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would seem to promise something for the effectiveness of Gov- 

 ernment control. 



To what extent the attitude of the Government has prevented 

 the formation of new lumber combinations, it is of course diffi- 

 cult to judge intelligently. It is perhaps significant, however, 

 that nearly all of the powerful lumber associations had their 

 inception before the time of Government anti-trust activity, 

 which dates from about 1906. The National Lumber Manufac- 

 turers' Association was organized in 1902. The Missouri and 

 Arkansas Lumber Association, perhaps the earliest of the yel- 

 low pine associations, dates from 1883 ; and the Southern Lum- 

 ber Association, later to become the Yellow Pine Manufactur- 

 ers' Association, was organized in 1890. The Georgia Saw Mill 

 Association, the predecessor of the Georgia-Florida Saw Mill 

 Association, was formed in 1899. The first organization in the 

 field of North Carolina pine dates from 1888, and the present 

 North Carolina Pine Association was formed in 1905, by the 

 union of the old North Carolina Pine Association and the South 

 Carolina Pine Association, both of which had been organized 

 some years previously. 



In the Douglas fir territory as elsewhere, lumbermen's or- 

 ganizations run back to the period previous to 1906. The log- 

 gers of Puget Sound organized the Puget Sound Timbermen's 

 Association as early as 1899, and this organization has persisted 

 under various names. The Washington Logging and Brokerage 

 Company, since 1907 known as the Washington Log Brokerage 

 Company, was formed in 1904. The three associations among 

 the mill men of this region; the Southwestern Washington 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association, the Pacific Coast Lumber 

 Manufacturers' Association and the Oregon and Washington 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association, were organized in 1900 

 and 1901. The combination of these three into the West Coast 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association was, however, not effected 

 until 1911 ; and some subsidiary price regulating organizations 

 in this region have also been formed in very recent years. 



In other fields of the lumber industry, as in those mentioned, 

 most of the present lumber combinations were formed previous 

 to 1906, although some consolidations and reorganizations 

 have been effected more recently. In this connection it must 



