The Paducah sun., 1906-01-16
HARDWOOD LUMBER
MEN In SESSION
Messrs Decker and Palmer Will
Probably Go From Here.
II is Associated With the National
Association and il is Its AM
nual session.
THE MEETING AT LOUISVILLE.

Mr.. Earl Palmer, of the Fergu-
son-Palmer Lumber company, and
Mr.. A. J. Decker, of the Mckinney
Veneer and Package company, will
probably leave tonight or tomorrow
for Louisville to attend a meeting OF
the Hardwood Manufacturers Asso-
citation of the United States, which
may last three days. About $50
representatives from all over the
country will be in attendance and it
will be an importart meeting, as
price lists will be agreed on and
officers elected.
The association is composed of
about 400 firms in the country en-
gagged in the manufacture of all oak,
poplar, gum and cottonwood lumber,
and practically all states in the coun-
try which manufacture these sorts
of lumber are represented.
The meetings are held annually
for the purpose of discussing mat
ters of interest to the general trade,
securing and promoting the proper
methods o: educating prospective
purchasers TO a better idea of the
real value of high-grade timber, a
general comparison of the stock on
hand, and the regulation. so far as
is possible, of the prices TO be re-
ceived for lumber and the modes of
grading.
Attended by manufacturers from
all ever the country the meeting will
be of especial interest from the fact
that the present supply of hardwood
is running comparatively low and
prices are gradually rising.
The present officers of the asso-
citation are: r. H. Van SAINT, of
Ashland, KY, president; T. NJ. Fish
er, of Colgrove, o.. treasurer; Louis
Dosker, of Columbus. o., secretary.
The general Offices of the association
which are in charge of Mr.. Dosker,
are in Columbus, o. The meeting
of the association marks the third
session which has been held in
Louisville. The association was or
ganized in Louisville June 2. 1902.
There are no members of this as
sociation in Paducah. but a great
deal of interest is taken by local
lumber men in it. as there are only
two of the associations and the de-
sire is to work in harmony.
Paducah lumbermen belong to the
National Hardwood Lumber Asso-
citation. the largest organization of
its kind in the world. The follow
ing are members of it: Ferguson
Palmer & Co., Mckinney Veneer and
Package Co.. A. B. Smith Lumber
company and Milllken e. Sales. the
later of the county.
Something not generally known
here is that the fact that Alderman
Earl Palmer, of Paducah, is presi-
dent of this association. makes the
name of Paducah known all over the
world. This association, of which
Mr.. Palmer is now serving his sec
ond term as president, makes the
prices, rules and such things that
are adopted and used by all the
hardwood lumbermen in the world
lumber is found and
IL is known all over
Europe. Asia and Africa, the Amer
icas and on many of the islands.
Wherever the association goes It is
known that Mr.. Earl Palmer, of Pa
iucah, Ky., is president, hence Padu- |
cab has never fully appreciated the
Importance of the honor that has
been twice conferred on Mr.. Palmer,
under whose administration the as
ISOLATION has expanded and bloomed |
rs never before. The association /
las a secretary, Mr.. Fish. who is
,aid $4,000 a year and expenses.