The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-15
SUPPLY
OF PINE LUMBER
STOCKS ARE MUCH SMALLER
THAN A YEAR AGO.
Surprising Figures Presented to Meet
ing Of Manuf acturers - Endow-
ment of Chair of Forestry at Yale
Considered - Government Expert
Asks Cooperation in Getting Stats
tics.

Lumber stocks in Minnesota, Iowa,
Wisconsin and Michigan on Aug. / of
this year were 200,000,00O feet short of
the stocks in the same states on Aug.
l, 1904. Of this shortage, Minneapolis
comes in for a large share, with 60,00O,
900 feet. These startling figures were
presented to the Mississippi Valley
annual meeting in the West hotel to-
day by J. E. Rhodes, secretary of the
association. ..E....-.E.
. Three causes are assigned for the fall
ing off in stocks at what should be the
heavy season Of the year: first, curtail-
ment of product; second, decreasing
supply; third, high water. The latter
Minneapolis shortage.
The business before the association
was largely routine and Of interest to
the lumber manufacturers represented
rather than to the public. One subject
OF Importance considered was the co
operation of the association in a move
ment to endow a chair of applied for
Yale school of forestry. Other asso-
Citations have joined in the movement,
and if a fund of $4,000 can be secured
the chair will be endowed. +.
|. Forestry Cause Presented.
Royal S. Kellogg, first assistant in the
government forestry service, addressed
the association in behalf of his work.
This department hopes to begin pub
products of the United States. Other
data will be collected and included in
this report. Special attention will be
paid to keeping track of the available
forest supply. 1t is known that this
supply is rapidly diminishing, but until
the present time no attempt has been
made to learn how fast this is taking
place. The special matter taken up by
Mr. Kellogg is the arrangement and
adoption Of a uniform blank fora re-
oprting lumber operations to the de-
partment. The reports are to be subdi-
vided to show the timber cut, the num-
Der Of feet sawed and manufacturing,
and the stocks during each year. 1t
is the desire Of the department to Sc
cure the ideas of the lumbermen in
making up the form Of this report in
terest and value to the lumbermen them
selves. In this way the better co-opera-
ton of interested parties can be secured:
A comprehensive yet simple form OF
report is desired. From Minneapolis
Mr.. Kellogg will go thru the northern
Minnesota lunber-producing district
and will then work to the coast. Lum-
| Der GOES nOG SEIZURE CllC CASIuoA' e.o
tention of the government bureau: The
output of all sorts of forest products in
Guiding posts. poles, ties, paving blocks,
ETC., is also considered.
Merge Two Associations.
The Mississippi Valley association,
which comprises sixty manufacturing
companies and firms in Minnesota, Wis
consin and Iowa, had the proposition
before it to consolidate with the Wis
consin Valley Lumbermen MS association,
a companion organization, which only
takes in seventeen mills, number IN
that territory having gone out OF com
mission.
The members of the smaller associa:
ton are favorable to the change, and
have been working with the Mississippi
valley association in the matter OF
grades for a number of years. The
prospects favored the adoption OF
amended articles this afternoon, chang
ing the name to the White Pine Lum
bermen IS association, and embracing al
northwestern mills. -...-... q.