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Hardwood Record — Veneer 6c Panel Section 



May 25, 1921 



T^URNITURE mannfiicturcrs and factory buyers who insist on 

 having high quality veneers should send us their orders. We 



are specialists in Northern Veneers. 



We also manufacture Northern Pine, Spruce, Hemlock, Cedar 



Posts and Poles, Lath and Shingles, which we ship in straight 



cars and cargoes or mixed with our "Peerless Brand" Rock 



Maple, Beech or Birch Flooring, (.r/ (>n> I'n.rs 



The Northwestern Cooperage & Lumber Company 



Chicago Offices: 812 Monadnock Block 



GLADSTONE, MiCH. 



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 appreciate the 

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 tried "something 

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INCORPORATED 



Louisville. Ky. 

 THE PAST AND PRESENT IN MAHOGANY 



J. J. NARTZIK 



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ttRAND RAPIDS, MINN. 1^66 MAUD AVENUE AND WAREHOUSE 

 DBS ARK, ARKANSAS CHICAGO CHICAGO, ILL. 



Rotary Cut Veneers 



and 



Panels 



CARLOAD LOTS OR L. C. L. SHIPMENTS 



Price and Grades of Mahogany in Guatemala 



There seems to be no graded lumber for home consumption in 

 Guatemala. Some graded lumber is sold for export to the United 

 State as firsts and seconds and as No. I common. These grades, 

 however, can not be considered as final, since the local exporters 

 are not sufficiently acquainted with the rules of grading to accom- 

 plish this. The price received for mahogany lumber in Guatemala 

 City, the only place in Guatemala where there is enough sold to 

 determine a price, ranges from $100 a thousand feet to perhaps 

 $125 when mahogany is scarce on account of heavy export buying. 

 Grades such as are known in the United States do not enter into 

 the transactions. 



Most of the mahogany lumber sold in Guatemala City is known 

 as No. I common and sells for about $100 per thousand feet. 

 This No. 1 common is what is left after the Nos. I and 2, or clear 

 lumber, have been picked out for shipment to the United States. 



Some "mill-run" lumber lumber as it comes from the mill w^ith- 



out selection — is also sold in Guatemala City and brings about 

 the same price. 



The present average price for Nos. I and 2 mahogany lumber for 

 export to the United States is about $150 f. o. b. San Jose. A few^ 

 orders were shipped last year at prices ranging from $170 to $230 

 per thousand feet for Nos. 1 and 2 mahogany lumber, but these 

 prices included agent's commission and were unusually high. — 

 Consul A. C. Frost, Guatemala City, March 16, 1921. 



Miller Piano Company Sold 



The S. W. Miller Piano Company, of Sheboygan, on May 1 8 closed 

 a deal whereby its entire plant and equipment was acquired by the 

 Sheboygan Fibre Furniture Company for a consideration reported 

 to be $50,000. This includes a three-story factory building, 56 by 

 182 feet, a warehouse, and power plant, 30 by 40 feet, and about 

 six acres of land. The Miller plant adjoins that of the Sheboygan 

 Fibre Furniture Company at 2246-2250 North Fifteenth street. 

 The latter company's plant was badly damaged by fire some time 

 ago. The Miller company intends to remain located in Sheboygan 

 and is seeking suitable buildings, or may build an entirely new 

 plant. It has always had more floor space than the business 

 actually required, as a consequence of which an offer for its factory 

 was accepted. The Fibre Company is capitalized at $1 50,000 and 

 its officers are: President, Otto Mueller; vice-president, Charles 

 Ackerman; secretary and treasurer, J. S. Rank; general superin- 

 tendent, Jerome Freiheer. 



The Inland Furniture Company is the name of a new corporation 

 which has been organized at Sheboygan w^ith an initial capitaliza- 

 tion of 500 shares of common stock without par value, to engage 

 in the manufacture of furniture of all kinds, fine woodwork, etc. 

 The incorporators include Egbert Zimmerman, E. L. Brimm and 

 Theodore Benfey, attorney. 



Manufacturing Climate for Woodworking Shops 



Probably the only people \vho can work where it is never too 

 hot or too cold, too damp or too dry, are the carpenters in the 

 wood shop at the Forest Products Laboratory. It is possible to 

 keep the climate more nearly the same there than in any other 

 spot, through the use of a unique system of water sprays, heating 

 coils and fans, which condition all the air in the rooms every few 

 minutes. Such great pains are not taken primarily, however, for 

 the comfort of the workmen, but so that the delicate experimental 

 wooden parts they are manufacturing will not swell or shrink while 

 being cut and fitted together. Some such control of atmospheric 

 conditions is needed in every shop doing fine woodworking. Make- 

 shift methods, such as sprinkling water or wet sawdust on the 

 floor, have been in common use for hundreds of years, but now the 

 woodworking factories are asking for a better and more automatic 

 ^vay of controlling atmospheric conditions. Some large factories 

 are adopting the laboratory system, and it is hoped that soon the 

 system will be simplified enough to replace the sprinkling can in 

 even the smallest shop. 



