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business is the more desirable. — Barrel and 

 Box. 



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It is reported that a box factory of consid- 

 cr.lble dimensions will be built by the Georgia 

 Veneer & Fruit Packing Box Company at 

 Brunswick, Ga., the plant having been brought 

 to this city chiefly through the inducements 

 offered it by the Brunsw'ick Advancement As- 

 sociation. 



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The Veneer Packing Company of Indianap- 

 olis, Ind., owing to increased business, has 

 again found it necessary to install new equip- 

 ment and otherwise increase its manufacturing 

 facilities. The company makes a specialty of 

 quartered oak veneer, matched, jointed and 

 taped to size, but also does considerable work 

 in mahogany, Circassian walnut, etc. Arrange- 

 niouts have been completed whereby Charles 

 McQuewan of Grand Rapids, Mich., will handle 



the company's line in that city. 



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The II. Lauter Company recently completed 

 a new four-story addition to its plant in 



Indianapolis, Ind. 



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The new factory of the Waldham Piano 

 Company, Milwaukee, Wis., is expected to be 

 completed by January 1. The main building 

 will be three stories high, with basement 375x 

 75 feet. It is stated that the new plant, ma- 

 chinery and equipment will represent an in- 

 vestment of about $100,000. 



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The Seybold Piano Company, Elgin, 111., an- 

 nounces that it will erect a three-story addition 

 52x115 feet to its plant. A new power house 

 and dry-kiln will also be installed. The esti- 

 mated cost of the improvements is $30,000. 

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The Asheville Piano Company, Asheville, 

 K. C, recently incorporated with a capital of 

 $50,000, will manufacture the J. W. Davis 

 player, formerly manufactured at Pulaski, 

 Va. Mr. Davis is said to have transferred 

 his patent and sold his machinery to the new- 

 company and will superintend the manufactur- 

 ing department. 



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The Moeck & Eedmon Basket Manufacturing 

 Company has been organized at Peru, Ind. 

 Machinery will be installed at once and the 

 company will operate a basket factory. The 

 eld plant of the Mailman Adding Machine 

 Company will be used for factory purposes 



and an addition will be built for a sawmill. 



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The Southern Veneer Manufacturing Com- 

 pany at Louisville, Ky., now has its new plant 

 in good working order and reports that it is 

 getting out more stock than ever. Business 

 with the company is good and the demand 

 continues strong. The company is having a 



hard time trying to catch up with orders. 



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The K. & P. Lumber Company of St. Ber- 

 nard and Cincinnati, 0., has removed its mill, 

 and veneer plant from Kentucky to Naples, 

 Tex., where it has taken over an immense tract 

 of lumber, and is operating sawmills and 



establishing a large lumber producing plant. 

 The company only a short time ago increased 

 its ,apil;il stock from $100,000 to $1,000,000. 



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The Ohio Veneer Company of Cincinnati, 

 O., of which Fred Bosken is the head, has 

 l.een receiving a number of veneer logs by rail. 

 The mill cuts all classes of veneers from all 

 kinds of woods. The plant makes sawed and 

 sliced veneers and also manufactures rotary 



cut veneers and thin lumber. 



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Tlie Stewart Veneer Company of Hale 

 County, Ala., was recently incorporated with 

 a capital stock of $30,000. Charles L. Ilartman, 

 Wm. E. Zielow, John Koch, John F. Habbe, 

 Henry Bassell and Joseph Strat are the incor- 

 porators. 



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Fire recently destroyed the veneer plant of 

 the J. F. "Wilts Company, Norfolk, Va. How- 

 ever, John. F. Wilts, general manager of the 

 company, made the announcement that the 

 plant will be rebuilt on a larger scale. New 

 machinery for the plant has been ordered and 

 plans worked out for the enlarging of the 

 old plant. The Wilts factory turns out high- 

 grade veneers which are used in piano and 

 line furniture work. The factory has been 

 operating at Norfolk for about a year and 

 a half. Orders have been booked ahead to 

 keep it running to its full capacity to next 

 March. Besides the destruction of the plant, 

 $12,000 in finished veneer, packed ready for 

 shipment to a Grand Kapids, Mich., piano com- 

 pany, was also destroyed. 



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Tlie Koddis Lumber & Veneer Company, one 

 of the largest manufacturing concerns at 

 Marshfield, Wis., is hustling in every direc- 

 tion to get in its next season's stock of logs. 

 Only a few years ago a stock of from two to 

 three million feet was considered big, but this 

 year, to supply the company 's increasing trade, 

 it will take five million feet and as much 

 more as the company can buy. It has already 

 contracted for the above amount and will 

 remain in the market until the close of the 

 season. The logs will come from nearby sta- 

 tions and from points north along the lines 

 of the Soo and Omaha Railroads. The plant 

 is one of the largest of its kind in the United 

 States and its product is shipped to every 

 civilized country in the world. Its business is 

 increasing so steadily that it is only a ques- 

 tion of time before the factory will have to 

 be enlarged and more especially so if the 

 company will enter into the new lines of manu- 

 facture which it is understood are under con- 

 templation. 



The veneer business of the Buffalo Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company has proven so satis- 

 factory that the company's mill in Arkansas 

 has been equipped with rotary machinery for 



cutting oak and gum. 



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A veneer plant is being erected at Helena, 

 Ark., which will, when completed, employ 

 about fifty men. The machinery has already 



been purchased and is novv^ being delivered. 

 It IS projioscd to have the plant ready for op- 

 eration in about seventy-five days. Charles 

 Nelson, previously with the Helena Box Sc 

 T^innber Company, will be in charge of opera- 

 tions-. 



Enthusiastic Convention of the Lakes-to-the- 

 Gulf Deep Waterway Association 



At the fiftli annual convention of the Lakes- 

 to-the-Giilf Doep Waterway AKsocialion. liclJ 

 fit the First negiment Armory, St. Louis. Novem- 

 ber 23 antl 26, all the old officers of the asso- 

 ciation were re-elected. The association selected 

 Chicago as the place for Its next meeting, antf 

 went on record as favoring the fourlcen foot 

 ehannol from the lakes to the gulf with pro- 

 visions for increasing to twenty-one feet when rc- 

 rjuired. The only evidence of lack of harmony 

 made itself apparent when the committee oir 

 resolutions read a paragraph from Its report, 

 criticising President Taft, Congress and the 

 Prosident Taft's waterways commission. The 

 liaragrapli was finally omitted and peace restored. 



First Vice-President Conway of Chicago- 

 opened the convention at 10 :30 Friday morn- 

 ing, and after a few Introductory remark?, 

 introduced President Cavanaugh, who, after stat- 

 ing the purpose of the meeting, called upon 

 Archbishop Glennon, who offered the invocation. 

 Mayor Krelsman of St. Louis delivered the ad- 

 dress of welcome. This was to have been fol- 

 lowed by an address by Governor Hadley, who, 

 however, was unable to attend. After the report 

 of the secretary and treasurer, President Cav- 

 anaugh addressed the meeting, stating that the- 

 sentiment favoring the deep waterway had ex- 

 perienced a rapid growth in the past four year*, 

 lie reviewed the work of the association In the 

 p:i5t and outlined the future policy, citing the 

 benefits which would undoubtedly accrue from 

 the adoption .)f the channel from the lakes to 

 I he gulf. At the conclusion of his address the 

 liresldent appointed the members of the reso- 

 lution, auditing and nominating committees. 



Isham liandoiph of Chicago, chairman of the 

 Internal Improvement Commission of Illinois, 

 opened the afternoon session by outlining meth- 

 ods for co-operation between Illinois and the 

 Puited States in opening up a navigable water- 

 way from Lockport to the mouth of the Illinois 

 river. Ue outlined the history of the light as 

 carried on by Illinois, and concluded by stating 

 that that state Is now ready to turn the project 

 ever to the United States. Mr. Randolph's ad- 

 dress was followed by a talk by E. H. Ilalsey, 

 chairman of the Itivcr Improvement Committee 

 of the Chicago Real Estate Exchange. 



The first address of the Saturday morning 

 session was delivered by L. E. Coolidge of Chi- 

 cago, chief engineer of the association. He de- 

 nounced the nine foot channel, contending that 

 it meant practically no advancement, and stated 

 that forty million people could be placed on the 

 land that a fourteen foot channel could con- 

 serve, adding more than $30,000,000,000 to the 

 wealth of '.he Mississippi valley. Mr. CooUdge 

 recommended constructions of dams at Commerce 

 and .Tcfferson Barracks, Mo., his object In recom- 

 mending this policy being to equalize the flow 

 of water and generate an Immense horsepower 

 which would prove of untold value. 



Arthur Hooker of Spokane, secretary of the 

 National Irrigation Congress, said that the proj- 

 ect In hand affects more than 40 per cent of 

 the total area of the country. Following him. 

 were heard such speakers as Governor Donaghey 

 of .\rkansas and Congressman Ralney. 



After luncheon the delegates were enter' 

 tained by the controversy between representa- 

 tives from San Francisco and Kew Orleans a? 

 to the special merits of those two points for 

 holding the Panama Exposition. There was a 

 smoker in the evening, at which Hon. O. P. 

 Austin, chief of the Bureau of Statistics, gave 

 au illustrated lecture on the transportation of 

 the world. 



