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cent of the cut in the territory covered. The California Redwood 

 Association, with seventeen mills, represents 70 per cent of the total 

 production in the region covered, the California White and Sugar 

 Pine Manufacturers' Association 70 per cent, the Western Pine 

 Manufacturers' Association 80 per cent, the Northern Hemlock and 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 50 per cent of the cut of 

 Wisconsin and upper Michigan, the Michigan Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers' Association 70 per cent of the cut of lower Michigan, the 

 West Coast Lumber Manufacturers' Association 70 per cent of the 

 total cut in the region covered. Associations affiliated with the Na- 

 tional Lumber Manufacturers' Association control 40 per cent of 

 the total lumber production of the United States. 



The cypress producers are about as strongly organized as any 

 group of lumbermen in the country. The Southern Cypress Manu- 

 facturers' Association represents about 50 per cent of the principal 

 cypress mills of the United States. An editorial in the New Orleans 

 Lumber Trade Journal refers to the nature of the control over cypress 

 in 1900: "No lumber list ever promulgated has been as rigidly kept 

 as that of the Southern Cypress Association. A deviation of a hair 

 would not be tolerated. Their moderation in good times and their 

 firmness during periods of depression has imparted a stability to the 

 wood highly appreciated by buyers, for they know that an ample 

 power behind will maintain its value intact." At a meeting of the 

 Southern Cypress Manufacturers' Association in 1906, President 

 Wilbert said: "Probably less than one hundred men could be named 

 who control more than 95 per cent of the cypress production."^ A 

 prominent western lumberman, pleading for closer organization 

 among lumbermen, recently stated : "We need an organized effort to 

 bring about the results, such as you have brought about in connection 

 with your cypress."* 



The Washington Logging and Brokerage Company was said to 

 include in its membership 85 per cent of the logging companies in the 

 Puget Sound district. Its successor, the Washington Brokerage Com- 

 pany, had exclusive control over the output of its members, at first 

 through a written agreement, later by a tacit understanding. It 



3 "Lumber Industry," IV, 723, 724. 



* Proceedings, National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, 1915, 51. 



