HARDWOOD RECORD 



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part of last year sUipments by the members of 

 this association were light and demands on the 

 Inspection Bureau were not as heavy as we 

 could wish. Lati' in the year shipments have 

 been much bettei', and indications are that the 

 volume will increase. From all information we 

 are able to obtain, the outlook 'for the present 

 jear is bright. The demand for all kinds of 

 hardwood lumber seems to be larger and more 

 persistent. Prices are stronger and in some 

 cases advancing. The ;ow end of our stock is, 

 if anything, stronger and there are indications 

 that it would stand an advance. 



The necessity for some arrangement with the 

 National fferdwood Jlanufacturers' Association 

 in rega.'d to our inspectors acting as national 

 inspectors under certain conditions is assuming 

 more importance. A\'e, however, cannot report 

 any progress in this matter, but we hope event- 

 ually to have this arranged in a satisfactory 

 manner. 



MEMBERSHIP 



We are now supervising the grading of hard- 

 wood lumber at si.'cty-tive plants, an increase of 

 four over the preceding year. 



IXSI'ECTIOX 



We notice an increased demand for our inspec- 

 tion of carload lots prior to shipment. We be- 

 lieve that this indicates a growing confidence in 

 our methods and lairness. As already indicated, 

 shipments being ligut the early part of last 

 year, we did not handle as mucu lumber as we 

 could conveniently have done. We. however, 

 inspected during the year l',121i,u9y feet in 331 

 calls. We found "no shipping" in 152 of these ; 

 2SS,477 feet of lumber was handled at special 

 requests in nine separate inspections. 



We wish to impress upon all members the 

 Importance of reporting promptly any slackness 

 on the part of inspectors and of making such 

 suggestions as they believe will increase the 

 efliciency of this service. 



At the call tor general stock sheets returns 

 from forty-eight members showed a total of 86,- 

 008,000 feet on hand. 



After the acceptance of this report the chair 

 called on President Agler of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association, who gave his assur- 

 ances that he would do everything possible to 

 have the inspectors of the Wisconsin association 

 recognized as National inspectors. He prophesied 

 a busy year for the lumber trade and closed 

 with an invitation to the Louisville conven- 

 tion in June. 



Chairman Buswell of the Market Conditions 

 Committee reported the recommendations of that 

 body as to hardwood prices for the coming 

 year. 



Election of Officers 

 The Nominating Committee made their report 

 and Chairman Osborn submitted the following 

 names : 



President — W. C. Landon. 

 Vice-president — K. E. McLane. 

 Treasurer — George Foster. 



Directors — 0. W. Brightman, G. II. Atwood, 

 L. Rowlands and J. H. Johannes. 



Bureau of Grades — A. li. Uwen, C. A. Phelps, 

 C. A. Goodman, M. J. (Juinlan, J. D. Brownson, 

 M. P. McCullough and J. T. Phillips. 



It was moved and carried that the secretai'y 

 cast a unanimous ballot, which he was instructed 

 to do by the chairman, who then yielded to the 

 new president. President Landon delivered a 

 short talk suitable to the occasion and called 

 on Leonard Bronson, manager of the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association, who gave 

 an absorbing talk on the work and principles 

 •f that body. He told of some of the important 

 things that organization is working on at pres- 

 ent, as proper transportation facilities for lum- 

 ber, the Corporation Tax Law, conservation, 

 uniform state laws, timber tax, and cutting regu- 

 lations. Mr. Bronson pointed out that success- 

 fully meeting public antagonism is their hardest 

 duty and is really the keynote to everything 

 they undertake and begged the earnest co-opera- 

 tion of all lumber interests. He deplored the 

 "Trust'' cry which has worked such great hard- 

 ship and the many foolish state and federal 

 regulations. Manager Bronson stated that the 

 association realized that concessions must be 

 made by the trade and that it was their duty to 

 see that such concessions be wisely made. 



President Landon made the remark that after 

 listening to Mr. Bronson's talk ho felt it more 



imperative than ever that the Wisconsin body 

 join the National Lumber Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation. He then called on ex-President Osborn 

 of the Hemlock Association, who submitted the 

 following motions : 



First — That the Hemlock and Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association of Wisconsin affiliate with 

 the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, 

 fees to be paid quarterly. 



Second — That delegates be appointed to go to 

 New Orleans and that a sufficient appropriation 

 be made for expenses. 



Third — That the National Manufacturers' As- 

 sociation be requested to get a decision from 

 the United States courts proving the unconsti- 

 tutionality of the state law of Illinois requiring 

 foreign corporations to secure licenses. 



These motions were all duly seconded and 

 carried in order. 



The next important business was the decision 

 to secure a secretary to give his entire time 

 to the associaton work and to receive a salary 

 commensurate with services rendered. 



The Bureau of Grades was changed to the 

 Committee of Grades and Information at the 

 suggestion of ex-President Goodman. He was 

 followed by Mr. Osborn, who told of the require- 

 ments ot the experiment station at Madison and 

 it was decided that the association arrange to 

 provide necessary material to the station. 



This closed the regular business and after 

 announcement of the meeting of directors and 

 Bureau of Grades the association ad.iourned. 



Following is a list of those in attendance : 



A. S. Osborne, Medford Lumber Company, 

 Medford, Wis. 



H. S. Childs. secretary, Minneapolis, Minn. 



Scott W. Chambers, Northwestern Lumber 

 Company. Stanley, Wis. 



W. C. Landon, Barker & Stewart Lumber Com- 

 pany, Wausau, Wis. 



W. A. Holt. Holt Lumber Company. Oconto. 



J. H. Johannes, Jacob Mortenson Lumber Com- 

 pany, W'ausau, W'is. 



G. H. Chapman, Northwestern Lumber Com- 

 pany, Stanley, Wis. 



F. H. Pardoe, Fenwood Lumber Company, wau- 

 sau. Wis. 



W". 1^ McCullough. Brooks & Ross Lumber 

 Company, Schoheld, Wis. 



E. P. Arpin. Arpin Hardwood Lumber Compa- 

 ny, Grand itapids, Wis. 



G. H. Earle, Wisconsin Land & Lumber Com- 

 pany, Hermansville, Mich. 



W. J. Wagstall, Oshkosh, Wis. 



J. R. Davis, John R. Davis Lumber Company, 

 rhillips. Wis. 



John Weverhaeuser, Atwood Manufacturing 

 Company, Park Falls, Wis. 



George E. Foster, Foster-Latimer Lumber Com- 

 pany, Mellen, Wis. 



W. H. Atwood, Atwood Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, I'ark Falls, Wis. 



A. R. Owen, John S. Owen Lumber Company, 

 Owen, Wis. 



A. R. Week, John Week Lumber Company, 

 Stevens Point, Wis. 



George H. Lusk, Nye, Lusk & Hudson Co., 

 Thorpe. „ „ , 



S. W. HoUister, HoUister-Amos & Co., Osh- 

 kosh. „ 



.M. J. Quinlan, Menominee Bay Shore Lumber 

 Companv, Soperton, Wis. 



C. F. "stout. Rice Lake Lumber Company, Rice 

 Lake. Wis. 



George C. Willson, W. J. Maxwell Lumber 

 Companv, Kosholt. 



W. J." Maxwell, W. J. Maxwell Lumber Com- 

 pany, Galesville. 



L. W. Gibson, Medford Lumber Company, Med- 

 ford, Wis. 



H. H. Ileinemann, Heinemann Lumber Compa- 

 ny, Heinemanu, Wis. 



William A. Smith, Oconto, Wis. 



G. H. Plato. Northland Lumber Company, 

 Green Bav, Wis. 



N. C. Johnson, Northland Lumber Company, 

 Green Bay, Wis. „,. 



R. T. Doud, Doud Sons & Company, Winne- 

 conne. Wis. ^ 



James O'Callaghan, The O. C. Lumber Com- 

 pany, Vulcan, Mich. 



C. H. Weber, The Wilson-Weber Lumber Com- 

 panv, Menomonie. Wis. 



E'. J. Young, Brittingham & Young, Madison. 



H. H. Stolle, Stolle-Barndt Lumber Company, 

 Tripoli. Wis. , , , ^ 



L. W. Edwards, L. W. Edwards Lumber Com- 

 pany, Antigo, Wis. 



Andrew oelhoten. John Oclhofen Lumber Com- 

 pany, Tomahawk, Wis. 



E. A. Gooding. Gooding & Mylrca l.iinilicr 

 Company. Wausau. Wis. • 



E. J. Gillouly, Foster-Latimer Lumber Com- 

 pany, Mellen, Wis. 



J. E. Collins, Crocker Chair Company, Elton, 

 Wis. 



L. A. Rousseau, H. W. Wright Lumber Com- 

 pany, Merrill, Wis. 



W. A. Schneider, Brooks & Ross Lumber Com- 

 pany, fechoneld. Wis. 



J. K. liouguerty, P'^iUerton-Krueger Lumber 

 Company, Minneapolis, Minn. 



J. J. Lingle, Westboro Lumber Company, West- 

 boro. Wis. 



E. 11. Hamar, Worcester Lumber Companj. 

 Cbassell, Mich. 



G. B. Knox, Perley Lowe & Company, Peshtigo, 

 Wis. 



J. L. Wells, Girard Lumber Company, Dunbar. 



A. C. Wells, Jilrd 6: Wens, Menominee, iMich. 



E. K. llughey. Yellow River Lumber Company, 

 Stillwater, Wis. 



S. \\'. Chambers, Northwestern Lumber Com- 

 panv. Stanley, Wis. 



C. F. Lusk, Owen, 'Wis. 



W. H. Holt, Holt Lumber Company, Oconto, 

 Wis. 



K. C. Schulz, Goodman Lumber Company, 

 Goodman. Wis. 



R. B. Goodman, Goodman Lumber Company, 

 Goodman, Wis. 



Charles A. Goodman, Sawyer-Goodman Com- 

 pany, Marinette, Wis. 



Kugene Shaw, Daniel Shaw Lumber Company, 

 Eau Claire, Wis. 



S. C. Ryenbeck, Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Co., 

 Milwaukee. 



C. K. Ellingson, Ellingson Lumber Company, 

 Hawkins. 



J. U. Brownson, Yellow River Lumber Com- 

 pany, Stillwater. 



F. W. Buswell, Buswell Lumber & Manufac- 

 turing Company, Buswell, Wis. 



lloVard S. Weiss, Forest Products Laboratory, 

 Madison. 



E. W. Meeker, Hahdwood Eecoed, Chicago, 111. 

 Albert LaBerg, Stetsonville. 



W. T. McGuire, Rietbrock Land & Lumber 

 Company. Milwaukee, Wis. 



W. c. Rowc, American Lumberman, Chicago. 



F. E. Wordeu, F. E. Worden Lumber Company, 

 Oshkosh, \\is. 



O. O. Agler, Upham & Agler, Chicago, HI. 

 Leonard Bronson. National Lumber Manufac- 

 turers Association, Chicago, 111. 



Success of Big Splash Bam 



The Yellow Poplar Lumber Company continues 

 to have the best sort of luck in handling its 

 splash dam in Russell Fork of the Big Sandy 

 in Dickenson county, Virginia. 



There have been no heavy rains — in fact, very 

 little rain on the upper ridges of the Big Sandy 

 — but still the company is able to fill the dam 

 with a good deal of frequency and has succeeded 

 in splashing out a good share of its logs to 

 rafting water between Elkhorn City and Pike- 

 ville. There has been no ice in the Big Sandy 

 this season, and now that the heavy ice in the 

 upper Ohio has gone out the company will turn 

 its rafts loose down the Big Sandy and will 

 probably commence sawing within a few days. 

 This big dam insures the Yellow Poplar Lumber 

 Company its full crop of forty million feet for 

 the year's sawing. 



Semiannual Ne-w York Lumber Trade Assn. 



The regular semiannual meeting of the New 

 York Lumber Trade Association was held at 

 the association rooms, IS Broadway, on January 

 11, and was followed by a regular meeting of 

 the Board of Trustees. Important business was 

 transacted, and the following were elected to 

 membership : E. E. Dey & Sons Company, Fifty- 

 sixth street and Eleventh avenue ; Henderson- 

 Murphrce Company, 1 Madison avenue; Chicago 

 Lumber & Coal Company, 1 Broadway ; Palmer 

 & Semans Lumber Company, 510 West Fifty-sev- 

 enth street. New York, and Geo. F. Craig & Co., 

 Philadelphia, Pa. The association voted to send 

 delegates to the annual meeting of the National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association. New 

 rules were adopted governing the inspection of 

 short leaf pine. 



Resolutions were passed concerning the death 

 of the following members : Norris U. Norden ; 

 Charles I. McAllister of H. B. Murchie & Co. ; 

 Thomas Kae of Crane & Clark ; Francis I. Van- 

 dcrbeek. of Vanderbeek & Sons. 



The annual banquet of the association will be 

 held at the Waldorf-Astoria February 3. 



