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in some cases they established price list committees whose duty it was 

 to issue lists from time to time. 



About 1906, the Federal government, and some of the state gov- 

 ernments as well, became very active in the enforcement of, the anti- 

 trust laws, and the lumbermen's associations resorted to various 

 schemes to conceal their activities. Some of them issued "market re- 

 ports," or "statements of market conditions," or lists of "prevailing 

 prices," or "current prices." These "market reports," etc., were in 

 the same form and served the same purpose as did the "price lists" of 

 the earlier days, and they have been issued by certain associations 

 from that time down to the present. 



During the first few years of the "market reports," the prices 

 approximated the actual selling prices, but later some associations 

 substituted what might be termed high "basis" lists in place of the 

 "market reports." The prices shown in these "basis" lists were pur- 

 posely fixed above the market price, while discount sheets were issued 

 to indicate actual selling prices. 



In some instances, lumber associations have got lumber journals, 

 printing houses, or so-called "information bureaus" to print and 

 issue these price lists. Some of the cypress manufacturers have thus 

 issued price lists under the name of a printing company — Miller and 

 Brandao, and later the Brandao Printing Company. The Southern 

 Lumber Journal assisted the North Carolina Pine Association in a 

 curtailment campaign in 1913 ; and the Yellow Pine Manufacturers' 

 Association has employed the Lumbermen's Printing Company to 

 issue price lists from time to time. Some of the Pacific associations 

 have sometimes put the name of the Pacific Lumber Trade Journal 

 on the lists they were issuing. 



Associated lumbermen have tried various means of securing adher- 

 ence to price lists. In many cases, agreements have been circulated 

 and signatures required. One of the so-called "Centralia agreements" 

 of 1905 read as follows : 



"Joint Agreement : 



"We, the undersigned, hereby agree to maintain the official list 

 adopted at a joint meeting of the Southwestern Washington Lumber 

 Manufacturers' Association and a committee of the Pacific Coast 



