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HARDWOOD RECORD 



permit, to the number of nine thousand copies, to hardwood manufac- 

 turers, jobbers and wholesale consumers of hardwoods. 



More specific details of this meeting will be found in the news sec- 

 tion of this issue of the Eecoed. 



Eucalyptus 



In Hakdwood Record of December 10 was an article on the subject 

 of eucalyptus. The exploitation of the growing of eucalyptus as a 

 highly profitable commercial proposition on the part of various pro- 

 motion companies dealing in California lands was the feature of the 

 times that inspired this article. Incorporated in the story was a 

 report on eucalyptus from Von Schrenk, Fulks & Kammerer, consult- 

 ing timber engineers, of St. Louis. 



The Eecord ls in receipt of the following letter from this concern: 



St. Louis, Dec. IS. — Editor Hardwood Recokd : My at- 

 tention has just been called to the article on eucalyptus in 

 your number of December 10. While as a rule I do not like 

 to discuss matters of this character. I feel that some of the 

 statements made in that article might be misinterpreted and 

 beg to submit the following : 



The general impression which the reading of this article 

 gives is that we arc in some way or other connected with 

 the Sacramento Valley Improvement Company in recom- 

 mending the growing of eucalyptus for timber. I wish to 

 make it ver.v plain that we are in no way connected with 

 this company and are in no way responsible for their opera- 

 tions. At their request we wrote for them a technical 

 report on the qualities and character of eucalyptus wood, 

 and in which report, you will note, we sturk strictly to the 

 subject, and made no recommendation either for or against 

 engaging in the planting of eucalyptus wood, or as to 

 whetlier anyone would be liable to profit by same or not. 

 It was the kind of report which we would have submitted to 

 anyone who asked the question. What is eucalyptus? I wish 

 to make this as clear as possible, fearing that some of your 

 readers might assume that we were officially endorsing the 

 purchase of lands for the growing of eucalyptus timber, 

 which, as stated above, we have never done. 



As far as the statements made by us as to the value, the 

 qualities and uses of eucalyptus are concerned, with all 

 respect to the editqr of the Hardwood Record, we stand by 

 these statements as representing the best information ob- 

 tainable at the present time in regard to eucalyptus. A 

 careful reading of our report will show that most of the 

 data are taken from the best authorities we could find, 

 among them the United States government timber tests and 

 the reports of the forest officers of the state of California. 



All I wish to emphasize is the fact that we are not in 

 the business of exploiting eucalyptus, and no one who reads 

 our report could for a moment accuse us of any such in- 

 lent. My only object in addressing you is to correct the 

 giving of what, I am sure, was an unintentional wrong im- 

 pression. Yours ver.v truly, 



VoN Schrenk, Fulks & Ka.mjieker, 



Hermann von Schrenk. 



The Record is very glad to note that Dr. Von Schrenk and his 

 associates are in no wise connected with the promotion companies 

 recommending the growing of eucalyptus as a logical commercial 

 proposition, or an enterprise for the safe investment of savings. 



The Record does not wish to say that the growing of eucalyptus 

 is not a good commercial proposition, but it simply cjuoted the report 

 of Von Schrenk, Fulks & Kammerer on the subject of the wood, and 

 then recited the result of practical tests made under the auspices of 

 the National Hickory Association and the opinions of well informed 

 and practical users of hardwood. 



From this article it can very readily be deduced that the editor of 

 the Record had considerable misgivings about the high estimate 

 placed on eucalyptus in the report referred to, and was equally 

 skeptical on the commercial possibilities of growing this wood. The 

 publication takes pleasure in printing the letter of Von Schrenk, Fulks 

 & Kammerer, especially their disclaiming any interest in the eucalyp- 

 tus proposition, save in supplying the report, which they state was 

 based on data taken from the best authorities they could find, includ- 

 ing the United States government timber test.s and the reports of 

 forest otficcrs of the state of -California. 



The Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy 



Present prospects are that the controversy between Richard A. 

 Ballinger, Secretary of the Interior, on the one hand, and Gifford 

 Pinchot, chief of the Division of Forestry, on the other, will be a 

 subject of investigation. 



Collier's does not hesitate to make the claim that Mr. Ballinger, 

 has deliberately assisted land grabbers in various nefarious enter- 

 prises that tend to the absorption of valuable public domains to the 

 use of individual corporations without just recompense to the gov- 

 ernment. 



It is pretty well established in the public mind that no matter what 

 errors Gifford Pinchot has made in his life work at the head of the 

 Forest Service in this country, he has been impeccably honest in 

 everything he has ever done. He has stood up for the rights of the 

 people against the entire mass of corrupt politicians and their hench- 

 men who have attempted to defraud the government of public do- 

 mains. Mr. Pinchot is on the level always, and there is a distinct 

 suspicion in the public mind that the same is not true of the Secre- 

 tary of the Interior. There must needs be some flame where there 

 is as much smoke as has been wafted about the peculiar transactions 

 in which Mr. Ballinger has been at least indirectly interested. 



The President cannot afford to lose Gifford Pinchot; he cannot 

 afford to retain Richard A. Ballinger. 



The American Exhibition in Berlin 



Manufacturers and business men throughout the country are taking 

 an active interest in the American E.xposition to be held in the city 

 of Berlin during the months of June. July and August, 1910. 

 Already applications for space have been received by the American 

 committee from many different states, and it is probable that every 

 branch of American progress will be shown at the exposition. 



The holding of an all-American exposition in Europe will be of 

 great value in increasing our export trade with European countries, 

 already of enormous proportions and constantly increasing. The 

 selection of Berlin as the location for the fair is also wise, as it is 

 the leading city of Germany, which country takes one-fourth of our 

 European exports, and, further, it can be truthfully said that it is 

 the commercial center of all Europe. 



One of the most important and most extensive exhibits will be the 

 display of our timber resources, which is as it should be, as the timber 

 industry of the United States is one of the greatest industries, not 

 alone of this country, but of the entire world. An exhibit showing 

 our vast interests in this direction will, of course, have to be divided 

 into several sections to portray our diversified line of forest products. 



The exposition is in very competent hands, both the German and 

 American committees being made up of men who will lend prestige 

 to the undertaking in the eyes of the business world. The American 

 committees, which have headquarters at 50 Church street. New York 

 City, are headed by J. Pierpont Morgan as president. Prince Henry 

 of Prussia, brother of the emperor, is president of the German Recep- 

 tion Committee. 



National Box Manufacturers' Annual 



The attention of the hardwood trade, especially those who are 

 interested in the sale of lumber suitable for box manufacture, is 

 called to the annual meeting of the National Association of Box Manu- 

 facturers, which will be held at French Lick Springs Hotel, French 

 Lick, Ind., on February 23, 24 and 25, It is the desire of the prin- 

 cijials of this association that every hardwood manufacturer interested 

 in supplying box material shall be present at this convention and 

 participate in its deliberations. 



The French Lick Springs Hotel, at which the meeting is to be held, 

 is beautifully located in the wooded hills of Indiana. The building 

 is modern in every particular and affords accommodations for some- 

 thing like seven hundred guests. The sleeping, apartments are all 

 outside rooms. The hotel grounds comprise over six hundred acres 

 i)f natural park. 



