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HARDWOOD RECORD 



r. llolnios is chairman, tlieu submitted its re- 

 port. Mr. Holmes, Ijrfore presenting tlie com- 

 mittee's decision, stated that its report was very 

 incomplete and it was ilnally decided that the 

 committee be continued to report at a later 

 date. 



Followins; this came the report of the com- 

 mittee on inspection, ot which IC. C. Ganahl oi; 

 Mobile. Ala., is chairman. The report, which 

 was very long and involved, had been printed 

 and scut to all members ot" the association so 

 that they were familiar with its provisions. 

 After considerable discussion it was de- 

 cided to accept the report and the secretary was 

 ordered to place it hefore all exporting members 

 who, in turn, were requested to take it up with 

 their agents and if it proved satisfactory, to 

 communicate to this effect to the secretary, who 

 would report back to the association. The com- 

 mittee was then discharged as having completed 

 its work. 



The report proposes two lu-anches of the serv- 

 ice, inspection on the gulf and inspection 

 abroad. The chief inspector abroad is to be a 

 practical high-class lumberman from the United 

 States paid a salary by the association. He is 

 to have under him native inspectors in the va- 

 rious countries of Europe, these to be paid for 

 each in.spection made. 



The election of ofDcers was then taken up, re- 

 sulting as follows : 



President, Robert Hunter, Mobile. Ala. 



Vice-President-at-Largo, Gus Eitzen, Pensa- 

 cola, Fla. 



Secretary, J, O. Elmer. Mobile. Ala. 



Treasurer, E. C. Ganahl, Mobile, Ala. 



The association maintains a number of port 

 vice-presidents and these were also chosen for 

 the ensuing year. 



The meeting tlien adjourned. 



October Meeting St. Louis Liimbennen's 

 Club 



The October meeting of the IjUmbcrmen's Club 

 of St. Louis was held at the Mercantile Club 

 Thursday evening, Oct. T. It had been moved 

 forward one week in order to have the meeting 

 held during centennial week, when it was thought 

 many visiting lumbermen would attend and be 

 the guests oi the club. However, the flying ma- 

 chines were too much o( an attraction so the 

 attendance, even of the members, was not as 

 large as had been expected. .VII reported a good 

 time, however. 



During the dinner, which was something extra 

 for the occasion, there was singing by the 

 members. 



President Julius Seidel gave a history of the 

 lumber industry of St. Louis and to what im- 

 portance it had grown. A brief resume of his 

 address follows : 



•'The growth of the industry in this city has 

 kept pace with the march of population from 

 795 people in the year of incorporation in 1809 

 to 750,000 in 1909. The first lumber came into 

 St. liouis from Penn.sylvania in 1810 and con- 

 tinued to come from that source until the end of 

 the fifties. Northern white pine had come into 

 this market as early as the latter end of the 

 thirties and developed at a rapid rate until 

 1858, when it drove out its competitor from the 

 Alleghanies. With the growth of the western 

 country, St. Louis became the logical center for 

 (he distribution of forest products for the up- 

 building of the West and the yards here were 

 all shippers to points on the Illinois, Osage and 

 Gasconade rivers and on the Missouri River as 

 far as Benton, Omaha and Kansas City. In the 

 sixties and to the beginning ot the seventies 

 there were probalily ten sawmills located here, 

 including Overstolz & ]>zon. at Jefferson ave- 

 nue: II. K. I'arkcr & Co., at Chambers street: 

 Clark & West, at North Market street : William 

 Anderson, at Horse creek, and Seymour. Gibson 

 & Co., at Salisbury street. Hill, Lemon & Co. 

 afterwards merged into Knapp. Stout & Co. 

 Others were Schuleuberg & l!o:'<-kiler Lumber 



Company, Douglas & Lobsinger, Carondelet : and 

 Liebke & Straige, liardwood mills. The capacity 

 of these mills was only about 25,000 to 30.000 

 feet, until Schulenberg & Boeckeler erected a 

 mill of 250,000 capacity, this plant being the 

 largest of its kind in St. Louis. The lumber 

 sawed here was white pine mostly, except by 

 special contract, when hardwood logs brought 

 in from the Osage, Missouri and Gasconade, and 

 likewise from southern Missouri, were cut to or- 

 der. The existence of these mills locally was a 

 great benefit and gave ail the yards a chance 

 to fill orders for odd sizes quickly. The first 

 flooring made in St, Louis was turned out in the 

 basement of an old flour mill at Eighth and St. 

 Charles streets about 1855." 



J. A. Freeman gave an impromptu talk and 

 told how unjustly the lumbermen had been at- 

 tackeil liy the government because of alleged 

 trusts. 



Among the other speakers were D. B. Hoven 

 of the Fourche River Lumber Company, J. W. 

 Wackmer of Peoria, I!. F. Hodges of Milwaukee 

 and W. E. Barns. 



A toast, standing, was drunk to A. II. Schnelle, 

 as being the oldest lumberman in St. Louis, and 

 he responded with appropriate remarks. 



Tliose present were ; 



Roland F. Krebs, Krebs-Scheve Lumber Co. 



George E. Uibbard, Steele & Hibbard Lum- 

 ber Co. 



Julius Seidel, Julius Seidel Lumber Co. 



J. A. Freeman, Freeman-Smith Lumber Co. 



W. E. Barns. St. Louis Lumberman. 



J. B. Kessler, secretary Lumbermen's Club of 

 St. Louis. 



Henry G. Roifes. St. Louis Lumber Co. 



Frank Goepel. Chicago Lumber & Coal Co. 



Thomas Whitmarsh, W. T. Ferguson Lumber 

 Co. 



Hans Wachsmuth, W. T. Ferguson Lumber Co. 



F. G. Hanley, F. 11. Hanley Lumber Co. 



■\. U. Schnelle. Schuelle & Querl Lumber Co. 



Kuhirt Kamm, Robert L. Kamm Lumber Co. 



W. .\I. Kingsbury. 



W. M. Klenk. Julius Seidel Lumber Co. 



Robert B. McCounell, Muttig Sash & Door Co. 



W. Standing, Jr., Grayson-McLeod Lumber Co. 



Robert J. Fine. F. J. Shields Lumber Co. 



F. H. Smith, F. H. Smith Lumber Co. 



K. C. Robinson, E. C. Robinson Lumber Co. 



C. G. Atkinson. 



D. B. Haven. Fourche River Lumber Co. 

 George Surmeycr, George Surmeyer Lumber Co. 

 J. L. Scheve, Krebs-Scheve Lumber Co. 



■ I. R. Massengale, J. R. Massengale Lumber Co. 

 George H. Cottrill, American Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Co. 



Thomas E. Powe, Thomas E. Powe Lumber Co. 

 Jacob L. Benas, Waldstein Lumber Co. 



■Vi.siTORS AND Guests. 

 II. W. Wagon, I'rost-Johnson Lumber Co. 

 J. W. .Mackemer, J. W. Mackemer & Co., Peoria, 



II. W. Gilbert. Nona Mills Co., Beaumont, Tex. 



A. L. Clark, Glenwood, Ark. 



W. T. Duker. Quincy, HI. 



K. F. Hodges, Milwaukee, Wis. 



F. H. Long, Huttig Sash & Door Co. 



A. M. Hill, Southern Pine Lumber Co. 



Prominent in the East 



Ely Bros., Inc.. manufacturers of eastern hard 

 and soft woods, Westfleld, Mass., are very busy 

 in all lines. This concern, a corporation under 

 Connecticut laws, maintains offices at 120 Silver 

 street, Westfleld, Mass., and 210 Beacon street. 

 Hartford, Conn. The officers are E. S. Ely, presi- 

 dent, and P. M. Ely, secretary and treasurer. 



Ely Bros." output comprises ash, oak, maple, 

 basswood, chestnut, birch, beech, hemlock, spruce 

 and pine and they make a specialty of dimension 

 stock. Their Massachusetts mills are located 

 at Granville, Chester, Huntington, Great Bar- 

 rington and South Lee, and they also have mills 

 at Granby, Thomaston, Harwinton and Bristol, 

 Conn. E. S. Ely states that orders are coming 

 in .satisfactorily and signs are most encouraging 

 for future hardwood dealing. 



S5,582,19S were imported during August this 

 year as against a total of .$4,116,547 for the 

 same month last year. 



Exports of domestic woods and manufactures 

 thereof for August, 1909, reached a total of 

 ¥6,405,062 ; for August, 1908, the total was 

 5;5.0S0.27O. 



Under "Exports of Foreign Merchandise" it 

 is found that wood and manufactures thereof to 

 a value of $132,348 were shipped out of the 

 country during August this year as against a 

 total of $85,890 in August, 1908. 



Philadelphia Exchange Meeting 



The regular monthly meeting of the Lumber- 

 men's Exchange was held Thursday, October 7. 

 At 1 :45 business opened with President Herbert 

 1'. Robinson in the chair. The following reso- 

 lution was presented and unanimously adopted : 



"Whereas, the foreign trade carried on by the 

 merchants of I^hiladelphia deserves every encour- 

 agement and aid that can be given for its devel- 

 opment : and whereas, the I'hiladelphia Commer- 

 cial Museum has given splendid and practical 

 aid to the merchants engaged in export trade in 

 I'hiladelphia, and has been actively working in 

 every part of the civilized world to bring trade 

 to I'hiladelphia : and whereas, an ordinance has 

 licen introduced to city councils, which when 

 enacted will take away the grounds and build- 

 ings used by the Philadelphia Commercial Mu- 

 seum ; be it resolved, that we earnestly protest 

 against the passing of this ordinance unless it 

 be so amended as to provide other and adequate 

 quarters for the museum, fully as commodious as 

 tliose at present used." 



John H. Lauk, secretary, read a report from 

 the Car Demurrage Bureau of I'hiladelphia, show- 

 ing that during the month of August there were 

 received in the vicinity of Philadelphia 1,412 

 cars containing 21,180,000 feet of lumber. 



Bcecher & Barr. ndiolesale lumber dealers, 

 with olfices in the Land Title Building, were 

 elected to membership of the Exchange. 



English and American Measurement 



.\s a rc>sult of the negotiatimis carried on by 

 G. A. Farber between the hardwood section of 

 the Timber Trade Federation of London and the 

 National Lumber Exporters' Association in re- 

 gard to discrepancies in measurements on Lon- 

 don shipments, it has been suggested that Amer- 

 ican shippers adopt the method of the London 

 dealers in tallying the contents of each piece, 

 the federation on its part recommending to its 

 members the American plan of measuring stuff 

 over one inch in thickness, i. e., to measure the 

 entire lot on the basis of one inch and make 

 proper addition to the total to cover the extra 

 thickness. It is said that the proposition has 

 been met favorably by dealers on both sides. 



It seems that the principal difficulty lay in 

 the fact that shipments here are tallied by 

 widths and lengths on the 12-foot scale, while 

 in London a detailed piece contents tally Is 

 made, and the disposition of fractions frequent- 

 ly gives rise to considerable discrepancies in 

 the totals. 



With the same system of measurement in force 

 on both sides, it is expected that the frequent 

 disagreements and delays will be obviated and 

 that trade will progress more smoothly here- 

 after. 



Imports and Exports for August, 1909 

 Advance sheets from the monthly summary 

 of commerce and finance, issued by the Depart- 

 ment of Commerce and Labor, showing details 

 of the country's imports and exports for the 

 month of .\ugnEt, 1909. shows that wood and 

 manurai-tures thereof to the total value of 



Foresters for African Mahogany- 

 Even iu far-olT Africa forestry methods are 

 practiced, and African mahogany forests are un- 

 der the control of trained men. A. H. Unwin, 

 forester at Benin City, West Africa, estimates 

 that there arc about 400 trees and 1,200 logs per 

 square mile in his territory, which is less than 

 one tree to the acre. jMahogany trees in this 

 region have large buttressed roots, and have 

 to be cut from platforms ten to fifteen feet from 

 the ground. The soil is so soft and trees so 

 scattered that (he logs, after being squared, are 



