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embpr, and as long as my health and circum- 

 ances will permit I expect to be present at 

 le annual meetings of the Indiana Hardwood 

 umbermen's Association and to enjoy the good 

 illowship which always prevails. 



The President : Gentlemen, we will next hear 

 16 report of the secretary. 



Secretary Kramer then read his report, as 

 )llows: 



Report of the Secretary 



Mr. rresidoQt. fellow members of the Indiana 

 hardwood Lumbermen's Association, gentlemen : 

 nothi'r years page has been turned and the 

 eventh annual convention confronts us. In 

 ibmitting you this report it is needless for me 

 ) say that the past year has been quiet in most 

 art "and uneventful ; trade conditions have been 

 nproving all during the year and our members 

 enerally arc very well satisfied. With the ap- 

 roach of the holidays, marketing became more 

 alet. Thus far in the new year we note some 

 icrease, and as we near the warmer months of 

 prin^. markets likewise will be warming up. 



During the year your board of managers held 

 ifo meetings, one at Detroit during the annual 

 onvention of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 .ssociation and the other at Indianapolis in 

 iovember. Association matters were gone Into 

 ■1th interest at each meeting, optimistic feeling 

 revailed among the board, and so far as I have 

 een able to learn the same feeling has prevailed 

 mong a goodly number of our association mem- 

 ers. Some woods have advanced more per 

 bousand feet than was anticipated, some have 



i'AX B. rnRIilNE, FORT WAYNE. VICE- 

 PRESIDENT. 



lot advanced as much per thousand feet as was 

 expected. It seems that the time is not far dis- 

 :ant when most of our woods will move in the 

 narket with, if not a fair margin, at least a 

 small margin of profit. 



We cannot advise too marked increase In out- 

 3Ut, too great overtime duty, or double shifts 

 it the mills, but as this association or any 

 nember of it, as far as I can learn, is not a 

 nember of a lumber trust or combination or in 

 iny way connected with a combination, each 

 nember will increase or decrease his output as 

 le sees or feels his market will require. 



Since our last annual meeting we have lost 

 ieven members ; two by being out of the state, 

 two by going out of the lumber business, three 

 iimply declining to remain members. I have, 

 lowever, to present to you for your approval 

 for membership, the Board of Managers having 

 already acted upon them, the applications of : 



J. il. Pritchard Lumber Company. Memphis, 

 renn. ; The Hoosier A'eneer Company, Ladoga, 

 Ind. : R. A. Hooton Lumber Company. Indian- 

 ipolis ; Hommer Veneer & Lumber Manufac- 

 turing Company, Indianapolis ; Fred J. Bosler, 

 Indianapolis : F. P. Ice & Son. Mount Summit ; 

 lames B. Eaton & Co., BluflEton : L. C. Collier, 

 nampbellsburg ; W. ,T. Hare, North Vernon : J. 

 M. Personett Lumber Company : Tessellated 

 P'looring Company, Edinburg, and Fred Wade, 

 Indianapolis. 



Many other applications could be had If each 

 member of the association would form a com- 

 mittee of one and forward this proposition when 



opportunity affords. We should use our influ- 

 ence and efforts to increase our membership. 



We have a few delinquents, some of whom will 

 square up at this meeting ; all others we hope 

 will bring up their arrearages soon. The small 

 sum of our annual dues should not keep away 

 anyone who is eligible to membership in our 

 association. 



Trade Ethics 

 This association was not represented by dele- 

 gates at the Trade Ethics Conference, but as an 

 association we participated with them in a finan- 

 cial way. To each of our members I mailed a 

 copy of the Code of Ethics that was formulated 

 and adopted by that conference. No fair- 

 minded lumberman will question but that a great 

 deal of good would result through the observ- 

 ance of the code as formulated. We therefore 

 recommend the endorsement of same by our 

 association. 



Inspection Rules. 

 The chairman of our Inspection Rules Com- 

 mittee will give you his report later. In con- 

 nection would like to add that this association, 

 as most of you know, has been the pioneer in 

 the matter of inspection and has been quite a 

 factor in bringing out the basic principles found 

 in the rules of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association, and has caused a great deal of good 

 (o the lumberman ; this association, as an indi- 

 vidual association, does not want or care to 

 issue a set of rules, but we do want uniformity 

 and not fluctuating of grades — if any fluctuat- 

 ing let it be in price. 



Demurkage. 

 One question, in which all of you are very 

 greatly interested, one which this association 

 has rubbed up against and fought for, one tliat 

 has caused more unpleasant feeling, more dis- 

 satisfaction among the shipping interests ; one, 

 I feel safe in saying, that has been the cause 

 of more claims being filed with the railroad 

 companies, is that of demurrage or car service. 

 In this I feel we are going to be relieved to a 

 very marked degree. You no doubt have noted 

 the Uniform Code as adopted by the National 

 Association of Railway Commissioners at Wash- 

 ington in November last, and we find our own 

 State Railway Commission taking the lead in 

 accepting the plan as adopted by the national 

 commission and ruling that said plan become 

 effective March 1. next. 



The results attained through this ruling will 

 be largely beneficial to the shipper and con- 

 signee, although they are not as yet perfectly 

 satisfactory. Would cite you to one paragraph, 

 namely. Paragraph C, under Rule 9, average 

 agreement, wherein freight cars are put in two 

 classes, thus barring credit on box cars, includ- 

 ing refrigerator cars, against freight cars of all 

 other description, or vice versa. 



It has been my purpose to give to you at this 

 meeting a stock report, giving you in total the 

 amount of lumber on hand for 1908 as against 

 that of 1909, the tendency of changes in price 

 and the indications as to increasing or decreas- 

 ing the output of 1910 over 1908 and 1909, but 

 owing to the very few reports handed in, I am 

 unable to present it. 



I thank you for your attention, and bespeak 

 for my successor your loyal support. 



C. H. Krajier, Secretary. 

 The President : I wish Mr. Barnaby would 

 see that the door is closed back there, and barred, 

 so that no one can pass out. It has been stated 

 to me that the association is becoming very sus- 

 picious of the treasurer. I don't know whether 

 he is present or not, but if he is I hope you 

 will see that he doesn't escape. We will now re- 

 ceive the report of the treasurer, Charles Wood. 



Treasurer's Keport 



Mr. Wood : Mr. President and Gentlemen — 

 There are only two things about this treasurer's 

 report to state : I am required to report hero 

 some sixteen dollars that Mr. Pritchard is sup- 

 posed to have, and some two hundred and fifty 

 dollars that the secretary is supposed to have. 

 [Laughter.] I h.tven't seen either amount. I 

 think, too, that it is well the door be barred. 

 We had on hand at the close of our last meet- 

 ing. .1153.78. We collected for dues and from 

 other sflurces, S370. From tickets sold for the 

 banquet. $34. and Mr. Pritchard actually paid 

 me 18.90, and Mr. Kramer $10. Putting in the 

 $1G that Mr. Pritchard says he will pay me. 

 and the $250 that the secretary promises to turn 

 over, make total receipts of $747.68. We paid 

 out last year, for stenographer, S15 : for ban- 

 quet, $234.90 ; printing, $37.95 ; to the Retail 

 Lumber Dealers' Association, $50 ; total, $337.85 ; 

 showing that we should have on hand $409.83. 



Well, I've got the eighty-three cents. [Laughter 

 and applause.] 



The chair then appointed as a committee 

 lo pass upon the reports of the officers: Van 

 B. Perrine, chairman; W. W. Knight and 

 Charles H. Barnaby. 



Reports of Standing Committees 



The President : Next in order will be the re- 

 ports of the standing committees. The first com- 

 mittee is that on Inspection Rules. As I am 

 chairman of that committee I have to report 

 that the Inspection Rules Committee had a meet- 

 ing, but have no written report prepared. The 

 sentiment of the committee is that at present 

 it is desirable that there be stability to the 

 rules, and that no changes or revisions be asked, 

 unless it be in the nature of bringing about a 

 single set of inspection rules. That is the senti- 

 ment of your Committee on Inspection Rules. 



If anyone has anything to say with reference 

 to this matter an opportunity will be alforded 

 under the head of new business. 



The next report to be received is that of the 

 transportation committee, W. A. Guthrie, chair- 

 man. 



" Mr. Guthrie : The committee has nothing spe- 

 cial to report. We will have some suggestions 



C. H. KRAMER, RICHMOND, SECRETARY. 



to make under the head of new business. 



President Pritchard then appointed as a 

 Xominating Committee: Claude Maley, 

 Bedna Young and Clyde Eoach. 



The President : We have with us "today a 

 member of our association who is a member of 

 the State Board of Forestry, Samuel Burkholder, 

 and we would like to have him give us a report 

 of what has been done in regard to the forest 

 work of our state. 



Mr. Burkholder : Mr. President and Gentle- 

 men — In regard to what the state board has been 

 doing, I have nothing to say at this time, be- 

 cause their report for the year is now in the 

 hands of the state printer, and if you will send 

 me your address I shall he glad to send you a 

 copy of it as soon as it comes from his hands. 



Mr. Burkholder then reported as the 

 chairman of the Forestry Committee as fol- 

 lows: 



Mr. Burkholder 's Keport for the Forestry 

 Conunittee 



To the president and the members of the In- 

 diana Hardwood Lumbermen's Association : 

 When the lumbermen of the United States first 

 bean cutting there were 850 million acres of 

 timber, containing about 5,000 billion board 



