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Vol. XXIX. 



CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 25, 1909. 



No. 3. 



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Coming Association Meetings 



NORTHWESTERN HARDWOOD LUMBERMEN'S ASSO- 

 CIATION. 

 The annual meeting of the Northwestern Hardwood Lum- 

 bermen's Association will be held at St. Paul, Minn., De- 

 cember 7. 



J. F. HAYDEN, A. H. BARNARD, 



Secretary. President. 



NATIONAL VENEER & PANEL MANUFACTURERS' 



ASSOCIATION. 

 The annual meeting of this organization will be held at the 

 Auditoriiun Hotel, Chicago, December 14 and 1.5. 

 E. H. DEFEBAUGH, BURDIS ANDERSON, 



Secretary. President. 



INDIANA HARDWOOD LUMBERMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 

 The next annual meeting of this association will be held at 

 IndianapoUs. on Thursday, January, 13, 1910. 

 C. H. KRAMER, JOHN M. PRITCHARD, 



Secretary. President. 



HARDWOOD MANUFACTXniERS' ASSOCIATION OF 



THE UNITED STATES. 

 The eighth annual meeting of this association will be held 

 at the Sinton Hotel, Cincinnati, on Tuesday, Wednesday and 

 Thursday, February, 1, 2 and 3, 1910. 

 LEWIS DOSTER, E. M. CARRIER, 



Secretary. President. 



General Market Conditions 



There are no particular changes iu liardwuod conditions from the 

 report made in the la.st issue of the Record. In the middle West the 

 market is very strong and business is above normal. On the Pacific 

 coast trade is fair, but substitution of foreign ■sroods is cutting into 

 the old-time lumber shipments from the Mississippi Valley and from 

 Michigan and Wisconsin. 



There is a manifest improvement in hardwood conditions in eastern 

 trade centers, but still business there is not nearly so strong as it is 

 further west. It is a well established fact that recovery from a 

 period of trade depression is much slower in the chief Atlantic coast 

 cities than in the middle West. At the present time there is every 

 prospect that business in the East will fairly approximate that 

 further west not later than the first of the year. 



Trade is by no means bad in the consuming septious of New York, 

 Pennsylvania, Maryland and Xew England, and it is- improving daily, 

 but buying and consumption there are not as strong as they log- 

 ically should be. 



The short items of stock the country over are in oak, poplar, birch 

 and maple, which are having advancing values. All other hardwoods 

 are in fair request at satisfactory prices. 



Annual Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 



The date of the eighth annual meeting of the Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association of the United States has been definitely fixed 

 for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, February 1, 2 and 3 next, 

 at the Sinton Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio. It had previously been 

 planned to hold the meeting on January IS, 19 and 20, but on 

 thoroughly canvassing the situation, it was concluded that the 

 February dates would be much better, as the time first selected con- 

 flicted with several important meetings in which various members 

 of the association would be interested. 



It is planned to make this forthcoming meeting the greatest, one 

 ever held in hardwood annals. There will be brought together at 

 this time the leading hardwood manufacturers of the United States, 

 leaders in hardwood lumber merchandising, and a large concourse 

 of wholesale consumers from the furniture, automobile body, coffin 

 and casket, wagon, interior finish, flooring and kindred trades. It is 

 thought likely that the banquet feature usually concomitant with 

 association meetings will be dispensed -nith. There is so much busi- 

 ness to come before the association that it was found that two days 

 would not be ample time to handle it, therefore a three days' session 

 is authorized. 



Details of the entertainment features of the meeting have not yet 

 been definitely decided upon. However, on the second evening, 

 February 2, an elaborate series of stereopticon pictures will be shown, 

 illustrating different types of timber growth, and full and various 

 details of logging and lumber operations through the Allegheny and 

 Appalachian mountains; pictures of mountaineer typos, moonshiners, 

 feudists, etc., which will be supplemented with an elaborate set of 

 moving pictures showing every phase of the woods and river opera- 

 tions of the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company of Coal Grove. 0. 

 These moving pictures will include the turning loose of the Yellow 

 Poplar Lumber Company's new 360-foat concrete splash dam on 

 Russell Fork, the main stem of the Big Sandy River in Dickinson 



