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enc of business men at Washington,
was so Impressed with the; earnestness
ef the conferees that he went to Presi
dent Wilson and laid before him the
facts that be had heard from the busi
ness men. . ' : ,
Opposition on th part of the gor
ernment to big business is bow a thing
of the past. he declared. "But onui
a year and a half ago It was contrary
to law. for.a' natlona.baak to 'open
foreign branches. Now we eta be bst
ter equipped to handl business abroad
8
r iruMwai U through mr
banking aystem.' v-.
MISTER HU-U-UGHES--MISTER HU-lT-UGHES!
SUBSuTUTES
NO CONGRATULATORY
CAUSE
DEPRESSION IN
TELEGRAM PREPARED
lUSTRY.SWSW
Lumbermen Tolithat Is Real
Reason: for Falling Off irr
Lumber Consumption, ; -SUBSTITUTES
COST: MORE
PMplW ZftONAf IS BOll&l&f VI Of
r Other Materials es eplaeed
' Xouaber, lays Vlllinaa
(Oootlnned From Pi ft Ont.)
except In 107. Tho per capita of
wood consumption ha decreased from
100 feet maximum pr capita to 276
feet per capita, or about 31 per cent
Building on the whole Increased
Steadily from 107 to 1913.
.Twenty-stven billion feet board
measure, or about 70 per cent of 88,
000. 000, w0 feet, which was the total
1I1S national lumber cut, went into
general building.
In 1909, 60 per cnt of all lumDer
Jroduct consisted of rough timbers.
r 111, only about M par cent of the
national cut went into rough timbers.
' This crude product has been decreas
ing in demand, and the refined product
has been Increasing In demand.
Prices mis Slightly.
Lumber prices have risen slightly
during the past 25 years.
It la estimated that in 1911 In uses
Where lumber had once been consumed
there had been utilized in substitute
materials the equivalent of 8,000,000,
000 feet board measure, which was
tgual to 22 per cent of the total na
tional lumber cut and 32 1-9 per cent
Of that portion of the cut which was
Used In general construction.
It la estimated that in 1915 the
equivalent of 4,000,000,000 feet boad
measure was utilized in substitute ma
terials In such uses as roofing, lath,
posts, cooperage, etc.
This, then, makes a total displace
pient of wood products other than fuel
Of 12,000.000,000 feet. There was 18.
(00,000,000 feet of consumption In wood
fuel displaced In 1818 by coal and oil.
Id any Billion Lot.
Some of the 8.400,000,000 feet of lum
. tar displacement was represented by
products auch as substitute packages,
Which were part wood or all wood, so
that there was not an actual total loss
to' wood, if this Is taken into consider
ation. However, the authority devel-
OPlng these figures states that this 8,
' 000,000,000 substitution could be stated
as 10,000,000,000 or even lf.000,000,000
and still represent less than actual loss'
to wood.
Seventy-five per cent of the loss to
wood has gone to materials costing
more than wood- products.
Beventy per cent of the loss was In
' classes of use in which the same ten
dency promised to continue.
XjOss Za Increasing-.
Sixty per oent of loss has occurred
In the past 10 years and 1 Increasing
t the rate of 1.000,000,000 feet board
. measure per annum. The 8,000,000,000
feet of sawed lumber displacement Is
divided about as follows:
ir... Villus.. in i.,.i.4i J .a -
Structlon.
One Milton feet in fencing.
On billion fcot in sidewalks, rail.
caruso trm
HARDMAN PIANO
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"Its Tone is Wbnicu
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F. O. B.
NewYork
I Iforrisoa 8 treat at Broadway
SIdn trouble costs
many a man his job
No matter how efficient a man may
.be, if he hai an ugly ekin-erupdon,
there are position! In which he cannot
be tolerated. He may know that it is
not In the least contagious, but other
f people are afraid, they avoid him, and he
must make way for a man with a clear,
healthy skin." Why run this risk, when
MeSlIilBJl
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$675
load cars, vehicles, silos and wind
mills.
One half billion feet In furniture,
ships and miscellaneous.
One half billion feet in boxes.
Sidewalk boss Xs Heavy.
Besides losing one billion of fenc
ing, another two and one-half billion
of posts has been displaced, making
the fence consumption loss In that
year three and one-half billion feet.
The sidewalk loss Is 600.000,000 feet
per year.
Only about one-half and footage used
in the old style box car is now used
In a freight car, when built of wood
at all, and in 1914, with only a few
thousand freight cars being built,
there was a loss to wood of 260,000,
000 feet.
Vehicle construction has succumbed
largely to automobile manufacture,
which has reduced the consumption of
wood in that Industry. The manufac
ture Of horse drawn vehicles dropped
from 1 million vehicles to mil
lion vehicles In Che past few years,
while during the same period the num
ber of automobiles- Increased 980
thousand in number.
Silos have given SO per oent to
other materials, largely because of bet
ter salesmanship. This has lost to
wood 60 million feet per annum, while
wind mills have ceased to use, 25
million per year because of the use of
steel.
Furniture making, which normally
uses one billion feet ner annum, sur
rendered 176 million feet in 1916 to
Other materials.
One and one-half billion feet of box
shooks have surrendered to the sub
stitute containers, which are, however,
a partly wood product. ,
Lath output has fallen off SO per
cent, equivalent to 210 million feet
par year.
Wooden Ships Coming Back.
' Out of 200 million feet for ships.
160 million has surrendered to other
materials. There is every evidence,
however, . of this coming back strong
this year.
Cooperage utilization of other ma
terials amounts to S26 million feet
A report on the wood block pave
ment laid in 444 cities in 1907 Indi
cates 2.92 per cent of the total pave
ment laid, while In more than ' twice
the number of cities canvassed In 1916
the percentage was Only 2.27.
FEW HAVE HEARD OF
DOUGLAS FIR FAME,
SAYS R. H. DOWNMAN
R. H. Downman. president of the Na
tional Lumber Manufacturers' associa
tion, told the lumber banqueters last
night that fully SO per cent of the peo
ple of the United States never heard
of Douglas fir.
An eastern arohttect complained that
in all his larae library of worka on
building, the only volumes on the sub
ject of lumber had come to him from
the forest service.
For the first time In history, four
lumber men recently sat In conference
with representatives of the federal
trade commission, the forest service,
and the department of commerce, for
me selection of men who shall repre
sent the United States in foreign lum
ber Investigations.
He cited these things to show the
value of a national association of lum
ber interests for the proper exploits
tlon of wood.
Other speakers at last ntarht's ban
quet were: Charles S. Keith of Kan
sas City, R, B, Goodman of Marlnnetto,
Wis.; A. Jl.'Turnbull of Norfolk, Va.:
JC. T. Allen, secretary of the Forestry
and Conservation association; W. A.
Thompson, director of the bureau of
advertising, American Newspaper Pub-
usnera association, nd J. H. Bloedcl,
president of the West Coast Lumber
men s association.
All gave Instances of the vain of
advertising and cooperative selling
uieiuoaa in Dnngmg lumDer back: to Its
own on a permanent basis.
LUMBERING IS NEAR '
SAVAGERY, DECLARES
MAJOR E...G. GRIGGS
' Lumbering in the northwest la Just
one stare in advance
clared Major 1. a. Griggs of Ttcomt,
lormw presiaent 01 me . National
Lumber Manufacturers': association,
at . the 'conference . of luilm a v.
lumber industry - at rth Chamber of
Commerce yesterday. ,
, Tax burdens -Test : heavily "on the
timberman at all times, he said. He
baa to keep on sawing up stuff with
frantic zeal regardless of the price
he gets simply to keep himself from
being devoured by Interest and the
demand of the assessor. The result
is a frightful waste of magnificent
trees, as only that part immediately
merchantable can. be handled. . The
rest lies In the woods to rot or yelse
is thrown into the burner.
"We profited enormously by the
great San Francisco fire anl by the
earthquakes In Chile," said Major
Griggs, "But Is It necessary for us
to hanM ofl and waVl for soma cata
clysm to keep us in business T
Cooperation Zs Solution.
"I say no. The answer Is In Intel
ligent cooperation for the marketing
of lumber, so that at all times there
shall be an even and normal distri
bution and a dependable price."
The conference was called to give
the local lumbermen and loggers op
portunity to learn of the work of the
National Lumber Manufacturers' as
sociation and its proposed campaign
lor a wona-wiae exploitation of wood
as a building material.
E. Bs Hazen was elected chairman
and Mr. Hazen called upon R. H.
Downman, president of the national
association, for a resume of th pro
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while dealers In building materials
other than wood are exceedingly ac
tive In advertising their wares, the
lumbermen have, because of petty ri
valries and cutthroat competition,
failed to support any concerted sell
ing movement, preferring to take
their chance on their own account.
mis lack of Interest all along the
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wrested than the entire cut of any one
Vf his own seven mills In the cypress
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. Mr. Downman, after having traveled
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east who have made their Investments
there in the hop of making some
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eon of the members' council of the
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New York. Nov. 21. U. P.) Chair
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COAST LUMBERMEN
ARE URGED TO LOOK
TO FOREIGN MARTS
Captain Robert Dollar, looked upon
by many as tne aean o Amontau mv
told nowird of 200 men a
the banquet In honor of the visl'lng
lumber chiefs last night, that In for
.1 .-... tn fonnt tha safety
valve of the lumber business on this
coast H was canea upon oy j.mi
o ...- v r TCnann. after other speak
ers had outlined in more or less gloomy
nitnt niiarht of the Indus
try and what is necessary to retrieve
the lost ground.
rwn. . . I A-nrA ! the flUC
X Ul VMlllKIlI v - --
tlon of foreign trade has Intensified
the recent depressions in in iumti
market because or tne men. w
"There are not ships enough to carry
the traffic of the world," he said. "If
we could get foreign trade revived, we
could take off the surplus lumber and
help the situation on this coast."
He declared shipowning Is the est
asset to foreign trade, because the
i. tv,. t "drummer for
his home town. He said England s
commercial supremacy on th seas was
brought about by th great holdings of
steamships at Liverpool, and noted the
revival of shipbuilding on th Pacific
coast with great satisiaciion.
Captain Dollar charged that the
United States Is the only nation In
.v. .,.m tAa-r that is not cooDerattng
niti, huainPRH for the expansion of
n L1J ,MW.V
. . a n u MtA BKVersJ in
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w A tha Mil In on r traitaia
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lifelong dream absolute control of the
Pacific," he quoted them as saying.
"That's Just what It does," he said he
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