gathering. Another 

 noteworthy attendant was E. P. Arpin of 

 Grand Eapids, Wis., president of the Wiscon- 

 sin Hardwood Lumbermen 's Association. 



The morning was spent by the committees 

 appointed at the Ottawa Beach meeting in 

 preparing their reports, and the regular ses- 

 sion was not convened \intil 2 p. m. 

 The Meeting. 



Wm. H. White, of Boyiie City, president, 

 occupied the chair and after roll call ad- 

 dressed the meeting. 



President White; On July 14 we made an 

 organization at Ottawa Beach, and this meet- 

 ing is a continuation of it, our particular 

 object at this time being to get more mem- 

 bers. We selected thi.s place because it is 

 handy for all interested. If there is anyone 

 here today who is not a member we want 

 him to come up and become a member, so 

 he will have the power to talk on any subject 

 pertaining to his business in this association. 

 We have here the minutes of the meeting at 

 Ottawa Beach, but unless some of you par- 

 ticularly wish it. we will not read them. I 

 wish to say further that we have a grading 

 committee that will report here today, and 

 also a marketing committee, but we want it 



understood that none of these reports ai'e for 

 adoption. They are simply for discussion antl 

 study, and if it is the sense of the directors 

 that each member have a copy, we will so 

 instruct our secretary, but they are not to be 

 scattered broadcast until they are actually 

 adopted. It is also the sense of the grading 

 committee that no rules be adopted until they 

 are tried out on the lumber pile. I under- 

 stand some people think we are going to 

 make some radical changes, but this is a 

 mistake — we are not. We are going to go 

 very slowly in every step we take, and do 

 our work very carefully and thoroughly. We 

 will read the rules we have been working on 

 here today but it may take us some time to 

 perfect them, and they will not be adopted 

 until then, even if it takes a year. 



Secretary Odell then rejiorted a member- 

 ship of thirty-four at the close of the Ottawa 

 Beach meeting, stating that since that time 

 the membership had been increased to forty- 

 eight. The list follows : 



Members of the Association. 



Anderson. X. F.. Cadillac. 

 Batchelor Timber Co.. Saginaw. 

 Butters Salt & Lumber Co., Ludington. 



Boyne City Lumber Co., Boyne City. 



Cook. Curtis & Miller, Petoskey. 



Cadillac Handle Co.. Cadillac. 



Cobbs & Mitchell. Inc.. Cadillac. ' 



Cummer. Diggins & Co., Cadillac. 



Churchill Lumber Co.. Alpena. 



Dav. D. H.. Glen Haven. 



Dalton Lumber Co., New Dalton (P. C, 

 Skandia). 



Danaher Hardwood Lumber Co.. Dollarville. 



Elk Rapids Iron Co.. Elk Rapids. 



East Jordan Lumber Co.. East Jordan. 



Embury-Martin Lumber Co., Cheboygan. 



Engadine Lumber Co.. Engadine. 



Gilchrist. F. W.. Alpena. 



Hackle>'-Phelps-Bonnell Co., Grand Rapids. 



HarVior Springs Lumber Co., Harbor Springs. 



Haak Lumber Co.. Haakwood. 



Johannesburg Mfg. Co., Johannesburg. 



Jamison. John A.. St. Ignace. 



Kimliall Lumber Co.. Alpena. 



Kneeland-Bigelow Co.. Bay City. 



Kelley Lumber & Shingle Co., Traverse 

 I'ity. 



Loud's Sons Co.. H. M.. Au Sable. 



Murphy & Diggins, Cadillac. 



MacBride Lumber Co.. Grand Rapids. 



Mitchell Bros. Co.. Cadillac. 



Michelson & Hanson Lumber Co.. Lewiston. 



McMillan, C. V. Co.. Ontonagon. 



Northern Lumber Co., Birch. 



Oval Wood Dish Co.. Traverse Citv. 



Peters. R. G., Salt & Lumber Co.. Eastlake. 



Peninsula Bark &. Lumber Co.. Sault Ste 

 Marie. 



Richardson Lumber Co., Alpena. 



Stearns Salt & Lumber Co.. Ludington. 



Sands. Louis, Salt & Lumber Co., Manistee. 



Sailing. Hanson & Co.. Grayling. 



Stephenson. The I. Co., Wells. 



Simmons Lumber Co.. Simmons. 



J. Sulli\-an. Cedar. 



von Platen, G., Boyne City. 



Weidman, J. S.. Weidman. 



W^orcester Lumber Co.. Chassel. 



White. W. H.. Co.. Boyne City. 



Wagner & Gilmore. Marion. 



Williams Bros. Co.. Cadillac. 



Mr. Odell then read a telegram from R. 

 Hanson, of Sailing, Hanson & Co., Grayling, 

 as follows: "Will not be able to attend 

 meeting but hope you vrill have a good at- 

 tendance, and we promise our heartiest co- 

 operation in whatever measures are adopted." 

 Also a letter from the Michigan Manufac- 

 turers' Association of Detroit, inviting the 

 association to aflSliate with them, which on 

 motion was ordered filed. 



The report of the grading committee was 

 then read in the form of suggestions for a 

 code of rules covering the manufacture and 

 grading of Michigan hardwoods. 



Mr. White: Any suggestion or criticisms 

 from anyone present will be helpful to us. 



Here followed much interesting discussion 

 on how to prevent lumber from staining, 

 which brought out many expert opinions. 



Mr. Klise addressed the convention at some 

 length advising conservatism in the legisla- 

 tion of the association on the subject of 

 grades and methods of conducting the hard- 

 wood manufacturing business of the state. 



Address of G. B. Dunton. 



Mr. Dunton : .A good many years ago my 

 fatlier was manufacturing f.anning mills in 

 Clrand Rapids. We used to buy poplar and 

 we went down to the mill and picked out the 

 kind of lumber we wanted. There was no 

 grading in those days. Afterward we went 

 up north to a pine sawmill man and showed 

 him the grades we wanted, so that he could 

 know just what our requirements were. In 

 those days there were no jobbers, but the 

 man who wanted lumber simply went to the 

 mill. We came back and told a planing mill 

 man in Grand Rapids that we could buy pine 

 up there real cheap. Others went up there* 

 and did the same thing. The consumers went 

 to the manufacturers and told them what they 

 wanted and paid the price for it. Now when 

 the liardwood men came onto the carpet a 

 whole lot of jobbers sprang up. They came 

 to the hardwood man to buy his lumber. 

 They didn't know whom they were going to 

 sell it to. They didn't know what was to be 



E. P. ARPIN. PRESIDENT WISCONSIN HARD- 

 WOOD LUMBERMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



done with it. So they got up a set of rules 

 to cover everything. Men in the old days 

 used to buy clear lumber, when they could 

 just as well have used something cheaper. 

 As I understand the business of this associa- 

 tion, it is to get closer to the consumer, sup- 

 ply him with just what he wants, and not 

 ask him to buy firsts and seconds when he 

 could use No. 1 common. If customers could 

 all come to the manufacturer and tell him 

 just what they wanted, I will guarantee that 

 you would get from %Z to $5 a thousand more 

 tor your lumber. Hardwood is getting pretty 

 scarce in Michigan. The pine men awakened 

 long a.go to the state of affairs, and are thor- 

 oughly organized. 



Mr. White then introduced Mr. E. P. Arpin, 



]iresideut of the Wisconsin Hardwood Lum- 



l)ermen's Association, who addressed the 



meeting as follows : 



Address of E. P. Arpin. 



In regard to the matter just spoken about 

 I presume I know as little as anyone. I 

 was one of the organizers of the Wisconsin 

 Hardwood Lumbermen's Association eleven 

 years ago. and we have done a good deal of 

 good to ourselves individually and to the 

 lumber trade as a whole. As I understand 

 the contention now. it is simply a matter of 

 making a larger number of grades and defin- 

 ing them. The original rules were elastic. 

 They would cover various cases and grades. 

 I am here at the invitation of President 

 AVTiite and am glad you are forming an asso- 

 ciation because we know it will do you a lot 



