LUMBERMEN AND LUMBER JOURNALS 



The Endowment Completed 



At the recent meeting of the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association, the en- 

 dowment of the chair of lumbering at the 

 Yale Forest School, undertaken five years 

 ago, was completed. Mr. Rhodes reported 

 that $66,246.20 had been paid in, and that 

 the Weyerhaiiser interests had pledged 

 $10,000 if the balance was raised among the 

 lumbermen of the country. The yellow pine 

 manufacturers pledged $10,000, and before 

 the close of the meeting the balance was 

 secured, making the amount slightly in ex- 

 cess of the required $100,000. It was reported 

 that Mrs. Sage and Andrew Carnegie would 

 each give $100,000 if the lumbermen raised 

 their amount. 



The following officers of the association 

 were elected: President, Edward Hines, of 

 Chicago; vice-presidents, Everett Griggs, of 

 Tacoma, Wash. ; William Stillwell, Savannah, 

 Ga. ; R. H. Downman, New Orleans, La. ; 

 R. H. Vansant, Ashland, Ky. ; secretary, 

 George K. Smith, St. Louis, Mo. ; treasurer, 

 J. A. Freeman, St. Louis, Mo. ; manager, 

 Leonard Bronson, Chicago, 111. ; board of 

 governors, William Irvine, W. C. Langdon, 

 F. H. Pardoe, J. B. White, E. C. Fosburgh, 

 F. E. Weyman, R. M. Carrier, W. C. Meyers, 

 J. H. Bloedell, A. T. Gerrans, William 

 Dreary, Lloyd J. Wentworth, C. A. Bigelow. 



The association includes the following af- 

 filiated organizations : 



Association Membership 



Southern Cypress Manufacturers' Association 5 2 



Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 70 



North Carolina Pine Association 7 1 



Wisconsin Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 36 



No. Hem. and Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 60 



Western Pine Manufacturers' Association. 84 



Northern Pine Manufacturers' Association 5 



Southwest Washington Manufacturers' Association 28 



Pacific Coast Lumber Manufacturers' Association 165 



Yellow Pine Manufacturers' Association 275 



Oregon and Washington Lumber Manufacturers' Association 105 



Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of United States 272 



Georgia-Florida Sawmill Association * 76 



1,344 



Output, 1909 

 445,000,000 

 319,000,000 

 664,000,000 

 100,000,000 

 S50,ooo l ooo 

 874,000,000 



1,419,000,000 

 200,000,000 



3,000,000,000 



3,649,000,000 

 800,000,000 

 600,000,000 

 800,000,000 



13,420,000,000 



Practical Reforestation Work 



The Paper Trade Journal gives this ac- 

 count of the practical reforestation work of 

 the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company : 



"The company owns practically the entire 

 Cheat Mountain Valley, near Cass, W. Va., 

 the holdings starting at the sources of the 

 river and continuing down the main stream 

 a distance of probably thirty-five miles, an 

 aggregate of about 100,000 acres of virgin 

 spruce forest. The spruce of that section is 

 of exceptionally fine quality and the stand is 

 very heavy. S. E. Slaymaker, of New York 

 city, who is at the head of the lumber de- 

 partment, is an altruistic man. His con- 

 science bothers him when he thinks about the 

 havoc his several hundred woodsmen make 

 in the forest every year, and it has been 

 troubling him so greatly that he has devised 

 a practical scheme for replacing the timber. 

 This tract was examined by experts of the 

 government several years ago, and a plan 

 was suggested for replanting with small trees 

 to be shipped in from a distance. Instead of 

 following this plan, those in charge of the 

 work devised one of their own. In certain 

 valleys conditions are ideal for the propaga- 

 tion of an overabundant growth. The sur- 

 plus plants are taken out of the ground in 

 the afternoon and are replanted the next morn- 

 ing. The company has set out 25,000 spruce 



trees during 1909, of which eighty per cent 

 are said to be thriving, and this spring the 

 company has planted 169,000 spruce trees, 

 also 10,000 to 12,000 young poplars, and ex- 

 pects to put in about 60,000 additional, and 

 hereafter at the rate of about 100,000 trees 

 a year. Another practical feature of the op- 

 eration at that point is the precaution taken 

 to prevent the inception and spread of fire. 

 A space of fifty to 100 feet is cleared along 

 every logging road and spur. During the dry 

 seasons every locomotive is followed by a 

 ranger, who stamps out small leaf-fires which 

 originate in its wake. During the ten years 

 in which this company has operated only a 

 little more than 1,000 acres have been burned 

 over, and this was cut-over land. The of- 

 ficers of the company deem it just as im- 

 portant to keep the fire out of cut-over land 

 as out of timber, and are guarding the pre- 

 serves in such a manner as to insure prac- 

 tically a continuous supply of saw logs and 

 pulp wood. 



Minnesota Lumber 



Lumbermen estimate that of the 1,000,- 

 000,000 feet of Norway and white pine cut 

 in northern Minnesota last winter, at least 

 twenty-five per cent and possibly thirty-five 

 per cent, is still in the woods and cannot be 



