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the hill when It is presented. This is merely 

 a reiteration of what was contained in my re- 

 port at our meeting of last November. 



Voc some time it has appealed to me that 

 much could be accomplished by the cypress 

 manufacturers if they could put into effect a 

 uniform order blant. There are, of course, cer- 

 tain provisions which are included in all order 

 blanks, but there are others upon which there 

 is a difference of opinion. In reality a large 

 proportion .of the cypress manufacturers do not 

 understand exactly what they want, nor do they 

 know just how to avoid some of the difficulties 

 which are constantly arising and which could 

 be eliminated were orders taken with certain 

 provisions noted as necessary conditions. I 

 think it is safe to state that all of our mem- 

 bers are agreed that certain of the provisions 

 of the Code of Ethics of the American Lumber 

 Trades Congress are eminently fair and should 

 be lived up to. There are those, however, who 

 do not care to bind themselves to other provisions, 

 but they are not agreed as to these other provisions, 

 nor do they know exactly how to handle them. I 

 hold that a conference of our members upon this 

 subject of uniform order blank will necessarily 

 involve a thorough discussion of the Code of 

 Ethics and will give our people a better idea 

 of what to stand for at the next meeting of the 

 American Lumber Trades Congress than they 

 could obtain in any other way. It is admit- 

 ted that the manufacture of cypress is some- 

 what different from that of other woods and 

 that this should be borne in mind in framing 

 up a Code of Ethics which can be agreed to 

 by our people. This, as I have said, can best 

 be accomplished by working upon a uniform 

 order blank which will cover all of the points 

 upon which trouble is constantly arising. Some 

 manufacturers of the other wooas have given 

 considerable thought to this subject and have 

 been quite successful, and it is my belief that 

 Bome time in the near future the manufac- 

 turers of lumber will all make their sales upon 

 a universal order blank. This cannot be accom- 

 plished, however, until the individual woods 

 have fought out their own problems. 



The work of the association during the past 

 year has progressed very smoothly and I wish 

 to thank the members for the very efficient aid 

 they bave given us in all of our departments. 



Treasurer's Beport 



The report of Treasurer George W. Dodge 

 showed the finances of the organization to be in 

 satisfactory condition. A summary of the re- 

 port in given herewith : 



Receipts May 1, 1900, to April 30. 



1910 $32,011.57 



Less overdraft NapoleonviUe. May 1. 



i;)0!) 427.54 



$31,584.03 

 Expenditures May 1, 1909, to April 



30, 1910 30,952.49 



Balance on hand May 1, 1010 .$ 631.54 



MAY 1, 1910. 

 Cash on hand in bank at Napoleon- 

 viUe. La .$ 631.54 



Cash on hand in bank at New Orleans. 

 La 400.00 



Total $1,031.54 



The following concerns were elected members 

 of the association : Port Barre Lumber Com- 

 pany. Port Barre La. : Dixie Lumber Company. 

 Monroe. La., and Opdenweyer-Fisber Cypress 

 Company, Sorento, La. 



A. T. Gerrans for the Committee on Insur- 

 ance spoke encouragingly of interinsurance, ad- 

 vising the members of the association to pat- 

 ronize the mutual companies which are render- 

 ing such valuable service to the trade. 



The report of the Committee on Transportation 

 showed that collections have not been very satis- 

 factory for the past six months, having fallen off 

 about .$40,000 as compared with the previous 

 year. This was due. it was held, to the stand 

 taken l)y the railroads in endeavoring to force the 

 .ipplication of the chock weighing rule. 



Legislation Desired 



The Committee on Legislation, through its 

 chairman. .John S. Irvine, submitted a lengthy 

 report embodying six acts of importance to Louis- 

 iana lumbermen, which it is planned to intro- 

 duce before the present legislature. The report 

 of the committee was accepted by the associa- 

 tion and the legislative program outlined was 

 indorsed, subject to the approval of the asso- 

 ciation's legal counsel. The captions of the pro- 

 posed acts fallow : 



No. 1. An act providing that a purchaser of 

 property at a tax sale who has regularly paid all 

 taxes on land purchased by him for a period of 

 three years, when the original owner has tailed 

 to pay any taxes on said property during this 

 period of three years from the sale, shall Ik* 

 considered as the possessor of said land and 

 shall be authorized to institute and maintain the 

 possessory action. 



No. 2. An act making it a misdemeanor for 

 one who has permitted his property, the same 

 being wild or swamp timber land, to he sold and 

 adjudicated to the state of Louisiana for unpaiil 

 taxes, and who has failed to redeem the same 

 during the period prescribed by law, to enter 

 upon or to remove timber for the said land. 



No. 3. An act making it a crime for any one 

 willfully and knowingly to purchase timber in 

 single sticks, cribs, blocks or rafts, in any lake, 

 bayou, stream or river in this state, or in the 

 woods or delivered at any sawmill or other point 

 in this state, unpaid for by the seller or not 

 owned by the seller, and providing for a written 

 affidavit from the seller that such timber has 

 been paid for or has been cut from the lands of 

 the .seller, and making the failure to exact such 

 affidavit from the seller evidence of the willful 

 and felonious intent within the meaning of this 

 act. and to fix the punishment for said (Trime. 



No. 4. An act making it the crime of perjur.y 

 for any person or persons to falsely sign and 

 execute a sworn statement to the effect that any 

 timber in a single stick, cribs, blocks or rafts, in 

 any lake, bayou, stream or river in this state, or 

 in the woods, or at any sawmill or other point in 

 this state, that ho might offer for sale or under- 

 take to sell, has been paid for or has been cut 

 from his or their lands, when such sworn state- 

 ment has been executed in order to effect a sale 

 of the said timber. 



No. 5. An act making it a crime to willfully 

 and feloniously cut. pull down. burn, destroy, kill 

 or deaden, carry or float away, any tree, wood 

 or timber growing or lying on the land of an- 

 other, or lying in the water on the land of 

 another, or to cause the same to be done without 

 the consent of the owner, and fixing the penalty 

 therefor, and providing against the plea of ig- 

 norance of the true boundary line or lines in a 

 prosecution under this act. 



No. G. An act making it a crime for any one 

 to willfully and feloniously untie, cut or break 

 loose any saw log, crib or boom of timber in any 

 stream or body of water in the state, where the 

 same has been tied, harbored and anchored by the 

 owner. 



A committee composed of S. B. Schwing. F. B. 

 Williams and II. B. Hewes was appointed to 

 appear before the legislature and urge the enact- 

 ment of these measures into laws. 



Changes in Tupelo Gum Grading 



The following changes in the grading of tupelo 

 gum were adopted upon recommendation of J. F. 

 Wigginton, chairman of the tupelo committee ; 



LTnder general explanations, the following 

 clause to he added : "Clear face cuttings must 

 show one face clear of all defects, excepting 

 bright sap. except as hereinafter stated. The 

 rev-erse side of clear face cuttings may contain 

 small defects or one large defect not exceeding,' 

 two inches in diameter, that will not materially 

 weaken the strength of the piece and that will 

 not show through the face when worked." 



t'nder standard grades, the following changes : 

 "Eliminate boxboards. No. 1 and No. 2 common, 

 and add the following to second paragraph : 

 Wagon boxboards, first and second clear. No. 1 

 common, shop, No. 1 common boxing and No. 2 

 boxing. The rule covering No. 1 common or 

 shop to be changed to read as follows : Length, 

 six to twenty feet, not to exceed ten per cent of 

 six-foot lengths, widths four inches and over. 

 This grade must work sixty-six and two-thirds 

 per cent or better, clear face cuttings. Smallest 

 cutting allowed must contain 144 square inches 

 and must not be shorter than eighteen inches nor 

 narrower than four inches." 



The grade of No. 1 boxing to be as follows : 

 "Lengths, four to twenty feet, width four inches 

 and wider, will admit of knots, stain, wormholes. 

 stake wane and other standard defects, the same, 

 however, to cut seventy-five per cent or better 

 for ordinarv Iwxmaking or crating purposes. The 

 rule for No. 2 boxing shall be three inches and 

 over, width four feet and over in length, and 

 shall admit all pieces below the grade of No. 1 

 boxing which will work at least one-half for ordi- 

 nary boxmaking purposes. Stain, wormholes. 

 warped and holey pieces belong to this grade. 

 The rule on wagon boxboards was amended so 

 that the last paragraph shall read as follows : 

 "Sixteen-foot may have any defects showing 

 through the piece, provided it will cut two pieces 

 same as a fourteen-foot board." 



Changes in Cypress Grading Bules 



A series of amendments to the cypress rules 

 were recommended in the report of the Committee 



on Grades, Rules and Classification, submitted by 

 Chairman John A. Bruce. In connection with 

 this report Mr. Bruce presented a deal of tabu- 

 lated matter showing the percentage of reinspec- 

 tion of shipments made by members of the asso- 

 ciation during the past year. He pointed out 

 that the number of reinspections had increased 

 greatly over the two previous years, and urged 

 the manufacturers to be more careful in their 

 grading, in view of this fact. The following 

 amendments to the grading rules were adopted ; 



Under the classification "First and Second 

 Clear" it was provided that pieces twelve inches 

 wide may have two standard knots or their 

 equivalent in knots in lieu of sap. LTnder head 

 of shop, the words "or rip" are added after the 

 word "cut" wherever it occurs. (Under the head 

 of "No. 1 Shop," by substituting the following 

 for the grade on strips : "Two inches wide and 

 strips two inches wide or wider from boards 

 eight to twelve feet long ripped the entire length 

 of piece and strips two inches wide or wider 

 ripped from boards twelve feet long or longer." 



Under the head of "C Finish" it was provided 

 that this grade shall admit pieces containing one 

 course defect which may be removed in two cuts 

 with a waste not to exceed five per cent in one 

 piece but which in other respects shall be B or 

 better. LTnder headings "Siding. Flooring and 

 Ceiling" it was provided that stain sap and pin- 

 worm holes, admissible in D siding and B flooring 

 and ceiling, are allowable in two-thirds good 

 cuttings. 



It was decided that the changes become effec- 

 tive at once and the secretary was instructed to 

 have the corrected rules printed accordingly : 



Chairman H. B. Hewes of the committee on 

 utilization of cut-over swamp lands submitted an 

 interesting report of progress made and a satis- 

 factory solution of the problem. 



Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood Man- 

 ufacturers' Association of the United States, 

 spoke briefly of his association and proposed that 

 cypress mills that also cut hardwood join it. He 

 thought such an affiliation would prove profit- 

 able. Dues would be assessed only on the pro- 

 duction of hardwood. Secretary Watson was 

 instructed to take up the question with the mem- 

 bers of the association who are cutting hardwood. 



The chair announced that the committee on 

 nominations would consist of L. S. Price, A. T. 

 Gerrans, John A. Bruce, F. B. Williams and L. W. 

 Gilbert. Their report, which was unanimously 

 adopted, resulted in the reelection of all the old 

 officers with the exception of George W. Dodge, 

 treasurer, who was about to leave home on ac- 

 count of impaired health. The following are the 

 reelected officers : 



President — Frederick Wilbert, Plaquemine, La. 



First Vice-President — S. M. Bloss, Garyville, 

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' Second Vice-President — R. II. Knox, Savan- 

 nah. Ga. 



Treasurer — E. G. Swartz. Burton. La. 



The new board of directors consists of R. H. 

 Downman, F. B. Williams, John A. Bruce, L. H. 

 Price J F Wigginton. John Dibert. E. W. 

 Wri"ht. H. M. Gotten. R. M. Carrier. E. B. 

 Schwing. J. A. Barnett and George K. Nicholson. 



Following the adjournment of the meeting, the 

 board of directors met and reelected George E. 

 Watson secretary. 



Companies Represented 



I'.ayou Sara Lbr. Co.. Bayou Sara. La. 



Bowie Lbr. Co.. Three Mills. La. 



Brownell-Drews Lbr. Co.. Morgan City, La. 



Burton-Swartz Cypress Co., Burton. La. 



Dibert. Stark & Brown Cypress Co., Donner, La. 



Dixie Lbr. Co.. Monroe. La. 



Gibson Cypress Lbr. Co.. Gibson. La. 



Goodland Cvpress Co.. Chacahoula. La. 



Albert Hanson Lbr. Co.. Garden City, La. 



Iberia Cypress Co., New Iberia, La. 



Jeanerette Lbr. & Shingle Co., Jeanerette, La. 



Kvle Lbr. Co.. Franklin. La. 



Levcrt Lbr. & Shingle Co., Plaquemme. La. 



Lutcher & Moore Cypress Lbr. Co.. Lutcher, La. 



Lvon Cypress Lbr. Co.. Garyville. La. 



M'orlev Cvpress Co.. Morley. La. 



Napoleon" Cypress Co., NapoleonviUe, La. 



Owl Bavou Cvpress Co.. Strader, La. 



Ramos Lbr. Co.. Ramos. La. 



J C Rives Cypress Co., St. James, La. 



St. Louis Cvpress Co., Houma, La. 



Schwing Lbr. & Shingle Co., Plaquemine, La. 



W.iccamaw Lbr. Co., Bolton. N. C. », t » 



Whitecastle Lbr. & Shingle Co.. W hitecastle. La. 



A Wilberfs Sons Lbr. & Shg. Co.. I'laqiiemine, La. 



F B. Williams Cypress Co., Patterson, La. 



